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Devon Notes and Queries. 55 sculptured on the exterior of the chapel, as on Greneway's, seem to indicate he may have belonged to the company of the Merchant Adventurers, although their arms do not appear. The will of John Lane is dated 3 February, 1528, twelve days before his death. In it he directs : — " I desire to be buried in the New Chapel of Our Lady in Cuilotnpton ; I bequeath to the High Cross light of the parish church six shillings and eightpence, also that sum to the light of Our Lady ; to the store of the name of Jesu ; to the Brotherhood of St John the Evangelist, and to the Cathedral church of Exeter three shillings and fourpence ; and six shillings and eightpence to hundred parish churches round Cullompton that they may pray for me. To my servants Emma, John Pewe, and Alexander Trott each ten dozen woollen cloths, or ten shillings in money. My tenement in Cullompton which I lately bought of John Eye, now occupied by John Pytt, wherein Humphrey More, Esq., John Smyth» Thomas Waryn, and George Cockeram stand enfeoffed, shall go to the holding of the priest in the New Chapel of Our Lady aforesaid, as also such leases and estates as I have of the Prior of S' Nicholas (Exeter) for tilling which I have for a period of twenty six years in reversion after Jotin Kaleway, gentleman, sixteen years of which have yet to come. Residuary legatee and executrix, my wife, Thomasine. Overseers, John Smyth, constable of Cullompton, Thomas Waren, Gecrge Cockeram, and my servant Harry Harton, each to have ten pounds for their pains. General Supervisor, Master- Humphrey More, Esq., to whom I bequeath thirteen shillings and fourpence for his pains. Witnesses, Thomas Preston, clerk, William Adams. John Eard, John Pewe, and others. Proved P.CC. 5 April' 1529, by Thomasine, relict and executrix of Humphrey More was the then head of that ancient family of More- Hayes, Cullompton ; he married Agnes, daughter of Sir Lewis Pollard, Justice of the Common Pleas, of Bishop's- Nympton. His gravestone is in the More Chantry: —

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special* b'nfacio et Agnes uxor eris q' q*d HuYr'd obiit 20 die A*gsti a' a if 1537, quo* a'ib' p'pcieiur deus. Their arms, Ermine^ on a chevron azure, three cinque foils or. The Cockerams were a reputable family found in the Visitation^ 1620. Inscribed gravestones occur to them in the church ; their arms, Argent^ on a hetid sable, three leopards' heads of the field, John Kaleway was of the old and wide-spreading family of that name, a branch of which was located near, and with great probability was the John who married Joan, daughter of John Tregarthin, of Cornwall, by whom she had fourteen children, and secondly she wedded John Wadham, of Meri- field, Ilton, Somerset, and Edge, Branscombe, by whom she