224 Devon Notes and Queries, and he adds a hope that whenever Young visits Dartmoor again it may be in the autumn, when the judge " may not only have the opportunity of taking care of him, but of showing him specimens of the white earth and some other natural curiosities," to which is appended the note : " The Editor will not go to Devonshire again without paying his respects to so great and distinguished an improver." Vide Annals of Agriculture and other Useful Arts, collected and published by Arthur Young, Esqr., f.s.a., 1797, Vol. xxix., pp. 557-587 ; Vol. xxx., pp. 297-298. J.B.R. 179. EsiNGTUNE (II., p. 171, par. 131.) — "God prosper him {King James) to pluck them {Romanist conspirators) down that seek true Christian blood. (/) was there when it {the killing of the buck) was don 1610." The year 1610 was that in which Henry IV. of France was assassinated by a friar ; and puritan feeling was still high in England against the Romanists after the ^* Gunpowder Plot." As a result of this, James felt compelled to issue a proclamation in the same year commanding all Jesuits and Priests to leave the kingdom, and all Recusants not to approach within 10 miles of the court. This seems to be the idea in the mind of loyal Esingtune when penning the first part of the sentence. The second part rightly belongs to the first inscription, and was omitted from want of space or from oversight, and appended to what would have otherwise been the natural conclusion. The ** there " could hardly have meant either of the great treasonable acts, more particularly the assassination of Henry IV., bearing date 1610. I think it must have been the killing of the buck. G. T. Llewellin. 180. Relics of the Civil War — Cannon Balls (I., p. 118, par. 85.) — When Shiphay House was taken down in 1885, a cannon ball, 4 inches in diameter, was found embedded in mortar. The house was about 200 years old. I have heard that similar balls have been found in walls of an old barn in Ellacombe, part of Torquay. To what date can these be ascribed ? How did they get in situ ? W. H. KiTSON.
