Bridget married William Savery on 13 Jul 1665 in St. Germans, Cornwall. William (son of Unknown Savery) died before 15 Oct 1695; was buried on 15 Oct 1695 in St. Michael's, Cornwood, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William Savery died in Jan 1696/97; was buried on 19 Jan 1696/97 in St. Michael and All Angels, Cornwood, Devon.
2. Richard Savery died in Feb 1698/99; was buried on 16 Feb 1698/99 in St. Michael and All Angels, Cornwood, Devon.
3. Robert Savery died in Jun 1696; was buried on 17 Jun 1696 in St. Michael and All Angels, Cornwood, Devon.

Other Events:

• Will: 13 Feb 1661/62
• Probate: 04 Feb 1685/86

Notes:

--- "The Beauties of England and Wales" by John Britton, 1801, page 381:
Gives date of portrait in PE Dining Room of John Eliot son of Sir John as 1664.

--- "The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed" by John Whitaker, 1804, Vol. 1, page 170:
Quoting Browne Willis.
His son and heir [John Eliot] "was buried here, near his grandfather, at the upper end of the south isle --- of this church, March 25, 1685." His only son, Daniel Eliot, esq. my father-in-law, departed this life about the 60th year of his age; was buried among his ancestors, October 28, 1702.

John married Honor Norton on 28 Nov 1632. Honor (daughter of Daniel Norton and Honor White) was born before 05 May 1611; was christened on 05 May 1611 in East Tisted, Hampshire; died before 01 Nov 1652; was buried on 01 Nov 1652 in St. German's, St. Germans, Cornwall. [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."

Daniel married Honor White on 30 Oct 1606. Honor (daughter of John White and Frances Butler) was born in 1589; died before 04 Aug 1649; was buried on 04 Aug 1649 in Southwick, Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

--- "Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern England" by Kenneth Charlton, 2002, page 112:
Robert Abbot, 'preacher of the Word' at Southwick, Hampshire, was engaged as tutor to the four daughters of Lady Honoria Norton of Southwick. He dedicated his "Milk for Babies" (1646) to Lady Honoria, and the appended four sermons to his four charges.

--- "Catechisms Written for Mothers, Schoolmistresses, and Children, 1575-1750" edited by Paula McQuade et al, 2008, page 12:
"To His much Honoured Patronesse, the Lady Honoria Norton . . ." (1646)
Robert Abbot (fl. c. 1589-1652)
Robert Abbot was a Protestant minister and author. . . . In 1643, Abbot left Cranbrook and moved to the living of Southwick, Hampshire, under the patronage of Lady Honoria Norton . . .

This dedicatory epistle, the first of two which preface "Milk for Babes", underscores the importance of upper-class women to the production and dissemination of mother-directed catechisms in seventeenth-century England. Lady Honoria Norton (d. 1648) was the wife of Sir Daniel Norton (1568-1636) of Southwick, Hampshire. The Nortons were 'leading members of the county's Calvinist gentry'' Lady Norton's son, Richard Norton, was a protege of Oliver Cromwell. Honoria Norton seems to have exercised considerable authority within her family; Richard's Royalist opponents decried 'the dominance of his mother'. In this epistle, Abbot describes Lady Norton's influence over his catechism's composition, crediting his stay in Norton's household, where he provided catechetical lessons to children and servants, as 'the main cause' of his writing. '[I]f it prove acceptable to Christ's Church'. he write, 'you (Madam) shall have the thanks, and credit, under whose wings it hath found leisure to be born' (AA2). Abbot concludes the epistle by urging Lady Norton to use his published catechism to instruct her grandchildren: 'Be . . . like Timothy his mother and grand-mother (who trained him from a childe in the Scriptures) to train them up in undoubted principles . . . and they will . . . thank God that they had such a grand-mother' (AA3v).

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]

Richard married Catherine Kingsmill. Catherine (daughter of John Kingsmill and Constance Goring) died before 08 Aug 1611; was buried on 08 Aug 1611 in East Tisted, Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Frances Butler. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]