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 84 Devon Notes and Querus carriers was frequently designated the Packhorse or the Bell- horse (the leading horse was so named), but when wheeled vehicles began to be used for this purpose, the sign in some places was changed to Tke Waggon and Horses. Although many alterations are susceptible of explanation, it appears probable that some were wholly due to caprice. Mr. Dymond cites one of this class in the name of Tke Three Mariners outside the Water Gate, Exeter, being at a late period changed to the Cornish Inn. A double alteration of this kind is shown in the following abstract of a deed relating to the transfer of an inn at Honiton in the i8th century. It is dated Sept. i, 1700, and is in the form of a lease granted by Lord Courtenay of Powderham, to Ann Smith of Honiton, of: — "All that Messuage Tenement and Dwelling House with the Appur- tenances being a public house and formerly called or known by the name of Nackei-s Hole but now of the Mermaid situate lying and being in Northootes Lane within the Borough of Honiton . . now in the oocupatton of Rebecca Hake widow," for 99 years contingent on three lives, aged respectively 12, 10, 19 (children of Ann Smith), she paying the yearly rent of five shillings ; also six pence annually " unto the Portreeve of the Borough of Honiton." Also the sum of five shillings ** for and in the name of an Herriot or fifarlieve," on the death of any of the three lives. Further, Ann Smith was to pay Lord Courtenay, "the sum of One Hundred Pounds. . . and one Moidore in Gold ... at or before the Execution " of the Deed. Signed *^ Courtenay," with Seal attached. The Herriott and ffarlieve (Farleu, Farley), here men- tioned, appear to be identical in meaning; but according to Blount (TenureSy ed, 1874, 283-4), " '° some manors westward they distinguish farleu to be the best good, as heriot is the best beast payable at the tenant's death ; *' the latter term seems to be a Devonshire one. In the deed quoted above, the original name of the Inn was the Knacker's Hole^ but some time prior to 1790 it had been changed to the Memtaid ; and this, so states Farquharson (Hist, of Honiton, 59), subsequently became the present Crown and Sceptre. Knacker^s Hole is probably identical with Knacker's Yard, where old worn-out horses are slaughtered ; and several places have been so termed. Crownhill, in the parish of St. Budeaux, a short distance from Plymouth, was formerly for the carriage of goods, and then the house of call for