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 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 53 ten poundes. Item. — To Walter Glubbe £-^ 6s. 8d. Item. John Antill of Plimouthe gent. £10. Wit., Leonard Pomery, Tho. Sherwill. Codicill spoken 22 Feb., 1599, provides for losses to be equally borne by legatees if Shipping miscarry. Wit., Thomas Uppam, Preacher, Thomas Payne, Peter Silvester, John Martin. W. U. Reynell-Upham. 49. Parish Register Inaccuracies (IX., p. 5. par. 6). — I am interested in the Tallaton Registers. My people were of Larkbere for four or five generations from William Cottell, born at North Tawton, 2nd son of Thomas Cottell of that place (his house still standing there), who was from the old family at Yealmbridge, Justice of the Peace and Subeschea- tor to the King for the County of Devon. This William Cottell died in 1634 and it was his grand-daughter, Mary Cottell, who was married to Philip Westcott in Tallaton Church in 1657. The Cottells dropped out of residence at Larkbere about 1686. One (Mark) born at North Tawton, but " bred in my childhood " at Tallaton, became Registrar- General to the Archbishop of Canterl.-ury, left ;^2oo to the rebuilding of St. Paul's Cathedral, £'2.00 to Christ Hospital, who died an aged man at his residence at St. Paul's Close, had a sermon (copies extant) preached at his funeral at St. Paul's Cathedral by Dean Freeman, afterwards Bishop of Peterborough, and lies buried under his pew in St. Bennet's, Paul's Wharf, with his wife. Lady Sackville, with his and her arms on the tomb. He died in 1681 — his will and coat of arms, excellently painted, is in the Register of Wills, year 1682, at Somerset House. Discrepancies in parish registers I found from experience in their examination of no inextensive character was the rule with few exceptions. There were other difficulties, of pecuniary and clerical character some fifty years ago which happily do not now exist, but to these exceptions I must pay a passing tribute to the late Revd. Robert Hawker who transcribed gratis all of my name in Morwenstow Register and bade me welcome to his home. Of Philip Wescott I have no trace except he be the Philip Wescott in the pedigree of Wescott, year 1620, Harleian Society. A Drusilla Wescott witnessed my ancestor's will (John Cottell) at Crewkerne in 1784, and I shall be thankful to know who she was and also for a sight of the copy of the