« 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 evidence for him: he seems to have been a practising lawyer during most of his long life, an executor of his father's will, the agent of his brother George, and the author of the digest of the pleadings in the first part of Sir Edward Coke's Reports, written in law French of the most barbarous period and entitled Le necessaire use et fruit de les Pleadings, etc., which was published at London, 1601.(fn 1.) He survived until May, 1622,(fn 2.) when, still under the terms of the Lord Deputy's settlement, there succeeded at Cockington another elderly brother from whom descended all the representatives of the South Devon tradition who may now be identified, namely: the cavaliers of Cockington who lost that estate, the merchants and manufacturers who had their origin in the Moushall household, and the still persisting families of Tor Abbey and Follaton.
This JOHN CARY {1551-post 1622) .... »
Footnotes:
1. While Allibone and Watt are somewhat vague in their attribution of this book, the catalogues of the Middle Temple library and the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, both credit it to Richard Cary.
2. Inq. p.m., 20 James, pt. 2, No. 11. »
Source:Harrison, Fairfax. Devon Carys
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