John Elyot

• Preferred Name: John Elyot^[1]
  
• Gender: M
  
• Other: 4 MAY 1559 in Of St. Lawrence,Southampton,Hampshire,England at LATI: N0.5863 LONG: E1.237
  
• Death: 1410 in East Budleigh, East Devon, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N0.654 LONG: E3.32
  
• Birth: 1350 in Port Eliot, Saint Germans, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N0.3974 LONG: E4.3541
  
• Burial: 1410 in East Budleigh, East Devon, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N0.654 LONG: E3.32 with note: Standard
  
• FSID: G4KC-TD2
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  The following extract came out of an article titled "These are your People The Elliots" by Archie McKerracner. (It is a long article and Robert E. Elliott is taking out some key and fun comments and not typing the whole article Apr 2020)
  
  The Elliots were renowned as the wildest clan its the whole of brawling, turbulent Borderland - and that was no mean feat! Their name comes from the Old English Elwald or Elwold, pronounced 'Ellot', and by 1600 the phonetic spell of the name had superseded all other forms. The modern spelling of 'Elliot' came into use around 1650 (The first time the last name had 2 L's and 2 T's was John Elliott 1557-1624) . Their home was mainly in Upper Liddesdale, granted to them by the Earl of Douglas to strengthen the Scottish fences of the Middle March. The dangerous Borderland was divided on the Scottish side into three administrative areas, each in large of a Warden.
  
  Raiding cattle, or reliving, was a way of life to these hardy, hard riding people who in wartime took the first brunt of any invasion of Scotland.
  
  The first Elliot recorded is Robert Ellot of Redheugh in Liddesdale in 1447. In 1470 Robert Ellot, 10th Chief built a peel tower on a cliff overlooking the ford on Hermitage Water near its junction with Liddel. this looked across to the tower of Elliot of Park which guarded the opposite side. There were about 100 peel towers belonging to the Elliots dotted up and down Liddesdale for they lived like robber barons in their remote valley. They shared Liddesdale with the Armstrongs, another notorious family, and the story is told of a beggar seeking alms in a Boarder village without success. ' Are there name Christians here?', he demanded. Back came a reply 'Na we's a' Elliots and Armstrangs'.
  
  The Elliots somehow stand out from the other robber families for they seemed possessed of a greater intelligence and were clannish to a degree.
  
  The Elliots were riding 300 strong and Mary, Queen of Scots, tried to stop the bloodshed by directing the Scots Wardens of the Marches to enlist the help of English counterparts. The Elliots then made a novel move by requesting English nationality as a way of getting protection. The English Wardens accepted, glad to have suck an unruly clan under their control, and gave them a subsidy to be of good behavior. The Elliots promptly lured the Scots into a Boarder pass where 400 Elliots fell upon them. The Scotts settled the feud shortly after English nationality and resumed cross boarder raiding.
  
  But the union of crowns in 1603 effectively put an end to the old Border way of life as there was now one single authority. James VI pacified the wild Boarders as he had the Highlanders. The king's authority was stamped the Borders and the first crop of executions resulted in thirty two Elliots, Armstrongs, and Johnstons going to the gallows. Iron gates were removed from the old peel towers and turned into ploughshares, arms were banned, and horses forbidden to have saddles. Forced emigration to Ulster began, as did transportation overseas for the king declared "the most notorious and lewd persons on the Middle March are to sent to Virginia".
  
  The Elliots had fought in more than their safe in all the Border battles. They were to suffer most in the forcible pacification that followed. One third of all Boarderers banished from Scotland were Elliots and over 3,500 of the name were living in Ulster in 1900. Many were transport to the Virginian plantations.
  
  === Nickname ===
  John “Yoeman The Livery” Elyot

1. Thomas Ellyott, b. 1369 in Beverston, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom     d. 1393 in Beverston, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom

1. Title: John Elliot, "England, Devon Bishop's Transcripts, 1558-1887"
   Author: "England, Devon Bishop's Transcripts, 1558-1887," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLPW-M26J : 11 September 2019), John Elliot, East Budleigh, Devon, England, United Kingdom; citing Burial, The Devon Record Office, Exeter.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLPW-M26J;