of Ugborough Church, as appears by inscription on brass in the Fowell vaults. The second but eldest surviving son, heir of John Bassingbourne, of Badlingham and Fencottes, in the county of Cambridge, by his wife, Joan, eldest daughter and coheir of Alan le Fraunceis, to whom and his heirs for ever King HENRY III. had granted the right of free warren in his lordships and lands at Badlingham, (where this Walter Reynell sometimes dwelt,) and in all his lands in Yorkshire. A seal of this Walter, affixed to a deed in the reign of RICHARD II. anno 1381, is now in possession of the present Sir Thomas Reynell, bart. It bears the family arms, and the legend Sigillum Wal-sented the county of Devon in parliament, teri Reynell. He died, leaving issue, 1. WALTER, his successor. 11. Joan, m. Sack ville. III. Maud, m.-Pyne, of Upton Pynes, in Devon, 4 King RICHARD II. The son and successor, SIR WALTER REYNELL, knt. of Trumpington and of Badlingham, in Cambridgeshire, and of East Ogwell, in Devonshire, married Margaret, eldest daughter and eventually sole heir of William Stighull, alias Style, by his first wife, Constance, or Elizabeth, eldest of the three daughters and co-heirs of Robert de Malston, in the county of Devon, by his wife, Muriell, daughter and beir of Thomas Thorber. Upon this marriage the Reynells removed altogether out of Cambridgeshire, and settled permanently in Devon, and first at East Ogwell, where the ruins of their old mansion house are to be seen near the church. Sir Walter Reynell had issue, three sons and two daughters, 1. John, who died before his father. IV. Alicia, m. in 1396, -Trevillian. v. Eleanor, m. William Fouhel, esq. of Fouhels-Coome, in the parish of Ugborough, in the county of Devon, M.P. for Totness, 33rd of King HENRY VI. 1455, great grandson and heir of JOHN DE FOGHILL thereof, and his wife, the daughter and heiress of TREVAZE, of TREVAZE, in the county of Cornwall, (see FoWHELL, of Black Hall and Diptford). He d. 23rd March, and she, 9th April, 1507, and were both buried in the Fowell aisle WALTER REYNELL, of East Ogwell, accompanied King HENRY V. in all his French wars, and served at Agincourt and Harfleur with his own men at arms, not hesitating to sacrifice his own possessions,* in order to sustain the honour of his country. For his valour and fidelity he was made governor of Calais and the Marches. He also repre 33 HENRY VI. He married Joanna, daughter of William Walrond, esq. of Bradfield, in Devon, and by her had issue, 1. ROBERT, m. Thomasine, daughter of - Hatch. He was Lord of Malston, and captain of the hundred of Coleridge, in Devonshire. He died before his father, leaving issue, JOHN, who succeeded his grand- II. WALTER, who succeeded his nephew, III. Jane, m. John Stretchley, esq. of IV. Margaret, or Elizabeth, m. Richard JOHN REYNELL, esq. of Malston and East Ogwell, who m. Jane, daughter, (by his wife, Blanch, daughter and co-heir of Hayes, of Devon,) of Sir Richard Fowell, of Fowellscombe,† and dying in 1478, s. p. m. was succeeded by his uncle, WALTER REYNELL, esq. of Malston, and East Ogwell, m. first, Jane, daughter of Robert Whiting, esq. and secondly, Radigunda, daughter (by his wife Anne, daughter and heir of John Bonvile, esq. only brother of the Lord Bonvile, of Shute, in Devon,) of Philip Coplestone, esq. of Coplestone in that county. By his second marriage he had is sue, 1. JOHN, his successor. II. THOMAS, to whom his father left Malston. For his posterity see REYNELL OF MALSTON. III. Nicholas. IV. Edmond. v. Margaret, m. Richard Lake, esq. of "The inheritance of the Reynells," says Prince, " has decreased by their long following the and soldiers, exhausted a great part, viz. the lands French wars, and their liberality to their retinue which came by Alan le Fraunceis." An antique gold ring, having engraved on it the arms of Fowell and Reynell, was sometime since found in the grounds of Ogwell, and is in the possession of Colonel Taylor. of Brixton, in the county of Devon, sons being vertuously disposed, religious and yeoman of the guard. well qualified, are at this day serviceable vi. Joan, m. first, to William Huck-in some good degree or other to their king's more, esq. of Devon; and secondly, to Pryce, esq. of Horwell, in Colbrook, in Devon. The eldest son, JOHN REYNELL, esq. of East Ogwell, born 1486, married Margaret, daughter of William Fortescue, esq. of Wood, in the county of Devon, by whom he had issue, 1. Walter, who d. s. p. II. RICHARD, his successor. IV. John, of Newton Abbot. For him v. Alice, m. William Soper, esq. of Woodland, in Devon. majesty, and their country. Lastly it is generally noted and known, that the aforesaid 5 sons are a knot of as worthy and serviceable gentlemen as any in the Western parts of