… church of St Mary in the foreground. It was at a public meeting in the town in 1639 that William Cooke claimed that … petitioned that he had been assaulted by Bagg at a public meeting at Ottery, Devon, where Bagg called him 'a base knave … in the company of divers gent. and others at a publique meeting, was there assaulted by one John Bagg of Awtry, …