Devon, Heanton Punchardon - King Robert & Queen Elizabeth ?
"Sacred to the memory to Lady Elizabeth Bassett wife of Robert Bassett, knight, arisen from a famous stock, daughter and co-heiress of William Peryam, knight, Lord Chief Justice of the Royal Treasury, (he was) most impartial and duty-bound, (she was) pious, prudent, just, long-suffering, modest, chaste, temperant, constant, hospitable, compassionate, kind, a mother and healer of the poor , a preserver of her own family. Arthur Bassett, Esquire, her sorrowing first-born son, of a duty of gratitude and respect therefore placed this monument to his mother in the year of Our Lord 1635 of her age 64 may she remain to the Lord...Thus does gold come forth into an oven"
Should monuments goe by merit then surely thine,
With pretious stone and orient pearle should shine, But since thy world of worth ye world doth know, This marble stone may serve thy name to show.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of them all". Psal. 34.19".
Elizabeth 1571-1635 second co-heiress daughter of Sir William Periham / Periam of Crediton by 2nd wife Ann www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/11669251276/ daughter of John Parker of North Molton
Her elder sister Mary Pole is a Colyton www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/11650514043/
She m Sir Robert Bassett 1574-1641 of Heanton Punchardon, Devon son of Arthur Bassett (died of typhus (goal fever) 1586 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/FXA1m3H638 along with Sir Bernard Drake www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/11644190666/ at the Exeter Black assizes) by Eleanor 1585 daughter of Sir John Chichester 1569 of Raleigh Pilton www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/11609796764/
Children
1. Arthur 1672 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/5H7gx0EP8c m Agnes Leigh of Shobrook
2. William 1602-1634
1, Anne 1595-1636 m Jonathan son of John Rashleigh of Menabilly Cornwall (daughter Elizabeth m John son of Robert Rashleigh widower of Mary Trefusis www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/4499931660/ )
2. Elizabeth m George Yeo of North Petherwin, son of Leonard Yeo & Margaret Kestell
3. Elienor
4. Mary
Robert's grandmother being a Plantagenet, he made what turned out to be a foolish and costly decision to offer himself as one of the many claimants to the throne of England after the death of Queen Elizabeth, perhaps encouraged by his father-in-law Peryam. He suffered a heavy fine for his action which according to the biographer John Prince involved the sale of 30 of the family's manors
Devon, Heanton Punchardon - King Robert & Queen Elizabeth ?
"Sacred to the memory to Lady Elizabeth Bassett wife of Robert Bassett, knight, arisen from a famous stock, daughter and co-heiress of William Peryam, knight, Lord Chief Justice of the Royal Treasury, (he was) most impartial and duty-bound, (she was) pious, prudent, just, long-suffering, modest, chaste, temperant, constant, hospitable, compassionate, kind, a mother and healer of the poor , a preserver of her own family. Arthur Bassett, Esquire, her sorrowing first-born son, of a duty of gratitude and respect therefore placed this monument to his mother in the year of Our Lord 1635 of her age 64 may she remain to the Lord...Thus does gold come forth into an oven"
Should monuments goe by merit then surely thine,
With pretious stone and orient pearle should shine, But since thy world of worth ye world doth know, This marble stone may serve thy name to show.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of them all". Psal. 34.19".
Elizabeth 1571-1635 second co-heiress daughter of Sir William Periham / Periam of Crediton by 2nd wife Ann www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/11669251276/ daughter of John Parker of North Molton
Her elder sister Mary Pole is a Colyton www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/11650514043/
She m Sir Robert Bassett 1574-1641 of Heanton Punchardon, Devon son of Arthur Bassett (died of typhus (goal fever) 1586 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/FXA1m3H638 along with Sir Bernard Drake www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/11644190666/ at the Exeter Black assizes) by Eleanor 1585 daughter of Sir John Chichester 1569 of Raleigh Pilton www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/11609796764/
Children
1. Arthur 1672 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/5H7gx0EP8c m Agnes Leigh of Shobrook
2. William 1602-1634
1, Anne 1595-1636 m Jonathan son of John Rashleigh of Menabilly Cornwall (daughter Elizabeth m John son of Robert Rashleigh widower of Mary Trefusis www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/4499931660/ )
2. Elizabeth m George Yeo of North Petherwin, son of Leonard Yeo & Margaret Kestell
3. Elienor
4. Mary
Robert's grandmother being a Plantagenet, he made what turned out to be a foolish and costly decision to offer himself as one of the many claimants to the throne of England after the death of Queen Elizabeth, perhaps encouraged by his father-in-law Peryam. He suffered a heavy fine for his action which according to the biographer John Prince involved the sale of 30 of the family's manors