Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 6i 57. History of the Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Barnstaple. — The story of St. Mary Maudlin's Priory at Barnstaple from 1107 to 1536 and of the establish- ment of the new parish of St. Mary Magdalene in 1842 and its continuance to the present day, is well told by the vicar, Rev. R. J. Edmund Boggis, M.A., B.D., in a little book of 200 pages with the above title. The only thing which seems to have escaped the writer's notice are the early charters to the priory in the recently published Calendar of Documents in France.- In details they do not always agree with the charters given by Dugdale and Dr. Oliver. Oswald J. Reichel. 58. Exeter Episcopal Register (Lacy, Part II). — In the new volume of Lacy just issued by the Devon and Cornwall Record Society, on p. 434, first line, occurs the name: John, Rector of Byry (Berrynarbor), and a footnote is appended that William Brownynge was instituted Rector in 1430 (Lacy, p. 128) but it is not stated in succession to whom. This note should be amended. John, Rector of Byry, was John Lynde, though there is no record of his institution. In Brantyngham's Register, p. 884, there is a record that John Lynde, Rector of Berry-Narbor, was ordained accolite 24 Sep., 1390; he held the living for a long period and was Penitentiary for Sherwell Deanery during almost the whole of Stafford's Episcopate, as well as part of Lacy's. See my list of Rectors of Berry-Narbor, in Dioscesan Gazette for 1910, p. 181. J- F. Chanter. 59. Dr. Oliver's Library. — Does any reader of D.&C. N.&Q. possess or know of a catalogue of the sale of effects of Dr. George Oliver, who died at St. Nicholas Priory, Exeter, aged 80, on the 23rd INIarch and was hurried on the 2nd April, 1861, "near the high altar in the chapel he served so long"? H. R. W. 60. Manor Rolls. — I should be obliged if any reader would tell me where may be inspected the rolls of the manor of Down-Umphraville, Axmouth {c. 1832), then the property of Mr. Thomas Northmore. Has any plan been considered for providing in Exeter a central place of deposit for manor rolls ? R. B. M.
- This Calendar can be consulted at the Exeter City Library. — Eds.
