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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 25 presented now and at former Courts, and not yet admitted : '• Mr. Robert Clapp for Park and Five Weeches," who has not had proper notice from the Reeves to attend at this Court. In deeds dated 1781 and later George Hunt Clapp is described as " of the Middle Temple, London, Esq." One of 1785 yields the information that by that date Elizabeth and Mary (the co-heiresses of G. H.) had both — and in that order — died, widows ; and that North Week and its accompanying tenements had been " lately " parted and divided between George Luxton and George Hunt Clapp, who now combine with Robert Lydston Newcombe, of St. David's parish, Exeter, in leasing both moieties for a year to William Branscombe, of Exeter, gentleman, "to the intent that he may be enabled to take a grant & release for certain uses." By another deed, dated 27 Sept., 1786, the sd. G. H. C. sells his moiety (The Western, " Lot H.") to " Andrew Arnold, of North Tawton, gentleman," who in 1781, under the description " yeoman," had become his tenant of that moiety, in succession to one Thomas Lethbridge, the former tenant of both moieties. George Hunt Clapp (styled " Councillor Clapp," and " Barrister at Law " in some of the later documents) by his will, dated 11 June, i8ig, left Tarr Mill to his niece Frances Clapp, the daughter of his brother Francis, who is referred to in an Indenture of 1824 as " the late Rev. Francis Hunt Clapp," and was Vicar of Ottery St. Mary ; but by a codicil added 21 Sept., 1820, he revoked the above bequest and disposed of Tarr Mill to his wife in trust — first for the repayment to Dr. Malachi Blake, m.d., of Taunton, Somerset, of the mortgage money due on it, and after that, on trust, for the use of his " dearest niece Catherine Little " [of Bovey Tracy.] The brothers Lysons tell us that " Park is now (? 1822) the property of Charles Clapp, Esq., Barrister of Law." In the parish church of Bovey Tracy, on the south wall immediately above the chancel screen, is a tablet — " Sacred to the memory of George Hunt Clapp, Esq., of Park, in this parish. Barrister, a Member of the Honble. Middle Temple Society, who departed this life the 23d of Jany., 1824,