APPENDIX E LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. (All belonging to East Budleigh Church, except where noted otherwise.) 5. 6. Elizabethan Chalice. Carved Pew Ends, E. 3, C. 3, A. 3. (a, b) Carved Pew Ends, F. 1, F. 7. (c) Punch Marks on pew ends; 1-5, original; 6, 7, modern. (d) Weavers' and Fullers' Arms (from Izacke's Memorials of Exeter). (e) Stone bas-relief, St. Andrew's Church, Collumpton (from E.D.A.S. iii. plate 6). 7. (a) Stamp marks on Elizabethan Chalice. (b) Section of Capping of pews. (c) Chained book; chain attached to lower edge of cover. " secured to a desk (remaining in Burton Church, Cheshire). Plates 1-4 are from photographs, taken by Mr. Thomas Andrews, of High Street, Budleigh-Salterton. CANONSLEIGH. BY F. T. ELWORTHY. (Read at Plymouth, July, 1892.) On the eastern edge of the county-nearly at the head of the Burles-combe, where the highland of Whiteball divides the watershed of the Tone from that of the Exe-not far from the western entrance to the Whiteball tunnel, in full sight and within a few hundred yards of the Great Western Railway, on a nearly level meadow, facing due south, and sheltered on the north by the conspicuous line of limestone quarries, stands all that is left of the once well-known Priory of Legh Canonicorum, or, as it is now called, Canon's Leigh. Although quite 400 feet above the sea, yet, compared with its surroundings, the monks of old placed their house, as usual, in a pleasant yet low-lying spot, having however a good drainage fall and ample water supply. The fragments now remaining on the Leigh are only such as the spoiler has left of the once stately abbey. That it must have been of great extent is self-evident, and to be proved by ocular demonstration from the fact that the portions remaining mark roughly the eastern and western extremities, between which the great conventual buildings were situated. The gateway or entrance, still standing, is at the west, and, although sadly disfigured and debased by modern alteration, must once have been a plain though dignified approach to the convent. There must have been two separate archways and doors, side by side. The southern was the great porte cochère, and was probably the state entrance, used only for the admission of carriages or large vehicles. The northern arch, though of the same size inwardly, was entered from without by a "needle's eye," or small door for foot people, and was evidently the porter's special charge. Close to this smaller entrance a doorway of red sandstone leads to a staircase on the left. These stairs would doubtless belong to the porter, who had his lodging immediately over the main archways. There are square-headed windows in the upper storey, of probably 14th century work, commanding the approach on either side. Nothing is left here to determine what kind of gate or doors closed either of the archways; even the hooks are invisible, most likely hidden in the modern walls which convert the two arches into farm wagon-linhays. The roof is modern, and of the ordinary farm-building sort. There is nothing about this structure to betoken defence of any kind, and it evidently was nothing more than the gatehouse of the abbey. The other fragment is a mere ruin, but it is of a very much more important and instructive character. This is a very massive structure, nearly square in form, with strong buttresses on the east and south-east angles, composed of rough walling of the local limestone. In its day it must have formed a great flanking tower at the east end of the convent. From the centre of the east wall of this tower starts the enclosing wall of the abbey precincts, outside which, but washing its base, and underneath the centre of the tower, flows a stream of water, covered in on the other or exit side-doubtless once for the supply of the abbey stews, now filled up and converted to meadow. At the angles of the tower on the inside, corres |