« ... Robert Cary of Clovelly had five sons by his three wives. They were John and Thomas, sons of Jane Carew; William, son of Agnes Hody; and Robert and Gregory, sons of Margaret Fulkroy. ...
... To his second son, Thomas Cary, he assigned the properties on the southern coast, Cockington and Chilston. ...
... 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 1535 but upon the assurance of that instrument soon thereafter married Mary, daughter of John Southcott of Indio, Bovey Tracy. He had six sons and four daughters: the eldest being Sir George Cary, born soon after his father succeeded to Cockington, whose career we are about to relate, and the fourth son that John Cary, called “of Dudley”, through whom the existing families of Tor Abbey and Follaton descend.
Thomas Cary appears to have been a prudent man of business and to have augmented his inheritance. We have record of his acquisition by purchase of two of the manors which had long been inheritances of his ancestors, Northlew and Ashwater, and he had profitable transactions with his neighbor the last abbot of Tor, before the dissolution of the monasteries. He made a will on January 17, 1566, died and was buried in the chancel of Tor Mohun Church, where his tomb bears the following inscription:
Hic jacet
Thomas Carius Armiger,
Qui obiit 27° die Martii
An° domini 1567.
Cuius animae deus propitietu.'
Like his father he was a good Roman Catholic.
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Source:Harrison, Fairfax. Devon Carys
