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 Devon Notes and Queries. 125 sheets sixteen shillings and six pence ; the first payment eight shillings. All Gentlemen that are willing to take the advantage of subscribing are desired to send in their first payment with all speed to the Undertakers, Charles Yeo, John Pearce and PhiHp Bishop." The Worthies was not published till 1701, and is said to have been printed at Exeter by Samuel Farley for Aunsham and John Churchill at the Black Swan, in Paternoster Row, London, and Charles Yeo and Philip Bishop, Exon. John Pearce appears at that time not to have been in the firm. Edward Windeatt. 88. Battishill Arms {Ancient Stone Crosses of Dart- moor, etc., D. N. S* Q,j p. 131). — Mention is made at the end of the chapter * of a coat of arms carved in granite.' Would anybody Idndly send me a reading of it : to judge from LysonsS it should be either a Battishill or Oxenham ? F.W. [The coat is Battishill, a saltire between four owls impaling, 3 castles with lions issuing therefrom. Pap worth gives 3 towers ar: on each a demi lion ramp : or, for Calus. On a stone in the front, not in situ^ is the date 1585. On the gate way is the date 1656. — Eds.] 89. Neolithic Axs-head at Silverton. — A neolithic axe-head was found some time ago by an agricultural labourer five feet below the surface, while digging a trench in a place close to where Silverton joins the parish of Bradninch. It is of syenite, twelve inches and a quarter long, eight inches in circumference at the centre, and it weighs exactly four pounds six ounces. It was secured for me by my daughter, Miss L. J. Ward, who saw it in the cottage of the man who found it, and having often accom- panied the late General Pitt- Rivers when he was making excavations in Dorset, she at once recognized it as a neolithic implement of very unusual size. Sir John Evans wrote me with reference to it : — " I am much obliged for the sketch and particulars of the syenite axe-head found at Silverton. It is of unusually large dimensions, and I do not remember having seen another so large from the South of England." Joseph Heald Ward. [The Rev. J. H. Ward has been good enough to send us a photograph of this implementi but as there is nothing unusual in the form we do not reproduce it — Eds.]