The Morte Stone proverb

Morte-bay on the North Devon coast - Richard Croft [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

"'He may remove Morte-stone'

There is a bay in this County called Morts-bay but the harbour in the entrance thereof is stopp'd with a huge rock, called Mortestone; and the people merrily say, none can remove it but such as are matters of their wives"

Ray 1768

 

Map - Morte-stone