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 i82 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 149. Heavitree (IX., p. 153., par. 125). — I have read Mr. Llewellin's derivation of the name Heavitree with great interest and profit, and should be very glad indeed if he would give the etymology of the name Ottery. K. M. C. 150. Heavitree (IX., p. 153, par. 125). — The Rev. G. T. Llewellin has supplied a very scholarly paper on the derivation of this name, and I have no doubt that he is right. Heavitree is the High Tree, or rather, the Top Tree. It is, perhaps, as well to remember that Pomeray's Heavi- tree was a very small estate, standing as an oasis on the hill head in the great crown manor Wonford. Like Christow, Churchstow, St. Pancrasweek, and other places, the manor where the church stood gave its name to the whole parish. A somewhat similar instance of the same name may be found in the up country Harptree. In the Black Book of 1 166, p. 84, this place appears as Epetreu or Hepetreu, where the harder sound of p has taken the place of the softer / in Hefodtreu. I suggest that the same derivation will explain also Heatree in Manaton. Only in this case the P, /, or V, has been given up altogether in face of the fierce blasts blowing from Dartmoor. Oswald J. Reichel. 151. The Chapel at Tor Royal. — The so called Chapel at Tor Royal is the present church at Princetown, built betv/een 1805 and 1814, as in a paragraph in the Bristol Mirror of the 13th July, 1805, it states that "The Prince of Wales is about to erect, at his own expense, a Chapel at Prince Town in the Forest of Dartmoor, under the direction of Thomas Tyrwhitt, Esq., Lord Warden of the Stannaries." This Chapel was built not far from the lodges of Tor Royal and was a chapel of ease to Lidford Church. According to the Registers Divine Service was performed for the first time in Dartmoor Church on 2nd Jan., 1814, by the Rev. J. H. Mason, the Chaplain, who was the Vicar of Widecombe, and who lived and died in the Vicarage there. This shows that it was known as Dartmoor and not Princetown Church and gives the date of the opening of the building, but when was it consecrated ? Mr. Mason got the bridge at Believer built to enable him to get from Widecombe to Princetown without going round by Postbridge. J. S. A.