mynde and perfect Remembrance (Thankes be unto Allmighty God) make and ordayne this my last Will and Testament I doe willingly & with a free hart give againe unto the hands of God my creator my Spirit.

By way of charity he provides legacies, of £100 on the day of his funeral to the poor of Cockington parish, of £100 per annum for three years to the poor of said parish whom it was his practice weekly to relieve, and £100 to the poor scholars of Oxford University with a like sum to those of Cambridge.

George Cary's whole active life was evidence of his acceptance of the reformed religion and of his hearty Elizabethan hatred of the papists. It is possible that he inherited this sentiment from his father, who also was a practical man, but his family generally seem to have stood to the old religion, following the example of the Compostela pilgrim. We have evidence that during George Cary's life his brother Richard, the lawyer, was prosecuted for recusancy; in 1622 his next younger brother, John Cary of Dudley, applied to the king for a license to hold Cockington and other manors by inheritance from Richard, showing that he too was a Roman Catholic; and finally in 1646 we find that portion of the old Lord Deputy's property which had come into the hands of his nephew Sir Edward Cary of Marldon, under sequestration for

the recusancy of the owner. We shall see that the Carys of Tor Abbey have continued steadfast in their faith to Rome: so George Cary in adjusting himself to his time in the article of religious practice won himself out from the routine of his kin. His statement of faith in his will is, then, the more significant. It has no sign of the intolerance of the days when the Spaniards landed at Kinsale, no Puritan twang, but indeed something of the serene and comfortable form of the Catholic version of man's belief in the immortality of the soul. Perhaps at the end of his life Sir George Cary was again under the influence of the old Church, the Church of his

ancestors.

CHAPTER TWELVE

THE CAVALIERS OF COCKINGTON

When Charles I raised his standard at Nottingham on August 22, 1642, almost every recognizable Cary of that generation,1 like Kentish Sir Byng,

stood for his King,

Bidding the crop-headed Parliament swing.

Cary of Devon did its share. Like Clovelly, Cockington contributed to the king's cause a soldier and a parson.

On the death of the Lord Deputy in 1617, the bulk of his estate descended, under his final deed of settlement, to RICHARD CARY (1545-1622), "of the Inner Temple," his next younger brother, who was at the time seventy-two years of age and a bachelor. There are only fugitive scraps of

1 The exceptions were principally of the Hunsdon family, viz.: John Carey (1608-1677), Lord Rochford, afterwards third Earl of Dover, and Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), both of whom were in arms for the Parliament at the beginning of the war, but deserted the cause when the Independents attained power: the latter, indeed, later served as a colonel in the royal army and was knighted.