The landed gentry and nobility of Devonshire, like the rest of the English and European gentry, bore heraldic arms from the start of the age of heraldry circa 1200-1215. The fashion for the display of heraldry ceased about the end of the Victorian era (1901) by which time most of the ancient armigerous families of Devonshire had died out, moved away or parted with their landed estates.[1]
Today a very few ancient families remain in the county represented by direct male descendants, most notably Courtenay of Powderham, Fulford of Fulford, Kelly of Kelly, Cruwys of Cruwys Morchard, Clifford of Chudleigh, Acland of Killerton and Broadclyst, Wrey of Tawstock, etc. A few ancient Devon estates are still owned by descendants via female lines, for example Castle Hill, Filleigh, Molland, Incledon, Braunton, Hall, Bishop's Tawton, Newnham Park, etc. In most cases the laws of English heraldry preclude the transmission of paternal armorials via a female heiress (other than in the form of quartering), thus most of these inheritors via female lines, generally deriving from the same pool of high-status English armigerous families, bring their own paternal heraldry, possibly previously foreign to Devon, to the estates inherited.
For example, the Irish arms of Gore (Earl of Arran) are now associated with Castle Hill, Filleigh, until 1958 the seat of the last male representative of the Fortescue family which originated in Devon in the 12th century. In a few cases however, male heirs via female lines have been required by the legator to seek royal licence to adopt his own arms and surname, otherwise destined to disappearance, in lieu of the legatees own. This was the case with the families most notably of Rolle, Basset, Stucley, Walrond, etc.
The standard sources for students of the heraldry of Devon are as follows:
Documents
Heraldic Visitations of Devon: Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895.
Ancient Families, of which the principal Branch is extinct, or removed, since 1620, yet some of the Descendants remain in the County.
Families known, or supposed, to be extinct since 1620, or removed out of the County.
Prince, John, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, "Arms, Crests and Mottoes of the Families treated of in this Work", blazons pp. 779–85 & plates I-V following: "Arms" (monochrome depictions of 145 shields)
Baring-Gould, Sabine & Twigge, Robert, An Armory of the Western Counties (Devon and Cornwall): From the Unpublished Manuscripts of the XVI Century, published by J.G. Commin, 1898 [28]
Carew, Sir George (1555-1629) (created in 1626 Earl of Totnes), Carew's Scroll of Arms 1588, Collected from Churches in Devonshire etc., with Additions from Joseph Holland's Collection of Arms 1579, Exeter, 1901. ( See also: Devon & Cornwall Notes and Queries, Vol. 1, pt. 2)
Colby, Rev. Frederick T., The Heraldry of Exeter[29]; See also: Westcote, Thomas, View of Devonshire, Chap. XV [30], list of arms in Exeter Guildhall
Izacke, Richard & Samuel, A Perfect Catalogue of all the Sheriffs of the County of Devon with their Several Coats of Armory Described from the Beginning of the Reign of King Henry the Second Annoq. Dom. 1155[31]. Also lists arms of corporations of Exeter.
Observation of surviving monuments in parish churches and mansion houses. As for the arms of Courtenay: "the stamp of whose almost princely authority may be extensively recognised throughout the county" (Davidson).[2] Frequently discrepancies between these sources exist. Painted monuments in parish churches often have been restored, in some cases several times over the centuries, and the arms depicted may not be as originally painted. Heraldry sculpted in relief on stone is liable to wear and crumbling, especially when placed in the favourite location, exposed to the elements for centuries, on the porch or gatehouse of the family mansion. Ancient monumental brasses do not show tinctures but otherwise provide lasting records of heraldry. Stained glass depictions are optimal sources as they include tinctures, but ancient survivals are rare. Mural monuments placed high up on walls generally survive vandalism of past ages whilst paintings of arms on escutcheons sculpted in stone on mediaeval chest tombs have rarely survived and often were "scraped" clean of all decoration in the 17th century. Heraldic monuments displaying a family's arms are generally found in the church of the parish in which is situated their seat, but the paternal arms may also be found in remoter parish churches where a daughter of the family has married into a family resident there. In such a case the arms are shown impaled by the arms of her husband. Clearly the greatest problems in tracing heraldry relate to long extinct families. A few ancient Devon families survive, such as the Fortescues, and a flag showing the Fortescue arms still flies above Castle Hill in 2013. There is no shortage of surviving examples of the arms of the Chichesters and Rolles, but surviving heraldry of the ancient Courtenay Earls of Devon seated at Tiverton Castle is rare, although frequently shown as quarterings in the arms of related families.
Ermine, on a pale nebulée azure three sinister gloves pendent tasselated argent the whole between two flaunches of the second each charged with two crescents palewise of the third
Per chevron sable and or, in chief two pairs of reaping hooks endorsed and entwined blades azure handles of the second in base a moorcock of the first combed and wattled gules
Or, on a chevron azure between three gillyflowers gules stalked and leaved vert a maiden's head of the first ducally crowned of the third on a chief sable a hawk's lure double stringed between two falcons argent beaked and legged of the first
Or, on a fess engrailed azure between three leopard's faces gules three bezants each charged with a fleur-de-lys of the second on a pile in chief of the second three demi-fleurs-de-lys attached to the top and sides of the first
Quarterly 1 & 4: Sable, a cross engrailed or (Ufford); 2 & 3: Gules, a cross moline argent (Bec of Eresby); all within a bordure gobonée of the second and azure
The following blazons, with spellings corrected and modernised, but listed in original semi-alphabetical order, were recorded by Sir William Pole:[145]
Berneville: Argent, on three pellets three bends argent
Bensted of Ermynton (Ermington): Gules, three bars gemelles or
Bicklegh of Bicklegh: Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three crows sable
Bickbiry of Bickbiry: Azure, an eagle displayed or
Bidwell of Bidwell: On a bend between six cross crosslets fitchée three escallops
Bidwell: Quarterly gyronny ermine and masclée gules and or
Biry (Bury) of Byry in Erber (Berry Narbor): Gules, three bars or
Bisshop of Choldash: Gules, on three fusils argent three eaglets sable
Billet of Ash (Musbury): Argent, a chevron purpure between three battle axes erect sable
Billet of Bosumshele (Dittisham) Argent, on a chief gules three cinquefoils argent
Bitlesgate of Knighteston (Bittlesgate of Knightstone, Ottery St Mary) Argent, an annulet sable overall a fess gules
Bonvill (Bonville) of Shute: Sable, six mullets pierced argent 3 2 and 1
Bonvill of Ivebridge (Ivybridge): Sable, six mullets pierced argent 3, 2 and 1 overall a baton sinister gules ( A baston sinister added gules)
Bosum of Churchton (Churston Ferrers): Azure, three bird-bolts in pale argent 2 and 1
Bolter of Bolterscombe: Ermine, on a chief gules three bird-bolts argent
Bosum of Bosumshele (Dittisham): Azure, three bird-bolts 2 and 1 argent
Bolegh (Bolley, Bolhay) of Blackburgh Bolegh: Argent, on a chevron sable three bezants between three torteaux[148]
Bowdon of Bowdon: Quarterly sable and or, in the first quarter a lion passant argent
Bowdon: Argent, a chevron between three trees vert
Bonifant: Gules, a chevron or between three reaping hooks argent
Bodlegh (Bodleigh) of Dunscomb: Argent, five martlets in saltire sable on a chief azure three ducal crowns or
Boys (Latinized to de Bosco () of Woode: Argent, a chevron sable between three acorns erect or cupped vert
Boys of Heale and Buriton: Argent, a chevron gules between three cockatrices sable
Boys: Argent, a bend sable between three acorns vert
Botreaux of Molland Botreaux: Argent, a griffon segreant gules beaked and legged azure
