page_title: Manor of Copleston
section_title: John Copleston (died 1608)
hierarchical_section_title: Manor of Copleston / Descent in Coplestone family / John Copleston (died 1608)
caption_attribution_description: English: Monument to John Copleston, Esquire(d.1608) and his wife Susanna Pollard (d.post 1621)(Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitation of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 &amp; 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.225); St. Mary's Church, Tamerton Foliot, Devon. Latin inscription: Johanni Coplestono Armigero huius manerie domino viro cum generis antiqui tum verae virtutis laude nobilitato: qui postquam aetatis suae annum LIX attigisset Warleiae suaviter in Christo obdormirvit, November 9 1608. Susanna uxor amantissima quae quinque filios et totidem filias peperit in spe resurrectionis bene merenti pie posuit, September 4, 1617. In English: To John Coplestone, Esquire, lord of this manor, a man famed as greatly for true virtue as noble descent, who after he had reached his 59th year gently went to sleep in Christ at Warleigh, November 9 1608. Susanna his most beloved wife who brought forth five sons and as many daughters placed this piously in well deserved hope of resurrection, September 4, 1617.
context_page_description: The Manor of Copleston was a manor in the parish of the parish of Colebrooke in Mid Devon, England, now centred on the village of Copplestone.
  The Copleston Cross or Stone gave its name to the historic estate or manor of Copleston which was the earliest known home of the prominent historic Copleston family, one of the most ancient in Devon according to "that old saw often used among us in discourse", the traditional rhyme related by John Prince:
  "Crocker, Cruwys, and Coplestone,
  When the Conqueror came were at home"
  The Cruwys family in 2014 still resides in its ancient manor house at Cruwys Morchard where, despite the traditional rhyme, it is first recorded in the reign of King John, or possibly a little earlier. The last male of the Crocker family of Lyneham in the parish of Yealmpton in Devon was Courtenay Crocker, several times MP for Plympton.
context_section_description: John Copleston (1546/9 – 1608) (second son and heir, by his father's second marriage), married Susan Pollard, a daughter of Lewis Pollard of King's Nympton, Recorder of Exeter and Sergeant-at-Law, who was grandson of Sir Lewis Pollard (c. 1465 – 1526), Justice of the Common Pleas.
  According to John Prince, John Copleston murdered his godson, who was possibly an illegitimate son, at Tamerton Foliot; through his influential friends at the royal court he procured a pardon from Queen Elizabeth by paying a large fine which necessitated the sale of thirteen of his manors in Cornwall. The couple's monument, erected in 1617 and repaired in 1894, survives in St Mary's Church, Tamerton Foliot.
caption: Monument to John Copleston (d.1608) and his wife Susanna in St Mary's Church, Tamerton Foliot.
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