Bovey Tracey: Monday: On Monday was celebrated the annual festival known in the village as “Mayor’s Monday,” when those freeholders who cared to attend and number of guests were entertained at dinner at the Dolphin Hotel by the Mayor for the year, Mr. J. Hurrell, of Dartmouth. The mayor is annually elected in November, and in him is vested certain lands, bequeathed centuries ago by a member of the Tracey family, then resident near Bovey Tracey, to the freeholders of the place, to enable them annually to celebrate the marriage of one of the members of the family. These lands, comprise two fields which produce about £17 per annum, and out of this amount the cost of the dinner and other expenses are defrayed … Among those present were Messrs. H. Baker (ex Mayor), W B. Luke (Dartmouth), S. Andrews, W. Ricker, G. Osborne, J. Pinsent, T. Bray, S. Payne, W. Bovey … (etc.) ….
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