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WITH AN ACCOUNT OF 'tHE tiUlltotf)tca

BY

THE REV. SIDNEY E. DODDERIDGE, Recto, of tlu Chu,ch of St. Anne, Thornbu,y, Co. Hereford,

AND

H. G. HASTINGS SHADDICK .. Author of "A Guide to the Reports and TYansactions of the DevonshiYe Associatfon for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art."

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This work not only gives an account of the ancient and honourable family of Dodderidge of Devonshire-a Norman house, which, with its cadet branches, shines with more than ordinary lustre· in the annals of genealogical, heraldic, county and national history-but aims at shedding fresh light on the antique collection of books which was bequeathed to the town of Barnstaple in the seventeenth century. Further, whilst illustrating the close connection of the family with this and other ancient towns and parishes of Devonshire, an endeavour has been made to furnish a reliable work of reference in relation to an old county family whose members are still frequently spoken of, or alluded to, in the current literature of the day. The public life story of the Dodderidges deals with a period full of attraction, and various members of the family have been distinguished in their day both for what they have done and for what they have written. It is thought for these reasons that the following account will not fail to interest readers-apart from those who are in any way, or for any reason, attached to the family-who experience pleasure in the perusal of anything relating to the past history of their own county or locality, and who find some delight in reading the careers of any of its great sons.

SIDNEY E. DoDDERIDGE. H. G. HASTINGS SHADDICK.

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PAGE !.-FAMILY AND MANOR OF DODDERIDGE I

IL-HERALDIC NOTICES 6

!IL-SPELLING OF THE SURNAME 8

IV.-RICHARD DODDERIDGE - - IO

V.-SIR JOHN DODDERIDGE, M.P. - I2

Vl.-PENTECOST DODDERIDGE, M.P. - 23

VIL-PHILIP DODDERIDGE, OF BARNSTAPLE, LONDON AND

ISLEWORTH - - 27

VIII.-JOHN DODDERIDGE, M.P., OF BARNSTAPLE, BRISTOL, AND CHESHUNT - 29

IX.-THE REV. PHILIP DODDRIDGE, D.D. - - 31

X.-THE DODDERIDGE LIBRARY, BARNSTAPLE - 37

XL-APPENDIX :- Note on the \Vescombe Family - 52 Note on the Humphrey Family - 52 . The Rev. Joseph Dodderidge, 11.D., an American Family Worthy - 53 Hanmer' s Memorial - 54 1tst of lll11strattons.

JUDGE DODDERIDGE Frontispiece.

THE REv. SIDNEY E. DoDDERIDGE facing page 2

ARMS OVER DOORWAY AT BREMRIDGE - " 4 BOOK-PLATE OF MR. THOMAS WAINWRIGHT " 4

HIGHER DODDRIDGE (PROWSE) FARM HOUSE, SANDFORD ,, 6

SUPPOSED CHAPEL AT HIGHER DODDRIDGE (PROWSE) 6 " THE MANOR OF BREMRIDGE 8 " THE MANOR OF DoTHERIDGE 8 " BARNSTAPLE CORPORATION PLATE I2 "

DODDRIDGE FARM 12 " TOMBS OF SIR JOHN DODDERIDGE AND HIS \iVIFE IN

EXETER CATHEDRAL - 20 " OAK-ROOM AT BROADMEAD, BARNSTAPLE " PHILIP DODDRIDGE, D.D., 1702-1751 - ,, 32

DR. DODDRIDGE'S HOUSE AT NORTHAMPTON - " DR. DODDRIDGE'S CHAPEL, CASTLE HILL, NORTHAMPTON ,, 36

OLD DODDERIDGE LIBRARY BUILDING AT BARNSTAPLE ,,

BOOK-PLATE-BARNSTAPLE CLERICAL LIBRARY ,, 42 ~be IDob~eri~ges of !Del'on :

WITH AN ACCOUNT OP THE

:Jl3tbltotbeca lDobbrtbgiana.

I.-THE FAMILY AND MANOR OF DODDERIDGE.

In the Theological Room of the North Devon Athenreum, Barnstaple, twenty-four shelves are appropriated for the accom­ modation of some valuable books commonly known as the Dodde­ ridge, or Doddridge Collection. These books form a part of the library founded in Barnstaple by John Dodderidge early in the second half of the seventeenth century. Before writing any particulars relating to this interesting collec­ tion of books it seems desirable to give a history of the benefactor's family, together with fuller accounts of its worthies. In the parish of Sandford, near Crediton, co. Devon, is an ancient manor called Dodderidge, or Doddridge, which at the Conquest was given to a Norman who took his name from the estate, which still forms one of the tithings of Crediton. The earliest recorded lord of this manor is Gilbert de Dodarig, who witnesses a " recovery " by Robert de Bremerige in or about 2 Henry III., I2I8.1 In 3 Edward I., 1275, Ric. de Doderig, apparently another lord, is appointed a jurator for the Hundred of Crediton.2 In 14 Edward I., 1286, William de Dodderygge, of the same Hundred, was appointed by the Royal Commissioners to collect a second subsidy in the said Hundred.3 .

1 Devonshire Wills, by Charles Worthy, p. 414. 2 Hundred Rolls, co. Devon, p. 69. a Lay Subsidy Rolls, co. Devon, 14 Edward I. B 2 THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON.

In 17 Edward III., I344, 120 or so acres of arable land, with rents in "Dodderigge et Critton," were held by John de Stokedon, Mabel his ,vife, and William Avenel.1 In 29 Edward III., 1356, a farmhouse and the same number of acres, with rents, were held in " Dodderigg juxta Cridyton " by John Proutz Squyer, John Pedehele, and Joan his wife.2 . In 50 Edward III., 1377, there were 81 persons living in the tithing of Dodderigge above 14 years of age.3 In 5 Henry V., 1418, "John Prous of Dodderyg," was joint patron with another of Crewys Morchard.' . In 7 Henry VIII., 1516, a "fine" speaks of the manor '' de Dodderygge '' as being held by John Gye, Mary his wife, and John Prous, clerk. In 8 Henry VIII., 1517, another " fine " shows that the " manor de Dodrigge '' was held in part by J. Ford and others. By 1516, therefore, the manor of Dodderidge had passed out of the hands of the ancient family of that name, the last to retain it wholly or in part in the male line being apparently John Dode­ ridge (temp. 1500), " of Doderidge in Kirton," whose daughter and coheir, Anne, married John Davy, of Ebberleigh.5 It may be stated that in an Elizabethan map of Devon the family seat is duly noted. In the reign of James I. '' Higher Dodridge alias Prowser '• is spoken of and described as a barton or manor in Devonshire,8 while an apprentice indenture of the seventeenth century describes it as '' Prowse or Higher Doddridges. ,, In later medireval days the lordship ,vas divided into three estates in order to make provision for coheirs. These were known respectively as (1) Dodderidge proper, until recently called" Dodd­ ridge Village' " or "The Villa8 " ; (2) Higher Dodderidge, now called '' Provvse '' ; and (3) Lower Dodderidge, no,v called "Dally's." Each had ancient manor houses attached. That at Dodderidge proper was pulled down about sixty years ago to

1 Pedes Finium, D~von, 17 Edward III., No. I 53. 2 Pedes Finium, D,von, 29 Edward III., No. 265. 3 From a bundle of receipts for the Poll Tax of 4d. a head levied in 1377 on every person over I 4 years of age. ' Bishop Stafford's Register, 6 Heralds' Visitation, co. Devon. • Chancery Proceedings (D. xl., No. 6). 7 So called in the Sandford Burial Register in the year 1660. 8 So parishioners in 1897 remembe:red it in th~ir childhood. THE REV. SiDNEY E. DODDERIDGE. RecLOr of the Church of St. Anne. Thornbury. co. Hereford.

THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. 3 make way for a modem farm building. The other two are still standing, and are extremely interesting, the manor house at Higher Dodderidge having its ancient chapel still attached at the east end of the building,. over the present cider cellar, while the remains of a similar chapel can still be traced at Dodderidge. All the foregoing coincides with Risden, who, writing before 1630, says :­ " Doderidge was anciently owned by that name, which divided amongst co-heirs came to divers," while Prince, writing in 1697, enlarges this statement thus :-" The name, I find, is of ancient standing in the province, for Dodderidge, in the parish of Crediton, had long since lords so called, which divided at length among co-heirs came into divers hands." It is with this statement that Prince endeavours to prove his supposed ancestry of Sir John Dodderidge. Although by the sixteenth century the main branch of the family appears to have died out altogether, in 1657 one Robert Dodridge, a plebeian, and doubtless a descendant of William Doderug of Crediton, temp. 1557,1 is established once more in the parish, if not the ancient domain, since the Parish Registers of Sandford, which begin in 1603, note the fact of his daughter, Agnes, being baptized in this year, while his elder son, John Dodridge, of Sand­ ford, took his B.A. degree from Exeter College, Oxford, in 1674, became Rector of West Worlington in 1676, and on the 20th October, 1677, married Lady Elizabeth, widow of Sir Thomas Stuckley, Knight, of Affeton, and daughter of Sir Ralph Sydenham, Knight, of Y olston. Indeed, the Sandford Registers would imply that subsequent descendants of Robert Dodridge re-acquired possession of the ancient family seat, although latterly they did not live there, since Lysons, writing in 1822, says :-" Doddridge, in the parish of Sand£ ord, was the ancient property and residence of the family of that name, who continued to possess it in 1746. It was succes­ sively in the hands of Lake and Payne, and now belongs to the Revd. John Hewlett, to whom it was conveyed in 1808." The estate is no,v held by the trustees of the late Mr. Thomas Lee, of Exeter. The present representative of the family, whose grandfather was a Sandford man, as also was his father, William Sargent Dodd­ ridge, is Mr. William Doddridge, of Crediton, where, in the eighteenth century, one John Darke, by his attorney, offered him-

1 See Will of Alice Hillyings, widow, proved 17th January 1557.-Crediton Wills, book-fol. zo8. B2 4 THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. self against John Doderege, "late of Kyrton," concerning a plea of trespass, and whose will was proved at Exeter in 1796, whilst by Letters Dimissory, dated 20th July, 1374, Thomas Doderigge, clerk, was admitted at Crediton, "ad omnes Minores et etiam Sacros Ordines. ' 1 From this short sketch of the history of the stem of this prolific family, it will be seen that numerous cadets would be likely in course of time to fix themselves over the county of Devon. This they did. Consequently, the name "Dodderidge" would be more popular than the surname "Dudderidge," and when we remember that an "o" or "u,, was a matter of no more importance to a middle Englishman than it is to-day when we call London "Lun­ don," we can understand how the less prolific Dudderidges of Dud­ derigge, now Dotheridge, a manor in the parish of Alwington, the ancestors of Sir John Dodderidge, would become known in Devon as Dodderidges. One distinguishing feature of Sir John Dodderidge's family was its armorial coat,1 to which the Dodde­ ridges of Dodderidge in Sandford never pretended. Upon one of the bosses of the roof in the hall of the manor house of Higher Dodderidge is the following achievement, viz., a chevron with three birds, i.e., two above and one below, but no proof has as yet been forthcoming that this is the coat of the Dodderidges of Sandford. Indeed, it seems more likely to be the insignia of the Devonshire Yea, Southcot, Crocker or Cary families. The following notices, therefore, may be taken to be cadet branches of the non-armigerous Dodderidge family of Sandford :- Exeter. -In September, 1285, a contract was made between the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral of the one part, and Walter de Dodderigge and Benedicta his wife of the other part, foregoing their right of egress and ingress through the doors of their house which opened into the cemetery, i.e., the Cathedral Close,2 while on the 17th December, 1287, this same Walter de Dodderigge is chosen by the Mayor of Exeter as a jurator. In the reign of Elizabeth, William Dodrydge, of the Cytty of Exeter, steymaker, petitions the Lord Chancellor respecting his lands at Colump-

1 Arms of Dudderidge, alias Dodderidge :-Argent, three pales, bends or pallets, unde wavy azure between crusule gules (or twelve crosses crosslet gules). Arms of Sir John Dodderidge' s branch of the family :-Argent, two pales wavy azure, between nine cross crossl~ts, gules, 3 Oliver's Cathedral, p. 251. 0 ~ 0

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Book-Plate of Mr. Thomas Wainwright (a former Head­ Arms over Doorway at Bremridge. master), showing the Barnstaple Grammar School, where Judge Dodderldge received his early education.

THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. 5 ton1 ; while as late as 1735 the will of Jo. Dodderidge, of the parish of St. Thomas the Apostle, vvas proved. Ilsington.-On 11th April, 1342, Sir vVilliam de Doderigge, priest, who was ordained an acolyte at the parish church of Chud­ leigh, 19th December, 1321, \Vas instituted as Vicar of the Church of Ilstyngtone, the patrons being the ,varden and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Ottery St. Mary. Portlemouth and Dodbrooke.-In 1428 William Doderigge is holding lands at the foregoing places, and was represented in 1703 by John Dodridge, who married this year at Cornwood, Ann Nelder. Poughill.-A substantial branch of the family was settled here at an early date, for in the Subsidy Rolls for 1550, Richard Dod­ ridge, sen., h{usbandman), paid a tax of xs., and John Dodridge {husbond), presumably his son, paid the same. The latter married in 1566, at Brompton Raffe, co. Somerset, Johanna Wymat, widow, of that parish, and appears to have died in 1622, since his will was proved at Exeter in that year. He left a son, William, who in turn had a son, Robert, both of whom benefited under the will of Jane Mortimer, of Poughill, spinster, dated 27th August, 1622, and proved at Exeter, 19th September, 1623. Broad Clist.-Hugh Jermyn bought from Robert Dodridge and Richarda, his wife, a house, twenty acres of land, two acres of meadow, twenty acres of pasture, ai_ ~ twenty acres of heath and moor in Broad Clist. Payment, £rot) in 1619. Two years previously, i.e., in 1617, Robert Dodd~ridge, as the name is then spelt, was involved in a Chancery proceeding with G. Eveleigh and others of Brodeclist. Thorverton.-In 1625, Phineas Doddridge, of Thorverton, and others were concerned in a Chancery Suit. Stoke Canon.-George Dodridge ,vas " Sacerdos " here in 1630, when his son, William, matriculating at Exeter College, Oxford, aged 20, took his B.A. degree, 26th October, 1630. Bradninch.-In the reign of Charles II., 1660-1685, a branch of the family settled here, the Parish Registers at that period having a host of entries, the surname being spelt in the follo,ving forms :-Dodridge, Dudderidge and Dutheridge. The two families, therefore, may have clashed here, but in the absence of heraldic or other evidence, it becomes difficult to distinguish their ancestry.

1 On 4th February 1633-4 a marriage licence was issued to Henry Doderidge of Exeter and Priscilla Peare, or Parre, of the same city, the marriage being celebrated at Topsham four days later. 6 THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON.

Plympton Earl.-William Doddridge signs as a burgess here, 24th July, 1759. Totton.-Will of Margery Dodderidge, of Totton, proved at Exeter, 1648. Kentisbere.-Will of Humphrey Dod~eridge, of Kentisbere, proved at Exeter, 1668. I de (by Exeter) .-In the Court of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter there is a reference made to the will of Maud Dodridge, of Ide, in 1558, but the will itself has been torn out of the book. Upton Hellions.-Will of Roger Dodridge, of Upton Hellions (temp. James I.), proved in the Bishop's Court (Principal Registry). Fremington.-In the reign of King Charles I., John Doddridge resided here. Topsham.-The Registers here sho,v that between 1634 and 1706 several members of the family resided in this parish. Battisford.-In the Blue Book of 1873, James Doddridge is returned as a landowner here. In the reign of King Charles I., the Dodderidges were connected with no less than fifteen Chancery Suits, and are to-day represented in the parish of Brent.

IL-HERALDIC NOTICES.

Towards the end of the fifteenth century there lived at South 11olton, Devon, one John Dodderidge, who was the ancestor of a distinguished line which produced Richard Dodderidge, Mayor of Barnstaple, 1589 ; Sir John Dodderidge (1555-1628), Second Justice of the Court of King's Bench ; Pentecost Dodderidge, ivl.P. for Barnstaple, 1620-1623, and Jvlayor, 1611, 1627, 1637 ; John Dodderidge (1610-1666), Recorder of Bristol, then of Barn­ staple, and later, in 1646, M.P. for Barnstaple; and Dr. Philip Dodderidge, of Northampton, 1702-1751. It is in connection with this line that the family armorial coat first appears. Risdon, writing between 1608-1628, gives for " Dodderigg " :-" Argent, three pales wavy azure between twelve crosses crosslet, gules " ; while Pole, writing before 1635, gives the coat in quainter language, viz. :-" Argent, crusule geules, three bends (should be pallets), unde azure." . . ~-,. . ~-::~~:8:~ :·~· ;- ; :·~:~> ; ·. ,... - ...... •-•

The Eastern and larger part of the present Higher Doddridge (Prowse) Farm-house, Sandford, facing South. The supposed Chapel being the upper part of the East Wing at right angles to the front.

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Supposed Chapel at Higher Doddri'Jge (Prowse).

THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. 7 Now the medireval form of the surname by Risdon, and the description by Pole in language common to the earlier armorists, tends to show that each ,vriter quoted from documents contem­ poraneous with the Middle Ages. It is this coat which bears such a _close resemblance to the ancient Cophin coat, viz., "Azure, semee of cross crosslets or, three bezants," and since Heraldry came to be regarded as a science, temp. Henry III., the very period the Dudderidges were holding their manor of Dotheridge from the Cophins at Alwj.ngton, what is more reasonable than to suppose that the Cophins granted their coat ·with certain differences, accor­ ding to custom, to the Dudderidges, to denote the latter's feudal alliance or dependency ? Assuming this to be correct, it shows that the early ancestors of this illustrious lh11e of Dodderidges were originally Dudderidges, whose descendants adopted the more popular spelling of their surname, while the first Dudderidge was undoubtedly a younger Cophin. No Dudderidge or Dodderidge is known to have recorded this coat, but a curious and interesting point is the fact that Sir John Dodderidge, in spite of what Risdon and Pole give, reduced the achievement for his personal and relatives' use. Prince notes that in 1612 Sir John was bearing as his arms, " Argent, two piles wavy aziire, between nine cross crosslets, gules." In 1622, Sir John placed this reduced coat, impaling Westcote, over the principal entrance of his manor house at Bremridge, South Molton. It was not, however, until the year of his death that this reduced coat was " confirmed and allowed " to Sir John and his brother, Pentecost, by the Heralds, when the latter recorded his pedigree of four generations in 1628, while about 1650 Scipio Squier also notices this reduced coat. From the foregoing remarks, therefore, it would appear that while Sir John's reduced coat is exclusively the property of the descendants of his branch of the family, if any exist, the older and fuller coat, as given by Risdon and Pole, may be looked upon as the general heraldic insignia of the Dudderidge family at large, seeing that it has never been taken up and recorded by any particular branch of the same. Again, if heraldry may be taken as a guide, Prince's contention that Sir John Dodderidge' s early ancestors were of Dodderidge, in the parish of Sandford, Devon, appears to be unsustained. Before altogether quitting the subject of heraldry it may be interesting to add that a crest, viz., a lion's head erased, gules, gorged, ~th a mural coronet or, has been commonly placed in later times over the family coat. The first instance as hitherto 8 THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. met is in the arms as set out under the portrait of Philip Doddridge, D.D., in his Family Expositor, dated 1833. Later, Washbourne, in his book of family crests for 1856 gives it for "Doderidge, co. Devon." How this crest came into use is difficult to say, since it was not recorded with the coat of arms at the Heralds' College in 1628. There seems to be no proof that Dr. Doddridge ever used it, and therefore the conclusion is that it is a pure invention of some enterprising stationer or draughtsman. The history of the family motto, too, is one of obscurity. It is as follows:-" Dum vivimus vivamus."-'' While we live let us live." Dr. Doddridge is the first who appears to have used it, and he wrote the following interesting epigram upon it, which Dr. Johnston pronounced to be one of the finest in the English language:- Live while you live, the epicuYe would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it 'flies. LOYd, in my life, let both united be, I live in pleasure, while I live to Thee I

III.-THE SPELLING OF THE SURNAME.

It is certain that, as the name of the family seat at Alwington changed in form from Dudderigge to Dotheridge, so did also the family surname from Dudderigge to Dodderidge. Each transition seems to have been influenced, more or less, by the more prolific Dodderidges of Dodderidge in Sandford, who, in process of time, established themselves all over the county of Devon, making the only distinguishing mark to be the armorial coat, to which the latter family never pretended. It is interesting to add that before the change of surname became permanent in Devon, a cadet branch of the Dudderidge family settled towards the end of the fourteenth century in Somerset. Dividing themselves here into two main lines, with permanent settlements at Stogumber and Burland in Staplegrove, they retained the original spelling of their surname, and by such are still widely and honourably known to-day. Further, in the middle of the nineteenth century, the family had migrated The Manor of Bremricige, built by Sir John Dodderidge, who resided there.

The Manor of Dolhericige.

THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. 9 to Dorset, where one branch has in recent years dropped the older form of Dudderidge for the more popular form of Dodderidge, and from whom the present joint author of this work descends.1 Dr. T. N. Brushfield, however, contends that the correct spelling of the surname is Doddridge. " On the monuments," he says, "both of Sir John and of his wife, it appears as Doddridge, and this is repeated in the works on Devonshire by Westcote and Moore,2 and in Tucker's Pedigrees. Owing, as I have already pointed out, to faulty copying, it is spelt Dodderidge in both editions of Prince's work, and this error has been perpetuated in Pridham's Devonshire Celebrities, Woolmer's Exeter, etc. In Polwhele's Devonshire, Foss's Judges, Britton's Exeter Cathedral, Wood's Athena Oxon, Jenkins's Exeter, etc., it is printed Doderidge, a variation that is probably due to the mode of spelling adopted in two of the chrono­ grams in the epitaph, the exigencies of which rendered necessary the omission of one 'd.' I think, therefore, there is good reason for believing that Doddridge is correct." Unquestionably the original spelling of the name was Dud­ deridge; ~his at Alwington gradually changed to Douderygge (fourteenth century), Dothderygge (1434), Dotheridge (late fifteenth century). A similar gradual change of name may be instanced of a place once called Pudderidge, in the parish of Merton, North Devon. This name had previously been com1pted into Pouderidge ; in 1333 it was ·written Poderug, still later it became Poderidge, while to-day it is called Potheridge, and is better kno,vn as the seat of the Monk family. In spite, nevertheless, of Dr. Brushfield's conclusion, later in­ vestigation has shown that there is much to be said in favour of the retention of the middle" e." The earliest forms of the name, temp. Henry III., viz., Dudderigge and Dodarig, both include a middle "e" or "a," and while the Devonshire families gradually dropped the " u " in favour of the " o," it \Yas not till the reign of Henry VIII. that the form "Doddridge" became popular. In the pedigree recorded by Pentecost Dodderidge at the Heralds' College in 1628, the form, Dodderidge, occurs more frequently than Doddridge, while the Somerset branch of the family, which retained the original spelling in its most conservative form, appears as early as 1481 on the rolls of the manor of Taunton

1 For later descents of this line see Visitation oI England and ivales, and Notes to the same, by F. A. Crisp, F.S.A. Vol. viii. 1 Western Antiquary, 1882. IO THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON.

Deane as Dudderidge. But so little importance was attached to the way in which names were spelt in old days that the title of Sir John's work, " Honor's Pedigree, or the Several Fountains of Gentry," printed in 1657, further reads, "by that Juditious Lawyer, Sir John Dodoredge," while in the next edition the f ollo,ving year he is called '' Dodaridge. '' Yet even in Somerset there was a tendency for the more popular form of Dodderidge to assert itself over Dudderidge. A good example of this is shewn in the Churchwardens' Accounts of Lydeard St. La,vrence. Here, in 1533, \Vyllyam Doddryd, was Church­ warden, but in 1539, his name is spelt Doddrudge. In 1546 it appears as Dudryg, and lastly, in 1547, it is given as Dudderys. Another example appears in the will of Stephen Dodridge, of Creech St. Michael, proved in the Court of the Archdeacon of Taunton, 6th July, 1566. He was the grandson of William Dudderidge, who entered upon the Burland estate in 1481, and in the text of the will gives his brother's name as john Dudridge in the first instance and as John Dodridge in the next.

IV.-RICHARD DODDERIDGE. Richard Dodderidge, father of the famous Judge, ,vas the second son of John Dodderidge, of South Molton, by Miss Smith, his ,vife, his elder brother, Henry, dying without issue. His father was connected with the woollen industries of that town, which doubt­ less assisted him to acquire the property which the son afterwards enjoyed. He married Joan Badcock, widow, daughter of . . . . . Harder of Devonshire, by whom he had several children. After their births he removed to Holland Street, Barnstaple, and here in 1582 the Exchequer Depositions speak of Richard Dodridge in connection with the shipment of goods from the port of Bristol.1 His connections with his native place did not cease with his removal, since in 1585 Thomas Skinner conveys a tenement in "Crockstreite," Barnstaple, and a messuage in South Molton to Rycherde Dodderidge and others.2 He was Mayor of Barnstaple in 1589, this being ten years after his son, the Judge, had held the same office. \Vyot, in his Diary

1 24 Elizabeth, Easter, No. 11., 1 Hist. MSS. Com: Corporation of Barnstaple. THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. II

(1586-1608), under the date March, 1590, says that when the Assizes were held at Barnstaple (for which great preparations were made), the Judge, Lord Anderson, lodged at Mr. Dodd.ridge's house. An entry in the Borough Records1 on r2th August, in the twenty-fifty year of Queen Elizabeth, shows that Richard Dodde­ ridge was then appointed to the office of Alderman. The following occurs on 20th February, in the deeds relating to the Chapel of St. Nicholas:-" Know aU men, etc., that we, Robert Cade and Richd. Wetheridge, for divers reasons us removing, have delyvered, etc., to Rd. Doddridge, and others, the scite of the late chappell of Seynt Nicho­ las in Barnstaple, with appurtenances, lately granted for a priest to celebrate there, and a messuage and house commonly called the Kay-hall, which premises John Butler, als. Shaptor, and Robt. Appley, on Dec. 8, 4 E. 6, delivered to Robt. Cade, Rd. Witheridge, and others, to be holden of Her M afesty as of her Ma nor of Stokynham, by f ealtie only in free socage and not in chief, and they appoint Pawle Worth, gentleman, and John Norris to give possession to Doddridge and the others.'' Barnstaple Corporation plate, it is supposed, was given up at the time of the Civil War. "Among the town records," says Cotton,2 "there is preserved an inventory in which are included four pieces, of the aggregate weight of :ro8 ounces, which were handed over from the Mayor of the time being to his successor in the year -1633. These, which were apparently the articles of plate in ordinary use at the municipal festivities, have all dis­ appeared. Fortunately, three beautiful silver-gilt hanaps of rich repousse work of the sixteenth century, which had been given to the Corporation many years before the period of the War by Richard Doddridge, merchant (father of the Judge), George Peard, gent. (the elder), and John Penrose, merchant, respectively, \Vere pre­ served, and are no\v in possession of the Town Council of the Borough.,, The inventory of plate and other things delivered by Mr. John Delbridge (nila yor, 1633) to 1ir. Alexander Hor\vood (Mayor, r634) contains the follo\ving :- Item, on great boale, with its covering, the gift of Mr. Richard Doddridge .. 30 ounces Item, . . . the gift of G. Penrose 3 I " Item, one great boale ... . 36 " Item, ...... II " 108 ounces. 1 "\Vainwright's Reprint. 1 Cotton's Barnstaple during the Civil War, p. 8I. !2 THE DODDER!DGES OF DEVON

On 6th April, 1596, the Barnstaple Register records the baptism of "Grace, a neiger servant of Mr. Richard Doddridge," and on 25th January 16r8-r9 the same Register records the burial of Mr. Richard Doddridge. He was undoubtedly of great age. His wife predeceased him and was buried at Barnstaple, 30th June, 1604. In spite of his removal from South iiolton, the family was still represented there for many years after. In 1636, John Slader, of North Molton, and Alice Doderidge, widow, of South Molton, were. married there on 2nd November. Richard Dodderidge's issue was:- 1. John, of whom presently 2. Robert, of South Molton, who married the daughter of - Acland, but died without issue. 3. Pentecost, of whom presently. 4. Amey, otherwise Ann, who married John Bincombe, or Pyncomb, of South Molton. 5. Elizabeth, otherwise Mary, who married Nicholas Downe, of Barnstaple, and had issue. 6. Dorothy, who married John Dracot, of Barnstaple. 7. Peter, died temp. I604. 8. Phillip, of whom presently.

V.-SIR JOHN DODDERIDGE, JUDGE, _ ... _r_n .1555-1020. Sir John Dodderidge was the elder son of Richard Dodderidge, merchant of Barnstaple, and was born at South Molton in 1555. Some writers assert that he was born at Barnstaple, but Wescote, writing in 1630, distinctly says South Molton and makes this state­ ment but eight years after Sir John had rebuilt the manor house of Bremridge, over the principal entrance of which the arms of vVescote and Dodderidge ,vere set out and impaled, showing a deep connection between the two families. It is now known that Richard, his father, did not leave South Molton till after the births of all his children,1 and this is borne out by the Barnstaple Parish Registers, which, beginning with r538, have no record of Sir John's baptism

1 Dr. Stanford. Barnstaple Corporation Plate.

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Doddridge Farm.

THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. I3 nor indeed of any member of the family till r599. Further, the pedigree at the Heralds' College, recorded in 1628, says the family is of South Molton. There can be no doubt, however, from the uniform tradition alluded to by various writers, that he received his early education at Barnstaple Grammar School. From here he proceeded to Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. on r6th February, r576-7, having been "a severe student." Two years later he entered the Middle Temple and became a Barrister-at-Law in r585. On the 23rd October, 1588, he became M.P. for Barnstaple, and about this time was a prominent member of the Society of Antiquaries then lately founded by himself and others and meeting at the Heralds' College. In the will of Thomas W escombe, of Barnstaple, proved r593, he names "my friend, John Dodridge." In 1602 and 1603 he delivered some lectures at New Inn on the Law of Advowsons. In Lent, 16o3, he discharged the duty of Reader at his Inn. · On 20th January, 1603-4, he took the degree of Sergeant-at-law, about the same time being appointed Prince Henry's Serjeant. Being relieved of the status of Serjeant he was appointed, 29th October, r604, Solicitor-General to King James I. Between 1603 and 1611 he sat in Parliament as Member for Horsham, Sussex. On the 25th February, 1606, he took part in the celebrated conference in the Painted Chamber at Westminster on the question whether Englishmen and Scotchmen born after the accession of James I. to the English throne were naturalized by that event in either kingdom. Sir John adopted the common-law view that no such reciprocal naturalization took place, and the majority in the con­ ference were with him. The question was subsequently decided in the opposite sense by Lord Chancellor Ellesmere and twelve Judges in the Exchequer chamber. Sir John was knighted at Whitehall on the 5th July, 1607, and created Second Justice of the King's Bench on 25th November, 1612. The Barnstaple records have the following, under the date 161r-r2: " '.;even to Sir John Doddridge for a fee for his Counsell for the towne in two peeces of gold 44 sh." On 4th February, 16r3-r4, the University of Oxford, in requital for services rendered by him in connection with some litigation in which the University had been THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. involved, conferred upon him the degree of M.A., the Vice-Chan­ cellor and Proctors attending at Serjeants' Inn for the purpose. Unlike Coke, he showed no reluctance to give extra judicial opinions. Thus Bacon writes to the King (27th January, 1614-15), with reference to Peacham's case and says that Sir John was " very ready to give an opinion in secret." Nevertheless he signed the letter refusing to stay proceedings at the instance of the King in the Commendam case (27th April, 1616). On being summoned to the King's presence all the Judges except Coke receded from the position they had taken in the letter. Sir John, however, went still further, promising that he would conclude for the King that the Church was void and in his Majesty's gift, ann111g that the King might give a commendam to a bishop either before or after consecration, and that he might give it him during his life or for a certain number of years. Sir John sat on the commission, appointed in October, 1621, to examine into the right of the Archbishop Abbot to instal the newly-elected Bishops, Williams, Davenant and Cary, who objected to be consecrated by him on account of his accidental homicide. Being directed (August, 1623), by warrant under the Great Seal to soften the rigour of the statutes against Popish recusants-a concession to Spain intended to facilitate the conclusion of the marriage contract-Sir John, according to Yonge, was hopeful of discovering a way to dispense with the statutes altogether. He concurred in the judgment delivered by Chief Justice Hyde on 28th November, 1627, refusing to admit to bail the five knights committed to prison for refusing to subscribe to the forced loan of that year, and was arraigned by the House of Lords in April of the following year (1628) to justify his conduct. His plea was that the "King holds of none but God," and added '' I am old and have one foot in the grave, there£ ore I will look to the better part as near as I can. But,' omnia habere in memoria et in nullo errare divinum potius est quam humanum.' " 1\'Iany writers speak in praise of Sir John. Fuller observes that "it is hard to say whether he was better artist, divine, civil or canon lawyer," and that" he held the scales of justice with so steady an hand that neither love nor lucre, fear nor flattery, could bow him to either side." Hearing him pleading at the Bar, Bacon is said to have remarked, "It is done like a good archer, he shoots a fair compass." Croke says that he ,vas "a man of great know- THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. 15 ledge as well in common law as in other human sciences and divinity," while Sir Simon D'Ewes, speaking of his entry into Cambridge in 1620, declared that he was "the best lawyer and also the best scholar of his time." Fuller further remarks that Sir John was commonly called" the Sleepy Judge," because he would sit on the Bench with his eyes shut, to sequester his sight from distracting objects. A speech of Sir John's may still be read in Rymer's Foedera, vol. x., p. 132. A curious incident occurred at the Huntingdon Assizes in 1619. Sir John having severely animadverted on the quality of the jurors, the Sheriff gave to the next panel a fictitious set of names, which being read over with great solemnity, Sir John is said not to have detected the imposition. The names of the jurors were as follows­ " Mamilian, King of Tozland; Henry, Prince of Godmanchester; George, Duke of Somersham; William, Duke of Weston; William, Marquis of Stukeley, ; Edward, Earl of Hartford; Robert, Lord of Warsley; Richard, Baron of Winwick; Edmund, Knight of St. Neots; Peter, Esquire of Euston; George, Gentleman of Spaldock; Robert, Yeoman of Barham; Stephen, Pope of Weston; Humphrey, Cardinal of Kimbolton; William, Bishop of Bugden; John, Archdeacon of Paxton ; John, Abbot of Stukeley ; Richard, Friar of Ellington; Henry, Monk of Stukeley; Edward, Priest of Graffham; Richard, Deacon of Catsworth." Sir John married three wives, who, according to Prince, were all '' of very ancient and worshipful families.'' His first wife was Joan, daughter of Michael Jerman, Mayor of Exeter 1591. (2) Dorothy, relict of Edward Handcock, Esquire, of Coombe Martin, and daughter of Sir Amias and Lady Elizabeth Bampfield, of Poltimore. This marriage is recorded in the Heralds' Visita­ tion of the County of Devon, 1564, ,vhere Lady Dodderidge is noted as living in 1562. She died rst March, 1614, and was buried in Exeter Cathedral. (3) Anne, wido,v of Gabriel Newman,1 of London, goldsmith, and daughter of Nicholas2 Culme, of London, and granddaughter of Hugh Culme, son of Richard Culme, of Canon's Leigh, Devon, Esquire. Sir John had issue by his second wife one only son, who died in the prime of life, surviving his mother, but dying before his father. Sir John was a man of substance and had several estates. Pole mentions his estate at Heywood. He had a mansion at Forsters,