Boterell: Chequy or and gules, a chevron azure
Borage: Or, a chevron gules between three lioncels rampant sable
Borow of Brodeclist (Broadclyst): Azure, three fleurs-de-lys ermine a bordure engrailed gules
Borowe: Argent, on a fess engrailed between six fleurs-de-lys gules three bezants
Boterford of Boterford: Or, on a bend azure three butterflies argent
Bodrugan: Argent, three bends gules
Boys of Halberton: Argent, a chevron gules between three “okes” (acorns?/Oak trees?) vert
Bole: Azure, a bull passant gules attired or
Bolworthy: Or, on a bend sable three bull’s faces argent
Boureman of Hemyoke: Ermine, on a bend cotised sable three boar’s heads argent
Bowrynge of Bowryngslegh (in Stanbridge hundred): Gules, a chevron between three lioncels rampant or
Botour of Exon (Exeter): Sable, on a chevron argent five “drops” (gouttes) gules between three storks argent
Bouthe, Bishop of Exon (John Booth (d.1478)): Argent, three boar’s heads (erect) erased sable a label of three (points) azure (Booth of Dunham Massey)
Bucket of Bucket: Or, three piles in point gules a bordure azure
Bucket: Chequy argent and azure, a fess vairy argent and gules
Buckerell of Buckerell: Sable, two bucks passant in pale argent a bordure bezantée[149]
Buckland of Buckland: Argent, a fess sable fretty or between three lioncels rampant gules
Budokeside (Budockshide of Budockshide, St Budeaux[150]): Sable, three fusils in fess between three buck’s faces argent
Burdon of Kingstington (Kingsteignton): Argent, three pilgrim’s staves in pale gules
Bury of Colaton: Ermine, on a bend engrailed azure three fleurs-de-lys or "(and without the (bend) engrailed)"
Burley of Clanacomb: Argent, (on) a chief sable three lances erect in fess counterchanged
Burneby of Burneby (Bratton Clovelly): Azure, two bars embattled ermine
Burnell of Cocktree (South Tawton): Argent, a chevron ermines between three barnacles (sic, should be "burnells", a type of bird/goose, see "Wike of Bindon", same arms) proper
Burnell: Argent, a chevron between three barnacles (sic, should be "burnells", a type of bird/goose, see "Wike of Bindon", same arms) sable
Burnford: Argent, a chevron between three heath cocks sable combs gules
Burgoigne of (South Tawton): Azure, a talbot passant argent a mullet or
Buller of Exeter: Argent, a cross sable pierced argent between four eagles displayed sable
Burton of Bigbury: Or, on a cross pierced azure four fleurs-de-lys of the field
Bucketon of Bucketon: Sable, a chief vert over all a buck's face argent
Burton of Halberton: Barry argent and gules, a bend sable
Bussell of Bradlegh: Argent, a chevron gules between three water bougets sable[151]
Bursh: Sable, a fess between three holly leaves argent
Bulkworthy of Bulkworthy: Sable, a bend vairy
Butteler of Sedburow: Azure, three covered cups or
Butteler of Annery: Or, a chief indented azure a crosslet or[152]
Burell of Woodland: Argent, on a bend sable three stag's faces or
Buriton (or Button) of Buryton: Argent, a chevron gules between three horse heads couped sable bezantée
Buygons of Totnes: Gules, a cockatrice displayed argent beak comb and legs or
Buckthought of Exeter: Ermine, a chevron sable between three leopard's faces gules
Bustard of Netherex: Argent, on a fess gules three bustards rising or between three pellets within a bordure engrailed
Blakford: Or, four bars gules
Blackaller of Exeter: Paly of six or and sable, on a chief gules three bezants
Bloihow: Gules, a saltire engrailed argent
Blanchmonster: Argent fretty gules
Blewet of Holcomb Rogus: Or, a chevron between three eaglets displayed vert
Blakston of Wythye: Gules, two bars and three cocks in chief argent
Blerick: Sable, two bars argent between three bees volant or
Bray: Argent, three barnacles of the smith barwise gules
Brigham (?): Argent, a chevron sable a pile overall counterchanged
Brightlegh of Brightley: Gules, a chief indented argent[153]
Brit of Stottescombe: Argent, a fess between three escallops sable
Brit of Bachin: Argent, two chevrons azure on them four pales or
Bret of Pilland (Pilton): Or crusily fitchy, a lion rampant gules
Bracy: Gules, a fess argent two mullets or in chief
Braggo of Brags Marsh: Sable, a fess argent between three dolphins naiant or
Brereton of Exeter: ..., two bars a crescent within a crescent
Brent: Gules, a dragon wivern displayed argent
Bryan of Tor Bryan: Or, three piles in point azure
Britricheston of Britricheston: Argent, three boar's heads gules
Broughton of Landkey: Argent, a chevron between three mullets gules
Broughton of Hemioke: Argent, two bars and on a quarter (canton) gules a cross of the field
Broughton: Sable, a chevron or between three stag's faces argent
Brounscombe (Branscombe), Bishop of Exeter: Or, on a chevron sable three quatrefoils or two keys in chief argent a sword in base argent
Brewer of Tingbruer (Teign Brewer, now Teign Grace[154]) : Argent, four (bars) gemelles azure over all a chevron engrailed gules
Brewer (Briwer/Brigwer) of Tor Brewer (Tor Mohun,[155] now Torquay) : Gules, two bends undée or
Browne of (Brown’s Ilash[156]/Brownishilarshe[157] Brownlarsh[158] now East Brown’s, site of old mansion, by Hillash Moor, surrounded by ancient deerpark[159] built by Sir Thomas Browne[160] (d.1613), elder brother of Brutus Browne (c.1564-1595),[161] MP for Bodmin and friend of Admiral Sir Francis Drake), Langtree : Sable, a chevron ermine between two chevronels and three escallops or
Branscombe : Gules, a chevron vairy between three martlets or
Brooke of Wycroft : Gules, on a chevron argent a lion rampant sable crowned or
Brewse/Brause (de Braose) of Totnes (feudal baron of Totnes) : Barry of six vairy ermine and gules and azure
Bromlegh of Farway : Gules, a fess embattled below or
Briket : Sable, three garbs within a bordure engrailed argent
Brigge : Argent, on a fess between two chevrons gules three crosslets or
Brugg : Argent, three hunting horns with strings sable
Bratton : Argent, a fess engrailed between three mullets sable
Brushford of Brushford : Sable, a cross formée florettée argent
Braban : Argent, on a fess gules three leopard’s faces or
Bracy of Wolcomb Bracy : Argent, on a chief gules two mullets and a label of three points argent
Broughton : Argent, two bars gules on a chief of the second a cross argent
C
Calmadye : Azure, a chevron between three pears pendant or
Cabell of Buckfastleigh : sable, a horse upright (forcené) argent bridled or
Cabell : Vert, a fess argent fretty gules
Carew of Mohuns Ottery: Or, three lions passant in pale sable
Carey of Cockington : Argent, on a bend sable three roses of the field
Carmyno of Ashwater : Azure, on a bend or a label of three points gules
Cantilupe, feudal baron of Totnes : Azure, three leopard’s faces jessant-de-lys or
Cadiho of Dunsland : Argent, three piles in point undée sable
Camvill of Tawstock : Azure, three lions passant in pale argent’’
Carswell of Carswell: Sable, a bend or a label of five points argent
Carswell : Argent, three bars gemelle sable
Carslake of Hareston, Brixton:[163]Argent, a mullet sable between three trefoils vert
Carwithan of Panston : Argent, a fleur-de-lys within a bordure engrailed gules
Calley of Chimlegh : Quarterly argent and sable, on a bend gules three mullets argent
Cahurta : Sable, two bars and a demi-griffin in chief argent
Callard of Callard : Gyronny of six sable and argent, three man’s heads in profile couped with wreaths about their temples argent
Carslake : Argent, three bull’s heads and necks erased sable
Cary : Argent, on a bend sable three bugle horns argent within a bordure engrailed gules
Cariset : Gules, a bend argent between six bezants
Carbonell of Woodbiry : Gules, a cross argent within a bordure or
Cervington of Tavistock : Ermine, on a chevron azure three stag’s faces cabossed or
Cirencester of St Mary Church : Argent, a chevron azure a label of three points gules
Circester : Argent, on a canton sable a cup argent
Courtenay, Marquess of Exeter : Or, three torteaux
Courtenay, Earl of Devon : Or, three torteaux a label of three points (azure)
Courtenay of Coleton Prall : Or, three torteaux a baston gobony argent and azure
Courtenay of Haccombe : Or, three torteaux a label (of three points) ermine
Courtenay of Powderham : Or, three torteaux a label (of three points azure) charged with a mullet ….
