Sir John Cole, Knight, of Nythway, in the Parish of Brixham, who in the4th year of Richard II (1380) was knighted before the Castle of Ardes inFrance, by Thomas of Woodstock, Earl of Buckingham, Lord Deputy there forthe King.
This John Cole married Anne, daughter and heiress of Sir NicholasBodrigan, knt., of Gorrans in Cornwall.
(Source: Family histories and genealogies : a series of genealogical andbiographical monographs on the families of MacCurdy, Mitchell, Lord,Lynde, Digby, Newdigate, Hoo, Willoughby, Griswold, Wolcott, Pitkin,Ogden, Johnson, Diodati, Lee and Marvin : and notes on the families ofBuchanan, Parmelee, Boardman, Lay, Locke, Cole, DeWolf, Drake, Bond andSwayne, Dunbar and Clarke, and a notice of Chief Justice Morrison RemickWaite : with twenty-nine pedigree-charts and two charts of combineddescents
unknown: Priv. print., 1892, page 260 of 1,893 pgs. )