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disputes between the Prior of Plympton and the burgesses of Sutton 
relating to the market cross and the stalls in the market-place. 
These disputes were amicably settled by a deed executed by the 
parties. In 1566, in the eighth year of Elizabeth's reign, we find 
the entry : " Item paid for mending the leads of the market cross, 14/." 
How many years later it stood it is impossible to say ; but crosses, 
like many other things, have to give place to modern requirements, 
and the market cross, being in the centre of a thoroughfare, was 
removed, and not set up elsewhere. 
Another cross was on the Hoe, west of St. Catherine's chapel. 
We know nothing of it. It might have been a memorial cross. 
Comparing it with the market cross, it seems to have been a much 
more elaborate one, and apparently in better condition. Perhaps 
at the time it was of recent erection. 
The third cross was on the Parade, near the Custom House ; 
but I have unfortunately mislaid my notes with reference to it. 
It seems to have possessed a right of Sanctuary ; and it is said 
that a round stone, forming a part of it, was to be seen of compa- 
ratively late years. 
Although not necessarily connected with religion, I must not 
omit to say something, however little, about one or two of the wells 
of Plymouth, inasmuch as they were connected with the ecclesiastical 
portions of the town. Before the passing of the Act of Elizabeth, 
and the water supply to the conduits, the only water obtained was 
from wells, and the names of several are still preserved. 
St. Andrew's Well is supposed to have been situated on the road 
to Cattedown, the old ferry-road. It is stated to have had a great 
reputation, and was much resorted to by devotees, who sought 
the protection and assistance of the patron saint. A venerable* 
fig-tree overshadowed it, and a hundred years ago the stump and 
roots were still to be seen.* 
In the Exeter registers is a petition from one David Waryn, 
who describes himself as the hermit of the chapel of our Lady of 
Grace, at Quarry Well, Plymouth, dated 10th April, 1518. By 
the deed I have before referred to, of 22nd September, 1579, the 
Queen granted to the Grimstones, senr. and junr., besides the lands 
I have before mentioned and others, " all that messuage or tene- 
ment and barne called the Hermytage of our Ladie at Quarry Well, 
and all those two acres of land to the same messuage or tenement 
* Harris. 
