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 Devon Notes and Queries. 59 many were probably transferred to S. Peter, by the Bishops of Exeter, who did their utmost to efface the Celtic Saints, as are the Breton clergy and bishops at the present day, because these saints were never canonised at Rome. There are several churches dedicated to S. Petroc in Brittany, but this is due to the theft of his relics from Bodmin in 1 177. They were carried to S. Meven and S. M6en. Henry II had to send soldiers to S. M6en before the Ablx>t there could be induced to restore them, and after that the monks of S. Mfeen pretended not to have surrendered all. Thence some portions were distributed to Chiteaulin, Loperh^t, Saint Perreux, Trebedan and Tregon. There is a statue repre- senting him at Tr6b6dan, as an abbot mitred and holding pastoral staff. In the XV* Cent. MS. Calendar of S. M6en he is com- memorated not only on his proper day June 4, but also on Sept'- 4. In the XV*^ Cent. MS. Missal of S. Malo, and in the Breviary of S. Malo, printed 1537, he is entered on June 4. Petroc is the correct form of the name, and not Petrock. Petroc is the Celtic diminutive of Pedr or Peter, as is also Petran. What is the authority for the dedication of the chapel, at Petton in Bampton to S. Petroc ? S. Baring-Gould. 38. St. Petroc in Devon (Contd.) — Mr. Baring-Gould's note gives information of which many, probably most of us, were ignorant, and we must thank him for it, and for all he tells us about S. Petroc in his " Lives of the Saints." The authority for the probable dedication of Petton Chapel in Bampton to S. Petroc is Oliver's ** Monasticon," p. 445. Arthur P. Lancefield. 39. Water Beer Street — (Vol. II, p. 28, par. 25)* Although I cannot give you the derivation of Waterbeer-street,^ I am able to carry the name back to a fairly early period. There is registered in the ** Chronicon Exoniense " a Ms. Book preserved in the archives of the Dean and Chapter, the will of a John Salter, " Sellarius," made on Monday, i^th April f 1445 ; and in it the testator bequeathed for various ghostly purposes '* unum tenementum suum in Exonia in vico vocato Waterber Strette jacens inter