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in prison at Weymouth. He was eventually allowed to 

 compound for 1,540 18s. 4d. He died in 1673. By 

 Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Francis Chaldecot of Whiteway, 

 he had issue 10 children, the names of six being known : 



1. Maximilian, baptized at his mother's old home at Steple, 

 in March, 1662 ; \vas living in 1651, but predeceased his father. 



2. Francis, heir to his father. 



3. Robert, a captain in the nav\ r . He died in 1667. 



4. William, who obtained a small property at Portishead 

 and married Mary, daughter of Richard Morgan of that place. 

 He died the 23rd March, 1691. His wife survived until the 

 25th July, 1692. Their only son Maximilian seems to 

 have died young, as their property passed to Elizabeth their 

 daughter, who married Sir Edward Fust, Bart. 



5. Edith, who died in 1672. 



6. Elizabeth, who married Robert Yardley. 



V. Francis Mohun was born in 1628. The marble tablet 

 above mentioned is to his memory. He was one of the 

 principal men in Dorset who refused to support the repeal of 

 the penal laws in 1688. Eleanor his wife, daughter of Ralph 

 Sheldon of Stanton in Derbyshire, a niece of Gilbert Sheldon, 

 Archbishop of Canterbury, survived until 1772. She bore 

 him three children : 



1. Gilbert Maximilian, heir to his father, born 1675. 



2. Catherine, born in 1688, married Sir Edward Fust, Bart. 



3. Elizabeth, born in 1671, married in 1698 to Robert 

 Brodrepp of Maperton. She died in 1708. 



VI. Gilbert Maximilian, born in 1675, was married twice. 

 Will proved 1739. 



1. Gilbert Maximilian, the second, is stated to have been 

 born in 1706. 



2. Francis Mohun was born in 1713 ; he was third lieutenant 

 on the Victory in October, 1744, when the ship was lost, and 

 his estate passed to Robert, the youngest of the brothers. (1 ^' 



(1). Admiralty List Book 24. 