Courtenay of Godlington : Or, three torteaux a bend argent
Courtenay of Molland : Or, three torteaux a label (of three points azure) charged with a plate (should be nine plates)
Cogan, feudal baron of Bampton : Gules, three (mulberry) leaves argent 2 & 1
Cokayn : Bendy of six ermine and gules
Colshull : Chequy or and sable a chief argent gutée de sang
Copleston of Copleston : Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three leopard’s faces azure
Coriton of Coryton : Argent, a saltire sable
Cottell of Sampford Peverell : Or, a bend gules
Coffin of Portledge, Alwington (modern) : Argent, a chevron between three mullets sable
Coffin (ancient) : Azure crusily (or) three bezants
Cokinton of Cokinton : Argent, a chevron azure between three cocks gules
Cockworthy of Yarnscombe : Argent, a chevron (sable?[164]) between three cocks gules
Coktree : Argent, a chevron gules between three cocks sable
Coleton of Coleton : Argent, three ravens sable 2 & 1
Colaton of Colaton : Or, three stag’s faces gules
Cole of Tamer & Slade : Argent, a bull passant within a bordure sable bezantée
Cole of Nitheway : Argent, a bull passant (sable) within a bordure gules
Cole of Hill : Argent, a chevron between three scorpions sable
Corbet of Silferton : Or, two ravens palewise sable
Coblegh of Brightley, Chittlehampton : Gyronny of six gules and sable, on a bend engrailed argent three hurts between two swans argent
Colles of St Mary Downe : Gules, a chevron argent charged with bars gemelles sable between three leopard’s faces argent
Compton of Compton : Sable, a chevron ermine between three shovellers[165] argent
Colebrooke of Colebrooke : Argent, a lion rampant gules overall on a fess sable three cross-crosslets fitchée argent
Culme (Columbe) of Molland : Azure, a chevron ermine between three pelicans open-winged or
Cooke of Thorn : Ermine, on a bend cotised gules three cats-of-the-mountain argent
Cooke of Exeter : Argent, a chevron between three raven’s heads erased within a bordure engrailed sable
Coterell of Washborn : Argent, a bend undée sable
Cornu of Horwood & of Thornbiry : Argent, a chevron between three hunting horns sable
Cockerham of Collumpton : Argent, on a bend sable three leopard’s faces or between three fleurs-de-lys azure
Cobham of Blackburgh Bolhay : Gules, on a chevron or three eagles displayed sable
Corbin of Milston : Argent, a chevron between three ravens sable
Code of Gidleigh Castle : Argent, a chevron gulesbetween three Cornish daws (choughs) sable beak and legs gules (i.e. proper)
Coliford of Coliford : Sable, a fess gules (or or) between three asses passant argent
Colin of Colinstoke : Vert, on a chevron or three martlets sable
Cornwall of King’s Nympton : Ermine, a lion rampant gules crowned or within a bordure sable bezantée
Culley of Culley : Azure, a fess between three bucks trippant or
Curtman : Argent, three close helmets sable
Culme of Culme : Or, three doves azure
Cushe : Argent, on a bend sable three crescents barry wavy argent and azure
Cutt : Sable, three fleurs-de-lys in bend between two cotises argent
Chambernon (Champernowne) of Umberleigh : Gules, a saltire vairy
Chambernon (Champernowne) of Clist Champernowne : Gules, a saltire vairy between twelve cross-crosslets or [166]
Chambernon (Champernowne) of North Tawton : Gules, a saltire vairy between twelve crosses patée or
Chambernon (Champernowne) of Bere Ferrers : Gules, a saltire vairy between twelve billets or
Chambernon (Champernowne) of Modbury : Gules, a saltire vairy between twelve billets or a crescent or for difference'
Chambernon (Champernowne) of Inswerk : Gules, a saltire vairy between twelve billets or a mullet or for difference'
Chambers : Azure, a chevron between three leopard’s faces or
Champ : Gules, a saltire (or?) between twelve bezants
Chagford of Chagford : Sable semée of cross-crosslets fitchée three lions rampant argent
Champney of Yarnscombe : Argent, a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed gules [167]
Charles of Tavistock : Ermine, on a chief undée gules an eagle displayed or
Chanterell : Argent, three talbots passant sable
Chanceaux of Lifton : Argent, a chevron azure between three mullets sable
Chantarell : Sable, a chevron between three talbots passant argent
Charteray of Bere Charteray : Argent, a chevron between three conquefoils gules
Chappell : Or, an anchor azure stem therof sable
Challons of Legh Challons : Gules, two bars and an orle of martlets argent
Champeaux (or de Campell/Champson) of Molland Champson : Gules, a boar passant or tusked argent
Chamberlayn : Sable, a chevron ermine between three mullets argent
Chiverston of Ithelton : Or, on a bend gules three goats passant argent [168]
Chichester of Raleigh : Chequy or and gules, a chief vair
Chidlegh of Chidlegh : Argent, a tree vert overall a bear passant sable
Chudleigh of Ashton : Ermine, three lions rampant gules
Chiderlegh of Chiderlegh : Argent, on a chevron sable three acorns or between three raven’s heads erased proper
Chelsam of Chelsam : Gules, a bull passant or
Cheney of Pinhoe : Gules, four fusils conjoined in fess argent each charged with an escallop sable
Cheriton : Argent, a chevron between three ram’s heads erased gules
Chuselden (Chiseldon) of Holcombe Rogus : Or, on a chevron gules three martlets or
Churchill of Littleham : Sable, a lion rampant argent debruised by a baston gules [169]
Churche of Bathe : Gules, a griffin segreant or within a bordure ermine
Chedeldon of Chedeldon : Argent, on a chevron gules five bezants
Channon of Estcote : Argent, a chevron embattled counter embattled between three bird’s heads erased sable
Clavill of Burlescombe : Or, three keys (erect) gules
Clavill of Lifton : Sable, three keys (erect) argent
Clatworthy of Clatworthy : Azure, a chevron ermine between three garlands or leaves vert
Clifford of Culm John : Chequy or and azure, a bend gules
Clifford of King’s Teignton : Chequy or and azure, on a bend gules three lions passant argent
Clist of Clist : Argent, three piles undée in point azure
Clopton of Kentisbere : Argent, a chevron between three eagles displayed azure
Clobery of Bradston : Argent, a chevron between three bats (reremices) sable
Crawthorn : Argent, three crows sable a label of three points gules
Crawthorn : Argent, a chevron sable between three crows proper
Croft of Exeter : Argent, two chevrons sable a bordure gules
Crocker of Lineham : Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three crows proper
Crewse (Cruwys/Cruse) of Cruwys Morchard: Azure, a bend indented argent and gules between six escallops argent
Crewse (Cruwys/Cruse) of Anstey Cruwys : Azure, a bend between six escallops argent
Crewse (Cruwys/Cruse) of Netherex : Azure, two bends between twelve escallops argent
Crewse (Cruwys/Cruse) of Duvale, Bampton : Or, a chevron between three mullets gules
Crispyn of Stancomb : Gules, ten lozenges argent 4,3,2,1
Crispin of Wolston : Gules, ten lozenges ermine 4,3,2,1
Cristenstow of Weycroft, Axminster : Azure, a bend (per party) indented or and ermine two cotises ermine
Crichester : Sable, a fess between three estoiles or
Crofton of Exeter : Per pale indented azure and or, a leopard passant counterchanged on a chief argent a fleur-de-lys between two roses gules
Crese of Launson : Argent, three leaves of ye water (water-cress ?) vert
Crudge : Argent, on a bend azure three birds or between two greyhounds sable
Creulegh of Creulegh : Chequy or and vert a bend gules
Crimes (Grimes) of (Crapstone) Buckland Monachorum : Or, on a fess gules three martlets argent a chief nebulée azure and argent
D
Dauney of Norton Dawney: Argent, on a bend cotised azure three cinquefoils or
Dauney of Woodbere: Argent, on a bend cotised sable three cinquefoils argent
Damarell of Milton Damarell: Azure, on a chief gules three crescents argent
Damarell of Woodbiry: Per fess gules and azure, three crescents argent
Damarell of Gidley: Per fess gules and azure, three crescents or
Dabernon of Bradford : Azure, a chevron or
Dabernon of Dunsland: Azure, a chevron or in chief three escallops of the second
Davils of Marland : Argent, a chevron embattled (“above”) ermines between three fleurs-de-lys sable
Davy: Azure, three cinquefoils and on a chief or (a) lion passant gules'
Dennys of Blagdon : Azure, three Danish axes erect or
Dennys of Orleigh, as Dennys of Blagdon but with crest : Azure, a hand and arm argent holding an axe or
Dennys of Holsworthy : Ermine, three Danish axes erect gules
Dennys of Gidecot : Argent, a chevron between three axes gules
Dennys of Bradford : Argent, a chevron engrailed between three axes gules
Dennys of Holcombe Burnel: Ermine, a chevron between three Danish axes gules
Dennys of Combe Raleigh : Gules, three leopard’s faces jessant-de-lys or over all a bend engrailed azure
Densill of Filleigh : Sable, a mullet between the horns of a crescent argent
Dernford of Stonehouse : Sable, a ram’s head cabossed argent horned or
Derriford : A pillar with a crown on the top a serpent enfolded about the pillar
Deane of Newton Petrock: Argent, a lion rampant purpure
Detlinge : Argent, a chevron between three cups sable
Dinham of Nutwell : Gules, four fusils in fess ermine
Dinham of Wear Gifford : Gules, four fusils in fess between six roundels ermine
Dinham of Wortham : Gules, four fusils in fess within a bordure ermine
Dillon of Chymwell (Bratton Fleming) : Argent, a lion rampant gules debruised by a fess azure thereon three crescents gules with as many estoiles between their points azure
Dirwyn of Fulford : Gules, a pale engrailed ermine debruised by a fess ermines
