Saturday, September 20, 2008

John Drake

Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon By Sir William Pole, ... Now First Printed from the Autograph in the Possession of His Lineal Descendant Sir John-William de la Pole, Bart. ... By William Pole: "WIK E WIKE or NORTHWIKE is in the parifh of Axminfter ftanding foutherly from the tovvne & was aunciently the enheritanc & dwellinge of a knightly family called Doune whoe had alfoe land neere the fea called Doune 8c Downe Raph for yl many of the firft owners were called Raph The laft called Hugh de Downe left twoe daughters Amifia maried unto Henry Ledred & Ifabell unto John Holcomb Wike fell in coparcianory unto Ledred whofe fonne Roger Ledred left Alis his daughter wief of Willm Strode of Parham in Dorfetfhire unto whom fucceeded lineally Will 1 John Robert John & Sr Robert Strode K whofe daughter Katerin was maried unto S Richard Strode fonne of Sr Willa"

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