Copy of the Autograph Will of the Rev. Thomas Long, communicated by Mr. Winslow Jones.

District Probate Registry of Exeter.

Principal Registry of the Bishop of Exeter.

"In the name of God Amen. I Tho: Long of the City of Exon Clerk do make and appoint my last will and testament this fourteenth day of June 1706 as followeth, Impis, whereas I have disposed of my sons Thomas John and Richard and of my daughters Elizabeth Dorothy and Susanna in marriage with competent portions I do give & bequeath to each of them twenty shilings and to Martha the daughter of my son Richard twenty pounds. And unto Thomas John & Susanna sons & daughters of my daughter Susanna ten pounds to each of them. Item I give to Joan Trimlet the sum of twenty shillings to be payd quarterly by equal portions during her life. Item I give to ye poore of St. Lawrence Exon twenty shillings to [be] distributed ye day after my funeral, Item whereas Elizabeth Webber my Aunt did bequeath to ten poore women ten shilings to each and to fower poore women in ye hous called Mr. Webbs Almshouse I do binde my Lands in St. Sidwels for performance of the same. Item I give devise and bequeath to my son Joseph all my lands and tenements as well in ye County as in the City and County of the sd City of Exon to be by him disposed of for the payment of my debts and for the redeeming of such estate & estates as are or have been mortgaged by me And lastly I doe make and [ap] point my two Sons Nicholas & Joseph to be loyal Executors of this my last Will and testament. Signed sealed published & declared in the presence of

"Signed Sealed published and declared by the Testator to be his last will and Testament In the Presence of us

8 of October, 1708, The said Will was proved by Nicholas Long and Joseph Long the sons and executors named in the Will in the Principal Registry of the Bishop of Exeter.

The seal of Thomas Long bears a lion rampant between 6 crosses 3, 2, and 1, but the lowest cross has been broken off. "Endorsed

In Canc. 21 September 1715
Int. Nich. Long gen. Quer.

&

Petrum Fisher . . . Def.

This paper writing was shewn unto Samuel Farley at the time of his examination before us

TRESCOT, THOMAS.

He was the son of Robert Trescot, pleb. of Exeter, where he was born in 1612; Matriculated at Oxford from Queens College 9 June 1626, aged 14; B.A. of Exeter College 26 January 1629-30; M.A. 23 October 1632; incorporated at Cambridge, 1635. In 1638 he was preferred to the rectory of Inwardleigh, and afterwards to that of Shobrook, both in Devon; from the latter he was ejected in 1662. He retired to Exeter, and there died 26th December, 1684.

Cf. Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, ij. 26, (where for Prescott read Trescot,); Calamy's Account, 240, and Continuation, 271; Boase's (Rev. C. W.) Register of Exeter College, Oxford.

1. The Zealous Magistrate. Set forth in a Sermon preached in Exeter, before the Right Honourable Sir Robert Foster, his Majesties Justice of Assize for the Western Circuit. By Thomas Trescot, Master of Arts, and Rector of the Church of Inwardleigh in Detton. (sic, a misprint for Devon.) [Quotations, &c., 9 lines.]

LONDON, Printed for Daniel Frere, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Signe of the Red Bull in little Britaine. 1642.

4to. Title, Epistle Dedicatory "To the Worshipfull, my

much honoured Friends, Arthur Upton of Lupton in
Devon, Esquire; and Francis Rous Esquire, one of the
Burgesses in Parliament for the Towne of Truro in
Cornwall," and "To the Reader," 5 leaves; sermon on
Nehemiah, xiij. 17, pp. 28. [J. I. D.]

The thanks of the writer are due to Mr. W. H. Allnutt, of the Bodleian Library; Mr. Geo. C. Boase, of London; Mr. Winslow Jones; Mr. John Taylor, of Northampton; and Mr. C. W. Sutton, of the Free Library, Manchester, for counsel and help most courteously rendered.

AT LAST.

BY JOHN PHILLIPS.

(Read at Torquay, July, 1893.)

FROM time to time, since the meeting of this Association at Dartmouth, in the year 1869, I have brought before the notice of members, at the annual gatherings, under various guises, the technical training of the young people of the working order in the minor arts and crafts, and it may be consoling to members to learn that the necessity that has hitherto impelled me to this course, no longer exists. A most excellent scheme of work has been formulated by the Technical Education Committee of the Devonshire County Council that will, I doubt not, introduce art handicraft into the majority of Devonshire villages during the coming winter, and which will do much to restore village life to its relative position as regards town life, that it held down to the commencement of the present century, when undoubtedly the life of the peasant was one of greater self-dependence and relative efficiency than it is to-day. This by no means implies putting the clock back, but rather bringing the village abreast of the times, modifying the conditions of rural life in accordance with the development of science and art.

The requirements of to-day, are far in advance of those, even when I first entered on this crusade, and assisted in its prosecution in the years 1863-64 in the school and parish room of Tor in this town.

This movement on the part of the County Council must lead to quick results. It will lie altogether outside the functions of a public body to apply the increased powers of rural labour, and I should like to urge upon all-and amongst the members of this Society there must be many who are interested in the social life and well-being of the people-to

bear their part, as it may be given them to see it, in promoting the useful application of the increased powers that this technical education bestows.

I will just add one word in conclusion. I have constantly dwelt on this handicraft training that I have been so long advocating, and in our own Aller Vale villages promoting, leading to supplementary occupation in rural districts, thus fully employing in his own place the rural labourer, and preventing his drifting off to the great towns. But I also desire to point out the further advantage to the British colonies that result when they receive emigrants well found in the use of their hands and tools, and, one may well add, in the improved use of their heads and general intelligence, that this manual instruction conveys.

A cry, that I think is not a very thoughtful one, is sometimes raised, that the money voted by Parliament for this technical instruction would be more usefully applied in reduction of the rates. Indirectly, I contend, in its present application, it will have that effect, in so far as it increases in country parishes the number of well-to-do ratepayers, besides the various other ways in which an increased population must increase the local prosperity and value of property.

It is the greatest possible encouragement to find that this matter is being taken up in so thorough a manner by our County Council, and it will be a great delight to watch throughout the whole county the growth of village schools of arts and crafts.