John Rashleigh (1554–1624)

[8] His eldest son Robert inherited the lordship of Trenant and made his seat at Coombe within that manor and continued the senior, but less successful Cornwall line of Rashleigh of Coombe until 1698 when his descendant Robert Rashleigh (1645–1708) (whose monumental inscription survives in Fowey Church[9]) the last in the male line, sold Coombe to his cousin Jonathan Rashleigh of Menabilly, who sold it out of the family in 1699.

[13] On receiving his maternal inheritance John changed his surname to "Bray", and was thus the patriarch of the Rashleigh family of Barnstaple, from which the Cornwall branches were descended.

Above her head is an indentation for a now lost brass heraldic escutcheon, and below her feet is a plate bearing the following inscription:[16]

At the time of their deathes they left of their issue livinge one sonne & six daughters which sonne caused this stone to be made in remembraunce therof in the yere of Our Lord 1602"His six sisters were as follows:[17][18] Rashleigh owned several ships and was engaged in widespread international trade, including to the Guinea Coast and the Baltic.

He transported troops to Ireland in 1598 and his ships formed part of the Plymouth pilchard fleet.