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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 203 It : I bequeath xx"- of lawful money of England to bye a grete bell the which shalbe a tenor to the other mi bells and hit shalbe called our Lady bell well soundyng and chosen by the discrecion of myn ov'"seers, the which shall toll to the pdon aveys that is to say atte vi'*" howre in the mornyng at xii howre at Midday and at vi howre in the eventyde." The testator states he was born at Colbroke, Devon. The will was proved 1508. A Robert Legg was Mayor of Totnes 1503 and again 1504, possibly the maker of the will. It would appear that the new bell was duly bought. In 1442 it appears from a document among the Corporation Muniments there were only four bells and they were conse- crated " on the Monday after the Feast of Trans ubatantiatioa Jg-n ^i of St. Thomas the Martyr, 1442." Leland, the historian^ who visited Totnes in the reign of King Henry VIII., mentions in his Itinerary these bells and writes of them as " the greatest bells in all these quarters." In the Inventory of Church Goods, 7 Edward VI., 1553, in the Record Office is the entry, " Tottenes v bells in the towre there." 3«^^.2^^ Edward Windeatt. 170. De la Tour Family. — I shall be grateful if any reader of D. & C. N. S' Q. can supply information concerning the above family, which settled in Barnstaple in or about the year 1680. Peter de la Tour was a naturalised Huguenot nobleman from La Rochelle, who married into the Barnstaple family of Berry. My father was James de la Tour Berry, son of William Berry, born in Exeter about 1795 ; his family came from Barnstaple or the neighbourhood. / Oscar de la Tour Berry, ot^v*!/- 4', 171. HoLCOMB RoGUs Parish Accounts: The Dog 'f f Whipper (IX., p. 175, par. 139, ei ante.) — Is it not probable that the los. paid to one Robert Smith for whipping the dogs may refer to the post of huntsman (or " whipper-in," as locally termed) to the pack of hounds formerly kennelled at Holcombe Rogus ? I have no information as to how many years the pack existed, but about the year 1893 the one belonging to the late Rayer, Esq., of Holcombe Court, was abolished. A. G. Gidley.