DEvonshire, by reason of the advantage of the Sea, and its many spacious Havens, is not only of great account in it self, but to its Neighbouring Counties. It produces many rich Manufactories, and contains divers stately Towns: It has in it rich veins of Tin, store of Cattle, Corn, fat Pastures: Containing the City of Exon, a Bishops See, 394 Parishes, 33 Hundreds, 37 Market Towns, and 23 Rivers, small and great. It sends Members to Parliament 26, viz. Exeter, Plymouth, Plimpton, Totness, Oakhampton, Honiton, Barnstaple, Tavistock, Ashburton, Tiverton, Beralston, 2 Each; and 2 more out of these three Towns, Clifton, Dartmouth, and Hardness, and 2 Knights of the Shire; in all 26. It is Bounded with Somerset∣shire, Cornwal, the Irish Sea, and Channel.
Exeter, the only City of this County, is of great Antiqui∣ty, for the Castle called Rugemont was once the Palace of the West Saxon Kings, and afterward of the Earls of Corn∣wal, and the Walls and Cathedral were Builded by King Ethelstane, and is situate on the River Ex.
Torbay in this County, some few Miles from the North East of Dartmouth, is singularly remarkable for the De∣scent made here on the 5th of November 1688, by the then Prince of Orange, but his now present Majesty King William the Third (whom God long preserve) with his Forces from Holland, to save this Nation from Popery and Slavery, which had then bid fair for it; but upon his Landing vanish'd like Mists before the Morning Sun.
Plymouth, seated on the River Plym, is renowned by be∣ing the birth-place of that great Sea Captain, Sr. Francis