page_title: Cary family
section_title: Cary of Clovelly
hierarchical_section_title: Cary family / Cary of Clovelly
caption_attribution_description: English: Stained glass heraldic achievement of Lucius Henry Cary, 6th Viscount Falkland (1687-1730) (or of one of his descendants), south chancel window, All Saints Church, Clovelly, Devon. (Re-reversed image, glass fitted in church window reversed). Elizabeth Cary, the last of the Cary family of Clovelly, died in 1738 and the manor was sold by her husband Robert Barber in 1739. There is no reason to suppose that Cary arms were affixed inside the church after that date. Arms: quarterly of 4: 1&amp;4: Argent, on a bend sable three roses of the field (here seeded and barbed or) (Cary); 2: Argent, a fess between six annulets gules (Lucas, for his mother Hon. Anne Lucas, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Charles Lucas, 2nd Baron Lucas of Shenfield); 3: Beaufort, for Eleanor Beaufort, daughter of Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (1406–1455), KG, and wife of Sir Robert Spencer (d.pre-1510) traditionally "of Spencer Combe", in the parish of Crediton in Devon. Above is a viscount's coronet, here shown with 7 pearls instead of the correct 9. Below is the motto of Viscount Falkland: In Utroque Fidelis. Supporters: Dexter: A unicorn argent, armed crined tufted and unguled or; Sinister: A lion guardant proper ducally crowned and gorged with a plain collar or. Crest: A swan, wings elevated proper (Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.438, Viscount Falkland). Viscount Falkland usually displays the arms of Spencer of Spencercombe in the 2nd quarter, not Lucas.
context_page_description: The Cary family is an English aristocratic family with a branch in Ireland. The earliest known ancestor of the family is Sir Adam de Kari who was living in 1198. Sir John Cary purchased the Manor of Clovelly in the 14th century and established the family's status as members of the landed gentry. Various branches of the family were ennobled in the late 16th and early 17th centuries as Baron Hunsdon and Viscount Falkland.
context_section_description: Robert Cary (died 1540) of Cockington and Clovelly married three times:
  Firstly to Jane Carew, daughter of Nicholas Carew, Baron Carew (1424–1471), of Mohuns Ottery, Luppitt, Devon, by whom he had two sons:
  John Cary (born 1502), eldest son and heir, who inherited the manor of Cary.
  Thomas Cary (died 1567), 2nd son, who inherited Cockington.
  Secondly to Ames Hody (alias Huddye), daughter of Sir William Hody, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer 1486–1512, by whom he had a son:
  William Cary (died 1550) of Ladford
  Thirdly to Margaret Fulkeram (died 1547), daughter and heiress of William Fulkeram of Dartmouth, Devon. A branch of the Fulkeram family (alias Fookeray, Fokeray, etc.,) were lords of the manor of Buckland Baron (Buckland-in-the-Moor) in Haytor Hundred. by Margaret Fulkeram he had issue:
  Robert Cary (died 1586) of Clovelly (4th son).
  Robert Cary (died 1586) of Clovelly, 4th son of his father, by his 3rd wife. He was given Clovelly by his father. He was the first Cary to be seated exclusively at Clovelly, the manors of Cary and Cockington having been inherited by his half-brothers. He was Member of Parliament for Barnstaple, Devon, in October 1553 and served as Sheriff of Devon in 1555–56. He served as Recorder of Barnstaple after 1560. He was a magistrate and along with several other members of the Devonshire gentry then serving as magistrates he died of gaol fever at the Black Assize of Exeter 1586. He married Margaret Milliton, daughter of John Milliton and widow of John Giffard of Yeo in the parish of Alwington, North Devon. His large monument, with strapwork decoration, survives against the south wall of the chancel of All Saints Church, Clovelly. Along the full length of the cornice is inscribed in gilt capitals: Robertus Carius, Armiger, obiit An(no) Do(mini) 1586 ("Robert Cary, Esquire, died in the year of Our Lord 1586"). On the base of the north side are shown two relief sculpted heraldic escutcheons, showing Cary impaling Chequy argent and sable, a fess vairy argent and gules (Fulkeram, for his father) and Cary impaling  Sable, three swords pilewise points in base proper pomels and hilts or (Poulett, for his grandfather). On the base of the west side is a similar escutcheon showing his own arms of Cary (of four quarters, 1st: Cary; 2nd: Or, three piles in point azure (Bryan); 3rd: Gules, a fess between three crescents argent (Holleway); 4th: A chevron (unknown, possibly Hankford: Sable, a chevron barry nebuly argent and gules) impaling Gules, a chevron or between three millets hauriant argent (Milliton)
  George Cary (1543–1601), eldest son and heir of Robert Cary (died 1586), was Sheriff of Devon in 1587. He constructed at Clovelly a harbour wall, surviving today, described by Risdon as "a pile to resist the inrushing of the sea's violent breach, that ships and boats may with the more safety harbour there". Clovelly's main export product was herring fish, which formerly appeared at certain times of the year in huge shoals, close off-shore in the shallow waters of the Bristol Channel, and such a harbour wall was a great benefit to the village fishermen, tenants of the Cary lords of the manor. He married three times:
  Firstly to Christiana Stretchley, daughter and heiress of William Stretchley of Ermington in Devon and widow of Sir Christopher Chudleigh (1528–1570) of Ashton, by whom he had issue including:
  William Cary (1576–1652) of Clovelly, JP, eldest son and heir.
  Secondly to Elizabeth Bampfield, eldest daughter of Richard Bampfield (1526–1594) of Poltimore, Devon, Sheriff of Devon in 1576; without issue.
  Thirdly in 1586 to Catherine Russell (died 1632), of Sussex, by whom he had 3 sons and 3 daughters.
  William Cary (1576–1652), son and heir of George Cary (1543-1601), was Justice of the Peace for Devon, MP for Mitchell, Cornwall, in 1604, eldest son and heir by his father's first wife. He is sometimes said to be the model for Will Cary featured in Westward Ho!, the 1855 novel by Charles Kingsley (1819–1875), who appears in the narrative concerning the  Spanish Armada in 1588, although he would have been a
caption: Stained glass heraldic achievement of Lucius Henry Cary, 6th Viscount Falkland (1687–1730), south chancel window, All Saints Church, Clovelly. His distant cousin Elizabeth Cary, the last of the Cary family of Clovelly, died in 1738 and the manor was sold by her husband Robert Barber in 1739. There is no reason to suppose that Cary arms were affixed inside the church after that date
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