Dimock of Ivybridge : Argent, on a chief sable three estoiles or
Digbye of Raddon Court : Azure, a fleur-de-lys argent
Docton of Hartland : Argent, a crescent sable on a chief gules two crescents or
Doddescombe of Doddescombe : Argent, three eaglets displayed gules
Dodenhaye of Doddescombleigh : Sable, a bend ermine cotised or
Dourish of Dourish : Argent, a bend cotised within a bordure sable
Doune of Doune Raph : Paly of six argent and azure, on a fess gules three mullets or
Downe of East Downe : Gules, a buck’s face ermine horned or
Duport of Exeter : Barry of six or and azure, a saltire within a bordure engrailed gules
Dun of Batishorn : Argent, three mullets gules
Dunscomb of Dunscomb : Two bars and a demi-griffin in chief
Dunscomb of London and Dunscomb : Per chevron azure and gules, three bucks trippant argent
Duke of Otterton : Per fess argent and azure, three garlands counter-changed
Duck (Recorder of Exeter) : Or, on a fess undée sable three fusils or
Dodderidge of Haywood (a judge) : Argent crusily gules, three pallets undée azure
Drake of Ash : Argent a dragon-wyvern gules
Drake of Buckland Monachorum : Sable, a fess wavy between two estoiles in pale argent
Drewe of Broadhembury : Ermine, a lion passant gules
Drewell of Exeter : Sable, a chevron argent between three bunches of daisies
E
Edgcomb of Mount Edgcomb : Gules, on a bend sable (should be ermines) cotised or three boar’s heads couped close argent
Edmonds of Plymouth : Or, a chevron azure on a canton sable a boar’s head couped close or
Ellicot of Exeter : Lozengy or and azure a bordure gules
Elliot : Barry undée argent and azure, a chevron gules
Elliot : Barry undée argent and azure, a chevron sable between three castles of the third’’
Engleis of Stockleigh English : Sable, three lioncels rampant argent
Engleis of Engleis Hays : Azure, three garbs and a chief argent
Ellis of Holsworthy : Or, a saltire azure whose upper ends terminate in mascles and its lower ones in plain crosses (“crosslettée below and perced above”)
Englefild : Barry argent and gules on a chief or a lion passant sable
Englishvill of Bradlegh : Gules, on a bend argent three bendlets sable
Esse of Sowton : Argent, two chevrons sable
Esse of Greenslinch : Argent, a tree vert debruised by two chevrons sable
Estchurch : Azure, a cross vairy argent and gules counter-vairy a sun or in the first quarter
Eston of Eston : Per chevron or and gules three sea-dragons naiant counter-changed in pale crowned
Erle of Bindon, Axmouth: Gules, three escallops within a bordure engrailed argent
Eveleigh of Holcomb : Per pale or and sable two chevrons between three griffins passant counter-changed
Estmond of Exeter : Sable, a chevron argent between three mullets of six points or pierced
F
Farway : Sable, a chevron between three escallops argent
Farindon of Faringdon: Sable, three unicorns courant in pale argent
Falwell of Falwell : Gules, on a bend undée argent three water bougets sable
Falwell : Gules, on a bend argent three water bougets sable
Ferrers of Bere Ferrers : Or (s/b argent), on a bend sable three horseshoes argent (s/b or)
Ferrers of Churston Ferrers : Or (s/b argent), on a bend sable three horseshoes argent (s/b or) a mullet gules in the sinister quarter
Ferrers of Fenyton : Argent, on a bend sable three horseshoes or
Ferrers of Trowlegh : Argent, a bend gules on a chief vert two cinquefoils argent
Fesard : Or, on a bend sable three bear’s heads erased argent muzzled or
Filleigh of Filleigh : Gules, a fess vairy between six cross-formées or
Finamore : Gules, two chevrons ermine
Fichet : Gules, a lion rampant or over all a bend argent
Fissacre of Combe Fishacre : Six fishes haurient or 3,2,1
Fissacre of Morlegh : Argent, on a chevron azure three fishes haurient or
Fissacre : Gules, a chevron between three dolphins haurient or
FitzStephan of Norton : Gules, an eagle with two heads displayed or
FitzPayne : Gules, three lions passant in pale argent over all a bend azure
FitzPayne of Cheriton FitzPayne : Argent, two wings joined in lure gules
FitzWarren (FitzWarin) of Tawstock : Quarterly per fess indented argent and gules
FitzWarren of Brightley, Chittlehampton : Argent, a chief indented gules
FitzWarren of Toteley : Gules, ten bezants and a quarter argent
FitzWarren of Brightlegh (per seal, 1359): A bend vairy between six crosslets a bordure engrailed
FitzBernard of Holcombe Burnell : Vairy, on a chief gules two mullets or
FitzHenry of Exeter : Argent, a cross engrailed sable
Fitz of Fitzforde : Argent, a cross engrailed between twelve guttes-de-sang
Fortescue of Whympston, Modbury : Azure, a bend engrailed argent cotised or
Fortescue of Norreys : Azure, a bend engrailed argent cotised or a crescent sable for difference
Fortescue of Weare Gifford : Azure, a bend engrailed argent cotised or a bordure argent
Fortescue of Fallapit : Azure, a bend engrailed argent cotised or a crescent within a crescent for difference
Fortescue of Pruteston : Azure, a bend engrailed argent cotised or a crescent argent in the sinister part for difference
Fortescue of Buckland Filleigh : Azure, a bend engrailed argent cotised or a bordure argent a crescent gules for difference
Fowell : Argent, a chevron sable on a chief gules three mullets argent
Fowntayne of Bawcombe : Argent, three bars-gemelle gules on a canton azure a lion passant ...
Fowntayne of Exeter : Argent, a cross between four fleurs-de-lys sable
Folliot of Warleigh, Tamerton Foliot : Barry argent and gules, a bend sable
Forde of Forde : Azure, six lioncels rampant argent crowned gules
Forde of la Forde : Sable, a poppy with roots and fruit or
Forde of Fordemore : …, a castle argent a cross-formée in the port over all a ducal crown or
Forde of Bagtor : Party per fess argent and sable, in chief a greyhound courant sable in base an owl within a bordure engrailed all counter-changed
Fowke of Pill, Bishops Tawton : Ermine, a bend cotised gules charged with three escallops argent
Fulford of Great Fulford : Gules a chevron argent and ‘’Argent, a chevron between three bear’s heads erased sable’’
Fulford of Newton Abbot : …, a lion crowned over all a bend
Furneaux of Hughton, Ilsington:[170]Sable, a chief or
Furneaux : Gules, a bend between six crosslets or
Furneaux of Venn Ottery : Argent, a bend between six crosslets gules
Furneaux of Lapford : Azure, a bend between six crosslets or
Fulkeray of Buckland Baron, Combe-in-Teignhead:[171]Chequy argent and sable, a fess vairy argent and gules
Fursland of “Buketon” (Bickington[172]) : Argent, a lion rampant azure between three cross-formée fitchées gules
Fursdon of Fursdon : Argent, a chevron sable between three bundles of furze vert (Vivian, p. 383: ‘’Argent, a chevron azure between three fireballs sable fired proper’’[173])
Floyer of Floyer’s Hays : Sable, a chevron between three arrows argent; and: ‘’Sable, three arrows a bordure engrailed argent’’
Fleming of Bratton Fleming : Vairy, a chief chequy or and gules
Fry of Yarty : Gules, three horses courant in pale argent
Fry of Fry’s Hele, Meeth/Hatherleigh:[174]Vert, three horses courant in pale argent [175]
Fraunceis of Fraunceis Court, Killerton, Broad Clyst:[176]Argent, a chevron engrailed between three mullets gules
Fraunceis of Ivedon, Awliscombe:[177]Argent, a chevron engrailed between three mullets gules a label of three points azure for difference
Frankcheyney of Clist Gerard, Broad Clyst:[178]Ermine, on a chief gules three lions rampant argent
French of Sharpham, Ashprington : Sable, a bend between two dolphins hauriant argent
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Grimston of Grimston : Argent, a chevron between three boar’s heads couped close sable
Gambon of Moorstone, Halberton : Argent, a fess between three man’s legs couped sable
Garland of Whitfield, Marwood:[179]Gules, two pales or a chief party per pale or and azure on the first a chaplet vert on the second a demi-lion or
Gay of Goldsworthy : Or, on a fess between three escallops azure five fusils argent
Gale of Credition : Azure, a fess argent fretty azure
Gay : Ermine, on a chief sable three escallops argent
Geere of Heavitree : Gules, on two bars argent six mascles azure on a canton or a leopard’s face azure
Giles of Dean Court, Dean Prior : Per chevron argent and azure a lion rampant counter-changed
Gilbert of Compton : Argent, on a chevron sable three roses of the field
Gilbert of Bowringslegh : Argent, on a chevron sable three roses of the field within a bordure engrailed gules
Giffard of Weare Giffard : Sable, three fusils in fess ermine
Giffard of Halsbury, Parkham : Sable, three fusils in fess ermine a label of three points gules
Giffard of Brightley, Chittlehampton : Sable, three fusils in fess ermine a label of three points gules a mullet argent for difference
Gille : Masculy or and vert, a leopard rampant argent
Gille : Masculy argent and vert, a lion rampant or
Gibbe of Fenton : Argent, three battle-axes erect sable
Giffard of Hellond : Azure, three fleurs-de-lys argent each charged with a pellet
Godwyn of Clist William : Argent, on a bend gules three mascles argent between two demi-lions sable
Goove of Gooveshays : Argent(azure), a cross lozengy between four eagles displayed sable
Gorges of Warleigh, Bickleigh : Argent, three gorgets azure one within the other (Argent, a gurges azure)
Gorges (modern) : Lozengy or and azure, a chevron gules
Glanvill of Tavistock : Azure, three saltires or
Grenville of Bideford : Gules, three clarions or
Grass of Teign Grass : Ermine, a fess between three cinquefoils gules
