Sir Richard Peverell Knight

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹²⁰⁹
"Wolmerston was aunciently thenheritanc of Peverell, of Stanford, and given by Sir Hugh Peverell (to) his younger sonne, w^ch had issue Sir Richard, w^ch by Matild his wief, had issue Sir Hugh, w^ch by Margaret, daughter and heire of Sir Walter Cornwall, had issue Sir Hugh, who by Elisabeth, one of the daughter and heire of Sir Walter Cornwall, had issue Sir Hugh, w^ch by Elizabeth one of the daughters of Sir John Cobham, of Blackburgh Bolhay, and Amy Bolhay his wief, had issue Sir Thomas Peverell, who by Margaret daughter and one of the heires of of Sir Thomas Courtenay, had issue Elinor (Katherine) wife of Walter Lord Hungerford."

Pole's Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, p. 227

Richard married Matilld.¹²⁰⁹