by

Brigadier-General F. G. MARSH, C.M.G., D.S.O.

MCW..XXX

CONTENTS

Pages PART I. GODOLPHIN OF GODOLPHIN ...... 1-18 PART IL GODOLPHIN OF SPARGOR AND COULSTON ... 19-77 PART III. GODOLPHINS, UNIDENTIFIED . .. 78-80 INDEX OF PERSONS ... 81-84 PEDIGREE-INDEX OF GODOLPHINS ... Atmd

THE GODOLPHINS 1:

PART I GODOLPHIN OF GODOLPHIN This ancient Comish family takes its name from the manor, which it has possessed from the time of the Norman conquest, and which is held to-day by John Francis Godolphin Osborne, eleventh duke of Leeds, XXXI in descent from the first known lord of the manor, John de Godolphin. The lineal descent of this, the main stock, is denoted in the text below by ordinal numbers.

The massive, grey, quadrangular manor house, five miles north­ west of , stands, sheltered from the south-westerly gales by 1Godolphin Hill, in the middle of a rich, mineral district, of which Richard Carew wrote in 1602 :- " This hill hath pr. divers descents supplyed those gent.-bountifull mindes with large meanes accruing from their Tynne-works."

In early times the _name was written " Godolghan," meaning, in Comish, "White Eagle," and that device was borne on the shield of the family.

From Norman to Tudor times, the manor was passed from father to son, with one break in the male 1.iJ:ie in the 14th century. The writer has endeavoured to supplement the accounts given in Vivian's Visitations of , Burke's Extinct Baronetage and Maclean's History of the deanery of Trigg 1vfinor, with dates and places, which enable the accuracy of facts recorded to be 2checked. The early records run as follows :-

I. Joh?!:_ de Godolphin, born c. 1050 ; m. Margaret dau. of Roger de Trewargen.

II. ~ichard de Godolphin, born c. 1080 ; m. Constance, dau. of Otes Archdeacon.

III. James de Godolphin, born c. 1110; m. Cecilia, dau. of William T:rewledick.

1. Godolphin House was fully described, with illustrations, in Count,-y Life, 25 December, 1915. 2. The writer has devoted more space in this record to the younger and more obscure branch of the family and its descendants than to the parent stock, the latter being well recorded in the three classic works mentioned above, the D-ict. of Nat. Biog,apky and the Hon. Hugh Elliot's Life of Sidney Earl of Godolphin. · · 2 THE GODOLPHINS

IV. John de Godolt>hin, born c. 1140; m. Sil~all, dau. of Richard Bloyet (Bluet).

V. Thomas de Godolphin, born c. 1160 ; m. Margaret, dau. of Roger 1\D.trewan.

VI. Edward de Godolphin, born c. 1190; m. Maud, dau. of William Boteler, of Camerton.

VI I. William de Godolphin, born c. 1220 ; m. 1Alice, dau. of John Pettigrew.

VIII. Thomas de Godolphin, born c. 1245; m. Clare de Solgena.

IX. Edward de Godolphin, born c. 1270 ; m. Christiana, dau. of Thomas Prideaux; their eld. son Andrew d.s.p.; their dau. Engrina -m. Henry le Fort of Pengarsick (Harl. MS. 4031. fo. 86) ; their second son

X. Alexander (in Bevill pedigree, Sir Alexander of Gotholham), born c. 1295, d. 1349; m. Mary. dau. of Sir John de Tregour, having 2 daus., Margaret, m. Ralph Bevill (d. 1336), and Johanna, m. John Erisey, and a son

XI. William de GodolPhin, born c. 1320.

XII. David d~GQd,olphin, born c. 1355 ; m. Meliora. dau. of Sir John Cowling of Trewarnan~ In 1398 David and Meliora applied to the at ~xeter, for sanction to maintain a mass priest at Breage. They had no son to carry on the line ; their daughter and sole heiress XIII. Eleanor de Godolphin, born c. 1376, m. John Rinse_y, who altered his name to that of his wife's manor ; of their two sons XIV. Thomas Godolphin of Godolphin, born c. 1399, m. Isabel Benne of Boskenne. Joan, dau. of Nicholas (Thomas' bro.), m.c. 1«5. John Kesten of Kesten. Thomas' son XV. John Godolphin of Godolphin, born c. 1420; m. Elizabeth, dau. of John Beauchamp of Bennenon. XVI. John Godolphin of Godolphin, born c. 1442 ; m. Elizabeth, only dau. and heir of John Killigrew (d. before 1513) and grand­ daughter of of . The son, apparently the only child of flus marriage, John Godolphin, is well recorded. The names of his descendants and of persons of the same surname, probably of the same family, are shown in the pedigree-index. The text now treats of him and his direct successors. 1. Vis; of C

XVI I. John Godolphin of Godolphin, Esq., son of John Godolphin and Elizabeth Killigrew, his wife, was born c. 1463; sheriff for Cornwall in 1504 and 1508, and joint steward of the mines in Corn­ wall and with Sir Robert Willoughby, lord Brooke. He m., c. 1478, Margaret, dau. of John Trenouth of Fentongollan. His 4 children were:-

1. William, afterwards Sir William, of whom later. 2. Elizabeth, born c. 1479 ; m., c. 1497, John, son of Richard Bonithon of Carclew. 3. Thomasin, born c. 1482 ; m., c. 1505, William Cavell. 4. John of Helston, born c. 1481 ; his descendants, living at Morvall and Trewerveneth, are said to be extinct. Hem., c. 1502, Elizabeth Cararthyn (Vivian's Vis. of Cornwall), and had 2 chil­ dren :-Elizabeth, born c. 1503, m. Thomas Petit ; and 1J ohn. born c. 1504, m., c. 1525, Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Nevill of Trworbonett (Trewerveneth), having by her three or, including Florence, whose mother's name is not definitely known, four children:- a. Thomasin, born c. 1526, 1n., c. 1550, vVilliam Chiverton. b. Elizabeth, born c. 1527, m., c. 1550, William Gilbert. c. Florence, married c. 1564, John Crane of . d. John, born c. 1528; married, c. 1549, Jane, dau. of Nicholas Crankan of Gulval, co. Cornwall, and had 2 children :-Thomasin, born c. 1551, m. Richard Maddern; and William of Trewerveneth and Paul, born c. 1550, m. 10 October, 1571, at St. Breock, Jane, dau. of John Tredinnick of St. Breock (Breague) who had 5 children:- 1. Prudence, born c. 1574, m. John Cooke of Trerise, St. Allen. 2. Thomasin, m. 5 July, 1598, at Breage, Thomas Sparnon, gent., of Spamon, who died 1607. 3. John, 2nd son, m. a dau. of Nicholas Whitinge of Scilly. 4. Francis, 3rd son, died in Ireland. 5. Nicholas, eldest son; of Trewerveneth; born c. 1573, died 1633; his will was proved, 12 September, 1634, in the P.C.C. (84 Seager) ; he m. 2 July, 1599, at St. Mabyn, Philippa Nicholls of Penvoes, whose will was proved, 28 July, 1634, a widow, in the P.C.C. (51 Seager) ; having 7 children:- a. Jane, born in 1602, m. in February, 1636, Richard Keigwin, merchant, of , who d. 1647; she m. secondly, c. 1648, Bryan Rogers. b. Margerie, born probably in 1605, m. 6 August, 1627, at Paul, William Nycollys, als Trerufe. c. Elizabeth, born c. 1606. d. Mary.

1. Perhaps identical with John Godolphin of Gwennap, born c. 1504, m., c. 1531, Alice, dau. of James Erisey (d. 1522) by his wife Margaret (Durant, d. 1535); this John's daughter and heiress m., c. 1550, John Thoms, als Thomas, of Lelant. A 4 THE GODOLPHINS

e. William, afterwards colonel, of Trewerveneth; born 1609, buried 1689, M.I. in Paul church; d.s.p. He m. 29 April, 1673, at St. Minver, Elizabeth, 4th dau. of Thomas Darell of Trewoman and London. f. Phillip, or Phyllis, born c. 1610. g. Prudence, bap. 29 August, 1613, and buried 12 June, 1614, at Paul (episc. tr.). XVIII. _Sir William Godojphin of Godolphin, Kt., eldest son of John Godolphin, by his wife, Margaret Trenouth, was born about 1480. Ire was comptroller of the coinage of tin. He died in 1570, and was buried on 30 July at Breage. He married, in about 1509, Margaret, daughter and co-heir of John G!_ynn of Morvall and Lavewater; she was born in 1490. They had four children:- 1. William, afterwards Sir William, Kt., eldest son, born about 1510; he was warden of the stannaries, the tin-mining districts, and was several times elected knight of the shire ; he was sheriff for Cornwall three times in the reign of Henry VIII, again under Edward VI, and for the fifth time under Elizabeth. He married, in about 1536, Blanche; daughter of Robert Langdon of Keverell (see p. 6), and had two daughters only, his estates devolving, at his death, in 1575, upon his nephew Francis. His widow, Blanch, was buried in 1583 at Breage :- a. Margaret, born c. 1537, married c. 1560, Sir Robert Verney. Margaret's second marriage is indicated by the following. The will, recorded at Exeter, of Elyen Connaunte, refers to the widow of Sir Robert Dennis, owner of Bicton, who died in 1592; he had married, first, Mary Mountjoy, and secondly, Margaret, daughter and heir of Sir William Godolphin, she surviving him and living in 1592. b. Grace, born c. 1538; married c. 1562, Sir John Sydenham of Brimpton, co. Somerset. 2. Thomas. second son, born c. 1512 ; XIX ; made governor of Scilly in 1549 (duchy of Comwall 1 Office), and was still governor in 1552. He married twice; first in about 1533, Katherine. dau. of Edmund Bonython of Bonython, by whom he had two sons and one daughter :- a. Francis. afterwards Sir Francis.z of whom later. b. William of Treveneage, St. Hilary, born c. 1540 ; M.P. Helston, 1586; m. 11 December, 1587, at St. Mabyn, Jane dau. and co-heir of Walter Gaverigan of Treveneage; William was bur. 21 October, 1611, Breage; his son 2Francis of Treveneage, b. 1589, m. 18 November, 1616, at Anth­ ony, Ann, fourth dau. of Richard Carew of Anthony (by Julia, dau. of Sir John Arundell of ) ; admen. of his estate, P.C.C. 1653. He had two daughters and one son: · * 1. Loveday, born 1618. I. The facts relating to Governors of Scilly and the six leases of the islands to the Godolphins, recorded in the Office, were supplied to the writer by the courtesy of the Secretary and Keeper of Records. 2. Overseer of the will of Sir William (XXI) in 1613. Aclmon. of his own estate is listed in Cal. 4. P.C.C. 1653, May, but is missing. THE GODOLPHINS s * 2. Katherine, born September, 1620; buried 13 March, 1662, at Crowan ; m. (mar. lie. 29 March, 1637) John 1St. Aubyn of Clowance and St. Michael's ~fount, and carried Treveneage as dowry, or inherited that property. Her fourth dau., Katherine St. Aubyn, who m. Thomas Northmore of Cleave, near Exeter, administered the estate of Francis Godolphin of Crowan, 23 June, 1692 (Adm. Act book, P.C.C. fol. 102), called "her uncle"; this was * 3. Francis of Crowan, near Breage. Vivian's Vis. of Cornwal,l, 1887, records his death in 1692. [An admon. of estate of Francis of Crowan was granted at Exeter in 1685 (Brit. Rec. Soc.) : not identified.] c~ Anne, born c. 1539; m. 1564 at St. Breage, Sir John Arundell of Talveme, whose son Thomas, knighted by James I, sold Talverne and afterwards, in 1630, died leaving issue. Coll. Top. et Gen., 1841, vol. 1, p. 123, records a sale of episcopal land, 24 July, 1660, the manors of Cuttingbeake and St. Germans, to Thos. Arundell and Fra. Godolphin, for £1,715.3.5, which may have been connected with this alliance between the two families. Thomas Godolphin married secondly Margaret, dau. of John Grenvil, and widow of one H. Larder, having by her a daughter Agnes, who m. Thomas Peter of Portcothan (see Peter-Hoblyn in Burke's L.G.); another daughter (name unknown) married to one Furseman, and a son Gentle, born c. 1566, named in the will of his half-brother, Sir Francis, 1606; lived, according to Vivian, in Devon, and m. in about 1610, Cicely, dau. of George Southcot of Calwoodley, having by her two sons, of whom William, the second, has left no record; the eldest son : · Gentle, bap. 21 June, 1614, at Teingrace, co. Devon (epis. tr.); m. twice; first 14 January, 1643/4, at St. Andrew's, Plymouth, Ann Jole; secondly 17 May, 1645, at the same place Martha Hooper, by whom he had a son: Gentle, born c. 1646; m. twice; first 18 November, 1672, at St. Stephen's by , Johan Bon, who was buried at St. Andrew's Plymouth, 18 February, 1680/1, by whom he had Robert, bap. 29 October, 1673, and buried 10 June, 1675, at St. Stephen's by Saltash, and Joan, bap. 27 September, 1674, at St. Andrew's, Plymouth; he married secondly 31 January, 1681 /2 at St. Andrew's, Plymouth, , Mary Groot, by whom he had, perhaps with other issue, Mary, bap. 24 August, 1683, at St. Andrew's, Plymouth. No further record of this branch has been found, except perhaps the following : Samuel Godolphin of Teigngrace, co. Devon; admon. of estate granted at Exeter, 1747. 3. Elizabeth, born c. 1517; m. John Langdon of Bicton, one of the '' twelve men '' mentioned in the Green Book in 1585 ;

I. Perhaps the St. Aubyn whose snail, according to tradition, won for him the Godolphin estates and annexed them to the manor of Lambourne Perran. 6 THE GODOLPHINS he was born 1508, son of Robert Langdon of Keverell, and brother of Blanch who married Sir William Godolphin. Walter Langdon, a grandson of John and Elizabeth, m., c. 1600, Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Ameredith of Slapton, Esq.; the Ameredith and Godolphin families were allied by another marriage, seep. 19. 4. Honor; born c. 1519; m. \iVilliam Meliton of Pengarsick. XX. Sir Francis Godolphin of Godolphin, Kt., eldest son of Thomas Godolphin by his first wife Katherine (Bonython;, suc­ ceeded liis uncle, Sir William, at Godolphin, in 1575. He was born c. 1534; he died 1608 and was buried at Breage, 23 April. His will, dated 4 October, 1606, was proved in the P.C.C. (46 Winde­ banck) 13 May, 1608; it refers to .. an annuity of £300 unto the Ladye Alice my wife as her joynture . . an annuity of £100 to my second son John and the heirs of his body until he has bought and provided for him lands to that yearly value . . £20 yearly to my brother Gentle .. to my youngest son Francis the manors of Penrin, Forin and Minster, he to be careful to pay the yearly rent to the bishop of Exon .. my daughters Elizabeth and Catherine £2,000 each, and £40 yearly with dyet, or £50 yearly without dyet . . to the children of my son-in-law John Crudge, by Ursula my daughter deceased, the two younger sons £4 yearly each, and Francis Crudge his eldest son to have his finding of meat, . drink and apparel allowed him by my heir in His Maj.'s Fort at Silley if he shall like there to contynue until the death of his father, unto their two daughters £3 yearly each and £50 on marriage ..to my nephew John Furseman 20 marks and to my sister Peter's two daughters £10 each ..my daughter Bassett has received all her debt due to me and I have left for her nine younger children £20 each . . my two sons John and Francis to be Overseers and Remembrancers unto their brother, Sir William, my heir and Executor.,, The first lease of the Scilly Isles was granted to him for 38 years, l 570-1608, and as governor he built Starr castle in St. Mary's. He was receiver-general of the duchy of Cornwall, by Letters Patent of 15 June, 1586; M.P. for Cornwall 1589; an astute mineralogist, he served with Sir Francis Bacon on a commission of enquiry. He married first at St. Breage, 29 June, 1562, Margaret, dau. of Sir John Killi_grew of Arwenack, and by her had nine children; his second wife, Alice, dau. of John Skeritt and widow of John Glanvile, was buried 26 April, 1632, Breage: 1. William, afterwards Sir William, of whom later. 2. Elizabeth, born c. 1563; living, unmarried in 1613. 3. Katherine, born c. 1564; living, unmarried in 1613. 4. Blanch ; m. 30 December, 1583, St. Breage, George Kekewich of Catch-French; she was buried 11 December, 1597, at St. Germans. 5. Jane; m. 28 October, 1593, St. Breage, James Basset of Tehidy; see Burke's L.G. He was born 1566, and died 1603. 6. Thomasin; m. 7 July, 1588, St. Breage, Sir George Carew, afterwards earl of Totnes. She and Blanch were not named in their father's will. 7. Ursula; m. John Crudge and had issue; died before 1606. 8. John of Buthocke, who founded the family of Godolphin of Spargor, and whose family is recorded in Part II ; see p. 19 et seq., and p. 51. THE GODOLPHINS 7

9. Francis, afterwards Sir Francis; born c. 1578; recorder of Helston 1620; governor of Scilly 1624-6; executor of his brothers' wills, Sir William's in 1613 and John's in 1619; under his own, dated 15 October, 1637, proved in the P.C.C. (68 ), 2 May, 1640, his nephew Francis was his sole heir. He probably m. 8 May, 1622, Katherine, eld. dau. of vice-admiral Charles Trevanion (d. 1601) of Carryhayes by his wife Joan Wichhalse (episc. trans.).

XXI. Sir William Godolphin of Godolphin, Kt., eldest son of Sir Francis Godolphin by his first wife Margaret Killigrew, was born c. 1565; matric. Cambridge, Fell.-Com. Emmanuel, Lent, 1584/5; admitted Lincoln's Inn, 29 January, 1586/7. M.P. for Cornwall, 1605 ; the second lease of Scilly was granted to him, 1608-1658, by Letters Patent of 10 August, 1603; governor of Scilly from 1608 ; he fought under Essex in Ireland and was knighted 13 July, 1599, for gallantry at Arklow. He was buried at Breage 5 September, 1613. His will, dated 2 and 4 September, 1613, was proved in the P.C.C. (119 Capell) 4 December, 1613; he bequeathed "unto my brother Francis all my demesnes, manors ..also the full rest comfort and proffitt of all my mynes and Tinworks . . for the Terme of 14 yeares from the day of my death .. for the payment of the annuities left by my father, namely, to my brother John and his heirs for ever £100 per annum and to my sisters Elizabeth and Catherine during their living sole to either of them £40 per annum and to their dyet £10 per annum .. and £300 per annum to my mother in-law the Ladye Alice Godolphin . .Secondly that he take out of the same yearly such portion as shall be fitting for the seemly maintenance and education of my children .. and out of the over­ plus .. pay to my daughte:r Penelope £1,000, she also to have the jewels which were her mother's, my late dearly beloved wife, Thomasine Godolphin. now in the custody of my sister Elizabeth .. my lands in Norfolk to my son Sidney .. my third son William, the remainder of my lease of the , from which my brother Francis shall pay to my brother John his annuitie until my said son William shall attain the age of 21 .. I remit unto my cosen Symon Killigrew all his debts .. my cosen Dick Bonithon .. In case of the death of my brother Francis, before the majority of Francis, my eldest son and heir, I do hereby substitute my dear cosen Sir Robert Killigrew, Kt., Francis Basset, my executors .. and my beloved brother John Godolphin of Scilly, Francis Basset of Tehidy, and Francis Godolphin of Treveneage my Overseers." He married, c. 1604, Thomasin, daughter and sole heir of Thomas Sidney of Wrighton, co. Norfolk ; she was buried at Tavistock 24 April, 1632 ; by her he had four children :- 1. Francis, afterwards Sir Francis, of whom later. 2. Penelope, born 1607; bap. 13 July, St. Margaret's, West­ minster; her will was proved 18 May, 1669. Shem. 6 September, 1627, St. Breage, Sir Charles Berkeley, for whose family seep. 17. 3. Sidney, born 1610; bap. 15 January. He was a poet of some account; he was 1killed, on the Royalist side, in the battle of Chagford, and was buried at Okehampton 10 February, 1642/3. He had been M.P. for Helston, though he lived much on his estates in Norfolk. 1. Sidney was one of'' The four wheels of Charles's Wain, Grenville, Godolphin, Trevanion, Slanning, slain." 8 THE GODOLPHINS

4. William ; commanded the regiment of foot raised for the King by Sir Francis, his eldest brother; he was buried at Bruton, co. Somerset, the home of his sister, Penelope, and a M.I. to his memory exists.

XXII. Sir Francis Godolphin of Godolphin, K.B., eldest son of Sir William Godolphin by his wife Thomasin, dau. of Thomas Sidney of Wrighton, co. Norfolk, was born in 1605; he was bap. 27 December, at St. Margaret's, Westminster. He died in the spring of 1667 and his will was proved in the P.C.C. (43 Carr) in November. He became governor of Scilly at his majority in 1626 and, by Letters Patent dated 20 June, 1636, was granted the third lease of the islands for the period of 50 years, 1658-1708 (duchy of Corn­ wall Office). In 1640 he was M.P. for St. Ives and, when the civil war broke out, withdrew to his Comish estates and raised a regi­ ment of foot, which his brother, William, commanded for the King. He is also said to have secured the islands of Scillyforthe Royalists, although it is recorded that colonel Anthony Rous, M.P., was governor in 1646, colonel Anthony Buller in 164 7, while Joseph Hunkin held the islands for Parliament from 1657 to 1660. At the Restoration in 1660, he was created K.B. He married, in about 1639, Dorothy, 2nd dau. of Sir Henry Berkeley of Y arlington, near Bruton, co. Somerset, an uncle of Sir Charles Berkeley above mentioned; she was buried 23 Novem­ ber, 1668, at Breage. By her, Sir Francis had sixteen children. Of these, thirteen were living and were named in their mother's will, dated November, 1668 :- 1. William, afterwards Sir William of Godolphin, born about 1640. He was created baronet 29 April, 1661, was governor of Scilly and paid duchy rent from 1666 to 1680. Although he lived principally in retirement, he appears frequently in the diary of his friend, John Evelyn, with his sisters and his young nephew Francis Godolphin, at various times in London. He died on 27 August, 1710, in Suffolk street, where his sisters Anne and Penelope also died; like them, he was unmarried. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, the 1baronetcy becoming extinct, as it had originated, with him. The following is an abstract of his will, dated 13 May, 1707, proved in the P.C.C. (201 Smith), 6 September, 1710, by his brother Sidney, earl of Godolphin, to whom he bequeathed his estates in Cornwall and elsewhere :- .. I desire my executor to perform punctually whatsoever is not performed of my £father's Will or my Mother's Will, or the Wills of my dear sisters, Mrs. ffrances, Mrs. Anne, and Mrs. Penelope Godolphin, of which five Wills I am Executor.. . . I owe my Brother Dr. Godolphin his share of my sister Margaret's Estate, vesting in my hands. I give my sister Norcote (Northcote) I. The arms of the baronetcy of Godolphin were :- Gules, an eagle with two heads displayed between three .fleurs-de-Zys Argent. The arms of the earldom are described on p. 16. THE GODOLPHINS 9

£200 and forgive her all she owes me by Bond or otherwise . . and to her three daughters £100 apiece . . . . to my sister Boscawen £200, to her daughter my lady Medows £200, to her daughter Mrs. Evelyn £150 . . . . to my Brother the Provost of Eaton and my Brother Charles £100 apiece, and £50 apiece to their wives. "To my dear cousin, Mrs. Jane Berkeley, £200 .. to my good friend Mr. 1Hall, Commissioner of the Customs, £200. To my cousin Mr. Kekewich, £100 ... to Mr. William White, £40 .. Also my brother Edward's small estate, of which no administration was ever taken, is in my hands .. but desire my Executor to pay my sister Boscawen, the Provost, and my brother Charles, £150 apiece for their shares of it, and £150 more to my brother Charles as Administrator to my sister Catherine, and if that he thought not enough then to add £50 more to each of those four shares .. "I give to my dear nephew my Lord of Rialton £1,000, and to his son £100 . . . Residuary Legatee and Executor .. my brother, Sidney, Earl of Godolphin." 2. Francis, born about 1642 ; he died unmarried, in 1675, bequeathing £100 to each of his younger brothers and £300 to each of his unmarried sisters, except to Anne, who inherited £1,000. 3. Sidney, 1st earl of Godolphin, of whom later (XXIII). 4. Elizabeth, bap. 8 February, 1635, Breage; m. Sir Arthur Northcote, 2nd bart., of Hayne, ancestor of the earl of Iddesleigh. Of her three daughters, Elizabeth the eldest died unmarried; Dorothy m. 1685, Andrew Quicke, Esq., of Newton St. Cyres, whose dau. Frances m. Francis Hall above mentioned ; and Penelope Northcote, m. John Hesket, Lancaster Herald. 5. Jael, bap. 5 June, 1647; died 14 April, 1730 ; m., 5 January, 1665,- Edward Boscawen, M.P. for Tregony, and was the mother of Hugh, 1st viscount Falmouth and two daughters: Dorothy, m. Sir Philip Medows, and Anne, 1n. Sir John Evelyn, hart., grand­ son of the diarist. A Mr. Evelyn, otherwise unrecorded, but probably of the diarist's family, was a neighbour of the Godolphins of Coulston, co. Wilts, in 1722. 6. Henry; born 15 August, 1648; hap. 20 August; died 29 January, 1732/3, and was buried at Eton college; D.D. 1685; provost of Eton 1695 ; dean of St. Paul's 1707-26. He married in about 1703, his cousin Mary, 2nd dau. of colonel Sidney Godolphin of Abertanat, whose family is recorded in Part II, and by her had two sons and one daughter:- a. Henry, born 1705 ; died s.p. 31 March, 1722. b. Francis, 2nd baron Godolphin of H elston ; born in about 1706 ; died s.p. 1785. He married twice : first on 18 February, 1734, at St. James', Westminster, lady Barbara Bentinck (d. · 1 April, 1736), dau. of William, earl of Portland; secondly, in about 1746, lady Anne Fitzwilliam, dau. of John, earl Fitzwilliam. He lived at Bayliss, near Windsor, and may perhaps be identified with the "Mr. G-n." who, in a letter, 21 February, 1744, of Mrs. Delaney's, ·' has thoughts of marrying,'' but whom Mrs. Delaney did not succeed in marrying to her cousin, lord Lansdowne's daughter. In 1766, he succeeded his cousin Francis, as 2nd baron

1. Probably identical with Francis Hall, Esq., of West Sandford, who m. Frances Quicke, Sir vVilliam's great-niece; she appears later in these records, p. 38. 10 THE GODOLPHINS

Godolphin of Helston. From his will, he appears to have bought an old annuity of '' the Godolphin estate'' from another cousin, major William Godolphin of Coulston, see p. 51. Francis died in 1785, the title becoming extinct. His will, of which an abstract follows, was dated 7 February, 1784, and was proved in the P.C.C. (309 Ducarel), 8 June, 1785, by his widow Ann, baroness Godolphin :- " To my dearly beloved wife my house in St. James', leased from the Crown, for her life; also my house at Bayliss, co. Bucks., and £3,000 ; also an annuity of £600. After my wife's death, to the marquis of Carmarthen my house, with my stables in Ball Yard, my fee farm rents in Cornwall, and an annuity of £100 issuing out of the Godolphin estate which I purchased of William Godolphin, Esq., of Coulston in Wiltshire. After my wife's death, my estate at Bayliss, with all my plate, etc .• etc .• to lord Francis Godolphin Osborne, and also after my death my estates in and Wales for life; and after his death, to Thomas Villiers, lord Hyde, and John Egerton, Esq., son of the . in Trust, for the contingent remainders. I give to my niece, Ellen Owen, £12,000. To my nephew, Robert Godolphin Owen, £1,000. To my niece, Margaret Ormsby, £1,000. To the countess dowager Clanbrassil, £2,000. To the countess Roden, £2,000, and to her third daughter, who is my god-daughter, £1,000." Legacies to the Egertons, the family of the brother of the bishop of Durham. £4,000 for augmenting the diet of the scholars at Eton. £4,000 to the commissioners for the Queen's Bounty for augmenting small livings in Bucks. £4,000 to St. Luke's hospital. £4,000 to the S.P.G. £2,000 to the S.P .C.K. " I give to my niece, Ellen Owen, the house in St. James' Place, after the death of Lady Elizabeth FitzWilliam " (sister-in-law). Legacies to the FitzWilliam and other god-children. £1,000 to the earl of Clarendon. £5,000 to Oxford university. "My wife to be executor and residuary legatee." c. Mary, 3rd child and only daughter of Henry Godolphin, D.D., was born in about 1707; she was living in 1763, when she was mentioned in the will of her cousin Francis, 2nd earl of Godolphin. She m. in about 1730, William Owen, Esq., of Porkington, co. Salop, high sheriff of l\i1erionethshire, 1712-3, and of Camarvon­ shire, 1756, and had two sons and two daughters : Ellin, born about 1731, mentioned in the will of her uncle Francis, 2nd baron Godolphin of Helston, in February, 1784, but not recorded else­ where; Robert Godolphin (1733-1792), died s.p. 1· Francis, died s.p., 1774; and Margaret (1738-1806), who married, in 1777, Owen Ormsby, Esq., of Willow Brook, co. Sligo (d. 1804) ; the only child of this marriage, Mary Jane Ormsby, born 17 September, 1781, " inherited such portions of the Godolphin property as being purchased after the last lord Godolphin had made his will did not pass under it either to the duke of Leeds or lord Francis Osborne now lord Godolphin." (Burke's L.G., 1846.) Mary Jane Ormsby m. in 1815, William Gore, Esq., afterwards Ormsby-Gore, of THE GODOLPHINS 11

Porkington, J.P., D.L.; her eldest son, John Ralph Ormsby-Gore (1816-1876) was created baron Harlech (see Peerage). 7. Frances, the seventh of the surviving children, in 1668, of Sir Francis Godolphin, K.B., was born about 1649 ; she died before 1707, and her eldest brother, Sir William, was executor of her estate. 8. Penelope, who died unmarried in 1697, her will being proved in the P.C.C., 117 Pyne: an abstract is given below:- " 1697. . . very sick and weake of body . . to the poor of Breage £20, to the poor of Germoe (2 miles west of Breage) £20, and to the poor of St. Martin's­ in-the-Fields £20 .. £100 to my dear sister Northcote and £200 to my dear sister Boscawen .. £100 each to my brothers, Lord Godolphin, Hy. Godolphin and Mr. Charles Godolphin .. to my dear nephew, Mr. Francis Godolphin, my diamond ring which his Mother gave me .. I give unto my dear brother Sir William Godolphin, my grandmother's wedding ring .. to my cousin Jane Berkley, my lady Silvius, my sister Godolphin, and my cousin Meadows, £10 apiece, to buy them a ring .. my sister Northcote to have my medal of King Charles, and my stock in the East India Company . . . Sir William Godolphin, brother, to be executor. " Signed, 19 May, 1697, with the marke of Penelope Godolphin, in the presence of J. Boscawen-Godolphin, and Henry Northcote." 9. Charles, born in 1651 ; died 10 July, 1720, and was buried on 28 July, in Westminster Abbey, in a vault at the north end of the west cloister, where a memorial is inscribed to him and his wife. He was M.P. for Helston, and H.M. 's senior commissioner for Customs in London. He married, by Mar. Lie. Vic. Gen. of 27 June, 1687, his cousin Elizabeth Godolphin, eldest daughter of Francis Godolphin of Spargor, co. Cornwall, and of Coulston, co. Wilts. Their two children died in infancy; an account of Charles' family is given in Part II, where the Coulston branch of the family of Godolphin is fully described. Charles and his wife were two of the heirs of Elizabeth's uncle, Sir William Godolphin, who died at Madrid in 1696, formerly ambassador at that capital, and whose estate became the subject of legislation. Charles Godolphin's will (P.C.C. Shaller 213), made 8 June, 1719, and proved, with two codicils, in London, 22 October, 1720 :- " In the name of God Almighty-Amen. I Charles Godolphin, being at the writing hereof of sound memory-blessed be God-doe now make my last Will and Testament as followeth, namely :-First, with all humble sub­ mission and acknowledgment to Almighty God for his great mercies con­ tinued to me throughout the whole course of my life, more especially for the effectual assistances of his Holy Grace, enabling me to resist many temptations, and with earnest desire to be in charity with all men, most humbly imploring God's pardon and that of all others whom I have at any time offended by thought, word or deed, most humbly beseeching the divine goodness to show mercy to us all and to all those also who, without any cause, have been my enemys, and to tum their hearts (whom I fully, freely and entirely forgive), I commend my Soul to God who gave it, hoping for his mercy through the infinite merits, mediation and satisfaction of our Lord Jesus Christ my most blessed Saviour and Redeemer, and my Body to be buried as privately as is practic­ able, with the service of the , under the marble White Stone where my dear Children were interred in the Western Cloyster of the Abbey Church at Westminster, in a grave then Brickwall'd with leave of the Church and lately repaired at my expense, in expectation of a joyful Resurrection with them to life Everlasting. Amen. 12 THE GODOLPHINS

