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 Devon Notes and Queries. 215 six places of that name does not appear, though probably in Cambridgeshire as the nearest to London) there is no evidence that he ever left the London district. The last three or four years of his life were those in which he appears to have worked the hardest. Between 1771 and his death on April 3rd, 1774, he wrote "Retaliation," "The Good Natured Man," "She Stoops to Conquer," "The Captivity" (an oratorio), some miscellaneous poems, various compilations, translations, collections of poetry, a Roman History, " History of England " and " Greece," " Animated Nature," etc., besides contributing to the Gentlemen's Magazine and some seven or eight similar publications. None of his five or six biographies mention any visit to Devonshire, nor is there any record in any life of Reynolds of such a visit having taken place. It is true the evidence is chiefly negative, but I think we are justified in saying that " dear old Goldy " never visited Devonshire. A. J. Davy. 171. FiNNiMORE (II., p. 119, par, 83; p. 138, par. 103.) — Thomas Fynamour was one of the jurors in an extent, made at Exeter on Sep. ist, 1301, of the knight's fees and advow- sons which had belonged to Joce de Dynham, deceased. The jurors found that Thomas de Cyrecestre held of the said Joce in Wodehywysche and Seyntemariechurche i| fees, worth annually 405., but there is nothing to connect Fynamour with Woodhuish. There was no person of that name holding any of the Dynham lands in Woodhuish in 1566. R. Pbarsb Chope. 172. Mr. Reichel will find early references to this name in Devonshire in the Red Book of the Exchequer, 1210-1212, issued in the Roll's series: page 559, Devonesira: Honor Gloucestrie in hoc comitatu. Tenentes. Gilbertus de Fine- mere, dimidium. Page 607, Devonta and Cornubia : Gilbertus de Finemere. j militem et dimidium. In Excerpta e Rot, Finium, 3 Hen. Ill, 1219, Richard Finamur and Matilda his wife were plaintifis in a fine of lands in Wodehewish, Devon. Mr. Reichel's identification of Woodhewish is interesting. Perhaps others may adduce other early instances of the name. W. P. W. Phillimore.