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copiosa, et vidit eaiidem capcllam, in qua singulis diobus celebrari consuevcrant Divina, ruinosani et in nonnullis partibus ejusdem discoopertam, liostia fracta, et quasi penitus sine celebratione Divinorum desolatam : diccbat quod remedium super hoc, quamcitius commode posset appoi^ret oportunum." Registre, fob 1G4. We may mention also Bishop Lacy's Commission on 26tli of August, 1438, "ad inquirendum de et super dcfectibus in Prebenda de Cutton," the return to which is not to be found in his Register. In the last volume of tliis Journal we gave the Genealogy of the Redvers and Courtenay Families, so intimately con- nected with the History of the Castle of Exeter and its Pre- bendal Chapel. IMany of the distinguished persons named in the following lists will there be found. PREBENDARIES OF HAYES. Thomas de Wimundesham, translated from the Prebend of Asheclyst, 7 February, 1261, " ad prebendam de lleghes ultra Ex'ani ;" on the presentation of John, Lord de Courtenay. Robert de Littlebury, admitted 4 June, 1278. Patron, Hugh de Courtenay. This Prebendary is mentioned in Pope Nicholas' taxation, r288-l"291. William de Strete succeeded on 20 June, 1309. Patron, Lady Alianora de Courtenay. He died on 14 February, 1313. John de Skodemer appears to have been instituted 5 March, 1313, on the presentation of the same countess (Stapeldon's Register, folio 70), yet we find in the next folio that Walter de Wereminster was instituted 6 April, 1313, on the presentation of the last Patroness. Robert de Sambourne ... on whose death Patrick Wodc followed, 21 June, 1382. Patron, Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon. Richard Buttelkys, IG March, 1395-6. Patron, King Richard II. Nicholas Bubbewith, 16 June, 1396 ; he was afterwards Bishop of London, and then of Sarum. Patron, King Richard II. On Bubbewith's resignation, Richard Courtenay, IAj.B., eldest son of Sir Philip Courtenay, Knt., of Powderham, by Margaret Wake, succeeded, on 3 July, 1403. Patron, Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon. On his resignation for the See of Norwich, Thomas Hendernuin succeeded, 3 September, 1413. Patron as before. He became Chancellor of Exeter, and exchanged his Prebend for the Rectory of Crukurn, with Walter Collys, 18 December, 1427. l^atron, hdc vice King Henry VI. He died Precentor of Exeter, and on his death Thomas Mannyng was instituted 22 May, 14.57. Patron, Thomas Courtenay, Earl of Devon. John Symons .... died 30 May, 1497, buried at Stokeinteignhead. John Rhese, or Rise, Treasurer of Exeter ; he died 9 May, 1531. Hoker, his grandson, says he was about 90 years of age. John Stephyns, instituted 22 May, 1531, on the presentation of " The Noble Henry Courtenay, Knight of the Garter, Lord of Okehampton and Plymtou, Earl of Devon, and Marcpiis of Exeter." We are not to confound this John Stephyns with the Canon of Exeter Cathedral of the same name. Rector of Doddiscombesleigh, who died 21 March, 1560, and was buried in the chancel there. This Prebendary of Ilayes must have lived to a great age, for in Bishop Woolton's Register, folio 49, we find that on 17 IJeceniber, 1591, (iieen Elizabeth [irescnteil Walter llerte, A.B., ad prebendam de Hayes juxta pontem Exon' in Castro Exon' ab autiquo fuudatam," void by the death of John Stevens, the last incumbent — nomen sine re.