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 Devon Notes and Queries. 187 the family of Guidon still residing in that city. The Maire in reply, after expressing thanks for the attention to the grave, stated that he caused search to be made, but could find no one of the name of Guidon now remaining in Cambrai, but he had sent the photograph to the President of the local committee of the Society for the Preservation of French Soldiers' Graves in France and abroad. P. F. S. Amery. 144. Tracy and Brewer (II., p. 24, par. 20, and p. 157, par. 118.) — In dealing with the question as to the connection (if any) between the families of Tracy and Brewer, Miss Skinner appears to have confounded the two families of Tracy, one descended in the maternal line from the Domesday baron Judhel, of Totnes {Devon Assoc, Trans, xxxiv., 729), the other descended from William de Traci, stated to be a natural son of Henry I. {Ihid u., 42.) Judhel's descendant, Sir Henry de Traci, was in 1241 overlord of the barony of Barnstaple, comprising most of the estates held in Domesday by the Bishop of Coutances, Morthoe amongst their number, that barony having been bestowed on Judhel after the rebellion of the Bishop's nephew and heir, in 1095 {Trans. Devon Assoc, xxxiii. 631) ; but the manorial lord or owner of Morthoe in 1241 was the heir of de Bray {Testa Nevil, iv., p. 175, a), and Sir Henry de Tracy, who presented to Morthoe Rectory in 1257 did so not in his own right, but as " guardian of the lands and of the heir of Ralph de Bray " {Bronescombe's Register, p. 157.) This Sir Henry had no connection with Sir William de Traci, the assassin of Archbishop Becket, nor yet had the priest, Sir William de Tracy, who held the rectory of Morthoe and died as rector there, on 12th September, 1322 '{Stapeldon's Register, p. 236.) The rector's tomb is nevertheless often pointed out to visitors as the tomb of the Archbishop's murderer because of the rector's bearing the same name. It is well to remember that Woolacombe Tracy, as also Ivedon and Bradford Tracy all belonged to the barony of Braneys {Testa, 790, p. 182, b; 809, p. 183, a; 1132, p. 180, b), not to that of Barnstaple and were held, one by Oliver, the two others by William de Traci, in 1241. The Archbishop's murderer, Sir William de Traci, was the younger son of Sir John de Sudeley, by Grace, daughter of