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126 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. played the bass viol, while his three sons performed on a flute and two fiddles. The old man was then living at East Ogwell, and Mr. Anderson believed he had still got his bass viol. At Hartland, the west gallery was removed when the church was "restored" in 1848. I have been unable to get very definite particulars of the band, but William Cann, the parish clerk, generally played the bass viol, though he sometimes took the clarinet ; Mr, James Rowe, a substantial yeoman, afterwards churchwarden, played the violin ; Sam Walter also played the violin; William Short the flute; and there were others. Old "Painter" Heard "learned" them to play the different instruments ; he was churchwarden in 1826, and his name appears, together with those of Mr. Rowe's father and the writer's grandfather and great- grandfather, on one of the church bells, which were re-cast at that date and increased in number from five to six : — The names of Dennis, Heard, Chope, and Rowe With us can never die : They saved our lives ; not only so, But bade us multiply. The only other place of which I have got any inform- ation is Torpoint, where, I am told, the band was in existence until after 1864. The instruments were violins, bass viol, and flute. George Davey played the violin, Coffey and Jackson the bass viol, and James Wavish, junior, the flute. The band was in this case placed on the floor of the church, near the pulpit. R. Pearse Chope. 107. Calchurch. — Can anyone throw light on the meanmg of Calchurch or Colchurch. At Heath Barton in Whitstone was an ancient chapel dedicated to St. Mary and in 1243 Renus de Halleham, who held it of Beaumont, is said to hold a quarter fee in Calchurch (Testa de Nevil, p. i8ort.) I suppose the church which at one time gave its name to the estate, though it no longer does so, was properly called St. Mary's Calchurch. In the city of London there is a church called St. Mary Colchurch. Heath Barton has had various names. In Domesday it was simply an estate at Witestan {Vict. Hist., 462). In 1243 it was an estate at Calchurch. Subsequently it appears as Heath St. Mary and now is simply known as Heath Barton. Oswald J. Reichel.