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 Devon Notes and Queries. 167 Carew in 1727, and through this marriage the Carews held their first lands at Colliepriest. The part of the estate on which the house was built came into the hands of the Blundells, and was purchased by a Dayman, who appears to have lived at Colliepriest College. Colliepriest House is said to have been built by Philip Blundell, who pur- chased the reversions of his two uncles, Peter and John. Colliepriest House changed its ownership frequently, and on his marriage in 1823, the Rev. T. Carew (a descendant of the Sir Walter who married the heiress of West) purchased Colliepriest House, since which time it has been in the Carew family. When the gates at the entrance of the estate were erected, the owners of the Holwell estates brought an action to maintain their right of way, as to use the only other entrance through Durkshayes Lane to drive to the town would have been troublesome for the tenants. The owners of Holwell won their cause. The people always had their free right to the river path, nor were any barriers erected in Mr. Tom Carew's time. In the diary of the Rev. John Swete, written in 1789, he writes:— "As I rode out of the town on the opposite side of the river along whose banks the road tended, Collypriest offered itself to my view, and the bridge thrown over the Exe about a quarter of a mile down the stream adds to its beauty." — Devon Notes and Queries^ Vol. I., p. 208. Chil Loman belonged to the Abbot of S. Augustine at Bristow in the reign of Henry HI. — (Dunsford, Historical Memoirs^ p. 289. Dunsford shows still further the eccle- siastical portion here, for he speaks of another old chapel near Cranmore Castle — Path Close, Archery Field — (Harding, History of Tiverton^ Vol. H., pp. 9, 183, 185). The part claimed by the town as far as Colliepriest farm, was the old route of the pack horses for Exeter when they passed up and down the steep lane to the old Exeter Road, through Butterleigh. Emily Skinner. 128. Knowstone and Molland (H., p. 105, par. 72; 130? par- 99). — It may be interesting to supplement Mr.