George Peard

He was re-elected in November 1640 for the Long Parliament and remained a Member until his death in 1645.

[4] Peard was active in the proceedings against Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford in 1641.

His monument with alabaster effigy was said in 1882 to survive in St Peter's Church in Barnstaple, as did several others of the Peard family.

[5] He is shown as an effigy in half-figure, "very quaintly attired" and wearing the black tasseled gown of the period, exactly as worn by the Town Clerk of Barnstaple in 1882.

[6] His right arm rests on a skull, his left on a closed book, a common pose for several contemporaneous effigies in that church.