Rev. George Hunt, M.A.

A brother or brother in law of wife of N.N. Stevens

He was “loving uncle” to Richard Stevens

Biography

From http://familytree.chasegray.co.uk/3251.htm

George was educated at the Merchant Taylor's School and Magdalene College Oxford, where he was a Fellow between 1575 and 1583. He was appointed Rector of Collingborne Ducis in Wiltshire in 1581, and held that post for the next 51 years.
He is known to have had three children. His son John predeceased him, and his daughter Martha (qv) married William Whately (qv) at Banbury. His other daughter Bridget [SIC: Elizabeth] married Rev Henry Scudder, who held Presbyterian views, was appointed Rector of Collingbourne Ducis after the death of his father-in-law in 1632, and was a member of the Assembly of Divines. Henry was buried at Collingbourne Ducis, but his tomb was removed after the Restoration.

Citations

• PCC: George Hunt PROB11/162 dated 1-11-1632
• Joseph Foster (1891) Alumni Oxoniensis 1500-1714. Oxford
• Dictionary of National Biography, OUP 1901 (Henry Scudder)

Notes

From https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Scudder,_Henry_(DNB00)_

He [Henry Scudder] married Elizabeth, daughter of George Hunt, for fifty years rector of Collingbourne-Ducis. She died when little over twenty. Her sister married William Whately [q. v.], Scudder's fellow-student at Christ's College, and subsequently vicar of Banbury, whose life Scudder wrote in 1639-40. A monument to Scudder's wife in the chancel wall of Leamington parish church was destroyed by fire in 1699, but the inscription is correctly preserved in Dingley's 'History in Marble' (Camden Soc.) A daughter married John Grayle [q. v.] in 1645.

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From Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary ..., Volume 32 Page 433 GoogleBooks

“JOHANNES HUNT, EREPTUS WIWI-COMBURIO.”

The horrors of the Marian Persecution were remembered for many generations, and more particularly, as was natural, in the families of its victims. There still linger the memories of several who narrowly escaped, by the death of Queen Mary, the extremities of suffering which had visited many of their friends, and who were regarded during their subsequent lives, with honour and respect, as “brands plucked from the burning.” One of these was John Hunt, father of George Hunt, who was afterwards for fifty years Rector of Collingbourne Ducis, in Wiltshire; and the merciful providence of his escape was commemorated in the next o in the epitaph of a great-granddaughter, which was placed “upon a blue marble tablet fixed on the chancel wall,” at Leominster, in Herefordshire (which I am permitted to transcribe from Thomas Dineley's History in Marble, a valuable MS. in the possession of Sir Thomas Edward Winnington, Bart.):– “In memoriam ELIZABETHAE uxor. opt. char. Henrici Scudder, Rectoris Ecclesiae de Collingburn Ducis in agro Sarum. e Brigidaux. filia Georgii Hunt ejusdem Ecclesiae ad annos quinquaginta Rectoris, filii Johannis Hunt vivicomburio, cui pro fide Evangelica adjudicatus erat, morte Mariae Reg. erepti, Johannes Tombes, hujus Ecclesiae Vicar. moerens posuit. “Filia Praeconis Verbi, Praconis et uror, Praco. arus et proavus, qui prope martyr erat: Haeres ejusdem i et pietatis, Eliza Hic posuit carnem, spiritus astra tenet. Filia que primum, dein conjur optima, summis Jam fruitur Christo conjuge, patre, Deo. {: DOM". MDCXxxIII. OBIIT-K DECEMB. xv. ARTAT. XX. MENs. IV.”

Above the tablet, a death's head; below it, an hour-glass between a pair of wings. This monument was destroyed when the church was accidentally burned in the year 1699, but the inscription has been printed ę. from MS. Blount,) in the two Histories of Leominster: by Price, 1795, p. 106; and by Townsend, 1862, p. 234; but by both very incorrectly. The name of Scudder is by both authors converted into Studder. Price has “vive combusto’’ for the compound substantive vivi-comburio. Mr. Townsend has printed “et Briga,” for e Brigsidja; and “qui” for cui; and “ereptus” for erepti. In the second line of the verses, all the copies have “cui” where qui seems requisite. The committal of one Hunt and Richard White to gaol at Salisbury is mentioned in the Autobiography of Thomas Hancock (p. 74), printed in Narratives of the Days of the Reformation; and Foxe has given, at considerable length, under the year 1558, “The story and condemnation of John Hunt and Richard White, ready to be burnt, but by the death of Q. Mary escaped the fire;” addin in a side note, that Richard White was Vicar o Marlborough at the time when Foxe wrote. In further illustration of the parties, I may be allowed to transcribe the following passages from a paper by the late Rev. John Vicar of Great Bedwyn, in the Collectanea Topographica et Genealogia, vol. vii. p. 74: —

“George Hunt was instituted Rector of Collingbourne Ducis in 1581, on the presentation of Richard Kingsmill, Esq.; and again (or another person of the same name) in 1614, on the presentation of the King for that turn.

“Henry Scudder was instituted in 1633, also on the presentation of the King. Scudder was a Presbyterian, and a great admirer of William Whately, Vicar of Banbury, whose Life he wrote. Whately married a daughter of George Hunt, and died 1639.”

References

• Collectanea Topographica Et Genealogica, Volume 7 edited by Frederic Madden, Bulkeley Bandinel. Page 74. GoogleBooks