By the Rev. G. S. Master. 



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monument with a fine bust to his memory. He married, in 1623, 

 Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Robert Cockes, of London, Esq., 

 by whom he had issue one son, George Evelyn, baptised at Everley, 

 19th May, 1636, died 6th September, 1641, and buried in the 

 chancel of this Church in his sixth year, his effigy, in brass, re- 

 maining; and four daughters, Marie, Elizabeth, Anne, and Sarah, 

 the three first baptised at Everley, 1638, 1639, and 1641; of whom 

 survived Elizabeth and Sarah, the first her father's heir, the latter 

 successively the wife, firstly, of Sir John Wray, of Glentworth, 

 Bart, (whom she married here in 1661, his second wife, and by whom 

 she had an only daughter, Elizabeth, who married Nicholas, eldest 

 son of George, Viscount Castleton) secondly, of Thomas, second 

 Viscount Fanshawe, of Dromore (his second wife, by whom she had 

 one son, Evelyn Fanshawe — born 1668, died at Aleppo, 1687— and 

 one daughter, Katherine), and thirdly, of George, Viscount Castleton, 

 his second wife. Offending her father by her third marriage, she 

 was deprived of all share in his property, the only mention of her 

 in his will being this brief passage, " I give to my daughter, Dame 

 Sarah, Viscountess Castleton five shillings for her legacy." Her 

 sister, Elizabeth Evelyn, married Robert, eldest son of the Hon. 

 William Pierrepont, second son of Robert, first Earl of Kingston, 

 and having carried her paternal estates to that family, was buried 

 here, January 4th, 1698-9. 



The family of Pierrepont, 1 deducing its origin from Robert, a 

 Norman, who held lands temp. William II., amounting to ten 

 knights' fees, in Sussex and elsewhere, was of Hurst-Pierrepont, in 

 that county, and afterwards, by marriage with the heiress of 

 Maunvers, of Holme, Co. Notts, of that place, thenceforth styled 

 Holme-Pierrepont, of which was Sir Henry Pierrepont (ob. 1615), 

 whose only son (by his wife, Frances, eldest daughter of Sir William 

 Cavendish, and the celebrated Bess of Hardwick, and sister of the first 

 Earl of Devonshire), Robert Pierrepont, Lieut.-General of the Forces 

 under Charles I., created Baron Pierrepont and Viscount Newark, 

 1627, and Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull in the following year, was 



1 Arms of Pierrepont, " Argent semee of cinquefoils gules, a lion rampant 

 sable." 



