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 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 49 before the name Kittery was given to the township, in all probability." The foregoing, of course, refers to Kingswear, opposite Dartmouth, at the mouth of the Dart, in Devonshire. I have tried to find some reference to Kittery Point in the articles in the Bvitannica on Devonshire, Dartmouth, Dart, etc., or to find it on the maps; I have also sent two letters to England in the past year, but have not as yet received any answer. Is it a fact that there is, or was, a locality in the town of Kingswear known as Kittery Point ? Kittery, Maine, U.S.A. %^^.b^' Justin H. Shaw. 45. Simon Grendon. — Information wanted concerning Smion Grendon (several times Mayor of Exeter, founder of Ten Cells), and his descendants. C. F. Cole. 46. Richard Rose Drewe. (VIII, p. 28, par. 31). — St. Lawrence, Exeter: — 1772, August 12 — Richard Rose Drewe and Hannah Spencer, of St. Stephen's, married by Herman Drewe ; in the presence of Edward Fitzgerald, Jane Spencer. A. J. P. S. 47. Remains of an Ancient Building in Exeter (VIII., p. 161, par. 143; p. 237, par, 181; IX., p. 4, par. 5). — The question is, what evidence — suggestive, if not decisive — can Miss Prideaux adduce in support of the theory she has put forward that this was a Norman Chapel ? I cannot claim to have established my own opinion that it was from the first a secular building, but as it was, un- questionably, a dwelling house at least as early as the 14th or 15th century — a period when one would he chary of assuming that a consecrated building had been secularised — the onus of proof of its ever having been anything but a dwelling house surely rests with the advancer of that theory. I am afraid I must leave it to those more familiar with Norman architecture than myself to decide whether both of the two types of flooring recalled by me as testifying to the possibility of constructing floors largely independent of walling, go back to the 12th century. As to the antiquity of the first type (of which I argued that any traces might well have vanished, in the case in point) there can be no doubt, for Turner* in a chapter See also contemporary record of floor-corbels in walls ibid. pp. 18, 19.
 * Turner and Parker's Domestic Architcclure in the Middle Ages, p. 16.