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 loo Devon Notes and Queries. Their son Sir Sandys Fortescue died 27 Oct., and was buried 2 Nov., 1683 [^'^O [^J ^^ married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Lenthall, Knight, of Basingsleigh. She died 19 January, 168J [P.R.] [S.] Their only child Elizabeth married Seyliard and died s.p., when this branch of the family terminated, and Fallapit passed to the descend- ants of Peter Fortescue, the fourth son of John Fortescue, by his wife Sarah, daughter of Sir Edmund Prideaux (see above). Peter married Elizabeth, daughter of John Bastard. Their son Edmund, who died 9th and was buried 15 Jan., 173J [P.R.] [M.] married Mary, daughter of Sampson Wyse of Dittisham. She died 18th and was buried 22 Aug., 1722 [P.R.] [M.] Their eldest daughter Mary married William Fortescue of Buckland Filleigh, Master of the Rolls. She was buried 4 Aug., 1710 [P.R.] [M.] leaving an only child Mary, who became the wife of John Spooner, and inherited the Fallapit property March, 1734, on the death of Elizabeth, only daughter of Sir Sandys Fortescue (see above). Mary Spooner died 24 July, 1752 [M.] and her only child Mary having predeceased her, Fallapit passed to Elizabeth, the second daughter of Edmund Fortescue. She died in 1768, when Fallapit passed to her niece Catherine, daughter of Dorothy, the third daughter of Edmund Fortescue, who had married Sir Thomas Bury of Exeter. Catherine Bury, his eldest daughter, married, 15 Dec., 1745, Nathaniel Wells, Rector of East Allington. He died 28 Sept., 1762 [M.] She died 10 July, 1770 [M.] Their eldest son Edmund Wells, born 1752, assumed the name and arms of Fortescue, and married Mary Anne, daughter of Peter Blundell of Collipriest, and died X779. Their son Edmund Nathaniel William Fortescue, born 1777, died 1 82 1 [S.] married Elizabeth, daughter of William Long Trosse of ITrevoUard in Cornwall [F.] She died 1850, leaving, among other children, two sons (i) William Blundell Fortescue, bom 1816, who married Harriet Maria, second daughter of Major-General Thomas Taylor, C.B., of Ogwell, and (2) Henry Reymundo Fortescue, bom 1820, Rector of East Allington 1844-98, who married Ellen, daughter of Percival Walsh of Staunton Harcourt, Oxford [M.] The three most interesting monuments are now fixed to the east wall of the south aisle. These are : — I. A brass engraved