Re: Pub Crawl
Posted: 7:15 pm
It looks a fairly typical commemorative plaque, English Renaissance style. William Button was a biggish wig, MP and county administrator, and variously imprisoned in the Tower or 'a loyal servant' to Cromwell. By the time the plaque was made it wouldn't have been wise to be associated with the old religion.
Drake family history page http://www.xroyvision.com.au/drake/history/hist10.htm says Mount Drake is Musbury fort (or Castle)
The passage above points out that it's a pre-Saxon site yet says it's a "pure Saxon name"!
Drake family history page http://www.xroyvision.com.au/drake/history/hist10.htm says Mount Drake is Musbury fort (or Castle)
Mount Drake, the original home of the Drakes, is situated in the manor of Musbury, Axminster, Devon County. Musbury is a pure Saxon name, "Maest Barrow," or "The Biggest Hill." The British name of the place was "Mae Dun," of which Maist Barrow is a translation. The old name, Mae Dun, survives in a cluster of houses about a quarter of a mile from the present village, where it is corrupted into "Mayden-hayne."
Mount Drake is a table-land or plateau of about 160 acres, half way up the great ridge which goes by the name of Musbury Castle. It was one the seat of a British, and then of a Roman, encampment, and was a fortified camp, quite capable of accommodating two hundred persons or more. It was defended on three sides by a natural ravine, and on the upper side by bogs and a tangle of brush-wood, part of which still remains.
The passage above points out that it's a pre-Saxon site yet says it's a "pure Saxon name"!