" As for my temporal goods, my Will is as followeth :-I give to my sister, Boscawen, £50. To my Brother, the Provost of Eaton College, and to his wife and to their three children, to every one of those :five £20. I give to my Lord Godolphin, to Mrs. Boscawen, to the Lady Medows, to the Lady Evelyn, to Mrs. Quicke of Newton, and to Mrs. Hesket, being my nephews and nieces, to every one of those six £50 apiece. I give to Sr. Henry Northcote, Bart., and to his brother, Charles Northcote, £20 to each of them. '' I give moreover to the said Charles Northcote and to l\fr. Charles Berkeley, son of my Lord Berkeley of Stratton, Mrs. Medows, Charles Evelyn, Mary Godolphin, 1Bennet Langton, Godolphin Edwards, Joan Northcote, Mary Peanecks now Lanyon, and to Henry Walter, being all my godsons or god­ daughters, £5 to every one of them severally to buy good books, recom­ mending it to them to reflect seriously and often, that there is no solid com­ fort to be expected either here or hereafter without a due preparation in this life for that which is to come. "I give to my Wife's 2two nephews and three nieces, the Children of her late Brother, £20 apiece to every one of those five, and to colonel Sidney Godolphin and to his wife and to every one of their three daughters not already herein named, £20 apiece. " I give to my cousin, Sidney Strode of Newnham in Devon, £100, when my interest in the Manor of Strode and Bradford and in the tenements of Elverleigh and Store park in the county of Devon shall be sold. "I give to the poor in the six following parishes, viz., of Breage and of Pensance in Cornwall, of Blandford in Dorsetshire, of Coulston in Wiltshire, and of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields and of St. James', Westminster, to every one of the said six parishes £10, severally to be distributed to the poorest inhabitants at the discretion of the Minister and Churchwardens for the time being in the respective places, restrayning the legacy to Pensance to the poor only within that town and not to be extended to the rest of Maddern parish. "I give to the Library of Wadham College in Oxford all my Greek, Latin, Spanish and Italian books, with as many of the French and English also as my Executrix thinks :fit, but this Legacy of the books not to be discharged during my Wife's life, they being the furniture of the Closets where they are sett up: but there is a catalogue of those at Coulston, and there may be one taken of those in St. James's place." (He-re follow legacies to servants, dependants and othe-r charities.) " I give to my dear wife Mrs. Elizabeth Godolphin the house which I purchased of Mr. William Strode, and where I have lately lived in St. James's place, Westminster, and also the ground adjoining to it (which I since pur­ chased of , esq.) and the buildings thereon, excepting only the two front houses to St. James's street and a little one behind them, with such other parcell of ground as was contained in the same Builder's lease (the ground rents whereof have been assigned by me severall years since to Trustees for certain charitys) to have and to hold the said houses and also the ground adjoining (except as before excepted) purchased of Mr. Waller, with three large vaults, six stables and eight coach-houses now built thereon, to my said wife Elizabeth during her life only, the remainder in the premises to my Nephew my Lord Godolphin and to his heirs for ever. "Item. I give to my said wife Elizabeth my 3house and lands at Coulston iII Wiltshire for her life, the remainder to her nephew, William Godolphin of Spargor, Esq., and to the heirs male of his Body, and for want of such issue" (in the margin is inserted:-' to his Brother Francis Godolphin and the heirs male of his Body, and for want of such issue'-) to my own right heirs male for ever.

1. Bennet's father, George Langton of Langton, co. Lincoln, was one of Charles Godolphin's trustees for charitable gifts, in 1703 (seep. 38). In 1764, Dr. Johnson, for evidence of whose acquaintance with the Dixie and Godolphin families, see p. 40, made the long journey from London to visit old Mr. Langton. 2. The five children of Francis Godolphin of Spargor (bd. 1702 at Coulston. See p. 46). 3. Now known as Baynton House; seep. 49. THE GODOLPHINS 13

" Item. I give to Dr. Samuel Clark, Rector of St. James, \Vestminster, and to Samuel 1 Edwards of the Exchequer, Esq., jointly during their lives . . all my right, title and interest to an Order of the Exchequer in my name, No. 2395, for the payment of an Annuity of £100 per annum out of Tonnage 2Coals Excise for 99 years from 1706, which said Order, with the three Talleys relating thereto, I thus assign to those two Gentlemen upon Trust only, that my said wife Elizabeth may receive the whole proceed of the said Order or of the Annuity payable thereon during her life, and that after­ wards the said Order may be sold at the price current and the produce of such sale divided by moyetys, one whereof to be for or towards the advancement of such Child of my niece the Lady Medows, and the other moyety for or towards the advancement of such Child of my niece the Lady Evelyn as each of the Mothers shall respectively signifie to the trustees by writing." (Here follows the betiuest of moneys deposited in Venice, to his wife.) "I doe further give, devise and bequeath to my said once tenderly loving and ever truly beloved wife all my Goods, Chattles, Plate, Towells, furniture, debts owing to me by specialty or otherwise at home or abroad .. con- stituting her sole Executrix ...... 8 June, 1719. (sd.) C. Godolphin, Jo. Merewether, Jo. Gordon, Benjamin Richards, Daniel Blaney.,, Here follows a codicil, dated 21 June, 1719, giving £100 to the trustees, Dr. Clark and Samuel Edwards, as his Legacy to them, and mentioning" Mr. Thomas Williams, by whose care this money was recovered at Venice.'' A second codicil, dated 31 l\'Iay, 1720, reads as follows :- " Where as since making the within Will, I have sold my then remaining Order therein mentioned, No. 2395, for an Annuity of £100 per Annum payable at the Exchequer, for £2,600, which money is now lodged in three Tallies on Coals for Churches dated 23 March, 1719, and whereas by such sale the annuall income intended for my Wife during her life will be so much lessened, I do therefore give my said wife eleven hundred pounds out of the said £2,600, and £500 apiece to Lady Medows and Lady Evelyn towards the advancement of such of their Children as they think :fit •• and also £500 to my sister Boscawen, in trust for my cousin, Mrs. Pen. Hesket, to be paid to her at such times and in such manner for the particular use of the said Mrs. Hesket, as she herself shall desire. (sd.) C. Godolphin, " The will and codicils were proved by the widow, 22 October, 1720. The remaining four children of Sir Francis Godolphin, K.B., who were living in 1668, were:- 10. Margaret, born about 1654; died unmarried;- buried at St. Columb Major, co. Cornwall, 24 February, 1671 /2. 11. Katherine ; died unmarried 1679 ; administration of her estate was granted to her brother Charles Godolphin, 21 May, 1679, in the P.C.C., where she is styled " of St. Martin-in-the-Fields." 12. Anne; died in 1679. Her will, in which she is styled "of Breage,'' is not dated, nor is the date of her death stated; it was proved in the P.C.C. (161 King), 3 December, 1679, by her eldest brother, Sir William Godolphin, bart. She bequeathed: " To my dear brother, Sir William, whom I make my executor, £100 •• To my dear brother, Sidney, £500 .. To my dear brother, Mr. Henry Godolphin, £100 •.

1. Samuel Edwards m. Rebecca Godolphin, 1699; see p. 22. 2. Coal; hence, probably, the connection with the Burslem family, Leicestershire coal-owners, of whom James m. Elizabeth Godolphin in 1 717 ; see p. 53. 14 THE GODOLPHINS

To my dear brother, Mr. Charles Godolphin, £100 .. To my dear sister, Lady Northcote, £100 .. To my dear sister, Mrs. Boscawen, £100 .. To my dear sister, Penelope Godolphin, £200." Although there is no date to the will, an affirmation is attached, to the effect that on " 23 October, 1679, Henry Godolphin, one of the Fellows of Eaton College, and Penelope Godolphin of Suffolk Street, in the county of Middlesex, Spinster, deposed that, having searched in the lodging of their sister Anne Godolphin, situate in Suffolk Street aforesaid, they found the within-written will, in a Red trunk of their said sister's, within a few days after her death . . . . and vouched for her writing." Presuming a lapse of six months between search and deposition, she may be identified ·with the " Mrs. Anne Godolphin, buried in Westminster Abbey on the 15th of the previous March, as is sug­ gested in the following memoir of Sidney, 1st earl of Godolphin. 13. Edward, born 1659; died 1676, and was buried 10 Decem­ ber, at Wadham college, Oxford.

XXIII. Sidney, 1st earl of Godolphin, was the third surviving son of Sir Francis Godolphin of Godolphin, K.B., by Dorothy, his wife, daughter of Sir Henry Berkeley of Y arlington. He was born in 1645, at Godolphin, and baptised at St. Breage, 15 June. He was a page of honour from 1662 to 1672, groom of the chamber from 1672 to 1678, and master of the robes from 1678 to 1685. He graduated M.A., Oxford, 1663; M.P. for Helston, 1668-1679, for St. Mawes in 1679, and for Helston 1679 to 1681. In 1677 he was envoy to Brussels, and in 1687 to the Hague. From 1679 to 1684, he was a lord of the treasury, and on 28 September, 1684, he was created baron Godolphin of Rialton, co. Cornwall. He was first lord of the treasury, 1684-5 ; and secretary of state for the South, from April to .August, 1684. He was again a lord of the treasury, 1687-88, and 1689-90; a privy councillor from 4 February, 1678 /89, to February, 1689 /90, and from 20 November, 1690, until his death. From 1685 to 1688, he was lord chamberlain and councillor to the Queen consort, and in 1687 was councillor to the Queen dowager. He was again first lord of the treasury from November, 1690 to 1696, and lord high treasurer from 1700 to 1701, and from lVIay, 1702 to 1710, when his political opponents obtained his dismissal from office with a pension of £4,000 a year. He was one of the lords justices of the realm, during the King's absence, 1695, 1696 and 1701. He was instituted K.G., 13 December, 1704, and on 26 December, 1706, was created viscount Rialton and earl of Godolphin, as reward for his successful efforts in promoting the union with Scotland. He was lord lieutenant of 1Cornwall, 1705 to 1710. He died on the 15 September, 1712, aged 67, at the house of his friend the duke of Marlborough, at St. Albans, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, 8 October. His will was proved in November. 1. The fourth lease of the Scilly isles (1708-1797) was granted to the earl, by Letters Patent, 25 July, 1698, and he was governor of Scilly, though it is not clear for what period. THE GODOLPHINS 1S

Charles II said of him, that he was " never in the way and never out of the way." His career is narrated in the Dictionary of National Biography, the outstanding features being his financial ability and integrity, and his political alliance with ~Iarlborough, whereby the latter was, to a gTeat extent, relieved of dealing with enemies at home, and made free to give all his energies to the campaigns he fought abroad. He married, on 16 May, 1675, at the Temple church, London, ~Iargaret, fourth daughter and co-heir of colonel Thomas Blagge of Homingsheath, co. Suffolk; she was born 2 August, 1652; was a maid of honour to the Queen consort of Charles II; she died, shortly after the birth of her son, at Whitehall, on the 9 September, 1678, and was buried on 16 September, at St. Breage, where a very striking tomb, still existing, was erected by her husband. Her "Life," written by John Evelyn of Wootton and, in 1848, published by the wish of Evelyn's great-great-grandson, describes a character, permeated with deep religious principles. The earl of Godolphin did not marry again, although 1one of the appendices to Dalrymple's memoirs, app. pt. 2, bk. 7, p. 249, has a letter written by lord Sydney to \Villiam III, dated 3 February, 1690 /1, stating that lord Godolphin had given him, Sydney, the reason for his retirement from public life, namely that he had " recently married, and that an elderly man, engaged all day in business, would not do well to bring his wife to Court.'' This \vTitten statement has never been explained, nor substantiated. So far as is kno,vn, the earl had only one child, Francis ; the unofficial register of a burial in Westminster Abbey, 15 March, 1678/9, of "Mrs. Anne Godolphin," or "Dorothy Godolphin,'' says: "In the absence of any positive identification. it may be suggested that she was a young child of the Right Hon. Sidney. afterwards Earl of, Godolphin. whose marriage took place in 1675." She was, more probably, the earl's sister Anne, whose will was proved in 1679; seep. 14. The earl's estates included Tilshead Lodge, co. Wilts, a training ground for his race-horses, not far from Coulston, the country home acquired by the earl's brother Charles in 1687 by his marriage with Elizabeth his cousin, who resided there until her death in 1726, when it passed to major William Godolphin (1695-1781 ; seep. 48). The earl also leased, 6 April, 1693, Greens Norton Park, near Towcester, from the earl of Feversham.

XXIV. Francis, 2nd earl of Godolphin, and 1st baron Godolphin of Helston, only son and heir of Sidney, 1st earl of Godolphin by his wife, Margaret, dau. of colonel Thomas Blagge, was born at White­ hall, 3 September, 1678, and baptised on the same day. He was educated at Eton, and King's college, Cambridge ; M.A. 1705. He succeeded, as 2nd earl of Godolphin, 1712, and was created 1st baron Godolphin of Helston, 1735. He was lord-warden of the

1. From Life of Sidney, Earl of Godolphin. by the Hon. Hugh F. H. Elliot (Longmans and Co .• 1888). 16 THE GODOLPHINS stannaries from 25 March, 1705 ; governor of Scilly from 1733 until his death. He died 17 January, and was buried 25 January, 1766, in Kensington church, aged 87 ; the 1earldom of Godolphin, the viscounty ·of Rialton, and the barony of Godolphin of Rialton, became extinct. The barony of Godolphin of Helston passed to his cousin, Francis, as next male heir ; see p. 9. His will, dated 10 June, 1763, was proved in the P.C.C. (16 Tyndal), 1766 ; an abstract follows :- " To be buried in Kensington, without pomp. To my two daughters, the duchesses of Newcastle, and of Leeds, £14,000 in the 3% Bank Annuities, between them. To my cousin, Mrs. Owen, wife of William Owen of Porkington, or to her children if she be dead, £500, and to each of her children living at the time of my death £100. (Seep. 10.) To my cousin, Lady Vanbrugh, widow of the late Sir John Vanbrugh, £100." Legacies to other friends, and to servants. " The residue to my beloved kinsman, Francis Godolphin, son of my late uncle, Dr. Godolphin." (See p ..9) He married at the age of 20, by license of the vicar-general, dated 23 April, 1698, lady Henrietta Churchill, daughter of the " Right Hon. John, earl of Marlborough, who consents " ; she was aged 17 at that time, became duchess of Marlborough in her own right, 1722, died 24 October, 1733, and was buried on 9 November in Westminster Abbey. By her he had five children :- 1. William, viscount Rialton, b. 1694 ; admitted Fell. Com., aged 18, at Pembroke coll., Cambridge, 1 May, 1712 ; matric. 1712 ; referred to, in Bibliotheca Cornubiensis, supplement:- " Gratulatio acad. de pace. Cantab. 1713 fol.; contains a set of Latin verses by Guil. Godolphin, armiger, aul. Pemb. socius commensalis." He became D.C.L., Oxford, 1730, and Cambridge, the same year. He was :NI.P. for Penrhyn, 1720-22, when he became marquess of Blandford. He was M.P. for Woodstock, 1727-31, the year of his death. He married, in 1729, Maria Katherine, daughter of Peter d'Jong of Utrecht, and died without issue, 24 August, 1731. He was buried at Blenheim. Administration of his estate was granted in the P.C.C. (Act Book, 1731.) 2. Henry, who died s.p. 3. Henrietta; she married 2 April, 1717, Sir Thomas Pelham­ Holles, 5th hart., who ,vas created duke of Newcastle 17 November, 1756, and who died s.p. 17 November, 1768. Henrietta died s.p. 17 July, 1776. 4. Margaret, who died unmarried. 5. :\iary; XXV; born c. 1705, m. 26 June, 1740, Thomas Osborne, 4th duke of Leeds (1713-1789) ; she d. 3 August, 1764, that is to say, before her father, but her heirs inherited the 1. Arms: Sable a double eagle displayed Argent between three fteu,s-de-lys Or. Motto: "Franc ha Zeal eto ge," translated and adopted by one of the Godolphin schools (see Part II) : "F,ank and loyal thou art." THE GODOLPHINS 17

Godolphin estates, including the ancient manor. Her son (X XV I), 5th duke, while marquess of Carmarthen, was governor of Scilly and, on 3 November, 1786, was granted the fifth lease of the islands (1786-1817) ; her grandson, the 6th duke, was granted, by Letters Patent dated 19 December, 1800, the sixth and last lease held by the Godolphins, and was the last of that fa1nily to be governor of Scilly. Another of her grandsons, however, lord Francis Godolphin Osborne (XXVII) was er. baron Godolphin of Farnham Royal in _1832, a title since held by the dukes of Leeds ; see Peerage.

No memoir of this family would be complete without some mention of the Berkeleys, with whom the Godolphins were closely allied by marriage, and to whom they owed so much. Both families were connected by marriage, in several generations, with that of Killigrew :-

BERKELEY of Bruton and of Stratton.

Sir Henry Berkeley, a descendant of Maurice, second lord Berkeley, lived in the middle of the sixteenth century at Bruton, on the eastern borders of Somerset, not far from the Wiltshire hamlets of Edington and Coulston, in the latter of which Sir William Godolphin of Spargor found a wife, as will be related in Part II. In that hamlet also lived a branch of the Comish family of Granville ; see p. 66. By his "rife :Margaret, daughter of William Lygon, of Madresfield, co. Worcester, Sir Henry had three sons :- 1. Sir Maurice of Bruton; died 1617; he married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Killigrew, and had five sons, of whom later. 2. Sir Henry of Yarlington; died 1601 ; he married Elizabeth Nevile, grand-daughter of Sir Henry Killigrew of Hanworth, co. Middlesex, and had two children: Maurice of Yarlington, who died s.p. 1674, and Dorothy, who married Sir Francis Godolphin (1605-1667), and had sixteen children (p. 8). 3. Sir Edward of Pylle; died 1654; ancestor of lord Portman. The five sons of Sir Maurice of Bruton were :- a. Sir Charles; knighted 1623 ; captain in the Life Guards, 1661 ; succeeded his son as 2nd viscount Fitzhardinge, 1665 ; died 1668. He married, in 1627, Penelope, sister of Sir Francis Godolphi..r1 (p. 7), and had six children:- 1. Elizabeth, who became lady Bridgeman; buried in West­ minster Abbey, 2 March, 1663/4. 2. Jane; died unmarried, 18 June, 1718, at her house in Beau­ fort Buildings in the Strand, aged 77; buried in Westminster Abbey, 25 June. 18 THE GODOLPHINS

3. Sir ~1aurice; created baronet in 1660, and afterwards 3rd viscount Fitzhardinge ; d.s.p. 1690. 4. Charles; created baron Berkeley of Rathdowne, 1st vis­ count Fitzhardinge, with rem. to his father, and earl of Falmouth ; killed in action; d.s.p. 1665. 5. Sir William; vice-admiral, R.N.; d.s.p. 1666, aged 27; he was buried in Westminster Abbey, in August. 6. John; 4th viscount Fitzhardinge 1690; died at Windsor, without male issue, 1712, aged 62, when the title became extinct; buried in Westminster Abbey 26 December. He was an ancestor of viscount Chetwynd. b. Sir Henry. c. Sir Maurice. d. Sir William ; governor of Virginia 1661 ; buried at Twicken­ ham 1667. e. Sir John of Bruton; like all of his family, an energetic royalist, he won distinction at the battle of Stratton, 1643; attended Charles I in his flight to Lymington, 1647; created lord Berkeley of Stratton 1658; ambassador to France 1675, when his wife entertained Mrs. Margaret Godolphin, the newly wed wife of Sidney, afterwards 1st earl of Godolphin; he built Berkeley House in London ; he died in 1678. By his wife, Christiana Riccard, he had three sons :-Charles, d.s.p. 1682 ; John, d.s.p. 1697; and William; these were successively 2nd, 3rd and 4th lords Berkeley of Stratton. William, who died 1741, married Frances Temple and had two sons: John, 5th and last lord Berkeley of Stratton, d.s.p. 1773, and Charles, who died before his brother, but having married Frances West, grand-daughter of the heiress of Killigrew, of Arwenack, left a daughter, Sophia, who was an ancestress of the earl of Kimberley. THE GODOLPHINS 19

PART II GODOLPHIN OF SPARGOR AND COULSTON John Godolphin, captain of Scilly from 1613, eighth child and second son of Sir Francis Godolphin of Godolphin, Kt., by his wife, Margaret, daughter of Sir John Killi_grew, was born in about 1577. His will, dated 23 May, 1619, was proved on 20 November, 1619, (P.C.C. 118 Parker), by Francis, his brother. He is there described as living at Buthocke, Cornwall; the Exeter probate registry also has copies of his will, listed nos. 118 of 1619, and 161 of 1620, which the present writer has not examined. John Godolphin of Buthocke married in about 1604, Judith, daughter of Thomas Ameredith. of Ashley castle, co. Chester, and of Poole, in the parish of Slapton,­ Comwall. The following is a copy of his will:-

fl In the name of Almightie God who hath made, preserveth, and govemeth the heavens, earth and seas, with all therein contayned. Amen. fl I, John Godolphin, Esquier, havinge been always desiringe to recom­ mend myself wholy both soule and body unto my all sufficient Redeemer and Saviour Jesus Christ, as unto a faithful keeper, Doe now whilst I feele strength of health and freshness of memorie to have yet good beinge in me, make and ordayne this my last Will and Testament, for declaration of my full purpose and intention in the disposing of all my goodes, landes, and Chattells, as well reall as personall, moveable and immoveable, in manner and form following. " First, I give and bequeath unto Thomas Godolphin, my second sonne, one annuitie of ffi.ftie poundes, to be yearly paid to him for his maintenance, by William Godolphin, my sonne and heir apparent, during such and so long time as the sayde Thomas shall continewe unmarryed, the same to be yssuinge and goeinge out of the Islands of Trescowe and Brayer in Silly. And my will and meaning is, that if the said Thomas shall marry, with the consent and good likeinge of Judith, my deare and well-beloved wife, and of the said William Godolphine, my sonne, or either of them, that then for the better mayntenance of the sayde Thomas, the sayde William Godolphin, my sonne, in lieu of the said ffiftie poundes annuitie, shall, by good and sufficient assurance and conveyance in the law, assure and conveye unto the said Thomas and his assignes, the lease of Trescowe and Brayer, with all the appurtenances thereto belonginge and the estate, Interest and tearme of years which, at the tyme of the making of the assurance, shall be then unexpired and to come, of and in the same. And upon the expiration of the said lease, my will is that the said ffiftie poundes annuitie shall again be dowred unto the sayde Thomas, unless the sayde William can procure unto the sayde Thomas a further estate therein, which my will is that the sayde William shall seeke to obtayne for the said Thomas. " Item. I give and bequeath unto John Godolphin, my sonne, and to his heirs, one annuitie of ffiftie poundes, to be yssuinge and goeinge out of all my messuages, landes and Tenements within the county of Cornwall and else­ where within the realme of England, To have and to hold the said annuitie of ffiftie poundes unto the said John Godolphin, his heirs and assignes for ever, upon the condition and not otherwise, that is to weete, that if the sayde William Godolphin, my sonne, or his heyres, shall be pleased or shall think it fi.ttinge, to paye or cause to be payde unto the sayde John Godolphin, my sonne, six months next after such time as the sayde John, my sonne, shall B 20 THE GODOLPHINS accomplish the age of Twentie and one years, the some of ffive hundred poundes, the sayd annuitie of ffiftie poundes, soe as aforesaid given and bequeathed to the sayd John, my sonne, shall immediately upon such payment cease, determine, and be utterly void, to all intents and purposes. " Item. I give and bequeath unto Elizabeth Godolphin, my daughter, as Dowrie for her marriage, three hundred pounds to be payde unto her by the sayde William Godolphin, her eldest brother, within one whole year next after the Day of marriage, conditionally that she marry with the consent and likeinge of the said Judith, my wife, and of the sayde William, my sonne, or either of them. And in the meantyme my will is that the sayde William, my sonne, shall yearly paye unto the sayde Elizabeth, for her maintenance, the some of Twenty poundes, and to finde unto ye sayd Elizabeth her dyet. And if the sayd William, or the sayd Elizabeth, shall not so like thereof, or that the sayde William keepe noe house, then my will is that the sayd William shall yearly paye to the sayde Elizabeth, for her maintenance, the sum of thirtie pounds, and the sayd Elizabeth to dyet herself. "Item. I give and bequeath unto Margaret Godolphin, my daughter, as Dowrie for her marriage, the some of three hundred pounds, to be payde un.to her by the sayd William Godolphin, my sonne, in such sorte, manner and condition in all things, as is given and bequeathed unto the sayd Elizabeth. "Item. I give and bequeath to the poor in generall, of all the inhabited Iles of Silly, ten poundes, to be payde unto them, or to their use, within the space of ffive years, in £forty shillynges yearly, until the same ten poundes shall be fully payde. "Item. I give and bequeath unto the men servants of my house which shall continue in service with me at the tyme of my decease, tenn poundes, to be disposed of at the discretion of my sayde wife. And I give to every woman servant of my house thirteen shjl]ings and foure pence. "Item. I will and ordayne that the sayde Judith, my wife, shall be my full and sole executrix to all my landes, goodes, and Chattells, during the nonadge of the sayde William Godolphin, my sonne and heyre, to be by her disposed of, to the use of the sayd William and of the rest of my sayd Children, until the sayd William shall accomplish the age of twentie and one years. And then the possession of all my sayd landes, geodes and Chattells, jewells, plate and household stuffe, to be delivered over to the sayd William, as my lawful heyre and successor, out of which my will is that the sayd William shall paye all such Legacies, in such manner as I have, by this my Testament, given and bequeathed the same. And my will is that the sayd Judith, my wife, shall give unto the sayd William, and to all the rest of my sayd Children, until such time as they shall severally attayne unto the age of twentie and one years, or shall be marryed, their dyet, lodginge and apparell, and good educa­ tion, :fittinge for theire degrees, which shall be to the good likeing of my overseers, hereafter named, provided always, and my will, intent, and meaning is, that if the sayde Judith, my wife, shall happen to marry, that then the sayd Judith, before such marriage shall take effect, shall give and deliver up, unto ffrancis Godolphin, the elder, of Godolphin, Esquyre, Phillipp Gloye, gentleman, and Roger Polkinghorne, marchaunt, or to any one of them, to the use of the sayd \Villiam Godolphin, my sonne, which sayd ffrancis Godolphin, Phillipp Gloye and Roger Polkinghome, I doe make my over­ seers of this my Testament and last Will, all my lands and all such goodes, chattells, jewells, plate and household stuffe, as shall be inventaryed upon my decease by my sayd overseers, or any of them, without any meane altera­ tion of the propertie, or diminution thereof, the necessarie use and wearing thereof only excepted. "Lastly, on my blessinge I charge the sayde William Godolphin, my sonne_ to be both lovinge and dutiful! and obedient to his sayde mother, during her life, and to reverence and cherish her, as if my self were still livinge. "And soe recommending us all to the blessed enjoyinge of an etemall heredi­ tame, I doe conclude this my last Will and Testament, In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seale, in the presence of those whose names are subscribed. Geaven, the tenth day of October, in the yeare of the raiyne of our soveraiyne lord, James, by the grace of God, kinge of England, ffrance, THE GODOLPHINS 21 and Ireland, the ffifteenth. and of Scotland one and ffiftieth, Defender of the faith, etc .• anno domini millesimo sexcentesimo decimo septimo (1617}, John Godolphin. "Signed. sealed and delivered in the presence of Tobias Browne. " Memorandum. My Will and pleasure further is that J udeth, my well­ beloved wife, before shee shall adminster unto my geodes and Chattells, or any parcell thereof, shall give in, unto my sayd overseers, good and sufficient securitie and caution, for the aunsweringe of all such portions and legacies, as are in this my above wrytten will specifyed. _.i\.nd further I doe here ordayne that Mr. Lewes Ameredith, my lovinge unkle, be a joynte overseer of the execution of all the promisses aforesayd. "John Godolphin. This my last Will and Testament, ratified and confirmed this three and twentieth daye of Maye, one thousand sixe hundred and nyne­ teene, in the presence of us, Lewes Ameredith and Roger Polkinghome. "20 November, 1619. Commission granted to ffrancis Godolphin armiger, natural and legitimate brother of John Godolphin deceased, to administer the goods of the deceased, during the minority of William Godolphin, son of the deceased, because Juditha Godolphin, widow and executrix in that will named under certain limitations "ad secundam nuptiam convocavit." (Apparently she had married again, or was about to marry again.) By his wife, Judith Ameredith, John Godolphin of Buthocke had three sons and three daughters; the third daughter, Joan, is not named in his will, and her parentage is, therefore, doubtful, though her description in the marriage register seems clear :- 1. William. afterwards Sir William, of who1n later. 2. Elizabeth, born about 1606 ; married 1Francis Bluet ; see p. 32. 3. Margaret, born about 1608; married on 15 October, 1638, at St. Breage, William Paynter of Antron, in the parish of Sithney. She is mentioned in the will of her brother, John Godolphin, D.C.L., in 1676. 4. Joan, born about 1619; married, 1 April, 1638, at St. Dunstan's, Stepney, by licence issued from the faculty office, William Peere, mariner, of Limehouse, She is described as: " Maid, dau. of John Godolphin of the Isle of Silley, gent." 5. Thomas, of whom nothing is recorded ; he was living in 1619. 6. John, born 29 November, 1617, in the Scilly Isles. He is the only member of the Godolphin family, who is known to have professed other than royalist opinions. He died on 4 April, 1678, and was buried on 12 April, at St. James', Clerkenwell. The burial register reads: "William Godolphin, D.C.L.," evidently an error. The following is an abstract of his will, dated 10 March, 1676, proved in the P.C.C., 1678 (32 Reeve) :- " I, John Godolphin of Doctor's Commons, London .. being of competent health .. devise and bequeath .. "To my sister Margaret, 20 sbj]]ings to buy her a ring .. "To my son Sidney Godolphin, £5 to buy him a Bible .. and I give him all those lands which .... with my money in Cornwall .. all money due to me by Mr. John Vaughan of Ottery St. Mary in Devon ...... 1. Francis Bluet of Trevethan, in the parish of Falmouth, son of the rev. John Blewitt, vicar of Little Colan and by his 2nd wife. Francis m. first, Lady Killigrew, secondly Elizabeth Godolphin. His will dated 3 October, 1675, was proved 12 July, 1678, in the P.C.C. (74 Reeve). He left issue. 22 THE GODOLPHINS

