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Oath taken by every male over the age of 18 The returns for the Axminster, Ottery St Mary and East Budleigh Hundreds have not survived, it would be in these Hundreds of East Devon that we would expect to find most of the male Drakes descended from John Drake of Otterton. Ros Hickman Oct. 2002 - OPC Otterton