ROBERT CARY (1697–1724), who matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, in 1715, and is the last Cary buried at Clovelly, and WILLIAM CARY (1698-1724), apparently a merchant, who is buried in Bristol Cathedral. Both died

young and without issue. Their sister Elizabeth, wife of Robert Barker, of Ashmore, co. Dorset, died in 1738, the last of her race.

After nearly three hundred and fifty years Cary of Clovelly was now extinct. The manor passed to other names, and the swan in time became a Gosling.1

1 In 1724 Clovelly was purchased by Zachary Hamlyn, a successful merchant whose mother was, says Sir William Richard Drake (Devonshire Notes and Notelets, 1888), Gertrude Cary, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Cary and granddaughter of Thomas Cary of Great Torrington. The Rev. Thomas Cary in question matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, in 1638, giving his father's name as Thomas Cary of Torrington. There was one of this name and description who paid composition for his estate during the Commonwealth, and who may have been of the Bradford family. (See post, pp. 192, 291.) At all events it seems clear that Zachary Hamlyn brought to Clovelly an infusion of Cary blood to carry on the tradition there, and that he was unable to maintain it. Zachary Hamlyn "died without issue," says Mr. Baring-Gould (Devon, 1907), "and bequeathed the manor to a nephew, James Hammet, who assumed the name of Hamlyn. The heiress married a Colonel Williams, who took the name of Hamlyn-Williams. The heiress of this union married a Fane. Finally, Miss Fane, the last heiress, married a Mr. Gosling, who took the name of Hamlyn, but has recently died without issue."

CHAPTER ELEVEN

THE LORD DEPUTY OF IRELAND

It will be recalled that the Compostela pilgrim assigned to his second son Cockington1 and Chilston, his estates on Tor Bay. This THOMAS CARY (1505?-1567) was one of the children of his father's first wife, Jane Carew. He was a

bachelor at the time of his father's settlement of

1 Cockington is a Domesday manor which, held by one Alric temp. Edward the Confessor, was acquired after the Conquest by the Norman William de Falaise. It had paid geld for three hides, but was found by the Domesday commissioners to include land sufficient for thirteen ploughs, making it even then an estate of importance. (See The Devonshire Domesday, Plymouth, 1884, ii, 730, and Victoria County History, Devon, 490.) After William de Falaise, Cockington passed to Robert Fitzmartyn: he gave it to his younger son Roger, temp. Stephen, who thereupon assumed the surname de Cockington. In the seventh generation of successive lords of the manor of this name, Sir James Cockington died without issue, temp. Edward III, and the property passed to Sir Walter de Woodland, a servant of the Black Prince, from whose heirs it was purchased by Sir John Cary in 1374. (See Pole, 278; Risdon, 147; and Cal. Tor Abbey Mun., H. & G., vi, 14.) For the ensuing two hundred and seventy-two years Cockington was held by Cary of Devon. In the civil wars, temp. Charles I, it passed to the Mallocks, who have since held it. (See Burke, Landed Gentry, 1914.) This ancient manor has therefore been held for at least eight hundred and fifty years by three successive families in nearly equal terms.

2 She was a daughter of Sir Nicholas Carew, of Mohuns Ottery, called Baron Carew, brother of that gallant soldier Sir Edmund Carew (1464–1513), who supported Henry VII, was knighted on Bosworth Field, and in 1497 defended Exeter against Perkin Warbeck. The genealogical authorities for the Cockington Carys are Mr.

1535, but upon the assurance of that instrument soon thereafter married Mary, daughter of John Southcott of Indio, Bovey Tracy. He had six sons1 and four daughters: the eldest being Sir George Cary, born soon after his father sucRobert Dymond's studies in H. & G., vi (1871), 1, and viii (1874), 81; and Colonel Vivian (1884, pp. 151-152). The patient work of the latter among the parish registers is an especial boon; but it was reserved for the W. M. Cary Notes (1907) to demonstrate from records in London what was the final fate of the last Cary of Cockington, the distressed Cavalier, Sir Henry.

1 The sons of Thomas Cary, of Cockington. In the order of their enumeration in their father's will, in the Visitation of Devon of 1620, and the Visitation of Staffordshire of 1664, they were: I GEORGE, the Lord Deputy. It does not appear whence his father took the name, but it was apparently epidemic, for that generation produced a large crop of Georges for England. Heretofore unprecedented among the Carys, George long persisted as a name at Cockington and Tor Abbey, and spread thence to Clovelly, reversing the history of the Compostela pilgrim's Robert. These names were reproduced under similar influences and afford interesting illustrations of the human and respectable appreciation by a family connection of their conspicuous generations of successful accumulation and generous distribution. II ROBERT, of Bradford, who is recorded by Col. Vivian to have died s.p., but whose will of July 13, 1609 (H. & G., viii, 110), shows that he left an invalid son Robert. There is a record (H. & G., viii, 105) in 1625 of a deed by a "Thomas Cary, son of Edward Cary, of Bradford," from which it seems probable that this Robert 13 of Bradford left also a son Edward not mentioned in his will, who in turn left a son Thomas, and that this line persisted with another Edward until the times of the Troubles. (See post, p. 291.)

III RICHARD, of the Inner Temple, who died a bachelor in 1622, Inq. p.m., 20 James I, pt. 2, No. 41, for whom see post, p. 260. IV JOHN, called "of Dudley," who is not named in his father's will, for whom see post, p. 261.

V GREGORY, who married but left no sons and was buried at Staverton, 1616 (Vivian, 151).

VI ARTHUR, who was living in 1584, but although he is named in the Visitation of 1620, must have been dead without issue before the settlement of the Lord Deputy's estate in 1617, when the entire family was marshaled, as there is then no mention of him.