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 144 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. without blazon as Child, and as the pedigrees give no such marriage, presumably it was brought in by one of the other quarterings, though Peche was a direct marriage. (6) is Jenney, the birds being Cornish choughs proper, as the beaked and legged gules proves ; there is no direct marriage given in the pedigrees. (7) would be Oldbeiffe ; but it is very unlikely that it is rightly quartered here; most likely copied from a shield that went backwards in the proper way, instead of one coming down to modern times. (8) If this blazon is correct and represents the family, it would be Prestwood of Salop or Staffordshire ; but I can find nothing in the pedigrees to prove it. This does not come among the 19 quarterings in Betham, but he says he has heard of or seen one with 30 quarterings, of which he gives no list. It seems to me the earlier shields are correct ; the rest are jumbled up out of any sequence. F. Were. 117. Sigdure Lane, Kingsbridge. — From Hawkins' History of Kingsbridge and Salcombe (18 19) I learn that a street on the east side of Fore Street, Kingsbridge, " was formerly called Sigdure Lane, since that, by corruption. Sugar Lane, and more recently Dunscombe Street." Was Sigdure a local personal name, and if so, was the name of Sugary Cove, near Dartmouth, derived from it? Ethel Lega-Weekes. 118. Oak Panel from Kingsteignton Church. — I have an oak panel which is reported to have come from Kingsteignton Church. It measures about ift. 9in. x i3in., and is carved with a conventional design, surmounted by the initials " I. K. P." and the date 1663. Can any of your readers inform me what position this panel occupied in the church and to whom the initials belonged ? Curiosus II. 119. Norman Surnames (IX., p. 93, par. 84.) — The reason why the prefix " de " occurs very seldom after the latter part of the 14th century is that after that period surnames were becoming general, and it was no longer necessary to distinguish a man by the name of the town or village he came from. It must be remembered that " de " before a rrian's name generally means from not of, so De Molton meant simply a man from South or North Molton. J. F. Chanter.