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 178 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. supply from these a corresponding title to practically every one on Mr. Craster's list, but this by no means implies an identification of the volumes. In some instances I have examined the MSS. and proved their identity, but it would be a big task to examine each one with sufficient care. In one case, at least, I can make a correction : the three works by Prudentius were in one volume in Anglo-Saxon times, were also so in 1506, and probably in such condition reached Oxford. There is some ground for thinking that the two parts of No. 31 were also bound together before 1506. I have evidence, which I believe to be conclusive, that No. 45, Egbert's Penitential, was given to the Cathedral by Leofric. To deal satisfactorily with this subject requires more space than is at my disposal, but I may add that the vast amount of material that I have accumulated divides itself naturally under the following headings: — Leofric's MSS.; The Inventories of 1327; Stapledon's MSS.; Grandisson's MSS.; The Inventory of 1506; The Library Building; Miscellaneous Notes ; The Bodleian-Exeter MSS. ; The Present Resting-Places of Exeter MSS. ; and List of Donors. If anyone can furnish me with information that I have not already obtained it will be gratefully received and suitably acknowledged when my account of the Exeter MS. is published. 5^ P. I fT • Frances Rose-Troup. 143. Crest of Strode (IX., p. 128, par. 110). — The savin is not a yew but a juniper, Jtmipenis sabina, a low evergreen shrub which grows sparingly in England but very plentifully in Southern Europe, in rough, rocky places like our furze or heath. It bears a quantity of blue black berries, of which some birds are very fond. J.S.A. 144. Crest of Strode (IX., p. 128, par. no). — " G. S." is wrong in stating that " savins " are yews. The former is an evergreen tree of the genus Junipeviis. Yew is genus Taxus. Both are described in Robinson's English Flower Garden. Both have noxious qualities but different character- istics, I believe. J. G. 145. Crest of Strode (IX., p. 128, par. no). — After the identification of the savin tree, the crest of the Strode family, it may be of interest to describe a leaden medal struck apparently by Sir William Strode, M.P., in 1660. It