" Unto my most dear wife Mrs. Rebecca Godolphin, all my goods and chattels, until my most dear daughter Rebecca Godolphin shall attain the age of 21 or be married .. and my dear wife shall enjoy her .... of .. and such diamond jewels as she now hath in her own custody . . • . " The residue of my estate to my dear daughter Rebecca, and she to be executor .. " I appoint my said dear wife Mrs. Rebecca Godolphin and my brother­ in-law, Mr. Josnabrooke, the overseers. " Signed IO March, 167 6." On 18 April, 1678, commission was granted to Rebecca Godolphin, mother and guardian of Rebecca, her daughter. Mrs. Godolphin died in 1697, and administration of her estate was granted, P.C.C. Admon. Act Book, 1697,fol. 100, to her daughter Rebecca Godolphin. Mrs. Godolphin is described as of St. Lawrence­ in-Jewry. J~hn Godolphin, D.C.L., lived first at St. Thomas', near Launces­ ton, and afterwards in the parish of St. James', Cler kenwell. He was D.C.L. in 1643, and later a judge of the admiralty high court. He married four times; first on 10 May, 1640, at St. Mabyn, Honour, daughter of John Molesworth of Pencarrow, and widow of Edmond Denys ; by her he had a daughter, Margaret, bap. 8 July, 1641, at St. Stephen's by Saltash, and buried 31 October, 1641, at St. Mabyn. His wife Honour was buried at St. Kew, 15 May, 1642; she was certainly not the mother of that Francis, who was born in about 1642, and who lived at St. Columb Major, where he married, 4 November, 1672, Grace Crewes (b. 1649 ; bd. St. Columb, 11 May, 1683), and had a number of descendants, who are recorded among the unidentified Godolphins in Part III. John's second and third wives are not known ; one of them, however, was the mother of colonel Sidney Godolphin, of whom next. John m. fourthly, 7 July, 1674, at All Hallow's, London Wall, Rebecca Butler, who died 4 June, 1697, aged 56, leaving an only child, Rebecca, born in 1676, married 24 November, 1699, at the Trustees' Office in Palace Yard, 1Samuel Edwards; the following is a copy of their marriage licence, issued by the vicar-general :- " 1699. November 20. Samuel Edwards, of St. Margaret's, Westminster, gentleman, batchelor, 30, and Mrs. Rebecca Godolphin of St. Lawrence, near Guildhall, London, spinster, 23 and upwards; at Gray's Inn chapel." Burials of other children of John, D.C.L., are recorded at St. James', Clerkenwell :- John, 11 January, 1654/5; Mary, 4 February, 1658/9; Mary, 7 June, 1660; Francis, 7 September, 1661 ; ffraunces, 22 June, 1668; John, 2 August, 1669; John (drowned), 14 June, 1676; and a child, still-born, 28 December, 1677. John was the nearest relative of the three young Godolphins of Coulston, at their father's death in 1670. He was their great-uncle. He allowed another great-uncle, Francis Bluet, to administer the estate and, presumably, take charge of the children; see pp. 21, 32. I. Samuel Edwards, whose son, Godolphin, was a god-son of Charles Godolphin (1651-1720), appears often in these records as a man of affairs; in the wills of Charles and his wife, and in that of colonel Sidney Godolphin, 1732, when he was executor. Mr. Edward Edwards of Salisbury (see p. 73) was no doubt of the same family. THE GODOLPHINS 23

Colonel Sidney Godolphin, the only (recorded) surviving son of John Godolphin, D.C.L., was born in 1651. He died at Thames Ditton, 22 September, 1732 (Musgrave's Obit., and Gent's Mag.). He was M.P. for St. Germans, auditor of Wales, governor of Gibraltar, of Scilly, and of Greenwich hospital, and lord of Bron­ e-arth. He saw active military service on the continent; his letters to his wife, dated from Oudenarde camp, 1694-5, are in the possession of his descendant, lord Harlech. The following is an abstract of his will, proved in the P.C.C. (247 Bedford), 1732 :- " 21 March, 1725. I, Sidney Godolphin of Abertanat, co. Salop, Esq ... give, devise and bequeath all and singular my freehold Mannors, Messuages, etc., in the several counties of Salop, Denbigh and Montgomery, unto my three daughters, Margaret Godolphin, Mary Godolphin, now the wife of Dr. Henry Godolphin, and Ellen Godolphin, to be equally divided, subject to the payment of £3,000 and interest due to William Silvester of the Tower of London, gent., on account of a mortgage on certain manors, dated 1714. • . "I appoint George Clarke of All Souls College, Oxford, Dr. of Laws, and Samuel Edwards of Duke Street, Westminster, joint executors." Witnessed by James William, Edward Gilbert and Gabriel Leaver. Codicil, dated 1 April, I 726 :-" I give £100 to each of the two executors. I give and bequeath unto my eldest daughter, Margaret Godolphin, £500 .. unto my daughter, Mary Godolphin, wife of Dr. Godolphin, £500, and I give unto Elizabeth Godolphin, widow relict of Charles Godolphin, £50. Unto Jael Boscawen, widow relict of Edward Boscawen, Esq., £50; to my reverend friend Dr. King of Chelsea, £25; to my servants £25, as my daughter Ellin shall direct, and to my grandson, Francis Godolphin, my best diamond ring. " I give unto my daughter, Dame Penelope Pendarves, now the wife of Sir William Pendarves, Kt., the sum of £200, and to my grandson, Robert Hoblyn, the sum of £1,000. And I do hereby will and appoint that, if my said daughter, Dame Penelope Pendarves .. shall not .. seal, deliver and execute unto my said three daughters, Margaret, Mary, and Ellin Godolphin, such release, conveyance and surrender of all the estate, right, title, interest, claim and demand, which the said Dame Penelope Pendarves . . shall claim as one of my daughters and co-heirs of her late mother Susanna Godolphin, deceased, or by any other means .. in all or any of the Mannors, Messuages, etc., whereof I shall die possessed, . . that the said legacies of £200 and £1,000 . . shall be utterly void. " I bequeath the rest and residue of all . . my personal estate to my most dearly beloved daughter, Ellin Godolphin." Witnessed by the same witnesses. Proved 4 October, 1732, by Dr. Clarke and Samuel Edwards. Colonel Sidney Godolphin married, in about 1673, Susanna, daughter and heir of Rees Tanat of Abertanat, co. Salop, and had six children:- 1. Tanat, only son, born c. 1675 ; died, a minor in Flanders, of a fever (Vivian's Vis. of Cornwall). 2. Margaret, born 1676; she died unmarried, October 6, 1766, at Abertanat, and was buried at Llan-y-blodwell ; she left her estate to her nephew, Francis, 2nd baron Godolphin, and his sister, Mary Owen (1688-1767). 3. Mary, born in about 1678; she died 30 June, 1743 ; she married, in about 1703, her cousin, Henry Godolphin, D .D. Her three children, two sons and a daughter, the ancestress of baron Harlech, are recorded on pp. 9-10. 4. Ellen; born in about 1680. She is described by her father in his will, 21 March, 1725, with codicil dated 1 April, 1726, as his " most dearly beloved daughter," and was his residuary legatee. 24 THE GODOLPHINS

She died unmarried, probably before his will was proved. The Harlech collection of Godolphin papers includes a letter written by her, relating to the quarrel between the duke of Wharton and Mr. Andrews. It was she who, in 1696, ,vrote to Francis Godolphin of Spargor (p. 41) warning him of Jesuit designs on his uncle's estate. 5. Penelope, born c. 1682 ; she 1n. twice ; first, in 1709, Francis Hoblyn of Nanswhydden, J.P., by ·whom she had two children: Susannah, hap. and bur. at Llanyblodwell, 1711, and Robert, who carried on the line of Hoblyn; see Burke's L.G. She m. secondly, 5 September, 1714, at St. Enodar, Sir \Villiam Pendarves, M.P. for St. Ives, who d.s.p. 12 March, 1726. 6. Frances; died, an infant (Vivian's Vis. of Cornwall). Sir William Godolphin, Kt., of Spargor, eldest son of John Godol­ :Q__hin by his wife, Judith Ameredith, was born in 1605; he was ouried 27 November, 1663, at St. Mabyn. He was knighted in 1644 at Oxford. He married twice ; first on 17 October, 1626, at St. Thomas a Becket's, East Coulston (episcopal transcripts at Salisbury), Ruth, 2nd daughter of Sir John Lambe; Kt., of Beynton, in Coulston ; she was born c. 1609. By tliis marriage, Sir William had five sons and two daughters, as shown below. He m. secondly, 25 March, 1658, at Sutcombe, co. Devon, Grace, daughter and co-heir of Richard Barratt of Tregarden; she died s.p. 11 October, 1663, and was bwied at St. Mabyn on 13 October. Spargor manor, or Spargo Vear (Great Spargo), and Trewoan, or Trevone, the homes of this branch of the Godolphin family, lay in the parish of Mabe, called in the registers Lavapper, another form of Lavabe, the Celtic for St. Mabe. La is the Welsh Llan; and Llanmabe, by eliding "nm" into "v," became Lavabe. The parish was in the hundred of. Kerryer and the church was formerly a chapel of ease attached to Mylar. The registers, which are incomplete and, at one time, badly kept, date from 1650 but contain no Godolphin entries. Spargo downs lie behind the present vicarage and the ground has been cut up by granite quarries in recent years; the name Spargo is common in the parish and there are three farms of that name. Spargor and Trewoan remained in the family until 1747 when major William Godolphin sold them; see p. 49. 1Tregarden manor, or Tregaren, als Tregame, is in the parish of St. Mabyn. It was divided at Richard Barratt's death, one moiety went with Mary, Grace's sister and co-heir, to Sir Richard Prideaux of Theuborough in Sut­ combe, whose descendant John Tremayne of Heligan also received Croane from Edward Hoblyn in a similar manner. The other moiety was carried by Grace on her marriage to Sir '\Villiam Godolphin, from whom it passed to his third son, Sir John (d. 1679), then to his grandson, Francis of Spargor, and to his great-grandson, major v\rilliam of Spargor and of Coulston, who sold it in 1738 to John Mitchell of St. Mabyn. John Mitchell's great-nephew, Henry Mitchell of , inherited it in 1793 and sold it in 1794, for £2,810 10 0 to Christopher Andrew of St. Mabyn and St. Tudy, who d. 1810. Thence it passed to his great-grandson, Richard Hambly Andrew, barrister, who possessed it in 1851. In 1876 it was the property of James Andrew. Tregarden, now the property of Squire Tremayne, is one of the historic houses of the district, of Elizabethan design in the form of an E; a fine coat of arms was recently discovered, the buildings having been renovated; it is tenanted by two farmers. The Godolphin arms are depicted in one of the windows of St. Mabyn church. I. From Maclean's Hist. of the Deanery of T'Yigg Minot'. THE GODOLPHINS 25

Sir William's marriage with Ruth Lambe of Coulston was the reason for the subsequent migration of this branch from Cornwall to Wiltshire. He appears to have continued to live at Spargor and later at Tregarden ; but his son Francis, of whom later, married in about 1658 the daughter of a Cornish family, which had settled in London, and he expended part of the dowry of that lady in purchasing part of the manor of Coulston, from his uncle William Lambe. The families of Godolphin and Lambe were closely con­ nected; some notice of the latter is therefore appropriate here:-

LAMBE of COULSTON. The earliest known person of the name, in the neighbourhood, was Aldam, who, according to Sir John Lambe's claim, in 1623, at the vfsitation of Wiltshire, was descended from Lambe of Kent. He appears to be identical with Adam, who occurs in 1567, in Harvey's Res. Gentry, and who, in 1565, at the Wilts. visitation, had in goods £60; he is also probably identical with Anselm, who bought Baynton from the Crown, 1557, eight years after lord Sudley's attainder (Harl. MSS. 607, 59) ; also with Auncell, of Coulston, whose daughter Joan was married to Henry Danvers of Baynton (Aubrey and Jackson's Collections for Wilts, p. 217). Aldam was born about 1509, and married about 1540, . . Button, (see Aubrey's Coll. for Wilts, II, 18; Sir John Button· was buried at Alton Priors). By this marriage he had a daughter, Praxeda, who was married to John Long, Esq., senior, and a son, John. John Lambe, born about 1542, married about 1574, .. Browne, of Northamptonshire, and had a son, Sir John Lambe, a knight in 1623, and high sheriff for Wilts in that year. Born about 1575, he married, about 1607, Anne. fourth daughter of Edward Lambert, of Boyton, Wilts. In a MS. family history by Thomas Gore of Alderton, which in 1857 was in the possession of Mr. Poulet Scrope, it is stated that in 1602 Edward Gore of Surrendell had released to John Lambe of Coulston all his estate in certain lands at Steeple Ashton, Semington, Henton and Littleton. Sir_John Lambe died about 1659, adminis­ tration of his estate being grantea22 February, 1659 /60, to his son and heir, William; he is described in the legal document recording his death, as of Stratford-under-Sarum, late of Coulston. He had two sons and three daughters:- 1. Elizabeth. 2. Ruth, born about 1609, married October 17, 1626, at Coulston, to William, afterwards Sir \Villiam. Godolphin._ of Spargor. 3. John, born in 1611 ; he died before his father, probably in his youth. . 4. William, born 1615; he occurs in the List of Gentry, 1660; according to his own statement in a law-suit, in the Court of Chancery in 1668, which is quoted later, he was brought up as a 26 THE GODOLPHINS merchant. His wife's name was Elizabeth. As son and heir of Sir John Lambe, he inherited Coulston manor and sold it, or part of it, in 1658, to his nephew, Francis Godolphin. His youngest sister, (5.) Anne, m. the rev. Dr. John Bourman of Stratford, co. Wilts, on whose behalf, according to the day-book of the commissioners sitting at Falstone in 1645, William Lambe paid one year's rent, £40, for his farm, parsonage and mill, also compounding for his stock and personal estate for £80. William Lambe's son Henry, or grandson John, was the father of Thomas Lambe of Trowbridge, and Meliora Lambe, of whom later. The following data have been collected, with the aim of eventually identifying the parent of these two:- 1701. A fine passed between Henry Lambe, quaerent, and John Lambe and-his wife, deforciants, for lands in Coulston. Perhaps one of these is the required father. 1720. Trowbridge par. reg.: Roger Lambe, buried. Ch. Pro. 1641. B'Yidges. 89. 100. Mary Lambe, widow, v. John Smith, re money, co. Wilts. 1657. Bridges. 401. 168. John Lambe v. William Oldefielde, re Coulston, Wilts. (Answer.) 1662. Bridges. 426. 42. John Lambe v. John and Mary Dyer, re money, co. Cornwall. 1696. Bridges. 290. 92. Henry Lambe and others v. Mary Young, widow, ,-e estate of John Young, at Id minster, Wilts. 1701. Bridges. 216. 53. George Lambe v. Daniel Rogers and another 'Ye money, co. Cornwall. Thomas Lambe of Trowbridge was born in 1718; he died 31 March, 1741, and was interred in the Godolphin family vault at East Coulston by his " friend and relative " major William Godol­ phin, who deposited also a brass memorial inscribed to his memory (see p. 37), administered his estate and was guardian to his sister and heir, Meliora. This unusual name recalls an ancestress of the Godolphins (see p. 2) ; Meliora Lambe, born c. 1725, m. twice ; first c. 1747, Joseph Poulden of West Imber, Wilts, by whom she had issue; secondly in 1760 at West Lavington, Richard Long, Esq., of Roud Ashton. Her eldest son by the latter marriage was baptised 12 November, 1761, by the Christian names of Richard Godolphin, no doubt after her guardian. Richard Godolphin Long's grandson, whose eldest son was er. viscount Long of Wraxall, named his second son, born in 1856, Richard Godolphin Walmesley Chaloner, afterwards baron Gisborough. In this connection, it is of interest to note that lieut.-colonel Richard Chaloner Cobbe, who married Mary Godolphin, 23 November, 1726, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, of whom later, was the eldest son of Thomas Cobbe by Veriana, daughter of James Chaloner (M.P., governor of the Isle of Man, 1659-1660) and grand­ daughter of Sir Thomas Chaloner, of Gisborough, co. Yorks. (1561- 1615), ancestor of the family of Chaloner, from whom lord Gisborough is also descended. A younger brother of Richard Godolphin Long's great-great­ grandfather Richard, was William Long, ancestor of the Longs of Baynton, extinct in the male line, before 1870; of this branch no THE GODOLPHINS 27 doubt came Robert Long, the lawyer, named in the proceedings in Chancery, in connection with the Godolphin educational bequests, referred to later in these records, pp. 72-6. An antiquarian, Edward Wilton, writing from West Lavington, 15 March, 1856, in the Wiltshire Archceological Magazine, No. VII (Vol. III) of 1857, stated that " the dwelling of the Lambes stood in a paddock, at the west end of the churchyard (St. Thomas a Becket), called to this day (1856) Lambe's Lawn; and there are othe:r portions of land in the parish (Coulston) with which their name is still associated." At the present day, however (1930), there is no trace of the dwel­ ling of the Lambes, nor does anybody know the name Lambe's Lawn, though the remains of stone walls are found at almost any place a little below the surface. The Lamb inn at Erlestoke, a neighbouring village on the road to Devizes, is said to be named after the family. The arms of Lambe, depicted in Steeple Ashton church, on the hatchment of Richard Long, the second husband of Meliora Lambe, are:- Sable, on a fess Or between three cinque foils Argent two mullets of the field. Sir William Godolphin's seven children by his wife, Ruth Lambe. were:- 1. Francis of Spargor and Coulsto·n, of whom later. . 2. William, bap. 29 September, 1631, and buried 1632 ; at St. Mabyn. 3. Ruth, bap. 18 August, 1633, at St. Mabyn; 1n. one, Greaterex. 4.- William, afterwards Sir William; bap. 2 February, 1634, at St. Mabyn ; educated at Westminster, and at Christ Church, Oxford, 1651 ; M.A. 1660-1 ; D.C.L. 1663 ; M.P. for 1665 ; employed under lord Sandwich in Madrid, 1667 ; knighted 1668. His life is recorded in the Diet. of Nat. Biog. In March, 1669, when about to leave England as envoy extraordinary to Spain, he made his first will, under which his brother, Francis, the principal beneficiary, was entrusted with distributing £20 to the poor of Camelford, £10 to , £10 to St. Mabyn, and £3,000 for poor scholars, decayed virtuous gentlemen, prisoners, poor apprentices and other charities at discretion. He then left for Madrid, and in 1671 was promoted to ambassador. He joined the Church of Rome in 1671, an act which was accounted, in that time, treasonable in the eyes of Parliament, and brought an end to his diplomatic career in about 1678. He remained 1abroad and amassed a considerable fortune, living principally at Madrid,

1. According to the duchy of Cornwall Office, he was governor of Scilly and paid duchy rent for the islands for the year 1683-4. In this connection, see Chancery proceedings (Hamilton 612, 23) quoted on p. 42, where it is shown that Sir William, the baronet, had sub-let the lease to William of Spargor (d. 1682) whose brother, Francis of Spargor, inherited it, 1682. The ambassador was undoubtedly abroad in 1683-4; perhaps his bailiff paid the rent on behalf of the ambassador's nephew, Francis, who inherited his real estate in England. 28 THE GODOLPHINS in a house of his own. There, on 30 March, 1696, he became seri­ ously ill and, as he "lay bedrid, surrounded by friars, priests and Jesuits," a notarial act, i.e., a deed certified by a la·wyer but unsigned, was executed, authorising a posthumous will to be made for him by the Jesuits. His relatives in England, hearing of this, warned the person most affected by these designs on Sir \Villiam's estate; 1Eleanor Godolphin's letter to her cousin, Francis Godolphin, on the sub­ ject, is still in existence. Francis accordingly hurried to :tvladrid to his uncle's assistance, " but could rarely be admitted to his presence, so surrounded was the old man by priests, of whom he said they were for tearing him in pieces for the sake of his goods.'' Francis, however, assisted by the English envoy in Madrid, over­ came all opposition and Sir William made a third will, a testamen­ tary disposition, witnessed by the English envoy, bequeathing his estate to his relations. It seems curious that Francis returned to England before this will was made ; Sir William died on 11 July, a few days afterwards. He was buried in the monastery of St. Basil. Sir William's relations were obliged to send a commission to Madrid to prove the third will. It was written in Spanish and witnessed by John Marsh and Thomas Gray, whose signatures as witnesses are dated 18 Septem­ ber, 1696; administration ,vas granted in the P.C.C. (223 Bond) to Francis and Elizabeth, the surviving children of Sir William's eldest brother. His bequests under this disposition assigned all his lands in England and £7,000 to Francis Godolphin of Sparger, his nephew, £1,000 each to Francis' four children then living, £4,000 to Elizabeth, Francis' sister, £1,000 to her husband and cousin, Charles Godolphin, and £200 to his uncle, Francis Bluet. On 30 December, 1697, the Jesuits petitioned Parliament to rescind these letters of administration; but legislation resulted in a Bill, 2 April, 1698, recognizing the claim of the charities originally endowed by Sir \Villiam, and requiring the nephew and niece to pay each £1,520 for those purposes, and to apply to the for certificates to be granted on the discharge of their respective liabilities. A printed copy of the Act of Parliament, with many other docu­ ments relating to the business, is in the British 11useum. Sir William's fortune, valued at £80,000 was in Spain, and in Ron1e, Venice and Amsterdam (Addit. MS. 28942, ff. 250-4) ; the heirs, with lord Godolphin's · help, appear to have recovered their inheritance from the two latter places (Cunningham, Gt. Britain, 1. 208). On 14 February, 1703 /4, the Master in Chancery reported that the archbishop of Canterbury had certified to payment having been made by Elizabeth Godolphin and her husband, Charles, to the poor of Liskeard and St. Mabyn, and of £1,500 for educational purposes; but nothing was said of any payment having been made, 1. Ellen, third daughter of colonel Sidney Godolphin: see p. 23. THE GODOLPHINS 29 by Francis, of £20 to the poor of Carnelford or of £1,500 for a hospital at St. 11abyn. Later, in about 1734, Francis' eldest son, major William Godolphin, offered to pay it, but his offer ,vas refused for reasons which will be shown, on page 48. · 5. John, afterwards Sir John, 5th child of Sir William Godolphin and his wife, Ruth Lambe, was bap. 24 April, 1636, at St. Kew ; he inherited the Godolphin moiety of Tregarden, ·which after his death passed to his nephew, Francis of Spargor. He was cornet, afterwards major, in the 2nd (H.R.H. the duke of York's) troop of the life guards, first formed 26 January, 1661 ; his kinsman, Sir Charles Berkeley, 2nd viscount Fitzhardinge, had served in the same troop, 1661-8. He was knighted in 1679, and died in the same year. His will dated 1 August, 1679, ,vas proved in the P.C.C. (106 King) by his only child, Elizabeth ; an abstract follows :- , "I, John Godolphin of the parish of St. Margaret's, Westminster, Knight, .. though weak in body .. devise and bequeath .. Unto my dear and loving uncle 1 Francis Bluet, £100 .. unto my honoured lady Killigrew, £20 to buy her a ring in remembrance of me .. unto the poor of St. Kew where I was borne, £5 .. unto the poor of St. Mabyn, £5 .. unto the poor of Washington in Sussex, £5 .. all the remainder of my estate to my daughter Elizabeth, Godolphin, maid of honour to the Queen." His marriage licence, vicar-general's office, was dated 1 Septem­ ber, 1663; it ran as follows:- " John Godolphin of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Esq., Bachelor about 25, and Mrs. Frances Byne, of Washington, co. Sussex, Spinster, about 21 ; consent of mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Byne, widow; at Paddington or Kensing­ ton, co. Middlesex, or at Newington or Sutton, co. Surrey." His wife in July, 1676, was executor of her brother Henry's will, but evidently died before 1679. Her only child, Elizabeth, was maid of honour to Queen Katherine; she died unmarried, in 1684, and buried at Acton. Elizabeth's will dated 15 March, 1683, was proved in the P.C.C. (146 Hare), 28 November, 1684, and administered 15 May, 1686; an abstract follows:- " I, Elizabeth Godolphin, of the parish of St. 1'.Iartin's-in-the-Fields in the county of Middlesex, Spinster, being sick and weak in body . . give all my lands, tenements and hereditaments in Cornwall, to Charles Killigrew. Esq .• in trust for the use of Dame Mary Killigrew, wife of Sir William Killi­ grew. Knight. for her life and afterwards for the use of Barba.ra Killigrew, grand-daughter of the same Dame Mary Killigrew and to the heirs of the said Barbara. And all my lands, tenements and hereditaments in the county of Sussex I give the same to Charles Killigrew in trust for Dame l\ilary Killigrew for her life and after her death for the use of Barbara Killigrew and her heirs -bequests to servants-" Dame Mary Killigrew to be sole executrix." Barbara: Killigrew and Elizabeth Godol phin were fourth cousins, their mutual ancestors being John Killigrew of Ar\\:enack, and his wife, Elizabeth Trewinnard; their daughter, l\1argaret Killigrew, m. 1562, Sir Francis Godolphin (d. 16u8), Elizabeth Godolphin's great-great-grandfather, and their fifth son, Sir William Killigrew of Hanworth (d. 1622), was the father of Elizabeth who m. Sir Maurice Berkeley of Bruton (d. 1617), and of SiI Robert Killigrew of Hanworth (d. 1633), great-grandfather of Barbara Killigrew, see pp. 2, 6, 17.

l. Francis Bluet; see note. on p. 21. 30 THE GODOLPHINS

6. Bernard, bap. 4 February, 1638, at St. Kew. 7. Anne, bap. 12 January, 1641, at St. Mabyn. These two children of Sir William Godolphin of Spargor probably died in infancy. Francis Godolphin of Spargor, co. Cornwall, and of Coulston, co. Wilts, was the eldest son of Sir William Godolphin of Spargor, Kt., by his first wife Ruth, daughter of Sir John Lambe of Coulston. He was born in 1629. He appears, from Whitelock's Memorials, p. 476, to have fought at the battle of Worcester and, probably from 1651 for some years during the Commonwealth period, owing to his royalist traditions, lived in France. He married twice; first in about 1658, Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Sir John 1Gayer, lord mayor of London. She died on 27 January, 1667/8 (as is inscribed on her coffin-plate), probably in London, her body being brought to the vault in St. Thomas a Becket's church at East Coulston, where it was interred on 26 February; the episcopal transcripts at Salisbury record her burial, and a brass tablet to her memory exists in the church; see p. 36. Her children are recorded below, on pp. 37, 39. Francis' second wife, who had no issue, was Dame Elizabeth Mordaunt, daughter of Nicholas Johnson, niece of Sir \Villiam Turner, lord mayor of London, and widow of Sir Charles Mordaunt of Massingham Parva, 4th bart. They were married at the church of St. Botolf, Aldersgate, London, on 18 August, 1669 ; the vicar­ general's licence, issued 16 August, gives Francis' age as 40, his wife's as 24. He did not long survive his second marriage; he died, aged 41, and was buried at East Coulston, 27 August, 1670. His will, dated 3 February, 1667, with a codicil dated 20 April, 1669, was proved in the P.C.C. (4 Eure) 31 January, 1672. An abbreviated copy is given below :- " I Francis Godolphin of Coulston in the county of Wilts, Esq., being in good health and of perfect mind and memory, for which I render God the praise, but considering the fraill condition of men and the uncertainty of life and death, and being most particularly under the sad and true sense thereof att this instant, by the death of my most dearly beloved and most loving wife, . . . . And now, being willing to set my house in order . . . . doe hereby ordain . . . . My body to be wrapt in lead and buried neare the body of my dearly beloved wife, my ffunerall to be without any outward pomp, as private as possible may be, and noe mourning nor Rings to be given in remembrance of me. 1. Sir John Gayer, whose daughter, Elizabeth, married Francis Godolphin of Spargor, co. Cornwall, was born c. 1589, of a family living at Trenbrace, St. Keverne, co. Cornwall. He was the eldest son of John Gayer, who died 1593, a merchant of Plymouth, by his wife Margaret, daughter of Robert Trelawny of Tidiver (Tideford), co. Cornwall. The will of John Gayer the elder is in P.C.C. 86 Nevill. Sir John Gayer was knighted at Hampton Court 3 December, 1641 ; lord mayor of London 1646; was sent to the Tower 1648, and removed from his office 7 April, 1649, by order of Parliament. He died 20 July, 1649, and was buried 14 August in St. Catherine Cree church. His portrait is preserved at Long Hall, Stockton, co. Wilts, see p. 58. He married, c. 1620, Katherine, daughter of Sampson Hopkins of Coventry, who pre-deceased him, and left issue, John, Robert, Katherine who married Robert Abdy, merchant, Mary, Sara, and Elizabeth, who was born c. 1633. Will dated 19 December, 1648, P.C.C. (133 Fairfax). The arms and family of Gayer, 1635, are in Harl. Soc., Vol. 15, 1880. THE GODOLPHINS 31

