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 8 Devon Notes and Queries. S* I have so reall and intire (a regard) for yorsselfe & Family y^ neither distance of Place, Seas. Rockes, Mountains nor Boggs could hinder me fro' sending you my faithfull service ; & wish both you and yrs all happiness imaginable. S' since my landing in this Kingdome I' have travel'd some hundreds of miles, but a richer Soyle (for the generallity) never eyes beheld & I findes nothing so ill heere. as y« natives wch are y^ worst generation of People y« world aifords. I shall only instance one Thing as to the excellencies of the land, because the Messengers** hast will permit me no longer ty"e. I have heere about my Old Castle some 5 or 6 and thirty thousand Acres of Laiid,most of vf^ are as good as any Land in my Mannor of Alphington and better naturally, yet I am forct to set y"for lesse y" Twelve pence an Acre, w<* goes to the heart of mee, yet it cannot be helped. If euer God Almighty punish Ireland againe, 'twill be for theire excesse in eating and drinking. w<^ far exceeds England^ though I thought in those vertues they could not be outdone till I had experimented heere : pardon this hasty incoherent scribble & a timer and perfecter account of this Kingdome shall be given you in my next by Sir, yo' faithfull Servant William Courtenat. Newcastle ye first of Sep*^ 1674 Pray give my service to Yo' Lady (Endorsed) To my Honour'd Friend Gilbert Yard att These p'ssents his Bradley neere Newton Abbot Maxwell Adams. 7. St. Petroc(k) (Vol. I, p. 12, par 4). — Mr. Baring- Gould gives evidence showing that the parish church of Tor-Mohun (Torquay) is dedicated to St. Pet roc, but locally it is generally known as St. Saviour's Church. This appears to have been the dedication of Tor Abbey, hence the probable mistake which occurs even in so reliable a work as Oliver's Monasticon Dio, Exon. Petton chapel, in the parish of Bampton, North Devon, is also believed to have been dedicated to St. Petroc(k) and so also is the Parish church of West Anstey, in a remote part of North Devon, borderinjj on Somerset. This suggests the question : How far did St. Petrock's labours and influence extend eastward from Cornwall ? Did he ever travel as far as the £xe, and was he ever in Exeter, where there is another church bearings his name ? Is it likely that whilst Cornwall was still unconquered by the Saxon power there was a Celtic colony living in Exeter and having a special church of their own^ with services according to the Celtic ** Use " and in their own tongue ? Something analogous to this is to be found in the modern Welsh churches in the English cities of Chester and Manchester. Arthur P. Lancbfibld.