90 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
in chief a label az.; Courtenay : imp. per fess, in chief, Arg. a chev. 
gu. betw. three coots sa.; Southcote j in base, Az. three saltires or; 
Glanville. Sir William Strode was the eldest son of Richard 
Strode, of Newnham, Esq., by his wife Frances, daughter of 
Gregory, Lord Cromwell (a contemporary portrait of which lady 
was until lately at Newnham Park), by Elizabeth Seymour, sister 
of the Lord Protector, Edward Duke of Somerset, and of Queen 
Jane Seymour, third wife of King Henry VIII. He married first, 
Mary, daughter of Thomas Southcote, Esq., of Mohun's Ottery. 
This lady was the "Right Worshipful Ladie Mary Strode, of 
Newingham," to whom Sam. Hierom dedicated a little book of 
devotions, dated from Modbury the 10th of October, 1608. By 
her he had several children, of whom Sir Richard was member of 
Parliament for Plympton, and William member of Parliament for 
Beer Alston, in the Long Parliament, and was committed to the 
Tower ; John, of Tavistock ; Mary, married to Sir John Chudleigh, 
Knight ; Elizabeth, married Edmund Speccott, brother of Sir John 
Speccot, Knight; Julian, married Sir John Davie, of Creedy 
Widger ; Frances, married Sir Samuel Somaster, of Ponsford, 
Knight ; Jane, married Sir Francis Drake, of Buckland, Baronet 
(her brother, Sir Richard Strode, married a sister of Sir John 
Drake, of Ash) ; Ursula, married Sir John Chichester, of Hall, 
Knight ; Elizabeth, married Sir John Young, of Axminster. 
Sir William married secondly, Dyonisia, daughter of Sir John 
Glanville, of Tavistock, but by her had only one child, who died 
young. Sir William Strode, who was Recorder of Plymouth, 
1611-20, died 27th June, 1637, aged 76, and is buried, with a 
large monument with effigies of himself, his wives, and children, 
in the Church of Plympton St. Mary; the inscription, with a 
long account of Sir William, is given in Prince's Worthies of 
Devon. 
The following, from the Parish Registers of Plympton St. Mary, 
relate to Sir William and his two wives : 
1617. Feb. 24. Mary, the wife of the Right Worshipful Sir 
William Strode, Knight, was buried. 
1635. Sept. 16. Dionisea, 1 the wife of Sir William Strode, Knight, 
was buried. 
1637. June 28. Sir William Strode, Knight, was buried. 
1 The christian name is left blank in the entry. 
