Firstly to Grace Halswell (died 1636), daughter of Robert Halswell of Somerset, by whom he had children:
John Speccot (died 1677/8), son and heir, of Penheale, MP for Newport 1661–1678. He was buried in Egloskerry Church, where survives his monument.[10] In 1663/4 he married Honor Eliot (died 1692), daughter of John Eliot of Port Eliot in the parish of St Germans, Cornwall, ancestor of the Earl of St Germans. He had three sons and one daughter:[11]
Paul Speccot (died 1671/2), who died young.
John Speccot (died 1705), MP for Newport 1685-95 and for Cornwalll 1695–1701, who died without children, having married Lady Essex Robartes (died 1689), daughter of John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor (1606–1685).[12]
Humphrey Speccot (died 1705/6), died unmarried.
Dorothy Speccot, wife of John Beaumont.
Elizabeth Speccot, wife of Rev. Richard Long. She was the eventual heiress of Penheale on failure of her brother's male descendants.
Secondly he married Dorothy Wise, daughter of Christopher Wise of Totnes, Devon, who survived him and in 1647 remarried to Henry Wills.[13]
Death and burial
Speccot died in 1643 and was buried at Egloskerry where he left £700 for the curate.[14]
^Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.707, pedigree of Speccot of Thornbury
