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ST. SID WELL (10 S. xi. 290). MB. J. W. STAND ERWICK states that he cannot trace St. Sid well in Butler's ' Lives of the Saints.' St. Sidwell is not found there for the very good reason that there is no such saint, Sidwell being a corruption of Sativola.

In the history of Exeter by the late Prof. Freeman in the " Historic Towns " Series, 1887, there is the following passage :

" There is the local legend of Saint Sativola or Sidwell, whose name lives in the dedication of a suburban church. Her story seems to be placed late in the seventh century, and her worship is anyhow older than the time of .-Ethelstan. In the local martyrology she is murdered in Britannia foras murum civiiatis Exonue. If this proves any- thing, it would point to a time when the city was in English occupation, while the surrounding country was still British. But it is hard to make anything of the saint herself, of her father Brenna, and her sisters Juthwara and Eadwara. Their names, at least, must be corruption of something English."

There is another church in the West of England dedicated to St. Sidwell the parish church of Lidcott in North Cornwall, the Isirthplace of Adams the astronomer.

I am indebted to Prebendary Bird, rector of St. SidwelFs, for directing my attention to the passage in Freeman's book. T. LETHBBIDGE MABSHALL.

Exeter.

Accounts of St. Sidwell or St. Sativola will be found in Owen's ' Sanctorale Catho- licum,' 1880, and Husenbeth's ' Emblems of Saints,' 1882. HABBY HEMS.

Exeter.

See Parker's ' Calendar of the Anglican Church,' 1851. JOHN T. PAGE.

A full account of this saint may be found in ' Studies in Church Dedications,' by Frances Arnold-Forster, vol. ii. p. 407. See also ' The Celt and the Teuton in Exeter ' {by Kerslake) in Archceol. Journ., vol. xxx., and ' The Ancient Diocese of Exeter,' by H. Reynolds, 8vo, p. 16. J. W. BBADLEY.

In Latin St. Sidwell appears as Sancta Sativola, but the Roman Martyrology knows lier not. JOHN B. WAINE WEIGHT.

For this saint consult Stanton's ' Meno- logy of England and Wales,' 1 August.

J. B.

[Several replies have been forwarded to MR. STANDEKWICK .]

SPENCEB COWPEB, JUSTICE OF THE COM- MON PLEAS (10 S. xi. 308). He was admitted to the Middle Temple 7 May, 1687 ; called to the Bar 26 May, 1693 ; admitted ad eundem to Lincoln's Inn 21 Oct., 1713^;

Bencher of that Society 12 Feb., 1715 ;

Treasurer thereof 28 Nov., 1715 ; and was

also elected a Bencher of the Middle Temple

23 Oct., 1718. He was Attorney-General to

the Prince of Wales from 22 Oct., 1714, to

May, 1717 ; K.C. 5 Jan., 1715 ; Chief

Justice of Chester, 17 July, 1717, till his

death ; Serjeant-at-Law for promotion

J 24 Oct., 1727 ; Justice of the Common Pleas

j 24 Oct., 1727, until his death 10 Dec., 1728.

He was not, as stated by Foss and other

authorities, Attorney of the Duchy of

Lancaster in 1727, but of the Duchy of

j Cornwall 1714-17. W. D. PINK.

A reference to ' Notable Middle Templars, I Temple, will give G. F. R. B. the informa- tion for which he asks.
 * by John Hutchinson, Librarian of the Middle

C. E. A. BEDWELL.

FECAMP ABBEY : BBEDE MANOB (10 S. xi. 308, 357). Not having the information asked for by A. L. F., I wrote to M. Pierre Le Grand of the " distillerie de la Bene- dictine," Fecamp, who has very courteously answered my letter. He says that

"the searches made in our library and our muni- ment room (chartrier), among the numerous charters giving or confirming properties possessed in England by the Benedictine monks of Fecamp, have not resulted in the discovery of any document relating to the manor of Brede."

He states that after the Revolution the Town Library of Rouen got possession of a large part of the manuscripts of the monks of Fecamp, and suggests application to M. Henri Loriquet, Conservateur de la Biblio- theque de la Ville de Rouen. He adds that in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, is another part of the collection of deeds (cartulaire) of the Abbey of Fecamp, among the " Fonds Moreau."

Happening to be in Paris, I have been to the National Library. The ' Fonds Moreau" ("La collection Moreau") are a collection of manuscripts made by Jacob Nicolas Moreau (born 1742, died 1804), avocat, afterwards conseiller a la Cour des Aides de Provence, and librarian to Queen Marie Antoinette, and finally Historiographe de France. The volume containing the copies of charters, bulls, &c., is

"341. Intendance de Normandie. ' Chartres de 1'abbaye de Fecamp, copiees sur les originaux con- servees dans les archives de cette abbaye par Dom J. Le Noir, 1764,' " &c.

I regret to say that I found nothing about the Manor of Brede, but I confess that my search was not very close. Every charter or bull is, I think, preceded by an abstract in