The History of the Suburbs of Exeter, etc

Front matter

THE HISTORY OF THE SUBURBS OF EXETER With general particulars as to the Landowners, Lay and Clerical, from the Conquest to the present time, and a special notice of the Hamlyn Family. TOGETHER WITH "A Digression" on the Noble Houses of Redvers, and of Courtenay, Earls of Devon. BY CHARLES WORTHY, Esq. (Formerly H.M. 8*md Regt.), Sometime Prin. Assist, to the late Somerset Herald, Author of " Devonshire Parishes," " Practical Heraldry," &c. In one vol ; cloth ; 8vo. Price 8s. LONDON : HENRY GRAY, +7 Leicester Square, W.C. Exeter: S. DRAYTON & SONS Plymouth: W. F. WESTCOTT, 14 Frankfort Street TO THE REVEREND AND RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY HUGH COURTENAY, Of Powderham Castle, THIRTY-FIRST EARL OF DEVON, PREBENDARY OF EXETER CATHEDRAL, AND RECTOR OF POWDERHAM, THESE PAGES ARE INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.

Preface

. A preface is almost unnecessary, as my first chapter sufficiently explains the method I have adopted in the compilation of the following pages. I may mention, however, that this little volume is the partial result of the labours of more than twelve years, during which I have been constantly examining and noting original records of all kinds, both here, and in London, as most of my friends are well aware. I directed the late Mr. Dymond's attention to the papers, at the Guildhall, in connection with the murder of Mr. Petre, of Whipton, with the result that he soon afterwards included a notice of that unhappy episode, in the history of the Drewe family, in his paper on the "Old Inns and Taverns of Exeter," read before the "Devonshire Asso ciation" in 1880. I only mention this to avoid the suspicion of an unacknowledged plagiarism from one of his many valuable contributions to Devonshire history.

It may be seen that his account differs from mine, in a some what important particular. He says, that these papers give no report "as to the issue" of the sad affair, whereas the coroner's jury actually returned a verdict of " wilful mur der" against Drewe, as I have stated in my text. Dr. Oliver notices the "Font" at Heavitree Church, with which he was " surprised and pleased." I have not referred to the present Font, which is modern, but the old one, which certainly merits much commendation, may still be seen in the grounds of " Hevitre " House, the picturesque residence of Sir Francis Clare Ford. It would be well if it could be restored to its original uses, if not to its natural situation. C. W. Heavitree, January 25th, 1892. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Chapter I

Introductory — John Hoker and his History of Exeter — Copied by the Isaacs — Hoker's work still in Manuscript — Its proposed publica tion — Dr. Oliver's Notes — Their value — Their shortcomings — Mr. Dymond's Account of St. Leonard's — Previous Authors — Modern Heraldry — Caution as to future restorations — New Churches — Depen dencies of Heavitree — Livery Dole Chapel - Pages 1-6.

Chapter II

The Parish of Heavitree. — Derivation — The Manor under the Saxons — Its Norman owners — The Kelly Family — The Barings of St. Leonard's — Manor of South Wonford — Queen Edith — Geoffry de Mandeville — The House of Fitz-John — The Tirells — East Wonford Manor — Gervis and Speke — Ringswell — Exe Bridge — Whiting of Wood— Wonford Speke — The Manor House — Governor Hutchinson of Massachusetts — The Manor of Whipton — " Master Will Petre"— Is murdered by Drewe — Finding of the Body — The Inquest and Verdict — The Murderer escapes — Berry of Barley — The Arms of Bankes — Matford House — Sir George Smith — Hall, Bishop of Exeter — Lords of the Hundred — The Chapel of St. Eligius — Its description — Its probable date — Referred to by Jenkins — Its endowments — Wardens of St. Loyes — Life of this Saint — Milton Abbot Church — Livery Dole — Its name explained— Its history — Its description — The Death of St. Clarus — Thomas Benet — Martyred at Livery Dole — The Iron Ring — Henry VI. at Heavitree — The Rolles and Livery Dole — Armorials of Denys, &c. — The Manor of Polslo — Its Priory — Pro perty in Colyton, Payhembury, and elsewhere — Young ladies of quality — The Isaacks of Polslo — Remains of the Convent — St. James's Priory — The Church of Heavitree— Its description — Saints on the Tower Screen — Old Inscriptions — The Courtenay Arms — The Chapel of St. Anne — St. Sidwell's Church — St. David and St. Clement — The Manor of Duryard — The Gallows at Ringswell — Its victims — Execution for Witchcraft — Ducke's Alms-houses — Heavitree Charities - - - - Pages 7-58. TABLE OF CONTENTS. VII

