which is bounded on the South by the river Thames, (Middlesex.)

11. EDWARD Ellyot, (Ellyott, Elliot,) of Fifield, Essex, also spoken of as of Bishop's Stortford, in Hertford- [1577 shire, Esq., leased of Queen Elizabeth, in 1577, the manor of Fernham. He held the manor of Newland Hall of the Queen, of her duchy of Lancaster. Besides Newland Hall, in Writtle, he owned the manors of Wycombes or Wickhams, in Woodham Ferrers, Margareting, and Birch, in Essex. He also held the rectory of Norton Mandeville. He died Dec. 26th, 1595, leaving a son, Thomas, aged 22, who was knighted. (Hist. of Essex.)

12. "Eliot JOHN,-Ortho Epia Gallica. Eliot's [1593 Fruits of the French; interlace with a double new invention, which teacheth to speak truly, speedily, and volubly, the French tongue. Pend for the practice Ecc. of all English gentlemen, who will endeavor, by their own pains, study, and diligence, to attain the natural accent, the true pronunciation, the swift and glib grace of this noble, famous, and courtly language. Naturâ et Arte." (Bibliotheca Brittanica, vol. 1, London, 1593, 4to.)

13. DANIEL Elliott, gent., and Elizabeth Clennel, [1604 widow, were married, April 23d, 1604, at St. Dunstan's in the West, London. (Coll. Topog. & Geneal., London, 1838See 15.)

14. Capt. Thomas More, of Morehouse, in Winels- [1608 field, county of Sussex, married Margaret, daughter of Elyott, of Ryegate, in Surrey; and had issue, Francis More, aged about 23, in 1633; Thomas More, George More, and Ann More. (Surrey Genealogies.)

15. John Wenham, of Morehayle, in Sussex, married Alice, daughter of JOHN Ellyott, of Godalming, in Surrey, previous to 1600. (Surrey Genealogies.)

16. Judith Garton, (daughter of Sir Peter Garton, [1615 who died 21st. Jac. I. Aug. 21, 1624, by Judith, daughter of Thomas Shirley of Isfield, Sussex, and sister of Sir John Shirley,) born Jan. 28, 1570, married

Sir WILLIAM Elyott, of Godalming and Busbridge, in Surrey, and died May 17th, 1615, and was buried at Godalming; leaving one daughter, Judith Garton.

17. Henry Montague, an eminent minister, and [1620 ANN Elliot, of Bromwell, in Kent, were married June 9, 1620.

18. DANIEL Elliott (13) was chosen to serve as [1627-8 a warden of the Merchant Taylors' School in London.

19. ROBERT Elliott was admitted a scholar of [1632 Merchant Taylors' School, in London, June 11, 1632; and he was elected to St. John's College, Oxford, in 1634.

20. ALEXANDER Ellyott, of Mayfield, married [1632 Constance Hepden, &c.

21. GEORGE FREDERICK MALONEY Elliot's name is found among those of the pupils in Christ's Hospital public school, in London, under the head, Deputy Grecians, Senior Boys.

22. JANE, daughter of EDWARD Eliot, Esq., [1634 (11) of Newland Hall, was the wife of John Boteler, Esq., of Little Birch Hall and Fryerning, in Essex.

23. JOHN Elliot, Esq., of Westhorpe, Gloucester, married Anna, daughter of William Clutterbuck, Esq., of Easton, same county.

24. JOHN Elliott, of Bewley, married Catharine, daughter of Edward Harris, of Broughton, by Elizabeth Wroughton. (Hant's Genealogies.)

25. JOHN Elliot and John Casebeard, purchased, [1648 July 28, 1648, "several parcels of the manors of Wells and Westbury," in the county of Somerset, for £988: 5:51.

26. JOHN Elliot, John Lort, and Robert Perrott, [1649 June 28, 1649, purchased "the Barony of Lawhaddon,” in the county of Cambridge, for £1,068 : 13 : 11.

27. Elliot, M. D., married Elizabeth Randolph, born in 1658, daughter of Herbert R. of Kent, whose father was brother of John Randolph, progenitor of the Randolphs of Virginia.

28. Mrs.

-Elliot was a witness before the House [1678

of Commons, in an examination of the charge of conspiracy against Queen Catharine, in attempting to poison her husband, King Charles II. The charge was not sustained.

29. MARY Elliott married Thomas Stonestreet, who [1703 died in 1703.

James Craggs, Esq., M. P., of Charlton, seven miles [1722 from London, one of his Majesty's Post Masters General, was the son of Mr. Anthony Craggs, of Walsingham, in the county of Durham, and died March 16, 1721. His sister and co-heir, Elizabeth, married

30. EDWARD Eliot, of Port Eliot, Cornwall, (see Eliots of Cornwall,) who died in 1722. His wife died in 1765; and bequeathed her property to her nephew James, (son of her sister Anne, by her first husband, John Newsham,) who had taken the name of Craggs, with remainder to Edward Eliot, Esq., of Port Eliot. Newsman Craggs died without issue. The property of Kidbrook belongs to the estate of Lord Eliot.*

3. ELIOTS OF CORNWALL;

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Embracing the Pedigree of the EARL OF ST. GERMANS, (Edward Granville Eliot.)

