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 I20 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. In 1586 Mr. Hayman was M.P. for Totnes, and was Mayor of Totnes 1589, and subsequently left Totnes and went to Dartmouth to live. Wood's Athena Oxoniensis men- tions Robert Hayman, sojourner, of Exeter Coll., Governor of Plantation at Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. Notes and Queries, Sept., igio, has a note showing that Robert Hayman the poet was the eldest son of Nicholas Hayman. Robert Hayman the poet has a piece describing a visit of Sir Francis Drake to Totnes and his meeting him. Robert Hayman, Quodlihet (1628), Book IV., No. 7: "Of the great and famous ever to be honoured Knight, Sir Francis Drake, and of my little — little self." "The dragon that our Seas did raise his crest, And brought back heaps of gold unto his nest, Unto his foes more terrible than thunder Glory of his age, after-ages wonder, Excelling all those that excell'd before ; It's fear'd we shall have none such any more. Effecting all he sole did undertake. Valiant, just, wise, milde, honest, godly Drake. This man, when I was little, I did meete, As he was walking up Totnes long street ; He asked me whose I was ? I answered him. He asked me if his good friend were within. A faire red orange in his hand lie had ; He gave it me whereof I was right glad ; Takes and kist me, and prays God bless my boy. Which I record with comfort to this day. Could he on me have breathed with his breath His gifts Elias-like, after his death, Then had I beene enabled for to doe Many brave things I have had a heart unto. I have no great desire, as e're iiad hee To joy annoy : friends, foes, but 'twill not be."' Richard Hayman was Mayor of Dartmouth 1601. E. W. 103. Tour in North Devon. — Can any reader give par- ticulars of the four friends who took the tour in N. Devon described in a book privately printed by Spottiswoode and Co., of London, in 1862 ? It was written by H. W. A. As four of the subscribers were called Adams, that was probably the name of the author. Other large subscribers were A. W. Bethune, J. Baker, R. S. Langwood, T. Lyon, and Mrs. J. Wood. Who were they? T. Cann Hughes.