Chapter III

The Parish of St. Leonard. — Some particulars of the Saint — The Church — Its foundation bv the Earl of Devon — Its early history — Avis of St. Leonard's — William de Vernon — Patrons of St. Leonard's — The Old Church — The Hermitage — Larkbeare — The Hulls — Rise and progress of the Baring Family — Mount Radford House — The City Gallows in Magdalen Road — Nicholas Duck — His portrait — Parker's Well — Lord Gifford — His descendant wins the Victoria Cross ------- Pages 59-73.

Chapter IV

Redvers and Courtenay. — The Fable as to the Origin of the latter Family — Prince Florus — Peter of France — He marries Elizabeth Courtenay — Princess Yolande — Courtenay Emperors of Constantinople — Michael Palæologus — Reginald de Courtenay — His arrival in England — The Marriage of himself and son — Robert, Baron of Okehampton — The Redvers Family — Earls of Devon — Their descent, wavy, from the Dukes of Normandy — Their possessions in Devonshire — The Isle of Wight — Ralph de Avenel — Descent of the Worthes of Worth — Mary de Redvers marries Robert Courtenay — Death of Countess Isabella— Courtenay succeeds as Earl of Devon — The Redvers Seal — The Arms of Dol — The Courtenay Earls — Misfortunes of the French Courtenays — The Crown of Thorns — A Courtenay Marquess — Princess Katherine — Mendacious inscription — Little " Chokebone " — Queen Mary's love— Co-heirs of Courtenay — Courtenay of Powderham — Courtenay Baronets— Courtenay Viscounts — Recovery of the Earldom — Further remarks on the Courtenay Arms — The High Tomb at Exeter — The Courtenay Label Pages 74-118.

Chapter V

The Parish of Pinhoe. — King Ethelred II. — The Vikings — The Dubhgalls — Invasions of the Norsemen — Sweyn of the Forked Beard — The Battle of Pinhoe— A Martial Priest — Godwin, Earl of Kent — The Abbot of Battle — King William and Pinhoe — Robert de Vaux — His descendants— Sir Thomas Molton — Dacre of Gillesland — The Cheney Family — Pinhoe Church — Its Norman Font — Description of the Fabric — " The Poor Man of Pinhoe " — Some past Vicars — The Charities of Pinhoe — A Remarkable Funeral - Pages ng-141.

Chapter VI

The Parish of St. Thomas. — Otherwise Cowick— Dedicated to St. Thomas of Canterbury — Cowick and Exwick — William Fitz- TABLE OF CONTENTS. VIII Baldwin identified— His gift to Bee, in Normandy— Cowick Priory — Its exact situation — Ye Earl's Chamber — Burial-place of some of the Courtenays — The Chapel on Exe Bridge — Destroyed by a Flood — The Church of St. Thomas of Canterbury— Its description — Its Vicar hanged on the Tower — Cowick Barton— Its Ancient Graveyard de scribed — Chapel of St. Michael — Recent discoveries— A Stone Coffin — The home of the Russells — Old Painted Glass — Badge of Edward Tudor, Prince of Wales — The Pate Family of Cowick — White- Abbott— Cowick Manor — The Priory of St. Mary of the Marsh — Hayes Barton — F'loyer-Hayes — The Floyer Family — Bowhill — Barley- House — The Old Bridewell — Oliver Family — Franklands and Cleave — Oldridge — Ancient Chapel — The Fate of Sacrilege — The Vicarage of St. Thomas — Parochial Charities - - Pages 142-171.

Chapter VII

Alphington in Deanery of Kenne. — Origin of its name — Baldwin the Sheriff — William of Avenel again — Sir John de Neville — Nune ham Iweme and Nuneham Courcy — Courtenays of Alphington — Patrons of the Rectory — The Character of the Irish — Curious Letter from Sir William Courtenay — Alphington Church — Its description — Thunderstorm in r826 — Alphington Cross — Charles Dickens— Matford Dinham — "Maadford" — Marsh Barton — A Muscular Churchman — Extent of the " Cell," St. Mary's Acre — The " Admiral Vernon " — The Hamlyn Family — Hameline de Balun — "Hamelinus" of Domes day — The Hamlyns of Widecombe, Exeter, and Clovelly — Alphington Charities ---... Pages 172-200. Additional Notes. — Bankes and Crossing — Synopsis of the Earldom of Devon — One or two Corrections Pages 200-202. General Index Pages 203-210. tr$t of &?tht.

