Show QUEER DUCAL STONE nobleman endows ich with spiteful act of a scant 1 V in a shady lane near totnes hotnes the attention of visitors is attracted by at all cro cross s s of the finest aberdeen rouan gr granite ite wh which ich together wi with th a ponde ponderous slab material occupies the corner of the same of a field on it is inscribed the name and arms of the late duke of somerset zo merset with the following extraordinary lines at the foot the twelfth fth duke was the sheridan duke lie he defrauded and nearly ruine mined A the tha seymour family this stone stona w was as prepared by the thirteenth duke in his lifetime and ad was erected hero in pursuance of his ex press the dulce duke who died 1 last t year su buffered offered all his life from an ideo f dixe axe concerning some imaginary wrong done by his predecessor and the obnoxious headstone was refused admittance to berry pomeroy chur churchyard cayard though a fund was left in pe perpetuity for its maintenance e and it cost over one hundred pounds sterling As a matter of fact the twelfth dike considerable talent the of was a mau man miss sheridan he married figured ns 16 the queen of beauty in the Egli eglinton utOn conr cament und and in no way deserved the aspersions per pers lons thus coat cast upon her by this inexcusable I 1 met act of posthumous the somerset stone was visited during g tho the summer cummer byth by thousands of touristy |