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Devon Notes and Queries. 99 John married Margaret, daughter of William Hingeston of Wonwell [F.] , whose only daughter Elizabeth inherited Falla- pit. William Fortescue of Wimston (see above), who married Isabel Falwell, had a son John, who married Jane, daughter and heiress of John Preston (16 Hen. VII). Their son John of Spriddleston (29 and 30 Hen. VHI) married Alice, daughter of John Cookworthy, whose son was Lewis Fortescue, Baron of the Exchequer, who married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Fortescue of Fallapit (see above), thus uniting the Fallapit and Spriddleston branches [P.] [F.] Their son John Fortescue of Fallapit was buried 21 Sept., 1595, aged 7O9 [P*R-] [6.] having married Honor, daughter of Edmond Speccott of Thornbury [P.] [F.] She was buried 8 Sept., 1606 [P.R.] [B.] Their son and heir Edmond was baptised 8 Nov., 1560, died 2ist and was buried 25 July, 1624 [P.R.] [S.] He was Sheriff of Devon, and married Mary, eldest daughter of Henry and sister of Sir Richard Champemoun of Modbury [P.] [F.] She died 28 Jan. and was buried 3 Feb., i6ll [S.] Their second son John was heir. He was baptised 30 Sept., 1586, and was buried 12 Feb., 16JJ [P.R.] [? M.] He married first Sarah, daughter of Sir Edmond Prideaux of Netherton [P.] [F.] , who died 29th and was buried 31 Oct., 1628 [P.R.] [S.] ; secondly Elizabeth, daughter and co- heiress of Sir Richard Reynell of East Ogwell [P.] [F.] by his wife Mary, daughter of Richard Reynell of Greedy Wiger. She was buried 23 May, 1663 [^P-RJ [S.] This John Fortescue had a sister Elizabeth, who was baptised 1585 and married 1601, John Nicholis of Trewane in St. Kea, Cornwall [P.R.] [P.] Sir Edmund Fortescue was the eldest son of John and Sarah (see above). He was baptised 16 July, 1609 [P.R.] ; Governor of Charles Fort, Salcombe, for the King, and predeceased his father at Delph in Holland, where he was buried. He married 8 Nov., 1633, Jane, daughter of Thomas Southcote of Mohuns Ottery, [P.] [F.] She died 22 Sept., 1642 [P.R.] Their son Sir Edmund, Knight and Baronet, married Margaret, daughter of the iifth Lord Sandys of The Vine. He died 30 Dec, 1666, and was buried 14 Jan., 166^ [P.R.] [S.]