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Devon NoUs and Qmries. 159 1 30. Jambs Payn in Dbvonshirb. — Sir Leslie Stephen in his prefatory memoir to James Payn's Backwater of Life" (1899) writes as follows: — "The next mould into which it was attempted to force him was the clerical. He passed a year with a private tutor in Devonshire before going up to Cambridge. The tutor was a deUghtful and courteous person : familiar with, but neglected by, the aristocracy." Who is the tutor here referred to and where did Payn so study? T. Cann Hughbs, M.A., F.S.A. 121. The Tent of the Duke of Burgundy. — The following extract from Rymer's Fadera seems of interest, 3 Hen. V, A.D. 1415 : — An instrument executed by the King to empower certain persons to dispose of a magnificent tent of silver embroidered with gold and precious stones, once belonging to the Duke of Burgundy, which they held in pledge for 860 marks lent to the King, in case he does not redeem it within a month and a year. The creditors are : — Robert Gary ... ... ... too marks Alexander Champernoun ... ... 60 „ Prideaux ... ... ... 60 „ John Copleston ... ... ... 10 „ Mayor and Corp. of Plymouth ... 30 „ It is styled "Quoddam Magnum Tabernaculum." This loan was made by Henry V when preparing for the invasion of France, and the tent was probably a present from the Duke of Burgundy to his father, Henry IV, when treating with him for succours against the Orleans party towards the close of Henry IV's reign. Francis W. Copleston. 122. Sackebyb, Saxbi^, Vol. H., 98. — Like Mr. Max- well Adams I am unable to find a Sackebye, Talbot or Gainsford marriage with Fortescue. The Carew Scroll contains duplicates of Sackebye and Sackbye, Nos. 122 and 363, and in both cases states they were quartered by Fortescue, of Valopit ; the arms are given as * A between a chevron sa. 3 greyhounds cur sa, color or' Risdon says * Argent a chevron gules between three dogs (?) courant sable ? ' Holland's note is 'that in Vallopit House, Gainsford, ye chevron gu ' ; now in Harleian Kent Visitation, 161 9, 2 and 3 quarterings of Tichbourne [argent a chevron gules between three talbots passant sable i] the figure i refers to the reference, viz., Stowe, so it shows that the between brackets is his