The Cornwall pedigree, made in 1620, commences with JOHN' Eliot, who, by his wife Jane, daughter of John Bonville, of Shute, in the county of Devon, was father to EDWARD' Eliot, of Cutland, in that county, who married Alice, daughter of Robert Guye, of Kingsbridge, and had issue two sons, viz.:

I. JOHN' Eliot, of St. Germans, in Cornwall, whose first wife was Grace, daughter of John Fitz, of Tavenstock, in Devonshire; and his second wife, Mary, daughter of John Bruin, of Plymouth. And

* For other Eliots of distinction, in England, Members of Parliament, &c., see Appendix W. &c.

II. THOMAS Eliot, who married Joan, daughter of John Norbrooke, of Exeter; by whom he had issue-I. Richard'; II. Hugh*; III. Walter'; IV. Edward'; and also a daughter, Alice. The eldest—

RICHARD' Eliot, Esq., was the heir of his uncle, John Eliot, who purchased the site, &c., of the priory of St. Germans, in Cornwall, to which he gave the name of PORT ELIOT, where he resided with great hospitality. He married Bridget, daughter and co-heiress of Nicholas Carswell, of Hacke, and died in 1609, leaving an only son,

Sir JOHN' Eliot, who was born in 1590; educated at Oxford; knighted in 1618; and was a Member of Parliament for Newport, in the reign of James I, and subsequently for Cornwall. (See Appendix X.) He was one of the leaders during the reign of Charles I; and died a martyr to the liberties of England. We subjoin the following notices of him :Sir John Eliot, knight, of Port Eliot, in Cornwall, represented the borough of St. Germans, in Parliament, in the 2d and 3d years of Charles I, and made himself conspicuous as a strenuous opponent of the Court, and a zealous asserter of the ancient liberties of the subject. Being an active man of business, and a decided enemy to favorites and their encroachments, Sir John was appointed, by the House of Commons, one of the managers of the impeachment of the Duke of Buckingham; for which, with Sir Dudley Digges, his colleague, he was committed to the Tower, but was soon after released. In 1628, he was again sent thither, with other members of the House, for refusing to answer, before the Privy Council, for parliamentary conduct. And on the 29th of May, of that year, an information was exhibited in the Star Chamber against him and his fellow-prisoners for their undutiful speeches. Upon being afterwards arraigned on these charges, before the Court of King's Bench, they were adjuged to be imprisoned during the King's pleasure, and to give security for their good behavior; and, in addition, Sir John was fined £2,000. These gentlemen were subsequently offered their freedom, on the terms of making their sub

mission; but they rejected the proposition; and Sir John died in the Tower, Nov. 27, 1632. In 1646, it was voted, in Parliament, that £5,000 should be paid to his family; and also to other families which had suffered under the same persecution. The language for which Sir John had been imprisoned, was that "the Council and Judges conspired to trample under their feet the liberties of the subject, and the privileges of Parliament."

His character and position are indicated by the following extract from Hume's History of England :

"The House of Commons, we may observe, was almost entirely governed by a set of men of the most uncommon capacity and the largest views; men who were now formed into a regular party, and united, as well by fixed aims and projects, as by the hardships which some of them had undergone in prosecution of them. Among these, we may mention the names of Sir Edward Coke, Sir Edwin Sandys, Sir Robert Philips, Sir Francis Seymour, Sir Dudley Digges, Sir John Eliot, Sir Thomas Wentworth, Mr. Selden, and Mr. Pym. Animated with a warm regard to liberty, these generous patriots saw with regret an unbounded power exercised by the crown, and were resolved to seize the opportunity, which the King's necessities offered them, of reducing the prerogative within more reasonable compass. Though their ancestors had blindly given way to practices and precedents favorable to kingly power, and had been able, notwithstanding, to preserve some small remains of liberty, it would be impossible, they thought, when all these pretensions were methodized, and prosecuted by the increasing knowledge of the age, to maintain any shadow of popular government, in opposition to such unlimited authority in the sovereign. It was necessary to fix a choice; either to abandon entirely the privileges of the people, or to secure them by firmer and more precise barriers than the constitution had hitherto provided for them. In this dilemma, men of such aspiring geniuses and such independent fortunes, could not long deliberate; they boldly embraced the side of freedom, and resolved to grant no supplies to their necessitous prince without extorting concessions in favor of civil liberty. The end they esteemed beneficent and noble; the means regular and constitutional." (Vol. IV, p. 398.)