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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. xn. SEPT. 4, 1915.

ST. BONIFACE.

Crediton, Devon. A brass tablet bearing the following inscription was erected in the Church of the Holy Cross in 1909 :

This tablet is erected to the Glory of God and as a record of the service held on Wednesday, June 9th, 1900, in this Church of the Holy Cross on the occasion of thfe Millenary of the Con- secration of the first Bishop of Crediton.

The commemoration was fixed for June 9th as being the nearest convenient date to the anni- versary of the martyrdom of Winnifrith (St. Boniface), who was born at Crediton in the year 680, and through whose influence a grant of land was made by ^thelhoard, King of Wessex, through Forthere, Bishop of Sherborne, to found a monastery at Crediton in 739.

The following were present, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of Exeter, Bristol, Salisbury, Bath and Wells, Crediton, Marl- borough (Dean of Exeter), and St. Germans ; the Governors of the Church, the Mayor and Corporation of the City of Exeter ; the Canons and Vicars Choral, and eighty of the Prebendaries of the Cathedral, the Clergy of the Deanery of Cadbury. A large number of parishioners and others also attended the service. The sermon was preached by the Bishop of Bristol.

Below are represented the autographs of the archbishop and bishops named, and at the head of the tablet is copied an impres- sion of the thirteenth -century seal of the collegiate church of Crediton. (See The Church Times, 5 Nov., 1909.)

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Ernest Victoria, Ferdinand LEOPOLD I.,

Duchess of Kent.

King of the Belgians

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Albert=fVlCTORlA, Ferdinand Augustus Philip

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Great

Britain

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EDWARD VII. LEWIS PHILIP.

FERDINAND, ALBERT

King of Portugal

King of Bulgaria

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GEORGE V. CHARLES

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Manoel

For valued help received, my thanks are due to the Bev. A. E. Hilliard, D.D.

Particulars, with copies of inscriptions, are desired of the following martyrs' memo- rials :

Tablets to the memory of Mrs. Lewis and Robert Glover, erected by the Rev. Benjamin Ritchings in Mancetter Church, Warwickshire.

Bust of John Rogers, within a niche in the south chancel wall of St. John's Church, Deritend, Birmingham. (See US. ix. 363.)

Obelisk at Staplehurst, Kent.

Tablet in the churchyard wall at Warble- ton, Sussex.

Monuments to Covenanters.

Glasgow Cathedral Yard.

The Scores, St. Andrews (obelisk).

Skeoch Hill, Dumfries (erected 1870).

Sanquhar (obelisk).

Kirkconnel (obelisk).

Kirkcudbright Churchyard.

Girthon (stone).

Dunottar Churchyard.

JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

(To be continued.)

THE HOUSE OF COBURG. The following little pedigree may not be without interest at the present time. It shows how four royal dynasties are descended in the male line from one of the least considerable of German dukes.

Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg

C. A.

OLD-TIME DINNER BILLS. (See 10 S. iv. 446; vi. -110.) Since communicating the two bills referred to above I have come upon a third of similar date, inscribed as a MS. addition to the Guildhall Library copy of Thomas Gill espy 's ' Account of the Salters' Company,' 1827 :

" Bill of Fare for 124 persons o? the Barber- Surgeons' & Tallow Chandlers' Companies at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, A.D. 1478 : 2 Loins of Veal, 8d. ; 2 ditto Beef, 8d. ; 2 ditto Mutton, 4d. ; 2 Legs of same, 2$d. ; 1 Pig, Qd. ; 1 Capon, Qd. ; 1 Rabbitt, 2d. ; 1 Dozen Pigeons, Id. ; 1 Goose, 4^. ; 1 Gross Eggs, S^d. 2 Gallons Wine, Is. 4d. ; 18 Dozen Bottles Beer, Is. Qd. Total, 7-9. Qd." There are some curious points of similarity between the above and the former bills. Can it be that it is spurious ? A reference to beer in bottles reads somewhat singularly in a fifteenth -century record.

WILLIAM McMuRRAY.

THE RECORDS OF MILITARY COURTS MARTIAL. The records of Courts Martial as preserved at the Public Record Office are not only scanty and scattered, but are poorly catalogued. The chief series are :

1803-21. Entry books of proceedings (W.O. 55 :

1833-56. Letters concerning them (W.O. 3: 541 &c ^

1848-55. Reports (or R. E.?) (W.O. 55: 1929).

1844-56. Crimean trials (W.O. 28 : 126-8).

Military historians may be interested to know that further details relating to much earlier dates are contained in the letters oi