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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION". 
tenances containing by estimation three acres lying in Plymouth 
to the Graye Friars of Plymouth sometyme appertaining." The 
Grimstones, by deed dated 10th October, 21 Elizabeth, conveyed 
all the property comprised in this deed to Henry Payne of 
London, tailor, and on the 4th December, 23 Elizabeth, Henry 
Payne conveyed the same (with the exception of one field situated 
at Lostwithiel) to Peter Edgcumbe of Mount Edgcumbe, Esq., 
the ancestor of the present Lord Mount Edgcumbe, but none of 
the Plymouth property can now, I believe, be traced with any 
certainty. 
The Pair Chapel of St. Catherine upon the Hoe, so called by 
Leland, we know little of, although it is frequently referred to in 
the registers and elsewhere. In 1370 mention is made of it, and it 
was old in 1413, when it is spoken of in Bishop Stafford's register. 
It was probably erected originally as a votive chapel. It was 
situated, I should think, judging from its position on the map of 
Henry YIIL, somewhere high up upon the Hoe, perhaps near where 
the eastern iron gates now are. Mr. Worth thinks it stood not far 
from the head of Hoe Street ; but it must have been higher up 
than this; for Leland says, " There is a right goodly walk on a 
hill without the town called the How, a fair chapel of St. Catherine 
on it" It possessed a tower, with a little canopied projection, 
perhaps for a bell, or, it may be, containing a statue of the saint, 
and the building is enclosed by a wall. It was probably before 
the Keformation served and attended to by one of the religious 
houses, perhaps by the vicar of St. Andrew. The former is most 
probable, as it appears to have been committed to the charge of 
the town, which, after expending a few pence for a rope and for 
some nails, as we find from the receiver's books, thought enough 
had been done, and suffered the structure to go into decay. 
Mr. Jewitt mentions that in a curious inventory, the date of 
which he does not give, is the following entry: " Memorandum, 
there remaineth in the hands of John Paynter a chalice of St. 
Catherine received of Pers Lygger."* 
More care was apparently taken of the chalice of precious metal 
than of the building ; but both are lost to Plymouth now. 
If we know little of the chapel of St. Catherine on the Hoe, 
we know less of the chapel of St. Michael on the island we now 
call St. Nicholas or Drake's. It is shown in the map standing on 
* Reliquary, 1871, 8. 