Chapter I

— INTRODUCTORY'. old John Hoker wrote his account of Exeter, which the Isaacs subsequently copied, with scant veracity, many attempts have been made to elucidate the history of our "faithful city." The greater portion of Hoker's work is still in manuscript, and, with the permission of the Town Council, which has been readily accorded me, I trust, at no distant day, to be enabled to publish it in its entirety and to annotate it with the result of my own researches amongst the City archives, and amongst other original documents with which I have been conversant for many years. But in the following pages 1 do not propose to deal with Exeter at all ; no previous effort has been made to write the history of its suburbs as a whole, and in those suburbs the most influential of our citizens are now accustomed to reside, and to resort to them day by day, for healthful rest and change, after their business toil is over.

So I believe that the historical records which I have now collated, will not only add something, to what is known already, as to the four parishes B which extend immediately outside the ruined walls of " Isca Danmoniorum," but that they will serve also to correct in some instances the careless and superficial statements which have been made by many able writers from time to time, who have unfortunately attempted more than they have been able to perform. It mav be urged that places like Topsham, Stoke Canon, Powderham, Upton Pyne, and numerous other parishes similarly situated should have been included in my present work, but, had I attempted this, I should have erred precisely as those before me have erred: I should have professed too much, and in such case no satisfactory account of a single district could have been written, because the limits of the present volume would not have allowed it.

So that instead of devoting one or two pages each, to incomplete histories of a dozen different parishes and their old inhabitants, as others have done before me (and even then many places and families with equal claims would have been neces sarily excluded), I have thought it wiser to limit myself to an account of the ancient villages of Heavitree, St. Leonard's, Pinhoe, Cowick, commonly called St. Thomas, and Alphington, the whole of which are barely outside the limits of the municipal boundaries. Good old Dr. Oliver has handed down to us many valuable notes as to these parishes, the result of his long labour amongst original local records. All his works possess the greatest possible value, and I should be sorry to depreciate them. We .are all liable to make mistakes, and the doctor has Introductory. 3 been no exception to the general rule.

Fortunately he invariably printed the original Latin deeds and charters he has referred to whenever he was able to do so, although in many instances they contra dict ■ his assertions, and in others they furnish evidence which in the text of his works he has not supplied or which he has rather curiously admitted that he has been unable to procure. My late friend Mr. Robert Dymond, F.S.A., published many years ago a small pamphlet which gives a most interesting sketch of the parish of St. Leonard's. His invariable painstaking accuracy characterises it throughout, and it is very pleasantly written, but he has told us nothing whatever as to the early history and origin of the parish, and indeed has given it as his opinion that such par ticulars "would never be recovered." With these few prefatory observations I may almost leave the following pages to tell their own story ; I only trust that they will prove as accept able, as I believe they will, not only to my own immediate neighbours, but to many Devonshire men resident elsewhere — not to those alone who can claim a birthright in Exeter or its suburbs, but to all those who proudly boast that they belong to Devonshire, to all the many lovers and admirers of the fair Capital of the West, and of our beautiful and charming county as well,— and their name is indeed " legion."

If my hopes are realised in these respects it will be easy to extend my plan, and to follow the present work with another upon the •" neighbourhood " of Exeter. Whether previous attempts to write the history of the city proper, have been entirely satisfactory, I leave others to decide ; the attempts have been made, and the road therefore has been practically closed to further essays, but not to my projected transcription of the original manuscript of Hoker, and to its annotation from the public records and municipal archives ; but, as the general history of the suburbs still remained to be written, I have felt justified in my endeavour to place it before the public in an attractive and readable form, in ac cordance, I trust, with the requirements of modern literature. Therefore I have not burthened the text with references.

I have carefully read and studied the various records, and the authors who have gone before me, ancl by collating the various accounts of these with the former, I have been able to correct them in many instances ; in others I have been enabled to add much fresh information. But previous authors have never attempted any thing beyond scattered and desultory information. One has said something on one point, another on another. The late Air. Dymond's effort in con nection with St. Leonard's has been the only real attempt at a complete history of any particular suburb or parish, as I have remarked already. Nor have I thought it necessary to re-print lists of Vicars or Priors, which Dr. Oliver collected and printed. They are to be found either in his " Ecclesiastical Antiquities " or else in his " Monasticon of the Diocese."

