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 4 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. References: — Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 36924, Court Book of Little W'otton Manor, in Childwall, co. Lanes., ff. 167-235. Duchy of Lancaster Pleadings, vol. 165, No. M7, P.R.O. Bill of Complaint of Oliver Maynwaringe of the Cittie of Exeter, gent., et ux. vs. W'"- Orme. Foley's Records of the English Province, S.J., Archives of D. and C, Exeter, 2488a. Release by Oliver Mainwaring of Dawlish, gent., of Cp. Anne lands in the D. and C, 1665. As cited, p. 64 Studies in the Topography of tlu Close, Exeter, by Miss E. Lega-Weekes, Exch. Depon. (8 Car. IL, Michm., No. 27.) Deposition by Oliver Mainwaring of Dawlish, gent. Howard M. Buck. 5. Remains of an Ancient Building in Exeter (VIII., p. 237, par. 181). — It would be a matter of great interest to learn from Miss E. Lega-Weekes of what date — or at least what period — were the ancient floors she mentions as having their "joists morticed into a rec- tangular frame of massive timbers, partly supported by the studs of oak partitions bearing on the ground, but independent of the walling, save that two of the lateral beams were put-logged into the masonry at either end." For unless they were unquestionably of Norman date they could hardly be quoted as afTording any parallel for what might have been in the Norman building in Preston Street. Any details of internal Norman domestic construction are not abundant, and this would be a very interesting one of which to have clear evidence. I am quite ready to allow — as I did in my paper — that there is no decisive evidence of the Preston Street building having been a Norman Chapel ; but I am afraid I, for one, do not think that any of the evidence brought forward by Miss Lega-Weekes is any more decisive for the opposite possibility. And I may add that, although almost all the twenty-eight chapels of Peter de Palerna's will are supposed to have been identified, yet, if Col. Harding's reference to the ancient Missal of S. Martin's Church [see Transactions of the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society, vol. iv., pt. ii., p. 117, footnote 9] is correct there were 32 known at a very early date, of which two at least, if not more, are still unidentified.