Notes:

---"Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886" Vol.2, Joseph Foster, 1891 page 495:
Fiennes, Nathaniel, s. (William) Viscount Say and Seal. New Coll., matric. 19 Aug., 1693, aged 17; 4th viscount, died 2 Jan., 1709/10

William married Mary Fiennes on 09 Apr 1674. Mary died on 23 Oct 1676; was buried in Broughton Church, Oxford. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died in childbirth.

Father: Richard Fiennes of Ickworth, Suffolk
Mother: Margaret Burrell

Other Events:

• Occupation: Apr 1640; M.P. for Banbury

Notes:

--- "The History of Banbury" by Alfred Beesley, 1841, page 622-3:
Nathaniel Fiennes. On the northwest wall of the nave of the Church of Newton Toney, Wilts, is the monument erected to the memory of Nathaniel Fiennes and his two daughters; being a large oblong slab of black marble, on which, beneath the arms, is carved the inscription given below. Two flat stones on the floor of the chancel also bear arms and inscriptions, now much obliterated, but evidently in memory of unmarried daughters of Nathaniel Fiennes, in all probability the same that are mentioned on his own monument:---

In memory of the Honourable
Nathaniell Fiennes Second
Sonne of William Lord Viscount
Say & Seale, who departed
This Life the 16th day of December
1669 in the 62 yeare of his age

And
Of his two eldest Daughters
Frances & Elizabeth by Frances
His wife Daughter of Richard
Whithead of Tuderly in ye County of
Southton Esqr who both died in
The flower of their age.
Here lyes also the Honble Frances
Fiennes who died the 7th Octr 1691
In the 70th year of her age leaving
Only two Daughters
Mary & Cecilia.
Cecilia
Born June ye 7th 1662 died 10th April 1741 at Hackney.

Nathaniel married Elizabeth Eliot on 11 Aug 1636 in St. Mary's, Haynes, Bedford. Elizabeth (daughter of Sir John Eliot and Radigund Gedy) was born before 29 Dec 1616; was christened on 29 Dec 1616 in St. Germans, Cornwall; died before 01 Apr 1639; was buried on 01 Apr 1639 in St. Lawrence, Frodingham, Lincolnshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Elizabeth was the eldest daughter of Sir John Eliot (the great Patriot) and wife of Colonel Nathaniel Fiennes (second son of William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, and later Speaker of Cromwell’s Parliament.

Brumby Hall in North Lincolnshire was bought and rebuilt for Nathaniel and Elizabeth (by his father) at the time of their marriage, and their arms can still be seen on the outside of the house today.

In her husband's 1669 will, instructions were given to his executors to take £10 and place a memorial in St. Lawrence Church for his "first and dearly beloved wife".

Notes:

Had four sons and four daughters. His fourth daughter, Bridget, married the Earl of Lincoln. Of the four sons, the three younger took a prominent part in the Civil War. James was the oldest son, and probably on the side of the King. One son was named John and called "Jack" by his father and "John" by his mother.

William married Elizabeth Temple. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Knighted: 18 May 1618
• Will: 20 Dec 1630
• Will: 27 Nov 1632, Codicil Added
• Will: 11 Dec 1632, Will Proved

Notes:

--- "Western Morning News" 02 Dec 1942, page 6:
CORNISHMAN'S WARNING
The most famous, or, to speak more correctly, the most fameworth, Cornishman of his day was Sir John Eliot, an ancestor of the Earl of St. Germans.

An outstanding figure in that great struggle with the Crown, his speech, made while his friends Valentine and Holles prevented the Speaker of the House of Commons from leaving the chair, has lost none of its force when applied to the present day. Solemnly he uttered the warning that none had "gone about to break Parliaments but that in the end Parliaments had broken them."

Today the struggle is with a dictatorship outside the country, but Sir John Eliot's words are still a solemn warning.

--- West-country Poets by William HK Wright (as he found it in Worth's "West-Country Garland"), 1896
ON SIR JOHN ELIOT
Heer a musitian lyes whose well tuned tongue
Was great Apollo's harpe, so sweetly strunge
That every cadence was an harmonye.
Noe crotchets in his musicke! Onlye hee
Charmed the attentive burgesses alone,
Ledde by the eares to listen to his songe.
For innocence, sad widdowes' orphans' teares
(The dumbe petitioners of unfeigned feares),
How smoothly could thine eloquence alone
Create a helpinge pittie where was none.

John married Radigund Gedy in Jun 1609. Radigund (daughter of Richard Gedy and Katherine Boscawen) died before 13 Jun 1628; was buried on 13 Jun 1628 in St. Germans, Cornwall. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

--- "Launceston, Past and Present" by Sir Alfred Robbins, 1888, page 143-4:
On June 17 Eliot followed up this exposure by denouncing Mohun to the Lords, but three days later he was forced to abandon the attack by melancholy news from Cornwall, the Commons Journals of the twentieth containing the entry "Sir John Eliot, in respect of the death of his wife, hath leave to go down into the country." Lady Eliot had been failing in health for some time, but the end, which took place at Port Eliot, was sudden. Of her "all that is known to us is the tenderness with which her husband described, as 'a loss never before equalled,' what had befallen him by her death; and that she was said to have been so devoted to her children as never to have willingly consented to be absent from them . . . Care for his younger children appears to have occupied him at first; and some were placed with their mother's father, Mr. Gedie, of Trebursey, to whom Eliot is lavish of grateful expression for his service at this time."