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254 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. At Hawkridge in 1870 the Rev. Mr. Jekyll at the com- mencement of Revel Service when the anthem ' The King of Glory ' was to be rendered, was shocked at hearing the band leader, who had been imbibing, exclaim — not sotto voce, " Come, boys, 'ere's passun, us'll show the hellers who the King of Glory is." When I was a schoolboy I was proud of playing a village organ in Essex, turned by a handle, its capacity being six tunes. 2;^ V<r{^X-p47> Fred Day. 208. Robert Legge, of Grete Totton, Devon (IX., p. 202, par. i6g). — In the Early Chancery Proceedings, Bundle 136, No. 51, is the following entry : — " Wm. Gyles, M.A., serving priest, keeping a Grammar School, and a Song School in Totnes, and : Agnes, executrix and late the wife of Robt. Legge, feofee to uses. Presentation to the Chapel of St. Edmund the King, Totnes, under the will of Sir Piers Eggecomb, Knt." Agnes Legge is evidently the widow of Robert Legge, who gave the money for the bell. In the law note the Feast of Transubstantiation of St. Thomas should read " Transla- tion of St. Thomas." The Chapel of St. Edmund the King was the Chapel of St. Edmund King and Martyr, and St. Edward the Con- fessor, and was on Totnes old bridge. Edward Windeatt. 209. CoPLESTON Family (IX., p. 217, par. 182.) — Mr. Davidson in his Manuscript Notes on East Devon (now in the Exeter City Library) gives the following : — "John Copleston, of Crewkerne, gent, (probably a younger son of Philip or Ralph Copleston, of Warleigh), had a son John Copleston, Provost of King's Coll., Cam- bridge, and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge, 1682. M.I. King's Coll. Chapel. Christoper Monk, Duke of Albemarle, called him ' kinsman.' " Also another son, William Copleston, from whom Copleston of Offwell." From Foster's Alumni Oxonienses : — " John Copleston, son of William Copleston, of Exeter, gent., matriculated at Merton Coll. 29 Nov., 1682, aged 18;