His near contemporary the Devonshire historian Tristram Risdon (died 1640) (whose grandfather lived nearby at Bableigh, Parkham,[9] 2+1⁄2 miles to the south-east of Bucks) stated of him: "Richard Cole, the last of that family that dwelt at Bokish, erected a harbour in his land, there to shelter ships and boats".
[13] It was built at about the same time as his near neighbour George Cary (1543–1601), lord of the manor of Clovelly, Sheriff of Devon in 1587, built a harbour wall at Clovelly surviving today, 3 miles further west along the coast from Bucks, described by Risdon as "a pile to resist the inrushing of the sea's violent breach, that ships and boats may with the more safety harbour there".
[14] Clovelly's main export product was herring fish, which formerly appeared at certain times of the year in huge shoals, close off-shore in the shallow waters of the Bristol Channel, and such a harbour wall was a great benefit to the village fishermen, tenants of the Cary lords of the manor.
William Loggin of Long Marston in Gloucestershire, who in accordance with the bequest assumed the name and arms of Cole by Act of Parliament on 26 June 1802,[21] and was the father of the Rev.
[23] The arms of Cole impaling Boscawen (Ermine, a rose gules barbed and seeded proper) are displayed twice on top of his monument in Woolfardisworthy Church.
Radigan survived her husband and remarried (as his second wife) to Sir William Cooke (1574–1619) of Highnam in Gloucestershire, Member of Parliament, which marriage was also without progeny.
[25] It is believed that a survivor from this battle sought refuge in Woolfardisworthy Church, but died from his wounds in the churchyard, having buried his "small framed cross" in the graveyard.
A field between Bucks and Woolfardisworthy Church has the ancient name "Paradise", where it is believed a communal graveyard exists for all the men killed at Bitworthy.