1 The Heralds' Pedigree has " Howman." z The Heralds' Pedigree has '' Hugh.'' I6 THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. near Egham, Surrey, where he died, and in which the drawing­ room ceiling bears the date, 1602, with heraldic decorations, such as the silver boar ducally gorged, etc. Sir John's successor in occu­ pation was Sir Robert Foster, Chief Justice, who died on circuit in 1663, and who lies under a sculptured tomb in Egham Church. He devised it to his son as " Great Forster House," consequently its present name, "Great Forsters," would seem to be a modem compromise. The mansion \\'as purchased by Lord Dudley in 1902. By his last marriage Sir John came into possession of the seat of Mount Radford, near Exeter, where in the decline of life he resided "in a style of hospitality suitable to his character." But by far his most important property was the manor of Bremridge, in his ancestral parish of South Molton, which was formerly held by Sir Walter Raleigh, but was purchased by Sir John from Giffard of Brightleghe. Having rebuilt the manor house about 1622, he made it for many years his family seat, at the same time taking a considerable interest in the public life of South Molton. Over the principal entrance are Sir John's arms, impaling those of Wescote the scallops upon the latter coat being like those upon a coat forming part of a mantelpiece which was at Weare Giffard. This latter place formerly belonged to the Giffard family, but by marriage passed to the family of Fortescue. The present porch is a modem addition, and hides a good stone arch over the door. Mr. Charles Avery, the present occupier, has endeavoured to have this porch removed but has not been successful. This mansion passed by Sir John's will to his brother, Pentecost Dodderidge, of Barnstaple, who passed it to his son, John Dodderidge, likewise of Barnstaple, and Cheshunt. From this latter it descended by a coheir to Richard Crossing, of Exeter, Esquire, whose granddaughter conveyed it in marriage to John Blundell, of Tiverton, Esquire. A great portion of the old house was taken down about sixty years ago and used for restoring and enlarging Castle Hill, in the parish of Filleigh, the seat of the Fortescue family. As sho·wing Sir John's interest in local public affairs, we find him with others in 1613 enquiring into the defalcations of one Richard Sherland, Mayor of South Molton, who had been guilty of mis­ appropriating the Borough funds. In 1624 he arbitrates between several of the inhabitants of South Molton respecting the rights in connection "With the common moor there, while as a last act he subscribes towards the erection of a Town Clock and "a house THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. 17 of correction" within the Borough, the subscription list, dated 2nd November, 1629, having the following significant item:­ " Of Mr. Pentecost Dodderidge, of the free guifte of Sir John Dodderidge, Knight, one of his ma ties Justices of Kinges Benche, £10 o o." Sir John died at his mansion at Forsters,1 Egham, Surrey, 13th September, 1628, aged 73, and by his own desire was buried in Exeter Cathedral. His remains were therefore translated thitheF and laid in the Ambulatory near the Lady Chapel, at 10 p.m. at night, 14th October, 1628, under a " fair large stone," with this inscription :- Hie situm est J ohannis Dodderidge militis & judicis quad fuit. Cujus memoriae proximum hoc monumentum positum & sacratum est Obiit xiii die Sept: A.D. 1628. Underneath these words is this motto:­ " Lex Norma Morum." Next follows his engraved armorial coat with mantling, underneath being:- " Beati qui in Domino moriuntur." . Notes from his will, by Edward J. Sage, are as follows:- " In the Name of God, Amen. This is the last will and testa­ ment of me, Sr. John Doddridge, knight, written with mine own hand." 1st August, 4th of K. Charles I., in perfect health. Wishes to be buried in the Cathedral Church of Exeter, near his deceased wife, Dorothy. To his best beloved wife all the furniture, plate and chattells etc., "in the ho\vse or tenement called fforsters, in the parishe of Egham," or on the lands belonging. Also to said wife, his estate in the barton and desmesnes of Heywood, in the

1 Forsters is an interesting Elizabethan mansion, with a very obscure history. The royal arms are on the Elizabethan porch (which is supposed to be later than the house) with the date of r 578. One tradition is that the Princess Elizabeth was confined in the house during Queen Mary's reign; and another, that the place was one of Elizabeth's hunting lodges; but it seems certain that it was the family residence, near London and Windsor, of Sir John Dodderidge. One of his servants was buried at Egham in 1662, and one of Lady Dodderidge's in 1629, the year after the Judge's death. (Notes &, Queries, Fourth Series, vol. 1, p. 504, and Fourth Series, vol. ii, P. 463.) C I8 THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. parish of Wembworth, co. Devon, held on lease; with remainder of said lease to his nephew John Doddridge, eldest son of his brother, Pentecost Doddridge. Other estates devised Bembridge (Brem­ ridge), South Molton, Ilfracombe, etc., in co. Devon. Mentions his father, Richard Doddridge, deceased. House, \\ith furniture, etc., in same, at Mont Radford, near Exeter, to his grandson, John ·Hancock. Mentions books, etc., in his lodgings at Serjeant's Inn, Chancery Lane. To the poor people of Egham £5, to Trinity College, in Cambridge, "to which societie I haue been much be­ holdinge, the two greate Gloabes which are in the gallery of my howse of fforsters." "And fforasmuch as in the course of my life, I have esteemed bookes as the best of my treasures," goes on to devise his books, manuscript books and note books to his nephew John Doddridge. Signed 20th August, 1628. Proved in November following, by Anne Doddridge, widow. Judge Dodderidge is the author of the following works :-The Lawyer's Light (a manual for students), London, 1629, quarto; History of Wales, Cornwall and Chester (chiefly from records at the Tower), London, 1630, quarto ; A Compleat Parson (based on his lectures on advowsons), London, 1630, quarto (second edition, 1641) ; The English Lawyer (including a reprint of the Lawyer's Light, and a treatise for practitioners and judges), London, 1631, quarto; Law of Nobility and Peerage, London, 1658, octavo; Of the Dimensions of the Land of England; A Consideration of the Offece and Duty of the Heralds in England (the last two are tracts by Dodderidge in Hearne's Curious Discourses) ; A Dissertation on Parliament (published. by his nephew, John Dodderidge, of the Middle Temple, in a volume entitled" Opinions of sundry learned Antiquaries touching the .Antiquity, Power, etc., of the High Court of Parliament in England," London, 1658, 12mo (reprinted in 1679, octavo)-it is of doubtful authenticity; Sheppard's Touch­ stone of Common Assurances; Offece of Executor (both published anonymously in 1641 and ascribed to Dodderidge). A small treatise on the royal prerogative (Harleian MS., 5,220) has also been assigned to Dodderidge. In 1599, John Hooker (or Haker), alias Vowell, uncle of the '' Judicious '' Hooker, concluded a work entitled Synopsis Chronographical, or An Historical Record of the County of Devon. After Hooker's death this manuscript was committed to the care of "a person of honourable place in the commonwealth "-supposed to be Sir W. Raleigh-but it subse­ quently came to the hands of Dodderidge who corrected the MS. THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. 19 by adding a few notes.1 He was also the author of Honor's Pedigree, or the Several Fountains of Gentry, "by that Juditious Lawyer, Sir John Dodoredge, London, 1657.'' This was reprinted the next year and entitled The Law of Nobility and Peerage. Mr. H. F. Giffard, of Stone Lodge, Cheam, writes that it is now known that the Shepherd's Touchstone was written by Sir John Dodderidge, though published under the name of the man who bought or stole the MS. Mr. J. Horace Round, M.A., has pointed out that so recently as 1902 Judge Dodderidge's name was very prominently mentioned in the House of Lords, before the Committee for Privileges. The Great Chamberlainship of England was again in dispute before the House, as it was in 1626, when the Judges were called in to give their opinions. On that occasion the Lord Chief Justice and the Lord Chief Baron held that this great office could pass by a private entail, and that it therefore belonged to De Vere, Earl of Oxford; but Mr. "Justice Doddridge," with two of his fellows, held that it could not be entailed away from the heir-general, being akin in character to an earldom held under a charter. Dodderidge's view, therefore prevailed, and his judgment on that occasion, which is abstracted in Collins' Precedents, was deemed of so much importance in the recent proceedings that Mr. Cripps, K.C., on behalf of the Duke of Athol, read it out in full to the Committee. The Counsel for the Crown also held Dodderidge's reasoning to be sound, though, like other Judges, he was misinformed as to facts. 2 The Society of Antiquaries in 1884 purchased a portrait of Sir John Dodderidge, and in the same year the Earl of Camarvon, in his speech from the Chair, referred to the foundation of the Society and gave reasons for this purchase. On Spelman's authority, he stated that when, in 1589, the members decided to apply for a Charter of Incorporation and for a public building, a petition for this purpose was signed by Sir Robert Cotton, Sir John Doddridge and Sir James Lee. " The case," a writer in the Ancestor says, " thus stated was sufficiently plausible to justify the Council in availing themselves of the opportunity of buying the portrait of one of the signatories." Lord Carnarvon considered they had enriched their collection by a portrait of one who "as author of works on the Earldom of Chester, Duchy of Cornwall, and Prin­ cipality of Wales, helped to further and foster those studies and

1 Trans. Dtvon Assoc., vol. viii, pp. 404-5. 2 Ancestor, vol. iii, p. 42. 20 THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVO~. pursuits for the promotion of which this Society was incorporated." Of b.vo portraits of Sir John Dodderidge, one, the original, belongs to the nation; the other-which is considered to be a copy­ is the property of the Society of Antiquaries. The Ancestor, in an article by Mrs. G. E. Nathan, dealing ,vith portraits, says, that of these two, one is surrounded by a painted oval, and is consequently the larger (2 ft. 5½ in. by 2 ft.), though the scale is the same. This portrait is also more vigorous and vivid in the painting. One sees a man of great intellectual power, strength, and perhaps some brutality. The same man is seen in the other picture, yet how different are his qualities in degree. His is a smoother, less incisive personality; even his garments are less shapely and brilliant. This, we take it, is the fault of the artist, who was evidently a copyist of an inferior kind.' '1 This portrait-the second-was given in the first instance to the British Museum in t758 by Dr. A. Giffard. It was transferred in June, 1879, to the East London Museum, and was later, as already stated, secured by the Society of Antiquaries. It is enclosed within a brown oval frame, to the waist, wearing a scarlet cape and robe with white fur. His black cap has a scarlet lining to the ear flap. The amply folded white lace ruff is curiously brought up behind the head. The face is seen in three-quarters, turned to the right, with a morose expression of countenance. Eyes very dark bro,vn and eyebrows broad and of the same colour. The hair at the side next the forehead is white, but down the cheeks a dark brown. The hair round the mouth is close shaven. Back­ ground plain brown. Across the back of the old canvas in large characters is inscribed, " Judge Dotherage." Dimensions, 2 ft. s½ ins. by 2 ft. The painter is unknown. Respecting the Dodderidge inscription in Exeter Cathedral, Dr. Brushfield-the learned antiquary-published an interesting and important note in the Western Antiquary of 1882. He points out that in the Lady Chapel-formerly the library of Exeter Cathedral-and within arched recesses in its north wall, are two Jacobean altar tombs, bearing respectively the recumbent effigies in alabaster of Sir John Dodderidge and his wife. Sir John lies in his scarlet gown and robes, with a Court roll in his hand, while the station of his lady is indicated by her rich draperies, the plaited lace on the tucker and cuffs appearing to be an imitation of the Honiton lace of her period. Let into the wall above the former 1 A ncesto,, vol. iii, pp. 4oa-42a. Tombs of Sir John Dodderldge and his Wife In Exeter Cathedral.

THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. 2I is a stone slab containing the follo\ving memorial inscription, the letters of which bear traces of having been gilt :-

To THE MEMORIE OF SR IOHN DODDRIDGE KNIGHT WHO WAS FIRST SERGEANT AT LAW To PRINCE HENRIE AFTER WARDS SOLICITOR GENRAL TO KING !AMES OF FAMOUS MEMORIE AND AFTER THAT PRINCIPALL SERGEANT AT LAWE TO THE SAID KING I.AMES AND LASTLY WAS CALLED BY HIM TO BEE ONE OF THE IVDGES OF THE HONORABLE COVRTE OF KINGS BENCH WHER0F HEE REMAYNED A IVDGE ALL THE REST OF ms LYFE BY THE SPACE OF 17 YEARES HE DEPARTED Tms LYFE A FORSTERS NEERE EGHA(M] IN SVRREY THE XIIITH DAYE OF SEPTEMBER Ao Do 1628 ABOWTE THE 73TH YEARE OF ms AGE AND ACORDING TO ms DESIRE ms BODIE WAS INTERRED HEERE THE 14TH DAY OF OCTOBER THEN NEXT FOLit0WING. NVNC OBIT DoDERIGVS IVDEX [ == 1628] LEARNING ADIEV FOR DoDERlGE Is GON TO FIXE His EARTHIE TO THE REA VENLIE THRONE. [ = 1628].

Dr. Brushfield gives this at length and makes his valuable remarks concerning it because all notices of this portion of the epitaph he has met with have evidently been copied from that contained in Prince's Worthies oi Devon, and which is inaccurate in several respects. In the first edition of this work (published in 1701) the arrangement of the lines, and the spelling, vary con­ siderably from the inscription as given above. Several words have been introduced in place of those used in the original, and one entire sentence, " according to his desire," appears in Prince's work as '' he desired.'' The principal error, however, occurs in the last three lines, \Vhich Dr. Brushfteld quotes, for the purpose of contrasting them with those copied from the epitaph itself:- NVnC obiit DoDerlgVs IVDeX Learning, adieu, for Dodderidge is gone To fix his earthly to an Heavenly Throne. The first of these is shown as a chronogram, and although intended for a literal copy of the original, it errs in several respects. Taken as it stands, the number 1627 is expres ·ed by the numeral letters, whereas (to translate the line) "at this time Judge Doderidge died" would require the date to be 1628. The latter couplet appears 22 THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. as an ordinary one, its chronogrammatic character being entirely overlooked. The existing epitaph is complete as far as it goes, · and from the space (five inches) that remains vacant between it and the bottom of the stone slab, it is tolerably evident the latter contained no more lines. Prince, however, shows that this formed one-half only of the original inscription, the remaining portion being incised on another slab, which was either lost, broken, or perhaps thought too much defaced to be re-fixed at the time the monument was removed from its original to its present position, some years since. As it appears in his Worthies, the second part commenced with the couplet :-

cc Rich Um of learned Dust I scarce can be found More worth inshrined, within Six Foot of Ground."

This was followed by about ten lines in Latin, and the inscription terminated thus:- Quoto lEtatis? Quoto salutis decessit? Chronogramma Gn ipse letho Extinguitur DoDerLgIVs InDeX CarVs (1628).

Dr. Brushfi.eld says this is a veritable chronogram, and is the answer to the second question. " Like those already described, it contained the date of the Judge1s death. It is very remarkable that Prince did not follow up the clue afforded by the first question, 'Quoto 1Etatis?' especially as the reply is distinctly stated to be 'chronogramma.' Mr. Hilton, in his recent work on Chronograms, was the first to point out the true character of the various lines in the epitaph; and with respect to the one under notice, he has shown that it contains the proper answer to the above question, the date contained in it being 73, and that the line should have been printed thus:-' EN lPSE LETRO EXTING VIT VR [ = 73],' i.e., 'Behold he is extinguished by death.' Turning to the second edition of Prince's Worthies, published in r8ro, it is much to be regretted that the editors did not copy the epitaph, faulty as it was, as it appeared in the first edition, instead of increasing the errors by printing all the chronogrammatic lines as ordinary ones.'' THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON.

VI.-PENTECOST DODDERIDGE.

Pentecost Dodderidge, the third son of Richard Dodderidge, of South Molton and Barnstaple, was born at South Molton, and settling with his father at Barnstaple became a wealthy and in­ fluential merchant there. He married at Barnstaple, 12th February, 1598-9, Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Jacob W escombe, of Barnstaple, whose ,vife was the daughter of Oliver Pearde, of Barn­ staple. Jacob Wescombe, by his will, made 7th February, 1592. and proved 23rd May, 1593, bequeathed his daughter, Elizabeth, £400 upon her marriage. She died at Barnstaple in 1638. In 1610 Pentecost Dodderidge, of Barnstaple, merchant, was granted various pieces of land at Barnstaple called " Portemarsh. "1 He took a great interest in the public life of Barnstaple, and as showing how prosperous a merchant he was, a Chancery Proceeding of I6I8 says of his ordinary business that he " did imbarke heere at Barnestaple three ballotts of clothes called Bridgwaters beinge of the fynest of that sort of cloth each of the said Ballottes con­ teyneinge twelve peeces of the said cloth, and in each of the said Ballottes sexe redds, three greenes and three blewes to be trans­ ported from hence to St. Sebastins in Byskay within the dominion of the King of Spaine there to be delivered to Thomas Haw.kes." Thomas Hawkes, who was his servant, had instructions to deliver it to John Antony, of Exeter, then resident in Bilbao, and employed by Pentecost as factor in those parts, "to be sold by him for the best benefit." Accordingly, Antony found cus­ tomers among the Spanish dons, but having contracted a bad debt with Lawrenti Gonsales, of Burgos, a Spanish merchant, was the reason of this Chancery suit.2 In the Heralds' Visitation for 1620, Pentecost Doddridge is described as " a chief e Burgess " of Barnstaple. In 1628 the reduced family armorial coat was "confirmed and allowed,, to him, while in this year he inherits his brother, Sir John's estate at Bremridge. Although 1Iayor of Barnstaple for the last time in 1637, he still continues a Councillor, and as such ,ve find him in October, 1642, lending £50 for the fortifications of the town against the illfated Charles I., and on 24th January 1642-3, agrees to a rate being levied to finish the same. He signs the minutes

