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 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 43 John Selfe* when 21 ;^5 : Mathew Mundy my son one pound one shilling and unto Cicillie his wife a mourning ring the value of wch. I leave to the discretion of my executors : grandsons and granddaur. Mathew & Thomas & Dorothy Mundy a mourning ring (as before) : Son in law John Selfe* : Sister in law Dorothy Raw a mourning ring : all my books to my daurs. Dorothy & Sarah Mundy as they shall chuse for themselves after my said daurs. have so taken then to my daurs. Mary & Anne the remaining part to my son Mathew Mundy. Four daurs. executors. (W.) Ehzabeth fford. William Pratt. Joseph Brutton. Dated 19 July 1736, proved 8 October 1736. Principal Registry of the Bishop of Ej^^eter. A. J. P. Skinner. 38. Mayoral Elections in West Country Churches (IX., p. 19, pars. 13, 14, 15). — I am glad to see my inquiry followed up by so good an authority as Mr. " E. W." When I framed my inquiry I did not credit the assertion recently made by a prominent writer on ecclesiastical matters, that both Plymouth and Totnes had formerly (? when) elected their Mayors in their respective churches. In thanking Mr. Tapley-Soper for his references, may I point out that another writer in Notes and Queries, subsequent to the letters he mentions, has called attention {Notes and Queries, Dec. II, 1915, p. 470) to the fact that all authenticated cases of Mayor-choosing in church have taken place in the East of England, and that it decidedly remains to be proved that it was ever done in the West. It is most likely, in my opinion, that the learned doctor has mistaken the elec- tions in Plymouth of the Guardians of the Poor for those of the Mayor. Of the former I have personal recollection ; of the latter I challenge proof. Ecc. Ant. Inq. 39. "Clyst" and "Week" (IX., p. 20, par. 18). — Week otherwise written W'ick or Wyke and in another form Wich (just as Dyke and Ditch have a common origin) is a Saxon word closely related to the Greek Oikos and the Latin Vicus. The Greek word Oikos means a building or dwelling ; the Latin Vicus and the Saxon Wic, a group of buildings or tree, surgeon, and Elizabeth Mundy, of the same, sp.
 * (?)Sesse. Mart. Lie, Exeter— 1751, July 22. John Sess, of Plim-