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 Devon Notes and Queries. 253 y 202. — BovBY Tracey Church Plate. — We give illustra- tions from photos of the plate belonging to this parish. The large silver paten or tazza, or whatever it is, is 12 ins. across and 3 ins. high, and weighs 21 ozs. avoir. The hall marks are R D, a crowned lion's head and a Uon passant. The following is inscribed on the front of it : *' £x dono Gulielmo Stawell, Arm. Paroch. de Bovey Tracy in Comt. Devon 1691." You can see the work on it. The foot is per- fectly plain, and is beaten silver soldered on to the plate itself. The silver chalice weighs 15^ ozs. and the cover 4^ ozs. ; it stands 7^ inches high and measures 4 inches across the mouth. The foot of the cover has a tudor rose on it, with the following inscription a little lower down : " The Paryshe of Bove Trace. Ano Domyne 1576." The following are the hall marks : I. IONS. B., and a crown with what looks like cross keys below it. There are also two other articles,! a basin and flagon, both of pewter. The fiagon stands 13! inches high, and has on the handle I.F.B.T., that is James Forbes, Bovey Tracey. The basin is ii| inches across, and has on it a rampant lion (I presume the lion of Scotland) and " la. Forbes, Scot., Vic, Anno 1635." James Forbes, an account of whom will be found in Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy ^ was a native of Aberdeen, Chaplain to King Charles I, and Vicar of Bovey Tracey. He married the daughter of Thomas Gardyner, of Grove Place, Co. Buckingham. She died in 1655, and the following curious entry is found in the register of burials in this parish : — ** Maria, the wife of James Forbes, Vicar of this parish and Chaplain to King Charles the First, daughter of Thomas Gardyner, of Grove Place, in the Countie of Buckingham, Esquire, died the Seventene of June, nere noon,, and buried Thursday the T wen tie One, Anno dom. 1655." ^AV^ <n W. B^Vere Stead. ^ ^ J 203. John Greenway of Tiverton. — There is a mystery apparently in the origin of John Greenway of Tiverton. Prince puts him down as of mean parentage, but he adds that there was a very good tribe of this name which had residence at a seat so called in the parish of Brixham, near Dartmouth. It may interest your readers to mention that very similar heraldic arms to those of John Greenway are represented in v/^