" And for my worldly estate, I dispose thereof in manner and forme follow­ ing, Imprimis : I give unto my loving and eldest son, William Godolphin, all my books in my study, and also I give and bequeath unto him all my estate reall and personall in the county of Cornwall and Island of Scilles, which is, or ought to be, already entailed upon him. "Item: I give and bequeath unto my loving son, Francis Godolphin, for his present maintenance and education, the yearly annuity of forty pounds of lawful money of England, to be paid to him yearely, quarterly, out of my reall and personall estate until he shall attain the age of twenty and one yeares. " And I also give and bequeath unto my son, Francis Godolphin, the sum of six hundred pounds of lawful money of England to be paid unto him within three months after he shall attain unto his full age of one and twenty years. " But in case my said son Francis Godolphin, shall be willing, when he shall attain to a sufficient age, to become an apprentice to the trade of a Merchant, then and in such case my will and meaning is that my Overseers and Trustees hereafter named shall, out of the portion of six hundred pounds, before to him given and bequeathed to be paid att his age of twenty and one years, pay such summe or summes of money of his said Legacy, for the placing of my said sonne Francis an Apprentice, as by them my said Trustees and Over­ seers shall be thought fit and expedient ; the interest of which said sum.me so paid, for the binding of my said sonne Francis an Apprentice as aforesaid, shall from the time of payment thereof be allowed out of the yearly annuity before given to him till he shall attain the age of twenty and one years. "Item: I give and bequeath unto my sonne Charles Godolphin for his present maintenance and education the yearly annuity of thirty pounds . . until he shall attain unto his age of twelve years. And when he shall attain unto his age of twelve years then I give to him a yearly annuity of forty pounds until he shall attain to his age of twenty and one years. re And I also give and bequeath unto my son Charles Godolphin the sum of five hundred pounds " .. (under the same conditions, in the event of his be­ coming an Apprentice, as for his elder brother). " I give to my daughter Elizabeth Godolphin an annuity of thirty pounds to be paid unto her quarterly until the age of twelve, and thereafter an annuity of forty pounds until the age of one and twenty years for her maintenance. " I give unto my said daughter Elizabeth the sum of £600 to be payed unto her at the age of one and twenty years, but in case she shall marry before that age with the consent of my said sonne William and my said Trustees, then my said daughter's portion shall be paid to her att her day of marriage and the yearly payment aforesaid shall cease and determine. "For the raising of money for the payment of my severall Legacies I devise all my Mannour of East Coulston with its rights, etc., together with my dwelling house, orchards and gardens standing in West Coulston, and all other my messuages, lands, and tenements in East Coulston, West Coulston, Bainton, Edington and elsewhere in the county of Wilts, with all my personall estate, unto my son William, under the conditions hereafter expressed, that is to say, first that my said younger children, Francis, Charles and Elizabeth shall have the use and occupation of my dwelling house in Coulston for their habitation with him and the use of outhouses, gardens and orchards thereunto belonging, with their appurtenances, until they shall attain unto their respective ages of one and twenty years or be satisfied with their several and respective Legacies. "And if my son William shall pay these legacies to my younger children, then he shall from thenceforth enjoy my Mannour of East Coulston, my dwel­ ling house and all my forenamed lands, etc., unto him, his first, second and third sonne, and to his heirs male for ever, and to enjoy my personall estate, and to be my Executor. "But if he shall not pay these legacies and shall not, within three months after he shall attaine unto the age of one and twenty years, give security to my Trustees for such payment, then I revoke his legacies and executorship and devise my said Mannour, etc., and personal estate to my sonne Francis, under the same conditions, and in the event of his also failing to carry out my 32 THE GODOLPHINS wishes, then I bequeath my said lVlannour, lands, etc., and personal estate to my said children Francis, Charles and Elizabeth, their heirs and assigns for ever, they jointly being my executors. "I doe hereby nominate and declare Sir Andrew Henley, Kt. and Bart., and William Godolphin1, Esq., shall have the tuition and ordering and to be Guardians of my said children, William, Francis, Charles and Elizabeth, and Overseers of this my Will . . until such of my said sons shall attain the age of one and twenty years. "I gkre to the poor of East and West Coulston £5. '' I give unto my sonne Francis my best gunne made by Goliar. "I give to my daughter Elizabeth my wife's sable mu.ffe. "Witnessed by Francis Bluet, Martha Dixon, Thomas Poulton, Francis Rockliffe, John Pitt." " A codicil which I doe annex . . written with my own hand, 20 April, 1669. Imprimis: I give £5 to the poore housekeepers (householders) of East and West Coulston. " Item : I give to my deare and only daughter Elizabeth Godolphin the sum of £200 over and above what I have given her in my Will . . and also I give more unto her £200 to be payed her out of such money or dividends as, in my wife's right, is due unto me out of my honoured father-in-law Sir John Gayer's estate and remaineth yet undivided and unpayed. "Item: I give unto my brother Sir William Godolphin £120 in con­ sideration that £100 of his, charged by Sir Robert Dinar to be received by Mr. Bluet, might have been by my order, though I do not well remember it. " Witnessed by Fra. Bluet, Martha Dixon, Francis Rackliffe." On 31 January, 1671/2, commission was granted to Francis Bluet, gent., to administer the estate of Francis Godolphin, late of Coulston, in the absence of Sir William Godolphin, ambassador in Spain, during the minority of William, eldest son of the deceased, and of Francis and Elizabeth, younger children, Charles having died. Sir Andrew Henley having declined the trust, Dr. John Godolphin, guardian of the minors, consented that Francis Bluet should administer the estate. Dr. John Godolphin and Francis Bluet both died in 1678, but the family of the latter probably continued their father's guardianship, see p. 40. The foil owing extract from a series of suits in the Court of Chancery indicates the date, about 1658, when this branch of the Godolphin family, in the person of Francis Godolphin (1629-1670) built a house, possibly that now (1930) known as Bayn.ton House, and settled in Coulston. The defendant, vVilliam Lambe, is evidently the brother of Ruth, who had married Sir William Godolphin at Coulston on 17 October, 1626 :- Chancery Proceedings. Godolphin v. Lambe. (Rey·nardson, 49. No. 72.) 1st May, 1668. Answer of William Lambe, gentleman, one of the Defendants to the Bill of Complaint of Francis Godolphin, Esquire. The Defendant, William Lambe, answers in regard to "the order in this cause dated 14th November last (1667) where- unto his former plea and demurrer put into this Court is not allowed •. Complainant's Bill concerning the estate of John Lambe, this Defendant's elder brother, and his said brother's borrowing £500 of him, and the pre­ tended agreements between, the Complainant and this Defendant's said brother, in the procuring of the same and taking securities for it, and con­ cerning the Complainant's" (hereafter styled F.G.) "delivering of £4(;0 unto

l. The testator's brother who was knighted in the following year, 1668 before leaving England for his diplomatic duties in Madrid. THE GODOLPHINS 33 this Defendant" (hereafter styled W.L.) "for purchasing the Manor of Couls­ ton, and W.L.'s purchasing the same for himself in his own name, and, after such purchase made by W.L., concerning W.L. being (heavily in) debt in his own name, and raising of money, and also concerning the going of F.G. and his wife over into ffrance and then returning back again into England W.L. sayeth that he doth not remember any such trusts, treaties, and agreements which, if made at all, were made eleven or twelve years ago (1657 or 1656) After F.G. returned out of France, W.L. offered to pay him the money but he refused and was persuaded by W.L. to purchase of him the 1\:Ianor of Coulston and a house called Fostill farm and divers other lands at that time W.L.'s inheritance. And it doth appear, by the said Bill, that for a conclusion of all the aforesaid pretended treaties, trusts and agreements, F.G. did purchase of W.L. the aforesaid Manor of Coulston, or part thereof, and the said tenement called Fostill farm and divers other lands and tenements thereunto belonging, which were W.L.'s inheritance; and the said £500 and £400 were the consideration for the same, and it doth appear, by F.G.'s own showing in the Bill, that W.L. did, by F.G.'s direction and appointment, convey and settle the said purchased premises on trustees, for the use of F.G., and that all treaties and trusts made before that time, by and between F.G. and W.L., of and concerning the premises, were concluded in and by the said conveyance "Further, that by deed indented the 24th May, 1658, made between him W.L. and Elizabeth his wife of the one part, and Andrew Henly of Bramsen in the county of Southampton Esq. (now Sir Andrew Henly), Arthur Drewor and \Villiam Godolphin of the Inner Temple Esq. of the other part, he, W.L., did by the direction and appointment of F.G., convey and settle part of the Manor of Coulston and tenement called Fostill farm and divers other lands and tenements thereunto belonging (which were W.L.'s own inheritance and had been before at £everal times purchased by F.G. of W.L.) on them the said A.H., A.D., and W.G., in trust for F.G.'s wife and himself, according to certain Articles of Trust mentioned in a decree of this Court in W .L.' s former answer or plea to the said F. G. 's Bill now at large set forth. The said lands, so purchased, are those mentioned in the said decree, to be bought with part of the five thousand pounds in the said decree also mentioned and apprized; neither did F.G. ever purchase any other land, to W.L.'s know­ ledge, to the value of £5 per annum. And the conveyance of the said purchased premises was drawn by Mr. Arthur Drewor of the Inner Temple, F.G.'s own Counsell, and a trustee norrunated therein for F.G.'s wife, and, after that, was perused by F.G., and after such perusal was ingrossed by the said Mr. Drewor's servant or clerk; and F.G. again perused the same and endorsed in these very words following: 'Memorandum. It is agreed that if there be any common way for horses, carts and carriages other than such way as is hereinbefore granted to the said William Lambe over the bottom ground aforesaid, that then the said W.L. will give allowance and satisfaction for the same according to the damages that the said A.H., A.D., and W.G., and their heirs shall sustayne thereby,' which endorsement F.G. signed as witness, and then signed as witness to the sealing and delivering of the con­ veyance, and the said A.D. and W.G. one other of the trustees nominated therein did seal and deliver a counter part to W .L. and the other two witnesses, viz., Mr. John Drewor and Mr. Alexander ffitton, both Barristers-at-law "This Defendant (W.L.) was himself bred a Merchant and never so much as a Clerk relating to the Law (and had no Counsell to assist him) ; but the said F.G. and his said trustee had both the drawing and perusal and ingrossing of tha said conveyance in their power. And if W.L. did ever receive any of the aforesaid £900 it was received in payment for the purchased premises And he doth deny that he was intrusted with any other money whatsoever which did in any way belong to F.G. or his wife, other than what is mentioned in the said Articles from all which W .L. is discharged, and hopes he shall be saved harmless and indemnified by the decree of this honourable Court He denyeth that he ever received the £1,200 in F.G.'s Bill mentioned to be paid to W.L. as the consideration for the purchases 34 THE GODOLPHINS of the premises Neither did W.L. purchase the Manor house of Coulston with F.G.'s money; neither was W.L. at the time of purchase unable to pay for the same out of his own estate, as in the said F.G.'s Bill is suggested. And W.L. doth not believe that F.G. had £900 to trust W.L. with all, either at the time of his marriage, or at any time after, before his going into France, besides his wife's portion; all which portion, W.L. is advised by his Counsell, is contained and comprised in the said Articles in the decree mentioned, from which W .L. is discharged. And touching and concerning the management of F.G.'s estate by W.L., while F.G. was in France, W.L. sayeth that, other than his wife's portion aforesaid, F.G. had no other estate besides a rent charge of one hundred pounds per annum and a farm called Spargor worth about £48 per annum, and three 1little Silly (Scilly} Islands worth about £50 per annur.:.1., the whole amounting to one hundred and ninety pounds or thereabouts, out of which he was to pay £40 per annum. And while F.G. was in France, W.L. had letters from F.G.'s agent or bayliff in the Silly Islands saying that although F.G.'s rent charge of one hundred pounds lay in Cornwall, where his said agent lived, he the said agent wanted money for the making of Boates and other necessaries for the upholding a Fishing Trade in the Sjlly Islands, for the catching of eels, otherwise called Conger . . W.L. denyeth that he ever had any part of F.G.'s estate " And, as for the money appointed by the said Articles of Trust (in the Decree mentioned, to be paid to Francis Godolphin and his wife), William Lambe sayeth that Francis Godolphin paid the same unto Sir William Godolphin, his father "And as to all other matters in F.G.'s Bill supposed to be done or acted by W.L. since the making of the said conveyance to the said F.G.'s trustees, he W.L. sayeth for answer, that the purchased premises consisted of certain parcels of barren land not inclosed, which F.G. made choice of because the same were of small value, and likewise of some other small parcels of meadow or pasture inclosed with two little woods, and also of about one-third part of the Manor of Coulston, which consisted of three or four copyhold tenements, whereby F.G. might be enabled to keepe a Court; the rest being only houses with gardens and orchards or Backsides belonging thereunto, although at the time of the purcha~e, made as aforesai

1. Two of these were Bryher and Tresco (seep. 19). Cammorval Downs, in St. Mary's, was only leased by this branch of the family (seep. 42). THE GODOLPHINS 35 per annum than F.G.'s said pretended Seat. And W.L. claimeth that, before F.G. came to inhabit at that which he calleth his Seate at Coulston, W.L.'s said Mill, lying next adjoining to the said Seat, W.L. had demised the same unto one Ralph Aldridge for a term of years, with the waters and water­ courses thereto belonging and the feeding of the waste grounds of Coulston. And F.G., having a mind to convenience his said Seat by making of ponds, turning the watercourses and the like, did send for the said Aldridge (as F.G. himself hath since confessed), and told the said Aldridge that, if he did expect to draw his water as he used to do or disturb him, F.G., in the watering his ponds, he must not have his, the said F.G.'s, grist which he valued at three or four pounds per annum, and with what he would do and would not do to him • . did so affright that poor man that he suffered him to do what he pleased. " Francis Godolphin very well knew that William Lambe, not then having present possession, could not disturb him in regard to the premises demised by \Villiam Lambe to the said Aldridge "And, F.G., knowing that he stood indebted to W.L. in severall grate sums of monies, as W.L. hath, in a Bill exhibited to this honourable Court, set forth, which said sums of monies were in the power of F.G. to defeat W.L. of, through the greate trust W.L. had formerly deposed in the said F.G.; W.L. sayeth that F.G., making use of the advantages aforesaid, did take his opportunities about the year of our Lord 1660 and, at several other times since the sealing of the said conveyance, to inclose several parcels of W.L.'s ground, and particularly the parcel of ground called the boggy ground in the Bill mentioned and did turn the several watercourses to this Defendant's Mill • • \V.L. did, soon after the expiration of the lease aforesaid, bring his action of Ejectment, as W.L. is advised by his Counsell was lawful for him to do and hopeth it shall be lawful for him to take his just remedy thereupon, notwithstanding any the same F.G.'s pretences in his said Bill. Since F.G.'s obtaining an Injunction from this Court against W.L. for want of Answer, F.G. hath erected several parcels of wall upon W.L.'s ground. W.L. denyeth that F.G. was entitled to have, by his purchase aforesaid, any benefit or advantage or commoditie whatsoever in the lands, houses and premises, purchased of W.L., conveyed to F.G.'s trustees as aforesaid, other than those granted (in) that conveyance And W.L. doth deny that he doth pretend that John 1 Danvers, Esq., in the Bill named, or the said Dorothy Lorstas, or any other person, hath the right of common, or other interest, in any parcels of the land or ground conveyed by W.L. to the said F.G.'s Trustees; for W.L. hath given satisfaction to the said John Danvers, and others . . the lands were sufficiently conveyed unto the Trustees . • . . And William Lambe doth deny that, at the time of the purchase of the premises, he did state whether it was a likely place whereof to make a Seate; for that, on one parte of that parcel of ground which is now Francis Godolphin's garden, there was then an estate of three lives, being part of a copyhold tenement, and this did also comprise a grate part of William Lambe's pond called Pinkwell Pond; so as, he was then very unlikely to bestow so much charge thereon as the said Complainant doth pretend was done. "And on another part there was an estate for two other lives, a cottage and an alehouse F.G. shows that he intended but to build a house costing £200 to be built from the ground. And W.L. sayeth that it was built upon a narrow piece of land between two highways, about twenty yards distant from way to way. And it had, belonging to it, two little orchards and a garden, the whole containing about half an acre of ground, and a high­ way lay between them, a place not to be made convenient without much prejudice both to W.L. and to divers other persons whose occasions might lead them that way drawing of the water out of the pond called Pinkwell Pond . . other wrongs and injuries to this Defendant as aforesaid . . prayeth to be dismissed with his reasonable costs and charges . .,,

l. See page 25 :-Henry Danvers, of Baynton (c. 1560-1590), married Joan, daughter of Auncell Lambe of Coulston. C 36 THE GODOLPHINS

Relations between the families of Godolphin and Lambe do not appear to have suffered in consequence of this somewhat acrimonious litigation. Major William Godolphin, the last of his family to live and die at Coulston, was guardian to Meliora, William Lambe's grand-daughter, and executor of the estate of her brother, Thomas Lambe, whose remains he interred, in 1741, in the Godolphin vault, after affixing an inscribed plate, of which a copy is given below, both on the lead coffin and on the exterior coffin in which his friend had been buried. The inscription records the old con­ nection between the two families and the friendship existing between them. According to the rev. Edward Wilton, the antiquarian above quoted in a reference to the Lambe family, in the winter of 1855, " in making a new brick grave near the original south door of Ea.st Coulston church, a vault was discovered, under what had once been a seat opening into the church, and forming a sort of south transept, prior to the late altera­ tions and repairs. " This seat had been built by the Godolphin family, formerly resident in the house now called Baynton House ; and in the vault there appear to have been • . . . five adults, and two . . . . children interred." The episcopal transcripts of the Coulston parish burial registers, deposited at Salisbury, reveal the identity of these remains:- ,, 1667. October 3. A_nne Godolphin '' (a child of two and a half years). " 1667 /8. February 26. Elizabeth Godolphin." " 1670. August 27. Francis Godolphin." " 1670. September 4. Charles, the son of Francis Godolphin" (a child of three). '' 1702. June 17. Francis Godolphin, Esq., of ye Parish of St. James in ye City of Westminster, was buried here.'' " 1781. September 11. William Godolphin, Esq."

The fifth adult, interred in the Godolphin vault in 1741, was Thomas Lambe, as the writer above-quoted goes on to narrate:-

" The following coffin-plates were discovered and deciphered; they have since been cleaned, and are affixed to the south wall of the nave near the spot where the bodies lie, which is now (1856) outside the church wall:-

"No. 1. HEREIN L YETH THE BODY OF ELIZABETH Ye MOST VIRTUOUS MOST LOVING AND MOST BELOVED WIFE OF FRANCIS GODOLPHIN ESQ. AND DAUGHTER OF Sr JOHN GAYER OF LONDON. DECEASED THE 27th

OF JANUARY Ao DOM 1667." THE GODOLPHINS 37

"No. 2. This plate was taken from the fragments of the exterior coffin; another copy of the plate was soldered on the lead coffin, and still remains in the vault. " Here Lie the Remains of Tho<;­ Lambe of Coulston in ye County of WILTS Esq. who departed this Life 31st MAR: 1741 in ye 23d Year of his Age. He was A great grandson of Sr John Lambe of Coulston aforesaid & Deposited here at His Own Request by his Affectionate Friend and Relation Wilm Godolphin of Coulston aforesaid Esq. whose Great Grandfather Sir Wilm Godolphin of SPARGOR in ye County of CORNWALL married Ruth Lambe Daughter of Sir John Lambe aforesaid. Sir Wilm Godolphin of SPARGOR was Son of John Godolphin Governour of the ISLANDS of SCILLY which John was Brother of Sir Wilm Godolp~ of Godolphin in CORNWALL aforesaid." "No. 3. This plate was not engraved, and was replaced in the vault:­ Wm Godolphin Esq. died Septr 4. 1781 aged 88 yrs."

Francis Godolphin of Spargor and Coulston, whose law-suit against his uncle, William Lambe, has been related, had by his first marriage three sons and two daughters :- 1. William, born in about 1659; he was governor of 1Scilly, and is mentioned, as living there, in the Chancery suit, Hamilton 612.23, quoted below, instituted by his younger brother and heir, Francis ; see pp. 42, 43. He was not married, and died about 9 November, 1682, of wounds received in a duel, as described in the foil owing news-letter, which was at one time in the possession of Sir F. Graham, hart., of Netherby Hall, Cumberland. It was written by John Verney to Sir Harry Verney, hart.:- " 9 November, 1682. Captain Godolphin, Governor of Scilly, was this week killed at the Cockpit ordinary in Drury Lane by Mr. Duncombe, who also received three wounds, and tho' he usually came to church yet, 'tis said, as he lay dying, none but papist priests were in his room." 2. Francis, of whom later. 3. Elizabeth, baptised 5 November, 1663, at E. Coulston; died 29 July, 1726, and was buried in 2Westminster Abbey. She married in 1687 her cousin, Charles Godolphin, a younger brother of Sidney, first earl of Godolphin ; see p. 11.

l. Duchy of Cornwall Office records. 2. M.I. on the wall of the west walk of the cloisters. 38 THE GODOLPHINS

The licence for the marriage was issued from the vicar-general's office, 27 June, 1687 :- " Charles Godolphin of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Middlesex, Esq., bachelor, about 35, and Mrs. Elizabeth Godolphin of the same. about 24, at her own disposal; at St. Martin's." Elizabeth and her husband lived at Coulston, as well as in London; her husband's library was at Coulston (see his will on p. 12), their house was evidently that built by Elizabeth's father, with money found by her mother's dowry, and was carried by Elizabeth as dowry on her marriage. It was left to her nephew, William, who eventually died there in 1781. Their two children died young :- Anne, baptised 12 August, 1688, died 8 December, 1690; and William, baptised 25 March, 1694, died in the following May; they were buried, 11ike their parents, in Westminster Abbey. The hatchments, or funeral escutcheons bearing the coats of anns, of both Elizabeth and her husband, were until about 1856 displayed in the church of St. Thomas a Becket, at East Coulston. She bequeathed £200 in her will, for the beautifying of the chancel of that church, at the discretion of her nephew, major William Godolphin and of her executrix and great-niece, Mrs. Hall, and £80 to her nephew, for the purchase of an annuity of £4, to be paid yearly to poor women of Coulston or Edington, for cleaning the chancel. In 1731, the rector of Coulston, Francis Greene, appears to have received from the executrix "a velvet Carpet for the Communion Table and, in 1732, a piece of Plate with Mrs. Godolphin's Arms upon it, for the use of the Communion Table," the Arms, Godolphin impaling Godolphin on a Lozenge. An authen­ tic document, certified by Elizabeth Godolphin in 1704, explaining the descent of the Coulston branch of the Godolphin family, gives the date of her brother Francis' death, 1702. She and her brother Francis were the principal heirs of their uncle, Sir William, ambassador in Spain ; see p. 28. She supplemented her uncle's, and her husband's, educational bequests, as is shown in the abbreviated abstract of her will below:- It was made in 1724, with a codicil dated 22 July, 1725, and was proved in the P.C.C. (163 Plymouth) on 18 August, 1726, by her husband's great-niece, 2 l\ifrs. Frances Hall, wife of Francis Hall, Esq., of the parish of St. James' and of H.M.'s Customs, her executrix :- It refers first to the deed executed by her and her late husband of the one part, and three trustees on the other, George Langton of Langton, Thomas Williams of St. Anne's, and Samuel Edwards

I. The fact that these children were buried in the Abbey, in 1690 and 1694, i.e., long before their parents' charitable and educational bequests had entitled them to such national honour, implies that the real reason for receiving it was their close relationship with Sidney, er. baron Godolphin of Rialton in 1684. The same reason existed for the burial there of his sister Anne in 1679, when he was a lord of the treasury and already of some note (see pp. 14, 15). 2. Mrs. Frances Hall, dau. of Mrs. Dorothy Quicke; see note 2, p. 39. THE GODOLPHINS 39 of St. Margaret's, Westminster, for an assignment of the ground rents of two houses, Nos. 64 and 65, St. James' Street, for edu­ cational purposes. It next refers to the trust vested 29 October, 1717, by her hus­ band, in the rev. Dr. Samuel Clark, rector of St. James', and Samuel Edwards, assigning annually £400, interest on £8,000, for certain educational uses specified in his will ; it mentions that the dean and chapter of Sarum had declined, but that Samuel Edwards had accepted the trust and had agreed to purchase the landed property, required to produce the necessary annual income; see p. 72 and note on p. 22. It then- proceeds to her personal bequests:- " I give unto my nephew William Godolphin the sum of £4,000 and all my plate and pictures, as well at London as at Coulston or elsewhere, and I also give unto my said nephew all my furniture in my house at Coulston. " To my 1nieces, l\'1rs. Elizabeth Burslem, Mrs. Barbara Mapletoft, and Mrs. Mary Godolphin and nephew, Mr. Francis Godolphin, £200 apiece. "I give unto the Rev. Dr. Godolphin, Dean of St. Paul's, and to his wife, and also to my sister, Mrs. Boscawen, £50 each, and I give unto Mrs. Elizabeth Burslem an annuity which I have in the Exchequer of £45 per annum for the remainder of the years I have therein. (Seep. 52.) " To 2Mrs. Dorothy Quicke and her three daughters £20 each. "To my three god-children, Mr. Charles Norcott, Mr. James Burslem and Mrs. Elizabeth Mapletoft, £10 apiece. (See pp. 59 and 66.) "To my cousins, Mrs. 3Margaret Godolphin, Mrs. Eleanor Godolphin and my lady Pendarves, £10 apiece. " To my niece, Mrs. 'Penelope Hesket, £10. "To Mrs. Margaret Jones, the wife of Mr. Charles Jones, £10 per annum." Then follow legacies to servants and to the poor. Her legacies are not enumerated here in full, being quoted in detail elsewhere. The establishment of the Godolphin schools, her principal bene­ faction, is described on pp. 71-7 ; the proceedings belong chrono­ logically to the period in which her nieces and their children lived. 4. Anne, 4th child of Francis Godolphin of Spargor, and his wife, Elizabeth Gayer, was bap. 7 March, 1665, at East Coulston, and was buried there on 3 October, 1667. 5. Charles, 5th child, was bap. 22 May, 1667, at East Coulston, and was buried there on 4 September, 1670, eight days after his father. Francis Godolphin of Spargor, co. Cornwall, was the second son of Francis Godolphin of Spargor and of Coulston by his first wife, Elizabeth Gayer. · , He was born c. 1661, probably at Coulston, where his sisters, Elizabeth and Anne, and his younger brother Charles were baptised, and where the two last named and their parents were buried.

l. William. Godolphin's three sisters (Mary being yet unmarried) and his younger brother, of whom this is the last known fact recorded. 2. Mrs. Dorothy Quicke was wife of Andrew Quicke, Esq., of Newton St. Cyres, and daughter of lady Northcote (Elizabeth Godolphin), Charles' sister. 3. Daughters of colonel Sidney Godolphin; see p. 23. 4. Penelope, wife of John Hesket, Lancaster Herald, and daughter of lady Northcote. 40 THE GODOLPHINS

His mother died when he was seven, and his father two years later; his step-mother, Dame Elizabeth, married again, and the young children, William, Francis and Elizabeth, were left in the guardianship of their great-uncle, John Godolphin, D.C.L. Dr. Godolphin, however, died at Cler kenwen· in 1678 ; Sir William, their uncle, appointed guardian by their father, was absent in Spain and never returned to England, and the children vvere prob­ ably looked after by the family of their great-uncle, Francis Bluet, who had administered their father's estate, and who also died in 1678 (see p. 32 and note on p. 21 ). In 1682, when his elder brother was killed in a duel, Francis was already of age ; he administered the estate and succeeded to his brother's property, including the lease, from Sir William Godolphin, bart., of Carnmorval Downs in St. Mary's and other rights in that island, where he became involved in a dispute '\vith another tenant of Sir William's, Sidney, lord Godolphin of Rialton; see p. 42. Francis was at this time governor of Scilly, no doubt by virtue of the sub-lease of the lands in Scilly ; Sir \Villiam had surrendered the Government in 1680, although his lease from the Crown did not expire until 1708. The Coulston property was still in the hands of Sir Andrew Henley and other trustees, for the provision of his sister's dowry, and there is no doubt that it passed in 1687, on her marriage, to their cousin Charles Godolphin, who lived there until his death in 1720, when it passed to his widow. It is not among the pro­ perties enumerated in Francis' will, a proof that it was not his to bequeath. In 1687 Francis married 1Elizabeth, born 1655, eldest daughter of Sir Beaumont Dixie, 2nd bart. of Bosworth, by Mary, sister and heir of Sir William Willoughby, bart., of \Villoughby Hall, co. Nottingham. Francis and Elizabeth were married at Market Bosworth on 25 July, 1687. Elizabeth Dixie brought into the Godolphin family, as her dowry, " Willoughby Hall, also the Pye Close in Willoughby . . Willoughby Meadows and Deadman's Grave." The manner in which this property, including no doubt its ill-sounding adjunct, passed from the family, is explained in Throsby's reprint of Thoroton's History of N otts. 1797 : "That moiety of land here, which was left to Hugh Willoughby, went to Mary, sister and heir to Sir William" (d. 10 February, 1670); she" married with Beaumont Dixie, Esq., of Market Bosworth" (before he succeeded to the baronetcy) "and had, with other children, Elizabeth, married to Francis Godolphin, Esq., of lord Godolphin's family; (their) son, William Godolphin, Esq., a Major in the Army, late owner of this lordship, dying unmarried, this estate descended to the issue of his three deceased sisters, viz., Elizabeth, married to James Burslem of Stanton, near Burton-upon-Trent, Barbara, to the Rev. John Mapletoft, prebendary of the city of Chester, and Mary, to Colonel Cobbe, whose son the Rev. Mr. Cobbe, first sold his share to Mr. John Curtis of Norwell ; Godolphin William Burslem, Esq., grandson to the said James, sold his to Samuel Bristow, Esq., of Beesthorp, who also purchased two shares more of Mrs. Barbara and Susanna Mapletoft, daughters and co­ heirs of the aforesaid Rev. John Mapletoft. Yarborough's moiety of this I. In June, 1732, Dr. Johnson was living in the family of Elizabeth's nephew, Sir Wolstan Dixie, 4th bart. at Market Bosworth; see note, p. 12. THE GODOLPHINS 41 lordship went by marriage, or purchase, to the Dixie, or Godolphin, family ; which, the few remaining deeds do not show ; but, by virtue of an old family settlement, with other lands, devolved upon the late Rev. Dr. James Burslem, son of the said James, who soon disposed of it to Mr. Tibbits, banker, in London. The other moiety of this lordship belongs to Samuel Bristow afore­ said. The manor was a ruin in 1 785, when Mr. Bristow dug up the very foundations.'' The· same historian traces the Willoughby ancestry back through Richard Willoughby, 37 Henry VIII, of Nottingham and Norman­ ton-on-Soar, to the time of Edward II; the name Willoughby was afterwards borne by several of the Burslem family. In 1696, Francis was warned by his cousin, Eleanor Godolphin, of Jesuit designs upon his uncle's estate; he hurriedly left England for Madrid in April for his uncle's house in Madrid, where the old man lay dying, and with the help of the English diplomatic repre­ sentative, overcame the opposition of the friars, and induced his uncle to make a legal, testamentary disposition, but appears to have returned to England before this will was made, and a com­ mission was again sent to Madrid later in the year to prove it after his uncle's death. . In 1698 this will was upheld in England and Francis inherited all his uncle's lands in England and £7,000; each of his four children, living in 1696, also inherited £1,000. Francis was made responsible for the provision of £1,520, assigned by his uncle for charity and education. He made provision for this in his own will, as is shown below ; he evidently had much difficulty in realizing the monies bequeathed to him and his family, his uncle's estate being invested in mortgages on property in Wiltshire. The brunt of the litigation, initiated by him and his co-heirs, fell upon him, and it is doubtful whether he had realized any considerable portion of his inheritance before his death. Antiquarians, possibly shocked by the manner of his death, have hitherto ante-dated it to 1697, omitting mention of time or place. He died at his house in Golden Square, on Thursday, 11 June, 1702. An obituary notice, published in a broadside, the occasional news-sheet of the time (Bodleian shelf-mark :-MS. Carte 180. Jo. 599), records the tragedy; asterisks have been substituted, by the present writer, for the rather gruesome details:-

(Pt'inted) '' A Full and True ACCOUNT, "How FRANCIS GODOLPHIN, Esq., of Golden Square," • • • • 11 this mOYning, being the 11th Day of June, 1702. " A man's kjliing himself under any circumstance, is amongst Christians counted murther; and though self-killing was esteem'd Brave and Heroick amongst the Old Romans, yet 'tis now from the Considerations of Mankind, being but Stewards of the Life lent by Almighty God, reckon' d the worst of murthers, because the crime admits of no time for Repentance. But though self-killing be the same thing in Fact, (yet I hope I shall not be thought .a Countenancer of the Crimes) when I say Charity ought more favourably to censure those that are by violent Distempers made incapable to consult their Reasons. Such was this poor Gentleman's Fate; for a Frenzy or madness had incapacitated him from weighing the consequence of such an action. 42 THE GODOLPHINS

