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£s OS. £ioo OS. /lO OS. £^ OS. £30 OS. £ OS. £^ OS. £^- OS. £20 OS. £s OS. £i OS. £^s OS. £i OS. £z OS. £1 OS. £^ lOS. £10 OS. ^690 I OS. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 157 Samuel Clarke John Somerhayes - John Bayley John Dulling Humphrey Moses Ezikiah Borrow - Thomas Borrow - Mary Moore Robert Borrow Ambrose Searle James Clarke Nicholas Wood Susana Masy Elizabeth Moore - Aaron Scadding Joan Clarke Parish goods Total is (Note. — This is an exact copy — total is incorrect). J. Manfield. 127. Crest of Strode of Devon (IX., p. 128, par. no). — The identification of the savin tree with the yew is interesting, but without further evidence it is hardly convincing. The savin is a well-known medicinal shrub, Juniperus Sahina, and was certainly known under that name in Devonshire in the eighteenth century, for it occurs twice in the Exmoor Scolding, in connection with its use for medicinal purposes : " How many times have es . . . . a zeed tha pound Savin, to make Metcens, and Leckers, and Cau- cheries, and Zlotters ? " (/. 183 of Elworthy's Edn., 1879). No explanation of the word was given in the original Glossary, either because it was too well-known to need any, or because the compiler was ignorant of its meaning, but the above identification was supplied by Mr. Elworthy. According to Handle Holme's Academy of Armory, both the savin and the yew were armorial charges, and, therefore, if the yew were meant, it is difficult to understand why it should be described as " a savin tree." Besides, my limited knowledge of heraldry leads me to assume that, if the yew