this kingdom of England." This Richard Reynell also represented the borough of Ashburton, in parliament. He added to his large possessions, by purchase from the Courtenays, the manor and parish of West Ogwell, which, like East Ogwell to which it is contiguous, was, in the reign of HENRY II. held by Hugh Pictavensis, to whom succeeded Robert Peytevin. From his family it came to the Courtenays, Earls of Devon, who sold it as before stated. This Richard married Agnes, daughter of John Southcote, vi. Elizabeth, m. William Wyvill, esq. esq. of Indiho, in the parish of Bovey Traof Crediton, in Devon. The eldest surviving son, His RICHARD REYNELL, esq. of East Ogwell, was a distinguished man, of whom, and his eminent sons, a pretty full account is given by Prince, in his "Worthies of Devon." He was b. in 1519. "To divers of his kings and queens,' we quote from Prince, "he did special duties and services, being in commission of the peace near forty years, and high sheriff of the county of Devon in the late noble Queen Elizabeth's reign, An. 28. He was ever most virtuously affected, sound in religion, faithful and serviceable to his Princes, upright and zealous in justice, beating down vice, preferring the virtuous, and a keeper of great hospitality. youth, in King Henry 8th's days, he spent at court, and in travel beyond the seas with honourable knights and gentlemen, first into France, Flanders, and Italy, thence they crossed the Adratic sea, and so into Hungary and Greece, where they served against the Turk at the siege of Buda. Also he served at Bulloin, when his King, Henry 8 was present. Also at Laundersey, and was at the siege and burning of Treport, in France, &c. Also in the Western rebellion 6 Edward VI. he having charge of a troop of horsemen, did special good services, when in suppressing and confounding those traytors, he being sorely wounded and hurt, it pleased the king's majesty of his princely bounty to grant his warrant to the Earl of Bedford, then general of those wars, for the rewarding the said Richard Reynell with the demesnes of Weston Peverill, and house called Pennicross, in Devon, near Plymouth. This Richard left behind him 5 sons, whereof 4 are knights, all which sons even from their infancy he ever with godly care and great charge maintain'd in the schools of virtue and learning, viz. at the universities, inns of court, their prince's court, travels into Germany, France, and Italy, &c. All which cey, in Devon, and dying when in the office of high sheriff, 29th July, 1585, was buried among his ancestors in East Ogwell Church.* He left issue, 1. THOMAS (SIR), his successor. 11. Josias, who inherited the lands of Pennicross, and Weston Peverill, and d. s. p. 66 I. Richardt (Sir), of Ford House, near Newton-Abbot, in the parish of Woolborough. This gentleman was bred to the bar in the Middle Temple, and was autumn reader of that society, an. 12 JAMES I., 1614. He had an office in the Exchequer, and amassing great wealth, purchased the manor of Ford, and built thereon a mansion. "Unto this house," says Prince, King CHARLES I., of gracious memory, came, attended on by the Duke of Buckingham, and other great lords, September, 15th 1625, and was pleased to take up his lodging there. The next day, his majesty conferred the honour of knighthood in the dining room of that house, on Richard Reynell, of West Ogwell, and on Thomas Reynell, his brother, who at that time, was his majesty's servant, and sewer in ordinary, to his person, in presence of their wives "Close "On the south side of the church of East Og well, in a recess, was a seat of the Reynells," says Polwhele in his History of Devonshire," where is erected a monument to their memory. There too is the dormitory of the Reynell family:" in which there are upwards of thirty leaden coffins, containing the ashes of members of that family. the mansion house of the Reynells, inhabited by adjoining to the church are the ivy-grown ruins of large flocks of pigeons." This house was abandoned after the building of West Ogwell House. + Arms, Reynell arms, with a molet for difference. and divers lords and ladies, saying to them, "God give you joy!" After that he went to Plymouth, and returned to Ford the 24th of that same month; and the Sunday following, his majesty went to Woolborough Church. For an account of the entertainment given by Sir Richard Reynell, to CHARLES I., see Lyson's Magna Britannia, Devonshire. Sir Richard m. Lucy, daughter of Robert Brandon, esq. chamberlain of the city of London: a lady remarkable for her virtues, and especially for her munificence to the poor. A hospital founded by her for poor clergymen's widows, still exists at Woolborough. Over the door, is this inscription:"The widow's house, 1638." "Is it strange a prophet's widow poor should be?. If strange, then is the scripture strange to thee." The portraits of Sir Richard, and his + A memoir of this eminent lady, was published by Edward Reynell, her husband's nephew, entitled:-"The life and death of that religious, and vertuous lady the Lady Lucia Reynell of Fordto which is added a consolatory epilogue for dejected souls." * In Woolborough church is an elaborate monument, erected to the memory of Sir Richard Reynell, and the Lady Lucy, his wife, and their two children. The inscription is as follows: "In Memoria Dni Rici Reynell de Forde Milit. extincti Janry. 