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GENEALOGY 
OF THE 
FAMILY OF COLE

 

It hath been asserted that this family derives its origin from Coel, the founder of Colchester, one of the Kings of Britain . Yet without claiming as its patriarch either this renowned descendant of Caractacus, or the Justice Cole, who lived in the reign of King Alfred, or the valiant General Cola, who, in command of the united forces of Devon, Somerset, and Dorset, defeated at  Pinhoe,* in 1001, Sweyne, the savage Chieftain of the Danes, its high antiquity and rank amongst the magnates of the land in Saxon times are attested by Domesday Book, and by " This deed of King William's, the Conqueror, [which] was written in the Saxon Tongue, 5° W. C. 1070, and was put into English 1587, 15° Maij, A• 27 Reg. Elizabeths, and remains [1C30] in the Bishop of Winchester's custody."
 
" William, King, greetes Walkesein, Bishop, and Hugon de Port, and Edward Knighte, Steward, and Algesime and Symon and Allfus, Porveiour, and Cole and Arderne and all the Barons in Hampshire and Wiltshire friendly-and Know ye that I give unto St. Peter and Walcholyne Bishop † with all the convent to be as free as
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 * Oliver's Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Devon and Cornwall, Vol. III., p. 123.
 † There appears to be an omission here.
 
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Bishop Alsyme was in the days of King Edward, and to hold and enjoy all the privileges greate and small and I give commaundment that noe man for me or any other withstand or deny them the same, or disquiet that which I doe graunt in any wise unto St. Peter or Walcholyne Bishop or any of his successors."
 
"This is in the Inspeximus of the Charters of confirmacions made to Richard Fox and Peter Courtney, Bishops of "Winchester, as they are inrolled in the Chauncery, 30 jan. 2° H, 8, and 15 Nov. 4° H. 8."
 
The precise period of the settlement of this baron on the borders of the counties of Devon and Cornwall is not ascertained, but it was, doubtless, soon after the above date, as he accompanied the bold Martin de Tour's (or Turribus) from hence, on his marauding expedition into Cemaes, South Wales, and was ancestor of-the families of Cole, Young, and Mathias.*
 
William Cole and Ysabella† his wife are named in Assize Roll of the County of Cornwall, in the third year of King John (anno domini 1201). In the fourteenth year of King John (1212) Roger Cole‡ granted to Edith, late wife of Ralph Burdeville, a capital  messuage and lands in Hoke ------, in the county of Devon, to be held of him for the term of her life, with remainder to himself and his heirs; and in 1219 mention is made of Roger Cole in a Fine roll relating to a third part of one knight's fee in Hardwinesleigh,§ in the same county.
 
" Richard Cole, of the County of Devon," says Segar, " lived in the tyme of Henry III., as appears by the Charter (to the Monastery of Bromere) of Amice Redvers, Countess of Devon." But it is not known what relationship he, or the above-named persons, bore to 
  [1] WILLIAM COLE, of Hutenesleigh (now called Hittisleigh) in the county of   Devon, living in the year 1243, whose son and heir
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* Fenton's Tour in Pembrokeshire, 4to, Lond., 1811, pp. 521, 538, &c.
† Abbreviatio Plaeitorum in Domo Oapitulari apud Westmonasterium, fo., Lond., 1811, p. 34. 
‡ Hunter's Fines, Vol. II., p. 70. 
§ Robert's Excerpta e Rot. Finium, Vol. I., p. 31.
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  [2]  ROGER COLE,* had " his dwelling at Coleton," in Chumleigh, and also held, in 27 Henry III., Hantesford, in that parish.† In 25th of Edward I. he was " returned from the county of Cornwall as holding lands or rents to the amount of £20 yearly value and upwards, either in Capite or otherwise, and as such summoned under the general writ to muster at London, on Sunday next after the Octaves of St. John the Baptist (7 July, 1297), to perform Military Service in person with horses and arms, &c., in parts beyond the Seas ;"‡ and also again summoned with his son William§ to muster at Berwick-on-Tweed, on the nativity of St. John the Baptist, to perform service against the Scots in 1301. He was father of
  [3] ROGER (of whom immediately), and of the above-named William, who probably perished in this expedition, as there is no further trace of him ; and perhaps his early death may account for the omission of his name in the family pedigree drawn up, in July 1630, by Sir William Segar, Garter, King-at-Arms.
  [3] ROGER was heir to his father Roger, and lived in the reign of Edward II.; his son and heir was
  [4] JOHN COLE, of the counties of Devon and Cornwall, who, in 1324, was described as "John Cole de Tamer, Man-at-Arms,∏ and
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  * Arms of Cole : Arg., a bull passant Sa., armed Or, with a bordure of the second bezantee. Segar remarks: "Richard, Earle of Cornwall, King of the Romanes, created Earle of the Isle of Wight, bare a bordure of Cornwall about his coate . . And it's conceived he gave the same bordure to this or one of the Auncestors of this family of Cole, as an augmentation for services in the Warres."
  Crest: A demi-dragon Vert, holding in the dexter paw an arrow Or, headed and feathered Arg.
  † De la Pole's Devon, pp. 433-434.
  ‡ The Parliamentary Writs, and Writs of Military Summons, collected and edited by Francis Palgrave, F.R.S., and Survey of Cornwall, by Rd. Carew.
§ He was perhaps the "William Cole of Tamar, knt., temp. Edward I.," of whom mention is made at p. 51, of Sir William de la Pole's History of Devon. License to " crenellate" Tamar was granted in 9th Edward III. No remains of this castle now exist, nor can its site with certainty be determined. It is believed, however, that a manor in Werrington, known in modern times as Poolapit-Tamar was the one indicated; and this assumption is confirmed by the fact of there being in the same parish farms called " Coleshill" and " Great and Little Tamerton."
  ∏ Palgrave's Parliamentary Writs, ut supra, and Harl. MS. 1192, f. 46 b.
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returned by the Sheriff of the county of Devon, pursuant to Writ . tested at Westminster, 9 May, as summoned by proclamation to attend the Great Council at Westminster, on Wednesday after Ascension Day, 30 May, 17 Edward II." In the 9th of Edward III (1335) he had free warren in Tamer, Lydeston, Hokesbere, and Hutenesleigh in the county of Devon, and in Rispernatt;* and it appears by a Fine of 15 Edward III. (1341) that he was possessed of the manors of Respnel in the county of Cornwall, Launceston, and Stokley, and of the manor of Uptamer, Nytheway, and Hutenesleigh, the third part of the manor of Winston, and divers other lands in the county of Devon. He left a son and heir, 
  [5] SIR JOHN COLE, knight, of Nythway, in the parish of Brixham, who, on 25th July, 4 Richard II. (1380) was "knighted (before the castle of Ardres) in Fraunce, by the Erl of Buckingham Thomas of Woodstock, Lord Deputy there for the King,"† and who married Anne, daughter and heiress to Sir Nicholas Bodrugan,‡ knt., by whom he had issue.
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  * Carta, 9 Edward III. (Para unica) printed on p. 169 of Calendar Rotulorum Chartarum, fo., London, 1803.
  † Landsdoione MS. 783, p. 116, and Froissart's Chronicles, Vol. V, chap. 34 of Johnes' ed. 8vo, 1806.
  ‡ The manor of Bodrigan (anciently written Bodrugan), in Gorrans, says Carew, gave a name and seat to a very ancient family. In the time of K. Henry III. John de Bodrugan occurs as witness to a deed, and in the same reign Henry de B. had a grant of a market and fair at Pendrum. Of the latter person notice is also made in a deed of the Trevelyan family of the 2 K. Ed. I.
  Another Henry de B. (probably his son), married Sibylla, sister and heir to Walter de Maundeville, of whose lands he had livery 17 Ed. L : in 2 Ed. II. he was found heir to his uncle, William de B. (who had died the year before), and had livery of the inheritance which thus devolved on him; but it appears that he died the same year, for the king's escheator had command to take possession of all his lands, among which was the manor of Bodrugan, as also those of his late uncle, and of the lands of the said Sibylla, which were in co. Beds. He had been a knight of the shire in 35 Ed. I.; and in 3 Ed. II. (1310) was summoned to parliament as a Baron; but as he died about this time, and never sat in that capacity, it is thought that his death and the writ may have been of a contemporaneous date, or that it was issued in ignorance of his decease. He was found to be seised of the manor of Iregerien, &c, in Cornwall, aud of all the tenements, rents, and services, of the same.
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  [6] WILLIAM COLE (called Sir William Cole of Tamar, knt., by De la Pole, and also in a Herald's Visitation of Devon), who married Margaret, daughter of Sir Henry Beaupell, knt., and by her was the father of
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His son Sir Otto de B. was in 17 and 19 Ed. II. a knight of the shire ; and 20 Ed. I. had custody of the island of Lundy with its appendages committed to his charge. In 1324 he went by the king's license on a pilgrimage to the Church of St. James in Spain. He married Margaret, daughter of Sir William Champernon, knt., and died possessed of B., and of a considerable estate in Cornwall in 6 Ed. III. ; at which date his son and heir Sir Henry de B. was likewise deceased. This last named knight married Isabell, daughter of William Wallesborow of Whalesborough, and had three sons, viz., Sir William, his heir (who married Julian, daughter of Sir John Stoner of Stoner, co. Oxon, knt., and had a daughter and heiress, Philippa, who married Sir Richard Sergeaulx, knt., sheriff of Cornwall in 1389); Sir Otto or Otho, sheriff of Cornwall in 3 Rd. II., knt. of the shire 43 Ed. III., and 7 Bd. II. (who was father of William, knt. of the shire 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9 of Henry V., who died s. p., and of Otho, who became heir to his brother); Nicholas, the 3rd son, died in 1362, and had 2 sons, viz. Otho and Nicholas. Otho married Jane, daughter of WilliamTrelausard, and by her had Joane, his heir, who married four husbands:— 1st, Sir John Trevaignon, knt., who died s.p. ; 2ndly, Ralph Trenowith (by whom before marriage she had a son William, who bore the name of Bodrugan, and the arms of his mother (" within a bordure "); he possessed himself of all her inheritance, and had issue Sir William B., knt., who died 24 Dec. 20 Henry VI., whose son and heir, Sir Henry B., was attainted of treason 1 Henry VII.) ; 3rdly, Sir John Trevarthian, knt., by whom she had issue, Otho Trevarthian, his son and heir, who died s.p., and Vidona (heir to her brother) married to — Reskymer, and had Ralph R.; 4thly, Robert Hull, who survived her.
   Nicholas, the 2nd son of Nicholas, the 3rd son of Sir Henry B., knt., married and left a daughter and heir, who became the wife of Sir John Cole of Nythway. Segar remarks that " This match of Sir John Cole, knt., with the daughter and heiress of Nicholas Bodrugan and the descents following are proved by divers auncient Rolls, Bookes, and Pedigrees, remaining in the Office of Arms, London, 1630."
   The quarterings brought to Cole by this match were, according to Segar, 1 Bodrugan, Arg. 3 bends Gu.; 2 Scott, Arg. an eagle displayed Sa., armed Gu. ; 3 Stapleton, Arg. a lion rampant Sa., armed Gu; 4 Trevaner, Arg. a cross flory Sa. ; but it appears the Bodrugans were also entitled to quarter the coat of Maundeville, viz., Quarterly Or and Gu.
   Sir Henry Trenowith alias Bodrugan (aboved named) married Jane (or Margaret) Herbert, daughter of the 1st Earl of Pembroke, and was made a Knight of the Bath by king Edw. IV. He fought at Bosworth on the side of Rd. III. Accounts of his romantic escape from king Henry's officers by an extraordinary leap, from the cliff on which Bodrugan castle was situate, on to the " Woful Moor," and of his malediction on his pursuers Trevaignon and Sir Richard Edgecumbe, the                               -----------------------------------------------
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  [7] SIR JOHN COLE, knt., who was in "the Retynew of the Duke of Gloucester,* at the Battell of Agincourt on Fryday, the XXVth day of Octoher in the yere of our Lord God, 1415, and in the Third yere of the Reigne of the most Excellent Prince, King Harry the Fifte ;" and it is prohable that he received his spurs for his conduct on that glorious field. He married Agnes, daughter of Sir ------- Fitzwarine, knt., and had issue four sons, viz:—
  I. Sir Adam Cole, knt., his heir, who succeeded at Uptamer and Nythway, and marrying Elizabeth,† daughter of Sir Richard Weston, knt., had a son John, the father of John, who left issue only two daughters, his co-heirs, viz. :—Elizabeth, married to Sir John Huddy, of Stowell, co. Somerset, Chief Justice of England ; and Joane, married to John Anne of ------- co, Gloucester. Sir Adam also married Margaret,† daughter of Sir Henry de la
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grantees of his confiscated estates (said to have been of the annual value of ten thousand pounds), may be found in Carew's and Gilbert's Surveys of Cornwall. Borlase in describing the ruins of Bodrugan castle, says, " there was nothing in Cornwall equal to it for magnificence."
 
  * Harl. M.S, no. 782, and M.S. in Coll. of Arms, published by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, K.H., under the title of The Battle of Agincourt, 2nd ed. Lond, 1832.
 
  † There is a discrepancy amongst the authorities as to the name of the wife of Sir Adam Cole ; for Sir Wm. De la Pole, at p. 282 of his History of Devonshire, gives it as Margaret (the daughter of Sir Henry de la Pomeroy, knt.), whilst the Visitations of Devon, in 1562-4-5, and 1620 (Harl: MSS. 1538-889-1080-1091-1399-32884031-5185), and Segar, in the pedigree that he compiled for Sir Wm. Cole, assert it to be Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Richard Weston, knt., of Wilts.
  It is quite possible that they all may be correct, and that he may have taken to wife both Elizabeth and Margaret, as stated in the text. This supposition is supported by the abstract of a deed, which recites that " Sir Adam Cole and Margaret, his wife, granted," &c, &c.
  Whoever she may have been, it is obvious that Segar could never have supposed that the date be attached to that deed, 3 Richard II. (1380), could be any where near the period when Sir Adam existed. For it is not possible that he could have been living about that time, and yet be the 7th in descent from Wm. Cole of Hutenesleigh, who lived in 1243, only 145 years previously; or that he could be the uncle of Sir Simon Cole of Slade, who died circa 12 Henry VII. (1497), more than 117 years afterwards. These dates are reliable, and the relationships are attested by Segar himself. It is clear therefore that he has unwittingly committed an anachronism with regard to this knight. This was owing, perhaps, to there having been an Adam Cole, who lived about 1380, and who, it appears, from Bymer's Foedera, vol. III., part 2,
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Pomeroy, knt., and their sole daughter,*             married John Holbeame of Holbeame, in co. Devon, esq., and had issue William Holbeame†, Sir William de la Pole adds, "from Margaret, wife of Adam Cole, is descended Baynham of Gloucestershire."
  [8] II. JOHN COLE, of whom hereafter (see p. 12).
  [9] III. WILLIAM COLE,‡ who married and had two sons,
  [9] WILLIAM (of whom hereafter), and Stephen, his heir, who married
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p. 1078, was charged by King Edward III., by letter, dated 14 May, in the 51st year of that monarch's reign (1377), to prevent the landing of the French on the coast of Devon. At p. 1002 of vol. III. of the Faedera, it is stated that this (?[sic]) Adam, in 48 Edward III., A.D. 1377, was master of the ship " Le Christophre" of Southampton. These entries sufficiently prove that he could not be the same person as the Sir Adam Cole of Uptamer.
  The name seems to have been a favourite one, for in 1305 and 1307, there was an Adam Cole, who was the Burgess returned to Parliament for Ilchester, in Somersetshire, (Palgrave's Writs of Summons, &c). Clutterbuck's Hertfordshire, also makes mention of an Adam Cole who, in 1277, held a moiety of 1 virgate of land in Walkened, Herts ; the other moiety being held by Robert Cole.
  Since the above was written, I have met with this extract at p. 417 Harl. MS. 34 (Tenentes Regis in Capite): Henrici V1., Termino Michaelis ao. VII. Devon' Thom. de Pomeray, chevalier, et Johanna, uxor ejus, filia Johannae unius, et Johannes Cole, armiger, filius Margarets alterius sororum Johannis Pomeray, consanguineorum et haeredum ejusdem Johannis Pomeray, tenent duas partes manerii de Stokley-Pomeray ut parcella manerii de Bury Pomeray per servitium VIIae, partis unius feodi militis, et medietatem duarum partium maneriorum de Harberton et Brixham, in comitatu praedicto per servitum 20ae partis, 477ae partis Baroniae de Harberton; et ibidem annotatur, quod Joh: de la Pomeray tenuit dictam med: maneriorum de Harberton et Brixham per servit: XVIae partis Baronies et manerium de Tregony in com. Cornubiae de Rege ut de castro suo de Launceston per servit. XIIi. feodi militis Moreton."
  In the Coll. Top. et Genealog., voL 7, p. 55, it is stated that this Jobn Cole, esq., died s.p. shortly after the division of the Pomeroy estates between himself and Joan, wife of Sir Thomas Pomeroy, and before the 2 Henry VI.
  The de la Pomerais, or Pomeroys, were summoned to Parliament as Barons for nearly three centuries. Henry de Pomeroy, the 6th Lord, married Joane, daughter of Roger, 3rd Lord, and sister and co-heiress to Roger, 7th Lord Valletort, " the great Barons of the West."
  Arms of Pomeroy: Or a lion rampant Gu. within a bordure invected of the 2nd.
  * Harl. MSS. 1538, f. 59—889, f. 44-1080, f. 379b—5840, f. 13^031, f. 223.
  † Westcote's Hist, of Devon, where Sir Adam Cole is styled "of Tamerton."
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Joane,* daughter and heiress to John White, by whom he had Jane, married to Robert Tozer; Mary, married John Kestall (or Castell) ; Joane, married to John Truebody; Thomasine married to John Tucker; and John Cole, his heir, who married Margaret,† daughter and heiress to Thomas Clarke, and by her had issue :— 1. John, his heir (who married Margaret, daughter to John Fortescue of Spriddleston, and had a son, John, who died s. p.) ; 2, William, eventual heir; 3, George; 4, Edward;‡ 5, Thomas ; 6, John; 7, Roger; 8, Stephen; and Anne, married to Thomas Jeoffery of Tredineck.
  IV. Robert Cole § (fourth son of Sir John and Agnes) was father of John Cole of Treworgee in St. Cleer, near Liskeard, who had a son Walter, the father of Stephen, who by his wife Jane, daughter and heiress to Robert Wyatt, had John Cole, of Cornwall,∏ esquire, his heir.
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  * Joane White brought in these quarterings: 1, WHITE, Or a chevron Vert between three 3 goats' heads erased Sa. ; 2 Wymarke, Arg. on a bend cottised Az. 3 escutcheons of the field ; 3 Wyatt, Arg. 2 bars Gn. between 3 martlets of the 2nd ; 4 Kellio, Or a chevron Sa. between 2 cinquefoils in chief and a mullet in base of the 2nd; 5 Bodyar, Gu. a chevron Arg. between 3 cinquefoils Or.
  † And Margaret Clarke these : 1 CLARKE, Or a fesse Az. between 3 torteaux; 2 Camylla, Az. a chevron Erm. between 3 manacles Or ; 3 Atwell, Arg. a chevron engrailed Az. between 3 martlets Vert; 4 Lenker, Arg. a bend embattled Az. between 6 escallops Gu.: 6 Russell, Arg. on a bend Sable 3 swans Ppr.
  ‡ He was probably the Edward Cole of Twickenham (stated in Burke's Landed Gentry to have been born in 1579); fourth in descent from whom was Stephen Cole of the same place, J. P. for Middlesex and Surrey, who died in 1790, aged 83, leaving issue by his first wife, Frances, daughter of Commodore Laremar, a son Thomas Rea Cole, major 98th Regiment, the grandfather of the late Edward Henry Cole of Stoke Lyne, Oxon, and also of Owen Blayney Cole, deputy lieutenant for the county of Monaghan. By his second wife, Catherine, daughter of ------ Cary of Bath, Stephen Cole had (besides other children) Charles Cole, rector of Statton, Suffolk, and George Cole, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, formerly captain in the Cornwall Militia, who married Solly, daughter of Captain Crozier, and had two sons, George Crozier Cole, captain 1st East Middlesex Militia, and Henry Thomas Cole, of the Western Circuit, Q.C, recorder of Launceston, &c, who married Georgina, second daughter of John Stone, of the Western Circuit, barrister-at-law, by whom he has nine children.
  § Per pale Or and Gu. a bull passant Sa., armed of the 1st, within a bordure of the 3rd bezantée.
  ∏ The Coles of Marazion, now represented by Francis Sewell Cole, late of Childown, Surrey, claim to be of the old Devon stock. It has not, however, been
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  [9] WILLIAM COLE (see p. 7) was father of 
  [10] JOHN COLE of Sudbury* in Suffolk, "where he lies buried," who married Elizabeth, daughter of John Martyn of -------, by whom he had five sons, viz.:—
  I. Martin Cole, M.P. for Sudbury, 14 Queen Elizabeth, who married Ellen , daughter of ------- Hancocke, by whom he left, 1, Martin Cole of Sudbury, who married Anna, daughter of ------- Andrews, but died s.p. 9 December, 1620, and left by his will, dated 28 September, 18 James Ist, a yearly rent charge of £14 to be distributed among the poor, and the ministers of Sudbury; 2, Caesar Cole, heir to his brother, 40 years old in 1620, who married Margaret, daughter of ------- White, and had Elizabeth, Martin, John, and Thomas; 3, Richard Cole; and a daughter, married to ------- Brown.
  II. William Cole of Sudbury married Catalina, or Catherine, daughter of Ferdinando de Gallegos, a Spaniard of noble extraction, and had two sons, of whom the elder, Robert, married Anna, daughter of ------- Cooke of Kersey, in Suffolk, and died s. p.; and the second, Roger, was, in 1623, of the parish of St. Saviour's, in Southwark, in the co. of Surrey, gent.; he married Anne daughter of Edward Maisters of Rotherhithe, in Surrey, by whom he had issue, 1 Roger, 2 Roger, 3 John, who all died young, Elizabeth, married to William Oland of London, Susanna married to William Locke of Merton, in Surrey, Anne and Catalina. This William Cole married secondly Elizabeth Rushan, by whom he had 1 John, 2 Martin, 3 William, 4 Edward, 5 Jeoffrey, 6 Parnell, and Elinor, married to James Raye.
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ascertained from which branch, though perhaps from that Bettled at St. Cleer. Some of them have been gallant officers, whose services are recorded in the annals of the British navy. Among those thus alluded to may be more particularly mentioned two of the sons of Humphrey Cole, who died in 1775, viz., Captain Sir Christopher Cole, K.C.B.. D.C.L., M.P. for the co. Glamorgan, so well known for his capture of the Banda Islands, &c, and Captain Francis Cole, R.N., who died in 1799. Long and flattering notices of their respective careers are to be found in Gilbert's Survey of Cornwall, Osier's Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth, the Gentleman's Magazine, Naval Biographies, &c, and an account of the family matches and issue in Burke's Landed Gentry. 