Grey, Marquess of Dorset : Barry of six argent and azure, in chief three torteaux a label ermine
Gray of Exeter : Or, on a bend azure three martlets argent
Gatpath of Gatpath : Argent, a chevron between three goat’s heads erased gules
Grane of Monk Okehampton : On a bend cotised three mascles (tinctures unknown)
Grenham of Woborneford : Vert, a chief or
Gervais of Exeter:[180]Quarterly argent and gules, a bordure vert bezantée
Gervays/Jarvys of Exeter:[181]Argent, six feathers sable 3,2,1
Halse of Kenedon : Sable, a fess between three griffin’s heads erased argent
Hall of Hall, Bishop's Tawton : Azure, a chevron ermine between three chaplets of roses argent
Halgewell/Halwell (Halliwell) of Halwell, Harberton:[182]Or, on a bend gules three goats passant argent[183] and Argent, on a chevron gules three annulets or
Hamley : Argent, three hounds passant azure
Hakworthy of Hakworthy : Sable, two bends undée argent
Hawkridge of Hawkridge, Chittlehampton : Gules, a bend undée argent in sinister point a hawk on a perch or
Hancock of Combe Martin : Gules, a hand erect and on a chief argent three cocks gules
Hankford of Annery, Monkleigh : Sable, a chevron barry undée argent and gules
Harlewyn : Azure semée of fleur-de-lys argent
Harlewyn of Sidmouth : Azure, three apples argent a file in chief gules
Harvey of Culm John : Gules, on a bend argent three trefoils vert
Harrys of Radford : Sable, three crescents within a bordure argent
Harrys of Hayne : Sable, three crescents within a bordure argent , with a difference (unspecified)
Hart of Modbury: Gules, a bend between three fleurs-de-lys argent
Hayne of Hayne : Argent, a chevron gules between three martlets sable
Hathey : Sable, a chevron ermine between three birds argent beaks and legs gules
Haydon of Cadhay: Argent, three bars gemelles azure on a chief gules a fess dancetée or
Hawley (Hauley, Hanley (sic)) of Dartmouth : Argent, three hunting horns and a broad arrow sable in pale feathers and head or[184]
Hawkins of Plymouth : Sable, a lion passant (or?) and three bezants in chief the base wavy argent and azure
Huckmore of Buckland Baron: Per chevron sable and or, two reaping hooks in chief or a moorcock in base sable
Hunt of Chudleigh: Azure, on a bend between two water bougets or three leopard’s faces gules
Hunt of Ashwater: Vert, a fleur-de-lys or
I & J
Jay: Argent, a chevron between three jays azure
Jay: Argent, two chevrons gules between three jays azure
Jewe of Botlegh: Vert, a lion rampant guardant ermine a fess gules
Jewe: Argent, a chevron between three Moor’s heads and necks couped in profile proper bands about the head argent
Jewell: Argent, on a chevron azure a woman’s head crowned or between three gilliflowers gules stems or on a chief sable a lure between two hawks azure belled argent
Jermyn of Exeter: Gules, three piles in point ermine
Jude (or Inde): Argent, on a chevron between three fleurs-de-lys gules three mullets argent
Inkpen/Ingpen of Dittisham: Gules, two bars gemelles or a chief indented ermine
Incledon: Argent, a chevron engrailed between three tuns sable
Ippocras: Sable, three branches of ippocras between two bendlets argent
K
Kimbeare: Argent, two chevrons within a bordure engrailed gules
Kelloway/Kaleway of Mokisbeare/Mokesbeare/Muxbeare,[191] Halberton: Argent, two glazier’s irons in saltire sable between four pears pendant or
Kelloway/Kaleway: Argent, two glazier’s irons in saltire sable between four pears pendant or a bordure engrailed of the second
Kawoodley (Calwoodleigh[192]) of Kawoodley (now Calverleigh): Gules, two wings conjoined argent over-all a fess azure
Kawoodley (Calwoodleigh[193]) of Exeter: Gules, two wings conjoined argent over-all a fess azure charged with a crescent argent for difference
Kaull of Holcombe Burnell: Quarterly embattled argent and sable
Kaignes (Keynes) of Winkleigh: Azure, a bend undée cotised argent
Kelly of Kelly: Argent, a chevron between three billets gules
Kemthorn of Kemthorn/Kempthorn, Clawton:[194]Argent, three cherry trees roots vert cherries or
Keys of Exeter: Per chevron gules and sable, three keys erect or
Kirkham of Blagdon, Paignton: Argent, three lions rampant gules a bordure engrailed sable
Kirkhill: Or, an eagle displayed sable
Kingdon: Argent, a chevron sable between three magpies proper
Kirton: Argent, a fess and two chevrons embraced (interlaced?) gules in chief
Knovill of Batishorn/Batteshorn, Honiton:[195]Argent, three mullets gules
Knolle of Knolle, Farway:[196]Argent, a man on horseback armed sable
Knolles of Little Hempston (anciently Hempston Arundel): Argent, a hawk seizing a bird sable belled or on a chief of the field three bird bolts erect azure
Kitson of Ipplepen: Sable, three fishes haurient argent a chief or [197]
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Langford of Langford, Cullompton:[198]Paly of six argent and gules, a chief azure
Langford of Axworthy, Thrushelton:[199]Paly of six argent and sable, on a chief vert a lion passant or
Larder of Upton Pyne: Argent, on three piles sable as many bezants or [200]
Lapflode[201] of Sidbury: Gules, a chevron between three goat’s heads erased argent horned or
Langdon of Langdon: Argent, a chevron between three ravens sable
Langdon: Argent, a chevron between three bear’s heads erased sable
Lawrence of Ottery St Mary: Chequy or and sable, on a bend gules three escallops argent
Langham: Argent, a chevron embattled counter-embattled gules between three trefoils vert
Lacy, Bishop of Exeter: Azure, three shoveller duck’s heads erased argent
Lamprey of Horwood: Sable, a chevron between three lampreys argent
Lamprey: Sable, three lampreys barwise argent chained or within a bordure engrailed argent
Lante of Exeter: Per pale argent and gules, a cross engrailed counterchanged
Langley of Bawley: Ermine, a bend vert
Legh of Legh: Or, an eagle rising sable
Legh of Legh near Tiverton: Vert, a saltire between four eagles displayed or
Legh of Southlegh: Or, three fusils in fess azure
Legh of Ley or Legh in Beere Ferrers: Argent, a chevron between three bear’s heads couped close heads bendwise sable
Leyton: Argent, a ram trippant sable horned or
Lewes: Argent, three bear’s passant sable muzzled or
Leuer: Sable, three lewers argent
Levermore of Exeter: Argent, a fess sable between three bunches of leaves vert
^For a discussion of the disappearance of the old gentry families of Devon, see Sabine Baring-Gould, Old Country Life, first published 1889, 5th ed., 1894, pp.7-22, Old County Families[1]
^Quoted by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton, Memorials of the West, Historical and Descriptive, Collected on the Borderland of Somerset, Dorset and Devon, Exeter, 1888, p.351 [2]
^The mural monument survives in St Mary's Church, Totnes, Devon, to Christopher Blackall (1581-1633) of Hampsted in the parish of Totnes, and his four wives, see File:ChristopherBlackall Died1633 TotnesChurch Devon.jpg. Christopher Blackall (1581-1633) donated 50 books to Totnes Church, many of which were used by John Prince (1643–1723) in writing his Worthies of Devon
^Vivian, p.111: "Warbrightley"; Risdon, p.66: "Warbrighsleigh", Warbrighsleigh Beacon (formerly known as "Warpsley" Beacon), today Stoodleigh Beacon, 1/2 mile N-E of which is "Waspley" Farm (Ordnance Survey map), 2 miles west of Stoodleigh Church; See: Vivian, p.400, mentioning Broughton of "Warpsley"
^Vivian, p.112: Brown, Brownishilarshe; Risdon, p.271: Ilash; today apparently represented by West Browns and East Browns, about 1 mile S-W of Langtree village
^Charles Frederick Burnard (1816-post 1894) of Chatsworth Lodge in the parish of Compton Gifford, near Plymouth, Devon, was Mayor of Plymouth in 1882 (Vivian, p.849)
^Although Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormonde (d.1515) (whose wife was Anne Hankford the heiress of Annery, Monkleigh, Devon, and whose heraldry survives on a bench-end in Monkleigh Church) is known to have died without male progeny (the earldom descended to his distant male cousin), the family of Butler of Parkham submitted a pedigree to the heralds at the Heraldic Visitation of Devon of 1620 which claimed descent from a certain Humfridus Boteler de Annery (Vivian, p.104), whose identity is therefore uncertain. The arms however of Butler of Parkham are the arms of Butler, Earl of Ormond (Gules, three covered cups or) differenced with a field azure.
^Wreath, per Pole, p.475: argent, per Vivian, p.127, of the first and second, i.e. or and sable
^Location of Callard uncertain, however an ancient farmhouse of than name survives in the parish of Burrington (see listed building text [3])
^Former seat of the Cockworthy family, today "Cogworthy" Farm
^The inscribed mural monument of Raleigh Clapham (1587-1636), Apothecary, survives in St Peter's Church, Barnstaple. Image see [4]
^The home from 1980-2005 of the son and heir of the 11th Duke of Devonshire, and today part of the Bolton Hall estate of the Duke of Devonshire
^John Clement was a member of the Corporation of Plymouth in 1620 and married Judith Sparke, a sister of John Sparke (c. 1574–1640), MP, of The Friary, in the parish of St Jude, Plymouth, Devon (Vivian, pp.193, 856)
^As blazoned by Sir William Pole (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.447 and as depicted quartered on monument of Lady Frances Bourchier (1587-1612), daughter of William Bourchier, 3rd Earl of Bath (d.1623), in the Bedford Chapel at Chenies, Buckinghamshire.[5] The arms of Cogan (a branch of which later became known as Goggin) are variously blazoned elsewhere as oak leaves, aspen leaves, etc.
