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i68 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. Exeter, 31 July, 1733 ; buried St. John's, 19 March, 1752. They had issue : — Symon Gandy, who married Sarah Score at Holy Trinity, Exeter, 14 Jan., 1738, and had issue a son, John Gandy, of Sidney Sussex Coll., Cambridge; B.A. 1762; M.A. 1768; Vicar of St. Andrew's, Plymouth, 1769; Pre- bendary of Exeter. Died 15 Aug., 1824, aged 84. M.I. St. Andrew's. Jael Gandy, bapt. St, Paul's, Exeter, 22 Feb., 1721. Henry Gandy, bapt. St. Paul's, 28 May, 1724. Margaret Gandy, died 6 Oct., 1809, aged 81, " unmarried," buried Aylesbeare, M.I. Mary Gandy, married at Ottery St. Mary 9 March, 1757; died 13 April, 1812, aged 84; buried at Aylesbeare, M.I. She married Henry Marker, son of Richard Marker, Master of Ottery St. Mary Grammar School, and Vicar of Bradford, Somerset. He was born 11 July, bapt. at Ottery St. Mary, 9 Aug., 1733 ; matriculated from Exeter Coll., Oxford, 3 April, 1750; B.A. 1753; Rector of Ashton and of Aylesbeare; died 2 Nov., 181 1, aged 78; buried Aylesbeare, M.I. Extracts from Wills. — Jesus. In the name of God. Amen. I Robt. Mercer being of pfct mynd and good remembrance to make this my last wyll and testament the xviii"" of Januarye in the xxxii"' yere of ye raigne of our Soveraygne Ladye Queue Elizabethe [1589-90] as foUoweth, Imprimis I gyve to yee poorest inhabitantes of St. Mary Ottry to be distributed at their bowses on ye day of my buriall Itm I give to my soone Nicholas Mercer one goblett of sylver one stone cupp with a rym and handel of sylver and syx sylver spoones: sonne Rychard Mercer various articles of sylver (numerated) : daughters Rawlyn, Jone, Katheryne and Prudence Mercer to each of them ffortie pounds of lawffull English money to be paide unto them at the tyme of their marriadges : Thomas Mercer sonne bed- stead bedding and blankets etc. To sonne Thomas after the decease of his mother (or when shee shall marry after my decease) if he live and accomplish the adge of xxii yeres and doo consent to my will as hereafter sett downe the lease of my howse and land wherin I nowe dwell with xii ffiirthings