The King's General (51 page)

Gartred Denys

She never married again, but, leaving Orley Court, went to live with one of her married daughters, Lady Hampson, at Taplow, where she died at the ripe age of eighty-five.

Jonathan Rashleigh

He suffered further imprisonment for debt, at the hands of the Parliament, but lived to see the Restoration. He died in 1675, a year after his wife Mary.

John Rashleigh

He died in 1651, aged only thirty, in Devon, when on the road home to Menabilly, after a visit to London about his father's business. His widow Joan lived in Fowey until her death in 1668, aged forty-eight. Her son Jonathan succeeded to his grandfather's estate at Menabilly.

Sir Peter Courtney

He deserted his wife, ran hopelessly into debt, married a second time, and died in 1670.

Alice Courtney

Lived the remainder of her life at Menabilly and died there, in 1659, aged forty. There is a tablet to her memory in the church at Tywardreath.

Ambrose Manaton

Little is known about him, except that he was M. P. for Camelford in 1668. His estate, Trecarrel, fell into decay.

Robin and Honor Harris

The brother and sister lived in quiet retirement at Tywardreath, in a house provided for them by Jonathan Rashleigh. Honor died on the seventeenth day of November 1653, and Robin in June 1655. Thus they never lived to see the Restoration. The tablet to their memory in the church runs thus: "In memory of Robert Harris, sometime Major-General of His Majesty's forces before Plymouth, who was buried here under the 29th day of June 1655. And of Honor Harris his sister, who was likewise here under-neath buried, the I7th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1653.

Loyall and stout; thy Crime this--this thy praise, Thou'rt here with Honour laid--though without Bayes."

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