_Robert Weston._--I copy the following from a letter of R. L. Kingston
to Dr. Ducarel in Nichols's _Literary History_, vol. iii. p. 629.:
"Robert Weston was Lord of Manor of Kilmington in Devon, and
divided his estate among four daughters, reserving to the eldest
son the royalties of his courts. In his will or deed of settlement
is this clause:--'That the Abbot of Newnhams, near Axminster, had
nothing to do in the highway any further than to his land of
Studhays, and that he should stand without the court gate of his
land of Studhays, and take his right ear in his left hand, and put
his right arm next to his body under his left across, and so cast
his reap-hook from him; and so far he shall come.'"