Notes:

• "Sir John Eliot: A Biography" Vol. 2, John Forster, 1872, page 359:
It is not until more than a year later that any further change is intimated. But we find him then writing to his servant Hill that he had not changed his purpose for his daughter Bridget; that on the previous Saturday he had an 'intercourse' from Mrs. Frinde 'about her;' that her place was ready; and that he was to prepare accordingly to bring her up, whom he beseeched God to bless with all the rest.* The same plan was to be followed as with her sister Besse.

* Port Eliot MSS. 9th October 1631

• There is a pair of miniatures in the Port Eliot collection which are possible likenesses of Peter Fortescue and Bridget Eliot (near the time of their marriage in 1646). The portraits were examined by J.D. Milner, director of the National Portrait Gallery, who dated them between 1640 and 1650. The miniature of the woman bears a remarkable family resemblance to Sir John Eliot.

Bridget married Peter Fortescue on 12 Jan 1645/46 in St. Mary's, Churchstow, Devon. Peter (son of Francis Fortescue and Elizabeth Speccot) was born about 1620; died before 14 Aug 1685; was buried on 14 Aug 1685 in Ermington, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Peter Fortescue died before 09 Feb 1664/65; was buried on 09 Feb 1664/65 in Ermington, Devon.
2. Elizabeth Fortescue died after 1697.
3. John Fortescue was born about 1648; died after 22 Jun 1666.

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."

Notes:

--- "The Life of Sir John Eliot" by Harold Hulme, 1957, page 18:
Richard Eliot inherited most of his uncle's Cornish and extensive Devonshire properties. Among them was the lease of Cuddenbeak in St. Germans. But the mansion house of Port Eliot, orchards, gardens, and about fifty acres of land had been given by John Eliot to his wife Grace as her jointure. Eventually this estate reverted to Richard and his heirs. From 1577 to about 1598 he was living at Cuddenbeak, while from the latter date to his death in 1609 he made Port Eliot his residence.

Richard Eliot married Bridget, daughter of Nicholas Carswell of Hatch Arundell in Devonshire. Their son and only child [sic], John Eliot, the future knight, was born at Cuddenbeak on April 11, 1592. The middle-aged father must have been overjoyed at the birth of a son and heir. When, on April 20, the child was baptized in the old Norman church festivities were the order of the day at Cuddenbeak. Richard Eliot invited his neighbours to drink to the health and prosperity of his son and feast upon the bounty of his lands. It is said that the lord of Cuddenbeak and Port Eliot 'by his ancient hospitality and generous living [had] attracted the acquaintance of most of the gentlemen in his neighbourhood who frequently visited him at his house at St. Germans'.

Richard married Bridget Carswell. Bridget (daughter of Nicholas Carswell and Ellen Fortesecue) was born before 24 Feb 1559/60; was christened on 24 Feb 1559/60 in Loddiswell, Devon; died on 04 Mar 1617/18 in St. Germans, Cornwall (Cuddenbeak or Port Eliot); was buried on 05 Mar 1617/18 in St. German's, St. Germans, Cornwall. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

--- "The Western Antiquary" vol. 1, 1882, page 176:
Genealogical Hints.
(By Wyvern Gules.)
Sir, --- The late Earl of St. Germans being somewhat of a genealogist, desired some information respecting the Gedey family, from whom the Eliots derived much property. while turning over some Close Rolls last week, I accidentally discovered that Henry Killegrew (in 1585), partly in reward for the good offices of his servant Ric. Gedey, conveyed to him Tudeford, in St. Germans, then in occupation of Rob. Trelawney.

--- "Notes and Gleanings" Vol. 3, W. Pollard and Company, 1890, page 159:
Although he [Jasper Hickes, Vicar] had received his previous livings from the king, his extremem Puritanpropensities probably account for his presentations to Landrake, the manor of which had been owned in the early part of the seventeenth century by Richard Gedie, of Trebursye, South Petherwin (father-in-law of Sir John Eliot) who, in his will dated 1627, stated that he had sold it to Hugh Boscawen, John Trefusis, John Rashleigh, and Leonard Treise.

--- "The Western Antiquary" Vol. 10, 1891, page 33
South Petherwin.
. . . The full parish list, dated "March 6 1641" has 169 names, including "Jacob Rowse vicar," and leading off with "Thomas Blighe Degory King get Antipas Rowse gent," whil it includes John Treise, Nicholas Geddy, Sylvester Geddy, and Richard Geddy, the three last being evidently of the family into which Sir John Eliot had married.

--- "The Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor" Vol. 1 by Sir John Maclean, page 79:
Treise.
The family of Treise would seem to have been of respectable station in the early part of the seventeenth century, but it is not noticed in the Herald's Visitation of Cornwall of 1620. The first of the name which we find mentioned is William Treise of Castle Milford, in the parish of Tremayne, gentleman, who died May 4, 1622. His eldest son and heir, Leonard Treise, was recorder of Launceston, where he RESIded. He married Radigund, daughter of John Squire, by which marriage he is supposed to have acquired Trevallet in the parish of St. Thomas, where the family was seated for three generations. This lady would appear to have been related to Mr. Geddie of Trebursey, whose daughter married the celebrated patriot Sir John Eliot of Port Eliot, with whom Mr. and Mrs. Treise were on intimate terms. Mr. Treise was a trustee for certain estates under Mr. Geddie's will for the benefit of Sir John Eliot's children; and he, together with his wife and daughter Mary, are mentioned in kindly terms, several times, in Sir John Eliot's letters, published in Forster's Life of Eliot.