1 Hist. MSS. Com: Corporation of Barnstaple. 1 Chancery Proceedings, Bundle A 10, Record Office, No. 4. THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. of a Council Meeting on 13th June, 1643, but about a month later the town fell into the hands of the King. Although the war with Spain in 1655 almost entirely ruined the exportation of serges, and the more prominent members of the family gradually ceased their connection with Barnstaple, yet we find the family still represented in the ancient town as late as 1701, in which year one Edward Doddridge bought property in Barnstaple from James May. Pentecost Dodderidge was Mayor of the Borough of Barnstaple 1611, 1627 and 1637, and was three times elected as its representative in Parliament in the reigns of James I. and Charles I.1 Wyot's Diary seems to prove that Pentecost Dodderidge was a man with a very determined nature :- THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. 25 was gyven against them (viz.), that Dodderidge should be sent again to prison till he found sureties for his good behavr., and hymself bound in Cl. to her Majesty for his appearance before the Ldrs. of her Majesty's privy counsell, the vi of Feb. next followying, Darracot to remaine in prison vi days and be bound to his good behaviour and to appear at the next assizes for Devon. The Thursday following Dodderidge entered into all the recog­ nizances and was released. xxvi day of January.-Mr. Thomas Leigh and Bartt Harris began their fourney towards London on townes behalf, to p.secute the cause agt. Pentacost before the Counsel, carrying with them ye new charter and some of our .... with the booke of the composition, and divs. other evidences and records touching our ancyent custom now in question. Wednesday, xx Feb. Mr. Tho. Leigh and Harris returned with this order that Doddridge shd. pay the xxd· he was sette, and to be made a burgess of this towne paying x1 as others doe . . The following entry occurs in the Barnstaple Parish Register:­ . "In the yere o' Lorde God, 1612 in the 5th day of Auguste was the towne of T everton burned the second tyme with fyer to the nomber of 260 dwellynge houses. Mr. Penecost Doddridge, Mayor of Barn­ staple, Robert Langdon, Clarke." This Robert Langdon, who was the Parish Clerk of Barnstaple during Pentecost Dodderidge's first mayoralty, forms the subject of an interesting note in the Rev. J. F. Chanter's Parish Clerks of Barnstaple, 1500-1900.1 He was the son of William Langdon, of Pilton, and married, in 1582, Jone Hockyn, of Barnstaple. He held the office of Parish Clerk from 1584 to 1625, and was raised to the diaconate at the parish church of Silverton on 21st Sep­ tember, 1606, by William Cotton, Bishop of Exeter. This, the Rev. J. F. Chanter believes to be the first instance, not merely of a parish clerk being raised to the diaconate, but also of a permanent diaconate in post-Reformation days.2 In 1612-13 Pentecost Dodderidge was paid £20, his salary as ;M:ayor of Barnstaple. At the Sessions on the rst l\iiay, 3 Charles I., the jurors decided that a chimney owned by Pentecost Dodderidge

1 Trans. Devon Assoc., vol. xxxvi, pp. 390-414.

1 There was a Parish Clerk at St. Andrew's, Plymouth, in Deacon's Orders, who died in 1643. He was frightened to death while burying a corpse, the Puritans threatening to throw him into the grave. See Legg's Clerk's Book, p. 36. THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. was dangerous, and that his gutters in Holland Street were out of repair. An assessment and rate was made in 1635-36 upon the inhabitants of Barnstaple, for levying the sum of £150 towards sending out a ship of war for His Majesty's service. Pentecost Dodderidge paid £6. The receiver's accounts show that he paid £5 in 1636 for refusing to be captain of the train bands. Duri1:)g his period of office as Mayor in 1637, the following interesting document was produced:- " 8th November, 1637. Whereas we of the towne of Barnstaple, doe find by daily experience, that through the envye of others, maligninge the prosperities of this towne, we have many heavie burthens laid uppon us, under the pressure whereof we have a long time groaned, and are yet like to be without remedies, ,z1,nless we rnay procure the assistance of some greate man, wlioe is powerfull at the Courte and Counsell board, and whereas by our Charter we have power to make choyse of a High Stuard, as the Citie of Exon, and other eminent place have the like. Wee, therefore, the Maior, Aldermen, and Bur­ gesses o/ this towne, whose names are hereunto subscribed, doe consent and agree to have an High Stuard, and forasniuch as the Rt. Honour­ able the Erle of Dorset hath lately declared himself to be a noble friend unto this towne, both at the Counsell boarde and elsewhere, and hath vindicated the wronges which have been lately offered unto the M aior and others of this towne by patenters and pursyvants, and he being a privie Counseller, and a nian greatly in grace with the Kings Majestie, we, therefore, thinke it fittinge, and do consent and agree that a patent of High Stewardship be forthwith drawen upp for the Erle of Dorset, to be with all expedicon sent upp to London, under the Town Seale to Mr. George Peard, to be presented by him unto the Erle, together with a piece of plate, or some such thinge, as a present, to be bestowed upon him at his first admittance, and with £10 per annum pensiotz. Pentecoste Doddridge, Mr.," etc. At Broadmead, Barnstaple (the residence of C. E. Roberts Chanter, Esq.), there is a fine example of an oak-room. The oak was taken from a house in Cross Street, in which Pentecost Dodderidge formerly lived. The old English designed chimney­ piece has the date 1617, and the initials "P.D." and "E.D." (See Illustration). Pentecost Dodderidge died 24th February, r643 (Old Style), bequeathing his Bremridge estates to his son, John Dodderidge. The issue was :- Oak-room at Broadmead, Barnstaple. The residence of C. E. Roberts Chanter, Esq.

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I. Joane, died in 1605. 2. Anne, who married roth January, r622, John Martyn, of Exeter. 3. Richard, who died r603. 4. Mary, died in 1605. 5. Elizabeth, married Richard Crossing, of Exeter, whose family ultimately inherited Bremridge, South Molton. 6. John, of whom presently. 7. Dorothy, who married, firstly, 7th May, r634, John Clarke, of Exeter, and secondly, John Lovering, a Barnstaple merchant. She died in 1666. 8. Richard, M.A. Oxon, who died in the prime of life. He was buried in the Parish Church of Barnstaple, the following appearing upon his memorial stone:-'' Pentecost Doddridge, Esq. ; ob. Feb. 24, r643. Also John, son and heir of John Dodd­ ridge, Esq. ; ob. at end of Feb. 1653. Also Dorothy, daughter of the above Pentecost Doddridge, and wife of John Loveringe, merchant; ob. Nov. I2, 1666 .. Arms-Arg. two pallets 01 pales wavy ar. between nine crosses crosslet gu. (3, 3, and 3)."

VIL-PHILIP DODDERIDGE, OF BARNSTAPLE, LONDON AND ISLEWORTH, CO. MIDDLESEX.

Philip Dodderidge, \Vas the fourth son of Richard Dodderidge, of Barnstaple, and, doubtless, took up his residence in London through the influence of his brother, Sir John Dodderidge. That he was living in London in 1625 is clear from the following in­ teresting letter \vhich he v.rrote that year to the Rev. Robert Steynings, Vicar of Broad Clyst, Devon, 16031 :-

1 Robert Steynings was brother of Margaret, wife of John ,villoughby, whose mother, Agnes, was sister to Nicholas Culme, Judge Dodderidge's third father-in-law. 28 THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON.

London, the r oth of March, 162 5. Klnd Sir,-My best love & service and remembered unto you, and to all your sons & daughters. The Earl of Arendell [Arundel] was committed to the Tower upon Sunday last. The cause of this : he hath married his son to the young Duke of Lennox' s sister who, being of the blood Royal, he ought not to a' married his son to her without the King's leave. Again the King had provided a match for the lady, which was well known to the Earl, yet he did presume to marry his son to the lady. My Cousin, Mr. William Handcock, Judge Dodd.ridge's son-in-law, is dead and was burled upon Saturday night last. He was stark mad, some years before he died, and played many mad parts, God knows ! to the grief of all his friends here. Let me entreat you to remember my commendations unto your neighbour Mr. Moore. No more but praying God to give us all his grace to serve him. I rest yours in what I may. Pm DODDRIDGE. I pray you to rememeber me to Mr. Browne. I look for answer from him. To his worshipful good friend Mr. Robt: Steynings, preacher of God's word in Broadclyst. These to be delivered.1

Philip Doddridge latterly resided at Isleworth, co. Middlesex, from which place his son, John Doddridge, proceeded to Oxford in r638. Of his children :- John Doddridge, of Isleworth, Shepperton and Twickenham, was born in 1620, matriculated at New Inn Hall, Oxford, the 22nd March, 1638-9, and took his B.A. degree from Pembroke College, Oxford, the roth of November, 1642. In 1647 he was appointed to the Rectory of Shepperton, co. Middlesex, but surren­ dered his benefice upon the passing of the Act of Uniformity in 1661. He then retired to Twickenham, where he is noted as a Presby­ terian (General) in 1672. Calamy speaks of him as " an ingenious man and a scholar, an acceptable preacher, and a very peaceable divine." Some of his "judicious and serious" sermons are still extant. He became the head of this branch of the family upon the death of his cousin, John Doddridge, in 1666. He died in 1689, leaving a family of ten children, including Philip and Daniel. His daughter, Kimborrow, married, 14th November, 1681, George Chandler, of Isleworth, gent. Philip Doddridge "was bred to the law,1' and became Steward to William, 5th Earl Russell, and 1st Duke of Bedford. He was accustomed to entertain his nephew, Philip, afterwards Dr. Philip Doddridge, during the latter's holidays. He died in 1715.

1 Trevelyan Papers, Part iii, p. 170. Camden Society. THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON.

Daniel Doddridge became a prosperous London oil merchant. He married the daughter of John Bauman, a Lutheran preacher of Prague, who fled from persecution in 1626 and eventually set up a private grammar school at Kingston-on-Thames. The issue of this union was twenty children, only two of whom reached maturity, viz., Elizabeth, who married John Nettleton, Dissenting Minister at Ongar, Essex, and died in March, 1735, and Dr. Philip Doddridge. Daniel Doddridge died the 17th of July, 1715.

VIII.-JOHN DODDERIDGE, OF BARNSTAPLE, BRISTOL AND CHESHUNT, HERTFORDSHIRE. John Dodderidge, the second surviving son of Pentecost Dod­ deridge, was born at Barnstaple and baptised there 11th November, 1610. He is believed to have received his early education at Barnstaple Grammar School, and " was bred to the law." He had chambers in the Middle Temple, where he practised as a Barrister; was chosen Recorder of Bristol, and although he only held the office for three years, he so highly esteemed the Corporation that by his will, he bequeathed them two beautiful pieces of plate, which still embellish the banquets at the Mansion House.1 Later, he was chosen Recorder for Barnstaple, and afterwards, in r646, represented the Borough in Parliament. On 26th July, 1647, he was made a Justice of the Peace for the County of Devon, but the next year was excluded from the House of Commons and retired to private life. John Dodderidge, like his uncle, Sir John, \Vas thrice married, firstly, to Jane, daughter of Hele of SO'ath Hele, secondly to 1fartha, daughter of Sir Thomas Dacus, of Hereford, but he only had issue one son, John, \Vho died early in 1653 at Barnstaple. His third wife was Judith, daughter of Richard Gurdon, of Ashington Hall, Suffolk, whom he married on 8th October, 1657. She "'·as the granddaughter of Brampton Gurden, of Ashington Hall, who, with John Hill, of Taunton, purchased in 1647 the episcopal manor of Taunton Deane, in which was situated the Burland estate of the Dudderidges, the Somersetshire branch of the family. By this means Brampton Gurden became joint over-lord of Joan Duddridge, alias Doderidge, widow, who died 1664, and her son, Thomas Duddridge, alias Dodridge, \vho died 1703. She after-

1 Annals of BYistol in Seventeenth Century, p. 26 I. 30 THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. wards married John Gould, of Clapham, Surrey, Esq., widower, about 48 years of age, 15th December, 1665, and was buried 24th July 1704, at Clapham. Her will, dated 19th May, was proved 26th July 1704, at the Probate Court, Canterbury (Ash, 146). John Dodderidge died at Cheshunt in Hert£ordshire, 22nd March, 1666, aged 50, leaving his family estates to his two married surviving sisters, to the children of one deceased (these female heirs carried theirs into the families of Crossing and Blundell)~ and also to his cousin, the Rev. John Dodderidge. He also left benefactions to Master Edmund Calamy, B.D., the Church of Ilfracombe, besides a legacy to the Vicar of Barnstaple.1 Besides publishing in 1658 his uncle's (Sir John Dodderidge) Dissertation on Parliament, he was himself a legal author, publishing the following works :-(I} A Treatise on Particular Estates. (2) A True Representation of Forepast Parliaments to the view of the present times and Posterity. John Dodderidge published the well­ known work on the Antiquity and Power of Parliament, which is referred to on a previous page. Both the Judge and John Dod­ deridge have been claimed as author~ of this work. Prince does not state that the latter was the author, he merely says that the book was published by him, but numbered among the works of his uncle, the Judge. John Dodderidge also published a work on the opinions of Arthur Aggard, Joseph Holland, Francis Tate, and William Campden. These men are said to have been eminent antiquaries and historians. Note on Richard Dodderidge. Richard Dodderidge, the youngest son of Pentecost Dodderidge, of Barnstaple, was born in r615. He is known to have matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, aged 18, 9th September, 1634 ; also to have taken his B.A. degree 10th June, 1637, and proceeded to his M... i\., 11th June, 1640. He seems to have died sometime before his brother, John Dodderidge, since he is not mentioned in John's \vill, and it is distinctly stated that the Rev. John Dodderidge, of Shepperton, is the representative of the family after his cousin's death.

1 The report of the Charity Commissioners in 1828 contains some in­ teresting matter relating to the rent charge of £50 a year, for ever, which John Doddridge, by his will of 20th January 1658, gave for the use of a lecturer within the parish of Fremington. John Martin the elder, Richard Crossing, and John Lovering the elder, and their heirs, were earnestly desired to cause it to be settled by" good advice of counsel." . From the same source .f,10 was given for the maintenance of select university scholars. THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. 31

IX.-DOCTOR PHILIP DODDRIDGE. Dr. Philip Doddridge, the youngest child of his father's long family, was born in London the 26th of June, 1702, but since his life has been so fully treated by Orton (1804), Humphries (1829-31), Kippis, Stoughton (1852), Boyd, Harsha (1864), Stanford (1880), and other writers, only a biographical outline is attempted here. He was always of_ a delicate constitution. His mother began his education by teaching him Bible history from the pictures on the Dutch tiles of the chimney, while he learnt his Latin grammar at a private school kept by Stott, a dissenting minister. In 1712 he entered his grandfather's school at Kingston-on-Thames, then taught by Daniel Mayo. In 1715 he entered a school at St. Albans of which Dr. Nathaniel Wood was master, and here made the acquaintance of Dr. Samuel Clarke. Two years later, Downes, his guardian, lost the whole of the Dodderidge property, which compelled hi.tu to leave school. The Duchess of Bedford offered him an education at either Oxford or Cambridge, with provision in the Church, but he scrupled about conformity and rejected it whereupon Dr. Clarke opening his house he preferred to study for the dissenting ministry and became a communicant the 1st of July, 1719. The following October he entered the academy of John Jennings, of Kibworth, Leicestershire, which was the site of the present Crown Inn, and was noted as a diligent student. In July, 1722, the academy being removed to Hinckley, in Leicester­ shire, he preached his first sermon in the old Meeting-house there and taken down that year. On 25th January, 1723, he passed a qualifying examination, and in June, 1723, became Minister at Kibworth to a con01egation of 150 people, refusing calls from Coventry, Pershore and Haberdashers' Hall, London. While at Kib,vorth he boarded for a short time with the Perkins family, at Little Stretton, after\vards at Burton Overy with the family of Freeman. By October, 1725, he had removed his residence to Market Harborough, where his friend, David Some, was minister, and with him .entered into a joint pastorate of the two congregations. While here he rejected invitations to become pastor at Bradford, Norfolk, at New Court, Carey Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, and at Nottingham. In July, r729, he opened the Midland Theological Academy at Market Harborough with three divinity and other students, but on the 28th of September following he received a call to the pastorate of the Independent congregation at Castle Hill, THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON.

Northampton, and accepting it on the 6th of December, removed with his academy and began his important ministry there on Christ­ mas Day. On the 19th March, 1730, he was " ordained a presbyter " by eight ministers. Having previously sought the hand respectively of Miss Catherine Perkins, Miss Jane Jennings, and Miss Elizabeth Scott, to whom he proposed in verse, saying that to marry her was" to pass through Eden on the way to Heaven," he in August, 1730, paid his addresses to 1vfiss Mercy Maris, an orphan, born at Worcester, and adopted by her uncle, Ebenezer Hankins, at Upton­ on-Severn, which ended in a singularly happy marriage, the wedding taking place on the 22nd of December, r730. During the same year appeared his first publication, entitled Free Thoughts on the most probable means of reviving the Dissenting Interest. In 1733-4 he came into conflict with the Bishop of the diocese by allowing one of his students to preach in a barn without episcopal license. He had, however, the sympathy of Lord Halifax and other public men, and proceedings against him were stopped by King George II. In 1736 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the two Universities of Aberdeen. The same year he set up a charity school at Northampton, for teaching and clothing the children of the poor. On 26th July, r740, his pastoral work was shared by the appointment of four elders, while in 1743 he had an important share in the forma­ tion of the County Infirmary. In May, 1749, the lJniversity of St. Andrew's, at Doddridge's suggestion, sent its diploma of Doctor of Divinity to David Jennings, the Dissenting divine (1691- 1762). Attending the funeral of Dr. Clarke at St. Albans to preach the funeral sermon in December, 1750, he caught a severe cold which, with his slender constitution, he could not shake off. Preaching his last sermon at Northampton the 14th July, 1751, he, four days later, delivered a charge at Bewdley, Worcestershire, and visited his friend, Job Orton, at Shrewsbury. The following August he went to Bristol for the hot wells, when Maddox, Bishop of Bristol, called upon him. His friends meanwhile raised a sum of £300, to which Lady Huntingdon contributed one-third, to try a voyage to Lisbon. Leaving Bristol and staying for a time with Lady Huntington at Bath, he sailed with his wife and a servant from Falmou~h the 30th of September. At Lisbon he was the guest of David King, the son of a member of his flock at Northamp­ ton, but although the change revived his spirits bis strength was gone, and he died the 26th of October, 1751, being buried in the English Cemetery there. His tomb at Lisbon was replaced in 1828 PHILIP DODDRIDGE. D.D., 1702-1751.

THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. 33 by a new one of marble, which was renovated in 1879 by the chaplain, the Rev. T. Godfrey Pope. It bears this inscription:-

PHILLIP DODDRIDGE, D.D., died October 26th, 1751, aged 50. With high respect for his character and writings, this stone of remembrance was raised upon a former one in decay, in the month of June, 1828, at the desire and expense of Thomas Taylor, of all his numerous pupils the only one living.

