Giles Eyre II (bp. 10 Feb 1607 - d. 1685), son of Giles of Brickworth & Jane Snelworth
Sir Giles Eyre of Brickworth & Lincolns Inn bp. 28 May 1635 - d. 02 Jun 1695), son of Giles Eyre II & Anne Norton
Giles Eyre of Brickworth (bp. 25 May 1664 Whiteparish, co. Wilts - d. 1733), son of Sir Giles Eyre of Brickworth & Lincoln's Inn & Dorothy Ryves (d. 15 Jan. 1667/8).
He resided at Brickworth[3], a mansion in Salisbury, Wiltshire. [8]
Death
Giles died in 1655. He was buried 16 Jan 1655.[citation needed] His memorial inscription in All Saints, Whiteparish, Wiltshire[9][10] included the following. "A man much oppressed by public power for his laudable oppositions to the measures taken in the reigns of James and Charles the first … 1640 **** plundered at Brickworth by the king's solders … and imprisoned for refusing to pay the sum. Dyes 1655 having issue 7 sons (3 of whom who likewise members of parliament)." The asterisks in the inscription are said to have been intended to allude to a public flogging he endured which was too shameful to be explicitly mentioned but which the family did not want forgotten.[11]
Descendants
Eyre of Ireland.
Sources
↑ 1.01.11.21.31.41.51.61.71.8 Burke, J. (1836). "Eyre of Brickworth," in A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, p. 292. Google Books.
Entry image 10 Giles Eyre son of Thomas Eyre 27 Feb 1572 St Thomas Salisbury. Accessed 22 Dec 2019 by subscription at St Thomas Salisbury parish register Ancestry.comMeehan-411
↑ 3.03.13.2 Burke, J. (1838). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, 3, p. 292. Google Books
↑ 5.05.1 Cronin, J. (2008). A Gentlemen of Good Family and Fortune: John Eyre of Eyrecourt 1640 - 1685. Galway Archaeological & Historical Society, 60, pp. 88 - 115. JSTOR.
↑ Gyles Eyers and Mrs. Jane Snelgar, 26 Sep 1603; citing Downton, Wilts, ref. 152; FHL microfilm 1,279,387.[2]
↑ Wiltshire Memorial Inscription Index, Wiltshire Family History Society, FindMyPast
↑ Cheryl Kerry. Honour, Memory and Lineage: Remembering the English Civil War through Funeral Memorials, in 'History', journal of the Historical Assoication, Vol. 107, issue 377, September 2022, pp. 651-671
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In the will of Edward St. Barbe of Whiteparish probated 1643, the testator notes a possible marriage between his son Edward and Mary, daughter of Giles Eyre of Whiteparish. Does anyone know if this projected marriage happened?
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