PAUNSTON, (Devon) is a barton in the p. of South-Sidenham, though very distant from its Ch. It anciently bel. to the Paunstons, but by marriage of a daughter went to the Carwithams. For the tithe of this large demesne, the Ld. is to pay 14 s. a year for ever to the parson, and with his wife, attended by a man and a maid-servant, is to hunt one week in the year, with 5 couple of hounds and a white greyhound, at the parson's house, upon his charge.