  * Arg. a bull passant Gil., armed Or, within a bordure Sa. bezantée.
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       III. Robert Cole (third son of John Cole and Elizabeth Martyn).
  [11] IV. RICHARD COLE (son of same John and Elizabeth) was of Bishop's Waltham, in the county of Southampton, and father of
  [12] JOHN COLE, who was buried there 2 October, 1626, the father of 1 John, (married 14 November, 1625, to ------- Hawksworth, by whom he had John, and three daughters, who all died young, and also Maria, Alice, Elizabeth, and John, baptised 10 October, 1642), and of 
  [13] 2 WILLIAM, baptised April, 1613, whose first wife, Elizabeth, died at Bishop's Waltham 3 May, 1648, having had issue 
  [14] 1, THOMAS, baptised 30 January, 1633, (of whom below), 2 William, 3 John, baptised 26 January, 1637 (of Hoe ?[sic]), 4 Joane, 5 Richard, 6 Nicholas, baptised 1 July 1645 (whose wife, Mary, was buried 11 June 1696), 7 Elizabeth ; by his second wife, Joane, buried 29 March, 1673,. he had, 8 James, baptised 12 September, 1649 ; and Francis, Henry, and William, who died young. 
  [14] THOMAS, the elder son of William, married Anne -------, and had, inter alios, an elder son Thomas, baptised 1 September, 1667, who had issue, 1 John, baptised 8 December, 1704, died before 30 September, 1739 (the father of James, Mary, and John); 2 Thomas; 3 William, 4 Anne,
  [15]  5 JAMES (of whom immediately), 6 Charles, 7 Elizabeth, 8 Mary, 9 Francis. 
  [15] JAMES (above named), was baptised 20 July, 1715, married Olive -------, by whom he had 1 Thomas, 2 Jerman, 3 James, 4 Francis, 
  [16] 5 RICHARD, 6 16 Mary, 7 Charles. The fifth son 
  [16] RICHARD, baptised 23 August, 1749, married 4 May, 1777, Elizabeth, daughter of ------- Ragget, and had issue, 1 Jerman, who died young ; 2 Richard Cole, of Odiham, banker, born 1779, married and had two daughters and two sons, Richard John Cole,* attorney-at-law, and James Cole of Windsor; 3 Charles Clarke Cole, born 1781, died unmarried at Basingstoke; 4 James Cole, born 1782, died of
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* He was author of a series of humourous, but practical, letters and essays, entitled Pantomime Budgets (8vo, London, 1853), wherein he proposed and advocated the principle of prepaid taxation by means of stamps on bankers' draughts, documents current for purposes of evidence or of securing rights, receipts of registration, &c., and to his suggestions may be attributed the adoption of the various inland revenue stamps now in use.
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yellow fever on the coast of Africa; 
  [17[A]] 5 THOMAS, born 1784, died at Plaitford, near Komsey, Hants, leaving TWO SONS and four daughters; 
  [17] 6 FRANCIS (of whom directly) ; 7 Mary Anne, born 1789, married Captain John Scott, R.N., by whom she had a large family ; 8 Sarah, died in childhood ; 9 John, born 1794, married, but died at Odiham, s.p. The above 
  [17] FRANCIS Cole, born 1787, was a surgeon at Odiham (and died there 29 December, 1865); he married Jane, daughter of Charles Benham, of Long Sutton, Hants, and left issue, 1 Anna Jane,
  [18]  2 Rev. FRANCIS CHARLES COLE, born 1833, of Wadham College, Oxford, MA., perpetual curate of Long Sutton, Hants, who married Lydia Hannah, daughter of the Rev. Henry Addington Simcoe, of Wolford Lodge, Devon, and Penheale, Cornwall, by whom he has issue, Edith Anne Lydia Cole, and 
  [19] FRANCIS SIMCOE COLE, born 26 November, 1865; 3 John Angus Cole, died young; 4 Emily Sarah ; 
  [18A] 5 Rev. ARTHUR RAGGET COLE, born 1841, of Wadham College, Oxford, M.A†

 V. Edward Cole, (sometimes called eldest son of John and Eliz.), was principal registrar to the Bishop of Winchester, mayor of that city in 1587, and M.P. for the same in 43 Queen Elizabeth; he married Christian, daughter of Wm. Holcroft, and by her had issue, four sons, and two daughters, viz:— 
  1. Edward Cole, esquire, his successor in the registry, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Ebden, D.D., of Winchester, and had issue, Edward C, of Winchester (whose
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  † The following entries occur in the registers of Bishop's Waltham, but, as it is not quite clear where they link on to the above, they have not been incorporated in the text:—
  Agnes, wife of Stephen Cole, buried 20 October, 1657.
  John Cole of Hoe (in Bishop's Waltham), buried 3 March, 1690.
  John, son of John Cole of Hoe, baptised 23 April, 1699.
  William, son of William Colles {sic) baptised 30 July, 1703.
  Elizabeth, daughter of ------- Cole of Curdridge (in Bishop's Waltham, baptised 18 January, 1709.
  Sarah, wife of ------- Cole of Curdridge, buried 10 February, 1717.
  Thomas, son of John Cole (or Coke ?[sic]), baptised 29 September, 1725. 
And this in the Odiham register:—
  Robert, the son of John Cole, and Mabella his wife, was buried 4th of October, 1657. 
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wife Frances was buried at Odiham, 5 June, 1656), Jane, Elizabeth, and Susan. The Registrar was buried at Odiham, 13 September, 1659.
  2. William Cole, who died s. p.
  3. Martin Cole of Winchester, who married Ursula, daughter of Robert Vaus of Odiham, co. Hants, by his wife -------, sister to Sir Edmond Ludlow, and had issue, [?(sic) John Cole of Odiham, who married Alice Pawlett].
  4. John Cole, who married a daughter of John Lynch, and had issue.
The daughters of Edward and Christian, were, 1, Anne, married to Thomas Fryar; and 2, Jane, married to Launcelot Thorpe, alderman of Winchester.

  II. We now return to 
  [8] JOHN,* (second son of Sir John Cole, knt.) who married Jane, daughter of Robert Meryot of Devon, and had two sons, viz.:—Simon, his heir; and 
  [9] WILLIAM, of whom presently, viz., on p. 22. Sir Simon (as he is frequently designated)† was seated at Slade, in the parish of Cornwood, in the county of Devon, and died 12 Henry VII. (1497). He married Alice,‡ daughter and co-heir to ------- Leuri, of the county of Devon, had a daughter Joane, married to William Hele,§ of South Hele in Copneywood, Devonshire, esq. (by whom she had issue, represented by James Modyford Hele, who died a minor in August, 1716)§ and a son, John Cole, of Slade, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the county of Devon in 1512-13, etc., who died 21 Nov., 35 Henry VIII., (1543), having had issue by his wife, Thomasine,∏ daughter and heiress to Thomas Wallcot of Walcot in the county of
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  * He bore the paternal coat of Cole with " a crescent Gu." for difference, 
  † Harl. MSS. 5185-1567-5840.
  ‡ All descendants of Sir Simon Cole and Alice are entitled to quarter the arms of Luri, viz., Sa. 3 oak leaves Arg.
  § For a full account of this family, which was raised to the Baronetage in the person of Sir Thomas Hele, of Fleet, fourth in descent from Joane Cole, see Burke's Extinct Baronetage. 
  ∏ And descendants of John and Thomasine Cole to those of Wallcott, Arg., on a cross flory Sa. 5 fleur de lis Or.
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Devon, a son and heir, Thomas, who married, first, Joan, daughter of William Stourton, esq., and having no issue by her he married, secondly, Joane,* daughter and heiress to John Hill of Buckland Touzsaints, in the county of Devon, esq., and died 31 January 1541 (32 Henry VIII.) leaving three daughters, and three sons, viz.:—first daughter, Margaret, married, first, to Thomas Southcote, of Southcote, in the county of Devon, and secondly, to John Fursland, of Bickington, in the county of Devon, by whom† she had Walter F., Judith (married to Alexander Gottom, of Abbots Kerswell), Ursula (to Robert Barnes, of Plymouth), Alice (to Hugh Lear, of Ipplepen), Thomasine (to Robert Lynham, of Cornwall); second dau., Joane, married first, to Hugh Hill, of Heath, and secondly to Robert Dowrish, of Heath-barton, in the county of Devon, gent, (second son of Thomas Dowrish, of Dowrish in Sandford), by whom she had Thomas Dowrish, who married Wilmot, daughter of Richard Prouse of Exeter; third daughter, Thomasine, married, first, to Sir Roger Grenville, an esquire of the body to Henry VIII. (son of Sir Richard Grenville, knt., of Stowe)‡ who was drowned at sea, vitâ patris, and had issue, three sons, viz.:— (A) John Grenville, who died s. p.; (B) Sir Richard Grenville, successor to his grandfather, knighted in 1577, ViceAdmiral of England, and Sheriff of Cornwall in 1578, slain in a sea fight in 1591, and married Mary, daughter and co-heiress of Sir John St. Leger, of Annery, in the county of Devon, knt., by whom she had, John, Katherine, Ursula, Mary, and an eldest son, Sir Bernard, who died in 1605, and left by his wife Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Philip Bevile of Brynne, a son, the eminent royalist, Sir Bevil Granville, called "the Bayard of England," the "Mirror of Chivalry,"
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  * Joane Hill brought in :—Arg. a chevron between 3 waterbougets Sa. 

  † Westcote's Devon, p. 598.
 
  ‡ Fuller says of the Granvilles : " But the merits of this ancient Family are so many and great, that ingrossed, they would make one county proud, which divided would make two happy. I am therefore resolved equally to part what I have to say hereof betwixt Cornwall and Devonshire."

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and " Hero of his Country;" and (C) Sir Charles Grenville, who died s. p. She (Thomasine) married, secondly, Thomas Arundel, of Ley in Cornwall, and by him had :—1, Alexander Arundel, who married Katherine, daughter of Robert Hill of Hilligan, in the county of Cornwall; 2, John Arundel; 3, Robert Arundel; 4, Thomas Arundel; 5, Digory Arundel; first daughter, Katherine, married to ------- Hitchin ; second daughter, Elizabeth, married to John Coplestone; third daughter, Mary; and fourth daughter, Jane.*
  I. William (son of Thomas and Joane) succeeded his father; married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Philip Champernon, of Modbury, knt., (by Catherine, daughter of Edmund Carew of Mohun's Ottery) and died 23 April, 1547 (4 Edward VI.) leaving Philip,† his heir, who married Joane, daughter of Thomas Williams, of Stowford, esq., and died 30 June, 1595 (38 Elizabeth) leaving a son, Richard, aged 28 years in April, 1595, who married Radigon,‡ daughter of Nicholas Boscawen, of Bliston, in the county of Cornwall, esq., and " was of Buckeishe in the parish of Wolfardisworthy " {vulgo Wolsworthy) " where he died" s.p. on 19 April 1614 (12 James I.) "and lyeth buried in the North Ile of the church there." " He was the last of the family who resided at Buckeishe,"§ where " he built a harbour on his land to shelter ships." " By his last Will and Testament in writing, dated 7 January, 1612, and proved 13 July, 1614, he devised all his Lordships, Manors, Lands, Tenements,
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  * Harl. MS. 1079, f. 27. Thomas Arundel was a younger son of Sir John Arundel, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1471 (grandson of Sir John Arundel of Trerice, by Joane, sister and co-heir of John Durant), by his second wife Anne, daughter of Sir Walter Moyle, knt. About 1500 he built Clifton in Landulph, where the family resided till co-heiresses carried that estate, about 1620, to Killigrew and Lower. See Lyson's Cornwall and the Peerages. 

  † Queen Elizabeth, on the 3rd July, in the 6th year of her reign, granted to Philip and Joane Cole, in perpetuity, divers messuages, lands, and tenements, in Tregolyn, and elsewhere in Cornwall and Devon. Add. MS. (Brit. Mus.) 6371, f. 9 b,

  ‡ She married, secondly, Sir William Cooke of Highnam, in co. Gloucester, knt. Collins' Peerage, 8vo, London, 1779, vol. VI., p. 81. 

  § Risdon's Survey of Devon, p. 242.
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etc., in the counties of Devon and Cornwall, unto Captaine John Cole, of London, gent.,* and the heirs male of his body ; and for want of such issue, he devised the same in like manner to Gregory Cole of the Middle Temple, London, esquire; and for want of issue in like manner devised his said lands, etc., to Robert Cole, of London, gentleman; the remainder to his own right heirs."
  II. Richard Cole of Buckland, esquire, (second son of Thomas and Joane Cole) married Alice, daughter to John Greenfield, alias Grenville, of Exeter, esq., and died 5 February, 1572 (15 Eliz.) leaving a son John (aet. 21 ann. et 6mens. in September, 1572,) who married Katherine, daughter of John Hele, esq, and died 1 June, 1582 (21 Elizabeth) having had issue, John, who was in his fifth year in 1583, and died s. p. on 13th April 1595; and two daughters, co-heirs, viz., Alice, the elder (aet. 18 in 1595) married to George Southcott, esq., son of Sir George Southcott, of Shillingford,† knt., by whom she had a son George S., born in 1599 ; and Johan {aet. 16 in 1595) married to Sir Thomas Prideaux, knt., of Nutwell, Devon,† and had issue, Thomas Prideaux.†
  III. Robert Cole,‡ (third son of Thomas and Joan Cole) married
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  * " Shortly after the said Captaine John Cole died without issue male, and the said Gregory Cole (who is mencioned[sic] in this pedigree) him succeeded, and is now, A. D. 1630, possessed of the said Richard Cole, his dwelling House and Lands at Buckeishe aforesaid, &c."—Segar
  † Westcote's Devon. 
  ‡ One of the Harl. MSS. (No. 1046, fo. 202) describes him as " of Heston in Middlesex ;" but the others do not give this " addition." A family bearing the same name, and traditionally said to be of the Twickenham stock, (see note on p. 8) has been settled at, and owned considerable property in Sutton, Lampton, and North Hyde, hamlets of Heston, for more than three centuries, as is testified by the parish registers, and various muniments of title. The representation of this goodly line, which matched with the Childs of Osterley, the Berkeleys, the Coles of Twickenham, and other leading families of the neighbourhood, devolved on the late Mr. William Cole, of Sutton, who died 25 April, 1862, aged 82. He was only son of Edward C, elder son of William, the son of Edward C, who died in 1709, aged 29; and left only two sons, viz. :—1, Arthur William Cole, of Heston, an officer in the Fourth Middlesex Regiment of Militia, married to Georgiana, daughter of J. Rayer Hogarth, of Heston, J.P., by whom he has issue; and 2, Sydney Cole, of Newton Lodge, Faringdom, Berks, who married the daughter and heiress of William Wheeler Wintle of Faringdon.

