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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 99 Watts' connection or how brought in." So this impalement still remains a puzzle for some of our other heraldic con- tributors. The third shield on this wall offers no difficulties, it displays the arms of RoUe impaling : — Azure a bend argent cotized or, a crescent for difference. Fortescue. Sir Henry Rolle (above mentioned) married as his second wife Joan, daughter of John Fortescue of Fallapit. The centre of the west wall is decorated with a large shield of the Royal Arms of Queen Elizabeth, displaying France and England quarterly, surrounded by the garter and surmounted by a crown. The supporters are a crowned lion and a dragon ; they rest on the ribbon of the motto " Dieu et mon Droit," which has a tudor rose between every word. At the top are the initials " E.R." and at the base the date 1602. On either side of this shield are a tudor rose and a fleur-de-lis each surmounted with a crown ; the rose has four leaves on the stem, and it is worth noting that the fleur-de-lis rises on a stem out of a coronal of lily leaves, balancing it with the other device. This is an unusual representation of the emblem. For the sake of clearness the blazoning of the arms has been given in these notes without the confusion of enclosing each word in critical brackets. But no colouring now appears on the arms under the roof, and it is the opinion of those who have examined them closely that they never were coloured. We may conclude from the arms and date that these shields were placed as decorations to the room by Sir Henry Rolle of Stevenstone in 1602. Th. Grace. gi. Is there Coal in Devonshire? (VH., p. 57; par. 33). — Turning over the pages of the Western Miscellany I came across (p. 284) the following advertisement quoted frum Andrew Brice's Old Exeter Journal, or the Weekly Advertiser, Exon, Friday, August i6th, 1754. Although it does not answer the query, it throws some light on the previous " fruitless attempts to discover this useful article in Devon," and is, I think, of sufficient interest to be reprinted : — " The Proprietors of the Work, in carrying on the present Search after Coal near the City of Exeter, were quite sensible of what Advan- tage such a Discovery would be to this Age, as well as to Posterity ; which did induce them to begin this laudable Undertaking. But, after