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of Plymouth, and was one of the heroes who volunteered, and at 
their own expense equipped, vessels for the defeat of the Armada. 
In the fight with the Spaniards he distinguished himself by his 
bravery, and was killed in the heat of the action. Mr. Gregory 
Cocke was buried at St. Andrew 1st August, 1589. In the same 
registers we find the marriages of John Martyn and Grace Cocke, 
widow, 12th August, 1583; William Cocke and Catherine, his 
wife, 11th January, 1586; Anthony Cocke and Maud Burnard, 
8th October, 1592; Lucas Cocke and Joan Weekes, 9th September, 
1594; William Cocke and Joan Rawlin, 12th May, 1595. There 
are a number of other entries relating to the name, but we need 
not quote them here. His arms, it is said, remained until recently 
over a doorway in an old house in Plymouth, but we have failed 
to find them. There are many entries of the name of Cocke in 
the earlier registers of St. Andrew. 
4. Sir Walter Raleigh, Gu. a bend lozengy arg., over all a label 
az., a martlet arg., for difference of the fifth son : imp. Gu. on 
a chev. arg. three bars gemelles sa.; Throckmorton. Sir Walter 
Raleigh was son of Walter Raleigh, of Fardell, in Cornwood, by 
his third wife Catherine, daughter of Sir Philip Champernoun, 
of Modbury, and relict of Otho Gilbert, of Greenway, on the Dart, 
and grandson of Wymond Raleigh by Elizabeth his wife, daughter 
of Sir Richard Edgcumbe. 
Sir Walter was born in 1552 at Hayes, in Budleigh, not at his 
father's patrimonial estate of Fardell. He married Elizabeth, 
daughter of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, by which lady he had 
issue two sons, Walter and Carew. The former died young, but 
the latter married and left issue. 
Sir Walter Raleigh was one of those able men Queen Elizabeth 
had a peculiar faculty for gathering around her, men who shone 
either as polished courtiers, gallant warriors, or skilful statesmen. 
His life, full of romantic incidents even for those romantic and 
stirring days, is an oft-told tale known to all, though his shield of 
arms may appropriately have its place in this series, as that of his 
grandfather does in the hall at Cotehele. 
5. Sir Humphry Gilbert, Arg. on a chev. sa. three roses of the 
field: imp. Az. a lion ramp, or; Ager. He was another of the 
Elizabethan heroes of the sea; a younger son of Otho Gilbert, 