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-------, daughter of John Evelyn, of Kingston-on-Thames, in the county of Surrey, esq., and had George Cole of Petersham, in the county of Surrey, and of the Middle Temple, who died 23 June 1621, in the 70th year of his age, seised of a manor in Kingston, called Hartington, and of Little Ashtead, or Prior'sfarm, the manor of Charlton, lands, etc., in Petersham; to the poor of which parish he left certain lands. His wife was Frances,* daughter and heiress to Thomas Preston of Petersham, esq., (descended from the Prestons of Lincolnshire) by whom he had issue, 1, Gregory, 3, Henry, 4, George, 5, John, 7, John, Eleanor and Maria, who all died young; Elizabeth (married to Henry Lee of London, merchant); Joane (married to Henry Mowsse, of London, and had issue Arthur, Mary, Jane, Frances, Elizabeth, and Richard M., son and heir, aged 7 years in Jan. 1643); Frances (married to Richard, son and heir to Sir Cuthbert Hacket, knt., alderman and lord-mayor of London, by whom she had six sons and two daughters) ; and 2, (another) Gregory Cole, of Petersham, Slade, and Buckishe, aet. 35 at his father's death, who was admitted student in law at the Middle Temple on 24 November, 1615, and lies buried in the Temple Church.† From the mention of him in Pepys'
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  * All descendants of this match quarter arms of Pbeston, Arg. two bars Gu., in a canton of the second a cinquefoil, Or.
  † In Dugdale's Origines Juridiciales, fol., London, 1680, it is erroneously stated that the memorial there existing was to George Cole ; but it should be Gregory. George was buried at Petersham, where a fine table and canopied monument, profusely ornamented with carving and heraldric devices, still remains. On it are the effigies of himself and wife, and these inscriptions:
  Memorae Sacrum. Georgia Cole, avo, nepotiq; hic, eodem tumulo conditis, Gregorius Colus, hujus pater illius filius, posuit.
  Below this, on black marble, are two compartments ; on the first,
  Una, lapide hoc sub uno, ossa duorum sita sunt Georgii Cole, Arm. Avi, Georgiiq ; nepotis. Avus Societatis Medii Templi fuit. Uxorem Franciscam, prolem unicam Tlwmm Preston familiae Prestonorum Lincolniensium duxit; quae eum foecunda sobole, octo filiorum, et filiarum quinq ; ditavit. Septem patri, adhuc viventi, Mors praeripuit; sex jam discedenti superstites reliquit; filios tres, Gregorium (qui Janam, Gulielmi Blighe a Botathan in Com. Cornub. Ar. filiam, uxorem duxit, Georgiumq; Avo Consepultum genuit) Thomam & Robertum ; filias itid' tres, quae tribus Civibus Londinensibus nupserunt, Franciscam, quae Ricardo Hacket; Johan-

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Diary, Bray's Memoirs of John Evelyn, and similar works, it is evident that he was one of the leading lawyers of the period, and also that he was an amateur of the fine arts; he suffered severely for his loyalty to King Charles I., and was mulcted in the sum of £415 10s. as a composition for his estate.†  He married, 4 May, 1614, Jane, daughter of William Bligh, of Botathan, in the county of Cornwall, esq., and by her, who died on friday, 17 November, anno domini 1643, and was buried at Aston Rowant, he had issue, George, born 1621, who died 18 June 1624, and was buried with his grandfather at Petersham; Frances, aged 14 years in 1623, who was wife to Richard Thornhill, esq., died 10 September, 1640, and was buried at Aston Rowant; and another George, (of whom hereafter on p. 19). He (Gregory) was afterwards of Addington in Surrey; and married, secondly, Mary, daughter of Sir George Chudleigh, of Ashton, in the county of Devon, bart., and
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  * nam, quae Edwardo Mowsse ; et Elizabetham, quae Henrico Lee: Nepos, avo praevius, 18 Jun. quadrimus; avus, ejusdem mensis 23° Septuagenus, obiit, Anno Domini, 1624. On the second compartment:
               Siste gradum, Sortisque memor mortalis, amice
                  Illacryma en fato corpora bina suo 
               Pene simul defuncta, nepos modo fervida vivo 
                  Cura seni, extincto nunc comes alget avo 
               Lustra senex bis septem AEvi faelicia clausit: 
                  Quarta sed heu ! puerum bruma renata tulit. 
               Hic senium evasit, senio satur ille recessit: 
                  Nec plus vixisse hic, nec velit ille minus. 
               Nil habet Invidia ipsa senis quo vaellicet annos,              
                  Nil Spes, quod puero non quoq; blanda dedit;            
               Ego tibi has lacrymas aut serva, aut funde, viator         
                  Quem dubia insano turbine fata rotant. 
  Below the above is this:  
       Francisca, uxor praedicti Georgii Cole, obiit 19 die Julii, in Anno Domini, 1633. 
       On a black stone within the communion rails :  
       Under this stone lye the Bodyes of George Cole, Esq., and of George Cole his grandchilde; in memory of whom the monument on the north side of this Chancell is erected. The grandfather dyed the 23 of June, the grandchilde on the 18th of June, Anno Dom. 1624.—Vol. 1. p. 441 of Manning and Bray's Surrey, fo. Lond. 1804.
  † Interregnum Papers, in State Paper Office, vol. 52, No. 323, and Mrs. M. A. E. Green's Cal. of State Papers (Domestic Series). 
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relict of Hugh Clifford of Ugbrook, co. Devon,* by whom he had Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, and Robert, born 20 April 1652;—6, Thomas (second surviving son of George and Frances) to whom Prior's farm in Ashtead and Leatherhead was bequeathed;—8, Robert Cole (third surviving son of George and Frances) was of Addington, and of the Middle Temple. He "compounded for his estate by paying a fine of £639 7s.;" and married Elizabeth, only daughter to Sir Timothy Thornell (or Thornhill) of Ollangtyh in Wye, in the county of Kent, knt.† By her, who died in childbed 14 November, 1651, and was buried at Wickham in Kent, on 26 November, he had Robert Cole, born in the parish of Addington, where he was buried 29 December 1651, and thence transferred to the side of his mother in the vault at Wickham; and Jane, his daughter and sole heiress, who was second wife to Sir Thomas Darcy, of St. Osith, Cleerehall, and Braxted Lodge, in the county of Essex, bart., and had issue, Thomas, second bart., who died unmarried in October 1698; Brian, born October 1669, William, John, who all died without issue; and two daughters, viz., Elizabeth, and Frances, who was married to the Most Rev. Sir William Dawes, baronet, Archbishop of Canterbury. She died 22nd December, 1705, and by his Grace had issue, Elizabeth, married to Sir William Milner, bart., M.P. for the city of York (and was great-grandmother of the late Sir William Mordaunt Sturt Milner, bart., of Nun-Appleton-hall, in the county of York, whose son and heir is the present Sir William Mordaunt Edward Milner, bart., M.P. for York 1848—57); and Sir Darcy Dawes, son and heir, who succeeded as fourth baronet, married in 1723, Sarah, (or according to Burke, Janet) daughter and co-heiress of Richard Roundell, of Hutton-Wandsley, in the county of York, esq., and died 16 August, 1732, leaving a son and heir, Sir
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  * Burke's Extinct Baronetage—title "Chudleigh"—Their son Sir Thomas Clifford, afterwards Lord High Treasurer, died in 1673, and was ancestor of the present Lord Clifford of Chudleigh.
  † Arms of Thornhill to be quartered by descendants of Robert and Elizabeth Cole : Gu., two bars gemelles Arg., a bend of the second; on a chief of the last a tower triple towered Az.

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William Dawes, fifth and last baronet, who died unmarried 28 May, 1741, when the baronetcy became extinct, and, a daughter, Elizabeth, married to Edwin Lascelles, Lord Harewood, of Harewood Castle in Yorkshire, but died without surviving issue at Bath in 1764.
  George, the before-mentioned (on p. 17) son of Gregory and Jane Cole, succeeded not only to Buckishe and other property in Devon, but also to the "Rectorial Glebe"* estate at Enstone in Oxfordshire, in the church of which place he was "interred, anno domini l678, aged 48;" as was also "Anne, his Relick, who departed this life, November ye 1st, 1690."† Their children were Elizabeth; Harry, baptised 1666; Erancis, baptised 1668; Jane, baptised 1670. 
  Elizabeth, married, first, to Thomas Chudleigh,‡ Envoy to the Court of Holland, temp. King Charles II. (son of Sir George Chudleigh, bart.); and, secondly, to Sir John Stonhouse of Amberden-hall, in the county of Essex, bart., by whom she had, Sir George S., sixth baronet (who died in his minority, 13 April, 1695), and Elizabeth, sole heiress, married to Thomas Jervoise of Heriard, Hants, from which match descend (maternally) Francis Jervoise Ellis Jervoise, present possessor of Heriard Park, J.P., D.L., high-sheriff of the county of Hants in 1852, and also Sir Jervoise Clarke Jervoise, bart., of Idsworth Park, M.P. for South Hants. Dame Elizabeth died 20 July 1718, and was buried at Enstone.§
  Jane, married, first, on 4 March, 1689, in Westminster Abbey, to the Hon. and Eev. George Berkeley,∏ Prebend of Westminster

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  * A branch of the family had previously acquired this estate. In 1619 William and Frances Cole had a son William, baptised. In 1624 Henry Cole was buried, and in 1625, John Cole. The Rectorial Mansion no longer exists, but the site of its extensive gardens and terraces may still be traced; a small farm house has been erected thereon.
  † Monumental inscriptions in Jordan's Enstone.
  ‡ Collins' and Bethams' Baronetages.
  § Monumental Inscriptions in Jordan's Enstone.
  ∏ Sandford's Genealogical History, &c, p. 213; Collins' Peerage, ed. 1779, vol. 4, p. 26 ; Coll. Top. et Geneal., vol. 7, p. 140.

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(second son of George, first Earl of Berkeley, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of John Massingberd of London, esq.) and had an only daughter, Elizabeth, married to John Brown of Tuppenden, in Kent. Mrs. Berkeley married, secondly, Jeremiah Chaplin, esq., "one of the Gentlemen Ushers, daily Waiters to her Majesty," and died in 1747. Their only daughter and heiress, Jane (Chaplin), was married to Robert Rudyerd,* (third son of Sir Benjamin E., of Westwoodhaye, Berks), and had issue, a daughter, Jane (who died 1811, aged 89) the wife of Captain Richard Shipley, of Copt-hall, and Stamford, and mother of Major-General Sir Charles Shipley, E.E., Governor of Grenada; who had issue, Augusta Mary, married to Charles Alexander Manning, esq., and Elizabeth Cole, married to Henry David, Earl of Buchan, by whom she had inter alios, David Stuart Erskine, present Earl of Buchan.
  The son, Harry Cole, in 1690, married Mary -------, and had, 1690,
Edward; 1691, Elizabeth; 1692, Mary; 1694, Jane; 1695, Anne; 1696, George; 1697, Harry; 1698, Grace; 1699, Gregory; 1700, Sarah; 1702, Francis; 1704, Johanna; 1705, Potter; 1707, George. He was an active Justice of the Peace for the county of Oxford. The Rev. John Jordan, in his History of Enstone,† writes:—"Three of Mr. Cole's children, George Grace, and George, died in their infancy, and on the diamond stones covering their graves in the church are Latin inscriptions with mottoes to each, expressive at once of the piety of the parents, and the circumstances of the children. In December, 1702, at the age of four, died Grace, the motto on her stone being ' Talium est Regnum Coelorum.' In May, 1703, in five months after the former, died George, aged seven, whose motto is 'Veni, Vidi, Vici' Born in June, 1707, and buried in
July, 1708, just twelve months old, was another George, whose motto is ' Bulla est vita humana' .... Mr. Harry Cole's eldest son Edward appears to have succeeded his father, but though married, not to have had any family. At least, none

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  * Sleigh's History of Leek, and The Reliquary for 1867, p. 217. 
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are registered here, although he and his wife were buried here according to the following inscriptions on their gravestones in the chancel:—'Here lieth the body of Edward Cole of Buckish in the County of Devon, Esquire, who departed this life the 17th of December, 1756, aged 67. And also the body of Sophia Cole, Widow and Relict of the said Edward Cole, who departed this life the 18th Nov: 1757, aged 47. She was the daughter of Hugh Parker, Esquire, eldest son of Sir Henry Parker, of Honington, in the county of Warwick, Baronet, and sister to the present Sir Henry John Parker, Baronet."
  Johanna Cole, who was born in 1704, married into the family of the Loggins of Warwickshire, and her son the Rev. William Loggin of Long Marston, Gloucestershire, succeeded on the death of the Rev. Potter Cole to the estates of the Cole family in Devonshire, etc., and by virtue of an Act of Parliament, which received the royal assent on 26 June, 1802, was "enabled to take the name and to bear the arms of Cole, pursuant to the will of his late Uncle Edward Cole, Esquire." Mr. Loggin-Cole left a son, the Rev. William Loggin, who is described as "William Loggin, gent., of the parish of Halford, in the county of Warwick," at the time of his marriage with Mary, the youngest daughter of Nicholas Marshall, D.L, for the county of Oxon (by Eleanour, his wife, daughter of John Coxwell, of Ablington house, in the county of Gloucester) and left one son, who in his turn also left one, Mr. Nicholas Marshall Loggin, who is at this time the male representative of the families of Cole and Loggin.
  Potter Cole, M.A., entered into holy orders, and was sometime Rector of Alderley, Gloucestershire, where his wife Frances, daughter of Mrs. Frances Paske, died at the age of 24, on the 21st of May, 1733. He was also Vicar of Hawkesbury, in the same county, for the period of 73 years; and, says a writer in the Gentleman's Magazine " passed his long life in the constant and uniform practice of every christian duty. He was never absent from his parish for the space of one month at any time, and never advanced the rent of the tythes of anyone of his parishioners during his long incumbency. He was a friend to several public charities, and his private donations were a
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perpetual source of comfort to the widow and the fatherless. The poor of his own and the neighbouring parishes were almost daily partakers of his bounty; particularly during the late years of scarcity; and have great cause deeply to deplore the loss of their benefactor." He was married four times, but left no surviving issue. According to a monument in the church at Hawkesbury, he had by his wife Sarah (Arnold) a son, Harry, who died 12 June, 1750, aged 15 years, Elizabeth, who died 16 March, 1762, aged 23 years, and Frances, who died 15 May 1768, aged 16 years. He died 24 March, 1802, having nearly attained the great age of 97 years, " as (continues Mr. Jordan) I have learned from a friend who knew and visited him only two years before his death; when although debilitated from age and some natural afflictions, he retained much of the vigour of mind and politeness of manner by which he had been distinguished." The Rev. Edward Marshall, of Sandford Manor House, Oxon, possesses a sketch of him, which was considered a very faithful portrait; and which, though made in his 95th year, represents him as a man of much intelligence and power.

  [9] WILLIAM COLE (before-mentioned on p. 12) younger son of John, and grandson of Sir John Cole, knt., married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Weston of Wiltshire, knt., and by her had a son and heir, 

  [10B] JOHN COLE, who married Mary, daughter and heiress to Thomas Archdeacon,* alias Ercedekne of Devon, gent., and had issue,
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  * The name of this ancient and noble family, which gave five knights of the shire to Cornwall, has been in different ages spelt in various ways; but 1'Arcedekne, and Erchdeken seem to have been the most usual. The family was originally of Devon, but afterwards became by inheritance possessed of " two noble seats in Cornwall ; of which the castle of Ruan-Lanihorne, then called Shepestall, was perhaps the most superb." In later times, however, the manor of East Anthony, which was obtained by marriage with the heiress of D'Auney, became the chief residence of this house.
  In the reign of Henry III. Sir Michael Erchdekne owned the manor of Showbrooke in Devon, which, it is supposed, was acquired through a marriage with the heiress of the Clavells, who had been lords thereof from the time of the Norman Conqueror.
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 [11B] THOMAS COLE of London, who died April, 1571. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Hargrave of London, and had issue, four sons, and a daughter, Martha, who was married to John Warsop, of Clapham in Surrey, gentleman, and by him had a
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  His son and heir Sir Thomas Ercedekne, knt., sheriff of Cornwall, 7 Edward I., was father of Odo or Eudo le Ercedekne, who, in 1289, gave the lands of Westlydeton, to the abbey of Tavistock, and, in 1312, held the lordship and castle of Trematon. Odo was living in 18 Edward I., as was also his son and heir, Thomas, who afterwards received the honour of knighthood, and was made governor of Tintagel Castle. He served frequently as knight of the shire, was summoned to parliament as a Baron, from 15 May, 14 Edward II. (1321) to 13 September, 18 Edward II., and died at a patriarchal age in 1329. He married, first, Alice, daughter and eventual co-heir to Sir Thomas, Lord de la Roche; and his second wife was Maud, daughter of the Lord Mulys (or Moels). By the latter he had no issue, but by the former he had a son and heir, Sir John Archedekne (aged about 25 years at his father's decease), who was knight of the shire in 10 Edward III., and much engaged in that monarch's wars with France and Scotland. He had summons to parliament as a Baron in 16 Edward III. (1342), and married Cecily, daughter and heiress to Sir Jordan de Haccombe (by hia wife Isabel, daughter and heiress of Sir Mauger St. Aubyn, knt., of Pidekeswell in Georgeham, co. Devon), and by her had nine sons. Ralph, the eldest, died, s. p.; Sir Warren A., knt., the second son, succeeded to Lanherne, &c, married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Sir John Talbot of Richards Castle, co. Hereford, and had a daughter, Philippa, who married Sir Hugh Courtenay of Boconnoc, brother to Edward, Earl of Devon, and second son of Hugh, the tenth Earl; Odo, the third son (Esch. 9 Henry IV., no. 39) was father of John l'Erehdekne, who, by Maud hia wife, had a son and heir John, the father of Philippa and of another John (Esch. 13 Edward IV.), who had two sons, viz., John, the father of Joan, his heir, who was married to ------- Winter, of Cornwall (Esch. 1 Henry VIII), and Thomas, whose daughter Mary married John Cole, as in the text. The other six sons were Richard, who married Joane, daughter of Richard Bosowr, and had Thomas, in whom the heir male of this family took an end; John; Robert; Martyn; Reignald; and Michael.
  In Gilbert's Cornwall, it is conjectured that some persons in humble circumstances, who bore the same name, and resided in the parish of East Anthony, were descendants of this ancient stock. A branch of it was once settled in Ireland; and built the picturesque castle of Monkstown, on the cove of Cork, and also that that[sic] of Burnakelly. Mr. D'Alton in his Illustrations of King James' Irish Army List (1689), vol. I., gives sundry particulars relating to its various members, their possessions, &c, as do also Mrs. S. C. Hall, and Lady Chatterton, in their respective Tours in Ireland, and Gibson's History of the County of Cork. Mr. Andrew Arcedekne of Glevering Hall, Suffolk, is presumed to be also descended from this ancient stock. Although the family of De la Roche (above named) was of the first distinction and [was nd]
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son John Warsop, of Windsor, esq., and two daughters, viz., Rose W., married to George Smith of Mitcham, in Surrey, gent., by whom she had William, and several daughters; and Elizabeth W. (died in 1623), married to Sir Thomas Watson, of Halstead in
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power in Pembrokeshire, but few scanty notices of it exist. A branch of it, which has been ennobled under the titles of Fermoy, &c., settled in Ireland in very remote times, and had grants of large tracts of land in that kingdom, among which was one in the county of Cork, known to this day as "Roche's Country.''
Another of its early members had the Province of Rhôs or Roos, in South Wales, committed to his charge by King Henry II., and was styled " Comes Littoris," an office that was hereditary and the extent of its jurisdiction was marked by the castles of Benton and Roch. The latter is said to have been built by Adam de Rupe, who founded the church of St. Mary Roch, and the priory of HubberstonPill, about the latter part of the twelfth century. He married Amy, the fair daughter of Fleming, a Norman knight; and it appears from the statutes of St. David's and the Charter of Pill, that he had a son Adam, and also one named David, whose son John was father of Thomas. He was, doubtless, the Sir Thomas de Rupe, above mentioned, who was summoned as a BARON, to the parliament held at London, 28 Edward I., and at Carlisle, 34th of the same king; and who also signed the celebrated letter to Pope Boniface VIII., in 29 Edward I. He held his barony as of the barony of Haverford.
  Authorities state that his daughters Margaret (wife to Francis Fleming), Joan (wife to Sir David de la Roche), Alice (wife to Sir Thomas, Lord Arcedekne), Phillis (wife to Sir Kuwras Karn), and Louisa (wife to William de Valence) became eventually co-heirs; but in Dugdale's Warwickshire there is a pedigree shewing that he also left a son, Sir William de la Roche, who was the father of Sir Robert de la Roche, knt., who had John, married to Isabella, daughter and heiress to Henry de Bromwich, by whom he was father of Thomas, ob, infra cefatem, 9 Richard II., whose daughters and co heirs were married to Edmund, fifth Lord Ferrers of Chartley, and to George Longvile. However, as Meyrick's Visitation of Wales by Lewis Dwnn vol. I.) only assigns to William a daughter and heiress, Mariota; whose daughter and heiress, Margaret, was wife to Sir Roger Clarendon, the natural son of Edward, "The Black Prince;" and as this is incontestably proved by a "Roll of Serjeanty" of Michaelmas Term 12 Richard II., it is evident that the Sir Robert named by Dugdale could not have been a legitimate son of Sir William.
  Some of the same name owned large possessions in Cornwall, and Somerset in the 13th century. According to the Testa de Nevill, Gilbert de la Roche held half a knight's fee at Cotteford and la Schute, in the county of Southampton, and in 9 Edward I., Gilbert de R., was of Bromham in Wilts. His descendant John de Roche, chevalier, died, 50 Edward III., seised of several manors within the lordship of Haverford, and also of the family property in Wilts. The latter passed to his direct lineal descendant and representative, the late R. Nicholas, of Ryndnay and Aston-Keynes, formerly President of the Board of Excise, whose son and heir is 
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Kent, lent., by whom she had a daughter and heiress, Elizabeth, married, first, to Sir William Pope, son and heir to Sir William Pope, baronet, Earl of Downe, and Baron of Belturbet, in Ireland, (dignities now extinct) by his wife Anne, daughter of Sir Owen Hopton, knt., lieut. of the Tower of London, and relict of Henry, Lord Wentworth of Yorkshire. He {i.e. Pope) died, vitâ patris, in 1624, leaving issue, Thomas,* John, William, Anne, and
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Major Griffin Nicholas, of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, and late of the fifth Fusiliers.
  Mr. Nicholas Adamson Roche of Paskeston, J.P., and D.L., for the county of of[sic] Pembroke, and William Francis Roche, R. N., son of the late George Roche of Butterhill, J. P. and D.L. for the same county, are traditionally said to be descended from Adam de Rupe.
  Segar gives as the quarterings of the heiress of Archdeacon, these following, viz:— 1. ARCHDEACON, Arg., three chevrons Sa.; 2. de Roches, Sa., two lions passant Arg., armed Gu.; 3. de la Roche, Sa., three roaches naiant Ppr. ; 4. Haccomhe, Arg., three bends Sa.; but it appears that she was also entitled to place after her paternal coat and before that of Roches, &c, these of (la) Clavell of Lomen, Or., three keys Gu., bringing in (lb) lomen (or de Lumine) Sa., a sun Or; also, (lc) D'Auney, Arg., a bend Sa., between two cottises Az.; and after Haccombe the quarterings brought in by that heiress, viz., those of (4a) St. Aubyn of Georgeham, Erm., on a cross Gu. four bezants, bringing in (4b) Pidekeswell (or Pickwell). It is also to be inferred from Lysons' Devon, that she was entitled to quarter the arms of Buckland, of Buckland in the Moor, viz., Arg., a fesse Sa,, fretty Or, between three lions rampant, Gu.
  * This Thomas, born in 1622, succeeded at his grandfather's decease in July 1631, as second Earl of Downe, &c.; took an active part on the royalist side during the civil war, and died at Oxford, 28 December, 1660. By his wife Lucy, daughter of John Dutton, of Sherborne, he left an only daughter and heiress, the Lady Elizabeth Pope, married, first, to Sir Francis Henry Lee, bart., of Quarendon, Berks, and Ditchley, Oxon, by whom she had Sir Edward Henry Lee, fifth baronet, who was raised to the peerage, in 1674, as Baron of Spellesbury, Viscount Quarendon, and Earl of Lichfield. He married Lady Charlotte Fitzroy, and had six sons and three daughters. His lordship, who refused to swear allegiance to the new government at the Revolution, died 14 July, 1716, and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, Sir George Henry Lee, sixth baronet, and second Earl, who married Frances, daughter of Sir John Hales, of St. Stephens, Tunstall, and Woodchureh, in Kent, and had issue: 1, George Henry, who succeeded as third Earl, &c, but died, s. p. in 1775, when the honours passed to his uncle, the Hon. Robert Lee, M. P. for the city of Oxford, but expired on the decease of that nobleman, s. p. in 1776; 2, James, who died in 1742 ; 3, Charles Henry, who died in 1740; and five daughters, of whom the eldest, Charlotte, married, 26 October, 1745 to Henry, eleventh Viscount Dillon, succeeded to the family estates on the death of her uncle Robert, fourth Earl; Charles, the eldest son of this
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Elizabeth. She married, secondly, Sir Thomas Penestone of Cornwell, in the county of Oxon, and of Leigh, in Sussex, knt., who was created a baronet, 25 November, 1612, and by him had two daughters ; the elder, Elizabeth, married to John Hastings, of Daylesford, in the county of Worcester (ancestor to Warren Hastings); the younger, -------, to Sir James Astrey, knt., master in Chancery ; and two sons, John, who died unmarried in 1632, and an elder, Sir Thomas P., who succeeded as second baronet, about 1644, and had issue, Sir Thomas, and Sir Fairmeadow, successively, third and fourth baronets, and Charles, who all died s. p.

