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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
BURIALS. 
1542. Dec. 5. John, son of Roger Butshed, Esq. 
1543. Dec. 20. Dorothy, daughter of „ „ „ 
1545. Oct. 26. Katherine „ „ „ „ 
1547. April 8. Richard, son of „ „ „ 
1572. Feb. 21. A man child of Tristram Gorges, Esq., deadborne. 
1573. Dec. 6. Katherine, wife of Martyn Gole, gent. 
1574. April 5. Christopher, son of Tristram Gorges, Esq., 
1576. Feb. 3. Roger Butshed, Esq re . 
1589. May 14. Martyn Cole, gent. 
1592. Feb. 26. Susan, daughter of Tristram Gorges, Esq. 
1595. Jan. 20. Thomas, son of Tristram Gorges, Esq. 
1607. Jan. 24. Elizabeth, late wife of Tristram Gorges, Esq., of 
Budockshed. 
1608. May 8. Tristram Gorges, Esq. 
1614. Dec. 14. William Gorges, Esq. 
13. Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Party per pale of three, the centre 
quarterly : 1 and £ Lozengy or and az. a chev. gu., Gorges 
modern; 2 and 3 Arg. a whirlpool az., Gorges ancient; over all 
a martlet for diff., Gorges : on the dexter in chief, Sa. three bells 
arg., Bell, first wife; in base, Gu. a chev. arg., Fulford, second 
wife : on the sinister side, per fess, in chief, Lozengy or and az. a 
chev. gu. charged with a crescent or, for diff., Gorges, third wife; 
in base, the same arms as the last with an annulet on the chev. 
instead of the crescent for diff., Gorges, fourth wife. 
Sir Ferdinando Gorges was the fourth son of Sir Edward 
Gorges, of Wraxhall, county Somerset, by his second wife, Mary, 
daughter of Sir Anthony Poyntz, and was a younger brother of 
Sir William Gorges, who married the heiress of Budockshed. He 
was born in 1565, held for some time the post of captain of the 
castle of Plymouth, and took a very active part in the colonization 
of North America, a very interesting account of which might be 
written did space permit. Sir Ferdinando married four times : 
first, Ann, daughter of Edward Bell, Esq. ; she died in 1620. He 
married secondly Mary Fulford, widow of Thomas Achim; and 
she dying in 1623, Sir Francis Fulford and John Berriman 
administered to her estate, 1st August, 1623. Sir Ferdinando 
married thirdly Elizabeth, daughter of Tristram Gorges, Esq., of 
Butshed, and relict first of Edward Courtenay, and secondly of 
— Blyth. She survived until 1629, and to console himself for 
her loss Sir Ferdinando Gorges took to wife another lady of the 
same name — Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Gorges, of Lang- 
