21. The Will of Katharine, Countess of Devon, Daughter of Edward IV.; dated May 2nd, 1527. Communicated by the Rev. George Oliver, D.D., and Mr. Pitman Jones. Ibid. vol. viii. (1851) p. 318, and vol. x. (1853) pp. 53-58.

22. Detailed Pedigree of the Courtenay family. By the Rev. George Oliver and Mr. Pitman Jones. Ibid. vol. viii. (1851) p. 318, and vol. x. (1853) p. 58. The pedigree is contained in five large folding sheets in the latter vol.

23. Ancient Church within the Castle of Exeter. By the Rev. George Oliver, D.D. Ibid. vol. xi. (1854) pp. 157–164. Forms chap. ii. of part ii. pp. 193-205 of the author's History of Exeter, 2nd edit. [2].

24. Document relating to the Courtenay family. Exhibited and described by the Rev. Dr. Oliver. Ibid. vol. xii. (1855) pp. 290,

291.

25. Collections, illustrating the History of the Catholic Religion in the Counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wilts, and Gloucester. In two parts, Historical and Biographical. With notices of the Dominican, Benedictine, and Franciscan Orders in England. By the Very Rev. George Oliver, D.D., Canon of the Diocese of Plymouth. London: C. Dolman, 1857. 8vo, pp. viij. 576.

"Some of the MSS. of this work are in the Camb. Univ. Lib., Mm. vj. 40, others are at Stonyhurst College." (Bibl. Cornub.)

26. Lives of the Bishops of Exeter, and a History of the Cathedral; with an illustrative appendix. By the Rev. George Oliver. Exeter: William Roberts, Broadgate, 1861. 8vo, pp. xiij. 503; 5 plates of seals.

27. Letters on ecclesiastical and parochial antiquities, family history, biography, &c., extending over a period of nine years, and communicated by Dr. Oliver, under the signature of "Curiosus," to local newspapers, and principally to the Exeter Flying Post.

Upwards of 200 of these communications were collected and inserted into two folio volumes by his friend and literary coadjutor, Mr. Pitman Jones, who added many valuable MS. notes. Mr. Winslow Jones, the son of the latter, presented these volumes, in 1877, to the Library of the Devon and Exeter Institution.

I do not here enter into any analytical detail of these letters; but as an evidence of their value and interest, I may mention that forty-eight of them contain the memoirs of about seventy-five celebrated Exonians, which, as far as I am aware, have not been reproduced in any other form. From what has already been stated in the notes to the author's History of Exeter, it is probable that in an enlarged form they were intended for publication in the 2nd edition of that work, and which his death alone prevented.

Of other literary work performed by him may be mentioned the assistance he rendered Mr. R. Barnes in the publication of the Liber Pontificalis of Edmund Lacy, Bishop of Exeter, published in 1847; and Dr. Munk, in the Roll of the Royal College of Physicians, London (1861). Also the many MS. notes added to a copy of Polwhele's History of Devonshire, now in the Library of the British Museum.

A short list of his works, "furnished by himself," was contributed, in 1860, to Notes and Queries (2nd S. ix. 514), and the writer (F. C. H.) of the article containing it affirmed that "no portrait" had "ever been published of the venerable doctor." A very characteristic lithographic one (measuring 14 in. x 16 in.) was, however, published soon after his death, with a fac-simile of his signature, by "George G. Palmer, Lith., Exeter," of which I possess a copy.*

In bringing this paper to a conclusion, I cannot help drawing the prominent attention of the Members of this Association to the great desirability of promoting in every way the publication of these scattered newspaper articles of Dr. Oliver's to which I have just alluded, very few of which have been reprinted, and, valuable though they be, have been rarely referred to, owing to the comparative inaccessibility of the originals. The collection of these into one volume, with the addition of such single papers of his published in archæological and other local journals, would be a boon to archeologists generally, would tend to increase our knowledge of local history, and so carry out one of the great objects of this Association.

* Mr. R. Dymond, F.S.A., as the result of some enquiries respecting this portrait, informs me that it was drawn "from a cast taken after death, and this is confirmed by the peculiar drawn and unnatural sharpness of the features."

THE name Honeyditches, as applied to a place a mile northwest from Seaton, carries with it all the appearance of a deviation from the words Hanna-ditches. If there is no direct documentary evidence on the point, there seems to have prevailed in the neighbourhood a sort of general consensus that such was the case, and whatever looks probable is generally accepted without much difficulty. Hanna is said to have been a troublesome and warlike Danish chieftain, who invaded the coast on several occasions, and fought with great determination against the Saxons; and if he left his name in the valley of the Axe, we also trace it in another part of the country in the compound word Henna-borough. Bearing in mind that the Danes continued to make their depredations on the shores of England during the protracted space of more than two centuries, it is impossible now to fix the year with any degree of certainty when Hanna with his followers effected a landing at Seaton, and so far established himself on a hill in the neighbourhood as to impress his name on the locality. His galleys probably entered the mouth of the river Axe, and having accomplished a landing near where we are now assembled, he led his followers to one of the hills, where he threw up intrenchments, the better to hold his ground. This fortified post was surrounded with aggers and fosses, or earthworks and ditches, or hedges and ditches, according to varied phraseology; and the place so enclosed would naturally be spoken of as Hanna-ditches. There is a camp near Highwick called Castle Ditch, or Castle Ditches. Stukeley and others describe Honeyditches, or Hannaditches, as an oblong or nearly