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 Dewm Nates and Queries. 39 advanced that the proper style should be '< Water- bearer/* ij.f having reference to the ecclesiastical o£Bce of " bearer of holy water." This is so very far from the modem and suggestive term " Water Beer " as to increase the mystery. Can any reader of D,N,S'Q. throw any light upon the point? J.I.P. 26. Sir Siicon Lbach, of Cadeleigh, Kt. — Consider- able interest has been aroused of late in what is known as the Leach monument in Cadeleigh Church, near Tiverton, in this county. A note therefore upon it, its founder, his house at Cadeleigh, and his family may not be inopportune. The monument stands in the N.£. corner of the north aisle of the church and consists of an altar tomb with two recumbent effigies in life size upon it, one of a man in armour, the other of a woman. A similar effigy of a man in armour kneels as in prayer at their head and a woman at their feet. On the front of the plinth kneel the effigies of nine children, four boys and five girls. The whole are in the quaint costumes of the Jacobean period. Overhead is a richly ornamented arched canopy supported on ei|^ pillars bearing above all four escutcheons charged lespecttvely with the Turberville of Dorset coat, the Leach coat. Leach impaling Turberville, and Leach impaling Napper, or Napier of Bedfordshire. The Leach coat is apparently identical with that now borne by the Leche family, of Carden, Cheshire, and (with cadency charges) the Leeches of Kippure and Cloonconra, in Ireland, but the published pedigrees show no connection between these families and Leach of Cadeleigh. The tomb bears the following inscriptions painted on tablets under the canopy : — HEERE LYE THE BODYES OF SR SYMON LEACH KNIGHT SON OF SYMON LEACH OF CREDITON BLACKE SMITH AND OF YE LADY CATHERIN LEACH HIS WIFE DAUGHTER OF NICHOLAS TUBERVILL OF CREDITON ESQUIRE WHOSE TRUE AFFECTION IN RELI- GIOUS WEDLOCKS CAUSED THERE DESIRE TO MAKE THERE BED TO- GETHER IN THE DUST.