But I have verified many of his lists from the Episcopal Registers, and I have specially noticed such clerics as by Introductory . 5 their lives and actions have appeared to me worthy of particular mention, as in the case of Bishop Godwin, of Heavitree, and in other instances. In conclusion, I have thought it inexpedient to devote any space to modern Heraldry, sepulchral or otherwise, of which there are numerous examples at Heavitree and elsewhere. Many of these are the true bearings of well-known families, and will be at once recognised upon inspection. Others have not the slightest pretensions to represent the people they intend to commemorate. The true bearings will be appreciated without my aid, and it would be perhaps invidious and unpopular to distinguish them from the false in these pages.

At all events, I have not attempted such an unpleasant and un popular task, and have therefore said nothing as to modern Heraldry. But I offer this caution, that in future "restora tions," well-meaning persons may not allow them selves to be over-persuaded, to render themselves ridiculous, through the persuasions of officious and ignorant pseudo-authorities. People have a right to armorials, or they have no such right. In the former case they can easily prove it, or, if they are doubtful, they can acquire it ; if they have no right, save that they believe to be conveyed by identity of name, with someone who has a right, which is a very false belief, then it is above all things culpable to place such spurious achieve ments in God's house. But it will be found that when anything can be gained by describing autho rised armorials I have not neglected to afford them the comment to which they are justly entitled.

I should add to what I have said in the text, that handsome modern churches have been provided for the districts of Whipton and South Wonford, but that these ancient manors are still within the Parish of Heavitree, and do not form separate ecclesiastical districts. The ancient extent of this parish will be better understood when I mention that it is still nominally, but not actually, the mother church of St. Sidwell's, St. James', St. Matthew's, St. David's, and St. Michael's, besides the two dependent chapelries of Whipton and Won ford. The Livery-Dole Chapel, once a chantry, is now merely a domestic chapel, and intended for the convenience of the alms-folk.

Chapter II

— THE PARISH OF HE A VI TREE. HTHE pleasant village of Heavitree, with the hamlets of East and South Wonford, and Whipton, may be looked upon as the most impor tant suburb of Exeter, since the parish originally included also the whole of the land to the east and north of the fortifications of the city, and the Churches of St. Sidwell and St. David were merely chapelries dependent on it. It is distant about a mile from the ancient Guildhall, and upon the London road, and belongs to the Deanery of "Christianity," or Exeter. Lysons says that the Manor of Wonford " an ciently gave name to the parish," but such is not the case, and in view of the various discrepancies and inaccuracies, not only contained in the "Magna Britannia,'' but also in the works of Risdon, West cote, Jenkins, and other authors, who have included a notice of this parish in their several works, I think that it will be better to state simply the result of my own recent investigations, without any reference to previously printed statements.

The word " Heavitree " is most probably derived from "Ave" or "Avon," water, and "Tre," the British word for a town or settlement, and it is distinctly mentioned in the Domesday Record as the manor of " Hevetruua." In the reign of Edward the Confessor it was the property of " Wichin " the Saxon, and was held in the year 1087 by Roger, under Ralph de Pomeroy. This Roger was probably the ancestor of the Pycots, who were the owners of Heavitree Manor in the thirteenth century, and in the year 1274 it was held by "John Kelly, under John de Pycot." A little later the Kellys themselves became the chief lords, and John de Kelly was the owner in 13 16, as proved by thc " Nomina Villarum." He was the father of Thomas Kelly, whose son, Richard, was the grandfather of Oliver Kelly, " Lord of the Manor of Heavitree," whose son John granted a piece of ground for the erection of a Church House, eleventh of September, 15 16.

Until late in the eighteenth century, the manor of Heavitree des cended in the Kelly family, and in 1773 Arthur Kelly sold it to John Baring, of St. Leonard's, who re-sold it in 1 816 to his cousin, Sir Thomas Baring. Lord Poltimore is the present Lord of the Manor. The Manor of South Wonford, anciently written " Wenfort," was originally royal demesne, and the property of Queen Edith, wife of the Confessor. William the Conqueror assumed it in his turn, and it remained with the Crown until the reign of Henry I., who gave it to his follower, Geoffry de Mandeville. It was answerable for half a hide of land, which twenty ploughs could work at the {. eriod of the Survey. King Stephen resumed the Alanor and gave it to Ralph de Taisson, as shown by the Exchequer Rolls. It was subsequently alienated from the latter, in punishment for the rebellion of one of the owners, in the reign of King John, and was restored by that monarch to the Mandeville family, in the person of Robert, son of Roger de Mandeville, some time Castellan of Exeter.

