" ...]One day a flight of larks came into the town, "which were," says Fuller, "as welcome as quails in the wilderness." The birds were so numerous that, notwithstanding the prevailing famine, they were sold for twopence a dozen. "Of this miraculous event," wrote Fuller, "I was not only an eye but a mouth witness." The city capitulated on 13 April, 1646, among the conditions of surrender being that the Cathedral should be spared, and the garrison accorded the honours of war. After the landing of William of Orange at Brixham, in 1688, he marched through the county to Exeter and entered the ...]."