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 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 23 the parish of Sampford Courtenay" [which is perhaps identifiable with the farm known as Pecketsford, another name for which as early at least as 1678 was East Rowdens"^-] , in consideration of an annuity of double the yearly value of the estate to be paid to the sd. J. W." This John Weekes (who was of the intrusive Hatherleigh line that had supplanted the rightful and ancient line of Wykes of Northwyke since 1661) left no issue, but was survived by three sisters — Martha, who married Robert Hole (who through her acquired Cocktree in South Tawton) ; Mary, who married Richard Risdon, of Spreyton ; and Elizabeth, who married Tapper Langdon, of North Bovey, in Aug., 1705, and was re-married (presumably before 1713) to the aforesaid George Hunt. A " case for counsel " t presented by the parishioners of Sampford Courtnay, written after his death, referring to him as " George Hunt, Esq., a Justice of the Peace, and a very litigious man," complains of his having diverted the course of the River Taw when he was Surveyor of the Highways, using statute labour for the purpose. Among shards dug up at Northwyke, some years ago, was the bottom of a white china cup, lettered in blue, "... Hunt. . . L. C," and a piece of a thick black glass bottle with the words stamped on the glass medallion or " seal," " Geo. Hunt, 1730." Several local traditional stories connect George Hunt and his daughters with Northwyke as their residence. In 1726, Sept. 29, Christopher Gale, of Bovey Tracy Parke, Esq., sold to George Hunt, of North Weeke, gent., all that capital messuage, barton, etc., called Parke alias Bovey Tracy Park, and all those enclosed lands called " The Park," being parcel of the possessions and lands hitherto called Richmond's Lands,| late in the possession of 9 Jas. I., Mich°>s (at P. R. O., London.) fMS. penes Sir Roper Lethbridge. J Tlie brothers Lysons state that Margaret, Countess of Richmond, had a grant of the manor of Bovey Tracy in 1487, and that more latterly it belonged to John Langdon, Esq., who resided at Parke in this parish. Sir John Stowell, Kt., is described as "of Parke in Bovey Tracy" in Exchequer Depositions of 1666. (See my paper on Freemans of Ash- burton, Biickfastleigh, Bovey Tracy and Heathfield, etc., in Trans. Dcv. Assn., 1913.)
 * See Church Rate in Parish Ch. S, C, 1678, and cf. Fines, Devon,