From the PREFATORY NOTE. The following papers are, in the main, a reprint of Mr Hawker's contributions to 'Notes and Queries, ' 'Household Words, ' 'All the Year Round, ' &c., collected and published by the author in 1870. To some readers acquainted with Morwenstow and its church (vide p. 7), it may be of interest to know that a few years since a mural painting was discovered on the chancel wall representing St Bernard deriving nourishment from the breast of the Blessed Virgin* We are indebted to Miss Thorn, photographic artist, Bude, for kindly permitting us to copy her photograph depicting Morwenstow Church and Vicarage, which forms the frontispiece to this volume. J. G. GODWIN. * Vide Mrs. Jameson's 'Legends of the Monastic Orders, ' third edition, 1863, p. 145.