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i88 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. poundes. To Gilbert my servant my heare coloured clothsute and a white satten doublett and a black branched satten hoase. To Mr. John Treasure who liveth at Pendennis Castle my sword and belt I last rod withall and my gray nagg now used. To Mrs. Treasawer his wife one barren of sugar bound with iron. To the soldiers of the ffort at Pendennis ffive poundes to be equallie devided amongst Ihem. A mare which is now in my cosen Kashleigh's keeping to Sir Robert Kiliiterew. To my cosen Jonatlian Rashlei^h a spannishe rapier and dagger with a belt belonginge unto it, my Barbarow ffaulcon my little gray horse. To my cosen his wife my silver chafin dish two basens and ewers of china and eighteen of the best and biggest of my chma dishes. All the rest of my goodes and chattells whatsoever I give to my brother Hanniball Bonython and I doe ordaine and appoint him to be my full and sole executor and I desiie my cosen Jonathan Ra^hleigh and Mr. Edmond Penrose to be ye overseers of this my last will and testament. In witness hereof I have hereunto sett my name and scale and have desired those whose names are subscribed to be witnessts hereunto. To my cosen Anne Rashleigh my West India carpett or coverlttt the best I have. To Mr. Treswer's sonne my godsonne ffower poundes. To my servant Gilbert sixe poundes. John Bonython. Jonathan Rashleigh, William Bassett, Edward Penrose. Proved in London 21 May 1628 by Hanniball Bonython, the brother and executor named in the will. As to the people mentioned in the will, " my cosen " Jonathan Rashleigh was of Menabilly, close to Fowey. He was a son of Alice, daughter of Richard Bonthon, of Carclew, whilst his wife, Anne, was the daughter of Sir Robert Bassett, of Tehidy, Illogan. Sir Robert Killigrew, who was governor of Pendennis Castle, was of Arwenack, Falmouth; Edward Penrose was of Penrose, near Helston ; and Edward Bassett, of Tehidy. West Country. 156. "Some Studies in the Topography of the Cathedral Close." — In her Topography of the Close, p. 186, Miss Lega-Weekes has a footnote : — " I venture to interpret the 'egge' or ' eygge, bytwene the cimitery and the cyte,' to which an incendiary came through ' Litell Style,' as the edge or borderland." A study of the context makes this appear a rather rash venture. The first quotation is from p. loi of Shillingford's Letters, in connection with a dispute over the setting fire to a " grete drie fryth almost evyn junant to the bak side of the costleve billyng and yn the cheiflf place of the citie of Excetre therto enclose and enclosed a gret parcell of tyinber, the which fright [vrith in the other Roll] . . . was sette afire." The Bishop in his answer to