" He was Related to a Right Honourable Family, blest with a Plentiful Estate, a Good Wife, and several Children"; * * * * * * * "and he for several years at certain times had been melancholy, even to Dis­ traction ; particularly as I am credibly inform' d, about Five Years ago when he was beyond sea, and never since hath perfectly recovered his Senses, but was look' d on as one not Compos Men tis. " For some days past his accustom' d Frenzy grew more violent upon him, so that on Thursday morning about One a Clock, he rose from his Lady, and went into his Closet joyning to his Chamber, where finding a Case-knife, he " * * * * * * * * , " and fell down " * * * * in the door place of his Closet; upon the Noise of his Fall, his Lady got out of bed, and found him Speechless in that Condition, which caus' d her by Crys to call all the Houshold up, and at the window made her (though in vain for Relief) call to her Neighbours, as if Company could restore his Life. " To Conclude, Let this deplorable and Self tragical accident, be a warning to all Persons whatsoever, in order to withstand the various and powerful Temptations of the Devil, who is continually roving about like a roaring Lyon, to bring as many as he can prevail upon to fatal Ruine and Distruction, both here and hereafter. Therefore it behoves us all both Old and Young, to be continually upon our Guard, in order to avoid such dismal misfortunes. " London, Printed for W. Cook, near Leather-Lane." His body was taken to East Coulston and interred on 17 June in the family vault in St. Thomas a Becket's church, as the episcopal transcripts of the parish, deposited at Salisbury, record. ·

He was involved in litigation to the day of his death, witness the fallowing extracts :- Ch. Pro., Hamilton, 612, No. 23. 13th October, 1701. Francis Godolphin v. Sir William Godolphin, Bart., re property in Scilly. "Francis Godolphin of Spargor, brother of William Godolphin, late of Spargor, and Administrator of the Goods and Chattels of the said William Godolphin . . who was a tenant of Sir William Godolphin for the lands called Carnmorva Downs, in St. Mary's, and two windmills near the castle there called 1Starr Castle (held by) indenture made on 15th June, 1680, between William Godolphin and Sir William Godolphin . . (and tenanted) until his death which happened about 18 years since (9th November, 1682) and, ye said William dying intestate, letters of Administration (were granted) to your Orator . . who was entitled to the residue of (the lease of) the said farm and still doth hold the two windmills. But now the said Sir William Godolphin, combining and confederating together with one Sidney Godolphin Esq. . . have entered upon the ground called the Line and have taken . . the said harbour duties . . . . your Orator prays that . . Sidney Godolphin may set forth what right or title he pretended to have in the said premises '' etc. Answers to the above Bill of Complaint. 23 January, 1701/2. The several answers of Sir William Godolphin, Bart., one of the Defendants to the Bill of Francis Godolphin "true that he leased the Downs and harbour dues in Scilly for a term of 28 and a quarter years, on 15th June, 1680, at £12 a year the said William Godolphin to repair and maintain the two windmills and not to assign any of the premises without Sir William Godolphin's consent . . (there was) no covenant for the quiet enjoyment Sometime after . . he., the Defendant assigned to his brother Sidney, now lord Godolphin" (of Rialton, er. 1684) "the residue of such term of years" as his own lease from

1. Starr Castle in St. Mary's was built by their mutual ancestor, Sir Francis Godolphin, c. 1570 ; his initials are carved on its gates. THE GODOLPHINS 43 the Crown had yet to run, i.e. to 1708. "This Defendant in 1680 did surrender the Government of the said Island of Scilly and, as he hath heard and believeth, the said William Godolphin, had, some time after, the grant to him made of the said Government, and enjoyed the same, as also the profits of the said lease . . . . and that the now Complainant, after the decease of his brother the said William Godolphin, obtained a grant unto himself of the said Government .. " (It is also) true that . . the Complainant is entitled to the remainder of the 28 and a quarter years' lease . . but the Defendant denies that he took any of the harbour dues or entered on the ground called the Lyne or received any of the rents . . of any of the premises . . and he doubts not that the Complainant can occupy the premises for the remainder of the 28 ¼years without interruption on the part of Lord Godolphin, to whom the Defendant granted some residue of a long (lease). . . derived from the Crown, of the said premises leased to William Godolphin, with such excep­ tions as in the said grant, made to Lord Godolphin by the Defendant, may appear, the which said residue of the longer term of years, granted to the said Lord Godolphin, will have continuance after the Complainant's lease shall be expired " . . . . etc. After Francis' death, his widow continued the suit, to which Sir William answered (Ch. Pro. Hamilton. 615. 39), 15 January, 1703 /4, that he had no power to make the lease to William Godolphin in 1680, and that even if he had the power at that time, his own right to ownership of the said premises had since come to an end, he being only entitled to them by virtue of a Crown lease since expired. This answer appears to be inconsistent with that above quoted, from which it seemed that Francis was invited to continue the said tenancy under Sir William's brother, lord Godolphin. The suit and its implications, the clashing of the interests of an obscure country squire with those of his eminent cousins, help to account for Francis' "melancholy." The following extract refers to his suit to recover for himself and his family, and for lord Godolphin's brother Charles, the legacies left them by his uncle, Sir William, formerly ambassador in Spain :- Ch. Pro. Hamilton, 605. 34. 10 January, 1701 /2. Francis Godolphin v. Sir John Talbot, re property consisting of messuages, land, etc., at Liddington, Coate, and Walcoat, co. Wilts : '' . . in 1696, the said Sir William Godolphin made a testamentary disposition, or writing, and thereby, amongst other things, devised the sum of £7,000 sterling to your Orator, Francis Godolphin his nephew and heir, and the sum of £4,000 of like money to the four children of your Orator, Fra. Godolphin, £4,000 to Elizabeth . . . . wife of Charles Godolphin Esq., and £1,000 to the said Charles Godolphin and, afterwards on or about the 1st day of July English style, then next following, dyed .. ; administration was granted to Fra. Godolphin ...... ; and your Orator, Fra. Godolphin, and Charles Godolphin and Elizabeth his wife, exhibited a 1 Bill of Complaint . . . . against John Mawson, Miles Phillipson, Anthony Kock, William Rowley, and Robert Nettles, trustees of the said Sir William Godolphin . . . . (as a result whereof there was made an assignment of a) mortgage of certain lands from Sir John Talbot, which was the most sure and ample security, whereon to fix and place the payment of the said infants' legacy, and it was ordered on the 24th March, 1698, that Sir John Hoskins should allow the said assignment, which he did on 1st April, 1699, " l. This refers to the original suit brought against Sir William's trustees:­ Ch. Pro. 1697. Francis Godolphin v. William Rowley and others. 44 THE GODOLPHINS

The answer appears in Ch. Pro. Hamilton. 570. 3, 15 January, 1701/2 :- " Defendant saith that true it is, he had occasion for such sums of money as in the Bill are mentioned, at or about the times therein set forth, and that for security thereof with interest, there were such mortgages made, to Thomas Vernon, Esq., and Anthony Kock, gents., in the Bill named, and to William Rowley and Nicholas Charlton, Esquires in the Bill named, as in the Bill are set forth, and that the said William R. and Nicholas C. did make such declaration of trust, for Sir William G. in the Bill named, and that the said Sir William G. did make such testamentary disposition, and such administration was granted . . and that there might also be such Bills exhibited in this honourable Court and such Decree, orders, and reports made thereupon, and such other proceedings in the said causes as in the Bill are set forth or mentioned ; but, for this Defendant's full certainty therein, he also referreth himself to the said declaration of trust, testamentary disposition, letters of administration, and Bills, Decree, orders and reports, and other proceedings, and this Defendant further saith that true it is that the said William Rowley and Nicholas C. did make such conveyance of the said mortgages and mortgaged premises unto the Complainants, as in the Bill set forth, for security of the sum of £7,442 and that this Defendant did give such writing for payment of £44 per annum for interest . . and that he hath paid to the said Complainant, l\lr. Godolphin, upon account of interest of the said money the sum of £500, and that he shall be willing to raise and pay the residue of the interest, together with the principal at such time as this hon. Court shall direct, either by sale of the said premises or otherwise, the said premises being . . worth . £16,000 and humbly prays to be . . dismissed with his reasonable costs and charges in this behalf wrongfully sustained.'' Francis made his will a year after the birth of his eldest son, sixteen months before he became the principal beneficiary under his uncle's will, and three years and a half before his youngest child, Francis, was born. It was dated 19 March, 1695/6, and was proved, with the codicil, in the P.C.C. (148 Hern) by his widow, 3 September, 1702. The following is an abstract:- " I, Francis Godolphin of Spargor, being in good health and memory, for which I praise the Lord, . . bequeath my lands, goods and chattels to John Dixie, rector of Markett Bosworth, and Thomas Trapps of Bermondsey, their executors, etc. and all that messuage or tenement with the appurtenances situate . . in Golden Square . . wherein I now dwell, and all and singular my messuages, lands, tenements and hereditaments in the Islands of Scilly . . to raise such money as may be necessary to pay off my debts and out of the residue to pay unto my son William Godolphin during his mother's life, for his present education and maintenance until he shall attain the age of 15 years, the sum of £30 a year, and after that until he shall attain the age of 21, the sum of £50 a year and, after that, in case he be unmarried the sum of three score pounds by the year . . and for the maintenance of my three daughters, Elizabeth, Barbara and Mary £500 apiece for their several marriage portions, raising the money necessary for each as she attains 18 years . . and so on. For their present maintenance £25 a year each until the age of 18, or until their portions of £500 each be paid, the same sum to be paid to any other son or daughter that may be born to me .. "To my wife Elizabeth Godolphin all that capital messuage and dwelling house at Willoughby Hall in Willoughby, co. Nottingham, also the Pye Close in Willoughby, Willoughby Meadows and Deadman's Grave, £33-6-8 yearly rent and charge from the Manor of Trewarthen als Trewathian in the parishes of Ludgvan and St. Hilary, £66-13-4 from the manor of Trothwall at Ludgvan and after my wife's decease to my sister Elizabeth Godolphin for her life . . and her issue and in default of such issue then to my honoured uncle, Sir William Godolphin. Kt., and in THE GODOLPHINS 45 default . . then to the Honourable Francis Godolphin, eldest son of the Right Honourable Sidney, Lord Godolphin; and all that Manor of Spargor Doon in the parish of Mabe, als Lavabe, co. Cornwall . . Spargor Doon, als Spargor Dean, formerly in the tenure, holding or occupation of Thomas Randall, and our messuage of Trewoan in the parish of Mabe, als Lavabe, also in the occupation of Thomas Randall . . with 140 acres in the parish of 1 Ashurst, co. Sussex, 90 acres in the parish of 1Shipley to my daugh­ ters, and in default then to my sister Elizabeth Godolphin for life and to the first son of her body and his heirs male, and for default of such issue then to her other sons . . I do hereby give and devise all that the said Manor of Spargor Doon and all and singular other the said messuages, lands tenements and hereditaments unto the said John Dixie and Thomas Trapps . . to the use and behoof of all and every daughter and daughters of me the said Francis Godolphin .. "(And I authorize the said) trustees, that they do permit my said wife to inhabit and dwell in the said house in Golden Square as long as she thinks tit, and to use all the furniture and goods within the same as long as she pleases, paying yearly to my said trustees the yearly rent of £50 towards the maintenance and education of my said children And whereas the messuages (etc.) hereinafter mentioned were intended upon my treaty of marriage with my said wife to be settled upon her, in part of her jointure, but by mistake were omitted in my marriage settlement, now I do therefore give and devise unto my said loving wife Elizabeth Godolphin all that my moyety of the Barton of Tregarden (etc.) and the house and garden late in the tenure . . of Philip Haye; and all that my third part of the mills called Lamaile, als Lamail Mills, in the parish of Eggloshayle . . now, or late, in the tenure . . of one Thomas Till . . to my wife for her natural life, and after her decease . . to my eldest issue male and the heirs of his body. "Charities to the poor of Eversleigh in the county of Southampton .. and of Coulston, co. Wilts." Witnessed by C. Whitelocke, Edward North and William Wilson. The following is an abstract of the codicil annexed to his will; it was dated 14 March, 1697 /8, that is to say, a year and eight months after the death of his uncle, Sir William, at Madrid :- '" To my wife, £2,000 out of the estate of my uncle Sir William . . to my very good friend Thomas Trapps, Esq., from whom I have received many favours, £t.0. Item I give to my good friend Luke Astery, Esq., Bencher of Lincoln's Inn to whom I have been infinitely obliged £100. Item I give to my servant Mary Cork £20. Item I give to my servant Mary :fflower £10 servant John Jones £5 servant Mary Fuller £5 . . George Collins £5 . . to the poor of St. James' £20 . . £1,~0 now being debated in Parliament in the House of Lords, having passed the Commons (part of his uncle's estate) for the founding of a hospital or school in St. Mabyn, near Tregarden, co. Cornwall . . . . the residue to my 2only son William, provided that he gives to his three sisters £1,000 each on the day of their marriage or at 21. "Witnessed by Mary Brooke, Sarah Wright and Martha Clins." On 3 September, 1702, Commission was granted to Elizabeth Godolphin, widow of the testator, the mother and guardian of William Godolphin, the residuary legatee, until he shall attain the age of 21 years.

1. Ashurst and Shipley are distant 5 and 10 miles respectively from Washington, co. Sussex, where his uncle Sir John had an estate at his death in 1679; see p. 29. Possibly this land passed to Francis. In 1803, a descendant, James Godolphin Burslem, was married there; seep. 63. 2. Francis, his youngest child and second son, was born in the following year. 46 THE GODOLPHINS

The widow began her administration with a law-suit, 30 January, 1702/3, to compel the trustees to undertake their trust. One of these, the rev. John Dixie, was her younger brother, born in 1661 and of the same age as her late husband. Their answer in Ch. Pro. Hamilton. 141. 111, merely states their refusal, but is of interest because the five young children are named and their ages, on 30 January, specified. On 29 March, 1717, commission was granted to William, the eldest son and residuary legatee, now aged 22, to administer his father's estate. Francis Godolphin of Spargor had, by his wife Elizabeth Dixie, three daughters, Elizabeth, Barbara, and Mary, of whose marriages and descendants an account will be given later, and two sons, William, of whom next, and Francis, born 18 October, 1699, baptised at St. James', Westminster, 7 November, recorded in the duchy of Cornwall Office as having been, at some time, governor of Scilly and as having died without issue ; he is mentioned by name in Chane. Pro. 30 January, 1702 /3, above quoted, and in the wills of Charles Godolphin, 1720, and of his aunt Elizabeth Godolphin, proved in 1726, when he should have succeeded to a legacy, but no other record of him has been found. His elder brother,

William (major Godolphin of Coulston, co. Wilts.), eldest son and 4th child of Francis and Elizabeth Godolphin of Spargor and of Golden Square, was born on 28 February, 1694/5 and was baptised 10 March at St. James', Westminster. He died unmarried, 4 September, 1781, and was interred in the family vault in St. Thomas a Becket's church at East Coulston on 11 September. He outlived his brother and his three sisters; his age is stated on his coffin plate to have been "88 years," but this statement is modified by the records of his baptism at St. James' and of his burial in the episcopal transcripts of the Coulston registers at Salisbury ; see p. 36. He died intestate and administration of his estate was granted in the P.C.C. on 8 October, 1781, to a son of his eldest sister, the rev. James Burslem, D.D., of whom later. On 29 March, 1717, he was granted administration of his father's estate, which had been entrusted during his minority to his mother. In the following year, on 2 January, 1717 /8 (army list, 1717, P.R.O., MS. 5431, p. 17), he purchased a major's commission in the 1st troop of the horse grenadier guards (now royal horse guards) commanded by lord Lumley (colonel and captain) ; his commission had been vacated by colonel Dent (cornet 21 February, 1688-9- THE GODOLPHINS 47 colonel 15 November, 1711) then 3rd on the list of officers. The price of a major's commission at that time in that corps was, according to Arthur's Story of the Household Cavalry, £2,900. In the gradation list of majors in the horse grenadier guards (army list, 1730, P.R.O., MS. 5433), he is shown to be still serving in 1730. The cost of his commission, his expenses as a field officer of household cavalry in London, and the provision of dowries in 1717, 1723 and 1726, for his three sisters, as well as the maintenance of his seat at Coulston soon made inroads into his patrimony. On 25 February, 1718/9, he deputed 1Mr. Christopher Hawkins of the Middle Temple to be attorney for his Comish properties, which soon afterwards he began to mortgage and sell:- Deputation from major Godolphin to Christopher Hawkins. "Know all men by these p'sents that I William Godolphin of Tregarden in ye County of Cornwall esq. reposing Great Trust and Confidence in Chris­ topher Hawkins of the Middle Temple, London esq. do hereby constitute and appoint him the sd. Christopher Hawkins to be my true and lawfull Attorney Receiver and Agent for me and in my name place and stead to ask demand collect recover and receive of and from all and every Person and Persons whatsoever all and every such sume and sumes of money Rents Arrears of Rent and other dues as are now or hereafter shall become due and payable to me from them or any of them for or on account of any of my messuages Lands Tenemts or Hereditaments situate in the County of Cornwall and to use all lawfull ways and means in my name for the recovery of all Rents Arrears of Rent and other dues which shall become due to me out of my said lands in the said County And I do hereby impower him to contract with such persons as shall seem expedient for the letting of all my lands in Cornwall for such Terms Considerations and Rents as he shall think most for my benefit And I do likewise impower him to make grants or setts for the searching for Tyn Oar, Copper Oar or other Base metals and to act and do for me in all and singular the said Premises in as full and ample manner as I might do if personally present 25 February l 718 Witnesses W. Godolphin." Godolphin P. Greene Seal Tho Deighton Endorsed "Major Godolphin's Deputation to C.H."

1. This lawyer appears to have been the son of a small squire at Trewin­ nard in St. Erth parish, near St. Ives ; he spent most of his time in Cornwall, lent money on mortgage and apparently acquired a large estate by foreclosure. His riches are said to have been inherited by his grandson Christopher. who was created baronet but died without issue, when the title became extinct ; the last member of the family, C. H. T. Hawkins, Esq., of Bignor Park, Sussex, and Trewithen, Cornwall, died a few years ago. There is no evidence that Christopher was related to the family of Hawkins from which came the barrister. Isaac. of Burton-on-Trent, executor of the will of William Burslem, M.P. (seep. 53) in 1716 ; Isaac was William's brother­ in-law. having married Elizabeth, younger sister of Dorothy Watson. A son. or nephew, of that Isaac held a mortgage in 1781 on Alton Grange, the property of major Godolphin's nephew, William Burslem, for £4,000 (see p. 57). It is possible that major Godolphin refers to Mrs. Isaac Hawkins in his letter of July, 1757 (see p. ~ ). 48 THE GODOLPHINS

On 16 September, 1723, major Godolphin, through his attorney, Mr. Hawkins, sold two tenements and a house and garden at St. Neot (in S.E. Cornwall, between Liskeard and ) for £95 to the rev. John Pomeroy, who afterwards lived at Trelissick, and ...~as ancestor of the Gilberts of Bodmin priory:- " Agreemt between Mr. C. Hawkins and Mr. Pomeroy "Memo: It is agreed this 16 Sept. 1723 between Christopher Hawkins esq. on the behalfe of Wm. Godolphin esq. of the one part and the Revd. Mr. John Pomeroy of the other part, that the sd. Wm. Godolphin for the consn of £95 to be paid by John Pomeroy shall convey to him the inheritance of these premises viz. the moiety of Mary John's Tenement and of Oliver•s Tenement and of a house and garden once in the pos·session of Bawden (sic) all in the parish of St. Neott. Mr. Pomeroy is to pay one moiety of the consn at the Execucion of the Conveyance which is to be executed before Christmas day next and the other moiety at the end of 6 months after that. C. Hawkins (signed) T. Pomeroy " Witness Hu: Opie In about 1734, he appears to have made an offer to the rev. Mr. Peters, rector of St. Mabyn, of the £1,520 left for charitable pur­ poses by his great-uncle, Sir William (the ambassador in Spain), and by his father, for a school or hospital at St. Mabyn; but his offer was refused, apparently because it did not include interest due on that sum. The following, in the handwriting of hls attorney, Mr.· Hawkins, is the draft of a brief for counsel's opinion, and is still extant; it is not dated:- ." Draft Brief for Counsel's Opinion. State of ye Charity. Francis Godolphin pending the Bill in Parliament made a codicil to his will and died without entering into any recognizance. He bequeathed his half of the £3040 to be laid out in erecting a charity school at St. Mabyn near Tregarden in memory of his dear uncle Sir William. " Francis died leaving his son and executor a minor . . . . He is now of age and has been for several years and is about to lay out ye £1520. "Will he be compelled to lay out interest also? "How can the executor laying out this money indemnify himself against any demand from the parish of St. Mabyn? " N .B. ye parish of St. Mabyn are content to take ye principal only but how can they discharge ye executor from claims ye inhabitants of St. Mabyn may make hereafter on Mr. Godolphin ? ,, On 4 August, 1738, Major Godolphin sold his moiety of the manor of Tregarden to John Mitchell of St. Aubyn and, in 1739, borrowed £1,000 on the security of his property at Spargor, from Mr. Hawkins. In 1741 as recorded on p. 37 above, he interred the remains of his friend and relative Thomas Lambe in the Godolphin family vault at East Coulston, having inherited from his aunt, Elizabeth Godolphin, in 1726, his grandfather's estate in that manor. He was charged, in his aunt's will with her educational and other bequests, as shown above on p. 38, including those for the upkeep of the chancel in St. Thomas a Becket's church. He evidently lived at Coulston during this part of his life ; a map of the neighbourhood dated 1773 calls the village, in which THE GODOLPHINS 49

Baynton House is situated, "West Coulston," omitting the name "East Coulston," by which the eastern half of the village is now lmown. The map shows the house now known as " Baynton House" as being the residence of "William Godolphin," Esq., but does not call it "Baynton"; that name is given to a house on the site of which, or near it, a fann house now stands, about three-quarters of a mile to the west, described as the residence of "William Long, Esq.," perhaps a relative of Robert Long who, later, acted for major Godolphin. The latter house is believed to have been burnt down, the existing Bayn.ton House probably receiving that name subsequent to the fire. The farm house is now called "Upper Baynton Farm." The present owner of Baynton House, to whom the compiler is indebted for these notes, believes that the later portion of Baynton House was added by the Longs after they succeeded the Go

The following document shows that Spargor and Trewoan were, at that period, farms let at £60 and £12 a year respectively, and that the Spargor farmhouse had recently been rebuilt :- 50 THE GODOLPHINS [endorsed) "Apr. 15 1748 Mr Godolphin and Mr. Hawkins Acct. settled." "Dr. Wm. Godolphin e~q. in acct. Currt with Chrisr. Hawkins esq. p Contra "1747 Mar. 25 To Land Tax 1747 By6 years rent allow' d Richd. L'day of Spargor recd. Halvoso £28 3 from Rich'd for Sparger to Halvoso and L'day, 1747 dueL'dayl747 "To do: allow'd from which Nich : Francis time Dr. Turner to do: /,7 16 6 is to receive the " To sundry pay­ Rent at £60 per ments for Tim- annm . . £360 ber, etc., in building the new House at Spargor £52 11 3 "Mason's work at do: .. £24 7 7 "To Mr. Penrose His bill for Iron Glass, Nails, etc. £28 1 7 By ditto of " To a Bill for Nich: Francis repairs allow' d at £12 per Nich : Francis £7 9 6½ annum £72 Ball' due . . £283 10 6!

£432 0 0 £432 '' To Int' of £1000 By Ballce of due on mort­ Acct of rents gage from 23 of Spargor £283 10 6½ feb. 1741 to 23 feb. 174 7 6 years £300 '' To Int: of a bond for £142 17 6 By purchase dated 1742 6 money from Dr. years £42 17 Turner .£1900 " To dividends due on £1 800 stock from L'day 1742 to do : 1748 . . £468 '' To principal mon- ey on sd. mort- gage . . . . £1000 " To do: on sd. Bond £142 17 6 '' To allow' of ls. in the pound for the Rect of ye above £432 rents . . .£2 l 12 "17!8 Ap. 15 To Note of Hand for the Ballance .£208 4 6½ £2183 10 6½ £2183 10 6½ '' Ap. 15 1748 settled and allowed. W. Godolphin C. Hawkins." Witness Pet: Gery. THE GODOLPHINS 51

"April 15th 1748 "I promise to pay to Wm. Godolphin esq. or Order £208 4 6½ being the Ballance of an Acct this day settled. C. Hawkins. "May 2nd 1748 "Recd of Mr. Hawkins the full contents of ye within note-­ W. Godolphin." At about this time, major Godolphin sold a "Godolphin pro­ perty '' which yielded an annuity of £100 a year ; the purchaser was his cousin, Francis, 2nd baron Godolphin of Helston. This was probably the ancestral rent-charge on Comish property men­ tioned in William Lambe's answer in 1668 (seep. 34), the inheritance of the younger son, John of Buthocke (see pp. 6 and 19), entailed on the eldest son in each generation after him. In August, 1755, major Godolphin continued the sale of his landed property, on this occasion in St. Minver, for £150, to Simon Wilcock of Rosewin. It is referred to in his letter, next quoted below. In July, 1757, he was much worried about an affair connected with his " aunt Hawkins," possibly one of the family of Daniel Watson of Neather Hall, Burton-on-Trent, Steward of Lichfield in 1680, whose two daughters married into the Burslem and Hawkins families. Copies of two of his letters to his attorney on the subject are given here:-

" To Ch: Hawkins esqr. At Trewinnard in Comwal London, July 5th, 1757. "Dear Sr. "Aug't the 14th, 1755, I was favoured with a letter from you in which you tell me that you had agreed with Simon Wilcock to sell him some lands etc.• of mine in Rosewin in St. Minver for £150 pounds, and that he had paid you arrears of rent amounting to 11 2 3, so that as I have a long time since signed the Deed of Conveying it to him and writ to you to beg you would let that money in all 161 2 3 go towards paying the remaing (sic) sume 207 0 0 remaining due on the Mortgt and that I would give my Bond for what remained at the 207 pounds that I might hunt up my writings. But I have not as yet been favoured with any answer from you which makes me very unhappy. '' Dear Sr., as Mr. Chamberlayne was concerned in that affair, if you would give him your directions what you would have don I would do as you snould think proper before I left Town, and will pay what remaines as soon as matters are settled. As to your Fifty pounds I will pay that with many thanks. " Dear Sir Be so good as to let me know when we shall make an end of my Aunt Hawkins's affair, do something to make an end of that matter and you will ever oblige, Dear sir, your most affectionate and most obedient Friend and Humble Servt. W. Godolphin." "I should be very glad to Hear you had you had (sic) Contracted to sell Lamail Mills that I might pay my Debts. " Good Sr do something to put an end to the affair of my Aunt Hawkins, for Godsake do something to put an End to that matter, and you will Have the thanks of us All." D 52 THE GODOLPHINS Draft of reply in C. Hawkins' writing :- " To Mr. Chamberlain. July 25. "Sr. I had lately the favour of a line from my old friend Maj: Godolphin, of whose business and affairs I had heard nothing of for a long time before and hoped they were eer this well nigh settled He desires I wd give you directions in his affairs I must beg before I can offer ... at anything of ye kind that you would be so good as to let me know how and in what state and posture they now are and he and you may be assured of my ready complyance in everything in my power for his assistance or Service. I should have wrote him an answer but am at a los how or where to direct my Ires to him,, " To Ch.. Hawkins Esqr. "At Trewinnard in Cornwall. Coulston, 26 October, 1757. "Dear Sir, " I hope this will find you in Good Health. Before I left London I saw a letter you writ to Mr. Chamberlayne, by which I found you had recd my last letter to you in answer to yours of the 14th of Augt, 17 55 in which you tell me you have sold to Simon Wilcock of Rosewin in St. Minver my land for 150, and that he has allso paid the arrears of rent, 11 2 3. " The Favour I desired in my last letter and what I must now beg of you is that you will be so good as to let those two sumes go towards paying what remained to Ballance the affair of the Mortgt, viz. 207 odd money. What remains to Ballance that Acct I will give my Bond or Note as you shall think most proper and will pay it as soon as possible, I had paid it all and also your Fifty pounds before this But was obliged to pay our Friend Mr. Flower three hundred pounds, so that I hope you will be so good as to pardon the delay. I beg Dr. Sr. as I cannot have the happiness of seeing you my self and as Mr. Chamberlayne has had to do in this matter, that you will be so good as to settle the affair with Him and be so good as to let Him have my Writings, that I may let him know when and How I would have them sent to me. As to the Fifty pounds, I had sent it you with many thanks Had I not been obliged to go to Town in hopes of makeing an end of my Aunt Hawkins's affair. My dear Sr. Be so good as to get that matter made an end of if possible and You will ever oblige Dr. Sr. your Most a:ffecn and most H umb Servt W. Godolphin." " I beg my most Humble Compts to your Lady. _I should be glad to hear you had sold my part of Lamail Mills. [Endorsed by C. Hawkins.] "Mr. Godolphin, Octr, 1757." Major Godolphin's heirs, in 1781, were the children of his three sisters, of whose families an account now follows ; it explains the change~, from time to time, in the management of the Godolphin educational endowments, a matter of general interest :-

1. Elizabeth, eldest child of Francis Godolphin and Elizabeth Dixie his wife, and godchild of Elizabeth Godolphin, from whom she inherited an annuity of £45 a year, was born 10 October, 1688, and bap. 21 October at St. James', Westminster. She was married in March, 1717, at Hadley church, Highgate, Hampstead, where no doubt her mother was living at the time, and where THE GODOLPHINS 53 probably her mother died, since the younger sister, Mary, married nine years later, is described in 1726 as of the parish of St. Paul's, Covent Garden. The following allegation, extracted from the London diocesan register, was the preliminary announcement of Elizabeth's marriage. " Primo Martii, 1716 17 " Appeared personally James Burslem of the Parish of St. George, Botolph Lane, Batchelr, aged Two and Twentie Years and upwards, and alledged that he intendeth to mary with Elizabeth Godolphin of Hampstead in the County of Middx., Spinster, aged Twentie Two Years and upwards, he not knowing nor believing any lawful Lett or Impediment by reason of any praecontract Consanguinity affinity or otherwise, to hinder the said intended marriage, of the truth of which he made Oath and prayed Licence for them to be married in the parish Church of Hadley, Highgate, or St. James within the Libertie of Westmr, County of Midx. " Jurat cor me, E. Kinaston, Surr. {sd.) Jam: Burslem." Her husband, James Burslem, baptised on 5 February, 1694/5, at Newcastle, co. Staffs., was the 4th son of William Bwslem (1662-1716), M.P. 1710 and 1713 for Newcastle, by his wife, Dorothy, eldest daughter of Daniel 1Watson of Neather Hall, Burton-on­ Trent, barrister of Gray's Inn. The will of James Burslem, the elder, of Stanton, in the parish of Stapenhill, co. Derby, gent., dated 26 December, 1765, was proved in the P.C.C., 8 May, 1775 :- ,. I have conveyed all my real and personal estate to my two sons, William and James Burslem, to pay my debts and then reconvey the same to me, which they unjustly refused to do ; and I have been compelled to commence a suit2 in the high Court of Chancery against them and Richard Ireland, who has a mortgage on some parts of my estate and against N athaniel3 Curzon, who has colluded with my said sons to deprive me of my estate, shich suit is still depending in the said court. "So now I bequeath all my lands, etc., before conveyed to my saiJ. sons, to Joseph Letch of the Middle Temple, London, gent., and John Blake, of Essex Street, St. Clement Dane's, co. Middx., gent., in trust to continue the said suit and bring the same to a conclusion and to pay my wife, Elizabeth, such sum yearly as is necessary for her maintenance, not exceeding £120 a year, and to give my grandson, James Richard Daston, and my grand­ daughter, Maria Parr, each a sum not exceeding £200 ; the said trustees to be executors. "I bequeath to my brother, the Rev. Daniel Burslem, and to his two sons and daughter, Mrs. Young, ten guineas each. " To Robert Staly4, bailiff of Newhall Pitts, twenty guineas. " The rest of my trust moneys to be divided among my son, Capt. Francis Burslem, my daughters, Elizabeth Maria Parr, Margaret Burslem, Laetitia Spearham and Katherine Lovett."

