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 DEVONSHIRE WILLS: 
 
 A COLLECTION OF 
 
 ANNOTATED TESTAMENTARY ABSTRACTS.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS: 
 
 A COLLECTION OF 
 
 ANNOTATED TESTAMENTARY ABSTRACTS, 
 
 TOGETHER WITH 
 
 THE FAMILY HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF MANY 
 
 OF THE MOST ANCIENT GENTLE HOUSES 
 
 OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND. 
 
 BY 
 
 CHARLES WORTHY, ESQ., 
 
 Formerly of H.M. 8znd Kegt., and sometime Principal Assistant to the late 
 
 Somerset Herald in Ordinary. 
 Author of " Devonshire Parishes" "Practical Heraldry" etc. 
 
 " ABKOAU BY ARMES, AT HOME IN STUDIOUS KVNDE, 
 WHO SEKKES, WITH PAINFULI. TOYLE, SHALL HONOUR SONEST FYNDE." 
 
 D. &> C., Exon., MS. 3532. 
 
 Xonfcon : 
 
 BEMROSE & SONS, LTD., 23, OLD BAILEY; 
 AND DERBY. 
 
 1896.
 
 I DEDICATE THESE PAGES 
 TO THE MEMORY OF MY DEAR YOUNGER BROTHER, 
 
 Efcwarfc Htbelstan Wortbg, 
 
 FORMERLY OF WINCHESTER, AND AFTERWARD OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD, 
 BACHELOR OF ARTS, 
 
 WHO, AFTER TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS' ABSENCE FROM HIS NATIVE LAND, 
 
 DURING WHICH HIS DISTINGUISHED TALENTS WERE CONTINUOUSLY 
 
 DEVOTED TO THE INSTRUCTION OF YOUTH, AT 
 
 CHRIST CHURCH, NEW ZEALAND, 
 
 RETURNED TO ENGLAND, FOR WELL EARNED REST, IN THE SPRING 
 
 OF 1894, AND, DURING A SUBSEQUENT TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 
 
 WAS ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED, OFF THE SOUTH COAST OF FRANCE, 
 
 ON THE FOLLOWING 3 1ST OCTOBER, 
 IN THE FIFTY-FIRST YEAR OF HIS AGE. 
 
 " AND MAY THERE BE NO SADNESS OF FAREWELL, 
 
 WHEN I EMBARK ! " 
 
 206G351
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 THE following pages are but the very partial outcome 
 of the researches, and extensive genealogical correspon- 
 dence, of well nigh a quarter of a century, and of my personal 
 labours at the several public depositories of the records I 
 have herein abstracted, or cited ; and although the present 
 work may be regarded, in some sort, as a continuation of my 
 previous volumes on the parochial and family history of Devon- 
 shire, culled from the same original sources, and with which 
 it is uniform, and although, in the midst of other literary 
 work, I have now contributed some seventeen hundred closely 
 printed pages, exclusive of pamphlets and periodical articles, 
 to this single subject, I must freely admit that the history 
 of Devonshire, as a whole, yet remains to be written, and 
 that it would most certainly entail the entire devotion of 
 considerably more than an ordinary lifetime to properly 
 accomplish the task. 
 
 Therefore, it must be distinctly understood that I am now 
 simply offering my friends and supporters a further instalment 
 of a work, to the extension of which I can only trust I may 
 be eventually able to devote the whole of my time and 
 attention, not with the most distant hope, or, shall I say, wish, 
 of being spared to complete it, but in order to add to those 
 materials which will some day conduce, and I trust con- 
 siderably so, to a complete record of a county which has 
 hitherto received but scant justice at the hands of its pseudo
 
 viii PREFACE. 
 
 " historians," who seem chiefly to have relied upon the palpably 
 inadequate information, and, manifestly, in numberless instances, 
 careless, investigations of the father of them, Sir William 
 Pole, when they have not repeated tradition as matter of fact. 
 Thus the works of Westcote and Risdon, and, in later times 
 those of Polwhele and Prince, are also full of inaccuracies, and 
 the same may be said, in but a slightly lesser degree, of the 
 Devonshire volumes of the Magna Britannia, for, although 
 Samuel Lysons was " Keeper of His Majesty's Records," there 
 is evidence in nearly every page of the joint production of 
 himself and his brother, that those records were not rendered 
 available to any considerable extent, and that when adduced 
 they are frequently misquoted or misinterpreted. 
 
 Whatever may be my own shortcomings, I feel that I can 
 fairly claim to have avoided the slightest suspicion of plagiarism, 
 and I offer these pages to the public, not as the " sequence of 
 a perusal of printed accounts and documents, strengthened by 
 much help from friends who have made the archives their 
 study," a course, thus admittedly, adopted by the late Professor 
 Freeman in connection with his History of Exeter, but " after 
 studying the said archives," according to his own suggestion, 
 " as they must be studied in manuscript," and that study (in 
 connection with the county which produced Drake, Ralegh, 
 and Grenville, with which Queen Elizabeth, of famous memory, 
 was proud to claim family connection, which gave birth to 
 that great General who procured for us the blessing of a 
 restored monarchy ; and with which historic Shire the early 
 days of our own beloved Sovereign were closely identified), 
 as anticipated by the late Regius Professor of Modern History, 
 has truly " called for the offering of no small part of a life." 
 
 I will only add that my present notices of Gentle Houses 
 may be looked upon as somewhat scanty and partial, but it
 
 /'KKFACE. ix 
 
 must be remembered that the limits of this volume 
 have had to be considered, and that many of the most illus- 
 trious families of Devonshire, such as the Redvers and 
 Courtenays, the DC Brions, the Drakes, the Russells, the 
 Grenvilles, the Yardes, the Mohuns, the Arundells, and many 
 others, have been commemorated in my previous works, 
 whilst an exhaustive " digression " on the Earldom of Devon 
 will be found in my Suburbs of Exeter. In conclusion, I am 
 always glad to welcome correspondence in connection with the 
 family history of my native county. 
 
 CHARLES WORTHY. 
 
 He>ivitree, Exeter, 
 Afurc/i, 1896.
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 PART I. 
 WILLS AND ADMINISTRATIONS. 
 
 PACK 
 
 ARCHDEACONRY COURT OF EXETER - r- 52 
 
 BARNSTAPLE 53- 80 
 
 TOTNES - 81-101 
 
 BISHOP OF EXETER, CONSISTORIAL COURT 102-117 
 
 PRINCIPAL REGISTRY 118-145 
 
 PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY 146-156 
 
 DEAN AND CHAPTER OF EXETER 157-168 
 
 VICAR'S CHORAL 169-170 
 
 PART II. 
 
 ARCHDEACONRY COURT OF EXETER 171-249 
 
 BARNSTAPLE 250-268 
 
 TOTNES 269 291 
 
 BISHOP OF EXETER, CONSISTORIAL COURT 292-299 
 
 PRINCIPAL REGISTRY 300-309 
 
 PART III. 
 GENTLE HOUSES OF THE WEST. 
 
 INTRODUCTORY 310-316 
 
 ACLAND, OF KlLLERTON, ETC. 468-474 
 
 BAMPFYLDE, OF POLTIMORE 474-484 
 
 BASTARD, OF KITLEY 49 T '499
 
 xii TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 BREMRIDGE, OF BREMRIPGE 4"-4'7 
 BRITO, HOUSE OF 
 
 BRITTON, OF BITTON 37-374 
 
 BRUTON, OF LANGLEY 3 6 3'3 68 
 
 BRUTON, OF ALWINGTON 368-37 
 
 CHAFY, OF CHAFECOMBE 3 J 7'3y 
 
 CHEVERSTONE, OF WRAY 386-39 
 
 FORTESCUE, HOUSE OF 45 6 -468 
 
 FULFORD, OF GREAT FULFORD - 4 I 7'43 
 
 GIBBS, OF FENTON AND CLIST ST. GEORGE 485-491 
 
 GIDLEY, OF GIDLEY - 394'399 
 
 HAMLYN, OF WIDECOMBE-IN-THE-MOOR 399'43 
 
 HORNIMAN, alias HERNIMAN, OF BRADWORTHY, ETC. 33 1 -335 
 
 KELLY, OF KELLY 408-410 
 
 NORTHCOTE, OF PYNES 44 T '447 
 
 NORTHMORE, OF Cl-EVE 335'34 
 
 NOTT, OF BYDOWN - 348-351 
 
 PYKE, OF WIDWORTHY 344'34 8 
 
 VENN, OF PEYHEMBURY 404-408 
 
 WALROND, OF BRADFIELD - 447'453 
 
 WALROND, OF DULFORD - 453*455 
 
 WEEKES, OF HONEYCHURCH 383-386 
 
 WISE, OF SYDENHAM 34-343 
 
 WORTH, HOUSE OF - 43 I "44 I 
 
 WORTH, OF WORTH - 438-441 
 
 WORTHE, alias WORTHY, OF MARLDON AND EXETER 437-438 
 
 WREY, OF TAWSTOCK 390-394 
 
 WYKES, OF NORTHWYKE 374'3 8 3 
 
 PEDIGREES "DISCLAIMED" IN 1620 500-502 
 
 INDEX - 53-5 T6
 
 LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 
 
 Aldenham, Lord, Aklenham House, near Elstree, Herts. 
 
 Asher & Co., Messrs., 13, Bedford Street, Covent Garden, London. 
 
 Athill, Chas. H., Esq., F.S.A. (Richmond Herald), Herald's College, London. 
 
 Batten, J., Esq., F.S.A., Aldon, Yeovil. 
 
 Bartlett, Wm., Esq., Highfield House, Knotty Ash, Liverpool. 
 
 Bartlett, J. A., jun., Esq., B.A., Christ Church, Oxford. 
 
 Bartlett, J. A., Esq., Lynson, Mossley Hill Road, near Liverpool. 
 
 Bartlett, T., Esq., 12, Pembroke Place, Liverpool. 
 
 Bastard, Baldwin, J.P., Esq., Buckland Court, Ashburton. 
 
 Bethell, W., Esq., Rise Park, Hull. 
 
 Bridgman, H. H., Esq., 42, Poultry, London. 
 
 Birmingham, Mr. W. , Plymouth. (Two copies.) 
 
 Britton, P. \V. P., Esq., F.S.A., Bitton House, Enrield. 
 
 Boase, Rev. C. W. (the late), Exeter College, Oxford. 
 
 Bonython, J. L., Esq., J. P., Adelaide, South Australia. 
 
 Broaclmead, W. B., Esq., Enmore Castle, Bridgwater. 
 
 Bulwer, Col. L. , Quebec House, E Dereham, Norfolk. 
 
 Brushfield, T. N., Esq., M.D., The Clirf, Budleigh-Salterton, Devon. 
 
 Bruton, D. Yeo, Esq., Stone House, Healhfield, Sussex. (Two copies.) 
 
 Burnard, Robert, Esq., 3, Hillsborough, Plymouth. 
 
 Chafy, Rev. W. K. W. C., D.D., Rons Lench Court, Evesham. 
 
 Carkeet, W. , Esq., 64, Watling Street, London. 
 
 Gaunter, W. A., Esq., 15, Bedford Circus, Exeter. 
 
 Clark, Geo. T., Esq., Taly-Garn, Pontyclown, Glamorgan. 
 
 Clements, H. J. B. , Esq., Killadoon, Celbridge, Co. Kildare. 
 
 Colby, Rev. F. T., D.D., 12, Hillsborough Terrace, Ilfracombe. 
 
 Cole, C. F., Esq., Flintfield, Warlingham, Surrey. 
 
 Cokayne, G. E. , Esq. (Clarenceux), College of Arms, London. 
 
 Churchward, F., Esq., Clarendon House, Granville Park, Blackheath, London; 
 
 and Hill House, Stoke Gabriel, Devon. 
 Commin, Mr. James G., 230, High Street, Exeter. 
 Cust, Lady E., 13, Eccleston Square, London. 
 Drake, A. J., Esq., Stratford, Essex. 
 
 Drake, II., Esq., 23, Upper Phillimore Gardens, London. 
 Drake, Sir Wm. , 12, Prince's Gardens, London. 
 Drake, W. H., Esq., Maison clii Coin, St. Bulades, Jersey. 
 Dredge, J. I., Esq., Buckland Brewer, Bideford. 
 Downing, W., Esq., Alton, near Birmingham. (Two copies.)
 
 xiv LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 
 
 Eland, Mr. Henry S., Exeter. (Two copies.) 
 
 Finch, Rev. W., The Monks, Chaddesley Corbett, Kidderminster. (Two copies.) 
 
 Fisher, E., Esq., F.S.A. (Scot.), Abbotsbury, Newton Abbot. 
 
 Fry, E. A., Esq., 172, Edmund Street, Birmingham. 
 
 Gatty, A. S., Esq. (York Herald), College of Arms, London. 
 
 Granville, Rev. R., The Rectory, Bideford. 
 
 Gray, Mr. H., 47, Leicester Square, London. (Two copies.) 
 
 George's Sons, Messrs. Wm., Bristol. 
 
 Gibbs, A., Esq., Tyntesfield, near Bristol. 
 
 Gibbs, H. M., Esq., Barrom Court, Flax Bourton, R.S.O., Somerset. 
 
 Gibbs, Rev. K. F., Aldenham Vicarage, near Elstree, Herts. 
 
 Gilbert, W. K., Esq., 6, Dowgate Hill, London. 
 
 Gidley, G., Esq., 17, Saltash Street, Plymouth. 
 
 Godwin, J. G., Esq., 83, Eccleston Square, Pimlico, London. 
 
 Gould, Rev. S. B., Lew Trenchard, N. Devon. 
 
 Hawkesbury, Lord, 2, Carlton House Terrace, London. 
 
 Hamlyn, J., Esq., Toll Marsh, Buckfastleigh. 
 
 Hamlyn, W. , Esq., Buckfastleigh. 
 
 Hayne, Rt. Hon. Col. C. S., M.P., 6, Upper Belgrave Street, London. 
 
 Hems, H., Esq., Fair Park, Exeter. 
 
 Holcombe, W., Esq., 30, Orchard Street, Portman Square, London. 
 
 Horniman, F. J., Esq., M. P., Surrey Mount, Forest Hill, London. 
 
 Hovenden, R., Esq., F.S.A., Heathcote Park Hill Road, Croydon. 
 
 Hughes, H. R., Esq., Kinmel Park, Abergele. 
 
 Hurrell, J. S., Esq., The Manor House, Kingsbridge. 
 
 Lindsay, W. A., Esq. (Windsor Herald), College of Arms, London. 
 
 Liverpool Athenaeum, Liverpool. 
 
 London, Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of, Fulham Palace, London. (Two copies.) 
 
 Mallock, R., Esq., Cockington Court, near Torquay. 
 
 Masland, W., Esq., 31, Fore Street, Tiverton. 
 
 McDowall, S. S., Esq., 54, St. James Street, London. 
 
 Mowbray, Rt. Hon. Sir John R., Bart., M.P., Warrennes Wood, Mortimer, Berks. 
 
 New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, U.S.A. 
 
 Nettleship, Mrs. K., 5, Wimpole Street, London. 
 
 Nicholls, G. J., Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Bengal Civil Service, Teekenning, 
 
 Cornwall. 
 
 Nicholls, H. Millett, Esq., Culverlands, Shedfield, Botley, Hants. 
 North Devon Alhenseum, Barnstaple. 
 Northmore, John, Esq. (of Cleve). 
 Oliver, V. L., Esq., Whitmore Lodge, Suminghill. 
 Penzance Library, Penzance, Cornwall. 
 
 Periam, H. W., Esq., Blossomfield, Solihull, near Birmingham. 
 Peek, C. E., Esq., Rousdon, Lyme Regis. 
 Rattenbury, B., Esq., Charlottetown, P.E.I., Canada. 
 Rawle, E. J., Esq., 10, Colville Terrace, Bayswater, London. 
 Roddy, John Jordan, 10, Rahere Street, London. 
 Rowe, J. B., Esq., F.S.A., Castle Barbican, Plympton, S. Devon. 
 Spalding, Dr. J. A., 627, Congress Street, Portland, Maine.
 
 LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 
 
 Sillifant, A. O., Esq., Coombe, Copplestone, N. Devon. 
 
 Stevens, Mr. B. F., 4, Trafalgar Square, London. 
 
 Scribner's Sons, Messrs. C., St. Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane, London. 
 
 Smith, Tom C., Esq., F.R.H.S., Longridge, near Preston. 
 
 Tremayne, Hon. Mrs., Heligan, St. Austell, Cornwall. 
 
 Troup, Mrs. J. R., Rockbeare House, near Exeter. 
 
 Venn, Dr. J., Caius College, Cambridge. 
 
 Waldron, C., Esq., Llandaff, S. Wales. 
 
 Wreford, G., Esq., Prestonbury, Clapham Park, London. 
 
 Wrey, Miss F., Tawstock Court, Barnstaple. 
 
 Wise, Major L. A. (of Clayton), Watts House, Bishop's Lydeard, Taunton. 
 
 White, T. J., Esq., 59, Bryanston Street, London. 
 
 Woods, Sir Albert W. (Garter), College of Anns London. 
 
 AUTHOR'S LIST. 
 
 Britton, A. H., Esq. (Somerset House). 
 
 Cutcliff, G., Esq. 
 
 Fox, Miss Rita. 
 
 Pyke-Nott, J. N., Esq. (of Bydown).
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS 
 
 WILLS PROVED, AND ADMINISTRATIONS 
 
 GRANTED, IN THE COURT OF THE 
 
 ARCHDEACONRY OF EXETER. 
 
 1546. Abstract of the Last Will of Elys Venman, of 
 Sampford Peverell. Mentions wife Katherine and daughter 
 Agnes. Appoints John Venman and Richard Sawnder Over- 
 seers. Wife Executor. 
 
 Dated loth Dec., 1546. Proved, 1546. 
 
 1546. Thomas Hill, of "twyvordton" (Tiverton), 1 5th Oct., 
 1546, desires to be buried in St. Peter's Church Yard there, and 
 gives to " my ghostly father, Sir Edmund Tuckheye," a small 
 bequest. 
 
 Thomas Cole, mentioned as Town Clerk. 
 
 Proved, i8th Oct., 1546. 
 
 NOTE." Hill " of Tiverton. 
 
 At the commencement of the Parliamentary rebellion, one William 
 Hill, of Tiverton, heard that the soldiers were demolishing what 
 Queen Elizabeth's "visitors" had left of the stately burial chapel of 
 the Earls of Devon, in the Parish Church. William considered that he 
 might as well have a share of the plunder, but found that everything 
 had been pretty well cleared away before his arrival, with the exception 
 of the "Sanctus bell," underneath which he placed a ladder in order 
 to "annex" it. But the bell slipped through his fingers and cut off 
 his toes on both feet, on account of which he was obliged to sell 
 his small property (a tenement and garden) in order to pay for his cure. 
 But he remained a cripple, and was ultimately found dead in a ditch 
 in the parish of East Anstey. 
 2
 
 2 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1 546. The last will of John Quicke, of " Sent Ceris Newton " 
 (Newton St. Cyres), I4th Sept., 1546. Bequest "To the Store 
 of St. Cire. Small bequest to his " ladde " George Kensbye. 
 Residue to Margery, his wife, who is sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 22nd Oct., 1546. 
 
 NOTE. " Quicke " of Newton St. Cyres. 
 
 According to Sir Bernard Burke, the Quickes have only been settled 
 at Newton St. Cyres since 1591, when they are said to have migrated 
 from West Monkton, Co. Somerset. That they were here earlier than 
 the end of the sixteenth century is shown by the above Will. 
 
 "The Store of Sent Ceris." In old parish accounts mention is 
 frequently made of various " stores " in connection with the Church ; 
 they were under the care of wardens of fraternities, called after some 
 Saint, who raised money for various parochial purposes, and accounted 
 for the sums they collected to the parish wardens annually. 
 
 Newton Church was dedicated to St. Ciricius, properly Quiricus, an 
 infant Martyr of Tarsus, A.D. 304. 
 
 The Earl of Iddesleigh derives his second title, Viscount St. Cyres, 
 from this parish, in which his ancestors at one time resided. 
 
 1547. Henry Marvvood, of Halberton. In the name of the 
 father, the sonne and the holy Gooste, three persons and one God 
 and lyke power, so be y t- The twentye daye of June y n the 
 seven and thyrtye yere of o r moste trysty, victoryous, and 
 imperyall prynce Henry the eyght by the grace of God of 
 England, fTrance and Ireland kynge and in erthe the supreme 
 hedde next under god of the spyritualtye and temporalte w' in 
 hys graces seyde domynyons ; I Henrye Marwood of Lyncolnes 
 in, touched vv l the handes of God, and w' longe sickenesse of 
 bodye for my great and many offencys vvorthely afflicted and 
 punnyshed, notw'hstandynge as one unworthye, havenge my 
 pfct remembrance, thanks be to God, do make and order thys 
 my last will and testament of my sowle, bodye, and goods as 
 hereafter esunthe. ffyrst and chefflye I most wretchyd synner 
 beynge penytent, and sorye for my sayde ofTencys, do humblye 
 comyt and bequeathe my sowle unto Allmythye god as unto 
 my maker, to Jesus Cryste hys onlye Sonne borne of the Vyrgyn 
 Marye, as unto my redemer, and unto the holy gooste as to my 
 co'forter. Unto them thre as unto one god y" whome I 
 perfctlye belyfe, and have a lyvelye fay the and costant hope that 
 throwghe the merytes of Crysts passyon hys bludde beynge
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 3 
 
 plentyfullye shedde on the crosse for me and all mankynde, I 
 shall surelye and vv' owte my debts enheryte the kyngdom of 
 heven and throwghe hym receve my salvatyon accordynge as 
 he hathe promysed y n hys gospell, and not throwghe anye deserts 
 or woorks of myne vver they never so manye or so good, as they 
 are both few and vassie, ne bye any other worlye meanes but 
 only by Jesus Cryste beynge the pf yt waye throwghe, and lyfe 
 unto salvacyn. Secondarylye, as by the Create, all thyngs, my 
 bodye was formyd and made of the slyme of the erthe, borne 
 and browghte ynto thys vale of myserie y n wrechydnes and 
 synne, so I geve and comyt my sayde bodye y n erthe to 
 remayne, untyll the blyseyd comynge of Cryste my redemer, 
 and then from thens to ryse agayne and to receyve his mrcyfull 
 jugement bothe y n bodye and sowle. I wyll farther, that my 
 sayde bodye be browght y" the erthe w h as small charges as 
 may be convenyentlye, nether wythe ryngynge, pypynge, ne 
 syngynge, nether wythe any other maner of crymony, but only 
 w h the styll prayer of devout p s ons, and a sarmon the daye of 
 my buryall to be made and preachyd for the edyfyenge of suche 
 as shall be there present, by sum Catholycke and lernyd p s on ; 
 the sayde s r moner to have of my executryxe for hys stypent or 
 wages syxe shyllyngs and eghtypens ; not y n tendyngne herebye 
 to dysalowe or neclecte the sayde ceremonyes, but accomptynge 
 the other to be better and more acceptable, both for my sowle, 
 and also for the edyfyenge, and fedyng of Crysts flocke, wythe 
 the worde of god whyche y s the hevenlye ffoode of the sowle, 
 and the chyfe setterfourthe of the glorye of god, whyche I, and 
 all other hys servants, ofte cheflye to seke and folowe, and no 
 other pompe ne glorye of thys world to accept or use, for y' y s 
 all vayne, and shall vanyshe and wither awaye as dothe the 
 flowre. Also I wyll that my Executryx shall geve and dyspose 
 syxe shillings and eight-pens to the powrest of the people beynge 
 present at my buryall. Thyrdlye, and last, I geve and bequeythe 
 my goods to the wordly, that y s to saye I geve to my good 
 mother, a rynge of golde w* a turkes set theren, and also I geve 
 her another rynge of golde callyd a hoope of golde. I geve also 
 unto my brother John Marwood, my best gowne unto my 
 brother Barnard Marwood, my second gowne to Mr. Peter 
 Osborne, my bedfellowe and specyall frynde, my sealynge rynge
 
 4 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 of golde, whervvythe I have sealyd this my last wyll. I geve 
 also to Master Peter Browne my daggar trymed \v h sylv r , and 
 unto hys vvyfe, a rynge of goolde \v h a whyte hedde sett theron 
 called a came stone; and a cussynge w h the armes of mine 
 Auncestres wrovvght w h corell and sylke. I geve also to Master 
 Thomas Poules wyfe, my other cussynge w' armes wrowght y n 
 lyke wyse \v l corell and sylke. I allso geve to Master Thomas 
 Waller a rynge of golde w l a blewe saver sett theron. The 
 rest of all my goods I geve to Mastris Johan Marwood my 
 mother whome I ordayne and make my executryx, she therewt h 
 to content and pay my debtys as far as theye shall extende, and 
 yf my sayde goods shall not suffyce to paye my sayde debtys, 
 I wyll that my next heyre, to whome my lands shall dessende, 
 shall cotent and paye the rest of all my debts. Fynally, I shall 
 most hertelye desyre all such as I have offendyd charytablelye 
 to forgive me my offencys, and wrongs comyttyd agenst them ; 
 and frelye I forgeve them and all other, endyng my lyfe y n 
 pf yt faythe, constant hope, and godlye charyte. Thus I comyt 
 agayne my sowle y n to the hands of Allmyghtye God, to whom 
 be all honor, glory and impery world w*out end Amen. In 
 wytnesse thys to be my last wyll I have wrote hyt w' my hand, 
 w'out entirlynynge, blottynge, or rasynge thereof, subscrybed 
 my name and sett to my scale, the day and yere above wryten 
 
 p me Henery Marwood. 
 Administration granted I3th Sept., 1547. 
 
 NOTE. The above interesting Will is an exact copy of the document, 
 as collated, in an old book of the Archdeaconry, page 45. The original, 
 in testator's "own hand" has disappeared. It is the more important, as it 
 is not referred to in the account of the Marwood family, " Genealogist," 
 N.S. Vols. I. II. which deals chiefly with Dr. Thomas Marwood, 
 Physician to Queen Elizabeth, and his descendants, one of whom, his 
 grandson, Thomas Marwood, attended James I. in his last illness, of 
 which he left a MS. account, in Latin, and which has been recently 
 printed. Testator appears to have been a great uncle of Dr. Thomas 
 Marwood the elder, who died 1617, aged 105 years. Testator's 
 mother, "Johan," was the daughter of Humphry Courtenay of Bickley, 
 by his wife Elizabeth Pomeroy of Berry. 
 
 Arms of Marwood. Gu. a chevron Arg. between three goats' heads 
 erased Ermine.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 5 
 
 1547. The Last Will of Edmond Sherlond. 
 
 He bequeaths his soul to God, and his body to be buried 
 within the yle of our Ladye in " my parish of Wasshefylde" 
 (Washfield) paying for the same 6s. 8d. Alsoe to Mr. Parson 
 Worthe " pro decimis " xxd. Item to my ghostly father Wm. 
 Williams to pray for me xiid. To Thomas Scholond the Clerke 
 xiid. Executor Son John Sherlond. Witnesses, William 
 Williams, Pryst, Mr, Symon Worthe. Overseers, Mr. Symon 
 Worthe and John Casswyll. 
 
 Proved I7th June, 1547. 
 
 NOTE. Symon Worthe of Worth was the Squire of the Parish. 
 " Mr. Parson Worlhe " was his brother Richard, who probably died 
 about 1547. His will is dated that year. William Williams "Pryst" 
 may have been the Curate, but John Castlyn was instituted to 
 Washfield Rectory, then "certo modo vacantem " 2%th Aug. 1554. 
 No institution has been found between Castlyn and Richard Worthe. 
 
 1548. The Last Will of Eliza Toker, "Widow Woman of the 
 parish of Bradninch." Her body to be buried in Churchyard 
 of Bradninch. She leaves her goods " moveable and im- 
 moveable " to her "natural daughter" Johan Toker, who is 
 Sole Executrix. 
 
 Dated I2th May. Proved 2nd June, 1548. 
 
 Sum io i is. 6d. 
 
 1549. The Last Will of Robert Toker of Awtrie St. Marie. 
 He commends his body to Holy Grave. 
 Item to Sister Alys Tawse, "a purse with four tassels." 
 Item to John Facie -/I2, to Elizabeth Seaward -/I2. 
 Residue to John Tawse, "to bestow for the wealth of my 
 Soul, as he thinks most best." 
 
 Dated 22nd Nov., 1548. Proved I7th April, 1549. 
 Sum $ 135. 4d. 
 
 1549. Administration to the Will of William Drake of 
 Rewe, granted to Margery his wife and Executrix. 
 1 2th Oct., 1549.
 
 6 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1577. Henery Hamlyn of St. Thomas, Exeter, 7th Aug., 1567. 
 
 He leaves John Peter twenty nobles. To God-children 
 /4d. each. To John Jordeyne "my cassock." Half of the 
 residue to Richard Holman and Joan, my daughter, his wife. 
 The other half to wife Alice who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Brother Symon Hamlyn and Cousin John Hamlyn Overseers. 
 
 Witnesses, Richard Holman and Richard Harte. 
 
 Proved I9th May, 1577. 
 
 1583. The last Will of Francis Ffugars, of Bampton, 
 Husbandman. I3th April, 1583. To poor of the said parish^ 
 a sack of rye, and to each of his three servants /I2d. each. 
 
 To daughter Christian, 20 marks, to Godsons, /I2d. each. 
 
 To Brother, James ffugars, Best Cloak. Residue to wife, 
 Michel 1, who is Sole Executrix. Supervisors, Father-in-law 
 Michael Burston, James Fugars, Harry Hill and Wm. Comer. 
 " Whereas my wife is now with Child, my will is that his name 
 be put in upon my bargain if he be a man child, but if it be a 
 daughter I leave it to discretion of my Executrix. Testator was 
 indebted in the sum of 5 IQS. 8d. to his brother, Humfrie 
 ffugars. 
 
 Proved I5th May, 1583. 
 
 1583. The last Will of Elyen Connaunte of Collenton Raw- 
 lighe, in the County of Devon, Widow, 2Oth Feb., 25th Elizb. 
 To the four Children of Son-in-law John Kinge, " one whether 
 sheep each." To Jane, dau. of said John Kinge, one pewter dish. 
 
 To Johan, dau. of John Bocher, " my best kercher." 
 
 To Margaret, dau. of James Eliott, one petticoat. To Thomas 
 Hidon the younger -/6. 
 
 Residue to dau. Elizabeth, who is sole executrix. Overseers, 
 Robert Ballemont and Thomas Hidon, who witness the will. 
 Amongst the debts, she owes "my Lady Dennys" i6s. 8d., 
 John Connaute 45. 8d. 
 
 Proved 5th April, 1583. 
 
 The Conants, now of the United States, are said to have originated 
 m Prance; they settled in the district around Sidmouth, and produced
 
 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 7 
 
 many scholars and beneficed clergymen. John Conant, born at Bicton, 
 1608, was Rector of Exeter College, Oxford. 
 
 " Lady Dennys " was the wife of Robert Dennis, the owner of 
 Bicton aforesaid, and patron of its church; he died 1592. He married 
 twice ist, Mary, daughter of Walter, Lord Mount-Joy ; 2nd, Margaret, 
 daughter and heiress of Sir Wm. Godolphin ; the latter survived him. 
 
 1585 Administration to the Effects of Roger Connett late 
 of Whimple deceased, granted to Joan his wife 3 1st March, 
 
 1585. 
 
 James Brodbeare joins the bond. 
 Sum 16 55. 4<i. 
 
 1585. The last Will of Joane Conett of Christowe, Widow, 
 2/th May, 1583. 
 
 To Son, Robert Lendon, " a panne of fower gallons, a 
 hoggeshead & the biggest eared tubbe." To Margaret, dau. 
 of Robert Lendon, " one tynnen podger." 
 
 To Son, John Connett, one brasen crocke, a panne of three 
 gallons and a tynnen platter & a redde peticote. 
 
 Residue to Son Richard Lendon who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Witnesses, Clirist Townesente, John Synone, and John 
 Taverner. 
 
 Proved i;th April, 1585. 
 
 Sum 4 175. 2d. 
 
 1585-6. The last Will of Richard Mountstephen of Cadlighe, 
 23rd Feb., 28th Elizabeth. He makes his four Sisters, Cislie, 
 Joan, Marie, & Margaret universal legatees and Sole Exor?. 
 
 In presence of Win. Norcott parson of Cadlighe, and John 
 Geare, with others. Proved 1586. 
 
 NOTE The Mountstephens were originally of Northampton. The 
 Devonshire branch resided chiefly at Collumpton, and at Heavitree, 
 near Exeter, where their names are found in the Parish Registers.
 
 8 DEVONSHIRE 
 
 1586. 2ist June, 1586. The Will of John Connaute of Git- 
 tisham. He desires to be buried in the parish Church. He 
 gives to Nicholas, his son, his Cupboard. To John, his son, his 
 Table-board. To Matthew, his son, a bed. Residue to his wife 
 Mary, who is sole Executrix. 
 
 Amongst the "debts owing" there is mention of a debt due 
 from " one that dwelleth at Lynge who married the widowe 
 Venn's daughter, of Larkbeare, whose name the Testator 
 remembered not." 
 
 Proved 2Oth Sept., 1586. 
 
 1586. The last Will of Thomas Kyllande of South Tawton, 
 Yeoman, Qth Oct., 28th Elizb. He desires to be buried at South 
 Tawton, and leaves to the poor men's box " one sheepe." To 
 Wife, Margaret, 20. To Son John, I heiffer. To Son William, 
 5. To Son Mark, 5. To " four youngest Children, Francis, 
 Walter, Elmon, & Isett," 5 each at 21. To Walter & Richard, 
 Children of John Canne, " a Sheep apeece." 
 
 " My Executor to find meat & drink sufficient for their degree 
 for Margaret my wife & my four youngest Children, for twelve 
 months after my decease." 
 
 Residue to Son Gregory, who is Sole Exor. Overseers, John 
 Canne and Wm. Borne. 
 
 Proved 9th Nov., 1586. 
 
 Sum 46 75. 
 
 NOTE Now spelt Kelland. An old yeoman family long identified 
 with the parish of Lapford, and assumed to be of the same stock as 
 " Kelbnd" of Paynsford, near Totnes. 
 
 1588. Admon. to Effects of Robert Mt.Steven of Payhem- 
 bury. Granted loth April, 1588, to Alice, his wife. 
 Sum 13 193. 4d. 
 
 1586. Administration to the effects of John Eveleighe, Esqr., 
 of Clist St. Lawrence, Intestate. Granted to Joan his relict.
 
 DEVONSH1KE WILLS. 9 
 
 George Eveleighe his Son and Robert Connante of Bovey Tracy 
 join the bond, 40. 
 Granted 1586. 
 
 NOTE. This family were of Eveleigh, in Broad Clist. Several of 
 them were Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford. Dr. John Eveleigh 
 was Provost of Oriel; born at Totnes ; died 1814. 
 
 1592. The last Will of Nicholas Tooker of Upton Pyne, 
 3Oth Oct., 24th Elizabeth. To the poor 2O/- and to those of 
 Newton St. Cyres and Kirton, Shobbrooke and Thorverton, 
 similar bequests. To Brother William ^3. To Cousin William, 
 John Tooker's Son 20. Bequest to each of my Cousin 
 Christopher Sergun's Children. To Brother Thomas Tooker 4/- 
 and " my best cloak, hat and doublett." Also bequests to Brother 
 William's wife, to Cousin's Son Walter Halles, and to Sister 
 Caroline's Son, Richard Pooke. Residue to Mother, Joane 
 Tooker, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses, Thos. and Wm. Tooker. 
 
 Proved ist Dec., 1592. 
 
 1 592. The last Will of Christopher Tooker. He desires to 
 be buried in the Parish Churchyard of Throwley, and " although 
 sicke of bodye, yet hole of memory," &c. gives to daughter Erne 
 her mother's best gowne, the sylvern hookes and one measure 
 of tynning- vessell. To daughter Johane, the great brazen crocke. 
 To daughter Margaret, a similar bequest. To son James, "my 
 best brazen home and my best ewere." To servant, George 
 Venycombe, a doublet and grey jerkyn, a pair of leathern 
 drawers, and second best hatte. Residue to wife Anne, who 
 is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Dated 6th Aug., 34th Elizb. Proved 4th Oct., 1592. 
 
 Sum 16 155. 4d. 
 
 1604. The last Will of Alice Peeter of ye cittie of Exeter, 
 widow, 4th June, 1604. To Son Humfrie Peeter and his heirs an 
 annuity issuing out of a tenement in the Parish of St. Paul,
 
 io DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Exeter, for ever. Legacies, to daughter, Alice Keridge wife of 
 Thomas K. to be paid by Son, George Peeter. To dau. 
 Welthian Tucker, To daughter Joyse Browning, To Son Morice 
 Peeter, to Cousin Bridgett Watts, to said George Peeter's children, 
 To Son Thomas Peeter, To Cozen Samuel Tucker, to Son 
 Valentine Tucker (her Son-in-law) who has also six silver 
 spoons, a pair of great andirons " which be in his fore chamber 
 at ye new Ine." 
 
 Exor. Humfrie Peeter. Overseers, Sons-in-law Valentine 
 Tucker and Thomas Keridge. 
 
 "Allc Peeter." 
 
 "Concordat cum testamento penes Registrarii remanente. 
 Jaeperus Bridgeman registrarius Archidiaconi Exonicnsis 
 testatur." 
 
 (From Copy at Exeter Guildhall.) 
 
 NOTE. She would seem to have been the widow of William (fourth 
 son of John Peter, Mayor of Exeter, 1557 ; died 1579), descended from 
 a brother of John Petre of Tor-Newton, ancestor of Lord Petre. 
 
 1606. The Last Will of George Gib, of Clyst St. George. 
 
 In the Name of God, Emanuel, Amen. I, George Gib, &c. 
 
 To Sixe of the poorer sorte of the parishe, iijd. To John Gib, 
 the elder (his son by Welthean (Gwenllian ?), his first wife), 
 one table borde in the hall, his greatest brasen crocke, his 
 Brewing Panne, and his Cricking bute, " which things I was 
 willed by my father to leave unto my eldest sonne." 
 
 To Catherine, his daughter, 20, one worsted kirtle, a pair of 
 Silver Hooks, and one Silver Pinne. 
 
 To Edward, George, and John, the younger, his sons, 8 
 each. To Andrewe, his son, .10, to be paid to Andrewe 
 Levering, his brother-in-law, and John Gib, the elder, his 
 son, to be employed for him in some lawful and honest 
 sorte. 
 
 To his Godchildren iiijd. apiece, except George Gib, his son's 
 son, to whom he gives " a yeo lamb at weyninge time." 
 
 The residue to Marie, his wief (his second wife), whom he 
 makes his Whole and Sole Executrix.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. u 
 
 Witnesses, Edward Osborne, Andrewe Loveringe, and John 
 Gib. 
 
 Overseers, 'Ed ward Osborne, Andrewe Loveringe, and William 
 Gib. 
 
 Will dated 24th of February, 1605/6. 
 
 Proved 2pth August, 1606. 
 
 NOTE. George Gibbe was buried at Clyst St. George, August 
 251!), 1606. 
 
 1606. The last Will of Elizabeth Mortymer of Tedburn 
 St. Mary, widow. Bequests of Clothes, furniture, or sheep, 
 to Son William and his wife Margery, and their " children." 
 To daughter Thomasine, Cousins Elizabeth and "Mock"(?) and 
 to Thomas and Jone French. 
 
 To cousin Walter Mortimer, to Jone Connett and to God- 
 daughter Rose " Temlett " (Tremlett ?). The last has " a 
 Wastcote, a peare of hose, and shoes." 
 
 Residue to Son John, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Two Trustees, viz, James Woodley and Jno. French. 
 
 Witnesses, Thomas French, Thomasine Wonstone, and 
 Christian Collihole. 
 
 Proved iQth Dec, 1606. 
 
 Sum 5 135. Sd. 
 
 NOTE. JAMES WOODLEY. The Woodleys migrated to Ashburton, 
 and were Lords of the Manor of Buckland-in-the-Moor, 1593. 
 
 Present Representative James Woodley, J.P., of Halshanger, 
 Ashburton. 
 
 1609. The last Will of Lawrence Wreaford of Bickleigh, 
 husbandman. 
 
 He gives a sheep to Mrs. Twigge and a lamb to John 
 Twigge, and the residue to Argent, his wife, who is Sole 
 Executrix. 
 
 Dated i6th April, 1st James. Proved loth March, 1609. 
 
 Sum 17 9s. 4d.
 
 12 DEVONSHIRE IV ILLS. 
 
 1613. Symon Tucker of Tedburne St. Mary. 2Oth Oct., 
 1613. To be buried in Church of St. Mary, Tedburne. 
 Bequests to said Church and poor. To Jone, daughter of 
 Henry Woodley, 3 5s. at 18 or marriage. To Martha, 
 daughter of Henry and Elioner Woodley, and to their Son, 
 Robert Woodley, at 16. Bequest To Son Thomas " my 
 table horse " (Trestle ?) and the new house after wife's death. 
 Bequest to Symon Endell. 
 
 Witnesses, John and Richard Endell. 
 
 Proved iQth Nov., 1613. 
 
 1613. The Last Will of Elizabeth Mortimer of Bradridge, 
 Widow, Nuncupative. 
 
 Bequests to the poor and towards reparation of the Church. 
 Residue to Henry Hille, her Son, who is Sole Exor. 
 Dated and Proved July, 1613. 
 
 1613. The last Will, Nuncupative, of Elizabeth Mortimer 
 of Bradridge, widow, 8th July, 1613. 
 
 Imprimis. To the poor of Bradridge and to the reparacion 
 of the Church 11/6. 
 
 To God-children i/- apiece. 
 
 Residue to Henry Hille her Son, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 " Money oweynge to John Hille 303/4." 
 
 Proved July, 1613. 
 
 1618. Administration to the Effects of Henry Mortimer of 
 Rewe. Granted to Wm. Mortimer of Torrington, Yeoman. 
 1 2th May, 1618. 
 Sum 51 is. 6d. 
 
 1617. William Osmond of Kcntisbeare. Sept. 24th, 1617. 
 To Son Samuel 50. To dau. Thomasine Palmer 5. To 
 Edward and Nicholas Sons of Samuel Osmond io/-. To 
 Agnes wife of said Samuel io/-. To daughter Isot Butstone, 
 40/-. To Anne and Wilmot Palmer 5/- each. To Anstice
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 13 
 
 Osmond, dau. of Thomasine Palmer, io/-. To Agnes wife of 
 Thomas Symons 3O/-. To Thomas son of said Thomas 
 Symons io/-. To Thomasine wife of Richard Osmond -/I2. 
 To John Salter the younger -/6. To poor of Kentisbeare 
 3/4. To Kentisbeare Church -/2O. 
 
 Robert Osmond, Sole Exor. 
 
 Two rulers, viz. : Ralfe Merson and John Salter with i/- 
 each. 
 
 Proved iQth March, 1617. 
 
 Sum 19 i /s. 
 
 1617. Thomas Wreyforde of Exeter "Taillor" makes 
 Gregory Soper, universal Legatee and Sole Executor. 
 Overseer, George Trente. 
 Dated March 2Oth, 1616. Proved 29th April, 1617. 
 
 1617. John Osmunde of Kentisbeare. Sept. 2ist, 1616. 
 He leaves small bequests to the Church and to the poor, and 
 the residue to Johane his wife, who is Sole Executrix. Two 
 Overseers, " my eldest son, George Osmunde of Uffculme and 
 my youngest son, John Osmunde of Tiverton." 
 Witnesses, Robert Bishoppe, 
 Saml. James, 
 Thomas Bussell. 
 Proved 2nd July, 1617. 
 
 1618. Henry Osmond of Sampford Peverell, i8th June, 
 1618. To brother Roger my wearing apparel "except my 
 cloak which is to be sold to pay my funeral." He leaves his 
 wife his leasehold dwelling house, determinable on the lives 
 of Brother Matthew Osmond and Sister Anstice Rawling. 
 The goods in hou<-e to revert to Servant, Elizabeth Osmond. 
 
 3 Trustees, "friend" Arthur Hill, and Cousin John Osmond 
 of Shobrooke, and John O. Son of said John. 
 
 Witnesses, Arthur Hill, Thos Welland, Henry and Matthew 
 Osmond, Richard Saunders and John Churly. 
 
 Proved I4th Aug., 1618. 
 
 Sum 23 5s. 4d.
 
 , 4 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1618. Thomas Hamlyn of St. Thomas, Exeter, Yeoman. 
 
 9th Aug., 1618. 
 
 To Daughter Mary 50, Son John 50, Daughter Alice 
 120, Son Roger 120. All legacies at 21. 
 
 Residue to wife Judith, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Mentions "brothers" Jentill Venycombe and Roger Hamlyn. 
 
 Proved i8th Sept., 1618. 
 
 NOTE. A branch of the family of Hamlyn of Widecombe-in-the- 
 Moor and Holne. See Post. 
 
 1619. Tristram Tucker of Brampford Speke, Husbandman. 
 2nd Jany., 1619. 
 
 To eldest daughter " Hebbot," the bedstead in the parlour. 
 
 Residue to wife Dorothy, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses William Flaycross, Clerk, Gregory Ponsford. 
 
 Proved at Exeter, I2th Jany., 1619. 
 
 Extract from Inventory of above : 
 
 "Rente laid out for ground beforehand 4 5-s. 
 
 Item 2 kine and I yereling 7 5s. 
 
 i mare and 2 foles 12. 
 
 4 flitches of bacon io/-. 
 
 14 yards new wollen cloth. 
 
 4 brass pans, I cauldron and 2 skillets. 
 
 ,, His dunge." 
 Sum 58 is. 4d. 
 
 NOTE. Flaycross was not Vicar. Tristram Heycraft was collated 
 to Brampford Speke 1609-10, and died 1628-9. 
 
 1619. Administration of the Goods of Richard Gibbs of 
 Clyst St. George granted to Jane his widow. Henry Smyth 
 of Lympston bound with her. Goods priced by John Gibbe 
 and Henry Goldsworthy, May 25. 
 
 Proved May ist, 1619. 
 
 NOTE. She was widow of ... Symes ; manied to Richard 
 Gibbe at Clyst St. George, Sept. 23rd, 1601.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 15 
 
 1619. Ralph Owsment (Osmond) of Whimple, 29th July, 
 1619. To Son, Ralph Owsment, my best suit of apparel. 
 " If my wife marry again I give to my two daughters Anne 
 and Thomasine half my household goods." 
 
 Residue to said wife Alice, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 No witnesses. 
 
 Proved 29th Sept., 1619. 
 
 Sum 11 i6s. 
 
 1619. The last Will of John Tucker of Potcote in the 
 parish of Tiverton. He gives the poor of the parish 2O/- 
 " on the day of his burial." 
 
 He leaves " each of my children " 3/4 apiece, " one ewe and 
 one sheep." 
 
 Residue to wife Katherine who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Philip Thorbridge and Wm. Hayleighe Rulers, John 
 Fursdon Overseer. These are left 2/- each. 
 
 Witnesses John Fursdon, Hugh Veysey, Richard Tucker. 
 
 Dated April 2Oth, 1618. Proved 1st March, 1619. 
 
 Sum >TJ 193. 6d. 
 
 Inventory. 
 
 " Dishes, Spoones, Trenchers, and Cupps, I/-." 
 " His Otes, barley and Barley mault, Wheeles, butt drayg, 
 
 harrowes, Corne in ground, 4. Haye, io/-. I bullocke and 
 
 1 pigg e > 36/-. Duckes, 2/-." 
 
 Item one deede of ffarme or purchas 20. 
 
 NOTE. The Wills of Ellis Tucker, Oct., 1610, and William 
 Tucker, July, 1615, both of Tiverton, were duly proved, according 
 to the Calendars, but are now missing. 
 
 1619. Thomas Mortimore of Tedburn St. Mary, 26th 
 Nov., 1619. 
 
 He leaves to the maintenance of Tedburn Church 5/-. To 
 Sons Thomas and Nathaniel 4O/- each, at 21. "Item I give 
 unto them one brassen panne contayninge by estimation about 
 forteene gallandes after my wife Wilrnott's death."
 
 if, DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 To dau. Elizabeth and Son John 4O/- each at 21. Residue 
 to wife Wilmot, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Two Trustees, viz. : Wm. May of Dunsford and Richard 
 May of Tedbourn. 
 
 Proved i;th Dec., 1619. 
 
 Sum 33 8s. 
 
 1620. Thomas Osmond of Uplowman. To Son William 
 all my apparel " and after the decease of my wyef my little 
 caldron, pott hookes and hangings, and my great crocke." 
 To daughter Joane, "after my vvyef's death or marriage," a 
 pan and crocke. Residue to wife Thomasine, who is Sole 
 Executrix. 
 
 Proved 2Oth April, 1620. 
 
 No witnesses. 
 
 Testator was a weaver. 
 
 Sum 4 55. 2d. 
 
 1621. Wilmot Osmon of Tiverton, widow, I5th Dec., 1621. 
 There are small bequests to the children of John Skynner, 
 senr., of Tiverton, viz., Nicholas, John, Matthew, Elizabeth, 
 Mary, Prudence, and Priscilla Skynner. To Kinsman Symon 
 Thome, 55. " Item I give my " Tanye " (tawny ?) gown to 
 my kinswoman Elizabeth Cooddeney, of Crocombe, widow." 
 
 Executor, Son-in-lnw, John Skynner. 
 
 Witnesses, John Skynner and John Puddington. 
 
 Proved llth Jany., 1621-2. 
 
 Sum 79 9s. 4d. 
 
 1622. Elizabeth Osmond of Tiverton, widow. There are 
 bequests, chiefly of household goods, to Sons Henry and 
 Thomas Osmond, to Brother John Puddington, to daughter, 
 Mary Perrye, and to Son in-law, Richard Perrye. To Nephew 
 Robert Perrye, 2os. Residue to said Sons, Thomas and Henry, 
 who are Joint Exors. Two Trustees, Brother-in-law John 
 Puddington and John Duckham. These are the witnesses, 
 and have -/1 2 each. 
 
 Dated 26th Aug. Proved 3rd Oct., 1622. 
 
 Sum 38 155. 8d.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 17 
 
 1622. The last Will of Robert Toucker of Tiverton, Hus- 
 bandman. To wife Rabidge, life interest in all property, with 
 reversion to daughter Johane. Dated Dec. ist, 1622. 
 
 Proved 8th Jany., 1622 3. Sum 38 iis. 7d. 
 
 1623. The Effects of Joane Toocker of Tiverton were ad- 
 ministered by Nicholas Tucker, 6th March, 1623. .3 i6s. rod. 
 
 1628. The Effects of Richard Tucker, alias Glover, of Tiver- 
 ton, administered by John T., alias Glover, his Son, who signs 
 "John Tucker." 2ist May, 1628. 
 
 NOTES. The Will of John Tucker of Tiverton, proved March, 1634, 
 is missing. 
 
 Robert Tucker of Tiverton, by his Nuncupative Will, proved 23rd 
 May, 1638, left small bequests to his " eight children," and made his 
 wife, Thomazine, residuary legatee and sole executrix. 
 
 1623. Administration to the Effects, &c., of John Osmond 
 of Shobrook, granted to Andrew, his son, 3Oth May, 1623. 
 Sum .127 IDS. rod. 
 
 1623-4. Thomas Osmond of Halberton, Yeoman. To each 
 of his Sons 55., and to their children 2s. 6d. Residue to 
 daughter Elizabeth, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses, Nicholas and Michael Osmond. 
 
 Dated 26th July, 1623. Proved nth March, 1623-4. 
 
 Sum 8 1 45. 8d. 
 
 1624. John Osmond of Chilloman, in the parish of Halber- 
 ton, I4th Aug., 1624. Desires to be buried in the parish Church 
 of Uplowman, " where I was born." To kinsmen John Osmond 
 and Robert his brother, 2os. each. To kinswoman Mary 
 Esserye, widow, 303. To the poor of Uplowman, 2Os. To 
 Mary, daughter of Zachary Churly, 2os. at 18. To daughter, 
 Agnes Osmond, -/I2. 
 3
 
 1 8 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Residue to daughter, Elizabeth Shackle, who is Sole Exe- 
 cutrix. 
 
 Witnesses, Arthur Hill and Christopher Osmond. 
 Proved 2Qth Oct., 1624. 
 Sum 29 5s. 
 
 1624. Nicholas Hamlyn of St. Mary Steps, Exeter, Cord- 
 vvainer, i8th Sept., 1624. To Son James, best cloak and one 
 platter. To youngest Son, Nicholas, best doublet and breeches, 
 best jerkin, and one platter dish. Wife Joane, Executrix. 
 
 Overseers, Augustine Drake and William Bicklye. Proved 
 22nd Jany., 1624. 
 
 Sum 25 i6s. 8d. 
 
 1624. John Osmonde of Tiverton desires to be buried in 
 Tiverton Church, and leaves to the poor there, and to those 
 of Kentisbeare, small bequests. Bequests also to Humphry, 
 son of Brother George, to Elizabeth, wife of Alexander Hake 
 of Buckland St. Mary, Somerset, to her daughter Anstis 
 Hake, to her son John Hake, to Alexander Hake the younger, 
 to Margaret and Katherine, daughters of the said Alexander 
 Hake. To said Brother George and his three children, to 
 sisters Thomasine, Anthony, and Mary Cave, to Kinsman 
 Stephen. Osmond of Tiverton, and to his brothers. To Joan 
 wife of John Minifer, to Wm. Marshall of Tiverton, Currier, 
 Humphry Bildo of the same, Robert Yarde and John Crooke 
 of Tiverton, labourers, Robert Puddington, weaver, Richard 
 Greane, and George Pooke. 
 
 " Residue to my master, John ' Mynefee.' Witnesses, Richard 
 Capron, Robert ' Meavyseale.' " 
 
 Testator was a Blacksmith. 
 
 Dated 2nd March, 1623. Proved 1st April, 1624. 
 
 Sum 221 155. 6d.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 19 
 
 1624. 3 1st March, 1624. Nuncupative Will of Charells 
 Graunger of Kentisbeare, made in the presence of Walter 
 Chollashe and Bartholomew Butsan. Gives all his apparel to 
 Thomas Graunger his son, and the residue to wife Elizabeth 
 and daughter Jane. They are joint Exors. 
 
 Proved 9th April, 1624. 
 
 Sum .23 35. lod. 
 
 1630. Administration to the Effects of Thomas Graunger, 
 late of Withecomb Rawleigh, granted 3rd Feby., 1630, to 
 Margaret his wife. 
 
 Sum 111 is. 
 
 1626. Abraham Osmond, 191!! Sept., 2nd Charles I., desires 
 to be buried in Halberton Church Yard, and gives to the 
 poor there los. To son Francis 3. To daughter Sara 3 
 and to children's children 5s. each. To Eliza Somers a cer- 
 tain coffer, and another to Elizabeth, daughter of Son Abraham. 
 To apprentice John Stubinges, 35. 4d. Residue to Son 
 Nycholas, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Trustees, Grandson John Haddridge and Son Abraham. 
 
 Witness, John Haddridge. 
 
 Proved I7th Nov., 1626. 
 
 Sum 76 35. 
 
 1626. Robert Osmond of Halberton, 2Oth Dec., 1622. To 
 the poor there 4O/-, to each of Christopher, Nicholas, and 
 James Osmond's Children -/I2 each. To Michael, son of 
 brother James Osmond, 2O/-. To Elizabeth, daughter of brother 
 Thomas Osmond, 2O/-. To John Osmond of Brethembottom, 
 4O/-. To Cousin Nicholas Osmond, 4<D/-. Residue to Cousin 
 Christopher, Son of brother John, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Witnesses Henry Breward. 
 Mighell Osmond. 
 
 Proved 8th Sept., 1626. 
 
 Sum 26 153. 8d.
 
 20 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1627. Administration to the Effects, &c, of James Osmond 
 of Tiverton. 
 
 Granted 2Oth Feby., 1627, to A vice Osmond, widow 
 
 1627. Administration to the Effects, &c., of Edward 
 Osmond of Kentisbeare. 
 
 Granted 5th June, 1627, to Richard Osmond his relict. 
 Sum 38 7s. i id. 
 
 1629. Nuncupative Will of Thomas Gibbs of Clyst St. 
 George, husbandman, I9th August "or thereabouts," in the 
 presence of Robert Gibbe and Elizabeth Crutchard. He 
 leaves 10 each to his daughters Agnes and Joane Gibbs, 
 and leaves the residue to Joane, his wife. 
 
 Goods valued at 162, 
 
 NOTES. Proved in the Court of the Vicars Choral, Oct. 6th, 1642. 
 Wife married secondly, William Darke of Coleridge. 
 
 1631. The Last Will of William Gibb of St. George's 
 Clyst, near Exeter. 
 
 Devises his tenement and Garden, called Claypitt or 
 Peyght, with 23 acres of land, to his nephew and Executor, 
 John Baker, to whom also he leaves his interest held for two 
 lives in the Moiety of Court Place in the same parish. To 
 the poor of the Parish 2O/-. 
 
 Goods appraised in ^"438. 
 
 Will dated May loth. Proved July, 1631. 
 
 Witnesses, Richard Baker and Henry Hunte. 
 
 NOTES. Buried July ijth, 1631, at Clyst St. George. 
 
 On the death of George Gibbs of Clyst St. George, in 1723, his 
 great nephew, George Abraham Gibbs (father of Sir Vicary Gibbs, Chief 
 Justice of the Common Pleas), inherited as his heir-at-law a small estate 
 in that parish, called then, as now, Pytt. 
 
 George Gibb of Clyst St. George was rated in 1650 for part of Court 
 Farm.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS, 21 
 
 1637. The last Will of George "Worthy" of the Parish 
 of St. Sidwells, Exeter, 3rd Sept., 1637. He mentions his 
 Son John " Worthy " and his daughter Joane Wandricke. 
 
 Residue to Joan his wife, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Signed " George Worth." 
 
 Proved Jan. 2ist, 1637. 
 
 NOTE. Testator was fourth son of John Worthe of Crediton, 
 whose Will was proved in the Principal Registry, 4th June, 1596. 
 See Post. The said John Worthe was fifth in descent from Thomas 
 Worthe of Worth, in Washfield, alive 1460. Testator inherited, and 
 farmed, an out-lying estate in St. Sidwells. His great aunt, 
 Alice Worthie, daughter of Otho Worthe of Compton, in Marldon 
 (long the principal residence of this branch of Worth of Worth), 
 was a Nun of Polsloe Priory, and was buried in St. Sidwell's 
 Church, June i2th, 1586, being then in receipt of a pension from 
 the Augmentation Office. Her mother's sister, Cecelia (Mylleton), 
 Prioress of Polsloe, died 1530. 
 
 1637. The last Will of Mary Redway of Exminster. 26th 
 Oct., 1637. 
 
 To be buried in Exminster Churchyard. 
 
 To Son, Richard Redway, is. and I " puter " dish. 
 
 To his three children 12 pence apeace. 
 
 To Geeles Redway "on ponger" dish. 
 
 To Roger Redway " I crock and on pan and on plater dish." 
 To John Redway the younger " I pan and I plater dish." Elizb. 
 Redway "on great candlestick and a skillet and I lam." Eales 
 Redway " my darter " the bed " whereon I now lye performed 
 with bed clothes, all my wearing apparel, I chest and a Coffer." 
 
 Residue to Son John Redway, who is sole Exor. 
 
 Mentions latter's " three children." 
 
 Witnesses, Wm. Home, Ambrose Smith. 
 
 Proved 1st Dec., 1637. 
 
 Sum 26. 
 
 1638. The Last Will of Rabisha (Rabidge) Tocker of Tiver- 
 ton, Widow. She leaves her daughter Thomzine Mar wood is. 
 
 To her daughter Mary Reade's Children (wife of Thomas 
 Reade) 3 each. 
 
 To Grandson, Robert Reade, small bequest.
 
 22 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 To Henry, Dorothy, and Anne Southard, children of dau. 
 Dorothy, 10. 
 
 Residue to daughter Joan Tocker, who is Sole Executrix. 
 Dated 2Oth July. Proved 7th Sept., 1638. 
 Sum 88 2s. 3d. 
 
 1640. The Account of Peter Hamlyn, Guardian to the 
 children of Nicholas Brimcliffe alias Gaunicliffe, viz , John, 
 Elizabeth, and Mary. 
 
 1 2th Jany., 1640. 
 
 1644. Nuncupative Will of John Gibbe of Clyst St. 
 George, husbandman, made i6th April, 1644, in the presence of 
 Robert Gibbe and others. 
 
 He leaves money to his daughters, Mary, wife of John 
 Gibbens, and Anstis Gibbe, and the residue to his son and 
 Executor, Richard Gibbe. Value of Personalty, 118 I is. 4d. 
 
 NOTE. Eldest son of George Gibb (Archd. Exon., Aug. 24, 1606), 
 by Mary, his second wife (Principal Registry, 1603.) 
 
 1674. Nuncupative Will of Richard Gibbe of Clyst St. 
 George, made July I5th, 1674, leaving property to his sisters, 
 Mary Gibbens and Anstice Torner, and the Residue to his 
 wife. Chattels appraised by Robert Gibbs and Benedict 
 Webber. 
 
 Date of Probate, Sept. loth, 1674. 
 
 Witnesses, Robert Gibbe and Mary Webber. 
 
 1660. Inventory of Peter Tucker, of Cadbury, taken I7th Jan., 
 1660. 
 
 " Imprimis." In readie money that was taken out of his 
 pocket when lie was taken out of the water by Henry Knolls, 
 ^3 4s- 
 
 Item two olde Bookes, i Cup with a silver mouth, 3/-. 
 
 Two bonds of desperate debt 31. 
 
 Twelve purses and pouches, a paire of gloves, with other 
 small things in the Apple Chamber.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 23 
 
 Five Hogsheads of Cyder with the Casks 6. Two flatches 
 of bacon 1 IDS. 
 
 " This daie beinge spent we continued our further proceedings 
 in this business until the next daye. Humfrey Wilcockes." 
 
 Two Hackney Saddles and one Pillion I3/-. 
 
 Three Pack Saddles and their girtes. 
 
 Two yearlings 4 ios. Two fat Steers 12. 
 
 Twenty weathers 12. Twenty Sheep 9. 
 
 Two Sows with Pigs 7. Six Geese, Two Jennies, three 
 Ducks and three hens, I5/-. 
 
 Five Acres of wheat and Two of Rye 17. 
 
 A moiety of a parcell of ground determinable upon the life 
 of Rose Tucker and W m Tucker .30. 
 
 Two oxen, Two Steers and a heiffer that were driven away 
 under the pretence of right by Edward Godfrey of Collompton 
 which as we are informed were worth 22. 
 
 NOTE. The above quaint inventory will serve well to show the 
 price of farm stock, etc., in 1660. 
 
 John Hugh, who administered to the effects, subsequently petitioned 
 to be allowed his charges, from which we gather that the funeral expenses 
 of deceased, including the cost of search for and recovery of the body 
 from the river, amounted to 7. 
 
 1661. The Last Will of Philip Gibbe, of Shobrooke. 
 
 He leaves io/- to the poor of the parish ; his lands and 
 tenements of Ebford, or Ebbord, in Clyst St. George and 
 Woodbury to his eldest son John (then wanting some years' of 
 21) and his heirs ; with remainder to his second son Phillip,* 
 and his heirs ; with remainder to his daughter Mary ; and after 
 her, to the right heirs of Phillip. Mary, his wife, to have the 
 profits of the land till John come of age ; and to enjoy for 40 
 years, if she should so long remain unmarried, the tenement at 
 Little ffulford, in Shobrooke, where he was then living ; with 
 remainder to his son Phillip. 
 
 He makes his brothers George, f Abraham, J and Robert 
 
 * Archdeaconry of Exon., March, 1724-5. 
 
 t Principal Registry, Oct., 1723. 
 t Abraham Gibbs, P.P.C., Nov , 1668. 
 ;; Robert Gibbs, Vic. Chor., Aug., 1688.
 
 24 DEVONSHIRE WILLS.* 
 
 "rulers in trust" under his will, and his wife, Mary Gibbe, 
 executrix. 
 
 Will dated Dec. 8th, 1656. Proved by Mary, the widow. 
 July 27th, 1661. 
 
 Witnesses 
 
 1662. Administration of the Goods of Robert Gibbe, of 
 Topsham, to Rose Westlake, widow, his daughter ; Raymond 
 Westlake being bound with her. 
 
 Date of Grant, Jan. 24th, 1662. 
 
 NOTE. He was of Clyst St. George when Rose was baptised. 
 
 1666. The last Will of John Redway the elder, of Exminster, 
 Yeoman, 2Oth Feb., 1665. Son, Nicholas Redway, the 4th and 
 8th parts of Hall's Tenement. To Son William Redway the 4th 
 part of Bond's tenement, " until half a year after his Uncle 
 Richard Redway 's decease." To wife Margaret, " the bed 
 whereon I lye." 
 
 To Son Nicholas, "that gold ring which was left unto me by 
 his Mother." 
 
 Sons Nicholas and William, then married and childless, are 
 Joint Exors. 
 
 Overseers, Wm. Collins and John Collins the elder. 
 
 Witnesses, John Skynner, Wm. Tothill. 
 
 Proved i8th May, 1666. 157. 
 
 NOTE. Will written on parchment. Large circular Seal attached 
 with strip. Device A Griffin (arms of Collins). 
 
 The Redways (pronounced and frequently written Radway) are an 
 ancient Devonshire family, with coat armour of their own viz., 
 " Gu ., a chevron between three owls arg. crowned or" quartered by 
 Cooke of Thome. Christopher Cooke, in right of his mother of 
 Thorne. She was Jenetta, daughter and heiress of John Hake, by 
 Janet, his wife, daughter and co-heiress of Nicholas Radwav. 
 Coll. Ar., D. 7, &c. 
 
 1666. Administration to the effects of Richard Redway, late 
 of Exminster, deceased. Granted 25th Jan., 1666, to Thomasine 
 his relict. George Collins joins the bond.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 25 
 
 1667. The Nuncupative Will of Elizabeth Redway of 
 Exminster, I4th March, 1667, rdates that there is given her by 
 the will of John Cuttaford, of Exminster, 2O/- p. a. for a certain 
 number of years. She gives one moiety thereof to her Sister 
 Mary Redway. and the other to her kinsman, Richard Molton. 
 Present at delivery of the will Thomasine Redway, Gilbert 
 Pearse, and Charles Stoneman. 
 
 Proved i6th Oct., 1668. 
 
 1667. John Evans of St. Sidwells in the City of Exeter, 
 Husbandman, 1st May I5th Chas. II. 
 
 To daughter Elizabeth, wife of Richard Fillmore, weaver, 
 I/- " starling money." 
 
 Residue to wife Johane. 
 
 " And I doe make & ordayne my loueinge friend Agnes 
 Tucker of the parish of St. George in the aforesaid City of 
 Exeter widdowe, Sole Executrix for the use & benefit of the 
 said Johane my wife." 
 
 Witnesses, Richard Hingston, Thomas Willing, Thomas 
 Ferris, Thomas Jewell, Richard Jewell. 
 
 Sum 26 155. 
 
 Administration granted to Johane the widow, Agnes Tucker 
 having renounced, I5th Oct., 1667. 
 
 Seal. A heart, with letters " A. T." 
 
 NOTE. Tooker of Maddington, Co. Wilts., sixteenth century. 
 " Vert, on a bend, engraved arg., 3 body hearts gu" 
 
 1670. John Wreford Gentleman of the Parish of Bickley, 
 i6th July, 1659. Small legacies to Christopher Son of Gawen 
 Richards, Stephen Burrows and Barbara Blackmore. 
 
 Residue to present wife Anne, the daughter of Damaris 
 Chapman. She is Sole Exor. 
 
 Seal of Arms. A fesse between 3 stags' heads cabossed. 
 Proved 1st Sept., 1670. 
 
 Inventory made by Wm. Wrayford, of Silverton, Gentm. 
 
 Total 1,218 i8s. 
 
 NOTE. The Arms on the Seal are apparently those of Barton of 
 Smithills, Co. Lancaster.
 
 26 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1670. " Memorandum, that on or uppon the 6th day of 
 febuary Anno Dmi. 1670, Elenor Tucker "late of Sidwells" 
 being of a disposing mind & memory delivered her last Will 
 & Testament in manner and form following, first of all she 
 gave unto Catherine Davids, wife of Morgan Davids, her 
 kinswoman all that she should dye possessed offe, if shee did 
 not live soe long to spend it herself. 
 
 " Item she gave to Roger ffollette's daughter one paire of 
 stockings, but as for Roger ffollett he should not have a 
 penni worth of her estate. These words were spoken being 
 then of perfect mind and memory not long before her death 
 in the presence of us," etc. 
 
 Proved Feby., 1670. 
 
 NOTE. St. Sidwell's, Exeter in the Index of this Archdeaconry 
 deceased is described as " Elenor Tucker of Tiverton." 
 
 1870. The last Will of Thomasin Redway of Exminster, 
 I4th April, 1670. Giles Redway and each of " his children " 
 " my daus." Mary Stoneman, Grace Redway, late Cousin 
 John Cuttiford, Grandson Richard Molton, and Nicholas 
 Molton, are all mentioned. 
 
 She gives her interest in a cottage and nine acres of land 
 at Exminster to Son Richard Redway, with remainder, in 
 default of his issue, to daughters Mary and Grace. 
 
 Residue to said Richard Redway, who is Sole Executor. 
 
 Proved 27th April, 1670. 
 
 Sum 75. 
 
 1670. Inventory of all the goods & chatels of Thomasin 
 Redway of Exminster who departed this life the sixteenth 
 day of Aprill in the yeare of our Lord God 1670, taken and 
 appraised by us whose names are under subscribed : 
 
 Imprimis for her wearinge 
 Item, 3 beds performed 
 
 apparel ... 
 
 
 
 ... 2 
 
 s. 
 IO 
 \r\ 
 
 d. 
 
 
 
 2 chests, 3 coffers, i little 
 For cloth in the house 
 For 2 coats 
 
 box 
 
 ... 2 
 
 3 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 
 
 16 
 
 o 
 o 
 
 o
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 27 
 
 S. d. 
 
 For a Bible ... ... ... ... ... ... o 5 o 
 
 For 9 pans, 2 kittles ... ... ... ... ... 215 o 
 
 4 crockes, I posnel ... ... ... ... ... I 10 o 
 
 13 pewter dishes ... ... ... ... ... i 3 o 
 
 1 Prese o 12 o 
 
 2 Bords, i forme, I chest, 2 coffers ... ... ... 018 o 
 
 Corne in house ... ... ... ... ... ... 3 o o 
 
 2 milch kine ... ... ... ... ... ... 6 o o 
 
 2 hogs 018 o 
 
 I hoxhead of sider ... ... ... ... ... o 14 o 
 
 For timber vessels .. ... ... ... ... 115 o 
 
 For victuals in the house ... ... ... ... 2 o o 
 
 I hand gunn ... ... .... ... ... ... o 12 o 
 
 5 bags & I packsheet ... ... ... ... 012 o 
 
 ffor rede 080 
 
 ffor working tools & I twine ... ... ... o 5 o 
 
 ffor woode ... ... ... ... ... ... 0160 
 
 laders and a cheese wring ... ... ... o 4 o 
 
 corne in the grounde ... ... ... ... 10 o o 
 
 ,, I rework about the chimney ... ... ... o 4 o 
 
 pte in a tenement ... ... ... ... 30 o o 
 
 ,, things forgotten & not praised ... ... ... o 8 6 
 
 The some . . 75 15 6 
 
 Roger Smith Exhibited 29th 
 
 Nicholas Turner April 1670 by Richd. Redway. 
 
 1671-2. Will of Richard Redway of Exminster, Husband- 
 man, 1 4th Dec, 1671. 
 
 " I give unto my soon all my land wch I doe now enjoy. 
 I give unto Richard Molton 8, to be paide unto him when 
 my Sonn comes in age in cause they toe doe so long life." 
 To Nicholl Molton 2O/-. To Robert Redway and Mary 
 " Redwa " i/- "a peace," and "to Geils Redway thear father 
 my blew coat which I did weare worken dayes." To Grace 
 Redway 5/- and " 2 bushels of wheat to be paid at harvest." 
 To wife Sara Redway " half my goods in doors & out."
 
 2 8 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Said wife is Executrix. " My Sonn " has the other half of 
 the Residue. 
 
 Proved iQth Jany., 1671-2. 
 Sum 26 1 6s. 
 
 1677. The last Will of Johane Wrayford of Bickleigh, 
 widow, 23rd Nov., 1677. To Mr. Samuel Segar 30 and 
 a mourning ring. To Brother John's two Children 5. To 
 poor of Silverton 2os., and the same sum to the poor of 
 Bickleigh. Mentions her tenement called " Richards." To 
 Mother and Sister Damaris she leaves her wearing apparel. 
 To Sister Gill her wedding ring. " To my brothers " 53. 
 each. To Aunt Agnes, now wife of Ambrose Goodridge, the 
 Residue. She is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved nth December, 1677. 
 
 Sum 445. 
 
 1680. The last Will of Henry Worth of Washfield, dated 
 I9th Jany., 1677. 
 
 He desires to be buried " without superfluity of blackes " but 
 decently, and six of the labourers on the estate to "attend his 
 hearse" and to have 6s. each and a " gowne." 
 
 " Item I give 10 towards the purchasinge some father 
 estate as for buyings of Bibles or some other books of 
 divinity to be yearly distributed amongst the poor people of 
 Washfield for ever." 
 
 " To my son, Thomas Worth, 45. for a ring.'' 
 
 " To my son, Alexander Worth, the lyvinge of Wood which 
 I lately purchased in the parish of Uplowman, to him and 
 his heirs for ever, and the sum of 300 to stock it." 
 
 To daughter Dorothy, wife of Robert Collins of Autry 
 (Ottery St. Mary) Clearke, 100. 
 
 " To my daughter, Elizabeth Oliver, a ring of 2OS. value." 
 
 " To my daughter, Mary Worth, 700." " To the Servants 
 at Worth at time of my death 405. each. To my Son 
 John's wife " my best piece of plate." To brother Arthur 
 Worth, Sons-in-law Robert Collins, Benjamin Oliver, Esq., 
 Humphry Shobrooke Merchant, dau.-in-law Anne Worth, 
 Nephew Win. Pincombe, two brothers-in-law, Francis and
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 29 
 
 Thomas Bampfylde a ring each of 2Os. value. Residue to Son 
 John Worth,, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Witnesses, George Abraham, John Besly, and Emlin Clat- 
 vvorthy. 
 
 Codicil, dated I2th Jany., 1679-80. 
 
 He leaves his brother Arthur Worth 10, and to the children 
 of his daughter-in-law Ann Worth 10 each. He leaves to 
 his Son Alexander, the books, trunks, boxes, and other things 
 in the study over the porch of Worth House. 
 
 Witnesses, Benjamin Oliver, Roger Dodge, Saml. Clemens. 
 
 Seal of Family Arms. Arg., an Eagle dispd., wings 
 elevated, with two necks Sa, Beaks and legs Gules, Helmet 
 and Mantling. 
 
 Crest. "An Arm erect vested erms. gloved erm. holding 
 an Eagle's leg couped or." 
 
 1680. The last Will of Orlando Evans of Exeter, lOth 
 Aug., 1680. " In-holder." To Sons Richard and Orlando, 
 to daughter Ann Strod, and daughter Sarah Tucker, " equally 
 to be divided between them, such worldly goods as I die 
 possessed of." They are joint Exors. 
 
 Witnesses, Joseph Marshalle 
 Jo. Erlye 
 Jo. Batters by. 
 
 Proved 2ist Jany., 1680. 
 
 Seal. A Battle Axe below the letters " O. E.," surmounted 
 by a Royal Crown. 
 
 Motto. "Le Roy Vive." 
 
 1683. Jonah Tucker of Thorverton, Feby. iQth, 1682. 
 
 To Sons Jonath, John, and Michael, and to dau. Elizabeth 
 ,10 each. 
 
 His wife Elizabeth is to "hold & enjoy" his "justment" 
 which he rents of Sir John Davey until 2Oth March, 1684, 
 then brother Edmond is to have it to " end of term." 
 
 Residue to said wife who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Overseer, Brother Edmund Tucker. 
 
 Proved 8th June, 1683. 
 
 Sum 85 IQS.
 
 3 o DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1683. Administration to the effects of Hugh Tucker of 
 Exeter, Granted to Sarah his relict, I3th July, 1683. 
 
 From the Inventory of Hugh Tucker late of the Parish of 
 All Hallows, Goldsmith St., Inn-holder, June 8th, 1683. 
 
 " Item i Silver Tancket, a tumbler, 3 Spoones & a dram 
 dish 4/8 to 4/10 per oz., 7 153." 
 
 Item a second-hand old watch broken and out of order, i. 
 Item a dozen of old case knives at 2/8 a dozen. 
 Item " Desperate Debts," 194 7s. 3id. 
 Secure Debts, Thomas Tucker, Esq., \ 135. 8d. 
 Roger Tucker, 70 193. 4d. 
 
 Anne Tucker, widow, 15 55. 
 
 Robert Tucker, .3 175. 5d. 
 
 1684. Administration to the effects of Orlando Evans of 
 Ottery St. Mary, deceased, Granted to Elizabeth his widow. 
 Richard Evans, " Tonsorius," joins the bond. 
 
 29th Jany., 1684. 
 
 1684. Joan Wrayford of Silverton, widow, i6th April, 1679. 
 
 She gives her three daughters, Joan Galard, Ann Holmes, 
 and Grace Bryan, and to their respective husbands, one piece 
 of Gold. To "the Minister" for a funeral Sermon, the same 
 bequest. To each of her Grandchildren 5/-. To eldest Son 
 William the Cider pound with its appurtenances. To. the poor 
 of Silverton 5, and to those of Bickleigh 3. 
 
 Residue to youngest Son Edward Wrayford, who is Sole 
 Exor. 
 
 Proved 4th Feby., 1684. Sum 465 135. 8d. 
 
 Armorial Seal. 3 Piles in Point. 
 
 NOTE. "Or, 3 Piles in point azure." These are the well known 
 arms of Brian, of Tor Brian, Co. Devon, but have been used, with 
 very doubtful right indeed, by both English and Irish Bryans for 
 many years. Some vary the Tinctures.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 31 
 
 1684. The Last Will of Robert Tucker of Thorverton. 
 He bequeaths his soul to God and his body to Christian Burial. 
 
 " I give to my daughter Jan, won shilling. To my Son 
 Georg. won shilling. To my Son Roger, won shilling. To 
 Henry my Sonn in law, won shilling. To Mary my daughter 
 won shilling. To Jud., my daughter, won shilling. To my 
 daughter's Sons, won shilling. To my Son Peter, won shilling. 
 To my daughter Grace, won shilling." 
 
 " Also I do mak my house to my wif during her life " 
 with remainder to Son Roger, who is to pay half the moytie 
 to my younger children.'' 
 
 Trustees, my wife and John my Brother. 
 
 Witnesses, " Wiliom " Tucker, Henry Tucker. 
 
 Administration was granted to Dionysia Tucker the wife in 
 minority of her daughter Peternell Tucker, who had the 
 residue and was Sole Executrix under the will. i ith April, 
 1684. 
 
 1684. Administration to the Will of Robert Tucker of 
 
 Thorverton, deceased, was Granted to Dyonisia his wife in the 
 
 minority of the Executrix, Petronell Tucker, nth April, 1684. 
 
 Inventory of Robert Tucker of Thorverton, Deed., Fuller. 
 
 5th April, 1684. 
 
 Item 3 spinning turns and 2 skewers. 
 i pair of fullers' shears, io/-. 
 ,, i fullers' press, io/-. 
 i Chettell lease, 12. 
 
 " The Sum is 22 75. 2d. 
 The Debt is" io os. od. 
 
 Remains >\2 75. 2d. 
 
 1686. Joseph Wreyford of St. Thomas the Apostle, and 
 County or City of Exeter, Schoolmaster. He leaves his house- 
 hold goods to his wife, Elizabeth. Mentions his Sons Samuel, 
 Joseph, and John, and gives them certain houses. Residue to 
 his wife Elizabeth, who is sole Executrix. 
 
 Dated 22nd Nov. Proved iQth Jan., 1686. 
 
 Sum 335 ss. 6d.
 
