Transcript

of

Joseph Quash

Devon & Cornwall Notes and Queries vol. VII, (1912-1913), Exeter: James G. Commin. 1913, p. 77.

by

H. Wilson Holman

Prepared by Michael Steer

The Note’s author seeks information on an alleged "the most important man in the county", armigerous former Receiver-General of Devon. The Receiver-General is an officer responsible in this instance for accepting payments on behalf of the county’s government, and for making payments to that body on behalf of other parties. Persons holding that office have been described as "the most important man in the county". The article, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

Note 50. JOSEPH QUASH. - Can any of your readers give me any information about Mr. Joseph Quash, who is alleged to have been Receiver-General for County Devon, and appears - from a large amount of correspondence I have of his - to have been generally mixed up in financial matters in the City of Exeter between the years 1710 and 1712.

I believe a corruption of this name is Quosh or Coish.

Amongst his clients appear nearly all well-known Devon landowners of this period. Any information with regard to him or his family would be much appreciated.

His arms as represented on a seal attached to his letters are tricked as follows: - "Arg., on a fesse sable, thereon three escallops, or, in chief a lion passant of the second."

                      H. Wilson Holman.