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).

Honor married Daniel Norton on 30 Oct 1606. Daniel (son of Richard Norton and Catherine Kingsmill) was born before 15 Oct 1568; was christened on 15 Oct 1568 in East Tisted, Hampshire; died on 04 Jul 1636; was buried on 06 Jul 1636 in Southwick, Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Honor married John Eliot on 28 Nov 1632. John (son of Sir John Eliot and Radigund Gedy) 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). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Androbus. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Susanna Eliot on 29 Sep 1657 in St. Germans, Cornwall. Susanna (daughter of Sir John Eliot and Radigund Gedy) 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. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

--- Burial Record reads:
1692. Honor Speccot, relict of John Speccot late of Penhele, esq. was buried Sept. 25th In Woolen.

Honor married John Speccot on 15 Feb 1663/64 in St. Germans, Cornwall. John (son of Paul Speccot and Grace Halswell) died on 23 Dec 1677; was buried on 10 Jan 1677/78 in Egloskerry, Cornwall. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

--- "A Chronicle of Cranborne" by Thomas William Wake Smart, 1841, page 27-9:
On the north side of the east window, is the following monument. A figure, in Alabaster, of a youth seated, leaning his head on the right hand, the elbow supported by a scull on his knee, the left arm resting on the thigh and holding a bunch of flowers. Above the head is the following inscription, surmounted with the arms of Elliot with eleven quarterings.
M.S.
Desideratissimi capitis Iohannis Elliott, Io. F. Cornubiensis Armigeri, Ex Honora F. Danielis Norton Militis South. Qui dum hic vernaculis literis incubuit repentina vi morbi oppressus occubuit 2 Februar MDCXLI.
---thus rendered;---
Sacred to the memory of the much lamented John Elliott, Son of John Elliott Esqr. of Cornwall, by Honor daughter of John Norton, of Southampton, Knight, who died suddenly whilst at school in this town, February 2. 1641.
(Tradition assigns his death to the swallowing a bone which caused suffocation.) Underneath the Statue is the following. ---
At qualis adolescentulus quantae spei in aetate jam puerili, vix uspiam majus exemplum memoriae, comitatis, ingeii, dotum denique naturae omnium, quas dum arte sedulo et studiose perpolire conatur, supergressus fere modum humanum, Angelorum inseritur choro. Avia D.N. nepoti bene merenti maerens P.P.
---thus rendered;---
What a remarkable boy he was! there has scarely ever been a more extraordinary instance of the powers of memory, of amiability, of intelligence, in a word, of all the gifts of nature. Whilst striving to improve them by care and study, and having made an almost supernatural progress, he was taken into the company of angels. His sorrowing grandmother Lady Norton, has caused this to be erected to her well-deserving grandson.
--- Below that again,---
Parvus avos referens, puer hic non degener ambos
Nortonum vivos, Eliotumque dedit.
Septenni incidit vitam laudesque parentum
Mors vitae victrix laudibus inferior;
Quae tamen immodicos virtutis crescere fructus
In teneris annis imperiosa vetat.

which we endeavour to imitate thus,---
The undegen'rate scion of his line
Norton and Elliott in his likeness shine,
But seven suns told, all conquering death laid low,
His Parents' hopes, and him at one fell blow.
Despotic death, that comes with blighting wing
To spoil the rich luxuriance of spring.

--- "Notes and Queries" Oxford University Press, 1868, page 472-3:
In the church of Cranborne there is a monument to the grandson of the great Sir John Eliot (3rd S. i. 445), who died at school there, and in consequence, it is said, of being choked by a bone whilst eating his dinner. The statue of the youth is at some height from the floor, and he holds something in his hand which is obscurely seen from below, but which popular tradition declares to be a representation of the identical mutton bone that caused his death! On closer inspection it proves to be a nosegay!

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]

Notes:

--- Mentioned in the 03 Dec 1696 will of her nephew, William Savery of Slade:
Itme. I give and bequeath unto my Aunt Mrs. Douglas Sparke of Plymouth a Gold Ring of thirty shillings price.

--- "Heraldic Church Notes from Cornwall", by Arthur Jewers, pub. Mitchell and Hughes, 1889, page 238:
Page 76. 1685. Douglas Eliot married John Spark, of Plymouth: John, son of John Spark, Esq., and Mrs. Duglis his wife, baptized 4th February, 1672; William, son of John Spark, Esq., and Mrs. Duglis his wife, baptized 30th April, 1676; Mrs. Duglas Spark buried 23rd December, 1699.

