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well known to need any account of him to be given here. The 
main incidents in his life are familiar to most persons, as well as 
Prince's account of the grant of arms to him. This subject was 
treated critically a few years since in the pages of the Herald and 
Genealogist^ and this was reviewed, with additional evidence, in 
an early number of the Western Antiquary. It is therefore un- 
necessary to add to what has been already stated in the first part 
of this paper. 
Sir Francis married first at St. Budeaux, being entered in the 
parish register as "Francis Drake and Mary Newman," married 
4th July, 1569. It is perhaps worth noting that no distinctive 
style is used, although in other cases in the same register at that 
period we find the appellations, "esquire," "gentleman," or 
"gentlewoman," as required. The burial of the first wife of Sir 
Francis is recorded both at St. Budeaux and St. Andrew, in the 
former as " Mary Drake wife of S r Francis Drake Knight," buried 
25th January, 1582; and in the latter register as "The Lady 
Mary, wife of Sir Francis Drake, buried 20th January, 1582." 
Sir Francis married secondly Elizabeth, only daughter and heir of 
Sir George Sydenham, of Combe Sydenham. This lady became 
the second wife of George Courtenay, fourth son of Sir William 
Courtenay, of Powderham, but had no issue. Sir Francis Drake, 
having no children by either wife, and consequently having no 
descendants to inherit the estates he had acquired, left them to 
his nephew, Francis Drake, son of his brother Thomas Drake, 
who was created a baronet, and whose male descendants are pre- 
sumed to have become extinct on the death of Sir Francis Henry 
Drake, fifth baronet, who died unmarried 19th February, 1794, 
aged 70. The property then passed to his nephew, the second 
Lord Heathfield, on whose death, unmarried, 26th January, 1813, 
aged 63, the estates passed to his nephew, Thomas Tray ton Fuller, 
Esq., who took the additional names of Eliott Drake, and was 
created a baronet, with special remainder to his two next brothers 
and their issue, and was accordingly succeeded by his nephew, the 
present Sir Francis George Augustus Fuller-Eliott Drake, Bart. 
3. Captain William Cocke, Arg. a chev. eng. gu. betw. three 
coM heads erased sa., thereon a crescent arg. for diff. ; a canton 
az. charged with an anchor erect or. Captain Cocke was a native 
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