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 62 Devon Notes and Queries. as ** in his manor of South Tawton/* he might mean his sith'Tn^noXy just as Middleweek is said (in 1637), to be held of John Hore, gen., as of his manor of Ash, alias South Tawton and Luffaton of Peter Tayler, gen, as of his manor of South Tawton alias Yet ton. Indeed, if the statement of one '* Rolls" (see Notes and Queries, Feb. 8th, 1902), might be relied on — that Reginald, Earl of Cornwall gave part of his Moretain estates in Devon- shire to his daughter Maude, the holder of the Moretain manor of Allingeston in 1203 might as well be a Roger de Wigornia as a Roger de Torny. With regard to Ytton, earlier spelt Ydeton, may I register a guess that its name derives from Eddida (widow of Edward the Conqueror) whose mother Githa, we know, held the Manor of South Tawton, in dower. I find in Add. Cart. 5,248. Ylton, in Marlborough, alluded to as Edilton, otherwise called Ethelton, and the Rev. O. J. Reichel gives me the analogous case of Edmerston having become Ycdmareston. Ethel Lega-Wbbkes. 40. Jonathan Jillett. — (Vol. I, p. 255, par. 200). As Mr. William Gillette and his play '* Sherlock Holmes ** are just now attracting considerable attention in England, I thought that you might be pleased to have these little items about him. Mr. Gillette is a direct descendant from Jonathan Gillet, who came to New England about 1630, with Mr. John Warham's Devonshire company, from which it seems probable that Jonathan Gillet was a Devonshire man, though as some of Mr. Wareham*s company came from adjoining counties, it is possible that Mr. Gillet came from an adjoining Shire. If the name Gillet was a Devonshire name, the probabilities would seem to be for Devonshire A little coincidence: Mr. William Gillette is descended from Thomas Willett, D.D., Prebendary of Ely, and sub- almoner to King Edward VL He has been greeted upon the stage, in his character of " Sherlock Holmes,** by King Edward VIL The final te of Mr. Gillette's name were added many )ears ago, in New-England. Brooklyn, N.Y. Edward Hookbr.