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Reynell a Panegyrick to his sacred Majesty King Charles II,’ London, 1661, fol. It was reprinted in ‘Fugitive Poetical Tracts’ (2nd ser. No. xxiv). Thenceforth Reynell devoted himself to economic studies. He died, at his house in Shoreditch, in 1690.

He married, first, Anna, widow of one Metcalfe; his second wife was named Elizabeth, widow of Ralph Took of Took's Court (cf., Marriage Licences, ed. Foster, col. 1125). By the first wife he had a son, Carew, and by the second wife a daughter, Anne.

Reynell's economic study resulted in ‘The True English Interest, or an Account of the Chief Natural Improvements and some Political Observations demonstrating an Infallible Advance of this Nation to infinite Wealth and Greatness, Trade and Populacy, with Employment and Preferment for all Persons,’ London, 1674, 8vo (licensed 5 Sept. 1673). It is a noticeable book, though it accepts the mercantile theory without question. It was noticed in ‘Philosophical Transactions,’ No. 102, 27 April 1674, vol. ix. In the twenty-seventh chapter (p. 79), ‘of learning’ (and libraries), Reynell says: ‘Much more would be said of this subject, but I refer that to my “Discourse of the Advancement of Learning,”’ of which nothing is known.

Another (1698–1745), bishop of Derry, son of Carew Reynell, of Covent Garden, London, was educated at Winchester, 1707–11 (, Winchester Register, p. 221). In 1711 he was elected a scholar and fellow of New College, Oxford, whence he graduated B.A. 1715, M.A. 1719, B.D. and D.D. 1730. He was proctor of his university in 1728 (, Alumni Oxon.) From 1728 to 1743 he was rector of Colerne, Wiltshire, and in 1734 of SS. John and Laurence, Bristol. He became chaplain to William Bradshaw [q. v.], bishop of Bristol and chancellor of that diocese. He removed to Ireland in 1737 as first chaplain to the lord lieutenant, the duke of Devonshire, and was promoted to the see of Down and Connor in 1739, and to that of Derry in 1743. He held the latter till his death in 1744–5 (, Fasti Eccles. Hib. iii. 310). His published works consist of sermons, three of which are in the British Museum.

A third Carew Reynell (1690–1755), son of Rev. John Reynell, of West Hatton, Lincolnshire, a graduate of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, was prebendary of Chichester from 1724 to 1730, vicar of Marsdon, Oxfordshire, from 1725 to 1736, and rector of Childrey, Berkshire, from 1731 till his death on 29 May 1755 (, Alumni Oxon.)

[Official Returns of Members of Parliament; Tuckett's Devon Pedigrees, p. 147; Burke's Commoners, iv. 446, and Landed Gentry, p. 2345; Harl. Soc. vi. 234, 240; Westcote's Devon, pp. 576–8; Warner's Collections for Hist. of Hampshire; Granger's Biogr. Hist. of Engl. iv. 99.]  REYNELL, EDWARD (1612–1663), divine, born at West Ogwell, Devonshire, in 1612, was son of Sir Thomas Reynell, whose younger brother, Sir George, was grandfather of Carew Reynell (1636–1690) [q. v.] His mother was his father's second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Killigrew of Cornwall. He was admitted as a fellow commoner to Exeter College, Oxford, on 30 May 1629 (, Register of Exeter College, p. 63). Prideaux, the rector of the college, had married his half-sister (, Worthies of Devon, p. 523). He left Oxford in 1632 without a degree, and entered at the Middle Temple; he, like his half-brother Thomas, was a benefactor of the Inn. He was called to the bar, but his ‘geny being more inclined towards divinity,’ he took orders and became rector of West Ogwell (, Commoners, iv. 451). He died at West Ogwell in 1663 by his own hand, and was buried there. ‘He was of curious parts and flowing style, always single and addicted to melancholy, insomuch that it prevailed over him to accelerate his dissolution, which he accomplished by the improbable assistance but of a bason of water in his chamber’. Wood reports the reluctance of his kinsmen to give further information about him, and their desire that ‘he might sink into oblivion.’

Reynell wrote: 1. ‘Eugenia's Tears for Great Britain's Glory, or Observations reflecting on these Sad Times,’ London, 1642. 2. ‘The Life and Death of the Religious and Virtuous Lady the Lady Lucie Reynell of Ford in Devon, who Dyed on 18 April 1652, whereunto is annexed a Consolatory Epilogue for dejected Souls,’ London, 1654. Lady Reynell, daughter of Robert Brandon of London, was the writer's sister-in-law, and wife to Sir Richard Reynell (1587–1648) of the Middle Temple, an officer in the exchequer. 3. ‘An Advice against Libertinism, shewing the great Danger thereof, and exhorting all to zeal of the Truth,’ London, 1659. 4. ‘Celestial Amities, or a Soul sighing for the Love of her Saviour,’ London, 1660, dedicated to ‘the ladies of our times.’

[Foster's Alumni Oxon.; Wood's Athenæ, ed. Bliss, iii. 658; Prince's Worthies of Devon, p. 523; Davidson's Bibliotheca Devoniensis; Boase's Register of Exeter College, Oxford.] 