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 Devon Notes and Queries, 201 is all this information derived ? It starts with the assumption that an exchange was made, but authorities declare it to be simply a tradition without any evidence in its favour. From all I have been able to learn, it was a tradition known in Lrlandaff better than it was in Exeter ; owing probably to its relation by B. Willis in his History of that Cathedral, first published in 1715. Bishop Lyttelton, when Dean of Exeter^ wrote in 1754 a Description of Exeter Cathedral that was subse- quently issued by the Society of Antiquaries, in which h& remarks, " It is very hard to conceive how such a tradition could obtain at LlandafF upon little or no foundation *' (5). From the Exeter Cathedral Fabric Rolls, Dean Lyttelton quoted the following item : — " 31st Hen. VI (1452-3) xx** *in uni banderick [sic] pro maxima campana in campanile boreali ' " (5.) This merely shows that a large Peter Bell had existed in the north tower long prior to the time of Bishop Courtenay, most probably as far back as the 13th century. Whether its name, Peter, was derived from Bishop Peter Quivil, or was simply that of the patron saint of the church, is an open question; suffice it to say that it was customary to call the principal bell by the name of the saint to whom the edifice was dedicated. As far as Bishop Courtenay is concerned, Godwin in his Catalogue of the Bishops of England (16 15), 244, notes that " he bestowed much mony in finishing the North Tower, vnto which he gaue a goodly bel, called after his name Peter bel." This latter gift must have been made between his accession to that see in 1477 and his translation to Winchester in i486. How does Mr. Hems settle on the year 1482 as the date on which the bell is asserted to have been hung ? If Mr. Hems will furnish some additional particulars relating to these three points, and will give accurate references and quotations verb, et lit, as to the sources of his information, he will add material weight to the value of his article. T. N. Brushfield, m.d., f.s.a. 159. — Referring to the notice of the weather cock on St^ Sidwell's Church, it may interest you to know that there is a memorial brass in that church to my ancestor, Hugh Grove, who was beheaded at Exeter with Colonel Penruddocke by Cromwell, "Pro Rege et Lege" in 1655. Thereisa long account of him in Hoare's History of Wilts, G. Troyte-Chafyn-Grove^