Ponkapog Papers

In spite of Herrick's disparagement of Dean- bourn, which he calls "a rude river," and his characterization of Devon folk as "a peo- ple currish, churlish as the seas," the fullest and pleasantest days of his life were prob- ably spent at Dean Prior. He was not un- mindful meanwhile of the gathering political storm that was to shake England to its foun- dations.