Cole
The wife of Herbert Aubrey III, Judith Cole, came from a family that claimed descent from Sir John Cole, who was in “the Retynew of the Duke of Gloucester at the Battell of Agincourt on Fryday, the XXVth day of October in the yere of our Lord God, 1415, and in the Third Yere of the Reigne of the most Excellent Prince, King Harry the Fifte” and received his spurs for his conduct on that field.
Five generations later, Solomon Cole (1547-1629) married Mary, a daughter of Thomas Deering of Lyss, Esq. in Hampshire. They produced five sons and two daughters. Their eldest son, Thomas Cole, married Mary, daughter of Thomas Waller of Beaconsfield in Berkshire, one of the Prothonotaries or Clerks of the Court of Common Pleas.
Their eldest son, also Thomas Cole, was a Member of Parliament. By his second wife he had a son Charles who inherited the Liss estates, and a daughter Judith who married Herbert Aubrey III of Clehonger.
Charles’ son, also named Charles, had no children, so after his wife’s death, his estates in Liss passed to Judith and Arabella Aubrey, spinster daughters of his cousin Herbert Aubrey IV.
In 1765 Judith and Arabella obtained an act of Parliament “to enable them to take, bear, and use the Surname and Arms of Cole, pursuant to the Will of Charles Cole, esq., deceased”.
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