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aa Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. of Faryngdon [co. not named] that had been given for the maintenance of obits for the souls of the ancestors of one Thomas Hunt. (Rot. Pat. 9 Eliz., Pt. 5. m. 3.) 1577. Christian Matthews, of Clyst St. George, Devon, in her will makes bequests to James Hole, her brother- in-law, and to Elizabeth Hunt of Clyst St. George. (Ch. Worthy's Devon Wills.) 1588. John Hunt, Cleric, compounded for the first fruits (Primitiis) of the rectory of Mawnan in Cornwall. (Clerical Subsidies, Exon, ^Vt-) 1662. List of ministers silenced by the Act of Uniformity: — Edward Hunt, Rector of Dunchideock, after depriva- tion, lived near Exeter, later removed to South Molton, where he died as minister of a dissenting congregation. 1720, Apr. 7. The complainant in a Chancery-suit, Brian Hunt, of the parish of St. Mary le Savoy, London, states that his grandfather, Edward Hunt, of South Molton, CO. Devon, clarke, having a very large personal estate, including bonds, plate, and par- ticularly large quantities of valuable books and MSS., made his will 4 Dec, 1694, ^^^ therein bequeathed certain sums to the complainant, and the residue to his son William Hunt, then a merchant living in Barbadoes, who died there 22 Nov. 1714. {Ch. Pro., 2534, Hunt V. Hunt.) George Hunt of Bovey and of South Tawton. — Among the Bishops' Transcripts of missing Parish Registers in the Diocesan Registry at Exeter is a part of one for North Bovey of the year 1634, '" which the sig- nature appears of George Hunt, Church Warden. In all probability this was a grandfather of the "George Hunt of North Bovey, gent.," to whom in September, 1713, John Weekes, Esq., sold the " capital messuage, barton, etc., of Northweeke in South Tawton, Devon, together with the contiguous tenements of Tarr Mill, Cater's Mill, Coates, Ellis' Tenement and Blacklands [formerly known as Raab Gard's* Tenem'] all in S. T. parish, and Fewing's Tenem' in •See Cor. Rcgc Roll, No. 2019, m. 631, citing Indenture of 1676,