Souley or Suylly in Leland’s list, where the name is twice given. Holinshed also repeats it. Robert de Sully is entered by Duchesne in his Feoda Normanniæ as holding one knight’s fee of Hugo de Montfort. Raymond de Sully, in the time of William Rufus, went with Robert Fitz Hamon to the conquest of Glamorgan, and was one of the twelve knights that shared the territory they had helped to win. His descendants were seated at Iddesleigh, in Devonshire, where they had “a fair house and two parks;” and before 1292 had acquired a share in the barony of Torrington through one of its five co-heiresses. A second Raymond de Sully, who died about 1316, was the son of Walter de Sully and Mabel, second daughter and co-heir of Roger de Somerie, Lord of Dudley, by Nichola his wife, a co-heiress of Hugh de Albini, the last Earl of Arundel. “He died seised of his mother’s inheritance at Barewe and elsewhere in the co. of Leicester. The name of his wife is not expressed; but he is stated to have had a daughter Elizabeth, who died without issue.” - Banks. In the same reign Henry, styled Dominus de Sulle, was appointed Governor of the Channel Islands, and sent on an embassy to France and “other countries” in 1324. - Ibid. Another contemporary was Sir John Sully, “a doughty chevalier, one of the four barons of this province that subscribed to the answer sent to Pope Boniface VIII. in the name of all the temporal lords of this kingdom assembled in parliament at Lincoln, in answer to his letter wherein he forbid King Edward I. to vex the Scots further by wars.” - Westcote's Devon. In 1310 he “went to the holy wars,” where he greatly distinguished himself. “Sir John de Sully, renowned for his exploits in the Holy Land against the Saracens, in which he was weakened by many wounds, return’d home after many yeares discontinuance; whereupon his officers, bringing in the accounts of his rents, which amounted to a great masse of mony, he caused his cloake, being of clothe of golde, to be spread on the grounde, and commanding the mony to be put thereon, cast himself thereinto, that it might be sayd for once he tumbled in gold and silver; whereof he afterwards gave one part to his wife, a second to his officers and tenantes, and a third part to the poor.” - Sir William Pole. This childish excursion into Tom Tidler’s ground is his last recorded act, as he died not long after his return to England. According to Westcote, his seat was at “Rookesford” (Ruxford, in the parish of Sandford, two miles from Crediton) “lately the land of Chichester, and alienated to Davye.” There was formerly to be seen in Crediton Church “a fair monument of alabaster”of which no vestige now remains, “of a knight clad in his armour, with his lady lying by him: at his feet, a lion; at her’s, a lamb. It is said to be the interment to John de Sully.” Yet it seems more likely that the effigy of a crusader with a plain shield, lying under an arch in Iddesleigh Church, is intended for him. Both monuments are likewise claimed for his son and namesake, the last Lord of Iddesleigh. This Sir John Sully “fought at Halidon, Cressy, Poictiers, and in Spain; and at the reputed age of 105 (in 1387) gave evidence at his residence in the Scrope and Grosvenor controversy: - he died soon after, and is said to have been buried at Crediton; but the figure of a Crusader at Iddesleigh is also assigned to him.” - Worth's Devon. Iddesleigh passed by his gift to his cousin Lord Martyn; and his share in the barony of Torrington was inherited by Guy de Bryan. (v. Lysons.) Collinson, in his History of Somerset, speaks of a Sir Raymond de Sully who held some land at Allestone-juxta-Hunspill in the time of Ed. III., and left a daughter Sarah, married to William Malet Lord of Enmore. Were it not for a slight discrepancy in the dates (Collinson is not invariably accurate) and the difference in the daughter’s Christian name, we might safely conclude this to have been the son of Walter de Sully and the Somerie heiress.