 32 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1686. The last Will of Nicholas Tucker, of Bampton. Dated, 
 26th May, 1686. 
 
 He leaves to his wife, Anne, 3 pewter dishes that are marked 
 with the letters " A. H." To Joan, dau. of Wm. Norrish, 
 deceased, "one Ammory now in my dwelling house, and my 
 greatest Kaddnrne under the Ammory standing " ; also one 
 brewing ffatt ' & " the sum of 5 in money to be paid her by 
 Susanna Blackmore, now living with me." 
 
 " To Robert my brother my best sutt, viz., one waistcote, one 
 long cote, & a paire of briches." 
 
 To Edward Downe my best hate. 
 
 " To Cousin James Butford, my leather deske. To my mother 
 2O/-. To brother-in-law, William Presser, my razure." 
 
 "I give to Ann my wife the right to dwell in my house as 
 long as she shall remain a widow, & I do give my house & 
 garden to Susanna Blackmore and residue, and make her sole 
 executrix on this condition that she always dwells in it & does 
 not sell it. In default, there is remainder to Joan Norrish. 
 Cousin John Norrish of Cruse Morchard to be ruler in trust with 
 a bequest of 5/-." 
 
 Administration granted to John Norrish in minority of 
 Susannah Blackmore, 2Qth Jan., 1686. 
 
 Sum 13 i is. 6d. 
 
 1686. The last will of Dorcas Evans of Exeter, Spinster, 
 27th Nov., 1685. To Sister, Mary Titherly, " my farrington 
 gowne and scarlet large petticoat, & a greene mohaire petticoat 
 & a red cloath petticoat, a Cabinet & a paire of curtains & 
 vallens, a cupboard cloath, a pur-<e, pincushion & sheath.' 
 " Item to Joseph Evans, my brother, all my linen undisposed 
 of. To said Sister Mary, two gold rings & one piece of broad 
 gold, in the hands of Cozen Bartholomew Shower of London. 
 To Cozen John Anthony's wife, Covering for a chaire & two 
 stooles. To Roger Light & his wife, a brass pott, a skillett & 
 a butter dish, two spoons and a mustard pot. To s d Cozen, his 
 wife & daughter 3 for rings. To Cozen Elizabeth Hayne & 
 to Cozens Phineas and Susannah Anthony, sums to buy rings. 
 To the poor of the City io/-. To brother John Evans two 
 thirds of money remg. after debts &c. are paid."
 
 DEVONS1IIKE WILLS. 33 
 
 Residue to John Anthony of Exeter, Merchant, who is sole 
 Executor. 
 
 Witnesses Susannah Marshall. 
 Margaret Bennett. 
 
 Armorial Seal. On a fess, 3 roses ? between 3 fleur de lis, on 
 a chief, 3 lions rampt. 
 
 Crest. A demi-lion ramp, holding a sceptre 
 
 Proved June, 1686. 
 
 NOTE. Evans of London and Shropshire, and Evans of Watstay (now 
 Wynnstay), Co. Denbigh, and represented by Sir Watkins Williams 
 Wynn, Bt., gave " Arg. a fesse between 3 fleur de lis Sa" 
 
 Administration to the effects of John Lewis, alias Evans, of 
 Exeter, granted to Sarah Lewis, alias Evans, of Exeter, his 
 daughter. 
 
 John Vigors, Carpenter, of Exeter, joins the Bond. 
 
 1 5th April, 1706. 
 
 1687. Inventory of Jane Tucker, widow, of Cleyhanger, 
 i ith April, 1687. 
 
 Item 14 silver spoons and 3 Gold rings ... 6 o o 
 
 all her books ... ... ... ... i o o 
 
 5 cowes and 2 calves ... ... .. 20 o o 
 
 ,, 3 heifers ... ... ... ... ... u 10 o 
 
 i heifer yearling ... I i.o o 
 
 ,, 14 ewes and 14 lambs ... ... ... 968 
 
 24 old sheepe ... ... ... ... 14 80 
 
 25 hog ;, ... 1150 
 
 i horse and i mare ... ... . 600 
 
 ,, i Sow, 6 young pigs, and 2 other piggs ... 300 
 
 Corne in the grounde ... ... ... 7 10 o 
 
 ,, all her hay ... ... .. ... ... 300 
 
 all her poultry ... ... ... ... 050 
 
 1687. The last will of Jane Tucker of Cleyhanger, widow. 
 She desires her body to be devoutly buried. To the poor of 
 the parish io/-. 
 
 To Jane Rendall, her Grandchild, 50, " and the table bordr 
 
 4
 
 34 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 in the parlour, and the best chair in the parlour, and the tester 
 bedstead in parlour chamber, the side saddle," and " my wedding 
 
 ring." 
 
 Bequests to other Grand-children viz., Dorothy, Honour, and 
 
 Elizb. Rendall. 
 
 6 to be expended on funeral. 
 
 Residue to daughter, Jane Rendall, who is sole Executrix. 
 
 " To Thomas Richards of Bradford my kinsman," 4<D/-. 
 
 Proved I2th April, 1687. 
 
 Sum 305 5s. 8d. 
 
 1690. The last will of Richard Evans of the City of Exeter, 
 Inn keeper, 6th Nov., 1690. He leaves to his Cousin Anne, 
 daughter of his brother Orlando Evans, deceased, 20. To his 
 
 o 
 
 Sister, Sarah Tucker, widow, 5, " Provided that they do not 
 molest or trouble my Executrix hereafter named in the enjoy- 
 ment of what I shall leave unto her." 
 
 Residue to wife Rebecca, who is sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved i/th April, 1691. 
 
 1693. The last Will of Dorothy Tucker of Exeter, widow, 
 1 3th May, 1693. 
 
 She leaves to seven poor widows of Exeter 2os. each. 
 
 She bequeaths her interest in an estate and term of years 
 in certain houses to her brother, John Sanford of Virginia 
 and her cousin Ann Chilcote, in equal parts. To all "brothers 
 and sisters " of Testatrix 2os. each for mourning rings. 
 
 " I also give the silver bason my deceased father gave me 
 to my brother William Sanford, and my will is that after 
 his decease the said bason shall be a legasie successively unto 
 such as shall bear the name of William Sanford/'* 
 
 Residue to Son, James Tucker, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Seal of Arms. Barry wavy of 12. 
 
 Crest. A Martlet. 
 
 Proved 3Oth June, 1693. 
 
 * See Editor's "Practical Heraldry," page 168, etc. London : Redway, 1889; 
 now Kegan Paul & Trubner, Ludgate Hill.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WII.LS. 35 
 
 1694. The last Will of George Osmond of Tiverton, Hus- 
 bandman, dated 2 1st Aug., 1694. 
 
 Bequests to Sisters Mary Glass and Allis Hill. To ' Cosens " 
 John and Thomas Hill. To Peter Osmond and his Sons 
 Robert and William. To Thomas Osmond of Autrey (Ottery 
 St. Mary) and to Thomas his Son. To George Osmond, 
 Alice Daley, Mary Sellack, and to Thomas Daly's son John. 
 Residue to wife Katherine, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses, Endymeon Vacinover 
 John Thomas, Junr. 
 Michael Frankpitt. 
 
 6th Dec., 1694. 
 
 Sum 122 4s. 
 
 1694. The last will of Thomas Tucker of Dunkeswell, dated 
 9tli Sept., 1684. He leaves his wife Elinor \2 a year as long 
 as she remains unmarried, failing this, 10 p. a. 
 
 He charges his estate called Winsor in the parish of Luppitt 
 with this annuity. 
 
 " I leave also to Elinor my wife, the halle, and all those 
 two rooms on that side the entry in my said house called 
 Winsor during her life, togeather with the upper garden, & I 
 also give to my said wife for her yearly burning 200 well 
 made faggots of wood." He further gives her the best bed, 
 certain specified furniture, " the best lininge table borde cloth, 
 one side saddle & a pillion." For all these goods she is to 
 give a bond to his Exors. for due return at her decease. 
 Residue to Son Thomas, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 3Oth Jany., 1694. 
 
 1694. Inventory of Thomas Tucker of Dunkeswell, made 
 i8th Jany., 1693-4. 
 
 Item. His wearing apparel, cash, and plate ... .30 o o 
 
 ,, A Chattlc estate in Luppitt ... ... 500 o o 
 
 In wood and fuel ... ... .. 24 O O 
 
 Debts and Credits ... ... ... 60 o o 
 
 Desperate Debts ... ... ... 20 o o 
 
 240 sheep ... ... ... ... 96 o o 
 
 ,. 10 horses and Colts ... ... ... 33 o o
 
 3 6 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Item. Crockes, frying pans, spits, and andirons 200 
 Ei<rht flitches of bacon and other victualls 
 
 O 
 
 in the hall ... n o o 
 
 Brass and pewter ... ... 1800 
 
 The above are the most interesting items in the Inventory; 
 the total of the personal estate amounted to 1,046 6s. 56. 
 
 1696. The last Will of Grace Tucker of the City of 
 Exeter, Single woman, one of the daughters of James Tucker, 
 Merchant, deceased. 
 
 "To my honoured mother Mistress Joane Tucker, all my 
 property, messuages, &c., in St. Mary's Clist or elsewhere, 
 either in the County of Devon, or in the City or County of 
 the City of Exeter. To be held by her, her heirs and assigns 
 for evermore." 
 
 Residue to said Mother, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved iQth May, 1696. 
 
 Seal of Arms. Barry wavy, on a chevron embattled, betw. 
 3 sea-horses, 5 gouttes de poix. 
 
 (Tucker of Exeter.) 
 
 1696. Christopher Granger of Broadhembury. Administra- 
 tion granted I4th May, 1696, to Mary his wife. 
 Sum 40 1 6s. 4d. 
 
 1697. The last Will of Alexander Osmond of Tiverton, 
 Yeoman, 25th Oct., 1697. 
 
 He leaves to John Newte of Tiverton, Rector, and Matthias 
 Jenkin of the same, Merchant, one yearly rent-charge of 14, 
 in trust for Grand-daughter Elizabeth Wheeler. After death 
 of said Elizabeth, he gives an annuity of 7 to Grandson 
 Peter Morse, together with his dwelling house on Barnes' Hill 
 and 100. To Peter, Laurence, and Sarah, children of said 
 Elizabeth Wheeler, >2O each at 21. He leaves certain 
 Messuages to Grandson Wm. Morse, and <: one piece of gold 
 called a Guiney" to Frances wife of said Matthias Jenkin. 
 Residue to said Grandson Wm. Morse, who is Sole Executor.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 37 
 
 Trustees, Son-in-law Peter Morse of Tivcrton, Mercer, and 
 Edward Bury of the same, Mercer, with 2O/- each. 
 
 He desires his trustees to take on the administration of the 
 estate of the late Wm. Cannington of Tiverton, Serge Maker, 
 and to care for the education of William and John Cannington. 
 
 Witness John Corrain. 
 
 Proved 9th Dec., 1697. 
 
 1697. The last will of John Tucker of Luppitt, Yeoman, 
 3rd Jan., 1679. 
 
 "To Sarah my wife, whom I make my sole Executrix, all 
 my moiety of the estate known as Ruggepath in said parish of 
 Luppitt, being parcel of the manor of Dolditch Shaugh, together 
 with all other land held on lease from John Ash ford of Ash ford 
 in the Co. of Devon, Esqr, & determinable on the deathe of the 
 said Sarah my wife, John Tucker & Susannah Tucker, Son & 
 daughter of me the said John." 
 
 Proved 27th April, 1697. 
 
 Sum 369 6s. 2d. 
 
 1699. Administration to the Effects of George Wreford of 
 Exeter. Granted I2th June, 1699, to Urith his wife. 
 Sum iS 2s. 2d. 
 
 1700. Thomas Wreaford of Whitstone, in the Co. of Devon, 
 Husbandman. 
 
 3rd Jan, 1700. To brother-in-law Thomas Squabble, dwelling 
 house and garden. 
 
 To Sister, Abigail Yewman, ^8. To Brother-in-law Henry 
 Skinner, $. To Cousins Elizabeth and Ann, daughters of 
 Thomas Squabble, Elizabeth Yewman. and Elizabeth and 
 Alice, daughters of Henry Skinner, small bequests. 
 
 Cousin Simeon Yewman to be Executor. He remarks that 
 he lent William Best of Crediton, $ IDS. forty years ago. 
 
 Proved I3th June, 1700. 
 
 Sum 27 7-s. 4fd.
 
 3 8 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1700. William Wrayford of " Sillferton," Gentleman, 
 29th April, 1700. 
 
 To Mrs. Joane Galerd, widow, 18 twenty-shilling pieces of 
 Broad Gold. " To Andrew Adams, alias Holmes, the money 
 that he owes me." 
 
 To William Bryannd of Exeter, Goldsmith, 40. To 
 Sylvanus Bryannd, his brother, ;io. To Richard Bryannd of 
 Exeter, Apothecary, a tenement worth 30 a year at Sand ford, 
 with reversion to kinsman William Wrayford of London, 
 Merchant, and Matthew Wrayford of Cornwall, failing issue. 
 He gives his servant Mary Haubsland 50 and her life upon 
 his houses at Silverton called Buckinghams, but the land 
 belonging to the said houses he desires may be " let out" at a 
 yearly rent for the benefit of the poor of Silveiton for ever, at 
 the discretion of the " Pastor, Churchwardens and Overseers of 
 the Parish." Mr. Troyte is mentd. as Rector. To Edward 
 " Bryand," his life in a tenement value ,12 p. a. at Bridford. 
 To Sister Joane Galerd, and tcr John Davise and his wife 
 Margaret, daughter of said Sister Joan, ,1 is. and a mourning 
 ring. Mentions Robert Marsh of Exeter, Mrs. Grace Bryand 
 widow, " Mr. Francis Weare of Silverton, Esq.," and Mrs. Grace 
 Weare, Mrs. Grace Weare the younger, "my Goddaughter," 
 John Weaie, and Elizabeth Weaie" his younger Sister," Mr. 
 John Slade and Mary his wife. To poor of Silverton, \O, 
 Bickleigh 5, and bequest also to poor of " Chitherly." He 
 adds, " ihe Silver Tankert, Silver Salt, and Silver spoons I 
 intend to distribute with my own hands." To Mrs. Grace 
 Bryand my Sister 52 los. & my great gold ring and my 
 Sealing ring with my coat of arms cut upon the ring." There 
 is further mention of Mary and Ann Bryand, daus. of said Sister 
 Grace, Mrs. Agnes Evelleigh, John Holmes, Junr., and Ann his 
 Sister. Residue of Estate, lying in Ctediton, Sandford, and 
 elsewhere, to said kinsmen William and Matthew Wrayford, 
 they are joint Exors. Proved 1 5th Nov., 1700. 
 
 Armorial Seal six times repeated a chevron between 3 
 leopards' faces or (Parker Lord Macclesfield). 
 
 NOTE. The will of Edward Wrayford of Silverton, Proved ipth 
 Sept., 1691, is sealed with the same Seal. 
 
 I believe that a Seal of Chapman, who bore somewhat similar arms,
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 39 
 
 came into the hands of Wm. Wrayford when he made the inventory of 
 John Wreford of Bickleigh, in 1670, and that it was altered and 
 adopted for their own arms by the Wrefords or Wrayfords of Silverton, 
 between 1670 and 1690, possibly by their relative " William Brjannd," 
 the Exeter Goldsmith. Richard Bryan became Rector of Silverton 
 1675, and died 1688. I presume that he was the husband of 
 Grace Wrayford, and the father of the Bryans mentioned by Testator. 
 A Coat of Chapman may be thus blazoned : " Per chevron 
 arg. and gu., a crescent between 3 leopards' heads counterchangrd." 
 It will be seen that the substitution of a chevron for the partition 
 lines would obliterate the crescent. See ante, page 25, 1670. 
 
 1702. Katharine Osmond of Tiverton, widow. To Dorothy, 
 wife of James Crosse of Collompton, Mercer, dwelling house, 
 with appurtenances in Tiverton. 10 to be expended on the 
 funeral. To Nicholas Tucker, a life annuity of io/-. To Kins- 
 women Grace and Dorothy Tucker, 2O/- a year. To said Grace 
 Tucker " a paire of my finest sheets and of my finest pillytys." 
 To brother John Conebee ^5. To brother Robert Banbury $. 
 To Sister Elizb. Slee, wife of John Slee, 5, and one gold ring, 
 a dozen table napkins and my rideing suite and mantle. To 
 Sister Jane Banbury 2O/-. To Kinsman James Crosse of 
 Collompton, mercer, 2O/-. To his daughter Dorothy 2O/-. To 
 Sister Elizabeth Slee's four children, John, Nicholas, Edwd., 
 and Elizabeth, 2O/- each. To brother John Coneby's two 
 children, John and Thomas, 2O/- each. To brother Robert 
 Banbury 's five children - To Kinswoman Grace Banbury 
 
 5<D/- and a gold ring. To Kinsman Robert Banbury the younger 
 2O/-. To Kinswoman Mary Banbury 2O/-. To Grace Holle 
 and Elizb. Hooper, my kinswomen, 2O/- each. Residue to 
 Dorothy Crosse, wife of James Crosse, " my kinswoman," who 
 is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses, Thos. and Wm. ttaron. 
 
 Dated 5th May, 1696. Proved 23rd Ap., 1702. 
 
 1706. Henry Sanger of Poughill, iQth Oct., 1695. To 
 Father, Henry Sanger, 55. To Mother, Joane Sanger, 5$. 
 Residue to Sisters, Joane and Elizabeth Sanger, who are joint 
 Exors. Proved 28th June, 1706. 
 
 Witnesses, Saml. Chappell and Jone Melhuish. 
 
 Sum j47 45. 4d.
 
 40 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1708. The last Will of James Tucker, the elder, of the 
 city of Exeter, Gentleman, 22nd Dec, 1708. He leaves 
 to his five children, James Tucker ; Dorothy, wife of Peter 
 Morse of Tiverton, Grocer; Margaret Tucker, Jane, and Sarah 
 Tucker, in equal parts, all his property and houses in the 
 parishes of St. Edmund and St. Mary Arches, both in the 
 City of Exeter, together with "four estates" in the parish of 
 Collumpton. 
 
 The houses in St. Mary Arches Parish were then in possession 
 of Jonathan Fox, Yeoman. Testator had other property in 
 the parishes of St. Pancras and St. Kerrian, both in Exeter. 
 
 "To said Jane Tucker, my Chest of Drawers, my books, 
 my brother Risdon's picture, and my mourning ring which 
 I wear outside my signet ring." 
 
 To said Sarah Tucker, " my flower dressing box inlaid, 
 my book styled ' The Whole Duty of Man.' " 
 
 To Thomasine and Bridget Stephens, a guinea piece of 
 gold each. 
 
 " To my Son, James Tucker, my Gold ring with a Cornelian 
 stone, and my Coate of Arms sett and engraved thereon to 
 keep and wear in remembrance of me." 
 
 "To Katherine wife of Jonathan Fox, yeoman, my Venise 
 glass.'"' 
 
 Residue to daus. Jane and Sarah, who are joint Exors. 
 
 Proved 7th Jany., 1708. 
 
 1709. The last Will of Joane Tucker of the City of Exeter, 
 widow, 1 8th June, 1709. 
 
 To her Cousin Gertrude, wife of Henry Turney, Gentleman, 
 and to her son, Richard Turney, 100. To Barbara, Sister 
 of sd. Gertrude and wife of John Baker, Clerk, 100. 
 
 To Cousin, Courtenay Croker, Esq., 50, in trust for use 
 of Cousin Dorothy, wife of Cousin Samuel Axe. 
 
 To said Courtenay Croker 100 in trust for Dorothy, dau. of 
 sd. Samuel Axe and wife of Bernard Pennin^ton 
 
 & 
 
 To Cousin Stephen Bryan 150, and further, 50 in trust 
 for Rachel Bryan, his sister, "lately married." To Cousins 
 Joseph, Samuel, and Elizabeth Bryan, and Cousin Joseph, Son
 
 DEVONSHIRE IV ILLS. 41 
 
 of Samuel Axe, .50 each. To Mrs. Eleanor Moore, School- 
 mistress in Exeter, 50, with remainder to her dau., Mrs. 
 Susannah Moore. To Brother and Sister Farthinge, 405. each 
 for mourning rings. To " Servant maid " Martha Powning, 
 ^200 and all her clothes. To William Rous of Faringdon, 
 Gentleman, .50. To Florence Sprague of Mary Clist, widow, 
 20. To Cousin Robert Bryan, Rector of Clist St. Mary, 
 the advowson of said Church, to him and his heirs for ever, 
 and also a meadow at Clist, to pay out of the latter 8s. p. a. 
 for ever towards repairing the poor houses in Bishop Clist 
 Town. To sd. Robert Bryan and Charles Heron of Exeter, 
 Gent-, the fee simple of a house, Garden, and Orchard in 
 Bishops Clist Town, in trust to permit Edward Lang and 
 Margaret his wife, and Martha Powning, widow, to have the 
 same for their lives, and after their deaths the said house to 
 he an Alms house for two ancient poor persons of Clist St. 
 Mary. To the same Trustees she leaves her house in which she 
 resides in St. Mary Arches for the use of the Minister of 
 that parish. 
 
 To her Trustees, for their trouble in executing the said 
 Trust, she gives a broad piece of Gold. 
 
 Residue to Robert Bryan, Samuel Axe, and Saml. Bryan, 
 who are joint Exors. 
 
 Administration granted to Robert Bryan and Samuel Axe, 
 8th March, 1709-10. 
 
 1712. Susanna Osmond of Halberton, widow, dated 9th 
 Feby., 1711. She confirms a deed beating date i6th Feby., 
 9th Qn. Anne, between the said Susanna of the ist part, and 
 James Osmond of Bycott, Halberton, Gentleman, her son, of 
 2nd part, Jeremiah Hussey of Okehampton of 3rd part, and 
 Anthony Codner of Cullompton of the 4th parr. Provisions 
 of this deed not expressed. 
 
 She bequeaths to daughter Susanna ^100 in excess of .200 
 given her by said deed. 
 
 " My sylver bowle & Damask Napkins, my pair of Vir- 
 gennalls, my Side Saddle, fyve sylver spoons marked with the 
 letter M. All my old gold and gold rings, except my new 
 signet ring, which I give to my Exor.
 
 42 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 To my Grandchildren Thomas, John, and Mary May, and 
 Grace Sanford, 5/- each. To Son-in-law Phineas May, and 
 daughter-in-law Mary Osmond 5/- each. To Servants I/- each, 
 and to the poor io/-. 
 
 Residue to Son James, who is sole Executor. 
 
 Proved 25th Nov., 1712. 
 
 1720. Last Will of Mary Lyle of Topsham, widow. 
 
 Whereas her late father Nicholas Downe by his will dated 
 Dec. 31, 1713, gave her daughters Sarah and Mary Lyle 
 certain estates in Rockbeare and Ellesbeare (Aylesbeare) 
 between them, on condition that if Mary should take the 
 whole she should pay her sister .500 ; and that was not 
 enough in value for the moiety, she therefore gives her 
 daughter Sarah .700 payable on Mary's attaining the age 6f 
 21 and exercising the option ; but if she did not, the bequest 
 to be equally divided between them. 
 
 She leaves a legacy to her cousin John Saunders of Pinhoe 
 and his son John, and to her sisters Martha Waad and Martha 
 Brand, making them Executors in trust. 
 
 If her daughters should die under age or unmarried, she leaves 
 Rebecca, wife of John Saunders the elder, ,100; to Mrs. Jane 
 Westcott of Farringdon, Devon, widow, ;ioo ; and to Deborah, 
 wife of John Bishop, of Marsh Green in Rockbeare, ,5. 
 
 Will dated Jany. 4th, 1717/8. 
 
 First probate, Aug. 6th, 1720, to said Executors. 
 
 Second probate, April loth, 1728, to John Chappell, a qnaker, 
 who makes affidavit and values the goods. 
 
 Third probate, March I2th, 1728-9, to Sarah Lyle, alias Gibbs, 
 widow, and Mary Lyle, alias Burridge, wife of Samuel Burridge, 
 daughters and co-executrixes of the deceased. 
 
 Seal Argent, io billets, 4, 3 2, and I. 
 
 1723. The last Will of George Gibbs of Clyst St. George. 
 
 He bequeaths all his goods and chattels in Clyst St. George, 
 and devises all his lands in Clyst St. Mary, being part of the 
 Manor of Ashmore, to Francis Pease, Minister of the Parish, 
 excepting certain legacies, namely, 8 sixpenny loaves to the 
 poor labourers of Clyst St. Mary every Christmas Easter, and
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 43 
 
 Whitsuntide, and the 1st Sunday in May, for ever ; and 16 like 
 loaves at the same time to the poor of Clyst St. George ; and, 
 every second year, out of the yearly profits of the said lands,6hatts 
 for 6 poor boys, and provision for 4 poor children to be kept to 
 reading school, and that they have each a bible at going off; 
 and if a lad shall happen to be sent from this parish to either 
 University, he is to have 4. a year for 4 years ; provided that 
 all these be in communion with ye Church of England, and 
 constant at ye parish Church. He makes his most affectionate 
 friend and Minister Francis Pease his sole Executor, leaving 
 him all his lands, goods, and chattels for his life, making reference 
 to a conveyance executed some time before. He leaves to his 
 sister Brinley a bond for .100 due by her husband ; also he 
 leaves io/- to be paid for a charity sermon to be preached on 
 the first Sunday in May for ever ; and desires to be buried with- 
 out pompe or noise. 
 
 Will dated July i8th, 1721. Proved by Francis Pease, 
 Octr. nth, 1723. 
 
 Witnesses Silvester Suxpitch. 
 Richard Humphry. 
 Walter Wood. 
 
 NOTES. Testator was buried at Clyst St. George, August gth, 
 1723. 
 
 His sister was Elizabeth, wife of Benjamin Brinley, and daughter 
 of George Gibbs, of Clyst St. George, 1683. 
 
 1724. Last Will of Philip Gibbs of Shobrooke. 
 
 Leaves his lands in Upton Helions and Shobrooke to John 
 Primridge of Sanford, and John Frost of Crediton, in trust 
 during the life of his sister-in-law Sarah Rither, for his daughters 
 Mary, wife of Philip Pyle, and Elizabeth, wife of Anthony Harris, 
 Executor. 
 
 Will dated May 2Oth, 1724. Proved March 4th, 1724-5. 
 
 Admon de bonis non granted January 7th, 1732, to William 
 Harris or Winter. 
 
 Witnesses 
 
 NOTE. Testator was second son of Philip Gibbe of Shobrooke, 
 1661.
 
 44 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1725. John Osmond of St. Sidwells, Tallow Chandler. 
 
 To wife Elizabeth, an annuity of 20 and one room in his 
 house. Household goods to remain with Sons Joseph and 
 Samuel. To daughter Elizabeth 500, to daughter Grace, 
 wife of Nathaniel Cock of Bideford, Clerk, 50. To said 
 Son, Joseph, 100. To said Sons, his leasehold property in 
 St. Sidwells, and a freehold house in St. George's Parish. To 
 the four Presbyterian Ministers, Mr. S. Enty, Mr. Withers, 
 Mr. Lavington, and Mr. Green i is. each. 2O/- to his wife 
 Elizabeth in trust for the poor people of St. Sidwells parish. 
 Residue to said Sons Joseph and Samuel ; they are Joint Exors. 
 
 Witnesses, Esayah Broadmead, Francis Worth, John Broad- 
 mead. 
 
 Dated 4th Dec., 1723. Proved I4th June, 1725. 
 
 Seal of Anns, 3 horses Courant. 
 
 NOTE-. These are the Arms of Fry of Yarty, and the ring seal 
 evidently belonged to Francis Worth, the witness, one of the "four 
 children " of Francis Worth of Exeter, and Great Grandson of 
 Elizabeth, dau. of Nicholas Fry of Yarty, and of her husband 
 Henry Worth of Worth in Washfield. 
 
 1726. The Last Will of Abraham Gibbs of Topsham, 
 Gentleman. 
 
 Leaves $OO to his son George Abraham Gibbs. .300 to 
 his daughter Anna Gibbs. 21 and no more to his wife 
 Sarah Gibbs. 
 
 Exors. in trust, John Ewins, John Rous, and the Revd. 
 Mr. Christopher Ewin (Rector of Feniton). 
 
 Will dated i6th Sept., 1726. Proved Oct. 24th, 1726. 
 
 Witnesses 
 
 NOTE. Testator's wife was daughter and coheir of Robert Lyle 
 of Topsham, widow of ... Ewings. 
 
 1727. Administration to the effects of Stephen Worthy of 
 St. Davids, Exeter. Granted 8th Nov., 1727, to Anne his wife. 
 
 NOTE. He was grandson of George Worth, "or Worthy," of 1637, 
 and great-great-grandfather of the Editor of this work. Since his 
 time, the final " e," abandoned in the elder line by Anthony Worth 
 of Worth, 1517, has been also entirely abandoned by us, and our 
 name written as above ; in accordance, however, with the old 
 pronunciation. ED.
 
 DEVONSHIRE IV I U.S. 45 
 
 1729. Elizabeth Evans of St. David's, Exeter, Widow, dated 
 2Oth April, 1729. 
 
 Slie gives all her goods to Nicholas Hamling of Exeter, 
 in Trust for Magdalen, wife of Thomas Saunders. 
 
 Administration granted to Nicholas Hamling, 171!! Oct., 1724. 
 
 1733. Administration to effects of Francis Evans of Exeter, 
 granted to Edward his Son, i8th Dec., 1733. 
 
 1730. Mark Swanger of Clehanger, Yeoman. To brother 
 Moses Swanger 20. To John, Son of John Minchin of 
 Clehanger, 4. To Grace, daughter of said John Minchin, 
 4. The Moiety of " my estate," called Bond house, to 
 Cousin Robert Milford of Norton Fitzwarren, Husband- 
 man, and to Cousin John, Son of brother Thomas Swanger, 
 and their heirs. And the leasehold moiety of the same 
 estate is also bequeathed to them, but charged with 
 annuities of 10 and $ to brothers Moses and Thomas. To 
 Cousins Elizabeth, Joan, Mary, and Sarah, daughters of 
 Brother Thomas, .5 each. To Cousin Jane, daughter of 
 Brother Moses, 5. To Brother Robert Swanger and Sarah, 
 his daughter, 5 each. 
 
 2 Trustees, Moses and Thomas Swanger. 
 
 Residue to said Robert Milford and John Swanger, who are 
 Joint Exors. 
 
 Witnesses, John Swanger, Mary Isaac, Richd. Loudon, 
 John Minchin, Senr. 
 
 Dated iotn Aug., 1728. Proved 3Oth July, 1730. 
 
 1734. The last Will of Elizabeth Worth of St. Sid wells, 
 Exeter, 26th Jany., 1733. 
 
 She desires to be buried with her deceased husband in 
 the Chancel of Washfield Church. 
 
 She leaves to her five younger Sons, Henry, Bampfyld, 
 Simon, Reginald, and Samuel Worth, .10 each. She 
 mentions her Son, Furse Worth, lately deceased. 
 
 She leaves her daughter Dorothy her gold watch, and to 
 her daughter Susannah her pearl necklace.
 
 46 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 To her daughter Matilda her "gold medall " and her 
 diamond ring. To her brother-in-law, the Revd. Mr. Canon 
 Worth, and to her Cousin Francis Worth, a mourning ring 
 each. To Mr. John Parsons, Apothecary, Exeter, and to 
 Mr. John Norman, Apothecary, Tiverton, a mourning ring 
 each. 
 
 She leaves the residue of her estate to her said Sons, 
 Simon, Reginald, and Samuel, and to her six daughters, 
 Mary, Elizb., Bridget, Dorothy, Susannah, and Matilda, who 
 are Joint Exors. 
 
 Witnesses, John Fortescue, " Catherine Dummitt." 
 
 Proved ipth Sept., 1734. 
 
 Crest Seal, in red wax : an heraldic tiger, supporting between 
 its paws a shield charged with a bend betw. 2 bendlets. 
 Fortescue. 
 
 NOTES. This was evidently Dr. John Fortescue's Seal. He was of 
 Bampton, Co. Oxon, and a Bachelor of Medicine. He died 
 unmarried in 1752, and was the last of the name of Fortescue at 
 Buckland Filleigh. 
 
 Mrs. Worth, the Testatrix, was the widow of John Wonh of 
 Wurth, Grandson of Henry Worth, whose Will, proved 1680, has 
 been given ante. She was dau. and heir of John Furse of Morshead, 
 in the parish of Dean Piior. 
 
 1737. The last Will of Richard Huyshe of Baliol College, 
 Oxford, 28th March, 1731. He constitutes his father, Francis 
 Huyshe of Clist-Hidon, universal legatee and Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 25th March, 1737. 
 
 NOTE. He was second son of the Revd. Francis " Huyshe," Rector 
 of Clist-Hidon, and, through Wentworth, Spencer, and Clare, had a 
 direct descent from Joan Plantagenet, second dau. of Edward I., a 
 fact referred to on the funeral monument of his four sisters in Sidbury 
 Church. His niece, Ann H., married John Mtlhuish of Hill, in 
 Cruse Morchard, and was Editor's great-grandmother. 
 
 1738. Administration to the Effects of George Vigor of 
 Exeter, granted 6th Feby., 1738, to Ann Phillips, wife of 
 John Ulrich Passavant, his Sister.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 47 
 
 1738. The last Will of Dorothy Wrayford of St. Mary 
 Major's, Exeter, 2Qth June, 1738. She mentions her Sister, 
 Elizb. Prigg, deceased. She recites that she is under "covert 
 baron," and bequeaths the estate set apart for her separate 
 use. To " brother-in-law " Thomas Lavington, the house in St. 
 Thomas, now in possession of Thomas Savory, Haberdasher 
 of hats, in trust for my dear and loving husband, Angel Wray- 
 ford, with remainder to " Cousin " Thomas Lavington the 
 younger. 
 
 Executor, the first-named Thos. Lavington. 
 
 Seal. A Bull passant. Bevill. 
 
 Proved 23rd Aug., 1738. 
 
 NOTE. The Lavingtons were Exeter merchants, and resided for some 
 years at Larkbeare. Thomas Lavington may have been a brother of 
 Andrew Lavington of Larkbeare, who became bankrupt in 1737. Dr. 
 George Lavington, Bp. of Exeter 1746-62, is said to have been of 
 this family, and to have been born at Heavitree, near Exeter. It 
 appears, however, that he was really born at Mildenhall, Herts., of 
 which parish his Grandfather was Incumbent. 
 
 1744. The last will of Mary Carwithen of the City of Exeter, 
 Spinster, I2th Jany., 1742. To brother William Carwithen, 
 10. To Sister Sarah Atkin, 10. To Cousin Penelope 
 Saffin, for mourning, 10. To Cousin Robert Atkin, 20. 
 To Cousin Anne Westcote, 5. To Cousin Charles Carwithen, 
 5. To Cousin George Carwithen, 5. To Cousin John 
 Carwithen, the Minister, 3. To Cousin John, Son of Cousin 
 Elizabeth Maye, a moidore. To Cousins John and Edmund 
 Atkin, ^5 each. To John Bassctt, Esq., of Heanton Court, 
 2 2s. for a ring. To Cousin Wm. Atkin, Esq., her best 
 diamond ring, failing his heirs remainder of said ring to his 
 Sisters. To Cousin Mary Atkin, her gold watch, which belonged 
 to her late brother Cudmore, of Templeton. Legacies to 
 Cousin Edmund Carwithen, and to Miss Mary Walrond, 
 daughter of Dr. Walrond, Sister Sarah Atkin, and to her 
 Cousins, the 6 daughters of her sd. Sister, Sarah Atkin, who 
 are Joint Executrixes of her Will. 
 
 By Codicil she gives legacies to Cousins Joseph Carwithen, 
 Mary C, dau. of Cousin Carwithen, of Crediton. To Church- 
 wardens and Overseers of Templeton \o, to be placed at
 
 48 DEVONSHIRE IV ILLS. 
 
 interest to keep a child in the parish school " to learn to read 
 the Bible." 
 
 200 to her said Cousin Penelope Saffin. 
 
 Proved by Mary Atkin and Anne Westcote, two of the 
 Exors., Feb. I2th, 1744. 
 
 The last Will of Mary Carvvithen of the Parish of St. 
 Petrock and City of Exeter, Spinster, 7th Sept., 1751. 
 
 She directs that her body shall be buried in a vault in the 
 Parish Church of Crediton, in the grave of her late brother, 
 William Carvvithen, and bequeaths legacies to her mother, 
 Esther,* and to her niece, Esther, dau. of brother John. 
 
 Residue to said brother, John Carwithen, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved Feb. I3th, 1752. 
 
 1752. Administration to the effects of Joan Worth of 
 Worth, in the parish of Washfield, Granted to Henry Worth, 
 her husband. 
 
 Simon Worth of Washfield, Gentleman, and John Brayley 
 of Tiverton, join in the bond. 
 
 Granted 5th June, 1752. 
 
 N.B. Henry Worth was second son of John Worth of Worth, 
 M.P. for Tiverton, 1710. 
 
 1767. The last Will of Mary, wife of Simon Worth of 
 Washfield, Gentleman, 22nd Nov., 1766. 
 
 She settles Treneeres, in the parish of " Maddrin " and Co. 
 of Cornwall, which had been secured to her by settlement, 
 upon her mother Lydia, wife of Samuel Harness of Washfield, 
 Clerk, and upon her husband Simon Worth, unless he marries 
 again. She mentions her Uncle Arthur Harris of Lifton, 
 Clerk. 
 
 Her Cousin William Oliver and his heirs have reversion of 
 said estate for ever. 
 
 By Codicil, 3rd Dec., 1766, she leaves certain bequests, viz., 
 To John Pierce, Esq., of Chancery Lane, London, 100. To 
 Revd. Philip Atherton and his wife Betty 50 each. To 
 
 * She was dau. of Henry Walrond, Esq., of Bradfield, Co. Devon.
 
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 49 
 
 uncles John and Arthur Harris, and to the Hon. Mrs. Harris. 
 To mother, Lydia Harness, " my watch and all my trinkets, 
 except the Seal with the Oliver Arms, my large chased silver 
 waiter, my father's picture and her picture now in the little parlour 
 at Worth," " the picture of Dr. Oliver, my hoop diamond, and 
 best diamond ring." To cousin "Miss Caroline Oliver," "my 
 shagreen tea chest compleat, my silver tea candlesticks, my 
 best stone shoe buckles, my two best suits of lace, my best 
 sack, my little ruby ring set with brilliant sparks." To Mrs. 
 Elizabeth Acland "my smelling bottle in case" and "my Seal 
 with the Oliver Arms." To Beavis Wood, " my silver labels." 
 To cousin Susannah Benson, a mourning ring. To said 
 husband, Simon Worth, four silver table spoons and six 
 common tea spoons. To said mother, the use of my silver- 
 hafted knives and forks, to revert to uncle Arthur Harris. 
 To Revd. Mr. John Cruwys my silver tea kettle and lamp, 
 and a mourning ring. 
 Proved Oct. 151!!, 1767. 
 
 NOTES. Simon Worth of Washfield was the fourth son of John 
 Worth of Worth, M P. for Tiverton, by his wife, Elizabeth Furse. 
 Testatrix was the dau. of Lydia, second daughter of Christopher 
 Harris of Hayne, in the parish of Lifton, by Jane (Oliver?), his 
 wife. The Revd. Samuel Harness was Rector of Washfield on the 
 presentation, for that turn, of John Harris of Hayne; he died in 1786. 
 
 John Harris of Hayne, who was Master of the Household to 
 George II. and George III., died two days before his niece's Will was 
 proved, i3th Oct., 1767. 
 
 "The Hon. Mrs. Harris," his second wife, was a dau. of Francis 
 Seymour, Lord Conway ; she died in 1774. 
 
 The Revd. Arthur Harris was Rector of Lifton, and died in 1770. 
 
 1769. Administration of the Goods of Elizabeth Meachin 
 of Clyst St. Mary's, deceased, granted to Elizabeth Gibbs her 
 daughter, wife of John Gibbs of Topsham, mariner. George 
 Abraham Gibbs of Exeter, Joseph Paul of Thornecombe, and 
 David Williams of Exeter, Sureties. 
 
 Date of Grant, Septr. ist, 1769. 
 
 NOTE. Refer to P. C. C, Jan. 3ist, 1795, George Abraham Gibbs. 
 Nov. jrd, 1778, John Gibbs.
 
 5 o DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1778. A special Admon of the goods of Isaac Gibbs so far as 
 concerned a term of years, sets forth that Indres of Lease and 
 Release dated March 28th, 1689, were made between Benjamin 
 Oliver, Joseph his son, John Mercer of Ottery St. Mary, Thomas 
 Brooking, Anthony Mapowder, and Isaac Gibbs, Margaret 
 Prideaux of Soledon, widow, and Margaret Mercer, spinster, 
 whom Joseph Oliver meant to marry, and did so marry, and did 
 die leaving issue, Elizabeth, wife of William Williams of Exon., 
 M.D. ; and that John Mercer, Thomas Brooking, and Anthony 
 Mapowder died, and Isaac Gibbs survived, but died intestate, 
 and that now there was no legal representative of Isaac Gibbs ; 
 and that Admon was therefore granted as prayed. 
 
 Date of Grant, 2Oth September, 1778. 
 
 1785. The last Will of John Gattey of St. Sid wells, Exeter, 
 Baker. 
 
 He leaves his wife his property in said Parish, with remainder 
 to his son Joseph. 
 
 He mentions certain furniture in the room in which his son 
 Edward lodges. 
 
 He also mentions his daughters, Elizabeth, wife of Richard 
 Hopkins, Susannah, wife of Shirley Woolmer, and Jemima 
 Gattey. 
 
 And his two sons, John and William Gattey. His grand- 
 children, Patience and John, children of the said John. He 
 refers to his property in Paris Street, St. Sid wells. 
 
 Dated 27th Dec., 1784. 
 
 Proved 3ist Jan., 1785. 
 
 NOTES. The Gatteys are believed to have come to Exeter from 
 Cornwall. 
 
 The son, Edward Gattey, was a solicitor in Exeter, and was elected 
 Town Clerk loth Sept., 1814, resigned 1836. His daughter married 
 Wm., only brother of Sir Francis Sykes, Bart, i;th Dec., 1821, at 
 Lympstone. His brother Joseph followed the trade of a builder. John 
 Gattey was of the Cricklepitt Mills, Exeter, and died 5th June, 1825. 
 The Woolmers were long the proprietors of the Exeter and Plymouth 
 Gazette. The property in Paris St. is still known as " Gattey's Court."
 
 BEVOXSHIRE IV ILLS. 51 
 
 1786. Administration to the Effects of Elizabeth Mortimore 
 of the City of Exeter, deed., intestate. Granted Feby. gth, 1786, 
 to Humphry Mortimore her husband. John Evans of the said 
 City, Gentleman, and Robert Lewis, also of Exeter, " Wool 
 Sorter," join the bond. 
 
 1798. The last- Will of Mary Carwithen of St. Sid wells, Exeter, 
 April 1 8th, 1788. 
 
 She bequeaths, inter alia, " Three family pictures in gilt frames" 
 to the Revd. George Carwithen, and there are also legacies to 
 the Chichester family of Hall. Proved July 28th, 1798. 
 
 NOTE. Some years ago, the Editor saw two or three pictures of 
 the Carwithen family, by Sir Peter Lely, at Gidleigh Park, Chagfoni, 
 and the owner, Mr. Whipham, told him that they had been given 
 him by one of the sons of the late Revd. W. Carwithen, D.D., of 
 Manaton Rectory, &c., &c. The Carwithens purchased the advowson 
 of Manaton Rectory immediately after the Great Rebellion, and the 
 Revd. W. Carwithen is still the Rector, 1892. 
 
 1803. Administration to the Effects of Henry Pearce of the 
 Parish of St. Kerrian and City of Exeter, late mercer, deceased. 
 Granted to Benjamin Mardon, principal creditor, his wife 
 Elizabeth having renounced. 
 
 He seems to have left a child, also deceased since his death. 
 Granted 23rd May, 1803. 
 
 1806. Special Admon of the Goods of Anne Gibbs of Exeter, 
 widow, so far as related to a term of years. It appears that she 
 died intestate, that her husband, George Abraham Gibbs, was 
 Exor. to Will of Lucy Waymouth, widow, dated Oct. 29, 1770, 
 together with John Trehawke, in trust for Mary, Lucy, John, 
 and George Waymouth, her children ; that Lucy Waymouth 
 made a codicil, Jan. 4th, 1779, and died 1781 ; that her children 
 had long since attained the age of 21 ; that Timothy Kenrick, 
 Clerk, had married Mary Waymouth, and died in his (G.-G.-G.'s) 
 lifetime; that Thomas Kenrick died 1805, leaving a will dated 
 June 1 7th, 1801, and that John Trehawke died 1788. 
 
 1827. Administration to the Effects of Robert Pierce, late 
 of the City of Exeter, granted 3Oth Oct., 1827, to Mary his 
 widow. Under 50.
 
 52 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1878. The last Will of John Francis Worth of Worth 
 House, in the Parish of Washfield, dated Nov. 7th, 1871. 
 
 He leaves certain furniture and china at Worth to his wife, 
 and certain old furniture there to his daughter. 
 
 He mentions his brother, Francis Worth, as tenant in tail 
 of Wychanger and Luckham, both in Somerset. He leaves 
 these two estates in equal shares to his children, Reginald 
 and Henrica. 
 
 Exors., George Porter of Littleton Rectory, Chertsey, Surrey, 
 Isabella my wife, and Henrica my daughter. 
 
 Codicil, 1 5th May, 1872. He refers to the death of his 
 brother Francis. He mentions that he is only tenant for life 
 at Worth, and desires his son Reginald to allow his widow 
 to remain there for three months after his death. 
 
 Proved soth July, 1878. Under 3,000. 
 
 NOTES. The Worth wills included in this volume are all interesting, 
 since they pertain to one of the oldest Devonshire County Families. 
 
 From the "Domesday Survey" of 1087, when Ralph of Worth 
 held Worth under Wm. de Pollei, the elder line of Worth have been 
 seated there in an unbroken succession down to the above Testator. 
 
 Towards the end of the twelfth century, Sir Hugh Worthe of Worth, 
 married Avis, daughter of his neighbour at Tiverton Castle, Richard 
 de Redvers, third Earl of Devon. The eighth in descent from him 
 married Margerie, daughter and co-heir of Hugh Beauchamp, about 
 1385. By this marriage they acquired Beauchamp and other property 
 in Washfield, together with the Manor, and the Advowson of 
 Washfield Church, which had belonged to the Abbots of Plympton, 
 Alice Abbot having been grandmother of Margerie Beauchamp. 
 The fourth in descent from Thomas Worth and Margerie Beauchamp 
 was Anthony Worth of Worth, alive 1523. Amerced at Totnes Castle 
 that year, Washfield Manor being held from the honour of Totnes. 
 
 The above Testator, Mr. John Francis Worth of Worth, was ninth 
 in direct descent from the said Anthony Worth. Mr. John F. Worth 
 left two children, viz., the Revd. Reginald Worth, heir-in tail of 
 Washfield, who married, but died without issue i2th March, 1880. 
 His sister Henrica, mentioned in the Will, was the wife of the Revd. 
 Wm. Lloyd Jones, Rector of Washfield, who assumed the name of 
 Worth by Royal license, 1882, and died January 8th, 1884. Worth 
 House and Manor, with other property in Washfield, were advertised 
 for sale in 1887, when a portion was sold and realized ^20,000. 
 In the following year, 1888, another advertisement appeared in the 
 local papers, and the residue of the estate, together with Worth House 
 (a fine old mansion rebuilt about the reign of Queen Anne), was 
 knocked down to a Mr. Thomas (who had made a fortune in South 
 Africa), November i3th, 1888, for ,35,000. A portion of the 
 old property was reserved by Mrs. Worth, who subsequently resided 
 at " Beauchamp," and died there 1891.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 53 
 
 ARCHDEACONRY OF BARNSTAPLE. 
 
 1 563. Robert Thassell of Bulkeworthy, in Buckland Brewer, 
 Husbandman, Dec. I2th, 1563. He desires to be buried in 
 the Church of Buckland. To daughter Ema "all the unoccupied 
 woll the sheep bore this year," 5/- in money & a canvas 
 sheet. 
 
 Residue to daughter Ales Thassall. 
 
 Witnesses Sir Thomas Moorecroughte, John Burnaberie, 
 Thomas King. 
 
 Proved 2nd March, 1563-4. 
 
 1565. William Tassell of Rose Ash, nth March, 1564. 
 Desires to be buried in the Parish Church, to which he leaves 
 35. 4d. Legacies to William, John, Jane, and Ann Payne. 
 
 Halfendale of goods to wife Margaret, and the other moiety 
 to Sons John and Anthony. Wife and two Sons Joint 
 Exors. 
 
 Rulers, Alexander Tasle and Henry Vicarie. Us testibus. 
 
 Proved I4th Jany., 1565. 
 
 1565. Laurence Tossell of Tawstke (Tawstock), i6th Sept., 
 1564. He desires to be buried in Holy Grave. "To my 
 four daughters twenty marks in money to be divided equally 
 amongst them, that is, to every one of them ,3 6s. 8d.," and 
 " to each two dishes performed & a hiefer a-pice." 
 
 To Son William, " six sylver spoones, after the death ot 
 my wife." 
 
 To John Powe /4d, and "to y e pore mens box /I2d.
 
 54 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 To Philip Cradocke a yeo. Residue to wief Christian, 
 who is Sole Executrix." 
 
 Witnesses John Combe, " Curat," Lewis Cradocke, John 
 Comer, Richard Bond, with others. 
 
 Proved 2/th July, 1565. 
 
 1565. Roger Worthe of Barnstaple, Gentleman, dated 28th 
 Sept., 1564. He desires to be buried in Barum Ch., "-in the 
 Isle of the Blessed Lady as near my wyffe Joan Worthe as 
 may be." 
 
 To daughter Johane ten " Portugueses which my mother 
 Webber gave m^," also the Tenement, &c., given me by Henry 
 Webber and Margerie, his wife. To Grace Worthe, my 
 daughter, seven butts of Sacke and one of Malmsey, and the 
 best bed standing in Mistress ffynnels chamber. To daughter 
 Elizabeth and to John Smale " which by the grace of God 
 shall marry her," and to their first child, a tenement " I bought 
 of John Branple of Langtre." 
 
 To son Pawle Worthe " my best govvne of scarlet furred 
 with ' fewnes,' my gowne of crymsone ingrayne faced with 
 white satten, my doublett of blacke velvett agged with 
 golde, my tippett of velvett," together with sundry "hangings," 
 and my saile of Armes which I doe seal withall, and my blessing 
 if he be good to my tenants." 
 
 To son Walter my ring of golde. 
 
 Residue to said Walter, who is sole Executor. He gives 
 his father, Roger Worthe, an annuity of 13/4 "for four years 
 next coming." To the " Spythall house of Pylton & to the 
 Alms House of Barum, 53/4, by the Parson of Marwood. 
 
 Proved 27th July, 1565. 
 
 NOTES. Testator was nephew of John Worthe of Compton, and 
 first cousin of John Worthe of Crediton', whose Will was proved 
 in the Principal Registry on the 4th June, 1596 (which see). He 
 was M.P. for Barnstaple, 1553, and was ancestor of the Worths of 
 Timberscombe, Co. Someiset. 
 
 His mention of his " Mother Webber," and of his father, " Roger 
 Worthe," proves, conclusively, that the Heralds carelessly omitted a 
 generation at the Visitation of 1564 as they make him son, instead of 
 Grandson, of Otho Worthe of Compton. His wife was Joan Drew.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 55 
 
 1565. John Toker of North Molton, 24th July, 1565. To 
 be buried in "y c Church earth" of sd. parish. To the 
 Church /I2d. "To the poor mens chest" /I2d. To 
 the poor of parish 6s. 8d. To son, Edmund " Tooker," 
 six little silver spoons, two oxen, the best " weyne," and 
 a brass " pott," " according to my promise on his marriage." 
 To son Wm. " Tooker," a table board, six silver spoons, &c. 
 To son John, best yearling and three sheep. To son Peter, 
 a sheep. " Item to Thomas his (Peter's) son, a yearling." 
 To Owen Smith, the great "standerd," and to his daughter, 
 a yerling. To my " servant," a calf. To daughter Alice, the 
 residue of "my"' puter vessels. Residue to his "rulers," for 
 the use of daughters Alice and Mary, if they marry with their 
 permission. Exor., son William. Rulers, brothers William 
 and John Tooker. Overseers, John Slader and Wm. Smith. 
 
 Witnesses, John Gred, Vicar, and said Overseers. 
 
 Proved I2th Sept., 1565. 
 
 1566. Thomas Toker of Trentishoe, A.D. 1566. He desires 
 to be buried in " Holy Turf," and makes his brother John 
 Toker of Dene, in the parish of Torrington (Trentishoe?) 
 Universal Legatee and Sole Exor. 
 
 Witnesses, Phillipe Miller, John Hancocke, Davye Howill, 
 and Nicholas Thorne. 
 
 Proved 3rd Dec, 1566. 
 
 NOTE See i6th Sept., 1573, Post. 
 
 1 567. W T alter Toker of " Rowby," in the parish of Parracombe, 
 28th Nov., 1565. He desires to be buried there, and gives 
 to the Church, 3/4. To daughter Joan, 22, and a kirtell. 
 To daughter Richorde, 6 at her marriage or at the age of 14. 
 To John Spearman, a mare. Residue to son Robert Tokar, 
 who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Witnesses, John Toker, Thomas Harris. 
 
 Proved 3rd April, 1567.
 
 56 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 The last Will of Walter Carew of Great Torrington, 
 dated 9th Nov., 1566. He bequeaths his gown of Black fur to 
 George Furlong, and leaves the residue to his wife Joane, who is 
 Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved I3th Oct., 1566. 
 
 NOTE. This Walter Carew finds no place in any of the printed 
 Carew Pedigrees. 
 
 1566. The last Will of David Melhuish, I3th Aug., 1563. 
 He desires to be buried at Knovvstone, and leaves small sums to 
 the poor box there, and to that of Cruse Morchafd. 
 
 " Item to John Comyn my gray Coat." Residue to wife 
 Johan, who is Joint Executrix with Philip Shapcott. 
 
 Proved I3th Sept., 1566. 
 
 1567. Margaret Tassell, widow of Ayshe Rose (Rose Ash) 
 26th Dec., 1567. 
 
 To '' Mary Payne my daughter's daughter one yeo sheepe." 
 The same to Johane, daughter of John Voysie the younger. 
 
 Residue to two Sons, John and Anthony Tassell, who are 
 joint Exors. 
 
 Rulers, John Voysie the elder, and John Crocker. 
 
 Witnesses, John Voysie and John Laneman, " with others." 
 
 Proved 3rd Feby., 1567. 
 
 1567. Christian Towker commends her body to Holy Grave 
 in the Church yard of Washford, and leaves to the poor men's 
 box there -/I2- To Thamesin Tooker of Washford, widow, "my 
 other best petticoat & two kerchiefs." To Annie Pope, " my 
 petticoat & a pair of chamblet." To four poor men to bear my 
 body to Washford -/12 each. Residue to " Sir Edward Croke," 
 who is Sole Executor. 
 
 Dated 1 2th Aug., 1567. 
 
 Witnesses, Matthew Po.pe, Richard Bright. 
 
 Proved 7th Jany., 1567.
 
 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 57 
 
 1567. Johane Towker of Bratton, widow, 26th March, 1565. 
 Gives her body to " Hallowed grave." To poor men's box -/2. 
 To dau., Alice Baker, "best kirtell," 12 sheep, second best red 
 petticoat, and Sylver girdle. To daughter Margaret Towker, 
 "a podger (porringer) and a platter." 
 
 Residue to son John Towker and daughter Margaret, who are 
 Joint Exors. 
 
 Witnesses, " Sir John Snowe " and John Dallynge. 
 
 Proved 2/th Feby., 1567. 
 
 1568. John Toker of Marwood, Husbandman, 2nd April, 
 1565. To be buried in Marwood Church. To maintenance of 
 said Church, I Sheep. To son John, " after the lord's fyned of 
 his hariotte," all plough stock and plough gere, "with a guylding 
 and Mare," and after the decease of " Erne his mother," a Table 
 bord, 2 Bushels of wheat, and 6 quarters of " Otes." To Margaret, 
 John, and Katherine, children of the said John, "each of them 
 a heffar." To " Charity, their sister, my yeos." To John Roger, 
 a cow, and to Margaret Roger, 6/8. To son Richard 20, " in 
 peny & penyworth/' To Johan Reyd, " my servant," " 3 fleeses 
 of woll." To poor man's box -J12. To daughter-in-law Anstie, 
 " a dish performed." To John Whitbere -/I4. Residue to wife 
 Erne, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses, John Marwood, Esq., Geffry Clipit, Clerke, Roger 
 Nycholl, and John Whitbere. 
 
 Proved 22nd July, 1568. 
 
 1568. John Tooker, alias Orcharde, of " Frethelstoke,'' i6th 
 April, 1568. To be buried in the Church of " Frethelstocke." 
 To the poor there -/I2. To son William 6 133. 46. and 2 
 silver spoons, and one little Cupboard now with son-in-law John 
 Morrish. To son John Tooker the younger 6 135. 46. and 2 
 silver spoons. To son-in-law John Pep 6 135. 4d. " if the said 
 John Pep as like his bargaine that he now dwelleth in to Johane 
 my daughter nowe his wief or elles any other as good as that 
 holye to herself." Also one little pan, &c. To John Morrish, a 
 folding board.
 
 5 8 DEVONSHIRE IV ILLS. 
 
 Residue to John Tooker, alias Orchard the elder, who is 
 Sole Exor. 
 
 Witnesses, William Williams, Clerk, Curate, and James 
 Nethewaye. 
 
 Proved 2nd June, 1568. 
 
 1569. Harrie Toker of Cholocombe-raley, Husbandman, 
 1 5th Aug., 1562. 
 
 To daughter Johan, 20. To daughter Agnes, wife of Wm. 
 Norman, 6/8. To daughter Richorde, wife of Humphry Borrowe, 
 3/4. To the poor men's box -/I2. Residue to wife Margaret, 
 who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses, Robert and Thomas S my the, and Hugh Folker. 
 
 Proved I4th March, 1569. 
 
 1572. Thomas Tocker, alias Tanner of Kings Nyton (Kings 
 Nympton), 6th Sept., 1570. To be buried in the parish Church. 
 To daughter Wilmot Sanger, best brazen pot and I dish per- 
 formed. To Thomasine Sanger, 6 " yowes." To John Borde, 
 6 sheep. To the poor of the parish -/I2. To Martha and 
 Jackett, daughters of John Sanger, " one sheep apiece." To 
 servant, Robert Coblye, one sheep. Residue to wife Agnes, who 
 is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Trustees, John Tossell and John Snowe. 
 
 Witnesses, Richard Lucke, Thomas Gryffen. 
 
 Proved loth April, 1572. 
 
 1572. John Torner, alias Toker, of Chumleigh, Husbandman, 
 March, 1571. 
 
 To the children of daughters Elizb. Snowe, Cysslye "Davide," 
 Johan Downinge, and Agnis Hoper, one cowe and one yarlinge 
 to be equally divided between them. To son-in-law John 
 " Davye," " my best cote," and to his wyeff a " thrumich 
 coverlett." To Thomas, son of said John Davye, " my best 
 jerkyn & my white hose." Residue to wife Elizabeth Torner, 
 who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Two Trustees, John Snowe and John Hathewell. 
 
 Proved iQth May, 1572.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 59 
 
 1572. John Toocker of Kentisbury. Bequests to sons, 
 John the elder, John the younger, Edward, Phillip, Thomas, 
 and to daughters Thomasine and Johane. To a second dau. 
 Thomasine, " the elder," he leaves " one cow if she be ordered 
 & ruled by her friends at her marriage." 
 
 To George, son of Wm. " Toker," I silver spoon. 
 
 To the Church, I sheep, and to Wm. Hustote, /4d. 
 
 Residue to wife Elizabeth, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Two Trustees, who witness, viz., Wm. Harris and Wm. 
 Crocker. 
 
 Dated I3th Feby., 1571. 
 
 Proved I7th June, 1572. 
 
 !573- John Toker of Dene in the parish of Trentishoe, I4th 
 March, 1572. 
 
 To daughter Eliu, a brazen pan, and a brazen crocke. To 
 daughter Johane, the same. To son John, /I2d. To Son 
 William, /4d. To sons Richard and Walter, all goods 
 moveable and immoveable after their mother's death. Residue 
 to wife Ellin, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses, Robert Stephens, Clerk ; Philip Knyle, and Robert 
 Toker ; the last two are Trustees, and have /4d. each. 
 
 Proved i6th Sept., 1573. 
 
 1575. John "Towker" of West Downe, 28th Aug., 1575. 
 He leaves to John " Tocker," "my Sonne & Enymy," 4 oxen 
 with all the plough geare, and " all my wrytinges and 
 evydences." To son Peter, a heifer, &c. To daughter Johane, 
 a heifer calf. To daughter Thomasine, 3 yeos. 
 
 Residue to wife Agnes, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Trustee, Wm. Bright, Vicar of West Downe. 
 
 Witnesses, Walter Fosse, John Headen, & Thomas Yeard. 
 
 Proved I3th Sept., 1575. 
 
 NOTE. Towards the end of the will the word "enymy," as applied 
 to Testator's eldest son, is erased, and the word " hyeare " substituted. 
 Perhaps by the care of the good vicar of West Downe.
 
 60 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1580. The last Will of John Killond of Lapford, Husband- 
 man, dated 23rd May, 22nd Elizabeth. To be buried on the 
 north side of Lapford Church. To poor, 2O/- to be distributed 
 by John Rudge, Gent m , and Richard Killand. " Item, in 
 consideracion that my son Lawrence Killand is of himself 
 indewed with but small witt or knowledge, and not well able 
 to governe himself with any porcion of goods," " My will is 
 that my kinsman Richard Killand shall deliver to John Rudge 
 of Morchard Bishop, Gent m , and to John Killond of Down 
 St. Mary, Yeoman, the sum of 40," in trust for maintenance 
 of said son Lawrence, unless Richard Killand elects to provide, 
 himself, for him. Legacies to servants, Margery Killand, 
 Nicholas Thorne and " Ann," and to godson Mychell Rudge. 
 Residue to kinsman Richard Killand, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Overseers, John Rudge and John Killand. 
 
 Proved, 2Oth June, 1580. 
 
 Sum 180. 
 
 1591. Alexander Sanger, of Mariansleigh. To son, John 
 Sanger the younger, " My Table bord, my selyng, and my 
 coboard, after the death of my wife yf neither of us both 
 have not nede to sell it for y e maintenance of ourselves." 
 To son Henry Sanger, six silver spones and my great 
 brazen panne. Residue to wife Joane, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 My sonne Henry Sanger doth owe me 4. 
 
 John Sanger the younger doth owe me 4<D/-. 
 
 Thomas Sanger, my son, doth owe me 4O/-. 
 
 Admin, granted to Joan Sanger, the Executrix, 8th April, 
 1591. 
 
 Sum .32 93. 
 
 1613. The last Will of John Sanger the Elder of King's- 
 Nympton. He desires to be buried in the Parish Church 
 and " with a Sermon to be preached to the poor " for which 
 he leaves 3/. 
 
 " To each of my children /6d." 
 
 To son John Sanger, "4 new bordes that lye in the Stable." 
 To son Robert Sanger and to Marye his wife, " One byrding 
 piece, i collyver, and one crosse bowe, with their furniture."
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 61 
 
 To each grandchild /6d. To John Downe, " my daughter's 
 son," 3/4. To John and Elinore Tomb, alais Yelmacole, 3/4. 
 To Lewis Tossell, 3/4 and a coffer containing one bushell or 
 thereabouts. To Agnes, daughter of John Sanger the younger, 
 3/4. Residue to wife Wilmot, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Overseers, " Brother " John Bulleid, John Sanger, Thos. 
 Richards, and Francis Southerne, with /2od. each, these being 
 Witnesses. 
 
 Debts owed. " Item, I owe to my son-in-law Thomas 
 Tassell, ^,5. John Bulleid, 42/-. To Agnes Tassell, widow, 
 30/-." 
 
 Sum 45 155. 8d. 
 
 Dated 2ist April. Proved loth June, 1613. 
 
 1615. The last will of William Hamlyn the elder of 
 Woolsery, 23rd July, 1615. 
 
 To Parish Church, 36/4. To godson W m . Hamlyn, 20/5. 
 To Wiilmett and Elizabeth Hamlyn io/- each. To god- 
 daughter Willmott Denis, 20/6 ; and to "all the rest of 
 Hugh Denis's Children 10/6 each." To sister-in-law Wilmett 
 Hamlyn, 10/6. To Jane, wife of John Stifyn, io/6d. Residue 
 " To Isutt Hamlyn my darter." 
 
 Witness, Robert Hamlyn. 
 
 Proved 1st December, 1615. 
 
 NOTE. Ancestor of the Hamlyn-Williams' of Clovelly, Barts. He is 
 described thus : " The inventory of W m Merswill " (the name of his 
 residence) "alias Hamlyn of Woulfardisworthie, Husbandman, taken by 
 Thomas Prust, Gentleman, Robert Praunce, W m Hamlyn, & John 
 Stevens, i st Dec., 1615. 
 
 Sum ^49 1 6s. 4d." 
 
 1616. Johan Densham of Lapford, widow, 2/th Feb., 1616. 
 To eldest son, Richard Densham, all moveables, &c. To 
 son John, six silver spoons. To son Richard's daughters 
 Mary and Richord, and to his son Richard, small bequests. 
 She leaves the Chattell lease of Trendlebury for the main- 
 tenance of sister Alice, with reversion to said son Richard 
 and his heirs. 
 
 Residue to said son John Densham, who is Sole Executor. 
 Proved 2Qth Oct., 1618.
 
 62 DEVONSHIRE IV ILLS. 
 
 1618. Richard Harton of Barnstaple, nth May, 1618. 
 Mentions his brother Robert and step- daughter Anne 
 Clotworthy, god-daughter Mary Gill, Apprentice Agnes 
 Symons, friends John Harrett and John Gill, who are 
 witnesses and overseers. He has leasehold land under 
 Humphrey Colmin of Tiverton. 
 
 Executrix, his wife Thomasine. 
 
 Proved 5th August, 1618. 
 
 1618. Phillipe Petor of Rackenford, Husbandman. To 
 son Robert, all his wearing apparel, and to his two children 
 2/- each. To son John, 2/-, and to John, his son, 2/-. To 
 son-in-law George Vicarye, i Bushell of Rye. To wife 
 Johane, 2 plator dishes. To Margaret Pettor, all household 
 stuff. Residue to wife Johan, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Dated 2Oth April, 1615. 
 
 Witness, John Pettor. 
 
 Proved iQth May, 1618. 
 
 Sum 9 5s. 
 
 1625. Administration to the effects of Mary Tossell, late 
 of Tawstocke, granted to Simon, her son, 22nd June, 1625. 
 Sum 5 is. 8d. 
 
 1627. Johan Tossell of Brendon, Widow. To the poor 
 there, /I2d. To son W m . Locke, /I2d. To son Bartholomew 
 Tossell, /I2d. To son Henry Tossell, 5/-. To son Andrew 
 Tossell, 5/-. To daughters Christian " Hurfer/' io/- ; Johan 
 Bowden, io/- ; Wiimot Richards, io/ . To grandchildren 
 Richard, George, Johan, Agnes, and Thomsine, children of 
 Richard Bowden ; Elizabeth, Richard, Andrew, and Mandlyn, 
 children of David Richards; Wiimot and Ellen, children of 
 Thomas Bowden, small bequest?. Residue to son-in-law 
 Richard Bowden, who is Sole Executor. 
 
 Witnesses, Bart w . Mayne, Hugh Sheper, Hugh Brooke. 
 
 Proved I3th February, 1627. 
 
 Sum 40 135. 8d.
 
 DF. VONSHIRE WILLS. 63 
 
 1639. Administration to the effects of John Tossell of 
 King's-Nympton, granted to Christian, his wife, iith February, 
 1639. 
 
 Extract from Inventory of Effects of Deceased, made I4th 
 January, 1639. 
 
 Item, 3 sylver spoones, I sylver boule, and 4 candlesticks, 
 
 47/4- 
 
 One chattle lease for years on the death of Samuel, John, 
 
 and George Tossell in a Tenement at King's-Nympton, 35. 
 
 Another lease on the lives of son John Tossell, Sara and 
 Cicile Tossell, lands in King's-Nympton, 42. 
 
 Specialty, Debts, &c., 1291 2s. 4d. 
 
 1639. The last Will of William Hamlyn the elder of 
 Wool fa rd is worthy, Yeoman, 9th February, 1637. 
 
 "John Hamlyn my son to have all my estate in Clifford " 
 (in said Parish) "and the. lease thereof, demised and granted 
 by Thomas Prust, of the said Parish, Gentleman, for 99 years 
 on lives of son John and daughter Martha." 
 
 He leaves wife Grace, Estate of 9 acres called Trew, 
 determinable on lives of said son John and daughters Elizabeth 
 and Mary. To dau. Thomazine Hamlyn, an annuity of 48/-. 
 To dau. Grace and son William, /4d. each. To aforesaid 
 daughter Martha, 20; at 18 she gives /4d. each to 
 daughter Margaret H. Wilmott, wife .of Hugh Braund, and 
 Elizabeth, wife of John How. Residue to wife Grace, \\ho 
 is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Overseers, " brothers" Anthony Hamlyn of Hartland, and 
 Richard Bishop of Bradworthy. 
 
 Proved 5th March, 1639. 
 
 1640. Christian Tossell of "King Nympton," Widow, I3th 
 July, 1640. Bequests for repair of Parish Church, IO/- ; to 
 poor, 13/4, and to poor of Romansleigh and of Nymet 
 St. George, 3/4. To godchildren of deceased husband, 
 John Tossell, /I2d. To daughters Sara and Cecill, 200 
 each. To son George, a certain Messuage in Nymet St.
 
 64 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 George and 250, with remainder to son John. Mentions 
 daughter Sara's grandmother, " Katherine Furse." To cousin 
 John Bryant, I Ewe Sheep. To cousin Andrew Richards 
 2O/-. To kinsman John Hager, Sen 1 "., /6d., and to each 
 of his children, /I2d. To brothers-in-law Richard and 
 Bartholomew Tossell, 5/-, and to sister-in-law Demos Tossell, 
 2O/-. To god-daughter Johan, dau. of said Bartholomew, 5/-. 
 " To each of my Cousins, Children of my Brother " George Furse, 
 /I2d. each. To cousin Katherine, daughter of late brother 
 John Furse, one ewe sheep. To cousins Christian and George, 
 children of said brother George Furse, I ewe sheep each. To 
 cousin Thomas Tossell of Worlington, io/- ; to god-daughter 
 and cousin Christian Luke, one Ewe Sheep. Her husband 
 is stated to have been Exor. of John Hutchings and of 
 Nicholas and Edmund Holland. Residue to said son John 
 Tossell, who is Sole Exor. Trustees, John Pawle of Great 
 Heale, Gentm., and Nicholas Bulleid of Romansleigh, and 
 George Furse her brother with 3/- each. 
 
 Witnesses, Nicholas Bulleid. 
 John fibres. 
 
 Proved 3Oth Sept., 1640. 
 
 NOTE. Refer to nth February, 1639. 
 
 1640. Extract from Inventory ot effects of Deceased made 
 I ith Aug., 1640. 
 
 " Item i hower glass, i Bible & other books, 8/-. 
 Item 3 silver spoones,* i Silver boule & 4 candlesticks, 45/-." 
 Sum of personalty, .1284 us. 
 
 1641. The last Will of Richard Toker of Great Torrington, 
 " Inkeeper." To the poor of the parish 3. To brother 
 Christopher Toker " one spruce chest & my best cloke," one 
 jug " with a sylver and a sylver cover." To kinswoman 
 Katherine, daughter of said Christopher Toker, " I Brasse 
 pan," &c. To Mary, daughter of said Christopher and wife 
 
 * Refer to Inventory of John Tossell, nth February, 1639.
 
 DEV'ONSHIKK WILLS. 65 
 
 of Brute Cole, another brass pan. To Amy, daughter of 
 Brute Cole, a sylver spoone. To kinsman Stephen Tooker, 
 a standing bedstead and "one sylver salte gilte." To Richard, 
 daughter of said " Steven, a sylver spoone." To kinsman Hugh 
 Tucker, sen., a standing bedstead. To Richard, his sone, a 
 middle sized brass crocke. To kinswoman Joan Moysey 40,'-. 
 To Mary, wife of Richard Shorte, 4O/-. To John Toker my 
 kinsman, Glover, 4o/- ; Lancellot Lange $/- ; Mabley Toker, 
 widow, 5/- ; Peter Toker, " Oackhampton, Cordwainer," io/- 
 ("my kindsman"). To his brother Roger 5/-. To Marke 
 Lange and his brother, 5/- apiece to each of them. To god-son 
 William, son of William Cornish of Little Torrington, " one 
 sylver plate & one sylver spoone." To brother Wm. Toker, 
 a standing bed. To Samuel, son of said William, two sylvei 
 spoones. To servant io/-. 
 
 Residue, " the sealing of my house excepted & the spence 
 in the parlour & hall, which I leave to W m Cornish," to " my 
 wife Johane," who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Trustees, Arthur Dromant and W T m. Tucker. 
 
 Witnesses, George Bray and Richard Swade. 
 
 Dated 26th July, 1640. Proved /th April, 1641. 
 
 Sum 71 I2s. lod. 
 
 NOTE. The original of this will was in an excessively decayed 
 condition, and only decipherable with a great deal of care and trouble, 
 when I examined it in 1881. I have, therefore, given a very full 
 abstract for the sake of preserving the names mentioned therein. 
 
 1644. Administration to the effects of Hugh Toockcr of 
 Bratton Fleming, Granted i6th Oct., 1644, to Robert Collins 
 in the minority of Anthony Toocker, son of deceased. 
 
 Sum 33 155. 8d. 
 
 Enclosed with the papers is a scrap, with the following 
 memorandum : 
 
 Edward y c son of Hugh Tooker was baptized ye i6 th Aprill, 
 
 1631. 
 
 Anthony 22 nd Jany, 1632. 
 
 Richard '9 th July, 1640.
 
 66 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1645. Henry Saunders of Chittlehampton, I3th May, i;th 
 Chas. I., 1642. 
 
 To daughter Ann Wollacott, 2nd best pan and one pewter 
 dish. To daughter Johane Ley, 2nd best crocke. Similar 
 bequests and trifling sums of money to daughter Agnes 
 Wollacott; to Henry, son of Symon Wollacott; to Arthur, 
 son of Philip Wollacott ; to John Saunder ; to Ann, daughter 
 of Symone Wollacott. To Mary, daughter of John Ayre, 
 5, to be put to the best increase during her minority, with 
 remainder, in case of death, to Elizabeth, dau. of Arthur 
 Saunder, and Ann, dau. of Symone Wollacott. 
 
 Mentions land in Estacott, which he holds by assignment 
 from son Arthur. 
 
 Residue to wife Mary, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Overseers, Arthur Saunder and Symone Wollacott. 
 
 Proved loth April, 1645. 
 
 Sum .31 35. 6d. 
 
 1669. William Tucker of Clannaburrough in y e Co. of 
 Devon, i8th May, 1668. 
 
 To wife " Agnis " 10. To son Thomas 60. To son 
 John 10, a great brasse pot and a chafin dish. To daughters, 
 Phillip, wife of Phillip Sharbrooke, 10, and Agnes, wife of 
 William Wreaford, .10. To John, son of Philip Sharbrooke, 
 10. To Wm., son of Thomas Tucker, 5. To Mary, 
 daughter of William Wreaford, $. To all children's children 
 now born, 2O/-, " to be bestowed in sheep." To William, son 
 of John Tucker, $. Residue to sons Robert and William 
 Tucker, who are Joint Exors. 
 
 Witnesses, Henry Quicke, Ann and Roger Maunder. 
 
 Sum 473 45. 
 
 Proved 2nd Oct., 1669. 
 
 1677. The last will of Philpott Bowdon of East Ashford, 
 Widow, 2nd Feby., I7th Charles 2nd. To son James Bowdon 
 40/-. To James and Marie Bowden, his children, io/-. She
 
 DE VONSHIKE WILLS. 67 
 
 leaves her leasehold house at Ash ford to her daughter Mary 
 Bowden, who is residuary legatee and Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses, Edwd. Score and Edwd. Score, jun. 
 
 Act missing. Proved 1677. 
 
 1681. Administration to the effects of Hugh Rattenbury, 
 late of Winkleigh. Granted to Mary Rattenbury of Monck 
 Okehampton, widow, and to Hugh Rattenbury of the same, 
 wool-comber. 7th May, 1681. 
 
 Sum 280 8s. 
 
 1690. John Tossell, sen., of King's-Nympton, Yeoman, 
 1 8th Oct., 1687. To the poor there io/-. To children John, 
 George, and Katherine Tossell, 5/- each. To John, son of 
 said George Tossell, one heifer ; the same to grandchild 
 Elizb. Thorne. To grandchild Elizb. Bulleid 2O/-. To 
 kinsman Walter Tossell and Elizabeth his sister 5/-. To 
 Thomas, their brother, one ewe. Residue to daughter Christian, 
 who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses, John Treble, Henry Thorne, Mary Speare. 
 
 Act of Court missing. In Calendar, as proved May Qth, 
 1690. 
 
 Armorial Seal An Eagle displayed with 2 necks. 
 
 NOTE. These are the Arms of Worthe of Worth, in Washfield, co. 
 Devon. 
 
 1691. The last Will of Thomas Gearing of Bideford, Mer- 
 chant, 1 7th Nov., 1690. 
 
 6 to the poor, and legacies to 3 servants. To wife Johan 
 Gearing, 50, and his house in Conduit Lane. To his grand- 
 children Sarah and Hannah, daughters of son Abraham Gearing. 
 200 each. 
 
 He leaves his estates in Bideford and Woolfardisworthy to 
 his said son Abraham and his heirs male, together with the 
 Residue ; he is Sole Exor. 
 
 Witnesses, Saiul. Denard, Robert Halsworthy, Wm. Kelly, 
 and Christopher Prust. 
 
 Proved 3rd Oct., 1691.
 
 68 DETONSHIKE WILLS. 
 
 1694. Mary " Saunders " of Chittlehampton, Widow, 26th 
 Sept. 169 (obliterated). Mentions her daughter Susan Ley, 
 and granddaughter Mary Ley (under age), grandson Edward 
 Ley (under age), daughter-in-law John (Joan ?) Saunders, grand- 
 children John, Edward, and John (Joan?) Saunders. Residue 
 to son Edward S., who is sole Exor. 
 
 Proved June 2nd, 1694. 
 
 1698. The last Will of Thomas Melhuish of Morchard 
 Cruse, 1 8th Jany., 1696. 
 
 To wife Joan an annuity of 8, and bedstead and bed in 
 middle chamber, and chest in the parler. The said " parler " 
 to be " at her use " together with the little orchard on the 
 west side of the Moor. To daughter, Katherine Dayment, 
 20. Bequests to " my five children " Thomas, Fferdinando, 
 Joan Roberts, Mary Brooke, and Katherine Dayment " one 
 guinea of gold each." 
 
 Residue to son John, who is Sole Exor. Trustees, sons 
 Thomas and Ferdinando, and son-in-law, Nehemiah Brooke. 
 
 Witnesses, Jno. Sowdon, George Bodley. 
 
 Proved 9th July, 1698. 
 
 1699. The last Will of Thomas Melhuish of Morchard 
 Cruse, Husbandman, 2nd Dec., 1694. To the poor of the 
 parish io/-. To sister Katherine Ley io/-. To sister Alice 
 Genney io/-. Bequests to Benjamin Budgood jun., and to 
 Joan Mugford. Residue to brother Richard, who is Sole 
 Executor. 
 
 Witnesses, John Norrish, John Yeoinge, Grace Yoning, his 
 tenants. 
 
 Proved 8th Dec., 1699. 
 
