Other Events:

• Will: 03 Dec 1696

Notes:

Must be born between 1666-1670.

Will was written 03 Dec 1696.

William married Katherine Waltham on 19 Feb 1688/89 in Buckfastleigh, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Waltham Savery was christened on 27 Dec 1692 in St. Michael and All Angels, Cornwood, Devon; was buried on 20 Nov 1749 in Kenn, Devon.
2. Robert Savery was born before 11 Sep 1694; was christened on 11 Sep 1694 in St. Michael's, Cornwood, Devon.
3. Elizabeth Savery was born before 11 Jun 1696; was christened on 11 Jun 1696 in St. Michael and All Angels, Cornwood, Devon; died in Feb 1696/97; was buried on 13 Feb 1696/97 in St. Michael and All Angels, Cornwood, Devon.

Notes:

--- Will written 26 Oct 1691.
No mention of his wife Prudence or their child, John. It seems likely that he was not married yet.

William married Bridget Eliot on 13 Jul 1665 in St. Germans, Cornwall. Bridget (daughter of John Eliot and Honor Norton) was born before 01 Feb 1636/37; was christened on 01 Feb 1636/37 in St. Germans, Cornwall. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Possibly Robert Savery

There is a 1648 will of Anthony Savery -- his brothers listed are Thomas and Richard.

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).