Preston's Farm, including "Kiln Close." John Stooke was then 17 years old. Nothing more is known of him till as an old man he is described as "Clothier of Chudleigh," otherwise of Trusham, possessed of lands in Trusham, Ashton, Christow, Bovey and Hennock. It is presumed that the bag of gold enabled him to go into business and acquire the various properties so many of which he left to various charities on his death in 1696. I always think that the inscription on the Almshouses in Trusham has reference to the happy find of December 27th, 1645. "All things come of thee and of thine own have we given thee."
The above was furnished me by Mr. A. T. Stooke, of Waddon, Chudleigh. Edward Windeatt.
55. Itineraries.—As this subject is of interest to your readers at the present time, may I be permitted to call attention to an itinerary which has been printed recently, I refer to that of Captain Jenkin Jones, R.N. (1819), printed in the West Wales Historical Records, Carmarthen, 1912, vol. i., p. 97. The route in Devon was:—Exeter, Tiverton, Barnstaple, Tawstock, Bideford, Clovelly, Barnstaple, Ilfracombe, Lynton, Ilfracombe. R. B. M.
56. Tom Putt Apples (VII„ p. 47, par. 25; p. 64, par. 38; p. 99, par, 65; p. 140, par. 113),—The communications of your correspondents on the above leaves one with the impression that the Rev. Thomas Putt first cultivated the apple which bears his name in Devonshire; but a communication signed Mary M. E. Roe, of Trent Rectory, published at p. 319 of the September, 1915, issue of Notes & Queries for Somerset & Dorset most emphatically states that "It was while he [The Rev. Thomas Putt] was Rector of Trent (1802-1832) now in the County of Dorset, that he originated the famous apple which bears his name," and that locally this apple is called "Tom Pudd." Curiosus II.
