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 214 Devon Notes and Queries. i6. John Palmer Chichester, of Arlington. 17. Thomas Palmer Acland, of Charles. 18. George Furlong Wise, of Loddiswell. 19. George Templer, of Teignbridge, 20. Robert Pell, of Tiverton. 21. John Davy Folkes, of the same. 22. John Brickdale, of Stoodly. 23. Richard Stephens, of Holcombe. 24. George Warwick Bamfylde, of Poltimore, Esquires. Each of the Jurors aforesaid is by himself separately attached by Pledges to wit. John Doe and Richard Roe, Sir Thos. Dyke Acland, Bart, SheriflF. (In dorso). For the plaintiff on the ist, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 13th issues. Dam*- i/- ; Costs 40/- For the defendant on the 2nd, 4th and nth issues. And the jury are by consent of the parties discharged from giving any verdict on the 3rd, 6th, loth and 12th issues. The jury empanelled were: Nos. 1-4; 9; 13; 15, 16; 2 1 -24. ROUGB-ET-NOIR. 170. Goldsmith in Devonshire (IV., p. 190, par. 148.) — It is extremely improbable that Goldsmith ever visited Devon- shire. Mr- John Forster, in his very charming Life and Times of Olivet Goldsmith^ says that Sir Joshua Reynolds proposed a " joint excursion into Devonshire," but Goldsmith, writing to Reynolds from Paris in 1770, says : — "As for our intended journey to Devonshire, I find it out of my power to perform it. ... I have so overrun the constable that I must mortify myself a little to bring it up again." (This letter is also given in Prior's Life of Goldsmith.) In 1771 he was at Bath with Lord Clare. In the same year he intended visiting Mr. Rennet Langton at Langton, near Spilsby in Lincolnshire, but postponed his visit. With the exception of a visit to Mrs. Bunting at Barton (but which of the five or