Contents

pp v-v

List of illustrations

pp vi-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-vii

Abbreviations

pp viii-viii

Timeline. Design: Jonathan Hepworth

pp ix-xii

Introduction

pp 1-2

1 - General Introduction

pp 3-14

2 - Elections and Infrastructure

pp 15-22

3 - Buckland Abbey and Nutwell Court: Buildings

pp 23-35

4 - Nutwell: Planting the Landscape

pp 36-44

5 - Healthways and Two Eighteenth-Century Devonshire Estates

pp 45-68

Editorial Method

pp 69-70

The Letters I - From Nicholas Rowe to Sir Francis Henry Drake, 1740–1754

pp 71-126

The Letters II - From Nicholas Rowe to Sir Francis Henry Drake, 1754–1775

pp 127-286

The Letters III - From William Hudson to Sir Francis Henry Drake, 1767–1778

pp 287-312

Bibliography

pp 313-318

Index

pp 319-332

Devon and Cornwall Record Society

pp 333-333

Devon and Cornwall Record Society Publications

pp 334-335