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 58 Devon Notes and Qiuries. a good deal of glaziers (?) restoration, seeing the shield itself is scarcely defined ; and although the fields of the coats are the same tincture, yet a party lead line is not visible ; also that they have been reversed, the towers really being the ** baron " and the Battishill the "femme," when it would represent the marriage given in the 1620 Visitation [Harleian Soc., p. 19], as Julyan (Battishill) mar. to W. Will of Plymouth." The Wyles bore ** Azure a chevron or hetwun three towers of the last '' ; if so, then the martlet now on the tower in base, for difference, would properly have been above the chevron point, the latter apparently having disappeared : though by there being no- lead line between the bird and the tower, it looks as if it was borne underneath : of course this is only a suggestion, as there is nothing to prove it. F. W. 36. Leach impaling Napper. — (Vol. II, p. 26, par. 26). I have not Col. Vivian's Visitations of Devon to refer to ; but this- coat seems as if it would prove the marriage of John Leach, the first in the Devon Visitation of 1620, which is left blank there ; seeing that the Bedfordshire Visitation [Harleian Soc. p. 184], says that Elizabeth daughter of ** Alexander Naper of Exceter " who married thrice, and also of Grace Taylor his second wife, married ** Jo. Leech of Devonsh." Having no dates to guide me, this is naturally conjectural, but it would be happy to find that this coat tills up a blank. F. W. 37. S. Petroc in Devon. — (Vol. I, p. 12, par. 4, Vol. II, p. 8, par. 7). In answer to your correspondent, A. P. Lancefield^ I may say that we have no other record of the life of S. Petroc,. save the summary by John of Tynemouth (1327-46), in his Sanctilogium which was taken into Capgrave*s Nova Legenda Angliae, and printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 15 16, and a refer- ference in the Vita S**- Cadoci (Cotton MS. Vesp. A. XIV), and the pedigree in Achan y Saint. Unhappily the original Vita, which John of Tynemouth condensed, is lost. All therefore that can be done as to the extent of his missionary labours is by con* jecture. There seems to be reason to suppose that Buckfast Abbey was one of his settlements. Almost certainly also he had one in Exeter represented by his church there, and others at Lydford, Dartmouth, Tor Mohun, and Harford. Probably elsewhere, where the dedications indicate his presence, but