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condition. Is it too much to hope that this mention of it may move its present possessor to renovate it, or at any rate to tell us something more concerning it?

Lady Harington died at Hatherleigh, and was buried in the churchyard; and Mr. Short has given us the inscription in her memory, which runs as follows:

"In Memory of Frances Lady Harington Relict of Sir Edward Harington of Bath, Knt, and Wife of John Goss of this Parish, who, on Jany 19th, 1823, Aged 65, terminated her Mortal career.

'Amiable, affable, and free,

Affectionate, and kind was she,
And sweetly condescending.

A wife of most intrinsic worth :-
She sought for heaven here on earth,
By virtuous steps ascending.

'But Death, with a resistless pow'r
Came in an unexpected hour,

And quench'd the vital flame.
O then remember and obey

Her fam❜ly motto "Watch and Pray"
Long live her much lov'd name ! ' *

"This Poetry was written by Mr. John Goss the Husband of Lady H."

And of the final resting-place of Mr. Goss, Mr. Short writes :

"In the burying ground adjoining the Independent chapel at Okehampton is a grave stone erected to the memory of Mr. John Goss, husband of the late Lady Harrington [sic] of whom mention is made at page 67 of this book."

"In Memory of John Goss

formerly of Hatherleigh but late of Okehampton
Who died in the faith of the Gospel
On the 31st day of May 1833 Aged 45 years."

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PORTION OF MURAL MONUMENT TO ROBERT BURGOYNE AND FAMILY, IN SOUTH TAWTON CHURCH. Representing Robt. Burgoyne (bap. 1595) and his wife (m. 1628) Margt, (dau. and co-h. of Oliver Whiddon), with their progeny (see Vivian’s Pisitatioms), viz., Margt.(b, 1637), “E (not given), George (b. 1632, d. 1683), Philip (b. 1635, d. 1683), Francis (b. 1641), Oliver (d.1631), Willm. (b. 1639), another “W” (not given), perhaps error for “R” (Robert, b. 1629). Skulls distinguish those already deceased. “O” was probably a Chrisomer, i.e. dead before one month old.Anointment with Chrism was abolished 1522, hence absence of cross on brow, but the Chrisom-cloth survived through the seventeenth century. Herbert Macklin tabulates English Chrisom-brasses 1510-1636. The Burgoyne residence was ‘Great House," now “The Oxenham Armis," S. Zeal.

SOUTH TAWTON ACCOUNTS.—To Jace p. 361.

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In his work on The Church Bells of Devon, the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe gives a list, dated 1864, of the six bells then in the tower of South Tawton church, with their inscriptions. All but the second bell had been recast by A. Gooding, in 1744. The founding was done in the churchyard, and the Accounts contain several references to this work.

The second bell was recast by Mears, of Whitechapel (also in the yard), in 1837, and is stated by Ellacombe to bear the names of P. Cann, and B. Stanbury, churchwardens. The reading "B." is, however, erroneous, the initial being really "R." Mr. Richard Stanbury, at that time tenant of Cocktree, was co-warden with Mr. Philip Cann. 1

An inventory, taken by Royal Commission, 7 Ed. VI, and preserved in the Record Office, London (Q. R. Church Goods, fol. 15), specifies under "South Tawton, with a chapel in the town of Sele, . . . fyve belles yn the churche, and ij belles yn the chapell their, admitted to the custody of John Weks, A1., Richard Frend, William Sloman, Thos. Kelond, and others the pisshen's their, by indent'."

The Rev. H. G. Fothergill, annotating Bridges' History of Okehampton (Edin. 1889, p. 175), makes the amusing comment: "A respectable old man of 84, William Curson, informed me his grandfather told him that the Sticklepath

1 The Devon and Exeter Gazette, 1 May, 1908, contains a portrait and account of this "venerable Devon farmer" (of Dolton, Chagford, and South Tawton), who died at North Wyke, 19 April, 1909, in his ninety-sixth year.

chapel bell originally belonged to that of S. Zeal, but whether it had been stolen or sold he had forgotten!"

Among the names of founders or repairers of bells at South Tawton mentioned in these accounts are: John Nosworthy, 1525-6, who carried away a bell with four oxen to be recast, and was possibly the "smith of Bediford," to whom a bell-clapper was taken to be mended in 1528-9. Thomas Geffray, 1533-5, to whom £9 or more was paid for work on South Tawton bells, and in whom I believe I may claim to have run to earth the mysterious bearer of the initials "t g," which Ellacombe found marked on seven bells in North Devon.-Kettletree, 1561-2, and Thomas Byrdall, apparently assisted by Jo. Bursedon, 1569-71, when the great bell of S. T. was conveyed to Honeychurch to be recast, the weights being brought thither from Chagford. The latter name curiously assonates to that of one "Thomas Byrdan," of 1601, mentioned by Ellacombe as "the first bell-founder known after the Reformation,' father, possibly, of the John Byrdan by whom, as Mr. Charles Pearson, M.A., records in The Ringer's Guide, the second bell of Exeter Cathedral was founded, in 1616. In 1607-8, one Dirricke and his men, sustained by an unprecedented consumption of "diet" and "drinke" at every stage, recast a South Tawton bell-I surmise in the yard, as there are no charges for carriage, and the item of "6d for casting up earth" suggests the digging of a pit for the mould.

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In 1527-8 we have the entry "Sol' p pulsac' te'pib3 tonitrui" 1 (ringing at times of thunder). Curfew kept up, as appears from an item of 1664, "for one quarter of a yeare for ringing the bel at 8 of the clock at night, and at 4 in the morning, 3sh." The bells were also rung at dates of coronations and in rejoicing for "the Kynges deliverance ”—notably from the Gunpowder Plot, in connection with which we find in the account of 1605-7, "pd for a statute to keep the vh day of November holy"! We have a memento of the "Great Plague" in that of 1665-6, "Collected in the pish church the sume of xxiijs ixd, upon the 20 day of Auguste, beinge the first monthly fast for to seeke god to remove the plague of pestilence. In 1759 there is a payment "for Ale for the Ringers when Admiral Hawke destroyed the French Fleet in Quiberon

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1 This new and reliable reading necessitates a corrigendum in my last paper (Trans., XL, p. 312), cf. 1535-6, p amol' de le curtyns."

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