of "pallaces" in a schedule attached to a deed of the Corporation of
Totnes, bearing date September 18th, 1719, a copy of which is now
before me, and from it the following extracts are taken:--

"One linney and two _pallaces_ or yards."

"All those houses, rooms, cellars, and _pallaces_."

"All that great cellar lately rebuilt, and _the plott of ground
or pallace_ thereto belonging lately converted into a cellar."

"All that little cellar and _pallace_ lately rebuilt, and
the kay or landing place thereto belonging, and near adjoyning
unto and upon the river Dart."

"And the little _pallace_ or _landing-place_."

_Apropos_ of _landing-places_, it may interest some of
your readers to learn that the _very stone_ upon which Brutus,
the nephew of Æneas, landed at Totnes, still remains! It is inserted
in the foot-way nearly opposite the Mayoralty-house in the Fore
Street. From Totnes, the neighbouring shore was heretofore called
_Totonese_: and the _British History_ tells us, that _Brutus_,
the founder of the British nation, arrived here; and _Havillanus_
[John de _Alvilla_ or _Hauteville_, according to Mr. Wright] as
a poet, following the same authority, writes thus:--

"Inde dato cursu, _Brutus_ comitatus Achate
Gallorum spoliis cumulatis navibus aequor
Exarat, et superis auraque faventibus usus,