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 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 189 this article says that one of the " Comminalte " came in "atte the litell stile . . . and brought fire in a sho and sette the saide egge a fire." The " saide egge " must be identical with the " grete drie fryth," for within it was the " xx" worth tymber " and not only was the tymber likely to have been burnt but " the tenements of the saide Church as [the] biling of the saide Citee." Halliwell gives "vreath = a low hedge. Devon." So we must read this as a hedge enclosing timber, perhaps piled in the Close for use in building the Cathedral. But exactly where it stood is not clear. " The most costlew and stately billyng of the Citee," as it is styled in the other Roll, one would expect to be the Guildhall, but this could not have been "almost evyn janant" on its back-side to the Close. Could it have been St. Petrock's Church or " Bokerel " ? The other reference is to be found on p. 94, and refers to a "fray" which took place "with ynne the cloos yeate yn the eygge by tvveene the cimitery and the cyte." Possibly this was the Margeria, but there may have been a hedge within the Close. The question of the Margeria is of great interest ; one wishes Miss Lega-Weekes had given details as to who held the tenements there and whether they were held of the City or of whom the Dean and Chapter bought them. On the same page, 186, Miss Lega-Weekes refers to " Bokerel " and other houses bounded on the sotith by the churchyard of St. Peter. It is difficult to understand how the churchyard could lie to the south of that building. I would like to call her attention to three references in Shillingford's Letters that indicate that the boundaries of the Close and of the Cemetery were not identical : " With ynne that they calle the prosyncte of the cloos of Seynt Peter of Exceter and with oute the seide cimitery " (p. 84), "with ynne the seide Close and cimitere" (p. 121), "yn dyvers places of the close and amydde the cimitere" (p. 122). S-*^ '(^■^'^' Frances Rose-Troup. 157. Vivians of Truro (VIII., p. 99, par. 88). — Thomas Vivian, of Comprigney in Kenwyn, was the fifth son of Richard Vivian, of Tavistock, who married at Whitchurch 22nd July, 1647, Frances, d. of William Poynter, of Mawgan in Pider. This Richard was the fourth son of John Vivian,