  [11B] The sons of the said THOMAS COLE (p26) of London, who died April 1571, and was buried in Allhallows Church, London, were,
  [12B] I. WILLIAM COLE of London, who died 16 February, 1600 (43
Elizabeth): he married Anne, daughter of Michael Colles of Bradwell, Bucks, and by her, who died 1603, had issue, 
  I.a Michael, son and heir, aet. 20 ann. 9 mens., on 6 February, 1602 (correction of 1502), who married Margaret, daughter of ------- Skynner, of the county of Kent, and had an only daughter and heiress Elizabeth,* married to Sir William Wheeler of Westbury, in the county of Wilts, and of Westminster, knight and baronet, and had -------, an only daughter, who died in childhood. A handsome monument to the memory of Sir William and Dame Elizabeth Wheeler still exists on the north wall of All Saints' Church in Derby, to which town he fled to escape the plague raging in London in 1666.
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marriage, became twelfth Viscount, died 1813, and was succeeded by his son, Henry Augustus, born 28 October, 1777, who assumed the additional surname and arms of Lee, which continue to be borne by his son and successor, Theobald Dominick Geoffrey Dillon-Lee, fifteenth and present Viscount Dillon.

  Lady Lichfield afterwards became the third wife of Robert Bertie, third Earl of Lindsay, by whom she had one son, Charles, and a daughter, Elizabeth, who both died unmarried.
  * In Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, is this account: "Sir William W., married a lady of the royal household, of whom the following circumstance is related :— ' King Charles I., at the beginning of his troubles, delivered to Lady Wheler, a casket which she was to take care of, and to return it to his majesty on the delivery of a ring. The evening before the King was beheaded, the ring was sent to Lady Wheler, and the casket delivered to the messenger.' "
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  [13B] IIa WILLIAM, born 158[7?sic] married Elizabeth, daughter to Nathaniel Deards of London, silkman, and had issue :—1, Arthur; 2, William; 3, Michael, who died s. p.; 4, Humphrey; 5,
  [14B] NATHANIEL (of whom and whose descendants see a full account on page 32); 6, Thomas, M.A.,* who "was educated at Westminster school, and thence elected, 8 July, 1651, student of Christ Church, Oxford. On 15 October, 1656, he became principal of St. Mary's hall, Oxford, and was Tutor to the great Mr. Locke, but being in 1660, ejected for nonconformity by the King's Commissioners, he kept a boarding school at Nettlebed in Oxfordshire, from whence he removed to London, and took charge of a large congregation, and was one of the Lecturers at Pinner's hall. He died in September, 1697, and was a man of much learning, much of the gentleman, and eminent for his piety and virtue."†  He was author of several sermons printed in the Morning Exercise at Cripplegate,‡ and in the Casuistical Morning Exercise which are described as "very practical and useful." There is a very rare print (mezzotint) of him in a cloak and bands§ by (De Vriess?[sic]) 7, Robert (son of William and Elizabeth) was Sir Robert Cole of Ballymackey, in the county of Tipperary, Ireland, knt., which honour was conferred upon him at Whitehall, on 25 March 1671;∏ M.P. for Enniskillen in 1661, and attainted in 1688/9 as an absentee by James II. He married, secondly, Anne, daughter of John Sprat, of Grange in Oxfordshire, esq. (who died 30 May, 1716, in the 62nd year of
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  * "William Cole, son of William, son of Thomas Cole, all of London, descendep[sic] from a second son of (i. e., William, second son of John) Cole of Slade (who was second son of Sir John C.) had confirmed or allowed him, Arg., a bull passant, Sa., armed Or, within a bordure of the second bezantée."-—Herald's Office, London, C24, fol. 598a ; Guillim's Heraldry, 6th ed., p. 366.
  * Antony a Wood's Athence Oxonienses (Fasti) vol. IV. col. 166. John Le Neve's Fasti Anglicana, fo. 1710, p. 505. Kennett's Register and Chronicle, fo., London, 1728, p. 903. Gorton's and other Biographical Dictionaries. Pulteney's Sketches.
  † Dr. Edmund Calamy's Nonconformist's Memorial, abridged and corrected by S. Palmer, 8vo, London, 1802, vol. I. pp. 249—252. 
  ‡ 12mo, London, 1674—76.
  § Granger's Biographical History of England, vol. III., p. 337.
  ∏ Le Neve's Collections of Knighthoods, vol. I. p. 97, in Harl. MS. 5801.
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her age, and was buried under the belfry of St. Michan's church, Dublin, and left by will £100 for the support of an English school in Ballymackey), and had, by his first wife, a son, Robert Cole, whose daughter and sole heiress Jane, was married in 1718 to Henry Bowen of Bowen's-court, in Farihy, in the county of Cork (great-grandson of Colonel Bowen, who settled in Ireland, temp. Cromwell, a cadet of the family of Bowen of Court-house, Ilston, in the county of Glamorgan), who was the great-great-grandfather of Robert Cole-Bowen, M.A., of Bowen's-court, J. P. for the counties of Cork and Tipperary, high-sheriff of the latter county in 1865, and captain in the Royal South Cork regiment of militia, the present owner of the Ballymackey Castle estate. Captain Cole-Bowen married, 3 December, 1860, Elizabeth Jane, daughter of Charles Clarke, of Graigenoe-park, Holycross, in county Tipperary, by whom he had (1864) issue: 1, Henry Cole-Bowen; 2, Robert Cole-Bowen; 3, ------- ColeBowen.

  III.a Thomas Cole (son of Wm. Cole and Anne, daughter of Michael Colles) was of the Inner Temple, London, of Wethouse in the parish of Walderne in Sussex, and also of the Court of Wards and Liveries[.] He compiled the "ESCHEATS,"* now in the Harleian collection in the British Museum, and in 1630 was 42 years old: he married Katherine, daughter of John Warnett of Hempstead, in Framfield, in the county of Sussex, gent., who died 24 October, 1648, by whom he had issue : 1, Richard (or Reginald) aged 4 years in 1630; 2, Thomas, who died young; 3, John Cole, of London, born in 1629, died s. p.; 4, William Cole, aged 4 months in July 1630 ; 5, Thomas; and three daughters, viz.: 1, Susan, died young; 2, Susan; 3, Anne. He married, secondly, on 15 May, 1651, a daughter of James Preston of London.

  II. Thomas Cole (son of Thomas and Elizabeth, see pp. 23 and 26) in Holy Orders, and B.D., died s. p.

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   * In these volumes are rubbings from his seal, bearing the family arms, and the crest of "a demi-dragon Vert, issuing out of a ducal coronet, and holding in the dexter paw an arrow Or."
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  [12C] III. EMANUEL COLE (son of Thomas and Elizabeth, see pp. 23 and 26) was immediate ancestor of the Earls of Enniskillen (see p. 41). 
  IV. Solomon Cole (son of Thomas and Elizabeth) of Lyss, in the county of Southampton (born 8 January, 1547, buried at Lyss 23 Nov., 1629)* married Mary, daughter and heiress of Thomas Deering, of Lyss, esq. (by Winifred, daughter of Sir George Cotton, of Combermere, in Cheshire) and had five sons and two daughters, viz.:—
  I. Thomas C, who married Mary, daughter of Thomas Waller of Beconsfield, in the county of Bucks, one of the Prothonotaries of the Common Pleas in England. She died in 1627, and was buried at Beconsfield ; and he was interred at Lyss on 13 July, 1641. Their children were, 1, Thomas, baptised 15 January, 1621/2 (of whom below); 2, John, baptised 24 Nov., 1622; 3, Solomon, baptised 27 February, 1624/5; 4, George, baptised 19 March, 1625/6; 5, Deering, baptised 29 April, 1626; Mary, baptised 18 March, 1623/4; and Dorothy, married 16 December, 1639, to More Fauntleroy.
  II. Henry C., D.L for the county of Southampton in 1626, married, first, Susan,† daughter and heiress to ------- Michelborne of Hamons in Suffolk (brother to Sir Edward Michelborne) and by her, who was buried 23 December, 1624, had issue, Solomon, baptised 10 December, 1622 ; and a daughter, Anne. His second wife was ------- daughter of Thomas Fauntleroy of Crondall, in the county of Hants, esq., by whom he had a son Thomas, baptised 1 July, 1627; William, baptised 25 February, 1628/9; and Mary baptised 25 March, 1631/2.
III. John Cole‡
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  * He had this coat confirmed to him : —Arg., a bull passant, Sa., collared and armed Or, within a bordure of the second bezantée (Herald's Off., Hants, C 19, as quoted by Guillim, Berry, &c.) All his descendants are also entitled to quarter :— Or, a saltire Sa., a dexter canton Gu. for Deering.

  † Descendants of this match may quarter :—Or, a cross Sa., between four eagles displayed of the second, for Michelborne.

  ‡ He is presumed to have been the John C., who went to Ireland about 1614; and to have been grandfather to John, whose son William Cole, living at or near Mallow, co. Cork, in 1730, was father of John C, of Cork, who by his wife, a

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  IV. Solomon, of whom nothing more is ascertained than that in January, 1626, he was Groom of the Queen's Crosshows and Lime Hounds, at a yearly fee of £22 17s. 6d.
  V. George, baptised 23 September, 1599, died a Lieutenant at the siege of Burse, in Holland in 1629.
  I daughter. Mary -------, was second wife to John Ady of Doddington in Kent, esq., by whom she had two sons, Thomas and Solomon, and two daughters, Anne and Rose. She was buried in the church of Doddington with her husband, who died 20 February, 1660, aged 80*
  II daughter. Winifred, married to John Wood of Ditton in Surrey.

  Thomas Cole, M.P., eldest son and heir to Thomas ([and Mary] see above) "married,† December, 1651, at St. Andrew's, Holborn, London, Elizabeth, second daughter and co-heiress to Sir Stephen Hervey,‡ of Colchester End in the parish of Hardingstone, in the county of Northampton,Knight of the Bath." In 1663,§ Mr. Cole was sheriff of Hants; in December of that year he asked for and obtained leave (23 Dec.) to be absent out of the said county during the term of his shrievalty, and had permission to reside on his estates {jure uxoris) in North-
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daughter of ------- Atkins (of the family of Atkins of Firville) had, inter alios (A.) John Cole of Oldwood, co. Cork, born 1750, died 1820, leaving issue by his wife (Margaret, daughter of Samuel Allin of Youghal) three daughters and five sons; the only survivor of the latter is Thomas Christopher Cole, of Woodview, Innishannon, J.P. for co. Cork, who married, 1830, Harriet-Jane, only daughter of Charles Brodicke Garde of Ballindiniss, and has issue, two daughters and three sons, 1, John Harding Cole, A.B., in holy orders; 2, Charles Christopher C, Lieut. 15th Regiment of Foot; 3, Thomas Christopher C., of Trinity Coll. Dublin, A.B. (B.) Christopher Cole, who was high-sheriff of co. Cork in 1803, and for his exertions in putting down the rebellion of that time was presented with some handsome testimonials. (C.) Thomas Cole, A.M., sometime of St. Anne's Church, Shandon, Cork, of whom an account appears in Maziere Brady's Records of Cork, etc.

  * Hasted's Kent, vol. I., p. 463.
  † J. Peller Malcolm's Londinium Bedivivum, 4to, Lond., 1802, vol. II., p. 218.
  ‡ Arms of Hervey;—Gu., on a bend Arg. three trefoils, slipped Vert; on a canton Or, a leopard's head of the first.
  § Calendar of State Papers (Domestic Series).
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amptonshire. In 8th Charles II.,* (1668-9) he was M.P. for the county of Southampton. His wife was buried at Lyss on 5 November, 1659, and he on 4 March 1680/1; their children were, Judith, baptised 19 June, 1666; and Charles Cole, a J.P. from about 1690 till his decease in 1711/2. He seems to have been a courtier, and was author of a poem of some 200 lines of adulation of King William, which is entitled "TRIUMPHANT AUGUSTUS: A congratulate Poem on his Majesty's Safe Return."† By Elizabeth his wife, "who died 9 June, anno domini 1729, aet. 67,"‡ he had three sons and three daughters, who died young,§ and a son, Charles Cole, born I688/9, who succeeded to the family estates, and married in 1726, Mary, fifth daughter of Edward Radcliffe of Hitchin (only son of Sir Ralph Radcliffe, of the same place, by Penelope, daughter of Arthur Shirley, of Isfield, in Sussex, esq.)∏ but by her, who survived him, he left no issue. After her decease the estates of Lyss, &c., passed to Judith and Arabella Aubrey, spinsters, who, 5 George III. (1765), obtained an act of Parliament "to enable them to take, bear, and use the Surname and Arms of Cole, pursuant to the Will of Charles Cole, esq., deceased."¶
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  * Browne-Willis' Notitia Parliamentaria, vol. III., p. 277. 
  † 4to, Lond., 1695. 
  ‡ Inscription on black marble slab on Floor of Chancel at Lyss. 
  § Monumental Inscription, see below, No. 1; and Registers. 
  ∏ Berry's County Families, Herts., p. 111. 
  ¶ Journals of the House of Lords, vol 31, p. 40, etc. 

The Rev. Fred. Harvey-Freeth, M.A., Incumbent of Lyss, has most obligingly furnished extracts from the parish registers, and copies of inscriptions on the monuments in that church. Many of them have been made use of above, and the others are here presented for the information of the reader.
      " Married 9 Feb. 1623/4, Mr. Francis Elmor, and Mrs. Em. Cole.

                   CHILDREN OF WILLIAM COLE.

     Name.                            Baptised.
Thomas Cole, son ..................29 September, 1601.
William Cole, „ ......................27 April,         1604.
Thomas Cole, „ ......................20 October,    1606.
Mabell Cole, daughter ............16 June,          1609, buried 11 July, 1610.
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  [14B] NATHANIEL COLE,* (fifth son of William Cole and Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel Deards, as already shown on p. 27) settled at Wigtoft, in the county of Lincoln, subsequent to 1665 : he left issue three sons, viz.:—
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                  CHILDREN OF THOMAS COLE, Gent.
    NAME                            BAPTISED.
Margery Cole, daughter ...........31 July,     1628.
Francis Cole, son .................1 November, 1629.
Jane Cole, daughter............... 5 December, 1630.
Henry Cole, son ...................8 January,     1631/2.
Richard Cole, son ................21 July,         1633.
                                                                         ( "Mrs. Eliz. Cole,
Elizabeth Cole, daughter .........26 April,     1635.< a virgin, buried 2
                                                                         ( Dec. 1709."
Anne Cole, daughter ..............27 February,   1636/7 .
Nathaniel Cole, son .................2 April,         1638.
Edward Cole, son ...................1 November, 1639.
                                                                          ( Mr. Emanuel Cole
                                                                          (of the parish of
Manuel Cole, son .................14 March,    1640/1.(Petersfield, buried
                                                                           ( 15 May, 1693.
                 CHILDREN OF CHARLES COLE, Esquire.
Mr. Thomas Cole, son .....................24 October, 1685, bur. 26 Oct. 1685.
 (Elizabeth, daughter, born 8.30 a.m. ) 5 July,        1687. ( buried July, 1717.
 (John, son .....born 10.— a.m. ) baptised same day.      ( buried 8 Sept.,
                                                                                    ( 1687, in woollen.
Mr. Charles Cole, son ................... 19 March,      1680/1, bur.  31 July,  1752.
Mr. Nathaniel Cole, son....................2 December, 1690,    bur. 11 Feb.   1705/6.
Mrs. Anne, daughter     born Dec. 6th, bap.ye 9th, 1697,    bur. 26 April, 1698.
Mrs. Dorothea, daughter born 7 Sept., bap.3 Oct., 1700,    bur. 14 April, 1725.

                 CHILDREN OF RICHARD COLE[S crossed out]
Anne, daughter .....................8 February,   1719/20.
Richard, son ......................25 November, 1721.
Elizabeth, daughter..............11 September, 1723.
  * In addition to the paternal coat armour of Cole, he was entitled to the quarterings brought in by Bodrugan (see p. 5 note) and Archdeacon (p. 25 note).
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  I Nathaniel Cole, of "Wigtoft, in the county of Lincoln, who, by - Will dated 9 January 1677, and proved in the Consistory Court of Lincoln, in 1679, desired that his body should be buried at Wigtoft; and died seised of messuages and lands in Donington, which he bequeathed to his eldest son, Nathaniel Cole ; also of
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On the North Wall of the Nave is a large Monument, having thiereon a winged skull, the usual emblem of a deceased being the last representative of his family;

4.              To the memory of Charles Cole, Esq.,
             only son of Charles Cole, Esq., of Liss ;
         where this ancient family have long flourished
                       with great reputation,
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messuages and lands in Wigtoft and Swineshead; and of lands in Spanbye, in the county of Lincoln, which he devised to his younger
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               which he continued to maintain by 
  adhering steadily to the laws and religion of his country ; 
       Performing the worthy office of a Peacemaker, 
   Upon all occasions among his friends and neighbours; 
       Being truly charitable to the industrious poor, 
                   And, at his death 
    Bestowing several useful benefactions on this parish. 
                   He married Mary, 
   The youngest daughter of Edward Radclifle of Hitchin, 
              In the county of Hertford, Esq., 
             By whom having no issue, 
         He gave the reversion of his estate, 
                      After her decease, 
                 To his nearest relation, 
Herbert Aubrey of Clehonger, in the County of Hereford, Esq., 
                  And to his family. 
           He died July 26, 1752, aged 63, 
      And lies interred at the foot of this monument. 

An Oval Monument on the North Wall of Nave. 5. Near this place
Is deposited all that was mortal of Mrs. Arabella Cole, fourth daughter of Herbert Aubrey, of Clehonger, Esq. Her manner, in which mildness was mixed with dignity, Her sincere and disinterested friendships, Her universal charity of opinion as well as practice, Her unaffected Piety, Her steadfast faith in the merits of her Redeemer, (which appear'd not only in her last illness but through her whole life), leave to her surviving friends the comfort of a well-grounded confidence, That she exchanged this life for a better Nov. 7th 1777, In the 53rd year of her Age.

