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of Stowe ; John, killed in the Indies under Drake, ob. s.p. ; 
Bridget, unm. ; Catherine, married Justinian Abbot, of Hartland ; 
Mary, married Arthur Tremayne, of Collacombe ; Rebecca, buried 
at Bideford, 9th June, 1589 j Roger, buried 10th December, 1595, 
at Kilkhampton; and Ursula, buried 10th March, 1643, at Bide- 
ford. The present representatives of this family are : the Duke 
of Sutherland, descended from Lady Jane Grenville, eldest daughter 
and coheir of Sir John Grenville, created Earl of Bath; the 
Marquis of Bath and Earl of Dysart, descended from coheirs of 
John Lord Carteret, by Lady Grace, second daughter and coheir 
of the above Earl of Bath; Lord Eoley, descended from Grace, 
third daughter and coheir of George Grenville, Lord Lansdowne ; 
and Bevell Granville, Esq., of Wellesbourne Hall, descended from 
John D'Ewes, of Wellesbourne, who married Anne, daughter and 
coheir of Bernard Grenville, Esq., M.P. 
7. Valletort, Arg. three bends gu. within a bordure sa. charged 
with bezants. This family was one of the early territorial lords of 
Plymouth, then known as Sutton. Ralph de Valletort in 1165 
held, according to the Liber Niger Scaccarii, fifty-nine knights' fees 
in Devon and Cornwall, of which the principal was Harberton, 
near Totnes. King Henry I. gave to Reginald de Valletort among 
other lands the manor of Sutton, which then became Sutton 
Valletort. Walter de Valletort gave to the monks of Plympton 
the island of St. Nicholas cum caniculus, and Ralph de Valletort 
gave them land on which to erect a mill-dam at the spot now 
called Millbay. Let us hope the grants did not arise from the fact 
that, in the words of Longfellow — 
** In his chamber, weak and dying, 
Was the Norman baron lying." 
" In that hour of deep contrition 
He beheld with clearer vision, 
Through all outward show and fashion, 
Justice, the Avenger, rise. 
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" But the good deed, through the ages, 
Living in historic pages, 
Brighter grows and gleams immortal, 
Unconsumed by moth or rust." 
However this may have been, the same spirit certainly did not 
actuate his successor, John de Valletort, who, about the middle of 
