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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 199 incumbent. And being a place, it would be here more correctly understood of the cupboard or shrine placed under the altar than of the contents of the shrine, to which in this passage another name is given, " the pledge of the Holy Ghost." Whoever he may have been, the gloss-writer seems to have felt the force of Sanctuarium being a place for relics rather than the relics themselves. So after reliquiae sanc- torum he suggested vel altaria. Undoubtedly the Gelasian Sacramentary shews that in the eighth century the blessing of a church by a priest consisted of prayers, sprinkling with a mixture of water and wine after it had been blessed and the offering of the Eucharist (Wilson, The Gelasian Sacramentary, No. cxxxviii., p. 133), not quite the same things as those enumerated by Miss Lega- Weekes ; but consecration by a bishop was a much more solemn rite, and for this we must go to the Pontifical not to the Sacramentary. Oswald J. Reichel. [This correspondence must now cease. — Eds.] i65. Early Tours in Devon and Cornwall; The " Great House," Colyton {Appendix, p. 179, note 4.) — As the " Great House," Colyton, is some twelve or thirteen miles from Fairmile, via Ottery, Dr. Richard Pococke is not at all likely to have seen it ; the seat of Sir Wm. Yonge that he saw was, of course, Escot, quite near to Fairmile. Melchizedeck Alford (son of William Alford, of Lyme Regis, gent. ; matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 10 Dec, 1 64 1, aged 18; B.A., 1648; Vicar of Ottery St. Mary, March 20, 166° ; buried at Ottery St. Mary, 10 Aug., 1689), married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Richard Channon, of Escot, Esq. With his wife and two daughters he con- veyed Escot, in 1680, to Sir Walter Yonge. From that date Escot became the residence of the Yonge family, and not the Great House, Colyton ; though their vault in Colyton Church continued to be their place of burial {D.N. d^Q., vol. v., p. 129.) The following entries from Talaton Registers are an addition to the Channon Pedigree as given by Vivian, p. 167 : — 1621. Margery, the wife of Mr. Richard Channon, buried Dec. II. 1622. Mr. Phillip Channon, gent., buried Aug. 7.