. Devon notes and queries. ived thirty-five yearsafter her decease, and married a second and a third time. He was buriedin London. Mr. Cotton differs, however, from previous writers in statingthat his wife died at Bath, and was buried there. f This gentleman, whose benignity, hospitality, and goodwill con-stituted him the type of an English country gentleman, well sustained thetraditions of the place. He held various public offices, was High Sheriffof the County in 1890, and was one of the administrators of the homefounded by Lady Lucy Reynell for poor widows of clergymen, whic hstill exists i
. Devon notes and queries. ived thirty-five yearsafter her decease, and married a second and a third time. He was buriedin London. Mr. Cotton differs, however, from previous writers in statingthat his wife died at Bath, and was buried there. f This gentleman, whose benignity, hospitality, and goodwill con-stituted him the type of an English country gentleman, well sustained thetraditions of the place. He held various public offices, was High Sheriffof the County in 1890, and was one of the administrators of the homefounded by Lady Lucy Reynell for poor widows of clergymen, whic hstill exists in Newton, though the house was rebuilt about the middle ofthe last century. To his favouring kindness we are personally indebtedfor the opportunity and facilities afforded us of making the sketcheswhich illustrate this article. Devon Notes and Queries. 41 Sir Richard Reynell, who was knighted by King James in1622, had the honour of receiving a visit from Charles theFirst three years afterwards. On the 15th September, 1625,. Device on Ceiling of King Charless Room. he arrived here on his way to Plymouth to inspect the was accompanied by his favourite minister, the notoriousVilliers, Duke of Buckingham, and other noblemen, and onhis return stayed here again from the 24th to the room in which the King slept is the one over the halladjoining the drawing-room, and which was doubtlessusually occupied by Sir Richard Reynell and his wife, for inthe centre of the plaster ceiling the panel contains what wepresume are intended for their emblems, a fox and a gilliflowerin saltire. In the early hours of one of those lovely autumnmornings the young monarch may have gazed wistfully upat this device, wondering what it really meant, but in thosehis more peaceful days, little dreaming that a fox wouldever cross his own path in life and eventually crush him inthe flower of his existence. Twenty years later, namely, on the 24th January, 1646,during the ownership of the Courtenays
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