Richard Izacke

Baptised on 8 February 1624 at Ottery St Mary, he was the eldest son of Samuel Izacke of Exeter,[1] who was apparently a lawyer and member of the Inner Temple (1617).

[1] By his wife Katherine, of unknown family, he had children including Samuel Izacke (born 1663), who also became Chamberlain of Exeter and an antiquarian.

Despite this he bequeathed him a house in Holy Trinity parish, Exeter and leasehold property in Tipton, Ottery St. Mary, on the condition that he behaved well towards his stepmother, brothers, and sisters in the future.

[a] The largest section of the first edition consists of 180 pages of "Memorials": short descriptions of events related to Exeter, ordered by year from 1200 to 1676.

Research has shown that the entries up to 1590 were substantially copied from a manuscript chronicle in the city archives that had been written by John Hooker, the first Chamberlain of Exeter,[4] who had died in 1601.