A View of Devonshire in Mdcxxx With a Pedigree of Most of Its Gentry
A View of Devonshire in Mdcxxx With a Pedigree of Most of Its Gentry
Thomas Westcote
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though his chief residence be now at Halton in Cornwall : a family of much antiquity and worth : of which Sir Robert le Rouse was Captain of Cher- burg in the reign of Richard II. ; a vahant commander. The gentleman that now is married a daughter of the Baron of Truro : his father, Osborn; and his grandfather. Sir Anthony, Southcot ; who, by her mother, was sole coheir to Barnhouse. [ CHAPTER XI. Of Kingston, R'mgmore, Ugborough, and other places in our way to Kingsbridgc, and near those parts.... Having thus got clear of Modbury, we come next to Kingston : happily the king's town : which in former times the kings of the West Saxons had in their own possession. Of this the eminent family of the Peverels were lords. The Conqueror, after his coming to this kingdom, had a natural son, named William Peverel, which was created Lord of Nottingham. Some branch of that line, for kindred sake, might have this in gift of some succeeding king : for there were two Sir Hughs, knights in the time of Henry III.
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