  The following is on the large bell, in Lyss Church:—"Charles Cole, Esq., gave by Will, £100 towards re-casting the three old bells and making a peal of five bells; and likewise timber for a new frame, 1753."
  Portions of the Communion Plate appear from their inscriptions to have been the gifts of the family.
  There is also on the chancel floor a memorial slab to Mrs. Penelope Radcliffe, sister to Mrs. Mary Cole, with whom she usually resided. She died 2 May, 1758, in the 66th year of her age.
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son, Robert Cole. All his personal estate was left to his two daughters, Anne and Mary, who were, at his decease, under age. His wife was --------, daughter of ------- Hancocke, and sister of Robert Hancocke.

  II. Thomas Cole, who was one of the executors of the Will of his brother Nathaniel.
  [15B] III. JOHN COLE, who by Mary, his wife, had issue, 
  [16B] JOHN COLE of Wigtoft,* baptised 20 February, 1677, died 2 August, and buried at Wigtoft, on 4 August, 1735; married 21 February, 1707, Joanna (who died 9 May, 1738), daughter of James Willson of Wigtoft, by Mary, his wife, daughter of William Jackson, of Wigtoft (who was born at Frampton in 1661) by -------, his wife,daughter of ------- Rainor of Spalding. John and Joanna left issue:

  I . John Cole of Wigtoft, baptised 10 April 1712, who was of Quadring Raudyke in 1759-61, and was buried at Wigtoft, on 18 June, 1780. His first wife was Alice, daughter of ------- Crosby of Gosberton, in the county of Lincoln, and by her, who died 7 February, 1745, had issue, 1, William, born 29 September, baptised 4 November, 1737, and was buried at Wigtoft, 30 November, 1737; 2, John Cole, born 28 December, 1738, baptised 13 January following, and died 21 March 1765, he resided with his half-brother James at Holbeach Marsh; 3, Elizabeth, born August 1740, buried 7 September, 1741 ; 4, Samuel Cole, of Sutton St. Edmund's, born 4 October, baptised 28 October, 1741, married 30 March 1776, Mary Wilson, of Sutton St. Edmund's, widow, he died intestate, and was buried at Holbeach, 17 July 1788, (having had issue, la, Samuel Cole of Sutton, born before wedlock in 1775, who died about April, 1834-5, and who is said to have been " a man of great stature, and as black as a coal," he married Anne, daughter of ------- Spendelow, but had no issue; 2a, Sarah, born 1777,
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and died unmarried; 3a, James Cole, born 1779, died in January, 1840, a bachelor and intestate, seised of a freehold estate at Pinchbeck, in Lincolnshire, which descended to his co-heiresses Mary Yeats and Elizabeth Hart; 4a, John, born 1784, died unmarried at Long Sutton, about 1803, aged 18 or 19; 5 a, Elizabeth, baptised 1 April 1786, died a spinster at Gedney, about 1837); 5, Anne, born 10 January, 1742, died 11 February, 1745; 6,------- born 29 February, 1743, died in infancy; 7, Mary, born 12 September, 1745, died 15 May, 1763; he married, secondly, Mary, daughter of ------- Atkinson, and by her, who died 30 November, 1770, aged 42, had issue, 8 (1) James Cole of Holbeach Marsh, coelehs, born 28 September, and baptised 2 November, 1750, buried at Wigtoft, 4 August, 1808; 9(2) William, born 8 March, and baptised 15 May, 1759, who died 4 and was buried 7 June 1765. 

  II. Samuel Cole (son of John and Joanna) baptised 25 November, 1714, died October, 1722. 

  III. Mary (daughter of John and Joanna) born -------, married to Samuel Dawson, by whom she had John D., married to Eleanor -------, and had issue [Ed. names unknown].

[17B] IV. JAMES COLE, of Burtoft (of whom below).

  V. Samuel (another) son of John and Joanna, baptised 9 April, 1724, died May, 1738. 

  VI. Thomas (son of John and Joanna) of Wigtoft, baptised 24 
  June, 1726, and living in 1747. 

[17B] JAMES COLE, of Burtoft, in Wigtoft (fourth child of John and Joanna) born 17 December, 1716, baptised 3 January following, married in 1744, Mary, youngest daughter of Edward Hill She died 22 May, 1780, at the age of 62 years ; and he died suddenly whilst on his way to church on Easter Sunday, the 4th of April, 1790, aged 74 years ; he was of middle stature, but a very handsome man, and his wife is also said to have been a beautiful woman. Their children were, Sarah, who died in infancy and was buried at Wigtoft; and
  I. Mary, baptised 5 April, 1745, died 30 June 1780, aged 35, married to Thomas Weeks, of Wigtoft and Sutterton, who died 26 September, 1806, aged 59, leaving issue: William Weeks of Pelham's Lands (who died at Louth in 1849, and married, first,
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Elizabeth, daughter of William Walker of Marehara, gent., and had surviving issue, Mary, married to S. S. Shipley, by whom she has two daughters and one son; he married, secondly, Martha, daughter of W. Dunn, and widow of Richard Wrangham, who died 1861); and Sarah, wife to Robert Cartwright of Laceby in the county of Lincoln (who died in 1861, very aged) by whom she had a large family.
  II. Alice, born about 1752, died January, 1836, aged 84, married to John Dowse of Burtoft, who came from Metheringham, in Lincolnshire, and left issue, John Dowse of Whaplode; James Dowse of London, who married Martha, daughter of ------- Pindar of Boston; Richard Dowse of Burtoft, who died 1859, married Martha, daughter of John Codling, and had Richard D., now of Burtoft, and three daughters; William D., of Wigtoft, who married his cousin Elizabeth Cole; Alice D., married to John Molesworth, and had issue; Mary D., married to George Nutt, and had issue ; and Rebecca D., married to John Codling, and left an only child John Codling of Whaplode, who married Mary-Ellen, only daughter of Samuel Smeeton of Deyncourthall in Kirton, in the county of Lincoln, and has issue.
  III. James Cole, born 22 January, 1754, died 16 January, 1802, married 30 September, 1791, Mary, daughter of ------- Leake of Wigtoft (a descendant of the ancient and illustrious family of Leake, of Leake, in the county of Lincoln), who died 19 July 1798, aged 36. They had issue, five children who died in infancy, and three who survived, viz.:—
  1. Mary, born 1 February, 1792, married, first, on 3 August, 1813, to Robert Thorpe of Fosdyke, and had issue, two sons, of whom the younger Robert Thorpe, died in 1841, aged 20, and the elder James Cole-Thorpe, of Otby-house in Walesby, in the county of Lincoln, born* 28 August, 1817, married at Charlinch, in Somersetshire, on 20 February, 1856, Anne, daughter of Benjamin Hobbs, of Blackmore, in the county of Somerset, by whom he has, 1, James Cole-Thorpe, born 25 November, 1857; 2, Elizabeth-Mary T., born 10 July, 1859 ; 3, Robert Henry T, born 20 November, 1860; Rosa Cole-Thorpe, born 8 April, 1862. Mary Cole (i.e. Widow Thorp) married, secondly, Joseph Yeats of Boston, but had no issue by him, and died 25 February, 1858.
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2. James Cole of Sutterton, born 9 November, 1794, died 1 May, 1818, buried at Wigtoft, and married Maria, daughter of John Casswell, of Wigtoft, but had no issue. She remarried first, Edward Teesdale, and secondly Richard Willerton, and had one son by each of them, and died 8 January, 1846.
3. Elizabeth Cole, born 19 January, 1797, died suddenly at Boston in 1862, married, first, to John Casswell, of Wigtoft, the younger, by whom she had no issue; and secondly to Valentine Hart of Wigtoft, by whom she had three daughters, viz, 1, Elizabeth, married to Charles Ward, and had issue; 2, Mary Anne Hart, married to -------; and 3, Jane Hart, married to -------.
  [18B] IV. JOHN COLE of Easthorpe-court,* in Wigtoft, born 3 April, 1758, died 6 March 1817, married 11 February, 1790, Mary, daughter of William and Elizabeth Atkin of Wyberton, in the county of Lincoln, and by her, who was born 28 May, baptised 30 June, 1765, and died 19 March, 1849, he left issue,
  I. Elizabeth, born 1790, died 23 April 1836, married 11 May, 1813, to her cousin, William Dowse of Wigtoft, by whom she left issue, 1, William Cole-Dowse, married to -------, daughter of Henry Huskisson, but has no issue; 2, Richard John Dowse, married Rhoda, daughter of ------- Gaunt, and widow of ------- Harrison, but has no issue; 1st daughter, Mary Cole-Dowse, married first to James Bell, of Swineshead, by whom she had issue, and secondly to ------- Harrison; 2nd daughter, Elizabeth Dowse, married to Samuel Garner, and has one son.
  II. Mary Cole, born 8 August, 1791, died June 1843, buried under the South wall of the chancel at Wigtoft, married 26 August, 1813, to William Beasley of Surfleet, in the county of Lincoln,
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  * Easthorpe has been variously spelt, Esthorpe, Easthrope, and Easthope. The latter is the orthography adopted in the Index VMaris (fo. London, 1690; where it is stated to lie in Lat. 52°.58 [N.], Long. 0°.01 W., and to be the only gentleman's seat in Wigtoft, in the hundred of Kirton, in the county of Lincoln. It had, for at least two centuries belonged to the Howson family, and passed with their heiress to the Loctons of Kirton, who sold it about 1640 to the Yorkes of Leasingham, in the county of Lincoln. It was purchased in 1784 by Mr. James Cole of Burtoft, the father of this John Cole.
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who died at Milton-by-Gravesend (where he lies buried), on 21 July 1861, aged 74. They had issue seven sons and four daughters; of whom survived a daughter, Louisa Sophia, married to Charles Robinson of Milton-by-Gravesend, in Kent (by whom she has one son and five daughters); and three sons, viz., 1, William Cole-Beasley, of Lincoln College, Oxford, M.A., and of the Inner Temple, barrister-at-Law, born 25 June 1816, married in 1842, Emma, daughter of Edmund Turnor, M.P. for Truro, and has no issue; 2, John Beasley, of St. John's College, Cambridge, B.A., captain in the Boyal South Lincoln regiment of militia, born 1826, died unmarried, at Cork, 22 December, 1856; 3, Joseph Noble-Beasley, captain in Her Majesty's 87th, or Royal Irish Fusilier regiment, born 1832.

