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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 63 assertion that their continued use is a pure piece of amateur heraldry is equally incorrect. The use of supporters is not so limited as Mr. Were appears to imagine. Certain families, amongst them the Fulfords, bear them by prescription, vide Woodward's British and Foreign Heraldry and Burke's General Armory. Edmondson, an authority quoted by Burke, and also by Berry in his Encyciopcsdia Hevaldica, contends " that those families having anciently used such supporters either on their seals, banners or monuments, or carved them in stone or wood, or depicted them in the glass windows of their mansions, etc., as perspicuous evidences and memorials of their having a possessory right to such supporters, are fully and absolutely well entitled to bear them," and he adds "that no one of the descendants of such families ever ought to alienate such supporters or bear his arms without them, because such possessory right is by far more honourable than any modern grant of supporters." Rightly or wrongly, that is the reason the Fulfords have stuck to their supporters. Francis Fulford. 62. Some Studies in the Topography of the Cathedral Close (IX, p. 28, par. 21). — The words on p. 145 of my book, "... the lion & wyvern, supporters of Queen Elizabeth ..." were quoted by me from a Report to the Ecclesiastical Commissiomrs, the writer of which has since admitted having used the word " wyvern " in mistake for dragon (as noted in the " Addenda and Corrigenda," p. 190). Ethel Lega-Weekes. 63. Gennys of Launceston and Plymouth. — There is reason to believe that some member or members of this ancient Cornish family migrated to Ireland in the 17th century. Any information on the subject will be gratefully acknow- ledged by --Ci. f- 7^ Gertrude Thrift. 64. Silver Gilt Chalice in Ipplepen Church. — Information is sought with reference to a magnificent silver gilt chalice in Ipplepen Church, tempore circa, 1650, of which I believe there are only two other specimens in England, one at Bath Abbey and the other sold a few years since by Christie, Manson and Woods for 1500 pounds or guineas. Fred. Day.