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66 Devon Notes and Queries, about the year 1782. His eldest son, John Beaumont Swete, Esq., was High Sheriff of Devonshire in 1830. William- Clifford Martyn devised the residue of his property, which included the old manor-house (recently pulled down), the barton, advowson and manorial rights of Netherex, the manor of Black Torrington, besides personal property in Exeter and elsewhere, to another cousin, Peter Young, whose mother was Catherine Martyn, fourth daughter of Nicholas Martyn and Gertrude St. Aubyn. Mr. Young's descendants parted with their inheritance in or about the year 1845; Oxton was sold by Mr. Swete in 1848; and then all that had remained of the once great estates of this family, acquired with such care and industry by Recorder Martyn in the reign of Elizabeth, was finally dispersed, and passed away into the hands of strangers. M.W. 44. Hew. — Can any of your correspondents explain the allusions in the following ? They are in praise of William of Orange from the poem, "Torbaia digna Camaenis or The Wonderful Deliverance vouchsafed these Nations in the UUe Revolution and seasonable Lawting of His most Sacred Majesty King WILLIAM III at 'SotbaS, worthy to be written in indelible Characters, with a Pen of Iron and the Point of a Diamond ; yea so to be engraven on all Protestant Hearts as never to be worn out even to the World's End, a POEM originally written in Latin and now translated into English by the Author, PHILIP AVANT." London, printed by /. Leake for the Author, MDLXCIII. (For the title in the original edition in Latin, 1692, see Davidson's Bibliotheca Devoniensis, page 125, where will also be found a short note descriptive of the work.) The book is in the library of the Devon and Exeter Institution. " Dartmouth is overjoyed, etc. Nor canst thou, Kiugswear, etc., nor Hew Forbear to give the great Nassau his due. The ghost that heretofore did haunt thy Downs And with loud clamours fright the neighbouring clowns, Is silent." Was *• Hew " a squire of that date or a place ? Is there any tradition of such a ghost in that neighbourhood ? There is a Latin translation bound up with the original which might throw light. John Y. A. Morshbad.