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 Devon Notes and Queries. yj death, in 1814, and complaints have been made that he did not distribote the whole of the money which came to his hands. He died insolvent, agnA we have been unable to procure any accounts of his distribution from his executrix/* The present Board of Charity Commissioners report in 1 869 : "The rent charge of jgio 13s. is stated to have l>een withheld for the past 30 years." At the present moment unless something is speedily done the tomb will go the way of its trust fund. It stands propped up by wooden posts, and the parishioners avoid its vicinity in rough weather. The chickens live in the old hearthplace at the Courty and the nine pounds, '^for ever to be paied quarterly at the foure most usuall feastes of the yeare/' was years ago paid for the last time. Sic transit gloria mundi. Arthur Fishkr. 27. Cunningham Family. — Any reliable information respecting the Cunningham family, who settled at Okehampton prior to 1720, will be of much use. F. M. 28. PuDDicoMBE, Vicar of Branscombe. — Dec. 7th, 1902. Can anyone give me some account of a Vicar of Branscombe, called Puddicombe ? lie held the living at the end of the i8th and the beginning of the 19th Century. From the stories told of him still at Branscombe, be must have been a man of considerable power. Public penance was done in the church in his day, and he is said to have often gone out and brought people to church whom he noticed absent. In a letter written in 1801, by John Stuckey, of Weston, to his cousin, Thomas Langdon, my great grand- father, he is then spoken of, '* Our Methodist raving, ranting preacher, Puddicombe, is become the most intolerable scoundrel that ever a parish was cursed with." But I doubt my kinsman's accuracy. F. £. W. Langdon. 29. WiNSLAND Family. — (Vol. II, p. 25, par. 22). Accord- ing to Brindley's guide, a Mrs.Winsland lived at 2, St. Michael's Terrace, Stoke, Devonport, in 1829. St. Michael's Terrace had been erected some years previously, and is probably the place referred to, and the statement that Mr. Winsland died there in 1815 would be correct. Jno. Watts. 30. COURTENAV AND OTHER MONUMENTS IN ShEVIOCK Church. — (Vol. I, p. 246, par. 194). I gave an abstract here of an account of the monuments in Sheviock Church, made by