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 Devon Notts and Queria. 5 and Croats argtnt, the crosses terminatiog with crosslets? (3) What is the crest of this second Rowe coat of arms? (4I John Rowe, of Trelil, Wendron, has on his grave the arms: gidti three pascai lambs arg. {Lake's Hist, of Cornwall, Vol. IV. p. 311.} Is there a known connection between this man and the Rowes of Kingston? {Carew's Scroll of Anns, No, 317.) Joseph Hambley Rowb, M.B. 5. St. George's Church, South Street, Exeter. — Mr. G. L. DuQsford, of Mount Radford, Exeter, the grand nephew of the last Rector of this Church, sends us an illustration of it and the following particulars. The date of its founda- tion is not known. It was made parochial in 1 222. This parish was usually held in ammendam with that of St. John's till the year 1814, when it was made a rectory. Before the Reformation, the living was appropriated to the Priory of Plympton, the town residence of whose Prior, when visiting Exeter, was on the site of the Black Lion's Inn, South Street. During the Commonwealth, in 1658, many of the Exeter churches were ordered to be sold, among them St. George's and St. John's for £"100 each. At this period a wealthy merchant of St. John's was fined £"234 63. 4d. as a loyal dtizen. There are some fine monuments in the church of St. John, removed from St. George's. Among them one to the memory of the Rev, Wm. Chilcot, who died in 171 1,