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]

1. John Eliot was born on 18 Oct 1612; was christened on 18 Oct 1612; died before 25 Mar 1685; was buried on 25 Mar 1685 in St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall (Upper End of the South Aisle).
2. Richard Eliot was born about 1614; died between 1645 and 1648.
3. Elizabeth Eliot 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.
4. Edward Eliot was born before 10 Jul 1618; was christened on 09 Jul 1618 in St. Germans, Cornwall; died before 06 Apr 1710; was buried on 06 Apr 1710 in St. Paternus, South Petherwin, Cornwall.
5. Bridget Eliot was born before 26 Apr 1620; was christened on 26 Apr 1620 in St. Germans, Cornwall; died before 16 Jun 1663; was buried on 16 Jun 1663 in Ermington, Devon.
6. Radigund Eliot was born before 11 Oct 1622; was christened on 11 Oct 1622 in St. Germans, Cornwall; died after 1627.
7. Susanna Eliot was born before 13 Oct 1624; was christened on 14 Oct 1624 in St. Germans, Cornwall; died between 02 and 07 Oct 1661; was buried on 07 Oct 1661 in Southwick, Hampshire.
8. Thomas Eliot was born before 07 Sep 1626; was christened on 07 Sep 1626 in St. Germans, Cornwall; died before 16 Apr 1630; was buried in St. Paternus, South Petherwin, Cornwall.
9. Nicholas Eliot was born before 15 Jun 1628; was christened on 15 Jun 1628 in St. German's, St. Germans, Cornwall; died before 21 Sep 1689.

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]

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]

Edward married Alice Guye. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes:

--- "The Visitations of the County of Devon" Vol. 1, J. Vivian, 1895 page 353:
First daughter of Amyes Paulett of Hinton St. George in Com. Somerset.

Bartholomew married Ellen Moore. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Daughter of Maurice Moore of Moore Hays.