^Wotton, Thomas, Baronetage of England, 1771, Volume 2, Arms of Colleton Baronets; given by Vivian as roebuck's heads, frequently interchangeable
^Vivian, p.284, with obvious printer's error ("Az" in place of "Ar") in that the field is given erroneously as azure, with a fess also azure, in contravention of the "Rule of Tinctures", and would not show fully against the same background. Pole (p.480) gives the field as argent, but gives the location of the crescents incorrectly as on the fess. A relief-sculpted image of these arms survives on the large monument of John Chichester (died 1569) of Raleigh, Pilton, Devon, see image:File:HeraldicPanelChichesterMonumentPiltonDevon1569.JPG, which shows the correct arrangement of the crescents and estoiles, although the tincture of the field has been wrongly re-painted as or
^Reed, Margaret A., Pilton, its Past and its People, Barnstaple, 1985, p.243
^Richard Dyer c.1545/54 purchased Yarde from the Yarde family, whose longtime seat it had been, following their removal to Bradley (Risdon, p.176; Allan et al., p.244). His great-great-great-grandson was the botanist Richard Dyer (born 1651), a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, who inherited Yarde from his elder brother William Dyer (d.1714) and rebuilt it in 1718 (John Allan, Nat Alcock, David Dawson, West Country Households, 1500-1700, p.244 The Stained Hangings at Yarde Farm[6])
^Location of Milbury unknown. Several streets in Exminster are named "Milbury"
^Thomas Flay (d.1634) of Exeter, 2nd son of John Flay of Charlton, was Mayor of Exeter. A portrait of his wife Elizabeth Spicer was hanging in the Guildhall, Exeter, in 1895 (Vivian, p.343, note 3)
^Polwhele, Richard, History of Devonshire, 3 Vols., London, 1793, Vol.3, p.460
^Today "Friars Hele Farm"; the arms of Fry of Fry's Hele are differenced by a field vert (Pole, p.484) see image File:Fry (of Fry's Hele) arms.svg
^Vivian's pedigree, p.385, shows a long history of baptisms, marriages and burials at Dean Prior of members of this family
^Polwhele, Richard, History of Devonshire, 3 Vols., Vol.2, London, 1793, Vol.2, p.183
^Gilbert: Argent, on a chevron gules three roses of the field. These are the ancient arms of the family, as evidenced on monuments in Marldon Church 1496 and 1530 and in Churston Ferrers Church c.1575 (Source: Burke's Landed Gentry, 1937, p.886). In the 1620 Heraldic Visitation of Devon by William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms, the following arms were allowed to Raleigh Gilbert (1584-1634) of Compton: Ermine, on a chevron sable three roses argent. (Source: Burke's Landed Gentry, 1937, p.886). The family's arms are very confused, for example as given in Vivian, p.405: Or, on a chevron sable three roses of the field leaved proper a bordure gules. Pole, p.484, gives: Argent, on a chevron sable three roses of the field
^Henry Harewood (d.1631) by his will donated £100 as the "Harewood Gift", a charity for the poor of South Molton (Report of the Commissioners Appointed ...: To Inquire Concerning Charities ..., 1825, pp.125-6 [7])
^The family of Hext resided at a place named "Kingston", which although Pole (d.1635) suggests (almost as a post scriptum) is Kingston in the parish of Staverton ("At Kingston their also dwelled Thomas Hext in King Edw 4 tyme" (Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.277), cannot be reconciled with the well documented contemporaneous tenure of Kingston, Staverton, by the Barnhous family, whose heiress is known to have married John Rowe of Totnes. (During the reign of King Edward IV (1461-1483) "Kingston" was the seat of Thomas Hext, (Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.277; Vivian, p.484, pedigree of Hext of Kingston) one of whose daughters, Agnes Hext, married Sir Lewis Pollard (Vivian, p.598, pedigree of Pollard) (c.1465-1526) of Grilstone in the parish of Bishop's Nympton, Devon, Justice of the Common Pleas from 1514 to 1526 (Hoskins, W.G., A New Survey of England: Devon, London, 1959 (first published 1954), p.338) and a MP for Totnes in 1491) There is however a parish and village named Kingston in South Devon, about 14 miles south-west of Kingston, Staverton, and Thomas Hext "of Kingston", the first member of the family recorded in the Heraldic Visitations of Devon, married a member of the Fortescue family of Whympston, Modbury, about 2 1/2 miles north-west of the village of Kingston.
^Today, see Shilston Barton or Shilstone near Modbury. Sir Robert Hill jCP of Shilston and Houndstone, the father of Robert Hill Sheriff of Devon was kinsman to Sir John Hill jKB of Hill's Court, Exeter and Houndstone, the father of Robert Hill of Spaxton MP
^In the parish of Combe-in-Teignhead per Lysons, Magna Britannia, Vol.6, p.135
^Burke's General Armory, 1884, p.515; Pole, p.488; the blazon in Vivian, p.490, appears confused, producing an image thusFile:HodyArms.png
^Sir John Hody (d.1441) of Pilsdon in Dorset and Stowell, Wiveliscombe, Somerset, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, married Margaret Cole, heiress of Nethway (Pole, pp.282-3)
^This family was descended from Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand (c. 1283 – 1328), son of Sir Robert de Holland of Upholland, Lancashire (See Vivian, p.475)
^Not to be confused with arms of Holway of Holway, Tor Bryan, Devon (see Pole, p.488)
^Thomas Hunt (d.1548) was thrice Mayor of Exeter (Vivian, p.494)
^For Hams as the seat of Hunt see: Jones, Mary, History of Chudleigh, 1852
^Vivian, p.502, p.502, footnote, as appears on the Risdon monument in Westdown Church, Devon also in St Giles-in-the-Wood Church, Devon
^"Stralling" (Vivian, p.504), location unknown; ? Stalling Thorne in the parish of Huntsham ?
^Vivian, p.510 adds a bordure engrailed of the second. No such border is visible in any of the many depictions of the Kelloway arms surviving in the churches of Dolton, Iddisleigh, and Dowland; However, the bordure does appear in the Kelloway arms shown in Branscombe Church, Devon, on the Mural monument to Joan Tregarthin (d.1583) widow successively of John Kelloway of Cornwall and John Wadham (d.1578) of Merifield, Ilton, Somerset and Edge, Branscombe. See File:JoanTregarthinMonument BranscombeChurch Devon.PNG
^Residence at Wonson per Baring-Gould, Sabine, An English Home, p.277, Scapegraces
^John Lante (d.1614) was Mayor of Exeter and has a monument in Exeter Cathedral (Vivian, p.523)
^Richard Lee (d.1620) of Totnes was Mayor of Totnes in 1620 (Vivian, p.527)
^Pevsner, p.575, anciently "Ridge", per Vivian, p.529
^The Lippincotts in England and America, Edited from the Genealogical Papers of the Late James S. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1909, p.8 [8]
^In 1620 Anthonie Longe (born 1597) was a servant of the Earl of Bath (Vivian, p.532) at Tawstock in North Devon. A junior branch of the prominent Long family (Vivian, p.532) of South Wraxall and Draycot Cerne in Wiltshire, descended from Robert Long (d.1447), MP
^As generally blazoned; Vivian 1895, p. 552, Martyn of Oxton, gives three bars
^The first member of this family (whose arms are a differenced version of FitzMartin, feudal barons of Barnstaple in Devon and Lords of Cemais in Wales) was Thomas Martin (d.1588) of Salisbury, Wiltshire, Mayor of Totnes, who married Christiana Savery of Totnes (Vivian, p.558)
^The Newcombe family of Chagford & Exeter, Peter R. Newcombe, 2005-17 [9]
^Col.John Newton (d.1655) of Crabaton (mod: Crabadon) was a Royalist in the Civil War (Burke's General Armory). Difference of arms of Newton baronets of Barrs Court, Gloucestershire (1660), of which family Sir Isaac Newton claimed to be a member
^In Clayhanger parish (not Combe Martin), see: Extract of 1785 will of Buckland Nutcombe Bluett of Nutcombe, Clayhanger and Holcombe Court, Holcombe Rogus, archives of North Devon Record Office, Reference: 1777 B/FW8 [10]
^See: Passmore, Alfred E., The Pedigree of the Passmores of Passmore Hayes, Devon, 1929. Commissioned by Alfred E. Passmore from researcher Charles E. Bernau. West Country Studies Library (ref S929.2PAS) and Tiverton Museum
(ref TM/89/1375/1)[11]
^Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.1761, pedigree of Passmore of Withyshaw, with drawing of arms confirming this blazon; The arms of Passmore are blazoned incorrrectly in Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.589, pedigree of Passmore of Passmore Hayes as: Or, on a fess between three escutcheons gules each charged with a bend vair two cinquefoils of the first all within a bordure azure bezantée, which gives File:PassmoreArms.png
^Passmore Hayes, now a small cottage 3.75 miles N-NE of Tiverton, at the end of the farm track to Longhayne Farm, approaching the Town Leat in an eastward direction. Passmore Hayes was in the parish of Tiverton, per: The topographer: containing a variety of original articles ..., Volume 1
edited by Sir Egerton Brydges, p.142 [12]
^Westcote, Thomas, A View of Devonshire in 1630 with a Pedigree of most of its Gentry, Exeter, 1845, p.525; "Swotton/Swetton" per Vivian, p.589
^
Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.1761, pedigree of Passmore of Withyshaw
