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Tæfingstoc is Defenascīre burg sēo licþ on Tæfige ēa.  Man secg þe Tæfingstoc is þæs Mōres hēafodburg.

Ordulfes mynster ahte Tæfingstoc siððan Ordulf hit gestaþolede oþ 1539 þær Heanrig VIII hit tōƿearp.  Þæm Russell Cynn (hƿā ƿeardon Heretogan of Beadanforde) geaf þone tūn sē Cyning, and hie healdon mæst his landa and ƿæron his beaggiefan oþ þæm tƿeontigieþum gearhundrede.

Ora in Tamerdene nēah Tæfingstoc boren micel coper, and ēac tin and oþer ƿecge, hƿærof ƿeard Tæfingstoc ƿelig.  Sēo endemeste ore beendede in þæm tƿentigoþan gearhundrede.

Tæfingstoc ƿæs Francis Drakes eard.  On "Plymouth Road" hæfþ Drakes his gelicnes æt ānum ende and Francis Russell, seofoþa Heretoga of Beadanford æt þæm oðran.

Byrig on Defenum