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 250 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. Jones, formerly of Chastleton House, Co. Oxon., who was born on Feb. nth, 1824 (not in Devon). It is understood that she stayed in Devon with her parents from 1845 to 1849, first at Exeter and then at Dawlish, and it seems probable that it was during this period that she learned to make Honiton lace. Miss Whitmore Jones died on Aug. 23rd, 1915, at Painswick, Co. Glos., and was buried at Chastleton. Her writings included the following : — " The A B C of Patience " ; " Games of Patience for One or More Players" (with portrait and facsimile of her autograph); "The Grinding Mills" (a novel, 1903); "The Gunpowder Plot and Life of Robert Catesby, also an account of Chastleton House," 1909 (with the author's family history) ; " Honiton Lace-making " [1873]; " The Honiton Lace Book, being the second and enlarged edition of Honiton Lace- making " [1875]; "New Games of Patience," 191 1 ; "The Siege of Derry " (pamp.), 1913; " Time and Tide " (a novel, 1907). R.B.M. 203. Mercer Family (IX., p. 164, par. 136). — I have to thank Sir Oswyn A. R. Murray, K.C.B., for the two following Wills : — " Richard Mercer, Mr. of Artes, Fellow of Exon Colledge, Oxford : born Ottery St. Mary and now living in Chard : 31 May 1631 : Have already given and bequeathed a great part of my goods : To my nieces *Elizabeth and Anstice Wallrand : To my brother and sister Mercer and their son after them, I mean my nephew William Mercer : To my brother Mercer my best gown, etc., also my gold ring ' being a seal of our arms,' and after him to his son William : To my wife Katherine an annuity of ;^20, which my brother Mercer must pay ; also an annuity of £8 which Mr. Edmund Prideaux must pay, also the benefit of an annuity of ;^i2 which Robert Harris of Wighton with George Steevens of Wighton is bound in several bonds to pay : Residue to my wife Katherine whom I make my executrix : Overseers — my cousin Mr. Nicholas Mercer of Exon and my Kinsman Mr. Samuel Isaacke gent. (Witnesses) — Chri : Senior, Anstis Walrond, Henry Turner. Walrond, Esq., buiied 19 Oct.
 * Ottery St. Mary Registers : — 1610, Mrs. Margaret, wife of Humphry