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150 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. brass instrument. Like all instruments which bear this -name, it consists of a wooden tube, covered with black leather, about eight feet long, increasing conically from five-eighths of an inch in diameter at the mouthpiece to four inches at the open end. The name is obviously derived from the curved form into which the tube is contorted. The clarinet referred to was purchased direct from Mr. Veale and presented to the Museum by Sir Chaning Wills, Bart. — Eds. 122. Prouse Memorials in Chagford Church (IX., p. 81, par. 77; p. 121, par. 104). — I think Mr. Were must have overlooked two of my footnotes ; one (p. 85) explains that of a large number of old deeds that came into the hands of the late Rev. T. W. Whale, the earliest, dating from c. 1280, confirm the pedigree of the Chagford branch of the ProHZ family as given by Westcote, as well as of the last members of the Gidleigh stock, from c. 1300 down to 1550; the other (p. 88) shew that although Viwan, in his Prouz pedigree, makes Honor, widow of Coplestone and second wife of Humphrey Prouz of Chagford, to be the daughter of Bellew, he rectifies the error in his Lippincott pedigree, by stating that she is the daughter of fohn Lippincote of Wihhery in Alvevdiscott. This is confirmed by marriage settlements possessed by Mr. Whale. One of these is by John Cople- stone of North Leigh, Cornwall, giving a jointure to Honor Lippincott, daughter of John Lippincott of Wiherry in Alver- discott, whom his son Richard is about to marry ; another is by Humphrey Prouz of Chagford, on his marriage to Honor, widow of Coplestone (in 1620), two trustees being George Lippincott of Wibberry and Hercules Arscott of Annery. The omission by Colhy of the Pont alliance may surely be disregarded, since Westcote, Pole, Vivian and others place it between those of Ferrers and Wadecote. I note that Vivian does not call the daughters of Wadecote, Cruwys, Norton, Cole, or Cobbe heiresses, yet the family arms of all of these are depicted on the Chagford shield. Seeing that it would be impossible for anyone to mistake the bisected Jordan almond in the illustration of this shield for a bridge, I can only suppose Mr. Were's suggestion that it "is really two arches of a bridge" to proceed from an