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 222 Devon Notes and Queries. of the Court (which I now hold as owner of the Holwell pro- perties), the Holwell people were the only persons entitled to the use of this road, and their rights were limited. There was no church path here, because there were no other houses on the east side of the £xe in the parish to use it ; and the suggestion that people from Westexe used formerly to wade or swim across the ford to attend churchy when for the past 500 years they have had a bridge in the centre of the town, need hardly be taken seriously ! Charles Carsw. 176. Hogarth and Wesley. — Stevenson* s Memorials of tkc Wesleys (1876 edition), under Samuel Wesley, junr., states that two tickets for admission to entertainments at Blundell's School, Tiverton, Devon, with an engraving thereon of the school, were drawn by W, Hogarth during S. Wesley's headmastership of that school, and Stevenson states that he had seen impressions of these two tickets preserved amongst members of the Wesley family. An impression of each of these two tickets is also pre- served in Blundeirs School Library, but only one ticket is catalogued in Samuel Ireland's Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth (1794 edition) as temp. circ. 1736, and that plate bears the signature ** W. Hogarth pinxt." I have never seen the other plate (of which the school impression was used for a ticket dated 1753) ascribed anywhere else to Hogarth or cata- logued in any list of his works, and I have consulted most of the well-known ones. The plate also does not bear his name. Can any one, especially any member of the Wesley family, throw any light upon the subject, and kindly tell me on what authority this second ticket is attributed to Hogarth, and also what evidence there is to connect either ticket with Samuel Wesley ? There is no record of any such at the school itself. Arthur Fisher. 177. Stallensthorne. — Could anyone kindly tell me whereabouts Stallensthorne is ? It was formerly owned by William Warren, whose daughter and heir, Susanna, matried in 1700, as his second wife, Sir John Trevelyan, of Nettle- combe. C.H. Sp. P.