The following epitaph appears upon his monument in the Doddridge Chapel, Northampton:-

To the Memory of PHILIP DODDRIDGE, D.D., Twenty-one years pastor of this church, Director of a flourishing academy, and author of many excellent writings; By which His pious, benevolent, and indefatigable zeal 'Po make men wise, good, and happy, Will far better be made known, And perpetuated much longer, Than by this obscure and perishable marble; The humble monument, not of his praise, But of their esteem, affection and regret, Who knew him, lov' d him, and lament him ; And who are desirous of recording, In this inscription, Their friendly but faithful testimony To the many amiable and christian virtues That adorned his more private character, By which, though dead, he yet speaketh, And still present in remembrance, Forcibly, though silently, admonisheth His once beloved and ever grateful flock. He was born June 26, I 702, And died October 26, 175 I, Aged 50.

In appearance Dr. Doddridge was tall, slight, and extremely near-sighted. His portrait was several times painted, that given here being a copy of one finished 10th August, 1750, and said to be the best likeness. The original is now in the possession of Mr. William Doddridge, of Crediton. He defined his theological position the 4th of November, 1724, as in all the most important points a Calvinist. In early life he leaned towards Arianism, but his riper conclusions " somewhat resembled the. scheme of Sabellius with the addition of a belief in the pre-existence of the D 34 THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. human soul of our Lord." He ·was extremely tolerant, and while being a friend of Wesley, admitted Whitfield to his pulpit. ~n ecclesiastical government he expressed himself the 7th of December, r723, as "moderately inclined." to Congregationalism, but he was not tied to forms, and his example did much to render nugatory for a long period the distinction between English Presbyterians and Congregationalists. The number of students passing through his academy was about two hundred, among them being men who afterwards showed superior attainment. He made shorthand imperative for taking down his lectures, and was the first to introduce the practice of lecturing in English instead of Latin. His academy is represented to-day by New College, South Hampstead. He was a great extempore preacher, but his name will. ever shine as a hymn writer. He was the first also to originate the Noncon­ formist Foreign Missions. His will, dated rrth June, 1741, with -codicils dated the 4th of July, r749, is in his own handwriting. After his death his widow, Mercy, together with her daughters, Mary and Anna Cecilia, ultimately retired to Tewkesbury, where Mary became the second wife of John Humphreys, of Tewkesbury, and where she herself died the 7th of April, r790, at the ripe age of 82. By his wife Dr. Philip Dodderidge had issue:-

I. Elizabeth, born r73r, died r736. 2. Mary, born r733, died 8th June, r799. 3. Mercy, born r734, and died unmarried at Bath, the 26th of October, 1809. 4. Philip, born 1735, and died unmarried at Tewkesbury, r3th March, r785. 5. Anna Cecilia, born 1737, and died unmarried at Tewkes­ bury, 3rd October, 181r. 6. Samuel, born 1737 and died 1740. 7. Sarah and Jane, born 22nd April, and died 24th of the same month, 1746. 8. William, born 5th of November, and died rrth November, 1748. His works were collected in ten volumes, Leeds, 1802-5, octavo, reprinted in 1811, octavo. The chief items are the following:- I. Free Thoughts on the most probable means of reviving the Dissenting interest. 1730, octavo (Anon.). 2. Sermons on the Religious Education of Children. 1732, 12mo. THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. 35

3. Submission to Divine Providence in the Death of Children. 1737, octavo (sermon on II Kings, ch. iv., 25-26, said to have been written on the coffin of his daughter, Elizabeth). 4. The Family Expositor. 1739-56, 6 vols., quarto. He had prepared a similar exposition of the Minor Prophets, which was completed the 5th of June, 1751, and is still in MS. 5. The Evil and Danger of neglecting the Souls of Men. 1742, octavo. 6. The· Principles of the Christian Religion expressed in plain and easy verse. 1743, 12mo. (Said to have been learned by George III. when a boy.) 7. The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul. 1745, octavo and 12mo, which was afterwards translated into ten different languages. 8. Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of the Honourable Colonel James Gardiner, with an Appendix relating to the antient Family of the Munros of Fowlis. 1747, octavo. Posthumous were:- 9. Hymns. Salop, 1755, 12mo. Edited by Orton, and re­ issued by Humphries as Scriptural Hymns, 1839, 16mo. 10. A Course of Lectures in Pneumatology, Ethics and Divinity. 1763, quarto (edited by S. Clarke). Second Edition, 1776, quarto, Third Edition, 1794, octavo, 2 vols. (edited by Kippis). II. Lectures in Preaching, which, after appearing in the " Universal Theological Magazine " for 1803, were issued separately in 1821. Octavo. Not included in the collected ,vorks are:- 12. A Brief and Easy System of Shorthand. 1799, 12mo. 13. The leading heads of Twenty-seven Sermons. (Transcribed from a hearer's notes by T. Hawkins), 18r6, octavo. 14. The Correspondence and D1~ary of Philip Doddridge. (Edited by his great grandson, John Doddridge Humphries), 1829-3r, 5 vols., octavo. The "Doddridge Heirlooms," as they are called, have an in­ teresting history. The family portraits were carefully preserved until 1855, when they passed into the possession of the late Sir Charles Reed, Chairman of the London School Board. The two volumes of the Martin Luther Bible and the belt which figure largely in the story of Doddridge's maternal grandfather, were in the possession of the family till 1850 ; what became of them is D2 THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON.

unknown. The grandfather clock which Castle Hill congregation gave the Doctor for a. wedding present still records the time at the residence of the Rev. F. Doddridge Humphreys, of Honiton. The old Bible, with unbroken entries of all births, marriages and deaths, from the time of James II., is still in the family, while the old coat of arms which used to hang framed in Doddridge's study, now illuminates the inside cover of the Bible. The books, papers, letters, etc., are to be found in New College, Hampstead, but the bulk of the heirlooms have passed to their most natural and appro­ priate home-" Doddridge Chapel," Northampton. The following is an interesting letter of Dr. Doddridge to his wife during his visit in Devon and Somerset in 1742 :-

" Wilton, July 16th, 1742. LoVEE, Zince ch' a been in Downzhire and Zomersetzhire ch' alearnt zumdthing o' th' tongue, and zure, and zure, and double zure, ch' ood be glad to zhow ye all my zgollership. Cham just come to yonder and be pretty witty, and Mr. Marshall tells he's zo too; but I do dthink he's but pretty zo, and not deadly well. I tell'n has got vire in zyeart; and indeed he be zo zore i' th' mucks, that I'll wage a croon ye might ha' nacktn doon wi' a matte I Ch'av rip'n store times for the do:xies womun ha' mad'n lament wist, and thick athemoon, ha' zloggered a leet and an by had een talln a dwoyllen; yet cha can't cal'n a dumphead, nor a dumplehead, for they tell sh' as a vine stubb, as indeed a pretty many omun theren 'ave; but wish he be no left i' th' lare. He was zore gallied the day lest h' as lamps' d his horse; but he's better the neart zo hope he'll eat a lam'ing piece of mutton, an' he get seart out. We've had a quaint rain, yet the :fielme did v!ee vast the vower or five last miles; but the rod was heart vore, and we had no zeam and bad in narrow rods to crame us ; but zupper and lappe and mazzards be coming, zo mun get ready to till to, or could write o' thick and thucke, and the men a boo th' hour ; but as they zayn yonder, Dear Lovee, yours always to command, P.D."

ANOTHER EXTRACT. "Nov. 6, 1742. I have been very much afflicted since the date of my last on account of the great and dangerous illness of my dear wife. I carried her to Bath about six weeks ago, and I bless God that there is some prospect of her recovery, though she mends but very slowly. I earnestly desire your prayers for her. I am much grieved for Mrs. Steff's illness, and shall be glad to hear of her recovery. Please to give my service to her, and tell her I apprehend I did a service to the public in communicating to it the exi::ellent remains of her son. They met with the acceptance they deserve ; almost the whole edition sold off in two months, and I believe a second is preparing for the Press. I thank Mrs. Steff for her kind offer with regard to her son's sermons and I should be willing for her to send my wife one of the second edition of her son's sermons, when printed." -_=....:_,..__- -- :_=...~~~~- ~- -

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X.-THE DODDERIDGE LIBRARY AT BARNSTAPLE.

The Library to which the following notes refer was founded by John Dodderidge in 1664. It \Vas with the advancement of learning, and with the free spirit of enquiry a\vakened by the Reformation that books were multiplied and cheapened. Princes and great nobles began to form collections, in which the romances, the chronicles, the poems printed by Caxton, De Worde, Pynson, Machlinia, and the early English printers were well re­ presented. Reformers gathered about them the works of Luther, of Zuinglius, of Melancthon, of Erasmus, besides lesser controversial and expository books in which they were interested. Professional men likewise formed libraries of law, jurisprudence and of medicine.1 These collections were at times left to colleges or guilds, but in the beginning of the seventeenth century it became a common practice, to a certain extent, for the wealthy to bequeath to towns and cities their valuable collections of books. For instance, in 1623, Sir John Kederminster founded a parochial library at Langley Marish, in Buckinghamshire. It consisted of about three hundred folio volumes on divinity, chiefly in Latin and Greek, but included the chief works which the controversy of the Reformation produced. At Barnstaple, in I664, before his death, John Dodderidge presented to the town 112 volumes, chiefly folio Latin works on theology. For the accommodation of these books the Mayor and Corporation began to erect a building, a part of which was in the Churchyard, and about sixteen feet on a garden. Apart from its local interest this bequest is noteworthy as being among the earliest instances of the foundation of free town libraries in England, and although there are not many instances of such libraries having been continually ,vithin public reach since the dates of their foun­ dations, the Doddridge collection seems to bear close examination on this point. A bequest of books to Norwich was made in 1608. This collection has a continuous history to the present day, being now housed in the Free Library of that city, an institution which is thus the oldest city Free Library with an unbroken record. A similar bequest was made to Bristol in 1615, and is no,v a part of the Central Free Library there. Each of these Libraries-

1 Ogle's Free Library, p. 4. THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON.

Norwich and Bristol-was for a time alienated to the use of a private library society, but it is doubtful if any authorised seeker after knovvledge was, in either case, ever denied access to the books.1 The Dodderidge Library at Barnstaple has not, apparently, been thus exclusively appropriated. It is true that when a private clerical library ,vas formed at Barnstaple, the vicar and churchwardens gave permission for the society to use the old library room. This was at a time when the library was rarely used, and when the books, through neglect, were becoming deteriorated. There are no instances on record of any student being refused the use of the library, and the books have never been separated from the intentions of the founder. Mr. W. P. Hiern, M.A., F.R.S.,2 a few years ago had a collection of old papers put into his hands by the Rev. Charles Landon (then residing at Barnstaple), in which there was a letter written by one of the executors and addressed to another of the executors of John Dodderidge, the founder of the Barnstaple Library. The letter was dated "Exon, 16th January, 1672," and began, "Mr. John Lovering And much respected Brothr." After referring to some private matters it proceeded, "Itt seemes on other discourses the Maior of Barnstaple & other or freinds there, did agree that the Library there should beare the name of

I BIBLIOTHECA DODDRIDGIANA I to be sett uppon the ffrontispice of itt in faire letters of Gould; I hope all will concurre vvith it, iff so, pray Brothr cause itt to be don. In a faire stone; That we may preserve the Name of or Honoured deceased Brothr & I will send ro good folios to the sayd Library, & procure other bookes from hence, and I kno,v you will not be backwards ; I will be all ½ the Cost of the sayd setting forth of the name." The letter is subscribed " yr very loving Brothr reddy to serve you, Richard Crossing," and is addressed at the back, "To Mr. John Lovering, senr., Mrchant. Leave this at the Post House in Barnstaple." The Register Book gives some account of the Library, and a transcription of some parts will illustrate its history :-

1 Ogle's FYee LibraYy, pp. 4-5. ' Notes &- Gleanings, I 5th April, 1889. THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. 39 A REGISTER BooK. '' OF THOSE who have been the founders and finishers of this Library; together with the names of such Benefactors as have, or shall hereafter supply the same with Books and other things placed therein ; And also upon what land it was builded. " THE FOUNDATION thereof was part on the Churchyard ; and about sixteen feet on the North end thereof upon the Garden wall of John Frost and Nicholas Thorne of Barnstaple; who are to have a Wheat-com a year for granting the same; to be paid to them by the Mayor and Aldermen, for the time being, for ever. '' THIS LIBRARY was begun to be builded by the Corporation of Barnstaple in the year 1665; and finished in 1667 by Richard Crossing, John Lovering and John iiartin, Merchants, Executors of that worthy and pious Benefactor, John Doddridg, Esquire ; by whose Bounty it was furnished with many worthy Books." The old catalogue-for which there is an entry of 45. in the Churchwardens' Accounts of 1739-having become nearly illegible the existing Register Book was compiled in I824 by the Rev. Henry Luxmore, M.A., Vicar of Barnstaple. In his introduction he says: "The Library founded by Mr. Doddridg, having received no addition for many years, and being but little used, a part of the room appro­ priated to the books was let by the Churchwardens in 18o5 to the Registrar of the Archdeacon's Court at a yearly rent of fr. In consequence of the alterations in the fabric oi the church, which took place in 1824, the room was further diminished in size, and the books being in great disorder, the present Catalogue was drawn up, and in part transcribed from the old one, vvhich was originally very imperfect and had become nearly illegible. " The number of volumes appears from the former Catalogue to have been 328, of which 112 were given by 1\ilr. Doddridg, 67 by Mr. Ayres, and 149 by various benefactors. Of these, 57 have been, through neglect, lost or destroyed, among which were Glaus Magnus, History of Phillip de Commines, Defence of Queen Mary by Gee, Fuller's Church Histo_ry of England, Spottwood's Church of Scotland, Arraignment of the Gunpowder Traytors, Gwillim's Heraldry, Usserii Annales Tertulliani Opera, Cypriana Opera, Cletnentis Alex. Opera, "Vatablus upon the Bible, Hesychii Lexicon, Stobcei SententicE, and Stillingfleet's Origines Sacr~. " The number of volumes of which the library now consists is 271. "Henry Luxmoore, A.M., Vicar. "Vicarage, Barnstaple, November 27, I824." 40 THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVO~.

It will be seen on ref erring to the subsequent Catalogue that some of the volumes stated to have been lost are now recovered.­ The benefactors to the Library (according to the Register Book) were the following

John Dodderidge, Esqr. I 12 vols. Joseph Ayres, P.C. of Pilton 67 ,, Elizabeth Horwood1 2 " John Hanmer, clerk 5 Raleigh Clapham 2 ,," Jonathan Brande 5 ,, Alice Sweet I ,,

Thomas Matthew 4 H Richard Hooper 6 Richard Parm.inter .. " 5 " Antony Palmer, clerk .. 5 WffH~ Barbor, M.D. 2 ,, John Downe 2 Catharine Plyme I " Oliver Naylor, Canon of Exeter 3 ,, Elizabeth Harris .. I Theophilus Gale, clerk 3 ,," Thomas Gilbert I Oliver Pearde, clerk 4 ,, John Weeks, Dean of Burian 2 ,, John Berry, clerk .. 2 ,, Edward Allanson, Master of Grammar School I Roger Jeffry, Alderman .. 5 " John Clerk, Merchant of London .. 12 ",, Edward Lovett, Esqr... . . 6 John Sommers, Exeter College, Oxford I " John Whichelhalse, Esqr., of Linton 6 ,," Richard Crossing, Merchant of Exeter IO ,, Thomas Waterhouse, M.D. 3 Mary Downe 14 ,, John Williams I ,,

William Vaughan, M.D. I H John Lovering, ?v!erchant 2I John Palmer I ,," Francis Escott I William Rayner, A.:M:. 2 ,, Nathaniel Griffen .. 2 ,, John Lee .. I William Marshall, Vicar of Barnstaple I " " The Library building itself would seem to retain much of its original character externally. Mr. W. P. Hiern, F.R.S., says that

1 From the Parish Register:-'' Mrs. Elizabeth Horwood, buried in woolen 27 Nov., 1678. She made her will and gave me £5. I wish that all good people that are buried in Bamestaple would do the like if they are able." Old Dodderidge Liorary Building ?.t Barnslaple.

THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. 4I it was formerly a detached structure, built, as stated before, partly on the churchyard. But many alterations have been made. It seems that at the time of restoration the chancel was extended to the south and west walls of the Library, and here openings were made. There is no reason to doubt that the parisl! priest had from the commencement the care of the Library, since it was adjoining the Church and partly on the Churchyard, and the building was used for church purposes such as the keeping of registers and other property. Mr. J. R. Chanter has pointed out that although the lower storey has been used for years as a vestry, there is no record of its consecration. Writing in t882 the same authority says :­ " The building itself exists much in its original state externally, and shows remnants internally of its original character and decora­ tions in the enriched mouldings and singular pendant for a chandelier in the upper storey, some of the old stucco inscriptions and devices on the walls also remaining, but it was curtailed in size, and its proportions and decorations mutilated, when the alterations occurred in 1824, a portion of the upper room being then taken and partitioned off for a staircase and entry to the new gallery.'' This record is in the plaster of the inner walk on the east side :-

ID RC IL IM 1667. Restor' d 1844.

In 1826 the Barnstaple Clerical Library or Book Club was formed, \vhich has been kept up by the subscriptions of clergy and others to the present time. It was to this literary society that the Vicar and Churchwardens gave the use of the Dodderidge Library room. But when, through the munificence of ~Ir. W. F. Rock, the North Devon Athena:um '\Vas founded for the promotion of literature, science and advanced education, the private library and the Dod­ deridge collection were removed from the room over the parish church vestry to the institution. It was, however, soon found that the results of having a small private library in a large public institution were not satisfactory, consequently the valuable Dodderidge books, as a bequest to the town, were retained at the :·Iorth Devon Athenreum, but the Barnstaple Clerical Library re-occupied the room at the church, where it still remains. The catalogue of the books as given in the. Register Book, 42 THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. although quite a literary work of merit, has some imperfections. The entries, for instance, are not in a strict alphabetical order, some books which were probably lost at the time of its compilation but have since been recovered are not included, and titles of some works, which were bound vlith others, do not appear. Under these circumstances it was thought best not to give a transcription of the Register Book here, but to give a catalogue of the books as they are at present. Mr. Thomas vVainwright, the well-knovvn Principal Librarian of the North Devon Athenreum, went carefully through the books some years ago, and his catalogue of the theolo­ gical works in the institution contains the Dodderidge books, including all the works which, through being bound together, were not entered in the Register Book. A transcription of the Rev. H. Luxmoore's work will be found in Memorials of St. Peter's Chu_rch, Barnstaple, by J. R. Chanter. The useful annotations in the following catalogue, except when otherwise stated, are trans­ cribed from the Register. Many other genealogical notes of special interest, relating to such authors as Jewell, Hanmer and Hakewell could have been given, but by printing in the Appendix the quaint memorial of Hanmer, this, in some measure, has been rendered unnecessary.

