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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 143 transcribing another calendar, that he had seen wills that were not in it, and could prove it. Any explanation was impossible. He was as indignant as the farmer's wife who abused the clerks at the Registry for not producing her husband's will when she offered the shilling fee. Instead of showing the will they asked questions. When and where did he die ? This trifling naturally made her furious. " Die ! " she shouted, " 'Ee aint dead, 'ee's over in the market. Ee came in last Thursday a purpose to make his will, but he won't tell me what's in it. I knaw 'ee made un and I knaw you got un. Now why can't 'ee let me zee un ? There's the shilling ! You won't, that's what it is. I knaws you got un, so there ! " The good lady had not grasped Hebrews ix, 16. Nux. 116, Drake and Skeffington (IX., p. 8g, par. 79.) — I thought Mr. Skinner might like to have an attempt made to verify the quarterings of the impaled Skeffington with Bayley : (i) Skeffington, as in the text. {2) Should be, Azure a lend cotised between six mullets or, Oldbeiffe. Leicester Visitation says: John Skeffington = Margaret, d. and h. to William Oldebeffe, by Margaret, d. and h. to Richard English (Ermine a lend azure), this should be the 3rd quartering. (3) Peck, really Peche, Or three eagles displayed sable, so given in the pedigree ; but in his nephew's quarterings on the same page, the eagles are gules, whilst the pedigree of Peck in the same Visitation gives quite a different coat and, I think, one more trustworthy. Sir John Skeffington of London = d. and h. of Peck, he ob. s.p. (4) I think this is intended for, Azure a fess per nebidee or and sable, between three laurel leaves erect of the second, Leueson. William Skeffington of co. Salop = Johanna filia Jacobi Leueson. This quartering does not come into the Leicester Visitation ; she is not stated to be an heiress, but as she married two more husbands she had plenty of time to become one. (5) Leicester Visitation says this is the 12th quartering, but Betham, iv., 185, gives it as the 6th quarter and impaling, Sable three eaglets displayed argent, a crescent for difference, Peche. So this is the 3rd quarter given as Peck, just the reverse of iii. in the text ; 5, however, is given with the escallops or, not argent, as Childe, and in Betham