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Damerel, called after him " Mount Wise." He had by his wife, 
Margaret Stafford, a son, Thomas Wise, Esq., High Sheriff of 
Devon in 1638, whose son (by his wife, Lady Margaret Chichester), 
Sir Edward Wise, k.b., m.p., sold the manor of Stoke Damerel to 
Sir William Morice, from whom it passed by marriage to the St. 
Anbyn family. This Sir Edward married Lady Arabella St. John. 
The following entries relating to this family are taken from the 
Parish Registers of Stoke Damerel : 
BAPTISMS. 
1634. Feb. 10. William, son of Thomas Wyes, Esq. 
1635. May 12. Margere, daughter of Thomas Wyes, Esq. 
BURIALS. 
1622. April 17. Mr. Edward Wyes, son of the Right Worshipful Sir 
Thomas Wyes, Knight of the Honourable Order 
of the Bath. 
24. Sir John Gayer, Erm. a fleur-de-lys sa., on a chief of the 
second a mullet arg.: imp. Sa. on a chev. betw. three pistols or, as 
many roses gu. seeded and barbed ppr.; Hopkins. Sir John Gayer, 
son of John Gayer, of Plymouth, by Margaret, daughter of Robert 
Trelawny, of Tideford, was a Royalist, merchant, and philan- 
thropist, the story of whose escape from a lion while travelling 
with a caravan in the East, and his endowment of the "Lyon 
Sermon" to commemorate his providential delivery, are well 
known. Sir John was Sheriff of London in 1635, Lord Mayor in 
1647, and died 20th July, 1649, having married Katherine, 
daughter of Samuel Hopkins of Coventry, Esq., by whom he had 
two sons and three daughters. Of the sons, John died sine prole; 
Sir Robert, made a Knight of the Bath 29th May, 1660, was 
Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1664, and died 14th June, 1702, 
having been twice married. His male descendants failed in the 
second generation, but male descendants of his family continue to 
nourish. 
The following extracts from the Registers of St. Andrew 
relating to John Gayer and Margaret Trelawny, his wife, may not 
be out of place here : 
r BAPTISMS. 
1586. April 7. Margaret, daughter of John Gere. 
1587. June 28. Richard, son of John Gere. 
1590. July 21. Grace, daughter of John Gey re. 
1592. April 19. Humphrey, son of Mr. John Geare. 
1593. Dec. 5. Robert, son of Mr. John Gayre. 
