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rebels making a garrison of it. Here my cousin, William Glanville, 

 his eldest son, shewed me such a lock for a door that for its filing 

 and rare contrivances was a masterpiece, yet made by a country 

 blacksmith." 



Sir John survived the Restoration one year, and died and was 

 buried at Broad Hinton in 1661, where his widow Winifred erected 

 a monument to his memory. He was succeeded by his son John, 

 a barrister, who married a daughter of Sir Edmund Fortescue, of 

 Fallowpit, and who, like his father, also retired to Broad Hinton 

 and died there. To Francis, another son, who bore arms for the 

 King and fell at Bridgwater, a long Latin epitaph in the parish 

 Church there bears testimony. Through the marriage in 1685 of 

 his daughter, Margaret, with Francis Baskerville, of Rickardston, 

 Sir John has subsequently been represented by the families of 

 Baskerville and Baskerville-Mynors, of Bockley House and Winter- 

 bourn Bassett. 



Touching the personal character of this knight in his domestic 

 relations, Bishop Burnet supplies the following chivalrous illus- 

 tration. The elder Glanville, having a fair estate in land, designed 

 in accordance with the practice of the age to settle it on his eldest 

 son, Francis ; but the young man following a vicious course of life, 

 induced the father to alter his will in favour of his more promising 

 second son (the future Sergeant) . The effect of this blow on the 

 elder son was for some time a deep melancholy, resulting eventually 

 in a change of life so meritorious and pronounced as left no doubt 

 on his brother's mind that the reformation would prove permanent. 

 Acting under the impulse thus engendered, Sergeant Glanville 

 gathered sundry of his friends, including his disinherited brother, 

 to a feast ; and after several courses had been served a covered dish 

 was placed before the brother and declared to be for his own par- 

 ticular use. The removal of the cover displayed to the astonished 

 company a heap of parchments and title deeds, which the Sergeant 

 then explained by observing that in thus restoring to his elder 

 brother the patrimonial estates, he was only doing that which their 

 father would have himself desired, could he have anticipated the 

 happy change which they all witnessed. 