With a daughter of Robert de Mandeville, the Manor of Wonford passed to William Fitz-John, who I think must have been a brother of Matthew Eitz-John, who was appointed Castellan of Exeter by Edward I. in 1287 — for life — and who served the office of Sheriff of Devon in the following year. This Matthew Fitz-John had no children. He was the descendant of Herbert Fitz-Herbert, chamberlain to King Stephen, and the grandson of Matthew Fitz-Herbert, to whom King John granted the Manor of Stokenham, near Kingsbridge, and the children of John, second son of the latter Matthew, called themselves Fitz-John. William Fitz-John seems to have left a daughter, Joan, who married Tirell, usuallv corrupted into "Tilly." Henry "Tirell," and Joan his wife, were the owners of the Manor of South Wonford in 1387, and in their family it seems to have continued for some generations, when it passed, probably by bequest, to the Walronds, who had owned it for " some descents," in Sir William Pole's time.

Joan, sister of Henry Walrond of Bradfield, had married William " Tylley," or Tirell, of Canning ton, Co. Somerset, late in the fifteenth century, and appears to have died issueless. At some subse quent period, the Kellys, being Lords of Heavitree Alanor, added Wonford to their other property, and Arthur Kelly, in 1775, conveyed it to John Baring, who sold it, with Heavitree, to his cousin, Sir Thomas Baring, in 181 6. The AIanor of East Wonford, written "Wen forde" in Domesday, was in Saxon times the property of " Edmer," and was given by the Conqueror to his trusted follower, Ruald Adobat, under whom it was held by Walter de Osmund villa. At an early period it belonged to the Spekes, and probably came to them by inheritance through Gervis. I have come to this conclusion because a portion of the neighbouring estate of Ringswell, which Lysons incorrectly calls a Alanor, but which seems to have been merely parcel of one of the Alanors of Wonford, was held under Ralph Tolero by John Prudhome in 1274, as shown by the "Hundred Rolls."

But previously to this date, Robert de Mandeville had given the " whole of that portion of Ringswell situated on the north side of the road" to Nicholas, son of Walter Gervis, who had been Alayor of Exeter in 1218, and the founder of the first bridge over Exe River. Nicholas Gervis had a son, Walter, whose daugh ter, Alice Gervis, brought the whole of her paternal property to her husband, Sir William Speke. The latter conveyed his portion of Ringswell to Sir John Wiger. and the Prudhomes or Pridhams seem ultimately to have acquired the whole through Stapleton, and it at length passed, with the heiress of Pridham, to Whiting, of Wood. Agnes, daughter and co-heir of John Whiting, of Wood, married Henry Walrond, the brother of Joan Walrond, wife of William Tilley before mentioned. But the Spekes continued to hold East Wonford Alanor for many generations, and thus it obtained the name of Wonford Speke, by which it is now usually known.

Sir William Speke, the first of Wonford, was the grandson of Richard L'Espec, the descendant of that Walter L'Espec who was the munificent founder of the great Abbeys of Kirkham, Rivaulx and Warden. Sir Thomas Speke, of White Lackington, was knighted by Henry VUL and was a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Edward AT. He sold Wonford Speke to Hurst, of Exeter, and, with Agnes, daughter and heir of William Hurst, it passed in marriage to George Bodley, of Dunscombe, near Crediton, first cousin of John, father of the renowned Sir Thomas Bodley, of Oxford. The Bodleys sold the Alanor to Sir George Smith, of whom I shall have occasion to speak presently, and in Sir William Pole's time it belonged to Sir George's great-grandson, then a minor. Subsequently the estates of the Alanor became divided.