 1708. John Saunder the elder, of Chittlehampton, Yeoman, 
 1 7th March, 1707. To wife Margaret, a feather bed in the 
 parlour chamber, and a house at Blackwall, a bond of 50, 
 part of her marriage portion, and a cupboard in the house 
 at Eastacote. Daughter Margaret 400 at 21.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 69 
 
 Son John Saunder, all rents, remainders, services, tene- 
 ments, and hereditaments in said parish of Chittlehampton, 
 and also in St. Giles' and Yearnscombe, to him and the 
 heirs of his body lawfully begotten for ever ; said son John 
 has residue and is Sole Exor. 
 
 Desires friends Robert Amory of South Molton and 
 Joshua Bawden of the same, to assist Exor. 
 
 Witnesses, Geo. Remfry, Edmond Saunder, and Grace Cole. 
 
 Proved by Exor. 7th May, 1708. 
 
 1715. The last Will of Thomas Melhuish of Cruwys 
 Morchard, 22nd May, 1714. To Jane his \\ife, " The Bed- 
 steed, &c., in the Middle Chamber and the Chest that hath 
 drawers in it in the Hall Chamber." 
 
 To sons, Thomas io/-, Ffardinando 30, Richard 40 ; to 
 daughters Jane and Dorothy Melhuish .40 each. 
 
 To said daughter Jane " my gold ring," and to Dorothy 
 2O/- " to buy her one." 
 
 To son John right, &c., in Vincent Daily's Estate in 
 parish of Poughill. 
 
 To poor of Cruse Morchard, io/-. 
 
 Residue to son John, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Witnesses, Humphrey Knistone. 
 Jane 
 
 Jno. Cottihole. 
 
 Proved 6th June, 1715. 
 
 NOTE. Testator was eldest son and heir of Thomas Melhuish of 
 Hill in Cruse Morchard ; born 1603, Will proved 1698. See above. 
 He married, 1647, Jane, daughter of Charles Courtenay of Molland, 
 descended from Sir Philip, second son of Sir Philip Courtenay of 
 Powderham ; hence his issue had descent from Edward I. through 
 Bohun. Arms of Melhuish of Hill, arg., on a bend engrailed sa , three 
 fleur-de lis of the field ; a quarter, erm., charged with a martlet in base 
 and in middle chief point a dagger az., hilted or. A Melhuish is said 
 to have pulled the dagger from Prince Edward's arm, A.D. 1271, when 
 the Princess, Eleanor of Castile, sucked the poison from her husband's 
 wound.
 
 70 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1722. The last will of Joshua Tucker of Tawstock, 
 Gentleman, 6th January, 1719. He desires to be buried in 
 High Bickington Church near his father's monument, a stone 
 to be placed over his grave with an inscription showing 
 his age and date of death, and with the single other word 
 " Resurgam." " Whereas I did long since receive about 2$ 
 on the brief for Newmarket, which by reason of the death 
 of the person who employed me and to whom I was to 
 pay it, and for several other reasons, although I was always 
 willing to have paid it, is yet in my hands," " I order 
 and desire my Executor to pay the sum of 50 by way 
 of restitution to such person or persons as shall have power 
 to receive it, or else to the Chief Magistrate and Minister 
 there as soon as possible after my death." To the poor 
 of High Bickington 4.0, the interest to be distributed 
 among them every Christmas Day for ever " by the Rector 
 and Church-Wardens, who I hope will see that it is neither 
 lost or embezzelled." To my " deare sister " Mrs. Worth, 
 "a silver cupp with two handles and a cover, on which 
 cupp my coat of arms is engraven," a five pound guinea 
 of King Charles II., and also a diamond ring, the said ring to 
 revert to her eldest living daughter. To her three daughters 
 21 each to be spent in plate, if they so please, in remembrance 
 of me. To Major John Worth, my long cane with a silver 
 head in which is my cypher, and a large mourning ring, 
 which was for my late brother Worth, enameled with thigh 
 bones and deaths heads, which I desire him to wear in 
 remembrance of me. To servant, George Miles, 2 2s., and 
 all my linen and woollen apparel, excepting my flowered silk 
 morning gown and cap and six shirts to be chosen by my 
 Executor, if he pleaseth. To the rest of my servants i is. 
 each. Residue to nephew Thomas Worth, Clerk, who is Sole 
 Exor. 
 
 Proved May, 1722. 
 
 Armorial Seal " Arg. on a bend engr d , 3 body hearts." 
 
 NOTE. The Rev. Thomas Worth was son of Henry Worth of 
 Worth, by his second wife, Dorothy Bampfylde of Poltimore. He 
 married Margaret Tucker of High Bickington, 28th Dec., 1674 (Mar. 
 Lie.), and died 1711. He was also Rector of Washfield.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 71 
 
 1723. Arthur Saunder, the elder, of Chittlehampton, Yeo- 
 man, 22nd May, 1722. 
 
 To son John Saunder, and to kinsman William Smale of 
 Chittlehampton, a sum in trust for daughter Elizabeth, wife 
 of James Finney. To children of son Anthony Saunder, 
 Mary, Elizb., John, and Arthur, ;ioo each, issuant out of 
 lands and out of a quarry and estate called Higher Collacott. 
 Son Anthony to have this property subject to said charge, 
 to revert to his son Anthony, with remainder to latter's 
 younger brothers John and Arthur, and then to sisters Mary 
 and Elizabeth, or to right heirs, etc. He leaves Lower 
 Collacott and New Park, saving the right of John Brayly, to 
 said grandsons Arthur and John. He mentions his grand- 
 children, Catherine, wife of Charles Nation (formerly Finney), 
 and James Finney. He also bequeaths lands in South 
 Molton to grandson John S. and his heirs. Residue to son 
 Anthony, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved igth April, 1723. 
 
 1725. Administration to the effects of Arthur Saunder of 
 Chittlehampton, granted 7th May, 1725, to George Saunder. 
 Agnes Saunder and William Early join the Bond. 
 
 1725. Administration to the effects of Anthony " Saunders," 
 of Chittlehampton, granted to Elizabeth, his widow, 4th 
 February, 1725. John "Saunders" of Newton, in said parish, 
 gentleman, and Mary "Saunders" of same, spinster, join in 
 Bond. 
 
 1725. The Last Will of Margaret Rolle, daughter of Sir 
 John Rolle of Stevenstone, Knight, 24th Oct., 1725. 
 
 She gives to her god-daughter Lucia, daughter of John Rolle, 
 Esqr., 1 6 broad pieces of old gold. To Barnstaple Charity 
 School 5. To niece Florence, daughter of Sir Bourchier Wrey, 
 Bart., fifty broad pieces of gold to " buy a jewel or other 
 remembrance of her." To nephew Henry Rolle, white 
 cornelian seal. Residue to John Rolle of Stevenstone and
 
 72 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Chichester Wrey, Clerk, Rector of Tawstock, in trust for 
 said niece Florence Rolle. If said Florence die in minority 
 without issue, the family pictures, plate, and china belonging 
 to Testatrix are to be reserved, and the residue of the 
 estate sold and the proceeds spent either in erecting a 
 Charity School, or as Trustees may direct. She desires to 
 be buried privately and at night at Tawstock, in the grave 
 of her brother, Cha r les Rolle, eight old women to be her 
 bearers, who are to have 5/- each. 
 Proved 26th Nov., 1725. 
 
 1729. The last Will of John Densham of Morchard 
 Bishop, 4th April, 1729. 
 
 To daughter Jane Pounsford, IO/6. To Thomas Densham 
 " and his now wife," 5/-. To John Densham " my son " and 
 his now wife, 5/-. To son Robert Densham, 5/-. To daughters 
 Mary James and Sarah Godsland, and to all grandchildren, 
 small bequests. 
 
 To son William Densham, Right in Stone Park. 
 
 Residue to said William Densham, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 3rd January, 1729. 
 
 1731. John Saunder of Newton in Chittlchampton. He 
 mentions his brother Anthony's children, Mary, Elizabeth, 
 John, and Arthur, and his brother Arthur's children, Mary, 
 Anne, and Arthur. 
 
 "Cousin" George Saunder, "the fee and inheritance of 
 3rd part of ' Collacot ' to be continued with Newton, and 
 to his son John after him." To cousin James Finney 5, 
 " in trust for his mother." To poor of parish and those of 
 Swimbridge, 2O/- each. 
 
 Residue to wife Cicely, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Dated I2th February, 1729. 
 
 Proved 7th May, 1731. 
 
 Edmond Saunder, a witness.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 73 
 
 1734. The last Will of William Tucker of North Molton, 
 Gentleman. To poor there, 2O/-. To brother Peter Tucker 
 of Swymbridge, all wearing apparel. To brother Richard 
 Tucker of Chittlehampton, ^5. To nephew Peter Tucker 
 of South Molton, glazier, .5. To grandson Lewis 
 Southcombe, Jun., 50. To grandsons George Southcombe 
 .50, and Thomas Southcombe, 5. Residue to grand- 
 daughter Elizb., wife of Joshua Hole, the younger, of South- 
 Molton, Apothecary. She is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses, Grace Biyatt 
 & Win. Hill. 
 
 Dated I2th April, 1733. 
 
 Proved Oct. i6th, 1734. 
 
 Armorial Seal A fess between 3 roses. 
 
 1736. William Pollard of Northam, Mariner, 24th February, 
 1722. 
 
 Mentions his mother Joane, and wife Katherine ; the latter 
 has residue and is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved June 4th, 1736. 
 
 Crest Seal A Lion pass. gd. 
 
 1741. George Tossell of King's Nympton, Yeoman, nth 
 Nov., 1741. 
 
 To daughter Elizabeth Johnston, leasehold dwelling house 
 orchard, and garden. To granddaughter Mary Tossell John- 
 ston .5 at 21. To son John Tossell i guinea in gold. To 
 son George Tossell ^130. To brother Walter Tossell 5/-. 
 To son Abraham Tossell, Bidgoods, The Broomfield, and 
 the Broad Meadows, witli remainder to son George, charged 
 with a payment of 4O/- per annum to Thomas Webber of 
 King's Nympton, Gent" 1 , and to said son John Tossell, in 
 trust for said daughter Elizabeth Johnston. 
 
 Residue to son Abraham, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Witnesses, John Lewis, Susie Bendall, Jeffery Harris. 
 
 Proved Dec. 4th, 1741.
 
 74 
 
 DE VONSHIRE WIL LS. 
 
 1742. John Tossell of King's Nympton, Yeoman, 6th May, 
 
 1738. 
 
 To sister Miriam Hooper 4<D/- per annum charged on 
 " Reeds " Estate, during the life of brother Edward Tossell. 
 
 To " nephew " Frances Tossell an annuity of 6 to be 
 paid " her " during life of said Edward. Her trustee to be 
 John Bawden the younger of South Molton. 
 
 A further annuity of $ out of " Reeds " to be paid to 
 Elizabeth and Sarah Hooper. 
 
 To Elizb. Smith, alias Southard, 4<D/- at 21. 
 
 Wearing Apparel and 2O/- to John Smith, alias Southard. 
 
 Residue to said brother Edward, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Witnesses, Thomas and John Lane. 
 
 Armorial Seal "A Griffin Segreant." 
 
 Proved February iQth, 1742. 
 
 Sum, 73 ios. lod. 
 
 1742. George "Vigures" of Ilfordcombe, Yeoman, I5th 
 Aug., 1741. To son Samuel the fee simple of lands in 
 Little Torrington, charged with payment of 20 to grandson 
 Samuel "Vigers," son of said Samuel, at 21. Bequests to 
 daughters, Thomasine and Agnes Vigers, and Ann Norman, 
 and 2 each to her four children, Thomas, George, John, and 
 Sarah Norman. 
 
 Residue to said son Samuel " Viguers," who is Sole Exor 
 
 Witnesses, Geo. Sommers, Wm. Vickers, and Abraham 
 Boone. 
 
 Proved Jan. I4th, 1742. 
 
 1742. Francis Pollard of Clovelly, 23rd Aug., 1728. He 
 mentions his sons Francis and Robert, and his daughter 
 Dorothy Way. His grandsons George, Robert, and Francis 
 Pollard. His granddaughters Mary, Grace, Thornasine, and 
 Dorothy Pollard, and his grandchildren William and Dorothy 
 Way. His son-in-law John Way and his daughters-in-law 
 Dorothy and Margaret Pollard. Residue to wi f e Thomasine, 
 who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 29th March, 1742.
 
 DE VON SHI RE WILLS. 75 
 
 1743. Thomas Pollard of Northam, 5th March, 1742-3. 
 He leaves his son William 2O/-. Residue to his wife Mary, 
 who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 4th Aug., 1743 
 
 1743. William Pollard of Clovelly, Mariner. Makes his 
 brother John Pollard, Sen , Mariner, Sole Executor. 
 Proved May 6th, 1743. 
 
 1745. John Tucker of South Molton, Surgeon, 3Oth March, 
 
 1743- 
 
 He has assigned "certain particular estates" to Dennis 
 Buckingham, Rector of Charles, and Joshua Bawden of South 
 Molton, Mercer, for the payment of his debts. Residue to 
 his wife Catherine, save I/- to his father and mother and 
 I/- to each of his sisters. 
 
 Administration granted to Catherine, the widow, 5th April, 
 
 1745- 
 Under 
 
 1748. Administration to the Effects of Edward Tossell of 
 King's Nympton, deceased. Granted to Thomas Webber and 
 Francis Clark, in minority of Frances Tossell, his only 
 daughter. 
 
 January 1 3th, 1748. 
 
 1752. The last Will of Thomas Melhuish of Morchard Cruwys, 
 5th July, 1751. He gives to wife Elinor the use of certain 
 rooms in his house at Fork, in said parish his tea-spoons, 
 tea-pots, coffee service, and whatever else belongs to the 
 garnishing of the tea table. Bequests to daughter-in-law Elinor 
 Sloane and to son-in-law Adam Sloane. " To my trusty friends 
 Mr. Thomas Melhuish of Morchard Cruse, and Mr. Humphry 
 Melhuish of Puddington," 300 in trust for use of " my daughter," 
 Sarah Maunder, and ;iOO for " my daughter Rebecca Anstey." 
 To daughter Mary Commins " the moiety or halfendale of the
 
 76 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 overland in Columpton, with remainder to her eldest son. 
 To my 3 grandchildren, George and Mary Maunder and 
 Thomas Melhuish Commins 10 each, and to daughter Joan, 
 wife of John Bragg of Berry Castle, in Woolfardisworthy. 
 
 Residue to sons-in-law John Bragg and Thos. Commins, 
 who are Exors. 
 
 Witnesses Wm. Maunder, Richard Manley, Wm. Moxey. 
 
 Proved 3oth July, 1752. 
 
 1753. The last Will of Richard Melhuish of Cruse Mor- 
 chard, 3rd April, 1726. 
 
 To Joan " Crook," daughter, and to Robert " Crooke," grand- 
 son, i each. To daughter Ann Hewish 20. To daughter 
 Elizabeth Smorth i. To grandson John Smorth $ at 21 
 and ^5 to grandson Richard Smorth. 
 
 Residue to John and Mary Melhuish, his son and daughter, 
 who are sole Exors. 
 
 Witnesses, Wm. Maunder, George Callard, Thomzin Maunder. 
 
 Proved May 7th, 1753. 
 
 1754. Anthony Saunders of Chumleigh, Wool Comber, 
 i8th Nov., 1751. 
 
 Mentions son William and daughter Mary Lawrence, widow. 
 Residue to wife Mary Saunders, who is Sole Executrix. 
 Proved April 29th, 1754. 
 
 1754. Administration to the effects of George Tossell of 
 Chulmleigh " Chirurgeon," granted to Elizabeth his widow, 
 April 7th, 1754. 
 
 Under 
 
 1758. John Tossell of King's Nympton, Yeoman, I4th Nov., 
 1757. To sons George and Humphrey Tossell 20 each. 
 " My great brass pott and panne and ten pewter dishes to be 
 divided equally between my said Sons." To daughters Mary 
 and Elizabeth 10 each.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 77 
 
 1759. Thomas Pollard of Barnstaple, Weaver. With the 
 exception of a legacy to Hannah Hogg-, he makes his wife 
 Mary universal legatee and Sole Executrix. 
 
 Dated 7th Nov. Proved Nov. I3th, 1759- 
 
 1767. Agnes, wife of Richard Tucker, late of Georgeham, but 
 now of Braunton, Gentleman, i6th Nov. 1766. 
 
 By power of marriage settlement dated 4th Dec., 1760, she 
 having been therein described as Agnes Peploe of Heanton 
 Punchardon, widow. To husband the said Richard Tucker 
 and to his children, Richard, Susanna, and Mary, she leaves 
 2 2s. each. To her brother, Richard Heddon of Heanton 
 Punchardon, " warming pan " and 20. To sister Eleanor 
 Incledon, widow, 20. To brother George Heddon " my bureau 
 for life," with remainder to " Cousin " George, son of Sister 
 Eleanor Incledon. Bequest to " niece " Eleanor, wife of 
 Wm. Richmond of Heanton Punchardon, of " Brass crock, 
 pewter dishes, and plates, and brass candlesticks, and a pestle 
 and mortar. Residue to said brother George Heddon and said 
 " Cousin " George Incledon, who are joint Exors. 
 
 Witnesses, " Parker " Widlake, Robert Ballyman. 
 
 Proved 5th Dec., 1766. 
 
 Crest Seal, " A Wolf's head erased." 
 
 1767. John Tossel of King's Ash, otherwise Ashreigny, Sur- 
 geon, 1 5th April, 1766. 
 
 He desires to be buried " in a private handsome manner," in 
 late wife's grave in King's-Nympton Churchyard, " in a hand- 
 some tomb, another such as now placed on my grandfather's 
 grave," William Ford of " Chiltenholt " (Chiltlehamholt) to make 
 his coffin. Bearers are specified, and are to have a blue or grey 
 coat each. To dear wife Susanna Tossel, a house at King's Ash, 
 and such sums as are hers by marriage settlement, and an 
 annuity of ^3 to issue out of land in Winkleigh, Dowland, and 
 Iddesleigh. A further annuity of $ 55., and a similar sum to 
 daughter-in-law Susanna Fuss. To the poor of Burrington 
 los. per annum, to issue out of Halisbury in said parish for ever.
 
 7 S DE VONSH1RE WILLS. 
 
 To Mary Slader " my mourning ring which I had in remem- 
 brance of my late wife, and her Bible." To kinswoman Mary 
 Matthews 2 2s. To Ann, daughter of "my partner" Richard 
 Stucley, 10 los. To John, son of Thomas Tossel, late of 
 King's-Nympton, .1 is. a year for five years. To brother-in- 
 law Samuel Johnson 10 p. a. for four years " if he deliver to my 
 brother Abraham Tossel a counterpart of lease of Wood 
 tenem 1 which he lately demised him." To nephew Peter 
 Johnson his choice of fifty of " my medical books " " when he 
 shall have lived abroad two years with an able surgeon and 
 apothecary, also my late brother George's house in Chulmleigh. 
 To said brother Abraham " Puson " in Winkleigh in trust for 
 nephew John Tossel Johnson at 28. 
 
 Residue to said brother Abraham Tossel, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 He directs his said "grandfather's" tomb and his own to be 
 " enclosed with a handsome pale or palisadoes." 
 
 4 sheets of paper. 
 
 Proved April 4th, 1767. 
 
 Refer to Dec. 4th, 1741, and to April 7th, 1754. 
 
 N.B. " Puson," which is contracted in the will, is probably in- 
 tended to mean the farm at Winkleigh, known as Punchardon. 
 
 With reference to the bequest of io/- per annum to the poor of 
 Burrington, the Charity Commissioners remark : " Although this gift 
 is void under the Mortmain Act, the Rev. John Tossel Johnson, 
 proprietor of Halisbury Farm, regularly pays the annuity which is 
 bestowed according to Testator's directions." 
 
 1772. The last Will of John Saunder of Chittlehampton, 
 1 3th Jany., 1772. 
 
 Eldest son John Saunder and sons Arthur George and 
 Francis, io each. 
 
 Daughters, Susanna Harris, Joan Skinner, Mary Brailey, and 
 Grace Holland, 10 each. 
 
 Granddaughters, Mary Fewins, a cow, and Ann Holland ,10. 
 
 Daughter, Ann Burgess 10. 
 
 Son Paul Saunder 10 los. 
 
 Residue to wife Grace, who is sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved March 6th, 1772.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 79 
 
 1784. George Saunder of Chittlehampton, I2th Sept., 1784. 
 
 To son John " Saunders " 80 at 21. To son William ^90 
 at 21. To daughter Grace So. To daughter Elizabeth, wife 
 of Giles Skinner, ^60. To grandson George Skinner ^"5 at 21. 
 
 Residue in equal portions to " my wife " and son George, who 
 are joint Exors. 
 
 Proved Dec. 3rd, 1784. 
 
 1789. The last Will of Grace Saunders of Chittlehampton, 
 dated 4th Feby., 1788. 
 
 She mentions her eldest son John, her son Arthur, and his 
 children, John, Elizabeth, Susan, and Grace. Her son George, 
 deceased, and his children George, John, William, Grace, and 
 Elizabeth, wife of Giles Skinner. Her son Edward and his 
 children John, Francis, Edward, and George. Her son Pawle, 
 his wife Ann, and their children Edward, Ann, Grace, John, 
 Mary, and Betty. Her daughters Susannah Harris, Joan 
 Skinner, Margaret Braily, and Ann Burgess. 
 
 Residue to son Francis, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 4th Feby., 1789. 
 
 1832. The last Will of John Melhuish of Hill, in Cruwys 
 Morchard, Gentleman, 9th Aug., 1830. To daughter Elizabeth 
 Worthy an annuity of ^10 charged on land, and to son George 
 30, charged on same land ; during the joint lives of said George 
 and of " my son " Thomas Abraham Melhuish. 
 
 To nephew Thomas Melhuish of Poughill, Gentm., Jonathan 
 Tanner of Roseash, Gentm., and Thos. Comins of Witheridge, 
 Gentm., the estates known as Eastland and East and West Hill, 
 in trust to pay the rents to the said Thomas Abraham Melhuish 
 for life, with remainder to his children male or female, and with 
 reversion in default thereof to his said son George, with 
 remainder to his grandson John, son of the said George for ever. 
 In pursuance of the power given him by his late father Thomas 
 Melhuish, Gentleman, of Poughill, he further leaves to the 
 said George Melhuish, Rowcliffe, Vulscombe, Sullacks, Hetty- 
 land and Hittyland, Burridges, Thorn-hayes, and Thorndown, 
 the moiety of the manor of Yedbury, the tything house and
 
 So DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 a high rent of 43. 4d. per annum out of Hickeridge's tenement, 
 together with Edbury Mill, all in Cruse Morchard, for ever. To 
 his said grandson John he gives the Silver Jug with initials 
 engraved thereon. To Mary Maunder, his housekeeper, 20 per 
 annum as long as she remains unmarried, charged upon Eastland 
 and East and West Hill. Residue to said Son George, who is 
 Sole Exor. 
 
 By Codicil, i/th Nov., 1830, he revokes the bequest to Mary 
 Maunder, since he has now provided for her by deed. 
 
 Witnesses to Will and Codicil 
 Thomas Maunder. 
 Thomas Jun. 
 
 Proved by George Hewish Melhuish, the Exor., i6th June, 
 1832. 
 
 NOTE. After the death of Rev. Thomas Abraham Melhuish, who 
 died unmarried, 1849, George Melhuish and his son John sold the 
 whole property. Testator had an elder son, John, Captain R.N., pre- 
 deceased him, unmarried, and another daughter, Mary, wife of Wm. 
 Ford. Elizabeth was Editor's Grandmother. Testator was great- 
 grandson of Thomas Melhuish, see page 69. 
 
 1840. The last Will of Elizabeth Richards, widow, of Ilfra- 
 combe, Devon. 
 
 She gives all her furniture and all stores in the house and 
 money that may remain when all expenses are paid, to the 
 children of the late James Richards of Brighton, and her Plate 
 to the Rev. Thomas Miller Richards and William James 
 Richards, whom she makes her Executors. 
 
 Witnesses, Thomas Capel and Jane Capel, his wife, 2 Novr., 
 1839. 
 
 A memorandum enclosed gives her gold watch to her niece 
 Mary Gibbs, and her pearl ornaments, earrings, etc., to the said 
 Mary and her sister Frances between them. To her niece Agnes 
 Richards all her cloathes. To Mrs. Samuel Richards " I give 
 my dear husband's picture, box of pearl fish and counters, and 
 diamond ring on blue." To Miss Balderstone my painted 
 work-table. To Mrs. Capel the cups and saucers on the parlour 
 chimney piece. To Mrs. Alder my hoop rings, pearl, &c, by 
 her desire. I give 5 to Ann Dunn if she is living with me at 
 my death.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 81 
 
 ARCHDEACONRY OF TOTNES. 
 
 1600. Administration to the effects of Johanne Peeter, 
 late of Wembury, intestate. Granted to John Kember and 
 Elizabeth his wife, sister of the said deceased, I3th Sept., 
 1600. Under .10. 
 
 The endorsement gives the names of other brothers and 
 sisters. 
 
 " Ita quod daret Simoni Willielmo et Wilielmo suis fratribus, 
 et Blanche et Katherine ejus sororibus." 
 
 1602. The last Will of Mary Arundell of Trerise, in the Co. 
 of Cornwall, Gentlewoman, dated 1st Dec., 1602. To sister 
 " Mrs. Grace Dinham 3 smockes, 3 ruffe bands, 2 goundes, 2 waist- 
 coth, 2 petticotes, I cloake and hoode of cloathe, r saffgard and 
 all things that are heare, and 2 frenche hoodes of vellett per- 
 formed." To nephew "John Arundell of Trerise, i featherbed 
 performed withe pillyows and courtyans and vallans of silke and 
 I long cushion of Tynsell, 2 short cushions, and I longe cushion 
 of armes of myne workinge." To God-daughter, Ebbot Grcnvile, 
 " my best gounde of tuffe taffeta whiche I never wore." To 
 niece Mrs. Mary Dennis an (i) laze of pearle and gould. "To 
 my mann George Sercombe 10, two boxes of books and all 
 other things and bookes remaining in my great truncke at 
 Penheale, 2 wrought cushions excepted." " More to my man 
 George Sercombe ^4 of lawful money owed for wages. To the 
 maid servants in Sister Dinhame's house 2/6 each. Residue 
 to niece July an Keckwiche who is Sole Executrix." 
 
 Witnesses Nicholas and Grace Dinham, George Seccombe. 
 
 "Memorandum that i cheane of gold being at Wortham, at 
 7
 
 82 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 the time of the signing and sealing hereof, 2 days afterwards, 
 Mrs. Mary Arundell did say that the said Mrs. Julyan Kekewiche 
 should have the saide cheane." 
 
 Proved 3rd Dec. 1602. 
 
 Endorsed " Nuper de Lifton." 
 
 Sum 37 195. 4d. 
 
 1609. The last Will of John Elford of Meavy. Dated 26th 
 March, 1608. Mentions mother Elenor Elford, brother Wm. 
 Elford, sisters Margaret and Thamsin Elford, Richard Elford, 
 and Peter Francklinge. 
 
 Residue to Brother John Elford, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved i;th Feb., 1609. 
 
 1611. John Wreaford the elder, of Hennock, I2th June, 9th 
 James. To poor of Hannock, 2/0. To daughter Elizabeth, wife 
 of Wm. Strange, 4. To son John Wreaford, 6. To daughter 
 Joane W., 16. To son Stephen, 3 los. To Robert, son of 
 said Stephen, los. To Thomsine, dau. of said Stephen, I yeo 
 lamb, and to Mary her sister the same. John, son of Wm. 
 Strange, ios., and to William, Dorothy, and Elizabeth Strange 
 a sheep each. To servants Eliza Wreaford and Joane Den- 
 ford, a yeo sheep and lamb. 
 
 Residue to son George Wreaford, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 9th July, 1611. 
 
 Sum ^98 145. 4d. 
 
 1614. The last Will of William Wreyford, 2Oth Dec., I2th 
 James. Legacies to poor of Hennock and Teigngrace, Newton 
 Bushill and Newton Abbot. To son James, Bradleigh, in the 
 parish of South Bovey, to him and his heirs for ever. He gives 
 a meadow in Bovey to wife Eleanor, and daughters Christian 
 and Rose. Residue to said wife Eleanor, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved nth Feb., 1614. 
 
 Sum 267 33. 4d.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 83 
 
 1617. The Will of Arthur Cundye of Bridgerule and Co. 
 Cornwall, was proved at Okehampton, 24th May, 1611. 
 
 1625. John Wreford of Moreton, Weaver, I7th June, 1625. 
 He gives to eldest daughter, Richard Croote, 6 133. 4d. To 
 Wilmot Savage, second daughter, 23/4. To servant, Alice 
 Croote, bequest. 
 
 Residue to son John, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 3Oth July, 1625. 
 
 Sum 67 13*. 8d. 
 
 1626. John Wreford of Hennock, yeoman, 24th Dec., 1624. 
 
 To poor of Hennock . To Richard Cornish, 2OS. To Joane 
 
 wife of Wm. Harris, los. To George Wreaford, IDS. To Eliza- 
 beth Strange, 93. Small sums to John, William, Dorothy and 
 Elizabeth Strange, John and Wm. Cornish junr., and John 
 Cornish's two daughters. To Stephen Wreaford my best doub- 
 lett. To John and Michael W. a yeo sheep each. To Elizabeth, 
 daughter of John W'reaford, late deceased, I yeo sheep. To 
 John W. best jerkin and second best breeches, and 53. To 
 Elling, wife of Wm. Kine, 53. To Joan Kynes, " my servant," 
 
 2OS. 
 
 Residue to son John, who is Sole Exor. 
 Proved 1st April, 1626. 
 
 1626. The last Will of John Sanger of Buckfastleigh. To 
 the poor of " Lower Town," 33. 4d. To Peter Petsvene, 4 yards 
 of New Cloth and the sum of los. To Weltym Tolyard, los. at 
 marriage. To wife Nycole " my close of land," with remainder 
 to Maryne Sanger, my daughter. 
 
 Residue to said wife and daughter, who are Joint Exors. 
 
 Witnesses Nycholas Wolacot, Andrew Feseye. 
 
 Overseers Thomas Collard and Daniell Fox. 
 
 Dated 23rd May. 
 
 Proved 8th Dec., 1626. 
 
 NOTE " Tolyard " is equivalent to Tolchard, still a local name. 
 " Feseye " is the same as Vesey.
 
 84 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1626. Inventory of Richard Sangwill made of Plympton St. 
 Mary, deceased 24th Feb. 1626. 
 Sum 5 IDS. lod. 
 
 NOTE The wrapper of this document is endorsed "John Sangell, 
 late of Holbeton, intestate, granted to Beatrice his wife, i4th Feb., 
 1627. 
 
 It encloses a second Inventory to the amount of ^14 izs. 6d. 
 
 1634. The last Will of Thomas, son of John Wreyford of 
 Tamerton ffolyett (Foliot) Batchelor. Mentions brother John 
 Wreyford, sister Elizabeth Edwards, and her sons Nicholas and 
 John Edwards; Elizabeth, daughter of Wm. Gaye. Interest in 
 land at Egg Buckland, to brother Wm. Wreyford. 
 
 Residue to sister Joane Wreyford, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Dated 2Oth July. 
 
 Proved 23rd Oct., 1634. 
 
 1637. Alice W T reyford of Moreton Hampstead, Widow, loth 
 March, 1636. Bequests to son Richard, daughters Wilmot, 
 Anne, Alice, wife of Ciperian Wreyford, Jane (daughter of son 
 John Wreyford). To Wm. Ellicomb, son of dau. Wilmot. To 
 Mary Brocke, daughter of daughter Elizabeth. To Judith 
 Brocke, daughter of daughter Anne. To servant Wilmote 
 Wreyford. "To all my children's children I5d. each." 
 
 Residue to son John, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 28th April, 1637. 
 
 1640. Administration to the effects, &c., of Elizabeth Thuell 
 of South Brent, granted I2th Feb., 1640. To John Thuell of 
 South Brent, Husbandman. Edward Searle of Exeter, Gentle- 
 man, joins the Bond. 
 
 NOTE She was daughter of John Gould, Esq., of Coombe, in 
 Staverton, by his wife Alice, daughter of John Trehawkes, and married 
 John Thuell of Brent.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 85 
 
 1660. Matthew Tucker of Hardness (Dartmouth), in the 
 Co. of Devon, Marryner. To poor of Hardness, 2os. He 
 bequeathes to William Bragg of Dartmouth, " Marryner," all his 
 clothes excepting his " searge cloake," and he also gives him the 
 north and south parts, and his Tenement in South Town, Dart- 
 mouth, after the death of his Executrix. To Johane, wife of 
 said Win. Bragg, certain furniture, and to the children of said 
 Wm. Bragg, 2Os. each. 
 
 To Maryan, wife of Nicholas Risdon of Dartmouth, one 
 cupboard, and to each of her children 2Os. each. 
 
 Residue to "Ambris" his wife, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Dated lyth July, 1649. Proved 3Oth Nov., 1660. 
 
 See 22nd Aug., 1663, post. 
 
 1662. George Rowe of Lamerton, Husbandman, 3rd April, 
 1662. He gives his father, Robert Rowe, his interest in the 
 lease of Widdeslade, in said parish. Brother Nicholas, best 
 cloak, best coat, and best breeches, and to the children of said 
 brother, and of brother Richard, I sheep apiece. Bequests to 
 sisters Elizabeth and "Jonas." Mentions his grandfather, John 
 Colling. Brother Francis, 6d. Servant Margaret Cudlipe, 6d. 
 
 Residue to wife Mary, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 4th June, 1662. 
 
 Witnesses John Rowell, Tristram ffarris. 
 
 NOTE See my " Devonshire Parishes," Vol. I., pp. 207-8. 
 
 1663. Administration to the effects of John Hamlin of 
 Withecombe. Granted to Maria his widow. John Hamlin of 
 the same, Husbandman, joins the Bond. Granted I2th Dec., 
 1663. 
 
 NOTE Inventory made by James and Thomas Hamlyn of. Lake. 
 
 1663. Administration to the effects of Ambrose Tucker, late 
 of Townstall, in the Parish of Dartmouth, widow. To Joanna 
 Atkins, her cousin and next-of-kin. Granted 22nd Aug., 1663.
 
 86 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1663. Administration to the effects of Ambrose Tucker, late 
 of Dartmouth. Granted to Philip Square of South Huish, 
 Clothier, the nephew. Granted nth Dec., 1663. 
 
 1665. Administration to the effects of Noah Wreford of 
 Moreton. Granted to George Wills, in minority of Elizabeth 
 Wreford, daughter and Executrix. 
 
 2Oth Sept., 1665. 
 
 1667. Robert Hamlyn of Chittleford, in the Parish of 
 Withecombe, Yeoman, 4th Dec., 1667. To daughter Florence, 
 Tenement called Venton, for 99 years, on life of John, son 
 of brother William. Term to commence p.m. of Robert 
 Hamlyn of Venton, and John Jerman. Also " Lower Dun- 
 stone" for 99 years, on lives of Peter, son of Walter Hamlyn 
 and Johane, daughter of said Walter p.m. of Richard, son 
 of Edwd. Hamlyn under the ancient yearly rent of 468. 8d 
 for Venton, and 305. for Dunston. To brother's son, Hugh 
 Hamlyn, the quarter part of Higher North Dunstone for life, 
 upon determination of the estate therein of Wm. and Phillip 
 Hamlyn. 
 
 To Sidrack Jerman, jun., and his assigns, the moiety of 
 Blackslade, after determination of estate therein of Mary 
 Hodge and Philip Hamlyn. 
 
 To said daughter Florence, and to her heirs, his fee simple 
 lands in Chittleford, Scobtor, and Okehampton. To Susan 
 Hamlyn, 405., and to her brother Edward Hamlyn, 2os. 
 
 To the children of brother Wm. Hamlyn, I2d. each, "and to 
 his 3 grandchildren, I2d." To Robert, son of Richard Hamlyn, 
 2s. To apprentice, Richard Hamlyn, I2d. To wife Johane, 
 certain specified furniture at Chittleford. To poor of Wide- 
 combe, 33. 4d. for bread. 
 
 Residue to sd. daughter Florence, who is sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved ist Jany., 1667. 
 
 Sum .200 4-s. rod.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 87 
 
 1667. Admon. to effects of Richard Tooker of Modbury. 
 Granted 25th April, 1667. to Susanna his widow. 
 Extract from Inventory of Richard Tooker : 
 
 " 60 sheep & 28 lambs ... ... ...22 10 o 
 
 " 8 labour nags & mares ... ... ... 21 6 8 
 
 " Item 60 bushels of corne ready thrashed 1 1 o o 
 
 " Corne in barn & mowe ... .., ... 21 16 o 
 
 "And in ground ... ... ... 55 10 o 
 
 " One ffowling piece & one sword ... ... o 15 11 
 
 " Total sum ... 185 7 2 
 
 1668. Cyprian Wreyford of Moreton, Weaver, 6th June, 
 1649. 
 
 Bequests to sons Abraham and Isaack. To daughters 
 Rebecca, Alice, Mary, and to daughter-in-law Elizb. Heaward. 
 Residue to son Noah, who is Sole Executor. 
 
 Administration granted to Marke and Elizabeth Manne of 
 Abbot's Kerswell, jrd April, 1668. 
 
 1670. William Wrayford of Bovey Tracy, Yeoman, I2th Nov., 
 22nd Clias. II. To son James, my tenement called Bradley, in 
 said parish, to him and his heirs for ever, charged with .40 each 
 to son William and daughter Mary Wrayford. " To Peter son 
 of John Gray my brother-in-law 5/-" To Johan, daughter of 
 brother-in-law Wm. Cater, 5s., and to William, son of brother- 
 in-law Philip Solomon, 55. 
 
 Residue to wife Ellen, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 6th March, 1670. 
 
 Sum 54 os. 2d. 
 
 1672. Julyan Gould of Staverton, Widow, 151)1 March, 
 1668. 
 
 To poor of Staverton, 405. To son Henry, 40. To Mary 
 wife of Richard Savery of Ollacombe in Rattery, Gentm., .40, 
 " & the halfendale of all my chest of lynnen, and one gold
 
 88 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 ring with fower gems." To god-daughter Julyan Row, 405. ; 
 and to her eight brothers and sisters, 2os. each. To her son 
 John Row, 403., and to his two brothers and one sister IDS. 
 each. 
 
 "To my daughter Julyan Abraham's there daughters 2O/- 
 each. 2O/- each to Katherine Gould & her three sisters & to 
 Edward Gould & John Gould his brother. To Gt Grand- 
 daughter Elizabeth daughter of Julyan Courtill." 
 
 Residue to said daughter Julyan Abraham, who is Sole 
 Executrix. 
 
 Proved I4th June, 1672. 
 
 Sum 150 133. 4d. 
 
 NOTE She was widow of Edward Gould of Coombe in Staverton, 
 and is mentioned in the Herald's Visitation of 1620, as daughter and 
 co-heir of Zachary Irish of Chudleigh. 
 
 1674. Richard Hamlinge of Withecombe in the Moor, Yeo- 
 man, 2nd July, 1667. 
 
 Legacies to son Richard and to Richard son of said Richard. 
 The latter then under 14. To dau. Ann Gould. To son-in-law 
 Andrew Downinge. To son Walter H. 
 
 Residue to Peter, son of Walter Hamlinge, who is Sole 
 Ex or. 
 
 Proved 8th Oct., 1674. 
 
 Sum 94 8s. 4d. 
 
 NOTE Richard Hamlinge made the inventory. 
 
 1675. Nuncupative Will of Mary Tucker of Tavistock 
 Jany. 4th, 1675. She makes her cousin, Richard Tucker, 
 universal Legatee and Sole Executor. 
 
 Proved iQth Jany., 1675. 
 
 Sum 3 i is. lod.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 89 
 
 1674. Robert Rowe of Lainerton, 27th Feby., 1673. 
 Small bequests, viz., is. to son Nicholas, 55. to son Richard, 
 is. to daughter Jonne Fursman, is. to all grandchildren. 
 Residue to daughter Elizabeth, who is Sole Executrix. 
 Witnesses Thomas Burnaford, Julian Burnaford, John ffarris. 
 Proved 2nd Dec., 1674. 
 Sum 47 143. lod. 
 
 NOTE Nicholas Rowe the Poet was of the Lamerton family, being 
 son of John Rowe, Sergt.-at-law, died, 1692. See my " Devonshire 
 Parishes," Vol. I., pp. 204-207. 
 
 1675. Peter Hamling of Withecombe-in-the-Moor, Yeoman, 
 6th Dec., 1674. 
 
 Legacies to brother-in-law John Jerman. To sister Barbary 
 Jerman, and to Walter and John, sons of John Jerman. 
 
 To Cousin Francis Hambling, " my fowling-piece and pistol." 
 Legacies to " Cosins " Mary and Richard Hamling. 
 
 Poor of Parish, 2Os. 
 
 Residue to sisters Mary and Margaret Hamling, who are Joint 
 Exors. 
 
 Witnesses Richard Hamling and others. 
 
 Proved 7th May, 1675. 
 
 NOTE Admon. Bond attached to Will, which was proved by Richard 
 Hamlyn (Uncle of the Executrices Mary and Margaret, in their 
 minority), and by Richard Tupper of Widecombe. 
 
 1675. The last Will of Samuel Wrayford, the son of Thomas 
 Wrayford of Moreton, Tailor, 2Qth June, 1675. To brother 
 Jonathan, all interest in a close of land called Furspark in the 
 Parish of Totnes. Charged with an annuity of 2os. to Aunt 
 Elizabeth Torroway. To Aunt Modistis Browne, 2Os. per 
 annum. To Jonathan and George, sons of brother Thomas, 
 55. each. To sister-in-law Anne Stone, 2s. 6d. 
 
 Residue to said father, Thomas Wrayford, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Sum 14. 
 
 Proved 28th July, 1675.
 
 90 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1678. Christopher Hamlyn of Withecombe in the Moor, 
 Yeoman. To Nicholas, son of John Mory, 20. To brother 
 James' children, Katherine and Susan, 2Os. each. To Isot, dau. 
 of Edward Woodley, 2Os To Joane Berry, dau. of brother John 
 Hamlyn, 2Os. To Thomas Hamlyn's children, James, Thomas, 
 and Joane, 2os. each. To Christopher, son of Christopher 
 Hamlyn, 2Os. To John, son of Richard Hamlyn, 2Os. To 
 John Sherwill's children, William, George, Mary, and Agnes, 
 2os. each. To Thomas, Edward, Mary, Joane, and Agnes, 
 children of Nicholas Furse, 2Os. each. To Edward, Richard, 
 John, Joan, Rabbidge, and Honour, children of Elizabeth 
 Arnell, 2Os. each. To Mary and Francis, children of Walter 
 Coulton, IDS. each. Out of tenement called Rowbrooke to brother 
 John Hamlyn, an annuity of 3 during the life of wife Agnes, 
 and Mary wife of John Mory. To poor of Holne, 2os. Lower 
 Hannaford to wife Agnes for life, with remainder to Thomas, 
 son of brother Thomas Hamlyn. 
 
 Residue to wife Agnes, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses Thomas Hamlyn, with others. 
 
 Dated I5th Feby., 1677. 
 
 Proved 8th June, 1678. 
 
 Sum 178 los. 9d. 
 
 1681. James Hamlyn the elder, of Withecombe-in-the-iVIoor, 
 Yeoman, 6th Mar., 1679. To poor of the parish, 55. Certain 
 furniture, to wife Alice. Mentions daughters Katherine 
 Woodley and her children, Isott and Susannah Woodley, 
 daughter Susannah Townsend, and grandchildren James and 
 Richard Townsend. 
 
 To brother John Hamlyn, IDS. To God-daughter Rose 
 Hamlyn, 2s. 
 
 Residue to daughter Alice Hamlyn, who is sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses John Hamlyn, Agnes Hamlyn junr., Susanna 
 Hamlyn. 
 
 Proved 25th April, 1681. 
 
 Sum ,107 173. 8d.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 91 
 
 1682. William Hamlyn of Withecombe in the Moor. To 
 wife Elizabeth, household furniture. To Daughter Joane, ^30. 
 To dau. Mary, wife of Peter Mann, 5. To Peter Mann's 
 children Mary, Elizabeth, Sibella, and Silvester, 2os. each. To 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Ellis Thomas, $. To Elizabeth, 
 daughter of son John Hamlyn, 2os. To daughter Hannah, 
 " one bed performed." 
 
 Residue to son Hugh Hamlyn, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Dated iQth May, 1680. 
 
 Proved 2Oth Jany., 1682-3. 
 
 1682. Agnes Tucker of Dartington, in the Co. of Devon, 
 Widow. Legacies to sons William and Samuel, and to daughter 
 Mary, wife of Thomas Adams. To grandson, Thomas Edwards, 
 3. To grandchildren, son and dau. of Wm. Tucker, 55. each. 
 To Samuel and John, sons of son Saml., 5s. To granddaughter 
 Mary Tucker, 40$. 
 
 Residue to son Thomas, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Witnesses Edwd. Chastor, Hy. Adams, Hy. Nethcrton. 
 
 Proved 7th Feby., 1682. 
 
 1685. Administration to the effects of John Row of Lamer- 
 ton, in the Co. of Devon, granted to Nicholas Row his father, of 
 the said parish of Lamerton, Gentleman, I5th July, 1685. 
 
 NOTE See ante, 2nd Dec., 1674, and 4th June, 1662. 
 
 1689. The account of Elias Newcomen, Administrator of the 
 goods, &c., of Thomas Trenhale, late of Kingsweare in the 
 County of Devon, deceased. Delivered I2th Dec., 1689. 
 
 Signed, " Elias Newcomen." 
 
 NOTE This was the father of the Inventor of the Stationary Steam 
 Engine, and the grandson of the Revel. Elias Newcomen, Rector of 
 Stoke Fleming, 3rd son of Charles, 2nd son of Brian Newcomen of 
 Saltfleetby, Co- Lincoln. One of the oldest families in that county. 
 
 See my " Devonshire Parishes," vol. I., pp. 372 et seq.
 
 92 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1691. Administration to the effects of John Singer of 
 Plymouth. Granted loth March, 1691, to Elizabeth Holman 
 of the same, Principal Creditor. 
 
 Enclosed is the following Affidavit 
 
 " These are to certify that John Singer of Virginia made a 
 nuncupative Will, & gave & bequeathed all his goods & chattels 
 unto his mother-in-law, Elizabeth Holman, upon the considera- 
 tion of a daylie support he received from her, the truth of which 
 we doe hereby attest & have sett our hands to the same, all 
 belonging to their Majesty's ship Portsmouth now -in Plymouth. 
 1 5th Dec., 1691. 
 
 " Under 50. 
 
 "John Jones, Wm. Wilson, Walter Hockin." 
 
 1691. The last Will of Thomas Hamlyn of Ash in the parish 
 of Widecombe in the Moor, Yeoman. To wife Elizabeth, .10, 
 and the Great Bible, the Chest in the Hall Chamber, and an 
 annuity of $, to issue out of Lighter. 
 
 To son Thomas Hamlyn, 10, and an annuity of .5 out of 
 Lighter. To grandchildren, sons and daughters of son James, 
 403. each. To seven grandchildren, children of Edward Gifford, 
 403. each. To the two children of son Thomas, 403. each. To 
 the four children of John Hamlyn of Lake, husband of daughter 
 Johane, 403. each. 
 
 Residue lands and goods, &c, to son James Hamlyn, who is 
 Sole Exor. 
 
 Dated i6th Jany., 1690. Proved 1st July, 1691. 
 
 Sum .237 os. 4d. 
 
 1695. Elizabeth Hamline of Withecombe-in -the- Moor, 
 widow. To son James, is. To son Thomas, the Great 
 Bible. To daughter Joane Hamline, is., and "half my wearing 
 apparel." "The other half" to daughter-in-law Mary Jefford. 
 To Phillip ffole of North Bovey, widow, ios. 
 
 Residue to son Edward Jefford, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Dated i8th Feby ., 1692. Proved 25th July, 1695. 
 
 Sum ^5 5s. lod.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 93 
 
 1696. Administration to the effects of Thomas Mortimore of 
 Slapton, granted to Rebecca Mortimore, his sister, nth June, 
 1696. 
 
 1699. Walter Blatchford of Highampton, Yeoman, 
 April, 1694. Grandson Ricliard Blatchford, 11 los. at 16. 
 To brother John Blatchford's children, IDS., that is to say, 53. to 
 Godson Walter B., and is. to the other five children. 
 
 To son Robt. Blatchford, leasehold tenement called Stendon, 
 for life, with remdr. to grandson John Blatchford, charged with 
 an annuity of 6 to Thomasin, mother of the said John. To 
 wife " Rachwell," two leasehold tenements called Oadham and 
 Whitacre, with remainder to said son Robert ; who is to put in 
 grandson Walter's life on said tenement. To said grandson 
 Walter B., 50. 
 
 Residue to said son Robert, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Witnesses Thomas and Margt. Stafford and Mary Ffleming. 
 
 Proved by Exor. at Hatherleigh, 5th March, 1699. 
 
 Sum .255 los. 
 
 1702. Administration to the effects of Jacob Singnar, alias 
 Cisard, of Plymouth, of the Royal Ship " Pembroke." Granted 
 3Oth May, 1702, to Maria Bandram his cousin. 
 
 1706. John Hamlyn of Widecombe, Yeoman. His leasehold 
 house in Ashburton, courtlage and herb garden (determinable 
 upon the lives of John and Elizb. Cane), to daughter Mary 
 Hamlyn. 
 
 To daughters Elizabeth and Susan H., 20. To brother 
 Hugh Hamlyn, the lands in Blackslade : and all head rents to 
 him and his heirs for ever. 
 
 To Hugh Hamlyn's children, I2d. apiece. To Sibly, daughter 
 of Silvester Mann, is. 
 
 Residue to " Joane my wife," who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Dated 29th Aug., 1705. 
 
 Proved April, 1706. 
 
 Sum 117 os. 2cl.
 
 94 
 
 DE VONSHIRE WI1. LS. 
 
 1707. Administration to the effects of Isaac Tucker of 
 Plymouth. Granted to Sara his sister, wife of John Holditch 
 5th Nov., 1707. 
 
 1719. William Hamlyn of Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Yeoman 
 To the poor, 5s. To daughter Elizabeth Hamlyn, 30, at 21. 
 Mentions Richard Hext "my kinsman " of Hannaford. 
 
 Residue of estate in Blackdon Pipard in Widecombe to said 
 daughter Elizabeth after death of Robert Hamlyn, my father, 
 and Elizabeth, my wife. To brother-in-law John Saunders, is. 
 To sister Katherine Saunders, 2os. To brother-in-law Saml. 
 Eales, is. To brother in-law James Luckham, is. To sister-in- 
 law Mary Gaunter, is. Apprentice Humphry Passmore, los. 
 To apprentice Sibil Hamlyn, 5s. 
 
 Residue to wife Elizabeth, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Dated 28th Feby., 1718-19. 
 
 Proved 8th July, 1719. 
 
 1719. Administration to the estate of James Hamlyn of 
 Withecombe, granted to his father, James Hamlyn, and to 
 Robert Mann, in the minority of James and Thomas Hamlyn, 
 children of said deceased. 
 
 There is a memo, which shows that a " Caveat against admon." 
 had been lodged by the two administrators who afterwards 
 agreed. 
 
 Admon. granted May 23rd, 1719. 
 
 1719. Administration to the effects of Robert Tucker, late of 
 Blackawton, deceased. Granted to Agnes his relict. John 
 Tucker of Blackawton joins the bond. 
 
 1 6th Jany., 1719. 
 
 1719. John Hamlyn of Lake in the parish of Widecombe in 
 the Moor, Yeoman. To wife Joane Hamlyn, .10. To son 
 Richard H. all right in Higher Ash in said parish. Bequest to 
 Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Hamlyn, and to her four children.
 
 DEVONSHIRE W/LLS. 95 
 
 To daughter Mary Hamlyn, 70, and a similar sum to daughter 
 Joane Hamlyn at 21. 
 
 To son James Hamlyn at 21, Corndon in said parish, and in 
 the Manor of Spitchwick for ever. With remainder to said son 
 Richard Hamlyn. Mentions Mary, wife of John Leyman of 
 " Bonehill," Mary Puttercombe, Sara and John Stanckombe. 
 
 Residue to said son Richard, who is Sole Executor. 
 
 Witnesses Joane Gefford, Jane Hamlyn. 
 
 Dated I ith July. 
 
 Proved 3 1st Aug., 1719. 
 
 1719. Richard Hamlyn of Lake in the parish of Widecombe, 
 Yeoman, 22nd Dec., 1719. To brother James H., 3 fields in 
 Higher Hannaford. To poor of Widecombe io/-. To mother 
 Joane Hamlyn $, with an additional sum of 10, " formerly 
 given by my father John Hamlyn to my mother." To kins- 
 man John Emmett 2O/-. To sister Elizabeth, now wife of 
 Thomas Hamlyn of Ash ,$. Residue, remainder of term 
 in Higher Ash and tenement in "Hier" Hannaford to three 
 sisters, Mary, Johane, and Dunes Hamlyn. 
 
 Witnesses, James Hamlyn. 
 Thomas 
 
 Proved I3th Feby., 1719. 
 
 Sum ^339 6s. yd. 
 
 NOTE. Refer to Will of John Hamlyn of Lake, 3ist Aug., 1719, 
 ante. 
 
 1725. Joan Hamlyn of Widecombe, widow. To poor there 
 2O/-. To youngest daughter, Dunes Hamlyn, 1$. To 
 daughter Elizabeth, wife of Thos. Hamlyn, " my best govvne." 
 To other two daughters, Mary and Joan, I/- each. To all my 
 seven grandchildren 5/- each. 
 
 Residue to son James, who is Sole Executor. 
 
 Dated nth Oct., 1723. Proved 3Oth June, 1725. 
 
 Sum 44 155. 4d.
 
 9 6 DE VONSH1RE WILLS. 
 
 1725. James Hamlyn of Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Yeoman. 
 To son Thomas H. I/-. To daughter Anne, wife of Richard 
 Peny, I/-. To daughter Mary, late wife of Henry Gaunter 
 deceased, I/-. To Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Grigg, I/-. 
 
 Residue to " my wife," who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 The " Act of Court" proves that his wife was called " Mary." 
 
 Dated 8th Feby., 1724. Proved 6th Nov., 1725. 
 
 Sum 18 35. lod. 
 
 1727. Administration to the Effects of Maria Tucker of 
 Hatherleigh Granted to William Tucker, her husband. 
 Feby. iQth, 1727. John Tucker joins in the bond. 
 
 1729. Hugh Hamlyn of Widecombe, Yeoman. To wife 
 Joane, Scobbator, in said parish, for life, with remainder to 
 son William, and to the latter " all my lands in the Manor of 
 Dunstone for ever." 
 
 To son Hugh, " my right in Blackslade, which Anne Brewsey 
 now possesses," with reversion to son Edward H. To son 
 John ,12. To three daughters, Hannah, Jane, and Susanna, 
 j each. To daughter Joane, wife of Robert Hamlyn, .3 35. 
 To daughter Elizabeth, wife of John Tarr, 2 2s. To my two 
 grandchildren, daus. of John Tarr, 5/- each. 
 
 Residue to wife Joane, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Dated 2Oth Feby., 1728. Proved at Newton Abbot, 2ist 
 May, 1729. 
 
 1736. William Hamlyn of Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Yeoman. 
 To wife Katherine his goods, in trust to provide for all his 
 children. 
 
 He recites that his late father, Hugh Hamlyn of Widecombe, 
 bequeathed him all his lands in the Manor of Dunstone, to 
 him and his heirs, and he leaves the said Manor to the child 
 now conceived by his wife if it be a man child, but if not,
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 97 
 
 then Dunstona is to be divided amongst all his daughters, 
 with reversion to brother Hugh Hamlyn. 
 
 Overseers : Peter Hamlyn and Sylvester Mann. 
 
 Witnesses : Edward Hamlyn, with others. 
 
 Dated i6th Oct. Proved 1st Nov., 1736. 
 
 1736. Jane Tooker of Milton Abbot, "Spinster" To her 
 daughter Elizb. Trais I/-. To daughter Mary Tooker I/-. 
 Residue to son John Tooker, who is Sole Exor. John Ward 
 Exor. in Trust during minority. 
 
 Witnesses : Pierce Edgcumbe, Daniel Ward. 
 
 Dated 5th Feby., 1735. Proved Qth Feby., 1736. 
 
 1740. Administration to the Effects of Charles Blachford 
 of Totnes, late H.M.S. " Burford." Granted to Elizabeth, 
 wife of Azarias Cundetf, sister of deceased. 
 
 3 1st Jany., 1740. 
 
 1742. Administration to the effects of John Blachford of 
 Totnes. Granted to Christian Blachford of the same, widow, 
 4th Dec., 1742. John Clift of the same, cooper, and Richard 
 Coll, carpenter, join the bond. 
 
 Sum 83 145. 
 
 1746. Will of Richard Heath of Stoke- Damerell, late 
 H.M.S. "Woolwich." Dated 23rd June, 1739. Probate ob- 
 tained by Ann Cleverton, formerly Heath, relict of said 
 Testator and now wife of John Cleverton, I2th Feby., 1746. 
 
 Monition to remove to P. C, Canterbury, 6th Nov., 1751 
 
 1750. Thomas Blatchford of Plymouth, 3rd April, 1750. 
 
 To friend John Cooban of Plymouth, surgeon, freehold 
 
 dwelling house in Plymouth in trust for son Wm. Blatchford 
 
 8
 
 98 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 at 21. Charged with payment of 20 to son Thomas Blatch- 
 ford at 21. To wife Thomasine use of said house during 
 minority of the said two children. 
 
 Witnesses : Elizb. Murch, John Commin, Richard Sandford. 
 
 Proved I4th Feby., 1750. 
 
 1751. Administration of the effects of John Hamlyn late 
 of Widecombe-in-the-Moor, deceased. Granted to his brother 
 Richard Hamlyn of Widecombe, and to Thomas Hamlyn of 
 Tor Bryan, Thomas Hamlyn the father of deceased having 
 renounced. Granted 2Qth June, 1751. 
 
 1752. John Tucker of Halwell in the Co. of Devon, 
 Husbandman. " I due heare give to my wife Ellenor all my 
 goods & chattels & the tenement called Horseville for life, & 
 after her death to my granddaughter Mary Penny, who is to 
 take care of her grandmother for the rest of her life & to have 
 the said house for the rem dr of y e lease." 
 
 To sister Avice a brass crocke. To granddaughter Mary 
 Paige " my deepe bottomed brasse panne which was my 
 mother's." To granddaughter Ann Paige a pewter dish marked 
 J. J. T. To granddaughter Sarah Paige a " Puter dish marked 
 T. H." 
 
 Witnesses : Samuel and Joan Wakeham. 
 
 Dated June 29th, 1746. Proved 3rd Feby., 1752. 
 
 1754. Walter Mortimer of North Bovey, Yeoman. To 
 wife Joan, the best bed, "and one thing of a sort necessary for 
 a single woman to have the use of, for life." 
 
 Bequests to eldest son George, to daughter Agnes, wife 
 of John Boone, and to their children, Joan, Mary, Benjamin, 
 Elizabeth, and Susanna Boone. To daughter Mary Mortimer 
 10, and to son-in-law Richard Honniwill 2/6. 
 
 Residue to sons Walter and Nicholas Mortimoor, who are 
 Joint Exors. 
 
 Witnesses: John Willcocke, John Tallamy, George Underhay. 
 
 Proved 8th May, 1754.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 99 
 
 1763. Administration to the effects of Hugh Hamlyn of 
 
 Widecombe-in-the-Moor, deceased, intestate. Granted to 
 Mary, his widow, 24th March, 1763. 
 
 1771. Thomas Hamlyn of Hannaford, in the parish of 
 Widecombe-in-the-Moor. To daughter Elizabeth Smerdon, 
 5. To grandson John Bedlake, and to granddaughter, 
 Charity Bedlake, $. To granddaughter Mary, daughter of 
 Richard Cocke, 5. Residue to grandson, Thomas Hamlyn 
 Sherwill, Sole Exor., son of John Sherwill. Overseers during 
 minority, son-in-law George Sherwill, and grandson Richard 
 Burnell. 
 
 Dated 3rd July, 1766. Proved 9th March, 1771. 
 
 Sum .74 I2s. 6d. 
 
 1772. Peter Hamlyn of Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Yeoman. 
 To sons Richard, 3, George, 2O/- ; and Bequests to sons 
 Thomas and Hugh, and to daughter Mary, wife of Wm. 
 Nosworthy. To daughter Ruth Hamlyn, .10. To grandson 
 Peter, son of son Francis Hamlyn, io/-. 
 
 To each of daughter Joan's children, she being late wife of 
 John White, deceased, io/-. Residue of real estate, lands, &c., 
 to son Peter Hamlyn, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Dated 141!) Feb., 1770. Proved I2th June, 1772. 
 
 1772. Francis Hamlyn of Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Yeoman. 
 To loving wife Anne, the South Part of Sercombe for 99 
 years, with reversion to nephew Peter Hamlyn and his male 
 heirs, he being son of brother Peter H. The other sons of 
 said brother Peter have remainder of said estate, viz., Richard, 
 George, Francis, William, Thomas, and Hugh Hamlyn. In 
 default of heirs of these, Sercombe is settled on brother 
 George Hamlyn of Aveton Gifford and his sons, George, 
 Richard, John, Arthur, and Francis Hamlyn, and in default 
 to right heirs of said nephew, Peter Hamlyn. He bequeaths
 
 ioo DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 in similar terms the other moiety of Sercombe, and all his 
 tenements, &c., in Ashburton and elsewhere. 
 
 Residue to wife Anne, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Dated 29th April, 1749. Proved gth May, 1772. 
 
 No Inventory. 
 
 (On four sheets of paper.) 
 
 1772. John Hamlyn of Corndon in the parish of Wide- 
 combe-in-the-Moor, Yeoman. To mother Mary Hamlyn, 1$. 
 To brother James Hamlyn, 2O/-. To sisters Mary and Eliza- 
 beth Hamlyn, 4 each. To sister Anne, wife of Jno. French, 
 2O/-. To brother James' sons, John and James, 55. each. 
 Bequests of i/- each to John French's children, viz., Elizabeth, 
 Ann, Susanna, Mary, and Sarah, John and William French. 
 To William, son of " sister Joane," I/-. 
 
 " My brother Richard Hamlyn to be my Executor." 
 
 Dated 7th Oct., 1772. 
 
 Witnesses Richard Hamlyn, with others. 
 
 Proved I4th Nov., 1772. 
 
 Sum ,100 95. 
 
 1784. Thomas Hamlyn of Widecombe-in-the-Moor. " To 
 Cousin Thomas White my sister Joane's son," 3 35. 
 
 Residue to Dorothy, otherwise Dolly Hamlyn, my wife, who 
 is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Dated ist Dec., 1767. Proved 2Oth April, 1784. 
 
 1798. The last Will of Mary Howell of Plymouth Dock, 
 widow, 2nd May, 1789. 
 
 She leaves her son, Samuel Blatchford, her sylver quart 
 and six spoons. Mentions her grandson Henry, son of said 
 Samuel ; Alice, wife of said Samuel. 
 
 The residue of plate to daughter Jane Blatchford. 
 
 Mentions brother Henry Heath, sisters Sarah Newson,
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 101 
 
 Susannah Rowe, and her brothers Robert, Samuel, and Richard 
 Heath, who are to have mourning rings. 
 
 Residue to said Samuel and Jane Blatchford, who are Sole 
 Exors. 
 
 Proved i8th Sept., 1798. 
 
 Under 100. 
 
 1806. John Hamlyn of Lake in the parish of Widecombe- 
 in-the-Moor, Yeoman. Dated /th Feby., 1801. 
 
 He leaves his daughter Mary 5 ; and bequeaths the 
 residue to his wife Grace and son William. The latter is 
 Sole Executor. 
 
 Proved nth March, 1806. 
 
 Under 100.
 
 DE I'ONSHIRE I VI L I. S. 
 
 CONSISTORIAL COURT. 
 
 1541. The last Will of John Hamlyn of Chudleigh. Dated 
 5th June, 1541. 
 
 " To the store of our Lady of Chagford a shepe." To son 
 John Hamlyn of Chagford, all goods remaining there. 
 
 To wife Margery all household stuff. Joint Exors., wife 
 Margery and son John. 
 
 Witness Richard Northcote, Clerk. 
 
 To poor of Chudleigh, a wether sheep. 
 
 No act of proof. 
 
 Collated Will Old Bk., Cons. Ct, Fo. 85. 
 
 1547. The last Will of Richard Worth, Clerk, Parson of 
 Washfield and Thurlestone. He desires to be buried in the 
 Chancel of Washfield Church, and leaves to " my Cosen 
 Wenefred" /I2d. To godson Arthur Worth, fad. Also to 
 godson "at harpryge," /4d. Residue to servant Wm. Davye 
 "as seemeth him best." Dated isth May, 37th Hy. VIII. 
 By Nuncupative Codicil made by Michael Brown, according 
 to instructions received from said Wm. Davye and dated 
 27th July, same year, Testator confirms his former Will, and 
 gives Henry Morgan, Clerk, Vicar of Alvvyngton, his " chamlot 
 gowne " and nominated him Joint Exor. with Wm. Davye, 
 in presence of Richard Halse, Clerk, Vicar of Broadclist. 
 Gregory Basset "Parson of St. Martyn's Exeter" witnesses the 
 instructions for Codicil. 
 
 Proved 6th Aug., 1547. 
 
 Collated Will Old Book, Consistory Court, Fo. 197. 
 
 NOTES. Testator was fifth son of Anthony " Worth " of Worth, whose
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 103 
 
 brother Roger was ancestor of the Worthes of Compton, Barnstaple, 
 Crediton, and Exeter. 
 
 The Worthes presented to Wash field in right of inheritance from 
 the Beauchamps, through Abbot. Thomas Worth of Worth presented, 
 1410, and his direct descendant Mrs. Worth, whose husband, the late 
 Rev. W. Jones, assumed her name, similarly presented, 1884. 
 
 From Abbot, through Beauchamp, the Worthes also derived the 
 Manor of Wash field. These Beauchamps were a younger branch of 
 the White Lackington family, whose heir, in elder line, brought that 
 est tie to Speke, and derived from Milo Beauchamp of Eaton, younger 
 brother of Walter Beauchamp, the ancestor of the Earls of Warwick. 
 
 1549. The last Will of Henry Gibbe (or Gybbes as in 
 the Calendar) of Woodbury in the County of Devon. 
 
 Leaves money to the " poor man's hope " of the said 
 Parish, and money to the poor of Clyst St. George, be- 
 queathing the residue to Joane his wife who, he was sure, 
 would dispose of it in the best way for the good of his 
 soul. He makes her his Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses William Gybbe, Clerk, and George Gybbe of 
 Clyst St. George. 
 
 Date of Will, October 2nd, 1549. A Commission was issued 
 to the said William Gybbe, therein described as Rector of 
 Clyst St. Mary,* to prove the Will. 
 
 Probate granted Oct. 2Oth, 1549. 
 
 1569. Grant by John Arundell of Lannherne, Co. Cornwall, 
 Miles, of the advowson of the Rectory of St. Columb for 
 one turn whenever or by whatever means it may be vacant, 
 to nephew Nicholas Bosgrave of London, gentm., 2Oth April, 
 1569. 
 
 Confirmation by John, son and heir of John Arundell of 
 Lannherne, lately deceased, of the next presentation to Rectory 
 of St Columb to Nicholas Bosgrave, i8th May, 33rd Elizb. 
 
 NOTE. From a Book of Exhibits, Archives Consistory Court, 
 F.xeter. 
 
 Instituted Sept. 7th, 1543. He was afterward Rector of CljM St. deorge.
 
 104 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1571. The last Will of Willyam Gibbe* (Rector) of Clyst 
 St. George. 
 
 After some small charitable bequests he appoints John 
 Gibbe, son of George Gibbe, deceased, of St. George's Clist, 
 his Executor and Residuary Legatee. 
 
 To the poor of Clyst St. George, io/-. To the poor of 
 Clyst St. Mary, 6/8. To the poor of Sowton, 5/-. To the 
 maintenance and reparation of Apshamt Cawsey, io/-. To 
 Charles Rug^e, Richard Peat, and John Pears the Younger, 
 ^3 6s. 8d. apiece, and to the said John's children, 2O/- apiece. 
 To his godchildren, I2/- apiece. To William Rugge, 6 135. 4d. 
 To Thomas Rugge, if he should remain at Oxford a year 
 after the testator's death, 10 ; otherwise 3 6s. 8d. of it to 
 the poor. To Joane, daughter of Charles Rugge, 10, and 
 six spoons parcel git. To Margaret and Mary, daughters of 
 the said Charles, >6 133. 4d. each. To Jane Rugge, 10, 
 and a silver salt. He mentions also his servants Agnes and 
 Jone Besse. 
 
 Will dated May 6th, and proved June 8th, 1571. 
 
 Overseers William Rugge and John Pears. 
 
 Witnesses George Coade, John Pears, and Wm. Eton. 
 
 1582. The last Will of Edward Langley of Chudleigh. 
 Dated /th Jany., 1582. 
 
 He leaves his mansion house and lands to his son George 
 Langley " the younger " ; son William to have the " workinge 
 shoppe." 
 
 He mentions his son George Langley "the elder." 
 
 In a Codicil dated nth Jany., 1582, he mentions daughters 
 Margaret and Margerie. 
 
 Proved i6th Jany., 1582. 
 
 Sum 55 i6s. i id. 
 
 * William Gybbe, instituted to the Rectory of Clyst St. Mary, 1543. Still there 
 in 1549. Buried as Kecter of Clyst St. George, May 3Oth. 1571. Called Gybbes 
 in the Index of Wills. 
 
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 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 105 
 
 1594. James Peter of Marldon, Yeoman, lyth Sept., 35th 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 To sons Harry and William Peter, 10 each. To daughter 
 Emlyn -Peter, 20 at 24 or marriage. To Oder and Gilbert, 
 sons of Gilbert Peter " my son," " one yoowe each." To 
 Richard, Alexander, and Andrew, sons of John Dodd, " my 
 son-in-law," "one yeowe lambeeach"; the same to son-in-law 
 John Comyn's daughter Margerie. He leaves certain house- 
 hold furniture and the moiety of his iron, ropes, and yokes, 
 and plough stuff between his children and his wife Anne. To 
 son John Peter, 3<D/-. 
 
 Residue to wife Anne, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Overseers " Loving cousin " John Peter, and friends Wm. 
 Pascowe and John Grendon. 
 
 Proved I3th April, 1594. 
 
 Sum 147 155. 8d. 
 
 NOTE. Gilbert was evidently called after Gilbert of Compton 
 Castle, in this Parish. " Od^-r " (modern, Otho) was a well-known 
 Gilbert Christian name. 
 
 1595. Henry Tucker of King's-Nympton, Husbandman. 
 3rd June, 37th Elizabeth. To be buried in the Parish 
 Church. To the poor there, /I2d. To sons Robert, William, 
 and George, 10 each at 21. To son Roger, "in remem- 
 brance of fatherly good will towards him," io/-, "to be 
 delivered to him immediately upon his coming to his mother 
 to do his duty." To daughters Margaret and Johane, 
 13 6s. 8d. each on their marriage day. To daughter Wilmot, 
 6 133. 4d. on her marriage day. To Agnes, daughter of 
 daughter Thomasine Kingdon, i lamb. To godson John 
 Cole, /4d. Residue to wife Wilmot, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Two Trustees John Cole of King's-Nympton and brother 
 George Tucker. 
 
 Witnesses " Edmonde Squer, Pastor of King's-Nympton 
 and Scipio Squier his sonne the writers thereof." 
 
 Proved 3Oth Aug., 1595. 
 
 Sum >7\ 155. 8d. 
 
 NOTE. "Scipio Squier." Little Fulford, situated partly in the Parish 
 of Shobrooke, and partly in that of Crediton, was granted, before the
 
 106 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 reign of Edward II., by Michael L' Ercedekne (Archdeacon) to 
 Roger Le Squier. There are seven generations of the Squiers of 
 Heanton Punchardon recorded in the Heralds' Visitation of Devon, 
 1564. Agnes, daughter and heir of William Squier, and granddaughter 
 of Thomas Squier, or Squire, the first mentioned in the pedigree, 
 married William Marwood, and her daughter and heir Joane was the 
 mother of Sir Lewis Pollard, Kt., and grandmother of Hugh Pollard. 
 The male line of the Squier family had been continued by Thomas, 
 second son of Thomas Squier of Heanton aforesaid. Edmond Squier, 
 Rector of King's-Nympton, was presumably of this family, since the 
 patronage of his Rectory lay with the Pollards. His son, Scipio Squier, 
 was a great local antiquary, and left some valuable heraldic manu- 
 scripts relative to the arms in Devonshire churches, which were 
 amongst the collections of Dr. Jeremiah Milles, Dean of Exeter and 
 President of the Society of Antiquaries, 1765. He appears to have 
 paid a visit to Exeter in 1607. when he recorded several notes of 
 arms in the Guildhall, at Polsloe Priory, and other places in the 
 neighbourhood of the city. He must have lived to a great age, as 
 Elias Ashmole, Windsor Herald, made his acquaintance, as shown by 
 his diary, May 24th, 1659, sixty-four years after he wrote and witnessed 
 the above Will. His lather, the Rev. E. Squier, died in 1620, and 
 was succeeded at King's-Nympton by William Blake, i2th August that 
 year. Patron, hac vice, Nicholas Blake of Plymouth, Merchant, by grant 
 of Lewis Pollard, Esq., of King's-Nympton, the true Patron. The last 
 of the family, Hugh Squier, built and endowed a school at South 
 Molton. His Will is dated 1709. 
 
 John Veysy, alias Harman, consecrated Bishop of Exeter, 1519, died 
 1554, was the son of Joan, daughter of Henry Squier of Hands- 
 worth, Co. Stafford. 
 
 1596. Thomas Tucker of Morchaid Bishop. 3Oth June, 
 1595. He desires to be buried at Morchard. To eldest 
 daughter Joane Tucker, 2O/- and one yeo sheep. To eldest 
 son John Tucker, 2O/- and "one crossbowe and the buideres." 
 To son Robert Tucker, 2O/-. To son Henry Tucker, 2O/- 
 and " on paire of lombes." To daughter Maria, 2O/-, and the 
 " best brassen crocke after the decease of wife Agnes." Item 
 to daughter Johane Tucker, jun., 2O/- and a yeo lamb. To 
 son Simon Tucker, 2O/- and a yeo sheep. To daughter 
 Thomasine, 2O/- and a yeo lamb. To son Edward, 2O/- and 
 the second best pan. To daughter Agnes, wife of Richard 
 Saunder, one yeo sheep. To godson Thomas Pollarde, I yeo 
 lamb. All the legacies to be paid to the beneficiares at 21. 
 
 Residue to wife Agnes, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Two Trustees: Laurence Southwoode and William Venicombe. 
 
 Proved 22nd April, 1596. 
 
 Sum 308 1 7s. 4d.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 107 
 
 1597. Robert Toker (no date) desires to be buried "in the 
 parish Churchyard of St. Stephen's" (by Saltash, Co. Corn- 
 wall?). To the poor there, io/-. To son Walter, 6 135. 4d. 
 at ten years old. To son Robert, 6 135. 4d. at same age, 
 and to daughter Siblie at same age, ,6 135. 4d. To god- 
 child John Toker, /6d. To Mablie, daughter of Henry Tooker, 
 one heiffer. Residue to wife Siblie, who is Sole Executrix, 
 on condition that she maintains his mother Margaret Toker, 
 or allows her 6 a year. To sister's daughter, Alice Garnfit, 
 one yeo lamb. To Walter Vigurs and Christopher Horwell, 
 who are trustees, 3/4 each. 
 
 Witnesses Henry Tucker, Walter Vigurs, and Christopher 
 Horwell, " Rober " Bicklie, Thomas Lowes. 
 
 Proved I5th Dec., 1597. 
 
 Sum 36 95. id. 
 
 1603. The last Will of John "Tucker," Clerk, Rector of 
 Cardingham in the Co. of Cornwall, ojfrn Hellande. i$th Nov., 
 1602. Desires to be buried in the Chancel of Cardingham 
 Church. 100 marks to daughters Mary, Anne, and Tilvey, 
 to be paid when they attain the age of 18. The same to 
 daughters Temperance and Penelope. To son Zacharie Tucker, 
 best silver salte and tunne and best silver goblet, to remain 
 in custody of Exors. until he is a housekeeper. He leaves 
 property at "Trenie, Penquite, Cathan, St. Neot, and Bodmin, 
 to Nichs. and Wm. Clieve, Gentlm., in trust for Anne, his 
 wife, with remainder to son Zacharie." 
 
 Residue to wife Anne, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Three Overseers, viz., Wm. Parker, Official of Cornwall, 
 Wm. Clieve, jun., and Nichs. Clieve, gntlm. 
 
 Witnesses John Sprey, Samuel Tucker, John Tucker, 
 Humfrie Tamlyn. 
 
 " Item, I do give my son Zacharie all my books." 
 
 Proved 3 1st Jany., 1603.
 
 io8 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1603. The Inventory of Ellyas Fetter, alias Berringe, late 
 deceased in the Sherowes ward, made 8th Aug., 1603. 
 Will and Admon. missing. 
 Sum 13 33. 4d. 
 Endorsed, " Of Torrebrian." 
 
 NOTE. The Peters of Torbryan were a well-known Devonshire 
 family. The name of this Elias Peter, who evidently died a prisoner 
 for debt, does not occur in the Pedigrees, but he was probably a son of 
 John Petre of Tor-Brian and his wife Joan Ridgeway. 
 
 William, second son of this John Petre, was the ancestor of the Petres 
 of Ingarstone, Co. Essex, and of the Lords Petre. 
 
 1611. Thomas Peter of the parish of Paynton. 5th May, 
 43rd Elizabeth. 
 
 To the poor of the parish, /I2d. To son's daughter Ammye 
 Peter, 2O/- at 26, and 2 yeo sheep. To Wilmott, her sister. 
 4 at 26, and 2 yeo sheep. 
 
 Residue to son James Peter, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Overseers James Churchward and Nicholas Lowman with 
 /I2d. each. 
 
 Proved I3th May, 1611. 
 
 Sum 30. I2s. 8d. 
 
 1618. The last Will of Thomas Peter, Parson of the Church 
 of St. Mawgan-in-Pyder, Co. Cornwall, Clark. 22nd Oct., 
 1617. He desires to be buried in Mawgan Chancel. Debts 
 to be paid and the residue to be distributed " amongst my 
 children." Wife, Elizabeth Peter, to have the advowson of 
 Mawgan. She is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Overseers James Killstone, Francis Hearl, Clarke, Leo 
 Loveys, Wm. Poynter, Leonard Browne, Wm. Powell, and 
 Thomas Howe. 
 
 Proved 6th Nov., 1618. 
 
 28th December, 1643. Inventory of the goods of William 
 Bartlett of Marldon, taken by Thomas Bartlett and William 
 Bartlett. 
 
 Sum is eight scoore, 7 us. 8d.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 109 
 
 5th November, 1644. Admon. granted in the Consistorial 
 Court of Exeter to Anne Bartlett his widow, who in the 
 Bond is described as of Marldon in County of Devon, widow, 
 and the sureties are William Bartlett, of the same parish, 
 Yeoman, and David Davis, Clerk, Vicar of Paignton, but 
 there are only two signatures. 
 
 Sign., A. Anne Bartlett ; David Davies. 
 
 NOTE. The Bond is not signed by William Bartlett. 
 
 1647, loth Feby. Edward Tooker of Langbrocke, in parish 
 of Milton Abbot, Carpenter. To poor of parish, 4O/-. To 
 Nicholas Tooker, Clerk, 10. To Phillippe, dau. of kinsman 
 John Tooker, 5 ; to rest of his children, ros. each. 
 
 To Edmund, son of kinsman Roger Tooker, 5, and to his 
 children, 6/8 each. 
 
 To" Elizabeth, dau. of said John Tooker, " my best crocke." 
 
 Other bequests to godson Danl. Sargent ; to kinswoman 
 Joy, dau. of Thomasine Adams, widow ; and to rest of her 
 six children. To brother Saml. Tooker, godsons Roger, 
 Richard, and Edmund Sargent 
 
 Residue to kinsman John Tooker of Langbroke, and to Joan 
 Crabb, servant ; they are Sole Exors. 
 
