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 26 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. aged 63 ..." A long eulogistic epitaph closes with the words : — " This humble memorial is a tribute of affection and respect from his bereaved widow, who died Sep. 22, 185 [? I or 4], aged 89, and was buried at Hammersmith." In the lower part of the same monument is a medallion on which are painted — Ermine, three batiU-axes sable (the arms of Wykes of North Wyke). Burke, among several diflferent Hunt armorial bearings, gives: — "Hunt, per cross, or and sable, a cross lozengy counter- cJuxnged." In Bovey Tracy Church there is a leger-stone near the pulpit cut with a cross of lozenges which might perhaps suggest this Hunt coat, but it is, in fact, a tomb of a Stawell, to which family other heraldic memorials appear on some carved and tinctured medallions* that once formed part of an elaborate Stawell monument which used to stand at the east end of the south aisle. t The George Hunts of Bovey may perhaps have been descendants of the George Hunt of Exeter, to whom I have referred ante. Burke gives: — Hunt of Exeter and Chudleigh, co. Devon, traced in the Visitation of 1620 to the year 1500, Azure, on a bend between two water bougets or, three leopards' faces gules; crest, on a mount vert, against a halbert erect in pale gu. headed at., a Talbot sejant or, collared and tied to the halbert of the second. I desire to express my sincere thanks to the Rev. H. Goldney-Baker, who in 1908, while Curate-in-charge of Bovey Tracy, sent me full particulars of the Hunt monu- ment and other memorials in the church ; to H. E. Bentinck, Esq., of Indiho, Bovey Tracy (who informs me that his father bought the manor from the Earls of Devon about 1856), for permission to examine the manorial records in the care of the Vicar; and finally to the Vicar himself, the Rev. H. •These medallions, after the "restoration" of the church, were thrown into the churchyard, whence they were rescued and set up in their present position (over a tablet with a Stawell epitaph), on the south wall, by Mr, Bentinck, father of the present owner of Indiho in this parish. t As seen and described in 1847 by Davidson in his Church Notes, South 0/ Devon (pp. 185, 193) in the Brooking-Rowe Collection in Exeter City Library.