The Alanor house was long the residence of a branch of the Pine family, whose arms may still be seen over the entrance. In 1663, William Hutchinson emigrated to New England from Lincolnshire, and became one of the founders of Boston, on the other side of the water. At the time of the American Revolution in 1776, the descendant of this William was the Governor of Alassachusetts, and through his fidelity to the Crown of England he lost the whole of his American property. The family then returned to England, and resided for many years at East Wonford House, and are still connected with this County. The present representative lives at Sidmouth. Sir Aloris Ximenes owned Wonford House in 1822. The Alanor House of South Wonford was long the property of the Spicers of Weare. The large and imposing mansion near the church, known as Heavitre House, is a converted cottage of some antiquity, but is chiefly a modern erection, and was built by the late Richard Ford, author of the " Handbook to Spain."

The gardens and lawns are very attractively laid out, and the house has been fitted with a good deal of ancient carved oak. The present owner, who resides abroad, is Sir Clare Ford, of the Diplomatic Service. The Manor of Whipton, at the north-eastern end of the Parish of Heavitree, is written " Wiple ton," in Domesday, and was also owned by " Wichin" in Saxon times. At the Conquest it was given to AVilliam Capra or Chievre. It has long been sub ject to the Bampfvldes, and now belongs to Lord Poltimore, but in 161 1 it was certainly the residence of a branch of the Petre family, of Tor Brian, the collateral relatives of Lord Petre. Sir George Petre, Kt., of Hayes, in St. Thomas, had certain considerable property in the neighbourhood of Whipton, a portion of which he alienated in 1626. One January afternoon in 161 1 " Alaster Will Petre," of Whipton House, and two of the Drews, then of Killerton, rode into Exeter together.

They appear to have been drinking at various ale houses all the rest of the day, and towards evening they adjourned together to the Dolphin Inn, then kept by George Northcote, to call upon Sir Edward Seymour, of Berry, who happened to be staying there. They found Sir Edward engaged at cards, and he borrowed some gold of " Will Petre." The three visitors seem to have been very noisy, but after a little while they departed together, Petre on foot, the two Drews on horseback, and went to the "Bear Inn," where they had some more "drink." Petre then ordered his horse, mounted, and the three friends started homewards between the hours of seven and eight o'clock, when it was, of course, quite dark. The elder Drew was dressed in white, and had a short sword, the other two wore rapiers. Edward Drew and Petre seem to have ridden in advance of John Drew, and to have proceeded at a furious pace through the East Gate and up St. Sidwell's. Presently Edward Drew returned and met his brother John, with the remark that he had " lost Will Petre."

The two brothers then rode on as far as St. Anne's Chapel, where they both noticed a candle in one of the houses, and called there to ask if " Air. Petre was within," and were told that he was not. So they rode on to Whipton House, where they found Petre's riderless horse standing at the gate. They knocked up the servants at Whipton, handed over the horse, but professed ignorance as to the fate of its master, and then both went on to Killerton. The next morning the dead body of William Petre, with a deep cut in the head, was found in the 'lhe Suburbs of Exeter. 14 roadway near to St. Anne's Chapel, and the depo sitions given before the Recorder, William Alartyn, and the Coroner, William Tyckell, and dated the twentv-sixth of January, 1611, are still preserved amongst the Exeter municipal archives.

These depositions are very voluminous, and seem to prove clearly that Petre was murdered by Edward Drew. Motive was shown, in that Drew had borrowed "some money" of a certain old Air. Halse, of Exeter, to the amount of £$, that Petre had been his security, and had had to pay the money, which his, Edward's mother, had since repaid, but there had evidently been ill blood between the quondam friends, and Edward Drew had been heard to say "he rideth fast, but I will ride faster, and will give him a nick before he gets home." He was also observed to have had his' sword drawn when riding after Petre. In re-examination John Drew gave a detailed account of the murder of Petre by his brother, but denied his statement again the same night. The verdict of the jury was "Wilful murder against Edward Drew," and John Drew was found to have been an accessory after the fact.

Whether Edward Drew got away out of the country, or how this most unfortunate business was settled, there is now no means of ascertaining. Probably the interest of the young men's father was sufficiently powerful to hush the matter up. This was Edward Drew, Serjeant at Law, " the great ornament of his profession," as Prince calls him in the " Worthies of Devon," " who lies buried in Broad-clist Church, with the effigies of his four sons and three daughters kneeling around him." So the "counterfeit presentment" of voung Edward Drew, the third son, is still preserved in some sort. He died unmarried, and was interred at Broad hembury, on the eighth of June, 1636, having survived his father fourteen years. His brother John, also implicated in Petre's murder, probably died before 1620, as his name is omitted in the pedigree recorded by the heralds in that year.