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--- "An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall" Vol. 2, Part 1, by Charles S. Gilbert, 1820, page 266
SPECCOTT of Penhele, in Egloskerry. --- The family of Speccott, is of great antiquity in the counties of Cornwall and Devon, and of which, was John Speccott, esq. who served in parliament for the county of Cornwall, in the fifteenth of Edward III, 1341. Sir John Speccott, knt. settled at Penhele, in the beginning of the seventeenth century, and was chosen sheriff of Cornwall, in 1622. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Edgcumbe of Mount Edgcumbe, esq. and sister to Sir Richard Ecgcumbe, knt. by whom he had issue a son Paul, who died at Penhele, in 1644. This Paul Speccott, esq. married Grace, daughter and coheiress of Robert Halswell, of Halswell, in the couty of Somerset, esq. by whom he was father of John, whose son and heir, was the right honorable Sir John Speccott, knt.
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