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 240 Devon Notes and Queries. inscription whatever, and with six shields within wreaths, but without arms. Tradition assigns it to the 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke, who died in 1522. In my notes about the family, I find that in a secluded parish in Wilts, West Knoyle, there were in 1859 two shields at the end of the dripstone over the arch of the priests' door- way, one the achievement of Willoughby de Broke, the other, Quarterly i and 4 a chevron within a bordure indented^ 2 and 3 four fusils in fess. In 1859 there was hanging in the church a hatchment belonging to " Richard Willowby," Esq., who died in 1739 : Quarterly 1 and 4 fretty, 2 a cross engrailed^ 3 an eagle displayed^ over all a shield of pretence charged with a chevron between three garbs; this latter coat was also impaled with Mr. Willowby's. It is curious that the last Archpriest of Bere Ferrers (for it had been an Archpresbytery from a.d. 1335) was Master William Wyllughby, who died 1565, and whose burial is recorded in the parish register. With regard to the twenty quarterings in the shield of arms mentioned in the account of the shield at Nettlecombe Court, may not No. 17 be really that of Carminow ? In the east window of the church at Bere Ferrers the cognizance of Carminow constantly appears, Gules a bend or, the founder, Sir William Ferrers, having married Matilda Carminow, and on the Ferrers line becopiing extinct, the manor passed by female descent to the Champernownes, and through them to Lord Willoughby de Broke. Frederic T. W. Wintlb. 195. Miss Gibbons. — Any particulars will be welcomed about Miss M. S. Gibbons, who wrote, at least, three chatty Devon books. We Donkeys in Devon (1886), We Donkeys on Dartmoor y and We Donkeys on the Coast of Devon (1887). ^^ the closing paragraph of the last she writes, " We hope, if our life and health be spared, they (our readers) will again be ready to accompany us on next year's tour when we intend to introduce them to other places in Devon, and perhaps pass over the border into Cornwall." Was this promise fulfilled ? Was Miss Gibbons Devon-born? When did she die, and where was she buried ? T. Cann Hughes, m.a., p.s.h.