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 176 Dsvon Notes and Queries. of silver mounted bag-pipes, on which he was an excellent player. Being of a somewhat musical turn myself which he was aware of, he would after dinner occasionally take them out, and the toddy being duly brewed, his excellent son seated on one side of the fire-place, and I duly ensconced in his great chair on the other, great Peter — ^for assuredly he was that — would march round the dinner-table playing national Scots airs, with the greatest effect, and with all the dignity and pride of a Scots laird; a sight once seen never to be equalled or forgotten. "O death in life, the days that are no more." W.H.H.R. 135. Bartlett Family. — I shall be obliged if you will allow Devon Notes and Queries to be the medium of pointing out an error in the report in 3 Maule and Selwyn, p. 99, of the case of Doe dem Edward Freeman Bartlett v. Rendle and others, copied in the Revised Reports, Volume 15, pp. 26. The question submitted to the decision of the Court was a purely legal one, on the construction of a will, and as such, has no special interest to Devonians. But the will is interesting from a genealogical point of view, as it mentions several generations of the testator's family. It is dated 17th December, 1745, and is said to be that of a gentleman named Jacob " Bartlett.*' This, however, is incorrect, the name of the testator being Jacob *Bickford," and it was proved at Exeter in February, 1747-8. His daughter married William Bartlett, from whom I am descended, and a Rev. Jacob Bickford Bartlett is mentioned in the will. As the family names of " Bickford " and " Bartlett " are a good deal mixed up in the will, the learned reporters may perhaps be excused for the error, but its discovery has cost me a good deal of trouble and expense, and it is to save others interested in the families from an)rthing of the kind that I ask you to insert this. I may add that the error is not apparent and in no way affects the decision in the report of it, and therefore the editors of the Revised Reports are not to blame for repeating it. William Bartlett.