He lived in exile seven years, "a long while, God knows," says Prince with a compassion we can well echo, "for an aged person of a nice and tender way of living to be confined to the shades of misery and sorrow." He had his colleague, the Yorkshireman John Lokton, for his companion, and two loyal Devon men as servants; but for all that Waterford was then an English trading station it is not likely he had other congenial companionship. He was sure to have a thoroughly English feeling with respect to the Irish gentry. Froissart1 expresses it about the Irrois at this very time in a metropolitan scorn, characteristic of society in London and Paris in all ages, of men who sought to associate with gentlemen without dressing conventionally for dinner. The exile doubtless saw King Richard in 1394 when he landed at Waterford and made that town his headquarters for some weeks, but neither kings nor others in authority have ever been particularly sympathetic with followers or dependents who may have fallen under the ban of the law, even in their own service. This is one of the distressing weaknesses of human nature, which

1 Chroniques, xi, 24. Here we find the entertaining account the squire Henry Castide gave Sir John of his school of etiquette for the four Irish kings, in compliance with King Richard's direction that they should be taught the manners of English gentlemen. There were three rules he prescribed for them: they must always wear breeches at dinner, they must not make grimaces at table, and they should not permit their servants to sit beside them or to eat from their plates and drink from their cups.

makes exceptions to the rule so admirable and so conspicuous.

When death came it was doubtless welcome: we can imagine the late Chief Baron closing his eyes to a vision, not of his discarded ermine, but of his bonny son Robert, then growing to manhood, and of the pleasant Devonshire landscape one can see to-day from Cockington Court, which to him was home.

John Cary died at Waterford, "on Friday before the feast of Pentecost," 1395.1

1 Ing. p.m., 20 Rich. II, No. 127, quoted by Vivian, 150, on his transcription of the Visitation of 1620. Dymond postpones the date of death until 1404, but does not give his authority. He is clearly contradicted by Rot. Parl., iii, 346, which enumerates the exiled judges living in September, 1397.

CHAPTER SIX

THE JOUST AT SMITHFIELD

Out of the wreck of the Chief Baron's family1 there appears distinctly in the eighth generation

1 The Chief Baron's younger children. There is a persistent Devon tradition that the Chief Baron left "a numerous issue." This was first recorded by John Vowell alias Hooker (1526-1601), the uncle of the theologian Richard Hooker, in his Antique Description and Account of the City of Excester, and was repeated by Richard Izacke (1624-1698) in his Remarkable Antiquities of the City of Excester. Specification is wanting. In addition to Robert, who is well authenticated, the Visitation of 1620 records only sons John and Thomas, and Mr. Dymond has found "obscure traces" of another, Hugh (the Courtenay name). Of neither of the two last named is anything definite stated. Of John (or James, as he is sometimes called) the tradition is that he was an ecclesiastic, and became Bishop of Exeter in 1419. Fuller (Worthies, 1840, i, 406) says that he was made Bishop of Lichfield by Pope Martin V and went to Florence to be invested; while there news came that there was a vacancy in the see of Exeter, and Cary, desiring to live in his own county and "being very gracious with his Holyness at that time," was translated to Exeter; but within six weeks of his investment he died and was buried at Florence, "nor did he sit a minute in his episcopal throne." A modern authority, Dr. Oliver, in his Lives of the Bishops of Exeter, holds this traditional story to be fabulous for want of evidence. There have been indeed two bishops of Exeter of the name, but curiously neither was of the Devon family. (For Bishop Valentine Carey, 1569-1626, see post, p. 357; and for Bishop William Cary, 17701844, see H. & G., vi, 479.)

How far some of the Carys went down in the world after the attainder of the Chief Baron may be indicated by the fact that a Philippa Cary (the name of the Chief Baron's grandmother) was