CATALOGUE OF THE DODDERIDGE COLLECTION. THEOLOGY AND BIBLICAL LITERATURE. Abbot, R. ( Bishop of Salisbury).-The Second Part of the Defence of the Reformed Cs ~holicke (London) 1607 Acta Apostolorum.-Commentarii in ( Basilire) Augustini (Genevre) Calvini Homilire in . . (Tiguri) Gualtheri Albaspinus, fi.-De Veteribus Ecclesire Ritibus (London) 1622 Albertini, F.-Corollaria seu Qruestiones Theologicre . . (Lugduni) 1610 Alting, H.-Theologia Elenctica Nova . . (Amstelodami) 1654 Animalibus Sacrre Scripturre.-Opus de . . . . (London) Bocharti Aquinatis, T.1-Summa Totius Theologire. 2 Tomi (Col. Agrippinre) 1604 Aretii, B.-Commentarii in Quatuor Evangelistas (Morgiis) 1580 Arrowsmith, J.-Tactica Sacra (Cantabridgre) 1657 Augustini, A.-Commentarii in Evangelia Quatuor et in Acta Apostolorum . . (Basilire) 1542 In Sacras Pauli Epistolas Interpretatio . . (Parhisiis) 1489 per Venerabilem Bedam collecta; necnon Sep- tem aurere Chrysostomi Omelire (Parhisiis) 1499 Opera. 11 Tomi (Basilire) 1569

1 '' There are in this book, mixed with many difficult subtleties, not a few theological questions stated with clearness and judgment."-Watson, Bishop of Llandaff.

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Bach, W. C.-Decimarum et Oblationum Tabula (London) 1635 Barrow, J.-Works. 3 Vols. in 2 (London) 1700 Baxter, R.-.Confession of His Faith . . (London) 1655 The Safe Religion . . (London) 1657 Beard, T.-The Theatre of God's Judgments . . (London) 1612 Bedam Collecta.-Divi Augustini in Pauli Epistolas Interpreta- tio per Venerabilem.. . . (Parhisiis) 1499 Bellarmini, R.-Explanatio in Psalm.as . . (Colonue) 161 I Bible.-A Complete History of the Holy . . Dennett . English . . 1701 . Key of the . . Roberts Biblia Sacra, Hebraice, Grrece, Latine, Ex Officina Sanctandreana Is 86 Polyglotta Edidit Brianus Walton. 6 Tomi (Londini) 1657 [Biel], Oabriel.-Collectoriu.m super I4ibros Sententiarum G. Occami. 2 Tomi . . . . (Basil.ire) 1501 Dinius, S.-Concilia Generalia et Provincialia Grreca et Latina; item Epistolre Decretales. 10 Tomi (Luteilie, P.) 1636 Birckbek, S.-The Protestant's Evidence . . (London) 1657 Blanc, Le.1- Theses Theologicre in Academia Sedanensi Edita? (Londini) 167 5 Bockharti, S.-Geographire Sacne Pars Prior . . (Cadomi) 1651 Hierozoicon sive Bipertitum Opus de Animalibus Sacrre Scripturre ...... (London) 1663 Brent, N.-Historie of the Council of Trent . . . . (London) 1640 Britannici.-Concilia, Decreta, Leges Constitutiones in Re Ecclesiarum Orbis. Spelman.. (Londini) 1639 Brownrig, R. (Bishop of Exeter).-Twenty-Five Sermons (London) 1664 Bucanus, Oulielmus.-Institutiones Theologicre.. (Genevre) 1612 Bullingeri, H.--Sermonu.m Decades Quinque (Tiguri) 1567 Bulli, 0.-0pera Omnia . . . . (Landini) 1703 Bunny, E.-The Book of Christian Exercise Appertaining to Resolution r 584 Burroughs, J.-Exposition of the Prophesie of Hosea (London) 1643 Burscough, R. {Archdeacon of Barnstaple).-A Discourse on the Unity of the Church, an Answer to "Dissenters no Schismaticks" {Exeter} 1704 A Treatise on Church Government (London} 1692 Buxtorfi, J. Fil.-Anticritica seu Vindicire Veritatis Hebraicre. (Basilire) 165 3 De Punctorum, Vocalium et Accentuum in Libris Veteris Testamenti Hebraicis Origine, Antiquitate et Authoritate . . (Basilire} 1648 Dissertationes Philologico-Theologicre (Basilire) 1645 Calvini, J.2-Epistolre et Responsa . . (Genevre} 1617 Commentarii in Acta Apostolorum (Genevre) 1560 ------Isaiam Prophetam (Genevre) 1570

1 "A work of great learning and candour on points of controversy between the Roman and Reformed Churches."-Bishop Watson. 2 The following character of Calvin's Commentaries is given by one of the most learned prelates that ever adorned the Church of England : " I hold the memory of Calvin in high veneration, his works have a place in my library, and in the study of the Holy Scriptures he is one of the Commentators whom I most frequently consult."-Horsley. 44 THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON.

Calvini, J.-Commentari in Omnes Pauli Epistolas in Episto­ lam ad Hebrreos et in Canonicas Petri, J ohannis Jacobi et J udre Epistolas . . ( Genevre) 1 SS 6 ------Quinque Libros Mosis (Genevre) 1573 Harmonia ex Tribus Evangeliis Matthreo, Marco et Luca Composita . . (Genevre) 1555 Homilire in Librum Samuelis . . ( Genevre) 1604 In Librum Jobi Conciones . . . . (Genevre) I 593 Institucion de la Religion Christiana Traduzida en Romance Casteilano (Genevre) 1597 Opera Omnia Theologica. 7 Tomi ( Genevre) 16 I 7 Prrelectio in Librum Prophetiarum Danielis (Genev~) 1 561 Prrelectiones in Ezechielis Prophetre Viginti Capita Priora (Genevre) 1 58 3 ------Librum Prophetiarum et Lamen- tationes J eremire . . (Genevre) 158 3 ------Prophetas Minores (Genevre) 1567 Tractatus Theologici et in Libras L.A. Senecre de Clementia Commentarii . . (Genevre) 1576 ------Omnes (Genevre) 1612 Canonici Veteris Bibliotheca Juris.-Voelli .. (Lutetire Pas.) 1661 Catechism, the English, Explained (London) Mayer ---- Explication of the .. (London) Towerson ---- Exposition of the Church (London) Clarke Catholicre adversus Anglicanre Sectre Errores Defensio Fidei {Moguntire) 1619 Chamieri, D.-Panstratia Catholica Aliaque Opera. 4 Tomi in 3 ...... (Genevre) 1626-30 Chemnicii, M.-Examen Concilii Tridentini (Genevre) 1634 Chillingworth, W.-Works . . . . 1719 Christus Crucifixus {Lugduni) Pinto Chrysostomi Omelia, Septem Aurea 1499 Church.-Five Books of the (Oxford) Field Government.-A Treatise on .. (London) Burscough ---. The Divine Right of (London) 1647 of Scotland.-Protestation of the Bishops of 1639 Unity of the (Exeter) Burscough Churchill, W.-Divi Britannici, the Lives of the Kings of this Isle from A.M. 2855 to A.D. 1660 (London) 1675 Clarke, S.-Exposition of the Church Catechism (London) 1729 Clementis Alexandrini Opera, Grrece et Latine.. (Lug. Bat.) 1616 Clergy during the Great Rebellion.-Sufferings of the (London) Walker Clergyman's Law or Complete Incumbent (Savoy) \Vatson Concilia Generalia et Prov~ialia Grreca et Latina .. (Lutetire, P.) Binius Concionandi Practica Axiomata . . Sculteti Corinthios Homilire in Pauli Priorem Epistolam ad (Tiguri) Gualtheri Creed.-Exposition of the (London) Pearson Critici Sacri.1 9 Tomi (Londini) 1660

1 Those two noble and lasting monuments of national history and learning, the Polyglott Bible of Walton, and what are commonly called ' The Great Critics,' should find a place in all good libraries."-Cat. 1836, £13 13s. THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. 45

Danielis.-Prrelectio in Librum Prophetiarum . . (Genevre) 1561 Davenant, J. (Bishop of Salisbury).-Animadversions upon a Treatise entitled," God's Love to Mankind" (Cambridge) 1641 Decretales.-Epistolre .. (Lutetire, P.) Binius Dennett, R.-A Compleat History of the Holy Bible 1741 Divinity.-Compleat Body of .. (London) Stackhous Downame, J.-Lectures on the Four First Chapters of Hosea (London) 16o8 ----- The Covenant of Grace . . (Dublin) 1631 ------The Contempt of the World {London) 1624 Ecclesiastical Politie.-The Lawes of (London) Hooker Epistolas.-Commentaria in Omnes Beati Pauli et Aliorum ( Genevre and Parisiis) Calvini, Estii Erasmi, D.-Adagiorum Opus (Basilire) 1533 Estil,

1 " A most valuable and excellent critical help to the exposition of the Apostolic epistles."-H. Horne. 2 "A valuable work which Catholics and Protestants alike concur to recommend as an excellent help to the study of the apostolic epistles."-Horne, Bishop of Norwich. . 3 "A very learned and masterly defence of the Church polity and the doctrines of the Reformation against Bellarmine and others." ' "An able and spirited refutation of the divines who published the Rhemish translation of the New Testament in 1582, it was executed under the patronage of Archbishop Whitgift." • "One of the most curious books ever written on the Scriptures."-Arme. THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON.

Cioodwint J.-Cata-Baptism (London) 1655 Gospell above the Law.-The Excellencie of the . . (London) Sibbs Gouge, W. G.-The Whole Armour of God . . (London) 1616 Granada, L. De.-Meditations (London) 1623 Greenham, R.-Works (London) 16o1 Oregorii de Valentia.-Commentaria Theologica. 4 Tomi (Ingoldstadii) I 592 Oualtherl, R.-Homilire. 13 Tomi (Tiguri and Lug. Bat.) Hakewill, 0.-Apologie or Declaration of the Power or Provi- dence of God1 (Oxford) I 6 3 5 Hall, B!!hop.-Contemplations upon the History of the New Testament (London) 1661 Works (London) 1647 Hammond, H.-Paraphrase and Annotations on the New Testament . • (London) 1671 Harmonia ex Tribus Evangeliis Composita, Matthreo, Marco et Luca . . (Genevre) 1555 Harris, R.-Works . . . . (London) 1654 Hebrreorum Ritualibus.-De Legibus . . (Cantabridgire) Spencer Hebrews.-Exercitations on the Epistle to the (London) Owen Hemmingii, N.-Admonitio de Superstitionibus Magicis Vitandis . . (Hafnire) 1575 Hieronymi.-Opera Omnia. 9 Tomi in 4 (Parisiis) 16o2 Homilies Appointed to be Read in Churches (Oxford) 1683 Hooker, R.-Certayne Divine Tractates and Other Godly Sermons . . . . (London) 1618 The Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie (London) 1617 & 1666 Hosea.-Exposition of the Prophesy of .. (London) Burroughs ---. Lectures on the Foure First Chapters of the Prophecie of ...... (London) Downame Hottingeri, J. H.-Historia Ecclesiastica Novi Testamenti. 9 Tomi . . (Hanovire) 1655-67 Idololatria.-Liber de .. (Amsterdami) Maimonidre Irish and British.-The Religion Anciently Professed by the . . Ussher Isaiam Prophetam.-Commentarii in (Genevre) Calvini ------. HomiHre in . . (Tiguri Gualtheri Jansenisme, both Historick and Dogmatick.-The True Idea of . . (London} 1669 J eremire et in Lamentationes. Prrelectiones in Librum Pro- phetiarum . . . . (Genevre) Calvini J esuit.-Answer to a Challenge l\iiade by a (London} Ussher Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon Paraphrased by Symon, Bishop of Ely I 7 43 J obi.-Commentarii in Librum (Genevre) Merceri -. Dissertationes in Librum . . (Londini) Wesley --. In Librum Condones (Genevre) Calvini Johannem.-Homilire CLXXX. in Evangelium secundum (Tiguri) Gualtheri Johannis.-Homilire XXXVII. in Epistolas . . (Tiguri} Gualtheri Vicesimisecundi.-Compendium Erorum (Antverpire) Ockham Josephus.-Works (London) 1640

1 '' The production of an uncommonly liberal and enlightened .mind, stored with various and choice learning, collected from ancient and modem authors.'' -Dugh. Stewart. THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. 47

Lossii, L.-Annotationes Scholasticre in Evangelia Dominicalia (Francforte) I 564 Lowth, R.-Prrelectiones Academicre de Sacra Poesi Hebrreorum (Oxon) 1754 Lucam.-Homilire CCXV. in Evangelium secundum .. (Tiguri) Gualtheri Lyndewode, W.-Provinciale seu Constitutiones Anglire 1501 Maimonidre, M.-De Idololatria Liber . . (Amsterdami) 1642 Maldonati, J.-Commentarii in Quatuor Evangelistas . . 1639 Marchant, J.-Exposition of the Books of the Old Testament . . 17 45 Marcum.-HomUire CXXXIX. in Evangelium secundum (Tiguri) Gualtheri Matrimonii de Sacramento. . (Antverpire) Sanchez Mattrueum Homilire in Evangelium secundum . . (Tiguri) Gualtheri Mayer, J.-Commentary on the Prophets (London) 1652 Commentary upon the New Testament (London) 1623 Ecclesiastica Interpretatio (Londini) 1627 The English Catechism Explained . . (London) 162 3 Merceri, J.-Commentarii in Librum Jobi (Genevre) 1573 ------Prophetas Quinque Priores Minores . . . . (Genevre) In Genesi Commentarius (Genevre) I598 Mosis.-Commentarii in Quinque Libros.. (Genevre) Ca1'V1...n1 Muis, De S.-Opera Omnia. 2 Tomi in 1 . . (Parisiis) 1650 1.Iusarum Oxoniensium Charisteria pro Regina Maria e Nixus . Discrimine Recepta (Oxonue) 1638 Occami,1 Compendium Erronun Johanuis Vicesimisecundi (Basillie) 1494 ---, Dialogus . . (Basillie) 1494 ---, Qurestiones in Quatuor Libros Sententiarum (Basilire) 1495 Owen, J.1-Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews (London) 1668 Papismi Synopsis (Londini) Smith Pauli in Epistolas Interpretatio Divi Augustini per Venerabilem Bedam Collecta.. . . (Parhisiis) 1499 Pearson, J.-An Exposition of the Creed . . (London) 166g Pelagius Movit.-De Controversii Quas . . (Amstelodami) 1655 Perkins, W.-Works. 3 Vols. (London) 1626 Philologire Sacrre . . . . (Francfurti) Glassii Pinto, J.-Christus Crucifixus (Lugduni) 1624 Polansdorf, P. A. Syntagma Theologire Christianre. 2 Tomi (Hanovire) I 609 (Hanovire) 161 5 Poli, M.-Synopsis Criticorum Aliorumque S. Scripturre Inter- pretum. 5 Tomi (Landini) 1671-6 Precatione.-Tractatio de . . . . (Hanovire) Sculteti

1 "Ockam was born at Ockham, a village in Surrey, and was, according to Wood, a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. In the thirteenth century he became a renowned teacher of the scholastic doctrines at that University, and obtained the appellation of the 'Invincible Doctor.' " . 2 "The Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews, to which these are preliminary exercitations, was published in four volumes, folio, and is par­ ticularly valuable for its illustration of the Epistle by the aid of Rabbinical learning. A well-executed abridgment was published by Dr. E. Williams in 1795, and reprinted in 1815." THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON.

