transept, and moreover, a chapel to the Virgin would be somewhat out of place in that position. But there is an ancient piscina in the north chancel aisle which was probably in a chapel dedicated to St. Bernard, who is a prominent saint with the Cistercian order, and I am informed by the Father Superior of the Trappist Monastery at Wood Barton, that Kingsbridge Church is decidedly a Cistercian church and corresponds in a remarkable degree with his mother Abbey Church at La Melleraye, in France. There is a later deed in 1384, Richard II., 8th year, which, besides being of interest, is rather unique in its contents. The grantor, Henry Mayou, gives two shillings a quarter after the death of his fourth wife Joan, to the chapels of St. Edmund and St. Saviour's, in order that prayers might be said on the anniversaries of the deaths of his four wives, Matilda, Joan, Idonea, and Joan. The description of this deed appeared more fully in the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Vol. 33, 1901. In 1388, Richard II., 12th year, there is an interesting deed of conveyance from Joan atte Lake to Margery, the widow of Richard Crokere, of a tenement in Kingsbridge between the land of Richard Wyteleghe on the south, and the cemetery (churchyard) of St. Edmund on the north. These boundaries clearly identify the property on which the Town Hall stands; and in 1415 the cotagium on the south side of the churchyard, being the same or part of the same property, was conveyed to Robert and Matilda Avery. In 1397, Richard II., 21st year, Agnes Deghere released her dower in a meadow called Shurtelslate (in a prior deed called Sherteslete), which is described as by the salt water mill pool of the Lord of the Manor's Mill, and also in property called Cattespathe, in West Alvington. The latter property can be identified now, and bears the same name. By the description it seems that the mill was not very far from the further end of Mill Street, for in 1415 John Denys, Chaplain, conveyed to Thomas and Elena Sormunde property bounded by the Abbot's mill-pool on the south, and the mill itself on the west; this description would place the Abbot's mill rather to the westward of the present mill with a mill-pool behind it of rather a large extent, probably occupying the lower part of the Union Road Valley. By a deed dated 25th day of June, 1422, Henry V., 10th year, Gervase Cotterbury conveys property in Kingsbridge to certain persons therein described as the free burgesses of Kingsbridge. It appears to be an absolute conveyance without trusts, but it has occurred to me whether or not these free burgesses of Kingsbridge may have been the predecessors of the present body of Feoffees of Kingsbridge. The property conveyed was somewhere on the east side of the town, bounded on the east by the stream between Kingsbridge and Dodbrooke, and on the west by the highway; the northern and southern boundaries do not help to further elucidate the position of the property. By a deed dated the 18th day of April, 1462, Edward IV., 2nd year, land in Kingsbridge was leased to William Cornyshe and Joan his wife for twelve years; this deed is interesting on account of the conditions of the tenancy. The rent was to be a red rose "rubam rosam" payable on St. John the Baptist's Day. This payment of a red rose has sometimes been reserved as a rent, but what the signification may be is doubtful; it occurs in other deeds about this date. The lessors bound themselves to attend the Court of the Abbot and Convent of Buckfast and pay the chief rent, and there were the usual mutual covenants for external and internal repair. I now come to a deed dated the 20th day of March, 1475, Edward IV., 16th year, which is perhaps the most interesting in the whole collection, and for several reasons, the chief being that there is attached to the deed the only existing impression in wax of an original antient common seal of the town of Kingsbridge. That it was a town seal admits of no doubt, for it is expressly so stated in the deed. The device is a mounde or monde with an archiepiscopal or patriarchal cross (being a double cross) issuing therefrom, and the letters J and S being placed on the dexter and sinister sides respectively, and exterior to the device. The meaning of these letters is very puzzling; they may be the initials of the grantee or perhaps the sacred initials I.H.S., the central letter being, formed by the lines of the double cross placed horizontall. There is another seal of the town attached to a deed of about the same date in the possession of the Feoffees of Kingsbridge, which bears the device of a crown over a bridge of three arches under which a stream is flowing. This latter device also appears over the Church door. It is an example of what is known as "canting heraldry," the crown representing the first syllable of the name of the town and the bridge the other. I am given to understand that the "monde and cross" is a device of the Benedictine order, and this accounts perhaps for its being used as a town seal. It is over the door of the Abbey at Buckfast with the Benedictine motto "Pax." The deed is a concession from Robert Gye and Thomas May, the churchwardens of St. Edmund's (custodes ecclesie Sancti Edmundi de Kyngesbryge) to John Scoos, senr., giving the latter permission to build the south wall of his new house on the site of the churchyard on the north side. It is tolerably well known that the present footpath called Higher Church Steps leading from Fore Street to the Workhouse was originally comprised in and formed part of the churchyard, and in this document we have before us what seems to be evidence of the first encroachment in this direction. The deed itself is rather dilapidated, but the seal is in first-class preservation, the impressions on the wax coming out as clearly as if they were made only yesterday. In a deed dated 22nd September, 1479, Edward IV., 19th year, there is the first record of a manor court held at Kingsbridge, and the deed itself is what is called a copy of the court roll. This court most probably was the Abbot's court, but it is the first time that the manor of Kingsbridge and its court is mentioned. At this sitting one John Hoygge was admitted a tenant of the manor under the oath of fealty the relief payable to the lord of the manor was stated at sixpence; the steward, William Foughelle, sealed the deed with the seal of the manor, and it was stated to be duly dated according to the tenor of the court rolls. The seal unfortunately is destroyed. This William Foughelle married a daughter of Walter Reynelle, of Malston, a family which was of some influence and distinction at this time. In a deed dated 6th of June, 1492, Henry VII., 7th year, there are descriptions which seem to identify the property |