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 174 Devon Notes and Queries. strict in requiring proofs of heirship. Another witness called was Elizabeth Coleridge, who spoke of John Trehawke's visits to Robert Prudom at his house in Exeter, but here she occurs as Elizabeth, wife of Jacob Phillips, an Exeter attorney. (She was baptized at South Molton loth March, 1751, and her mother dying, the Rev. John Coleridge took out a licence loth Oct., 1752, to marry Hannah Laskey.) The above-mentioned " Book of Arms and Pedigrees '"^ might well be preserved in print if the Kekewich family, among whose records it doubtless rests, would give their kind consent. Rbynell Upham. 134. HOWBERHAYNE, CoLYTON : REMINISCENCES OF, Ancient and Modern. — The very interesting inventory of the goods and chattels of John Strowbridge, A.D. 1576, contributed by Mr. H. Michell Whitley, brings to me sundry recollections of that place, which I well know; which may perhaps amuse and, if not exactly in an antiquarian sense, further interest our readers. In my Memorials of the West, a considerable notice is given of John Strowbridge and others of that ilk, about the period of the inventory. They were a reputable family of considerable local importance, and it is possible that this John was the person who courteously sent the present of 'Sugar Lovys' across the valley to the Princess Countess Katherine of Devon when sojourning on an occasion with her ill-fated son at Colcombe, not long before his appearance before the executioner's block ; and that he was also probably the John Strowbridge who with some few others, influential men, were the * chiefest travailers * and founders of the Feoffee Chamber of Charitable Bequests at Colyton that still exists^ purchasing from grim Henry VIII, part of the lands that had been left for religious purposes, and for which that gracious prince afterwards gave them a Charter of Incor- poration. In the church is a small brass to the memory of a John Strowbridge, probably the father of our John as above* The will of a subsequent John who flourished there about the middle of the seventeenth century, came into my possession, and among the bequests were sundry * Horse-beasts,' a term that had greatly puzzled the late Sir Walter Trevelyan, and to whom I gave the will, and helped to resolve the identity