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 Devon Notes and Queries. 219 It is also a slip to say that " in Asset's day the Bishop of Devonshire had his bishopstool at Crediton" (p. 29). For Asser was a cotemporary of King Alfred, who died in 901, and there was no Bishop of Devonshire before 909. On p. 47 it is quoted as from Domesday that ** the Bishop of Exeter had 47 houses paying ten shillings and ten pence." Domesday says no such thing. What it does say is that ** the Bishop has 48 houses, and of these houses ten of them pay ten shillings and ten pence by way of customary due" (consuetude is frequently used in the Devonshire Domesday to express the customary due), the meaning being that of the 48 houses belonging to the Bishop 10 were held at a cus- tomary or quit rent of is. id. each, the remainder being rack rented. It seems also an exaggeration to speak of Warelwast's long episcopate from 1107 to 1136. It lasted from 1107 to 1 1 26. Probably the erroneous date is the cause of the uncalled-for adjective. It is also wrongly stated that by the Municipal Reform Act of 1836 the Corporation now consists of the Mayor, 14 Aldermen and 42 Town Councillors elected by the seven wards. The Municipal Reform act was passed in 1835, and previous to the City of Exeter Extension Act in 1877 the Corporation consisted of only 48 members, viz., 12 Aldermen and 36 Town Councillors, with one of the 48 for Mayor, and of only six wards. The act of 1877 added a seventh ward and increased the number of Aldermen and Councillors to 56, or 57 if the Mayor were elected from without. By the recent Act of 1900 the number still stands at 56 or 57, but the enlarged city is divided into fourteen wards, each returning I Alderman and 3 Town Councillors. On p. 236 prebend of Carswall is an error for prebend of Cutton. The prebend of Carswell is in lay hands all but a fee-iiarm rent of ;f 2 135. ^. On p. 184 Bishop Stap«/don is wrongly spelt Stap/^don. There are many other trivial errors. There is _an index, but alas ! when you look to it for help it fails. It seems unjust to the memory of so distinguished a writer that fresh editions should be allowed to appear with mistakes such as the above uncorrected. Oswald J. Rbichel.