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the High Sheriffe, with divers other gentlemen of quality, 

 and two thousand trained souldiers and volunteers, who 

 presently, on their approach, crying out 'The Troopers are 

 come/ most swiftly all ran away, many of them leaving 

 their arms behind them. The house fore-mentioned was 

 instantly beset, where the High Sheriffe stood stoutly on 

 his defence, till the house was fired, and the assailants 

 breaking in upon them, possessed the house, and took 

 there divers prisoners, to the number of twenty eminent 

 persons of those parts, among whom were Sir Edmund 

 Fortescue, High Sheriffe of the County, Sir Ed. Seimour, 

 Baronet, Mr. Ed. Seimour, Mr. Basset, Capt. Champnoon, 

 Capt. Pomeroy, Capt. Bidlock, Capt. Peter Fortescue, Mr. 

 Barnes, Mr. Shipton, Clerk of the Peace, and others. After 

 this, they marched with their prisoners towards Dartmouth."* 



The following extracts are from an old pamphlet of the 

 same month and year, bearing the date, Plymouth, Feb. 

 24th, 1642. 



" On Tuesday last all the Devonshire forces met at Kings- 

 bridge, and marched towards Modbury — they were in all, as 

 is supposed, eight or nine thousand, at the least — and came 

 to Modbury about noon, where the Cavaliers had strongly 

 fortified themselves with brest Workes, and laid all the hedges 

 round about the Towne, for half a mile's compasse, with 

 Musquetiers. There went from hence the London Gray- 

 coats and about four hundred Horse and Dragooners, who 

 came time enough to doe good service. But the Bastable 



site was sold in 1705, find the family seat is now at Dartington, near Totnes. 

 One of the Champernownes was the mother of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, and, 

 by a second marriage, the mother also of Sir Walter Raleigh. Sir Edmund 

 Fortescue was descended from the Champernownes through his grandmother. 



* For this account, obtained at the British Museum, and for many 

 particulars of the siege of Fort Charles, from the same source, we are 

 indebted to Mr. John Hooper. 



