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time of night, but she refused to tell him, and, on his pressing her for an answer, 

 said she would go home again if he did not leave her. He accordingly went 

 away, but followed her at a distance till she reached the place indicated in his 

 dream. Here he heard a conversation going on which got to high words ; he 

 then approached nearer, when a man, hearing his footsteps, ran away; this proved 

 to be John Gray, who had induced the woman to meet him there and gooff with 

 him to America. He really, however, intended to murder her, having dug a 

 grave in which he intended to bury her after having shot her, the gun with which 

 the murder was to be committed, as well as the spade with which the grave was 

 dug, being left on the spot. The grave was railed round for many years, but 

 time has obliterated almost all traces of it now, and tradition alone marks the 

 spot. Gray never returned to Mere. It was reported that he enlisted as a soldier. 



King Riding. (Note to vol. xxix., page 270.) 



Feast of St. George, Patron Saint of England, 23rd April. Ceremony called 

 the King Riding. " Those who have horses bring them out and a very gay 

 procession is formed with the Rogation banners to commemorate the deliverance 

 which this renowned knight and saint once wrought." 



Note to page 281, vol. xxix. 



Richard Potter was instituted Rector of Kilmington June 26th, 1598. — 

 Francis Potter, his son, succeeded his father as Rector, Nov. 4th, 1626. 



Deans' Orchard was purchased by Nathaniel Still, Esq., in 1771. 



The Manor House, Zeals. Mr. G. T. Chafyn Grove has called my 

 attention to the fact that the enlargement of the house was carried out, not by 

 the late Miss J. E. Chafyn Grove, as stated in vol. xxix., p. 337, but by her 

 brother, William Chafj-n Grove, in 1862-3. The date of the oldest part of the 



house is circa 1380. 



Further Errata in vol. xxix. 



p. 244, line 32, for 1775 read 1765. 

 p. 246, line 13, for 1634, read 1590. 

 p. 322, line 13, for Duke read Earl. 



T. H. Bakee. 