^de Via arms, as also used by the Davie family of Creedy, Sandford, who claimed common origin with the Pollards from the de Way family, were quartered by Pollard with their escallop arms, (Prince, pp.284 (footnote), 783) but were sometimes used alone, as evidenced most notably by all the surviving Pollard monuments and ledger stones in Horwood Church
^Hugh Potter (1596-1661/2) (eldest son and heir of Tobias Potter of Iddesleigh) was a lawyer of Lincoln's Inn and a member of the household of the Earl of Northumberland (Vivian, p.612)
^Potter arms identical to Barkley arms, see Vivian pp.43,612
^The Preston family of Devon was a junior branch of the de Preston family which during the reign of King Henry II (1154-1189) was seated at Preston Richard and Preston Patrick in Westmorland. On 1 April 1644 George Preston (of same ancient descent, same arms) was created a baronet "of Furness in the County of Lancaster". (Burke, Bernard, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies ..., 2nd ed, 1844, pp.424 et seq [13])
^Members of this family include Richard Prouse (d.1608), Mayor of Exeter, and his son John Prouse (d.1624/5), Mayor of Exeter in 1620, whose memorial exists in Exeter Cathedral (Vivian, p.628, "MI")
^per Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.498. Alternatively: Ermine, a chevron gules a chief azure fretty or (per Vivian, p.631, pedigree of Prye of Horwell). These arms are visible on the monument to John Wrey (d.1597) in Tawstock Church, Devon. John Wrey's son Edmond Wrey married Katherine Prye, daughter of Roger Prye of Horwell (Vivian, p.631)
^This family was the heir of Coffin of Portledge, Alwington, Devon, and in 1796 assumed the additional surname and arms of Coffin, resulting in the name Pine-Coffin (Vivian, p.211)
^Lauder, Rosemary, Devon Families, Tiverton, 2002, p.129, sold by Savilles estate agent February 2017, £1.5M [14]
^Raleigh of Fardel arms per Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.499; Pedigree given in Vivian (pp.638-9) with same descent as Raleigh of Pilton, but with wrong arms
^Welcombe is a parish near Hartland in North Devon, near the Cornish border. Other estates named "Welcombe" are listed in Pole, which may have been the residence of this family, with a very brief pedigree in Vivian, p.651 with no mention of parish. However, mention is made of Week St Mary (in Cornwall), 13 miles south of Welcombe near Hartland, and the Roache family originated in "Lesawnte" (Lezant?, Cornwall. Lysons, Magna Britannia, Cornwall, Extinct Gentry, states: "Roche or De la Rupe of Roche — traced to the reign of Richard I. Hals says, that this family became extinct, in the male line, in 1357; that Sir William Blundell, husband of the heiress, took the name of Roche, which continued till the reign of Henry VIII., when the last of the family left four daughters, three of whom married Fortescue, Penkevil, and Boscawen. The Roches had married heiresses of Trevelyan and Page, and a coheiress of Durant. Arms of Roche: — Sab. three roaches, two, one, nayant, Argent." The Devon family used a crescent as the difference of a second son. The name was thus Latinized to de (la) Rupe (Lat: rupes-is, "rock") "from the rock", inspired by the French word la roche, le rocher, "rock", from degraded Latin rocca, recorded in use 980 AD (Larousse Lexis, Paris, 1979, p.1654) from which the English word "rock" (Collins Dict)
^townhouse of George Rolle (d.1552), where he died, comprising "messuage, garden and curtilage". It was held from the crown in burgage, worth 30 shillings. Details of Buckfast Place from his inquisition post mortem quoted in Byrne, Muriel St. Clare, (ed.) The Lisle Letters, 6 vols, University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 1981, vol.1, Appendix 25, p.414. This house, later known as the "Abbot's Lodge", was destroyed in 1942 during World War II bombing. It had been the townhouse of the Abbot of Buckfast Abbey, which Abbey and much of its lands, apparently excluding the Abbot's Lodge, had been acquired following the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Sir Thomas Denys (c.1477-1561) of Holcombe Burnell, whose eventual heir (by coincidence) was the Rolle family. It was at the Abbot's Lodge that the Grand Duke of Tuscany was entertained by Sir John Rolle in 1669 and it remained in the Rolle family until 1737 when it was sold to the Rev. John Heskett.(Source:[15]) A photograph of the arms of Sir Henry Rolle (1545-1625) in this building taken shortly before its destruction survives in: Devon Notes & Queries, Vol.9, 1916-17, pp.97-9: "Armorial Bearings at the Abbot's Lodge", The Close, Exeter. Image see: File:SirHenryRolle (1545-1625) 1602Arms AbbotsLodge CathedralClose Exeter.jpg
^No such parish as "Holford" appears to exist. This seat (called Goddeford by Pole, p.201 and Godeford by Risdon, p.41) is possibly one of two places: Gosford (today Gosford Farm) near the hamlet of Taleford, about 2 miles SE of Awliscombe; Godford, about 1/4 mile NW of Awliscombe. Awliscombe was in the Hundred of Hemyock
^These are the arms of Thorne of Thorne in the parish of Holsworthy, Devon, with difference of a bordure engrailed, with additional difference of a crescent for a second son. The family was descended from Degorie Thorne (second son of John Thorne of Thorne) who (circa 15th c.) married Margaret Seccombe, daughter and heiress of Thomas Seccombe of Seccombe, Devon
^As depicted in stained glass in east window of Shute Church, Devon, impaled by arms of Pole of Shute, representing the marriage of Sir Courtenay Pole, 2nd Baronet (1619-1695) and Urith Shapcott, daughter of Thomas Shapcott of Shapcott in the parish of Knowstone, Devon. Elsewhere the arms are shown with a chevron or (Barnstaple Church on Tucker monument), or without chevron (in Knowstone Church and in Molland Church). (Pole (Vivian 1895, pp. 603), Shapcott (Vivian 1895, pp. 677), blazoned with chevron or)
^John Shapleigh (d.1628) of Totnes was Mayor of Dartmouth and twice Mayor of Totnes. His monument is in St Saviour's Church, Dartmouth (Vivian, p.678, "MI"). No connection is known to John Shapleigh (died 1414) of Exeter, MP, father of John Shapleigh (fl. 1414–1427), of Exeter, MP
^William Sharpe (fl.1620) of Tiverton (3rd son of Robert Sharpe, a merchant in the City of London, by his wife Jeliane Mallory, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir Richard Mallory, Lord Mayor of London in 1564) married Alice Woolton, a daughter of John Woolton, Bishop of Exeter. (Vivian, p.679)
^Risdon, p.46; Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.529; Vivian, p.680; Rogers, William Henry Hamilton, The Dorset chapel and Knightstone; Bonville and Sherman; Ottery St. Mary, Notes and Queries for Somerset anmd Dorset, Vol.7, 1901, pp.187-91,235-43,322. Reprinted in his Archaeological Papers Relating to the Counties of Somerset, Wilts, Hants and Devon, 1902
^Ley in the parish of Plympton St Mary, per Prince, John, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, London, pp.713, 715-6 (note 1)
^Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.502. As seen on 1714 mural monument to Sir Bevil Grenville (d.1643), husband of Grace Smith (a daughter of Sir George Smith (died 1619) of Madworthy-juxta-Exeter and Madford House, Exeter, Devon, MP for Exeter in 1604, three times Mayor of Exeter), in Kilkhampton Church, Cornwall; Vivian, p.691, appears to have ascribed to this family the wrong arms, namely those of Smith of Dartmouth (Vivian, p.693) and Smith of Totnes
^As seen impaled by Wrey on monument to John I Wrey (d.1597) in Tawstock Church, Devon. Wrey's son John II Wrey was the 3rd husband of Eleanor Smith, daughter of Bernard Smith (d.1591) of Totnes. Arms of Smith of Totnes given by Pole, p.502, as: Barry undé of six argent and azure on a chief gules three barnacles or(Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.502) Given incorrectly by Vivian, p.691 as arms of Smyth of Exeter, whose arms were: Sable, a fess cotised between three martlets or (Pole, p.502 and as visible on mural monument to Sir Bevil Grenville (d.1645) in Kilkhampton Church)
^The junior branch of the Kelloway family of Stafford/Stowford, Dolton, which settled at nearby Dowland changed its surname to Stafford but retained the paternal arms of Kelloway. See Vivian, p.510, footnote
^Vivian, p.510 adds a bordure engrailed of the second. No such border is visible in any of the many depictions of the Stafford/Stoford/Stowford/Kelloway arms surviving in the churches of Dolton, Iddisleigh, and Dowland; However, the bordure does appear in the Kelloway arms shown in Branscombe Church, Devon, on the Mural monument to Joan Tregarthin (d.1583) widow successively of John Kelloway of Cornwall and John Wadham (d.1578) of Merifield, Ilton, Somerset and Edge, Branscombe. See File:JoanTregarthinMonument BranscombeChurch Devon.PNG
^For "Strashleigh" see: Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.356. For its location in the parish of Ermington see: Vivian, p.157
^Rogers, William Henry Hamilton, Memorials of the West, Historical and Descriptive, Collected on the Borderland of Somerset, Dorset and Devon, Exeter, 1888, pp.229-31 [17]
^Pole, p.360, pedigree agrees in part to Vivian, p.727, pedigree of Thorne of Thorne
