Devon & Cornwall notes & queries . 00 This proves the incorrectness of the statement sometimesmade that the custom of placing the organ on the rood-screen,began only at the Restoration. John Loosemoore was notonly an organist and organ-builder, but he was also a skilfulmaker of virginals. In the Victoria and Albert Museum is aspecimen of his artistic work in an oak case, painted in oils onthe inside and signed, John Loosemore fecit 1655. R. Pearse Chope. The following entry is from the Registers of Exeter Cathe-dral published by the Devon and Cornwall Record Society:— Burials. 1681. Mr. John L
Devon & Cornwall notes & queries . 00 This proves the incorrectness of the statement sometimesmade that the custom of placing the organ on the rood-screen,began only at the Restoration. John Loosemoore was notonly an organist and organ-builder, but he was also a skilfulmaker of virginals. In the Victoria and Albert Museum is aspecimen of his artistic work in an oak case, painted in oils onthe inside and signed, John Loosemore fecit 1655. R. Pearse Chope. The following entry is from the Registers of Exeter Cathe-dral published by the Devon and Cornwall Record Society:— Burials. 1681. Mr. John Lusimore, who made the Great organ inSt. Petters Church. 20 Ap. 72. Edward Nosworthy or Northwherthy (V., p. 43,par. 28 ; p. 45, par. 31 ; p. 89, par. 63.):—The following istaken from Fosters A lumni Oxoniensis :— Nosworthye, Edward, son John of Morton, Devon,pleb. Exeter Coll. Matric. 22 Oct. 1630, aged 20 ; ,26 Oct. 1630. Officiated the cure of Axmouth, Devon,1645 ; Vicar of Branscombe, Devon, 1656. A. J. P. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 89 73. Rev. R. S. Hawker.—All those who are interested,both Cornish men and others, in the literary and physical laboursof the well-known Vicar of Morwenstow, will welcome theaccompanying facsimile of an autograph transcript of thecelebrated door-head quatrain which he had inscribed overthe entrance porch of his Vicarage. The reference to apound a day is to the annual value of the Vicarage rentcharge. T. N. Brushfield, 74. Knights of the Royal Oak .—Gentlemen of Devonand Cornwall chosen by Chas. II. to be invested; theproject was never carried out, however. (Burkes LandedGentry, ed. 1837, Vol. I., 688.) Gentlemen and the value of their estates, 1660. per ann. Francis Buller, Esq. ... ^3^00 [John] Ellyott, Esq., of Port Ellyott ... 2,500 Samuel Pendarvis, Esq. 1,500 Colonel Godolphin 1,000 [John] Penrose, Esq. 1,000 [Edward] Boscowen, Esq. 4,000 — Hallett, Esq. ... 800 Edmond Prideaux, Esq. 900 Char
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