 Witnesses Zachaeus Jordan, Hy. Tremure. No Proof. 
 
 NOTE. From an old Book of Exhibits in Archives of Consistory 
 Court, Exeter. No Proof. 
 
 See Principal Registry, Dec., 1648. 
 
 2nd May (22 Chas.), 1646. Thomas Bartlet of Compton, in 
 the County of Devon, Yeoman, by Will gives to Joane 
 Bartlet his wife, his household goods for life, and after to 
 his four sons. To Thomas Bartlet, his grandchild, his greatest 
 bras pan when he shall enjoy the tenement wherein the 
 testator then dwelt. 
 
 Residue of goods to three youngest sons. Recites that 
 Walter, Jane als Bartlet, by Deed dated 2Oth September, 
 8th Charles, did sell to William Evens and Jasper Pounce
 
 i io DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 of Marldon, moiety of tenement in Compton, upon trust for 
 testator in fee, who gives it to Samuel Bartlet and Odes 
 Bartlet his sons. Proviso, that Thomas Bartlet his grand- 
 child do pay them 2$ apiece within two years after the 
 death of testator and wife, the said Thomas is to have said 
 moiety in fee, but if he should die without heirs of his body 
 the moiety is to go to testator's son Samuel in fee. 
 
 Wife Joan, Executrix. 
 
 Signed William Bartlet; William Evens. 
 
 Teste. Gualtero Bartlet. 
 
 Inventory taken 8th May, 1646, by William Evens, Walter 
 Bartlet, and Henry Bartlet of Marldon, 73 :8s. lod. 
 
 Proved 3Oth May, 1650, by the Executrix, in the Consistorial 
 Court of the Bishop of Exeter. 
 
 1658, Dec. 29. Johan Bartlett of Marldon, Devon, by her 
 Will of this date, gives small legacies to her sons Henry, Samuel, 
 and Thomas, and to her son Samuel's children, viz., William 
 and Susan, and appoints her son Otho Bartlett Executor, who 
 proved the said Will the 3Oth April, 1661. 
 
 1661, Jany. 3rd. Otho Bartlett of Marldon, by his Will of 
 this date, gives legacies to William Bartlett and Susan Bartlett, 
 son and daughter of his brother Saml. Bartlett. To Thomas 
 Bartlett his kinsman, to John Bartlett his kinsman, and to 
 his four god-children (not named), and Edward Ford and the 
 poor of Marldon ; and appoints his brother Henry Bartlett 
 and Thomas Bartlett Executors ; to whom Probate was granted 
 1 2th April, 1667. 
 
 1666. "Admon. de bonis non," of effects unadministered by 
 Richard Bonithon, father of John Bonithon, Executor of the Will 
 of Gilbert Holcombe, late of Mylor, Co. Cornwall, deceased. 
 Granted to Sir Peter Courtenay of Ladock, Co. Cornwall, 
 26th Nov., 1666.
 
 DE VONSH1RE WILLS. 
 
 Seal of Arms Quarterly 1st and 4th, Or, 3 Torteaux ; 
 2nd and 3rd, Or, a Lion Ramp., Azure (Courtenay). 
 
 NOTE. Gilbert Holcombe, married Ann, sister of Peter, fourth 
 son of Peter Countenay of Ladock. Dead before 1642. 
 
 " 1666. In the Name of God, Amen. I Walter Bartlett of 
 Compton in the parish of Marldon do make and ordaine this 
 my last Will and Testament in manner and forme following 
 Imprimis I bequeath my soul to God my Maker and Redeemer 
 by whome I hope to have comfort in the later day, and my 
 body I ordaine to bee buried in the Church of Marldon. 
 Item. I give to William Bartlett my sonne all my land to 
 him and his heirs forever. Item. I give to Alice Bartlett, 
 Westerland living with all the right that I have in it. Item. 
 I doe ordaine and bequeath to Katherine Bartlett my daughter 
 too hundred pounds to be paide unto her by Allice her 
 sister in six years after that shee shall enjoy it. Item. I 
 doe ordaine William Bartlett my sonne to bee my hole and 
 sole Executor. Item. If William Bartlett die and have noe 
 heirs then it shall goe to Allice Bartlett, and if Allice have 
 no heirs then it shall goe to Katherine Bartlett and if shee 
 die without heires then to the heires of Thomas Bartlett of 
 Stocke Gaberiell. And I doe institute and ordaine Master 
 John Prouse of Brent to bee one of my rulers of this my 
 last Will and Testament. Item. I ordaine Mr. Elias Phillippe, 
 James Peter, William Bartlett, William Brendon to be the 
 others of my rullers of this my last Will and Testament. 
 And I give unto them Twenty shillings for their paines, and 
 if my goods will not hold out to pay my debts I doe ordaine 
 that Gildon's Feeld and Burlanch shall bee sold. In witnesse 
 heere of I have heere unto put my hand even the 9th day 
 of January in the year of our Lord God 1666." 
 
 Witnesse Waller Bartlett ; James 1C Cholwill. 
 
 Proved on the 26th day of January, 1666, by the Oath of 
 Juliana Bartlett, widow, during the minority of William 
 Bartlett the son and Sole Executor.
 
 112 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 9th January, 1666. Walter Bartlett of Marldon, by his 
 Will of this date, gives to his son William Bartlett all his 
 lands, to him and his heirs for ever, and if he die and have 
 no heirs upon the trusts thereinafter mentioned. To Alice 
 Bartlett, Westerland living. To Katherine Bartlett, 200 ; 
 and appoints his son William Executor. 
 
 Admon. with Will annexed granted on the 26th Febiuary 
 1666, to Juliane Bartlett," widow, during the minority of 
 Executor. 
 
 1671. The Account of Julyan Bartlett the Relict and 
 Administrix of the goods and chattels of Walter Bartlett, 
 late of Marldon, Devon. Exhibited 27th April, 1671. 
 
 s. d. 
 The charge ... ... ... 418 19 8 
 
 The discharge ... ... ... 437 o o 
 
 iB o 4 
 
 1674. William Bartlett, by his Will, without date, makes 
 bequests of small nature to his wife (not named), and to his 
 grand-children Allis Katherine Bartlett and William Bartlett ; 
 and appoints the said William Bartlett Executor ; to whom 
 Probate was granted on the 24th Sept., 1674. 
 
 Inventory 24 55. 
 
 1 68 1. Administration to the effects of Margaret Wreyford 
 of Morchard Bishop. Granted 1st March, 1681, to Elizabeth 
 her daughter. Matthew Wreyford joins the bond. 
 
 Sum 6 8s. 
 
 1688. Administration to the effects of Elizabeth Wreyford 
 of Morchard Bishop. Granted to Matthew Wreyford her 
 brother, 3rd Oct., 1688. William Wreyford of the same parish 
 joins in bond. 
 
 NOTE. Matthew Wreyford was a Wool-comber (" lanionem "). 
 William a weaver (" textorem "j ; thus described in the Admon. Bond.
 
 DE VONSHIRE IV I L LS. 113 
 
 1692-3, March 22nd. Henry Bartlett by his Will of this 
 date gives to his brother Thomas Bartlett his half plase in 
 the Common Field at Compton, for the term of years he 
 had therein, on condition of his paying .15 to Testator's 
 Executor and he also makes small bequests to his kinsman 
 Thomas Bartlett, jun., and to the children of Henry Tozer 
 and to his kinswoman Elizabeth Bartlett, whom he appoints 
 Executrix. 
 
 Admon., with the Will annexed, granted on the 2oth day of 
 June, 1693, to Thomas Bartlett of Stokegabriel, Devon, 
 Elizabeth Bartlett, the Executrix named in the Will, having 
 renounced the execution thereof. 
 
 Inventory .55 55. 
 
 1698, January nth. Admon. to the effects of Susanna 
 Bartlett, late of Marldon, was granted to her husband William 
 Bartlett. 
 
 No Inventory. 
 
 1705, August i/th. William Bartlett of Compton within 
 the parish of Marldon, Yeoman, by his Will of this date 
 gives to Edvvd. Goodridge of Berry Pomeroy, yeoman, James 
 Peter of Marldon, gentleman, and Thomas Bartlett, sen., of 
 Marldon, yeoman, all his lands, tenements, houses, orchards, 
 meadows and fields and his Comon of pasture with the appurts. 
 belonging thereto and all his goods and chattels whatsoever 
 Upon Trust to sell same real and personal Estate and after 
 paying his debts, etc., to pay the balance equally between 
 his two daughters Susanna and Mary when they attain 
 20 years of age, and if one died to the survivor wholly ; and 
 he appointed the said Trustees to be Executors of his Will, 
 who proved the same on 23rd October, 1705. 
 
 Inventory 200 8s.
 
 ii 4 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1712. Administration to the Effects of Katherine Gould 
 of Staverton, Granted 9th Nov., 1712, to Jonathan Laskey, 
 her grandson. 
 
 NOTE. Rebekkah, widow of the Rev. Alexander Laskey, curate of 
 Ashburton, died there, 3rd Nov., 1777, and was buried in the church. 
 
 License of marriage between Alexander Laskey of Ilsington, clerk, 
 and Rebekkah Laskey of Yealmpton, spinster. Jan. 23rd, 1740. 
 Mar. Lie., Prin. Regy., Exon. 
 
 1713, Nov. 12. Thomas Bartlett of Marldon, Yeoman, by 
 his Will of this date gives his two fields called Coombe Park 
 and Wood Park in Kingscarsewell, and the house and orchard 
 in Marldon unto his kinsman Thomas Bartlett and to his 
 heirs and assigns for ever ; and he gives the closes of land 
 called Olda Court, Bottom Hood, Hostawill Park, the three 
 Compton Parkes, and the Broom Parkes, unto his said kinsman 
 Thomas Bartlett, until Thomas Bartlett, jun., son of Thomas 
 Bartlett, Testator's kinsman, should attain 20 years of age, 
 and on the said Thomas Bartlett the younger attaining 20 years 
 of age to him for all Testator's term and interest therein. All 
 other the Testator's messuages, lands, and tenements he gave 
 to his said kinsman Thomas Bartlett the elder and his assigns 
 To hold the same until his son the said Thomas Bartlett 
 attained 20 years of age, and on his attaining that age to 
 the said Thomas Bartlett the son and the heirs of his body 
 lawfully begotten on the body of Elizabeth his then wife, and 
 in default of such issue to the said Thos. Bartlett the elder 
 his heirs and assigns for ever. Unto Rebecca Bartlett, daughter 
 of the said Thos. Bartlett the elder, he gives 250 to be 
 paid her when 21, and the same is charged on his lands, and 
 testator also gives small legacies to his cousin John Hurrell, 
 Thomas Bartlett, to Richard Phillipp's children, to Agnes 
 Collins and her daughter (not named). 
 
 Residue to kinsman the said Thomas Bartlett the elder, who 
 is appointed executor, and who proved the said Will on the 
 24th October, 1714. 
 
 Inventory 819 6s.
 
 DE I 'ONSHIKE W1IJ.S. \ \ 5 
 
 1735, Oct. ii. Thomas Bartlett late of Marldon, Yeoman, 
 by his Will of this date, gives small legacies to his nephews 
 Jacob Bartlett and Thomas Bartlett, and to Thomas, William, 
 Mary Elizabeth, and Jacob Bartlett, sons and daughters of 
 his said nephew Thomas Bartlett, and to the poor of Marldon, 
 and then gives to his wife Elizabeth Bartlett, her heirs and 
 assigns for ever, all that tenement called the Lower Tenement 
 and three closes of land called the Etherhays and Churchward 
 Hay, a field called the Ridgevvays Bridge and two fields 
 called the Winkhorns, and a tenement called Martins, and all 
 other his messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and 
 appoints his said wife Executrix and Residuary Legatee ; to 
 whom probate was granted on the 22nd October, 1736. 
 
 Inventory 276 193. 2d. 
 
 1736, May 1 8th. Admon. to the effects of Joan Bartlett, 
 wife of Jacob Bartlett late of Marldon, deceased, was granted 
 to her husband the said Jacob Bartlett on the date aforesaid. 
 
 No inventory exhibited. Bond given for 200. 
 
 1742, June 3<Dth. Jacob Bartlett of Marldon, Yeoman, by 
 his Will of this date gives to his wife the use of all his 
 household goods as was hers before marriage, and on her 
 death or re-marriage to daughter Joan Bartlett. He also gave 
 to said daughter 200, and charged same on his real and 
 personal estate, and also the yearly sum of $ till she 
 attained 21. He gives to his son Jacob Bartlett 100, and 
 to his godson Jacob Collier, to his wife (Joane), and to his 
 brothers William and Thomas, .5 ; and the residue to 
 his son Jacob Bickford Bartlett ; and he appoints his said 
 wife and two brothers, William Bartlett and Thos. Bartlett, 
 Executors. 
 
 Proved on the 22nd May, 1742, by Joan Bartlett and Thos. 
 Bartlett, two of the Executors, power being reserved to Wm. 
 Bartlett the other Executor. 
 
 No Inventory exhibited.
 
 1 1 6 DE VONSH1RE WIL LS. 
 
 1742, Nov. 8th. Elizabeth Bartlett late of Marldon, by 
 her Will of this date, gives small legacies to her son Henry 
 Holditch and niece Elizabeth Ford ; and gives the residue 
 of her estate and effects to her two sisters Joan Withiell and 
 Judith Ford, and appoints them Executrixes. 
 
 Proved on the fourteenth day of January, 1742, by Judith 
 Ford, one of the Executrixes ; Joan Withiell, the other 
 Executrix, having renounced. 
 
 No Inventory. 
 
 1748. Thomas Bartlett of Marldon, Clothier. ioth Nov., 
 1748. To wife Christian, house at Marldon, late Mrs. Adams'. 
 Revert to son Nicholas, charged with 50 to daughter 
 Christian. To said wife ^300 in trust for said daughter, and 
 for other children, Christopher, John, and Susanna Bartlett. 
 To son Thomas, messuage in which I reside, called "Way- 
 mouthe Tenement." Residue to brother William Bartlett of 
 St. Mary Church, Gent" 1 ., in trust for children Thomas, William, 
 Jacob, Mary, and Elizabeth Bartlett, at 21. Said brother 
 William Sole Exor. 
 
 Witnesses : Mary Hander, George Lyde, Robert Furneaux. 
 
 Proved 3Oth Dec., 1748. 
 
 NOTE. The house at Marldon known as " Madger Place " is the 
 house of " late Mrs. Adams " referred to. " Wife Christian " was 
 daughter of Nicholas Adams by his wife Agnes Drewe. Madger Place 
 was conveyed by Sir Edwd. Carey to Christopher Adams in 1650. 
 
 1777, 4th April. Letters of Administration of the personal 
 estate of Thomas Bartlett late of Marldon, deceased, left 
 unadministered by Elizabeth Bartlett his widow, the Sole 
 Executrix of his Will, who died intestate, were granted to 
 John Leach Brown of Stokeinteignhead, Gentleman, so far 
 as related to certain estates vested in the said Thomas Bartlett 
 as surviving Trustee under certain Indentures of Lease and 
 release of 8th and Qth September, 1718. 
 
 The property is described as All those messuages and lands 
 called Moretor and Lovetor in Marldon, containing 46 acres ; 
 a messuage and tenement in North Willborough, containing 
 2O acres; and several fields or parcels of land therein mentioned.
 
 DE VONSHIRE \ VII. /..V. 1 1 7 
 
 1785. Administration to the Effects of Samuel Wreford 
 late of Crediton, intestate. Granted i8th M^rch, 1785, to his 
 brothers John Wreford of Clannaborough, and Silvanus Wreford 
 of Bow ; Elizabeth Wreford, mother and next of kin to 
 deceased, having renounced. 
 
 NOTE. Refer to 2nd August, 1595, Principal Registry. The re- 
 currence of the Christian name "Silvanus," and the mention of property 
 in West Sandford, close to Bow, and Morchard Bishop, clearly points 
 to the origin of the North Devon Wrefords.
 
 1 1 8 DE VONSHIRE I V1LLS. 
 
 PRINCIPAL REGISTRY. 
 
 "In the name of God Amen, the I2th April, 1537. I 
 Roger Wreyyfford stedfast and perfyct of mynd and rembrans 
 make these my last Will and testament after this manner and 
 forme, fferst I bequeth my sowle unto Almighty God and to 
 all the Celestyall Companye yn Heven and my bodye to 
 holy buryall to be beryd yn the Churchyerth of Saynt Swithine 
 Sampford. ffyrst I geve and bequeth unto our -ladye 
 brethered of Credyton xijdf., also to Seynt Swithine of 
 Sampford a yawe, allso I geve and bequeth unto John 
 Podycomb xija 7 ., allso I geve and bequeth unto John Owsborne 
 prysh clarke \\\]d. Allso I geve and bequeth unto John 
 Wreyfford my son my best half dossyn of sylveryn spoons 
 allso I geve and bequeth unto the same John my best brasyn 
 pott allso I geve and bequeth unto the same John a pessenott 
 allso I geve and bequeth unto the same John allff a dossyn 
 of vessells pfformyed and a chaffyn dysch of latyn and a 
 candelstyc also I geve and bequeth unto the same John a 
 fflock bed and a per of blanekeytts allso I geve and bequeth 
 unto Richard Cowyll and to Nicholas Dellff to Every of them 
 \\}S. \\\]d. allso I geve and bequeth unto Maryytt my servant 
 njs. \\\]d. or a petycowytt clothe allso I will that Richard 
 Cowyll and Nicholas Dellff shalbe my overseers and governors 
 to see thys my last wyll and testament performyd according 
 to the desyr of my mynd the goods not geve nor bequeth 
 I geve and bequeth unto Maryerye my wyff whom I have 
 ordaynd and made my Executor trustyn she will dyspose for 
 the welth of my sowll as she may se hyt most best or 
 convenynte : herto be wyttnes John Podycomb (clerke), 
 Nicholas Dellff, Nycolas Wrefford, John Owsborne, and 
 William Ffrost."
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 119 
 
 1595. Thomas Wrayford of Mod bury, I5th June, 1594. 
 To daughter Katharine Pearse, 3 silver spoons. To Mary 
 fface her daughter, and to each of Thomas Pearce's children, 
 6s. 8d. 
 
 To daughter Mary Sweete, 3 silver spoons, and to each of 
 Henry Surete's four children, 6s. 8d. To Johane Face, an 
 annuity of 2O/- out of land called " Heale," in West Sinford, 
 after death of wife Johane. " To Silvanus, my son's child," 
 I gilt salt 
 
 Residue to son William, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 2nd August, 1595. 
 
 Sum 128 45. 
 
 1596. The last Will of John Wourth of Crediton, co. Devon, 
 dated loth Jany., 1595. He gives his son John .8 in money, 
 " all my best gownes, a goblett of sylver parcel gilt, five silver 
 spoons with name engraved on them," etc. 
 
 He makes specific bequests of money and furniture to his 
 sons William, George, and Nicholas, and also to his daughters 
 Christian and Elizabeth. 
 
 Residue to wife Joane, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Trustees : John Trowbridge and Lawrence Davie. 
 
 Proved 4th June, 1596. 
 
 NOTE. Testator was eldest son of John Worthe of Compton Pole, 
 in Marldon, by Agnes, daughter of John Bodley of Dunscombe, 
 Crediton. His wife " Joane " was daughter of Robert Clark of 
 Crediton. 
 
 C. 1600. From a terrier in the Principal Registry of the 
 Bishop. 
 
 "A note concerning the Rectory of Cardyngham. 
 
 " Imprimis that y e Earle of Bath and John Arundell of 
 Lanherne, Esquyer, are Patrons of the said benefice and doe 
 give the same alternis vicibus, and that Mrs. Arundell is to 
 present y e next turne. 
 
 " Item there is about one hundred akers of land belonging 
 to y e glebe of y e said parsonage the said ground being 
 bounded on the East and south with y e patron's lands and
 
 I 2 o DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 on the West side with Mr. John Doorleyne's land, and on 
 y e North side with y e Queene's High waye. 
 
 " Item there are no implements belonging to. > e said par- 
 sonage house. 
 
 John Toker. 
 
 Registrar's Office. 
 
 C. 1600. Helland, co. Cornwall. A note concerning y e 
 Rectory of Helland. Mr. Thomas Hale of Fleet in Devon 
 is patrone of y e said benefice, who presented John Toker, 
 Clerk, now incumbent there. That their is about xvi akers 
 of land belonging to the said Rectory. Item their is no 
 impliments belonging to the said Rectory. 
 
 John Toker. 
 
 Registrar's Office. 
 
 NOTE. See Rev. John Toker's Will, Consistorial Court, Jan., 1603. 
 
 1616. Joan Wrayford of Christow, I2th Oct., 1615. 
 Legacies to " Sister Richorde " ; to brother Stephen Wrayford ; 
 to Wm. Cornish the younger ; to kinswoman Elline Cornish ; 
 and to Susan Cornish. Residue to John Cornish, who is 
 Sole Executor. 
 
 Proved 26th July, 1616. 
 
 Sum, 4 153. 6d. 
 
 1627. Probate of the Will of Alexander Arundell, Rector 
 of Lapford, granted 9th Nov., 1627, to Mary his Relict and 
 Executrix. 
 
 Sum, 1,009 T 6s. 3d. 
 
 (Episcopal Registers.) 
 
 NOTE. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners state in their report that 
 they were unable to find this Will. 
 
 Mrs. Arundell soon consoled herself with another husband, as she 
 married her husband's successor at Lapford, on the 2ist of the 
 following February. 
 
 Rev. George Allen, Instituted to Rectory of Lapford, 6th Feby., 
 1627-8. 
 
 License of Marriage between George Allen, Clerk,, Rector of Lapford, 
 and Mary Arundell, widow of the same, 2ist Feby., 1627. 
 
 Probate of the Will of George Allen, Clerk, Rector of Lapford, 
 granted to Mary his Relict, Jany. 291)1, 1637. Sum, 22$. (Ibid.}
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 121 
 
 1627. Probate of the Will of Edmund Peter, late of Ottery 
 St. Mary. Granted to Eniline, his Relict and Sole Executrix, 
 nth Aug., 1627. 
 
 Sum, 24 1 2s. lod. 
 
 (Episcopal Registers.) 
 
 1627. Administration of the Nuncupative Will of Florence 
 Lenfee alias Lenfield, of Marwood. Granted to John Tucker 
 of the same Parish, in trust for the children of deceased. 
 27th Sept., 1627. 
 
 (Ibid.} 
 
 1628. Administration to the effects of Elizabeth Courtenay, 
 alias Gorges, relict of Edward Courtenay, and Admon. to 
 effects unad ministered by the said Elizabeth, of William 
 Bligh, Esq , deceased, and also of the said Edward Courtenay. 
 Granted to Sir Wm. Courtenay, Knight, brother of deceased, 
 in the minority of Peter Courtenay, Esq., Edward Courtenay, 
 and Hutton Courtenay, children of said Elizabeth. 
 
 Granted i8th March, 1628. 
 
 (Extracted from the Registers of Bishops of Exeter.) 
 
 NOTE. Sir Wm. Courtenay of Powderham, born 1553, died 1630. 
 Col. Vivian, in his edition of the "Visitations of Devon," only gives 
 him one sister Jane, wife of Sir Nicholas Parker ; and I find no 
 mention of Elizabeth in any other Courtenay pedigree in my possession. 
 
 1629. The Bishop of Exeter, at London, from the house 
 of the Earl of Norwich, in the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, 
 admitted Robert Herrick, Clerk, Master of Arts, to the 
 Vicarage of Dean Prior, vacant by the promotion of Barnabas 
 Potter to the See of Carlisle. 
 
 (Episcopal Registers.) 
 
 NOTE. This was Robert Herrick, the Poet, author of the " Hespe- 
 rides," admitted to this little Devonshire Church upon the presentation 
 of King Charles I. He died in 1674, and was buried at Dean 
 Prior. 
 
 "The Earl of Norwich," was Edward Denny, knighted by 
 Queen Elizabeth : created Karl of Norwich, 1626; died without 
 male issue, zoth Dec., 1630. The King then gave the Earldom of 
 Norwich to the late Earl's nephew, the celebrated Lord Goring, 
 in 1644.
 
 122 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1631. "Caveat" against Administration to the effects of 
 Katherine " Carey," Widow, of Clovelly, without notice given 
 to John Arundell of Trerise, Esq., and Henry " Carye " of 
 Clovelly, her son, co-exors. of her last Will and Testament, 
 Jan. 2nd, 1631. 
 
 (Epis. Regs. Exon.) 
 
 1633. Commission for Administration directed to John 
 Saunders, Clerk, Vicar of Bodmin, and to Master Peter Tucker, 
 Rector of Cardinham, in the case of Susannah, widow of 
 Peter Bolt, late of Bodmin, deceased. 2Qth July, 1633. 
 
 (Epis. Regs., Exon.) 
 
 NOTE. To enable her to Administer without incurring the trouble 
 and expense of a journey to Exeter. 
 
 1633. A similar Commission to Gregory Arundell, Rector 
 of Sheviocke, in the case of Win. Bond. i6th Aug., 1633. 
 (Ibid.} 
 
 1635. Probate of the Will of Thomas Arundell of Stovv- 
 ford, gentleman, concerning his goods only within the Diocese 
 of Exeter. Granted to Mary, his widow. I2th Jany., 1635. 
 
 (Epis. Reg., Exeter.) 
 
 1636. Probate of the Will of Wm. Sheeres, Clerk, deceased, 
 late Rector of St. Stephen's, and of All Hallows, Goldsmith 
 Street, Exeter. Granted to Susanna, his wife. I5th March, 
 1636. 
 
 (Epis. Reg., Exon.) 
 
 1637. Commission for Administration to In the 
 
 matter of Mary, relict of Sir Edward Gyles, Kt. iQth Dec., 
 1637- 
 
 Administration to the estate of Sir Edward Gyles, late of 
 Dean Prior, deceased, granted to " Lady Marie Gyles," his
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 123 
 
 relict. 2Oth Jany., 1637. Sum, .968 $s. 8d. Inventory 
 exhibited, 24th Jany. (Ibid.} 
 (Epis. Reg., Exon.) 
 
 NOTE. Lady Gyles was Mary, daughter and heir of Edmund 
 Drewe of Hayne. She had no issue. Sir Edward Gyles, Knight, 
 was one of Prince's " Worthies " of Devon. For an account of him, 
 see also the Editor's " Ashburton and its Neighbourhood," p. 134, 
 et seq. ; also " Devonshire Parishes," by same author, Vol. i., p. 306. 
 
 1639 Administration of the estate of Silvester Whiteway of 
 Ashburton, deceased. Granted to Humphrey Tooker of the 
 City of Exeter, Merchant. 2nd Nov., 1639. 
 
 (Epis. Regs., Exon.) 
 
 1640. Probate of the Will of Hugh Clifford, Esq., of 
 Bremell, in the parish of Ashton. Granted to Marie his 
 relict. 2/th March, 1640. 
 
 Sum, 374 8s. 
 
 (Epis. Regs., Exon.) 
 
 1643. Probate of the Will of John Baker of the City of 
 Exeter, Merchant, deceased. Granted to Thomas Baker, 
 Clerk, and Anne Tucker, his children and Co-Exors. "Ejus 
 filiis et co-executoribus." 2gth Feb., 1643. 
 
 (Epis. Regs., Exon) 
 
 1643. The last Will of Marie Gib* of St. George's. She 
 leaves 8 to her son John Gibb.f and I/- each to her son 
 John Gibbes his children. 1$ to her son Andrew Gibbe, 
 and IO/- each to his children. She leaves also legacies to 
 Marie, the daughter of George Gibb ; William, the son of 
 George Gibb ; and George, the son of George Gibb. She 
 gives 6/8 to the poor of Clyst St. George, and 4/- to the 
 
 * Second wife of George Gibb, and sister of Andrew Ixweringe. Refer to 
 Archdeaconry of Exon., Aug. 24th, 1606. George Gibb, her husband. 
 I Refer to Archdeaconry of Exon., April, 1644.
 
 124 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 poor of Whimple. The residue of her goods she bequeaths 
 to George Gibb,* her son, and Executor of her Will. 
 
 Overseers Richard Parker and Robert Gibb,f the son of 
 John GibbJ of Clyst St. George. 
 
 Will dated August loth, 1640. 
 
 Proved, 
 
 Witnesses 
 
 1643.' Administration to the effects of Zachary Hooker, 
 alias "Howell" (not Vowell}, Clerk, Rector of Caryhais, 
 deceased. Granted to Grace, his relict. 28th Jan., 1643. 
 
 Sum, .194 ios. 
 
 (Epis. Regs.) 
 
 NOTE. He was the fourth son of John Hoker, alias Vowell, 
 Chamberlain of Exeter, and author of the celebrated " History of 
 the City," still in MS., by his second wife, Anastasia, daughter 
 of Edward Bridgman of Exeter. "Visit. Devon," 1564. 
 
 Rev. Zachary Hooker was succeeded at "Caryhayes" by the Rev. 
 John Archer, upon the presentation of Joan Beauford of Columb 
 Major, widow, by grant from the true Patrons Bernard Tanner, 
 Esq., and John Coke, Esq. isth May, 1644. 
 
 (Epis. Regs., Exon.) 
 
 1644. Probate of the Will of William- Lake, late of Ash- 
 bury, deceased. Granted to John Lake, his son. 1 5th April, 
 1644. 
 
 Sum, 417 i/s. 4d. 
 
 (Epis. Regs., Exon.) 
 
 1645. Probate of the Will of Nicholas " Carwithy " of the 
 City of Exeter. Granted to Margaret, his wife. igth June, 
 
 1645- 
 (Epis. Regs., Exon.) 
 
 NOTE. Nicholas Carwithen of St. Petrock's, Exeter. His grand- 
 son, John Carwithen, Town Clerk of Exeter, purchased the advowson 
 
 * Administration in P.C.C., Nov., 1660. 
 
 f Court of Vicars Choral, Feb. 27th, 1701-2. 
 
 j Eldest son of George Gibb, husband of testatrix, by his first wife. 
 
 Witnesses and precise date of Probate wanting.
 
 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 12$ 
 
 of the Rectory of Manaton for 100 for the term of 1,000 years, 
 from Francis Kirkham in 1720; and in 1723 purchased the fee 
 thereof for ^5 55. His brother Thomas Carwithen had been instituted 
 to this Rectory in 1698, and it has ever since remained with his 
 descendants, the present Rector, 1893, being the Rev. William 
 Henry Carwithen, A.M., many years Vicar of Aylesbeare, and a 
 kinsman, through Melhuish, of Editor's. Since 1698, nine Carwithens 
 have been Rectors of Manaton, but there have been four inter- 
 missions 1753, 1766, 1848, 1887. 
 
 1644. Probate of the Will of Mark Law, Clerk, Vicar of 
 Ashburton. Granted to Marie, his relict. 23rd Jany., 1644. 
 Sum, 98 1 8s. 4d. 
 (Epis. Regs., Exon.) 
 
 NOTE. He was the son of the Venerable Robert Law, Archdeacon 
 of Barnstaple and Treasurer of Exeter Cathedral, and succeeded his 
 father in the Vicarage of Ashburton, 1629. He married Maria 
 Tidball, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Tidball, Master of Ashburton 
 Grammar School, by whom he was himself succeeded in the Vicarage 
 of Ash burton, which Editor's father, the Rev. Ch.irles Worthy, sub- 
 sequently held from 1861 to his death in 1879. 
 
 1644. Probate of the Will of Robert Carey of Launceston. 
 Granted 1 7th Feby., 1644, to Alice, his wife. 
 (Epis. Regs., Exon.) 
 
 1645. Administration to the estate of Richard Hill, late 
 Rector of Manaton, to James Hill his grandson. And of 
 William Hill, late Rector of Manaton, to said James his 
 son. 
 
 Both dated '26th," Nov., 1645. 
 
 (Epis. Regs., Exon.) 
 
 NOTE. Rev. Richard Hill was instituted to Manaton, March 2ist, 
 1579, and died in 1612, when he was succeeded by his son William, 
 who died 1645. 
 
 James Hill, the above Administrator, was instituted to Manaton, 
 27ih Nov., 1645. On his death in 1661, he was followed by the 
 Rev. James Eastchurch, whose successor was the Rev. Thomas 
 Carwithen, igth May, 1698. (See previous note, igth June this 
 year.)
 
 126 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1646. Peter Hole, of North-Tawton, igth Feby., 2ist 
 Charles. He gives to wife Margery his whole estate in a 
 Tenement called Farthinges, in the parish of Zeal Monachorum. 
 He mentions Robert Hole his brother. To daughter Alice 
 Hole, ,30. To son John Hole, ^"30 at 21. To daughter 
 Elinor Hole, ,30 at 21. To son Andrew Hole, ^30 at 21. 
 To wife Margery, an acre of best rye growing at Higher 
 Nichols-Nymtt. Exor. to maintain his son John until he is 
 21, and to have the "labours" of the said John in exchange. 
 
 Residue to son William, who is Sole Executor. 
 
 Rulers Mark Cottle, Esq., brother Robert Hole, John Gould, 
 gentm., John Splatt and David Westron. 
 
 Proved, 5th July, 1646. 
 
 NOTE. The Chatell lease of Nichols-Nymet is valued in the 
 Inventory at ^390. 
 " Faithinges " at 28. 
 
 1648. Affidavit of John Tooker and Joane Crabb, Exors. 
 to the Will of Edmund Tooker, Carpenter, of Milton Abbot, 
 made 1st Dec., 1648. 
 
 No Will annexed. 
 
 Sum, 143 I2s. 5d. 
 
 NOTE. The copy of the Will is in " Consistory Archives at Exeter 
 Cathedral." (See " Consistorial Court," Feby., 1647.) 
 
 1665. Administration to the effects of Roger Wreyford. 
 Granted to Wm. Tucker, Emanuel Harvey, and Wm. Wrey- 
 ford, Overseers named in the Will of said deceased, in 
 minority of Nicholas Wreyford the son. I4th July, 1665. 
 
 (Epis. Regs., Exon.) 
 
 1665. Administration to the effects of Jane Osmond, late 
 of Tiverton, deceased. Granted to Thomas Hussey and John 
 Gill in the Minority of Alice and Jane Bryant, the Executors. 
 3 ist July, 1665. 
 
 (Epis. Regs., Exon.)
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 127 
 
 1666. The Will of Edward Arundell, jun., late of North 
 Molton, Gentleman, was proved by John Arundell, his brother 
 and Executor. 25th July, 1666. 
 
 (Epis. Regs., Exon.) 
 
 1666. Probate of the Will of Dorothy Gary, late of 
 
 Exeter. Granted to the Very Rev. George Gary, Dean of 
 
 Exeter. ;th Sept., 1666. 
 
 (Epis. Regs.) 
 
 NOTE. She was third daughter of William Gary of Clovelly, by 
 his second wife, Dorothy, eldest daughter of Sir Edward Gorges. 
 Col. Vivian, " Visitation of Devon," notes that she was " dead 
 before 1674." 
 
 Her brother George Dean of Exeter, 1663 was twice offered the 
 Bishopric of Exeter by Charles II., but declined the dignity. King 
 Charles I. had presented him to the Rectory of Clovelly, 1638, and 
 he was buried there, Feby., 1680-1, at. 69. His eldest brother, 
 " Sir Robert Gary, Kt.," was Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to 
 Charles II. 
 
 1667. "Memorandum: That on the 27th March, 1667, 
 Mr. Gascoigne Canham of Arlington, Clerke, as undoubted 
 Patron of Bratton Fleming, did, by deed, grant to the Master 
 and Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, the 
 perpetual advowson of the said Rectory of Bratton Fleming, 
 to present the eldest fellow of said College." 
 
 (Epis. Regs.) 
 
 NOTE. Mr. Canham was 55 years Rector of Arlington, and was 
 buried there in 1667. Bratton Fleming has a tithe rent charge, 
 according to the commutation, of ^435 per annum, and there are 
 256$ acres of Glebe. The population in 1881 was 523. 
 
 1670. Probate of the Nuncupative Will of George Arun- 
 dell of Launceston. Granted to Richard Killiowe, the Executor. 
 9th Feby., 1670. 
 
 (Epis. Regs.)
 
 128 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1671. Probate of the Will of Jonathan Fox, late of Lancells, 
 deceased 3ist August, 1671. Granted, Sept. 1671, to Wm. 
 Potter, Executor " during minority." 
 
 (Epis. Regs.) 
 
 1671. The last Will of Peter Toker of Cardinham, Cornwall, 
 Clerk. 
 
 To eldest daughter, Mary Toker, and to eldest son, 
 Matthew Toker, all messuages, lands, &c., in Penstrode and 
 Blissland, to them and their heirs, with reversion in default 
 thereof to daughter Katherine, wife of Christopher Worthe- 
 vail, gentm., and to her heirs of body. To son Mark Toker, 
 " the bidstead on which he now lyeth." 
 
 Residue to daughter Katherine, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 No Act. 
 
 Sum of personality, 4.9 i6s. 5d. 
 
 (Registrar's Office, Exeter.) 
 
 NOTE. Deceased was Rector of Cardinham. Commission to Ad- 
 minister Oaths, dated 8th January, 1671. 
 
 1671. The Nuncupative Will of Jonathan Fox of Lancells, 
 Husbandman, dated 2Oth June, 1671. He gives to his sister, 
 Grace Fox, one white pigge of one year old. To his wife 
 Julian, a Tenement at Ossington in Lancells, Co. Cornwall, 
 until she succeeds to the moiety of the tenement at Whitistone 
 in said County, after the decease of her mother Ulalia Addams. 
 Reversion of Ossington then to his children Ulalia and 
 Jonathan Fox. Ossington is held on lease determinable on 
 the lives of Testator's sisters, Mary, wife of Wm. Potter, and 
 Grace Fox. Residue to Philip Boteler of Pancras Wick, and 
 Wm. Potter of Uffculme in trust for said children ; they are 
 Exors. 
 
 Witnesses Wm. Potter, Lydia Cole, and Mary Potter. 
 
 Admon. to W r m. Potter, clothier, of Uffculme. 3 1st Aug., 
 1671. 
 
 Sum, $2 75. 6d.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. .29 
 
 1674. The last Will of Thomas Granger of Liskeard, and 
 Rector of St. Melyan in the County of Cornwall, Clerk. 
 Dated, 4th July, 1673. To the poor of St. Melyan, 2O/-. 
 To son Thomas Granger, " all my books " and $o, " advanced 
 to him to be laid out on a mortgage of a tenure in the 
 Duchy Manor of Calstock, the said Thomas being now the 
 tenant." To said son's wife Elizabeth, 2O/-. To son-in-law 
 Robert Warren, 2O/-, and to daughter Priscilla, wife of said 
 Robert, 2O/-, and a further legacy of 20. 
 
 Residue to wife Priscilla, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved Qth April, 1674. 
 
 Sum, 238 los. 6d. 
 
 NOTE. It appears, from the Inventory, that the Rector's library 
 was valued in 20. 
 
 1677. The last Will of Roger Drake of Stoakstowne in 
 the Co. of Wexford, Gentm. 2Oth Oct., 1677. To each of 
 his daughters, and to that child his wife "now goeth with," 
 120. He leaves a life interest in his property to his wife 
 Hannah, with reversion to his " only son " John Drake. To 
 sister Anne Skinner, 20. 
 
 Residue to wife Anne, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Two Trustees. 
 
 Witnesses Dennis Driscoll, Clerk, Barbara Rowles, Mary 
 Driscoll. 
 
 Proved, Prin. Regy., Exon., I4th March, 1677, by Hannah 
 Drake the Executrix. 
 
 (Registrar's Office, Exeter.) 
 
 NOTE. This Will is especially interesting, as it is not to be found 
 at Exeter Probate Court. 1 came upon it accidentally in the Office 
 of the Registrar of the Diocese. It was evidently, from the names 
 of two of the witnesses, executed in Ireland, and would, therefore, 
 be scarcely likely to be looked for at Exeter. 
 
 1682. Will, with Codicil, of John Peter, Clerk, late Vicar 
 of St. Enodoc, Co. Cornwall. Probate granted, I4th Dec., 
 1682, to "Renato" Peter, son and Exor. 
 
 (Epis. Regs.)
 
 130 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1683. The last Will of George Gibbs* the elder, of Clyst 
 St. George, Yeoman. To the poor of the Parish, 4O/-. To 
 George Gibbs, his eldest son, the goods and household stuff 
 in his dwelling-house. To Samuel Gibbs, his son, 2O/-, and 
 the land which he had purchased for him in Clyst St. George, 
 to him and his heirs for ever. To Sarah Goulsworthy, his 
 daughter, 20. To Henry Goulsworthy, his grandson, 5s. 
 To Thomas Goulsworthy, his grandson, ,5. To Elizabeth 
 Henley.t 2O/-, and 3/- to each of her three sons. To his 
 son Abraham,:}: all the residue of his goods. 
 
 Will dated March 6th, 1682-3. Proved by Abraham Gibbs, 
 Sole Executor, August 1st, 1683. 
 
 Overseers Will m . Clare, Thomasin Toake, Samuel Truelake. 
 
 1683. Administration to the effects, &c., of John Wreyford 
 of Beerferrers, granted to Elizabeth his relict 27th Aug., 1683. 
 Matthew Wreyford of Dunterton, Surgeon, joins the bond. 
 
 1685. The last Will of Ann, daughter of Nicholas Borlase 
 of Trelodro, Esqr., deceased. Dated 3rd July, 1685. To nephews, 
 Giles Chichester, 100; John Chichester, ,200. To niece, 
 Ursula Chichester, .150, and 5 broad pieces of gold. To niece, 
 Prudence Chichester, similar legacy. Legacies to " kinsfolk," 
 children of William Borlace, viz., John, Joan, Ann, and to the 
 youngest son of Phillipe Lincoln and to Margt. Chichester. 
 Legacy to Mary, dau. of Henry Borlace ; godchildren, Nicholas 
 James and John Hawton. Servant, Mary James, an annuity of 
 6. 200 to be spent on the funeral, at direction of " Sister 
 Chichester." Residue to niece, Katherine Chichester, who is 
 Sole Executrix. 
 
 Exors. in trust, during minority of Executrix, Walter Blunt, 
 Sir John Southcote, Edward Cary, Esq., and brother, John 
 Chichester. Proved i;th Oct., 1688. 
 
 Crest-Seal" A Wolf passant." 
 
 NOTE. See Dec. igth, 1701, post. 
 
 * So signed. He is called Gibbs in the Will. Eldest son of John Gibbs 
 the elder, of Clyst St. George, was buried there, July i8th, 1683. 
 
 t Wife of Benjamin Brinley. % Afterwards of Exeter, 1668.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 131 
 
 1687. George Pollard of Fremington, Esqr., 29111 April, 1687. 
 He desires to be buried near his brother " Slow-ley " if he happens 
 to die in Fremington. If not, then near his brother, Robert 
 Pollard, at King's-Nympton. He mentions his brother " Sir 
 Ames Pollard Bart." and his sister Dorothy Slowley. His 
 cousin, Margaret Pollard. 
 
 Proved 8th March, 1687. 
 
 1688. Probate of the will of Sir Edward Seymour of Berry, 
 granted to Dame Anne his wife, 15111 Jany., 1688. 
 Epis. Regs. 
 
 1692. Michael Wrayford of Bovey Tracy, 9th May, 1692. 
 To sons John, Michael, and William, and to daughters Elizabeth, 
 Sarah, and Mary is. each. 
 
 Residue to wife Mary, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses George and Elizb. Wrayford. 
 
 Proved 2nd Aug., 1692. 
 
 Sum 57. 
 
 1693. Administration to the effects of Francis Pollard, 
 granted to her niece Margaret Hartnell, wife of John Hartnell, 
 Sir Ames Pollard, brother of deceased, having renounced. 
 
 1 7th April, 1693. 
 
 1698. The last Will of Margaret Prideaux* of Shobrooke, 
 co. Devon, widow, " being ancient." She leaves to the poor of 
 Sandford, South Molton, and Holdworthy 10 each parish ; 
 to the poor of Bradworthy IDs., and of Shobrooke 5. 50 to 
 Mary Trosse, daughter of her cousin Mary Trosse of Exeter ; 
 50 to Thomas Trosse, son of her cousin Thomas Trosse of 
 Upincott ; and 50 to his sister Margaret Trosse, desiring 
 Mr. James Newton their grandfather to be their guardian. 20 
 
 * Daughter of ... Lane and widow of ... Hunt. (See Pedigree of Prideaux 
 and Hrune, p. 34). Married Nicholas, eldest son of Nicholas Prideaux, of Soldon, 
 Co. Devon.
 
 1 32 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 to Simon Hall the elder of Shobrooke, and 10 to John Hall 
 his son. 20 to John Croome of Milton Damerel. Theadvovv- 
 son of Plymptree and 200 to her cousin Robert Mercer, son of 
 her cousin John Mercer of Ottery St. Mary, deceased. ^100 
 to William Mercer, son of her cousin William Mercer of Budley. 
 100 to John Mercer, son of her said cousin John Mercer. To 
 John Mercer, giandson of her said cousin John Mercer, all her 
 lands, &c., in Ipplepen, to him and his heirs. Also to Malachy 
 Mercer, brother to said John, and his heirs the messuage called 
 Ford in the Parish of Cheriton Fitz Payne. Also to Richard, 
 brother of the said John and Malachy, and his heirs, her house 
 in Ottery, a house in Shobrooke and ^100. Also to Jael 
 Mercer* their sister ^800 " if she be not married before my 
 decease." Her cousins Isaac Gibbsf of Exeter and Joseph 
 Olliver of Exwick to be guardians of the four children last 
 named. To her sister Agnes MercerJ her tenement in Sowton 
 called Walcombes for life, and after her death to Nicholas and 
 Henry Ashe, sons of her cousin Henry Ashe of Swoton, on 
 condition that they pay their sisters Elizabeth and Anne Ashe 
 100 each. Also to Margaret, Joseph, and John Oliver, 
 children of her said cousin Joseph Olliver, all her lands 
 in South Molton, North Molton, Chittlehampton, Bishops 
 Nympton, and Bow, on condition that they pay Benjamin, 
 Mary, and Elizabeth Oliver, their brother and sisters, 50 
 each. Also to Anne Gibbs, daughter of her said cousin Isaac 
 Gibbs, her house in Northgate Street in Exeter. Various 
 legacies to John Hawkins ; John Downe ; Joane Baker ; Mary 
 Ware ; Southcott Luttrell, Esqre., and Joane his wife ; John 
 Moore, Esq., and Elizabeth his wife . . Olliver of Cowley, 
 Esqre., and his wife ; to her cousin Joseph Olliver ; to her cousin 
 Isaac Gibbs and Elizabeth Gibbs his mother ; to her cousin 
 Mr. Henry Ashe of Sowton and his wife ; to William Mercer 
 and Budley his wife ; to Sarah Mercer|| of Ottery, widow of John 
 
 * Mentioned in the Will of Elizabeth Gandy, of Exeter, 1719. See next page. 
 
 t Isaac Gibbs married first Anne, daughter of John Mercer, of Ottery St. Mary, 
 by Sarah his wife. Admon. May, 1726, C. P.C., and Sep., 1778. Archd. Court, 
 Exeter. 
 
 J Agnes, wife of William Mercer, and mother of John abovenamed. 
 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Mauduit, of Exeter, wife of Abraham Gibbs, of 
 Exeter, whose will in C.P.C. Nov. 6, 1668. 
 
 || Sarali, daughter of Robert Huntington, of Stanton Harcourt, Co. Oxon., 
 married 1657 to John Mercer of Ottery S. Mary.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 133 
 
 Mercer, deceased ; to John Mercer of Ottery and his wife; to 
 Mary Trosse of Exeter, widow ; to Thomas Trosse of Upincott 
 and his wife ; to Symon Hall the elder of Shobrooke ; and to the 
 said John Croom and his wife. To John Gibbs,* son of her 
 said cousin Isaac Gibbs of Exeter all her lands in Shobrooke, 
 Cheriton, and Crediton (not before given) to him and his heirs 
 for ever, or, in default of such issue, to his sister Anne Gibbs, or, 
 in default, to the right heirs of her cousin Isaac Gibbs, and in 
 default of such heirs to John Mercer, grandson of her cousin 
 John Mercer, deceased, and to his heirs. 
 
 Residue of Realty and Personalty to the said John Gibbs. 
 Will dated March 9, 1697/8. 
 
 Admon with will annexed to Isaac Gibbs during the minority 
 of John Gibbs, Sole Exor., i8th Octr., 1698. 
 
 Probate to John Gibbs, August 7th, 1704. 
 
 Parties to administration bond, Isaac Gibbs of Exeter, Eliza- 
 beth Gibbs of the same, widow, and Elizabeth Gandy of the 
 same, widow. 
 
 1701. Admon. de Bonis non to the effects of Ann Borlace, 
 late of Trelodro, in the County of Cornwall, and of Arlington, 
 in the Co. of Devon. Unadministered by John Chichester, one 
 of the exors. Granted to Gyles Chichester, nephew of deceased, 
 1 9th Dec, 1701. 
 
 "The original will was proved in common form y e 7th Oct., 
 1685, in which bundle you will find y e original will. 
 
 NOTE. See Oct. i7th, 1638, ante. 
 
 1701. Renunciation of Richard and Daniell Tucker of Cruse 
 Morchard to the effects of Joan Payn of Caddely, who died 
 1st March, 1700. 
 
 "Their own sister's daughter and next of kin." 
 
 They desire that admon. be granted to Richard Smith of 
 Cheriton, the Sole Exor. under the said Joan Payne's nuncupa- 
 tive will. 
 
 From Archives Prin. Regy., Exeter Cathedral. 
 
 * John Gibbs, of Exeter. Will in Principal Registry, Exeter, Nov. i, 1742.
 
 134 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1704. Probate of the Will of William Arundell, late of 
 Filleigh, clerk, deceased. Granted to Honor his relict. 
 6th Sept., 1704. 
 
 Epis. Regs. 
 
 1704. Administration of the estate of the male child of John 
 Arundell and Margaret his wife, deceased before baptism. 
 Granted to John his said father 25th Jany., 1704-5. 
 
 Epis. Regs. 
 
 1706. Administration of the effects of Robert Gary of Sid- 
 bury, granted to Susanna his relict I4th Feby., 1706. 
 Sum 102 5-s. 4d. 
 Epis. Regs. 
 
 1706. William Hole of North Tawton, 2ist Oct., 1704 (Yeo- 
 man). To wife Joane ,80. To daughter-in-law Mary Moore 
 4. To Thomas Crispin's children, " that he had by his wife 
 Anne," 9. To kinsman Richard Hole of the parish of Bundley 
 "my interest in Loutton in said parish" and the sum of .10. 
 To kinsman Thomas Hole of Zeal Monachorum 2os. To 
 kinswoman Prudence, wife of James French of North Tawton, 
 4O.s. per annum. Mentions his kinsman Peter Ware of North 
 Tawton. Residue to brother Andrew, who is Sole Executor. 
 
 Proved 22nd May, 1706. 
 
 Inventory 653 8s. 4d. 
 
 Value of Chattle estates 450. 
 
 1708. Admon. of John Tucker of Morvvenstovv, granted 
 1 5th Dec., 1708, to Narcissus Hatherleigh, Gentm., of Bideford, 
 John Honny of Kilkhampton, Gentm., and Arthur Judd of 
 Bradworthy, Gentm. 
 
 Under 500. 
 
 From Archives Prin. Regy., Exeter Cath.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 135 
 
 1709. Appointment of Trustee for Gilbert Yard of his mother 
 Joan Yard, he being a minor of the age of 12 years, and heir 
 at law to the estate of his late grandmother Elizabeth Yard 
 late of Bradley, in the parish of Highweek, intestate. 
 
 Signed Gilbert Yarde. 
 
 Witnesses William Rayner and Francis Pocock. 
 
 Seal of Arms Arg. a saltire engrailed enn. (Rayner) 
 Impaling, arg. on a fess indented betw. 3 delves, each charged 
 with a lion ramp., 3 roundles (Rolle). 
 
 Date 1 6th Nov., 1709. 
 
 Registrar's Office, Exeter. 
 
 NOTE. Elizabeth Yaid, the grandmother, was widow of Gilbert 
 Yard of Bradley, and daughter of Henry Northleigh of Peamore. Joan 
 Yard, the mother, was widow of Gilbert Yard of Bradley, and dau. and 
 heir of Henry Blackaller of Sharpham. Gilbert Yanl, aged 12, 1709, 
 sold Bradley to Mr. Thomas Veale in 1751. He had two sons, Giles 
 and James. Giles Yard purchased Trowbridge in Crediton parish, 
 which is now the property of Mr. John Yard. See my " Devonshire 
 Parishes," Vol. II., p. 294. 
 
 i/io. Thomas Granger, Clerk and " Minister of God's word 
 at Lammerton," Nov. I4th, 1709. He desires to be buried in 
 the churchyard there near his "dear wife." To the poor there 
 2os. To son Thomas ^ico. To Lydia, wife of said Thomas, 
 and to each of his children, i. To daughter Elizabeth, wife 
 of Joseph Vill, and to each of their children, i. To sister 
 Priscilla Warren and to her daughter Sarah, i. 
 
 Residue to son Edmund, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Witnesses John Doidge, Thomas Burnaford, Joanna Doidge. 
 
 Proved 2nd Nov., 1710. 
 
 NOTE. Refer to g\h April, 1674 The mention of sister Priscilla 
 proves that deceased was son of Thumas Granger, Rector of St. Melynn. 
 
 1711. Administration to the effects of Thomas Pollard of 
 Abbots Bickington, granted 7th Nov., 1711, to Sarah his 
 relict.
 
 136 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1719. The last Will of John Osmond of Exeter, M.D. He 
 desires to be privately interred in the night in "the Chappel 
 where Bishop Oldam lies buried in St. Peter's Church, if the 
 Church of Exeter will permit." 100 to be expended on his 
 funeral. To his " wife" 100, and $O, " which was the bequest 
 of her sister Mrs. Dorothy Champneys," together with 10, 
 " the bequest of Mrs. Catherine Pollard." To sister Elizabeth 
 Pyle 20. To nephew and niece, John and Elizabeth Hare, 
 .50 each at 25. " To my dear wife" Rings, Jewels, Gold Box 
 and the " Broad pieces " " that belong to it," " her gold watch, 
 Pearl necklace, wearing apparel, and Books." Plate to be 
 equally divided between " my wife and my executrix." " To 
 
 my Anne Champneys living with me " 20. To " my 
 
 wife's brother, Mr. Arthur Champneys, and to his daughter, 10. 
 
 Residue to sister " Mrs. Rebeckah Osmond, who is Sole 
 Executrix." 
 
 Will dated 4th Jany., 1712. Proved 29th March, 1719. 
 
 Witnesses John Vinicombe. 
 Wm. Pitfield. 
 Christopher Hunt. 
 
 Seal A fess dancettee charged with 9 ermine spots. 
 
 Crest An Eagle displayed. 
 
 NOTE. Dr. Osmond was buried as he desired in St. Saviour's Chapel 
 in Exeter Cathedral. He died 3rd April, 1716, aet. 60. From his 
 epitaph we learn that his wife's name was " Honora." His library was 
 sold at his house in the Cathedral Close i6th July, 1716. The arms of 
 Osmond of Uplowman, Halberton, and Tiverton, four descents, are 
 registered in the V. of 1620. They are S. a fess dancettee, erm. in 
 ch., an Eagle displd., arg. 
 
 1719. John Pollard of Beaworthy in the County of Devon, 
 Clerk. He leaves his son Thomas los. Daughter Amy, wife 
 of John Shepperd, 5. Daughter Elizabeth, wife of Robert 
 ffiney, 5. Daughter Susanna, wife of Wm. Harris, ,5. 
 Daughter Priscilla, wife of John Herring, $. To son John 10. 
 
 Residue to daughter Jane Pollard, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Dated I2th Nov., 1719. Proved I3th Feby., 1719-20. 
 
 Sum ; i2s. 6d.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 137 
 
 1724. Andrew Hole of North Tawton. He leaves to his son 
 Andrew his interest in the Tenement known as Wood in Loose- 
 beare and parish of Zeal Monachorum, charged with the pay- 
 ment of 10 to son William. To son Richard, Tenements called 
 Lower Reave and Church Parks in the parish of Brushford, 
 charged with payment of .200 to daughter Susannah. To son 
 Peter Hole, 150. To son John Hole, 5. To daughter Eliza- 
 beth White, 2os. To Jane Newcomb, 5s. Mentions " Mr. Robert 
 Hole and Peter Ware." Testator reserves the Tenement called 
 Nymets Nicholl. Residue to son Richard, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Reversion of Brushford property to son Andrew. 
 
 Proved 2Qth Jany., 1724. 
 
 1726. William Burlace of Plymouth, Gentleman. Dated 
 3<Dth March, 1726. He discharges his nephew John Burlace of 
 " Pendiens," Esqr., of 700 due to him, but to pay the interest 
 thereof. To cousin Mary Pendarvis, formerly Mary Pearse, 
 .100 "due to me in her maiden name, and since confirmed by 
 her husband Henry Pendarvis." To Elizb. Condy of Plymouth, 
 20. Residue to John Gennys of Plymouth, merchant, and 
 his heirs for ever. He is Sole Exor. 
 
 Witnesses John Elliot, sen. and jun. ; John Wicote. 
 
 Proved loth Oct., 1726. 
 
 Seal Arms of Borlase. Erm. on a bend, two hands tearing 
 asunder a horse shoe. A crescent for difference (Borlase). 
 Crest, a wolf passant regardant. 
 
 1728. Admon. to the effects of Robert Borlase, late of 
 Newlyn, Co. of Cornwall, deceased. Granted 4th Aug., 1728, 
 to Teresa his sister. 
 
 1728. John Tucker of Totnes, Dyer, 24th Jany., 1726. To 
 his mother Susanna Tucker, one suit of mourning. To sister 
 Elizabeth the same. To daughter Susanna Tucker, his house 
 and ;ioo at 21. He gives all his property to said daughter 
 Susanna after the death of her mother, with reversion, failing
 
 , 3 g DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 heirs, to his said sister Elizabeth, provided his wife is not with 
 child when he dies, but should she have a son, said son to 
 inherit the lands and pay his sister Susanna 100 more. 
 
 Wife Elizabeth Sole Executrix. Residue undisposed of. 
 
 Witnesses Joseph Fox, Frederick Cross, Wm. Churchward. 
 
 Proved 6th Aug., 1728. . 
 
 1730. License granted to James Sheppard, Esqr., to remove 
 the "corps" of his deceased mother from Chudleigh Church, 
 and to re-inter it with his father Sir James Sheppard deceased, 
 one of His Majesty's Sergts. at Law, in the Church of Honyton, 
 April 2 ist, 1730. 
 
 Epis. Reg., Exon. 
 
 1733. The last Will of Tryphcena Gibbs of Topsham, "of 
 considerably advanced age." Leaves 65 to Edward Rowe* 
 of Exeter .and Lawrence Rowef of Shobrooke, Gentn., and all 
 her wrought plate, to be divided between her three grand- 
 childrent George Abraham, Anna, and John, the first and 
 second to have 30 apiece, and John 5. 
 
 Will dated Nov. 2Oth, 1727. Proved May I7th, 1733. 
 
 Executors her daughters Elizabeth Pett and Mary Peters. 
 
 Witnesses Elizabeth Row and John Conant. 
 
 1733. Bond of 10 from David Evans of the city of Exeter, 
 Locksmith, and Francis Bidwell of the same, Serge Weaver, to 
 Walter Husband of Whitestone, Co. Cornwall, Gentm. the 
 condition being that Richard Tucker and Susanna his wife, 
 alias Call, having received a legacy of .10 under the will of 
 Stephen Call, late of Stratton, from the said Walter Husband, 
 surviving Exor. to said will, the above bounden shall be respon- 
 sible for the debts of said Stephen Call. 
 
 Registrar's Office, Exeter. 
 
 * Her brother. f Son of her elder brother William Rowe. 
 
 George Abraham Gibbs [P. C. C., 1795] and Anna Gibbs, children of her son 
 Abraham [Dean and Ch. 1726] by his first wife Mary Monke ; and John his son by 
 his second wife Sarah Lyle. 
 
 Wife of Nicholas Peters of Topsham, Surgeon [Will Pr. Reg., 1747], married at 
 Clyst St. George, March 8th, 1719.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 139 
 
 1737. Thomas Hole of Beere in North Tawton, Yeoman. 
 9th April, 1737. To wife Elizabeth, 5. To daughter Eliza- 
 beth, 200. To daughter Catheiine, 200. To kinswoman 
 Elizb. Dennaford, 403. To son Thomas and his heirs male 
 and female, " the lands of my inheritance known as Becre & 
 my tenmt. called West Lee, in the parish of Coleridge." 
 
 Residue to said son Thomas, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Exors. in Trust, all children being under 21, father-in-law, 
 Roger Durant of Zeal Monachorum ; brother-in-law, George 
 Durant of North Tawton ; kinsman, Wm. Skinner of North 
 Tawton. 
 
 Testator is owner of " Lower Nichols-Nymet" Provision of 
 ,600 for a boy, 200 for a girl, should his wife be enciente 
 at his death. 
 
 Proved I5th July, 1737, by Roger and George Durant. 
 
 NOTE. The Skinners were of Ashridge in North Tawton. The 
 daughter and co-heir married Orchard ; their daughter, Cornisli, the 
 present owner of Ashridge. 
 
 1738. Edmund Granger of Crmvys Morchard, Clerk. 
 2Oth Aug., 1737. Desires to be buried in the churchyard there 
 near his wife. To the poor, 303. ; and to those of Brampford 
 Speke, 2Os. To daughters Elizabeth and Susannah Granger, 
 100 each. To sons Thomas and Edmund Granger, my Study 
 of Books, " they giving my two daughters such books of divinity 
 and morality as shall be thought most proper and consistent for 
 them." 
 
 Residue to said children, the two sons being joint Exors. 
 
 Witnesses Daniel Domett ; Peter Pridham ; William Hak- 
 worthy. 
 
 Pioved iQth April, 1738. 
 
 NOTE. Refer to Nov. and, 1710. Edmund Granger was instituted 
 to the Vicarage of Brampford Speke 24th Aug., 1708. His successor 
 there, Thomas Johnson, was admitted 3oih May, 1738. He was 
 buried at Cruse Morchard, as he desired, 2ist J.muary, 1737.
 
 , 4 o DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1742. The last Will of John Gibbs of Exeter, Esqre. 
 Desires to be buried by his father* in the Church of St. Mary 
 Arches, Exeter. Leaves his lands in Exeter to pay his 
 debts. Gives 20 each to his kinsman Henry Gandy,f and 
 Jael [Mercer] his wife ; and to his sons-in-law Stephen Weston, 
 Dr. Ballyman, and Samuel Pierce of Shobrooke, leaving to 
 these three last in trust, for his daughter Anne Ballyman 
 and her heirs, the manor of Cross in Cheriton Fitzpaine, 
 Poughill, and Morchard Cruwys, and all other manors, except 
 that of Shute and Satchfield in Cheriton Fitzpaine, and 
 certain lands in Shobrooke which were entailed by his aunt 
 Prideaux.l 
 
 Sealed with arms and crest as George Gibbs, 1691. 
 
 Executrix Anne Ballyman. 
 
 Witnesses. 
 
 Will dated Nov. 2nd, 1741. Proved Nov. 1st, 1742. 
 
 1744. Administration to the effects of Charles Granger of 
 W T oodbury. Granted to Martha his wife 5th Nov., 1744. 
 Under 
 
 1747. Richard Hole of North Tawton, Clerk, ist May, 
 1747. Being seized in fee of the perpetual advowson of 
 the Rectory of North Tawton, and intending that it shall 
 remain in his name and family, he bequeaths it to his 
 nephew Thomas Hole, son of brother Robert Hole, and his 
 heirs male ; failing such to Richard, son of said Robert Hole, 
 and his heirs. 
 
 Upon trust that one of said Testator's name and family shall 
 always be presented upon any avoidance, with preference to the 
 heir in possession if duly qualified to hold it. His " worthy 
 friend" Wm. Hole, Archdeacon of Barnstaple, to have the said 
 Rectory in commendam after his death under a bond of ,4,000, 
 
 * Isaac Gibbs. Admon. 1726. 
 
 t Son of Simon Gandy and Elizabeth his wife, sister of the said Isaac and daughter 
 of Abraham Gibbs, 1668. 
 
 Margaret, wile of ... Prideaux was the aunt of Anne Mercer, wife of Isaac 
 Gibbs.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 141 
 
 to resign it when any of Testator's name and family can take it. 
 Every incumbent to give a bond of .1,000 to reside upon the 
 said living. To said nephew Richard Hole the fee-simple of 
 Lark-worthy in North Tawton. Mentions niece Mary Hole, 
 daughter of said brother Robert. To nephew Richard, son of 
 brother Emmanuel Hole, $o. To kinsman Wm. Pidsley of 
 Colebrook, 50. To nephew Richard Hole of Colebrook, son 
 of brother Thomas, $o. Bequests to niece Lucy, wife of 
 George Hert of Highampton ; niece Rebecca, wife of Roger 
 Hert of Burrington ; and to Gertrude Hert and Mary Hert, 
 " my servant maids." To the first child of niece Martha 
 Hearding, ;ioo. 
 
 Exors. in trust, Revd. John Heath of Sampford Courtenay ; 
 William Pidsley ; Richard Hole of Colebrook ; and Richard 
 Hole of Exeter (nephew), for benefit of said nephew Thomas 
 Hole. 
 
 Proved 2/th June, 1747. 
 
 1748. The last Will of Ann Gregson* of Exeter. Leaves 
 her husband William Gregson* the manors of Shute and Satch- 
 field in Cheriton Fitzpayne, and lands in Shobrooke (which she 
 thinks were entailed by her aunt Prideaux's willf on Ann Maria 
 Heath for life) for his life ; remainder to Samuel Pierce of 
 Gendacott her brother-in-law, and to Stephen Weston, Esqre., 
 of Exeter, in trust for her daughter Elizabeth Pierce.J To the 
 same persons also she devises her manors of Cross, &c., and all 
 other her manors in Devonshire, and the rest of the estates 
 which came to her from her father. 
 
 Executor. 
 
 Will dated Feb. 3rd, 1747-8. Proved 1748. 
 
 Witnesses. 
 
 * Daughter of John Gibbs of Exeter, by Mary, daughter of Nicholas Hall; married, 
 firstly, Feb. nth, 1728, Adam Pierce (who died 1732); secondly, Ur. Ballyman ; 
 and thirdly, William Gregson, in 1746-7. 
 
 t Oct., 1698. Admon. August, 1702. Probate in the Principal Registry, Exeter. 
 
 % Married, 1752, to Thomas Taylor, Esq., of Denberry and Ogwell ; died 1777 ; 
 only child. 
 
 Principal Registry, Nov., 1742.
 
 142 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1762. "Administration de Bonis non " of the effects of 
 Edward Borlace, late of St. Michael's, Penkevil, and County of 
 Cornwall, deceased. Unadministered by Mary Bolitho, daughter 
 of the said deceased. Granted 6th March, 1762, to Simon 
 Bolitho, late husband of the said Mary. 
 
 1764. " Admon. de Bonis non" of goods unadministered by 
 Mary Wreford, deceased, and once the estate of Samuel Wreford 
 of Landkey, in the County of Cornwall. Granted 3rd May, 
 1764, to William Wreford of Clanaborough, yeoman. Win. 
 Wreford, jun., of the same parish and County of Devon joins 
 the bond. 
 
 The affidavit states that the said William Wreford the elder 
 is the Executor named in the Will of said Mary, who adminis- 
 tered to the estate of her deceased husband ; Saml. Wreford of 
 Landkey, is believed to have died intestate. 
 
 1765. Roger Granger of Woodbury, yeoman, 6th June, 1765. 
 To brothers Thomas and Richard, is. each. Residue to wife 
 Ann, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses John Stokes ; Mary Penguin. 
 
 Proved iQth July, 1765. 
 
 1767. " Admon. de Bonis non " of the goods unadministered 
 by Cecily, the relict of John Saunder, late of Chittlehampton. 
 Granted 28th June, 1767, to George Saunder the nephew. 
 
 NOTE. See Barnstaple, ante. 7th May, 1731. 
 
 1770. Administration to the effects of John Pollard of 
 Mariansleigh. Granted to William Bowdon, of Bishops- 
 Nympton, 23rd November, 1770, Margaret the widow having 
 renounced. 
 
 NOTE. William Bowdon, was the son-in-law of deceased.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 143 
 
 1779. Administration to the effects of John Pollard of 
 
 Gwennap, in the county of Cornwall. Granted pth July, 
 1779, to Martha Pollard, his widow. 
 
 1772. Thomas Hole of North Tawton, Clerk, 26th May, 
 1770. 
 
 To his mother Martha Hole, of Zeal Monachorum, widow, 
 21. 
 
 He leaves the Advowson of North Tawton to his brother, 
 the Rev. Richard Hole and his heirs. Residue to said brother 
 Richard, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 1772. 
 
 Armorial Seal An Annulet between 3 fusils. 
 
 NOTE. " Az. an annulet arg. between 3 lozenges or." Hole of 
 Ebberly in Great Torrington. 
 
 1772. Administration to the Effects of Henry Woodley 
 late of Ashburton, deceased intestate. Granted 27th Feby., 
 1772, to Catherine, wife of Richard Harris, of Ashburton, 
 his sister, and only next of kin. 
 
 1777. Edmund Granger of Sowton, Clerk, 1st April, 1772. 
 To the poor there, 405. ; and to the poor of Clist Honiton, 403. 
 
 Residue to his wife Ann Granger, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 He desires his brother Thomas Granger, his friend Thomas 
 Binford, and his brother-in-law Thomas Prowse to "advice his 
 wife," he wishes her to dispose of his property amongst " the 
 children." 
 
 Witnesses Wm. Wedcott (Westcott ?) ; Jos. Free. 
 
 Proved 26th Sept., 1791. 
 
 Seal of Arms. A fess between two acorns. 
 
 Crest. A hand holding a Portcullis. 
 
 NOTE. Refer to igth April, 1738. This Edmund Granger had a 
 " portion " of Bampton Vicarage, Diocese Oxon., which he exchanged 
 with Elias Taunton for the Rectory of Sowton, near Exeter, i6th Feb., 
 1750-1. Mr. Granger died 25th Aug., 1777, set. 64. His wife Ann 
 was buried with him at Sowton, Qth Sept., 1812, set. 82.
 
 144 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1789. The last Will of John Wreford of Nyniet Rowland, 
 yeoman, 7th Aug., 1787. To wife Judith, 21, and best bed. 
 To son William, the Clevehanger estate, subject to wife's 
 jointure, and charged with an annuity of .25 towards the 
 maintenance of daughters Mary, Anne, Catherine, and Judith 
 during their minority. They are to have jioo each at 21. 
 
 Clatworthy, in the parish of Coleridge, to Richard Vickery 
 and Thomas Melhuish Comins in trust, together with Browns- 
 land in Colebrook, for the benefit of sons John, Samuel, and 
 Richard Wreford in equal division at. 21. 
 
 Residue to said Wm. Wreford, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Witnesses Ann Comins ; Grace Pedler ; Betty Partridge. 
 
 Proved 2Qth May, 1789. 
 
 1794. Thomas Osmond of Silverton, Gentleman. Dated 
 1 2th Aug., 1786. He gives certain leasehold closes of land in 
 the parish of Willand to trustees, viz , Charles Leigh, Gentle- 
 man, of Uffculme, and John Wyett of the same, for the following 
 uses : To pay an annuity of 10 to sister Joan Tanner, and 
 to give the rents of a portion of the said property to nephew 
 John, with remainder to his son Thomas Osmond Tanner and 
 his heirs ; failing such to revert to John, second son of said 
 John Tanner and his heirs. To William, son of Thomas 
 Quicke, and Joan his wife, " my late niece," both deceased, he 
 gives the reversion, failing issue of the Tanners of freehold 
 property in Halberton in fee simple ; and he further leaves 
 the sum of .400 in trust for John, James, Henry, and 
 George Quick, the other children of the said Thomas and 
 Joan Quick. Residue to said nephew John Tanner, who is 
 Sole Executor. 
 
 Witnesses John and Ann Head ; John Pudnor, sen. 
 
 Five sheets of paper. 
 
 Proved nth March, 1794. 
 
 1794. The last Will of John Seaward of the Close, Exeter, 
 3Oth March, 1791. Legacies to daughters Martha Jones, and 
 Jane King. He mentions his wife Anne. He refers to his
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 145 
 
 property at Woodbury and St. George's Clist, and to his house 
 in St. Peter's Churchyard, Exeter, now in possession of 
 Mr. Jackson, Postmaster. 
 
 Proved 2Oth Feb., 1794. 
 
 Registrar's Office, Exeter. 
 
 NOTE. Testator was doubtless of the family of John Seaward of 
 Clist St. George, whose son, Edward Seaward, a merchant, of Bradninch 
 precinct, Exeter, was mayor of Exeter, 1691, and received the honour 
 of knighthood from William of Orange. He was first Governor of 
 Exeter Hospital. Sir Edward died ist of May, 1703, and had children 
 Nicholas, Edward, John, and Hannah, who all pre-deceased him, 
 Hannah was christened at St. Mary Majors, Exeter, May igth, 1682. 
 Her mother was Hannah, daughter of Nicholas Brooking. Sir 
 Edward's picture is in the chapel of Exeter Workhouse, and he has a 
 fine monument in St. Paul's Church, Exeter. Elizabeth Seaward, of 
 the Clist St. George family, married Peter Chears of Exeter ; their 
 great-grandson, Captain H. Bennett, sometime Governor of the Island 
 of Ascension, was the husband of Mary, daughter of Jonathan Worthy, 
 Esq., of Exeter, and their only surviving son, Major-General Henry 
 Worthy Bennett, married, secondly, in 1878, his first cousin, Lucretia, 
 daughter of the late Rev. C. Worthy, Vicar of Ashburton, by whom he 
 has issue. 
 
 1 1
 
 146 DEVONSHIRE IV ILLS. 
 
 PREROGATIVE COURT OF 
 CANTERBURY. 
 
 1571. The last Will of Roger Mathevve of Clyst St. George, 
 co. Devon. 
 
 He leaves to Margaret Gybbe, daughter of John Gybbe.* 
 " a read heaffer." To the said John Gybbe, his best colte, "his 
 herriot being chosen." To Julian, daughter of the said John 
 Gybbe, one ewe shepe and one lambe. To the poor of Clyst 
 St. George, io/-; to the poor of Stooklonde, 2O/- ; and to 
 the poor of Upotery, 2O/-. To Nicholas, son of Edmund 
 Hutchyn, deceased, 5 ; and to two other sons of the said 
 Edmund, each a shepe. To William, son of Richard Hutchin, 
 10. To William Code his son-in-lawe, 20. To his sister 
 Johane Lake, one sparked heifer. To every of the children 
 of Willyam Clode " which he hath by my sister, one shepe." 
 To the children of his brothers Willyam and John Mathewe, 
 each a sheep. To the children of his brother-in-law Thomas 
 Buller the debt which the said Thomas oweth him. John 
 Hutchyn of Upoterief to have and enjoy "all that my terme 
 of yeares, and interest in the land, meadow and pasture, with 
 the appurtenances, called Huggleshayes in the parish of 
 Upoterie, with common of pasture for threescore shepe thereto 
 belonging." To each of the children of Robert Podyn, a 
 shepe ; and a shepe to each of the children of John Lake. 
 To each of the children of Robert Hutchyn, Robert, Roger, 
 Humphrey, Mary, Briget, and Grace, 2O/-. To the children 
 of his brother-in-law Thomas Buller, " the debt that he oweth 
 me, to be divided between them." To William Mathevv, 
 
 * Son of George Gybbe of Clyst St. George. Will in Dean and Chapter's 
 Court, Exeter, December, 1593. 
 
 * Up Ottery.- (Query- the same as Mohun's Ottery ?)
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 147 
 
 the son of Robert Mathew, deceased, 4O/-. To Elenor and 
 Joyce, daughters of the said Robert, 10 apiece. To each 
 of his godchildren, 2/-. To Mary Mabell, daughter of 
 Hamond Mabell, 5/-. "To my servant Robert Knyght one 
 stere, the price forty shillings and six shillings and eight 
 pence." To each of his servants Thomas Edward, Tris- 
 tram Haccombe, Christopher Wall, John Bobbyn, and John 
 Scott, 5/-. 
 
 Willyam Gybbe, clerk,* Thomas Haydon the younger, and 
 Edmund Were, to be Overseers of his will. 
 
 Witnesses Willyam Gybbe, clerke, Thomas Haydon the 
 younger, gentm., John Gybbe, Thomas Suchespyche, Willyam 
 Eton and others. 
 
 Will dated April 2Oth, 1571. Proved May nth, 1571, by 
 Christian Mathewe his residuary legatee and Executrix. 
 
 1577. The last Will of Christian Mathewe of Clyst St. 
 George, Co. Devon, W T ulowe. 
 
 She desires to be buried at Clyst St. George, by her " last 
 husband "Roger Mathewe." 
 
 She leaves to her " son in lawe John Gibbet to the use of 
 hs children, twentie pounds." To " my son George Code 
 sixty pounds, on condition that not by any meanes or pro- 
 ceesement he trouble my Executor." Also " sixe silver spoones 
 signed with the Apostles." Also "a white cuppe covered with 
 silver and not gilted." To "Jone his wieff my best russett 
 cassock." "To Cicellie Gibbe my daughter my best silke hatt, 
 my best cassocke, my best two kerchiefs, my best two necker- 
 chiefes with three crosse cloathes." " To Margaret Gibbe my 
 daughter's daughter one cowe." " To John Gibbe's sonne 
 William Gibbe a yew and a lambe, and to Julian Gibbe a 
 yewe lambe." 
 
 To the poor of the Parish of " Upawtry/'J 2O/-. To the 
 poor of Clyst St. George, io/-, and one dozen wooddis. 
 
 * Rector of Clyst St. George (and before ihnt of Clyst St. Mary), died 1571. 
 Will in the Consistory Court, Exeter, 1571, June 8th. 
 
 t Son of George Gibbe of Clyt St. George. Will in the Archdeacon's Court 
 of Kxeter, aoth Dec., 1593. 
 
 % Up-Ottery, near Honiton.
 
 148 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 To Margaret Hutchin, a black kirtell with chamlett bodies. 
 To James Hole, her brother-in-law, 6 135. 40*. ; and " lo his 
 wieff my cassock made of my govvnes." To Elizabeth Mais 
 of Clyst Hidon, a yew shepe. To Alice Lake of Loupitte, 
 twentie shillings. To Elizabeth Hunt of Clyst St. George, 
 " my redd kirtell with chamlett bodies." To Morice Payn, $/-. 
 To her god -children, I2d. each. To her servant Johaii Scott, 
 10, and " my best petticote with taffeto bodies, and my best 
 felt hatt saving one." To Jone Plimpton " a petticote with 
 chamlett bodies." She makes her sonne, William Code, her 
 Executor and Residuary Legatee. 
 
 In a Codicil dated March 4th, 1576-7, she leaves to the two 
 daughters of John Gibbe, Margaret and Julian, " two latten 
 pottes standing on the cubborde," and to Margaret one platter 
 and a black cassock. To Margaret Hutchin, a peck of rye 
 and a cheese. To Robert Buckland, person, io/-. To her 
 manservants, 2/- each. To Johan Edwards, a bushel of malt. 
 " To my mayde Alice Seward," 2O/-. " To each of my 
 boyes," I2d. To Dennes Peers, a peck of rye and a bushell 
 of malte. To John Chapman, a peck of rye and a bushell 
 of malte. To Jane Pln'llip of Apsham,* a peck of rye and 
 i6d. To Johane Scotte, " io/- more besides that given her on 
 my will." To Grace, daughter of George Code, 2O/- ; to Johan, 
 " wieff of George Code my best side sadell." To Agnes Besse, 
 three poundes of lambe tovve. To Thomas Suckespiche, half 
 that is due to me. 
 
 Will dated Jan. i8th, 1576-7. Proved, with Codicil, April 4th, 
 
 1577- 
 
 Overseers, William Code and Nicholas Elliott. 
 
