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 1 8 Devon Notes and Queries could only be withdrawn, or put in, by opening the box. The height is lo^ inches. The Neen Sellers Box was formerly deposited in the parish chest. When closed the lid was fastened by a lock let into the front of the box, and by a padlock on each side. A woven linen tube was attached to the under part of the lid, a security against the possibility of withdrawing any part of its contents through the narrow slit in the cover. The Harbledown Box consists of a cylinder of oak, four inches in diameter, bound roimd with hoop iron. The lid is of oak hooped with iron — externally it is slightly concave and has a very narrow slit i^in. long; and internaUy it is highly convex, so that it would hardly be possible for a coin which had once been laid flat in the box to be abstracted through the narrow slit, which is only wide enough to admit one of the thin pieces of mediaeval coinage. F. J. Baigent. 15. Bridge and Caw. — Can anyone suggest the mean- ing of the above name ? It appears to be identical with Bruggernell in the After Death Inquests of 7 Hen. V. m. 69, p. 44 and 8 Hen. V. m. 95, p. 52. Its present name is Bridge Farm, Blacktorington. I am disposed to think that the first part of the name may be Bruggan Caw or Bruggan Ell, and that it may be adjective of Brugge or Brige, = Borough, as in Bridge- water : Borough Walter ; Bridgetown = Borough Town .. The adjectival form still survives in such words as an elm^ tree, an oak^n bough, golden tobacco. But what is the other word Caw or Ell ? Can EU be a corrup- tion for Hill or Knowl? If so what is Caw} The spelling Bridge and Caw is the spelling of the last century. I may add that Bridge and Caw, alias Bridge Farm, lies just outside the Borough proper of Black- torington. Oswald J. Reichel. 16. Shillingham (Vol. I, p 210, par. 177.)— On page 209^ of your July issue you have an inquiry from Mr. Oswald Reichel as to where Shillingham is. The reference gives it as the hamlet of Shillingham, which is deceiving. The place referred to is the Manor or Barton of Shillingham in St^ Stephens-by-Saltash, Cornwall. The Manor was anciently