learning in the law, so that an. I Jac. I, he was called to the state and degree of serjeant at law, the year following he was constituted chief-justice of the King's Bench in Ireland; after that Knighted, and made attorney of the court of wards and liveries in England; then made a baronet, and lord chief justice of the King's-Bench in England; in the 22 Jac. I. he became lord high treasurer of England, a counsellour of state, and a baron of the realm, by the title of Lord Ley of Ley in Devon; and in the 1st of K. Char. he was made Earl of Marlbourgh in the County of Wilts, and lord president of the council: Of whom one hath left us this honourable character, "That his noble thoughts were so fixed on vertue, his discourses so embellished with wisdom, and his heart so fraught with integrity, that his words did never bite, nor his actions wrong any man to give him just cause of complaint." Departing this life at Lincoln's Inn, 1628; he was buried in the parish church of Westbury in Wilts, where he hath a noble monument erected to his memory."-[Epitaphs inserted.] The following is from Banks's Dormant and Extinct Baronage of England, vol. iii., p. 476:— "LEY OF LEY AND EARL OF MARLBOROUGH. "Arms. Arg. a Chev. between 3 Seals heads couped S. (See Western Antiquary, vol. iii., 129.) "James Ley, sixth son of Henry Ley, of Teffont-Evias, in Co: Wilts, Esquire, was educated in the study of the law; in which he became so eminent by his profound learning and abilities, that he successively was called a Serjeant-at-law; I" Jac. I., chief justice of the King's bench, in Ireland, the year following; the 17th Jac. I. was created a baronet; the next year, chief justice of the court of King's bench; in the 21st Jac. I., Lord High Treasurer of England; and upon the 31st of December the same year made a peer of the realm by the title of Baron Ley of Ley, in the County of Devon; and upon the 5th of February, I Ch. I. was advanced to the dignity of Earl of Marlborough, in Wiltshire. was a person of great gravity, talents, and He integrity, and of the same mind in all conditions. He left behind him several learned works both in law and history. [Wood's Ath. 1., col. 526.] And dying in 1628, was buried in an aisle adjoining the Church of Westbury in Wilts; where a noble monument with a suitable inscription was erected to his memory. His Lordship was three times married; first to Mary, Daughter of John Pettey, of Stoke Talmage in Oxfordshire, by whom he had three Sons Henry, James, and William ; also eight daughters, whereof "Elizabeth "= Morris Carant, of Tooner, in the County of Somerset Esq, "Anne"=Sir William Long of Draycot: in Wilts; "Mary"=Richard Erisey, of Erisey in Cornwall. Dionysia" John Harington of Kelneyton, in Somersetshire; Margaret"= ... Hobson Esq: of the Isle of Wight. "Esther"- Arthur Fuller Esq: of Bradfield in Hertfordshire. 66 Martha" died single; and "Phoebe" became the Wife of Biggs, of Hurst, in Berkshire, Esq: 66 ... 66 66 Secondly to "Mary" widow of Sir William Bower, Kt: and Thirdly to "Jane" daughter of John, Lord Bulter, of Bramfield; but by neither of these had he any issue. "To him succeeded Henry his Son and Heir who married "Mary" daughter of Sir Arthur Capel, of Hadham, in the County of Hertfordshire, Kt: by whom he had a Son James and a daughter Elizabeth: who died unmarried||; which "James" was his successor; a learned man and particularly skilled in Mathematics, as also an excellent sea officer; in which service he was unfortunately killed in the great sea fight with the Dutch, near Lowestoff, Anno Domini 1665, without issue. He was an accomplished youth; who after having studied the law for five years at Lincoln's Inn, intending to travel, and waiting at Dover for a fair wind, was taken ill of a fever, and returning to Canterbury, died there in 1618, and was buried in the Church of St. Mary, Bredin. (Hasted's History of Kent.) This is the only daughter mentioned by Dugdale, but according to a visitation of the County of Somerset, Anno, 1672, in the Heralds' College, it appears that he had a daughter, Mary, who married John Tristram, whose daughter, Mary, married Ralph, son of George Bathurst, Esq., by Elizabeth Villiers, his Wife. Fate was Such to lose his Life by wrestling much, I may mention that in the church porch there are the parish stocks made for holding three pairs of legs, they appear to have been kept under cover, probably in the identical place where we saw them, as the seats on either side of the porch would correspond with the height of the stocks. They are made of some hard wood, and are in a good state of preservation. E. PARFITT. FARROW DEER PARKS OF CORNWALL.-"King Henry VIII. disbanded Restormel Parke nere Lostuthiell; Caribullock nere Deuonshire; Liskerd parke where the Duke of Cornwall had also a castle now decayed; Lanteglos Parke east of Foy-hauen; and Launceston Parke where stands Dunheuet the Dukes most auntien Castle." The following were Gentlemen's Parks :"M. Reskymer at Merther M. Vivian at Trelawarren M. Treuanian, St. Michell Sr. Jonathan Trelawny at Poole in Minhinet M. Rowse newly erected at Halton nere Calstock. M. Corrington at Newton Sr. Reynold Mohune at Boconnock." The above extract is from Norden. SILEX. *** Dinor Motes. TOMBSTONE IN MARY TAVY CHURCHYARD. -The following may be worth preserving in the Western Antiquary; it is copied from a tombstone, not in situ but standing on its edge by the side of the wall of the church at Mary Tavy. The church having been "restored," the probability is that this stone was removed from a grave within ts interior; be this as it may, it ought to be preserved in a different manner from what it is now. Around the margin of the stone is the following inscription:-" Here lyeth the body of Thomas Hawkins, Blacksmith, son of Thomas Hawkins of Lane Head in this parish, who was buried April 12, 1721, aged 28." In the centre of the stone:- "Here buried were some years before, his two wives And five children more. One Thomas named whose TAMAR AND TAVY VICTIMS.-I have made some jottings from the Old Registers under this head, which may be interesting: "1585. Homines numero sex e foro vicino vulgaliter Saltashe dicto redentes vecti cymba lignaria vi venti et tempestatis ingruentis in concursu duorum Riuorum Tavie et Tamar juxta vinarium Bereferiense emersi sunt. xm°. Novembris. Quorum tres die dominico proximo sequente nempe Henricus Dynner filia ejus Elinora vxor Joaums Clerke et Joannes Williams aliter Brian dictus. xmj Novembris sequente autem die Lunæ Joannes Stephen, et Thomasina uxor Nicholai Cawse sepulturæ mandati sunt. Sextus vero Brian Williams adhuc investigando inueniri nequiuit xv° Novembris. "1609. Robert the sonne of John Hele and Margarett his wyf and Elizabeth the daughter of Thomas Ffoorde als Brixton. Being drowned in passing over the water at Chuck ffoorde the xxvth day of May in the morning were buried the same day being Asentn day. "1633. John Dundridge Batchelor of Arts of the University of Oxford who was drowned at Chokesford in passing over the river Tavy on the viith of June late in the night was buryed the ixth of June. |