 Witnesses Robert Buckland, clerk, parson there, John 
 GH)be, Edmund Weare, and Nicholas Elliott, with W'illiam 
 Eton, writer hereof. 
 
 1580. Adnion. of the goods of William Gibbes of Fcnton, 
 in the Parish of Dartington, in the County of Devon, 
 Esquire. Granted in November, 1580, to John Ayer of 
 
 * Instituted 1571.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 149 
 
 Penegett, Co. Cornwall, during the minority of William 
 Wotton, son of Silvester Gibbes, alias Wootton, daughter of 
 deceased. 
 
 NOTE. William Gibbes was the last of a long line of that name 
 possessors of Fenton (<>r Venton), which passed at his death to the 
 Wottons, the eldest of his two daughters and co-heirs, Silvestra, having 
 married Walter Wotton, and the youngest, Elizabeth, Edward Wotton, 
 his elder brother, after whose death sans issue she married Edmund 
 Drewe of Hayne. See Funeral Certificate at the College of Arms, 
 showing his banner, Gibbes (see under George of Clyst St. George, 
 1691) impaling Berkeley. 
 
 1668. The last Will of Abraham Gibbs* of the City of 
 Exeter, and of St. George's, near Exeter. 
 
 After clivers charitable bequests, he divides his property into 
 three parts : one to his wife Elizabethf absolutely ; one to her 
 for life, and afterwards to his children ; and one to his children 
 in equal shares. 
 
 Executrix, Elizabeth his wife. 
 
 Overseers, Isaac MaudittJ and Jasper Mauditt, merchants, 
 his brothers-in-law, and George Gibbs and Robert Gibbs, his 
 brothers. 
 
 Witnesses Samuel Izacke, Phill. fforce. 
 
 Will dated I2th Sept., 1668. Proved, 6th Nov., 1668, by 
 Elizabeth Gibbs, Executrix. 
 
 1668. The last Will of Abraham Gibbs of the City of 
 Exeter and of St. George's, near Exeter. 
 
 After divers charitable bequests, he leaves to his wife Elizabeth 
 (his Executrix) one third of his property, absolutely ; and one 
 third for her life with remainder to his children equally ; and 
 the other third to his said children, in equal shares. 
 
 Overseers His brothers-in-law, Isaac Mauditt and Jasper 
 
 * Fourth son of John Gihbe the elder, of Clyst St. George, son of George Gihb 
 (Court of Archd., Exon., 29th Aug., 1606). Abraham Gilibs was Steward of 
 Exeter in 1660. 
 
 t Daughter of Isaac Mauduit of Exeter, J.P. & D.L. 
 
 I Steward of Exeter, 1669 ; Mayor, 1681. 
 
 Eldest and third sons of the said John Gibbe. (Principal Registry, 1st Aug., 
 1683. Court of Vicars Choral, 2;th Feb., 1701-2.)
 
 150 DEVONSHIRE IV ILLS. 
 
 Mauditt, merchants, and George Gibbs and Robert Gibbs, 
 yeomen, his brothers. 
 
 Witnesses Samuell Izacke, Phill. fforce. 
 
 Will dated Sept. I2th, 1668. Proved, Nov. 6th, 1668. 
 
 Seal His merchants mark : the escutcheon, surmounted by 
 an esquire's helmet. 
 
 1677-8. The last Will of John Gibbs* of Exeter, Grocer. 
 He bequeaths 405. to the Rev. Mr. Gillard, a minister of God's 
 word, and rings of 2os. each to Mrs. Prudence Rolston of 
 Exeter, and Mr. John Dyer of Shovvbrook. He forgives 
 Michael Eastridge $ of the .10 owing by him, and leaves all 
 the residue of his property to his brother-in-law Benjamin 
 Brinley of Exeter, and his sister Elizabeth,t wife of the said 
 Benjamin, whom he makes his Executors. 
 
 Will dated 24th Jan., 1677-8. Proved by Benjamin and 
 Elizabeth Brinley. [13 Reeve.] 
 
 Witnesses Joshua Saunders ; Andrew Godfrey ; Lewis 
 Bare. 
 
 1678. The last Will of John Gibbs of Exeter, Grocer. 
 Leaves 405. to Mr. Gillard, minister of God's word ; a ring of 
 2os. each to Mrs. Prudence Rolston of Exeter, and Mr. John 
 Dyer of Showbrook. Forgives Michael Eastridge "Five 
 pound of a debt of 10 which he oweth me;" gives his 
 Thomasine Voysey 403. ; and the residue of his property to his 
 brother-in-law Benjamin Brinley, and his sister Elizabeth, wife 
 of the said Benjamin. 
 
 Exors. Benjamin and Elizabeth Brinley. 
 
 Witnesses Joshua Saunders, Andrew Godfrey, Lewes Bare. 
 
 Will dated Jan. 24th, 1677-8. Proved Feb. 25th following. 
 
 Seal. A merchant's mark much like that of his uncle 
 Abraham Gibbs, 1668. 
 
 * Third son of George Gibbe of Clyst St. George. (Principal Registry of ihe 
 Bishop of Exeter, 3rd Aug., 1683). 
 t Third daughter of the same.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 151 
 
 1678-9. Susanna Bartlett of the City of Exeter, widow, 
 1 7th December, 1678. To my daughter Susanna those two 
 houses where Mrs. Hide and Mrs. Carey now live in the parish 
 of St. Petrox, within the city of Exeter, and also the household 
 goods in the house where I now live, save one suit of damask, 
 &c., and my moneys. To Mr. John Bartlett, minister of God's 
 woid in Exeter, and to Mr. Thomas Ware, also a minister in 
 the same, $ each. I give 20 towards the education of my 
 sister Brownsford's children. Residue to my son Tristram 
 Bartlett, and he Exor. 
 
 I make Mr. John Starr and Mr. John Home, both of Exeter, 
 overseers until the expiration of my son's apprenticeship, two 
 years hence. 
 
 Witnesses Yachaire Foswell, James Brownsford. 
 
 Proved, February, 1678-9, by Tristram Bartlett, son, and Exor. 
 
 1693. The last Will of Jacob Gibbs* of the city of London, 
 Citizen and Salter. He leaves all that he has to his brother, 
 the Rev. John Gibbs* of Oxford. 
 
 Will dated in St. Clement's, Eastcheap, May 23rd, 1693 ; 
 proved the same d.iy. 
 
 Witnesses Joane Harrison, Sarah Hayes, Stephen Holland. 
 
 Sealed with the arms of Holland. 
 
 1698 9. Nuncupative Will of John Gibbs,f LL.D., Rector 
 of Welwyn, co. Herts., made "on or about 7th Jan., 1698, 
 English style," shortly before his death in January, 1698-9. 
 
 He leaves his property to his sister Elizabeth Gandy,J she 
 being a widow and having two children alive. He says that 
 his mother, Elizabeth Gibbs, was old, and well provided for, 
 and that his brother Isaac || lacked nothing. 
 
 Probate granted to Elizabeth Gandy, 3 1st March, 1699. 
 
 Deponed by three witnesses (same date), William Battell, 
 John Twydell, and Elizabeth Twydell. 
 
 * Sons of Abraham Gibbs of Fxeter, 1668. 
 
 t Second son of Abraham Gibbs of Exeter (P.C.C., 12th Sept., 1668), was of 
 Exeier College, Oxfoid, and Fellow of All Souls. 
 
 * Widow of Simon Gandy (who died 1689). See her Will, P.C C., 1st Sept., 1719. 
 Daughter of Isaac Mauduit of Exeter. 
 
 j| Eldest son of Abraham Gibbs (C.P.C., 5th May, 172*)).
 
 152 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1719. The last Will of Elizabeth Gaudy* of Exeter. 
 
 Mentions her grandson Samuel, son of Abraham Gandy, 
 deceased, to whom she leaves 100 at 21. To her daughter- 
 in-law, Grace Gandy,f 10 for mourn'.. g. To her daughter- 
 in-law, Elizabeth Gandy, the same. To her brother, Isaac 
 Gibbs, for his own and her sister's mourning, 10. To her 
 friends, Mrs. Grace Sampson, widow, and Mrs. Jael Mercer,:}: 
 a Jacobus apiece. 
 
 Residue to her son Henry Gandy.J 
 
 Will dated Sept. 3Oth, 1717. Proved Sept. 1st, 1719, by 
 the Executor, Henry Gandy. 
 
 Witnesses George Phillips, Silva. Evans. 
 
 1726. Administration of the Goods of Isaac Gibbs, late 
 of Exeter, was granted to John Gibbs, Esq.,|| of the same, 
 son of the deceased ; Sarah Gibbs,^[ relict of the said Isaac, 
 renouncing. 
 
 Date of Grant, May 5th, 1726. 
 
 1732-3. The last Will of Adam Pierce of Yendacott,** Co. 
 Devon, Esquire. 
 
 He leaves his coach and four horses, his jewels, wardrobe, 
 etc., to his wife Ann. ft To her, also, and to her father John 
 Gibbs, Esquire, JJ and to his brother Samuel Pierce (whom he 
 makes his Executors) he leaves all his freeholds, in trust, to 
 pay his debts, and then to his sons, if any, in tail male ; 
 
 * Daughter of Abraham Gilibs. P.C.C., November, 1668, and widow of 
 Simon Gandy of Ide, Co. Devon. 
 
 f Wife of Heniy Sanely, daughter of Sampson. Married, 1705. 
 
 | Henry Gaudy married Jael, daughter of John Mercer, as his second wife, in 
 1719. 
 
 Steward of Exeter, 1685 ; Sheriff, 1692 ; Receiver, 1693. He was son of 
 Abraham Gibbs (P.C.C., 1668), who was Steward of Exeter, 1660. 
 
 || Will in Principal Registry of the Bishop of Exeter, 1742. 
 
 *|f Sarah, sister of Roger and Phineas Chetke, and widow of ... Clutterbrook. 
 Will in C.P.C., 1743-4. 
 
 '* On the Original is endorsed " Nuper de Yarrenton in parochia de Shobrooke." 
 
 ff Daughter of John Gibbs by Mary his wife, daughter of Nicholas Hall, Esq. She 
 mairied, secondly, Dr. Ballyman ; and thirdly, William Gregson ; and died, 1748 
 (leaving one daughter, afterwards married to Thomas Taylor, Esq.) Will in 
 Principal Registry, Exeter. 
 
 JJ John, son of Isaac Gibbs. Will in Principal Registry, Exeter, Nov. ist, 1742.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 153 
 
 remainder to his daughters as tenants in common ; remainder 
 to his brother Samuel Pierce for life, with remainder to his 
 son in tail male ; remainder to his brother Thomas Pierce for 
 life, and then to his sons in tail male ; remainder to his 
 brother John Pierce for life, and then to his sons in tail 
 male ; remainder to his own right heirs for ever. 
 
 As to the leaseholds, the same trust, except that failing his 
 own issue male, the remainder of one quarter of the manor and 
 lands at Thorowton to his brother Samuel, absolutely, and the 
 rest of the leaseholds to his own daughters. 
 
 The plate to remain as heirlooms in the Pierce family. 
 
 Personalty to remain as a fund for the education of his 
 children. 
 
 Confirms his Marriage Settlement (February, 1728). 
 
 Will dated Dec. 4th, 1732. Proved 27th Feb., 1732-3, by 
 the three Exors. 
 
 Witnesses Francis Ely ton, Eliz. Dennis, Nicholas Thomas, 
 jun. 
 
 Seal. 1st and 4th, Pierce.* 2nd and 3rd,t a lion rampant 
 impaling, argent, 3 battleaxes sable for Gibbs. 
 
 1744. The last Will of Sarah GibbsJ of Exeter, widow. She 
 desires to be buried by her husband in the Church of St. Mary 
 Arches. Mentions her brothers Roger and Phineas Cheeke, 
 and makes the latter her Executor; also her sister Susanna 
 Poole and her children, John Poole, Sarah Bellew, and Susanna 
 and Jane Poole. To Anne, daughter of John Pyne, Esquire, of 
 Dartmouth, she leaves a legacy (revoked by a Codicil, Dec. I2th, 
 1728), and one to Malachy Pyne his son ; also one to John 
 Pyne himself; also to her cousin Jane Mayor, wife of John Gill. 
 She leaves money also to the poor of St. Sidwells, and 5 to 
 the poor of St. Mary Arches ; but she revokes this last by a 
 Codicil, Oct. 22nd, 1743, having altered her mind as to being 
 buried in that church. Legacies also to the Rev. John Wither, 
 
 * Apparently 3 cross-crosslets on a bend, or bend wise, Or, the field Argent ', but 
 the seal is very small, and I had no magnifying glass. 
 
 t Qtury Cossins ? E. C. was mother of Adam Pierce. 
 
 j Second wife of Isaac Gib'is of Exeter (P.C.C., May, 1726. Archd. Court, 
 Exeter, Sept., 1748), having been before the wife of ... Clutterbrooke.
 
 154 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 and to John Lavington of Exeter ; and to Mrs. Enty and 
 Mrs. Green ; to John Gibbs, Esquire,* and to his wife Maryf 
 and their two daughters Mary! and Anne ; also to Henry 
 Gandy, Gentleman, and his wife. 
 
 Will dated Sept 3Oth, 1726. Proved, with two codicils, by 
 Phineas Cheeke, Jan. i/th, 1743-4. 
 
 Witnesses Nosse Clapp ; Roger Clapp. 
 
 1778. The last Will of John Gibbs|| of Topsham, mariner, 
 Bequeaths all his goods, especially his half share in the Brigan- 
 tine " Ceres," to his wife Elizabeth,^ whom he makes his 
 Executrix. George Abraham Gibbs** of the Cathedral Close 
 of St. Peter, Exeter, and Anthony Gibbsff of St. Mary the 
 More, testify to the handwriting and signature of the deceased, 
 on the 2Qth of October, 1778. 
 
 Will dated June 22nd, 1773. Proved Nov. 3rd, 1778. 
 
 1779. The last Will of Elizabeth Gibbs of Topsham, wido\v.|J 
 She mentions, amongst her other property, the Brigantine 
 "Ceres" and a copyhold close of land in the manor of Royke 
 Regis and Elwell, which by the custom of the manor should 
 go to John Gibbs, her eldest son. She mentions her brother- 
 in-law George Abraham Gibbs, and enumerates her children, 
 William || || (whom, with John, she makes Trustee for distributing 
 her property), Abraham,^ George,*** Lyle,ttt Thomas,!*! 
 and Elizabeth. 
 
 * Son of Isaac Gibhs, by his first wife, Anne, daughter of John Mercer. Will in 
 Principal Registry, Nov. 1st, 1742. 
 
 t Daughter of Nicholas Hall, Esq., of Exeter, and Elizabeth his wife. 
 
 J Wife of Stephen Weston, son of the Bishop of Exeter ; died July 4th, 1749. 
 
 Wife of Adam Pierce. P.C C.. Feb., 1732-3. 
 
 || Son of Abraham Gibbs of Topsh.im, by Sarah [LyleJ, his second wife. 
 
 IT Daughter and heir of William Meachin. P.C.C., 1779. 
 
 ** Son of Abraham Gibbs of Topsham, by Mary [Monk], his first wife. P.C.C., 
 
 1795- 
 
 ft Son of George Abraham Gibbs by Anne [Vicary], his wife. P.C.C., 1815. 
 jt Of John Gibbs of Topsham. (P.C.C., 3rd Nov., 1778.) 
 C.P.C., Jan. 3ist, 1795. 
 Illl Died 1830. 
 
 ^[ He died July, 1816. His only child was grandmother to the present EnrI 
 of Pembroke. 
 
 *** Died 1793. ftt Died in Genoa, 1839. JJJ C.P.C., 7th Nov., 1796. 
 Wife of James Richards.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 155 
 
 Will dated 29th Oct., 1778. Proved 28th July, 1779, by her 
 Executors, George Abraham Gibbs and William Gibbs, power 
 being reserved to John Gibbs. 
 
 1795. The last Will of George Abraham Gibbs of Exeter, 
 Surgeon. Leaves all his lands in Clyst St. George and Clyst 
 St. Mary, " with any other lands that I am at present or may 
 hereafter be possessed of or entitled to," to his most dearly 
 beloved and excellent wife Anne Gibbs, whom he makes his 
 Sole Executrix and Sole Trustee for his children, leaving her 
 also all monies and other personal property. In a codicil of 
 the same -date as the will he begs his brother* John Gibbs, 
 and his friends, William Pitfield, Edward Addicot, and 
 John Mallett, to assist his wifef in her arrangement of his 
 affairs after his death, leaving to each a set of books worth 
 five guineas. 
 
 In a codicil dated April 26th, 1775, he leaves Pitfield and 
 Addicot 10 guineas each, and to Pitfield his dearest and best 
 friend whatever set of books he likes. He appoints no Trustees 
 because he is sure that his brother and said three friends will do 
 all that is necessary. 
 
 Will dated August 2nd, 1764. Proved Jan. 3ist, 1795. 
 
 Witnesses John Stephens, John Stephens, jun., Frances 
 Stephens. 
 
 The Will is all in his own hand, whereof John Stoodly and 
 William Cutcliff make oath on the 22nd Jan., 1795. 
 
 Seal Argent, 3 battleaxes, sable [Gibbes of Fenton], with the 
 arms of Vicary of Dunkeswell ; sa. on a chief, arg., two cinque- 
 foils, gu., on an escutcheon of foretence. 
 
 1796. The last Will of Thomas Gibbs,t Second Lieutenant 
 of H.M.S. " Minotaur." Leaves his nephews William || and 
 
 * Half brother ; son of Abraham Gibbs of Topsham, by Sarah, liis second wife. 
 
 t Daughter and heir of Anthony Vicary of Kxeter. 
 
 t Sixth son of John Gibbs of Topsham and Elizabeth [Meachin] his wife. P.C.C., 
 June, 1778. 
 
 Flagship of Admiral McBride. 
 
 II William Henry Gibbs of Naples and Genoa, merchant, died, unmarried, at 
 Clyst St. George. Principal Registry, London, 1859.
 
 I $6 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 John* Gibbs, sons of his brother William Gibbsf of Topsham, 
 all his share of prize money due for the " Victorieuse " and 
 "Walshingham Packet," and all the proceeds of his kit, which 
 he begs his friend Dr. Remmettf to receive and distribute. 
 
 Will dated June 2Oth, 1796. 
 
 No Executor named in the Will. 
 
 Admon. with Will annexed, granted Nov. 7th, 1796, to 
 W T illiam Gibbs, his brother and next of kin. 
 
 * John Ley Gibbs of Genoa and Manchester. Buried at Blackley, 1837. 
 t Second son of the said John Gibbs of Topsham. 
 
 t Of Plymouth ; M.U. ; husband of Elizabeth, eldest daughter of George 
 Abiaham Gil>bs. P C.C., 1795.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 157 
 
 DEAN AND CHAPTER. 
 
 1547. The last Will of Rafife Carsleghe of Buckland-in-the- 
 Moor, dated 22nd June, 1st Edward VI. He leaves his body 
 to holy burial within the churchyard of St. Peter's Church, 
 of Buckland-in-the-Mcor. He bequeaths to the " Hed Store " 
 and to the Store of our Lady within the said church I yeo 
 sheep to each. To Wm. Brooking, Curate, to pray, &c., xiid. 
 To mother, a steer of 3 years old. To brother's son, Thomas 
 Carsleghe, " my shavyng knives." Residue to wife Wilmot, 
 who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses Wm. Brooking, Wm. and Thomas Carsleghe. 
 
 Proved 6th Dec., 1547. 
 
 Collated Will, Old Book, Peculiar Court, D. and C, Exon. 
 
 NOTE. This Will proves that Buckland Church (united to Ash- 
 buiton) was dedicated to St. Peter, and not to St. Mary, as hitherto 
 supposed. (See my " Ashburton and its Neighbourhood," p. 54.) 
 
 " Bekyngton p. Aysheberton." 
 
 1547. The last Will of John Ferris, dated lOth Oct., 1545. 
 He desires to be buried in the churchyard of Seynte Nicholas 
 of Bekenton, and bequeaths to the said Saint, " To our blessed 
 Lady," and to St. Michael, all within the said Church, 4d. each. 
 To Sir Thomas Smardon, 4d. To Robert Kcrtais, a sheppe. 
 To Roffe Shaptor, a bollocke. Residue to John Shaptor, who 
 is Sole Executor " He to fynde my wyffe or cause her to be 
 found as long as she lyveth." 
 
 Witnesses Sir Thomas Smardon, Priest ; Richard Kirtois 
 (Curtis) ; Wm. Whytvvaye. 
 
 Proved Qth Dec., 1547. 
 
 Collated Will, Old Book, Peculiar Court, D. and C., Exon. 
 
 NOTE. This Will proves that Bickirgton Church, separated from 
 Ashburton, 1861, was not dedicated to St. Mary as commonly supposed 
 hitherto. (See my " Ashburton and its Neighbourhood," p. 57.)
 
 158 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1547. The last Will of Richard Wyndeatt of Ashburton, 
 1 3th October, 1547. He bequeaths to the " hedd store" within 
 the Church of Ashburton 4d. Residue to wife Joan, who is 
 Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses Nicholas Landeman, Curate. 
 John Wyndeatt. 
 Thomas Wyndeatt. 
 George Wyndeatt. 
 Proved i8th June, 1548. 
 Personality, 4 153. 7d. 
 Collated Will in Old Book, Peculiar Court, D. and C, Exon. 
 
 1548. The last Will of Thomas Toker of Staverton, 2nd 
 Edward VI., A.D. 1548. He desires to be buried in Staverton 
 Church, and bequeaths to the Stoer of St. Peter and Paule there 
 and to the High Cross in the same Church 4d. To the Stoer 
 of SS. Michael and George, 4d. To son Thomas Toker, 405. 
 To daughter Elizabeth, 403. Residue to wife Joane, who is 
 Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witness Alexander Shaptor, Curate ; John Prystod. 
 
 Sum, 60 12s. 
 
 Proved 1 8th June, 1548. 
 
 Collated Will in Old Book, Peculiar Court, D. and C., Exon. 
 
 1550. The last Will of Thomas Hamlyn of Staverton, dated 
 " 2nd Edwd. VI." Bequeaths his soul to God and body to 
 burial in y e Church earth of Staverton. To wife Luce a third 
 part of all goods. Another third to son John Hamlyn and to 
 daughters Catherine and Ysoth. A third to daughters Eleanor 
 and Bridget, with remainder to son John aforesaid and daughter 
 Emlyn. Residue to said John Hamlyn, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Witnesses John Ysshel, Thomas Abraham, and John Pry- 
 stone. 
 
 Proved 22nd Sept., 1550. 
 
 Sum, 18 143. 4d. 
 
 Collated Will, Old Book, Peculiar Court, D. and C, Exon, 
 fo. 60.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 159 
 
 1570. Robert Tocker of Sallcombe, i6th Dec., 1549. To 
 daughter Joan, 405. To son Nicholas, 2OS. To son Thomas, 
 2os. Residue to wife Isabel, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witness John Upton, "cum aliis." 
 
 Proved 2nd Sept, 1570. 
 
 Collated Will in Old Book, Peculiar Court, D. and C, Exon. 
 
 1580. Wm. Wreford of Ashburton, 2Oth April, 1579. To 
 each child he Itavcs a sheep. To son John, half a dole in a 
 tyn work called Wellysfuurd, and the twentieth part of a Tynn 
 worke called Allerbrook, and a sixth part of another called Moor 
 Parke Head. 
 
 Residue to wife Elizabeth, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses Thomas Taylor, Harry Whiteway. 
 
 Rulers Wm. and Harry Whiteway. 
 
 Proved 3rd June, 1580. 
 
 Collated Will, Old Book, Peculiar Court, D. and C, Exon. 
 
 NOTE Allerbrook is a small tributary of the Dart, about five miles 
 from Ashburton, and in the middle of Holne Moor. 
 
 1593. The last Will of John Gibbe of Clyst St. George, 
 Yeoman. I, John Gibbe . . . being somewhat sicke in body, 
 but of good and perfect remembrance, thankes be given unto 
 Almightie God, doe make and ordayne . . . &c. I give and 
 bequeathe my soul into the hands of Almightye God, Father, 
 Sonne, and Holie Goste, three persons and one God, trusting 
 that the same my soul shall be received into the fellowshyppe 
 of the ellecte and faythfull persones by the meryt, deathe, and 
 passyon of Jesus Christe the Sonne of God and Seconde Person 
 in Trinitye, by whose means only I hope to be saved and by 
 none other. And I will my Body to be buryed in the parishe 
 Church of Cliste St. George or elswhere, where it shall please 
 God to call me. 
 
 He leaves to the poor 2Os. To Elizabeth Myddleton, 2os. 
 To Philippe, Stephen, and John Bruton, each one yeo sheepe. 
 To his well-beloved wyfle Cecylie 7 of his best kyne, 40 weathers
 
 160 DE VONSH1RE WILLS. 
 
 and five yeowes ; also one mare or gelding " which shall not 
 happen to be seased for a heariott by the Lord or his officers ; " 
 also the moitye and halfendeale of all his corn and grayne, and 
 (for her life) of all his puter and brasen vessells. He gives her 
 also all Butter, Cheese, Beef, Bacon, and other Provision of 
 House that may be in the House at his death ; also one blacke 
 steyre now put to fattynge, and all pultry ; also all the haie in 
 the talletts ; also all the home-made Clothe in the House ; also 
 "the one halfe of all my welle being in my house at the tyme 
 of my death." To his daughter Margarett, 150. To his 
 daughter Christyan, 100, to go, in case of her death under age, 
 to his son William (his Executor), or, if William should die 
 before her, to his daughters Margarett and Jane, and to the 
 survivor of them. To his daughter Jane when she is 21, .80, 
 with the same proviso, the money being divided between Mar- 
 garett and Christyan in case of William's death. The Residue 
 of everything to go to the said William. 
 
 Overseers William Coade his brother-in-law and George 
 Morris his cousin. 
 
 Witnesses William Keyner of Ottery St. Mary, William 
 Coade, and George Morris. 
 
 Will dated Oct. loth, 1593. Proved Dec. 2Oth, 1593. 
 
 Buried at Clyst St. George, Dec. i/j-th, 1593. 
 
 1619. Administration of the Goods of Robert Gibbs* of 
 Topsham was granted to Katherine Gibbes his widow, William 
 Wotton being bound with her. 
 
 1619. The last Will of Laurence Wreyforde of Ayshberton, 
 29th March, 1619. To daughter Elizabeth Wreyforde, 5. To 
 sister Mawte Norrish, 5. Residue to wife Mary ("nowe wife "), 
 who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved /th May, 1619. 
 
 34 1 6s. 4d. 
 
 * This may be the same man as Robert, father of Robert Gibbe of Topsham (and 
 Clyst St. George). See Jan. 24th, 1662, Archdeacon's Court ; but, if so, Katherine 
 must have been a second wife, Margaret (Oxenbeare) being the mother of Robert.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 161 
 
 1629. John Wreaforde of Ashburton, ipth Jan., 4th Charles. 
 To daughter Peternell, wife of Richard Taprill, a pewter dish. 
 Mentions children of said Peternell, viz., John, Ann, and 
 Peternell. 
 
 Residue to wife Barbara, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved i/th April, 1629. 
 
 Sum, 21 75. 5d. 
 
 1633. Elizabeth Gould of Ashburton, Widow. Dated 
 
 . She gives, amongst other bequests, an annuity of 
 2 to the poor of Ashburton to issue out of her meadow called 
 Persford. 
 
 Proved , 1633, by James Gould, the Executor 
 
 named in the Will. 
 
 NOTE. When I saw this Will, 23rd August, 1880, the document was 
 in fragments, and the top and bottom of the paper were both missing. 
 The annuity to the poor of Ashburton has been long discontinued, and 
 I never heard of it during my intimate connection with the parish 
 extending over eighteen years, 1861-1879. Edward Gould, of the 
 same family, was a benefactor to Ashburton by his Will dated i6th 
 March, 1735, and, singularly enough, one of his bequests was a sum 
 of 4o/- to the poor of Ashburton and Staverton, 2o/- to each parish 
 yearly, charged on land. Can it have been his intention to thus carry 
 out the Will of Elizabeth Gould ? He was also a considerable bene- 
 factor to Ashburton Grammar School. 
 
 1634. William Gould the younger of Staverton, Clothier, 
 28th October, loth Charles. To poor of Staverton, 55. To son 
 Philip, 5 at i 5. To daughter Marie, $ at 16. To daughter 
 Agnes, $ at 17. 
 
 Residue to wife Mary, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witness Leonard Irish. 
 
 Proved 1 8th Nov., 1634. 
 
 Sum, 7 9s. 2d. 
 
 1666. The last Will of Samuel Tidball of Ashburton, Gentle- 
 man. 2Oth May, 1666. To the poor there, 3. To sister 
 12
 
 .162 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Martha Tidball he leaves all -his fee-simple lands in Ashburton, 
 .with remainder to Hugh Stowell, Esq., and his heirs. Residue 
 to said sister Martha, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses Wm. Denet, Dorothy Griffin. 
 
 Proved I3th July, 1666. 
 
 NOTE. Testator was son of Rev. Samuel Tidball, who went to 
 Ashburton as Curate to Robert Law, Archdeacon of Barnstaple and 
 Vicar of Ashburton, 1613, and became Master of Ashburton Grammar 
 School, 1616, and succeeded Mark Law, son of the Archdeacon of 
 Barnstaple, as Vicar of Ashburton in 1644 > died 1647. The said Mark 
 Law was the husband of testator's other sister, Maria Tidball. 
 
 Hugh Stowell was of Herebeare in the parish of Bickington prope 
 Ashburton. He was of a younger branch of the Stawels (pronounced 
 Stowel) of Cothelstone, co. Somerset, and his immediate relatives were 
 long resident at Herebeare. 
 
 Miss M. Griffin, of the same race as " Dorothy G.," died at Ash- 
 burton, May 1 5th, 1853, aged 105. She had been present at the 
 coronation of George III. 
 
 1669. Katherine Osmond of Culmestock, Widow, nth May, 
 1669. To brother John Smeath of Burlescomb, 405. To 
 cousin Anslie Cherriton, best petticoat. Bequests to cousin 
 Charity Smeath and daughter Mary Osmond, "my spinning 
 torne" and ^40. To Humphry and Joan, children of John 
 Osmond, is. each. Residue to son Humphry Osmond, who is 
 Sole Executor. 
 
 Proved 8th Dec., 1669. 
 
 Sum, 174 7s. 8d. 
 
 Witnesses Francis Hayzell, James Southwood. 
 
 1672. Mary Granger of Clist Honiton, 24th Jan., 1671. 
 There are bequests to daughter Mary Robbins ; to sons James 
 and Francis Granger. Residue to son Richard Granger, who 
 is Sole Exor. 
 
 Witnesses John Curell, Mary Robbins. 
 
 Proved 27th May, 1672. 
 
 Sum, 8 is. 8d.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 163 
 
 1677. Henry Gculd of Staverton, Gentleman, 1st Oct., 1675. 
 To daughter Katherine, wife of John Lackey, 405. To daughter 
 Margaret, wife of John Kingwill, los. To daughter Elizabeth 
 Gould, 40. 
 
 Residue to wife Katherine, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses John Rowe, Andrew Tarr. 
 
 Proved 3rd Apiil, 1677. 
 
 Sum, 473. 
 
 1677. Walter Palke of the Towne of Ashburton, Yeoman, 
 5th Nov., 1677. To sister Dionis Townsend, 10, and her 
 life in all lands in Ashburton after decease of wife Agnes. To 
 cousin Margaret, daughter of Dionis Townsend, ;io. To 
 cousins John and Joan Townsend, 505. each. To cousin Walter, 
 son of Thomas Palke, deceased, Reversion of the Ashburton 
 lands after the death of Dionis Townsend and of wife Agnes, 
 charged with an annuity of 2Os. to cousin Dionis. 
 
 Residue to wife Agnes, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses Thomas Palke, Agnes Hanniford, Wm. and 
 Mary Hanniford. 
 
 Proved iQth Dec, 1679. 
 
 1679. Inventory of Walter Palke of the Towne of Ash- 
 burton, made by George Fabyan and Richard Tapper, 24th 
 Dec., 1679. 
 
 " His wearing apparel ... ... ... ... ;i o o 
 
 Item one paire of looms, with querling torne 
 
 and other materials belonging to them ... o 10 o 
 
 IO Pewter dishes O 16 o" 
 
 Various other articles .. ... ... ... 63 I 6 
 
 65 7 6 
 
 1680. Administration to the effects of Thomas Palke of 
 Staverton, granted to Susannah his relict ; Matthew Palke joins 
 the bond. 
 
 Sum, 37 i6s. 8d. 
 
 Granted 3rd Sept., 1680-1.
 
 1 64. DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1684. Administration to the effects of Frank Granger of 
 Clist Honiton. Granted to Mary his relict. 
 3Cth Jan., 1684. 
 Sum, 18 195. 2d. 
 
 1686. Agnis Granger of Clist Honiton, loth Dec., 1685. 
 She leaves her leasehold house and orchard in Broadclist to 
 her children, Joan her daughter and Richard her son. 
 
 Residue to said Joan Granger, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses John Herne, Wm. Ayre, John Curell. 
 
 Proved 1 3th Aug., 1686. 
 
 Sum, 21 35. 2d. 
 
 1693. Mary Granger of Clist Honiton, Widow, 28th March, 
 1693. Bequests to son Abraham Granger and to daughter 
 Hannah. Residue to daughter Grace Granger, who is Sole 
 Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses Joan Granger, Julyan Pearsse and Thomas 
 Wescott. 
 
 Proved 28th April, 1693. 
 
 Sum, 37 1 6s. 
 
 1707. The last Will of Walter Palk, sen., of Ashburton, 
 22nd Feb , 1705. To Walter " Paulk," my eldest son, all my 
 lands after the decease of his mother, charged with the pay- 
 ment of 100 as follows : 40 to Jonathan, second son ; 
 30 to Thomas, third son ; 30 to daughter Grace Palke. 
 
 Residue to wife Grace, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses John Smerdon, John Fursman, Robert Jerman. 
 
 Proved 27th May, 1707. 
 
 160 ios 
 
 NOTE Testator was the grandfather of Sir Robert Palk, Bart., and 
 therefore the direct ancestor of the present Lord Haldon. Although 
 described as " Cousin " (as was then usual), he was really nephew of 
 Walter Palk, whose will was proved igth Dec., 1679, to which refer. 
 
 His son Jonathan was subsequently Vicar of Ilsington. See my 
 "Devonshire Parishes," vol. ii., p. 325, et seq.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 165 
 
 1725. The last Will of Abraham Gibb (or Gibbs) of Tops- 
 ham, Yeoman. Leaves his wife Tryphoena Gibbs* a Rent- 
 charge of 20, and his daughters Elizabethf and MaryJ 250 
 apiece at the age of 21 ; and all his lands in Crediton and 
 elsewhere to his friends and brothers-in-law, William Rowe 
 of Shobrooke, and Benjamin Brindley || of Exeter, and Philip 
 Gibbs his kinsman,! in trust for his son Abraham Gibbs,* * 
 whom he makes his Executor, the three trustees abovenamed 
 being Overseers. 
 
 Will dated July ist, 1718. Proved Sept. loth, 1725. 
 
 Witnesses. 
 
 1726. The last Will of Abraham Gibbs ft of Topsham, 
 Gentleman. He leaves 500 to his son George Abraham 
 Gibbs,$J 300 to his daughter Anna Gibbs, and 21 "and 
 no more" to his son John Gibbs. |||] The Residue to his 
 wife Sarah Gibbs.H1[ 
 
 Executors in trust John Ewins, John Rous, and the Rev. M. 
 Christopher Ewins. 
 
 Will dated i6th Sept., 1726. Proved Oct. 24th following. 
 
 1733. Abraham Granger of Clist Honiton, Yeoman, ist 
 March, 1732. To wife Hannah use of all goods for life. To 
 daughter Mary Hayman, eventual moiety of said goods, and 
 \O. To daughter Hannah, the other moiety of his goods, and 
 .10. To son Thomas, 10. To son Roger, ;ioo, and he is to 
 pay all legacies after the death of Testator's wife ; he is 
 residuary legatee and Sole Executor. 
 
 Witnesses Thomas Perkins, Richard Granger. 
 
 Proved 2Oth June, 1733. 
 
 Sum, 187 2s. 6d. 
 
 * Will in Principal Registry, 1733. t Wife of ... Pctt. 
 
 J Wife of Nicholas Peters of Topsham, Surgeon. 
 
 Will in Archdeaconry Registry, 1725-6. || Husband of his sister Elizabeth. 
 11 His first cousin (son of his uncle Philip Gibbe). Will, Archdeaconry, 1724 and 1732. 
 
 ** Will in Archdeaconry Reg., 1726. 
 
 ft Son of Abraham Gibbs (Sept. loth, 1775, same Court). 
 JJ C.P.C., Jan. 3ist, 1795. Afterwards wife of . . . Kemmett of Crediton. 
 
 Illl C.P.C., 3rd Nov., 1778. 
 
 ^[ Sarah, daughter and coheiress of Robert Lyle of Topsham ; married, thirdly, 
 Robert Framin^hnm.
 
 166 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1742. Administration to the effects of Hannah Granger of 
 Clist Honiton. Granted to Thomas Granger her brother, 
 20th Jan., 1742. 
 
 Under ;ioo. 
 
 1743. Thomas Granger of Lyons Inn and County of 
 Middlesex, Gentleman. He desires to be buried in the Parish 
 Church of Clist Honiton, Co. Devon. He leaves his Goods, 
 &c., to his granddaughter Lydia Granger at 21, or on her 
 marriage day, with remainder to two nephews, Rev. Thomas 
 Granger and Mr. Edmund Granger, and to niece Mrs. Susan 
 Granger. He appoints his daughter-in-law Margaret, widow of 
 son Thomas deceased, and said two nephews, Joint Exors. 
 
 Witnesses John Roberts and William Bennett. 
 
 Dated I2th Feb., 1739. Proved 29th July, 1743. 
 
 NOTE. The testator is shown by a memorandum attached to the 
 Will to have resided at Clist Honiton entirely for the nine months 
 preceding his death. 
 
 1743. Hannah Granger of Clist Honiton, Widow, 4th Aug., 
 1742. To grandson William Hayman, large brass kettle. To 
 granddaughter Mary Hayman, two gold rings. To son-in-law 
 John Hayman, is. To son Thomas Granger, $ 53. To son 
 Roger Granger, is. To Rev. Edmond Granger, 1 is. for 
 preaching a funeral sermon. " Item, I give five bushells of 
 wheat to be baked into bread unto all such poore peopel as 
 usually byes bread of me." Residue to son Richard Granger 
 and to Jane Palmer, who are Joint Exors. 
 
 Witnesses Samuel Drake, Robert Phelp. 
 
 Proved 7th Oct., 1743. 
 
 1743. Administration to the effects of Elizabeth Granger 
 of Clist Honiton, intestate, granted I4th Oct., 1743, to Thomas 
 Granger her brother.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 167 
 
 1763. Martha Granger of Clist Honiton, Widow, iQth Oct , 
 1761. To son Edward Nott of Tiverton, is. To granddaughter 
 Mary Nott, " my house called the Green House at Clist 
 Honiton," with reversion to Sarah and Edward, children of 
 George Nott. 
 
 Son George Nott of Clist Honiton, Sole Exor. 
 
 Residue undisposed of. 
 
 Witnesses Samuel and William Clarke, George Westcott. 
 
 Proved I3th Dec., 1763. 
 
 Under 20. 
 
 1767, Nov. 7th. William Bartlett of St. Mary Church, 
 Devon, Gentleman, by Will of this date charges his lands 
 devised to his eldest son Jacob Bartlett and his personal estate, 
 with the payment of his Debts, &c. Gives to his son William 
 Bickford Bartlett an orchard at Paignton, which he purchased 
 of William Wallers, and share of Brigantine Vessel called 
 " The Lady," provided he gives a discharge " from one Jacob 
 Bickfoid his grandfather or any Executor;" also the House 
 in which he (the Testator) lived, and the use of his goods, &c., 
 in case he shall live therein, but if he refuses to live therein 
 300 instead. Gives to his daughter Mary Hele the 20 
 which her husband owed him, and \Q to be laid out in 
 mourning. To grand-daughter Susannah Hele, daughter of 
 said Mary, ;ioo with interest, until she attains 21, and the 
 House and Cellar which Captain Woollcott rents at Torkey, 
 and Household goods in possession of Elizabeth Emling, 
 widow, after her decease. To grand-daughters Agnes Hele, 
 Nancy Hele, Peggy Hele, 10 each on attaining 21. To 
 daughter Grace Jackson, estate called Codners, in Tor Mohun, 
 for life. To his grandson William Bartlett, House, Barn, 
 Orchard, &c., being part of the estate he purchased of 
 William Browse of St. Mary Church and his heirs, and for 
 want of such issue to his grandson James Salter Bartlett 
 and his heirs, and for want of such issue to the right 
 heirs of his own body for ever. To his grand-daughter 
 Elizabeth Bartlett, .100, on attaining 21. 
 
 Residue to his son Jacob Bartlett, whom he appoints
 
 1 68 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Executor, and who proved in the Court of the Dean and 
 Chapter of Exeter, 2 1st June, 1768. 
 
 Witnesses Wm. Browse, Christopher Waynworth, Ann 
 Henly. 
 
 1769. Administration to the effects, &c., of William Granger, 
 late of Clist Honiton. Granted 2ist Feb., 1769, to Anne, wife 
 of James Clapp, mother of deceased. 
 
 Under 20. 
 
 1779. Richard Tucker of Braunton, Yeoman, i5th Dec., 
 1776. He leaves his household goods, &c., to son Richard 
 Tucker of Georgeham, " and all the things I left at Cryde in 
 Georgeham when I came to Braunton." To daughter Ann, 
 wife of James Burn of Northam, ;io. To daughter Mary, 
 wife of Richard Knill of Braunton, Carpenter, and to daughter 
 Susanna Tucker, "the estate wherein I now dwell." Residue to 
 said two daughters, who are Joint Exors. 
 
 Witnesses George Ferryman, Thos. Knill, and Robert Dunn. 
 
 Proved 1 2th May, 1729. 
 
 NOTE. Refer to 5ih Dec., 1766, Archdeaconry of Barnstaple. It 
 will be noticed that this testator is described in his wife's Will as 
 " Gentleman." He describes himself as " Yeoman," and his daughter, 
 who is a considerable " beneficiare " under the above Will, evidently 
 married a mechanic; this shows that undue stress is sometimes laid 
 upon notes as to social position in Wills and Parish Registers. 
 
 1798. Ann Tucker of Braunton, Widow, 4th Nov., 1788. 
 To her daughter Ann Tucker and to her daughter-in-law 
 Prudence Tucker, in trust for three grandchildren, John and 
 Elizabeth Tucker, and Ann, wife of Edmund Barrow, a certain 
 tenement called " The Balls." To son-in-law George Webber 
 2s. 6d. 
 
 Witnesses John Parker, Robert Dunn. 
 
 Proved nth June, 1798.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 169 
 
 COURT OF THE VICARS CHORAL, 
 
 EXETER. 
 
 1642. Administration of the goods of Agnes Gibbs of 
 Woodbury was granted to Joane her mother, wife of William 
 Darke of Coleridge, during the minority of Joane Gibbs, sister 
 of the deceased, her goods being but 10, a legacy of Thomas 
 Gibbs* her father. George Trobridge and Richard Fleming, 
 sureties. 
 
 Date of grant, Oct. 6th, 1642. 
 
 1671. Administration of the goods of George Gibbsf of 
 Woodbury was granted Aug. 23rd, 1671, to Joane his widow. 
 
 1686. Administration of the goods of Samuel GibbsJ of 
 Woodbury was granted 2jrd Nov., 1686, to Elizabeth his 
 widow, and Robert Gibbs of Woodbury, and Abraham Gibbs|| 
 of Clyst St. George. 
 
 1701-2. The last Will of Robert Gibbslf of Woodbury, 
 Yeoman. He bequeaths certain goods to his loving wife 
 Dorothy** for life, and then to his son Robert Gibbs,ff whom 
 
 * See Archdeacon's Court (Exon), Aug. igth, 1629. 
 t Second son of George Gibbs of Woodbury (P.C.C., Nov., 1660). 
 Youngest son of George Gibbs of Clyst St. George (Principal Registry, ist Aug., 
 1683). 
 
 Brother of the said George Gibbs and father of Elizabeth, wife of the Testator 
 Samuel Gibbs (Court of Vicars Choral, Feb. 27th, 1701-2). 
 
 || Brother of the Testator (Court of Dean and Chapter, loth Sept., 1725). 
 
 IT Fourth son of John Gibbe the elder of Clyst St. George. 
 ** Dorothea Crosse! ft Same Court, 7th Sept., 1721.
 
 1 70 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 he makes his Executor. He mentions his daughter Anstice 
 Pearse,* Dorothy Lyde, and Elizabeth Gibbs, f and his daughters- 
 in-law Joane KentisbeereJ and Elizabeth Gibbs. To his 
 grandson Robert Gibbs || and to his [own] son RobertlT he 
 leaves his messuage and tenement at Ebford, between them, 
 "to each such distinct part as in a deed bearing date March 5 
 in the 3 d year of our Sovereign Lord King James the 2d that 
 now is on England A.D. 1686, by me made and executed 
 unto my trusty friends Gideon Haydon, Abraham Gibbs, * 
 and George Gibbs,** yeomen, are particularly set forth and 
 expressed." 
 
 Will dated 2/th August, 1688. Proved 2/th Feb., 1701-2, 
 by Robert Gibbs, jun. 
 
 Witnesses Eleanor Haydon, Sarah Edwards, Henry Ross. 
 
 1718. The last Will of George Gibbsft of Woodbury, Yeo- 
 man. He leaves money to his cousins John, Nicholas, Joane, 
 and Mary Leate, sons and daughters of the late John Leate 
 of Clyst St. Mary, and Mary Leate his sister, now of Wood- 
 bury, widow, whom he makes his Executrix. 
 
 Will dated 2Oth July, 1717. Proved 3rd Oct., 1718. 
 
 Witnesses. 
 
 1721. Administration of the goods of Robert Gibbs|$ of 
 
 Woodbury was granted 7th Sept., 1721, to Dorothy Gibbs, 
 
 spinster, and Elizabeth Duelly alias Gibbs his daughters, John 
 Way of Clyst St. George being Surety. 
 
 * Wife of Roger Pearse. 
 
 t Afterwards wife of her cousin Samuel Gibbs (same Court, 23rd Nov., 1686). 
 % John Kensbeere was married at Clyst St. George in 1684 to Joane Gibb, who 
 must have been a second wife of the Testator's son Robert. 
 
 Wife of his son Robert. || Son of (he said Robert. 
 
 IT Same Court, 7th Sept., 1711. 
 
 ** His nephews, second and fourth sons of his brother George Gibbe of Clyst 
 St. George (Court of the Dean and Chapter, loth Sept., 1725, and Court of the 
 Archdeacon of Exeter, nth Oct., 1723). 
 
 ft Only son of George Gibbs of Woodbury (same Court, 22nd Aug., 1671). 
 Son of Robert Gibbs of Woodbury (same Court, 2.7th Feb., 1701-2).
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS 
 
 PART II. 
 
 ARCHDEACONRY OF EXETER. 
 
 1545. Richard Toker of Ottery St. Mary, loth August, 
 
 1545- 
 
 Desires to be buried in the churchyard of St. Mary of 
 Ottery, and makes his wife, Margaret, universal legatee and 
 Sole Executrix. 
 
 Unindexed. Proved 22nd Sept., 1545. 
 
 1567. Nicholas Toker of Holcombe Rogus, 28th Dec., 1566. 
 To daughter Jone, 5. To son Robert, "one steer, and one 
 calfe which is weaned from its dame." To John, son of said 
 Robert, one steer. To god-son Nicholas Wynn, two sheep. 
 
 Residue to wife, Chrystin, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Personal Estate, 21 2s. 8d. 
 
 Proved 4th April, 1567. 
 
 1617. Administration to the effects of William Tucker of 
 Exeter, granted I3th Sept., 1617, to Anne, his widow. 
 
 Theophilus Meddicke and Richard Tremayne join the bond.
 
 172 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1618. Administration to the effects of John Tucker of 
 Exeter, granted 2ist May, 1618, to Emelin, his widow. 
 Gregory Wood joins the bond. 
 
 1618. The last Will, nuncupative, of Amy Mortimer of 
 Dunsford, Widow, dated 24th June, 1618. She leaves her 
 best gown to son John Mortimer of Bridford ; and the rest 
 of her apparel to her " natural daughter, Jone Hedgeland." 
 
 Residue to son Thomas Mortimer, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved nth July, 1618. 
 
 1618. Administration to the effects of John Mortimer, late 
 of Tiverton, deceased, granted i/th Sept., 1618, to Silvester 
 Parkehowse. 
 
 Sum 10 5s. 6d. 
 
 1618. Agnes Mortimer of Shobbroke, 6th Jany., 1618, 
 Widow, gives certain household goods to Ambrose, John, and 
 Agnes, children of Hugh Gregory of Culmstock. 
 
 Said Agnes to have " my best petticoat, and white fustian 
 waistcoat, white linnen apron, partlett & kerchief, at 21 years 
 of age." 
 
 To daughter Margaret Wood, "one greate vaute (vat) and 
 best gowne." To Thomasine, daughter of said Margaret, " a 
 skillett and a gridiron." To John, brother of last, " one great 
 brass candlestick and one bran dishe." To latter's brother, 
 Nicholas Wood, another brass candlestick, and to William, 
 another brother, " the least candlestick." 
 
 1 8s. to be expended on her funeral. 
 
 Residue to son-in-law, W'illiam Wood, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved ipth March, 1618. 
 
 Sum 4 I2s. 6d. 
 
 1620. The last Will of John Tooker of Bradninche, and 
 co. of Devon. Bequeaths his body to Christian burial, and
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 173 
 
 small sums to the poor and for the " reparacion " of the 
 parish church. 
 
 Daughter Joan, ^40, if she marries with her mother's 
 consent. 
 
 He leaves said daughter certain household furniture, and a 
 sum of ;io, owing to him by John Maudyt of Padbrooke, 
 together with an annuity of 4. 
 
 He gives to daughter Dorothy, wife of William Borowe, a 
 close of land, called " Horsepark," in the parish of Cullompton. 
 
 Residue to wife, Ellina, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 By Codicil, he leaves all his lands, tenements, and heredita- 
 ments in Up-Ottery, to said two daughters, their heirs, etc., etc., 
 in equal portions. 
 
 Proved I3th Oct., 1620. 
 
 Personalty, 107 195. 
 
 1621. The last Will of William Tucker, of Up-Ottery, 
 and county of Devon, dated 3Oth May, 1621. 
 
 To be buried in parish churchyard. 
 
 Leaves his brother John Tucker two pieces of cloth, one 
 being at " Robert Quicke's house." 
 
 His " apparel " to John Halsey. 
 
 Bequests to sisters Thamsine Jealfrey and Elizabeth 
 Warren, and also to Edward, son of John Goolde. 
 
 " Uncle Edmund," residuary legatee and Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved i/th Sept., 1621. 
 
 1621. The last Will of John Tucker of St Mary the Great 
 in the city of Exeter, dated "Feast of St. Stephen," 1621. 
 
 Bequests to sons John and Hugh, and also to the child his 
 wife expects to bear him. 
 
 Residue to wife Ursula, who is residuary legatee and Sole 
 Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses Gregory Soper. 
 
 Dorothy Sparrow. 
 
 Proved i6th Jany., 1621.
 
 174 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1622. Administration to the effects of Richard Tucker, late 
 of Southleigh, intestate, granted I5th April, 1622, to William 
 Warren of said parish, in minority of the son, Richard Tucker. 
 
 Gregory Warren joins the bond. 
 
 1622. Inventory of the effects of Andrew Tucker of Cley- 
 hidon, made 2Oth May, and exhibited loth Oct., 1622. 
 Sum ,2 45. 8d. 
 
 1622. The last Will of William Tucker of Gideshame 
 dated Dec. 27th, 1622. 
 
 Bequeaths " bodye to the grone, & soulle to God who 
 gave it." 
 
 To son William, " the beste cubbord & the dishes uppon it." 
 
 To son-in-law Thomas Pearse, the "worste cubbord, the old, 
 table-board, the 'sealinge' behind the bench, and the dishes 
 on the cubbord." 
 
 Wife to have life interest in said effects. 
 
 Residue to said wife, Joan, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved I7th Jany., 1622. 
 
 In the inventory "a cowe, an heyffer, and a nagge," are 
 valued together at 6 135. 4d. 
 
 Two "small pigges," 135. 4d. 
 
 " One little mowe of wheate, barley, & oates," 2os. 
 
 1622. John Tooker of Halberton "or otherwise Yarnicombe 
 or Varnicombe," by Will dated i/th Sept., 1622, desires his 
 body to be buried in the churchyard of Halberton. 
 
 Bequests to Elizabeth Cha (?), George, Philip, and Samuel 
 Parker, and Thamsin Crosse. 
 
 Residue to brother "John Tocker," who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 8th Jany., 1622-3. 
 
 1623. Administration to the effects of Joane Tucker of 
 East Budleigh, granted i$th Aug., 1623, to Gilbert Smythe 
 and Jane Smythe, late "Tucker.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILS. 175 
 
 1623. The last Will of Jane Mortimer of Poughill, co. 
 Devon, Spinster. 
 
 To my mother, Joan Philpe, 40*. To brothers John and 
 Roger Mortimer, 303. "To the ringers of my knell," I2d. 
 each. Residue to cousin, Robert Gye, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Other bequests to Wm. Dodridge, and to Robert, his son, 
 and to Walter Barton. 
 
 Dated 27th Aug., 1622. Proved iQth Sept., 1623. 
 
 1624. Administration to the effects of Andrew Tucker of 
 Exminster, granted i/th May, 1624, to Julian Tucker. 
 
 1624. The last Will of Joan Tucker of Tedborne St. 
 Mary, Widow, dated 6th Feby., 1618. 
 
 To Parish Church 35. 4d., and to Poor 33. 4d. 
 
 Bequests to son Thomas Tucker, to Johane fford, and to 
 Ursula, daughter of Henry Woodley. To John Endell, the 
 great brass crocke, and to Ellen Endell, is. 
 
 Residue to Johane, daughter of Henry Woodley. She is 
 Sole Executrix. 
 
 Sum 37 2s. 8d. 
 
 Proved 2ist Jany., 1624. 
 
 1624. Inventory of Joan Tucker of Tedburne St. Mary. 
 Extracts 
 
 " Item, one horse xl shillings. Three kine, and a yearling, 
 ix //. (pounds). Nine pigges, I2/-." 
 
 1624. Administration to the effects of Nicholas Mortimore 
 of Tiverton, granted 2ist Sept., 1624, to John Bastard, his 
 son-in-law. 
 
 1625. Administration to the effects of John Mortimer of 
 Upton Hellions, granted loth June, 1625, to Christopher, 
 father of Christopher Payne, brother-in-law of deceased.
 
 176 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1626. Administration to the effects of Agnes Mortimer, 
 alias' Payne, of Upton Hellions, granted April 26th, 1626, 
 to Christopher Payne. 
 
 1626. The last Will of John Mortimer, alias Tanner, of 
 Cadleigh, ijth May, 1625. To be buried in parish church. 
 To sister Elizabeth Sharland, 403. Bequests to Ralph Tanner, 
 John Berry, Sander Norrish, Gecrge Norrish, both of Cheriton, 
 Thomasine Ellat of Poughill, Joan Pathericke, Agnes, Symon, 
 Robert, John and Alice Berrie, of Tiverton, Eleanor and 
 Katherine Passmore, Thomas Beedell, "to the useable work- 
 men of Sir Symon Leache's house," Joan Clokye, Bridget and 
 Mary Norrish, Christian Aisse (Ash), John Langworthy, and 
 John Matthew. 
 
 To Richard Aisse of Cadleigh, 2\ yards of " Meltie Cloth." 
 
 Residue to William Matthew, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved ipth May, 1626. 
 
 Sum 8 IDS. 
 
 1626. Administration to the effects of William Tucker of 
 Exeter and of the parish of St. Sidwell, granted 23rd June, 
 1626, to Mary, his relict. 
 
 1626. John Mortimer of the " Cytie of Exeter," July , 
 1626, leaves his body to Christian burial. 
 
 He gives his best cloak to his brother William Mortimer ; 
 his "Testament" to "Sister Wilmott." To sister in-law 
 " Dorothie," "one boke with a broad forrell called the 
 'Sufferings of Christ'" 
 
 To John Bayle, a book called " The plain Man's Pathway 
 to Heaven." 
 
 To cousin William Hellyar, a paire of loomes. 
 
 To sister's son, " Richard," " so much of my old cloake 
 as will make him a coat." 
 
 " Item, to wife's son Peter, the little loome." 
 
 Residue to " my wife," who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 22nd Aug., 1626.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 177 
 
 1627. The last Will of Ann Fry, Widow, of Thorncombe, 
 dated Qth April, 1624. 
 
 She gives legacies to grandchildren John, Anne, and Mary 
 Fry, children of her deceased son, Gylles (?) Fry, Mentions 
 Alys, wife of John Downe. 
 
 She desires to be buried in the churchyard of Thorncombe. 
 
 Residue to son William, who is Sole Executor. 
 
 Proved at Exeter, 1627. 
 
 Inventory made I7th May, 1626. 
 
 1627. The last Will of Thomas Fry of Honiton, dated 
 5th March, 1626. Mentions sons Thomas and William, 
 daughters Johan and Frances. 
 
 Son Christopher Fry is Sole Executor. 
 
 Inventory made by " William Fry " and others. 
 
 Witnesses, Robert Leach. 
 Walter Abbott. 
 
 Proved 28th March, 1627. 
 
 1627. Administration to the effects of Alexander Tucker 
 of Siockleigh English, granted May 2Oth, 1627, to James 
 Tucker. 
 
 Richard Tucker joins the bond. 
 
 1627. Inventory of Alexander Tucker of Stockleigh Eng- 
 lish, exhibited 2Oth May, 1627. Extracts 
 
 " Item, one bond of debt from Henry Tucker, his brother, 
 of 20, for the true payment of 10. 
 
 "Item of ,6 from Richard Tucker, his brother, fof pay- 
 ment of 3." 
 
 Sum 23 73. 8d. 
 
 1628. Administration to the effects of Edward Tucker of 
 Broadclist, granted I3th March, 1628, to Grace Tucker, his 
 daughter. 
 
 Henry Tucker joins the bond. 
 
 Sum $ 7s. 6d. 
 '3
 
 I 7 8 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1628. Inventory of the effects of Richard Tucker, alias 
 Glover, of Tiverton, 2ist May, 1628. Extracts 
 
 " Item, 17 sylver spoones & household effects, valued at 
 g2 43. 8d." 
 
 Crest Seal A horse's head issuant from a coronet (Bayly 
 of Hambrook, co. Gloucester). 
 
 NOTE. Refer to year 1628, page 17, ante. 
 
 1628. The last Will of Mary, Widow of Thomas Fry, 
 dated Columpton, 6th Feby., 1627. Legacies to Henry 
 and Priscilla Howe, and to Sara, wife of Abell Downe. 
 
 Daughter Mary to have apparel. 
 
 Residue to son Thomas Fry, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved I2th March, 1628. 
 
 1620;. William Tucker of Spreyton desires to be buried at 
 Spreyton, and leaves is. to that church and to the poor, and 
 is. to the church of Morchard Bishop, with 55. to the poor 
 there. 
 
 To his daughters Katteron and Joane, money bequest at 
 21, and three silver spoons each, and to each certain "brazen 
 crockes." 
 
 To brother Michael's children, sixpence each. 
 
 To brother Robert's children, sixpence each, and a like 
 sum to "sister Sibley's" children, and to those of his two 
 brothers-in-law, John Tracey and John Moxhay. 
 
 Residue to wife Katteron, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Dated 3Oth May, 1629. No proof. Index dated " May, 
 1629." 
 
 1629. Administration to the effects of Jane Tucker of St. 
 Mary the More (i.e., St. Mary the Great, commonly called 
 St. Mary Major), in city of Exeter, Widow, granted to Susan 
 Tucker, 6th July, 1629. 
 
 NOTE. Refer to 1621, Part II., ante.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 179 
 
 1629. The last Will of Mark Fry of Stokeintinhead, dated 
 1626. Mentions daughters Anstiss and Richord. 
 A legacy to poor of Stokeintinhead. 
 Residue to wife Margaret, who is Sole Executrix. 
 Proved at Exeter, 2Oth Aug., 1629. 
 
 1631. The last Will of Thomas Tucker of Exminster, dated 
 7th Feby., 1631. 
 
 To poor of the parish, 405., to be distributed on the third 
 Sabbath after his burial. 
 
 To daughter Grace, 80, to be paid in two instalments, on 
 the 2nd Feby., 1633, and on the 2nd Feby., 1635 ; with 
 reversion to Margaret, daughter of Peter Tucker of Kenn, 
 if said Grace should die before she attains the age of four 
 years. 
 
 To Grace, daughter of said Peter Tucker, .10 at 21. 
 
 To Thomas, son of Edward Tucker of Dawlish, 10 at 21. 
 
 To brother Edward Tucker, $, and like sum to brother 
 Peter Tucker. 
 
 Residue to wife Grace Tucker, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved I5th Feby., 1631. 
 
 1631. Nuncupative Will of William Tucker of Shobrooke, 
 dated loth April, 1631. Wife Petronell, universal legatee and 
 Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved April I5th, 1631. 
 
 Sum 83 is. i id. 
 
 1631. Administration to the effects of Tristram Tucker, 
 granted i8th Nov., 1631, to Joan, his widow. 
 
 1631. Administration to the effects of John Tucker of 
 Poltimore, deceased, granted 3rd Ma)', 1631, to Mar}- Tucker, 
 the widow.
 
 i8o DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1631. Inventory of John Tucker of Poltimore, exhibited 
 3rd May, 1631, made 2pth April. 
 
 5 acres and a half of Wheat in the ground ... 14. 
 
 4| of Barley 13. 
 
 2 of Rye l. 
 
 4 of Pease 3. 
 
 6i of Oats 8. 
 
 2 Bushels of Wheat ... ... i. 
 
 1631-2. Administration to the effects of Alice Tucker, late 
 of Exeter, granted Jany. 24th, 1631-2, to Elizabeth Stabbicke. 
 
 1632. Administration to the effects of William Mortimore 
 of Revve, granted 3<Dth April, 1632, to Christian Mortimore, 
 his widow. 
 
 " Dennys Mortimer, widow, was a debtor to the estate of 
 deceased." 
 
 1632. The last Will of Thomasine Osmond of Uplowman, 
 Widow, dated 5th Feby., 1631. To son William, i Platter 
 dish. 
 
 Residue to son-in-law John Darcy, who is Sole Exor. 
 Witnesses Bennet Bobishe. 
 
 Phillippe Shepp.ird. 
 Michaell Bobishe. 
 Proved 25th July, 1632. 
 
 1632. Peter Tucker of Upton Pyne, i6th Nov., 1632. 
 Leaves his body to Christian burial. Bequests to William 
 Mogridge and Wilmot, his wife. 
 
 To sons John, Peter, and Thomas Tucker, at 16, 10 each. 
 
 To brother George and sister Thamsin, los. each. 
 
 Residue to wife Wilmot. who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Trustees John Tucker and Robert Pridham. 
 
 Proved Dec. nth, 1632. 
 
 Sum 223 i2s. rod.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 181 
 
 1633. Administration to the effects of John Tucker of 
 Tiverton, granted March i/th, 1634, to George Parrington, 
 his son-in-law. 
 
 1633. Administration to the effects of Thomas Fry, late 
 of Colompton, granted 27th Oct., 1633, to Mary, his widow. 
 
 1635. The Will of John Tooker of Brampford Speke, dated 
 1st April, 1635. 
 
 He leaves in trust to Amias and John Warren of Stoke 
 Canon, 80 ; in trust for son John Tucker. 
 
 To said trustees, 90, for son Tristram. 
 
 To daughter Ebbot .40 at 24, and to granddaughter Maty 
 Coxx, 2Os. 
 
 Residue to wife Mary, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Sum 210 145. 
 
 1636. The last Will of William Mortimer of Bradninch. 
 Gives to " reparacion of parish church, 35. 4d., and to the 
 poor, i os." 
 
 To his kinswoman Grace, wife of Robert Miller, to Judith 
 Downing's children, to Christopher Taylor's daughter Mary, 
 to John Garnsey's son, and to Thomas Wood,* there are small 
 bequests. To son Thomas Mortimer, the tenement at Bollam 
 in Tiverton. 
 
 Residue to wife Johan, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Dated 3ist July, 1635. Proved 3rd March, 1636. 
 
 1637. The last Will, nuncupative, of John Moi timer of 
 Bridford, Husbandman. 
 
 To the poor of the parish, 2s. To son Edward, and to his 
 children, small bequests ; and also to son Gilbert. 
 
 Residue to sons John and Symon Mortimer, \\ho are joint 
 Executors. 
 
 Proved 28th April, 1637. 
 
 Sum 53 I2s. 
 
 * Refer to March, 1618, Will of Agnes Mortimer.
 
 1 82 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1638. Robert Tocker of Tiverton, by Will nuncupative 
 dated 3 1st April, 1638, left his eight children sixpence each. 
 Residue to wife Thomazine, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 1638. William Tooker of Broadclist, dated 7th Aug., 1638. 
 
 By Will nuncupative he then left 2Os. each to daughters 
 Richorda, Julian, and Mary Tooker, and mentions his son 
 John. 
 
 Residue to wife, Mary, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 3rd Sept., 1638. 
 
 1638. Thomazine " Tacker," late of Tiverton, by Will 
 nuncupative of 2Oth Sept., 1638, gave her daughter Julian her 
 dwelling-house and all her goods save "one brazen crocke." 
 
 Residue to Mary " Tucker," who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved Oct. 2Oth, 1638. 
 
 1639. Simon Tucker of St. Mary Steps, Exeter, by Will 
 nuncupative 22nd Sept., " or thereabout." 
 
 Bequeaths to poor of the parish 2Os. To grandchild 
 Nicholas Coombe, 503., and an annuity of is. 
 To cousin Emlyn Tucker, 10. 
 Residue to wife Agnis, who is Sole Executrix. 
 Proved 15th Oct., 1639. 
 Sum 108 is. 8d. 
 
 Inventory of above made I4th Oct., 1639. 
 " Imprimis his purse & girdell & wearing apparell, with his 
 gown, 6 I os." 
 
 Item, 2 sylver bowles and a bere bole. 
 Item, in the Chamber over the Shoppe, one muskett with 
 pair of bandaliers and a sworde, with other articles, 17 6s. lod. 
 In the kitchen, 2 Bibles. 
 Item, for 8 kine, ^24. 
 
 " for Wheat in the barne ... ... ... 7 16 10 
 
 "Hay 3 10 9 
 
 "One reeke of woode in the garden, is. 6d."
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 183 
 
 1639. The Nuncupative Will of John Mortimer of Bishop's 
 Cheriton, dated igth Feby., 1639. 
 
 Mentions sons James, John, and Gilbert ; daughters Frances, 
 wife of Robert Chapell, and Ann and Joan Mortimer. 
 
 Residue to wife Wilmot Mortimer, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses John Woodly. 
 
 Roger Mortimer. 
 
 Proved Feby., 1639. 
 
 Sum 30 95. lod. 
 
 1640. The last Will of Richard Tucker of Tiverton. To 
 be buried in parish church or churchyard, and leaves the 
 poor I os. 
 
 To son John Tucker, 30 at 21. To child "wife now goes 
 with," a similar legacy. 
 
 If wife marry again to pay 60 to brothers William and 
 Nicholas Tucker, for purpose of said bequest. 
 
 Wife Ebbot, Sole Executrix. 
 
 Dated " i6th year of Charles." Proved July 3ist, 1640. 
 
 1640. Extracts from Inventory of Richard Tucker, ex- 
 hibited 3 1st July, 1640. 
 
 Item 3 score sheepe & lambs ,20. 
 
 all his hogges ... ... ... ... 3. 
 
 Corn in grounde ... ... ... .46. 
 
 Reed, furse, & dunge i. 
 
 i horse & I colt 3 los. 
 
 3 kine & 2 calves >\2. 
 
 all his poulti ye ... ... ... ... .0 2s. 6d. 
 
 Butter, beef, & bacon ... ... .. \. 
 
 Wood, &c 2. 
 
 Total sum of personalty, 123 135. lod. 
 
 1640. Administration to estate of Elizabeth Tocker of 
 Thorncombe, Widow, granted I2th May, 1640, to William 
 Tocker, her son.
 
 184 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1641. The last Will of Marie Tucker of Brampford Speke, 
 Widow. 
 
 She confirms a legacy of her late husband's, " John Toocker," 
 of 90 to their youngest son Tristram, and adds to it 40 
 and an annuity of 405., all payable out of a messuage in said 
 parish, and she also gives said son " Tristram " " the occupation 
 of a chamber in her dwelling house." To daughter Mary, 
 wife of Richard Copp, " my best gown." To daughter Ebbot, 
 " my wearing apparell." 
 
 Residue to son John Tucker, who is Sole Executor. 
 
 Dated Sept. 1st, 1637. Proved 3rd Dec., 1641. 
 
 Sum 237 35. 4d. 
 
 1642. Nicholas Tucker of Clayhanger, Husbandman, 
 Sept., 1642, " intreates his surviving friends to bury his corps." 
 Confirms to sister Mary (with remainder to children of late 
 Cilian Cornworthy ; aunts Ursula Harte and Christian Webber ; 
 and daughter Jane Tucker, with further remainder to sister 
 Joane Tucker), a legacy of ;8o, thus bequeathed by his 
 father, Nicholas Tucker. 
 
 Gives sister "Jaune Tucker" 10, in addition to 10 left 
 her by said father. " To daughter Jane, aforesaid, my Chiste, 
 Bible, and all the rest of my books." 
 
 Residue to wife, "Jaune," who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Memorandum " This is the true intent and meaning of 
 Nicholas Tucker, deceased, but brought unto better form. 
 Edward Gardiner, Clericus." 
 
 Witnesses Hugh Pimme, Denys Mortymore. 
 
 Proved 25th Oct., 1642. 
 
 Sum ^263 i os. 
 
 NOTE. That learned clerk, "Edward Gardiner," was not vicar of the 
 parish, but about this time William Norris was ejected from the living 
 by the Puritans and was afterwards restored.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 185 
 
 1643. Thomas Tucker of St. Thomas the Apostle, Black- 
 smith. 
 
 To son George, 53. To daughter Elizabeth, "the best 
 lattine Candlestick" (*>., brass candlestick). 
 
 To daughters Johane, Mary " the elder," and Mary the 
 younger, furniture and sundry " brasse pannes." 
 
 To son Nicholas, freehold house, orchard, and garden, after 
 the expiration of the present lease. 
 
 Residue to wife Johan and son Nicholas, who are joint 
 Exors. 
 
 Proved I3th Jany., 1643. 
 
 Sum 43 8s. 8d. 
 
 1643. Administration to the estate of John Mortimer, late 
 of Ashton, granted ipth Feby., 1643, to Elizabeth, his relict. 
 Sum 21 43. 2d. 
 
 1643. The last Will, nuncupative, of John Mortimoore of 
 Bridford, made in presence of Michaell Dollinge, clearke, and 
 Mary, wife of Gilbert Mortimoore of Bridforde. He leaves 
 the poor of Bridford 45. To brother Gilbert, is. 
 
 Residue to two brothers, Edward and Simon, who are 
 Sole Exors. 
 
 Proved 29th Dec., 1643. 
 
 Sum 23 55. 4d. 
 
 1644. The last Will of Robarte Tucker of Spreyton. He 
 leaves his children William and Mary 2Os. each, payable three 
 years after his death, by his widow, Tiiomasine Tucker, who 
 is residuary legatee and Sole Executrix. 
 
 Dated "i3th Feby., ipth Charrell." 
 
 Proved 26th April, 1644. 
 
 Sum 26 173. 4d.
 
 1 86 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1644. Roger Tucker of Luppitt, Will, nuncupative, dated 
 7th June, 1643. 
 
 To daughter, wife of Gervase Burroughs, 5 ; to her two 
 children, Margery and Mary Burroughs, 5 each. 
 
 To grandchildren John, Jonathan, Susanna, Mary, and Ger- 
 trude, children of son James Tucker, s each. 
 
 To brother Walter's son, John Tucker, 2os. 
 
 Residue to son James, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved at Exeter, May, 1644. 
 
 NOTE. This Will is omitted from the Calendars of the Exeter 
 District Registry. 
 
 1644. Nuncupative Will of Gilbert Tooker of Kenne, 
 1st May, 1644. 
 
 He gives " one ewe sheep apiece " to each of the children 
 of his sons Edward and Peter, and of his son-in-law, Roger 
 Densham. To son John Tooker, certain furniture, four mat- 
 tocks, a bill-hook and a hatchet. To son Edward, .10. To 
 Grace, daughter of said son Peter, " one coffer." 
 
 Residue to said Peter Tucker, who is Sole Executor. 
 
 Proved 3ist May, 1644. 
 
 1644. The last Will of William Tucker of Cadbury, dated 
 23rd June, 1643. 
 
 To god-daughter Joan, 55., and to the other children of 
 John Carpenter, is. each. 
 
 Legacies to sister's children, Henry and Grace Bradford, 
 and to " Cousins " Henry and William Tucker. 
 
 Residue to cousin, Peter Tucker. 
 
 Two Trustees, of whom " Cousin Henry Bradford " is one. 
 
 Proved 22nd Nov., 1644. 
 
 Sum 71 95. 
 
 1646. Administration to the effects of Robert Mortimer of 
 Dunsford, granted to his wife, Ursula, 13111 May, 1646. 
 Sum 78 55. 8d.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 187 
 
 1646. The last Will of Mary Tucker, Widow, of Poltimore, 
 dated July 27th, 1646. 
 
 Mentions sons Robert, William, and Valentine Tucker, 
 daughter Mary, wife of Roger Druscombe, and her daughter, 
 Mary Druscombe. 
 
 Residue to daughter, Elline Tucker, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 28th Aug., 1646. 
 
 1646. Administration to the effects of John Tucker of 
 Tiverton, granted Oct. 2ist, 1646, to Agnes, his daughter, 
 and to her husband, John Gill. 
 
 Inventory made by "John Tucker" and others. 
 
 1647. The last Will of Thomas Tucker of Tedburn St. 
 Mary, 3ist Jany., 1646. 
 
 35. 4d. to the poor of the parish, on the day of his funeral. 
 
 Legacies to son Robert, and grandchild Bridget, daughter 
 of said son. 
 
 Residue to wife, Johan, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 26th May, 1647. 
 
 Sum 6 1 i os. 4d. 
 
 1647. The last Will, dated 3rd Oct., 1646, of John Tucker 
 of Kenne, Yeoman. 
 
 Legacies of 153. to poor of Kenne and Uartington. 
 
 To son Henry, all goods, &c., in parish of Dartington. 
 
 To daughter Amys Ewen, 2Os., and to her children 6s. 8d. 
 each. 
 
 Certain furniture in the hall to daughter-in-law Elizb. 
 Nosworthy. 
 
 To daughter Mary Tucker, .100 at 22 or at marriage, 
 together with the beds and other furniture in the new cham- 
 ber, two pieces of plate and a dozen silver spoons, and a 
 dozen best pewter dishes, pots, crocks, and the andirons, 
 brought from Dartington. If said Mary marries without the
 
 1 88 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 consent of her mother, or dies in minority, there is remainder, 
 as follows : 
 
 To son Henry, ^40 and a piece of plate, " parsell giltes," 
 to daughter Amys Ewens, 40 and a piece of white plate, 
 and 20 to daughter Elizabeth Nosworthy. 
 
 Residue to wife Elizabeth, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved by Executrix, 23rd April, 1647. 
 
 NOTE. Inventory shows that testator's plate consisted of " 2 sylver 
 booles, and one dozen syllver spoones," valued at ^7. 
 
 1648. \_CopyJ] "Margaret Tucker, Tiverton, July I7th, 1646. 
 Imprimis I give unto my two brothers, Allen Tucker and 
 John Tucker, IDS. apiece. Also I give to my sisters, Susan 
 and Elizabeth Tucker, 10 poundes apiece. Item I give unto 
 Jane Browne ffive poundes. Item I have made my lovinge 
 ffather mine Executor. 
 
 " Margaret Tucker." 
 Witnesses Robert Coad. 
 
 Humphry Codner. 
 
 1648. Administration to the effects of Margaret Tucker of 
 Tiverton, deceased, granted 2nd Feby., 1648, to Henry Tucker, 
 her father. 
 
 1648. The last Will of Thomas Tucker of Tiverton, 
 Apothecary, dated 3rd Sept., 1644. 
 
 Leaves to " the minister that preacheth my ffuneral sermon, 
 
 XX s '" 
 
 To Allen, John, Susanna, and Elizabeth, children of brother 
 Henry Tucker, 403. each. 
 
 " I make my Cousin, Margarite Tucker, now my servant, 
 eldest daughter to my brother Henry, residuary legatee and 
 Sole Executrix." 
 
 Administration granted to testator's brother, Henry Tucker, 
 2nd Feby., 1648. 
 
 NOTE Testator's Will, who evidently died before tytli July, 1646, 
 must have been left unproved by the executrix named therein. See her 
 own will ante.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 189 
 
 1648. Administration to the effects of William Tucker of 
 Tiverton, granted I4th July, 1648, to Sara Tucker, alias 
 Lakey, his relict. 
 
 Sum 2 6s. 
 
 1649. Administration to the effects of Alexander Toker 
 of Stockley English, granted I2th July, 1649, to Henry 
 " Tooker," his brother. 
 
 1649. The last Will of ... Mortimore (Andrew ?) of 
 Upton Helinge, Husbandman, dated 2Oth Feby., i6th James. 
 He gives his "wife" the residue of a lease of rent-charge 
 upon property in Crediton and Cheriton Fitz-Payne, de- 
 terminable on the life of Thomas Mortimore ; he charges it 
 with an annuity of 5 to son John. 
 
 Trustees William Bremebridge and William Esworthy, 
 with 6s. 8d. each for their trouble. 
 
 Name of Exor. omitted ; residue undisposed of. 
 
 Witnesses John Passord, Henry Stogdon, John Hayman, 
 Bartholomew Goche. 
 
 Administration granted i6th July, 1649, to Christopher 
 Payne, the husband of Agnes, relict and executor, de jure, 
 of deceased, called " Andrew " Mortimore. of Upton Hellions, 
 in the Calendars of the district registry, and who had died 
 without proving her father's will. 
 
 NOTE. " William Bremebridge," the trustee, whose family name is 
 otherwise variously written in old documents Bremelrig, Bremebrig, 
 and now Bremridge, was "aged 21" in 1598, and was son and heir 
 of John Bremridge of Bremridge in Sandford, co. of Devon, who was 
 thirteenth in descent from Robert Bremridge of Bremridge, AD. 1218, 
 great-grandson of Drogo Fitz-Mauger of Bradleigh, and Bremridge its 
 "parcel," sub-tenant of the latter manor in 1087, and also of Brem- 
 ridge in South Molton. The said Drogo Fitz-Mauger was son of 
 Mauger, Earl of Arquois, son of Richard II., and grandson of 
 Richard I., Dukes of Normandy, by Gunnora, sister of Herfast, the 
 Dane. Bremridge passed, by the marriage of Anna Maria, daughter 
 and ultimate heir of John Bremridge of Bremridge, with Richard 
 Melhuish of Poughill. co. Devon, marriage license 2oth Nov., 1775, to 
 her son Thomas Melhuish of Poughill. The Bremridges of Exeter 
 and Winkleigh are a younger branch of this ancient family. 
 
 Arms Sa., a chevron between 3 crosslets, or.
 
 1 9 o DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1650. The last Will, nuncupative, of Francis Tucker of 
 Exeter, dated i/th Sept., 1650. He gives all the books in 
 his study to his brother Lawrence. "All his ready money, 
 and whatsoever he has in his box to his kinswomen, Mary 
 and Elizabeth Mapowder, daughters of Francis Mapowder of 
 Exeter, merchant. 
 
 Admon. granted to said Mary and Elizabeth, 3<Dth Sept., 
 1650. 
 