Prophetas Minores.-Homilire in . . (Tiguri) Gaulther ------. Prrelectiones in (Genevre} Calvutj --- Quinque Priores Qui Minores Vocantur.-Commen- tarii in . . (Genevre) Merceri Protestant Religion.-The Grounds of the (London) Stillingfleet Protestant's Evidence, The (London) Birckbek Protestation of the Bishops of the Church of Scotland . . 1639 Psalm.arum Davidis, Homilire in Primam Partem . . (Tiguri) 16o1 Psalm.os.-Explanatio in . . (Colonire) 1611 Psalm.um Davidis Centesimum.-Commentarii in (Lugduni) Velasquez Ravanelli, P.-Bibliotheca Sacra. 3 Tomi . . (Genevre) 166o-3 Religion in the Western Parts of the World . . . . (London) Sandys Reynolds, J.-Discourses of Reconciliation between God and Man . . (London) 1729 Ritibus Ecclesire.-De Veteribus . . . . (London) Albaspinus Rivett, A.-Opera Theologicorum Tomi Tres (Roterodami) 1651 Roberts, F.-Clavis Bibliorum; the Key of the Bible (London) 1649 Rogers, N.-A Strange Vineyard in Palrestina.. (London) 1623 Rous, F.-Arcrueologire Atticre . . (Oxford) 1637 Samuelis.-Homilire in Librum (Genevre) Calvini Sanchez, P.-Disputationum de Sancto Matrimonii Sacramento Tomi Tres . . (Antverpire) 16o7 Sandys, E. (Archbishop of York).-Europre Speculum ; the State of Religion in the Western Parts of the World (London) 1632 Schultingil, C.-Thesaurus Antiquitatum Ecclesiasticarum (Col. Aggripime) 16o 1 Schurman, A. M. A.-Opuscula . . (Lug. Bat.) Scotland.-Protestation of the Bishops of the Church of 1639 Sculteti, A.-Axiomata Concionandi Practica . . 1619 Delititire Evangelicre Pragenses . . 1620 De Precatione Tractatio 1619 Exercitationes Evangelicre Pragenses .. (Amstelodami) 1624 Johannes Baptista Logice Descriptus 1619 Selden, J.-The Historie of Tithes 1618 Sibbs, R.-The Excellencie of the Gospell above the Law (London) -1639 Simson, E.1-Chronicon Catholicum (Oxonire) 1652 Smith, H.-Sermons and God's Arrow against Atheists (London) 1637 P.--Synopsis Papismi (Londini) 1634 Spelman, H.-Concilia, Decreta, Leges et Constitutiones in Re Ecclesiarum Orbis Britannici. 2 Tomi (Landini) 1639 Spencer, J.-De Legibus Hebrreorum Ritualibus. 2 Vols. (Cantab.) 1727 Spigelii, A.-Opera Omnia (Amstelodami) 1645 Stackhouse, T.-Compleat Body of Divinity (London) 176o Stillingfleet, E.-The Grounds of Protestant Religion.. (London) 1665 Stobrei, J.-Opera Grrece et Latine (Aurelia Allet.) 1609 Suarez, F.-Commentaria ac Disputationes in Primam Partem Divi Thomre De Angelis (Moguntire) 1621

1 '' Egregium et utilissimum opus, summa industria, omnigena eruditione magno judicio, multorum annorum, vigiliis productum." -Reynolds, Bishop of Norwich. !HE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. 49 Suarez, F.-Commentaria ac Disputationes in Primam Partem Divi Thomre Deo Uno et Trino (Moguntire) 1607

------Opere Sex Dien1m ac De Anima (Moguntire) 1622 Commentaria ac Disputationes in Tertiam Partem Divi Thomre {Moguntire) 1590-1592 De Divina Gratia. 2 Tomi.. {Moguntire) 1620-28 Defensio Fidei Catholicre adversus Anglicarue Sectre Errores . . (Moguntire) 1619 De Triplici Virtute Theologica, Fide, Spe et Charitate.. (Aschaffenburgi) 1622 Tractatus de Legibus ac Deo Legislatore (Moguntire) 1619 ---- Quinque ad Primam Secundre D. Thomre (l\i!oguntire) 1629 Varia Opuscula Theologica . . (Lugduni) 16oo Supremacy.-Conceming the Oath of Ussher Taylor, J.-Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience (London) 166o Tertulliani, Q. S. F.-Opera, Accedunt Novitiani Tractatus de Trinitate et Cibis Judaicis (Lute-tire Par.) 1664 Testament (Old).-Exposition of the Books of the Marchant ---- (New).-Commentary on the.. . . (London) Mayer Contemplations on the History of the (London) Hall Paraphrase and Annotations on the (London) Hammond The Rheims Version of the (London) Fulke Testamenti.-Historia Ecclesiastica Novi (Hanovire) Hottingeri ----. Veteris et Novi Biblia Sacra (Hanovire) Trem.ellius Testamentum N ovum Grrecum.-Studio et Labore (Lipsire) Millii ----- Vetus ---. Appocita est Latina Translatio 2 Tomi1 • • • • {Lutetire Par.) 1628 Thomre Divi.-Commentaria in Opera . . (Moguntire) 1590-1629 Threnoikos; the House of ~!ourning Furnished (London) 1672 Tillotson, J. (Archbishop of Canterbury).-Works (London) 1714 Touchstone.-The Spirit's . . (Oxford) 1657 Towerson, 6.-An Explication of the Catechism (London) 1680 Tremellius, I. et F. Junius.-Testamenti Veteris et Novi Biblia Sacra (Hanovire) 1624 Trent.-History of the Council of (London) Brent Twissl, W.-Vindicire Gratire, Protestatis ac Providentire Dei (Amstelodami) 163 2 Ussher, J. (Archbishop of Armagh).-Answer to a Challenge Made by a Jesuite (London) 1631 Sermon Delivered before the King at Wanstead . . 1631 --- Preached before the House of Commons 1631 Speech Concerning the Oath of Supremacy 1631

1 "This is a reprint of a rare and valuable Roman edition. It was printed in two volumes, the New Testament in Greek and Latin forming the third volume. It is in great request, not only for the exactness of the execution, but for the learned notes which accompany it." E 50 THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON.

Us1her, J., (Archbishop of Armagh). The Religion Anciently Professed by the Irish and British . . 1631 Velasquez, I. A.-In Psalmum David.is Centesinum Commen- tarii . . (Lugduni) 1637 Voelli, 0.-Bibliotheca Juris Canonici Veteris. 2 Tomi (Lutetire P.) 1661 Voetii, 0.-Politica: Ecclesiastica: Partis Primre Libri Duo Priores . . . . ( Amstelodami) I 66 3 Vossii, (i. J.-Historire de Controversiis Quas Pelagius ejusque Reliquire Moverunt .. (Amstelodami) 1655 Wake, W. (Archbishop of Canterbury).-Sermons and Discourses 1716 Walker, J.-Sufferings of the Clergy in the Times of the Great Rebellion (London) 1714 Walton, 8.1-Biblia S.S. Polyglotta. 6 tomi . . (Landini) 1657 Watson, W.-The Clergyman's Law or Complete Incumbent (Savoy) 1725 Wesley, S.-Dissertationes in Librum Jobi . . . . (Landini) 1736 Willet, A.-Hexapla in Genesin . . . . (Landini) 1605 Woodbridge, 8.-Method of Grace in the Justification of Sinners . . (London) 1656 Zanchius, H.-Tractationum Theologicarum Volumen {Neottadii Polatf1597

BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY. Ecclesiastica Histotia Magdeburgica Centurias, etc.1 8 tomi (Basil.ire) 1574 Ferdinand the Second.-The State of the Government of (London) 1637 Fiddes, R.-The Life of Cardinal Wolsey . . (London) 1724 Fougasses, T. De.-Historie of the Magnificent State of Venice 1612 Oodwyn, Francis ( Bishop of Hereford).-Annales of England, containing the Reignes of Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Queene llary . . (London) 1630 Orlmestone, E.--A Generall Historie of the Netherlands. Continued, 1008-27, by W. Crosse . . (London) 1627 Orymestone, E.-The Imperiall History, from the First Foun- dation of the Roman Monarchy to this Time (Lon~on) 1623 Knolles, R.-General History of the Turks . . (London) 1638 Mattbire, C.-Theatrum Historicum . . . . (Amstelodami) 1640 Ortelii, A.-Theatrum Orbis Terrarum . . (Antverpire) 1570 Plutarke.-Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes compared. Translated by Amiot and T. North (London) 1595 Serres, J. De.-A Generali Historie of France, Continued by P. Mathew and E. Grimston (London} 1624 Servita, P.-History of the Inquisition . . . . • . 1639

1 '' This is what is usually called a Republican copy of this valuable and famous work. it has not the deviation which has been found only in one or two copies, and was reprinted by Lum in the ' Classical Journal.' This work now sells at from £2 5 to £70, according to its condition. Some copies which are ruled with red lines sometimes sell for £3 or £4 more. See Hartwell Homes' Introduction, Catalogue I 8 36, £3 5. 11 • 1 " Of this noble work I will say what Spanheim said before me that it is ' Bibliotheca totius Christiana antiquitatis, incredibile Studio, fide optima: methodo utilissima congesta."-Mather. THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. 51

Speed, J.-The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain (London) 161 I Thuani, J. A.-Historiarum ab A.D. 1543 usque ad 16o7. Liber. 5 Tomi (Genevre) 1626 Turquet, L. De.-General History of Spain (London) 1612

MISCELLANEOUS WORKS. Ayres, J.-Common Place Book MS. Castelli, E.1-Lexicon Heptaglotton, Hebr~cum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Samaritanum, Aethiopicum. et Per- sicum. 2 Tomi. . . . . (Landini) 1669 Guibert, P.-The Charitable Physitian, with the Charitable Apothecary . . . . . • (London) 1639 H[anmer], J.1-Archaioskopia, or a View of Antiquity (London) 1677 Heywood, T.-Description of the O Sovereign of the Seas." Built at Wolwitch, 1637 . . (London) 1638 James the First.-Remonstrance for the Right of Kings and the Independence of their Crowns . . (London) 1616 Works · • ...... (London) 1616 Keckermanus, 8.-Prrecognita Logica . . (Hanovire) 1598 System.a Systematu.m. 2 Tomi • . (Hanovire) 1613 Porta, J. 8.-Natural Magick: ...... (London) 1658 Prynne, W.-Histrio-Mastix, The Player's Scourge . . (London) 1633 Thomasius, T.-Latin-English Dictionary (Landini) 1619

LAW. Juris Canonici Corpus, Edi.tum Jussu Gregorii xm... (Antverphe) 1648 - Civilis. Corpus • . . . • . . . (Amstelodami) 1663

SCIENCE. Alstedll, J. H.-Scientarum. Omnium. Encyclop~a. 4 vols. in 2 • • • • (Lugduni) 1649 Oaleum, T.-Philosophia Generalis . . . • (Landini) 1676

TRAVELS, VOYAGES, AND TOPOGRAPHY. .Heylyn, P.-Cosmographie ; the Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World ...... (London) 16 57

.ANCIENT CLASSICS AND ?vIODERN LANGUAGES. Oodwln, T.-An English Expository of the Roman Antiquities (Landini) 1631 Homer.-An Enquiry into the Life and Writings of . . (London) 1736

1 "This necessary companion to Dr. Walton's 'Polyglott' is perhaps the greatest and most perfect undertaking of the kind hitherto performed by human industry and learning ; its author spent his fortune and his life on this immense undertaking.''-De Clasher, Biograph. Die. 2 A note on the cover of this volume states that Jonathan Hanmer was born at Barnstaple, 16o5. He was of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, M.A. ; ordained by Bishop Field, 23 November 1632 ; Vicar of Instow, 1632 ; Vicar of Bishop's Tawton,; Lecturer of Barnstaple; ejected in 1662; died at Barnstaple, 16 December 1687. He also published in 1658 a book on Confi.rmation.-H.G.H.S. E2 52 THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON.

XL-APPENDIX. NOTE ON THE WESCOMBE FAMILY.1

(Condensed from MS. pedigree, of the early part of the seventeenth century, now in the possession of Mrs. F. L. Bradley.) The Wescombe family was formerly of Wescombe, co. Somerset, their pedigree dating from the Conquest, being headed by William Wescombe, of Wescombe, Esq., whose third son, Thomas Wescombe, became Lord Abbot of Bath. Fourth in descent from William Wescombe was Robert Wescombe, who, going into Devonshire, married a daughter of Prideaux of Streton, Esq., and settled there for many generations. Of his descendants, one, John Wescombe, became Prior of Clovelly, and soon after we find George Wescombe and his son, John Wescombe, merchants of Clovelly. John Wes­ combe's son, James W escombe, was the first to settle at Barnstaple, where he and his descendants also became merchants. His grand­ son, Justinian, became Mayor of. Barnstaple in 1623, while his granddaughter, Elizabeth, became the wife of Pentecost Dodderidge, brother of Sir John Dodderidge, Knight.

NOTE ON THE HUMPHREYS FAMILY. I. John Humphreys, a barrister of Tewkesbury, married in 1759, as his second wife, Mary, the second daughter of Dr. Philip Doddridge. She died 8th June, I799. John Humphreys was a descendant of the ancient house of that name of Barton Segrave, co. Northampton, and by his second wife had issue, John Doddridge Humphries and three daughters, one of ·whom became the mother of Richard Doddridge Blackmore, the author of Lorna Doone, whose two sons are now in New Zealand. 2. John Doddridge Humphreys, born I760, was educated at Warrington Academy and became a pronounced follower of Dr. Priestly, the Unitarian. He entered his father's profession, but an attack of paralysis rendered him an invalid for life. He had issue by his wife, who long survived him, a son named after himself, and a daughter, Mary, who passed away a few days before her father, both being buried in one grave. 3. John Doddridge Hurnphreys, the son, became a doctor of medicine under Sir Astley Cooper, but preferred literature, and became the author of M akanna, The Picaroon, Pyrenees, and Prince

1 For the later descent of this family see Visitation of England and Wt:iles, by F. A. Crisp, F.S.A. Vol. xiv. THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. 53

Malcome. He also edited the Correspondence and Diary of Dr. Philip Dodderidge, his great grandfather (1829-31). He married Mary Darke, who did not survive her husband, by whom he had a daughter, Mary, whose graceful verses were published at the early age of eight, and a son likewise named after his father. rviary the daughter, survived the father but a few days, and again both were buried in one grave. 4. John Doddridge Humphreys, the son, developed. a genius for engineering, but his health broke down and at the age of 36 he succumbed to congestion of the brain.1 At his death he left a widow and three baby boys. She died at the age of 70. Of the boys' the eldest, John Doddridge Humphries, survived his father but twelve years, and at 17 passed away. The second brother survived him but little longer; leaving- 5. Rev. Frank Doddridge Humphreys, of Honiton, who in 1902 had issue, a son. Being born exactly 200 years after his illustrious ancestor, he was named Philip Doddridge Humphries.

THE REV. DR. JOSEPH DODDRIDGE, AN AMERICAN FAMILY WORTHY.

-· The Rev. Dr. Joseph Doddridge was the eldest son of John Doddridge, of Maryland, of English descent, who, by his wife, Mary, daughter of Richard Wills, of the same State, had issue in addition, Philip Doddridge, who became an eminent jurist and statesman, and died in 1832 at Washington, D.C., while a member of the Congress, and two daughters, Ann and Ruth. His father erected a Wesleyan Chapel at Maryland, still called Doddridge's Chapel, but in 1773 he removed to Washington, where he died in 1791. Joseph Doddridge, born 14th October, 1769, in Friends' Cove, south of Bedford, in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, was early educated at Maryland, but later entered with his brother Philip, Jefferson Academy, at Connonsburg, Pennsylvania. In March, 1792, he was ordained Deacon in the Episcopal Church of Phila­ delphia by the Right Rev. Bishop White, and Priest in March, 1800, by the same prelate in the same_ place, while the same year he took the degree of Doctor of Medicine of Philadelphia. For

1 He was present at the Dodderidge Centenary, held at Northampton in the month of October, 1851. 54 THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. twenty-five years he occupied the position of advance guard in the ministry in Eastern Ohio, afterwards in 1818 the diocese of Ohio,. and founded early churches in North-Western Virginia and Ohio, viz. :-St. John's Church, North-West Virginia, circa 1793 ; the church at West Liberty, circa 1792 ;_ St. Paul's Church in Brooke County, Virginia, circa 1793; the church in Steubenville, Ohio, circa 1798; Trinity Church at Charlestown, now Wellsburg, circa 1800 (the residence of the Rev. J. Doddridge) ; St. Jaines, or Cross Creek, Jefferson County, Ohio, circa 1814, and Zanesville, Ohio, in 1818. - He was early made a Mason, being Worshipful Master of the Lodge at Wellsburg, Virginia. In 1813 he published a treatise on the culture of bees. Later, Logan, the last of the Race of Skilel­ limus, followed by Orations delivered at Masonic F estival,s and Sermons. In literary work, however, he perhaps shone best as the author of Settlement and Indian Wars o/ Virginia and Penn­ sylvania, 1763-1783 inclusive. He married Jemima, orphan daughter of Captain John Bukey, of Short Creek, Ohio, co. Virginia, when she was but sixteen years of age. She died at Wellsburg in September, 1829, aged 52, while her husband predeceased her the 9th of November, 1826, at Wells­ burg, Brooke County, Virginia, at the age of 58. Of their children, Charles Hammond Doddridge, died October, 1834, at Chillicote, aged 18, and Philip B. Doddridge, his elder son, in Columbus, Ohio; 9th September, r86o, aged 63.

In Hotten's Transportation Lists, pp. 40, 117, 141, are the following notices :- 1634; Feb. 17.-To be transported from London to Barbadoes, in ye "Hopewell," J arvice Dodderidge, aged 21. 1635, ult0 July.-Do. to Virginia, in ye "Merchant's Hope," Thos: Dodderidge, aged 19. 1635, Nov: 20.-Do. to Barbadoes, in the " Expedition." Davie Dodderidge, aged 20.

HANMER'S MEMORIAL. The following memorial was printed in Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica (Third Series, vol. i., pp. r98-200), to which journal it was communicated by Mr. H. A. Welman. Another memorial was printed with it called A Boocke of Memoryall Made By MB THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. 55 Henry Downe of Barnestaple, Marchant, the viij Daye of June in the Third yere of the Raygne of our Soueraygne Lady Elizabeth & Anno D'ni, 1561. The latter contained entries chiefly relating to the Downe and Gay families. The memorial is after the style of Wyot's Diary, but in some instances references of more than family or local interest occur, as the following extracts will show :- " My syster Agnys was crstened the iij of Decembre in A0 1542." "The Saterday foloynge beynge the viith of Marche ther was so greate a floude in Barnestaple that it dyd fl.owe so hie as the brynke of the wall of pylton bridge, so that men myght rowe alongest the bryde wth a bygge bote, anno 1567." " In Anno D'ni 1568 et Anno Regni regine Elizabethe was the crane buylded vpon the Kaye." " In Anno D'no 1568 et Anno undecimo Regine Elizabeth the vltimo die novembris died Sr John Chichester the elder with a falle from a tree.'' . "In Anno D'no 1569 was an insurrec'on in the northe in Novembre made by the Earl Percie of Northe Vmberland & the Erele of Westmorlande N evell.'' The memorial here reprinted records many items concerning the families of the benefactors of the Doddridge Library, such as Do,vne, Hanmer, Ayres and Sweet, and it also gives references to the families of Jewell and Hakewill-names which will be found among the authors whose works are contained in the collection. "A Memoriall of me, Jon. Hanmer, beg-un the 23th of Novemb. 1672 as followeth :- " Richard Downe was marryed in June 1535, whose son Henry Downe (my grandfather) was borne 22th of Feb. 1536, who ·\vas marryed to Cicily J ew·ell (sister unto the famous John J e,vell,1 Bp. of Salisbury, who dyed 23th of Sept. 1571) at Eastdowne, Sept. 12th 1564, wch Henry dyed 13th March 1613, being aged 77 years. " These h-vo had issue, 1° Agnes borne 25th Feb. 1565, who was marryed to John the son of Rich. Delbridge. "This John was baptized July 9th 1564 (he \Vas thrice Mayor of Barstaple) who was marryed as abovesaid at Ta,vton E'pi, Jan. 10th

1 Born at Berrynarbor, North Devon, in · 1522, and received his early education at Barnstaple. THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON.