1. Daniel Watson's younger daughter Elizabeth married, c. 1686, Isaac Hawkins, barrister, of Burton-on-Trent, and had a daughter, her sole heiress, whom. the rev. William Browne, prebendary of Lichfield. She is, possibly, the" aunt Hawkins" referred to on p. 51. 2. The sons' answer to their father's suit is narrated below. 3. Nathaniel, second son of the rev. John Curzon, of Kedleston, 1736- 1787, m. 1775, Ann, daughter and co-heir of John Farnell of Oversea!. Nathaniel's sister, Mary Curzon, had married James Burslem's eldest son William in 1753 and, as appears below was a lady of some character. 4. Robert Staly witnessed Barbara Burslem's marriage in 1755. Newhall Pitts was one of the Burslem collieries in Leicestershire. 54 THE GODOLPHINS

James Burslem died, it is said, very soon after making this will, but no record of burial has been found; his widow, Elizabeth, was buried, 16 December, 1767, at Stapenhill, near Burton-on­ Trent, at the age of 79, i.e., 14 years before her brother, William. Her husband's will was proved as follows :- On 8 May, 1775 (i.e., ten years after making his will), '' commision was granted to the Rev. James Burslem and William Burslem, sons of the deceased, to administer the goods of the said deceased ; Joseph Letch and John Blake,1 the trustees, renouncing, as also the residuary legatees, Elizabeth Maria Parr, widow, Laetitia, wife of Thomas Sparham, Katherine, wife of Joseph Lovatt and Maria and Mary Parr, spinsters, and Thomas Parr and Sarah and Elizabeth Parr, spinsters, children of Elizabeth Maria Parr, and Thomas Sparham, guardian to James and Elizabeth Sparham, minors, and Maria Sparham and Susannah Averilla Sparham, infants, children of the said Laetitia Sparham als Spearham, and Joseph Lovatt, guardian to Elizabeth, Joseph, James, Margaret and Mary Lovatt, children of Katherine ; Elizabeth Burslem, the widow, dying without taking out letters of admin­ istration, Francis and Margaret Burslem, son and daughter of deceased, also renouncing." James Burslem died, according to " A history of the 2Adams family '' in the winter of 1765-6. After his marriage with Elizabeth Godolphin, he lived at Pack­ ington, where all his children, except the eldest, were baptised :-

* 1. Elizabeth Maria, who must have been born in 1718; her baptismal record has not been found; she married a Mr. Parr, in about 1739, and was living, a widow, in 1775; she had five chil­ chen :-Maria, who in 1763, witnessed the marriage of her aunt Katherine, to Joseph Lovatt, at Stapenhill; Mary, born about 1741 ; Thomas; Sarah, who, in 1776, witnessed the marriage of her first cousin, Sarah Burslem, to the rev. Richard Chalone1 Cobbe, at Market Bosworth ; and Elizabeth. These five were living in 1775; one of them, a Miss Parr, seems to have been living in 1833 at Woolwich, with Mr. Burslem, where she is described as his "sister-in-law."

*2. William, of Alton Grange; baptised 18 February, 1718/9; died in February, 1781, and was buried at Cole Orton (M.I.) ; married, in 1753, Mary Curzon of Breedon. She was the third daughter and sixth child of the rev. John Curzon, rector of Kedleston, by his wife Anne, daughter of Thomas Toone of Breedon. The rev. John Curzon was son of John Curzon by his wife Millicent Sacheverall, descended from Richard II. Mary Curzon's brother, Nathaniel (seep. 53), was closely connected, in colliery management, with the Burslems, as is shown in the following account of certain

1. John Blake is, no doubt, identical with the lawyer of that name mentioned in the Godolphin educational settlements; seep. 7~. 2. "A history of the Adams family of N. Staffs," by P. W. L. Adams, F.S.A. (St. Catherine Press, 1914) and "A history of the Wedgwood family," by Josiah C. Wedgwood, M.P. (do. 1908) record further details of the Burslem family from the Middle Ages. The present writer is indebted to the first­ named for much information, which includes two Burslem wills cited below. THE GODOLPHINS 55

Chancery proceedings. These same proceedings show that Mary, William Bmslem's wife, was a woman of some aptitude in business. The suit was brought by William Burslem, in 1776 (Ch. Pro. Whittington and Sewell, Bundle 429 /27), against his brother-in-law, Nathaniel Curzon. William Burslem, the complainant and " Orator," complains as follows :- " your Orator's wife carried on the said Lime works, as your Orator and the Defendant had before done, during the time your Orator was in London under confinement. " Nathaniel Curzon did, about Midsummer, 1773, give notice that he would quit the Lime works at Christmas following. In about 1772, after your Orator was returned home from his confinement in London, and before he was suffered to look into his affairs, (here follow certain accusations against Nathaniel) Nathaniel Curzon also managed the Oakthorpe Colliery in 1766, during the Complainant's absence and retained the profits. After your Orator's wife's death, in December, 1772, on searching his, or her, papers which were kept from your Orator during her life, the Complainant found that she had, in 1766 and 1767, paid out a great sum of money, his one-third share of which the Complainant then demanded from Nathaniel Curzon and Joseph Wilkes, his partners." An arbitrator appears to have decided that the Complainant was entitled to £3,992 11 7. It further appears that Nathaniel and his mother, Mrs. Curzon, paid a visit to Cole Orton, as William Burslem's guests. The more serious charge then appears:- " In or about the beginning of January, 1765," (Note. This was the year in which James Burslem, the elder, made his will and accused his sons and Nathaniel Curzon of collusion against him) "your Orator being seized with a Complaint, _which occasioned a great Lowness and Dejection of Spirits, the said Nathaniel Curzon, brother to the late wife of your Orator, who had always been your Orator's Attorney and Agent, did, in consequence and under colour of that trust, possess himself of divers parts of your Orator's effects, money, bank notes, etc., and did take the sole or principal management of all your Orator's affairs and your Orator further showeth that, after your Orator was released from his confinement in the year 1768, he still continued afflicted with a great Lowness and Dejection of Spirits, and the said Nathaniel Curzon, taking advantage thereof, did repeatedly tell your Orator that it was necessary for your Orator's health that your Orator should not engage in any kind of business and that it would be necessary again to place your Orator under confinement. And your Orator, under the terror and apprehension that the said Nathaniel Curzon would cause these threats to be carried into execution, did for a considerable time avoid inquiring into the state of his affairs " Regarding the £300, paid by the said Nathaniel Curzon in December, 1765, to your Orator, in promissory notes and bills, drawn by Messrs. Heath, bankers, in Derby; your Orator deposited them in an iron chest, in his dwelling house at Cole Orton, and was, about this time, seized with a Complaint ...... and thereupon the said Nathaniel Curzon caused your Orator to be sent to London and placed in a private Madhouse and Nathaniel Curzon possessed himself of the said notes and bills " Nathaniel Curzon's Answer to these charges is as follows:- ".. and this Defendant further sayeth that, the said Complainant having been for some time before Christmas, 1765, in some respects disordered in his mind, he about that time became totally insane and made several attempts to destroy himself; the Complainant's wife, who was this Defendant's sister, and the Rev. Mr. James Burslem, the Complainant's brother, in conse­ quence of the Complainant's request in his lucid intervals, caused the said 56 THE GODOLPHINS

William Burslem to be carried up to London in a post chaise and put him under the care of Doctor Battie, in a private Madhouse and, upon the Complainant's going to London, his wife, who was a very sensible woman, took upon herself the management of the said colliery at Oakthorpe and the other properties . . and Nathaniel Curzon used to assist her . . and when William Burslem came back, having hopes of his speedy recovery, and to avoid the expense of a Commission of Lunacy and the prejudice his children might sustain by the public notoriety of his insanity, which would be occasioned by such Commission, the said James Burslem and his sister declined to take out such commission . . he remained under Battie in London for two years . . then to Nottingham, until he recovered, in February, 1770." The defendant attached to his Answer a Schedule of expenses incurred by him on. the complainant's behalf; the total sum amounted to £700 ; against this bill he had, in 1771-2 received " of Isaac Hawkins, by a written order of the Complainant, towards the discharge of the above, £600; balance due, £100." The following items in this Schedule are of family interest:- " 1768. April 14. Mr. Dixie's 1bill for Miss Parr, who died £1 7 6 " 1766. Yearly charge (up to this date) for rent of house and land at " Stanton " (Stapenhill, where James and Elizabeth Burslem had lived) £15 12 0 " 1766. July 30. Paid Butterfield of Derby for Phillip' s2 clothes . . . . £1 4 0 2 " 1767. May 26. Clothes for P. Burs-Iem •• £1 8 0 " 1769. August 16. Bill for P. Burslem's2 cloathes .. £2 11 6 " 1772. September 13. Mr. Orme a bill for Schooling £15 17 6 "1766-7 Mr. Lanch, for William Burslem's Board at Islington £80 0 0 " do. do. . . £117 5 0 " do. do. . . £235 I 0 " do. Mr. Bailey, Surgeon at Nottingham .. £12 1 7 " do. Mr. Swaine in London .. £20 2 0 " do. Mr. Nailer, for Board at Slims Wells £38 1 6 " do. do. . . £18 1 0 " do. Charges and expenses, up and down to London, of Mr. Burslem and Nathaniel Curzon, and Mr. Curzon's stay there on many different journeys, in 1766-7 .. £96 6 0 '' do. Stay in London at 7s. 6d. per day .. £7 17 6 " 1766. April 7. Expenses up and down, Mr. Curzon £5 10 0 Stay there 28 days, settling Answers in his father's suit3 in Chancery and getting his Answer put in by Guardian £10 10 0 " Expenses at Reigate4, 30 days' visit for change of air for Mr. Burslem and A new wig for Mr. Burslem (£1 5 O)." From 2 January to 12 January, 1766-7, William Burslem appears to have been under the care of a Dr. Munro in London.

I. Probably rector of Market Bosworth, which was in the gift of the Dixie family, relatives of the Burslems. Miss Parr is evidently a grand­ daughter of James Burslem the elder. 2. This Phillip may be the 2nd son of rev. Samuel Burslem, the vicar of Etwall, co. Derby; Phillip's mother, Sarah, had died and had been buried at Etwall, 27 July, 1760. 3. Law suit, described below, on page 60. 4. A friend, Richard Ireland, lived at Reigate; see also p. 53. THE GODOLPHINS 57

The antiquarian John Ward, in his "History of the Borough of Stoke-on-Trent" refers to the Burslem family, and to Sarah Burslem's marriage with Richard Chaloner Cobbe, and to their daughter Frances' marriage with Hans Francis Hastings, after­ wards Earl of Huntingdon :- " One of Mr. John Burslem's descendants, William, son of his grandson, Robert, embarked in mining concerns and was, in 1625, settled at Thringston, Leics., where he died in 1637 (Reg. of Whitwick). After about a century we meet with William Burslem, gent., of Cole Orton, which adjoins Thrings~on, 58 THE GODOLPHINS lands there, and 120 cottages there and a bed of coal there, and all my other manors, lands, etc., in the said places and in Oakthorpe, Measham, Newhall, and Hartshorne, co. Derby, and Osgathorpe, co. Leics., and all my other property, to my eldest son, Godolphin William Burslem and my friends, Timothy Clarkson and Charles Pestell, both of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, gents., in trust, to sell the same and discharge the said mortgage and to pay as follows: "To my eldest daughter Mary Burslem, a fifth part of what remains, etc.; to my daughters Judith and Ann Burslem, such sums as are necessary to maintain them until their ages of 21, and the same to my sons John and Nathaniel, when each shall have a fourth part. Executors to be the said trustees. Witnessed by E. Toone, Jos. Toone, and Josh. Cowdall." William and Mary Burslem had three sons and three daughters :­ a. Godolphin William Burslem of Alton Grange, co. Leics., born c. 1754, d. 29 August, 1809, M.I. at Christchurch Priory; will 1proved in the P.C.C. 10 January, 1810 ; m. Anne (d. 30 April, 1794), dau. of Charles Savage of Tachebrooke, having by her an only child, Margaretta Anne Burslem. She m. 16 September, 1802, Harry Biggs, Esq., of Stockton House, co. Wilts (1767-1856); her great-grandson, William Huyshe Yeatman-Biggs, Esq., of Long Hall, Stockton, is now (1930) the senior representative of the Godolphins of Coulston, some of whose 2portraits are preserved at Long Hall. Since 1803, at least one member of each succeeding generation of the family has borne the name Godolphin (see Burke's L.G.). b. Mary Burslem; m. 28 March, 1785, captain Henry Noten Gamble, royal marines. c. Judith Burslem; m. 1785, general John Burton. d. Anne Burslem ; born c. 1763 ; m. Thomas Mollison. e. John Burslem; bap. 4 March, 1766, at Cole Orton; went to Rugby School, 1781 ; ensign 39th foot, 2 February, 1785 ; lieut. 1790 ; retired 1794 ; died unmarried 1797 at Ashby-de-la-Zouch. His will, dated Ashby, 1 October, 1793, was proved in the P.C.C. 7 February, 1797 :- " I give and bequeath all my monies, and securities for money, with all my estate and interest in any mortgage, estate or other securities, arrears of pay . . and all other personal estate . . unto my brother Nathaniel Burslem, an Ensign in His Majesty's 11th regiment of foot . . and in case of his death . . then unto my three sisters, Mary the wife of Henry N oten Gamble, Judith the wife of John Burton, and Ann the wife of Thomas Mollisson, equally to be divided. My sole executor to be my brother Nathaniel Burslem. Witnessed by Ellis Pestell and Samuel Webster." f. Nathaniel Burslem, hap. 3 September, 1770, at Cole Orton, went to Rugby 1781 ; ensign 11th foot, 2 December, 1789 ; lieut. 1793 ; captain in Corsican regt. 1795 ; captain in 14th foot 1797 ;

I. Proved by H. Biggs; claim to probate was renounced by the widow, Mary [Walker], second wife of G. W. Burslem; she had no issue. 2. Portraits of Sir John Gayer (d. 1649) by Mytens, Sir William Godolphin (1634-1696), Elizabeth Godolphin (1663-1726), lady Henrietta Churchill who became the second countess of Godolphin (1681-1733), major-general Arthur Godolphin Yeatman-Biggs, C.B. [under whose command the writer served at the action of Dargai, 20 Oct., 1897], and the right reverend Huyshe Walcott Yeatman-Biggs, D.D., bishop of Coventry. THE GODOLPHINS 59 lieut.-col. 1814; h.p. 1817; colonel in 1821 ; lieut.-col. 67th foot 1826; sold commission 9 April, 1829. He saw active service at Toulon, 1793, and later in Corsica; ,vas A.Q.M.G. at the taking of the Isle of France, 1810 ; D.Q.M.G. at the conquest of Java, including the attack on Cornelis, for which he received the gold medal. He was created Knight of the Hanoverian order of Guelph in 1836. He died 15 June, 1856, at Harewood Lodge in the parish of East Wood.hay, co. Rants, and was buried in the churchyard there. The will of Nathaniel Burslem of Harewood Lodge, dated 13 March, 1854, was proved in the P.C.C. 27 November, 1856, by the executors, his sons, Rollo Gillespie Burslem and Henry Burslem ; it occupies nearly two pages of the Act Book P.C.C. The beneficiaries were " my dear wife, Sarah Norris Burslem," his three sons, George James Burslem, Rollo Gillespie Burslem, and Henry Burslem, and the four children of George James Burslem by his wife Susan, namely Nathaniel Godolphin Burslem, Thomas Opie Rollo Burslem, Susan Burslem, and Joan Burslem." He married 4 March, 1798, Sarah Norris, dau. of Robert Brooke ; she d. 19 May, 1866, and was buried at East Wood.hay, where there are M.I.'s to her and her husband. They had three sons :- fl. George James Burslem, born c. 1805; ensign 43rd Foot, 10 September, 1825; lieut. 1826. By his wife, Susan, he had two sons and two daughters :- f 1a. Nathaniel Burslem, V.C. ; born c. 1836; comet, land transport corps of the Eastern army in the Crimea, 23 November, 1855; ensign 4th batt. 60th K.R.R.C., 20 February, 1857; lieut. 67th Foot, 1858; with the 67th he served throughout the campaign in China, 1860, being the first Englishman to enter at the storming of Taku fort, where he was severely wounded in three places, and won the V.C.; he was at the surrender of Peking; captain in the K.R.R.C., 1860 ; sold commission 1864. flb. Thomas Opie Rollo Burslem; living in 1854. fl c. Susan Burslem, and fld. Joan Burslem, both alive in 1854. f2. Rollo Gillespie Burslem; born 1813; ensign 13th Foot, 13 September, 1832; lieut. 1835; major 1850; h.p. 13 February, 1855. He served in the Afghan war, 1838-40 ; was made a military knight of Windsor in 1870 ; was governor of the knights 1876 until his death, 26 March, 1896; buried, aged 83, in Sec. G., Windsor cemetery, with his wife, Sofia, who d. 18 July, 1891, aged 75. f3. Francis Henry Burslem, born c. 1806; ensign 9th Foot, 7 April, 1825; lieut. 40th Foot, 1828. He was living in 1856. *3. James, 2nd son of James and Elizabeth Burslem, godson of Elizabeth Godolphin, who d. 1726, was bap. 25 October, 1720, at Packington ; went to Eton, K.S., 1732-8 ; sizar Pembroke 60 THE GODOLPHINS coll., Carob., 1739 ; B.A. 1743/4; M.A. 1747; D.D. 1782; pre­ sented to rectory of Cadeby, 1748 (patron Sir Wolstan Dixie, 4th hart. (1731-66), a first cousin of his mother's) ; he officiated in Cadeby church in 1754, though not inducted until 22 September, 1778; rector of Marsh-Gibbons, co. Bucks, 1778-9 ; rector of Wisbech 1779, until his death on 30 December, 1786. He was buried 7 January, 1787, at St. Margaret's, Westminster. He died intestate and, apparently, in debt to his brother Francis and others:- " Ail ministration of the goods, chattels and credits of the Rev. James Burslem. formerly of Market Bosworth, co. Leicester, late of Wisbech, co. Cambridge. but in the parish of St. Margaret, Westminster, co. Middlesex, Doctor in Divinity. widower. deceased. left unadministered by Willoughby James Burslem, Esq.• the natural and lawful son and one of the next of kin of the said deceased, now also deceased. was granted in the P.C.C., 19 June, 1805. to Marshall William Burslem, the natural and lawful son and one other of the next of kin of the Rev, James Burslem. Bond, £200. Former grant made to Willoughby James Burslem on 11 April. 1788." [P.C.C. Admon. Act Book. 1805.J The following extract from Chancery Proceedings (Reynardson and Edmonstone : Bundle 2057) in 1766, in the suit of James Burslem the elder, gent., v. William Burslem, gent., and James1 Burslem, the younger, clerk, contains the answer of the sons to their father's bill of complaint :- After enumerating the various coal mines, owned and rented by their father, the complainant, they say : " In August, 17 58, they were, and stood. bound with. and engaged for, the said Complainant and for his proper debts. in the sum of £5191 16 3. besides interest due. . . And the said Complainant, being at that time other­ wise indebted to the amount of £540 (over and above the sum of £400. and interest for the same, to Sir Nicholas Bailey, Bart .• the sum of £350 due and owing by the Complainant to the Defendant, William Burslem, and other debts of the Complainant in the Isle of Anglesey), for which they were not bound, but considered themselves liable to pay in all events; And the Com­ plainant having often previously declared he would give over business. and having afterwards (in November. 1758) assigned all his personal estate to the Defendants. who never imagined they would be called to account for it, they took no inventory of it, but (they say) that in August, 1758. it was worth not more then £3000, and that . . they are actually out of pocket, through carrying on his various enterprises in the coal business . . •• " Sworn at the house of John Potter, at Cole Orton. 29 May, 1765 ; signed by William Burslem, J. Burslem, Nathaniel Curzon and John Fowler.'' In the Schedule of their expenses attached to their answer, they show:-

1. Chancery Proceedings (Reynardson and Edmonstone, Bundle, 2315) in 1769, Burslem v. Whitley; the date (1769) is of interest; the suit was brought in the name of " James " Burslem of Cole Orton, coal proprietor, (d. 1766); can this be James, the rector of Cadeby? It is clear that, though presented to that living by his cousin in 1748, he only officiated in 1754, and was not inducted until 1778. Further, the register of freeholder voters in the Leicestershire poll. 12 January, 1775. gives him a vote for the freehold of the rectory of Cadeby, but records that it was then in the tenure of one. Francis Ball. THE GODOLPHINS 61

., Received, clear, from Newhall and Pistern Hill collieries, from August, 1758, inclusive, until 26 October, 1765 £3474 10 0 as against :- ,, Debts of the Complainant, settled by the Defendants, since August, 1758 . . . . £3062 1 9, including £77 19 0, paid to Mr. Cobb."1 The following items in the Schedule are of family interest:­ " 1759. To Defendant, William Burslem's charges to 1 Lichfield, to settle with Mr. Cobb • • 2 6 '' 1759. To Mrs. Parr's2 children, by Mr. Burslem's order 6 1 0 " 1761. To Mrs. Dalby, on account of Mrs. Parr's2 children, for the Board and maintenance of the Complain- ant's grandchildren, whose mother, the Complain- ant's daughter, was in a state of Insanity and poverty . . £10 0 0 '' He married in 1752, Sarah, dau. of Fowler Oldershaw· of Bos­ worth, and widow of Marshall Greswold of Malvern Hall, co. Warws. (see Chane. Pro., 1763, Zincke and Ford, 1289, 11) ; she d. 28 October, 1776, aged 53, and was buried at Bosworth church, where there are M.I.'s to her and to some of her relatives. By her, he had two sons and one daughter :- a. Willoughby James Burslem, bap. 15 February, 1753, Bos­ worth; Eton, K.S., 1764; ensign 22nd Foot, 26 December, 1770; lieut. 1773 ; capt. in the royal Newfoundland regt. ; died at Halifax, Nova Scotia, 22 December, 1802, administration of his estate being granted in the P.C.C. 16 May, 1805 (bond £20), to his widow Sarah, by whom he had three children :- 1. Willoughby James Burslem, d. 19 December, 1783, then described as his only child. (M.I., Whitfield's chapel). 2. Samuel Burslem, d. aged 7. M.I. 3. Maria Burslem, d. aged 2. M.I. b. William Marshall Burslem, whose second name seems to have been chosen in memory of his mother's first husband; he was hap. 6 May, 1755, at Bosworth; captain, battn. of invalid artillery, 1 December, 1782, serving in 1830; he administered his father's estate in 1805, a duty left unexecuted by his brother, no doubt owing to absence abroad ; he is described elsewhere as living at Woolwich in 1833, old and infirm, with his "sister-in-law," Miss Parr, who must have been his first cousin ; he having " sold his commission to pay his father's debts."

1. Mr. Cobb, at Lichfield. Possibly the rev. Dr. Richard Chaloner Cobbe, Treasurer of St. Patrick's, who was the son of Colonel Cobbe by his marriage with Mary Godolphin and was father of the rev. Richard Chaloner Cobbe, rector of Bradenham, described by the antiquarian, John Ward, in his "History of the borough of Stoke-on-Trent," at the time of his marriage (1776, at Market Bosworth) with his cousin Sarah, the rev. Dr. James Burslem's daughter, as "of the neighbourhood of Lichfield." 2. Mrs. Parr. Elizabeth Maria, eldest child of James Burslem, by his marriage with Elizabeth Godolphin, married a Mr. Parr; she was a widow in 1775, and probably before that date. 62 THE GODOLPHINS

c. Sarah; bap. 19 October, 1758, at Bosworth; married 2 May, 1776, at Bosworth, her cousin, the rev. Richard Chaloner Cobbe, rector, 1790-8, of Bradenham ; see descendants of Mary Godolphin, p. 70, where the children of Sarah Cob be are recorded. *4. Margaret, 4th child of James and Elizabeth Burslem, was bap. at Packington on 12 January, 1721 /2, and was buried at Hampstead parish church on 30 November, 1804. She was unmarried and lived for many years with Mrs. Anne Cobbe, probably from 1767, when that lady's husband, the treasurer of St. Patrick's, died, until Mrs. Cobbe's death at Hampstead in August, 1785 ; she was a beneficiary under Mrs. Cobbe's will, and under the will of her cousin, Barbara Mapletoft ; see pp. 68 and 67. *5. Francis, R.N. ; hap. at Pack.ington 15 January, 1722/3; at Eton, K.S., 1732-3, in the year in which his cousin, Dr. Henry Godolphin, provost of Eton, was buried there. His passing certi­ ficate, Navy Board, dated 5 May, 1743, signed by R. H. Alexander Geddes and Charles Compton, affirms that those officers "examined Mr. Francis Burslem who appears to be more than 20 years of age and find that he hath gone to sea more than 7 years in the ships and qualities under mentioned:- Yrs. Mos. Wks. Days. "Royal Academy as per certificate .. 2 11 0 2 " ' Ipswich ' .. Vol. Ordy. 1 12 3 5 " ditto .. Midshpn. . . 2 5 2 I 7 3 2 I

"He produceth a journal kept by himself in the 'Ipswich' and certificates from Captn. Martin of his Diligence," etc. "He can Splice, Knot, Reef a Sail, etc., and is qualified to do the duty of an able Seaman and Midshipman."

He became lieut. 17 September, 1743; t ommander 24 June, 1757 ; post-captain 4 October, 1759 ; he commanded H.M.S. Coventry at the battle of Quiberon bay on 20 November, 1759; in June, 1760, commanding the same ship, 28 guns, he "fought on one day with two French frigates, one of whom was sunk and the other, La Mouche, taken." (O'Byme's Naval Biography 1849). According to Charnock's Biographia Navalis 6,352, captain Burslem "was afterwards appointed to a fifth rate, the name of which we have been unable to discover .. As the gentleman might con­ sequently be considered retired from the service, he was, when he became senior on the list of captains, according to the new regula­ tion made in 1788, put on the list of superannuated officers in that rank," where he is to be found, in Steel's navy lists, paid at the rate of 10/- a day, until 1801, when he was 7th on the list. He died at Youghal, 13 December, 1801, and was buried in St. Mary's church. His will, dated Youghal, 29 July, 1789, was proved in the P.C.C. (343 Kenyon) 21 May, 1802 :- " I, Francis Burslem, Captain of His Majesty's Navy, now of Youghal in the county of Cork, being in bodily health and sound and disposed mind and memory . . bequeath all my worldly estate to be equally divided between my beloved wife Mary Burslem, my daughter Elizabeth Burslem, my son THE GODOLPHINS 63

James Burslem, my son Thomas Burslem, my daughter Frances Burslem, and my daughter Pegg Burslem . . . . my substance being as follows:­ £400 by bond on mortgage on the estate of Hugh and John Swayn at Muckrige, £75 by bond due to me from Mr. Chr Elmore, two fields on lease Mr. Robert Elmach (? Elmore) for three lives, a house on lease from Mr. Lancaster, and a house on lease from Mr. Godfrey, and moneys due to me from Government or any other person. "I appoint my beloved wife Mary Burslem sole administrator and executor . . and to demand from Messrs. Marsh and Creed all moneys due to me from Government and also a note of £100, due to me from my late brother James Burslem, which note is in the hands of Messrs. Marsh and Creed, and offered for payment to his heir Willoughby Burslem, Esq., and, if it please God that any of my children should die before they come of age, such children's money to be divided among the rest. " Dated 29 July, 1789. Witnessed by Elizabeth Gamlitt, Robert Allen and Richard Brodrick. "Proved 21 May, 1802, by Richard Creed, Esq., one of the lawful attorneys of Mary Burslem, widow the relict, . . now residing at Youghal aforesaid." At Muckrige, a mile and a half north of Youghal, there still remains a fine old house : the Swaynes once figured large in local affairs at Youghal. By his wife Mary, who died at Youghal 3 February, 1815, and was buried there, captain Burslem had five children:- a. Elizabeth Burslem, b. c. 1776 ; under 21 in 1789. b. J arnes Godolphin, Burslem, of whom later. c. Thomas Burslem, b. c. 1779. d. Frances Burslem, b. c. 1780. e. Margaret (Pegg) Burslem, b. c. 1781. J arnes Godolphin Burslem, the second child above mentioned, was b. c. 1777. He is first mentioned in the army list as commis­ sioned 2nd lieut. royal artillery, 24 September, 1796; lieut. 17 March, 1798 ; in the battn. invalid artillery 1798; severely wounded, losing a leg at the battle of Alexandria, 21 March, 1801 ; retired on full pay 1 1Iarch, 1819 ; assistant fire master, ordnance depart­ ment at the royal laboratory, Portsea, 1818-1826, and possibly later. He appears in the army list of 1861 but, not appearing again, pro bably 1 died c. 1862. He married at Washington, co. Sussex, 2 April, 1803, Nancy Dent, in the presence of Sir Charles Foster Goring (7th bart. of Highden, in Washington), Lady Goring (formerly Bridget Dent) and Margaret Dent. Sir Charles was nephew of Mrs. Juliana Mary Caroline Goring of Wiston Park, who was a dau. of Sir Willoughby Wolstan Dixie, 7th bart., a 3rd cousin of the bridegroom. (See Burke's Baronetage.) James and Nancy had five children:-· bl. John, bap. 10 June, 1807, at St. Thomas', Portsmouth. Probably identical with John James Burslem, ensign 61st Foot, 9 April, 1825 ; lieut. 26 September, 1826 ; in army list in 1830.

