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68 Devon Notes and Queries. of J. G. for Joan Greenway we find, and here alone, the initials W. B. Once again on the battlements in the midst of Green way's work we find the initials J. A. Can any one throw light on this ? There is a beautiful carved oak door which divides the chapel from the porch ; the upper half is in the Gothic and the lower in a Renaissance style. The frieze above the porch is interesting, and is supposed to display six Scrip- tural subjects, but what they are no man knows, even in the light of a careful copperplate engraving in the Gentleman* s Magazine J I think for 1823. At present they are rapidly becoming obliterated; here again suggestions are invited. Can any reader also inform me whether there is any trace of a stone screen of Green way's work stated by Harding to have been set up in Powder ham Church. The inscription quoted (p. 44, 1. 20) is immediately above the shields of the Founder and the Drapers' Company. The inscription quoted (p. 46, 1. 15) runs : — O Lord of all maj'e Grant to John Green wave Good fortne and grace And in heaven in place. Edwin S. Chalk. 46. Devonshire Items at Carlisle.-— In the TuUie House — the City Museum of Carlisle — ^are preserved several things of interest to Devon people. In one of the cases of Roman antiquities is a bronze fibula, presented by the late Robert Ferguson, Esq., F.S.A., long time M.P. for the City of Carlisle, which was found in Waterbeer Street, Exeter, in 1894. ^" *^® vestibule of the Free Library are several pictures by J. White Abbott, Hon. R.A., an eminent surgeon of Exeter at the beginning of last century. The attendant told me that the Museum had recently acquired a part of a Roman statue which had been in the Museum at Newcastle- on-Tyne, but was found at Birdoswald, near Carlisle, in exchange for some object of more local interest to Newcastle people. Cannot the authorities of the Roya,l Albert Museum bring about a similar exchange ? Lancaster, T. Cann Hughes, M.A., F.S.A.