 1650. The last Will of Edward Mortimore of Bridford, 
 dated 3rd Aug., 1650. 
 
 He leaves to the poor of the parish, 35. 4d. To eldest 
 son, Edward, 40, and like sums to sons Abraham, Nathaniel, 
 and Gilbert, at 21, and to daughter Thomasine. 
 
 Lease of '' Townsend living " in Dunsford to wife Elizabeth. 
 Trustees, " my good friends Thomas Mortimer of Dunsford 
 and Gilbert Mortimer of St. Thomas." 
 
 Residue to said wife, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 6th Sept., 1650. 
 
 Sum 247 I2s. 4d. 
 
 1651. The last Will of Dorothy Tucker of Thorverton, 
 Widow, dated iQth June, 1649. Bequests to the poor of 
 Thorverton and Shobrooke. 
 
 She leaves her daughters Charity Venne of Payhembury, 
 Joan Styling, Agnes Hughes (Tiverton), and Marie Kelland, 
 10 each. 
 
 To John, son of son Henry Tucker of Stoke Canon, and 
 to the latter's other children, Lewis, Elizabeth, and Dorothy, 
 .10 each at 16. Residue to Humphry Thomas of Thorverton, 
 who is Sole Exor. 
 
 By the Inventory it appears that Walter Ciossc owed 
 testatrix .248 6s. 8d., and also 200 ; Edmund Browne of 
 Newton St. Cyres, .50. 
 
 Proved by Executor named, 3<Dth May, 1651. 
 
 Sum 510 IDS.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 191 
 
 1660. The last Will of Roger Tooker of the city of 
 Exeter, "In holder," dated I3th Oct., 1660. Legacies of 
 .100 to sons Hugh and Roger, at 24. 
 
 Residue to wife Amy, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved i8th Dec., 1660. 
 
 NOTE. Indorsed "Roger Curtis Tooker." 
 
 1661. Administration to the effects of Henry Tucker of 
 Cadbury, granted to Christian, his widow, I7th Jany., 1661. 
 
 He had a chattell lease of a close of land and a house 
 called " King's House," in parish of Tiveiton. 
 
 1662. Administration to the effects of John Tucker of 
 Whimple, granted 4th Feby., 1662, to Alice Crutchett, next 
 of kin. 
 
 1662. The last Will, nuncupative, of Peter Tooker of Kenn, 
 Yeoman, dated 28th July, 1662. 
 
 To daughters Margaret Barter, Grace Lamb, and Joan 
 Damarell, .5 apiece. His house to eldest son, Gilbert; a 
 meadow to son Thomas. 
 
 Residue to wife Mary, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 22nd Aug., 1662. 
 
 Sum 75 1 8s. 4d. 
 
 1664. The last Will of William Tucker of Tiverton, Hus- 
 bandman, dated 29th Nov., 1664. To son Humphry and 
 daughter Grace, 50 each. 
 
 Residue to son William, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 7th Dec., 1664. 
 
 Armorial Seal, in red wax "an antelope." 
 
 Sum, 145 i8s. lod. 
 
 1665. Administration to the effects of William Tucker of 
 Axminster, granted to Agnes his wife, I7th May, 1665. 
 Sum, 13 45.
 
 192 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1665. Johanna Tucker of Whitstone, granted to Anne 
 Kingwell, her daughter, of M orchard Bishop, I3th June, 1665. 
 
 1665. Nicholas Tucker of Plymtree, to Lucy, his relict, 
 2Oth Sept, 1665. 
 Sum, ,23 145. 5d. 
 
 1665. The last Will of Elizabeth Tucker of Kenn, Widow. 
 
 To poor of Kenn, 2Os. To daughter Mary, wife of John 
 Wright of Feniton, a silver bowl. To grandchildren Elizabeth, 
 Philip, and Mary Wright, and John, Thomas, and David 
 Nosworthy, 403. each. To grandchild Honor Nosworthy, 
 " the standing bedstead ' performed ' (i.e., perfect), the Spruce 
 Chest, the table board, and the form, all standing in the 
 new chamber, one brass pot and three pewter dishes." 
 Similar bequests of furniture to grandchildren Mary and 
 Elizabeth Nosworthy. Mentions daughter Elizabeth Nosworthy. 
 
 Residue to John Nosworthy, the elder, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 2Oth Oct., 1665. 
 
 1666. A<1 ministration to the effects of John Tucker of 
 Tiverton, granted lOth May, 1666, to Deborah, the widow. 
 Sum, ;8 lOs. 
 
 1667. The last Will of Susanna Tucker of Luppit, Widow, 
 dated 2Oth July, 1657. She gives her leasehold estate called 
 Rugpath, and her best petticoat, to her son John Tucker. 
 She gives son Thomas 90, and his bed, and " my best pot 
 called Thomazine's pot & platter." 
 
 To son Joseph, his bed and 90, and the " olde pot." 
 Further bequests to daughters Elizabeth Wiet* and Rabbage 
 Flood, and granddaughters Elizabeth Wiet and " five " others, 
 and also Stephen Flood. 
 
 Residue to son John, who is Sole Executor. 
 
 Proved loth April, 1667. 
 
 Sum, 415 1 8s. 6d. 
 
 * Elizabeth, wife of Christopher Wiet of Ottery St. Mary.
 
 DEVONSHIRE IV ILLS. 193 
 
 1667. Administration to the effects of Nicholas Tucker of 
 Bampton, granted I2th Sept., 1667, to Margery, his relict. 
 
 1667. Inventory of Nicholas Tucker, made I5th March, 
 1666. 
 
 "Item 6 Steers & 4 HefTers, with 2 yerdings ... 30 o o 
 
 "36 Shcepe 1600 
 
 "4 Pigs 300 
 
 " Corne in barne ... ... ... ... ... 900 
 
 "Bacon 300 
 
 "Butter & Cheese o 10 o 
 
 "3 Horses with their takelin* 9 o o" 
 
 Sum, 145. 
 
 1667. The last Will of Mary Tucker of Halberton, Widow, 
 dated i6th Oct., 1667. 
 
 Tenement in said parish to son Nicholas Tucker ; certain 
 furniture, and " the house ladder, hanging over John Hancock's 
 door." 
 
 To grandchildren Anne and Rebecca Tucker, " one pewter 
 dish apiece,'"' " which are uppon the cupboard in the parler." 
 
 To son-in-law Christopher Burton, " one olde tubbe to keep 
 corn in." Mentions grandchildren Mary and Elizabeth Burton, 
 and Mary Martyn. 
 
 Residue to son-in-law, Robert Martyn, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved iSth Nov., 1667. 
 
 1668. The last Will of Susannah Osmond of Tiverton, 
 Widow, Sept. 26th, 1668. 
 
 To kinsman George Osmond, .5. To James Osmond, 405. 
 Residue to " kinsfolk " Elizb. Ward, and Thomas and Elizb. 
 Osmond, who are joint Exors. 
 
 John Osmond a Trustee. 
 
 Proved 7th Oct., 1668. 
 
 Sum, 185 iis. 8d. 
 
 * 1 1.
 
 194 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1668. The nuncupative Will of Joseph Tucker of Luppit, 
 1st Nov., 1667. 
 
 To John and Elizabeth, children of John Flood of Broadway, 
 co. Somerset, 12 each at 21. To Susannah, their sister, 403. 
 To their mother, " Rabetch Flood " (Testator's sister), 14. 
 
 To brother Thomas Tucker, to sister Elizabeth, wife of 
 Christopher Wyetr, and their children Elizabeth, Christopher, 
 John, Susan, and Samuel Wyett, small bequests at 21. 
 
 To brother John Tucker, los. at 21. 
 
 Residue to said last-named brother, who is Sole Executor. 
 
 Proved 1 8th Dec., 1668. 
 
 1669. Administration to the effects of Maria Mortimer of 
 Cheriton, granted 6th Oct., 1669, to Thomas Ward, her son. 
 Thomas Ward of Cheriton, husbandman, joins the bond. 
 
 1669. Administration to the effects of John Mortimore of 
 Spreyton, granted I9th March, 1669-70, to Alice, his wife. 
 
 1669. The last Will of John Osmond of Willand, dated 
 25th Sept., 1669. 
 
 He assigns a legacy " left him by Father " to the maintenance 
 of son James Osmond, to be administered by brothers George 
 and James Osmond as trustees, and he leaves them the residue 
 of his estate in trust for the benefit of wife Mary, with 
 remainder to nephew James, son of said George Osmond, and 
 James, son of brother Thomas Osmond, deceased. 
 
 Witnesses, Robert and Elizabeth Dowdney. 
 
 Administration granted to testator's said brothers, George 
 and James Osmond, I4th Jany., 1669. 
 
 NOTE. The Dowdneys, otherwise Dewdeneys, were long settled at 
 Doddiscombleigli, and more recently at Stoke Canon. 
 Arms Sable, a bund erm., cotised or.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 195 
 
 1669. Administration to the effects of Agnes Tucker of 
 Tiverton, granted 8th Oct., 1669, to Maria Tucker, her 
 daughter. 
 
 1670. Admon. to the effects of William Tucker of Halber- 
 ton, granted I2th Aug., 1670, to Amy, his widow. 
 
 1670. "Amy" (or Anne) Tucker of Halberton, Widow, 
 granted i$th Sept., 1670, to Richard Tucker, her brother. 
 
 1670. The last Will of Nicholas Tucker of Westmeare in 
 parish of Tiverton, I3th Aug, 1667. Legacies to children 
 John, Elizabeth, Alice, and Margaret Tucker, Mary, wife of 
 Stephen Stone. Special bequest to Margaret, "one coffer, 
 second best paire of Sheets, and one dyaper bord cloth." 
 
 Residue to children James and Johan, who are joint Exors. 
 
 Kinsman Thomas Tidbolle, trustee. 
 
 Proved 9th Sept, 1670. 
 
 NOTE. The Tidboulds, Tidbolles, or Tidballs, are an old Devon- 
 shire family, of late years resident at Chulmleigh. 
 
 Samuel Tidball, in 1613, accepted the curacy of Ashburton, and was 
 subsequently Head Master of the Grammar School. Upon the death 
 of his son-in-law, Mark Law, who had married his daughter Maria, apd 
 had succeeded his father, Archdeacon Law, as Vicar of Ashburton, Mr. 
 Tidball was himself instituted to that preferment in 1644. He died in 
 1647. 
 
 The Will of his son, Samuel Tidball, gentleman, dated 2oth May, 
 1666, was proved in the Court of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, 
 1 3th July, that year. 
 
 1670. The last Will of John Tucker of Tiverton, Bachelor, 
 dated loth Oct., 1670. 
 
 To his two sisters Mary Tucker, " the elder," and Mary 
 Tucker, "the younger," 20 each. He settles an estate called 
 " Coomburlleys," in said paiish, upon the sons of his brother 
 Philip, and their heiis, with remainder, in default, to his said 
 two sisters. $ to be spent on his funeral. 
 
 Residue to brother William Tucker, who is Sole Exor.
 
 196 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 John Harriett, testator's grandfather, and John Burragc, 
 serge maker, are trustees. 
 
 Admon. granted to John Burrage and John Chilcott, in 
 minority of Exor., i/th Jany., 1670. 
 
 1670. The last Will, nuncupative, of Francis Osmond of 
 Halberton, dated 23rd July, 1670. Mentions sons Robert, 
 Abraham, and John, daughters Jone and Deborah, and grand- 
 child Deborah Lee. Residue to said sons, and to Francis, 
 their brother, and to daughter, Deborah Lte, who are joint 
 Exors. 
 
 Proved 5th Aug., 1670. 
 
 1670. Administration to the estate of James Osmond, 
 Gentleman, of Halberton, granted i6th August, 1670, to 
 Susannah, his relict. 
 
 1671. The last Will of Thomas Mortimore of Harp ford, 
 2 1st Jany., 1663. 
 
 He gives wife Ursula certain furniture, and " that cheare 
 which I brought away from Salterton." 
 
 Bequests to Emmet, wife of Robert Harries of Exeter, and 
 to their daughter Mary. 
 
 To Richard and Mary, children of late Richard Mortimore, 
 2 55. each. 
 
 "To the clarke to toll the bell, is 6d." 
 
 " To the bedman for his paynes, is." To the poor, is, and 
 to the poor of Newton Poppleford, is. 
 
 Residue to John, son of late Richard Mortimore, who is 
 Sole Exor. 
 
 2Os. to be spent on the funeral. 
 
 Witnesses, John Saiward (Seaward), Richard Dagworthy, 
 and Jacob Clarke. 
 
 Proved 2nd May, 1671.
 
 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 197 
 
 1671. The last Will of Thomas Mortymore of Bradninch, 
 22nd May, 1671. He doubles a bequest of 2Os. by father, 
 William Mortymore, in favour of " my two daughters," Elizb., 
 wife of William Maye, and Mary, wife of Thomas Hardinge. 
 
 Mentions grandchildren John, Joan, and Richard Hardinge. 
 Grandchild Thomas Venn, " a Bible, five wagges (wedges), and 
 a thort saw " (cross-cut saw). Residue to grandchildren 
 Thomas, Agnes, and Amos Venn, who are joint Exors. 
 
 Proved by trustees, Robert Salter and Thomas Hardinge, 
 7th June, 1671. 
 
 1671. Administration to the effects of William Fry, Yeoman, 
 of Upottery, granted 28th April, 1671, to Joan, his relict. 
 
 1671. The last Will of Robert Mortimore, of Faringdon, 
 ist July, 1671. 
 
 To son Robert, " my brewing kieve." To daughter Hannah, 
 " a standard, and one pewter dish." To daughter Joan, " a 
 bedstead and bed, with liberty to come and go until she is 
 married or dead." Mentions son Thomas and daughters Alice 
 and Hester. Gives house and garden to son Henry, and makes 
 him residuary legatee and Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 2Oth Oct., 1671. 
 
 1671. Administration to the effects of George Tucker of 
 Shobrooke, granted 3rd Feby., 1671, to Maria Tucker, his 
 daughter. 
 
 1672. The last Will of Valentine Tucker of Poltimore, 
 8th May, 1672. To poor of the parish, io/-. Gives daughter, 
 Joan Wilcocks, an interest in " Tongington," in parish of 
 Exminster. Mentions " my two sons-in-law," Philip and 
 Amias Wilcocks. Residue to son John, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 7th Jany., 1672. 
 
 Sum, 238 175. icd.
 
 198 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1673. The last Will of Robert Tucker of Tedburn. To 
 son Robert, ^50. To children, Bridget, Elizabeth, Johan, 
 John, Mary, and Peter Tucker, 20 each. To sons Thomas 
 and Mark Tucker, the tenement called Colly-Hay, his residence. 
 Residue to wife Bridget, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved nth April, 1673. 
 
 1673. The last Will of Nicholas Osmond of Halberton, 
 1 8th Feby., 1668. To poor of parish, 5<D/-. Bequests to 
 daughters, Elizb. Osmond and Anne Chamberlyn, and to 
 latter's son, John Chamberlyn. To brother, Francis Osmond ; 
 to sister, Sarah Bennett ; to Henry Gold the elder ; and to 
 his daughter, Maudlyn Gold. Residue to son Abraham Os- 
 mond, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 2nd June, 1673. 
 
 Sum, 245 I3s. lod. 
 
 1673. The last Will nuncupative of Michael Osmond of 
 Halberton, ist Nov. 1672. He makes his wife Joane, his 
 daughter, Joane Weber, and his son, Christopher Osmond, 
 joint residuary legatees and Exors. 
 
 Trustees Arthur and John Kerslake. 
 
 Proved nth July, 1673. 
 
 1674. The last Will of Christian Tuker of Stokeintinhead, 
 Widow, 8th Feby., 1673. 
 
 She gives her house and garden to Grace, daughter of 
 brother Abraham Ladimer (Latimer) of the parish of St. 
 Nicholas (Shaldon). Mentions sister, Amy Lang, and gives 
 Sara Lang " one gold ring which was her grandmother's." 
 To Mary Lang, " one drawer of apills." " Cosin " (i.e., nephew) 
 Abraham Ladimer, "George Monk's children," and Joan Poole, 
 are also mentioned. Residue to brother-in-law, Thomas Lang, 
 who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 1st May, 1674.
 
 DEVONSHIRE \VII.LS. 199 
 
 1674. Admon. to the estate of Arthur Tucker, late of 
 
 St. David's, Exeter, granted 26th June, 1674, to Agnes Blake, 
 otherwise Tucker. 
 
 1674. Admon. to the estate of Matthew Mortimore of 
 Christowe, granted I5th Nov., 1674, to I sot > h' s relict. 
 
 1674. The last Will of Simon Mortimer of Dunsford. Gives 
 20 each to sons Thomas and " Symon," and to daughter 
 Mary Mortimer. Mentions brother Gilbert Mortimer, son-in-law 
 George Mortimer, and sister-in-law Amy Potter. To grandson 
 George Mortimer, 12. Residue to wife Ellinor, who is Sole 
 Executrix. 
 
 Proved 24th March, 1674. 
 
 1675. The last Will of George Osmond of Broadclist, 
 Yeoman, ist Det., 1675. To son James, " my tenement called 
 Goosens" at 21. Residue to wife Margaret, who is Sole 
 Executrix. 
 
 Proved Qth Feby., 1675. 
 
 1678. The la.^t Will of Agnes Osmond of Halberton, 
 Widow, 8th Sept., 1676. Mentions grandchildren, Agnes 
 Turner, widow, Thomasine Turner, Margt. Turner, Elinor, 
 wife of Edward Weeks, Henry and Abraham, sons of Henry 
 Trent, and Joan, wife of Henry Trent. Daughters Joan, wife 
 of Abraham Turner, and Elizabeth, wife of Edward Hitchcocke. 
 She also mentions " Elizabeth, wife of John Morrish," and 
 Robert Bragg. 
 
 Residue to said " grandchild " Joan, wife of Henry Trent, 
 who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses, Thomas Dowdney and Maudlyn Gold. 
 
 Proved loth June, 1678.
 
 200 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1679. The last Will of Tobias Tucker of Cheriton Fitz- 
 paine, 23rd Dec., 1679. He leaves his " cosens " Gilling, 
 Elizabeth, Mary, and Constance Jones, children of his sister 
 Elizabeth, 4O/- each. To Thomasine Easterbrook, 4O/- ; and 
 to " brother's two children," 4O/- each. To Bartholomew 
 Huish, 5/- ; to John Huish, senr., 2O/- and the "little mare"; 
 to William, son of John Huish, io/-. To godson, Roger 
 Glanfield, io/-. Funeral to cost 4. Residue to brother, 
 Richard Tucker, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 6th Jany., 1679. 
 
 1679. The last Will of John Tucker of Cleyhidon. To his 
 two daughters Margt, wife of George Pocock, and Elizabeth, 
 wife of Thomas Somerhayes, 5/- each. 
 
 160 to be raised on his estate, and the interest paid to 
 daughter Bridget, wife of John Seyman, with remainder to 
 her sons, John, Edmond, and William Sparke, and Nicholas 
 Seyman. To son-in-law, John Troke, I/-. He bequeaths a 
 debt of .40, due to him from George Pocock, to his grand- 
 children, Elizabeth, Joane, Henry, and George Pocock. 
 
 And a debt of 10, due to him from Thomas Somerhayes, 
 to grandchild Elizb. Somerhayes. To grandchild Alice Troke, 
 5 at 21. Residue to son Nicholas Tucker, who is Sole 
 Exor. 
 
 Proved 5th May, 1679. 
 
 1679. The last Will of Philip Tucker of Tiverton, i5th Dec., 
 1679. To Mary Pullin and Mary Webber, leasehold house 
 and garden adjoining the Churchyard gate. 
 
 Residue of a lease of a house in occupation of William 
 Chilcote, to "cosens" Mary, Agnes, and Susannah Pullen and 
 their issue, for a term of 2,000 years, and also an eighth part 
 of "Way" for similar term. 
 
 To brother, William Tucker, io/-. Residue to said "cosen" 
 Agnes Pullin, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 2ist Feby., 1679. 
 
 Admon. granted to Petherick Hopkins, in minority of Agnes 
 Pullin, 2 1st Feby., 1679.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 201 
 
 1679. The last Will of Roger Tucker of St. Thomas, by 
 Exeter, 2Oth Oct., 1679. To the poor of St. Thomas the 
 Apostle, 3O/-. 
 
 To nephew Henry, son of late George Tucker of George- 
 Nymet, 4O/-/.0. The will, which extends over two sheets, is 
 filled with names of his mere acquaintance. To " the children " 
 of his " mother's sister by Thomas Worthen " he gives >g. 
 To Dorothy Godfrey " the remnant of white woollen cloth 
 which was last in her custody, and his Bible." Residue to 
 George, son of said brother, George Tucker, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 26th Feby., 1679. 
 
 1680. The last Will of William Tucker of St. Thomas the 
 Apostle, nigh Exeter, 4th Oct., 1680. 
 
 Bequests to brother Thomas and his child ; to brother 
 Anthony and his wife and child ; to brother Samuel and 
 sister Joan. 
 
 To "cosen" George, son of George Tucker, 5 at 21 
 Residue to brother, George Tucker, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved igth Nov., 1680. 
 
 1680. Administration to the effects of Stephen Tucker, 
 late of Luppit, granted 2ist Oct., 1680, to Anstis his wife. 
 
 1680. Administration to the effects of Mary Mortimer of 
 Holcomb Burnell, granted 2ist March, 1680, to Mary Braggats 
 Mortimore her daughter. 
 
 1680. Administration to the effects of Harry Mortimore of 
 Farringdon. granted 5th Oct., 1 680, to Joan his wife. 
 
 1680. Aclmon. to the effects of John Mortimore of Thorver- 
 ton, granted I2th Jany., 1 680-81, to John Norrish, their uncle, 
 for the benefit of Thomas Mortimore and Lewis Melhuish, 
 brothers of deceased. 
 
 Dyonisius Melhuish of Thorverton joins the bond.
 
 202 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1681. Admon. to the estate of Gilbert Tucker of St. Nicholas 
 (Shaldon), granted 22nd Oct., 1681, to his daughter Dorothy, 
 wife of Thomas Mudsre. 
 
 1681. The last Will of Johan Tucker of St. Thomas, by 
 Exeter, Widow, I4th Dec. 1681. 
 
 To son Thomas, $, failing his life, to his wife and to his 
 daughter, Elizabeth Tucker. 
 
 To son George, " two rumes of my house, to vvitt the ground 
 rume, and the chamber over, and halfe of the garden ploot, 
 that is now sett with the saide rumes." 
 
 To son Anthony, " the backer chamber, commonly called 
 the chamber over the pentline, and a stable, and the other 
 halfe of saide garden." 
 
 To son Samuel, " the other tenement, with a garden ploot, 
 the same size as George and Anthony's, and they to have a 
 piece of ground apiece to build a pig's stye on." 
 
 Residue to daughter Johane, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved loth Jany., 1681. 
 
 1 68 1. The last Will of George Osmond of Halberton, 
 June 6th, 1681, Yeoman. To the poor, io/-. 
 
 To son James, 10, and the "silver salt." 
 
 To son George, a tenement called " Shilcrofr," and certain 
 furniture. 
 
 To son Philip, 200, and a " little desk." 
 
 To daughter Welthian, 120. 
 
 Residue to wife Welthian, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 2Oth Sept., 1681. 
 
 Sum, 427 2s. 4d. 
 
 1681. Admon. to the effects of Andrew Osmond, late of 
 the City of Exeter, granted I4th Oct., 1681, to Edward 
 Bampfield, principal creditor.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 203 
 
 1682. The last Will of John Tucker the elder, of the parish 
 of Holy Trinity, and City of Exeter, dated 6th May, 1682. 
 House and Garden, mortgaged to John Tucker, merchant, to 
 son, John Tucker. Mentions " three daughters." Residue to 
 wife Rebecca, and son Morris Tucker, they are joint Exors. 
 
 Proved pth June, 1682. 
 
 1682. Induction. Mandate from "Thomas," the Bishop, to 
 the Archdeacon of Exeter (Dr. Edward Lake), to induct 
 Nicholas Tucker, clerk, to the Rectory of Hittesleigh, loth June, 
 1682. 
 
 NOTE. " Thomas," Lord Bishop of Exeter, was Dr. Thomas Lam- 
 plugh, he became Archbishop of York, Nov., 1688. "Dr. Edward Lake," 
 was the son of an Exeter clergyman ; born 1642, at first of VVadham 
 C.ll., Oxford, but graduated at Cambridge. He became attached to 
 the household of the Duke of York in 1670, and was chaplain and 
 tutor to the princesses Mary and Anne, afterward Queens of England. 
 He was present at the marriage of the former with her cousin, the 
 Prince of Orange, subsequently William III., and left in his diary a 
 curious account of the ceremony which was solemnized in the bed- 
 chamber of the princess at St. Jamts' Palace, at 9 o'clock, on the night 
 of Nov. 4th, 1677, after a formal engagement of fourteen days. 
 Dr. Lake died in London, ist Fc-hy., 1704, and was buried in the 
 church of St. Katherine, Tower Hill. 
 
 1682. The last Will of William Tucker of Cheriton Fitz- 
 Paine, nth June, 1678. He leaves 4 to daughter Margaret 
 Sharlen. Residue to son Simon, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 23rd Oct., 1682. 
 
 1682. The last Will of Henry Glover of Tiverton, 26th 
 Feby., 1682. He leaves his four children, William, Thomas, 
 Thomazine, and Mary, ,4 each. Residue of real estate to 
 wife Thomazine, for benefit of said children. Residue of 
 personality to son Thomas "Glover alias Tucker," who is 
 Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 2ist March, 1682. 
 
 Sum, 279 7s. 6d.
 
 204 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1683. The last Will of William Mortimore the elder, of 
 Tiverton, 22nd August, 1682. "To William Mortimore's wife 
 my three gold rings." To son, John Mortimore, " one sylver 
 spoone." Residue to sons, William and John Mortimore, who 
 are joint Exors. He desires to be buried in Crediton 
 Churchyard. 
 
 Proved i6th May, 1683. 
 
 Oval seal in black wax charged with a fleur-de-lys. 
 
 1683. Administration to the effects of John Tucker of 
 Thornecombe, granted 24th April, 1683, to Joan his relict. 
 Inventory of above, made 7th Nov., 1682 : 
 "Item 5 cows ... ... ... ...i$ 
 
 3 heifers ... ... 7 
 
 2 fatt cows... ... ... ... 9 5 
 
 2 yearling heifers ... ... ... 2 
 
 One mare and takeling belong to lier... .3 
 
 2 Piggs ... ... ... ... 2 1 6." 
 
 1683. John Tucker of Newton St. Cyres, July loth, 1683. 
 He leaves his wife Joan an annuity of 5o/-. Residue for 
 the benefit of his children, Joan, Mary, Francis, and John, in 
 trust to brother, Nicholas Tucker, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved Sept. nth, 1683. 
 
 1683. Inventory of the effects of John Tucker of Wood- 
 leigh, in the parish of Newton St. Cyres, made by Walter 
 Tucker and others, i6th July, 1683. 
 
 "Imprimis his purse and apparel ... ...^4 
 
 Item one mare with his furniture ... .. ,3 
 
 2 Bullocks ... ... ... ..-,5 10 
 
 One little nursery ... ... ...i 10 
 
 3 young piggs ... ...ji 
 
 i littel plot of wheat with the cabbage 
 
 plants, carrots & beans ... .. 2 
 
 All the apples ... ... ...2 5 
 
 3 brasse crockes, 3 brasse panns, & 
 
 3 brass kettles ... ... $ 19."
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 205 
 
 1683. The last Will of John Tucker of Brampford Speke. 
 To the poor of the parish and to the " reparashion " of the 
 parish church, 3/4. He leaves certain bedding, with liberty 
 to reside in his house, to beloved wife Thomazine. Small 
 legacies to daughter Mary Sowdon, and to her children 
 Henry and Mary Sowdon. Residue to daughters Alice and 
 Elizabeth Tucker, who are joint Exors. 
 
 Proved 28th Nov., 1683. 
 
 1684. Richard Tucker of Halberton, bequeaths his "body 
 to the earth from which it was extracted." He devises 
 leasehold property at "Five Bridges" to son Nicholas, and 5 
 to son Thomas. Mentions " sister, Blackmore," and sister, 
 " Prudence Snow." Residue to wife Rebecca, who is Sole 
 Executrix. 
 
 Brother Nicholas Tucker a trustee. 
 
 Dated I2th Sept., 1684. 
 
 Proved i/th March, 1684-85. 
 
 1684 The last Will of Samuel Osmond of Broadclist, 
 Yeoman, dated ist May, 1684. 2O/- to poor for bread, and 
 2C/- to poor labourers. To wife Thomasine certain furniture ; 
 to brother John Osmond, to sister Mary Palmer, and to 
 cousin Jane Osmond, ^5 each. To sister Wilmot Walker, 
 and to Samuel Walker, her son, 5<D/-. Residue to mother, 
 Catherine, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved loth May, 1684. 
 
 1684. The last Will of Abraham Mills of Halberton, 
 otherwise Osmond, 23rd March, 1683. To the poor "twenty 
 dusson of bread." Mentions brother-in-law, George Northcote, 
 " To the parson that preaches my funeral sermon 2O/-." 
 Small bequests to Hannah Hookins, Margt. Hill, Thomas 
 Rogers and Thomas Halkwill. To sister Elizabeth, a pair of 
 gloves. Residue to wife Joan, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses John and George Northcote. 
 
 Proved i/th April, 1684.
 
 206 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1685. Admon. to the effects of Richard Mortimore, late 
 of Harpford, deceased, granted pth March, 1685, to his relict 
 Margaret Dagworthy alias " Mortymer," now wife of Richard 
 Dagworthy. 
 
 NOTE. The Inventory shows that deceased died 4th Sept., 1658 
 (twenty-seven years previously), and left personal estate valued at 
 ^109 los. 6d. 
 
 1685. Bernard Tucker of Southleigh, Husbandman, 2ist 
 May, 1685. Mentions children John, Thomas, and Grace. 
 Residue to wife Mary, who is Sole Executdx. 
 
 Proved 23rd Sept., 1685. 
 
 1686. The last Will of Thomas Tucker of Southleigh, 
 "old & stricken in years," 2 1st July, 1682. Leaves certain 
 furniture to wife Judith. Legacies to son Charles and his 
 children Charles and Jane; to son Thomas and his child 
 John Tucker; to daughter Elizb., wife of Win. French, and 
 to her son, Thomas French ; to grandson James, son of 
 James Tucker, deceased. Residue to son and daughter, 
 Richard and Barbara, who are joint Exors. 
 
 Witness Bernard Tucker. 
 
 Proved 2Oth April, 1686. 
 
 1686. Humphry Tucker of Pinhoe, nigh Exeter, desires 
 to be buried in the parish yard. To son Humphry (married 
 to " Elizabeth "), leasehold tenement at " Southley alias Sowlee," 
 " known by the name of Holster." Residue to daughter 
 Emline, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved i6th April, 1686. 
 
 1686-87. Will, nuncupative, dated 26th Nov., 1686, of 
 Elizabeth Tucker of Brampford Speke, Spinster, ^5 to poor, 
 and a like sum to sister Mary Sowdon's four children. To 
 sister Alice Tucker, a field called Cross Park. Residue to 
 mother, Thomazine, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved by Executrix, 4th Feby., 1686-87.
 
 DE VON SHI RE WILLS. 207 
 
 1687. Admon. to the effects of Joanna Tucker of Thorne- 
 combe, daughter of John Tucker, deceased. Granted nth April, 
 1687, to Joan Tucker, her mother. 
 
 Sum, $2 i8s. 5|d. 
 
 1687. Gilbert Tucker of Honiton, pth Nov., 1686, leaves 
 grandchildren Gregory, John, and Elizabeth Oke, I/- each 
 at 21. Residue to daughter Elizabeth, wife of John Oke, who 
 is Sole Executrix. To be buried in Honiton Churchyard. 
 
 Sum, i IQS. 3d. 
 
 Proved 2nd Feby., 1687. 
 
 1687. The last Will of George Moitimore of the City and 
 County of the City of Exeter, i6th Feby., 1687. He recites 
 a marriage settlement by which a moiety of " Gibbs," situate 
 at Witnell in County of Somerset, has been granted to 
 daughter Elizb. Bowden, and he bequeaths the other moiety 
 to daughter Deborah Mortimore, together with the sum of 
 190, a silver tankard, and silver porringer. Bequests to 
 Jonathan, Elizabeth, and Deboiah Bowden, children of said 
 daughter Elizb., and to brother Antony Mortimore and his 
 "children." To Elizabeth Blackaller, io/-. 
 
 Residue to said daughters, who are joint Exors. 
 
 Proved I5th March, 1687. 
 
 1687. The last Will of Symon Mortimer of Dunsford, to 
 nephew Symon, son of Abraham Shilston of said parish, and 
 to Elizabeth, daughter of brother Thomas, I/- each. 
 
 Residue to daughters Ellinor and Dorothy, who are joint 
 Exors. 
 
 Remainder to children of brother-in-law, Nicholas Payne, 
 and of Mary, wife of brother-in-law, Wm. Shilhton, "my 
 sister." 
 
 Witnesses John Peddericke, Wilmett Hammett, and John 
 Davy. 
 
 Proved nth Nov., 1687. 
 
 Armorial Seal 3 Estoiles.
 
 2o8 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1687. Will, nuncupative, of Thomas Osmond, late of Tiver- 
 ton, " who died on St. Stephen's day, last past." 
 
 To eldest son, Thomas, " best coat & best hatt, best 
 stockings & shoes & I/-." To second sou, George, "close 
 bodyed coat & I/-." To son Peter, "best breeches & I/-." 
 Residue to wife Joan, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved I2th April, 1687. 
 
 1688. Administration to the effects of Peter Tucker of 
 Cadbury, granted i8th May, 1688, to William his son. 
 
 1688. The last Will of Welthyan Osmond of Hearn, in 
 the parish of Halberton, Widow. To son George and his 
 three children, Thomas, Elizabeth, and Joan, $ each. To 
 son Philip, .5 ; to daughter Welthyan, 60. To the poor, 
 2O/-. Residue to son James Osmond, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 3rd May, 1688. 
 
 1688. The last Will of Nicholas Tucker of St. Thomas the 
 Apostle, nigh Exeter, Schoolmaster. To sister, Mary Bicknell, 
 5s. To son Thomas, the lease of the schools, and to Mary, 
 Joan, and Agnes Tucker, children of said Thomas, 2 los. 
 each. Legacies to daughter Mary Rugg, and her children 
 Mary and Thomas. 
 
 Residue to wife Agnes, who is Sole Executrix. Dated 
 I7th April, 1688. Latter to have disposal of goods if she 
 remains unmarried, but he wishes his children to have the 
 " benefit of that which he hath carefully gotten." 
 
 Proved 3rd Sept., 1688. 
 
 1689. The last Will of James Tucker of Tiverton, dated 
 I7th March, 1688-89. His body to be "decently buried, 
 according to the computation of the Church of England." 
 His " wearing cloths " to his brother Roger Tucker. 
 
 Residue to wife Ann, and daughter Sarah, who are joint 
 Exors. 
 
 Proved i6th April, 1689.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 209 
 
 1689. Admon. to the effects of Lewis Tucker of Exeter, 
 granted 9th Sept., 1689, to Dorothy, his widow. 
 
 1689. Dorothy Osmond of Uplowman, Widow, 3Oth Oct., 
 1689. Legacies to son-in-law James Osmond, and to Agnes 
 his wife, and to Edward and Piiscilla, their children. 
 
 To Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Osmond, "one suit of 
 apparel which I did usually weare Saboth dayes." 
 
 To Mary, wife of Robert Heard, " my best cloth pettycote." 
 To Mrs. Ann Calwoodleigh, 2O/-. 
 
 Residue to " my friend," Mrs. Thomasine Calwoodleigh, 
 who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 8th Nov., 1689. 
 
 NOTE. " Mrs. Ann Calwoodleigh," baptized at Uplowman, 1662, 
 was daughter of James, and sifter of John Calwoodleigh, buried at 
 Uplowman, May, 1663. 
 
 The descent of these, doubtful as regards legitimacy, is recorded in 
 the Herald's Visitations of Devonshire, and is traced to John C. of 
 " Calwoodleigh," pronounced and now written Calverleigh, who married 
 a daughter of John Floyer, early in the i5th century. The younger 
 branch removed from Padstow to London. 
 
 Arms of Calwoodleigh of Calverleigh " Az. two wings, conjoined, 
 Arg. surmounted by a fess, Gu. thereon 3 bezants." 
 
 1690. The last Will of Thomas Tooker of Dunsford, 
 5th Oct., 1687. 
 
 Bequests to sons Robert and Nicholas, daughter Elizabeth, 
 and grandchildren Robert and Margaret Tucker. 
 
 Residue to wife Elizabeth, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved /th March, 1690. 
 
 1690. Nicholas Tucker of Halberton, 26th Dec, 1689. 
 Bequests to children Andrew, Nicholas, and Anne. Half of 
 goods to wife Rebecca. Eldest daughter, Rebecca, " to be 
 sole executrix of everything, in doors and out." 
 
 Residue undisposed of. 
 
 Proved 6th May, 1690.
 
 210 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1690. The last Will of Sarah Osman of Exeter, " single 
 woman." Bequests of I/- to brother-in-law Abraham Seely, 
 and to his children Abraham, Peter, Elizb., and Joan Seely. 
 4 to brother John Osman's children. To sister Hannah 
 Seely, "all my cloathes." 
 
 Residue to said brother, John Osman, who is Sole Exor. 
 Dated 28th June, 1689. 
 
 Witness Elizb. Follett. 
 
 Proved 2/th Sept., 1690. 
 
 1690. Admon. to the effects of William Fry of Silverton, 
 granted i$th Aug., 1690, to Dorothy his relict. 
 
 1691. The last Will of Johan Tucker of Poltimore, Widow, 
 2Oth Dec., 1690. She divides her property amongst her 
 children Amos and Philip Wilcocks, and grandchildren Mary 
 and Johan, Roger and Isaac Wilcocks. Bequests to son-in- 
 law John Tucker, and to kinswoman Ann Harris. 
 
 Residue to Philip, son of Philip, and Elizabeth, daughter 
 of Amos Wilcocks, who are joint Exors. 
 
 Admon. to Amos and Philip Wilcocks, sons of Testatrix, 
 in minority of Exors. 
 
 Granted 29th May, 1691. 
 
 1691. Administration to the effects of Richard Tucker of 
 St Thomas, granted 25th Aug., 1691, to Jane his wife. 
 
 1691. The last Will of Jone Osmond of Tiverton, Widow, 
 1 6th Jany., 1690. Mentions sons Peter, Thomas, and George 
 Osmond, grandchildren Robert and William Osmond. 
 
 Residue to daughter Alice Daley, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 22nd Dec, 1691. 
 
 1-692. William Tucker, the elder, of Axminster, Yeoman, 
 Dec. 2Oth, 1690. To wife Armonell, land in Stockland and 
 Dal wood.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 211 
 
 To daughters Joane Callard, Bridget Liddon, and Elinor 
 Nevvberry, 20 each. To "all his grandchildren," 10 each; 
 William and Richard Newberry only excepted. The latter 
 to have reversion of a cottage and meadow in Dalwood, for 
 residue of a term of 2,000 years. 
 
 Cousin Elizb. Haydon, 5 ; wife's sister's daughter, Joane 
 Davy, 2 25. 
 
 He settles all the land in Stockland and Dalwood upon his 
 son William Tucker and his issue male, with remainder to 
 the children of Matthew Callard and Joane his wife, of Robert 
 Liddon and Bridget his wife, and Richard Newberry and 
 Elinor his wife. 
 
 2O/- to the poor of the aforesaid three parishes respectively. 
 
 To brother and sister's children, 2/6 each. 
 
 Residue to son William, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved iQth April, 1692. 
 
 1692. John Tucker of Southleigh, Husbandman, 24th Sept., 
 1692. 
 
 Bequests to wife Mary, to " cosen " Charles Tucker, to 
 " cosen " Thomas ; brother Thomas' son ; to cousins John, 
 Thomas, and Grace, children of brother Bernard T., John, 
 son of cousin Thomas Tucker. To Richard, son of said 
 brother Thomas, a tenement called "Mount Drake" in Mus- 
 bury. Residue to cousin, Margt. Phillips, who is Sole 
 Executrix. 
 
 Proved 23rd Jany., 1692. 
 
 1692. The last Will of Joseph Fry of Axminster, April, 
 1692. Mentions late wife Eleanor Howse, and her children 
 Eleanor and Rebecca. 
 
 Residue to second wife, Mary, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved I9th April, 1692. 
 
 1693. Admon. to the effects of James Osmond of Halberton, 
 granted 23rd Sept., 1693, to George Osmond, his brother.
 
 212 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1693. The last Will of John Tucker of Broadclist, loth Aug., 
 1692. 
 
 Bequests to daughter Mary West, and to her children, sons 
 and daughters of Matthew West, Mary, John, Elizb., Richard, 
 and Robert West. 
 
 Residue to son John Tucker, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 4th May, 1693. 
 
 1694. Administration to the effects of William Osmond, 
 late of Silverton, deceased, granted nth June, 1694, to Mary 
 Nicks, alias Osmond, his relict. 
 
 1694. The last Will of George Osmond of Tiverton. Be- 
 quests to sisters Mary Glass and Allis Hill, to "cosens"John 
 and Thomas Hill. To Peter Osmond and his sons Robert 
 and William. To Thomas Osmond, Autrey (Ottery), and to 
 his son Thomas. To George Osmond, Allis Daley, Mary 
 Sellack, and to Thomas Daley's son, John. 
 
 Residue to wife Katherine, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 6th Dec., 1694. 
 
 1694, The last Will of Mary Fry, Widow, of Axminster. 
 She leaves a bequest to " the most ancient poor of the said 
 parish." 
 
 Residue to " brother-in-law " John Brewer, " who married 
 my own sister." He is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 8th Aug., 1694. 
 
 1694. Marie Berry of Tiverton. Administration granted 
 1st June, 1694, to her husband John Berry. 
 
 1695. Admon. to the effects of Richard Tucker of St. 
 Thomas, granted nth March, 1695, to Jane Tucker, his 
 sister-in-law.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 213 
 
 1695. The last Will of Jane Tucker of St. Thomas, 
 Widow, 6th July, 1695. To eldest son, Zacharias Tucker, 
 1$. Bequests to son James and daughter Jane. Residue 
 to son Richard Tucker, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 1695. Admon. of above, granted nth March, 1695, to 
 Jane Tucker, daughter-in-law of testatrix ; Exor. named 
 therein, brother of Administratrix, having deceased. 
 
 1696. Admon. to the effects of Richard Mortimore late 
 of Ailsbeare ; granted 2gth Dec., 1696, to Mary his wife. 
 
 1696. The last Will of Tristram Tucker of Brampford 
 Speke, 1 7th April, 1696. Mentions his daughter Hannah, 
 her husband John Gale, and their children, John, Samuel, 
 Hannah, and Mary Gale, and leaves the latter a silver spoon 
 each at 21. 
 
 Son-in-law John Hooper, I/-, and sons John and Tucker 
 Hooper, and daughter Grace Hooper. 
 
 Son-in-law John Dennis and his children James, Elizabeth, 
 and Mary Dennis, " I silver spoon apiece." 
 
 To ten poor husbandmen, I4d. each, " to be paid on the 
 23rd June next after my decease." 
 
 Residue to daughter Sara Dennis, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 5th March, 1696-97. 
 
 NOTE. This Will is omitted from the calendars. Testator left nine 
 silver spoons, valued at ^2 55. Total sum of personality, ^44 izs. 4d. 
 
 1696. The last Will of William Tucker of Tiverton, dated 
 nth March, 1695. Mentions wife Thomazine, son Richard, 
 and his children Richard and Theophilus. Son-in-law Thomas 
 Burton, and his daughter Sidwell Burton, the latter to have 
 " my warming pan." 
 
 Son John and his children William, John, Wilmot, Mary, 
 and Richard, 2O/- each. 
 
 Residue to said son John, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved I4th May, 1696.
 
 214 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1697. The last Will of Grace Tucker of Southleigh, Spinster, 
 29th May, 1696. She divides her household goods between 
 her brothers Thomas and John, and leaves them two small 
 debts due to her from " cousin Thomas Tucker," and " Gideon 
 Phillips, his wife." 
 
 "Also I give to Joice Dawley my best white whittle, my 
 best say apron, my searge coate, and one of my best chaires. 
 
 " Also to Charity Wislade, my best halt, and best stiffen 
 waistcoat 
 
 " To sister, Rachel Tucker, my largest red whittle, and to 
 Elizabeth Phillips, who formerly lived with me, my best Bible, 
 & cotton whittle ; also to Mary Clarke, my old clothen coat 
 and waistcoat, and my second best hatt" 
 
 Residue of her various garments to sister Jane Tucker. 
 
 General residue to brother John Tucker, aforesaid, who is 
 Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 2/th April, 1697. 
 
 1697. Ralph Tucker (no parish mentioned, but refer to 
 Will of John Tucker of Broadclist, proved May, 1693). 
 Mentions Elizb. Newberry, Joan Lane, grandchildren William 
 and Mary West, and wife Joan. 
 
 Residue to son Ralph, who is Sole Exor. Dated 5th June, 
 1697. 
 
 Proved 25th June, 1697. 
 
 1698. Administration to the effects of John Tucker of 
 Newton St. Cyres, granted 8th March, 1698, to Joan, now 
 wife of William Collins, but formerly of deceased. 
 
 NOTE. Refer to Will of John Tucker of Newton St. Cyres, proved 
 Sept. nth, 1683, by Exor. Nicholas Tucker in trust for wife and 
 children. The above was, of course, a second Admon. 
 
 1698. Admon. to the effects of Sarah Tucker of " Loopitt," 
 granted nth June, 1698,10 Betty and Susanna Lowman, her 
 nieces.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 215 
 
 1698. Admon. to the effects of Symon Mortimore of 
 Dunsford, granted 3rd Aug., 1698, to Thomasine his wife. 
 
 1699. The last Will of Nicholas Tucker of South Tavvton, 
 9th Sept., 1697. 
 
 After the expiration of a life interest by Cressett his wife, 
 and Joan his daughter, he settled the fee simple of a house 
 and garden in Tawton town, upon his son Simon Tucker, with 
 remainder to the " right heir of him, the said Simon, in the 
 name of the Tuckers for evermore." 
 
 To sons Christopher and Joseph, $ each. To " grandson," 
 $ at 21. To grandchildren Susannah and Joane Tucker, 
 5/- each ; to Mary Weekes, 5/-. 
 
 Residue to said children, Simon and Joan Tucker, who are 
 joint Exors. 
 
 Proved 3 1st March, 1699. 
 
 1700. The last Will of Nicholas Tucker of Halberton ; 
 dated 2ist June, 1600. To grandchild Mary, daughter of 
 Margaret Tucker by Thomas Elvvorthy, and to other grand- 
 daughters by said Thomas, 4<D/- each. To grandchildren 
 James Vynecombe, 2O/-, and Izaac Salter, 4O/-. 
 
 To the son and daughter of son William Tucker, 4O/-. 
 
 Residue to said son William, and daughter Margaret Vyne- 
 combe, who are joint Exors. 
 
 Two Trustees, viz., Wm. Elworthy and his son Thomas 
 Elworthy. 
 
 Proved ist July, 1700. 
 
 1702. Admon. to the effects of Edmond Tucker of Netherex ; 
 granted 26th Feby., 1702, to Elizabeth Tucker, his relict. 
 
 1702. Administration to the effects of Nathaniel Mortimore, 
 late of Bridford, granted 3rd Feby., 1702, to Susanna Morti- 
 more, widow. Wm. Mortimore, of Bridford, joins the bond.
 
 216 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1702. Admon. to the effects of John Mortimore of Bridford, 
 granted 3rd Feby., 1702, to Susannah Mortimore his mother. 
 Wm. Mortimore joins the bond. 
 
 1702. The last Will of Thomas Osmond of Uplowman, 
 1 8th Feby., 1701. He leaves property in Uplowman and in 
 Clisthidon, subject to certain charges in favour of daughter 
 Isot, to wife Mary Osmond. 
 
 He divides other property between sons Thomas, Richard, 
 John, Francis, and Robert. Residue to wife Mary, who is 
 Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 27th Oct., 1702. 
 
 1704. The last Will of John Mortimore of Dunsford, 2oth 
 April, 1702. His leasehold estate in said parish to wife Johan 
 for life. Legacies to grandchildren, sons and daughters of 
 Robert Harris of Crediton, and Mary his wife, John, Robert, 
 Henry, William, Joseph, and Mary Harris. 
 
 Residue to said daughter, Mary Harris, who is Sole Exe- 
 cutrix. 
 
 Proved 24th May, 1704. 
 
 1704. Bridget Tucker of Tedbourn St. Mary, Widow, 27th 
 July, 1703. Small bequests to children Joan, Robert, Peter, 
 and Mark Tucker and Mary Rowe. Residue to son Thomas 
 and daughter Joan, who are joint Exors. 
 
 Proved i6th June, 1704, by said Thomas Tucker, his sister 
 Joan having renounced. 
 
 1704. Admon. to the effects of Peter Osmond of Tiverton, 
 to Ann his wife, granted loth Jany., 1704. 
 
 1705. The last Will of Christopher Osmond of Exeter, 
 1 5th Jany., 1702. Bequests to brother James, and to sisters 
 Gertrude, wife of Walter Purchase, and Elizabeth, wife of 
 Robert Arnold. 
 
 Residue to wife Eleanor, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 28th Aug., 1705.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 217 
 
 1705. Admon. to the effects of Matthew Mortimore of 
 Christow, granted i$th March, 1705, to Edward Mortimore 
 his brother. 
 
 NOTE. Deceased died intestate, and his wife Elizabeth renounced 
 her right to administer. 
 
 1705. Admon. John Osmond, H.M. Ship Antelope, and late 
 of St. Sidwell's, Exeter. Granted to John Osmond, his father, 
 1 2th Oct., 1705. 
 
 1706. Administration to the effects of Jane Tucker, alias 
 Risdon. Granted ist July, 1706, to James Tucker of the City 
 of Exeter. 
 
 " Memorandum. 
 
 "This administration was granted to the husband, only for 
 the recovery of a legacy of ;ioo, given to his wife by the 
 will of Jane Risdon, deceased, and contained in the bundle 
 of 1672." 
 
 1706. Admon. to the effects of William Tucker of Exeter, 
 granted 7th May, 1706, to Mary Davys, otherwise Tucker, 
 wife of Miles Davys of Colyton, and daughter of deceased. 
 
 1706. Admon. of Nicholas Tucker of Axminster, granted 
 to nephew Samuel Tucker, i6th Jany., 1706. 
 
 1706. The last Will of Francis Mortimore of Down St. 
 Mary, dated 2ist July, 1705. 
 
 He leaves his " caster house " to son John, and his " wester 
 house " to his children Roger, Francis, and Elizabeth, after 
 his wife's death. 
 
 To children Simon and Hannah, 2O/- each. 
 
 Residue to wife Elizabeth, who is Sole Executrix. She is 
 to remain a widow or forfeit. 
 
 Proved i6th Oct., 1706.
 
 2 1 8 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1707. Nicholas Were of Halberton, in the county of Devon, 
 desires his "body to be buried in Christian like manner," 
 25th June, 1706. Mentions son Nicholas and daughters Eliza- 
 beth ,and Susannah. Residue to wife Susannah, who is Sole 
 Executrix. 
 
 Two Trustees, one of them " my beloved friend Robert 
 Manley," Vicar of the Parish. 
 
 Proved 3Oth April, 1707. 
 
 1707. "Caveat" against admon. to the Will of Nicholas 
 Were, by John Frankpitt of Uplovvman, I4th March, 1707. 
 Subsequently withdrawn. 
 
 1707. Inventory of Nicholas Were, otherwise known as 
 Tucker, 1st Feby., 1706 7. 
 Total 79 2s. 6d. 
 
 1707-8. Admon. William Tucker of St. Thomas, nigh 
 Exon., granted to Mary his widow, 26th Feby., 1707. 
 
 1707-8. Admon. to the effects of Dorothy Osmond of 
 Silverton, granted I3th Feby., 1707, to Margaret her sister. 
 
 1708. The last Will of George Osmond of Ilalberton, 
 30th May, 1707. 
 
 To son Thomas, certain property in said parish. To 
 daughter Elizabeth Stone, 80. 
 
 To daughter Joan Osmond, .120. 
 
 To daughter Susannah Osmond, ;ioo. 
 
 To grand-daughter Susannah Stone "a piece of plate of 
 503. value, with my name ingraven in letters at large in ye 
 said plate." 
 
 To daughter Joan aforesaid, "a great chest marked with 
 the letters ' J.O.' in the foreside." 
 
 Residue to wife Elizabeth, who is Sole Executrix. Philip 
 Osmond (brother) a trustee.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 219 
 
 By codicil, he gives to poor of the parish, 3O/-, and to 
 Mr. Robert Manley, minister, a new pulpit cloth. 
 Thomas Elvvorthy a witness. 
 
 1708-9. Administration to the effects of John Mortimore 
 of Broadclist. Granted 9th Feby., 1708-9, to Agnes his widow. 
 William and Abraham Taylor join the bond. 
 
 1709. Admon. to the effects of John Osmond of Broad- 
 hambury, deceased, granted 24th March, 1709, to Mary his 
 relict. 
 
 1709. Admon. Peter Tucker of Exeter, granted I3th Oct., 
 1709, to Elizabeth, his relict. 
 
 1709. The last Will of Jane Tucker of Exeter, dated 28th 
 Oct., first year of Queen Anne (1702). Legacies to daughters 
 Dorothy, Margaret, Sarah, and Jane Tucker, the latter are 
 residuary legatees and joint Exors. 
 
 She leaves her good friend, Mr. George Stoning, .15, for 
 mourning for himself and wife, and to each of them, 2O/-, to 
 buy mourning rings. 
 
 To " friend " Mrs. Samuel Izacke,* 4O/-, to buy mourning 
 rings. 
 
 Mr. George Stoning and Edward Collings trustees in minority 
 of daughters. 
 
 Proved 28th Oct., 1709. 
 
 1709-10. Administration to the effects of William Tucker 
 of Colompton, granted 3rd M^rch, 1709-10, to Emeline 
 Andrewes, otherwise Tucker, wife of Jacob Andrewes, and 
 mother of deceased. 
 
 * "Samuel Izacke," her husband, was the son of Richard Izacke, and published a 
 new edition of his father's plagiarism of John Iloker's "MS. History of Exeter," 
 in 1724. He was appointed Chamberlain of Exeter in 1693 and had been previously 
 gratuitously admitted to the freedom of the city. For levying "black mail" upon 
 the common councillors, he was ignominiously disfranchished, 6th October, 1718.
 
 220 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1709. The last Will of Thomas Tucker of Stokeintinhead, 
 dated i8th Jany., 1707. Legacies to brothers John and Richard, 
 sister " Francis," and brother-in-law William , father-in-law 
 Simon Drew, and Francis his wife. 
 
 Residue to wife Ann, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved lOth Jany., 1709. 
 
 1711. Admon. to the effects of William Tucker of Downe 
 St. Mary, granted i8th March, 1711, to Joan Tucker, widow. 
 John Tucker of same parish, joins the bond. 
 
 1711. Inventory of the effects of William Tucker of Downe 
 St. Mary, made March 6th, 1711. 
 
 " Imprimis, all his wearing apparel and money in his purse, 
 20. 
 
 "Item one estate, in reversion, called East Bradford, ;iio. 
 
 " Remainder of our other estate, called Sherlands, 30. 
 
 " Item speciality debts, 208. 
 
 " Six oxen and steers, 40. 
 
 " 5 milk cows, 20. 
 
 " 2 steer yearlings & 3 heiffers, $ 2s. 6d. 
 
 " i horse, 3 mares, & their suckling, ^23. 
 
 " 3 calves, 3. 
 
 " 20 ewes with their lambs, & 25 hogge sheep, 20. 
 
 "All the silver plate, 
 
 1712. Admon. to the effects of Elizabeth Tucker of Broad- 
 clist, granted 6th Feby., 1712, to Edward her son. 
 
 1712. The last Will of Elizabeth Osmond of Halberton, 
 Widow, dated 26th Jany., 1711. 
 
 To daughter Jane Osmond, interest in certain leasehold 
 property, a broad piece of gold, a worsted paine, and a ffusting 
 paine (counterpane). To daughter Elizabeth Stone, a broad 
 piece of gold. To daughter Susannah Eastcot, to son Thomas, 
 a broade piece of gold each, the latter to buy his daughter
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 221 
 
 Grace a silver cup. To cousin Welthyn Osmond, my second 
 suit of apparel. Legacies to grand-daughters Susannah Stone 
 and Elizabeth Eastcot. 
 
 Three Trustees, viz., Mr. Robert Manley, minister, cosen 
 Edward Cross, and brother-in-law Philip Osmond. 
 
 Residue to said three daughters, who are joint Exors. 
 
 Proved nth March, 1712. 
 
 1712. The last Will of Sampson Mortimore of Drews- 
 teignton, dated I5th March, 1711-12. 10 for his funeral. 
 Certain " peculiar goods " to wife Elizabeth. 
 
 Legacies to son John, daughters Elizabeth and Ann ; Mary, 
 now wife of Mark Cumbe, and to their daughter Sarah ; to 
 daughters Sarah and Susannah, and Joan, wife of William 
 Seaward ; to grandchildren William Mortimore, and to John, 
 Sampson, James, Edward, and Thomasine, children of said 
 son John. 
 
 Residue to son Sampson, who is Sole Executor. 
 
 Witnesses, Thomas Amerie, John Symes, and Job Glenvile. 
 
 Proved 2nd May, 1712. 
 
 Circular Seal. A stag courant. 
 
 1713. The last Will of Nicholas Tucker of the parish of 
 Cleyhidon, dated 2nd May, 1710. 
 
 He leaves his house at Hole to wife Mary, and to his 
 daughter Joan ,100. To poor of the parish, 2os. 
 
 Residue to " son & heir," John Tucker, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 8th May, 1713. 
 
 1713. Inventory of effects of Nicholas Tucker of Cley- 
 hidon, made 2nd May, 1713. 
 
 Imprimis, wearing apparel ... ... ... 10 o o 
 
 Item Money in purse and plate ... ... 20 o o 
 
 Item Books ... ... ... ... ... 500 
 
 "Table linen 1 10 o" 
 
 " In the entry chamber, 3 musquetts & other 
 
 things 18 o o"
 
 2 DE VONSH1RE WILLS. 
 
 In the kitchen chamber, a weather glass, 2 
 brass pistols, four swords, a carbine, and 
 a clock n 10 o 
 
 His farm stock, worth about 500 o o 
 
 Sum 688 IDS. 
 
 1713. Admon. to the effects of Isaac Tucker of Downe St. 
 Mary, granted 2pth April, 1715, to John Tucker of the said 
 parish, in the minority of William Tucker the son. 
 
 1713. Admon. to the effects of John Mortimore of Spreyton, 
 granted 5th June, 1713, in the minority of daughters Catherine, 
 Alice, and Elizabeth, to their uncle, John Hopper. 
 
 1716. The last Will of Josias Tucker of Newton St. Cyres, 
 dated 2Oth Jany., 1704-5. Mentions sister Joan Bowden ; 
 kinswoman Susannah Tucker, who is left a house and garden 
 during the life of Mark Oxenham ; brother Christopher Tucker. 
 
 Residue to brother Simon Tucker, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 NOTE. Exor. and his brother Christopher both declined to ad- 
 minister, and the will was proved 2yth Sept., 1716, by Thomas Clarke, 
 of Exeter, a principal creditor. 
 
 1716. The last Will of James .Mortimer of Uplowman, 
 dated 25th Jany., 1711-12. Legacies to son James and his 
 children, Mary, Susannah, and James ; to daughter Susannah 
 and her husband, John Kyte, and their children, Susannah, 
 Mary, Elizabeth, and Agnes ; to grandson Richard Mortimer ; 
 to Susanna, Mary, and James, children of son John ; to grand- 
 sons John and Hugh, and granddaughter Jane Mortimer. 
 
 Residue to son John, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Trustees, John Chave of Uplowman, and Richard Locke of 
 Sampford Peverel. 
 
 Proved i6th April, 1716. 
 
 1716. Admon. to the estate of Maria Mortimore of Drews- 
 teignton, granted 2Oth July, 1716, to John Dicker, her brother.
 
 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 223 
 
 1663. Edward Younge, D.D., Dean of Exeter, bequeathed 
 a principal sum of 250. The interest to be applied to the 
 Alms House of St. Katherine,* to the Choristers of the Cathe- 
 dral, and to the Prisoners in the Castle. The income to be 
 distributed by the Dean of Exeter annually on the 29th May, 
 " the day of the blessed restauration of his sacred majesty." 
 
 Will dated 6th June, 1663. 
 
 Proved I4th Aug. same year. 
 
 1718. The last Will of Jane Tucker of Exeter, 3Oth April, 
 1717. To Sister Sarah all lands and estates in the city of 
 Exeter and elsewhere. To brother James and sister Margaret 
 a "gold ring of a guinea each." A gold ring to Richard 
 Sandford of Exeter. To servant, Thomazine Stevens, 10. 
 Residue to said sister Sarah, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Richard and Joseph Sandford, Hugh Mills, and John Hussey 
 to be bearers at funeral, and to each \ is. to buy mourning 
 rings, and to each a " mourning hatt band and gloves." 
 
 Admon. to Sarah Tucker, 2ist Oct., 1718. 
 
 NOTE. Refer to will of Dorothy Tucker, proved 1693, P- 34> ante. 
 
 1719. Administration to the effects of Jacob Tucker, late 
 of Exeter, granted 3ist Dec., 1719, to Alice his relict. 
 
 1719. John Mortimer of Exeter, Goldsmith, to "my two 
 daughters is. apeece." 
 
 Residue to wife Sarah, who is Sole Executrix. Dated 
 Aug. , 1708. 
 
 Proved 23rd July, 1719. 
 
 * These ancient almshouses founded by John Stevens, Canon of Exeter (will 
 dated February 3rd, 1457, proved February 27th, 1460) were, with their chapel, 
 advertised for sale by the trustees in 1893. They were purchased by the "Ilonble. 
 Lady Hotham " (Jane Sarah, third daughter of second Lord Bridport, and widow 
 of Sir Charles Hotham, K.N., grandson of second Lord Hotham), in December 
 that year, with a view to their restoration and re-application to church purposes.
 
 224 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1720. The last Will of Thomas Tucker of Tedburn St. 
 Mary, dated 4th Sept., 1718. Legacies to brothers Mark, 
 Robert, and Peter Tucker; to kinsman George, son of Peter 
 Tucker ; and to kinswoman Ann, daughter of Peter Tucker the 
 elder. 
 
 Residue to wife Honor, who is Sole Executiix. Reversion 
 of a moiety of leasehold tenement "Collyhey" in Tedburne 
 to George Tucker, son of brother Peter. 
 
 Proved 8th April, 1720. 
 
 1720. The last Will of Mark Tucker of Christow, dated 
 1 6th May, 1720. Legacies to brothers Robert and Peter, to 
 nephews Mark and Robert, sons of Robert Tucker. " To Mr. 
 Samuel Starkey, one hogshead of cyder or 2os. in lieu thereof." 
 Legacies to Mary, daughter of Peter Tucker " of this parish," 
 and to nieces Mary Browne and Sarah Laskey, daughters of 
 Robert Tucker. 
 
 Residue to "kinsman" Peter Tucker "of this parish," who 
 is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved lOth Feb., 1720. 
 
 NOTE. Ttstator had a moiety of the leasehold estate known as 
 "Collyhey." See preceding will. 
 
 1720. Admon. to the effects of William Osmond of Burles- 
 combe, granted 6th May, 1720, to Robert his father. 
 
 1720. Admon. to effects of Edmund Osmond of Bradninch, 
 granted 3rd Jan., 1720, to Anne his relict. 
 
 1721. Admon. to the effects of Michael Tucker of Bradninch, 
 renounced by Martha his widow, and granted I2th May, 1721, 
 to Nicholas Murch of the same parish, principal creditor.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 225 
 
 1721. The last Will of John Tucker of Foltimore, dated 
 1 7th Oct., 1719. Legacies at 21 to Sarah, daughter of Roger 
 and Ann Wilcocks. Residue to wife Sarah, who is Sole 
 Executrix. 
 
 Admon. granted to said widow loth Oct., 1721. 
 
 1722. The last Will of Welthian Osmond of Halberton, 
 single woman. To brother Philip Osmond and his heirs, two 
 cottages in said parish known as " Lock houses." 
 
 Residue to said Philip, who is Sole Exor. Dated I4th Jan., 
 1719. 
 
 Proved I9th April, 1722. 
 
 Seal of Arms A fess dancettee, ermine, in chief an eagle 
 displayed. 
 
 NOTE. Refer to page 41, ante, and to other wills of Osmond of 
 Halberton. 
 
 1722. The last Will of Mary Tucker of St. Leonards (nigh 
 Exeter), Widow. 
 
 To son Francis and to grandsons Francis and John Tucker, 
 one guinea each. 
 
 To son Arthur and granddaughter Elizabeth Tucker, 6 6s. 
 To sisters-in-law Jane Browning and Sarah Clarke, a mourning 
 ring each. 
 
 To brother John Browning, brother-in-law Philip Clarke, 
 and Samuel Pine of^Exeter, " Gentleman," certain lands in 
 St. Leonards, Hartland, and Buckland, and in the parish of 
 Holy Trinity, Exeter, in trust for daughter Mary Tucker. 
 
 Mentions deceased husband John Tucker. Residue to said 
 Mary Tucker, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved loth Aug., 1722. 
 
 1724. Admon. to effects of Caleb Tucker of Kilmington, 
 granted 6th March, 1724, to son William Tucker of Seaton. 
 
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 226 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1724. The last will of Peter Tucker of Upton Pyne, dated 
 loth Dec., 1721. 
 
 He leaves his wife " the feather bedd performed " (that is, 
 perfect], and to Sarah, daughter of Nicholas Cunniby, of Upton 
 Pyne, 5 at 21. 
 
 To two Trustees John Quick of Brampford Speke and John 
 Butcher, alias Radcliffe, of Thorverton certain two messuages, 
 in trust for the benefit of wife, Mary, with remainder to the 
 children of John Hooper of Upton Pyne, Francis Gerrard of 
 Exeter, Joseph Hall late of Exeter, tailor, and John Lugg of 
 Torrington, as well as to Sarah, wife of Henry Street of 
 Topsham, and to Richard Moore of Upton Pyne. 
 
 Residue to said Trustees on same trusts. Admon. to Mary 
 Tucker the widow, Trustees having renounced. 
 
 April 28th, 1724. 
 
 1724. Admon. " de bonis non " of John Mortimore, late of 
 Spreyton. Granted 2 1st Dec., 1724, to Alice Mortimore, of 
 goods unadministered by John Hopper ; her sisters, Katherine, 
 wife of John Tregoe of Thorverton, and Elizabeth, wife of 
 Samuel Maine of Colebrook, having renounced. 
 
 1725. Eleanor Tucker of Luppitt, Widow, I2th Oct., 1725. 
 
 Bequests to Edward, son of Oliver Lee of Exeter, to Hannah 
 Whitlocke, to cousin William Chase of Red Lane. " Parson 
 Lockyer " to preach funeral sermon. 
 
 Residue to son-in-law, Thomas Tucker, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 4th Dec, 1725. 
 
 1725. Admon. to the estate of Philip Osmond, late of 
 Tiverton, granted 2ist May, 1725, to Thomas Osmond of 
 Otterford, during the minority of George Osmond, son of the 
 deceased.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 227 
 
 1726. The last will of Robert Osmond of Burlescombe, ipth 
 May, 1725. Legacies to sons Robert and John, and to 
 daughters Agnes, Penelope, Margaret, and Grace. 
 
 Residue to " my wife," who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved loth June, 1726. 
 
 1727. The last Will of Richard Mortimore of Broadclist, 
 I2th Aug., 1726. Furniture and a legacy of ;io for four years 
 to wife Elizabeth. To brother John Mortimore is. To William 
 Evans " my best hatt." Residue to daughter Mary, who is Sole 
 Executrix, with remainder of a tenement at " Burriton " to 
 said wife. 
 
 Circular Seal. A stag courant. 
 
 NOTE. These arms are attached to will of Sampson Mortimore, 
 ante, 2nd May, 1712. 
 
 Admon. granted 22nd Feb., 1726-27, to Andrew Taylor, 
 principal creditor, the daughter having renounced. 
 
 1727. Mark Mortimor of Powderham, Yeoman, 27th Oct., 
 1727. 
 
 In minority of grandson, Mark, son of William Mortimor, a 
 tenement in Powderham to daughter Elizabeth, after decease of 
 wife Mary. 
 
 To son William aforesaid, is. 
 
 Legacies to daughters, Mary, wife of Samuel Ware, " Easter," 
 wife of John Row (Hesther?). To son-in-law, William Davey, 
 " my sarge coat and vest, and blew brichers." To son-in-law 
 " Wm. Row," best great coat. 
 
 Residue to said William Row, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved loth Nov., 1727. 
 
 1727. Grace Tucker of Cullompton, 7th June, 1720. 
 Bequests to Dorothy, wife of Robert Foss of said parish ; to 
 Edward, son of Francis Pratt of Kentisbeare ; and to latter's
 
 228 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 other children Dorothy, Joan, Agnes, and Elizabeth Pratt. 
 Residue to Dorothy, wife of said Francis Pratt, who is Sole 
 Executrix. 
 
 Proved 28th Dec., 1727. 
 
 1728. Admon. to the effects of Henry Osmond of Exeter, 
 granted 26th April, 1728, to Elizabeth his wife. 
 223 is. 7d. 
 
 1728. Admon. to the effects of Richard Tucker of Upottery, 
 granted i$th May, 1728, to Anne Tucker the widow. 
 
 Inventory of said Richard Tucker, nth April, 1728. 
 
 s. d. 
 " Item four silver spoons ... ... ... ... 103 
 
 "Books o o 10 
 
 " One hackney saddle, stirrups, and gambadoes" o 10 6 
 
 " One fowling piece ... ... ... ... 050 
 
 " A clocke and case. 
 
 " A leasehold estate called Harrietwood ... 140 o o" 
 
 Sum total, 324 6s. iod. 
 
 1729. Admon. to the effects of Edward Tucker of Tiverton, 
 granted 22nd May, 1729, to Mary Tucker, the widow. 
 Sum 80 153. lod. 
 
 1729. The last Will of James Osmond of Sampford 
 Peverell, 27th June, 1729. 
 
 To each of his daughters, Mary and Joan Osmond, 450. 
 
 Residue to trustees, Robert Blake of Halse, Co. Somerset, 
 Edeth Blake of Sampford Peverell, Gentleman, and Nicholas 
 Harris, Vicar of Culmstock, for benefit of son Thomas Osmond. 
 
 Witnesses, Francis Taylor, Thomas Jutsum, and Humphry 
 Marsh Jutsum. 
 
 Proved 2Oth Feb., 1729. 
 
 Seal of Arms A chevron between 3 coots. 
 
 NOTE. Argent, a chevron, sable, between 3 coots proper. 
 Attributed to " Cowlin." " John Cowlin " is mentioned in several 
 wills of this neighbourhood and period. 
 See/<?5/ April, 1733, and Sept., 1736.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 229 
 
 1729. Mary Tucker of Brampford Speke, Qth Nov., 1728. 
 
 Bequests to brothers Francis and Arthur and to Elizabeth 
 Lethbridge ; to Francis Tucker, jun., the great Bible; to John 
 Tucker, a silver spoon ; to Honour Tucker, gold locket and ear- 
 rings ; to Mrs. Samuel Rols, one piece of gold ; and to Mrs. 
 Jane Rols, six best table napkins. To Wm. Barwick and 
 Grace his wife, a gold ring each ; and also to Grace, wife of 
 Laurence Harvvard. zos. to poor of the parish, and a like sum 
 to the poor of Padstow and of Pilton. 
 
 Residue to aunt Sarah, wife of Philip Clarke, who is Sole 
 Executrix. 
 
 Proved 25th July, 1729. 
 
 NOTE. Refer to will of Mary Tucker of St. Leonards, Aug., 1722, 
 ante. 
 
 The bequests to " Mrs. Samuel and Mrs. Jane Rols " are interesting. 
 The latter must have been very aged in 1728; she was the wife of 
 Dennis Rolle, brother of Robert Rolle of Heanton Sachville, an 
 ancestor of Lord Clinton. She was the mother of Dennis Rolle, who 
 married Arabella Tucker at Hartland, 141)1 February, 1697, and also of 
 the said Samuel Rolle of Hudscote, who was buried, at Chittlehampton, 
 3rd March, 1734-5- 
 
 1729. The last Will of John Mortimore of Uplowman, 
 iSth April, 1728. 
 
 Legacies to sons James and John, to daughter Mary Fini- 
 more and her husband Humphry, each is. To Sir Hugh 
 Mortimore remainder of cottage called Crossland ; another 
 tenement called "Cleaks" to daughter Joan. 
 
 Residue to said wife, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 22nd May, 1729. 
 
 NOTE. Refer to will of James Mortimore of Uplowman, April, 
 1716, ante. 
 
 1729. The last will of John Tucker of " Church-Tawton, 
 Gentleman." 
 
 He divides the lands of which he stands " seized " between 
 Joan, his wife, for life, with remainder to George and William, 
 sons of late Henry Pocock, and Elizabeth, sister of said George ; 
 cousin Clement Waldron, my godson, to Wm. Harford and
 
 230 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 William Blackmorc, also god-children ; cousins John and 
 Mary Pring, James, son of James Gill and Joan his wife, of 
 Culmstock, Elizabeth Holway and her heirs, Susannah and 
 Mary Holway, and James Holway. 
 
 Testator leaves 400 to pay his debts, charged on a tene- 
 ment which reverts to the aforesaid Gills'. To poor of 
 Cheyhidon and Churcb-Tawton, 2Os. 
 
 Residue to Joan his wife, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 9th Dec., 1729. 
 
 NOTE. The parish in which deceased resided was Church-Stanton, 
 Co. Devon, seven miles from Taunton. 
 
 The beneficiare under the above will, " Cousin Clement Waldron," 
 must not be confused with the Walronds of Dulford and Bradfield, 
 although both families are nearly equal in point of antiquity, and may 
 possibly have a common ancestor in the head of the old baronial house 
 of Waleran. 
 
 " Clement Waldron's " collateral ancestor, John Waldron, was a 
 merchant at Tiverton of the sixteenth century, and founded the alms- 
 house there still called by his name. He died i8th July, 1579. 
 This John Waldron died issueless, but was succeeded by a nephew of 
 the same name, son of his brother Robert. 
 
 Mary Waldron, in 1749, gave land to the poor of the parishes of 
 Hemiock, Church-Stanton, and Cleyhidon. Will dated nth Oct., 
 that year. Proved by John Southwood, residuary legatee and sole 
 exor. An Irish branch ot the Waldrons have long held county 
 rank in Leitrim and Tipperary, etc. They are descended from Sir 
 Richard Waldron, who migrated from the West of England in 1609. 
 
 1729. The last Will of Mary Tucker of " Clehidon," 2Oth 
 Dec., 1729. 
 
 Bequests to brother Robert Pring, to cousin Elizabeth 
 Holway, and to Joane, widow of son John Tucker. 
 
 Proved 3rd May, 1732. 
 
 NOTE. Refer to gth Dec., 1729 (John Tucker of Church-Tawton), 
 ante. 
 
 1730. Samuel Osmond of St. Sidwells, Exeter, Tallow 
 Chandler, 5th Aug., 1729. 
 
 Property in said parish to brother Joseph. 
 
 To mother, Elizabeth Osmond, .200. 
 
 To sisters, Grace Cock and Elizabeth Osmond, 200 each.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 231 
 
 To the four Presbyterian ministers, Messrs. Enty, Green, 
 Withers, and Lavington, .1 is. each. 
 
 Residue to brother Joseph Osmond, who is Sole Exor. 
 Witnesses, Stephen Holditch. 
 
 John Conant. 
 Proved 2nd May, 1730. 
 
 NOTE. Refer to page 44, ante, for the will of the father of above 
 testator. 
 
 1731. The last W^ill of Thomas Osmond of Halberton, 
 27th Sept., 1727. 
 
 Legacies to daughter Mary and to her husband John Pullen. 
 To daughters Agnes, Elizabeth, Grace, and Sarah Osmond. 
 
 Leasehold property in said parish and in Sampford Peverell 
 to sons Thomas and Phillip Osmond. 
 
 Residue to brothers John and Francis Osmond in trust for 
 wife Elizabeth. 
 
 Witnesses, Wm. Lock, Philip Hinimore, Humphry Marsh 
 Jutsum. 
 
 Admon. 4th Feb., 1731, to Elizabeth the relict, vice the 
 trustees, who have renounced. 
 
 1730. The last Will of Elizabeth Tucker of the city of 
 Exeter, I4th March, 1725. 
 
 Bequests to Elizabeth, Anne, and Susannah Dally ; to 
 Mistress Leap, widow, their sister, and to Nicholas, Anne, and 
 John, children of Zephaniah Geare of Exeter, notary public. 
 
 Residue to George Broughton Hull who is Sole Executor. 
 
 Proved 29th Aug., 1730. 
 
 NOTE. The Geares, still well known in Exeter in association with 
 the law, are the descendants of the "Geeres" of Heavitree and Kenn, 
 who registered a pedigree of four descents at the visitation of 1564, and 
 again entered their descent in 1620. Nicholas, Anne, and John are 
 all family names. 
 
 Arms Gules on 2 bars or, six mascles az., 3 and 3, on a canton of the 
 second, a leopard's face of the third.
 
 232 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Admon. "de bonis non " of Peter Tucker of Exeter, and 
 admon. of estate of Elizabeth Tucker, widow of said Peter, 
 granted 29th Aug., 1730, to George Broughton Hull. 
 
 NOTE. The Hulls were an old Exeter family of some distinction, 
 who resided at Larkbeare, subsequently the property of the Barings, 
 and where the latter effected their rise and progress. John Hull was 
 Recorder of Exeter, 1379. George Hull ultimately sold Larkbeare to 
 Sir Nicholas Smith at the commencement of the seventeenth century. 
 His ancestors had then owned Larkbeare for more than two centuries, 
 and many of them were mayors of Exeter. 
 
 Arms of " Henry Hull of Larkbeare." Sa. a chevron between 3 
 talbots' heads arg. MS. D. and C. Exon., No. 3532. 
 
 1730-32. Admon. to the effects of Nicholas Tucker of 
 Halberton, granted I3th Feb., 1730, to Rebecca his widow. 
 
 1732-3. Admon. to effects of Nicholas Tucker of Halberton, 
 granted 2nd Jan., 1732-3, to Samuel Tucker his son. 
 
 1733. The last Will of James Osmond of Bycott, Hal- 
 berton, nth Sept., 1732. He leaves Bycott and his other 
 property, subject to his wife's jointure, to mortgage or sell for 
 a term not exceeding five hundred years, to date from his wife's 
 death, for the benefit of his sister Susannah Osmond for life, 
 with remainder to his nephew Thomas May, his heirs, and 
 assigns. Mentions nephew and niece, John and Mary May, 
 and gives them " hat bands and gloves " ; cousins, daughters 
 of John Sanford, and brother-in-law William Sellicke, " Phineas 
 May," " Mr. Thomas Osmond of Hearn," and John Cowlen. 
 " To my said wife, an hood, ring, and gloves." 
 
 Residue to said sister Susannah Osmond, who is Sole 
 Executrix. 
 
 Seal, A lion rampant. 
 
 Witnesses, Nathaniel Marshal, Thomas Osmond, Benjamin 
 Chapman. Proved 28th April, 1733. 
 
 NOTE. Refer to p. 41, ante. The "Lion Rampant," being the 
 arms of Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, and the name of one of the 
 witnesses, who very possibly drew the will, being Marshal, is fair evidence
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 233 
 
 that arbitary assumption of armorial bearings, as in this and other 
 instances, is by no means peculiar to the present century, although the 
 contrary is often contended. 
 
 This will was subject to a Chancery suit from igth April, 1737. 
 Thomas May, plaintiff; James and Mary Sandford, John Dally, and 
 Grace his wife, defendants. 
 
