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daughter of Bartholomew Fortescue Esq. of Filleigh near South Molton
41 in Devonshire, Sir Bernard had a son John ;^ who, by Dorothy daughter
42 of WilHam Button of Alton, co. Wilts, had Sir John^ of Ashe, and
43 "William^ Drake of Yardbiry, in the parish of Culliton near adjoyning."
S. G. Drake in his "Genealogical and Biographical Account of the
Family of Drake in America"'" speaks of "Robert of Wiscomb, the
ancestor of 'a generous tribe of Drakes,' inheriting there in Prince's
time."
Robert (39) Drake of Wiscombe married Elizabeth daughter of
Humphry Prideaux of Theuborough, co. Devon. They had, with other
44, 45 children, " Robert^^i and Henry, i^^^ both distinguished military men ;
the elder
a Colonel, the younger a Captain, who fell in the defence of Ostend.""
46 William^ Drake of Wiscombe, son of Robert and EHzabeth (Prideaux)
Drake, married Philip (or Phillippa) daughter of " Sir Robert Dennis of
Holcombe, Knt." Their son John (2) emigrated to Nev^^ England.
Here we may notice that John Drake's grandfather Robert of
Wiscombe stood in the relation of first cousin to Sir Walter Raleigh ;
47 for a sister of his father, named Joane,^ was the first wife of Walter
Raleigh of Fardell, co. Devon, father of Sir Walter, though she was
not Sir Walter's mother.'" John Drake himself was second cousin
to the grandfather of the great Duke of Marlborough, thus :
his second
48 cousin Sir John (42) of Ashe had a daughter Elizabeth,^" who married
Sir Winston Churchill of Standish, co. Gloucester, and was the mother of
49 John^i Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, whose birth was in the
50 mansion of Ashe. Sir Bernard's great grandson Sir John^^ Drake of
Ashe was created a Baronet by King Charles II. in 1660. The Baronetcy
51 became extinct on the death of Sir William ^^ Drake, the sixth Baronet,
who died s. p. in 1733.
'»p. 18.
" A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland. .
By John Burke Esq. . . . London,
1836, i. 581.
" Nichols's Herald and Genealogist, ut supra, p. 313.
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