^Per Vivian, p.738; Pole gives the blazon as: Argent, a bridge gules arched with a flag on the top (Pole, p.505)
^The "steward of the court of the Earl of Bedford" at Werrington (then in Devon, now in Cornwall) in about 1600 was John Twiggs, whose family pedigree is included in the 1620 Heraldic Visitation of Devon. (Vivian, p.742, pedigree of "Twiggs of Werrington"). John Twiggs's grandson was Richard Twiggs "of Werrington", whose son was Benjamin Twiggs (1616-c.1678/9) "of Werrington", who both described themselves as "of Werrington" in their wills.(Richard Twiggs (will dated 1625/6, CRO AP/T/449 Benjamin Twiggs (born 1616 (aged 4 in 1620), will dated 1678/9, CRO AP/T/1221)[18]
^As seen on monument in Brixham Church, blazoned incorrectly as a cross flory in Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.743. Blazoned as cross sarcelly (cercelée) (similar to cross moline) by Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.506
^Arms as visible on monument (transcript Chope, R. Pearse, The Book of Hartland, Torquay, 1940, p.144) in Hartland Church to John Velly (1617-1694), during the Civil War a Captain-Lieutenant to Sir Robert Cary (1610–1675), lord of the nearby manor of Clovelly, a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to King Charles II, whose mural monument survives in Clovelly Church
^Seats per Chope, R.Pearse, The Book of Hartland, Torquay, 1940, pp.144, 198
^Arms granted in 1616 to Rev. Robert Wakeman (1576-1629), Doctor of Divinity, Parson of Beer Ferrers and Charleton in Devon, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford in 1596, Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral 1616 (Wakeman, Robert, P., Wakeman Genealogy 1630-1899, Meriden, Connecticut, 1900, p35 [19])
^Richard Waltham (1560-1632) of Trehill, was Recorder of Exeter 1628-32. His elder brother Jeffrie Waltham (1558-1626) of Exeter, was Mayor of Exeter in 1613 and 1626 and was married to Katherin Duck, a sister of Nicholas Duck (1570-1628), Recorder of Exeter (Vivian, pp.772;309); Their aunt Katherin Waltham was the mother of the Devon historian Thomas Westcote (c.1567-c.1637). (Vivian, pp.772;778)
^Pole, p.506, who blazons the arms as Gules, a chevron between three fishes naiant argent, thus with chevron argent not or and with the unnamed fish naiant not hauriant. These arms of Waye of Marsh are however sculpted (without tinctures) quartered by Kirkham of Blagdon in the 16th century Kirkham Chantry of Paignton Church, and show a chevron with fish hauriant, as per Vivian's blazon. Nicholas Kirkham (d.1516) of Blagdon married Jane Waye, daughter and heiress of Robert Waye of Marsh (Vivian, p.516, pedigree of Kirkham). These are similar to the arms displayed in Exeter Guildhall, Devon, of "John Waye, Sheriff (of Exeter) 1541", shown as Gules, three lucies hauriant in fess argent. They should be distinguished from the completely different arms of Way of St Giles-in-the-Wood, near Great Torrington in Devon, often called "de Via" (i.e. literally "from the way") arms, apparently later adopted by the Pollard family of Way and also by the Davie family (Davy baronets) of Creedy, Devon, which claim their original surname as de Via.
^Marsh in parish of Newton St Cyres per Prince, John, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, London, p.554
^Arms of "Treawin of Weare Giffard" per Pole, p.505; Arms of "Weare of Clyst Honiton" per Vivian, p.774. Quartered by Fortescue of Weare Giffard and Filleigh, see monumental brass in Filleigh Church of Richard Fortescue (c. 1517–1570)
^William Henry Hamilton Rogers, Memorials of the West, Historical and Descriptive, Collected on the Borderland of Somerset, Dorset and Devon, Exeter, 1888, pp.226-7
^Gray, Todd, (ed.), Devon Household Accounts, 1627–59, Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Part I, 1995, p.xxxvii The Willougby Family and the Accounts of Leyhill
^John Withie of Berry Narbor married Joane Jewel, a sister of John Jewel (1522-1571), Bishop of Salisbury, born at Bowden in the parish of Berry Narbor (Vivian, pp.814, 505)
^Vivian, p.793: Wolecot in parochia de Thrustelton
^Re Orchard, see: Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, pp.535,613, who places it in parish of Thrushelton (near Lew Trenchard). The Visitations are clear this family resided in the parish of Lew Trenchard, and various monuments of the family exist in that parish church ("MI" per Vivian, p.799).
^James Woodrouffe (d.1609) of Barnstaple was Mayor of Barnstaple in 1605 (Vivian, p.802; Lamplugh, Lois, Barnstaple: Town on the Taw, South Molton, 2002, p.156). His first wife was Jone Worth, a daughter of Pawle Worth, thrice Mayor of Barnstaple in 1577, 1592 and 1603, who signed a letted dated 8 April 1588 concerning the town's objection to having been ordered by the Privy Council to provide an excessive number of ships to meet the Spanish Armada. (Lamplugh, pp.50,156)
^Blazon per Pole, p.509; These arms are visible on several escutcheons in Washfield Church. The arms are blazoned incorrectly as beaked and legged gules in Vivian, p.805, pedigree of Worth
^Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries during the reign of King Henry VIII (1509-1547) John Wotton purchased the estate of Inglebourne from the crown, previously a possession of Buckfastleigh Abbey (Risdon, p.165)
^Phillip Wyatt (d.1592) was steward and Town Clerk of Barnstaple, near Braunton. He had several sons, of whom Adam Wyatt (d.1611) was Town Clerk of Barnstaple from 1586 and left a detailed diary which provides valuable information on the town at this period. The identity of the diarist as Adam Wyatt was made by the Devon historian Todd Gray, although traditionally the diarist was thought to have been his brother Philip Wyatt (d.1608) (Lamplugh, Lois, Barnstaple: Town on the Taw, South Molton, 2002, p.45). Their elder brother Hugh Wyatt of Shillingford, married Lady Mary Bourchier, a daughter of John Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Bath (1499-1561), of nearby Tawstock Court, a highly influential figure in Barnstaple. Another brother, Thomas Wyatt, married Margaret Risdon, an aunt of Tristram Risdon (d.1640) the Devon historian. (Vivian, pp.823, 107, 648). Pole, p.508, gives the arms of "Wiatt of Shillingford" slightly differently as: Azure, a chief gules over-all a horse-brake (barnacle) argent
^The Bindon branch of Wyke used their maternal arms of Burnell, having inherited that estate from an heiress of that family (Pole, p.243; Woodger, L.S., biography of Wyke, Roger (d.c.1467), of Bindon in Axmouth, Devon, published in History of Parliament: House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993 [20])
^Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.507
^Arms inherited from the Bushel family of Bradley/Teignwick (Pole, p.472)
^Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of The Reverend John Swete, 1789-1800, 4 vols., Tiverton, 1999, Vol 2, p.164; Pevsner, p.556
^Per research conducted by Sheila Yeo of the Yeo Society [21], based on stained glass depictions of Yeo arms in churches of Petrockstowe (Yeo of Heanton Satchville) and Hatherleigh (Yeo of Hatherleigh) both in Devon. The ducks are described as of various breeds by different sources. Heraldic sources give contradictory tinctures: Argent, a chevron between three shovelers sable (Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.834) and Argent, a chevron between three mallards azure (Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.510)
^The return made in 1620 to the heralds was signed by Robert Yonge (d.1636) of Colebrooke, 4th son of Thomas Younge of Sturminster Newton in Dorset. Robert's nephew was Thomas Yonge (of Child, Ockford) who married Bridget Seymer, a sister of Sir Robert Seymer (d.1624) of Hanford in Dorset, a Teller in the King's Exchequer, knighted at Greenwich Palace on 19 February 1619 (Burke, John, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 2 (M-Z), London, 1846, p.1216 [22])
^As seen (without tinctures) impaled by Parker carved on the 17th.c. chancel panelling in North Molton Church; the Parker family married the heiress of Fry of Fry’s Hele; Pole however states the blazon as ‘’Vert, three horses courant argent, 2 & 1’’
^See magnificent monumental brass in St Saviour's Church, Dartmouth, to John Hawley (d.1408), a shipowner and three times Mayor of Dartmouth, shown as a knight with his two wives. He was a major donor towards the building of the church. See image [25]
^Pole blazon of Larder confused. Blazon per Vivian: ‘’Argent, three piles sable each charged with as many bezants’’ ; Carew, Sir George (1555-1629) (created in 1626 Earl of Totnes),Carew's Scroll of Arms 1588, Collected from Churches in Devonshire etc., with Additions from Joseph Holland's Collection of Arms 1579, Exeter, 1901, no 412: Argent, three piles in point sable on each pile six bezants ; see effigy of Edmond Larder (d.1521) in Upton Pyne Church
^”The name of Lapflode occurs more than once as a witness in the transcripts of several ancient deeds now before me, relating to lands in Sidbury during the 13th, ... ” (Gentleman's Magazine, Or Monthly Intelligencer, Volume 33
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