200 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
- i633. Frances Chanon, widdow, buried Aug. 26.
1642. M""' Katherine Channon, wife unto Richard Channon, Esqr., buried ffeb. 21. 1653. Richard, son of Melchizedeck Allford, gent., baptized Jany. 17. 1654. Margaret, daughter of Melchizedeck Alford, clic, baptized March 20. 1654. Richard, son of Melchizedeck Alford, clic, buried Jany. 20. A.J. P. S. 167. Church Bands (IX., p. 124, par. 106; p. 149, par. 121 ; p. 161, par. 135).— Mr. Henry E. Bridgman, of Budleigh Salterton, informs me that he has a distinct recollection of the band in Stokenham Church, which gave place to an organ about the year i860. He well remembers old John Randall, a blacksmith, giving out from the west gallery the Tate and Brady psalms, two verses at a time, in good Devonshire intonation. Mr. John Wm. Rhymes, who has played the organ in Stokenham Church since April 17th, 1887 — ^just thirty years — and has only missed two services, believes that the band was composed entirely of members of the Randall family. John Randall, the father, played the " bass " ('cello), and, of the sons, Peter played the violin, Richard the flute, and, he thinks, WiUiam Henry the cornet, but he does not know whether there were any other instruments. The members of Mr. Rhymes' own family were vocalists in the choir, of which his father was a member for more than fifty years. R. Pearse Chore. 168. Church Bands (IX., p. 161, par. 135, et ante.) — Canon John Shearme, a. native of Cothill, Stratton, in his interesting volume of reminiscences entitled Lively Recol- lections, published recently, mentions the musicians who performed in Stratton Church. In reply to an invitation from the Editors to favour us with further notes on the subject, he replied, " I am afraid I cannot be of much use to you in writing an article in your journal, much as I sympathise with you in the desire to preserve some records of the old days," but in the course of a very interesting • Vivian states that she was a daughter of Richard Calmady, of Farwood, in Talliton parish ; it should be Colytoii.