--- Devon Wills Index, 1163-1999 Transcription on FMP
First name(s) Douglas
Last name Sparke
Sex Male
Occupation Widow
Probate year 1700
Place Plymouth
Original place Plymouth
County Devon
Country England
Additional information admon to her sons, John Sparke and Jonathan Sparke
Court Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Source (see list) MUR1
Document type Administration
Document form Abstract or Extract
Document references Vol. 31
Record set Devon Wills Index, 1163-1999
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Wills & probate
Collections from Great Britain

Family/Spouse: John Sparke. John (son of Jonathan Sparke) was born before 17 Aug 1636; was christened on 17 Aug 1636 in St. Andrew's, Plymouth, Devon; died before 06 Oct 1680; was buried on 06 Oct 1680 in Charles the Martyr, Plymouth, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

--- "The Gentleman's Magazine" Vol. 101, Part 2, October 1831 page 313:
In making a Tour, a short time since, in the north of Devon, in search of antiquities, I was much pleased with Sydenham House, the seat of the Wise family . . . In the drawing room, which is hung with tapestry, are the likenesses of Sir Edward Wise, K.B., the Lady Arabella his wife . . . also his second wife Radigund, daughter of Eliot of Port Eliot.

--- Original Burial Record Transcription:
The Honble. the Lady Radigund Wise was
buryed the 9th of Decemr 1694 --- Small pox

All of deaths on the pages around her are due to small pox.

Radigund married Sir Edward Wise on 25 May 1675 in St. Germans, Cornwall. Edward died on 17 Nov 1675 in Exeter, Devon; was buried on 24 Nov 1675 in Marystow, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Education: 17 Jul 1663, Admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge
• Occupation: 1679 - 1680, Commissioner of Assessment, Cornwall
• Elected: Mar 1678/79 - Mar 1680/81, M.P. for St. Germans
• Elected: 1685 - 1687, M.P. for St. Germans
• Occupation: 1689 - 1690, Commissioner of Assessment, Cornwall
• Will: 02 Jul 1694, This is the date on the Will.
• Elected: 1689 - 1700, M.P. for St. Germans
• Elected: 02 Apr - 11 Nov 1701, M.P. for St. Germans
• Probate: 25 Nov 1703, P.C.C.

Notes:

--- "The Beauties of England and Wales" by John Britton, 1801, page 381:
Gives date of portrait in PE Dining Room of Daniel Eliot as 1687.

--- "Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900":
Name: Daniel Eliot
College: CHRIST'S
More Information: Adm. Fell.-Com. (age 17) at CHRIST'S, July 17, 1663. S. of John, of Port Eliot, Cornwall, Esq. B. at Portsmouth. School, Thurston (? Suffolk). Adm. at Lincoln's Inn, Nov. 3, 1668. M.P. for St Germans, Cornwall, 1678-1701. Died Oct. 1702. (Peile, I. 606.)

--- "London Post" Sunday, 15 Oct 1702, page 2:
Some days since Daniel Eliot Esq; a Gentleman of near three thousand Pounds per Annum, departed this Life at St. Germains in Cornwall, and is much lamented.

--- Taken from "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.

Daniel married Katherine Fleming on 23 Jul 1685 in Fulham, Middlesex. Katherine (daughter of Thomas Fleming and Margaret Gorges) was born about 1665; died before 20 Dec 1687; was buried on 20 Dec 1687 in Eliot Family Vault, St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Susan married Sir Henry Hele on 13 Jul 1676 in St. Germans, Cornwall. Henry was born before 24 Feb 1637/38; was christened on 24 Feb 1637/38 in Holbeton, Devon; died in Apr 1677; was buried on 18 Apr 1677 in All Saints Church, Holbeton, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died a bachelor.

--- "The House of Commons, 1660-1690" Vol. 1, page 260:
Eliot, Richard (1652-85), of Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall.

St. Germans 1679 (Mar.), 1679 (Oct.), 1681

Ensign, Plymouth garrison 1676-8.
Commr. for assessment, Cornwall. 1679-80.

As a younger son Eliot was intended for a military career and in 1676 entered the service at Plymouth garrison under the Earl of Bath. In 1678, however, the justices for the Western circuit received a warrant to suspend the execution of any sentence passed on him should he be found guilty of the death of one John Grimes of Plymouth. Possibly this incident caused him to leave the army, for there is no further evidence of his military career, though he must have been either acquitted or pardoned, since he was returned to the Exclusion Parliaments for his father's borough of St. Germans. Classed as 'honest' by Shaftesbury, he duly voted for the first exclusion bill. Otherwise he was totally inactive. He was buried at St. Germans on 22 Dec. 1685.

Notes:

--- "The Parochial History of Cornwall" Vol. 1, edited by Davies Gilbert, 1838, page 379:
The Hon. John Speccot, three times Knight of the Shire, married the Lady Essex Robartes, daughter of the Right Hon. John Earl of Radnor, but on the very day subsequent to their marriage Mr. Speccot was seized with the small-pox; and the lady experienced a fatal attack from the same dreadful disease about a month afterwards, just as her husband was getting well.

