_Robert EYRE _____
_Thomas EYRE ____________|_Joan Jane _______
_Robert EYRE _____|
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!SOURCE: BURKE'S GENEALOGICAL AND HERALDIC HISTORY OF THE LANDED GENTRY, Burke's Peerage Limited, London, 1939, p. 729. Of Newhouse, Wilts, which he purchased in 1669 from his cousin, William Eyre, M.P. for Downton 1658, grandson of Giles Eyre, of Brickworth (see Eyre of Brickworth and Landford), of Bonhams, which he inherited from his great uncle, William Eyre (see above), and of Chilhampton, bapt. 26 Dec. 1633; was appointed a Puisne Judge of the King's Bench, 22 Feb. 1694. He m. Martha, 3rd dau. and co0heir of Francis Lucy (by Elizabeth, dau. and heir of Bevill Molesworth, of Haddonsdon, Herts), 5th son of Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, co. Warwick (see that family) by which marriage he obtained the estate of Brightwaltham, Berks. He d. 12 Sept. 1698 (his monument is in St. Thomas's, Salisbury), having had issue.
!SOURCE: Mary Elizabeth Frances Richardson-Eyre, A HISTORY OF THE WILTSHIRE FAMILY OF EYRE, Mitchell and Hughes, London, 1897, pp. 13, 21, 22. Of Newhouse, Sarum, Judge of the Court of King's Bench, who died September 12th, 1698, aged 66, and was buried first at Lancaster Parish Church, and afterwards moved to St. Thomas's Church, Sarum, by his wife Martha, daughter of Francis Lucy, fifth son of Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote, co. Warwick. He was the son of Robert Eyre of Salisbury and Chilhampton, and Anne, the daughter of Samuel Aldersey of Aldersey in Cheshire, and was born 1633. As his father had done before him, he took a Degree of Barrister at Lincoln's Inn in June 1661, having been admitted to the Society seven years before. He pursued his profession with considerable success, to which the patronage of the Earl of Shaftesbury, to whom he was reputed to be the confidential adviser, probably contributed, though, the same cause probably prevented his promotion in Charles's and in James's reigns. After the Revolution he was created a Serjeant on April 21st, 1692, and from that rank was advanced on February 22nd, 1694, to take his place by the side of his cousin Sir Giles Eyre as a Judge of the King's Benh. Shortly after his appointment, Charles Knollys, claiming to be Earl of Banbury (who had been indicted for the murder of Captain Lawson, his brother-in-law, and had pleaded his Peerage), brought the question into the Court of King's Bench, when judgment was given in the defendant's favour in Trinity Term, 1694. On the duscussion of the claim of Peerage, nearly four years after, Chief Justice Holt and Sir Samuel Eyre were called before the House of Lords and required to give their reasons for this judgment. They resolutely and properly declined to do so unless it came before the House on a Writ of Error, and their Lordships, though thus foiled in their irregular requisition, after threatening the two Judges with the Toweer for their refusal to answer, found it expedient to let the matter drop. Seven months later Sir Samuel Eyre was seized with colic just upon finishing the Circuit at Lancaster, where he died on September 12th, 1698. He was first buried at Lancaster Parish Church, where is a fine bust of him and monument to his memory, but his body was afterwards moved to the family vault in St. Thomas's Church, Salisbury. he is described as of Newhouse, an estate he purchased from his cousin William Eyre, Esq., in Whiteparish, in which Brickworth, the seat of Sir Giles Eyre, is also situtated. His wife Martha, daughter of Rancis, fifth son of Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote, Warwickshire, brought him a large family, the eldest of whom became "Lord Chief Justice Sir Robert Eyre."
!SOURCE: London Marriage Licenses: 1521-1869, Edited by Joseph Foster, London, 1887, p. 466. Eyre, Samuel, of Lincoln's Inn, esq., bachelor, 23, and Martha Lucy, spinster, 18, daughter of Francis Lucy, of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Middlesex, esq., who consents -- at St. Martin-in-the-Fields aforesaid. 18 Oct. 1661. F.