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 2i6 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. may have run in line with " certeine elmes . . . which were . . . taken to be the boundes betwene the liberties of the Citie and the Sanctuarie and privileges of the seyd Churche " {Hooker, ed. by Harte, p. 217). The depositions respecting these bounds are too lengthy for repetition in full, but I gather (see Hooker, pp. 212-218, and Shillijtgford, p. 138) that the City claimed jurisdiction over the '* ways '' {inter alia) leading from St. Petrock's to St. Martin's and from the latter to the Archdeacon's house, and that the elm- trees grew along the inner (i.e. Churchyard side) of these ways upon " bankes." I thank Mrs. Rose-Troup for the references supporting my remarks as to the distinction between the Churchyard proper and the Close. As to my further contention that the boundary-line of the Close must have been liable to variation, I should have given in my book further particulars from grants and leases had space permitted, and I still hope to treat more fully, at some future time, of the tenements between the High Street and the Cemetery. Mrs. Rose-Troup's difficulty in seeing how " Bokerel " and other houses near St. Petrock's could be " bounded on the south by ' the Churchyard,' " may be lessened if she takes into consideration the mention of [the part of] " the churchyard of St. Peter where St. Petherick's parish use to be buried in," and the gradual conversion of the site of the present Globe Hotel from " part of the Cathedral Cemetery " into a garden and houses. (My pp. 5, 180). Of course, I use the terms " north " and " south " only approximately, as do the old deeds. Ethel Lega-Weekes. 180. HoLCOMBE BuRNEL Church (IX., p. 183, par. 153). — The shaft in the churchyard is the remains of the old preaching cross, not a boundary cross. May not Windy Cross, about a mile below Cotley Castle, be the cross of Edric Borda? It stands at the junction of the roads for Longdown, Shillingford, Dunsford and Exeter, just inside a copse, into which it has been removed for preservation. Though the present granite cross probably dates from the fifteenth century, it may have replaced an older one to mark the site of an important parish boundary. Beatrix F. Cresswell.