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• Journal of One-Name Studies
• MP For Barnstaple

• Shilston : see 1531 ref to Sir John

• Royalist women petitioners : see P63 and 64

• Sir John’s letter to secretary Thurloe 1658
• The Boscobel Tracts : Page 384

• Cromwells memoirs : Sir John Knighted
• Cromwells memoirs : Sir John as a teller

• List of Mps : John - Barnstaple

• Sir John : Genealogy Archives

• Winifred : Burial Record 5th June 1662

• John : Burial Record 24th February 1663

• Lady Copleston : Burial Record 15th November 1678

• Paulett : Burial Record 28th April 1682

• Sir John : Burial Record 16th May 1686

• Death Notice of John Penruddock and others signed by Oliver Cromwell and sent to John Copleston

John was the son of John Copleston of Nash in Dorset, and Grace, daughter of Anthony Coplestone of Upton Pyne, Devon.

John married Mercy Hole in Exeter in 1644 and they had six children

- Mercy, Elizabeth, Winifred, John, Paulett and Desborough

He died in London in May 1686.

By 1654 John was firmly established as a Colonel in Cromwell's army...

Early in 1655 John was High Sheriff for the County of Devon... When a number of persons of quality for their loyalty to Charles II were taken prisoner, indicted, convicted and attainted of high treason; they were sentenced to death, the warrant being dated May 3rd 1655.

John was knighted by Cromwell on June 1st. 1655 at Whitehall, presumably for his part in quelling the rising.