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thoughts, and brought him on bended knee to 

 sue for her hand. That lady was Miss Penelope 

 Incledon Bury, the daughter of Admiral and 

 Mrs. Bury, of Dennington House, near Barn- 

 staple. Both the father and mother being pure 

 North-Devoners, and claiming descent from 

 two good old county families, they were proud 

 of the " haveage " to which they belonged. 

 Nor could they have taken exception to 

 Russell's pedigree ; he himself being a descen- 

 dant of the Russells of Kingston-Russell ; for, 

 at the time of the Sampford Courtenay riots 

 in the West, Lord Russell, then at Exeter, 

 appointed one of his own relatives to preach 

 against "the old religion;" and from him came 

 the Russells who have remained in the county 

 ever since. 



Mrs. Bury, the mother of Penelope, was of 

 the knightly family of Chichester, of Hall, whose 

 pedigree is chronicled by John Prince, the 

 worthy Vicar of Berry Pomeroy. 



If Russell, then, had an eye to a "lass wi' a 

 lang pedigree " — a point he would have con- 

 sidered of the first importance in selecting a 

 horse or a hound — he could scarcely have made 

 a better choice. But it is obvious that other 

 and broader views must have influenced his 

 judgment in this matter ; for a more sensible, 

 warm-hearted, generous woman than Penelope 

 Bury proved herself to be, never breathed the 



