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 Devon Notes and Queries, 173 marriage of Rev. Tho. Steed, of Barnstaple, and Zenobia Fincher, at Veryan, Cornwall, the baptism and marriage of Ann, their daughter, at Barnstaple, rectifying a mistake in the Register as to her burial. A deponent said he went to Barn- staple, extracted the entries, and asked Mr. Marshall, the clergyman, if there was any entry of the burial of Mrs. Ann I vie. Mr. Marshall turned to the burials for 1783 and found entry of Mrs. Ann Ivie, wife of John Ivie, Esq., upon which Mr. Marshall observed that there was a mistake, for he knew Mr. Ivie well to be Jonathan, and so in the presence of deponent he interlined the words ''mistaken for Jonathan." The same deponent, Francis Crosse, gent., identified a tripartite agreement dated 27th June, 1753, between Jonathan Ivie, of Duryard, psh. St. David's, Exeter, Thomas Steed, of Barn- staple, clerk, and Ann, his daughter, and John Boyce, of Barnstaple, clerk, and Edward Nichols, of Linton, clerk, as articles of agreement made previous to the marriage, also a marriage settlement pursuant thereto, dated 2nd July, 1753, and said he was employed as clerk by Mr. Jos. Burrows, of Exeter, complainant's attorney, and that the complainant's manor of Beaford, Devon, was part of the settlement estate. Articles of agreement dated 15th Dec, 1705, between John Trehawke, of Liskeard, co. Cornwall, gent. ; John Trehawke, the son and only child, Francis Steed, of Exeter, widow, and Susanna, her daughter concerning a marriage agreed to be had between John Trehawke, the younger, and the said Susanna Steed were also exhibited. The complainant, John Ivey, lost his case, as his kinship to the testator, John Trehawke, was on the female side, while Robert Kekewich in his successful demurrer (sworn to 21st July, 1795, at the house of Matthew Ham, at the sign of the Seven Stars, Totnes), claimed that WiDiam Kekewich was heir-at-law on the father's side. John Trehawke appears to have been doubly descended from the Kekewiches (through his paternal grandmother Knapman, and also through his grandmother Frances Steed). John Campion, of Exeter, aged 55, clerk to the Town Clerk of Exeter, testified as to copies of entries from the Freeman's Roll as to the admission of Ezekiel Steed, Benj. Steed, and Thos. Steed to the freedom of the city of Exeter. That it was the custom to admit the eldest son as of right on the death of his father, and that the Mayor and commonalty were always