Bpt Rycharde s/o Rycharde Carslake.481 Living in Sidbury 1643302, s/o John Carslake of Sidmouth (See letter from Ri. Grosvenor Bartlett to Mrs Maton [nee Mary Foster Barham Carslake] 9 Dec 1896)10,303
He can’t be the father of William & Henry (both b ca 1630), & also of Richard (b ca 1643), at least not by Alice Howe - are there two Richards of Sidbury?
In a letter to his cousin Mrs Toller 1899, J B Carslake lists the Oxford details of Abraham, William & Richard, with the comment “I wonder who the following people were & where they come in”479
A small unsourced pedigree in DRO Carslake file gives ‘Richard Carslake of Sidbury, living in 1643’ as father of Richard b 1643, ‘John of Sidmouth Gent living in 1679’ & father of Abraham, and Henry ‘of Berry in Branscombe’.482 Another version of this makes the Abraham in it the son of the John of Sidmouth there.302
Is he the Richard Carslake whose ‘house .. at Buckley in Sidsbury (sic) was licensed as a meeting-place for Presbyterians’ on 13 Apr 1672?304 See: From ‘A History of Sidbury, by G. A. Medley’: Page 31-2
Mrs Ann Thompson, who died in 1915, aged 92, remembered attending the last Service at the Court Hall Chapel. The Chapel’s Register of Births and Baptism from 1771 and Burials from 1820 are in the Public Record Office. There is an interesting Declaration of Indulgence by Charles II dated 15 March 1671, allowing Richard Carslake of Buckley in Sidbury “to use his home to be a place for the use of such as does not conform to ye Church of England, who are the perwation commonly called Presbyterian, to meet and assemble in for their Publick Worship and Devotions”.483
Further Tappings at Sidbury Gates: Tales from the Twentieth Century by Barbara Softly: published in 1998 by Westcountry Books, Halsgrove House, Lower Moor Way, Tiverton EX16 6SS ISBN 1 898386 29 3 Page 32:
In 1660 it [Buckley?] was the home of the Carslake family, leaders of the Dissenters or Nonconformists in the village. The Dissenters during previous reigns had had to be careful where they held their meetings, some up the Roncombe valley, some near the Court House, but, in the reign of Charles II, who was more tolerant than his predecessors, Richard Carslake was given permission to hold the meetings in his own house. His wife [was] Alice How of Sidbury [[NB: not compatible with date of marriage]] and one of their sons became a Bible clerk at Exeter College. Exeter was never a safe place to be about in at night and on July 25th 1664, when young Richard was walking past the Star – ‘over against Wilcock’s the barber’s’ – he was set upon, brutally attacked and murdered by an assailant who managed to remain partly anonymous because he was only ever mention as one of two sons of Sir William Turner. Sir William Turner’s two sons were William and John and whichever one it was who appeared at the Assizes later, his Christian name is never mentioned. At his trial for murder he fell down on his knees and pleaded for mercy and ‘by means of his fathers his life was saved,’ A verdict which could have given little satisfaction to Richard Carslake of Sidbury and must have given the impression that a title and money were the only necessary requisites to divert the course of justice.483
?“Carslake, Richard, 17 century, , nonconformist and had a son called Richard, p 32”484