24° Ao Xti 1633 Æt. 77° & Dnæ Lucia Vxris ej. charissijae nec non Dnæ Janæ filiæ ipo. (nuper Dno Guliel: Waller Milit: Conjug) quæ obiens apd Bathon Mai: 18° Ao Xti 1633 nunc ibi jacet sub statua qu pulcra tumulata. Etiam Johis Reynell eo. Filii qui Londin : moriens infantulus in ecclesia Scæ Brida Sepult: est. Hoc extructu erat Monumentu A° Domi 1634 "Friend you that read our names-that counsell take "Wch wee being dead our living names doo speake" "Richard Lucy Reynell "Care Lern Live Dye Rich." "Who care to Llive who Live and love to leaRne "Who le Arne to dy E shall in their deaths discerne "Such CaRes rewaRde thVs live You all in which "Yu shall live E happy aNd beE and dyE RycH." "Had this rare knight which now here sleeps in rest "Twelve pretious stones like Aaron on his breast "All graven to epitaphs-they might in part "Come neere though not reach home his known desert. "But when his holie life-his heavenly learning "His Hebrew tongue-his head deep things deserning "Free heart, free hand, full age with honnord hairs "Great with his country's praise and clergie's prayres "Have but one stone to speake-it ca'nt speake all IV. lady, now hang in the hall of West Ogwell house and his arms are on one of the windows of Middle Temple Hall. He died 24th January, 1633, aged seventy-seven, and she † died 18th April, 1652, aged seventy-four.* They had an only daughter and heir, Jane, m. to Sir William Waller, the famous parliamentary general. She died 18th May, 1633, at Bath, and was buried in the Abbey Church: leaving an only dau. and eventual heiress. Margaret Waller, m. to Sir William Courtenay, bart. fourth EARL OF DEVON: de jure and their great-greatgreat-grandson, is the present EARL of DEVON. (See BURKE'S Peerage.) George (Sir), Marshal of the King's Bench, who m. and had issue.§ "For the Religious Lady Lucy (only wife of the wise Sir Rich. Reynell Knight) who left earth on the Resurrection day 18. April 1652.” "Love here sat Majesty with meekness crown'd "Vail'd under reverence was courtship found "Compos'd were all such graces in her mind "Y ee knew in Moralist or Christian shin'd. "Refuge of strangers, Prophet's joynturesse "Easy chirurgeon, Poore men's treasuresse "Youth's awe and ages honour: To God (when "Not thus to man) imploy'd in prayers or penn. "E eate through this marble if Time shall she hath "Left upon living stones her epitaph." Etatis suæ 74. v. Carew (Sir), cupbearer to Queen ELIZABETH, was knighted for his valour in the Irish wars, by the Earl of Essex, July, 1599. He was Governor of Duncannon Castle. Gentleman pensioner to Queen ELIZABETH and JAMES I. and gentleman usher of the privy-chamber to King JAMES. He married, Susanna, eldest dau. and co-heir, of Sir Walter Hungerford, of Farley Castle, county of Wilts, and relict of Michael Ernle, of Bourton, county of Wilts. He d. s. p. 7th September, 1624, aged, sixty-one, and was buried at St. Martin's-in-thefields, London. 1. Mary, m. first, 13th September, 1574, to Arthur Fowell, esq. of Fowellscomb, great-grandson, through daughters of Hayes, of Devon, Halse, of Kenedon, and Somaster, of Paynes King's Bench, was knighted at Whitehall, 23rd July, 1603, He m. first, Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Valentine Browne, of Croft, in Lincolnshire, and relict of Edward Tirell, esq. warden of the Fleet, and by her had one son, CAREW, his heir. He married, secondly, Ethelred, daughter and sole heir of Sir Edward Peacock, knight, of Finchley, county of Middlesex, and of Redbourne, county of Herts, and had issue, three sons, George, John, and Richard, and three daughters, Elizabeth, Mary, and Lucy. He died 12th July, 1628, and was s. by his son, CAREW REYNELL, esq. of Rivershill, in the parish of Binstead, Hants, also marshall of the King's Bench. He died August, 1657, having married Mary, daughter of Marcel Rivers, esq. of Rivershill, and left issue, I. CAREW his successor. II. George, in holy orders, fellow of Corpus Christi college, Oxford, M. A. 1660, B.D. 1669, D.D. 1680. He d. s. p. and was buried at Corpus Christi College. See Wood's Athena Oxonienses. 