  [19] III. JOHN COLE of Easthorpe-court, born 13 December, 1793, died 12 April, and was buried at Wigtoft 16 April, 1855. He married at Waltham Abbey church, in Essex, 24 March, 1827, Susannah, fourth daughter of Captain John Bourchier * R.N., Lieut.-Governor of Greenwich Hospital, by Charlotte,†
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  * He was son of the Rev. Edw. Bourchier, M.A., rector of Bramfield, and vicar of All Saints' and St. John's, Hertford, who was brother to the Hon. Richard Bourchier, Governor of Bombay, and younger son of Charles Bourchier, M.P. for Armagh, who died in 1716, by his wife Barbara, daughter of Richard Harrison, of Balls, in the county of Herts, and the Hon. Audrey, eldest daughter of George Villiers, Viscount Grandison, by the Lady Mary, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir Francis Leigh, Earl of Chichester, by his second wife, Audrey, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Boteler, Baron Butler of Bramfield, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir George Villiers of Brokesby, and sister to George, Duke of Buckingham. Captain B. was, through the above, descended from Sir John St. John, of Lydiard Tregoze; from Lord Chancellor Egerton; Sir Thomas Leigh, Lord Mayor of London; from the families of Harington of Exton; Sydney of Penshurst; Colepeper, and Bruse, of Exton; Cromwell; Bernake, and Tatteshall; Fleet of Fleet, in Lincolnshire; from the Lords Multon of Egremont; Sir William Roche of Lamer, lord-mayor of London, temp. Henry VIII.; Tyrrel of Gipping; Marmyon, the Lord of Tamworth; and Kilpec of Herefordshire, &c.
  † She was great grand-daughter of William C, Secretary to the Admiralty (who changed the spelling of his name to Corbett) the grandson of Robert, the second son of Sir Vincent Corbet of Moreton-Corbet, who was grandson to Sir Roger C, son and heir of Sir Robert C, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Vernon of Haddon, Knight of the Bath; and her unbroken lineal descent can be traced from Charlemagne, viz:—through Vernon; Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury; Butler, Earl of Ormonde, &c, by his wife Aliamore, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun,  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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his second wife, daughter of Thomas Corbett of Darnhallhall, Cheshire, of Elsham-hall, Lincolnshire, and of Lincoln's Inn, barrister-at-law, by Elizabeth his wife, sole heiress and child of Humphrey Edwin of St. Alban's, (son of Sir Humphrey Edwyn, knt., lord mayor of London, 1698) by Mary, only child of William Thompson of Elsham, and had issue,
1. Caroline Cole, born 7 May, 1828, and died 21 November, 1834.
2. Anne Cole, born 17 January, 1829, died 24 August, 1831.
3. Emma Cole, born 28 March, 1830, died 26 July, 1830.
4. John Bourchier Cole, born 4 March, 1831, died 31 March, 1832.
  [20] 5. JOHN CHARLES COLE, now of Easthorpe, born 4 August,
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Earl of Hereford and Essex, and of the Princess Elizabeth, the daughter of King Edward I.; Kings Henry III., John, and Henry II.; Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, and Matilda, daughter of King Henry I.; William the Conqueror and Maud, daughter of Baldwin V., Earl of Flanders ; Baldwin IV.; Arunlph II., and a daughter of Berengarius, King of Italy; Baldwin III.; Arnulph I., Earl of Flanders and Artois; Baldwin II. and Elfrida, daughter of Alfred the Great, King of England; Baldwin I. and Judith, daughter of the Emperor Charles the Bald by the daughter of Boso, King of Burgundy; the Emperor Lewis the Pious, or Le Debonnair, the son of Charlemagne by Hildegard, daughter of Childebrand, Duke of Swabia. Again, from Edward I. and Eleanor, the daughter of Ferdinand, King of Castile, Leon, &c, by the marriage of Sir Richard Corbet (father of the last above-mentioned Sir Robert C.) with Elizabeth, daughter of Walter Devereux, Lord Ferrers of Chartley, by his wife Anne, daughter and heiress of William, sixth Lord Ferrers of Chartley, the son of Edmond, fifth Lord (by Helen, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas de la Roche), son of Robert, fourth Lord, by Margaret, daughter of Edward, Baron Despenser (and Elizabeth, daughter and heiress to Sir Bartholomew, Lord Burghersh), son of Edward D. (and Anne, daughter of Henry, Lord Ferrers of Groby), second son of Hugh le Despenser, "the younger," Chamberlain to Edward II., by Alianore, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hereford, and of the Princess " Joane d'Acres," daughter of King Edward I. Through the Despensers she also derived from Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, Basset of Wycombe, &c.; through de Clare from de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln; Hugh Cyveliok, Earl of Chester; Isabel, daughter and co-heiress to William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, &c.; Richard Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke, &c.; Giffard, Earl of Buckingham. Through Talbot and de Bohun from the Lord Fienes; Fitz Piers(alias de Maundeville) Earl of Essex; Henry, Prince of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon; the Earls of Warren and Surrey ; the Kings of Scotland, and many other illustrious royal and noble houses. Through the marriage of Sir Roger Corbet with Margaret, daughter and heiress of the Lord Erdington, she derived from tlie Baron Somerie of Dudley, and from William de Albini, 3rd Earl of Arundel.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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1832,* married 15 April 1857, Harriet, third surviving daughter of the late Charles Green of Alconbury Manor, in the county of Huntingdon, by Mary his wife, daughter of Richard Ashton, of Huntingdon. 
  6. Matilda Cole, born 25 February, 1834, died 5 June 1834. 
[2OA] 7. JAMES EDWIN COLE, of the Inner Temple,* barrister-at-law, born 27 April, 1835.
  8. Victoria Cole, born 8 October, 1837, died 5 March, 1840.
  9. Henry Cole, born 18 October, 1838, died same day.
  10. Mary Anne Cole, born 3 August, 1840, married 12 October, 1859, at St. John's Church, Lewisham Eoad, New Cross, Kent, to Hugh Williams, of Porthlongdu, in Anglesey, second son of the late Henry "Williams of Tre' Iarddur, and Tre 'r Castell, in the county of Anglesey.
  11. Bourchier Cole, born 9 January, 1845, died 28 January, 1846.
  [12C] EMANUEL COLE (third son of Thomas Cole of London, who died 1571, by his wife, Elizabeth Hargrave, as already shown at p. 29), married Margaret, daughter of Hugh Ingram,† citizen and merchant of London, and aunt to Sir William Ingram, LL.D., and also to Sir Arthur Ingram, knt., of Temple-Newsom, M.P. for York, and by her had
  [13C] Sir WILLIAM, his heir, and a daughter Margaret, who married, first, William, son and heir to Thomas Ashenden,‡ of the county of Kent, gent., by whom she had one son and four daughters, viz., William, aged 22 in 1629 ; Anne, married to ------- Leeds ; Cicely;  Mary; and Frances, married to Daniel Foster of Dublin, son of ------- Foster, esq., of ------- Lincolnshire, and secondly to Thomas Clarke of Clapham,‡ Surrey (great-grandson to Hugh§ Clarke, of Welbourne, in the county of Lincoln, esq., one of the Benchers of Lincoln's Inn, who who[sic] died 9 May, 20 Henry VIII.) by whom she had Charles Clarke, "only son and child living, aged 14 years in 1633."§
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  *Arms and crest:—Those confirmed to William Cole of London (see p. 27) and the various quarterings to which he was entitled.—See Bodrugan, Archdeacon, &c.
  † Burke's Extinct Peerage (1866) Title " Ingram, Lord Irvine."
  ‡ This family was for some generations possessed of the Manor of East Asherinden or Ashenden in Tenterden.—Hasted's Kent, vol. III., p. 97.
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  [13C] Sir WILLIAM COLE, only son of Emanuel, early in the reign of James I. fixed his residence in the county of Fermanagh: 10 September, 1607, he was made Captain of the long boats and barges at Ballyshannon and Lough Earne by patent, pursuant to privy signet 15 May preceding, with the fee of 3s. 4d. a day for himself, and 8d. a piece for 10 men. And becoming an undertaker in the Northern Plantation, he had an assignment 16 November, 1611, of the small proportion of Dromskeagh, containing 1000 acres of the escheated lands in the county of Fermanagh, at the crown rent of £8. English; to which 28 May, 1612, were added 320 escheated acres in the said county, at the rent of 20s., Irish; 80 acres whereof were assigned for the town of Enniskillen, and for the burgesses close and common for the said town, with an exception of the castle, and the other two-third parts of the island of Enniskillen, together with covenants for planting, building and inhabiting the said town, according to a plan set down by the Lord Deputy for Sir Ralph Bingley and Captain Basil Brooke, with a grant of a market and a fair, the clerkship of the market, and keeping of a toll booth within the said town, and a prohibition that none should sell by retail within three miles of the town, but such as Captain Cole should plant there or be resident; for performance of which covenants he entered into bonds with the Crown, and, having fulfilled his engagements, the town of Enniskillen was incorporated by a charter, consisting of a provost, and twelve burgesses, he himself being the first provost* In 1614 he was Provost Marshal
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   * By patent, dated 21 September, 1623, pursuant to Privy Seals, dated at Westminster, 29 October, 1620, and 18 July 1622, and by the consent of Sir Thomas Dutton, one of the gentlemen of the King's Privy chamber, he received, a grant to him, his heirs and assigns, of the aforesaid excepted castle, fort and bawne of Enniskillen, and two third parts of the Island of Enniskillen, together with two small islands called Enniskillen Islands, all lying within Lough Earne, at the yearly rent of 5s. (Irish). And in virtue of the Commission, dated 13 August, 1628, for granting anew of all lately escheated lands in the province of Ulster, also in recompense of his good services, and for the fine of £32 12s. (English), King Charles, 6 May, 1629, confirmed to him and his heirs the whole small proportion of Dromskeagh, with all the hereditaments thereof, containing 1,000 acres by survey, in the baronies of Magheriboy and Clenawly, in the county of Fermanagh, with free liberty of fishing in Lough Earne, and 120 acres of concealed lands in the former barony, to hold by fealty only, and the yearly rent of £1013s. id. (English) for Dromskeagh, and £1 6s. 8d. for the other; the whole being created into the manor of Portdorie
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 for Ballyshannon ;* in 1617 he was knighted by the Lord Deputy St. John, and 15 June, 1618, received the grant of a pension of 6s., English, by the day, on the surrender thereof by Captain Roger Atkinson ; and 3 December following, he and his lady had a license to sell and retail wine, and to make and sell Aqua-vitee, in Enniskillen.
   In the Parliament of 1639 he represented the county of Fermanagh, and being a person of great prudence and conduct, enjoyed a considerable share of esteem from his country in general, and the government in particular; to whom he gave the first notice of what passed in the county among the abettors of the rebellion of 1641: "For Bryan Macguire (whom he afterwards preserved from the rage of the rebels, who were incensed against him for not taking the oath of confederacy with them) about 10 October, understanding by Farrell oge Mac Award, a friar, that there was a general purpose and resolution among the popish inhabitants of Ireland, to take up arms within a fortnight; and then to seize on all the strongholds, which they purposed to retain until they should procure liberty of conscience, and free exercise of the Romish religion; he gave then the more credit to that report, in regard that he had observed the unusual and frequent meetings between the Lord Maguire, Sir Phelim Eoe O'Neil, Tirlagh oge Mac Hugh oge O'Hosie, and others of the chief of their country, and their followers; and imparted this discovery to Sir William Cole, who, the very next day (11 October) sent a letter to the Lords Justices by an express from Enniskillen, acquainting them with 'the unusual resort of people to Sir Phelim 0'Neil's house; the frequent private journeys of Lord Maguire thither, to
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[with power to create tenures] with an assignment of 400 acres for a demesne, 300 acres for a park, with free-warren and chase, and other privileges of courts, &c, subject to the conditions of plantation, on which he had built in the reign of King James I. a good stone castle, three stories high, strongly wrought within a bawne of lime and stone, 68 feet square, and 13 feet high, with 4 flankers, [ "of lyme and stone, 30 feet high, and 10 feet wide."] And by virtue of the commission for remedy of defective titles, he had a further confirmation, 18 July, 1638, for the fine of £73 18?. 9d. (English) and the rent of £53 16s. 8d. (English) of all his estate in the county of Fermanagh, with the creation thereof into the manors of Cormegradie and Portdorie, a demesne of 400 acres in each, liberty to impark 600 acres more, and usual privileges.—(lodge).
  * Moryson's Travailes, fo. ed. 1617, pp. 300-301.
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Dublin, and other places, his many dispatches in great hurry to divers persons to meet at his seat, pretending to raise men for the king of Spain's service; to nominate captains under him to do the like, and pitching upon such as were men of broken fortunes, and the likeliest to be concerned in any mischief that was intended, of which the suspicions were very strong, and gave uneasiness to men of honest inclinations.'"
   Upon the receipt of this intelligence the Lords Justices and Council wrote to Sir William requesting him to be very diligent and industrious to find out what should be the occasion of those meetings and specially to advertise them thereof, or of any other particular, that he conceived might tend to the public service of the State which was all that could reasonably have been done by the State in those circumstances, Sir William's observations being only conjectural. But, being on his guard, and making daily remarks on what occurred in his part of the country, he received a more particular information, by John Cormack and Flaherty Mac Hugh, from Brian Mac Cohonaught Maguire, of the intended insurrection and seizing of the castle of Dublin; the murdering the Lords Justices, and the protestants of Ireland; and the seizing all the forts in the kingdom. With this news he dispatched on the 21st another express to the Lords Justices, which (whether the letters were intercepted, or otherwise miscarried) came not to their hands; but the intelligence next day, late in the evening, was confirmed by Owen O'Conolly, servant to Sir John Clotworthy, who communicated the conspiracy to the Lord Justice Parsons, out of a sense of his duty and loyalty to the king, and an effect of that (protestant) religion he was trained up in. Of which his relation Sir John Temple, Dr. Borlace, and other writers give account.
   On the breaking out of the rebellion, Sir William Cole, received a commission under the Privy Signet, dated by the King at Edinburgh, 16 November, to be Colonel of 500 foot for suppressing the Rebels; upon which he soon raised most of the forces of Fermanagh; was Governor of the Garrison of Enniskillen, and by his prudent care preserved the country, in a great measure, from the desolation which threatened it. He did not confine his services to that part of the country only, but rendered himself remarkable to the parliament
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(who had undertaken to prosecute the war) by his success in other parts of the kingdom. And in January, 1643, when his regiment was in the utmost necessity for bread, and totally destitute of their pay, Sir William, in his great zeal for His Majesty's service, and preservation of the regiment, bought from Robert Thornton, esquire, 200 barrels of rye, at the rate of 30s. the barrel, for their maintenance ; but, notwithstanding his heavy private disbursements in this and other matters for the service of the State, he had long to await the repayment of his advances, as may be seen by referring to the Journals of the Houses of Lords and Commons.
  Although Sir William was at this time advanced in years, he nevertheless (as has been stated) materially aided in the suppression of the rebellion; yet the signal services that he then, and on other occasions, rendered to his sovereign and his fellow citizens did not secure him from many representations by and much detraction from one less successful than himself, to whom he was the object of envy ; but the pamphlet,* which he published in refutation of those spiteful attacks, shows that he was as well able to use his pen as his sword. It is quaintly remarked in Moryson's Hist, of Ireland (8vo, Dublin, 1735) that "This Sir William Cole, is a Justice of the Peace and Quorum in the county of Fermanagh, and hath been thrice Sheriff of his county."-)- He married, first, Susanna, daughter and heiress to John Croft, of the county of Lancaster, esq., and relict of Stephen Segar, esq.. Lieutenant of the Castle of Dublin, and had issue : Mary, married to the Reverend Master John Barclay (or Berkeley); and Margaret, married to Sir James Montgomery,‡
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  * "The Answer and Vindication of Sir William Cole, Knight and Colonel, presented to the Committee of both Kingdoms unto a charge given in by Sir F. Hamilton, Knt., to the said Committee against the said Sir William Cole, with the charge or information prefixed. 4to, London, March 31st, 1645."
  † Sir William, for his services in Ireland, had a grant to his paternal coat armour of this augmentation:—"In dexter canton, per pale Gu. and Az., a harp of Ireland, Or, stringed Arg." ; and to the crest,—" a shield Or, in the sinister paw."
  The issue of his first wife Sus. Croft, quarter her arms:—Lozengy (of 8) Arg. and Sa., for Croft; and Vert., a chevron between three crosses crosslet, Or.
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second son to Sir Hugh Montgomery, first Viscount Montgomery. He [i.e. William Cole,] married, secondly, Catherine, eldest daughter of Sir Lawrence Parsons, of Birr, in King's County, second Baron of the Exchequer (ancestor of the Earl of Rosse) and dying in October, 1653, was buried in St. Michan's Church, and left two sons, viz:— 
  [14C] I. MICHAEL, his heir, ancestor of the Earls of Enniskillen, and 
  II. Sir John Cole, bart, father of Sir Arthur, created Lord Ranelagh; which Sir John was seated at Newland, in the county of Dublin. "During the rebellion he was very active under his father, particularly in the relief of Enniskillen; which having been besieged nine weeks by 1,500 men under Philip Mac Hugh O'Reily, they were surprised in a sally by Walter Johnson, an officer under Sir William, who, being seconded by Sir John with his foot company and some volunteers, the siege was raised, and Sir John had the pursuit of the enemy for seven miles, as far as Maguire's bridge."
  After the reduction of the kingdom by the parliament, he was appointed with others, 21 November, 1653, commissioners for the precinct of Belturbet, to consider how the titles of the Irish and others to an estate in Ireland, and also their delinquency according to their respective qualifications might be put into the most speedy and exact way of adjudication, so as might be with justice, and least prejudice to the public interest. On 27 September, following, he had the pay of £18 4s. by the month, allowed him as Governor of Enniskillen, and being very instrumental in promoting the restoration of king Charles II., his majesty, by privy seal, dated at Whitehall, 4 August, and by patent dated 23 January, 1660, created him a Baronet, in consideration of his very many good services performed to his majesty; and in December following, ordered him a commission to be Colonel of a regiment of foot, being well versed in military affairs, to which he was appointed 22 March following; having on the 19th been constituted one of the commissioners for the settlement of the
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his second wife, died 1639, having had an only daughter born at Rosemount, and died in infancy. Lodge gives a long account of Sir James, whose grandson Hugh, Third Viscount Montgomery? was, in 1661, created Earl of Mount Alexander.
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kingdom, under the acts for which purpose he had a grant of lands.* He was M.P. for the county of Fermanagh, and 2 April 1661, was appointed Custos Rotulorum of the same, and 26 October, 1675, was one of the commissioners entrusted for the (1649) officers.
  He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Chichester of Dungannon, esq., second brother to Arthur, created Earl of Donegall, and dying in or about the year 1691† had issue, four sons and seven daughters, viz.:—1, Sir Arthur, the second baronet, created Lord Ranelagh ; 2, Michael, of Derry-castle, and Castle Lough, in the county of Tipperary, who, in September 1701, married Catherine, daughter of John Cusack, of Kilkisheen, in the county of Clare, esq., (who died 20 November, 1717) and by her, who died in 1718, had an only son, John, born 1703, who died a bachelor, in March 1724, and he himself, departed this life in 1726 ; 3, Colonel Richard Cole, of Archer's Grove, in the county
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  * On 2 April, 1658 (being then denominated of Newland) he purchased from Penelope, widow of Colonel Robert Baily, and Dr. William Baily (Henry Baily being dead) for the sum of £400, the lands of Moyntagh, containing 300 acres ; Clontemneyland, 60 acres ; Drumduffe, and others; in all 951 acres in the barony of Clenawly, which had been set out to the said Penelope towards satisfaction of her husband's arrears of £580 15s. 9d., for service in England and Ireland, the same having been devised to her, Dr. William Baily, and Henry Baily, by her husband's will, dated 19 February, 1650, viz:—the lands of Moyntagh, 2 great tates, containing 300 acres of profitable land; Clontemneyland, half a tate, 60 acres; Drumduffe, Kiltewlean, and Garealy, alias Garowlas, half a tate, 50 acres; in Gartnasillagh and Mullownyskeogagh, 13 acres; Fineland and Conlerady, 1 tate, 80 acres; in Drumshrule and Claghanagh, the third of a tate called Cloghanagb, 23 acres; 5/6th parts of the great tate of Taytynamona, 83 acres; Cargillananagh, half a tate, 50 acres; Tullyhona, and Derrylaghta, 1 tate, 90 acres; Gortin, alias Molloghgarrowe, and Trian, 1 tate, 80 acres; Drumevne and Tirkeene, 1 tate, 110 acres; and in the great tate of Corderragh and Heggnehorne, 12 acres.
Also 1 December, 1677, he had a release of the new quit-rents, imposed on his estate by the acts of settlement, and the King being fully satisfied of his faithfulness in his service, directed a patent to be passed to him of several tenements and parcels of ground in and about the town of Navan, with sundry others in the co. of Meath, which had been taken by lease, dated 9 March, 1634; demised by King Charles I. to William Billingsley of Dublin, esq., for 31 years, which was then for some years expired, and granted to Sir John for a like term, at such rent as the Barons of the Exchequer should think fit to reserve to the King.—Lodge.
  † Lodge says 1693, but his Will was proved 3 October, 1691.
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of Kilkenny, baptised 8 December, 1671, was M.P. for Enniskillen, and in 1698, married, first, Penelope, eldest daughter, at length heiress to Sir William Evans, of Kilcreene, near Kilkenny, bart., and secondly, Mary, daughter of Maurice Keating, but died s. p., in January 1729, and she re-married in 1730, with Toby Purcell, esq., who resided at Archer's Grove; 4, Edward, baptised 29 May, 1764, and was buried in the chancel of St. Michan's Church, 9 January following; 1st daughter, Catherine, was married to Thomas Brooke, of Donegall, esq., and had issue, Henry Brooke, M.P. for the county of Fermanagh, who married, in 1711, Lettice, daughter of Mr. Alderman Benjamin Burton, of the city of Dublin, and left at his decease in 1761, besides daughters, two sons, viz.:— 1. Arthur Brooke, M.P. for Fermanagh, and a Privy Councillor, who was created a baronet of Ireland in 1764, which honour ceased at his demise in 1785, when he left by his wife Margaret, only daughter of Thomas Fortescue, esq., of Reynold's Town, in the county of Louth, and sister of the first Lord Clermont, two daughters, his coheirs, Selina, married to Thomas, first Viscount de Vesci; and Letitia Charlotte, married to Sir John Parnell; 2. Francis Brooke, who married, in 1765, Hannah, daughter of Henry Prittie, esq., of Dunalley, and was great-grandfather of the present Sir Victor Alexander Brooke of Colebrooke, baronet; 2nd daughter, Letitia, first wife to Dr. William Fitzgerald, Dean of Cloyne, and afterwards Bishop of Clonfert, died s. p.; 3rd daughter, Mary, married to Henry Moore, Earl of Drogheda, ancestor of the Marquess of Drogheda; 4th daughter, Frances, second wife to Sir Thomas Domville of Temple Oge, bart. (father of Sir Compton Domville) by whom she had no issue ; 5th daughter, Margaret, married first to the Reverend John Burdett, Dean of Clonfert, and by him, who was buried in St. Michan's church, 2 August, 1726, had issue, William, born in 1696; Arthur in 1698, of Lismalin, ancestor of the Burdetts of Ballymany, in the county of Kildare, and of Hunstanton, King's County; Elizabeth; Lettice; and John, who died an infant. Her second husband was Thomas Lloyd of Croghan, in the county of Roscommon, a Colonel in the army, by whom she had no issue;
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6th daughter, Elizaheth, married to her cousin Sir Michael Cole,
knt.; and 7th daughter, Alicia, baptised 25 July, 1679, and buried
28 December, 1680, with her brother Edward.

  Sir Arthur Cole, the second bart., with his mother, as an absentee by reason of sickness, and Sir Michael Cole, as resident in England, were all attainted by the parliament of king James II., and had their estates sequestered, to which king William's victories again restored them. In whose reign and in that of queen Anne, Sir Arthur was a member of parliament, and king George I. advanced him to the peerage by privy seal dated at St. James', 1 March, 1714, and by patent at Dublin, 18 April, 1715,* by the title of Baron Ranelagh, of Ranelagh, in the county of Wicklow, with limitation of the honour, in default of his issue male, to the heirs male of his father and their heirs male for ever. On 12 November, following, he took his seat in the house of peers, and was a member of his majesty's privy council. He married, first, Catherine, second, but eldest surving daughter of William, the third Lord Byron, by his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of John, Viscount Chaworth; he married, secondly, on 26 June, 1748, Selina,† eldest daughter of Peter Bathurst, of Clarendon-park, in Wiltshire, esq., and dying
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   * The Preamble—"Postquam Titulos et Dignitates, sub Regni nostri initium, Viria de Republica optime mentis impertiri pro more destinavimus, illos imprimis, qui Sanctis et avitis Patriae legibus vindicandis eminuerent, Honoribus insignire ajquum duximus. Proinde fidelem et prsedilectum nostrum Arthurum Cole, Baronettum, a longe illustrium Virorum serie demissum, et a Patre natum, qui, Caroli secundi in Patriam redeuntis partes strenue promovendo, Baronetti dignitatem promeruit. Ipsum vero tanti Stemmatis haeredem non degenerem, utpote qui Gulielmi tertii causam, inter primos, adjuvando, ad imperium nobis deferendum viam aperuit, novo nomine inclarescere voluimus. Nee est quod dubitemus quin Vir egregius, qui dudum boni Civis numus sustinuit, prsecipue vero cum nuper de Religione reformata ac Jure nostro in Eegnum pene conclamatum essit, in Procerum ordines adscriptus, nihil minus Reipublicae commodo prospiciat; ilium igitur quam lubentissime ad eum Honoris gradum evehimus, unde Virtutes, quae tantam Majoribus et sibi ipsi famam concilia verunt, in regies Magistatis prsesidium et Reipublicae emolumentum luculentiia exerceat. Sciatis igitur," etc.-—(Rot. Ao. 1 Geo. I., 1 p. f.)
  The supporters used by his lordship were the same as those of the Lords MountFlorence and Enniskillen (as on p. 53 note *)
   † Lady Ranelagh married Sir John Elwill, bart., by whom she had an only daughter and child, who married Lieut. Felton Hervey.—Lodge, Vol. IV. note.
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s. p., 12 October, 1754, aged 90, was buried at West Dean; and the title of Baron Ranelagh became extinct. His lordship, in addition to other estates, inherited those of his brother MichaeL viz.: that of Derry Castle, &c., &c, but latterly resided wholly at his beautiful manor house of West Dean, in the county of Wilts, which, together with the manor of East Grinstead, he purchased of the trustees of the Duke of Kingston. The house was pulled down many years ago, and the estate is now the property of Lord Enniskillen (who sits in the House of Lords as Baron Grinstead) and others.