 1734. The last Will of Elizabeth Osmond of Halberton, 
 Widow, 3rd April, 1732. 
 
 She refers to the Executors of her late husband, " Thomas 
 Osmond," having renounced. She states that she has pur- 
 chased a meadow, which she leaves to her son Thomas 
 Osmond, partly with money left him by Mistress Agnes 
 Chave, and wills him the said meadow. To son Philip 10 
 owing her by Nicholas Osmond, her tenant. 
 
 To son James " the gift of my mother-in-law, Mary Osmond 
 of Uplowman." 
 
 "Her Christening Paine" to daughter Grace, or los. in lieu 
 thereof. 
 
 Mentions daughters Agnes, Elizabeth, and Sarah Osmond, 
 and Mary Pullen. 
 
 Residue to brother-in-law John Osmond and son-in-law John 
 Pullen, in trust for sons Philip and James aforesaid. 
 
 Proved 25th April, 1734. 
 
 NOTE. Refer to 1731, ante, will of Thomas Osmond. 
 
 1734. Mary Mortimer of Exeter, Spinster. She leaves to 
 Nicholas Green and Samuel Weymouth of Exeter, tobacconist, 
 10 in trust, the interest for the use of the minister of the 
 Baptist meeting. 2ist March, 1733. 
 
 To brother-in-law John Mortimer of Froom, Somerset, .5, 
 and to his brother Joseph 5. Household effects to Sarah, 
 wife of Thomas Wiggington of Exeter, mercer. China, &c., 
 to " Miss Mary Hodges," daughter of " the Lady Hodges." 
 To Mary and Elizabeth Wiggington, a ring each. Teaspoons 
 to Mary Munn. 2 2s. to " Revd. Mr. Stennett." 10 to be 
 spent on funeral.
 
 234 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Residue to nephew and nieces Francis, Susannah, and Jane 
 Taylor, who are joint Exors. 
 
 Witness, John Conant. 
 
 Mrs. Wiggington being dead, Testatrix leaves by Codicil 
 certain effects to Grace Craddick. 
 
 Proved 29th Dec., 1734. 
 
 NOTE. Samuel Waymouth's daughter Hannah married Elias, second 
 son of Thomas Newcoman, of Dartmouth, the inventor of the 
 stationary steam engine. See my " Devonshire Parishes," Vol. I., 
 P- 374- 
 
 1735. John Mortimore of Cadbury, I5th June, 1734. 
 
 He leaves 53. each to his wife Susanna and his daughter 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 Residue to his mother Joan Mortimore, who is Sole 
 Executrix. 
 
 Proved 27th June, 1735. 
 
 1736. Admon. to the effects of Richard Mortimore of 
 Broadclist, granted to Ambrose Bussell, husband of the late 
 Mary Bussell, daughter of deceased. 
 
 Proved 25th June, 1736. 
 
 1736. The last Will of Susannah Osmond of Halberton 
 (refer to 28th April, 1733), dated March 27th, 1733. She 
 states that her mother Susannah Osmond (refer to page 41, 
 ante) charged Bycott with 200 for her benefit, which has 
 never been paid, and directs her Exors. to sue for the same. 
 
 Legacies to brother-in-law Phineas May ; to nephews Thomas 
 and John May ; to kinswoman Joan, wife of nephew John 
 May ; to cousin Sandford's two daughters Mary and Grace. 
 To John Cowlen and Susannah his wife, "a ring and a silk 
 hood." Ann Wills a hood, and Elizabeth Turpin los. 
 
 Residue to kinswoman Mary May, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses, Wm. Were and Mary Ballamy. 
 
 Proved 3rd Sept., 1736. 
 
 NOTE. Armorial Seal, apparently a cross between four coots (?), 
 another device of Cowl in. See, a/t/e, Feb., 1729, note.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 235 
 
 1737. John Mortimore of Drewsteignton, 3Oth April, 1734. 
 
 Bequests to sons William, John, Sampson, James, and 
 Edward, and to daughter Thomasine, in addition to the 2Os. 
 eacli given them by " their grandfather." 
 
 To grandson John, son of said John Mortimer, 55. 
 
 Residue to wife Thomazine, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved nth May, 1737. 
 
 By James the son, his brothers and sister having renounced, 
 and their mother having died without proving. 
 
 Personality over 200. 
 
 NOTE. Refer to will of Sampson Mortimore, 2nd May, 1712, ante. 
 
 1738. The last Will of Thomas Tucker of Uplyme. To 
 wife, leasehold property there and at Wootton Fitz-pain, Dorset. 
 Residue to said wife Ann, who is Sole Executrix. 
 Proved 22nd May, 1738. 
 
 1738. Administration to the effects of Thomas Tucker of 
 Kenn, granted 2ist March, 1738, to Goldworthy Tucker, his 
 son. 
 
 1738. George Mortimer of Dunsford, I4th April, 1733. 
 Legacies to John and Richard Mortimer, sons, and to George 
 and Elizabeth Mortimer, grandchildren. 
 
 Residue to wife Anna, who is Sole Executrix, but must not 
 marry again. 
 
 Witnesses, Joseph and Daniel Tucker. 
 
 Proved 23rd Oct., 1738. 
 
 1740. Joseph Osmond of St. Sid well's, Exeter, Tallow 
 Chandler. To sister Elizabeth, wife of John Whitehead, Gentle- 
 man, of St. Sidwell's, 20 per annum, with reversion of the 
 property on which the legacy is charged to sister Grace Cock. 
 To cousin Mistress Elizabeth Chears, 50. He leaves 100 
 for dissenting ministers or their widows. Legacies to father- 
 in-law, " Mr. Townsend," and to " each of his children." To
 
 236 DEVONSHIRE IV ILLS. 
 
 Rev. James Green and Rev. Joseph Hallett, 20 for poor 
 housekeepers of St. Sidwells. Residue to Rev. Nathaniel Cock 
 and Grace his wife, who are joint Exors. 
 
 Witnesses, Caleb Youatt, John Conant. 
 
 Proved I2th Aug., 1740. 
 
 1741. Martha Tucker of Exeter, Widow, 2Oth May, 1741. 
 To son Nathaniel Tucker of London, Gentleman, one gold 
 ring. To sons Joseph and John Tucker of Exeter, Glaziers 
 (a gold ring to Joseph). To grand-daughter Elizabeth Tucker, 
 " my striped loodstring gowne." Son John has a leasehold 
 house in Matthew's Alley, South Street. 
 
 Residue to said John, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved I5th June, 1741. 
 
 1741. John Tucker of Axminster, loth Aug., 1741. To 
 wife Elizabeth, his leasehold estates and household goods, 
 charged with an annuity of 3Os. to sister Mary Tucker. 
 
 Residue to said wife, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 3ist Aug., 1741. 
 
 1741. Admon. to the effects of Thomas Osmond of Ottery 
 St Mary, granted i8th Sept., 1741, to Hannah, wife of Stephen 
 Gill, his great grand-daughter. 
 
 1743.- The last will of Mary Osmond of Tiverton, Widow, 
 loth Feb., 1742. 
 
 To be buried in " Moores Isle," in Cullompton Church, by the 
 side of her mother. 
 
 To kinsman William Bailey the younger, of Tiverton, silver 
 tankard, salver, and punch ladle, the tea cannister, six tea 
 spoons and tongs, and a gold watch. To his wife Mary "a 
 diamond ring with a green stone in it," best white satin gown 
 flowered with gold, and " my linrien gown that I bought in 
 London." To kinswoman Susannah Sellick, "if she be living in 
 the same station at Kensington as I lately saw her," a diamond
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 237 
 
 ring and silver podinger. To kinsman William Sellick, j 145. 
 per annum. To kinsman Peter Slape, $o. To kinswoman 
 Ann, wife of Francis Matthews, ;ioo. To Miss Mary Coles, 
 $o, and to her father Thomas Coles and to Susannah 
 Haviland, a mourning ring each. To Mrs. Mary Osmond of 
 Halberton, two pairs of gold buttons, and to Eleanor Floyer, 
 a mourning ring. The arms of her first husband, " Mr. Moore," 
 to be put on her hearse. 
 
 Residue to said Wm. Bailey, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved I7th Dec., 1743. 
 
 Trustees, Saml. Rogers, Rector of Withycombe, Somerset, 
 and Vicar of Halberton ; Thomas Balliman, and Thomas Coles. 
 
 NOTE. Testatrix, whose marriage license with " Mr. Moore " is not 
 to be found, and whose maiden name is left blank in the pedigree of 
 Moore of Moorhays, was probably a daughter of William Sellick, who 
 purchased the right of presentation to Cullompton Church, and pre- 
 sented thereto, in 171 9. 
 
 She was the widow of George Moore of Moorhays, who died 
 5th Nov., 1711, and by him had an only daughter Mary, the wife of 
 John Blackmore of Sheldon, and the ancestor of the present owner of 
 Moorhays. 
 
 1606. The last Will of Catherine Lady "More" of Cul- 
 lompton, dated 26th April, 1606. Desires to be buried in the 
 parish church, and leaves for the reparation thereof ios., and 
 to the poor 6s. 3d. To Robert Denys, ios. 
 
 Residue to my servants " Mr. Tryslade and Mrs. Shepherd," 
 who are Sole Exors. 
 
 Proved June, 1606. 
 
 NOTE. The personal effects of Testatrix were valued at 21 6s. id., 
 inclusive of two horses and a mare, which were valued at 8. She 
 was the widow of Sir John Moore of Moorhays, and the daughter of 
 Sir Thomas Pomeroy of Berry, by Jane, daughter of Sir Piers Edg- 
 combe. 
 
 1745. William Tucker of Kenn, I4th May, 1739. 
 
 Bequests to poor of Kenn ; to Thomas Dewdney of Kenn, 
 and to (his brother) John Dewdney of Stoke Canon ; to Eliza- 
 beth, wife of William Harris of Kenn ; to Grace, wife of 
 Matthias Dyer of Exminster ; and to Mary, wife of John 
 Dingle of Exminster. He leaves his messuages, &c., situate
 
 238 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 at Heavitree, in County of Devon, to Rev. Thomas Ley, Clerk 
 of Kenn, and to John Dingle, and their heirs, in trust for 
 son John Tucker and his issue, male or female, without impeach- 
 ment of waste, with reversion, failing such, to John Dewdney 
 of Stoke Canon, for life, and then to latter's sons John and 
 Thomas Dewdney, and, failing them, to their sisters Elizabeth 
 and Mary Dewdney, and their right heirs for ever. 
 
 Residue to son John Tucker, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 6th Feb., 1745, by nephew, John Dewdney.* 
 
 1746. The last Will of Peter Tucker of Kenn, Yeoman, 
 5th Dec, 1741. 
 
 He divides property in the parish, videlicet, " Smithny," part 
 of " Whitcombes," " Clapton," part of " Shindlestone," and 
 " Clarke's Meadow," between his sons Peter and Thomas. 
 
 To daughters Joan, Elizabeth, and Izost (Tucker), 100 
 each. 
 
 Residue to wife Joan and son Thomas Tucker, who are joint 
 Exors. 
 
 Mentions a daughter " Mary Harris." 
 
 Proved I3th June, 1746. 
 
 29th April, 1746. Laurence Tucker of His Majesty's Ship 
 " Ruby," makes his wife Margaret, of the parish of St. Shad- 
 well's (Sidwell's), Exeter, universal legatee and Sole Executor. 
 
 Proved 2nd Sept., 1746. 
 
 1748. John Tucker of Exeter, 3ist Oct., 1742, leaves Ann 
 his wife two houses in Matthew's Alley, South Street. 
 Residue to said wife, who is Sole Exor. 
 Proved I5th Feb., 1748. 
 
 * The Dewdneys were an old gentle family, long settled in the neighbouring 
 parish of Doddiscombleigh. Arms, sa., a bend, erw., cotised, or.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 239 
 
 1749. nth Dec., 1749, William Tucker of Kenn, makes 
 Elizabeth his daughter, wife of John Hutchings of Brenton, 
 Yeoman, universal legatee and Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved I5th Jan., 1749. 
 
 1749. Mary Tucker of Exeter, Widow, I9th Aug., 1749. 
 
 To son Jonathan Tucker, ^510, and certain plate, including 
 a great silver Tankard. To said son's " wife," 10 and plate. 
 To grandson Jonathan Tucker, gold ring and plate. 
 
 "Apparel, both linen and woollen, to wife of son-in-law 
 John Tucker and to their daughter Elizb. Soper," save " best 
 gown, quilted coat and cloak," which are bequeathed to grand- 
 daughter Sarah, son Jonathan's eldest daughter. To grandson, 
 Richard Evans, silver tankard. Other bequests of plate and 
 money to son-in-law " Mr. Evans," and to Jonathan, son of 
 John Tucker. 
 
 Residue to said son Jonathan, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved Jan., 1749. 
 
 1754. Joan Tucker of "Church Tawton," in the County of 
 Devon, Widow, I4th Oct., 1753. 
 
 To cousin Thomas Southwood of Pitminster, Somerset, 
 Gentleman, 10. 
 
 To cousin Grace, widow of John Sparrow, and to cousin 
 Jane Barton, 10 each. 
 
 Bequests to Samuel, Thomas, and Joan, children of said 
 Thomas Southwood ; to cousin Mary (relict of Clement 
 Waldron, Gentleman), of Wellington, Somerset, to two servants, 
 and to the poor of " Church Tawton and Cleyhidon." 
 
 Residue to said Thomas Southwood, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 9th Jan., 1754. 
 
 NOTE. Refer to 1729, Dec. gth, will of John Tucker of " Church- 
 Tawton." 
 
 1754. Samuel Tucker of Cullompton, Yeoman, 24th May, 
 1754, leaves all his wearing apparel to his brother George
 
 240 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Tucker. Certain property in Halberton to grand-daughters 
 Joan and Mary, daughters of Edward Kerby. 
 
 To wife Sarah Tucker, certain messuages called " Tucker's," 
 situate at Ash Thomas, in Halberton, for life, with remainder 
 to Humphry Blackmore, gentleman, and Nehemiah Upcott, 
 serge maker, in trust for grandsons Edward Kirby and Samuel 
 Kirby (in default), in tail male and female. 
 
 Mentions daughter Mary, wife of Edward Kerby. Residue 
 to wife Sarah and grand-daughter Agnes Kerby, who are Joint 
 Exors. ; wife to give a bond of ^300 to return her share if 
 she marries again, and is directed to leave testator's property, 
 in any case, to such of his children as "shall behave well and 
 kind to her." 
 
 Proved I9th July, 1754. 
 
 1757. Edward Tucker of Broadclist, 1st Jan., 1755. He 
 leaves daughter Joan " five shillings only and no more," and 
 gives the residue, " in token of many favours received," and 
 " signal benefits," to William Martyn of Broadclist, in trust ; to 
 pay $ per annum to son Edward Tucker "in weekly pay- 
 ments on Saturdays." 
 
 Proved 2nd November, 1757. 
 
 1758. Samuel Tucker, late of Cullompton, deceased. 
 Admon. granted to Agnes Ward, formerly Kerby, now wife 
 of Robert Ward, grand-daughter of deceased, 7th April, 
 1758. 
 
 NOTE. Second admon. Refer to will of Saml. Tucker, igth July, 
 1754, ante. 
 
 1758. Isett Osmond of Uplowman, Spinster, I7th Jan., 
 1755. She desires to be buried near her father in Uplowman 
 Church, and to have a headstone, and another of the same 
 kind for her father. 
 
 Legacies to brothers Thomas, Francis, and Robert Osmond ;
 
 DEVO \SHIRK IVff.f.S. 241 
 
 to "cousin" John Stone, son of sister Mary; and sister 
 Alice. 
 
 Residue to sister Sedwell Osmond, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved rsth Sept., 1758. 
 
 NOTE. Testatrix was daughter of Thomas Osmond of Uplowman 
 (will Oct , 1702, ante), and sister of Francis Osmond, " son-in-law of 
 last Testator." See preceding will. 
 
 Armorial Seal A demi-lion rampant, holding a horseshoe. 
 
 1758. The last Will of John Osmond of Sampforde Peveiel. 
 To son-in-law Francis Osmond certain leasehold property, 
 charged with annuities to daughters Mary and Isett. 
 
 There is remainder for Mary's children, Thomas, Joan, and 
 Richard (Osmond). 
 
 To John, " son of Francis Osmond," one heifer. 
 
 Isett's annuity to be held by her brother-in-law Francis 
 Osmond for her maintenance. 
 
 Proved I7th June, 1758. 
 
 1762. John Tucker of Tiveiton, 131!) Feb., 1762. Legacies 
 to daughter Mary, wife of Robert Ferries of Silverton ; to her 
 brother John Ferries ; and to daughter Grace, wife of Henry 
 Hill of Tiverton. 
 
 Residue to wife Grace, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Seal " J. T.," with an estoile over the letters. 
 
 Proved I2th May, 1762. 
 
 1764. The last Will of John Mortimer, the elder, of 
 St. Nicholas, Yeoman, loth Sept., 1763. To son Joseph and 
 heirs of his body, certain land in Kingsteignton called Fostwell 
 and Heathfield, with remainder to other sons John and William. 
 To said son John, two leasehold estates at Preston, in King- 
 steignton. To daughter Hannah Drew, \ is. To Elizabeth, 
 daughter of said son Joseph, dwelling-house on the Strand at 
 Ringmoie. To Elizabeth, daughter of said son William, ,$ 
 at 21. To sister Joan Codner, .3 35. A debt of 40 owing 
 by son Joseph is partly bequeathed to grandsons Joseph and
 
 242 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 John, sons of said Joseph, and partly to John, Ann, Mary, and 
 William Mortimer, children of said son John. Residue to 
 said son William Mortimer, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Witnesses, Wm. and Mary Waye and Richard Langdon. 
 
 Proved August 22nd, 1764. 
 
 NOTE. Testator was son of John Mortimer of Uplowman, and is 
 mentioned with sister Joan. See the will ante A.D. 1729 
 
 1766. Admon. to the effects of Susannah Mortimer of 
 Dunsford, granted to John Mortimer her husband, July I5th, 
 1766. 
 
 1767. William Mortimer of Drevvsteignton, i8th Sept., 1763. 
 To daughter Mary Frost, widow, small annuity and legacy ; 
 the same to daughters Joanna " Houdg " and Thomazine, wife 
 of John Buard ; and to grandson Joseph Buard. Residue, with 
 leasehold interest in Knowle estate, to son William Mortimer, 
 who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 3Oth March, 1767. 
 
 NOTE. Testator was son of John Mortimer, 1737 ante, and brother 
 of Sampson Mortimer, post 1776. 
 
 1767. The last Will of Grace Tucker of Tiverton, Widow, 
 ilth April, 1764. 
 
 Mentions daughter Mary, wife of Robert Ferries of Silverton ; 
 grandsons John and George Ferries ; grandchildren John and 
 Mary, son and daughter of Grace, wife of Henry Hill, of 
 1 iverton. 
 
 Residue to said daughter Grace Hill, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 3 1st March, 1767. 
 
 1767. Administration to the effects of Jonathan Tucker the 
 younger, of Exeter, intestate, granted nth Nov., 1767, to 
 Mary his widow.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 243 
 
 1774. Nicholas Tucker of Tiverton. To brothers Roger 
 and Edward, 10 each. To niece Mary Ferris, daughter of 
 late brother John Tucker, 10 ; to children of brother Roger, 
 John, and Elizabeth, ,30 and ,60. 
 
 To children of brother Edward, viz., Elizabeth Williams 
 and Ann Tucker, ;io and ^5. 
 
 To niece Grace Hill, daughter of said brother John, 2Os. per 
 annum, to issue out of two messuages in Bampton Street, 
 Tiverton. Moiety of tenement called " The Eight Bells," 
 near St. Peter's Church, and the three-eighths part of certain 
 messuages (leasehold i,OOO years) to said nephew John 
 Tucker. 
 
 Residue to Nicholas Tucker, son of said brother Roger, 
 who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Crest Seal A mermaid. 
 
 Proved 4th Jan., 1774. 
 
 1774. Richard Mortimer of Dunsford, 2Oth Nov., 1768. 
 He gives his son George the Dunsford Mills and the marshes 
 adjoining, " being part of Court," charged with 2Os. per annum 
 to " my three daughters." 
 
 To Ann, wife of said George, ,i is. 
 
 To daughters Elizabeth and Ann Mortimer, 70 each, and 
 to daughter Mary, wife of John Connett, 20, and one guinea 
 to her husband. 
 
 Wife Ann to have life interest both in the mill and mes- 
 suages. She is residuary legatee and Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 2Qth July, 1774. 
 
 1775. James Tucker of St. David's and city of Exeter, 
 Innholder, I3th April, 1771. 
 
 Mourning rings to David Cox of Ilminster and his wife ; 
 to brother Win. Tucker of Bath and his wife ; to wife's 
 mother "Mrs. Bastard;" to Anthony Symons of Broadclist ; 
 and to Isaac Sercombe of Exeter, wine cooper. 
 
 To wife 100 and a copyhold estate at Stoke Canon, in the
 
 244 DEVONSHIRE IV ILLS. 
 
 occupation of "Mr. Devvdney." Property to be realised by 
 three trustees, to invest same for son James Tucker. 
 
 Residue to said son at 21. 
 
 Proved by trustees, Cox, Symons, and Sercombe, aforesaid, 
 8th May, 1775. 
 
 NOTE. Deceased was the owner and occupant of the " Oxford Inn " 
 in St. David's parish. 
 
 1776. Sampson Mortimer of Drewsteignton, 22nd Jan., 
 1774. To daughter Elizabeth an annuity of 383. a year out 
 of Knowle, in said parish. He mentions a legacy of 2 given 
 her by her grandfather. 
 
 Similar legacy to daughter Thomazine, who is also to have 
 a " family spoon " lettered S M. Residue to son James, who 
 is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 5th Jan., 1776. 
 
 NOTE. The legacy to "Elizabeth Mortimer" is not referred to in 
 the will of her grandfather. See ante. May, 1737, John Mortimer of 
 Drewsteignton. 
 
 1776. Sarah Tucker of Lympstone, Widow, 3rd Sept., 1771. 
 
 She leaves her freehold lands in said parish to niece Edith 
 Oats, and legacies to Thomas, Hugh, and Philip Oats, sons 
 of said Edith. 
 
 Proved 24th June, 1776. 
 
 Seal, Arms, and Crest The arms are too indistinct for 
 blazon, but the crest is a demi sea-horse. 
 
 NOTE. One of the best known coats of " Tucker " contains three 
 sea-horses, but the crest is a lion's gamb. 
 
 1777. Elizabeth Tucker of Exeter, Widow, I7th Jan., 1777. 
 Legacies to son Joseph and to daughters Elizabeth and Mary. 
 Residue to son W r illiam Fryer Tucker, who is Sole Exor. 
 Proved 27th Feb., 1777. 
 " William Sanford " a witness.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 245 
 
 1778. Admon. George Mortimer of Dunsford, intestate, 
 granted 2nd Feb., 1778, to Ann the widow. 
 
 1778. Ann Mortimer of Dunsford, 3rd Feb., 1778. To 
 Elizb., wife of James Connett, .40, and one guinea, instead of 
 a gold ring, six silver teaspoons, and all the " chainea." To 
 daughter Mary, wife of John Connett, 40. To daughter-in- 
 law Ann Mortimer, 1 is. 
 
 To George and Ann Connett she gives, inter altis, " my best 
 looking glass and my new prayer-book, with all the tea dishes, 
 saucers, and .basons belonging to makeing of tea, except the 
 spoons." Her son George being dead, she gives the residue of 
 the lease of Dunsford Mills to her daughter-in-law Ann Morti- 
 mer, with reversion, for the 99 years, terminable on the death 
 of " brother John Mortimer" to George, John, Elizabeth, and 
 Richard, children of deceased son George. 
 
 Proved 3rd July, 1778. 
 
 NOTE. Refer to July agth, 1774, ante. 
 
 1779. Philemon Mortimore of Silverton, I3th March, 1772. 
 Legacies to brother Richard Mortimore and to sister Joan, wife 
 of Thomas Heard. Legacies to children of said Richard, 
 William, Thomas, John, Betty, and Ann. Fee simple of houses 
 in Silverton to Mary Purser as long as she remains a widow, 
 with remainder to "nephew Richard Mortimore," charged with 
 an annuity of 2Os. to Jenny, daughter of deceased brother 
 Henry Mortimore. 
 
 Residue to said Mary Purser, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved I5th Oct., 1779. 
 
 1781. John Tucker of Tiverton, Maltster, I7th Nov., 1777. 
 To John Govett, surgeon, and Beavis Wood, gentleman, both 
 of Tiverton, certain property in trust for wife Jane for life, with 
 remainder to son Thomas and Ann his wife, intail upon their 
 son John Tucker. 
 
 There are further remainders to daughter Jane Hodge and
 
 246 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 her son John Hodge ; to son William Tucker, his heirs and 
 assigns for ever. 
 
 Mentions son Richard, his wife Betty, and their children 
 George and John Tucker ; granddaughter Sarah, daughter of 
 said son William ; daughter Susannah Vickery. To said son 
 Thomas " the mourning ring presented to me upon the death 
 of the late Lord Chief Justice Ryder." 
 
 To said son Richard " my scarlet corporation gown and my 
 mourning ring for late Mr. William Wood." 
 
 Residue to said wife Jane, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 2nd May, 1781. 
 
 NOTE. Sir Dudley Ryder, Kt., Lord Chief Justice of the King's 
 Bench, 1754, died before his elevation to the peerage (the patent for 
 which was signed the day previously), 25th May, 1756; his son was 
 created Lord Harrowby twenty years later. The first peer's grandson, 
 Canon Ryder of Lichfield, married secondly, 1841, Eliza Julia, daughter 
 of Lieut. -Col. John Tucker, and by her had issue. The first peer was 
 M.P. for Tiverton. 
 
 1782. Mary, wife of John Mortimer of Dunsford, Yeoman, 
 8th May, 1778. 
 
 She bequeaths her separate estate of ;i8o; $o to nephew 
 Edward Ramsey of Exeter, schoolmaster, son of brother 
 Edward Ramsey, deceased. To nephew John Ramsey 50. 
 To Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Mortimer and wife of James 
 Connett, .30. 
 
 Residue to husband John Mortimer, who is Sole Executor. 
 
 Proved 28th July, 1782. 
 
 1787. John Mortimore of Halberton, 3Oth November, 1786. 
 He leaves John Chave, Esq., of said parish, 30 in trust for 
 daughter Mary, wife of Robert Seaman of Willand. 
 
 To daughter Jane, wife of John Templeman, Langford Bud- 
 vile, Somerset, 20. To daughter Elizabeth, wife of William 
 Webber of " Milocton," Somerset, 20 (Milverton (?), near 
 Langford Budville). To daughters Sarah 20, and Susannah 
 and Ann Mortimore 60 each. Daughter Dinah Mortimore 
 150, and daughter Joan Mortimore $o.
 
 DEVONSHIRE ll'ILLS. 247 
 
 To said Trustee the estate known as " Burruges," otherwise 
 "Joans," in Bradninch, for use of son John Mortimore at 21. 
 To grandsons John and Thomas Seaman 5 each at 21. 
 
 Residue to wife Hannah, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 9th February, 1787. 
 
 1789. Francis Osmond of Lee, in Silverton, I9th September, 
 1787. 
 
 To two trustees Thomas Osmond of Uplowman and Thomas 
 Rowe of Sampford Peverel, an estate called Colebrook, in 
 Cullompton, lately purchased of Richard Hall Clarke for 
 benefit of daughter Joan Osmond for life, charged with an 
 annuity of 5 to daughter Sarah, wife of John Gould. 
 Remainder to granddaughter Mary Gould. Lands in Hal- 
 berton to similar uses. 
 
 Residue to said trustees for benefit of said daughters. 
 
 Witnesses Thomas Floyd, Henry Brutton. 
 
 Proved 1 8th February, 1789. 
 
 1789. Richard Mortimore, late of Silverton, intestate, to 
 Susannah Mortimore, widow. 
 
 John Reynolds of Pinhoe and William Mortimore join the 
 bond. 
 
 9th April, 1789. 
 
 1795. Francis Osmond of Halberton, 2Oth February, 1795. 
 Legacies to son John and to daughter Jenny, wife of Henry 
 Brice. To granddaughter Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and 
 Betty Norrish, and to grandchildren Samuel, Richard, Mary, 
 and Jenny Norrish. 
 
 To son Francis Osmond " Speedland " in Sampford Peverel, 
 charged with payment of a mortgage of 100, and with an 
 annuity of 403. to son Thomas. John Osmond of Heavitree is 
 a trustee. 
 
 Residue to son Robert, who is Sole Executor. 
 
 Proved 1 3th April, 1795.
 
 248 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1797. John Mortimer of Ringmore, in Stokeintinhead. 
 Having already provided for them, he now leaves son-in-law 
 William Langley, daughter Ann Langley, and eldest son John 
 Mortimer, one guinea each. 
 
 Mentions daughter Catherine and granddaughter Mary 
 Langley. 
 
 Residue to wife Ann, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved July, 1797. 
 
 1798. Frances Tucker of Axminster, Spinster, nth Nov., 
 1797. 250 each to brother George Tucker; sister Sarah, wife 
 of Rev. John Davey Hodge of Leigh, co. Essex, clerk ; Betsy, 
 Uriah, and Mary Ann Dare, children of deceased sister Eliza- 
 beth, wife of Uriah Dare ; nieces Jane and Mary Ann Andrews, 
 daughters of Thomas Andrews ; sisters Ann, Mary, and Amelia 
 Tucker. Smaller legacies to Sarah, wife of Robert Ackland of 
 Tiverton ; Mrs. Susannah Tucker the elder, widow, of Axminster ; 
 Ann, wife of Thomas Byshop ; and Betty Spence of Colyton. 
 To sister Mary aforesaid " gold ring set with pearls." To said 
 sister Amelia " miniature picture and silver castors.' 
 
 To godmothers Sarah Tucker and Ann, wife of John Liddon 
 of Axminster, ,2 I2s. 6d. each for rin^s. The same to Elizabeth, 
 wife of John Joy of Glastonbury, Esquiie. To sister-in-law 
 Elizabeth Tucker "gold ear-rings and drops" ; to Sarah, wife of 
 Rev. Mr. Mules, of Ilminster, "red morocco pocket-book bound 
 with silver." 
 
 "To Phocion Dare of Lyme Regis, druggist, a mourning ring 
 for his kind attention to me when I was confined at his house 
 at Taunton." 
 
 Residue to said brother George, who is Sole Executor. 
 
 Proved 6th August, 1798. 
 
 1798. Gregory Osmond of Newton St. Cyres, I5th June, 
 1798. Legacies to daughter Elizabeth, wife of William Ellis, 
 and to daughter Ann, wife of James Moxey. To son Edward 
 50 in trust for granddaughter Mary Ann Butter. 
 
 Residue to said son Edward, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 2nd Nov., 1798.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 249 
 
 1805. Adinon. of Thomas Osmond of Uplovvman, intestate, 
 granted May 2/th, 1805, to Thomas his son. 
 
 1806. Mary Osmond of Silverton, Widow, 3Oth May, 1805. 
 Legacies to nephews Charles, Robert, and John, sons of brother 
 Robert Rowe. To nieces Mary Berne, Elizabeth Morgan, and 
 Mary Mortimer, Mary Symes, Emmeline Flood, and Thomasine 
 Drake, ,150 each. To nephew John Payne, nephews Richard, 
 Charles, Robert, and James, sons of brother Richard Rowe and 
 their sister Martha Hewitt. Mentions " John and Philip Bas- 
 tard " of Silverton, " the five childien " of former, and John, son 
 of Philip Bastard. 350 for benefit of Mary, daughter of niece 
 Elizabeth Salter, and 50 to Elizabeth, another daughter of 
 said Elizabeth Salter. 
 
 Residue for benefit of said niece Elizabeth Salter. 
 
 Proved by Trustees as Executors, 24th Oct., 1806. 
 
 Witnesses E. Spry, John Puyh. 
 
 1810. James Osmond of Halberton, /th March, 1804. He 
 leaves his moiety of Neither Mill, in the parish of Halberton, 
 to his son-in-law Henry Radford, with remainder to daughter 
 Sarah Radford for life, to revert to her son James Osmond 
 Radford, in trust, male or female, for ever. 
 
 To sister's son John Quant of Bradninch, all wearing 
 apparel. 
 
 Proved 26th April, 1810. 
 
 1823. Francis Osmond of Halberton, 2/th June, 1822. 
 
 To son Francis ;iOO charged on " Speedland " in Sampford 
 Peverel, after decease of brother Thomas Osmond. Legacy 
 to son Richard. 
 
 25 each to daughters Sarah, wife of John Kerslake, Eliza- 
 beth, Joan, Mary Ann, and Charlotte Osmond. 
 
 Speedwell estate to wife Sarah, who is residuary legatee 
 and Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved i6th January, 1823.
 
 250 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 PART II. 
 
 ARCHDEACONRY OF BARNSTAPLE. 
 
 1563. The last Will of David Melhuish of Knowstone, 
 dated I3th August, 1563. Legacies to the " poor men's box" 
 of his parish, and to that of Cruse Morchard. Bequests to 
 " Richard Melhuish and to John Comyn." Residue to wife 
 Johane and to Philip Shapcote, who are joint Executors. 
 
 Proved I3th Sept., 1563. 
 
 1565. William Hamlyne of Frithelstock, I2th Dec., 1565. 
 With other bequests, he leaves his son Hugh Hamlyne " a 
 sylver spoone and a sheepe," and there is a similar bequest to 
 son William. 
 
 Residue to wife Joan, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved I2th Feby., 1565-66. 
 
 1573. The last Will of John Tocker of West Buckland, 
 25th Feby., 1573. 
 
 Mentions son George and daughter Urithe ; gives former his 
 sheep, in the parish of Countisbury. 
 
 Legacies to Margaret Shaplonde and Davie Holsworthie. 
 
 Residue to wife Elizabeth and son John, who are joint 
 Exors. 
 
 Witnesses David Kente, parson of West Buckland ; John 
 Waite and George Harris, parishioners ; and Oliver Tocker of 
 Chawlegh. 
 
 Proved 27th March, 1573.
 
 DE VONSHIRE WIL I.S. 
 
 25' 
 
 1593. The last Will of Joane Sanger of Maryansleigh, 
 Widow, 1 2th March, 1592. Legacies for repair of the church 
 and to the poor. 
 
 To godson, son Roger Sanger, I2d. 
 
 Legacies to goddaughter Amye Smale and son Thomas 
 Sanger. Residue to John, " my youngest son of that name." 
 He is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 2 1st June, 1593. 
 
 1597. Elizabeth Hatch of Salterleigh, Spinster, 26th April, 
 1597. Bequests to poor of Salterleigh; to sister Gertrude's 
 children Marmaduke and Hugh Walsh ; to nephews Robert 
 and Lewis, brother Robert's children. 
 
 Residue to Rev. Hugh Tooker, Clerk, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved July, 1597. 
 
 NOTE. See will of Robert Hatch, October, 1644, post. 
 
 1597. The last Will of Emmeline Hamlyn, Widow, of 
 Tawstock, 5th March, 1589. Mentions sons Richard and 
 William, and gives them certain household effects. 
 
 Residue to son Christopher Hamlyn, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Witnesses Richard Stribling the elder and Richard Strib- 
 ling of Exeter, minister. 
 
 Proved 1st April, 1597. 
 
 1606-7. The last Will of Christopher Wood of Ashridge, in 
 the parish of North Tawton, Esquire, 25th Nov., 1606. 
 
 To be buried in south aisle of parish church, and leaves to 
 its " reparacion " 403. 
 
 To the poor loos. To grandson Christopher, son of John 
 Wood, 40. 
 
 Mentions grandson John, another son of said John Wood. 
 
 Residue to wife Katherine, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 7th March, 1606-7. 
 
 NOTE. Testator's wife Katherine was the daughter of Sir John 
 "Windham" of Orchard Windham, co, Somerset, and is mentioned in
 
 252 DE VONSH1RE WILLS. 
 
 the will of her father, proved 28th April, 1575. Her brother John 
 " Wyndham " was the grandfather of Sir Wm. Wyndham, created a 
 baronet i3th Charles II., 1662. The fourth baronet, by a limitation, 
 succeeded to the Egremont title, on the death of his uncle Algernon, 
 Duke of Somerset. The earldom of Egremont became extinct April, 
 1845- 
 
 1610. Laurence Densham of Lapford. Administration 
 granted nth March, 1610, to Joane his widow. 
 
 1612. Admon. Hugh Hamlyn of Bideford, granted 6th May, 
 1612, to Thomasine his wife. John Jarman of Bideford joins 
 the bond. 
 
 1613. The last Will of Nicholas Mortymer of Winkleigh, 
 2nd Dec., 1611. 
 
 To the poor of the parish 2s. ; to Charethie Mortymer "my 
 beste bande and my best stockins ; to Elizabeth Hatherleigh 
 my second beste dublett and jerkyn, my best wastcoatt, and 
 one canvas shirt ; to Samuel Crocker my second best jerkyn ; 
 to Barnard Reed my greene breeches ; to Johane Joanes my 
 best shoes ; to Johane Bynford my blue stockins ; to Samuel 
 Crocker my new canvas shirt ; to Joha Hatherleigh my best 
 halt" 
 
 Residue to Master Andrew Beare, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved nth Dec., 1613. 
 
 1614. Admon. William Densham of Lapford, granted 
 28th April, 1614, to Joan his relict. 
 
 1615. The last Will of William Mortimore, otherwise 
 Tanner, of Fremington, A.D. 1614 (month omitted). Legacies 
 to the poor and to sons William, Matthew, and James Tanner. 
 To daughter Ellynor six silver spoons. 
 
 Residue to wife Ellynor, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Two Trustees, viz., William Farechilde and Robert Hill. 
 
 Witnesses Robert Hill and Thomas Pamer (? Palmer). 
 
 Proved I2th Sept., 1615.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 253 
 
 1618. Richard Densham of Lapford. Administration granted 
 29th Oct., 1618, of goods unadministered by Johan his mother, 
 to John Densham his son. 
 
 1619. John Hamlyn of Tavvstock, 3ist May, 1619. To 
 son Marmaduke " my best doublett and jerkyn." Legacies to 
 brothers William, Christopher, and Richard, and to godson 
 Richard Hamlyn. 
 
 Residue to wife Sidwell for life, with reversion to said 
 Marmaduke Hamlyn. 
 
 Proved 4th May, 1619. 
 
 1625. Walter Hammett of Northam. Admon. granted to 
 Dorothy his widow, 6th Oct., 1625. 
 Sum 13 is. 4d. 
 
 NOTE. James Hammett, eldest son of Richard H. and Elizabeth 
 Risdon, second son of Richard Hammett of Clovelly, and Thomasine 
 Hamlyn, changed his name to Hamlyn, by Act of Parliament, in 1760. 
 He was created a baronet in 1795. 
 
 1628. Richard Hamlyn of Tawstock, loth Feby., 1624. 
 Mentions sons Richard, John, William, and Giles, and 
 daughter Mary. 
 
 Residue to wife Mary, who is Sole Executrix. 
 Codicil dated 5th Dec, 1628. 
 Proved 26th Feby., 1628-29. 
 
 1637. The last Will of Elinor Mortimore, otherwise Tanner, 
 of Fremington, Widow. She desires to be buried in the 
 parish churchyard, just by the chancel door, near to the 
 "sepulchre" of husband William Mortimore, alias Tanner, and 
 leaves IDS. to the poor of the parish. Mentions sons Matthew 
 and Henry Mortimore, alias Tanner, and daughter Elinor
 
 254 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Friend ; also son Tymothy Hatherley and daughter Eylin 
 Hanver. 
 
 Residue to said daughter Elinor Friend, who is Sole 
 Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses William Blanchard, minister ; John Barwicke. 
 
 Proved 3Oth Aug., 1637. 
 
 NOTE. Refer to her husband's will, i2th Sept., 1615, ante. 
 
 1637. Administration to the effects of Lewis Hatch of 
 Salterleigh, granted 1/j.th April, 1637, to Robert his father. 
 John Fisher of Nymet St. George, Clerk, joins the bond 
 (during minority of Lewis and Thomas, younger children of 
 deceased). 
 
 1643. Mary Hamlyn of Tawstock, Widow, 1st April, 1643, 
 Mentions sons Richard, John, and William, and daughter 
 Mary, granddaughter Dorothy, child of said Mary. 
 Sister Dorothy Shorte, and godson " William Shorte." 
 Residue to son Giles Hamlyn, who is Sole Exor. 
 Proved 23rd Sept., 1643. 
 
 1644. The last Will of Robert Hatch of Salterleigh, Gentle- 
 man, 2oth April, 1642. Bequests to the poor and parish 
 church. To wife Margery certain furniture at " Hatchington, 
 in the parish of Swimbridge." Mentions daughter-in-law Chris- 
 tian Hatche, widow of son Lewis Hatche deceased, their children 
 Robert (" my grandchild and heir apparent "), Lewis, and 
 Thomas Hatche. He leaves said Lewis Hatche the tenement 
 known as Uphome, in Cheriton, after the death of his said 
 mother Christian. Mentions son-in-law John Mayne and 
 nephews Marmaduke and Hugh Welsh. 
 
 Residue to said grandchild Robert Hatch, who is Sole Exor. 
 Overseers, John Fisher, Clerk, Hugh Sparke, and John Paul, 
 
 Proved I4th Oct., 1644. 
 
 NOTE. There are many discrepancies and inaccuracies both in the 
 pedigrees and historical notices of the family of Hatch. 
 
 They derived their name from the manor of Hache, written Hax in
 
 DE VONSHIKE WILLS. 255 
 
 Domesday, which belonged at the Conquest to Baldwin de Brion, and 
 subsequently to Arundel. Upon this estate, in the parish of Loddis- 
 well, " John of Hach," supposed to have been son and heir of " Adam 
 of Hach," resided in 1345-6. Their descendant Jeffry Hatch, described 
 as of "Wolleigh," in the parish of Beaford, was really of Soutli Molton, 
 and gave name to an estate there, hence known as Hatch, which has 
 assisted the confusion I have noted. 
 
 This Jeffry Hatch, of South Molton, appears to have had two sons. 
 The elder of these, John Hatch, was the great grandfather of Robert 
 Hatch, who, by his marriage with Wenlyan, daughter and heir of Sir 
 John Murdock, Kt., became possessed of Wolleigh. This Robert died 
 in 1406 (Inq. p. m. 7th Henry IV.), and his branch became extinct in 
 male line about the middle of the sixteenth century, when the Wolleigh 
 property went with the daughter and heir to Mallet ; but William and 
 Oliver Hatch, baptised at Kenwyn 1614 and 1616, were cadets of the 
 Wolleigh line, and the former had a grandson, John Hatch, baptised 
 there in 1673. 
 
 The second son of Jeffry Hatch of South Molton, Gilbert Hatch, 
 married Claris, daughter and heir of William de Awre of Awre, com- 
 monly called Aller, in South Molton. Thomas Hatch of Aller, fifth in 
 descent from Gilbert, was the father of Lewis Hatch of Aller, whose 
 line terminated late in the eighteenth century, upon the death of 
 Thomas Hatch, cousin and heir of Elizabeth (will proved 1747), grand- 
 daughter and heir of John Hatch of Aller. Will proved 1731-2. 
 
 Thomas Hatch, father of said Lewis, had also a third son, Robert 
 Hatch, who has been entirely overlooked by the heralds, and he was 
 the father of Robert Hatch, the above testator, and also of two 
 daughters, Gertrude and Elizabeth, who are likewise omitted from the 
 visitation pedigrees. The father of the testator, Robert Hatch, married 
 Joan Parker of South Molton, and received by deed of gift from his 
 father, Thomas, the Salterleigh property, by indenture dated loth Dec., 
 
 1553- 
 
 The Salterleigh branch of the Hatch family terminated with co-heirs 
 married to Stafford, Drake, and Burdock, upon the death of Robert 
 Hatch of Salterleigh, who was buried there i3th Dec., 1699. 
 
 1662. The last Will of Christopher Wood of Ash ridge, in 
 the parish of Northtavvton, Esquire, I5th Oct., 1661. Legacies 
 to poor ; to wife Mary and daughter Mary ; daughter-in-law 
 Elizabeth, wife of son and heir Christopher. Residue to wife 
 Mary, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 22nd June, 1662. 
 
 NOTE. Mary (Fowell) was testator's second wife; she died 1683. 
 Ashridge subsequently belonged to the Skinners, who held it for some 
 descents. The daughters and co-heirs of the last Skinner of Ashridge 
 married Orchard, and Sheriff, and the property now belongs to the late 
 Mrs. Orchard's grandson, Major Charles Orchard Cornish, late i8th, 
 Royal Irish, and 73rd Regiments. See my " Devonshire Parishes," 
 Vol. II., p. 72.
 
 256 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1665. Administration to the effects of Roger Sanger of 
 Mariansleigh, to " Sarah Sanger, Widow." 
 Henry Sanger joins the bond. 
 Sum 94 iis. 
 
 1669. Sara Sanger of " Marley," Widow, nth Jan., 1668. 
 Legacies to son John Sanger, to daughter Marian Vicary, and 
 grandson Joseph Vicary and his three brothers, and their 
 sisters Sibil and Francis. 
 
 The latter to have my "jump coat and one of my pewter 
 dishes." 
 
 To the children of John, James, Henry, and Elias Sanger 
 2s. each. 
 
 Residue to youngest son Elias Sanger, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved I4th April, 1669. 
 
 Inventory exhibited by Roger and Jonathan Sanger and 
 William Adams. 
 
 NOTE. " Marley" is a corruption of Mary Ansleigh, and about two 
 miles from Meshaw, in the same hundred and deanery. This parish 
 is called in some old documents " Anstey St. Mary." 
 
 1669. Administration to the effects of Wilmot Hamlyn, 
 granted 5th Feby., 1669, to William Hamlyn of Hartland, her 
 son. 
 
 Sum 41 133. 6d. 
 
 1672. The account of William Hamlyn, son, and adminis- 
 trator of Wilmot Hamlyn of Hartland, dated 7th Dec., 1672. 
 Sum of personalty 41 133. 6d. 
 For funeral expenses 2. 
 Letters of admon. 123. 6d. 
 
 Drawing and double writing the accompt los. 6d. 
 Balance 38 los. 6d.
 
 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 257 
 
 1673-4. The last Will of Lewis " Hacche " of Satterley, 
 "minister of the Gospel," i/th June, 1673. Desires to be buried 
 in the " little window of the chancel of Satterleigh Church." 
 Bequeaths " my books " to nephew Robert Hacche, and other 
 books to <; Mrs. Hildersham." Mentions "sister Mrs. Sarah 
 Hacche," cousin Christian Hacche, " Uncle Lavercombe," cousin 
 John Nott, and Thomas Nott his son ; Thomas Wade, his wife 
 and their son Lewis Wade ; John Pincombe of Warkleigh. 
 
 Residue to brother " Robert Hacche, Esq.," who is Sole 
 Exor. 
 
 Proved 6th Feb., 1673-4. 
 
 1674. The last Will of William Mortymer of Great Tor- 
 rington, dated I7th Feb., 1673. 
 
 He leaves directions for a funeral sermon from the text 
 Cor. ii , c. 13, v. u, "Finally, brethren, farewell." To son 
 Gyles a charge of i8s. per annum out of the house of Anthony 
 Budd during the life of Francis Budd, as per indenture, &c., 
 of Charles Budd, brother of the aforesaid Anthony and 
 Francis. 
 
 To said son " my signet ring," &c. 
 
 To daughter Agnes Mortymer 100, i.e., $O on marriage, 
 and 50 on the birth of "her living child," and there is a 
 like legacy to daughter Dorothy Mortymer. Legacies to poor 
 of Torrington ; to goddaughter Mary, daughter of Anthony 
 Budd ; to Cosen Ann, daughter of Charles Budd ; and to 
 brother George Mortymer's daughters. Mentions " my son " 
 " An " Payne and brother " An " Budd. 
 
 Exors., wife Agnes and son Gyles ; brother " An " Budd 
 and George Mortymer to be joint Exors. in trust. 
 
 Seal, a heait, with letters " W. M." 
 
 Proved 4th July, 1674. 
 
 1675. The last Will of William Mortymer of Kentisbury, 
 Yeoman, I3th Aug., 1674. Legacies to poor of said parish, 
 and to the poor of Great Torrington, Benynarber, Comb Martin, 
 
 and Parracombe. To daughter-in-law Agnes Mortymer, and 
 18
 
 258 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 to Agnes and Dorothy, daughters of son William Mortymer, 
 deceased. To kinsman Giles Mortymer, to daughter-in-law 
 Philippa Budd, and to her six children. To son-in-law Francis 
 Budd and to his seven children Winifred, Agnes, Giles, Mary, 
 W r ilmot, Ellinor, and Francis Budd. To Agnes and Elizabeth, 
 daughters of said Giles Mortymer. 
 
 To son Thomas Mortymer certain lands in Berrynarber and 
 others in possession of Amias Serrill. Mentions said son's 
 daughters, Agnes and Dorothy. Dorothy, daughter of son 
 George Mortymer, has 100 and right in " Colley," testator's 
 residence. Mentions Agnes, sister of last mentioned Dorothy, 
 and her mother Wilmott Mortymer. 
 
 Residue to son George, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Overseers Francis and Anthony Budd. 
 
 Proved 7th May, 1675. 
 
 1679. Admon. to the effects of Grace Hamlyn of Parkham, 
 granted 5th July, 1679, to Margaret, wife of Richard Payne 
 of Stratton, Co. Cornwall. 
 
 1684. The last Will of Roger Sanger of Meshaw, alias 
 Meshutt, 2Oth April, 1684. To the poor of Meshaw and 
 "Marleigh" (Mary Ansleigh) los. each. He leaves his lease- 
 hold estate Prescott, on which he resides, held on the lives of 
 "me Roger Sanger and Agnes my wife," "if Roger, son of 
 brother Jonathan, soe long live," to said Roger his nephew, 
 charged with an annuity of 20 to kinswoman Elizabeth 
 Lithiby. To kinsman Wm. Chardon of Romansleigh, .10. 
 Part of a sum of 12 advanced by said William for William 
 Adams of Marleigh. Legacies to kinsfolk Ann, William, and 
 Joshua Lithiby the younger, and to Daniel, son of Wm. 
 Chardon. 
 
 Residue to wife Agnes, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved May (?), 1684.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 259 
 
 1685. Agnes Sangcr of Meshaw, Widow, i8th June, 1684. 
 
 Legacies to kinsfolk John, William, and Ann Lithiby, and 
 to John, son of William Addams. 
 
 To Alexander Addams ; to kinswoman Ann Lithiby the 
 elder. 
 
 Residue to kinswoman Elizabeth Lithiby, who is Sole 
 Executrix. 
 
 Trustees, Edward Kemp and John Addams. 
 
 Witnesses, Edward Kemp and Lewis Deamant (Daymant). 
 
 Proved Sept. (?), 1685. 
 
 1685. Admon. to the effects of John Tussle of Barnstaple, 
 granted loth April, 1685, to Katherine his widow. 
 43. id. 
 
 1686. The last Will of Jonathan Sanger of Marleigh, alias 
 Maryansleigh, 2Oth Jan., 1682. To the poor of the parish, 2s. 
 
 "Having already settled a competent maintenance upon my 
 wife Johana, I give her the lands and tenements settled on her 
 in bar of her dower," together with the use of certain furniture. 
 To son Nicholas, los ; to son Roger, " my right in Bourne 
 Park"; to son Elias, ''my right in Upcote"; to daughters 
 Dorothy and Johane, $o each. 
 
 There are arrangements for the maintenance of son Alexander. 
 
 Overseers, kinsmen Richard and Elias Bray. 
 
 Witnesses, John Spencer, John Addams, and John Treble. 
 
 Sum 804 135. 4d. 
 
 No " act " of proof. 
 
 In Calendar, Probate 4th Feb., 1686. 
 
 1686. Agnes Mortimer of Great Torrington, Widow, I4th 
 Jan., 1683. Legacies to son Giles Mortimer and his six 
 children; to daughter-in-law Philippis Mortimer; to daughter 
 Anne, wife of Anthony Payne ; and to her five children. 
 
 Residue to daughter Dorothy, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved Oct. 2nd, 1686.
 
 260 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1687. The last Will of William Hamlyn of Barnstaple, 
 dated 3Otli Nov., 1687. Bequests to brother James Hamlyn, 
 sisters Martha and Hannah Hamlyn, cousins Mary and 
 Rebecca Lancey. 
 
 Residue to wife Mary, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved I3th Feb., 1687. 
 
 1692. The last Will of Richard Hamlyn of Tawstock, 
 Yeoman, dated 3Oth March, 1687. Mentions daughters Mary 
 and Katherine, sons John and James Hamlyn. 
 
 Residue to wife Katherine, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Codicil dated nth Nov., 1690. 
 
 Proved I7th Feb., 1692. 
 
 1693. The last Will of John " Hamlin " of Abbotsham, 
 24th April, 1691. 
 
 Mentions sons William and Richard, grandchildren Richard 
 and Grace Ellis. 
 
 Residue to daughter Agnes " Hamling," who is Sole 
 Executrix. 
 
 Proved 3rd Feb., 1693. 
 
 1693. The last Will of John Hamlyn of Barnstaple, dated 
 22nd Feb., 1692. 
 
 Mentions his two daughters Rachel wife of Thomas Wel- 
 lington of Barnstaple and Mary Hamlyn. 
 
 Grandson John Lancey (?), granddaughters Margaret, Dorothy, 
 and Elizabeth Lancey (?). 
 
 Residue to daughter Mary Hamlyn, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved ist September, 1693. 
 
 NOTE. The name of Willington, above written " Wellington," is of 
 great repute and antiquity in the neighbourhood of Barnstnple. Ori- 
 ginally seated at Willington, in Derbyshire, Sir Ralph de Willington, 
 living 1252, migrated to Devonshire in consequence of his marriage 
 with Joan, daughter and heir of William Champernowne, of Umber- 
 leigh and adjacent parishes, property which had been derived from the 
 Soleignys, by the marriage of Mabel de Soleigny with Jordan Champer- 
 nowne, the said Mabel having been the granddaughter of Gilbert de
 
 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 261 
 
 Soleigny, of Stoke Rivers and Umberleigh, by his wife, Lady Avis 
 Redvers, daughter of Baldwin, second Earl of Devon, and aunt of 
 Lady Avis, wife of Sir Hugh Worthe, of Worth, knight. 
 
 The son and heir of Sir Ralph Willington and Joan Champernowne 
 was Governor of Exeter Castle in 1253, and Sheriff of Devon four 
 years later. His eldest son, Sir John Willington, was created Lord 
 Willington of Keirkenny, by writ of n Edward I., 1283, and was patron 
 of the Church of High Bickington in 1309. This first Lord Keirkenny 
 had a son, who succeeded as second lord, and also seven brothers. 
 The third of the latter, Sir Reginald Willington, was found heir-at-law 
 to his nephew, Lord Keirkenny, in 1348, aiid also died childless. 
 Another of the brothers was killed at Borough Bridge, another was 
 beheaded in 1322, another was a priest. The heritage ultimately came 
 to Lord Keirkenny's youngest uncle, William Willington, of Huntshaw, 
 who married Margaret, daughter of Sir Alexander Freviile, by his wife, 
 a co-heir of Marmion. The last heir male of the elder line, John 
 Willington, of Umberleigh, died S.P. 1397. And all the lands, inclusive 
 of the claim to the then dormant barony of Keirkenny, weie divided 
 between his sisters, whilst the peerage honours have since been in 
 abeyance amongst their posterity. The eldest sister and co-heir, 
 Isabel Willington, married William Beaumont, and had the Umberleigh 
 and other property, which ultimately passed to the Bassets. Her 
 younger sister, Margaret Willington, married Sir John Worthe, of Worth, 
 in Washfield, and brought the Worthes considerable estates in Barnstaple 
 and Braunton, which were ultimately entailed upon the second house of 
 Worthe, settled at Compton, in the parish of Marldon, an estate derived 
 from the marriage of Sir John Worthe, father-in-law of Margaret Wil- 
 lington, with Cicelye, daughter and co-heir of Sir John Doddescombe. 
 See notes to Worthe wills, ante pp. 21, 44, 52, etc. 
 
 The Willingtons of Tamworth, Co. Warwick, and of Killoskehane, 
 and of Castle Willington, County Tipperary, both claim to be cadets of 
 this truly historical family, and their genealogies, as such, are inserted 
 in Burke's " Landed Gentry." 
 
 1697. The Inventory of William Rawle, late of Chittle- 
 hampton, deceased, Yeoman, exhibited 25th Feb., 1697. 
 
 1702. The last Will of William Hamblyn of Hartland, 
 6th May, 7th William the Third (1695). 
 
 Bequests to wardens for repair of the church, 2Os. To 
 brothers John and Thomas. To godchildren Henry Snowe ; 
 Wilmot, wife of John Alford ; William, son of Richard Sherme ; 
 Thomas, son of John Barons ; and Ishmael, son of Margaret 
 Smale. 
 
 Residue to wife Amy Hamlyn, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 6th March, 1702. 
 
 Sum 101 73. 6d.
 
 262 DE VONSH1RE WILLS. 
 
 1702. Administration to the effects of Joseph Hamlyn of 
 " Clovelleigh," granted 4th July, 1702, to Christiana his wife. 
 
 William Hamlyn of " Woolsery," yeoman, and William 
 Hamlyn of " Clovelleigh," yeoman, join the bond. 
 
 Sum .160 145. 2d. 
 
 1703. George Mortimer of Kentisbury, lotli Oct., 1702. 
 Legacies to poor of said parish, and to those of Comb Martin, 
 Trentisho, and Parracombe. Tenement in Trentisho to son- 
 in-law William Knight, after the death of Julian Gubb. To 
 daughter Dorothy Knight, 10. Legacies to grandchildren 
 William, Elizabeth, Dorothy, and George Knight ; grand- 
 daughter Agnes Hamond. 
 
 Residue to son-in-law William Knight, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Witnesses, John Courtney, William. Herding, Robert Troute. 
 
 Proved 22nd June, 1703. 
 
 1705. Thomas Mortimer of Berrynarber, Yeoman, 2ist Aug., 
 1705. Legacies to daughter Dorothy and her husband William 
 Lerwill ; to grandchild Ann, daughter of George Bowden ; to 
 daughter Wilmot Mortimer. Mentions " cosen " W 7 illiam 
 Knight, " senr.," of Kentisbury. Said Wilmot to have fee- 
 simple estate in Berrynarber, with remainder to daughter 
 " Thamsin Witheridge's '"' children. To son-in-law John 
 Witheridge, 53. 
 
 To poor of Berrynarber and Comb Martin, 2Os. each. Legacies 
 to "cosen" William Knight of Kentisbury and to his four 
 children William, George, Elizabeth, and Dorothy Knight. 
 
 Residue to son-in-law George Bowden, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 5th Oct., 1705. 
 
 1706. Admon. to the effects of John Hamlyn of Tawstock, 
 granted 7th March, 1706, to Gertrude his wife. James Hamlyn, 
 Yeoman, and Richard Limbery join the bond.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 263 
 
 1709. The last Will of Catherine Hamlyn of Tawstock, 
 2nd April, 1708. Bequests to poor, 2OS ; to son James 
 Hamlyn, his wife Honor, and to their children James and Mary; 
 to daughter Mary Mattack, and daughter-in-law Gartherett 
 Hamlyn; to Judith, wife of Richard Budd, "second best cote 
 of staining cloth." 
 
 Residue to daughter Catherine Hamlyn, who is Sole 
 Executrix. 
 
 Overseer, brother William Berry. 
 
 Proved 6th May, 1709. 
 
 Sum 139 I2s. 6d. 
 
 1709. The last Will of Amy Hamlyn of Hartland, Widow, 
 8th Feb., 1708-9. 
 
 Bequests to parish church ; to sister Rebecca Wakely and 
 to James and Richard Wakely ; to Agnes Yeo, Richard 
 Sherme, and to latter's sons William, Hugh, and Richard ; to 
 sister Mary Vine ; to godchildren Matthew Bragg and John 
 Batisholl ; to Oliver Simon's wife and her son Charles Budd ; 
 to Eme, daughter of William Brown, Susan Bawdon, James 
 Vine, and Thomasine his wife. 
 
 She leaves her right in Ponsdowne, in the parish of Pan- 
 craswick, to William, son of William Brown. To John Vine, 
 I OS. 
 
 Residue to said William Brown the younger, who is Sole 
 Exor. 
 
 Proved 4th Nov., 1709. 
 
 Armorial Seal A fesse between three mullets (argent, a 
 fesse between three mullets, sable, is a well-known coat of 
 " Brown.") 
 
 1714. The last Will of James Hamlyn of Tawstock, 
 Yeoman, I7th Aug., 1713. 
 
 To son James the tenements known as Bratabeer and Poolly 
 after wife's death. 
 
 To daughter Mary, 120 at 21. 
 
 To sister Mary Maddicke of Dartmouth, 403.
 
 264 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 To twenty poor people of Tavvstock, 2Os. 
 Residue to wife Honour, who is Sole Executrix. 
 Witnesses, Abigail Berrye, Henry Millford. 
 Proved I2th Nov., 1714. 
 Seal of Arms A lion rampant. 
 
 NOTE. The die evidently bore the name " William Hamlyn." The 
 half of the " W" and the letters "ILL " are only apparent on the 
 impression, which is very indistinct. The ancient arms of the house 
 of Hamlyn were, gules, a lion rampant, ermine, crowned, or, and are 
 hus blazoned for Sir John Hamlyn on the " Boroughbridge Roll," 
 who bore them at that engagement, i6th March, 1322. 
 
 1725. The last Will of Joseph Hamlyn of Clovelly, 
 July, 1725. 
 
 " To my honoured father, one suit of clothes." 
 
 " To my honoured mother, one puter dish." 
 
 "To loving brother William Hamlyn, my best hatt." 
 
 "To sister Margaret, one of my best nets. 1 ' 
 
 Residue to wife Mary Hamlyn, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 1st Oct., 1725. 
 
 Inventory of effects of above testator : 
 
 " His apparel and purse, 4. 
 
 " His part of fishing boat and nets, .10. 
 
 " His bed performed, 2 IDS." 
 
 His Pewter, 1 153. 
 
 Brass crocke, kittell and skillett, 155. 
 
 Table board and four chairs, 43. 6d. 
 
 Chimney stuff, 73. 6d. 
 
 Other lumber not mentioned, is. 6d. 
 
 Witnesses Henry Yealland. 
 
 Alice Madge. 
 
 Thomas Yeo. 
 
 NOTE. Refer to admon. of Joseph Hamlyn of " Clovelleigh," July, 
 1702, ante. 
 
 1726. Admon. to the effects of James Hamlyn of Tawstock, 
 granted 27th Jan., 1726, to Jane his wife. 
 
 Edward Lancey of Heanton and John Paddon join the 
 bond.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 265 
 
 1733. The last Will of Lewis Gregory of Barnstaple, Devon, 
 Gentleman, i/th Jan., 1732-33. 
 
 Desires to be privately buried in the chancel of Barnstaple 
 church. 
 
 He leaves his son George Gregory the advowson of the 
 Rectory of Combmartin. Mentions daughter Anne and niece 
 Mary Gregory. Residue to dear wife Joan, who is Sole 
 Executrix. 
 
 Proved 2nd July, 1733. 
 
 NOTE. Testator was the son of the Rev. George Gregory, son of 
 Rev. Samuel Gregory, son of Rev. Anthony Gregory. The last was 
 rector of Charles, 1654, and the first was instituted to same rectory 
 2oth March, 1664. Testator's daughter Anne was the wife of John 
 Drake, Town Clerk of Barnstaple, and the grandmother of the late 
 Sir Wm. Drake, Kt. 
 
 The parish now known as " Charles," near South Molton, was anciently 
 called Charneys. The Rectory was for some years in the patronage 
 of the Gregory family. 
 
 1734. Roger Sanger of Mariansleigh, Yeoman, Feb. I3th, 
 
 1730. 
 
 To wife Elizabeth an annuity of 10, charged upon Higher 
 Upcott. He also bequeaths her certain furniture, together with 
 three rooms in his house, and liberty of ingress and egress for 
 herself and friends " through the hall." To daughter Elizabeth, 
 120. To granddaughters Ann Sanger and Elizabeth, daughter 
 of John Hill of Withy pool, Somerset, ,5 each at 21. 
 
 To the poor of Marleigh, 2os. 
 
 Residue to son John Sanger, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Witnesses, Henry Bowden and John Rocke. 
 
 Proved 26th April, 1734. 
 
 1739. The last Will of Ann Drake, Widow, of Barnstaple, 
 lotli Nov., 1718. 
 
 Mentions "brothers" William Yeo and Richard Evans of 
 Cullompton ; sister Amy Stephens of the parish of Denbury ; 
 daughter Christian Standish and grandson Henry Drake. 
 Cousins Robert Daw of Exeter and John Pearce. Grand- 
 children Henry and John Drake are both under age.
 
 266 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Mentions Richard, George, William, and Elizabeth, children 
 of said "brother" Richard Evans; Elizabeth and Amy, 
 daughters of said William Yeo. 
 
 Desires a private funeral, no funeral sermon, orders " hatt 
 bands and gloves," and appoints her " bearers," viz., Messrs. 
 Bowchair (Bouchier?) and Spark, Nicholas Glass, Samuel 
 Berry, John Richards, and Walter Tucker. 
 
 Said John Pearce Executor in trust during minority of said 
 grandson. 
 
 Proved i?th Nov., 1739. 
 
 NOTE. This will was proved twenty years after the death of testatrix, 
 who was buried at Barnstaple, October 26th, 1719. She was widow of 
 Henry Drake, sometime Mayor of Barnstaple, who died 1688, and at 
 the date of her marriage with him the widow of William Noyse of 
 Exeter. 
 
 Her " daughter " Christian Standish was the younger daughter and 
 co-lieir of Robert Hatch of Satterleigh, and after the death of her first 
 husband John Drake, son of testatrix, she married Charles Standish of 
 Barnstaple. The grandchild of testatrix, John Drake, mentioned in 
 the will as " under age " in 1718, had been baptized 2;th September, 
 1710. He died in 1770, and was succeeded by his son Henry Drake, 
 born 1745, subsequently Town Clerk of Barnstaple, who died in 1806. 
 
 The latter was the grandfather, through his second son, of the late 
 Sir William Drake, knighted ist October, 1869, and, through his eldest 
 son, he was the great grandfather of General John M. C. Drake, C.B., 
 Royal Engineers, born 1833, wno nas i ssue 
 
 1753. Nicholas Sanger of Marleigh, dated loth May, 1711. 
 
 He gives to the poor of the parish the interest of a sum of 
 To John, son of John " Sangor," " my great brasse pot." 
 Residue to Jonathan Sanger and unto Johane, daughter of 
 Roger Sanger, " my brother, my kinsfolk " ; they are joint 
 Exors. 
 
 Witnesses, John Adams and Roger Packer. 
 
 Proved Dec. 7th, 1753. 
 
 NOTE. The above legacy to the poor of Mariansleigh was stated in 
 a return made to Parliament in 1786 to have been given by deed of 
 Nicholas Sanger in 1707. The "^10" was then vested in John 
 Adams, and produced IDS. per annum. The principal sum was sub- 
 sequently in the hands of William Adams, who paid 8s. a year in 
 respect thereof; the parishioners had no security for the principal, and 
 the Parliamentary Commissioners suggested that it should be placed in 
 a bank. According to " White's Devonshire," edition 1878, the bequest 
 is now lost.
 
 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 267 
 
 1 77S- John Torsall of Lapford, 2ist April, 1774. To 
 daughter Mary Richards certain household goods. Mentions 
 son-in-law John Richards. 
 
 Residue to "John Torsall," no relationship expressed, who 
 is Sole Exor. 
 
 Witnesses Peter and Susanna Richards, VVm. Cook. 
 
 Proved Nov. 4th, 1775. 
 
 1779. Susannah Tossell of Ashreigney, 26th May, 1777. 
 To son-in-law Edmond Foss and to his wife Susannah, and 
 to their five children, one guinea each. 
 
 To son James Babbage's six children one guinea each. 
 
 Legacy to Betty Pridham Babbage, and mentions "Jane 
 Babbage." 
 
 Residue to the four children of son John Babbage, viz., 
 Elizabeth, John, William, and Richard, who are joint Exors. 
 
 Proved by John Babbage and Elizabeth, wife of Samuel 
 Alford, two of the Exors. 
 
 M.irch 5th, 1779. 
 
 1780. "John Tossel," 4th June, 1779. To Humphry, son 
 of George Tossel of Kingsnympton, one guinea. To Thomas 
 Tow is. 
 
 Residue to John, son of George Tossel, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved July 1st, 1780. 
 
 NOTE. No parish is mentioned, but testator is described in the 
 Calendar as of Kingsnympton. 
 
 Admon. granted to George Tossel in the minority of his son John, 
 the Exor. named in the will. 
 
 1781. Admon. to the effects of John Sanger of Maryans- 
 leigh, Yeoman, granted 5th May, 1781, to Mary his widow.
 
 268 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1787. Elizabeth Tossel of Marwood, Widow, nth June, 1787. 
 
 Legacies to Elizabeth, wife of John Berry of Marwood ; to 
 Elizabeth their daughter ; to John their son ; to Thomas Shar- 
 land of Marwood ; to Elizabeth, wife of Wm. Gammon of 
 Marwood ; to Ann Scott of Fremington ; to Jane, wife of John 
 Manley of Marwood ; to John Radford of Marwood ; to Eliza- 
 beth, wife of Wm. Thome of Martinho; to Mary Berry; to 
 George and Wm. Radford his son ; to Jane Paltryman of 
 Tawstock ; to Mary Cross, George Radford, and Johanna, 
 daughter of Hannah Stanbury, all of Marwood ; and to 
 Thomas, son of John Berry. 
 
 Residue to John Berry, sen., of Marwood, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 2nd July, 1787. 
 
 1794. The last Will of John Mortimore of Torrington, 
 Surgeon, 4th June, 1793. Wife Ursula universal legatee and 
 Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved I5th Dec. 1794.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 269 
 
 PART II. 
 
 ARCHDEACONRY OF TOTNES. 
 
 1601. The last Will of Johane Tooker of East Allington, 
 Widow, I3th Dec., 1600. Legacies to the poor; to son Zachary, 
 and to his eldest son William ; his daughter Rabyn Dodd and 
 to her three children ; to daughter Mary, wife of Nicholas 
 Wakeham ; to daughter Johan, and to son John Tooker. 
 
 Residue to said children John and Johane, who are joint 
 Exors. 
 
 Proved 23rd Jan., 1600. 
 
 1601. The undated Will of Peter Tucker of Blackauton. 
 " To the poor men's box, 2s. ; to brother Thomas Tucker's two 
 children, John and Samson, a lamb to each." 
 
 Residue to wife Margaret, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved I2th Oct., 1601. 
 
 1603. Dorothy Fry of Hatherleigh. Mentions son Henry 
 Fry, daughters Mary and Avline. 
 Witness, Richard Fry and others. 
 Proved at Okehampton 6th Feb., 1603. 
 
 1605. The last Will of Joane Mortymore of Stokingham. 
 Legacy to the poor of the parish. To daughter Ebbot, wife of 
 Robert " Mortemor," 10. 'I o Mychell, Thomas, and Eliza- 
 beth, children of John Mortymore, small legacies. To Julian 
 Mortymore, " my great longe leged crocke, & my great pan."
 
 270 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Similar bequests of goods, &c., to Wilmot and Christian Morty- 
 more, to Joan Stisson, to Elizabeth, daughter of John Hawkins, 
 to William Knight, and William Pascovv. 
 
 Residue to son Robert Mortymore, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 7th Feb., 1605. 
 
 1605. Admon. to the effects of John Mortimer, of Inward- 
 leigh, granted I3th March, 1605, to Margery his relict. 
 
 1607. John Toker the younger of the parish of Blackawton, 
 8th Sept., 1607. 
 
 To the poor, 6s. 8d., to be distributed by brother Stephen 
 Toker. Legacies at 21 to daughters Sylphine, Richorde, and 
 Alice. To sons Richard and Christopher. To wife Jane the 
 custody of his son John during minority, and to pay the sum of 
 100, due on bond, to his, testator's, father John Toker. To 
 godson Stephen Toker, a lamb, and another to god-daughter 
 Marie. 
 
 Residue to eldest son John Toker, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 22nd Feb'., 1607-8. 
 
 Admon. granted to said wife Jane Toker in minority of 
 Exor. 
 
 1607. The undated Will of Walter Tucker of the parish of 
 Blackawton. 
 
 To be buried in parish church. 
 
 Legacies to eldest son John and to other sons Robert, 
 William, and Richard. 
 
 To daughter Margaret and to her children Nicholas and Anna 
 Clarke. To daughter Honor Elliot and to John Elliot her 
 son. To daughter Thomsin. To Mary and Elizabeth, children 
 of son John. Residue to wife Joan, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 28th May, 1607.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 271 
 
 1611. The last Will of Tliomazin Tuke of the parish of 
 Bcaworthy, Widow, 9th July, 8th James I., 1610. 
 
 Bequests to all godchildren and to the parish poor and 
 church. 
 
 Mentions sons John and William and daughter Thomazin 
 Northam of Halwill. 
 
 To daughter Margaret Peerse, " my best coffer and all my 
 apparel, my sylver hookes gilted, with my sylver ringe, and 
 also a brazen crocke." 
 
 Legacies to John Northam's children ; to Roger and John, 
 sons of son William. To Grace, daughter of Richard Peerse. 
 Residue to grandson David, son of said Richard Peerse, who is 
 Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 1st Aug., 1611. 
 
 1616. The last Will, nuncupative, of William Mortymer of 
 Bovey Tracy. Legacies to daughter Joan and to the child now 
 expected by his wife. 
 
 Residue to wife Joan, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Dated 29th Aug., 1616. 
 
 Proved 91!) Nov., 1616. 
 
 1616. "Soli deo laus." 
 
 The last Will of Nicholas " Tucker " of Blackawton, Yeoman, 
 6th Dec., 1616. 
 
 To the poor of Blackawton, 55. 
 
 "A lamb a peece" to son Lewis Tucker, and to his children 
 Nicholas, James, Roger, Agnes, Suse, and Jane Tucker. 
 
 To son Roger Tucker's first child a lamb ; to daughter Jane 
 Pook, two lambs; to William Dowell, a lamb. 
 
 To son Chrispine Tucker, .30. His wife Suse to have the 
 use of certain farm implements, inter aliis, of " the plough, 
 scuffle, wheels, and harrows/' 
 
 Bequests to John Comyn, John Vynsent, Isabel Coome, and 
 Margaret Wetyne, and kinsman Henry Tucker. 
 
 Residue to said wife, Suse " Tucker," who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved Feb. I4th, 1616.
 
 272 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1616. Inventory of the effects of Nicholas Tucker of Black- 
 avvton, deceased, made I3th Jan., 1616. 
 
 Item, one yoke of oxen ... ... ... ... j 
 
 2 milch kine ... ... ... ... ... $ 
 
 3 yonge bullocks 4 
 
 3 labor beastes ... ... ... ... 6 
 
 50 sheepe young & old ... ... ... 14 
 
 5 swyne hogges ... ... ... ... 307 - 
 
 A cliattell lease of certain ground in Bur- 
 
 lieton, in parish of Blackawton ... ... 36 
 
 One ox that hath been sicke ... ... 3<D/- 
 
 His Armore ... ... ... ... . . I5/- 
 
 Eight silver spoons .. ... ... ... 2O/- 
 
 Total of personal effects, 170 os. 8d. 
 
 1618. The last Will of Joane Tooker, otherwise Webb, of 
 " Edford " (Ideford), Widow. To the poor there, ten groats. 
 To Mary Manninge, " my best govvne, one little milke panne, my 
 best hat, best wastcoate, best saveguard, best cloake, and to 
 every one of her four children a sheepe apeece, together with 
 one down coverlet, one blanket, one canvas sheet, one pillow, 
 and one pilloty." To servant Elizabeth Tottell, 403. and a 
 heifer of two years old. " Item, I give to ' Kathron ' twelve 
 pens." To goddaughter Sissy Swetland, twenty nobles at her 
 marriage. To Edward, Thomas, and James, children of William 
 Swetland, one sheep each. To goddaughter Joane Swetland, 
 ten groats. Residue to son-in-law William Swetland, who is 
 Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 23rd May, 1618. 
 
 1618. The nuncupative Will of Margaret Tucker, otherwise 
 Michelmore, wife of John Tucker of Totnes, dated 2nd April, 
 1618. She desires to be buried in Totnes yard. She leaves her 
 servants sixpence each, and the residue of her separate estate 
 to her husband the said John Tucker, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved loth July, 1618. 
 
 From the Inventory of said testatrix " Item, a legasie of
 
 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 273 
 
 300 given unto the said Margaret by the last will and testa- 
 ment of Richard Michelmore, her father, deceased, payable six 
 years after his death, .300." 
 
 1622. The last Will of John Towker of Whitecombe, in the 
 parish of East Allington, roth May, 1619. 
 
 To be buried in parish churchyard. To poor, 35. 46. 
 
 Legacies to son Nicholas Towker ; to daughter Jone Michel- 
 more ; and to daughter Edith Bryan. 
 
 Residue to wife Anne, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved i/th Jan., 1622. 
 
 1625. Admon. to the effects of Roger Tucker of Slapton, 
 Yeoman, granted 8th July, 1625, to Susie, his mother. 
 
 Inventory made by Lewis Tucker, Richard Tokerman, and 
 Crispin Tucker. 
 
 " Item, 5 silver spoons ... ... ... ... I5/- 
 
 7 acres of wheat in ground ... ... 12 
 
 6\ of barley 10 
 
 j ' rye ... 2 155. 
 
 20 oats ... ... ... ... 20 
 
 3 milch kine ... ... ... ... 8 
 
 64 sheep & 8 kine... ... ... ... 21 
 
 ,, 40 lambs ... ... ... ... ... 6 
 
 Total sum of personality, .100 6s." 
 
 NOTE. Is is shown by his will, as recited by his mother, that he had 
 paid "Crispin Tooker " the sum of ^65, and Richard Pooke a like 
 amount, for which they were respectively to free his mother's executors ; 
 but the will referred to is not in the bundle. 
 
 See post, March, 1633. 
 
 1625-6. Admon. to the effects of John Chappie of Modbury, 
 intestate, granted i/th Jan., 1625-26, to Marie his relict. 
 Osmond Pullablanke of Modbury joins the bond. 
 
 Inventory made by William Pullablanke. 
 
 Sum, 66 I os.
 
 274 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1633. The last Will, nuncupative, of Joan Mortymore of 
 Stoldngham, i6th May, 1633. To the poor of the parish, is. 
 Bequests to Robert and Helene, children of Elizabeth Hingston ; 
 to Elizabeth, daughter of John Hingston; to kinsman Thomas 
 Mortymore and to his children John and Joan ; to John and 
 Elizabeth, children of Nicholas Colle ; to kinsman John Gould ; 
 to Ebbott, wife of Nicholas Garland ; to the three children of 
 Edward Milton ; to William, Marie, Nicholas, and Agnes, 
 children of Christopher Jilleard ; to god-daughter Margery 
 Edwards ; to Rachell and Robert, children of Wilmot Eweine ; 
 and to daughter Julyan Mortymore. 
 
 Residue to daughter Wilmot Eweine, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 8th June, 1633. 
 
 NOTE. Refer to will of Joane Mortymore of same parish, February, 
 1605. 
 
 1633. The last Will of Suse " Tooker " of Blackawt on, 
 Widow, 2nd Dec., 1633. Legacies to the poor of Blackawton 
 and Brixham ; to daughter Jane, wife of Richard Pooke ; to 
 son Crispin and his children ; to John, Lewis, and Elizabeth, 
 children of son Roger ; to Johan, daughter of son Lewis ; to 
 Jane, daughter of William Partridge of Chivelstone ; to grand- 
 children by son Christopher. She recites that she administered 
 to the goods of her son Roger. 
 
 Residue to son Lewis, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 2 1st March, 1633. 
 
 NOTE. This will was disputed upon the affidavits of Nicholas and 
 Jane Tooker ; it appears to have been made by one " Henry Sharp- 
 ham." 
 
