. Devonshire characters and strange events. enough to berecorded as bearing arms at the Heralds Visitationof 1620. In 1661 Richard Dunning, in a deed,mentions his mother, Wilmot, his sister Mary, andhis brother, John Dunning. His wife was Mary, andhe had besides his sister Mary another, Margaret,who married Edward Gould, gent., of Staverton; the marriage settlement was dated7 February, 14 Charles H (1662). She died shortlyafter her marriage, and was buried at Staverton26 April, 1662, where was erected a brass to hermemory bearing the inscription :— Here lies the gentle Margare
. Devonshire characters and strange events. enough to berecorded as bearing arms at the Heralds Visitationof 1620. In 1661 Richard Dunning, in a deed,mentions his mother, Wilmot, his sister Mary, andhis brother, John Dunning. His wife was Mary, andhe had besides his sister Mary another, Margaret,who married Edward Gould, gent., of Staverton; the marriage settlement was dated7 February, 14 Charles H (1662). She died shortlyafter her marriage, and was buried at Staverton26 April, 1662, where was erected a brass to hermemory bearing the inscription :— Here lies the gentle MargaretA pearl in Gold right meetly set. Her brother Richard held Guatham, and wrote him-self Gentleman. He was the author of a tractpublished in the year 1686, in which he described thecondition of the poor of the county. Macaulay says:— That he understood his subject well it is impossibleto doubt; for a few months later his work was re-printed, and was, by the magistrates assembled inquarter sessions at Exeter, strongly recommended to 618. Sir yoshua Reynolds piiixt. F. Barto!ozzi sculpt. LORD ASHBURTON JOHN DUNNING 619 the attention of all parochial officers. According tohim the wages of the Devonshire peasant were, withoutfood, about five shillings a week. Richard died John Dunning, brother of the pamphleteer, livedwith Mary, his wife, at Guatham. After eleven yearsof married life he died in 1706, leaving four sons andthree daughters. The second of their sons who attainedmanhood was born in 1701, and bore his fathers nameof John. He was bred to the law, and having marriedAgnes, daughter of Henry Jutsham, of Old-a-Port, inModbury, settled down as an attorney at Ashburton,probably drawn there by the representations of hisuncle Edward Gould. He settled into a house atGulwell, in the parish of Staverton, a stones-throwfrom the boundary of Ashburton. This attorney Dunning had a son John born on18 October, 1731. Attorney Dunning now moved intoAshburton into a house in West Str
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