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Note for: Robert May, - Index

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Spelled Magi in some reports -of Charter House, Mendip. Many children.

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Note for: Adam Malet, - Index

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-of South Ockendon, Essex

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Note for: Francis Mills, 1564 - 1625 Index

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Cler, Privy Seal.

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Note for: Amy Mallet, Chr. 27 Jul 1744 - 4 Jul 1777 Index

Christening:
     Date:   27 Jul 1744
     Place:   Iddesleigh, Devon, England

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     Said to be a "spinster of Saltash, Cornwall" in the 1816 will of her brother James (Mallet) Veale.

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Note for: Ann Mallet, Chr. 2 Dec 1742 - Index

Christening:
     Date:   2 Dec 1742
     Place:   Iddesleigh, Devon, England

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     Said to be a "spinster of Saltash, Cornwall" in the 1816 will of her brother James (Mallet) Veale.

27 August 1810
Modbury
Release

[Mrs. Ann and Amy Mallet]
        -to-
[James Veale, esq.]

Estates in Modbury called Ley and Shepham or by the several names of Ley Chappell Towns Chapple [Parks and Cherry Hill] Shepham and Kerswell and Kerswell Parks.

Two seals.

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Note for: Arthur Malet, 18 Jun 1564 - 1644 Index

Burial:
     Date:   16 Oct 1644

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     -d.s.p. 1644
-married lstly to Mary Coffin, secondly Joan

In Somerset Archives:
Incomplete copy of post nuptial marriage settlement of Rich.
Malet's son Arthur and Mary involving manors of St Andrewes (St. Audries)
{sic} West Quantoxhead, Brompton Ralph, Tolland and North
Petherton; rectory of Otterford; and lands in same and in
Wembdon, Bridgwater, Langford Budville, Preston, Bindon
and Milverton in Som.; manor of Gittisham in Devon and lands
in Honiton, Bradninch, Colaton Raleigh, Oldescombe and
Hemyock. 6 Apr. 1586 [NRA MTD/R/1]

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Note for: Baldwin Malet, ABT 1625 - 3 Jun 1644 Index

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-2nd son, killed in a skirmish with the Parliamentarians when he was
about 20 years old.
Inscription in Poyntington Church: "Baldwin Malet, second sonne of Sir Thomas Malet, dyed in the King's Service, 3rd of June A.D. 1646, in the 20th year of his age".

Apparitions are to be expected around any battlefield, both as lasting evidence of violent deaths, because the haunting is often a symbolic method of passing on a legend; even a comparatively small flow of blood can pass freely into the folk memory of generations. I am sure that many of you know at least one such 'ghost story' of apparitions or strange occurrences that relate to the American Civil War. In fact nearly all wars have some such story related to them, even being so fearful that people will not venture into a certain area at night. The English Civil War is no exception, but I will not begin to relate the most common story of apparitions and the ECW, that being those which sometimes are seen and/or heard at Edgehill or Naseby. Instead I will relate one which left an impression so vivid on an isolated Dorset hamlet, that the story was perpetuated in local lore for centuries. In June 1644, parliamentarian soldiers under the Earl of Essex were marching in column towards Wincanton (this incident happened on the Earl of Essex's fatal march to Lostwithiel). At the small village of Poyntington, two miles north of Sherborne on the Somerset border, a few royalist sympathizers rallied, but were poorly armed peasants in attempting to ambush the column. They were led by a delirious 20 year-old, Baldwin, Malet Esq., who impeached the advancing parliamentarian troops to "halt in the name of the King." Naturally, this was not taken likely, considering the make-up of the royalist force before them, so a small but heated skirmish took place in the meadow by the millstream. During the fray, Baldwin, ever trying to be the dashing Cavalier, urged his horse into battle, arrogantly hacking through a score of the parliamentarian foes. Within an hour the bloody conflict was over, and Baldwin's corpse was taken to his father's nearby house. The ever-present fear of plague followed the swiftness of the decision of battle, so the next morning Baldwin was carried to the churchyard and buried. Moist meadow soil was hurriedly used to cover the bodies of the other lifeless combatants of both sides, and these grave mounds can still be seen today. Up until 1870 the memory of this incident was so intense that no villager of Poyntington would approach the meadow at night, for dreaded fear of a ghostly troop of headless men, and one decapitated female (her part in the skirmish is unfortunately unknown). The reason for the lasting memory of this battle lasted so long, was that its aftermath left a depopulated village, which subsequently fell to ruin and never returned to its pre-calamity status. In the church is a heraldic painting with the arms of the Malet family, with the following inscription: "Baldwin Malet, second son of Sir Thomas Malet, died in the King's service, the 3rd day of June AD 1644 in the Twentieth Year of his age". Source Parish Poyntington 1928: A.H. Bell.