We now return to 
  [14C] Sir MICHAEL COLE (eldest son of Sir William, see p. 46) who was born in 1616, and died intestate prior to 7 April, 1663, on which day Letters of Administration to his effects were granted to his son. He was elected to parliament for Enniskillen in 1661, received the honour of knighthood, and married Alice, daughter of Chidley Coote, of Killester, esq., brother to Charles, the first Earl of Mountrath, and by her, who was buried under the communion table in St. Michan's Church, Dublin, 27 August, 1761, had seven children, who all died young or unmarried, except
  [15C] Sir MICHAEL COLE, his successor, who, 20 February, 1671, married
Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Cole, bart., and by her, who died in London, 19 August, 1733, had sixteen children, of whom Mary was baptised 1 May, 1679, and buried the 7th, at St. Michan's; Elizabeth, buried there 28 August, 1677; John; Michael, baptised 12 July, 1681; Chichester, baptised 14 August, 1683 [Ed. not 1643]; William, baptised 18 August 1686; Catherine; Jane; Alice, and others died young; the only survivors were 
  [16C] JOHN, Michael, Chichester, and Fenton Cole, who was of Dunkeen, in the county of Cavan, and of Silverhill, in the county of Fermanagh, and married Dorothea, daughter of ------- , and relict of ------- Sanderson, by whom he had a daughter Elizabeth Cole, married to Sir Fitzgerald Aylmer of Donadea, bart., by whom she had Sir Fenton Aylmer, bart., and Lieut.-General Arthur Aylmer (who married Anne, daughter and heiress of John Harrison, of Walworth-castle in the county of Durham) grandfather of John Harrison Aylmer, now of Walworth. [Now returning to [15C]] Sir Michael's "estate of 
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£l,070 a year was sequestered in 1689, by king James II., he then having a wife and five children," (Lodge), and on the accession of queen Anne (1701-2) he was in the Commission of the Peace for the county of Middlesex* He departed this life in London, on 11 February, 1710, and was succeeded by his eldest son,
 [16C] JOHN COLE of Florence-court, in the county of Fermanagh, baptised
April 12,1680, who enjoyed all the estate belonging to the family in the county of Fermanagh (that part which had been confirmed to his mother's father, Sir John Cole, in the barony of Clenawly, being settled on her and her heirs, on her marriage with his father), and greatly improved both his own seat, and the town of Enniskillen, by new buildings; so that many poor families by his extensive improvements, were comfortably supported. He served in parliament for the said borough of Enniskillen, and, in 1723, was sheriff of the county of Fermanagh. In July 1707, pursuant to articles dated 10th of that month, he married, first, Florence,† only daughter of Sir Bourchier Wrey, of Trebitch, in Cornwall, and Tawstock in Devonshire, bart., Knight of the Bath, M.P. for the Matter county, Governor of Sheerness, and colonel of a regiment in the reign of king William III. [Editor's clarification: Sir Bourchier Wrey died 28 July 1696. Florence Wrey's mother was Florence, daughter of Sir John Rolle of Stevenstone, in the county of Devon, Knight of the Bath, ancestor of the Lord Rolle.  Florence (wife of John Cole) died at Dublin on 30 August, 1718.  The second wife of Sir John Cole (of Florence-court) is Jane, a daughter of Robert Saunderson, of Castle Saunderson, county of Cavan. By Florence, Sir John Cole had five sons and two daughters.] viz.:—
  [17C] JOHN, his heir; Bourchier, born -------, captain in Wynyard's regiment, married Jane, daughter of -------, and died intestate,  administration being granted 21 September, 1748 ; Michael born -------, married Elizabeth, daughter of the Right Rev. Richard Tenison,
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  * Harl. MS. 7512, f. 35.
  †, Florence-court, a fine structure of the Ionic order, with a front about 300ft. long, was built with the dowry of this lady, and called after her name. It contains portraits of Sir Michael Cole; of Florence, daughter of Sir Bourchier Wrey, and her son John, the first Lord Mount-Forence; of John Willoughby, the second earl, and his brothers, General Sir G. L. Cole, and the Hon. Arthur Cole, the Resident at Mysore. It has also a museum, which is rich in fossils and in other geological treasures that have been collected by the present earl.
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Bishop of Meath, by whom he had a daughter Alice Cole; 
William, baptised 21 April, 1714, married and had a daughter, Mary, who died unmarried 4 April 1755 ; 
  [17D] HENRY COLE, A.M., clerk in Holy Orders, of Brookefield, born in June, 1716, married Mary, daughter of Henry, and sister to Sir Arthur Brooke, (by whom he had : 1. Thomas Cole, esq., whose Will was proved 12 November 1791; 
  [18C] 2. HENRY ST. GEORGE COLE, of Lucan, in the county of Dublin, esq., "one of the land-waiters at the Port of Waterford, and Justice of the Peace for that county, who died 15 May, 1819, at Annestown, in the county of Waterford, at an advanced age ;" * and who married, first, Mary, daughter of Henry Richardson, M.D., by whom he had no issue; and, secondly, Elizabeth Mac Roberts, relict of William Thompson, esq., by whom he had: 
  [19C] 1. HENRY COLE, barrister-at-law, who married -------, daughter of Henry Launauze of Dublin, by whom he had, 
  [20C] (A) JOHN WILLOUGHBY COLE, only son, formerly Sub-Inspector of Police at Balbriggan, who married Elizabeth-Harriet, daughter of John Hamilton Brown, of Comberhouse, in the county of Kerry, esq., and had by her (in 1861) an only child, Jane Matilda Cole; (B) Frances Cole; (C) and Henrietta Cole, married 10 June, 1849, to the Rev. Alfred Hamilton, ard had, in 1861, three sons and three daughters; 2. [Ed. Note: 2 is missing] 3. Arthur Cole, married October, 1868 [Ed. Note: not 1768], Ann, daughter of James Aylmer of Creagh, in the county of Cork, by whom he had Mary, married to William Gubbet, captain in the Fermanagh militia; 4. Elizabeth Cole, married to Henry Kennedy of Cultra, in the county of Down, esq., and died 19 October, 1828; 5. Letitia Cole ; 6. Florence Cole, married to Hugh Falkner of Willbrook, in the county of Tyrone, esq.); Elizabeth, born 27 October, 1712, died at Dublin in 1770, married, first, to Edward Archdall of Castle Archdall in the county of Fermanagh, esq., and secondly to Bysse Molesworth, esq, M.P. for Swords, 1726-7, (the seventh and youngest son of Robert, and brother to Richard, Viscount Molesworth) by whom she had eight sons and one daughter; and Florence, born in
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  * Gents. Mag., vol. 89 (1819) p. 654.
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1714, married to Arthur Newburgh, esq., of Donnybrook, in the county of Dublin, by whom she had Brookhill Newburgh, esq., and many others. His (John Cole's) second wife was ------ the daughter of Robert Saunderson of Castle-Saunderson, in the county of Cavan, esq., and dying in July 1726, he was succeeded by his eldest son,
  [17] JOHN COLE, of Florence-court, born 13 October, 1709, sheriff
of the county of Fermanagh, in 1732, and M.P. for the borough of Enniskillen, till 1760, when his majesty king George II., advanced him to the peerage of Ireland by the title of Baron Mount-Florence* of Florence-Court, in the county of Fermanagh, for which dignity the privy seal bears date at Kensington, 20 August, and the patent 8 September of the same year, and 22 October, 1761, his lordship had his introduction to the house of peers. In October, 1728, he married Elizabeth,† eldest daughter and co-heiress of Hugh Willoughby Montgomery of Carrow, in the county of Fermanagh, M.P. for the county of Monaghan, and died 30 November, 1767, having had issue by her, who died at Bath, in April 1771, two sons and five daughters, viz:— 
  [18] The Honourable WILLIAM WILLOUGHBY COLE, second Baron Mount-Florence, and first Viscount and Earl of Enniskillen (see page 55), and 
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  * Arms: Pearl, a bull passant,Diamond, armed and unguled Topaz, within a bordure of the second bezantée; on a dexter canton, per pale, of the third and Sapphire, a harp Gold, stringed of the first, and the quarterings brought in by Bodrugan (p. 5 note) and Archdeacon (p. 25 note). Crest: A demi-dragon Emerald, langued Ruby, holding in the dexter paw an arrow Gold, headed and feathered Pearl, and in the sinister a shield Sapphire, charged as the canton. Supporters: Two dragons reguardant Emerald, each holding in the exterior paw an arrow as in the crest. Motto : Deum cole, regem serva.

  † Descendants of this marriage quarter arms of WILLOUGHBY-MONTGOMERY, viz., Quarterly 1 and 4, Az., 3 fleur de lis Or; 2 and 3, Gu., 3 annulets Or, gemmed Az. within a bordure Or charged with a double tressure flory counterflory Gu.; on an inescutcheon Arg. a handspike and sword in saltire Gu. This lady was co-representative of the great and distinguished family of Montgomery, ennobled under the titles of Viscount Montgomery and Earl of Mount-Alexander, and sprung originally from the house of Eglintoun. Her mother was Elizabeth, the daughter of Brigadier-General Creighton.—Lodge's Irish Peerage, vol. I., p. 367, &c.
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  [18] The Honourable ARTHUR COLE-HAMILTON, born 8 August, 1750, who was seated at Skea, in the county of Fermanagh, for which county he served the office of sheriff, and was elected in 1789, one of its representatives in parliament, he was also Lieut.-colonel of the Tyrone militia, &c., &c. In 1780 he married Letitia, daughter and heiress to Claudius Hamilton, of Monterlony, in the county of Tyrone, esq., and had license to take the name of, and to bear the arms of Hamilton* in addition to his patronymic and those of Cole ; he died and left issue,
  [19] I. CLAUDE WILLIAM COLE-HAMILTON, son and heir, born 7 July, 1781, married 10 October, 1805, Nichola Sophia, daughter and heiress of Richard Chaloner† of Kingsfort, in the county of Meath. He died 25 April, 1822, leaving issue,
  [20] I. ARTHUR WILLOUGHBY COLE-HAMILTON, of Beltrim, in the county of Tyrone, J.P. and D.L., high sheriff 1830, late major in the Tyrone militia, born 23 November, 1806, married 16 December, 1831, Amelia Catherine, fourth daughter of Rev. Cobbe Beresford, by whom he had,
  [21] 1. WILLIAM CLAUDE COLE-HAMILTON, late captain 88th regiment, born 8 August, 1833, married 10 June, 1858, Caroline Elizabeth Josephine, youngest daughter of Hon. A G. Stuart, and niece of Kobert, Earl of Castle-Stuart; by whom he has 
  [22] ARTHUR RICHARD COLE-HAMILTON, born 29 April, 1859.
          2. Arthur Edward Cole-Hamilton, born November, 1837, died November, 1838.
  [21A] 3. CLAUDE COLE-HAMILTON, born 20 November 1838.
  [21B] 4. Charles Richard Cole-Hamilton, born 6 December 1842, midshipman, R.N. in 1861.
  [21C] 5. ARTHUR HENRY COLE-HAMILTON, born 17 April, 1846.
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  * Arms of Hamilton : Quarterly 1 and 4 Gu., 3 cinquefoils pierced Erm., for Hamilton; 2 and 3 Arg. a lymphad with her sails furled Sa., for Arran, &c
  † Arms of Chaloner, Sa. a chevron between 3 cherubims, Or.
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  [21D] 6. JOHN ISAAC COLE-HAMILTON, born 12 July, 1851.
            7. Amelia Harriet, married April 1858, to John Gordon-Bowen, esq., of Burt-house, in the county of Donegal.
            8. Frances Sophia, horn April, 1836.
            9. Selina, horn June, 1840.
          10. Letitia Grace, born .
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  [20] II. RICHARD CHALONER COLE-HAMILTON, of Kingsfort,  in the county of Meath, J.P., born 25 April, 1810, married 12 February, 1855, to Henrietta, second daughter of Charles Arthur Tisdall, esq., of Charlesfort, in the county of Meath, and assumed the surname of Chaloner, on inheriting the property of his mother's family.
  II. Letitia Cole-Hamilton, married August 1815 to Major . E. Stafford, and died 1853.
  III. Elizabeth Anne Cole-Hamilton, married in 1820 to Captain Henry Slade of 43rd regiment of Light Infantry, and died 14 November, 1849.
  IV. Isabella Cole-Hamilton, married to James Hamilton, esq., and died in 1827.

  The Honourable Mary Anne (eldest daughter of first Baron Mount-Florence) born -------, died unmarried.
  The Honourable Flora Caroline Cole, married 10 December, 1735, to William Irvine of Castle Irvine, in the county of Fermanagh, esq., and died 20 October, 1757.
  The Honourable Catherine Cole, born ------, married 6 October, 1770, to Redmond Brown, esq., captain in the first regiment of Foot.
  The Honourable Mary Cole, born , died 4 April, 1755 ; and
  The Honourable Elizabeth Cole, born -------, died -------.
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  [18] WILLIAM WILLOUGHBY COLE, second Baron Mount-Florence, was born in 1736, and 6 May 1756, set out from Ireland for Gottingen in the Electorate of Hanover ; he arrived there in June, and 10 August following pursued his travels, visiting the courts of Berlin, Brunswick, Dresden, Munich, Venice, Rome, Naples, Florence, Sicily, Pisa, Leghorn, Genoa, Turin, and most of the towns in Flanders, till 11 September 1757, when he arrived in London. In 1761 he was chosen to parliament for Enniskillen, for which borough he served till 1767; and 7 March, 1768, had his introduction to the house of peers on the death of his father. On 20 July 1776 he was created Viscount Enniskillen, pursuant to privy seal dated at St. James' 24 June preceding, and by that title took his seat in parliament 14 October, 1777 : in 1789, he was further advanced to the dignity of Earl of Enniskillen; and died 22 May, 1803. His wife (to whom he was wedded 3 November, 1763) was Anne, daughter of Galbraith Lowry-Corry, esq., of Ahenis, in the county of Tyrone (whose son Armar was created Earl of Belmore) and by her ladyship, who died in 1802, had issue, 
  [19] I. JOHN WILLOUGHBY COLE, second Earl of Enniskillen, K.P., LordLieut, and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Fermanagh, born 23 March 1768 ; on 11 August, 1815, he was created, by patent, a peer of Great Britain, by the style of Baron Grinstead, of Grinstead, in the county of Wilts: he died 31 March, 1840, having married, 15 October, 1805, the Lady Charlotte Paget, fourth daughter of Henry, Earl of Uxbridge (by Jane, his wife, daughter of the very Rev. Arthur Champagné A.M., Dean of Clonmacnoise*), and by her, who died 26 January 1817, he had,
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  * The Champagne's whose name is properly de Robillard are a very ancient family, and may be traced in French history to a period as remote as the eleventh century. Jean de Robillard, "homme d'armes de la compagnie de Jacques de Luxembourg, chevalier de la Toison de'Or," was living circa 1450. His son Jean de Robillard, " Ecuyer, noble homme," married Julienne de l'Orme, and dying in 1528 left a son, André de Robillard, Sieur de la Grange, et de la Champagné, 1557—1572. He married Judith Boursicot, and left issue: 1. Jean, Seignieur de la Grange 2. Daniel, Seignieur de la Fontanelle, married, 1625, Judith, daughter of Isaac Poytvain, Ecuyer, Seignieur de Portal, and had issue; 3. Josias, Seignieur de Champagné; and Susanne-Anne-Elizabeth, married to Pierre Tallyrand de Grignange. The third son, Josias de Robillard, married in 1639, Marie, daughter of Nathaniel de Maziere, Sieur des Seignories de Voutron et de la Canne, and was father of Josias de Robillard, Chevalier, Seignieur de Champagné, who married Marie, daughter of Casimir de la
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  [20] I. WILLIAM WILLOUGHBY COLE, third Earl of Enniskillen, of whom hereafter.
  [20] II. The Honourable HENRY ARTHUR COLE, born 14 February, 1809, educated at Harrow, was formerly Captain of the 7th Hussars, and late Lieut-Colonel of the Fermanagh Militia, for which county he is a Justice of the Peace, and was high-sheriff of the same in 1854; was elected M.P. for Enniskillen, in 1844; and has been M.P. for the county of Fermanagh since 1855.
  [20] III. The Honourable JOHN LOWRY COLE, born 8 June, 1813, was educated at Winchester, is a Magistrate for the county of Fermanagh, has served as high sheriff of the same, and has been M.P. for Enniskillen since 1859.
  IV. The Honourable Lowry Balfour Cole, born 6 June 1815, died at Haslewood, 22 January, 1818.
  V. The Lady Jane Anne Louisa Florence Cole, born 27 June, 1811, died unmarried, 23 March, 1831.
  [19] II. The Honourable Sir GALBRAITH LOWRY COLE (second son of the 19 first Earl) was born 1 May, 1772, entered the army as cornet in the 12th regiment of Dragoons, and subsequently attained the rank of Lieut.-general, and G.C.B.; he was Colonel of the 27th or Inniskilling regiment of Foot, commanded the 4th division of the British army throughout the Peninsular war; and thrice received the thanks of the Houses of Parliament for
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Rochefoucald, " haut et puissant Seignieur des Fouches," and left issue, 1. Josias, who adopted the surname of De Champagné; 2. Augustus, a colonel in the Army ; and several daughters, one of whom, Susanne, married the Baron Tonuay-Vonton et de St. Surin, and was mother of Henri Auguste, Baron de la Motte-Fouqué", the celebrated Prussian General under Frederick the Great, and grandfather of the Baron de la Motte-Fouqué, the distinguished writer.
  The elder son, Josias de Robillard, who took the surname of de Champagné, left Saintonge on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, married Lady Jane Forbes, daughter of Arthur, second Earl of Granard, and dying at Portarlington in 1737 left an only son, the very reverend Arthur Champagné, A.M., Dean of Dean of Clonmacnoise, born in 1714, who married Marianne, daughter of Colonel Isaac Hamon, whose ancestor came to England early in Queen Elizabeth's reign from Backqueville, in Normandy, and settled at Rye in Sussex. Dean Champagné died in 1800, leaving issue, inter alios, a daughter Jane, married in 1767 to Henry Paget Earl of Uxbridge, and mother of Charlotte, Countess of Enniskillen.—Burke.
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his distinguished services. The resolution of the House of Commons on 21 of May 1815 states that the thanks of that House were presented to him for his distinguished exertions at the battle of Salamanca, on 22 July 1812; for his great exertions on 21 June 1813, when the French army was completely defeated by the allied forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington, near Vittoria; for the valour, steadiness, and exertion so successfully displayed in repelling the repeated attacks of the whole French force under Marshal Soult, between 25 July and 1 August, 1813 ; and lastly, for his able and distinguished conduct throughout those operations which concluded with the entire defeat of the army at Orthes 27 February, 1814, and the occupation of Bordeaux by the allied forces; he also acquitted himself so gallantly at Maida, as to call forth the expression of gratitude from the representatives of the country. He was wounded at Albuera,* and in subsequent engagements. In 1814 he received the honour of knighthood, and was also decorated with the insignia of the Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword, and of the Turkish Order of the Crescent, etc.. He was MP. for the county Fermanagh, in the Irish House of Commons from 1798 to 1803, and in the Imperial Parliament from 1803 [to] 1823 ; and was Governor of Gravesend, and Tilbury Fort, and of the colonies of theMauritius and the Cape of Good Hope, in which last he gave his name to the town of Colesburg. A handsome column has been erected in his honour at Enniskillen by the tenantry of the Enniskillen estates, on which are enumerated the various expeditions that he took part in, including (besides those above referred to) Olivenga, Martinique, Guadaloupe, Egypt, Pyrenees, Nivelle, and Toulouse. Copious accounts of the career of this gallant general appeared in the publications of the period, and eulogistic notices of him are to be found in the " Biographical Dictionaries" of Chalmers, Rose, and others; and an excellent memoir of him in the "Peninsular Generals."† A fine monument in the church of Enniskillen bears a nearly full sized and beautifully
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  * Gents. Mag. vol. 81 (1811), p. 662.
  † By John William Cole, of 21st Fusiliers, 8vo, London, 1856.
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executed effigy of Sir Galbraith in his robes as Knight of the the Bath; and under are inscribed these appropriate words:—"His history may be found in that of his country. His character in the devoted attachment of his friends, and the deep affection of his family." He died at Highfield-park, Hants, on 5 October, 1842, having married, 15 June, 1815, the Lady Frances Harris, second daughter of James, first Earl of Malmesbury (who was born 22 August, 1784, and died 1 November, 1847) by whom he left issue,
  [20] I ARTHUR LOWRY COLE, C.B., Knight of the Medjidie, Brevet
colonel 7th regiment, colonel 1st Administrative regiment of Surrey volunteers, born 24 August, 1817, married 29 November, 1854, Elizabeth Frances, daughter of Vice-Admiral Villiers Francis Hatton of Clonard, in the county of Wexford, by whom he has (1866) issue: 1, Mary Frances Lowry, born 17 May, 1856; 2, Florence Kate Lowry, born 6 August, 1857; 3, Maude Georgina Lowry, born 27 April, 1859; 
  [21] 4, ARTHUR WILLOUGHBY GEORGE [COLE], born 29 November, 1860 ; a SON, born 23 October, 1862 ; and a SON, born 26 March, 1866.
  II. William Willoughby Thomas Cole, late captain 27th regiment, born 17 November, 1819, died 4 April, 1863.
  III. James Henry Cole, born 15 December, 1821.
  IV. Florence Mary Georgina Cole, born 4 June 1816; a painting of her by Say was engraved by Holl (4to).
  V. Louisa Catherine Cole, born 16 August, 1818.
  VI. Frances Maria Frederica Cole, born 9 April, 1824.
  VII. Henrietta Anne Paulina Cole, born 6 October, 1826.

  III. The Honourable and Very Rev. William Montgomery Cole, (third son of first Earl) was Dean of Waterford, &c., born 14 October, 1773, and died suddenly on 2 September, 1804, without leaving issue.
  IV. The Honourable Arthur Cole (fourth son of first Earl) born 28 June, 1780, and died June 1844. He was in early life appointed Resident at the Court of Mysore, and "by his rare prudence, wisdom, and fearlessness, contributed very essentially to the restoration of order, and the preservation of sanguinary extremi-
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ties"* in the mutiny of the English officers of the Madras army, in 1809, arising out of Lieut.-General Hay Macdowall's removal from the office of Commander-in-Chief by the Governor and Council of Madras. After Mr. Cole's return home he was some time M.P. for Enniskillen.
  V. The Honourable Henry Cole (fifth son of first Earl) born -------, died young.
  VI. The Lady Sarah Cole (eldest daughter of first Earl) born 1 September, 1764, married 23 January, 1790, to Owen Wynne of Haselwood, in the county of Sligo, M.P. for Sligo ; and died 14 March 1833.
  VII. The Lady Elizabeth Anne Cole (second daughter of first Earl) born 8 August, 1765, married in September, 1788, to Captain Richard Magennis of Warrington, in the county of Down, M.P. for Enniskillen, Lieut.-colonel of Fermanagh militia, son of Richard Magennis, esq.: she died 20 March, 1807, and he died 6 March 1831. They had issue,
  I. Richard William M., late a major in the army, J.P., D.L, and high-sheriff of the county of Down in 1830, born 19 November, 1789, married 28 August, 1821, Anna Maria, eldest daughter and co-heiress of William Shepherd, esq., of of Bradbourne, Kent.
  II. William John Cole Magenis, deceased.
  III. Henry Arthur Magenis, colonel in the army, married Mademoiselle Elise Damain, of the Mauritius, and died 14 November, 1852, leaving issue: 1, Richard, captain 90th regiment; 2, Frederick, lieut. 28th regiment; 3, Henry, Royal Artillery; 4, Edward ; 1 daughter, Elizabeth.
  IV. John Balfour M., married Frances Margaretta, widow of George Ede, esq, of Merry Oak, Southampton, and daughter of the late Judge Moore, of Lamberton-park, Queen's County, and has two daughters Florence and Geraldine.
  V. (Sir) Arthur Charles M., G.C.B., formerly H.B. Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Sweden, and late British Ambassador at Lisbon, who died on 14th February, 1867.
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  I daughter. Anne Louise, married to David Albermarle Bertie Dewar, esq.
  II daughter. Elizabeth Anne, married to James Wilmot Williams, of Herringston, in the county of Dorset, esq.
  III daughter. Florence Sarah M., died unmarried.
  IV daughter. Florence Catherine, married to John Ashley Warre, esq., and died 1837.
  VIII. The Lady Anne (third dau. of first Earl) born 14 Sept., 1769.
  IX. The Lady Florence (fourth daughter of first Earl) born 14 May, 1788, and married 17 October, 1797 to Blayney Townley Balfour of Townley-hall, in the county of Louth, M.P. in 1797-8 for Belturbet, high-sheriff for Louth in 1792, who died 22 December, 1856, having had issue by her who died 1 March, 1862, aged 83,

  1. Blayney Townley Balfour, of Townley-hall, J.P., formerly Lieut.-Governor of the Bahama Islands, born 1799 ; married 1843, Elizabeth Catherine, daughter and heiress of Richard Molesworth Reynell of Reynella, in the county of Westmeath, and has issue: 1, Blayney Reynell B.; 2, Francis Richard B.; and a daughter, Kathleen Agnes.
  2. Willoughby William Townley B., born 1801, rector of AstonFlamville-cum-Burbage, in the county of Leicester.
  3. Francis Leigh Townley B., born 1805, died at Honduras in 1833.
  4. Arthur Lowry Townley B., born 1809, captain 32nd regiment, died in India.
  5. Lowry Vesey Townley B., secretary of the Order of St. Patrick, born in 1819.
  1 daughter. Anne Maria Townley B.
  2 daughter. Letitia Frances Townley B.
  3 daughter. Florence Henrietta Townley, B.
  4 daughter. Elizabeth Sarah Townley B., died 1838 unmarried.