--- "Memoranda, Historical and Genealogical, Relating to the Parish of Kelston" by Francis John Poynton, 1885, page 42:
Right Hon. Sir John Speccott (spelt Speakett in the 'Westminster Abbey Register'), bapt. at Egloskerry 19 Apr. 1665; was M.P. for the County 1695-98-1700; died 16 June 1705, of apoplexy; temporarily interred at St. Anne's, Soho; removed to Egloskerry 20 July. (Vide Col. Chester's Westm. Abbey Reg., p. 28, Harl. Soc. Pub.)
This branch then became extinct, and Penheale passed to Thoas. Long, Esq.

John married Essex Robartes on 09 Apr 1689 in Abbey of St. Peter, Westminster, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

Notes:

--- Will written 20 Apr 1697.
Probate London, 29 Dec 1699.

No mention of a wife in his will or family (aside from uncle and nephews), so he must have been unmarried.

--- Mentioned in his father's 26 Oct 1691. Not sure if he belongs under Bridget or Prudence.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Robert Savery the summe of nine hundred pounds of good and lawfull money of England. Item.I give and bequeath unto my son Richard Savery the summe of fifteen hundred pounds of good and lawfull money of England besides what shall come or be due unto them [Richard and Robert] out of their Uncle Richard Elliotts Estate and their Aunt the Lady Hele's Estate which said summes of nine and fifteen hundred pounds are to be raised out of my Estate and paid unto them by my Executors as they shall severally accomplish the age of one and twenty years and before they doe attain unto such age my will is that they shall have such competent allowance for their maintenance as is fitt and convenient for their Calling and condition and if it shall please God to take of either of them by death before such age my will is that the survivors of them shall have and receive the moiety or half of such Legacy or portion as above named and given and the other half thereof shall return unto my Executor.

--- Mentioned as "my brother Richard Savery" in William Savery's will. Not sure if this belongs under Bridget or Prudence.
Receives "ten pounds lawfull English money, the best of my Silver Hilt Swords and my little Hanger" from his brother, William.

Notes:

--- Mentioned in his father's 26 Oct 1691. Not sure if he belongs under Bridget or Prudence.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Robert Savery the summe of nine hundred pounds of good and lawfull money of England. Item.I give and bequeath unto my son Richard Savery the summe of fifteen hundred pounds of good and lawfull money of England besides what shall come or be due unto them [Richard and Robert] out of their Uncle Richard Elliotts Estate and their Aunt the Lady Hele's Estate which said summes of nine and fifteen hundred pounds are to be raised out of my Estate and paid unto them by my Executors as they shall severally accomplish the age of one and twenty years and before they doe attain unto such age my will is that they shall have such competent allowance for their maintenance as is fitt and convenient for their Calling and condition and if it shall please God to take of either of them by death before such age my will is that the survivors of them shall have and receive the moiety or half of such Legacy or portion as above named and given and the other half thereof shall return unto my Executor.

--
Son of William Savery, Esq., Deceased.
Buried 17 Jun 1696.

Notes:

--- Some Account of Browne Willis, Esq; L.L.D. Late Senior Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Volume 8, by Andrew Coltee Ducarel, 1760, pages 2-3:
Upon the Death of this Lady, Mr. Willis erected a Monument in Bletchley Church, with the following Inscriptions, viz.
Here under resteth the Body of Catherine, only Child of Daniel Elliot, of Port Elliot, in the County of Cornwall, Esq; Wife of Browne Willis, Esq; Lord of these Manors; by whom she had Issue ten Children; of which four Sons, and four Daughters survive her, viz. Thomas, John, Henry, Elliot, Gertrude, Catherine, Mary, Alice. Both she ahd her Husband, were descended from the ancient Lords of this and the adjoining Parish of Whaddon, when departing this Life at Whaddon-Hall, Oct. 2, 1724, in the 38th Year of her Age, she was, according to her Desire, here interred.

Here also lyeth the Body of Anne, the Wife of Thomas Willis, Esq; who died May 21, 1739, aged 22 Years and 5 Days.

Elliot Willis, A.M.
Coll Trinitatis Oxon. Scholaris,
Ac hujus Ecclesiae, B. M. V. Rector,
Obiit July 24, 1752,
Anno Aetatis suae 33.

--- "The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham" Vol. 4, George Lipscomb, 1847, page 12:
The Lady of Browne Willis, Esq. was very nobly descended, vis. from Walter Giffard Earl of Buckingham, who was Lord of this Manor in the reign of the Conqueror.*

*She was a lady of great prudence and virtue, and evinced some literary talents; having written, with the assistance of a worthy Clergyman in the neighbourhood, that pious and popular work, called The Whole Duty of Man, which Browne Willis made the subject of a continual jest.

(In 1717 Willis published anonymously ‘The Whole Duty of Man, abridged for the benefit of the Poorer Sort'.)

Katherine married Browne Willis on 16 Dec 1707 in Somerford Keynes, Wiltshire. Browne was born on 14 Sep 1682 in Blandford, Dorset; died on 05 Feb 1760 in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire; was buried on 11 Feb 1760 in St. Martin's Chapel, Fenny Stratford, Buckinghamshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]