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About Google Book Search Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers discover the world’s books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at http://books.google.com/ 1 A » J THE GENEALOGY OF THE FAMILY OF COLE, OF THE COUNTY OF DEVON, AND OF THOSE OF ITS BRANCHES WHICH SETTLED IN SUFFOLK, HAMPSHIRE, SURREY, LINCOLNSHIRE, AND IRELAND, BY JAMES EDWIN-COLE, ^v- - OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT LAW. Y* . i , ^<"^ V (>. \ Of the " Genealogical History of Families," Sir Robert Atkyns writes : " This has its peculiar use ; it stimulates and excites the brave to imitate the generous actions of their ancestors ; and it shames the debauched and reprobate, both in the eyes of others and in their own breasts, when they consider how they have degenerated." — Page II., Preface to The^gfcMlttM&Iiteisejyt. State of Gloucestershire, 2nd ed., folio, London, 1768. LONDON : PRINTED FOR PRIVATE GIRGULAT}f)&^.i1 °JL_^ BY JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE. MDCCCLXVII. as TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM WILLOUGHBY COLE, EARL OF ENNISKILLEN, VISCOUNT ENNISKILLEN, BARON MOUNT-ELORENCE, BARON GRINSTEAD, F.R.S., D.C.L., LL.D., F.G.S., &c, &c, <fec, THESE GENEALOGICAL RECORDS ARE, BY HIS PERMISSION, AND WITH FEELINGS OF SINCERE ESTEEM, INSCRIBED BY THE COMPILER. PREFACE. This compilation is founded on a curious and valuable record, entitled, " The Pedigree of the worthye Captaine and Justiciar, Sir William Cole, of Eneskillen, Knight ; made and set forthe, with much care and fidelitye ; warranted by Eecords, Evidences, and other good proofes, examined, approved, and well allowed of by me Sir William Segar, Knt., alias Garter. And in assured testimony to all persons whoe shall see the same, that it doth agree in all the descents, coats, and Ensignes, with the Eegisters Bookes and Eecords of my Office, and the Office of Arms and Honor, kept at London ; I, the said Sir William Segar, alias Garter, Principall King of Armes, have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seale of myne Office, this 30th day of Julye, An0 Domini 1630, Annoque Sexti Domini nostri Caroli, magnse Britannia?, Franciae, et Hibernise Eegis, Fidei defensor, etc." Wm. Willoughby, the 1st Visct. Enniskillen, reduced it into a narrative form for the Eev. Mervyn Archball's edition of John Lodge's Irish Peerage (8° London, 1789); and his lordship's system and phraseology are here freely made use of, as they were also, though without acknowledgment, in Playfair's British Family Antiquity (fo. Lond. 1810). B ii. PEEFACE. Since then, however, it has been, so far as relates to the noble line of Enniskillen, extended down to the present time, and attested under the seals of their office by Sir Wm. Betham, and Sir J. Bernard Burke, Ulster Kings at Arms. These additions together with some particulars derived from the publications of the Eecord Commissioners, &c., are introduced ; and the continuation of the other branches has been made from the Heralds' Visitations, Wills, Parish Begisters, Monumental Inscriptions and other ancient evi dences. They have been carefully collated, and, where possible, tested with the originals, so that it is hoped that no inaccuracies may occur, or such only as are inseparable from a labour of this character. *»* The writer will be glad to receive any additions or corrections. Easthorpe Court, Wigtoft, near Spalding, Sept. J867. INTRODUCTION. Much ingenious speculation has been expended on the origin and signification of the name of Cole. In A New System, or an Analysis of Ancient Mythology, by Jacob Bryant of Cypenham, is an elaborate dissertation thereon, consisting of more than three quarto pages, •wherein he shows it to be the same as Cou-El, or Co-El, Heavenly, or the House or Eegion of the Deity ; for the place of worship was, in many instances, taken for the person to whom the worship was directed. He says that Coilus, from Coel, the old Latin form of Coelus, meant " a sacred or heavenly person, in other words, a priest of Coelus." The learned Camden says that Cole is formed from the last syllables of Nicholas ; and M. A. Lower, in his Essay on Nomen clature-* copies this statement. It is, however, more likely to be a contraction of Agricola, a tiller of the soil, as Cola occurs in the Domesday Survey-f- as the holder of much land in the counties of Hants, Devon, Wilts, etc., in the reign of King Edward the Confessor ; but this derivation has evidently been passed over as too simple to be adopted by the above eminent writers. * 12mo, London, 1849, Vol. I., p. 169. + " Winton Survey, (fo. 27) temp. R. Edwardi Conf.," ' Winton, Bucchestret, Gaufridus Cole, Epo Sarum lid. , Vile, de f eudo Regis, Vlld. ilia sed VII. sup. mur.' " — Domesday Book Vol. IV, p. 555. Sir Henry Ellis' Introduction to Domes, day, gives these references and notes, " Cola, venator, Hants, p. 50, 50b. Note — " Cola venator ten. dimidium hidae de Vluiet patre suo in Langelie. Hanc tenuit de Rege in paragio." "Devon, 109, 112b. Wilts, 69 b. (Cola ten. terr. etc.) Note — Pater ejus tenuit tempore Regis Edwardi," etc. I GENEALOGY OF THE FAMILY OF COLE. @oIe foag a noble mon, ano gret power (aobe on (otitic, lErle foaa of ©olcftesstre Ijcrj tn tfcte lonoe, Stop (Colchcgtve after name g clepuo gg (tfi unoerstoobe. Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle, p. 82, as quoted in Wright's History of Essex, Vol. 1. p. 32. It hath been asserted that this family derives its origin from Coel, the founder of Colchester, one of the Kings of Britain. Yet without claiming as its patriarch either this renowned descendant of Caractacus, or the Justice Cole, who lived in the reign of King Alfred, or the valiant General Cola, who, in command of the united forces of Devon, Somerset, and Dorset, defeated at Pinhoe,* in 1001, Sweyne, the savage Chieftain of the Danes, its high antiquity and rank amongst the magnates of the land in Saxon times are attested by Domesday Book, and by " This deed of King William's, the Conqueror, [which] was written in the Saxon Tongue, 5° W. C. 1070, and was put into English 1587, 15° Maij, A0 27 Eeg. Eliza beths, and remains [1C30] in the Bishop of Winchester's custody." " William, King, greetes Walkesein, Bishop, and Hugon de Port, and Edward Knighte, Steward, and Algesime and Symon and Allfus, Porveiour, and Cole and Arderne and all the Barons in Hampshire and Wiltshire friendly-and Know ye that I give unto St. Peter and Walcholyne Bishopf with all the convent to be as free as * Oliver's Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Devon and Cornwall, Vol. III., p. 123. t There appears to be an omission here. 2 GENEALOGY OF THE Bishop Alsyme was in the days of King Edward, and to hold and enjoy all the privileges greate and small and I give commaundment that noe man for me or any other withstand or deny them the same, or disquiet that which I doe graunt in any wise unto St.