1. Note. The burial of an unidentified " James Burslem" (d. 3 May, 1835)," son-in-law of William Doust," aged 66, of Gt. Surrey st., psh. Ch. Ch., (nr. St. Paul's Cath.), is recorded at St. Alphege's, Greenwich; he was probably son of Mary Burslem, admon. of whose estate, late of the parish of St. George, Southwark, widow, was granted in the P.C.C., 7 June, 1805, to James Burslem, the natural and lawful son; bond, £100. This lady's burial is not recorded 1804-5, either at St. George's or St. Saviour's, Southwark. 64 THE GODOLPHINS

b2. Godolphin James, bap. 30 September, 1808, St. Thomas', Portsmouth. Entered royal navy 15 December, 1823, as 1st class volunteer on the Lively (42, capt. Elliott received medal for services off Lisbon, 1824-5; midshipman in West Indies; December, 1826, Sattelite ; October, 1829, Cruizer ; 13 January, 1821, mate in Sattelite; November, 1832, Forester, wrecked on Scilly Islands; March, 1833, Britomart; 1837, Dolphin; 15 January, 1838, commissioned lieut., commanded Viper and paid her off, 1841 ; 1841, Dublin ; 20 August, 1841, commanded Lynx ; invalided on h.p., 1843 ; in coastguard at Gillingham, 15 August, 1850 ; commander, coastguard pensioners, 23 August, 1865-75; in navy list 1891, but not later. b3. Marian; bap. 11 May, 1810, St. Thomas', Portsmouth. b4. Ellen; bap. 8 May, 1812; St. Thomas', Portsmouth. b5. Willoughby Marshall ; born 11 May, bap. 23 June, 1818, St. John's, Portsea; died 26 May, 1889, at Eagles' Crag, Bournemouth, buried St. Peter's; m. Caroline Belinda --, who was born 31 March, 1829, d. 1 October, 1923, buried St. Peter's, Bournemouth. He was K.S. at Eton, 1830-2; M.D. Edin., 1839; L.R.C.P.:, 30 September, 1846; M.R.C.S., 1849; F.R.C.P., 1858; house physician to Edinborough royal infirmary, c. 1840-2; in 1845 lived at 36, Chester place West, Chester Square; known as "Bournemouth's first doctor," having been physician to the royal national sanatorium from its foundation in 1855 to 1870, then consulting physician until his death in 1889. His widow was sole executor of his estate; she died evidently without issue, her executor being Florence Maud Berthon, the daughter of her sister Frances Maria Berthon; her will, which was proved in the P.C.C., in November, 1923, also mentions her nephew Ormonde Butler Browne. *6. Godolphin, sixth child of James and Elizabeth Burslem, hap. at Packington, 28 January, 1723/4; buried there 21 May, 1724. *7. Barbara, bap. 2 February, 1725 /6, at Packington ; m. 16 July, 1755, at St. Peter's, Stapenhill, Richard Daston, junior, of Stapenhill, and had two children, James Richard Daston, who d. before 1775, and Elizabeth Catherine Daston, buried there 31 January, 1760; Barbara was buried at Stapenhill, 23 November, 1760. *8. Arabella, bap. 27 December, 1726, and buried 21 January, 1726/7, at Packington. *9. Laetitia, bap. 2 April, · t 728, at Packington ; m. 8 April, 1763, at St. Peter's, Stapenhill, Thomas Sparham, and had four children, all of whom were living in 1775, when their grand­ father's will was proved:- a. James Sparham. b. Elizabeth Sparham. c. Maria Sparham. d. Susan Averilla Sparham. No record of these has been found, later than 1775. THE GODOLPHINS 65

*10. Katherine; baptised 26 March, 1731, at Packington; married on 10 July, 1763, at St. Peter's, Stapenhill, 1Joseph Lovatt, gent., bachelor, of Stone, co. Staffs. The maniage was witnessed by her brother-in-law, Thomas Sparham, and by Maria Parr, her eldest niece. She is mentioned as legatee in several wills : her father's, 1765, proved 1775, and in that of Barbara and Susannah Mapletoft, her cousins, 1793-4, where she is described as the "widow of Joseph Lovatt, late of Darlaston, co Staffs." Her husband was buried at Stone, 23 December, 1790. By him she had five children, born at Burybank, Darlaston, Stone :- a. Elizabeth Lovatt ; bap. at Stone on 10 April, 1765. b. Joseph Lovatt ; baptised on 17 June, 1767, at Stone ; died 21 February, 1851, aged 84, and buried 26 February at St. Mary's, Stafford; m. twice; by his first wife, who d. 1798 at Stone, he had no issue; he m. secondly, by lie., 30 April, 1809, at St. Chad's, Stafford, his cousin Sarah (1781-1851 ), only child of his father's younger brother, Thomas Lovatt (1726-1802), by his wife, Mary Horton (1751-1819). Joseph's only surviving child, Frances Lovatt, born 1813 and bap. 6 July, at St. Chad's, m. 13 May, 1838, at Liverpool, Richard John 2Marsh, commander, R.N. (1798- 1878), of Creswell, Stafford; their children were born and bap. at Ramsey, I.O.M. ; their 2nd son, Henry Marsh, R.N. (1844-1900), m. 30 October, 1869, at Castle Church, Marian, dau. of Thomas and Harriet Caroline Lloyd of Stafford, and had by her three sons, the second of whom is the writer of these records. c. James Lovatt, bap. 25 April, 1769, at Stone. d. Margaret and Mary Lovatt, twins, born at Burybank, 30 December, 1771, and bap. 2 January, 1772, at Stone. 2. Barbara Godolphin, second daughter and third child of Francis and Elizabeth Godolphin, was born in October, 1689 ; her age is recorded in chancery proceedings (Hamilton 141, 111) quoted on p. 46 above. She was not baptised at St. James', West­ minster, as her brothers and sisters were. She was buried in Chester cathedral, 8 June, 1762. She was married in about 1723 to the rev. canon John Mapletoft, prebendary and vice-dean of Chester, who was born in 1685; B.A. of Cambridge 1707 M.A. 1710, fellow oi Pembroke coll., vicar of N eston 1719-1761, rector of West Kirby, and according to Ormerod's Cheshire 1, 268, " regarded as a learned and accom­ plished preacher." In a printed sermon, delivered on 5 May, 1756, in Chester cathedral, he is described as chaplain to the earl of Godolphin, ,vho was a distant cousin of his wife's. He died at his house in Chester on 11 June, 1761, and was buried, 14 June, in the cathedral. He appears always to have presided at the annual

1. Connected with the Lovatts of Clayton, Staffs., ancestors of major Lewis Lovat Ayshford Wise (1844-1929) and of the late Mr. James Lovatt, dep. high steward of Newcastle, Staffs., J.P. 2. Of a Staffordshire family, whose descent and ramifications through several centuries, well defined in local parish registers, probate courts and manor court rolls, have been recorded elsewhere by the writer. 66 THE GODOLPHINS vestry meeting at Neston, but to have signed the registers for the first ten or eleven years only, during his incumbency; probably his canonical duties occupied his time. He and his family did, however, spend part of the year at Neston, for Mrs. Delaney (1700- 88), the literary niece of George Granville, lord Lansdowne, writes from Parkgate, near Neston, in 1754 :- " Yesterday morning we walked to a neighbouring village called Nersan to visit the minister, Mr. Mapletoft, his wife and daughters." Mrs. Delaney must have known Barbara and her brothers and sisters from childhood, the first fifteen years of her own life having been spent in the Wiltshire village of Coulston, where Barbara's aunt Elizabeth Godolphin and uncle (Charles) lived in the house built by Barbara's grandfather, after 1726 the country seat of her brother, major William Godolphin. Mrs. Delaney was certainly a close friend of Barbara's cousin, Mary, the duchess of Leeds. Barbara's husband, as the son of Peter Mapletoft of Stamford, and grandson of the rev. Joshua Mapletoft (d. 1635), was related to several distinguished clerics ; and his first cousin, Elizabeth, had married, in 1703, the rev. Francis Gastrell, D.D., afterwards bishop of 1Chester (d. 1725), to whom canon John Mapletoft owed his prebend and livings in that diocese. John and Barbara Mapletoft had six children, the records of whose baptisms are in the cathedral register, having been intimated to the sacrist on 22 January, 1736/7, for entry there:- *l. Elizabeth, bap. 13 March, 1723/4, godchild of Elizabeth Godolphin, her mother's aunt who founded the Godolphin school at Salisbury. She died, aged 29, unmarried, 21 May, 1753, "deservedly a most beloved daughter," according to the M.I. in Chester cathedral. *2. Barbara, bap. 2 April, 1725 ; died unmarried, 30 December, 1793, aged 69 ; buried in the cathedral 7 January, 1794. Her will, dated 19 January, 1793, was proved in the P.C.C. (31 Holman), 15 January, 1794 ; an abstract follows :- " I . . bequeath everything to my sister Susannah Mapletoft, but if she be dead, then as follows :- " To the Rev. Peploe Ward of Chester and Richard Barker of Chester £400 in trust, to pay the interest to Elizabeth Hand, spinster, now residing in Newgate Street, Chester, for her life, and after her death the capital to be paid to Mrs. Mary Mapletoft, the widow of my late brother, the Rev. John Mapletoft, deceased.

1. The bishop's nephew, Peregrine Gastrell, chancellor of the diocese, was father of the rev. Francis Gastrell (1707-1772) whose widow (Jane Aston) lived at Stowhill, Lichfield, the friend of Boswell and Dr. Johnson. Another " widow lady, Mrs. Cobb, who lived in an agreeable and sequestered place close by the town called the Friary'' and entertained Dr. Johnson and his friend at breakfast, 24 March, 1776, may be identified with Mary (Godolphin, seep. 67), widow of colonel Cobbe and grandmother of the rev. R. C. Cobbe whom Ward (Hist. of Stoke-on-Trent) describes as ".of the neighbourhood of Lichfield" Dr. Johnson had certainly known Mary Cobbe's relatives, the Duties of Bosworth, (see Boswell's Life of Johnson, 9th ed., ed. Malone, 1822, I., 53, and A. L. Reade's johnsonian Gleanings: Part V., 80). THE GODOLPHINS 67

"Also to the same trustees, £50 for the Treasurer of the Chester Infirmary. Also I give £50 to my god-daughter Miss Jane Mainwaring, daughter of Edward Mainwaring of Chester, :Miss Ann Henchman £50, Miss Elizabeth Henchman £10, Mrs. Gertrude Partington £20, to my 2 executors the Rev. Peploe Ward and Richard Barker £100 each, to my servant Ellen Smith £100 and all my wearing apparel, and one year's wages to each other servant. "I give and bequeath the residue of my personal estate and effects unto, and equally between, Catherine Lovett, the widow of Joseph Lovett, late of Darlaston, co. Staffs., and Margaret Burslem of Hampstead, co. Middlesex, spinster, share and share alike, and if either of them shall happen to die in my lifetime, then I give the whole to the survivor. " My Sister Susannah to be my sole executor if she survive me. Witnessed by Sarah Hesketh, J. Monk." *3. Susannah, bap. 30 March, 1726 ; died 15 March, 1795, unmarried; buried 24 March; M.I. in the north choir aisle of Chester cathedral. She and her sister Barbara were, from 1788 until they died, trustees of the Godolphin school at Salisbury. Her will, dated 19 November, 1794, was proved in the P.C.C. (265 Newcastle), 2 April, 1795, by her two executors, the rev. Peploe Ward and Richard Barker, both of Chester, the legacies being identical with those enumerated in her late sister's will, above quoted, the residuary legatees also the same, Catherine Lovatt and Margaret Burslem. It was witnessed by John Griffith and J. Monk. *4. Rebekah, bap. 23 August, 1727 ; probably died young. *5. John, bap. 20 September, 1728 ; matriculated at Oxford, B.N.C. 7 March, 1746/7, aged 17; B.A. 13 October, 1750 ; rem. 5 December, 1754. It is clear, from his sisters' wills, that he married a lady named Mary, and died before 19 January, 1793. There is no record of any children. *6. Henry, bap. 17 January, 1729 /30. He probably died young. 3. Mary Godolphin, third daughter and fourth child of Francis and Elizabeth Godolphin, was born on 19 November, 1693, and baptised on 4 December at St. James', Westminster. She was married, by licence and banns, as the following copy of her marriage register shows :- " St. Martin's-in-the-Fields (6 St. l\1artin's Place, \V.C.2) "l\'.larried 23 November. 1726. " Richard Chaloner Cob be of. ,vinchester in ye county of Southampton and Mary Godolphin of St. Paul, Covent Garden. p.L.A.B." Her husband was then lieut.-colonel in Hawley's Foot, his seniority dating from 5 October, 1721 ; he was still serving in 1730 (army list, 1730, P.R.O., MS. 5433) ; he is described in Foster's Alum. Oxon. as " of Dublin, armiger." His younger brother was Charles (1686-1765) archbishop of Dublin, 1743-65, ancestor of the Cobbes of Newbridge Ho., Donabate, co. Dublin. He was eldest son of Thomas Cobbe by his wife Veriana, daughter of James Chaloner (governor of the Isle of Man, 1659-60), a.11.d grand­ daughter of Sir Philip Fairfax of Steeton ; for his ancestry see Burke's L.G. E 68 THE GODOLPHINS No further record of Mary1 or of her husband has been found, but they appear to have lived in Dublin. Their son, Richard Chaloner Cobbe (II), was born c. 1728; he matriculated at Oxford, Oriel coll., 14 March, 1745/6, aged 18; B.A., 1749 ; M.A., 1750 ; hon. LL.D., Trinity coll., Dublin, 1757 ; prebendary of St. Patrick's, 1751 ; prebendary of St. Andoen's, 1754 ; treasurer of St. Patiick's, 13 July, 1759, installed 20 July; vicar of St. Anne's, Dublin, 1760-64; VJcar of Finglas, near Dublin, 1762-7-; he died intestate, 5 July, 1767; an inscription on a mural tablet in St. Canice's church at Finglas records that :- " He was a Scholar, a Gentleman, and a Christian: an indefatigable, instructive and benevolent Pastor : a tender Husband, and indulgent Father : a warm and steady Friend. In St. Anne's parish he enlarged the School by an addition of ten females : he established here the first parochial charity School in the neighbourhood of Dublin. He exchanged this,.Iife for a better July 5, 1767, in the 40th year of his age." He married, c. 1754, Anne Fem, sister of one George Fem; after his death at Finglas in 1767, his widow came to live at Hamp­ stead, where she was buried on 30 August, 1785. ·Mrs. Anne Cob be's will ran as follows :- " I, Anne Cobbe, . . being of sound mind and memory direct I may be buried in the parish I shall happen to die in and that my personal estate be sold, to raise money for the following legacies and, if it be not sufficient, then that the deficiency be made good out of that third, to which I am absolutely entitled, in the lease of New Barton Farm, near Win­ chester, held under the Dean and Chapter of the cathedral church of Win­ chester. "I give and bequeath to my dearly beloved friend Margaret Burslem as a token of my regard for her and as a grateful return for her tender care and affection to me for many years past, all my wearing apparel, but if there be any part she does not choose to keep, I desire that she will give the same to Elizabeth Yalden if living ~ith me at the time of my death. "I give to the said Margaret Burslem my chased gold watch, my silver coffee pot, and diamond pin, also for her life one annuity of £20, to be paid by my executor out of the rents and profits of New Barton Farm . . but in case of the failure of regular payments, I give, in lieu, the sum of £500, also £10 for mourning. " To my much valued and respected friends Henry Symonds of Hampstead, Esq., and Elizabeth his wife five guineas each for a ring, and to my servant Elizabeth Yalden, for her fidelity for twenty years, £10, and £10 for mourning. " And whereas I am administrator to my late brother George Fern . . and having put aside the sum of £900 in the 4 per cent. Consolidated Annuities to meet any claims on account of my brother's estate, my will is that my dear friend Margaret Burslem shall enjoy the interest of that sum . . and to have any surplus remaining of the £900 stock ; but if she be dead, the stock to be divided among my dear grandchildren." " To my dear grand-daughter Sarah Anne Cobbe my diamond earrings and a plain gold watch. " To my dear grandson Richard Challoner Cobbe a silver watch and a silver scalloped waiter with coats of arms on it and my silver tankard.

1. The following may refer to Mary Cobbe who, however, would be, in l 788, 95 years of age :- Administration of the estate of Elizabeth Cobbe, late of the parish of St. Mary, Lambeth, spinster, deceased, was granted in the P.C.C., 18 April, 1788, to Mary Cobbe, widow, the natural and lawful mother and next of kin of the said deceased. THE GODOLPHINS 69

"To my daughter Sarah Cobbe my diamond hoop ring. " The residue to my dear son Richard Challoner Cobbe, whom I appoint my sole executor. "Dated 5 December, 1783. Witnessed by Robert Vincent, William Jeffray and W. Owen.'' Her will, was proved in the P.C.C. (461 Ducarel), 8 September, 1785, by the rev. Richard Chaloner Cobbe, Clerk, son of the deceased and sole executor in the will, to whom administration was granted. He, however, died without having administered his mother's estate and, as noted in the margin of the record at Somerset House, "On 19 December, 1804, administration, with will annexed, of the goods, etc., of Anne Cobbe, late of Hampstead, widow, deceased, left unadministered by the Rev. Richard Chaloner Cobbe, Clerk, deceased, whilst living the son and sole executor and residuary legatee named in the said will, was granted to" (the words" the reverend" are erased) "Richard Chaloner Cobbe, Esq., the administrator of the goods, etc., of the said Rev. Richard Chaloner Cobbe, Clerk, deceased, the said executor dying intestate." Richard Chaloner Cobbe (III), the son and, so far as is known, the only child of the treasurer of St. Patrick's by his wife Anne Fem, was baptised on 21 April, 1755, at St. Sepulchre's, the palace of his uncle, the archbishop of Dublin. Like his father he matricu­ lated at Oxford, Oriel coll., 25 Ap1il, 1776, aged 21, and in the same year he married by licence, at Market Bosworth, his cousin Sarah, daughter of the rev. James Burslem, D.D., and grand­ daughter of James Burslem (1695-1766) by his wife Elizabeth Godolphin. He is variously described as " of Easton, co. Hants," of " the neighbourhood of Lichfield," and as "rector of Little Marlow" where no record of his incumbency exists ; but he was certainly rector of Bradenham, near Marlow, from 1790 to 1798. From ..,, 1788 until his death in 1804, he was a trustee of the Godolphin school at Salisbury, in which capacity he has been mistaken, in some records, for his son, of whom later. He probably was con­ nected with the Winchester farm, mentioned in his mother's will; but there is no evidence, except that of the antiquaiian John Ward, of his having lived at Lichfield. It is true that, in 1759, his cousin, William Burslem, had occasion to travel on business, transacted with a Mr. Cobb (possibly, but improbably, the treasurer of St. Patrick's) at Lichfield; in this connection see note on p. 66. His cousin and wife, Sarah, was baptised at Market Bosworth on 19 October, 1758 ; the bride and bridegroom in 1776 were there­ fore 18 and 21 years of age respectively. The records of the baptism of their children have not yet come to light, while only one of these has attracted the notice of contemporary historians, Frances, their third daughter, of whom later. Administration of "the goods, chattels and credits of the Rev. Richard Challoner Cobbe, late Rector of Brandenham, co. Bucks., was granted in P.C.C., 19 December, 1804, to Richard Challoner Cobbe, Esq., the natural and lawful son and one of the next of kin having been first sworn duly to administer, Sarah Anne Cobbe, widow the relict, dying without taking upon her the letters of admin­ istration of the goods of the said deceased. Bond £5." 70 THE GODOLPHINS

The above shows that the rector of Bradenham died before his wife, and that both died before 19 December, 1804, though when and where is not yet known. The above reference to his widow, as '' Sarah Anne '' cannot be correct ; her baptismal record at Bosworth names her '' Sarah,'' and the reference to her in her mother-in-law's will is to cc my daughter Sarah Cobbe" ; " Sarah Anne" was either the sister, or the wife, of Mrs. Anne Cobbe's grandson, Richard Chaloner Cobbe (IV). The rector of Bradenham and his wife Sarah seem to have had one son and three daughters, and these bore a double strain of Godolphin blood, being the great-grandchildren of the two sisters, Elizabeth and Mary Godolphin :- a. Richard Chaloner Cobbe (IV), born c. 1777. He is identified by the writer with the assistant-surgeon 49th Herts. regiment, 1797; surgeon 1st royal regt. of foot, 1800 ; surgeon, 20th Jamaica regt. of light dragoons, 1802 ; on half pay, 1803-1829. He was a trustee of the Godolphin school at Salisbury, until, as the Charity commissioners reported, he died in 1829 ; he disappears also from the army list in that year. He is further identified by the writer with the man of the same name, cc Richard Chaloner Cobbe, of 37, High Holborn, late of Platts Woollaston, co. Gloucester, and Great Charlotte street, Blackfriars road, co. Surrey, surgeon," whose will, a matter of half a dozen lines only, mentions only one person; it is dated 7 July, 1824, and was proved in the P.C.C. (343), 16 June, 1829, by the executrix, "my best and ever truest friend," Isabella Maria Forbes, wife of Thomas Forbes. He married a sister of another surgeon, Henry Samuel Hammond, of Edmonton, the latter being appointed guardian, in 1830, to Richard's son Charles, and a trustee, in Richard's place, on the board of trustees for the Go dolphin school. He had two daughters and one son; of these Miss Frances Emily Co bbe was a trustee of the Godolphin school from 1843 to 1886, and probably died unmarried ; the second daughter has left no 1record; his son, Charles Marshall Godolphin Cobbe, an infant in Chancery in 1830 and the ward of his uncle, Dr. Hammond, died in 1833; there is no record of his death at Edmonton. b. Sarah Anne Cobbe, mentioned in the will of her grandmother and possibly identical with the widow, " Mrs. Bellamy, a sister of Mr. Cobbe " in 1835. c. A daughter, of whose existence the only record is the fact that her parents had three daughters. d. Frances, the third daughter, born c. 1782. Immediately before her marriage in 1803, she was living at Ipswich, as Bell's Huntingdon Peerage Case, 1828, relates that Hans Francis Hastings, then lieut., R.N., 1. The two Misses Cobbe were pupils at the Godolphin school at Salisbury in 1836, and were on the foundation as "founder's kin." Their brother received an income [see p. 74] from the Godolphin trustees, amounting to one half of the total available revenue. THE GODOLPHINS 71

"-posted off to Ipswich, carried his present countess, to whom he had previously paid his addresses, to London, and married her at St. Anne's, Soho, 12 May, 1803." Her husband (1779-1828) took his seat as 11th earl of Huntingdon in 1819, was governor of Dominica 1822-4, and post-captain, R.N., 1824. The work above quoted has a fine engraving of her portrait. At least one in each succeeding generation of her descendants, in the family of the earls of Huntingdon, has borne the name Godolphin ; see Peerage. To · conclude the records of the Godolphins of Spargor and of Coulston, it remains to narrate the stages by which the Godolphin schools came into existence :-

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The following facts are taken from the Charity Commissioners' repo-rt dated IO January, 1833, printed 1835, vol. 26, p. 768, also Reports on Charities 1894-1903, vol. 3. p. 399. Further details may be found in Hoare's History of WiltshiYc., 1843 ; repo-rt of the Schools Inquiry Commission, London, 1868, fol. vol. 10, 62-69; Parliamentary Papers, 1867-8, vol. 28, pt. 9. pp. 58-69; Illus­ trated London News, 1862, 40, 418; and in certain documents less easy of access:-

It is often supposed that Sir William Godolphin (1634-1696) founded the Godolphin school at Hammersmith, but this is only partly true. He died in Madrid on 11 July, 1696, leaving, among other be­ quests, personal legacies of £4,000 to his niece Elizabeth Godolphin and £1,000 to her husband Charles. These legacies were independent of a previous bequest, made by him in 1669, of £3000 for educational purposes, not directly specified. A liability to provide half of that amount, £1,500, was, by Act of Parliament, 2 April, 1698, imposed upon Charles and his wife. They discharged this liability on 21 December, 1703, assigning two plots of land on the west side of St. James' Street, occupied in 1719 by two houses, Nos. 64 and 65, to three trustees (George Langton of Langton, co. Lincoln, Thomas Williams of the paiish of St. Anne, Westminster, and Samuel Edwards of St. Margaret's, Westminster, Esq.) of which the ground rents then amounted to £25 and £20 respectively, for the endowment of a boys' school in London ; and on 14 February the Master in Chancery declared their legal liabilities in the matter at an end. Elizabeth's nephew and heir relegated his responsibilities to a solicitor, nor did his heirs find any deeds or documents relating to the property, which appreciated considerably in value, and from which a moderate capital sum should have accrued during the century and a quarter, at the end of which the Charity Com­ missioners made their report. 72 THE GODOLPHINS

On 26 February, 1835, the 1property was composed of the Cocoa Tree Club house in St. James' Street, consisting of the coffee room, drawing room over it, and two floors over that (the yard, kitchen, scullery and offices being supposed to belong to lord Godolphin) in the possession of one, Ruggett, as tenant at £300 a year, and the contiguous house in the same street, in possession of a tai101, Pulford, at £250 a year. Such funds as were available were in the hands of Mr. Robert Long, a solicitor, but they were amalgamated with those of another educational endowment, that which had already materialised in the Godolphin school of Salisbury, with which the founders' heirs were better acquainted. For this school, also, Sir William Godolphin deserves some credit "On a division of the personal estate of the said Sir William," as his niece's will states, there were allotted to her and her husband, 42,890 ducats and 13 grosses, then in the Zecca, also 4,760 ducats in the Oglio at Venice, and 2,400 ducats owed by one Senr Rezzonico, the whole producing 2£3,890 /-/9 ; Elizabeth Godolphin augmented this by £1,109/19/3, i.e., to £5,000 and, as explained in her codicil, invested this in three rent charges on property in Somersetshire, "viz., out of the estate of Thomas Burgess £40 per annum, and out of the estate of Hanna Burgess £20 per annum, and out of the estate of Thomas Nicholls £120 per annum, for which I have paid £4860, and which with other" out of pocket" expenses exceeded £5000; I do hereby revoke the devise of the £5000 in my will and direct that the same shall not be raised or paid, and in lieu thereof I give the said annuities and all my interest therein unto my nephew William Godolphin and his heirs, upon the several uses and charities in my said will mentioned." The purchases were made on her behalf by Samuel Edwards, who has been mentioned above, the other trustees, the dean and chapter of Sarum, declining the trust. The income from this investment produced only £180 a year ; it comprised the rents obtained from four properties in the parish of St. John, Glaston­ bury, namely : Wick farm, Lawrence house, Lawrence farm lying in South Moor, Kennard Moor and Common Moor, and the Sand­ hole on the north side of the Tor ; also from one piece of land in the parish of St. Benedict, Glastonbury, and two rent charges of £40 and £20 in the parish of West Pennard, including farmhouses at Coxbridge, Lintems and Goldsmith's Mead. The value of these rents increased, until in 1833 they appear to have been worth £437 2 0 annually. Major Godolphin, as Elizabeth's heir, charged with the super­ intendence of this foundation also, relegated it to a council. But no funds in any quantity accumulated. The council, in 1734, con­ sented that Mr. Davis, recorder of Wells, proceed to obtain the proper

l. A well known firm of gunmakers have been carrying on business at :No. 64 for the last century and the grandfather of the present proprietor, James ¥/oodward, resided there. Pulford & Sons were established at No. 65 some years before the date mentioned. 2. Venetian currency had depreciated, and the "£8000" of Charles Godolphin's settlement had dwindled proportionately. THE GODOLPHINS 73 deeds for the establishment of Godolphin's Charity .. In 1780, they recorded that Mr. Edward Edwards of Salisbury had received the rents up to Christmas, 1776; and at a third meeting on 18 November, 1788, it was stated that the sum of £1,908-3-9 invested in the 3% Bank Annuities stood in the names of Walter Lander, M.D., William Yalden, Esq., Messrs. John 1Blake, John Philpot, John Kindersley and Robert Long, as trustees. Meanwhile, in May, 1784, the Court of Chancery gave a decision to the effect that action should be taken immediately and, on 9 August, 1784, the school was opened in Rosemary Lane, Miss Giffard, the first Governess, receiving eight daughters of clergymen, the sum of £180 being provided annually for these, and taking eight other pupils on her own terms. Family history now comes into play. In 1788 the Court of Chancery issued another order, trans£erring the possession of the Charity estates from the council to the heirs of major Godolphin, namely William Godolphin Burslem, grandson of Elizabeth (major Godolphin's eldest sister), Barbara and Susannah Mapletoft, daughters of Barbara Godolphin (his second sister), and the rev. Richard Chaloner Co bbe, rector of Bradenham (1790- 1798), grandson of Mary Godolphin (his third sister). It was decreed at the same time that these heirs should appoint a Receiver, salaried at £10 a year, that they should receive notices of the numbers of pupils with details concerning them, and should appoint a monthly visitor ; no pupil, admitted under the Charity, was to be in possession of a fortune of more than £500. The family of Mapletoft became extinct in 1795, the rector of Bradenham died in about 1804, though this fact appears to have escaped general notice at the time, and William Godolphin Burslem died in 1809, leaving his only child, Margaretta Anne, wife of Harry Biggs, Esq., his heir-at-law. The Charity, therefore, in 1810, was in the hands of Mrs. Biggs, representing the Burslems, and Mr. Richard Chaloner Cobbe (whom the Miter identifies with the surgeon of that name) representing the Cobbes. Miss Giffard, Governess of the school at Salisbury, became Mrs. Davis and was succeeded in 1815 by Miss Anna Maria Alford, who in 1833 stated that she had never communicated with any person respecting the school except Mr. and Mrs. Biggs, although Mr. Cobbe once sent her £50 and occasionally asked how the pay­ ments were going on. Miss Alford resigned and was replaced by Miss Emly, both of these ladies having been appointed by Mr. and Mrs. Biggs, with the concurrence of Mr. Cobbe. At Miss Emly's death in 1832, Miss Bazley became Governess.

