• General Notes

  Robert D'Oyly, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, Counsellor-at-law, only son and heir, was brought up, like his father and grandfather, to the legal profession, and received professional employment from almost every branch of his family, near and distant. Nor was he less litigious than his progenitors. Scarcely was Lady Wolveridge consigned to the grave, than the Wolveridges, possessing themselves of all her property, threatened to enforce the penal bond for £600 against this Robert D'Oyly, in default of his paying the £300 which his father had bound himself to discharge; in consequence of which Robert D'Oyly filed a Bill in Chancery against them January 1645-6; their answer to which was sworn the next month, February 1645-6.[531]—In 1649 he had a Chancery suit with Theophilus Loveis, of Grantock in Cornwall, one of his reduced kinsmen, to whom he had lent money, more kindly than justly, in his adversity; which was repaid with the basest ingratitude, and an attempt to defraud Robert D'Oyly:[532] and in 1652 the said Robert D'Oyly had a Chancery suit with Mrs. Jane Manaton of Cornwall respecting Wilsworthy manor, which he had sold to Sir Cope D'Oyly, who had since then left it to his daughter, Mrs. Michell of Kingston Russell.[533] Whom this Robert D'Oyly married is not precisely known; but she was certainly a family connection, and niece either to John D'Oyly, Esq. of Chislehampton, or to his wife Marah Shirley; as that John D'Oyly, Esq. not only appoints him, Robert, one of his executors, but styles him his "nephew," in his will, dated 1655. Robert D'Oyly predeceased him, however, residing latterly in Sussex, and, dying intestate about 1660, letters of administration to his effects were taken out in 1662, in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury; but the volume of that registry containing the grant having been abstracted from the office many years ago,[534] neither his issue nor his personal representatives can be positively ascertained. It is certain, however, that he left issue;[535] although none of the old D'Oyly pedigrees mention his having children; for he was succeeded in his Cornwall possessions and interests by a

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