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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 183 152. The Chapel at Tor Royal. — Looking over Wallis's Cornwall Register I happened to light upon the following references to this Chapel, of which I had previously never seen or heard mention. The date of this publication is 1847, and in a "list of the Clergy, resident, beneficed or officiating within the 209 parishes" (of Cornwall) appears, page 43, the name of *' James Holman Mason " as " Vicar of Treneglos and Warbstow," to which a note is attached, " V{icar) and resides at Widecombe in the Moor, Ashburton. Ch. Tor Royal, Dartmoor." Under the heading of Treneglos, page 277, at the end of a list of Vicars instituted, Mr. Mason's name again appears followed by the words " Mr. Mason resides in his Vicarage of Widecombe in the Moor, near Ashburton, and is also Curate of Tor Royal Chapel, on Dartmoor." Mr. Wallis as " Official of the Archdeacon of Cornwall " had access to authoritative sources of information so it is not likely that there is any mistake about the facts. I should like to ask for some further explanation, and especially as to when the Curacy (or Chaplaincy), presuming that in the lifetime of Sir John Tyrwhitt there was a Chapel in the house at Tor Royal, ceased to be filled up. W.S.B.H. 153. Holcombe Burnell Church. — This church de- scribed by Dr. Oliver, and more recently by Miss Cresswell in her interesting notes on the Churches of the Deanery of Kenn, is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. It is evident, however, from Charters in the Liber Albus, preserved in the Chapter Library of Wells, that the original Church at Holcombe was dedicated to St. Nicholas. These Charters were published in 1907 in The Calendar of the MSS. of the Dean and Chapter of Wells, Hist. MSS. Commission, pages 19 and 20. As the information contained In them appears to have escaped the notice of our local historians, the following extracts from the Calendar may result in further light being thrown on the history of this Church and other matters of interest in the locality. " Gift by Ralph son of Bernard to Simon ' my clerk ' in almoin of the church of Holecumba. Witnesses Henry de Sicca Villa, Herbert the chaplain, Adam de Risford, Richard Rufifus, William the Marshall, Croc, John CoUe."