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 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 29 husband (Risdon, p. 316. Peter le Neve MSS. penes me: Pole, Devon, 302-422). Probably the jury were thinking of the great man Oliver de Dinham, who shared with the Champernowns the lands of their cousin, Isolda de Cardinan, the hermit heiress {Hundred Roll, i. 57). H. H. Drake. 23. A Shillingford Story. — A local tradition is pre- served at Shillingford St. George which ought to be printed while still remembered. It was told me by the Rector, the Revd. S. H. Atkins. There is at Shillingford, just below the church, an old fashioned house, formerly the Anchor Inn. Here all the coaches stopped on their way westward to have an extra horse attached to the team before ascending the very steep hill beyond the village. When George the Third paid his visit to Exeter in 1789 he left the city for Saltram, near Plymouth. The road through Shillingford was in those days the main road westwards, and as the Royal coach was bound to stop for horses at the Anchor Inn, the villagers determined to offer a loyal address to his Majesty. This address was poetical, but only the concluding lines have been preserved : " Us be men Of Exminster, Shillingford and Kenn, And us hopes your Majesty will not be mazed agen " (again). Some diplomatic courtier explained that the loyal villagers hoped his Majesty would remain in good health. After which the coach rolled on. ^ r nn . Beatrix F. Cresswell. 24. Devon Place and Field Names. — I shall be glad for any suggestions as to the meanings of any of the following place or field names in the parish of Kentisbeare: — France, Wressing, Guddiford (Goodford?) Bunkasland (a.d. 1815), Horn, Styelands, Holland Close, Great Ball, Pinn Close {c. 1 815), Nibley, Scrip Gard, Headon, Little Rag, Three Christones or Three Christians (about 30 acres). Hanger, Gillon, Gratton, Culver Hill, Catchere, Bew Beer, Calland, Tucketts, Honeymead, Ruins Well, Elford Lang, Great Weather Lang, Whip Hill, Nodbeer, Miggle Hill, Gearis, Sherwoods, (a boundary field with coverts near). Beer Cand, Deers Meadow, Pixey Mead, Pixey Pool (2 miles apart),
 * • What, what, what, what's mazed ? " enquired the King.