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 92 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. he very generously purchased back his own gift, at a cost of ^590, and restored it to Sowton Church. Our readers, no doubt, will be glad to learn the satisfactory result of this transaction ; but it should be noted that no one now living is responsible for the alienation. M. A. 82. Brudenell M.I., Sandford Church. — On the floor of the north aisle of Sandford Church is a gravestone inscribed : — Here Lie the Remains of Mr Harthory Brudenell of High House in ye Parish of Dodbrook who executed the office of Collector of Excise with the greatest Integrity near Fifty years. He died Feb: 20, 1744. A«ed 79. Arms : — A chevron between three caps, impaling three lions rampant. From Sandford Registers : — 1744. Mr. Harthory Brudenell buried Feb. 24. 1749. Gulielmus = Brudenell filius Gulielmi Barton cappelani et Francisce uxoris natus est 25 May, bapt: 29 June. William Barton, chaplain of Sandford, 1741 to 1771, probably married Frances, daughter of Mr. Plarthory Brudenell, hence his burial at Sandford. Is anything known of^i^ny^^ ^ ^^ ^^^ A. J. P. S. 83. " Clyst " AND "Week" Place-Names (IX, p. 20, par. 18; p. 43, pars. 39, 40). — There are two distinct 'wicks' in English, of diflferent meaning and derivation. One is the Anglo-Saxon word ' wick ' or ' week,' related to Lat. victis and Gr. oikos. This ' wick ' means a habitation or village, and is a very common termination of place-names in Devon. The other is a Norse word, meaning a creek or inlet. The wicking or viking (a word which has nothing to do with ' king ') was a sea-rover who frequented the wicks or creeks of a coast for hiding in, while the lawful trader cast anchor in the ' hafn ' (haven or harbour). But as these estuaries were in early days the chief source of the salt-supply, the word wick, in its alternative form ' wich,' came to mean a saltern, salt-marsh or salt-pit, as in Sandwich ; and the meaning was thence extended to inland salt-works, as