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Book of McKee pg 385 "With sixty vessels the Milesian colony set sail under the leadership of the sons of Milesius for Innisfail, or Ireland, taking with them the widowed Scota. Only Heremon, Heber, and Amergin succeeded in effecting a landing with their followers. Almost at once they were engaged in battle by the Tuatha de Danaans, whom they succeeded in routing. Scota was killed in one of these first battles...Thereafter they divided the island between them...This joint sovereignty of the island by Heremon and Heber occurred in the year 3501 anno mundi, or 1693 BC.

Page 386 states: The two brothers Heremon and Heber Fionn reigned together for about a year, when Heber's wife caused them to quarrel over possession of a beautiful valley she coveted. She finally persuaded Heber to attack Hremon, and in the ensuing battle upon the plains of Geisiol, the frontier boundaries of Leinster and Munster, Heber was slain."

Lucius Scribonius Libo (d. 16 AD) was son of the above. He was a consul in 16. This nobleman had planned to revolt against the Roman Emperor Tiberius. The Emperor had tried him in a Senatorial Court. Lucius had pleaded to the Emperor for the support of Tiberius‘ son Drusus Julius Caesar but the emperor rejected this. Lucius and Tiberius took part in a sacrifice among the priests. During the ceremony, the Emperor had asked Lucius for assistance, when the ceremony was over, Tiberius stabbed him with a knife. This occurred after the trial. Lucius had married Cornelia Pompeia Magna a relative, who was the daughter of Pompeia Magna from her second marriage to consul Lucius Cornelius Cinna. Pompeia bore Lucius, a daughter and only child Scribonia. Scribonia married the consul Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi and had children.

Cornelia Pompeia Magna (born 47/35 BC, year of death unknown) was the daughter and youngest child to Pompeia Magna and suffect consul Lucius Cornelius Cinna. Cornelia’s maternal grandparents were triumvir Pompey and his third wife Mucia Tertia, while her paternal grandfather was an elder Lucius Cornelius Cinna. Her full-blooded brother was Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna Magnus; a half-sibling from her mother’s first marriage to senator Faustus Cornelius Sulla. Her mother died before 35 BC and was raised by her father.

Before 16, Cornelia married Lucius Scribonius Libo consul of 16 and like her came from a senatorial family. This nobleman was perhaps a distant relative to Cornelia. Libo maybe was a descendant of her mother’s first marriage; his paternal grandmother possibly was Cornelia’s elder half-sister. The Roman Emperor Tiberius, who charged Libo in planning a revolt against the emperor, stabbed Libo to death in 16.

Cornelia and Libo had a child, Scribonia, who married the consul Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi and had children.

John Hunt was born in the early part of the 16th century (approximately 1520). He is the son of Roberd and Alys Hunt. He married 1) Jone, then 2) Gillian. They lived on the Green in Cropredy, and John was a husbandman.


He and his first wife, Jone (and later his second wife, Gillian) lived on the Green, and farmed 3 1/2 yardlands. One yardland in Cropredy was about 32 to 34 acres divided into arable land, meadow, and greensward. Land in Cropredy was farmed in strips. The Hunt's house was built in Hornton stone, a local golden-colored stone. John in 1587 had a Hall, upper chamber, second chamber, and kitchen. The Hunt’s farm was prosperous: “Hunt’s farm was the third largest at that time and they could afford more than most.” The Town of Cropredy; Pamela Keegan John died and was buried in Cropredy in 1587, leaving a will and inventory of his property. . “When John died in 1587, only half of the house was given in the inventory for Justinian and his wife Elizabeth, who was not a local girl, lived in the rest. After 1586 John’s second wife Gillian would exchange accommodations with her step-son, but she did not stay for long, apparently preferring to live elsewhere.” The Town of Cropredy; Pamela Keegan


John was buried 17 September 1587 in Cropredy, leaving a will and inventory. The inventory of John Hunt in 1587 shows considerable property:


John Hunt of Cropredy, Husbandman

Inventory taken 17 October 1587 by William Rose, William Almond, Thomas French, Robert Robyns and Richard Howse



In the Hall

a longe table and a ronde table

two frames tow chheres and two formes
and one stoole
two cubberdes and on ould table



In the Upper Chamber

A table two tressles two formes

and a beddestedd and a little forme



The Second Chamber

A gardener (corn stove) and two bedestedd

three pooltes a possenett a dobnett one paune Fyve kettles
a chavinge Dishe 8 litle skellettes Fyve candelstickes and a skymmer
two cobberdes and wee spytles two payre pf pot handles tow payres
of poott huckes and a payre of Bellowes a payre of tonges
A Frynge Pane and a cleyver and a Brand Iron
Seaven platters Fyve Pewter dishes foure saucsers six potingers
two saltes a dripping panne a dauson of sponns two dowsen and
halfe of Trenchers a dowsen dishes
two Barketts two tunnes a Bruyinge fatte and worte
Kyver and the steede and one oulde kyver, a boulting whytche and a
maillding stoocke
the Bryne (brewing) leade and a maullte myll



In the kytchinge

three stoulles and a hempe stooke and tow shelfes a lanterne

a saultynge trouffe and an other oulde trouff foure lammes (tubs)
a vergysse barrell achverne a yealinge Barrell and ould lamme a
chese presse a pouderying tubbe three chese Boardes two little
Kymells a sticke an oulde theyl two Mylke pans Foure chese
ffates three steynes Foure payles
two ould Fattes (vats)
two Boardes a truclle bede two oulde dry Barrels a Joyned
Bede a forme a lynen wheale a wollen wheale and seven yards
of hyer clothes and a Bed sted
Foure coffers and sixe guyssyons
two coverlettes three Blanketes two mattereshes and one
Bouldster three wyndyn shettes
Twelve payre of shettes Four bourdclothes thyrtyne table
nappkynes and Five tovells


Seaven horses and coultes

twelve beestes younge and oulde
Foure wenynge calves
Fyve scoure and sixtyne shepp yong and oulde
Fyve hogges and three stores
three Bottells

Fyve Sythes Fyve Forkes a donge forck a spade
an axe an hatchet
Seaven sackes three syffes two skettles and a malt silfe
a garner a musterd myle and two wedaches
three Iron Bordes cartes
Four harrowes two plowes furnyshed
Plowe geeres and carte geers
A tenant sawe
the tymber and the Bordes that is in the grasse Yarde
For Fyer woode about the yarde
For two hoffevells in the cowe pene with furces

halme and wood
an hovel in the Backyarde

Bordes sawde and a carte Bodye a payre of

Muckcart drawges plowe timber and carte timber a

scaffeld over the stalle and a hovell in the courte
Three ladderes and a ladder polle seven shipprackes a

score of new hurdells
the croppe of three yardlandes

the wole of five score shepe

a scaffold over the coultes howse and the

scaffold over the bullock house

Nyne hens and caces

For all his apperel Sum £114 - 11 - 10.

The first Hunt to appear in the Cropredy records was Roberd, a weaver. Roberd Hunt was born in the end of the 15th century (approximately 1495). He married Alys before 1520.


They lived on the Green by the Cross in Cropredy by 1552. He is found in the land records taking over William Walker’s yardland. Roberd left a will proven in June of 1565, naming his wife Alys as executor, and listing children John, Annes, Thomas, Richard, Margerie, Edward, and Anthony.