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 36 Devon Notes and Queries. show their character. They are of the usual xviith Century type, with most of the windows looking into a closed court yard, probably entered through a gateway now pulled down. Over the principal door, cut in the stone, can still be seen an escutcheon of the Leach coat impaling the three lance rests of Grenvile, the armorial bearings of the untitled Simon. On entering the hall lies tp the right with a large chimney place, with a further room beyond, probably the with-drawing-room, to the left a small parlour, beyond that the kitchen with another large chimney place ; in front of the entry the only flight of stairs. At the stair head on the right the principal bedroom, and through it another once probably two. To the left of the stair head two more bed- rooms are entered, one through the other. This was the common arrangement of the lime as Mr. Baring-Gould describes in his Old Country Life, by which the males of the family slept one side of the stairs and the females the other, while the master and mistress commanded the posi- tion from the principal room at the stair head. The deer park surrounded with a high wall, the well with its stone steps, are still existent, but the old gardens have disappeared. The Cadeleigh property was sold by the last Sir Simon in reversion expectant on his own life to Mr. John Doble, who bequeathed it to a cousin John Hartnoll, one of an old Tiverton family, whose heiress married John Russell Moore, since when the property has passed away again into other hands. I conclude an already lengthy note with the fate of the Trust Fund for the repair of the tomb, and on this point I cannot do better than quote the report of the Charity Com- mission of 1826. The Commissioners had not apparently read Sir Simon's will. certain chief tents of the Manor of Butterlei^h by the Owners of several estates in the parish ; there is a tradition thai that sum was formerly chargeable on other lands, but the chief rents of Butterleigh were after- wards substituted in Heu of them. . . . It is probable that the present annual income is derived fro-n Sir Simon Leach's gifts. "The above-mentioned sum is annually received between Michaelmas and Christmas at a meeting' of the tenants of Hutterleigh, on which occasion it has been customary that a dinner should be provided, the expense of wiiich, amounting to about £^, is deducted fr(>in the receipts, and the remainder is distributed in money between 20 and 30 poor persons of the parish of Cadleigh.
 * An annual sum, amounting to ^^lo 13s. is at present payable out of
 * John Russell Moore, Esq., used to receive the chief rents till his