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Devon Notes and Queries, ii the Church of East Horsley, Surrey, as pointed out by J.B.R. The earliest account of the Bishops of Exeter is contained in a Catalogue of the Bishops of England^ by F. Godwin, ** Sub- <ieane of Exeter," and published in 1601. In it he acknow- ledges that the portion relating to this diocese was taken {for the most part) verbatim out of Master lohn Hooker*s Catalogue of the Bishops of Exeter.'* Of Bishop Booth he remarks he remooued ... to his house of Horsleigh in Flampshire, where he died vpon the first day of Aprill an. 1478, and Heth buried at Saint Clements in London '* (335). In 163 1, Weever repeated this statement and added this inscription, said to be inscribed on his monument : — Hie iacet corpus venerabilis . . . lo . . . Booth Legum Baccalaureus. Episcopus Exon, . . . ob. primo April, 1478" (Funerall Monutnents, 444-) The materials for his History from Marble were collected by T. Dingley during tlie reign of Charles II., and his account of the death and interment of the Bishop is identical with the foregoing. So is that of Le Neve in the first edition of his work issued in 1710. The place and date of death are noted differently by Dr. Oliver in his History of Exeter of 182 1 (63): — On the 5th of April, 1478, he paid the debt of nature, at London, and was buried in St. Clement's Church there." (There is no allusion to it in the edition of 1861). Excepting as to the date of death being April 5th, Jenkins repeats Godwin's staXement {Hist, of Exeter ; (1806), 261 ; 1841,256). The Bishop's death is noted as occurring on April ist, in Stubbs' Reg, Sac, Angl, (1858), the authority given being " Reg. Booth MSS., Wharton," in the Lambeth Library ; but Mr. Kershaw, the Librarian, informs me this is an error, the proper reference being to Charles Booth, Bishop of Hereford* John Aubrey {ob, 1697) was the first writer to record the existence of the sepulchral brass and epitaph in the church of East Horsley, Surrey. (There is no place of that name in Hampshire). This was made in his Antiq, of Surrey^ published in Z718 (III, 247), and on the next page is this paragraph : — " Under this is a square monument, rais'd high against the wall| with a marble upon it, but without inscription ; it may, perhaps, be Bishop Boothe's monument before- mentioiied." (248)*