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 196 Devon Notes and Queries, with the Gospel of his Passion and Resurrection. In spite of the grotesqueness of the form, this is surely the most telling of all these simple pictures. (I S. Peter iii, 19.) (20.) The Resurrection. — Christ emerging from the same flat tomb seen in 18 ; on the left is an angel ; on the right is, strangely enough, a Roman soldier with a halberd. (21.) The Ascension, — The eleven disciples stand on the mount looking upward at the little cloud which has received their Saviour from their sight. The pictures call for but little comment, simply because they are, on the whole, so simple, so familiar, and so evangelical. It was perhaps for this reason that we still possess them after the ravages of the Reformation, a siege, and two church restorations. Their remoteness from the ground is greatly to be deplored; even more lamentable is the crumbling state of many of them, though may tinkering and restoration be long deferred. These are the first detailed photographs taken, for use in case of further destruction by the weather. The whole of the sculptures of Greenway's work suffered most severely in a local cloud burst on a Whit-Sunday some 20 years ago. It is but repeating a common place to say how much more lovely was the stone-carving of the late middle age than its painting or illuminating. But if there is in this series a certain crudeness and lack of grace, this is amply overweighed by the greater artistic qualities of simplicity, honesty, and fervour of faith. £. S. Chalk, b.a. 155. An Unidentified Coat in Tiverton Church (II., p. 145, par. 108.) — I have been in correspondence with the Rev. £. S. Chalk, who has interested himself in the matter, but the results are small ; however, these few notes may help. Lysons states there is a monument in Tiverton Church to William Lee, m.d. Now, Mr. Chalk has sent me an inscription on this, saying this William was the son of another William, armiger, " de Wincellus," «.tf., Winkley ; and the Western Armory gives the coat of Leighe of Wynklyghe as on the shield : he also gives Leigh of Ridge in Bishhop's Morchard as bearing the same coat ; this, Tuckett in his pedigree also blazons with a cadency mullet, but there is no William in it, however, as the M.D. died in 1679, there