his contemporary Devonian John Fulford (1736–1780) of Great Fulford, known as "Squire John", also one of the last in England to employ a full-time fool "dressed in the motley". His mural monument survives in Tetcott Church. His heir was his cousin Sir William Molesworth, 6th Baronet (1758–1798) of Pencarrow in Cornwall. Molesworth of Tetcott Following the Arscotts, Tetcott was inherited by their distant cousins the family of Molesworth, later Molesworth-St Aubyn, of Pencarrow, Cornwall, who continue there until the present day. The 7th and 15th Molesworth-St Aubyn baronets had as a first-name "Arscott". In 1831, whilst retaining the original manor house used some time later as a farmhouse, they demolished the adjacent Queen Anne mansion, an act much resented by the local population, and built in its place a "Gothic cottage" to serve as a hunting lodge. This was burned down, apparently by disgruntled locals five years later. In 1925, as a secondary residence to Pencarrow, the family moved into the original manor house, formerly let as a farmhouse, which survives today. It is a long two-storey building built of rubble stone. Above the round arch of the central two-storey porch was reset, in the 20th century, the 1603 datestone taken from Tetcott Mill. Tetcott hunt The last of the Arscotts had been a keen hunter, and kennelled his pack of hounds at Tetcott. Later the sporting rights were acquired by Vincent Calmady who in about 1872 formed a pack of otter-hounds. In 1879 he recommenced fox-hunting on the Tetcott country, and the current South Tetcott Hunt and Tetcott Hunt continue today. HMS Tetcott a Type II British Hunt class destroyer was built for the Royal Navy during World War II, named after the hunt. Notes References Sources Hoskins, W.G., A New Survey of England: Devon, London, 1959 (first published 1954) Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004 Further reading External links Tetcott Barton and Manor Cottage – Heritage Explorer Villages in Devon Former manors in Devon Torridge District