Name Index

To

The Note-Book of Tristram Risdon, 1608-1628:
The Justices Itinerant in Devon

London: Elliot Stock (1897), pp. 186-193.

by

J. Dallas and H.G.Porter

Prepared by Michael Steer

The book, presented in 1897 to its public after a lapse of nearly 300 years is the genealogical common-place book of Tristram Risdon Esq, author of the famous Chorographical Description or Survey of the County of Devon. The original is in MS form and held in the Cathedral Library at Exeter. This index is a compendium of the names of the county's Itinerant Justices from the reign of Henry II to Henry VII with the dates of their circuits. An Eyre was the name of a circuit travelled by an itinerant justice in medieval England (a Justice in Eyre), or the circuit court he presided over, or the right of the king (or justices acting in his name) to visit and inspect the holdings of any vassal. The eyre involved visits and inspections at irregular intervals of the houses of all vassals in the kingdom. Google with the Archive Organization has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. The Internet Archive makes available, in its Community Texts Collection (originally known as Open Source Books), books that have been digitised by Google from a number of libraries. These are books on which copyright has expired, and are available free for educational and research use. The copy of this rare book is held in the Library of the University of California, and is available from the Internet Archive.