_The Rev. Mr. Gay_ (Vol. iii., p. 424.).--The name of Gay is not very
common in the West of England, and MR. TAGART may possibly obtain some
account of the Rev. Mr. Gay from the descendants of Gay of Goldworthy,
near Bideford, in the county of Devon, who sprang from Hampton Gay in
the county of Oxford, but became seised of the manor of Goldworthy,
about the year 1420, by marriage with the daughter and heir of Curtis of
Goldworthy, a branch of the ancient family of Curtis of Lostwithiel, in
the county of Cornwall.
The latest representative of this family of Gay, of whom I have met with
any notice, is Mr. Lawrence Gay, who, according to Lyson, was living in
the year 1822 at South Molton, in the county of Devon. Lyson also says
that "John Gay, the poet, was of this family."