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 12 Devon Notes and Queries, The account in Manning and Bray's Surrey is similar to that of Aubrey ; and in Brayley and Britton's Surrey (II, 67) there is, in the description of the church of East Horsley, a tran- script of the epitaph as given by J.B.R. A woodcut of the brass is also given, but is certainly faulty, as it shows the hands to be clasping a book, whereas the facsimile illustration of the brass itself in J.B.R's article exhibits them simply in the attitude of prayer. The same work notes that the brass " seems to have been removed from a grey slab in the chancel floor " (II, 67), and in this particular differs from Aubrey. In the last edition of Le Neve's work, and in Dr. Oliver's Bishops of Exeter (1861) the date and place of interment are given as stated by J.B.R. ; it is, however, curious that the Doctor finds fault with Weever's account, without referring in any way to the circumstance that in his earlier work he had adopted it. (108). It is difficult to surmise the reason of these different records of the place where the Bishop was interred. As another of the same family was buried in the same church, it might naturally be suggested that one had been mistaken for the other ; but Weever gives his epitaph as well, and in these words : " Orate pro anitna WUlelmi Booth militis fratris Episcopi Exon^ qui oh, 6 Aprils 1478." (445). If any lesson is to be learnt from a consideration of this subject it is, that in any researches that may be made, all the available authorities should be consulted. Godwin's work is regarded as a standard one on the Bishops of England, and yet, if alone referred to as to the place where Bishop Booth was laid to rest, the reader would certainly be misled. I have not considered the possibility of the body having been deposited for some time in one place, and of its subse- quent removal elsewhere ; such cases are, however, on record, T. N. Brushfield, M.D. 12. Carew and Pole Letters. — The two following letters copied from the originals contained in a collection of letters and papers in the British Museum (Harleian MS. 7,000), are of local interest apart from the light they throw on the procedure, and on the ignorance real or assumed, of the heralds who had to do with the 1620 Visitation of Devonshire..