X. The Lady Henrietta Frances (fifth daughter of first Earl) born in June 1784, married 20 July, 1805, to Thomas Philip Weddel-Robinson, third Baron Grantham, Baron Lucas, Earl de Grey, KG., Lord Lieutenant of the kingdom of Ireland, who assumed the name of de Grey only on succeeding to the earldom on the death of Amabel Hume Grey, First Countess, his maternal aunt, 4 May, 1833. He died 14 November, 1859, having had issue by her ladyship, who died 2 July, 1828,
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  I. The Lady Anne Florence, born 8 June, 1806. She succeeded at her father's (Earl de Grey's) decease as BARONESS Lucas; inherited Wrest-park, Ampthill, Beds.; and married 7 October, 1833, George Augustus Frederick, sixth Earl Cowper, Lord-Lieutenant of Kent, and had issue: 1, Francis Thomas de Grey, K.G., Viscount Fordwich, Baron Cowper of Wingfield, in the county of Kent, Lord-Lieutenant of Bedfordshire, a Prince of the Holy Roman empire, &c, born 11 June 1834, who succeeded his father, 15 April, 1856, as seventh Earl Cowper; 2, Henry Frederick Cowper, M.P. for the county of Hertford, born 18 April, 1836; 1 daughter, Henrietta Emily Mary, died unmarried, 28 June, 1853;   2 daughter, Florence Amabel; 3 daughter, Adine Eliza Anne, married 29 September, 1866, to the Hon. Julian Fane, fourth son of John, eleventh Earl of Westmoreland; 4 daughter, Amabel.
  II. The Honourable Thomas Philip Weddell, born 21 August, 1807, died 30 March, 1810.
  III. The Lady Mary Gertrude, born 5 November, 1809, married 5 July, 1832, to Captain Henry Vyner of Newby-hall, in the county of York, who died 22 January 1861, having had issue: 1, Henry Frederick Clare Vyner, his heir, now of Newby, &c., born 1836 ; 2, Reginald Arthur Vyner, M.P. for Eipon, born 1839; 3, Robert Charles de Grey Vyner; 4, Frederick Grantham Vyner; 1 daughter, Henrietta Anne Theodosia, married 8 April, 1851, to George Frederick Samuel Eobinson, second and present Earl de Grey and Ripon, etc., and has issue, Frederick Oliver, Viscount Goderich, born 29 January, 1852; 2 daughter, Theodosia Harriet Elizabeth, married 5 July, 1859, to the most honourable Charles Douglas Compton, third and present Marquess of Northampton, but died s.p., 18 November, 1864.
  IV. The Honourable Frederick William, born 11 ApriL 1810, died 6 February, 1831.
  V. The Honourable Amabel Elizabeth, born 11 October, 1816, died 13 September, 1827.

  [20] The Right Honourable WILLIAM WILLOUGHBY COLE, (see p. 57), third Earl of Enniskillen, and Viscount Enniskillen, fourth Baron Mount-Florence in the peerage of Ireland, and second Baron Grin
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stead in that of the United Kingdom, F.R.S., L.L.D., F.G.S., M.R.I.A., a Trustee of the Hunterian Museum, etc., was born 25 January, 1807, and educated at Harrow, and Christ Church, Oxford, which University conferred upon him the degree of D.C.L, in 1834. He represented the county of Fermanagh in parliament from 1831 until his introduction into the House of Lords on the decease of his father in 1840. His Lordship has been many years Colonel of the Fermanagh regiment of militia, and is also well and favourably known in the field of science as a distinguished geologist. He married 16 January, 1844, Jane, eldest daughter of James Archibald Casamajor, sometime Resident at the Court of Mysore (by his wife, Mary, daughter of Colonel Thomas Paterson, by Anna,* daughter and co-heiress of Boyd Porterfield, esq. of that Ilk,) and by her, who was born 15 June, 1815, and died 13 May, 1855, had issue, three sons and three daughters, viz:—
  I. The Honourable John Willoughby Michael, Viscount Cole, born 16 December, 1844, and died 15 April, 1850.  
  [21] II. The Honourable LOWRY EGERTON, now Viscount COLE, born 21
December, 1845 ; an officer in the Rifle Brigade. 
  [21] III. The Hon. ARTHUR EDWARD CASAMAJOR, born 9 March, 1851.
  IV. The Lady Charlotte Jane, born 10 May, 1847.
  V.  The Lady Mary Florence, born 5 August, 1849.
  VI. The Lady Alice Elizabeth, born 4 February, 1853.
  VII. The Lady Jane Evelyn Cole, born 21 April, 1855. 
  Lord Enniskillen, married, secondly, 5 September, 1865, the Honourable Mary Emma Brodick, eldest daughter and co-heiress of George, sixth Viscount Midleton, by his wife, Emma, daughter of Thomas, 22nd Baron Despencer.
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  * This lady derived from the noble houses of Kilmarnock and Glencairne, and through the latter, viz., the Cunninghames, Earls of Glencairne, from James II., King of Scotland, and Edward I., King of England.—(burke.) It may be also here noted that all the descendants of John Cole and Florence, daughter of Sir Bourchier Wrey (see p. 51), derive through the ancient family of Bourchier, Earls of Bath, 4c, from King Edward III.

DEUM COLE, EEGEM SERVA. 

FINIS.

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                      ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA.

Page 3, line \,for "Chumleigh," read "Chulmleigh."
Page 3, To note, "Arms of Cole," after "Warres," add "As it appears that' Jone, on of the co-heires of Rich. Laueranc,' towards the end of the fourteenth century, intermarried with Cole, her arms, Chequy Or and Sa., (sometimes Az.) on a bend Gu. three escallops, Arg., may be marshalled immediately after the paternal coat of Cole."
Page 6, line 19, for "attached," read "he attaches."
Page 7, last line but one, for " counterchaged," read "counterchanged."
Page 12, line 17, for "p. 16," read "p. 22."
Page 14,line4, for "Hilligan," read " Heligan;" line 14, for "eaving," read "leaving."
Page 15, line 6 n.,for "One," read "Two," and add "No. 1433, f. 119."
Page 15, As note to Cole of Buckland, add, "De la Pole (p. 271), says a daughter
and co-heir of John Merwood, of Westcote, married Cole, and was mother
of Joane, wife to Sir Thomas Prideaux, and of Alice, wife to Sir Geo. Southcote; but, although she may have been John Cole's wife, she was not the mother of these ladies."
Page 19, line 11, for "Their," read "His," and after "children," add [! by his first wife, Mary, the daughter of Sir Harry Jones, of Aston].
Page 20, line 12, after "issue," add "three daughters his co-heiressss, viz., Catherine Jane, married to Col. Edw. Warner (by whom she had Charles William W., solicitor-general for the Island of Trinidad, and a daughter, Hislop Mary W.)"
Page 20, line 13, for "Charles Alexander Manning," read "James Alexander Manning of the Inner Temple (who had surviving issue, a daughter, Mary Erskine Shipley M.)"
Page 26, line 19 and 23, for "Wheeler," read " Wheler." 
Page 27, line 1 n., for "descendep," read "descended." 
Page 29, line 16, "Deering Cole," after " 1626," add "who was of London, and
whose will was proved at Doctors' Commons, in July, 1673." 
Page 49, line 11, for "surving," read "surviving."
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Hawkesworth, 10. Hele of Hole and 
Fleet, 12 n. and 15. Hervey, 29, 30, 49n.; 
amis, 30 n. Hill, 36 ; of Heath, 13 ; of 
Heligan, 14; of Buckland, 15. Hitchin, 
14. Hobbs, 37. Hokesbere manor, 2, 4. 
Holcroft, 11. Holbeame, of Holbeame, 7. 
Hopton, Sir Owen, 25. Huddy, of Stowell, 
6. Huskisson, 38. 
Ingram, family of, 40, and 40 n. Irvine, of 
Castle Irvine, 53. Jackson, 35. Jeoffrey, 
of Tredineck, 8. Jervoise, of Heriard and 
and Idsworth, 19. 
Keating, 48. Kellio arms, 8 n. Kestall or 
Castel, 8. Kennedy, of Cultra, 52. Kille- 
grew, 14 n. 
Launaze, 52. Laueranc arms, addenda. 
Leake, of Wigtoft, 37. Lear, 13. Lee, 
of London, 16, 17 n.; of Quarendon, 
earl of Lichfield, 25—26 n. Lenker 
arms, 8n. Leuri or Luri arms, 12n. Lloyd, 
of Croghan, 48. Loggin, of Warwickshire, 
and Rev. Wm., 21. Locke, of Merton, 9. 
Lomen arms, 25 n. Lowry-Corry, of Ahe- 
nis, 56. Lucas, baroness, 62. Ludlow, 
sir Edm., 12. Lynch, 12. Lynham, 13. 
Lyss, extracts from registers of, and monu- 
ments at, 31 n.—34 n. 
Mac Roberts, 52. Magenis family, 60. Mais- 
ters, 9. Manning, James Alex., of Inner 
Temple, 20 ; and corrigenda. Marshall, of 
Oxon, 21—22: earl of Pembroke, 40 n. 
Martyn, 9,10. Massingberd, 20. de Maun- 
deville, 4n ; arms, 5n. Meryot, of Devon, 
12. Michelborne, of Hamons, 29. MlLNER, 
of Nun-Appleton, 18. Molesworth, 36; 
viscount, 52. Montgomery, Sir. J,, and 
earl of Mount-Alexander, 45, 46; arms, 53n. 
Moore, Judge, 60; earl of Drogheda, 48. 
Mowsse, of London, 16, 17 n. Mulys, or 
Moels, lord, 23. 

Page 67     (ii Column 2)

Newburgh, of Donnybrook, 53. Nicholas, 
Robert, and major Griffin, 24—25 n. Nyth- 
way manor, 4, 6. 
Odiham, extracts from registers of, 10 n. 
Oland of London, 9. 
Paget, earl of Uxbridge, 56, 57. Parker of 
Honington, bart., 21. Parnell, 48. Parsons 
of Birr, 46. Paske, 21. Paterson, of that 
Ilk, 63. Pawlet, 12. Penestone of Corn- 
well, bart., 26. Pidekeswell or Pickwell 
arms, 25 n. De la Pomehai or Pomeroy, 
barons, and family, 6—7 n.; arms, 7 n. 
Pope, earl of Downe, 25, and 25 n.; Preston, 
of London, 28; of Petersham, 16 ; arms, 
16 n. Prideaux, of Nutwell, 15. Prittie, 
of Dunalley, 48. Prowze, of Exeter, 13. 
Ridcliff, of Hitchin, 31, 34 n. Ragget, 10. 
Rainor, 35. Raye, 9. Reynell, of Reynella, 
61. Richardson, Dr., 52. Robinson, 38; 
Weddel-Robinson, 61—62. De la Roche, 
baron, and family, 23, 24n., 40 n.; arms, 
25 n.; castle and church, 24 n. Rudyerd, 
Rt., and sir B., 20. Roundell, of Hutton- 
Wandsley, 18. Russell arms, 8 n. 
St. Aubyn, 23; arms, 25 n. St. Ledger, of 
Annery, 13. Saunderson, 53. Scott arms, 
5 n. Capt. J., 11. Shepherd, 60. Shipley, 
capt. R., and major-gen., 20; S. S., 37. 
Shirley, of Isiield, 31. Simcoe, of Wolibrd, 
11. Skynner, 26. Slade, capt. H., 53. 
Smeeton, 37. Smith, of Mitcham, 24. 
Southcote, of Southcote, 13; of Shillingford, 
15. Spendelow, 35. Sprat, 27. Stafford, 
55. Stapleton arms, 5n. Stonhouse, of 
Amberden, bart., 19. Stourton, 13. Stuart, 
hon. A. G., 54. 
Talbot, of Richard's castle, 23 n.; earl of 
Shrewsbury, 39 n. Tamer wUptamer, 4— 
6; license to castellate, 3 n.; Tamertou, 3n. 
Teesdale, 38. Thompson, 52; of Elsham, 

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40. Thornhill or Thornell, 17, 18 ; arms, 
18 n. Thorpe, 12; of Fosdyke and Otby, 
37. Tisdall, 55. Tozer, 8. Trevaner arms, 
5 n. Truebody, 8. Tucker, 8. 
Valletort, barons, 7n. Vaus, of Odiham, 12. 
De Vesci, visct., 48. Villiers, visct. Grandi- 
son, and sir Geo. of Brokesby, 38 n. Vyner, 
of Newby, 62. 
Walker, 37. Wallcot, of Walcot, and arms, 
12 n. Waller, of Beconsfield, 29. Walles- 
borough, of Whalesborough, 5 n. Waltham, 
Bishop's, extracts from registers of, 11 n. 
Ward, 38. Warsop, of Clapham, 23—24. 
Watson, sir The, of Halstead, 24. Weddel- 
Robinson, 61—62. Weeks, 36. Wentworth, 
lord, 25. Weston, sir Rd., of Wiltshire, 6, 
22. White, and arms, 8 n. Wheler, sir 
Wm., and lady, 26. Willerton, 38. Wil- 
liams, of Herringstone, 61; of Anglesey, 
40; of Stowford, 14. 
Willoughby-Montgomery, of Carrow,and arms, 
53. Wilson, and Willson, 35. Wrangham, 
37. Wyatt, arms, 8 n. Wymarke arms, 
8 n. Wynne, of Haselwood, 60. Wood- 
stock, Tho., of, 4. Wrey, sir Bourchier, 
50, 63 n. Yeats. 
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To

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

WILLIAM WILLOUGHBY COLE,

EARL OF ENNISKILLEN, VISCOUNT ENNISKILLEN,

BARON MOUNT-FLORENCE, BARON GRINSTEAD

F.R.S., D.C.L., L.L.D., F.G.S.,

&c., &c., &c.,

THESE GENALOGICAL RECORDS

ARE,

BY HIS PERMISSION,

AND WITH FEELINGS OF SINCERE ESTEEM,

INSCRIBED BY

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This compilation is founded on a curious and valuable record, entitled, "The Pedigree of the worthye Captaine and Justiciar, Sir WIlliam Cole, of Eneskillen, Knight ; made and set forthe, with much care and fidelitye; warranted by Records, Evidences, and other good proofes, examined, approved, and well allowed of by me Sir WIlliam Segar, Knt, alias Garter.  And in assured testimony to all persons whoe shall see the same, that it doth agree in all the descents, coats, and Ensignes, with the Registers Bookes and Records of my Office, and the Office of Arms and Honor, kept at London; I, the said Sir William Segar, alias Garter, Principall King of Armes, have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seale of myne Office, this 20th day of Julye, An° Domini 1630, Annoque Sexti Domini nostri Caroli, magnae Britanniae, Franciae, et Hiberniae Regis, Fidei defensor, etc"
  Wm. Willoughby, the 1st Visct. Enniskillen, reduced it into a narrative form for the Rev. Mervyn Archball's edition of John Lodge's Irish Peerage (8° London, 1789); and his lordship's system and phraseology are here freely made use of, as they were also, though without acknowledgment, in Playfair's British Family Antiquity (fo. Lond. 1810).

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  Since then, however, it has been, so far as relates to the noble line of Enniskillen, extended down to the present time, and attested under the seals of their office by Sir Wm. Betham, and Sir J. Bernard Burke, Ulster Kings at Arms.  These additions together with some particulars derived from the publications of the Record Commisions, &c, are introduced; and the continuation of the other branches has been made from the Heralds' Visitations, Wills, Parish Registers, Monumental Inscriptions and other ancient evidences.  They have been carefully collated, and where possible, tested with the originals, so that it is hoped that no inaccuracies may occur, or such only as are inseparable from a labour of this character.

  "*" The writer will be glad to receive any additions or corrections.

   Easthorpe Court,
         Wigtoft, near Spalding,
              Sept. 1867

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  Note 1 p 23 mention of [11] Thomas COLE.  The notes in WorldConnect tree "davidcole3" for Thomas COLE explain his complex linkage to Yvette Louise RICHARD ,the wife of David Kenneth Charles COLE (David@ColeCanada.com).
  Note 2 Lord Mayors of London:  p16 Sir Cuthbert Hacket, knt., alderman and lord-mayor...,  p39 Sir Thomas Leigh, Lord Mayor..., p39 Sir William Roche of Lamer, lord-mayor..., p40 Sir Humphrey Edwyn, knt., lord mayor... 1698.
  Note 3 p 39 Elizabeth [Haddon], daughter of Sir Henry Vernon of Haddon, Knight of the Bath; and her unbroken lineal descent can be traced from Charlemagne,
  Note 4 p 50 COLE married COLE. [15] Sir MICHAEL COLE, his successor, who, 20 February, 1671, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Cole, bart.
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  Much ingenious speculation has been expended on the origin and signification of the name of Cole. In A New System, or an Analysis of Ancient Mythology, by Jacob Bryant of Cypenham, is an elaborate dissertation thereon, consisting of more than three quarto pages, wherein he shows it to be the same as Cou-el, or Co-el, Heavenly, or the House or Region of the Deity ; for the place of worship was, in many instances, taken for the person to whom the worship was directed. He says that Coilus, from Coel, the old Latin form of Coelus, meant " a sacred or heavenly person, in other words, a priest of Coelus."
 
The learned Camden says that Cole is formed from the last syllables of Nicholas ; and M. A. Lower, in his Essay on Nomenclature* copies this statement.
 
It is, however, more likely to be a contraction of Agricola, a tiller of the soil, as Cola occurs in the Domesday Survey† as the holder of much land in the counties of Hants, Devon, Wilts, etc., in the reign of King Edward the Confessor; but this derivation has evidently been passed over as too simple to be adopted by the above eminent writers.
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* 12mo, London, 1849, Vol. I., p. 169.
 
† " Winton Survey, (fo. 27) temp. R. Edwardi Conf.," ' Winton, Bucchestret, Gaufridus Cole, Epo Sarum IId., VIIe, de feudo Regis, VIId. illa sed VII. sup. mur.' "—Domesday Book Vol. IV, p. 555. Sir Henry Ellis' Introduction to Domesday, gives these references and notes, " Cola, venator, Hants, p. 50, 50b. Note—" Cola venator ten. dimidium hidae de Vluiet patre suo in Langelie. Hanc tenuit de Rege in paragio." "Devon, 109, 112b. Wilts, 69 b. (Cola ten. terr. etc.) Note—Pater ejus tenuit tempore Regis Edwardi," etc.
 
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