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 50 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. devoted to the "12th Century" writes: — "The existence of corbel-stones, on which the joists of flooring were carried, in the remains of domestic buildings of this date, both ecclesiastical and secular, shew that wooden floors were in ordinary use." Of the second — the framed and putlogged type — (to which, by-the-bye, I alluded quasi-parenthetically) the only example to which I can give a definite reference (though I have seen others) is that which I have described in Trans. Dev. Assn. XXX, 200. It had been pronounced "of the 15th century," but was set in masonry believed to have been standing in or before 1242. Even if I were satisfied that the interior of the Preston Street building was open from ground to roof, I should not concede that it was thereby demonstrated to have been a chapel* ; and I still think that the absence of any indications of an intermediate floor is hardly satisfactory (negative) evidence seeing that Miss Prideaux's Plan itself shews how very little of the original internal walling is left in which such traces might be sought for. "The King's House" at Southampton, the "St. Mary's Guild House" and "the Jews House" at Lincoln, all of the 12th century, retain Norman windows and fire-places in their upper chambers, but, as I understand, no vestiges of the old floorings remain. The " 32 chapels " mentioned (without date) in the " Transcripts from the old Missal of St. Martin's," not being distinguished by name or locality, it would be a bold commen- tator who should profess to identify them. This document is inserted in the Cartulary of St. fohn's Hospital, at fol. 36. The paragraph in question runs (if I may trust my own cursory notes), " In die marcelli pp* obiit Rob' fir Gul' de archidiac' Totton, qui dedit xxxij d xxij capeir, de domo q' fuit Bald. Pyper in vico australi exon, et debet solui p man' hospital' sci Jo. B." As to the roof-timbers assigned in the Report of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings to the 14th century, and by Miss Prideaux to the 15th, I have turned to the article by Mr. F. Howard m the Archaological Journal bub verb. " House."
 * Vide Turner and Parker, op. cit., pp. 40, 41, and Encycl. Brit.,