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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 109 consecrated by the bishop in the same ministration be laid up in the same repository with the other relics in the court house (basilica) ; and if he can find no other relics, this may serve as well. . . . And we charge every bishop that he have it written on the walls of the house of prayer, as also on the altars, to what saints both of them are dedicated." The first alternative explanation which I suggest is that a new chapel with a side-altar may have been added to Teigngrace Church after 1410, or as happened in some cases, that whilst the old church was retained as a side chapel, a more extensive chancel and nave were erected with a high altar in honour of St. Mary. This suggestion is ruled out by the statement that so far as is known at present no notice can be found in the Episcopal Registers of the consecration of a new church or altar in honour of St. Mary at Teigngrace. But oddly enough only two records of institutions to the rectory can be found in those registers although there must have been many more, one in 1350 when Bishop Grandisson collated to it (Grandisson, 1405), the other in 1410, 1412 and 1414, when John Prestcote presented (Stafford, 213); and there is also a record of 40 days' indulgence granted in January, 1435, to all contributors to the repairs and upkeep of the bridge at Teynbrigge (Lacy, 618). The second alternative is that " Church of the Apostles Peter and Paul" refers to the patronal saint and "Church /^'^'f' 'r of St. Mary" to the dedication saint of the church. The great fault in Miss Arnold Foster's book on Church Dedica- tions is that she fails to distinguish between the feast of the patronal saint and the feast of the dedication saint. Arch- bishop Islep in laying down the rule in 1362 as to what feasts are to be kept by all persons, names two, viz, : " the solemnity of the dedication of ever}' parish church" and " of the saints to whom every parish church is dedicated " (the patronal saint). It is therefore quite possible and indeed most likely that SS. Peter and Paul were the patron saints of the church and that the church was actually dedicated on one of the festivals of St. Mary. The third alternative is that the scribe of the Bishop's registry in carelessness called the Church of the Apostles Peter and Paul the Church of St. Mary because at the time %< Oc^