1584, who had issue 1st John borne 14 Jan. 1585, who marryed one Martha Wright, but left no issue. 2d Mary baptized at Pilton 15 of Decemb. 1588, who was marryed, 1st to l\1r. John Ayres; mrchant by whom he had Martha borne .... who was married to Mr Thomas Mathew of London mrchant, who hath been twice Mayor of Barstaple by whom she had 1° Mary borne .... who was marrayed to Mr Nich. Blake a Bilboa mrchant, by whome she had Thomas Blake now Student in Oxford. 2° John an East­ land mrchant of Dantzic who marryed the daughter of . . . . . Tycliborne, Alderman of London, by whom he hath a child. 3° Thomas now Parson of Alwington. 4° Martha. 5° Joan both yet unmarryed. . "2° the said Mary Ayres after marryed to Dr George Hakewell, D.D.,1 Chaplain to K. J runes, his son Charles, Archdeacon of Surrey, Parson of Heanton and at last Rector of Exeter Colledge in Oxford, by whome she had issue, 1° John, 2° George who dyed unmarryed, 3° Elizabeth Delbridge who was marryed unto Mr Martin Blake,2 Bachelor in Divinity of Plymouth, who was first Parson of Kings Nymet' and afterward Vicar of Barstaple, yet living aged about 80 years. By whom she had issue 1° Nicholas, 2° Joan who both dyed unmarryed, 3° John a m'rchant who marryed Mary the daugh­ ter of Richard Downe, D.D., and parson of Tawstoke, by whom he had issue, 1° Richard, 2° Elizabeth. "4° Richard Delbridge, who marryed 1° Anne Chichester of Westcote, by whome he had issue Anne \Vho \Vas marryed to John Basset, Esqr, of Cornwall, by whome she had issue, 1° John, 2°, 30, 40. " 2d Ric. Delbridge married Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund Specot. "The 2d son of Rich. Downes was James a mrchant, who was baptized Sep. 7, 1539, ·who marryed 1° a sister of Judge Doddrige's mother by whome he had issue, 1° Nicholas who dyed in Rochell unmarryed. " 2d Amy who was marryed to Wm Gamon a mrchant, by whom she had issue, 1° Amy who was marryed to John Tucker of Torring­ ton, by whome she had issue, 1° John, 2° Elizabeth unmarryed, 3° Walter who marryed in London, 4° Rebecca unmarryed.

1 Author of_ many learned works, only one of which appears m the Dodderidge Catalogue, which see. 1 See Walker,s Sufferings of the Clergy, 1714, p. 195. THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. 57

"2° Agnes who dyed unmarryed, 3° James a French mrchant, born An. r6o6, who marryed Mary daughter of Sweet of Exeter, mrchant, by whome he had issue I 0 Mary unmarryed, 2° Elizabeth, who was marryed to Mr Christmas mrchant of Waterford in Ireland, by who she had issue r 0 James, 2°, 3°, 4°. "3° Anne who dyed in Briston, unmarryed. " James Downe 3d child was 3° Joan was marryed to Edward Heywood, draper, and died childless. James Downe's 4th child was Elizabeth, was marryed to Philip Hartnoll, by whom she had issue, Elizabeth, was marryed 15 to Joseph Clapham, mrchant, 2d to John Cook, by whom She had issue 1st John, 2 Elizabeth who dyed unmarryed. "5° James Downe's 5th child was Mary who was marryed to Mr. Mathew Allen, by whom she had issue, 1° John, who dyed unmarryed, 2° Joan who dyed, 3° James a mrchant, who dyed in Ireland anno 1672, all unmarryed, 4° Rebecca. " 3° The third childe of Rich. Downe was Tomasin who was baptized Decemb. 3d an. 1542 who dyed unmarryed. '' 4 ° The 4th childe of Rich. Downe was Joan who was marryed to Thomas Lugge, by whom she had 1° Mary, who was marryed to Wm Radcliffe, by whom she had Wm 2° . • . • • Jones, 2° John who was organist at Exon, he marryed . . . . by whom he had, 1° Mary who was soon blinde by the small poxe, and dyed unmarryed, 2° Robert, a cunning organist, who went and lived beyound the sea. "The 5th child of Ri. Downe was .... who was marryed to .... Hooper, by whome she had, 1° John, 2° Susannah who was marryed to John Hoby, by whome she had John who marryed Luxe his daughter, a Ship-master of Bristoll, by whom he had I 0 . . . . 2 0 . . . . '' The 6th child of Ri. Downe was . . . . who was marryed to .... Hill, by whome he had James, who marryed the daughter of Rob. Furlong, by whome he had I 0 Robert who marryed .... by whome he had I 0 Judith who was marryed to Hensley, 2° Eliza­ beth, who was marryed to Martin, 3° Joan, who was marryed to Mr Tho. Coxe, who was lately Mayor of Barstaple, by whom she had 1° Thomas now a factor in Rochell, 2d Mary, ·who was marryed to Henry Fraine, by whom she had 1° Thomas, 2° Joan, 3° Nathaniel Coxe unmarryed. '' The 7th child of Ri. Downe was Nicholas Downe, a Bilboa mrchant and thrice maior of Barstaple, who was borne Jan. 10th F 58 THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON.

An. Do. 1554, he dyed au. aetatis sure 83, he marryed I 0 Eliz., sister to Judge Dodderidge, by whome he had Richard, D.D. and parson of Tawstoke, who marryed Mary, d. of Sir Robert Lovet (and sister to the 2d wife of Edward earle of Bathe), by whome he had I 0 John who was drowned at Oxford, 2° Mary, marryed Mr John Blake, by whome she had I 0 Richard, 2 Elizabeth, ut supra 3° Richs 3d child was Anne, 4° his 4th child Richard. "2° Nie. Downe marryed a 2d ,vife, viz. Mary the d. of Tho. Martin of Exon, mrchant, of which city he was maior, by whome he had I 0 Wm. who dyed unmarryed, 2° John a Bilboa mrchant who hath been twice maior of Barstaple, he marryed Katherine d. of Wm. Grills of Tavestoke, by whome he had I 0 Nicholas a Hilboa mrchant, 2 William, 3 Mary, who all dyed unmarryed. "3° who was marryed to Mr George Ferris,1 who was maior of Barstaple, a Lisbone mrchant, by whome he had Mary, marryed to Wm. Westcombe,2 a Bilboa mrchant, and twise maior of Bar­ staple, by whome she had r 0 Mary, 2° Rebecca, 4° Henry, 5° Nicholas who dyed unmarryed, 6° Rebecca, marryed to Mr Ric. Harris, a Bilboa mrchant and maior of Barstaple., by whome she had 1° Mary, 2° Elizabeth, 3° Richard, who all dyed unmarried. . " The 2d child of Hen. Downe was Sybill, marryed unto John Hanmer, a Bilboa Mrchant, maior of Barstaple, by whome she had, 1° Elizabeth, married I 0 to Joseph, the son of Mr Nich. Delbridge, woollen draper, maior of Barstaple, by whome she had I 0 Gillian, married I 0 to John Williams, by whom she had John, 2° she was married to one in London. "2° Elizabeth, married to Robert Leman, a shopkeeper, by whome she had I 0 Joseph, etc. "3° Sarah, married to James Cook, m'chant, by whom she had Mary, 2° Eliz. Hanmer ,vas married to Tobias Cooper, a woollen draper, by whome she had I 0 John, 2° Richard, 3° Tobias a mrchant, who all dyed unmarried. "4° Joseph, blinde, 5° John who died in the Barbados unmarried, 6° Elizabeth, marled I 0 to Wm. Taylor, by whome she had Wm, 2° she was married to Sam Peryn son to the parson of Littleham, by whome she had children, who dyed. 7° Mary, married to John Wood, of Barstaple. " 2° the 2d child of J. Hanmer was Mary, married to Wm. Nottell, a m'rchant, maior of Barstaple, by whome she had, I 0

1 See Wainwright's Reprint of Barnstaple Records, and Chanter's St. Peter's Church, Ba.rnstaple. 2 This marriage took place at Bath Abbey, 27th June 1653. THE DODDERIDGES OF DEVON. 59 Mary, n1arried to Mr John Clark of London, mrchant, by whome she had, I 0 Mary, 2° John, 3° Elizabeth, 4° William, 5° Samuel, 6° ...., 2° \Villiam, a Lisbone m'rchant, who married Margaret, the daughter of Wm. Fleming, by Susannah, eldest da. of Mr John Strange of Bidiford, by \vhom had I 0 ~1ary, 2° Sarah, 3° \Villiam .. 3° Elizabeth dyed unmarried, 4° John unmarried, 5° Sarah who dyed young, 6° Joan, married to George, the son of ~fr John Strange of Bidiford, by whome she had r° Katharine, 2° Mary, 3° Sarah, 4° George. "3° The 3d child of John Hanmer was John, a Spanish mrchant .. 4° the 4th George a french mrchant, both dyed unmarried, 5° the fifth child of John Hanmer was Jonathan, sometime rector of Instow, who married Katharine, daughter of Mr John Strange of Bidiford, by whome he had 1° Mary, 2° John, 3° Elizabeth who dyed yong, 4° Jonathan, an apprentice to Mr Percivall Gilburne, a druggist in Bucklers-Bury in London, who dyed the first year of his appren­ ticeship in Barstaple, 5° Elizabeth who dyed yang, 6° Sarah who dyed yong, 7° Sarah who also dyed young, 8° Katharine, 9° George now an apprentice with Mr Nie. Savery, mrchant in Exon. "3° The 3d child of Henry Downe was John.1 sometime a fellow of Emanuel College in Cambridge, Bachelor in Divinity, and rector of Instow, who married I 0 Rebecca the daughter of Mr Roger Cade, of Westhealand in Fremington, by whome he had I 0 Samuel who dyed yong, 2° llary who was married to Mr Edmund Fountaine, parson of Parkham and Parracombe, by ,vhom he had I 0 Rebecca, married to John Newell, Parson of Parracombe and Combe-Martine, by whome she had 1° Rebecca, 2° John now a student in Oxford, 3° etc., 2° Elizabeth, who was married to Nicols of Hartland, by 0 whom she had I , 2°, 3°, 4°, 5°, 6°, 3° Mary unmarried, 4° John who dyed unmarried, 2° John Downe married a second wife, viz., Agnes the daughter of John Norris of Barstaple, by whome he had John, a student in Oxford, who dyed unmarried. " 3° the 3d child of John Downe by his first wife Elizabeth, \Vho ,vas married r 0 to Mr Ric. Ferris, a Lisbone mrchant, and maior of Barstaple, 2° to Mr Ric. Martin of Lindridge, but had no child. '' 4° the 4th child of John Downe by his first wife \Vas Henry, Dr. of Physick, ·who married Honoria, the eldest daughter of John Bury of Borough in Northam, Esqr, by whome he had 1° John, now a Student in Oxford, 2° Elizabeth, 3° Henry, 4° Honoria. "5° the 5th child of Henry Downe was Richard, a French m'chant, who dyed beyond the sea, unmarried." 1 One of Prince• s " Worthies. 0

INDEX.

A. Clarke, John, 2 7. Combe Martin, 1 5, 59. Affeton, 3. Cooke, 57. Allen, 57. Cooper, 58. Alwington, 7, 9. Cophin, 7. Antiquaries, Society of, 19. Comwood, 5. Arms of Dodderidge, 4, 6, 7, 8. Cotton, Sir R., 19. Atherueum, North Devon, r, 41. ,, w., 25. A very, Charles, 16. Cox Family, 57. Ayres, 56. Crediton, I, 2, 34. Crossing, Family, 30. ,, Richard, 16, 27, 38. B. Cruwys-Morchard, 2. Culme, 15. Bampfield, Sir Amias, 15. ,, Lady, 15. Barnstaple, 1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 23-30, 41. D. ,, Clerical Library, 41. Battisford, 6. Dacus, Sir Thomas, 29. Bedford, Duchess of, 3 I. " Dally's," 2. Bibliography of Dr. Philip Dodd- Darke, John, 3. ridge, 34. Davy, John, 2. ,, Judge Dodderidge, Delbridge Family, 56. 18. ,, John, I I. Bibliotheca Doddridgiana, 38. De Vere, Earl of Oxford, 19. Bincombe, 1 z. Dracot, John, 12. Bishops Tawton, 55. Dodbrooke, 5. Blake Family, 56. Dodderidge, Amey, 12 ; Ann, 1 8 ; Blundell Family, 16, 30. Ann Cecilia, 34 ; Anne, 2 7 ; Bene­ Bradninch, 5. dicta, 4; Dorothy, 12, 27; Eliza­ Brem.ridge, 1, 16, 18, 23, 26. beth, 12, 27 ; George, 5 ; Gilbert, Bristol, 29, 57. 1 ; Henry, 5 ; Humphrey, 6; Broadclyst, 5. James, 6; Jane, 27; Sir John, 3, Broadmead, Barnstaple, 26. 12-22 ; John, 5, 6, 18, 29, 37 ; Brampton Raffe, 5. :Margery, 6; Mary, 27; :Maud, 6; Brushfield, Dr. T. N., 9, 20, 21. Pentecost, 18, 23-29 ; Peter, 12 ; Philip, 27-28 ; Phineas, 5 ; Rich­ ard, 1, 5, 10-12, 27, 30; Robert, 3, 5, 12 ; Roger, 6; Thomas, 4; C. Walter, 4; William, 1, 3, 5, 6, 33. Calamy, Edmund, 30. Dodderidge Family and :Manor, 1-6. Camarvon, Earl of, 19. ,, Library at Barnstaple, Chamberlainship of England, 19. 37-5 I. Chanter, C. E. Roberts, 26. Library, Annotated Cata­ ,, J. F., 25. " logue, 42-5 1. ,, J. R., 42. Doddridge, Eliz., 34; John, 28 ; Cheshunt, 16, 29, 30. Jane, 34; Dr. Joseph, 53 ; Mary, Chichester, 5 5. 34; Mercy, 34; Dr. Philip, 31-6 ; Chudleigh, 5. Ph., 28, 34; Samuel, 34; Sarah, 34; Clarke, Dr., 32. William, 34 ; William Sargent, 3. INDEX.

Doddridge Heirlooms, 3 5. Hill, 29. Doddridgiana Bibliotheca, 38. Hillyings, Alice,3. Downe Family, 12, 55, 56, 57, 58, Hoby, 57. 59. Hockyn, Jone, 2 5. Dudley, Lord, r6. Hooker, or Hoker (alias Vowell), 18. Horwood, Alexander, 11. Humphrey, F. D., 36. ,, Family, 52. E. Huntingdon, 15.

Ebberly, 2. Egham, 16, 17. Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor, 13. I. Eveleigh, G ., 5. Exeter, 4, 17, 18., 20. Ide, 6. Ilsington, 5. Inscription of the Dodderidge Tomb, Exeter, 20. F. Instow, 59. Isleworth, 2 7. Ferris, 58, 59. Filleigh, I 6. Fleming, 59. Ford, J ., 2. J. Forsters, 16, 17. Fortescue Family, 16. Jennings, David, 32. Fountaine, 59. ,, Jane, 32. Fremington, 6. ,, John, 31. Jerman, Joan, 1 5. ,, Michael, 1 5. Jermyn, Hugh, 5. G. Jewell, 55. Gay Family, 55. Gilbume, 59. Giffard Family, 16. K. ,, H. D., 19. Gould, 30. Kentisbeare, 6. Gurdon, 29. Kibworth, 3 I. Gye, John, z. ~, :Mary, 2. L. Lake, 3. H. Langdon, R., 25. Lee, Sir James, 19. Hancock, John, 18. ,, Thomas, 3. Handcock, Dorothy, I 5. Leman, R., 58. ,, Edward, I 5. Lindridge, 59. Hakewell, 56. Littleha:.n, 58. Hanmer Family, 58, 59. Lovering, John, 2 7, 38. ,, Jonathan, 5 I. Luxmore, Henry, 39. Hanmer's Memorial, 5 5. Harris, 58. Hartnoll; s7. Hawkes, Thomas, 23. M. Heanton Punchardon, 56. Hele Family, 29~ l!aris, Mary, 32. Heraldic Notices, 6-8. :Market Harborough, 31. Hewlett, John, 3. Mathew, 56. Heywood, 15, 57. Martin Family, 58. Hiem, W. P., 40. lVIay, James, 3 1. INDEX.

Mayo, D., 31. s. Merton, 9. Monk Family, 9. Sage, E. J ., 17. Mortimer, Jane, 5. Sandford, 1, 3, 7. Motto, Dr. Doddridge' s, 8. Savery, 59. Mount Radford, Exeter, 16. Scott, Elizabeth, 32. Sherland, 16. Smith, IO. South Molton, 12, 13, 14, 23. N. Spelling of the Surname, 8- Io. Steynings, R., 2 7. Nathan, Mrs. G. E., 20. Stoke Canon, 5. Nelder, Ann, 5. Stokedon, John, 2. Newell, 59. Strange, John, 59. Newman, 15. Stuckley, Lady Elizabeth, 3. Norris, 59. ,, Sir Thomas, 3. Northam, 59. Surname of the Family, Spelling of Northampton, 32. the, 8-10. Sweet, 57. Sydenham, Sir Ralph, 3. o. Ottery St. Mary, 5. T. Tawstock, 56. P. Thorverton, 5. Tiverton, I 6. Parkham, 59. Totton, 6. Parracombe, 59. Tucker, 56. Payne, 3. Tychbome, 56. Peard, George, 1 1. Pearde, Oliver, 23. Pedehele, John, 2. ,, Joan, 2. Penrose, John, 1 1. u. Perkins, Catherine, 32. ,, Family, 3 I. Upton Hellions, 6. Peryn, 58. Plympton Erle, 6. Pope, T. G., 33. Potheridge, 9. Portlemouth, 5. w. Portrait of Dr. Doddridge, D.D., 33. Portraits of Judge Dodderidge, 19, 20. Wainwright, Thomas, 11, 42. Poughill, 5. Welman, H. A., 54. Prowse, John, 2. Wembworth, 18. Prowser, 2. Wescombe, Elizabeth, 23. Pyncombe, 12. ,, Family, 52, 58. ,, Jacob, 23. ,, Thomas, I 3. R. Wescote, 16. Willoughby, 27. Raleigh, Sir Walter, 16, 18. Wood, Dr. N., 31. Reed, Charles, 35. Wright, 56. Round, J. H., 19. Wymat, Johanna, 5.