124 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. of North Wyke and Cocktree, which are Ermine, three battle axes sable/'- I have never seen the battle axes described as in pale or in fess for Wyke ; they are generally — and so far as I know, always — disposed "two and one," as on the reredos of the tomb of " Warrior Wyke " in South Tawton Church and over a window of the domestic chapel at North Wyke. I am aware of the Wyke-Prideaux marriage, but is Miss Prideaux sure that the carving in Sutcombe Church does not commemorate an alliance with some family other than Wyke bearing the same charges on a plain field ? Papworth gives a long list of such, e.g., Batten, co. Devon ; Denys, or Dennis, co. Devon ; Gibbes, Devon, Derby, etc. ; Hall, Kent ; Hicks ; Lewston, co. Dorset. (In the last case the axes are stated to be in pale). Ethel Lega-Weekes. 106. Church Bands. — As these have become extinct within the memory of several persons now living, it is thought that an account of some of them will not only be generally interesting but will also induce readers to add their reminiscences of other instances and give further par- ticulars both as to localities and as to instruments. The number of instruments was commonly three, viz. : violin, clarinet, and bass viol — which, locally, means the 'cello, not the double bass. Sometimes a flute, or, maybe, a bassoon would be found in place of, or in addition to, the violin ; the clarinet and bass viol were nearly always present. In two interesting articles {Musical News, July ig, 1913, pp. 56, 58 ; Antiquary, 1914, vol. 1., pp. 267-9), Mr. Gordon Anderson has given a description of the bands at Newton Poppleford and Harpford. In the former, " the violin was played by a man whose name has been lost to history ; the clarinet was played by one John Squires, a tailor by trade. The bass viol seems to have been a popular instrument, there being no fewer than three performers on it, viz. : William Welsman (tailor), Nehemiah Bailey (labourer), and Arthur Ham (baker), the last named, however, having a second string to his bow in the shape of a flute, which he played when someone else was present to undertake the duties of the bass viol." Mr. Ham was ahve at the date of
- See Carew's Scroll 0/ Anns (ed. by J. Brooking-Rowe), No. 516;
Note Book of Tristram Risdon (ed. by J. Dallas), p. 50 ; the Lysons' History of Devon, p. ccxxv. ; and Westcott, p. 557.
