ANCIENT MEMORIAL BRASSES OF DORSET. 129 



I now wish to state a few facts about the Mohun family 

 of Fleet, and particularly about those members commemorated 

 by the tablets.* 



A pedigree compiled in 1606 by William Dethick, Garter 

 King of Arms, but not registered at Heralds College, appears 

 to be the authority for deducing its origin from Sir Robert 

 Mohun of Forlock, the second son of Sir John Mohun of 

 Dunster Castle, who died in 1330. 



This Sir Robert is stated to have been the great-great- 

 grandfather of Sir John Mohun, of Mohun Ottery in Devon, 

 father of Richard Mohun, father of Robert Mohun with whom 

 the official pedigree begins. 



I. Robert Mohun (or Moone) of Baunton or Bothenhampton 

 died on the 14th November 1580, seized of the manors of 

 Lodcr Matravers (formerly the property of Ford Abbey), 

 Mangerton and Fleet, the rectory of East Chaldoii and other 

 property in the neighbourhood (Inq. P.M.). He appears 

 with his wife (born Margaret Hyde, of Hyde) and his children 

 on the earlier brass. f Although there were no less than 17 

 children, the names of only seven are known to me 



1. Robert, heir to his father. 



2. Maxmilian, heir to his brother. 



3. John, matriculated at St. Alban Hall, Oxford, in 1586, 

 and was admitted a student of the Middle Temple in 1591. 

 His daughter Anne died in 1600. 



4. Mary, 5, Joan, 6, Margaret, and 7, Alice. The last 

 named daughter married William Symonds of Exeter and 

 left issue. (Devon Visitation, 1620). 



II. Robert Mohun, son and heir of Robert and Margaret, 

 matriculated at St. Alban Hall in 1577, being then nineteen 



* See A History of Dunster, by Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte, K.C.B., 

 who traces the numerous branches, and, in appendix B, gives examples 

 of 13th and 14th Century Mohun Seals, bearing the Maunch. Also 

 Hutchins's Dorset Vol. ii. 



f Robert himself was buried in the south aisle of Bridport church, 

 near his parents, as directed in his will (P.C.C., 38 Darcy). 