1. John Blake, of Essex Street, St. Clement Dane's, gent., was a trustee in James Burslem's will dated 26 December, 1765, who renounced the trust 8 May, 1775, in favour of the two elder sons of the testator. Robert Long, solicitor, has been mentioned previously. 74 THE GODOLPHINS

It was at about this time that the Charity Commissioners enquired into the state of the two Godolphin charities. It appeared that the real management of the finances had, for a very long time, been in the hands of Mr. Robert Long, the solicitor before men­ tioned, who was probably originally employed by major William Godolphin of Coulston. The r..ttention of the Commissioners seems to have been drawn to the charities by a new trustee, Mr. Hammond. Mr. Cobbe had died in 1829, leaving Charles Marshall Godolphin Cobbe, then very young, his heir-at-law, and two daughters. This infant was, in 1830, placed under the guardianship of his uncle, Henry Samuel Hammond, Esq., surgeon, of Edmonton ; the boy, however, died in 1833 and, although his rights and responsibilities devolved upon his two sisters, the latter were not recognized by the Court of Chancery for the next ten years. In the meantime, Mr. Hammond took exception, not to the fact that the funds of the charities were being devoted to the maintenance of needy descen­ dants of the founder instead of to education, but to the manner in which 1ir. Long kept his accounts, and withheld them from the trustees. It transpired that, although the income assigned to the school at Salisbury by the Court of Chancery, in 1784, appeared to have been regularly paid to the school, the balance of the revenues derived from the Godolphin bequests had been applied to the relief of poor persons, some of founder's kin, others having no such claim. The infant Cobbe, no doubt on the grounds of his having inherited a double strain of Godolphin blood, had received what was termed by Mr. Long, his "moiety," which amounted in the year 1830 to £249 14 9. The account, in which this item appears, was dated by 1\Ir. Long, then residing at Manor House, Dawlish, 20 September, 1830 ; he had received "by one year's rent of the houses in St. James Street, £550"; he had spent £50 10 6 on "insurance, postage and other outgoings"; on the other side was debited" the infant Cobbe's moiety, £249 14 9; expenses attending Mr. Hammond's appointment as guardian, paid to Hemmings and Baxter, solicitors, Lincoln's Inn Fields, £119 1 9 " (an item to which the Commissioners, in their report of 10 January, 1833, took strong exception):, leaving a balance to be distributed, of £130 13 O." This was the only account that Mr. Hammond seems ever to have extracted from Mr. Long, though the latter, this time VtTiting from Prospect House, 12 May, 1832, appears to have written to Mr. Hammond at some length; unfortunately, his letter is not on record. The distribution of Mr. Long's '' balances '' had been made in all good faith by the trustees, who for many years had not called Mr. Long's financial management in question. For instance, Mrs. Biggs had recorded the receipts of:- £90 in 1820 £75 in 1825 £140 in 1829 £110 1822 ,.,,,175 1826 £140 1830 £90 1823 £105 1827 £145 1831 £105 1824 £145 1828 £195 1832 THE GODOLPHINS 75 and she had disbursed the whole of these sums, either to the school or to needy persons, as Mr. Hammond had also done; and the certificates of poverty were regularly forwarded to Mr. Long. The following persons received Mrs. Biggs' disbursements, apart from amounts remitted to the school at Salisbury:- ,, 1. Miss Burslem, £50 a year; the daughter of a Lieutenant in the Navy; she and a sister, constantly ill and often deranged, are entirely supported by the Charity. She is (1833) of the founder's kin, but a total stranger to Mr. and Mrs. Biggs. . "2. Mrs. Potticary, of the parish of Wily, Wiltshire, £30 a year, in respect of her son, a clergyman, in the lunatic asylum at Fisherton Anger, near Salisbury. He depends on his mother for support, who is a "\vidow with a large family. "3. :Mrs. Jessop, £10 a year, a widow at Darking. "4. Mrs. Staines, of Christchurch, Hants, £15 a year, grand-daughter of a physician. " 5. Mrs. Danks, £10 a year, at Christchurch .. "6. John Sutton, £20 a year . . He died a few months ago (1833). " 7. Mrs. Hall, of Stockton, Wilts, received once £30; a widow. " 8. Mrs. Bellamy, £10 a year; a sister of the late Mr. Cobbe; a widow and distressed. "9. Miss Parr, of Woolwich, £'20; a sister-in-law of Mr. Burslem, formerly in the Artillery, but sold his commission to pay his father's debts; he is destitute, old and infirm, and Miss Parr resides with him." Similarly, as regards the school at Salisbury, after 1809, Mr. and Mrs. Biggs had nominated half of the pupils and Mr. Cob be the other half. After Mr. Cobbe's death in 1829, half of the nominations had been made by Mr. Hammond, and the latter had in 1830 personally inspected the Somersetshire properties from which Mr. Long derived the school revenue. The Commissioners found that none of the trustees had ever seen the Orders in Chancery, which had been promulgated from time to time; Mr. Long appears to have retained these in his various homes in the west country. In consequence of Mr. Long's reticence, the trustees believed that kin of the founders might be nominated to the school, whether orphans or not, or whatever might be the amount of their fortune. For instance, Miss Alford recollected the names of fifteen pupils who had lost only one parent, and Miss Ewly six. Mrs. Biggs "remembered none of that description excepting herself, and perhaps three Miss Burslems, and none of these would have been placed at the school but for the above mentioned misapprehension of the privileges enjoyed by founder's kin." To return to the financial aspect of the question, it seems that Mr. Long apportioned the Somerset rents to Salis bury and to the charities of the Burslem representative, as has been shown, and the St. James' Street rents to the Cobbes and to the charities of the Cobbe representative, Mr. Hammond, who produced the following account in 1833, for the previous five years, showing receipts from Mr. Long of £638 13 0, and expenditure, by himself, of £565 on annual pittances to "Mary Johnson, Henry Bunce, Andrew Baird, M. Anne Blythe, Elizabeth Viton, Sophia Anne Morrice, Kitty Taylor, Lucy Greenwood, and one Burslem," the last-named in 1832. 76 THE GODOLPHINS

In J anY·, 1833 :- " Whitbread, Mrs. Sarah, £30; undistributed, 1830-32, £65 13 0. The sum of £4 7 9 is due to Henry Hammond from the St. James' Charity for bill-stamps, postage, etc." The upshot of the enquiry ,vas a recommendation that "Mr. Long be called to account by His Majesty's attorney-general," and an Order by the Court of Chancery, 25 April, 1852, providing for a school in l\i1iddlesex, for boys, to be called'' The Godolphin School.'' Under another Order, 12 January, 1855, trustees were appointed and sums amounting to £4,439 7 9 transferred to them, and in 1856 the school was opened for 70 boys at Hammersmith. The management of the school was assigned by a further Order, 10 November, 1859, to a body of trustees, to include the heir, or heirs, of William Godolphin, if a male, or males, of full age; the heir of the founder appointing 30 foundation scholars, who were to receive gratuitous instruction, to be aged from 8 to 10 years, and to be of the Church of England. This condition makes it certain that the William Godolphin mentioned is major Godolphin, the heir of the orthodox Mrs. Elizabeth Godolphin, and not Sir William Godolphln, the ambassador in Spain, who was a member of the Church of Rome. On 1 April, 1862, the trustees bought a piece of copyhold land on the north side of Broadmore Lane in Hammersmith, for £900. On 6 May, 1863, lord Ebury endowed the school with a Scholarship. In 1903, the trustees were William Bird (admitted thereto on 6 January, 1882), major-general W. T. Goldsworthy, M.P., and Mr. W. H. Fisher, M.P. ; the heir of the founder being Harry Farr Yeatman, Esq. The school was at Iffi.ey road, Hammersmith, and the headmaster, the rev. G. E. Mackie, M.A. In the same year, the sum of £4,000 was transferred from the Latymer foundation at Hammersmith to the Godolphin school at Salisbury; in 1926 the Hammersmith boys' school had been converted into a girls' school. The latter is still in its infancy; the 1Salisbury school has become one of the great schools of the country. Recognition was eventually accorded to at least one of the sisters of "the infant Cobbe," for it is recorded that " for some years before 1863, Miss Frances Emily Cobbe, as heir of William Godolphin, had exercised her rights jointly with Mrs. lvlargaret Biggs, who was considered her co-heir."

1. The Godolphin · School, 1726-1926 [Longmans, Green & Co., 1928] gives the full text of the will of the founders and a history of the school and of its mistresses since its foundation. It gives also a scholarly explanation of the Godolphin motto [see ante p. 12], probably more correct than: "Francha lea/.e toge," " A free, loyal gownsman," which has also been suggested. The book also contains a portrait of Elizabeth Godolphin, the foundress, and views of her home at Coulston, and of the old manor-house of Godolphin at Breage. THE GODOLPHINS 77

On the death of the latter in 1868, her son exercised no right of nomination to the school at Salisbury, but took over the sole right of nomination to the London school. l\Iiss Cobbe, therefore, reigned alone and until 1886 continued to nominate to the six scholarships " such girls as should pass the examination for admission." In 1886 she resigned that right in favour of the Governors, and the school has been administered, since 1921, under a scheme, revised by the Board of Education. Slowly though it grew in its childhood, the Godolphin school at Salisbury has made remarkable expansion since 1890. Among its "prudent Governesses" will long be remembered the Misses Polhill, Miss Andrews, Miss Douglas, headmistress for thirty years, and Miss Ash, now headmistress. On 24 June, 1926, the school celebrated a bicentenary service at Westminster Abbey, to commemorate the bequest of Elizabeth Godolphin. Instead of sixteen, there are now about three hundred pupils. The third part, which follows, will supply ample scope fr- those to whom research appeals ; here are a few disconnecte ::-ads of family history ; the material for joining them and weavmg them into their proper places in the Godolphin tapestry is stored in Glli record offices and muniment rooms ; the hunt is a pastime of absorbing interest. 78 THE GODOLPHINS

PART III

GODOLPHINS, UNIDENTIFIED

The following notes refer to persons of the name Godolphin, whose places in the families of that name the writer has been unable to identify. The name is so uncommon that, in his opinion, they all belong to the same stock; but their respective connections with it are, in the absence of evidence, a matter of conjecture. They are in chronological order :- A. A group in London ;- 1515. William, of Windsor, born about that time; his son Guy, living in 1620, wrote to Sir M. Hicks, to procure for his son Palmer a debt due to him out of the Exchequer from lord West­ moreland, in 1608; (Cornub. Bibl. 1 ; Lansdowne MSS. 90, art. 112). This may be Guy, the architect, connected with work carried out at the Charterhouse, born c. 1554, whose son \Villiam was baptised at St. Vedast's, Foster Lane, 30 March, 1589. In 1602, Guy Godolphin of Bradford Hundred, co. Salop, acquired an interest in the Great Tithe of Laleham, and in the manor of Ashford, co. Midx. 1587. John m. Joane Baker, 13 July, at Rotherhithe. 1591. Frances, gen., m.--(blank), 26 February, at Chalfont St. Giles. 1614. Katherine, m. Humphrey Mawditt, gent., (lie. fac.), 9 August, at St. James', Clerkenwell. 1647. --(blank), m. Francis Stewart, 21 September, at St. John's-at-Hackney. 1662. Mary, m. Edward Albon, 14 July, at St. James', Cler ken well. 1671. Will of John, dated 20 November, 1668, at Wapping, before journeying to East India in the ship Morning Star, proved in the P.C.C. (77 Duke) by his wido-w, Sara Godolphin; his children mentioned are Sara, John and Elizabeth. 1672. Sara. Mar. Lie. Vic. Gen., 15 June:-" Robert vVarner of St. Paul's, Shadwell, Middlesex, widower, and Sara Godolphin of the same, spinster about 28, at her own disposal; at St. Paul's aforesaid, Stepney or Stratford Row, St. Dunstan's-in-the-east, or St. Botolph's." They were married at St. Botolph's, 23 June. She may be a daughter of the foregoing mariner, John. 1679. Elizabeth. Mar. Lie. Vic. Gen., 14 October:-" George Partridge of St. :Mary, vVhite­ chapel, Middlesex, Anchorsmith, Bachelor about 33, and Elizabeth Godolphin of the same, spinster about 18, with consent of her Grandmother Crisp with whom she liveth, her parents being dead." THE GODOLPHINS 79

They were married at St. Nicholas', Cole Abbey, on 18 September. Probably the youngest daughter of the foregoing mariner, John.

B. A group at St. Columb Major, co. Cornwall:- 1672. Francis, certainly not a son of John, D.C.L.1(see p. 22); married twice :-first 4 November, 1672, at St. Columb, Grace Crewes, born 1649, daughter of. William and Elizabeth Crewes of St. Columb ; she was buried there 11 May, 1683 ; she had three sons and six daughters, of whom Anthony the eldest, was hap. 28 June, 1673 (of him later), Jane hap. 20 October, 1G77, and Elizabeth, bap. 28 May, 1681. Francis' second wife, named Frances, had five children: Edward, bap. 20 May, 1687, buried 18 January, 1688/9; a second Edward, hap. with his twin sister Margaret, 30 July, 1692 (Margaret, 1n. 11 July, 1720, John Bolitho of , at St. Columb) ; Frances, bap. 15 October, 1689 (m. 7 July, 1715, James Champion at St. Columb); and Anne, bap. 1 January, 1695/6. Francis was buried at St. Columb, 5 February, 1695/6. His eldest son, Anthony, m. twice and had issue by both wives:­ his first is not recorded ; he m. secondly 17 November, 1705, at St. Columb, Mary Penrose, by whom he had six children: Francis, bap. 17 August, 1706, buried 26 April> 1754 (descendants uncertain); William, bap. 8 January, 1708/9 ; Grace, bap. 26 December, 1711 (m. 20 July, 1736, John Buckingham); and the follo'Amg, born triplets, and bap. 7 September, 1716; Edward, buried 24 April, 1717, Mary buried 8 December, 1718, and Jennifer, buried 3 July, 1718. Anthony was buried 3 March, 1760 ; his wife Mary was buried 27 March, 1752. This group may be connected with the following groups, the heads of which, Richard of , and John of Falmouth, were born in about 1750-5, and may be sons either of Francis (b. 1706) or of William (b. 1708/9).

C. A group at Truro :- Richard, of Truro, born c. 1750 ; buried 8 February, 1811, Bodmin; m. 10 December, 1780, at St. Newlyn-in-Pydar, by licence, Sarah May, by whom he had 1. Francis, bap. 15 August, 1785, Bodmin; d. 1855, aged 70, at , Phillack; by Martha, his wife, he had:- Richard, hap. 21 .August, 1808, at Bodmin, and perhaps another son, Francis, of whom nothing is known. Richard appears to have had two daughters, Martha-Elizabeth and Grace, and a son :-

1. John, D.C.L., had a son, Francis, who was buried at Clerkenwellin 1661 ; he is unlikely to have had two sons of the same name living at one time. Francis of St. Columb may have descended either from Francis of Crowan, or from Sir Francis, the recorder of Helston. 80 THE GODOLPHINS

Francis Richard, b. 1 July, 1834, Truro ; d. November, 1907, at Cam borne ; coachman in 1875 to the rev. Alfred Mills of St. Erth ; m. 22 February, 1857, at Rayle foundry chapel, Mary Rodda A.rthur, by whom he had five sons : a. Francis, of Cambome, born in July, 1858, at Rayle, m. Harriet lVIary Arthur, and had four sons: Francis, b. 22 July, 1891, Roland, b. 14 June, 1893, James, b. 2 June, 1895, Richard, b. 30 June, 1899. The eldest son of these has issue.1 b. John, of Bradford Leigh, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts, born in September, 1859, at Rayle ; has no issue. c. Rowland, of London ; born in September, 1861, at Hayle ; m. 5 May, 1895, Ellen Goddard ; has a dau., Ethel, b. 8 November, 1896. d. Sidney, born in April, 1867, at Rayle ; died 23 October, 1909, at Bath; m. Elizabeth Tiddy, February, 1898, at S. Wraxall, Wilts; his only child, Sidney, born 14 December, 1903, died 2 August, 1928. e. James, of London; b. 1874, Rayle; m. 10 August, 1896, Louisa Jane Thomas, and had :-James, b. 17 April, 1899; Doris, b. 27 November, 1900 ; Gerald, b. 21 November, 1905 ; John, b. 1 May, 1910 ; and Duncan, b. 14 June, 1913. 2. Richard, hap. 30 September, 1786, Falmouth ; he has left no record. 3. John, hap. 30 March, 1788, and buried 21 June, 1789, Falmouth ; another of that name, hap. 17 April, 1795, and buried 27 April, at Bodmin ; a third, bap. 8 September, 1799, at Bodmin, has left no further record. 4. Anthony, by oral family tradition only ; no record of his baptism has been found. 5. Mary, bap. 22 December, 1793, and buried 7 October, 1794 ; another of that name hap. 17 April, 1795, and buried 20 September, at Bodmin. 6. Anne, buried 3 June, 1806, at Bodmin. With regard to the table constructed above, oral family tradition omits the generation of " Richard, b. I St,8," and proceeds direct from " Francis, b. 1785,"who is said to have driven the last stagecoach from Cornwall to London, to " Francis Richard, b. 1834, Truro," who is thought to have been bap. at Phillack. If that tradition is correct, then " Richard (b. 1808) " is wrongly described in the Bodmin register as the son of Francis and Martha.

D. A group at Falmouth :- John, of Falmouth, born about 1750 ; 1n. about 1783, Elizabeth, and had ten children, according to the printed register:- John Parkes, bap. 13 July, 1785 ; Betsy, hap. 7 October, 1787; another Betsy, hap. 17 October, 1793; Jeney, bap. 19 March, 1790; lVIary, bap. 25 January, 1797 ; Harriet, hap. S July, 1799 ; Charlotte, hap. 21 July, 1802; Eliza, hap. 31 January, 1806; Sidney Charles, bap. 8 October, 1808; and Rufus Alfred, hap. 8 October, 1810. I. Francis Charles Godolphin, b. 26 November, 1916, and Regena! Owen Godolphin, b. 16 July, 1918. THE GODOLPHINS 81

INDEX OF PERSONS

* after a number denotes that the name occurs more than once on the same page

Abdy, 30 Bon, a Adams, 54* Bonithon (Bonython), 3, Albon, 78 4, 6 Aldridge, 35* Boscawen, 9, 10, 11,* 12, Alford, 73, * 75 13, 14-, 23,* 39 Allen, 63 Boswell, en Ameredith, 6, * 19, 21, * Boteler, 2 24 Bourman, 26 Andrew, 24* Bridgeman, 17 Andrews, 24, 77 Bristow, 40-1 Antrewan, 2 Brodrick, 63 Archdeacon, 1 Brooke, 3, 45, 59 Arthur, 47, 80* Browne, 21, 25, 5:3, G4 Arundell, 4, 5* Buckingham, 79 Ash, 77 Buller, 8 Astery, 45 Bunce, 75 Aston, 6u Burgess, 72 Aubrey, 25* Burke, i, u, 10, 58, u3 Burslem, 13, 39, * 40, * 41, Bacon, 6 4,...I, 53* - 6-.:>, 6,...I- 9 , '"'3I , .,._"'I.:> ' Bailey, 56, 60 Burton, 58* Baird, 75 Butler, ~2 Baker, 78 Butterfield, 56 Ball, 60 Button, 25* Barker, 66-7 • Byne, 29* Barratt, 24* Basset, 6, 7* Cararthyn, 3 Battie, 56* Carew, 1, 4-, H Bawden, 48 Carmarthen, 10, 12, 1, Baxter, 74 Cavell, :1 Bazley, ,;~ Chaloner, iu,* 54, ;J, Beauchamp, 2 61-2, lii-,0, 73 Bell, 70 Chamberlayne, 51-:! Bellamy, 70, 75 Champion, ,~ Benne, 2 Charlton, 44* Bentinck, !l Charnock, 62 Berkeley, 7, 8*, 9, 11,* Chetwynd, 18 12,* 14-, 17,* 18,* 29 Chiverton, :3 Berthon, 64 * Churchill, Hi, 58 Bevill, 2* Clanbrassil, 10 Biggs, 58, * 73-6* Clarendon, 10 Bird, 76 Clark (Clarke), 13, 23, Biagge, 15* 39 Blake, 53-4, 73 Clarkson, 58 Blandford, 16 Clins, 45 Blaney, 13 Cobbe (Cobb), 26, * 40, * Bloyet, 2 54, 57, 61-2, 67-70, Bluet (Blewitt), 2, 21,* 73-7 22, 28, 29, 32,* 40 Collins, -1 ;"j Blythe, 75 Compton, 62 Bolitho, 79 Connaunte, 4 82 THE GODOLPHINS

Cook (Cooke), 3, 42 Foster, 63 Cork, 45 Fowler, 60 Cowdall, 58 Francis, 49*, 50 Cowling, 2 Fuller, 45 Crane, 3 Furseman, 5, 6 Crankan, ;3 Creed, 6:~* :c,' -r.,;.: Gamble, 58* C rewes, :::~, , ~ Gamlitt, 63 Crisp, 78 Gastrell, 66 * Crudge, 6* Gaverigan, 4 Cunningham, 28 Gayer, 30,* 32, 36-7, 39*, Curtis, 40 58 Curzon, 5;j*-6, GO Geddes, 62 Gery, .30 Dalby, 61 Gilbert, 3, 23, 48 Dalrymple, 15 Giffard, 73 Danks, 75 Gillespie, 59* Danvers, 25, 35* Gisborough, 26* Darrell, 4 Glanvile, 6 Daston, 53, 64* Gloye, 20* Davis, 72-3 Glynn, 4 Delaney, 9, 66 Goddard, 80 Deighton, 4 7 Godfrey, 63 Dennis (Denys), 4, 22 Godolghan, I Dent, 46, 63* Godolphin, see pedigree Digby, 57 index Dinar, 32 Goldsworthy, 76 Dixie, 12, 40, * 44-6, 52, Goliar, 32 56, 60, 66 Gordon, 13 Dixon, 32* Gore, 10, 25* Douglas, Ti Goring, 63* Doust, 63 Gotholham, 2 Drewor, :33 * Gower, 57 Duncombe, 37 Graham, 37 Durant, 3 Granville, 66 Durham, 10 Gray, 28 Dyer, 26 Greaterex, 27 Greene, 38,• 4 7 Ebury, 76 Greenwood, 7 5 Edwards, 12, 13, * 22, * 23, Grenvil, 5, 7 38, 39, 71-3 Greswold, 61 Egerton, 10* Griffith, 67 Elliot, 15 Groot, 5 Elmore, 63* Emly, 73, * 75 Hall, 9, 38, 75 Erisey, 2, :; Halvosso, 49, * 50 Essex, 7 Hammond, 70, 74-6 Evelyn, 8, !l, * 11, 12, 13, . Harlech, 11, 23, * 24 15 Harvey, 25 Hastings, 57, * 70-1 Fairfax, 67 Hawkins, 47*-53, 56-7 Falmouth, 9, 18 Hawley, 67 Farnell, 53 Haye, 45 Feversham, 15 Heath, 55 Fem, 68*-9, Hemmings, 74 Fisher, 76 Henchman, 6 7 Fitton, 33 Henley, 32* Fitzhardinge, 18, i9 Hesketh (Hesket), 9, 12, Fitzwilliam, 9, 10* 13,* 39,* 67 Flower, 45, 52 Hicks, 78 Forbes, 70* Hoblyn, 5, 23, 24* Fort, 2 Hooper, 5 Fosbrooke, 57* Hopkins, 30 THE GODOLPHINS 83

Horton, 65 Mawditt, 78 Hoskins, 43 Mawson, 43 Hunkin, 8 May, 79 Huntingdon, 57 , * 70-1 Medows, 9,* 11-13 Hyde, 10 Meliton, 6 13 Iddesleigh, 9 Merewether, Ireland, 53, 56 Mills, 80 Mitchell, 24, 48 Jackson, 25 Molesworth, 22 Jeffray, 69 Mollison, 58* Jessop, 75 Monk, 67 John, 48 Mordcieunt, 30 • Johnson, 30, 40, 66, * 75 Morrice, 75 Jole, 5 Mountjoy, 4 Jones, 39, 45 Munro, 56 Jong, 16 Musgrave, 23 Mytens, 58 Keigwin, 3 Kekewich, 6, 9 Nailer, 56 Kestell, 2 Nettles, 43 Killigrew, 2, 3, 6, 7, * 17, * Nevile (Nevill}, 3, 17 18, * 19, 21, 29* Newcastle, I 6 Kimberley, 18 Nicholls (Nychollys), 3, • Kinaston, 53 72 Kindersley, 73 Norris, 59* King, 23 North, 45 Kock, 43-4 Northcote, 8, 9, 11, * 12, • Lambe, 24, * 27, * 29, 30, 14, 39* 32-37, 51 N orthmore, 5 Lambert, 25* Noten, 58* Lancaster, 63 Lanch, 56 O'Byrne, 62 Lander, 73 Oldefielde, 26 Langdon, 4, • 5* Oldershaw, 61 Langton, 12, * 38, 71 Oliver, 48 Lansdowne, 9, 66 Opie, 48, 59 Lanyon, 12 Orme, 56 Larder, 5 Ormerod, 65 Latymer, 76 Ormsby, 10 Leaver, 23 Ormsby-Gore, 10, * 11 · Leeds, 1, 10, 16, 66 Osborne, 1, 10,* 16, 17* Letch, 53-4 Owen, 10, * 16, * 23, 69 Lloyd, 65 Long, 25-7, 49*, 72-o Parkes, 80 Lorstas, 35 Parr, 53-4, * 56, 61, * 65, Lovatt (Lovett}, 53, 54, * 75 65, * 67* Partington, 67 Lumley, 46 Partridge, 78 Lygon, 17 Paynter, 21 Peanecks, 12 Mackie, 76 Peere, 21 Maclean, 1, 24 Pelham-Holies, 16 Maddern, 3 Pendarves, 23, 24., 39 Malone, 66 Penrose, 50, 79 Mainwaring, 67* Pestell, 58* Manners, 57* Peter, 5, 6 Mapletoft, 39, * 40, 62, Peter-Hoblyn, 5 65-7, 73 Peters, 48 Marlborough, 15, 16* Petit, 3 Marsh, 28, 65* Pettigrew, 2 Marsh and Creed, 63 Phillipson, 43 Marshall, 60-1, 64, 70, 74 Philpot, 73 Martin, 62 Pitt, 32 F 84 THE GODOLPHINS

Polhill, 77 Throsby, 40 Polkinghorne, 20, 21 Tibbits, 41 Pomeroy, 48* Tiddy, 80 Portland, 9 Till, 45 Portman, 17 Toone, 54, 58* Potter, 60 Totnes, 6 Potticary, 75 Trapps, 44-5* Poulden, 26 Tredinnick, 3 Poulton, 32 Tregour, 2 Prideaux, 2, 24 Trelawny, 30 Pulsford (Pulford), 72 Tremayne, 24* Trenouth, 4 Quicke, 9, 12, 39* Trewargen, 1 Randall, 45 * Trewinnard, 29 Reade,. 66 Trewleddick, I Rezzonico, 72 Trevanion, 7 * P-ialton, 9, 14,* 16, 38, Turner, 30, 49, * 50* 40, 42 Riccard, 18 Vanbrugh, 16* Richards, l 3 Vaughan, 21 Rinsey,.2 Verney, 4, 37* Rockliffe, 32 * Vernon, 44 Roden, 10 Villiers, 10 Rogers, 3, 26 Vincent, 69 Rous, 8 Viton, 75 Rowley, 43-4* Vivian, I, 2, 5, • 24 Ruggett, 72 Rutland, 57 Waller, 12* Walker, 58 Sacheverall, 54 W alm.esley, 26 St. Aubyn, 5* Walter, 12 Sandwich, 27 Ward, 57,* 66-7, 69 Savage, 58 Warner, 78 Scrope, 25 Watson,47,51,53* Sidney, 7, 8 Webster, 58 Silvester, 23 Wedgwood, 54 Silvius, 11 West, 18 Skeritt, 6 Westmoreland, 78 Slanning, 7 Wharton, 24 Smith, 26, 67 White, 9 Solgena, 2 Whitbread, 76 Southcot, 5 Whitelock, 30, 45 Sparham (Spearham), Whitfield, 61 53-4, * 64*-5 Whitinge, 3 Sparnon, 3 Wichhalse, 7 Spencer, 57 Wilcock, 51 * Staines, 75 Wilders, 57* Staly, 53* Wilkes, 55 Stewart, 78 William, 23 Strode, 12* Williams, 13, 38, 71 Sudley, 25 Willoughby, 3, 40, • 41, Sutton, 75 60-1, * 63-4 Sydenham, 4 Wilson, 45 Sydney, 15* Wilton,27,36 Swaine (Swayne), 56, 63* Wise, 2, 65 Symonds, 68* Woodward, 72 Wright, 45 Talbot, 43* Tanat, 23 Yalden, 68, * 73 Taylor, 75 Yarborough, 40 Temple, 18 Yeatman, 76 Thomas (Thoms), 3, 80 Yeatman-Biggs, 58* Thoroton, 40 Young, 26, * 53 PEDIGREE-IfDEX OF GODOLPHINS, 1442-1929 (The number under each roe indicates the page on which the name is first mentioned. For names prior to 1442, .ree pages 1, 2.)

XVIII Sir WILLIAM - Margaret Elizabeth Thomasin JOHN ,Elizabeth 4 4 3 3 of Helsto 3 3

I Sir ¥lILLIA.."1-Blanche Katherine-XIX THOMAS Margaret Elizabeth Honor Elizabeth ' \VILLIAl>I JOHN-Alice JO~N IE!i~beth 3 3 4 4 4 ., 6 3 7r I I I------, Margaret Grace Margaret=XX Sir FRANCIS=,Alice Anne \VILLIAM - Jane Agnes GEN~LErCi~ely Elizabeth Thomasin JOHN - Jane Florence GUY JOHN=Joan dau. 4 4 6 a 4 4 a 3 3 3 3 3 78 78 3 7r I I Elizabeth XXI Sir \VILLIAM -Thomasin Katlierine Jane Thomasin Ursula Blanch JOHN-Judith Sir Francis=Katherine Francis-Ann \'{ILLIAM GENTLE-Martha Thomasin WILLIAM - Jane WILLIA!>! Frances, JOHN-Sara Katherine, 6 7 7 6 6 6 6 6 of ~uthocke I 9 7 7 4 4 2 son 5 3 3 3 78 m. 1591 78 78 m. 1614 ·~-.;;w 5 78 78

XXII Sir FRA.i"\i"CIS=Dorothy SIDNEY Penelope WILLIA!>! Ruth-Sir \VILLIAM=Grace Elizabeth .J:\.1a.rgaret Joan THOl\.1AS 1 Honor-2-JOHS-:J-4 Rebecca Loveday Katherine FRANCIS o Joan-GENTLE-Mary NICHOLAS-Philippa Prudence Thomasin JOHN FRANCIS Sara JOHN Elizabeth 1\.-!ary, 78 78 78 m. 1662 8 8 7 7 8 ~ of S~argor 24 21 21 21 21 22 D.C.L. 22 4 n cro;an o 5 5 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 21 78 ' 'I ' ROBERT Mary Jane Elizabeth Mary \\ ILLIAM-Elizabeth Phillip Prudence Margerie Sir \VILLIA.~I, FRA.c.'ICIS XXIII SIDNEY Elizabeth J ael HENRY Frances Penelope CHARLES 11argaret Katherine Anne ED\VARD FRANCIS of \\TILLIA!ll Sic \VILLI..\M Ruth BEfu'IARD Sir JOHN, Anne Margaret col. JOHN }!ary FRANCIS Frances a child ReDecca Joan 13 I :l 14 Spargor and I 5 5 a 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 3 9 1 earl Tl\largaret 9 9 D.D.-Mary! 11 II M.P-Elizabeth* 1::1 27 27 30 major-Frances 30 ,2 SIDNEY, 22 22 22 22 22 22 bart. 11 II 8 (See Peaage, (See Peerage, 9 9 ElizabethICoulston=Elizabeth· :.ltfu~.s 29 29 M.P.TSusanna GcaceJFRANCl1Frances' 14 15 --- --.~ I Iddesleigh) Falmouth) 30-30 30 23 1 23 79 79 - 79

I I I I I I - I .-,------,,------1 1-----T,-----T,------., HENRY Mary (See Peerage, Anne VlILLIAM WILLIA}! FRANCIS-Elizabeth Elizabeth* Anne CHARLES Elizabeth Tanat Mary+ Ellen Frances Penelope ANTH01'"'Y-Mary Jane Elizabeth Edrard Margaret Frances Anne XXIV FRAl"'\CIS-Henrietta ' Margaret . ' ' 2 earl 111 9 Barbara=FRA.NCIS=Anne 10 Harlech) II 11 :n of Spargor 40 37 39 39 29 23 23 23 23 24 24 79 79 79 79 rg 79 79 79 15 9 9 9 39

,VIL IM:I 16 HENRY Henrietta !viargaret XXV Mary= (See Peerage, 4th Elizabeth Barbara )>'lary WILLIA~! of FRA.."iCIS FRANCIS- \VILLIA.c.'\! Grace EDWARD Mary Jennifer {Su Pe,·rage, Huntingtlun\ ' "9 79 79 79 79 =Maria Katherine 16 16 16 16 Duke oI Leeds) (See Peerage, Huntingdon) 46, 6;3 Spargor and Coulston 46 79 I ' ' 16 46, 52 46, GI 46 ' ' I ' ' ?• ' i r------1------'. . ' RICHARD-Sarah JOHN-' SAMUEL of Teingrace 79 79 80 5

FRANCIS-Martha RICHARD JOHN 1-Iary Anne ANTH01'Y JOHN Betsy Jenny Betsy Mary Harriet Charlotte Eliza SIDNEY RUFUS 79 79 79 79 ,9 79 79 80 80 80 so 80 80 80 80 80 80

FRANCIS­ Martha­ Grace RICHARD-Mary Elizabeth 79 80 J80 79 ,~--'------~,-----r1------~,------~, FRANCIS-Harriet JOHN RO\VLAND=Ellen SIDNEY-Elizabeth JA!l!ES-Louisa 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 so

FRANCIS- ROLA.c.'ID JAMES RICHARD Ethel S!Dl{EY JA.'>!ES Doris GERALD JOHN DUNCA.1'/ 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 so

FRANCIS REGENAL 80 80