Name Index

To

W J. Hooker's Synopsis Chorographical of Devonshire

Trans. Devon. Assoc., vol. 47, (1915) pp. pp.334-348.

by

William J. Blake

Prepared by Michael Steer

John Hoker alias Vowell (c. 1527-1601) was a solicitor, antiquary, civic administrator and advocate of republican government. He wrote an eye-witness account of the siege of Exeter that took place during the Prayer Book Rebellion in 1549. From 1555 to his death he was chamberlain of Exeter, though he spent several years in Ireland as legal adviser to Sir Peter Carew. He was, for short periods, a member of both the Irish and English parliaments and wrote an influential treatise on parliamentary procedure. He was one of the editors of the second edition of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles, (1587). His last, unpublished and probably uncompleted work was this first topographical description of Devon. The present text, the first eleven pages of Synopsis Chorographical of Devonshire, was produced from a copy of the Transactions of the Devonshire Association held by the Princeton University Library, that is available from the Internet Archive. As yet, no further part of the Synopsis has been published, but a summary of the rest of the book is given in a volume of the Journal of the British Archaeological Association that is also to be found in the Internet Archive. (The Internet Archive makes available, in its Community Texts Collection (originally known as Open Source Books), books and journals that have been digitised by Google from a number of libraries. These are texts on which copyright has expired, and are available free for educational and research use.)