--- "Launceston, Past and Present: Historical and Desciptive Sketch" by Sir Alfred Robbins, page 132:
[Sir John] Eliot had left London for the West on the day of the adjournment, and, as Vice-Admiral of Devon, was soon busily engaged in dealing with the Pirates. After the dissolution he had private affairs to occupy him as well. Charles had issued what were known as "privy seals," directing that those who were able should contribute to the royal exchequer; and the deputies for Cornwall showed their dislike for Eliot "by returning his father-in-law, Mr. Gedie, for an exorbitant amount. There was no pretence of dissatisfaction in the case. Mr. Gedie had served only the preceding year as sheriff of Cornwall, and his estate was still suffering from expenses consequent thereon. Yet he was certified for an amount of which the oppressiveness appears in the fact that it doubled the highest imposed upon someof the richest estates in Yorkshire, Sir Thomas Wentworth [afterwards the Earl of Strafford] being taxed for twenty and Mr. Gedie for forty pounds."*

*Forster, Sir John Eliot, vol. i., pp. 271-2.

Richard married Katherine Boscawen after 01 Mar 1590/91. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Joan Norbrooke. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

--- "Danmonii Orientales Illustres; or The Worthies of Devon" by John Prince, 1810, Page 544:
Nicholas Carswell of Carswell and Hach married Hellena [Ellen], daughter of Bartholomew Fortescue of Wear-Giffard in this county, Esq. And, having no issue that survived by daughters, he docked the intail by a fine, an. 21 Elizab. [1579], of the several manors of Loddeswel, Hach-Arrondel and Carswell; and also of sixty houses, two water-mills and dove-houses, and of 2000 acres of arrable land, 1000 acres of pasture, 200 acres of meadow, 200 acres of woods, and 500 acres of furse and barren lands, lying in Holberton, totnes, Depford, Kingsbridge, and Ashburton (a vast estate), all in this county. So that, at times, the heriesses of this house have distributed the greatest part of Carswell's lands among some of the best families in those parts, as Fortescues, Norleighs, Ford, Elyots, Langworthys, etc.

Nicholas married Ellen Fortesecue. Ellen (daughter of Bartholomew Fortescue and Ellen Moore) died before 27 Sep 1604; was buried on 27 Sep 1604 in Loddiswell, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Unknown married Margery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Notes:

--- "An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall" Vol. 2, Part 1, by Charles Gilbert, 1820, page 453
This Hugh Boscawen, esq. married Philippa, daughter of Nicholas Carminow, esq. of Fentongollon, in Cornwall, by whom he had issue five sons, John, Nichols, William, Hugh, and George. Dying at Tregothan, August 24, 1559, aged 80, he was interred in the church of St. Michael Penkevil, where his figure is pourtrayed in a recumbent position, on a stately altar tomb highly enriched and ornamented.

--- "The Peerage of England" by Arthur Collins, 1779, page 80-1
Thereupon the inheritance devolved on Hugh, 2d son, continuator of the family, before-named, who paid a fine of four marks for not attending the coronation of Queen Mary, on October 1, 1553, and departing this life on August 24, 1559, aged 80, was buried at Penkevil. He wedded Philippa, daughter and coheir of Nicholas Carminow, of Carminow, Wolveidon, &c. Esq; whose other daughter and coheir, Elizabeth, carried her purparty of those lands to her husband, Nicholas Hearle, Esq. By the said Philippa, he was father of seven sons, and as many daughters. The sons were, 1. John, who died an infant: 2. Another John, his heir: 3. Nicholas Boscawen, Esq; who succeeded his brother: 4. William Boscawen, who died young: 5. Hugh Boscawen, Esq; who was born A.D. 1550, and by his wife, Mary daughter of Thomas Tredynwick, Esq; had issued Hugh Boscawen, aged 24, in the year 1620, and Margaret, wife of William Bird, of Foy, Esq; 6. George Boscawen, Esq; who wedded Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Thomas Carnarther, Esq; (and by her had 3 sons, 1. Hugh, aged 23, in 1620, 2. Edward, aged 20, in 1620, who died in 1649, without issue, and was buried at Penkevil, 3. John) and, 7. Edward Boscawen, Esq; who died without issue on February 15, 1619, aged 63, and had sepulture at Penkevil. The seven daughter of the said Hugh and Philippa were, 1. Joan, who was successively married to Walter Gawgan, and John Barrett, Esqrs. and, dying in 1625, was buried at Penkevil: 2. Alice, the wife of Richard Kendal, Esq; 3. Petronel, wedded to Peter Maynowe, Esq; 4. Mary, who was married to Peter Coffin, Esq; and deceasing on September 4, 1622, aged 67, had sepulture at Penkevil: 5. Elizabeth, successively wife to Richard Poyle and Richard Trevilion, Esqrs. 6. Margaret, who died without issue, A.D. 1655, and was buried at Penkevil: and, 7. Catharine, who was first married to ----- Nanscawen, and, 2dly, to Richard Geddy, Esqrs.

Hugh married Phillipa Carminow. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]