1. Lucy. The eldest son, CAREW REYNELL, esq. of Rivershill, and London, was gentleman commoner of Wadham college, Oxford, 1652, and went to the inns of court. In 1674, he published a work which excited considerable attention, entitled, "The true English interest, &c. &c.," for an account of which, see vol. ix. of Philosophical Transactions. See also Granger's Biography, and Athene Oxonienses. He married, first, Anne, widow of - Metcalfe, esq. and secondly, the widow of Ralph Took, esq. of Tooks Court, by whom he had only one child, Anne. He died in 1690, leaving issue by his first lady, a son, ford, also in that county, of William Fouhel, esq. of Fouhelscoome, M.P. for Totness, 33 HENRY, VI., 1455, and secondly, to Sir Edmund Prideaux, baronet, of Netherton, in Devon, (his third wife,) by whom she had no issue. The son and heir, SIR THOMAS REYNELL, knight, of West Ogwell, was knighted at the coronation of King James I. He built West Ogwell house, in 1589. The men employed in the erection, were chiefly Spanish prisoners made by the defeat of the Spanish Armada : and it is a remarkable circumstance, that, when, at a subsequent period, the mansion was remodelled and repaired, by the father of the present proprietor, Colonel Taylor, it was done chiefly by French prisoners, from the depôt at Ashburton, taken in the action of the 1st of June, 1794. A chair of Sir had issue, Francis-Adolphus, who m. Anne, daughter of RobertWright Hodson, esq. of Lambeth, by whom he left 1. Nicholas-Edward-Adol- 2. Frederick-Walcot. Mary, m. to H. Weller, esq. 2. Richard, d. 1796, unmarried. Carew-Henry, m. Anne-Constance, 1. Charles-Weatherby. White. 3. John. Thomas, with the arms and crest of the Reynells, now stands in the entrance-hall of West Ogwell house, with T. R. 1586, on it. He married, first, Frances, daughter of John Aylworth, esq. of Polstlow, Devon, and secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Killigrew, knt. of Cornwall, and relict of Sir Jonathan Trelawney, knt. of that shire. By this latter marriage, he had an only son, Edward, who was first a barrister of the Middle Temple, but afterwards entering into holy orders, became rector of West Ogwell, and fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He was an author of considerable note in his day. See Athena Oxoniensis. He d. unmarried, 1663, aged fifty-one. By his first wife, Sir Thomas left issue, 1. RICHARD (Sir), his successor. 1. Rebecca. 2. Catharine, m. to William 1744, leaving issue. Hazlitt. 3. Emma. 4. Anne, m. to Renato Broom, of Havre, esq. Henry-Willock, deceased, m. first Elizabeth, daughter of John Thwaites, esq. of Appleby, county of Westmoreland, and secondly, Sarah, daughter of John Burckett, esq. of Streatham. By his first wife, he had two sons, John Thwaites, and Henry-Preston and four daughters, Eliza, Anna, Harriet, and Jane. George, of Chancery Lane, London, m. first, Frances-Linney, dau. of William Hutchinson, esq. of St. James' Westminster, and secondly, Mary, dau. of George Astor, esq. of Clapton. By his first wife, he has issue. 1. John-Griffiths, of London, 1. Frances-Caroline, m. Sebas- Elizabeth. Caroline. 1. CAREW, his successor. II. Charles, captain 23rd regiment of foot. Killed in Germany, 1762, unmarried. III. William-Henry, M.A. vicar of St. Anthony Meneage, county of Cornwall, and vicar of Hornchurch, Essex, and author of " Parochial Discourses," m. Mary, daughter of Thomas Clutton, esq. of Walworth, by whom he had an only child, Walter, whod. unmarried. The son and heir, The REVEREND CAREW REYNELL, D.D. fellow of Corpus Christi college, Oxford, rector of St. James' Church, Bristol, m. Mary, daughter and heir of Sir Henry Mackworth, baronet, of Normanton, county of Rutland, by whom he left at married before him, his decease, in 1781, with other issue, who d. un CAREW, who succeeded him. Charles, L.L.B. fellow of New college, Oxford, vicar of Steeple Morden, in Cambridgeshire. He died 1829, unmarried, aged sixty-eight. Bridget, m. Reverend George Oakes, and d. 1830. Theresa, d. unmarried, 1822, aged fifty-eight. The eldest son, CAREW REYNELL, lieutenant, R.N. d. unmarried and was succeeded in the representation of this branch of the family, by his kinsman, CAREW REYNELL, captain in the 60th regiment of infantry. Refer to the issue of the eldest son of Richard Reynell, M.D. before mentioned. Arms.-The Reynell arms with a difference. * Bishop Prideaux published "An Introduction to reading History, &c." This work he dedicated to his brother-in-law, Sir Thomas Reynell, the younger, and his lady. The dedication is as follows "To the Right Worshipful Sir Thomas Reynel and to the vertuous lady Katherine his wife, for the use of their towardly young sonnes Mr. Thomas and Mr. Henry Reynell." -1 he bishop died in 1650. |