 Refer to Feb., 1616, and to July, 1625, ante. 
 
 1635. The last Will of Julian Mortymer of Stokingham, 
 Maiden, 1st April, 1635. Bequests to Marianne, Mary, Nicholas, 
 and Robert " Gillord " ; to Robert and Rachell " Ewen " ; to 
 William Cook, John Lowe, Robert and John Gould. 
 
 Residue to sister Wilmot " Ewen," who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 22nd Jan., 1635.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 275 
 
 1636. Admon. to the effects of Elinora Tucker of Hather- 
 leigh, granted 1 3th Sept., 1636, to John Wadland, cousin. 
 
 1637. The last Will, nuncupative, of Katherine Tucker of 
 Okehampton, Spinster, gih Nov., 1 3th Charles I. She gives 
 los. "to the poor of Spreyton, to be employed and to remain 
 to the use of the said poor for ever." 
 
 To Anne Arscott, her sister-in-law, "one oring coloured petti- 
 coat, one silver coloured waistcoat, one kupp band, my worst 
 hatt, & greene apron." 
 
 To Katherine Luke, " two old petticotes & one old waistcoate, 
 a saveguard, & a small laced band." 
 
 Residue to sister Johan Tucker, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Admon. granted, in minority of executrix, to Humphry 
 Tracy of East Worlington. 
 
 NOTE. The bequest to the poor of Spreyton is not noticed in the 
 report of the Charity Commissioners. The Spreyton poor long had 
 the benefit of 205. per annum issuant out of West Bigbear, by virtue 
 of the will of Thomas Hore, dated i4th May, 1746 ; for although this 
 gift was void by the Mortmain Act of gth George II., it was sometime 
 paid by the owners of Little Bigbear. 
 
 They also had the interest of ^50 left by John Cann for their use 
 for the fifty years following his death, by will dated i3th March, 1798, 
 and proved in the Principal Registry of the Bishop of Exeter in 1807 ; 
 the term expired in 1857. 
 
 The testatrix, Katherine Tucker, left personality ^58 ics. 4d., and 
 the i os. to the poor may have been absorbed in the ^45 raised and 
 paid to Arthur Kelly in 1760 for the property now known as " Poor- 
 lands," the said sum having been partly furnished by " pecuniary 
 donations to the poor of this parish, some of which had been lost, and 
 the residue laid out in this purchase " as far as they sufficed, the 
 balance having been made up by the trustees of the said newly acquired 
 poor lands. 
 
 1641-2. The last Will of Mary Chappell of Mod bury, Widow, 
 dated Qth Jan., 1640-41. 
 
 She makes her sons Samuel and John Chappell universal 
 legatees and Sole Exors. 
 
 Inventory by William Cotley and Ralph Webber, who witness 
 the will. 
 
 Proved 3rd Jan., 1641-42.
 
 276 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1644. Admon. to effects of Julyan Frye of Black Tor- 
 
 rington, granted , 1644, to Lewis and Leonard Frye. 
 
 Inventory attested by Howard (Henry ?) Frye. 
 
 1645. The last Will of John Tucker of Okehampton, 3rd 
 March, 1644. He makes his daughters Elizabeth and Sara 
 universal legatees and Joint Exors. Three trustees Richard 
 Heayne and Thomas Carter of Okehampton, and brother Philip 
 Tucker of Rattery. 
 
 Proved 2jrd April, 1645. 
 
 1646. Admon. to the effects of Michael Mortimer of Stoking- 
 ham, to Joanna Mortimer of the same parish, Widow. 
 Hercules Giles joins the bond. 
 Granted 2ist July, 1646. 
 
 1664. "The account of Nathaniel Tucker of Northlew, who 
 bought the administration of the goods of John Tucker, 
 deceased, at the Archdeacon's Court at Okehampton, 2ist Feb., 
 1664. 
 
 " Paid for tithes that was due to the parson, i ?s. 
 
 " Paid for a mortuary to the parson, los. 
 
 " To Michael Tucker for wages due to him, /s. 
 
 "To John Tucker, due to him on bond, 2 135. 
 
 " Due to myself from the said John Tucker, deceased, 6." 
 
 With other payments, total sum, 51 is. 6d. 
 
 " So it appears from the account that the accountant has payd 
 more than the inventory comes to, the sum of i I 45. 2d." 
 
 1665. The last Will of Abraham Mortymer of Bovey Tracy, 
 I4th June, 1664. To the poor there, 53. Legacies to Edward, 
 Nathaniel, and Gilbert Mortymer ; to sister Thomasine Conant ; 
 to godson Abraham Conant ; to mother Elizabeth Casely. 
 
 Residue to Jane Heath, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses, Christopher Tynes, William Heath. 
 
 Proved 3rd June, 1665.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 277 
 
 1665. The last Will of John Tooker, the elder, of the parish 
 of Milton Abbot, 6th June, 1665. 
 
 Legacies to Dorothy Drewe, grandchild, and to Daniel 
 Drewe's four sons. To grandchild Dorothy Bragge, and to 
 grandchildren Elizabeth and John Tooker ; to Katherine and 
 Elizabeth Horwill and to daughter Katherine Bragge. 
 
 Residue to son John Tooker, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 No act of proof. Inventory exhibited i/th Jan., 1665. 
 
 Sum, 19 7s. 8d. 
 
 1666. The last Will of Nicholas Tucker of Totnes, Merchant, 
 2Oth July, 1666. 
 
 To son Nicholas, dwelling-house and herb garden, " without 
 the north gate," and the house called the " Vineyard," to him 
 and his heirs male for ever. There is remainder to son Richard, 
 to daughter Joan, to brother Richard, and to the heirs male of 
 Grace Weekes, deceased, late wife of Thomas Weekes, and 
 finally to sister Amy Tucker and her heirs. To said son 
 Richard, 100, issuant from property at Alphington. Mentions 
 property at Darlington ; to daughter Joan, 140 ; to wife Edith, 
 the best feather bed. 
 
 Mentions grandfather Richard Tucker, deceased, in connection 
 with a legacy of .80 left to testator's brother Richard. To 
 Mr. John Ford, minister of Totnes, 2os. for funeral sermon. For 
 the poor of Totnes, Dartington, and St. David's, Exeter, 2os. to 
 each parish. Residue to said son Nicholas, who is Sole Exor., 
 but a minor. 
 
 Exors. in trust, "Brother Richard," Peter Windball of Exeter, 
 distiller, and William Yenning of Tor-Brian, clothier. 
 
 Proved by trustees, 23rd Oct., 1666. 
 
 Personality, 1,026 173. 46. 
 
 NOTE. Refer to Edith Tucker, Jan., 1705, post. 
 
 1667. The last Will of Margaret Tucker of Kingswear, 
 Widow, i6th March, 1667. To Susannah, wife of William 
 Rawlings, 5 ; to Edward Knight of Brixham, 2Os. ; to Agnes 
 Knight of Yealmpton, 20s., and " my old red coat and waist- 
 coat." " Item, I give to two children of John Crute of Woodis,
 
 278 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 ios. a pece, and to thare mother, Elizabeth Ball of Cockington, 
 a red coat and a cullered waistcoat." To Elizabeth Thomas, 
 2Os. " and a red petticoat bound with a green lase." To the 
 younger son of Mr. George Renoles, a " signight ringe," and in 
 money 405. ; to his children Elizabeth and George, 405. each. 
 To Susanna, wife of Richard Parker, $. To poor of Kings- 
 wear, ios. Mentions the " children of Cheston Ceilings, Suse 
 Glover, Jone Sallis, Elizabeth Smith," and " Mr. Briyat of 
 Plumleigh, William Parker, Susan Rawlings the younger, and 
 daughter-in-law Christian Toker. 
 
 Residue to Richard Parker of Dartmouth, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved I4th June, 1667. 
 
 NOTE. This will is sealed probably with the " signight ringe " 
 referred to; it is a poor impression, but evidently not armorial. 
 Apparently a text T, surrounded with an ornamental border. 
 
 1668. Administration to the effects of John Hamlyn of 
 Widecombe-in-the-Moor, granted 22nd April, 1668, to William 
 Hamlyn his son. 
 
 1669. The last Will of Walter Hamlyn of Withicombe-in- 
 the-Moor, 3rd Oct., 1668. 
 
 To wife Margaret leasehold interest in property at Buck- 
 fast, charged with support of daughter Margery. 
 
 To son Peter leasehold interest in Dunston, terminable on 
 lives. 
 
 Mentions children Johane, Mary, and Richard, "sisters and 
 brother of said Peter." 
 
 Residue to wife Margaret aforesaid. 
 
 Proved I5th Feb., 1669. 
 
 NOTE. Testator was brother of Richard Hamlyn of Buckfast- 
 leigh. Will proved April, 1690, post. 
 
 1669. The last Will of John Hamlyn, sen., of Dean Prior, 
 Yeoman, 2nd June, 1665. Mentions daughters Elizabeth, 
 Grace, Agnes, Mary, and Barbara.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 279 
 
 To sons, John and Henry Hamlyn, i6d. each. To John, 
 son of said son John Hamlyn, 55. To grandchild Mary, 
 daughter of said Henry, 5s. 
 
 To the rest of son John's children, is. each. 
 
 Residue to wife Mary, who is Sole P^xecutrix. 
 
 Proved I7th Sept., 1669. 
 
 1670. Admon. to effects of Phillip Fry of Ashwater, granted 
 
 July, 1670, to Margaret Fiy. 
 Arthur Bassett joins the bond. 
 
 1670. Admon. to effects, &c., of Alexander Fry of Milton 
 Damarell, granted I7th Nov., 1670, to Alexander his son. 
 
 Inventory by John Fry, Humphry Dene, and Walter 
 Williams, 6th Nov., ibid. 
 
 Sum, 85 43. 8d. 
 
 1672. Walter Mortimere of North Bovy, i6th April, 1672. 
 Legacies to sons John, Thomas, and Walter, and to daughters 
 Richord Mortimere and Thomasinc Langdon. Residue to wife 
 Richord, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 3rd April, 1672. 
 
 1673. The last Will of Richard Hamlyn of Plymouth, 
 Merchant, I4th Nov., 1672. 
 
 He leaves wife Prudence a messuage and tenement in parish 
 of St. Andrew, and to poor of said parish, 153. 
 
 Mentions son Timothy Hamlyn and daughter Elizabeth. 
 
 Overseer, cousin George Ceely. 
 
 Residue to said wife, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 27th Nov., 1673. 
 
 His silver plate was valued at
 
 2 8o DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1674. The last Will of William Bartlett, the elder, of 
 Marldon. 
 
 Desires to be buried in church or churchyard of Marldon. 
 
 He gives his " wife" " half the butter and chees in the house," 
 and likewise the " victuals " ; 2os. each to grandchildren Alis 
 and Katherine Bartlett. 
 
 Residue to grandson William Bartlett, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Probate granted I4th Sept., 1674. 
 
 Inventory exhibited 28th May, 1675, in which deceased is 
 described as a " yeoman." 
 
 1678. The last Will of John Tucker of Woodland (prope 
 Ashburton, not "Woodleigh," as entered in the Kalendar), 
 20th Sept., 1662. The tenement called " Millcliff" to wife 
 Mary, together with a house, &c., in St. Lawrence's lane, Ash- 
 burton, held of Hugh Woodley, and now in occupation of 
 Gregory Holkmore, Esq. To sister Thomasine, 40$. Mentions 
 daughter Mary, granddaughter Jane Tucker, and "Cozen" 
 Francis Tucker. 
 
 Residue to wife Mary, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Admon. granted to Mary Tucker, daughter of deceased, 
 28th Feb., 1678. 
 
 1679. Admon. to the effects of John Mortimore of North 
 Bovey, granted 26th July, 1679, to Isot, his widow. 
 
 1679. The last Will of Richord Mortimere of North Bovey, 
 Widow, 5th Nov., 1678. To daughter Thomasine Langdon, 
 " all my clouse woolling & lening except my best geompt." To 
 granddaughter Thomasine Langdon, " my best goumpt towrn, 
 and one pudyer dish." 
 
 Similar legacies to grandchild John, son of Thomas Morti- 
 mere ; to grandchild John, son of John Mortimere ; to son John 
 Mortimere; to son Walter Mortimere; to grandchild William 
 Mortimere ; to daughter Richord White, " my meidle coat &
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 281 
 
 wascout." Residue to son Thomas Mortimore, who is Sole 
 Exor. 
 
 Witnesses, Wm. Paulle, jun. ; John Knowling, John Brocke. 
 
 Proved 26th July, 1679. 
 
 1690. The last Will of Richard Hamlyn of Buckfastleigh. 
 To son Richard my right in " Old Walls," situate at Buckfast, 
 together with " Latherhole Park " in Widecombe. To son Giles 
 Hamlyn land situated at Lana Water in Ashburton. To son 
 Francis is. ; to daughter Mary, 53. Said son Richard, his 
 lease in Hembury during the life of Ann Gould the younger. 
 He has also residue, and is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 2 5th April, 1690. 
 
 NOTE. Testator was of the Southcombe branch of the family. His 
 son Francis, who is "cut off with a shilling," was born 1660, and was 
 the father of Peter Hamlyn of Southcombe, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, 
 born 1690. Peter Hamlyn, great-grandfather of testator, had paid the 
 subsidy on Southcombe in 1621. The latter was grandson of Richard, 
 brother of Robert Hamlyn, ancestor of the Hamlyns now of Buckfast- 
 leigh. 
 
 1692. The last Will of Achilles Frye of Ashwater, dated 
 22nd Oct., 1692. Bequests to the poor of the parish; to sister- 
 in-law Margaret Frye; to Anstis and Jone, children of Sidrach 
 Frye ; to kinsfolk Charity and Elizabeth Frye and Richard 
 Bounde ; to brother William and to kinsman William Frye. 
 
 Residue to John, son of Richard Martyn, and kinsman 
 aforesaid Sidrach Frye ; they are joint Exors. 
 
 Witnesses, Elizabeth Frye, Jeremiah Cross, and William 
 Cruse. 
 
 Proved 2 5th Nov., 1692. 
 
 1692. Admon. to the effects of Thomas Mortimore of 
 Hennock, granted to Joane his widow, 6th Dec., 1692.
 
 282 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1696. Admon. to the effects of Thomas Mortimore of 
 
 Slapton, granted nth Jan., 1696, to Rebecca Mortimore his 
 sister. 
 
 1701. Admon. to the effects of Walter Fry of Tavistock, 
 granted 3ist Jan., 1701, to Henry Manaton "of Harwood, in 
 County of Cornwall," Esq., the principal creditor, Honor Fry, 
 the widow, having renounced. 
 
 NOTE. Harewood (pronounced Harwood) forest, about ten miles 
 west of Tavistock, and on the further side of the Tamar, the scene, 
 according to Mason, the dramatist, and others, of the murder of Ethel- 
 wold by Edgar, the Saxon king, in 965, to enable him to marry his 
 victim's wife, Elfritha, who, in her turn, murdered her step-son, Edward, 
 hence called " the martyr," to make way for the succession of her own 
 offspring, known in history as Ethelred " the unready." The Manatons, 
 who inherited Kilworthy, near Tavistock, by virtue of the marriage of 
 Ambrose Manaton with the daughter and heir of William Kelly, great 
 granddaughter, maternally, of Sir John Glanville of Kilworthy, had 
 also a house in Tavistock, rendered conspicuous by its heraldic decora- 
 tion. They were remarkable for their kindness towards their poorer 
 neighbours, and hence possibly Henry Manaton's connection with the 
 private affairs of the above deceased intestate. 
 
 There are Manaton inscriptions in the church of Tavistock 
 Robert, 1740; Robert, 1769. The daughter of the last of them 
 brought Kilworthy and other property to her husband, a clergyman 
 called Butcher, who sold it to the Duke of Bedford. The Mana- 
 tons, described "as of Southill, in the County of Cornwall," bore for 
 arms : 
 
 Arg., on a bend, sable, 3 mullets, pierced, of the field. 
 
 Crest A demi-unicorn rampant, sable. 
 
 1703. Robert Granger of Plymouth, H.M.S. " Pendennis," 
 makes his friend John Little of the same ship universal legatee 
 and Sole Exor., dated 3Oth Sept. 
 
 Proved 4th Nov., 1703. 
 
 1705. The last Will of Edith Tucker of Totnes, Widow, 
 loth April, 1703. 
 
 She leaves to Mr. Robert Burscough, Vicar of Totnes, or to 
 the Vicar at the time of her death, as " a free gift," " one guinea 
 of gold " to buy a mourning ring. To Thomasin Sanders, 
 widow, of Totnes, IDS. To nephew Samuel Wimball, $. To 
 son Nicholas Tucker of Totnes, mercer, " my wedding ring
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 283 
 
 and the picture of my late son Richard Tucker. Mentions 
 Susanna, Isabella, Richard, and Nicholas, children of said son 
 Nicholas. 
 
 "And whereas I formerly by an accident hurted my skull, 
 and by the advice and management of my phisitians, some little 
 part, or piece thereof, being broken, was taken out, which I 
 now have by me, my desire is that the same may after my 
 decease be putt att or soe neare the place in my head from 
 whence it was taken, as possible may be without opening my 
 head, and that the same may be buried with mee." 
 
 Residue to daughter Joane Tucker, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved i6th January, 1705. 
 
 NOTE. See my " History of the Borough of Totnes," " Ashburton 
 and its Neighbourhood," p. 115. 
 
 Mr. Burscough inherited the " guinea of gold." He was Vicar from 
 March 2nd, 1681, and placed his library at the disposal of John Prince, 
 his predecessor, and the author of the " Worthies of Devon." He 
 died in 1709; his successor Arthur D'Anvers was instituted yth Nov. 
 that year. 
 
 1706. Administration to the effects of Abcdnego Fry of 
 Inwardleigh. 
 
 Granted 9th July, 1706, to Joseph Vosper his nephew. 
 
 1706-7. The last will, nuncupative, of Mary Ford, of Berry 
 Pomeroy, Widow, dated 1st Jan., 1706-7. 
 
 She leaves all her effects to eldest son Roger Ford of said 
 parish. 
 
 Inventory by George Campion and Walter Mitchell. 
 
 Proved Jan., 1706-7. 
 
 1707. The last Will of Joseph Fry of Plymouth, Mariner. 
 He makes his wife Elizabeth universal legatee and Sole 
 Executrix. 
 
 Proved 25th July, 1707.
 
 284 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1708. Admon. to the effects of Edward Tossell, late of 
 Plymouth, H.M. ship " Rupert," granted I2th Nov., 1708, to 
 Elizabeth his widow. 
 
 1711. Administration to the effects of William Hamlyn of 
 Kattery, deceased, granted 22nd Dec., 1711, to John Hamlyn 
 of Dean Prior, and Samuel Cowling of Rattery, the son 
 William Hamlyn having renounced. 
 
 1716. The last Will of Mary Hamlyn of Dean Prior, 
 Widow, 2nd Feb., 1715. Mentions children Mary Tucker, 
 Barbara Pearse, Rachell Hamlyn, Elinour Parsons, Henry, 
 Richard, and Thomas Hamlyn, grandchildren Abraham Maine, 
 William and John Hamlyn, Sarah, Susan, and Peter Hamlyn. 
 
 Residue to son John Hamlyn, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 7th July, 1716. 
 
 NOTE. See lyth Sept., 1669, ante 
 
 1719. Administration to the effects of John Fry of 
 Plymouth, granted , 1719, to Margaret Fry. 
 
 NOTE. The admon. appears to have been lost ; the wrapper only in 
 the bundle. 
 
 1721. The last Will of Honor Fry of Tavistock, Widow, 
 2ist April, 1721. 
 
 She divides her property between her children Walter Fry, 
 eldest son, Nicholas, Peter, and Piiscilla. 
 
 Mentions grandchildren Honor Condy, Walter, Katherine, 
 and Mary Fry, and daughter-in-law Elizabeth, wife of son 
 Peter. 
 
 Residue to said daughter Priscilla Fry, who is Sole 
 Executrix. 
 
 Proved 1st June, 1721.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 285 
 
 1724. The last Will of Andrew Mortymore of Kingsteignton, 
 Husbandman, loth March, 1723 To kinsman Samuel Hoi- 
 man's three children by Mary Lange, his first wife, is. each. To 
 brother-in-law, John Lange, is. To the two children of John 
 Skeen, deceased, is. each. To Humphry Milton's two children, 
 2s. 6d. each, and to his wife Mary, " half my linen clothes." To 
 Richard Prowse's four children, 2s. 6d. each ; to brother William 
 Mortymore, 35. To Mary Colman, widow, 33. Residue to 
 John Mortimore and Joan Redstone, who are joint Exors. 
 
 Proved ipth June, 1724. 
 
 NOTE. Refer to Joan Mortymore, of Stokingham, 8th June, 1633. 
 
 The executor, John Mortimore, was probably identical with "John 
 Mortimore the elder, of Shaldon," who had leasehold property in 
 Kingsteignton. His will was proved Archdeaconry Exon., Aug. 22nd, 
 1764 (ante]. He left, with other issue, a son, Joseph Mortimer, of 
 Shaldon, whose granddaughter, Charlotte, married Granville. The 
 mention of " Humphry Milton's children " points to a connection with 
 the " Mortymores " of Stokingham. 
 
 1741. The last Will of Edward Sinegar of Plymouth, H.M. 
 ship "Grafton," 28th Feb., 1739. Makes his brother, John 
 Sinegar of Mortlake, universal legatee and Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved I7th April, 1741. 
 
 1741. The last Will of Edward Fry, His Majesty's ship 
 " Orford," makes his beloved friend Joan Pasco, spinster, uni- 
 versal legatee and Sole Executrix, dated I3th July, 1740. 
 
 Witnessed by Edward Deeble, Mayor of Plymouth. 
 
 Proved Oct. 2Oth, 1741, by Joan Fry, widow, formerly 
 Pasco, the Executrix, mentioned therein. 
 
 1743. Admon. to the effects of Walter Fry of Tavistock, 
 granted i6th Nov., 1743, to Rebecca his widow. 
 
 1745. Admon. to the effects of Thomas Sing of Halwill, 
 granted I7th Dec., 1745, to "Mary, wife of Moses Ham, his 
 niece through his sister."
 
 286 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1751. Admon. to the effects of John Fry of Hols worthy, 
 deceased, granted 7th May, 1751, to Jane, his widow. 
 
 1754. The last Will of Frederick Fry of the town of 
 Plymouth, 4th July, 1746. 
 
 He leaves his gold ring and silver watch to his son Frederick. 
 
 To his " disobedient and undutiful " son and daughters 
 George, Catherine, and Grace Fry, I/- each. 
 
 Residue to brother-in-law Bampfylde Collins of Fowey, in 
 trust for testator's four daughters Mary, Elizabeth, Amelia, and 
 Sarah Fry. 
 
 Executor, in trust, said brother-in-law. Said daughter Mary 
 to be Overseer. 
 
 Proved 6th July, 1754, by said daughter Mary, described as 
 a " minor " in the will. 
 
 1760. The last Will of Walter Hamlyn of Widecombe-in-the- 
 Moor, 2 ist May, 1756. 
 
 To son Walter Hamlyn he leaves the " Southaway " property 
 during the lives of said Walter and daughter Jane, wife of 
 William Medland. 
 
 To grandchildren, sons of deceased son Elias, John, Walter, 
 and Thomas, an annuity of 403. each in charge of their mother 
 Mary Hamlyn ; 2Os. per annum each to daughters Mary 
 Hamlyn, Jane Medland, and Margaret, wife of James Cornish. 
 
 Residue to wife Mary, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Seal of Hamlyn arms. 
 
 Proved 2nd Feb., 1760. 
 
 1760. Admon. to the effects of Frederick Fry of Plymouth, 
 sailor H.M.S. " Iris," granted 'May 8th, 1/60, to Mary his sister. 
 Under 20. 
 
 1760. Admon. to the effects of John Tooker of Stoke 
 Damarell, granted 23rd May, 1760, to Anne his widow.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 287 
 
 1760. Thomas Mortimore of Plymouth, I3th April, 1760. 
 He leaves all his houses in Plymouth, situate in Lower Lane 
 and elsewhere, to sister-in-law Judith Mortimer and her heirs 
 for ever. 
 
 Residue to said Judith, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 9th June, 1760. 
 
 1760. The last Will of John Tucker of Buckfastleigh, 
 1 8th June, 1760. 
 
 To Daniel Bury of Moreton, 37 in trust for testator's 
 daughter Mary at the age of 20 years. 
 
 To son John Tucker, gold watch. To father-in-law Samuel 
 Chafife, the 30 in trust for said son John, and .30 for daughter 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 To brother William Tucker, " my best coat, two waistcoats, 
 and my best breeches." 
 
 Residue to wife Philippa, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved July i6th, 1760. 
 
 1760. Thomas Tucker of Handsknoll, in the parish of 
 Slapton, i6th Dec., 1758, desires to be "buried in a decent, 
 handsome, Christian-like manner, and when I am so interred 
 it is my will and desire that a tomb be erected or built upon 
 my body." To the poor of Slapton, 305. To wife Mary, the 
 best bed and crocks. To son Thomas, 40 ; and to daughter 
 Mary, 150. To nephew John Tucker, tenement at Burleston, 
 in parish of Blackawton " for two years succeeding my death." 
 
 Residue to said nephew John Tucker, Nicholas Helmer of 
 Charleton, and George Jellard the younger, for benefit of sons 
 Thomas and Henry Tucker at 21. 
 
 Residue includes freehold lands in Blackawton, which are to 
 revert, failing issue, male or female, to brother John Tucker's 
 children. 
 
 The Trustees are joint Exors. 
 
 Proved 2Oth Sept., 1760.
 
 288 DK VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1765. The last Will of Hannah Hamlyn of Widecombe-in- 
 the-Moor, Spinster, ist Dec., 1760. 
 
 She mentions her brothers Hugh and Edward, her " cousins" 
 Joan, daughter of Edward Hamlyn, and Hannah, wife of 
 George Wycott. 
 
 Residue, including " lands, hereditaments, messuages, &c.," 
 to " cousin " William, son of brother William Hamlyn, to 
 " cousin" Hannah, and to Hannah, daughter of George Wycott, 
 in equal shares. They are joint Exors. 
 
 Proved I5th May, 1765. 
 
 NOTE. Testatrix was a sister of William Hamlyn of Dunstone, who 
 had died 1736. ''Cousin," really nephew, William, was a posthumous 
 son and heir, who ultimately sold this ancestral manor, and died in 
 1782. 
 
 1767. The last Will of Mary Tucker of Blackawton, Widow, 
 29th Dec., 1755. 
 
 She leaves to Crispin Tucker of Harbertonford her leasehold 
 interest in an estate called Clovelly, in Slapton, charged with 
 annuities of 403. to Thomazine, wife of William Mitchell of 
 Halberton, and Rosa Pike of Stokefleming, widow. 
 
 She bequeaths to the overseers of the poor of the parish of 
 Blackawton, and their successors, for ever, the annual sum of 
 405. at Christmas in trust, to distribute it amongst such poor 
 persons of the said parish as are not in receipt of monthly or 
 other relief. The said annuity to issue out of land situated at 
 Lupridge, in County of Devon, which she had recently purchased 
 of Richard Hingston, thatcher, of Blackawton ; and subject to 
 this annuity, and not otherwise, she devised the said estate in 
 fee simple to Walter Square of Brixham, his heirs and assigns. 
 
 Proved Aug. 271!), 1757. 
 
 NOTE. This gift was void by the Mortmain Act of Qth George II., 
 c. 36, and is unnoticed by the Charity Commissioners. It should have 
 been made by deed dated twelve months before the date of donor's 
 death, and enrolled in Court of Chancery.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 289 
 
 1774. Admon. to the estate of William Hamlyn of Wide- 
 combe-in-the-Moor, granted 6th Dec., 1774, to Francis his son, 
 Agnes, the widow, having renounced. 
 
 1776. Admon. to the effects of Ann Hamlyn of Widecombe, 
 granted 26th Aug., 1776, to her mother Ann, wife of Hugh 
 Hamlyn of Blackslade. 
 
 NOTE. Hugh Hamlyn, son and heir of Hugh Hamlyn and Mary 
 Leaman, was the eldest brother of the John Hamlyn who settled at 
 Brent. 
 
 1778. Admon. to the estate of Edward Hamlyn of Scob- 
 betor, in the parish of Widecombe, deceased, intestate, granted 
 I4th Feb., 1778, to Ann his widow. 
 
 NOTE. The maiden name of the widow may have been VVakeham, 
 as Elizabeth Wakeham of Totnes, spinster, probably her sister, joins 
 the bond of obligation. 
 
 Deceased had a leasehold interest in the Scobbetor estate, terminable 
 on the life of his eldest brother William Hamlyn of Dunstone. They 
 were the uncles of John Hamlyn, who, having sold his inheritance in 
 Widecombe, removed to Brent, and died there. See will, post, June, 
 1806. 
 
 1783. The last Will of Walter Hamlyn of Widecombe-in- 
 the-Moor, 8th April, 1783. He leaves his wife Ann an annuity 
 of 8 to issue out of (> Wooder"; to second and fourth sons, 
 John and James, ;ioo each. To daughter Mary, wife of Digory 
 Hill, of the county of Cornwall, ;ioo. 
 
 Mentions an illegitimate son, the child of one Margaret Steer, 
 who is entitled to " a legal settlement " at Bovey Tracy. 
 
 He leaves the Wooder estate to son Thomas and his heirs 
 in fee-simple. To son Richard, East Southway, in Widecombe. 
 His " little mare " to John, son of said son John Hamlyn. 
 Residue to wife Ann, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Sealed with the Hamlyn arms (see post June, 1806). 
 
 Proved i6th April, 1783. 
 
 NOTE. Testator was the descendant of the third son of Robert 
 Hamlyn of Dunstone, etc., who died 1556. 
 
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 290 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1787. The last Will of George Mortimore of North Bovey, 
 1 3th May, 1786. 
 
 He leaves the " Cumbe " estate in said parish to his four 
 daughters Anne, Mary, Joan, and Elizabeth, in fee simple. 
 
 Legacies to "three children of daughter Ann; to John 
 German and George Mortimore German, sons of daughter 
 Mary ; to granddaughters Elizabeth and Grace Richards ; to 
 be paid them by daughter Joan." 
 
 "The lands in Ashburton belonging to daughter Elizabeth 
 to go after her death to her two daughters, Grace and Elizabeth 
 Richards." 
 
 Trustee, son-in-law Richard Eastabrook. 
 
 To grandson John French, son of daughter Elizabeth. 
 
 Residue to daughters Mary and Joan, who are joint Exors. 
 
 Proved ipth Nov., 1787. 
 
 1806 The last Will of John Hamlyn of South Brent, dated 
 6th June, 1805, with codicil dated 3rd Jan., 1806. 
 
 Exor. and residuary legatee, son Joseph Hamlyn. Proved 
 6th June, 1806. 
 
 NOTE. Testator was the second son of Hugh Hamlyn of Black- 
 slade, in the parish of Widecombe, and younger brother of Hugh 
 Hamlyn, also of Blackslade, who died without issue male. The 
 executor, Joseph Hamlyn, was the grandfather of the Hamlyns now 
 settled at Buckfastleigh. They are the direct descendants of Robert 
 Hamlyn of Blackslade, lord of the manor of Dunstone, etc., who died 
 6th April, 1556. See their pedigree, "Visitations of the County of 
 Devon," edited by Vivian. Their ancestor, referred to in the 
 Domesday Record as " Hamelinus," held much property in Devon and 
 Cornwall at the period of the survey, and his posterity became settled 
 at Widecombe-in-the-Moor between the years 1187-1200. See Hamlyn 
 Wills in Part I. 
 
 See also my " Suburbs of Exeter," pp. 187-202, for the history of 
 this ancient stock in its several branches, and further notice of the 
 family in part iii post. 
 
 Arms Gules, a lion rampant, ermine, crowned, or.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 291 
 
 1825. George Hamlyn the elder of Widecombe, 29th March, 
 1823. 
 
 Mentions son George, grandsons Elias and John, daughters, 
 the wives of William Norris of Buckland and John Hodge of 
 Christow. Residue to wife Mary, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 29th Aug., 1825.
 
 292 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 PART II. 
 
 CONSISTORIAL COURT. 
 
 1556. The last Will of Nycholas Mortymore of " Sampford 
 Svvythene" (Sandford, nigh Crediton), I2th Dec., 1556. Be- 
 queaths his " soul to Almighty God and our Lady the Virgin, 
 and to all the Holy Company of Heaven." To the " High 
 Cross," 2od. To son John, six silver spoons ; son Davye, a 
 littell crocke, and a four gallon panne, and three silver spoons ; 
 to daughter Agnes, a white panne of five gallons ; to Margaret 
 Parkhouse, a five gallon panne. Like bequests to Edward and 
 Joane Mortymore. Residue to wife Joan, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses, " Sir William Tristamb, John Vilvayne, James 
 Mortymore. 
 
 "To Christey Hop, I owe I2s. ; to John Mortymer, 405." 
 
 Proved iQth Feb., 1556. 
 
 1558. The last Will of James Mortymer of Sandford, 
 1 9th Oct., 1558. To be buried in parish church, and leaves to 
 the maintenance thereof two sheep. 
 
 He disperses the residue of his flock between his "god- 
 children " John Mortymer the younger and Ebbot Rowe. To 
 John Hokeridge, ,3 6s. 8d. ; to Nicholas Tree, 333. 46. 
 
 Residue to son John Mortymer, " he to dispose of part of my 
 goods for the wealth of my soul, and the rest for the preserva- 
 tion of his bodye." 
 
 Witnesses, Sir Thomas Lobone, clerk, and Thomas Mortymer. 
 
 Proved I5th Nov., 1558. 
 
 " Robert Gye, Gentleman," is a trustee.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 293 
 
 1576. The last Will of John Mortemere of Brydgend, in the 
 parish of St. Wynnowe, 4th May, 1575. To the poor men's 
 box, one sheep. To eldest son John, a table board, the best I 
 have, and six silver spoons. 
 
 Mentions other sons Nicholas and Richard, and grandsons 
 Thomas and John, children of said John. 
 
 Residue to wife Johane, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Witnesses, Edward Battyn, curate of '' Lostwythell," with 
 others. 
 
 Proved 3Oth May, 1576. 
 
 1594. The last Will of Christian Bremridge, Widow, of 
 Kerton, in County of Devon, dated 7th April, 1564. She 
 provides for daughters Thomasine and Mary. 
 
 Mentions "brothers" John Ware and Nicholas Leache. 
 
 Proved , 1594. 
 
 NOTE. Testatrix was widow of John Bremridge of Bremridge in 
 Sandford, nigh Kerton, otherwise Crediton. Her son and heir, John 
 Bremridge of Bremridge, had pre-deceased her about 1581. Her great 
 grandson, William Bremridge of Bremridge aforesaid, was aged 21 
 in 1598, as shown by Inq. P.M. on death of his father John. 
 
 See note on Bremridge family, p. 189, ante; and part iii. post. 
 
 1637. Administration to the effects of James Peter of 
 Marldon, granted April 2Oth, 1637, to Alice Peter, Widow. 
 Gilbert Peter arid Abraham Langdon join the bond. 
 
 1660. The last Will of Joane Grinfeld of West Teignmouth, 
 nth April, 1659. 
 
 She desires to be buried as near her husband as convenient 
 
 Legacies to grandson William Smith ; daughter Joane 
 Bearne ; son Richard Grinfeld ; daughter Mary Grinfeld. She 
 also mentions Wilmot and Ellen Cocke ; daughter Ellin Smyth ; 
 and there are legacies to Thomas and John Stephen and to 
 Mary Martin. 
 
 Residue to son William Grinfeld, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 29th Jan., 1660.
 
 294 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1660. Administration to the effects of Roger and Richard 
 Grenfield, late of West Teignmouth, granted 25th Jan., 1660, 
 to Mary, wife of Henry Martin of the same parish. 
 
 1663. The last Will of William Adams, the elder, of 
 Paignton, 2Oth June, 1650. 
 
 Legacies to wife Joane ; sons Michael, William, and John ; 
 granddaughter Agnes Adams. 
 
 Proved 6th Oct., 1663. 
 
 1663. The last Will of William Greenfeild of West Teign- 
 mouth, son and Exor. of Joane Grinfeld (whose will was 
 proved 2pth Jan., 1660, ante], dated 6th October, 1663. 
 
 He leaves his property in said town, and at Holcombe, to 
 the child his wife may possibly bear after his death, and, failing 
 such issue, to the children of his sisters Ellin Smith, Joane 
 Bearne, and Mary Martin. 
 
 Residue to wife Elizabeth, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 3Oth Oct., 1663. 
 
 1670. The last Will of William Adam of Stoke Gabriel, 
 6th July, 1669. 
 
 Legacies to Penelope Adam, to son John and to daughter 
 Mary Adam. 
 
 Proved 7th April, 1670. 
 
 1674. Admon. to the effects of John Tossell of Morchard 
 Bishop, granted 2Oth Nov., 1674, to grandson John Beare, 
 daughter Elizabeth Comyns having renounced. 
 
 Account exhibited by said John Beare, i8th May, 1675, 
 after debts paid, &c, &c. Balance of personality, ^24 95. 2d. 
 
 1677. Admon. to the effects of William Adams of Stoke 
 Gabriel, granted Jan. 2Oth, 1687-88, to Eleanor Adams, Widow. 
 Henry Adams joins the bond.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 295 
 
 1677-78. The last Will of William Adam, the elder, of Stoke 
 Gabriel, igth June, 1677. 
 
 Mentions " wife." Legacies to son George and to daughters 
 Joan Bartlett and Ellenor Churchward. 
 
 Residue to son-in-law Thomas Bartlett, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 5th Feb., 1677-78. 
 
 1688. Admon. to the effects of William Adam of Paignton, 
 granted loth May, 1688, to Margaret his widow. William 
 Penny, yeoman, joins the bond. Inventory by Nicholas Bound, 
 yeoman, and Toby Belfield, clothier, both of Paignton. 
 
 NOTE. The Belfields subsequently acquired property at Paignton, 
 known as " Primley," by marriage with Finney, and also the manor, or 
 reputed manor, of Leworth, in the parish of Hatherleigh. In Paignton 
 Church are memorial inscriptions for Matthew and Protodoms Finney, 
 1731 and 1734, and for Allan Belfield, A.D. 1800. The latter endowed 
 a school at Paignton with the sum of ^1,000. Mr. John Finney 
 Belfield, son of the Rev. Finney Belfield, succeeded to Primley and other 
 property at Paignton in 1858. Query, whether the above deceased 
 "William Adam," was identical with the William Adams buried at 
 Paignton 1687, whose extraordinary escape from the Algerine pirates in 
 an open boat has been recorded by Nathaniel Wanley, M.A , in his 
 " Wonders of the Little World " (London, folio, 1678). 
 
 1689. The last Will of Tristram Fry of Bishop's Tawton, 
 1 7th Sept., 1688. 
 
 Legacies to Joane, daughter of Francis Vighill (?), widow. 
 
 To daughter Margaret and son John ; to kinswoman Pene- 
 lope Langdon. 
 
 Residue to Francis Uphill, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 4th Jan., 1689. 
 
 1708-9. The last Will of John Ford of Stoke Gabriel, dated 
 3rd Dec., 1707. 
 
 Legacies to sister Agnis Doust, to John Doust, to sister 
 Margaret Ford, and to mother Jane Ford. 
 
 Witnesses, Francis, Nicholas, and Richard Shepherd. 
 
 Proved Feb. 6th, 1708-9.
 
 296 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1716. The last Will of Martin Grenfield, otherwise Gran- 
 ville, of Northill, in the County of Cornwall, Feb. iSth, 1713. 
 
 He leaves Maiy Nott and her three children 10 each. 
 William, Sarah, Mary, John, and Edward Nevill 20 each. 
 
 Mentions wife. 
 
 Residue to Robert Nevill, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Administration granted to Mary Nott, 22nd June, 1716, vice 
 Robert Nevill, who renounced. 
 
 1729. The last Will of Simon Worth, I4th April, 1726 
 
 To brother John Worth, Esq., 20, and a like sum to said 
 brother's wife. 
 
 To Rev. Thomas Worth, 20, and to his present wife, 30. 
 To Gartrude and Thomasine Worth, daughters of the latter, 
 80 each. 
 
 To sister Gartrude Adams, 40, and to nephew John Worth, 
 20. 
 
 To sons and daughters of John Worth, Esq., 150. 
 
 Residue to niece Margaret, daughter of said Rev. Thomas 
 Worth, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 2Oth March, 1729. 
 
 Seal The Worth arms, crest, and mantling. 
 
 NOTE. Testator, who resided at Falmouth, was a younger son of 
 John Worth, of Worth in Washfield, and of his wife, Thomasine 
 Calmady of Wembury, whose mother was a daughter of Sir Richard 
 Buller. His brother John's wife, a beneficiare under the will, was the 
 daughter and heir of John Furse of Morshead, in the parish of Dean 
 Prior. See her will, p. 45, ante 
 
 The " Rev. Thomas Worth " was testator's brother-in-law, and first 
 cousin, he was a canon residentiary of Exeter Cathedral and Rector 
 of Washfield and of High Bickington ; he died 1737. 
 
 1729. The last Will of John Grenfeild of Falmouth, Yeoman, 
 4th Jan., 1728. 
 
 To son-in-law William Pearce of Falmouth, baker, and Jane 
 his wife, is. each. 
 
 To grandson George Doubt the younger, son of George 
 Doubt of Falmouth, mason, 5. Mentions grandchildren 
 William, John, Andrew, Richard, Jane, and Dorothy Pearse. 
 
 To wife Phillippa Grenfeild, an annuity of 6.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 297 
 
 Residue to son John Grenfeild, then under age, who is 
 Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved at Penryn in Cons. Ct. of the Bp., Exon., 25th 
 April, 1729. 
 
 1731. The last Will of John Sanger of Bishop's Nympton, 
 28th April, 1731. 
 
 To five poor people of said parish, and to a like number 
 in Mariansleigh, 2os., i.e., 2s. each. 
 
 He leaves his lands, etc., in Rose Ash and North Molton 
 to son John and his heirs. Legacies to wife Mary ; to 
 daughter-in-law Mary Sanger; to brother Roger Sanger; to 
 cousin Joan, daughter of John Galland of Rose Ash. To 
 daughter-in-law Susannah Sanger " my hackney horse." To 
 granddaughter Susannah Sanger, and to Mary, daughter of 
 son Jonathan. 
 
 Residue to said younger son Jonathan Sanger, who is Sole 
 Exor. 
 
 Proved 2nd March, 1731. 
 
 1731. The last Will of Richard Phillips of Marldon, 
 Yeoman, 7th May, 1730. Legacies to grandsons Thomas and 
 William Bartlet and to granddaughter Elizabeth Bulley. He 
 leaves wife Margery " ye whome tenement of Compton Poole." 
 He leaves son-in-law Thomas Bartlet is., and other landed 
 property to daughter Elizabeth Bartlet and to son Richard 
 Phillips. 
 
 Residue to said son Richard, who is Sole Exor. Proved 
 March 3 1st, 1731. 
 
 NOTE. Compton Pole, in Marldon, anciently the properly of the 
 Comptons, passed by the marriage of Alice, daughter and heir of 
 Angier Fitz-Martin de Compton, to Sir Maurice de Pole, Kt. Their 
 granddaughter and heir, Alice Pole, married Hugh Peveiell of Leigh, 
 and left two daughters co-heirs ; the one, Johane, married Ralph de 
 Doddescombe, the other Peter or Petre. The latter was maternal 
 ancestor of the Gilberts of Compton Castle. Compton Pole, and Leigh, 
 afterwards known as Doddescombleigh, helonged to Sir John 
 Doddescomb in 1347. One of his daughters and co-heirs, Cicely, 
 married Richard Worthe of Worth, and Compton Pole descended with 
 the Washfield property until the time of Thomas Worthe of Worth, who
 
 298 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 left it to his younger grandson, Roger Worthe, Mayor of Exeter, 1482, 
 but who was of Compton Pole and Doddescombleigh before 1464. From 
 the latter date Compton Pole continued to be the principal residence of 
 the second house of Worth down to the middle of the seventeenth 
 century, when it was sold by John Worthe of Compton, about 1650. 
 In consequence of a marriage with Bodley, cousin of the founder of the 
 Bodleian library, Mr. Worthe's immediate predecessors had then some- 
 time removed to Crediton and Exeter. See ante, p. 21. 
 
 Roger Worthe was uncle, not " brother," of Anthony Worth of 
 Worth, as by a slip appears in the text note, ante, p. 103. 
 
 1741-42. Nicholas Adams of Marldon, Mariner, dated 8th 
 Nov., 1778. Legacies to brother John Adams; to Susannah 
 Bartlet, spinster ; to Nicholas, son of Henry Braddon of Har- 
 berton ; and Mary his wife. Residue to Mary, wife of said 
 Henry Braddon, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 " Rawleigh Gilbert," a witness. 
 
 Proved March I2th, 1741-2. 
 
 1760. Richard Fry of Sandford, nigh Crediton, I4th April, 
 1760. Mentions wife Margaret, and son John Fry. 
 Trustees, John Law and Robert Snow. 
 Witnesses, Susannah Greenslade and John Bragg. 
 Proved Qth Dec, 1760 
 
 1763. Mary Sanger of Bishop's Nympton, 1st March, 1731. 
 
 Legacies to son Jonathan Sanger of Romansleigh ; to Mary, 
 daughter of son John ; to Susannah and Mary, children of said 
 Jonathan ; to kinswoman Mary, daughter of Elias Bray of 
 Rose Ash ; to Mary, daughter of Lewis Pollard of " Marleigh " ; 
 to John Adams, sen., and Mary his daughter, both of Mary- 
 ansleigh aforesaid. 
 
 Residue to son John, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved I3th May, 1763. 
 
 1764. Admon. to the effects of Joyce Fry of Penryn, and 
 County of Cornwall, granted 29th Nov., 1764, to John Tom, 
 her kinsman.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 299 
 
 1768. The last Will of John Sanger of Bishop's Nympton, 
 4th April, 1761. To wife Mary an annuity of 30. Mentions 
 sons John and Edward, and daughters Mary, wife of James 
 Loosemore; Ann, wife of Henry Smyth; and Jane Sanger. 
 
 Proved I3th July, 1763. 
 
 1837. The last Will of Roger Densham of Middlecot, in 
 Morchard Bishop, 4th Dec., 1836. He leaves his son Roger 
 Densham all his lands, inclusive of " Hodges Middlecot and 
 Wreford's Middlecot," both in said parish. Mentions wife Ann 
 Densham, sons Richard and William, daughters Mary and 
 Agnes; grandsons, children of said William, William, Roger, 
 John, and Henry Densham. 
 
 Proved Jan. i8th, 1837.
 
 300 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 PART II. 
 
 PRINCIPAL REGISTRY. 
 
 1413-14. The last Will of William Langeton, made at the 
 Bishop's House, Manor of Clyst, 2Qth of January, 1413. 
 
 He desires to be buried on the right or left side of the tomb 
 of Edmund, then Bishop of Exeter, in Exeter Cathedral, 
 and leaves to the library of the said church five books, entitled 
 "A Body of Civil Law," to remain in said library for ever. 
 He bequeaths to the parish church of " Wellys," nigh " Wal- 
 syngham," in diocese of Norwich, one missal, one ordinal, 
 and one book known as " The Apple of the Eye," as well 
 as a set of vestments for priest, deacon, and sub-deacon, to be 
 purchased by Exors. at a cost of 10. A set of vestments 
 for priests, value 403., to the parish church of " Rokeby," 
 diocese of Coventry and Lichfield. The same to church of 
 " Warbytton," and to Collegiate Church of Boseham, to the 
 parish church of "Wysbergh" (Wisborough, near Billingshurst), 
 all in diocese of Chichester. To Collegiate Church of Ottery 
 St. Mary, diocese of Exon. 
 
 He leaves all the profits of his prebend of " Prustecomb," 
 due at the time of his death, to the fabric of the nave of 
 the Collegiate Church of the Holy Cross at Crediton, now 
 ruinous (jam fere ad terrain prostrate). A set of vestments to 
 the church of Southpole, diocese of Exeter. 
 
 To the poor of the parish of "Wellys" (Wells next-the- 
 sea) 3 6s. 8d., and to those of the parish of " Wysbergh," 
 of my prebends of " Westbrok and Appeldurham," of the 
 parish of " Warbytton," and of " my church" of Southpole, 20s. 
 each. To William Pole, one silver cup, with its cover, standing
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 301 
 
 on three feet in form of lions; to chaplain, John Wylle, "ad 
 orandum" etc. ; to the chaplains, clerks, and boys of the 
 Episcopal Chapel at Exeter, 5 ; to the Bishop of Exeter's 
 domestic servants, 5 ; to Margaret, wife of John Arderne, a 
 scarlet jupon, trimmed with fur. 
 
 Residue to Exors. John Schute, vicar of Paignton (" Peyng- 
 ton ") and John Arderne, Esq., to be applied for two or 
 three years to the education of '" William Portour, my little 
 son," and afterward " for the health of my soul and of those 
 of all the faithful departed." 
 
 (The collated will is in Latin throughout). 
 
 Proved 7th Feb. 1413-14. 
 
 Under 212. 
 
 NOTE. The "tomb" in which "Edmund, Bishop of Exeter" lies 
 buried was evidently prepared some }ears before that prelate's death, 
 which occurred 3rd September, 1419. 
 
 This prelate was Edmund, son and heir of Sir Richard Stafford, Lord 
 Stafford of Clifton-Camville, near Tamworth, and was a relative, either 
 uncle or cousin, of the reverend testator, who died on the same day his 
 will was executed. 
 
 The Bishop had a brother, Sir Thomas Stafford, who left a daughter, 
 the wife of Sir John Arderne of Elford ; their son, John Arderne, 
 was evidently the Exor. named in the Canon's will, and also his 
 kinsman. 
 
 From between the hands of Canon Langeton's counterfeit present- 
 ment on his beautiful brass at Exeter, proceeds a precatory scroll, 
 " Lord Jesu, do not judge me according to my act." That deceased 
 possibly did not believe in the presumed celibacy of the clergy, is 
 sufficiently evident by the mention of his " little son," for whose 
 education he made due provision, although the expression "filiolus" 
 as used by the clergy, has been held to bear a more spiritual signi- 
 fication. The cope on the figure of the deceased churchman is 
 profusely ornamented with the Stafford knot. 
 
 1445-46. The last Will of John Carnell, Clerk, arch-priest 
 of Haccombe, nth September, 1445. Desires to be buried 
 in the chancel of Haccombe Church. 
 
 He bequeaths 2Os. and his "cow in calf" "to find a light 
 for the image of St. Blase." Small benefactions for pious uses 
 to the altar of St. Nicholas in Ringmore Chapel ; to the 
 fraternity of St. George in Stokeintinhead ; and of the 
 "Blessed Mary" at Combeintinhead ; St. Michael, of Newton 
 Abbot ; St. Piran in Zabulo ; the Trinity of St. Sithncy ;
 
 302 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 St. Mary, of Camborne ; St. Winnery ; St. Michael ; all in 
 Cornwall. 
 
 For similar uses, he leaves his own " portiphory " (pro- 
 cessional banner) and that of " Mr. Richard Olyver," to pray 
 for his soul. 
 
 "Ivory white gown, trimmed with beaver fur," to George 
 Doune. 
 
 Bequests to servant Henry Router, Mary, his wife, and to 
 John Router, "filiolo meo " (see note to Canon Langeton's 
 will, A.D. 1413, ante], to servant "Michael" and to Richard 
 Doune. 
 
 An ivory white gown, trimmed with otter, and a cap of 
 the same, to Sir John Lorde, chaplain. A blood colour gown 
 and cap to Canon Sir John Byllyck, a gown of crimson to 
 Canon John Stephens, of Holywell. To Richard, Canon of 
 Coffinswell ; John Jule, Vicar of St. Mary Church; Emma, 
 mother of George Doune ; Juliana, wife of John Vele of 
 Kingsbridge ; Alice, wife of Nicholas Stephyn of Exeter ; 
 Isabella, wife of Thomas Skinner of Dartmouth, small 
 bequests. 
 
 George Doune to have eight marks per annum and a pipe 
 of cider to celebrate for his soul continually in Haccombe 
 Church. 
 
 Residue to said George Doune, Nicholas Stephyn, Robert 
 Seaward, and Henry Router, who are joint Exors. 
 
 Proved I2th Feb , 1445-46. 
 
 NOTE The Arch-presbytery of Haccombe, one of the smallest 
 parishes in England, with a population of seven or eight inhabitants, 
 was founded in 1341 by Sir John L'Ercedekne, Kt., as an establish- 
 ment for an arch-priest and five canons, who were, in fact, Chantry 
 priests. The above Testator was admitted as " Arch-priest " upon 
 the nomination of Sir Nicholas Carew (an account of whose family 
 will be found in part iii., post), 3151 July, 1434. 
 
 1594. The last will of Joan Fry, of High Bickington, loth 
 July, 1594. 
 
 Makes sister, Emma Fry, universal legatee and sole Exor. 
 Proved by Executrix, 2Oth July, 1594.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 303 
 
 1601. (Memorandum). Administration to the goods of 
 Matthew Fry, late of the city of Exeter, was granted in the 
 Principal Registry, 2Oth June, 1601. 
 
 Admon. to the goods of Christopher Fry, of the City of Exon, 
 was granted in the same registry, in 1703, but the bond is now 
 missing. 
 
 1601. (May). The last Will, nuncupative, of George 
 Mortimer, alias Tanner, of Pillaven, in the parish of Witheridge, 
 Yeoman, i8th of May, 1601. His effects to be sold and debts 
 paid, and the surplus over and above to be given to his 
 " daughter " Margaret. 
 
 His sons, Lewis and Methuselah, to be joint Exors. 
 
 Proved 28th May, 1601. 
 
 1603. Inventory of the effects of John Mortimer, of Totnes, 
 exhibited loth September, 1603. 
 Extracts : 
 
 "Item owing from Roger Mortimer ... ... 405. 
 
 "OneCloke 3. 
 
 " Doublett 5s. 
 
 " pair of hose ... ... ... ... ... 55. 
 
 "Two hatts and hatt bands ... ... ... 2os. 
 
 "One rapier and ponyarde... ... ... ... 6s. 8d. 
 
 "A girdle and paire of hangers ... ... ... 2s. 
 
 "A paire of busgyns ... ... ... ... 2s. 
 
 " Item in Allin Bartlett's hands, one golde ringe 
 
 of three gymmes ... ... ... ... 155. 
 
 "Item, five yardes of stripe stuff ... .. ... I2s." 
 
 NOTE. " Busgyns." From the reign of Henry V., Buskins, or 
 shore boots, called by the French bottines, may be traced. In the 
 seventeenth century these wide-topped boots were generally used for 
 riding, and they usually had a very curious clog or false sole, and were 
 excessively high heeled, and must have been most uncomfortable for 
 pedestrian purposes.
 
 304 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1608. The last Will, nuncupative, of Margaret Mor- 
 timer, alias Tanner, of Witheridge, Spinster, dated 2pth March, 
 1608. She leaves her money to sisters Susan and Anne 
 Mortimer, alias Tanner, and to sister, Frances Harwood. 
 
 Residue to brother Lewis, who is sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 4th April, 1608. 
 
 Refer to May, 1601, ante. 
 
 1617. The last Will of Andrew Mortymer of Sandford, 2Oth 
 February, i6th James. He leaves "my wife" rent charge on 
 land in Crediton and Cheriton Fitz Pain, terminable on the 
 life of Thomas Mortymore, charged with an annuity of $ 
 to son, John Mortymer. 
 
 Trustees, in minority of said son, William Bremridge and 
 Wm. Esvvorthy. Residue to wife (name not given) who is 
 Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 20th March, 1617. 
 
 NOTE. This Will was proved again, thirty-two years later, by "my 
 wife's " second husband. (See ante, p. 189.) 
 
 1623. The last Will of Thomas Rattenbury of North 
 Tamerton, in the county of Cornwall, Gentleman, June 
 24th, 1605. 
 
 All lands and tenements, situated in parish of St. Breage, 
 to wife Marjory and to her heirs. To poor of North Tamerton, 
 2os., and to the churchwardens of the parish of Bridgrule in 
 county of Devon, the sum of 2os., to be lent from time 
 to time to some " poor man or maid " of the east side of 
 said parish, born or married in it, for one, two, or three years, 
 at the discretion of said churchwardens, etc., and so to be 
 continued from time to time. 
 
 Bequests to godchildren Thomas Hooper and Francis 
 Rattenbury, to daughter-in-law Mary Worther, and to sister 
 Joan Bounde's children ; to brother Edward Rattenbury, 2OS. 
 
 Residue to said wife, who is Sole Executrix.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 305 
 
 Overseers, brothers-in-law, John and Wm. Hooper. To be 
 described on tomb-stone as " Captain Thomas Rattenhury. 
 Proved Nov. nth, 1623. 
 
 NOTE. The bequest of 205. for the benefit of certain parishioners 
 of Bridgerule is not noticed in the report of the Charity Com- 
 missioners. 
 
 1627. Memorandum that on St. James's day last past 
 (25th July, 1627), John Mortymer of Exbourne made his 
 last Will, nuncupative, in maner and forme followinge : To 
 daughter Mary he left one great crocke and one brass panne, 
 and 405. a year during the life of James Mortymer ; her 
 brother and the said James to be Sole Exors. 
 
 Witnesses, William Weekes, George Bond, Dorothy Baker. 
 
 Proved, loth August, 1627. 
 
 Sum, 138 i6s. 4d. 
 
 1631. The last Will of Nickolle Sanner of Buckfastleigh, 
 Widow (no date). Legacies to Elizabeth, daughter of Peter 
 Putteven and to Grace Putteven, inclusive of "one brason 
 krocke and one limbricke thereto belonginge." 
 
 Residue to sons, Peter and Robert Putteven, who are Sole 
 Exors. 
 
 No Act. Endorsed 1631. 
 
 NOTK. The " Limbricke," properly Limbeck, derived from 
 "alembicus"; i.e., alembic was the distillatory appliance which fitted 
 the crock, and was used for the manufacture of what was, and is, 
 locally termed " still liqours,' 1 that is spirit from the dregs of cider. 
 
 1634. The last Will of John Mortymore of Faringdon, 
 1 5th May, 1634. Legacies to grandchild Abigail Trewant; to 
 Mary, Edward, and Joan Streat ; to Mary, daughter of son 
 George Mortymer ; to son Robert Mortymer ; to daughter 
 Grace Trewant; to son-in-law, Edward Streat, and Christian, 
 his wife. 
 
 Residue to wife, Christian Mortymore, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved nth June, 1634. 
 
 Witnesses, John Force and Richard Pres f orde. 
 
 21
 
 3 o6 DE VONSHIRE IV ILLS. 
 
 1640. The last Will of Richard Grenvile of Norcott, 
 in the parish of Poughill and county of Cornwall, Gentleman, 
 6th March, 1637. 
 
 Mentions wife " Garthered," daughter Grace Grenvile, and 
 brother-in-law Lewis Enckledon of Braunton. 
 
 Residue to son, diamond Grenvile, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 22nd May, 1640. 
 
 NOTE. "Enckledon" The Incledons of Incledon, in parish of 
 Braunton, were settled there as early as the year 1160. 
 
 Testator married Gertrude, one of the daughters of Lewis Incledon 
 of Braunton, by his second wife, Wilmot, daughter of Andrew 
 Pomeroy of Colyton. Her brother, Lewis Incledon, was of Buckland, 
 in Braunton, an estate purchased by his ancestor " Godfrey Incledon, 
 from Adam de Wickloe, in 1319." Testator was the second son of 
 George, a brother of Sir George Grenvile, Kt, grandson of Digory 
 Grenvile of Penheale, by his wife, Philippa Gough. Said Digory 
 was third son of Roger Grenvile of Stowe and Bideford, known as 
 "the great housekeeper," the direct descendant of Richard de 
 Grenvile, Earl of Corbeil and Granville, in Normandy, son of 
 " Hamon of the teeth," and the follower of William the Conqueror. 
 (See my " Bideford" (Notes Genealogical and Historical), p. 21.) 
 
 1648. The last Will of Agnes Fry of Bratton Fleming, 
 Widow, 1 4th May, 1648. She leaves the interest of her 
 money, during their minority, to the two children of 
 Thomas Reed ; the principal, as soon as they have attained 
 their majority, to be given to the poor of Bratton Fleming, 
 unless said Thomas Reed undertakes the responsibilities of 
 the estate. 
 
 Said Thomas Reed is appointed Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved 9th June, 1648. 
 
 NOTE. There is no reference to such a bequest in the report of 
 the Charity Commission. 
 
 1649. Admon. to the effects of Nicholas Sanger of Marians- 
 leigh, granted 6th May, 1649, to Amy, his widow. 
 Sum 199 75. id.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 307 
 
 1672. The last Will of Robert Tanner, alias Mortimere, 
 of Cruse Morchard, Yeoman, yth November, 1672. 
 
 To the poor of Cruse Morchard, 2os. Legacies to Jesse 
 Parker, to Sarah and her sister Jane (T. alias M.) of Crecombe ; 
 to Agnes Kelland, the elder ; to John Handford's wife. To 
 Robert Tanner of Crecombe, and to Jane Shapcot, a silver 
 spoon each. To Grace Agnes (the younger), Mary and Jone 
 Kelland, 2os. each. To Alice Webber, servant to John Brad- 
 ford, the elder, of Poughill. To John Bradford, the younger, 
 "one silver beare bowle." To John Tanner, alias Mortimere, 
 of Cruse Morchard, 20. Residue to servant, Alice Thomas, 
 who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 The gift of a silver spoon to Jane Shapcote is revoked by 
 Codicil dated 5th January, 1672-73. 
 
 Witnesses, John Melhuish and John Bradford. 
 
 No act of Proof. Inventory exhibited 7th February, 1672. 
 
 NOTE The witness, "John Melhuish " of Stockleigh, was brother of 
 Thomas Melhuish, Esq., of Hill, in Cruse Morchard, who married Jane 
 Courtenay ; said Thomas was great-grandfather of that Richard Mel- 
 huish of Poughill Barton who married the heiress of Bremridge in 
 T 775- (See ante, note p. 189.) 
 
 1674. The last Will of Henry Grenfeilde of Truro, Gen- 
 tleman, 7th July, 1674. 
 
 He leaves his leasehold property in Kenwyn, held under 
 Richard, Lord Arundell, and Hugh Boscawen, to his son 
 Henry. Residue to wife Barsheba, who is Sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved loth September, 1674. 
 
 1677. Administration to the effects of Philip Fry of 
 Hatherleigh, granted 4th July, 1668, to Anthony Fry of 
 Crediton, his son. 
 
 1697. The last Will of James Fry of Milton Damarell, 
 1 8th July, 1605. Mentions sons, James, Thomas, Henry, and 
 William Fry ; daughters, Barbara, Anstice, Mary, and Sarah. 
 Residue to wife, Sarah Fry, who is sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved 23rd November, 1697.
 
 308 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1699. Adnion. to the effects of Elias Sanger, of Marians- 
 leigh, granted 22nd August, 1699, to Roger, his son. John 
 Sanger, of the same, yeoman, joins the Bond. 
 
 1726. The last Will of diamond " Granville," Rector of 
 Kilkhampton, 29th Sept., 1720. 
 
 He leaves his brothers, Richard and John, 5s. each. Men- 
 tions his "Cosins" Gartrude and Catherine Granville. 
 
 He leaves Poughill Mills to kinsman, Robert Granville, 
 after death of Executrix. Residue to wife Rebecca, who is 
 sole Executrix. 
 
 Proved nth Nov., 1726. 
 
 Seal Three organ rests. 
 
 NOTE. Arms of Granville, gu., three rests, or. These arms are 
 found on the seal of Richard Grenvile of Kilkhampton and Bide- 
 ford, erroneously called "Thomas" in the Visit Fed., who died in 
 1204. 
 
 It will be noticed that Testator was rector of Kilkhampton (the 
 right of presentation to which church had been established by Sir 
 Richard Grenvile in 1 242) ; he was grandson of Richard Grenvile 
 (Will proved 1640, ante], and married Rebecca, daughter of Rev. A. 
 Sleeman, s. p. " Kinsman Robert " of " Poughill Mills " was his 
 nephew, son of brother Richard, a beneficiare under the Will, but 
 who died some months before testator, April, 1725. "Gartrude and 
 Catherine " were Testator's nieces, and sisters of said Robert. 
 
 1754. The last Will of Southcomb Sanger of Marleigh, 
 7th January, 1754. He leaves certain bouses in Landkey to 
 brother John Sanger, and his brothers-in-law John Hill and 
 John Kemp, in trust for his daughter Ann, wife of William 
 Mogford. Legacies to Elizabeth Zeal, and to Dorothy, 
 Mary, and Joan Hill, and to John Hill, children of John 
 Hill of Withy poole. 2Os. each parish to the poor of Landkey 
 and Marley. 
 
 Residue to brother John Sanger, who is Sole Exor. 
 
 Proved ist November, 1754. 
 
 " Admon. de bonis non" of above, by John Sanger, the Exor., 
 deceased, granted to John Sanger, 2nd June, 1788.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 309 
 
 1788. Admon. to the effects of John Sanger of Marians- 
 leigh, deceased, granted 2nd June, 1788, to John, his son. 
 Under 300. 
 
 1794. The last Will of Diana Mortimer of Ringinore, 
 St. Nicholas, Widow, 25th May, 1792. To brother Nicholas 
 Watts, and brother-in-law John Mortiinore, leasehold dwelling 
 house, interest to pay the rents to daughters, Diana, wife of 
 John Hugo of Newton, and Mary Mortimer. To said daughters 
 and to daughter-in-law Elizabeth Mortimer, six guineas each 
 for mourning. To sister Elizabeth Fox, 2 2s. Residue to 
 son William Mortimer, and his heirs. 
 
 Witnesses, Henry Bulley, James Crockwell, and Mary 
 Owens. 
 
 Proved loth April, 1794. 
 
 NOTE. " Henry Bulley." For note as to the Bulley family of St. 
 Nicholas, &c., a branch of " Bolhay," of Blackborough Bolhay, 
 see my " Devonshire Parishes," vol. ii., p. 267. 
 
 Testatrix was the second wife of William, brother of Joseph Mortimer, 
 and of John Mortimer, named in the will. 
 
 1799. The last Will of Joseph Mortimer of St. Nicholas 
 (Ringmore), Mariner, May I4th, 1768. He leaves his house 
 with furniture and stock-in trade, viz., "ships, boats, lighters, 
 and craft" to wife for life, with reversion to daughter Mary, 
 with a moiety of the "clay trade." To daughter Charlotte, 
 his share in the new clay house at Hackney in King- 
 steignton, and another third part to daughter Elizabeth. 
 Remainder of all rights in above, with certain property in 
 Kingsteignton, to son Joseph, and his heirs for ever. 
 
 Residue to said wife, Elizabeth Mortimer, who is Sole 
 Executrix. 
 
 Proved 24th June, 1779. 
 
 NOTE. Testator's daughter Charlotte married William Branscombe 
 of Newton Abbot, and her daughter, Charlotte Branscombe, was the 
 wife of Edward Granville. (Refer to Note, p. 285, and to p. 229 for 
 the Branch. Son Hugh Mortimer is there misprinted "Sir.") 
 
 Testator died at Ringmore (Shaldon), Mirch 7th, 1777. .. 46.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 PART III. 
 
 SOME GENTLE HOUSES OF THE WEST. 
 
 INTRODUCTORY. 
 
 WE are told by an old writer that " by the custom of England, 
 nobility is either major or minor. The first comprehends all 
 titles and degrees from knighthood upwards, and the latter all 
 from barons downwards." But, although families that can trace 
 themselves to some forefather who commenced a pedigree at 
 one or other of the Herald's Visitations have undoubtedly 
 gentle position in right of " ancestry," such is scarcely superior 
 to the status of those who have been made "gentle "by the 
 operation of a modern grant of arms, and our " county 
 gentry," as it is the fashion now to term, somewhat indis- 
 criminately, all who happen to be provincial landowners, are 
 by no means universally of real "gentle" extraction, or even 
 position, at all, and, in the majority of instances, have certainly 
 no claim to rank themselves amongst the "minor nobility," for 
 such distinction can only be fairly claimed by those who are 
 able to show their descent from such personages as n under the 
 feudal system, held their lands directly from the Crown or under 
 some great lord paramount a stringent qualification which, it 
 is to be feared, is too much overlooked at the present day, 
 when it has come to be rather generally considered that
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 311 
 
 anyone who can live without manual labour, even a trades- 
 man apart from his business and in the seclusion of his 
 suburban villa, is entitled to write himself " gentleman." But 
 there are many, it is satisfactory to say, who are quite aware 
 of the absurdity of this contention, and who are therefore 
 increasingly anxious to ascertain their real claims to hereditary 
 distinction or the reverse, hence it is that modern genealogical 
 compilations are received with interest, and have their uses 
 to searchers after truth, on account of the valuable informa- 
 tion they convey from the necessarily unerring evidence of 
 contemporary records. 
 
 However much people may be in possession of historic 
 houses, or of ancient manor-, by purchase from their original 
 owners, the social position of the latter has by no means 
 passed with their acres, besides which very many miscalled 
 " county residences " of the present day are of importance 
 only on the score of antiquity, their original owners having 
 never had the least pretension to style themselves " gentle- 
 men," and it may safely be added, any wish to do so either. 
 
 The advent of the House of Tudor was a death blow to 
 the prestige of our ancient county gentry as a whole. A few 
 families survived for ages, comparatively very few indeed 
 have retained their ancient position and importance to the 
 present time, hence it is that the genealogies of the '* minor 
 nobility" are not to be found, to any appreciable extent, in 
 modern compilations upon " Landed Gentry " or " County 
 Families." If for " gentry," the word " proprietors " were 
 substituted, the first title would be much less misleading 
 than the second. It is therefore in extension of my original 
 plan that I have been induced to offer in the following 
 pages a limited number of West Country genealogies. Some 
 of the families I have selected in illustration of my con- 
 tention, have perhaps not the same stake in the country that 
 their ancestors enjoyed formerly ; but, although their ancient 
 local importance, like their lands, may have diminished in the 
 course of centuries, they still have their long line of ancestry 
 to rely upon, and can mostly claim the proud distinction of 
 an inheritance of English minor nobility a truly valuable 
 privilege at the present day.
 
 312 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 The feudal tenures ceased to convey much of their ancient 
 importance upon their owners, primarily, in consequence of 
 deliberate efforts of the Kings Henry VII. and VIII. to depress 
 the great families and to create a new body of so-called 
 " gentry," principally out of the higher orders of merchants ; 
 and the latter, as the late Professor Froude has observed, were 
 thus " able to root themselves in the land by the side of the 
 Norman nobility, first to rival, and then slowly to displace 
 them." (See also my " Ashburton and its Neighbourhood," 
 p. 150.) 
 
 These merchants recorded their pedigrees at the visitation 
 courts, and thus founded what I may term modern gentle 
 houses. Although the first " visitation " to ascertain the 
 descent of families is said, upon the authority of a note to 
 MS. Harleian, 1196, to have been held in 1412, many years 
 before the actual incorporation of the Kings of Arms and 
 Heralds, yet such courts were practically commenced by 
 commission dated 2oth Henry VIII. (1528-9); Cornwall, by 
 Benolte, Clarencieux King of Arms, 1530, is one of the 
 earliest. They are said to have been persevered in as a result 
 of the dissolution of monasteries, which commenced in 1535, 
 and which had hitherto been the repositories of genealogical 
 records. Afterward they were continued at intervals of 
 about a quarter of a century, in some cases as late as 1686. 
 The Devonshire " Visitations " are dated 1531, 1564, 1572, and 
 1620 respectively. The original, of the several copies, of 
 the last is preserved amongst the M.S. Harleian (British 
 Museum), Nos. 1163-4. 
 
 Although these " visitations " are taken as legal evidence of 
 descent, some of the pedigrees will not bear comparison 
 with ancient family records, and, whilst the dates are often 
 exceedingly unreliable, there are many positive anachronisms. 
 Thus, in one pedigree, already sufficiently referred to in the 
 notes to the foregoing wills (Worthe of Worth), Robert W., 
 who is mentioned in a family deed of 1167, is made the 
 fatlier of his descendant in the ninth generation, Thomas W., 
 who flourished in 1410, and there are dozens of similar 
 instances that have fallen under my own observation from 
 time to time.
 
 DE VONSHIRE W1I. /,.S . 
 
 3'3 
 
 All the gentry of the several counties were duly summoned 
 to these courts by a circular letter from the Earl Marshal, 
 addressed to the Lords Lieutenants after 1549, and were 
 required to " register their arms, pedigrees, marriages, and 
 issue," and the Kings of Arms and Heralds who presided 
 were required " to reprove, confronte, and make infamous 
 by proclamation all such as unlawfully and without just 
 authority doe usurp or take upon them any n nne or 
 title of honour or dignity as esquire or gentleman." There 
 was, moreover, a special summons from the Heraldic Com- 
 missioners themselves directed to the bailiff of each hundred, 
 commanding them " on sight thereof to require all knights, 
 esquires, and gentlemen to appear before them personally, and 
 to bring with them such arms and crests as they use or 
 bear with their pedigree and descent, and such other evidence 
 as will justify the same." 
 
 Doubtless, many families of incontestably social status re- 
 garded the whole system not only as a very great nuisance, 
 but as a method of involving them in unnecessary expense, 
 and therefore, as long as their general descent was sufficiently 
 clear to satisfy the heralds, they did not trouble themselves 
 much about detail, and hence both the omissions and ana- 
 chronisms to which I have referred ; at all events the officers 
 of arms, who presided at these courts, do not appear to have 
 taken the trouble to enforce absolute accuracy, and may well 
 be considered, save in their refusals of palpably flagrant mis- 
 stateinents, to have looked chiefly to their fees. 
 
 Anyone who neglected to appear in response to an heraldic 
 summons was liable to prosecution in the Earl Marshal's 
 court, and to fine or imprisonment for contempt of its orders 
 or decisions. Thus, down to the end of the reign of 
 Charles II., the precise position of everyone was thoroughly 
 understood, and anyone who merely presumed upon a few 
 generations of affluence to assert "gentility" at a visitation 
 court was not only registered as " ignoble," but had to pay 
 the customary court fees for such a very unsatisfactory 
 result, as is sufficiently evident by the lists of such "dis- 
 claimers," as they are called, which are found annexed to 
 the " visitation " records. The " Feudal Services " were
 
 314 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 finally abolished by Act of Parliament of I2th Charles 
 II., and English society has constantly become more and 
 more " mixed " ever since the accession of William of 
 Orange. 
 
 With respect to Devonshire, which is only exceeded in area 
 by York and Lincoln, there are one or two families still resident 
 upon their ancient properties for whom Saxon origin has been 
 claimed, notably Kelly of Kelly (See post} and Coffin of 
 Portledge ; but the latter, although, as in numerous similar 
 instances, their name has been preserved by royal license, has 
 been long extinct, in elder male line at all events. The 
 Chafes, formerly of Chafecombe and Exeter, undoubtedly held 
 their lands from Saxon times, but were nevertheless of 
 Norman origin ; but their descent will be found on a sub- 
 sequent page. The condition of the county towards the end 
 of the eleventh century will be better understood by reference 
 to my " Analysis of the Exeter Domesday,'"' which I prepared 
 originally for the 1878 edition of "White's Devonshire," and 
 which has been subsequently included in fresh issues of that 
 work. From this it will be seen thai the Conqueror, who first 
 arrived in Devonshire in the spring of 1068 and reduced the 
 city of Exeter, then partitioned the land amongst his Norman 
 followers, save in a very few instances, of which the manor 
 of Kelly was, to a certain extent merely, an example. It 
 was actually given to the King's half-brother, the Earl of 
 Mortain, but it was held under the latter by a Saxon called 
 Erchenbold. 
 
 Amongst the present landowners of the county, the name 
 of Bastard only is identical with that of one of the Conqueror's 
 grantees, " Robert le Bastard," but there is no actual evidence 
 in existence that the owner of Kitley and Buckland Court 
 is in reality his descendant. For a few generations Robert's 
 posterity resided at Efford, one of the nine manors assigned 
 to him by the Domesday record ; but there is an hiatus 
 of about a century and a half between the last Bastard of 
 EfFord and the " Thomas Bastard " who was registered as 
 the ancestor of the family at the visitation of 1620. In the 
 earlier visitations of the county the Bastards claimed but 
 three descents from the grandson of this Thomas, and it is
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 315 
 
 probable that the two generations in the later pedigree were 
 a mere addition to the original visitation of 1564. 
 
 The Fulfords, still of Great Fulford, are, with the utmost 
 probability, the descendants of the Norman sub-tenant of 
 Folefort under Baldwin, Baron of Okehampton, and it is 
 possible that the said " sub-tenant " was a brother of 
 " Richard," who similarly held Belston under the same 
 Baldwin, and that both were the natural offspring of the 
 latter powerful noble. William Fulford was certainly of 
 Fulford in the reign of King Stephen. His grandson married 
 the great granddaughter of Richard of Belston, and the name 
 of " Baldwin " has been constantly preserved in successive 
 generations of this ancient family. (See post.} 
 
 The Fortescues and the Courtenays have been settled in 
 Devonshire since the twelfth century, and a long chapter upon 
 the Courtenay lineage and descent will be found in my 
 " Suburbs of Exeter." By marriage they represent the lords 
 of the two Norman baronies of Okehampton and Plympton, 
 and, by maternal descent from the latter, still hold the Earl- 
 dom of Devon. 
 
 Amongst those families which date their residence in the 
 county from the thirteenth century, the names of Chichester, 
 Carew, Gary, Fursdon, and Acland may be included, whilst the 
 Cliffords, Calmadys, Woolcombes, and several others were not 
 known in Devonshire before the sixteenth. Such names as 
 Ashford, Arscot, Bury, Ball, Bidlake, Bruton, Cockram, Cooke, 
 Giles, Haydon, Hele, Hunt, Herniman, Horton, Hulse, Mel- 
 huish, and, I may safely say, hundreds of others have long 
 ceased to figure in modern works of " County " reference, but 
 are by no means extinct nevertheless. 
 
 Amongst the " County Families of the United Kingdom," 
 in a well-known and popular work, some four hundred names 
 are set down in the portion assigned to Devon. For the 
 term "county families," some other description might at the 
 present day be more consistently substituted, or it should be 
 properly extended to include all of ordinary position who 
 may happen to reside in Devonshire. As it is, the list is 
 necessarily full of invidious distinctions, although doubtless 
 the whole of the families so described not only claim to
 
 316 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 be " county people," but are frequently disposed to assert 
 superiority over such of their neighbours as may have escaped 
 notice in the volume I refer to, but whose ancestors, never- 
 theless, were in many cases the landlords, and not unfrequently 
 the absolute masters, of many of the pseudo "county families" 
 of to-day. Out of the whole four hundred in the list re- 
 ferred to, the number that can truly claim the respectable 
 antiquity of, let us say, three centuries, inclusive of those true 
 " fathers of Devon " I have incidentally mentioned above, is 
 considerably under forty ; and it is an unhappy fact that of the 
 two hundred and odd families and their several branches who 
 were of county rank in Devon three centuries ago, less than 
 two dozen names are to be found amongst the present county 
 magistrates. The mnjority of the ancient houses and manors 
 have fallen, and are still constantly falling, into stranger 
 hands. The descendants of their old owners are fighting the 
 battle of life in the cities and in the colonies of this great 
 empire, but are by no means either regardless or ignorant of 
 their origin, and are ever increasingly careful to preserve it. 
 
 With these preliminary remarks upon the present social 
 condition of the most popular of our English counties, for 
 there are few that are not proud to claim connection with 
 the land that produced " Drake, Hawkins, Frobisher, and 
 Raleigh," with the land that, as an old writer says, " is 
 inferior to few for worth, and only second (now third) for 
 largeness to any in this island extending from sea to sea, with 
 Somersetshire and Dorsetshire for her friendly neighbours," I 
 will proceed to offer my readers some particulars of a few of 
 the most ancient houses of the west. 
 
 THE CHAFYS OF EXETER, CHAFECOMBE, AND 
 ST. GILES IN THE HEATH. 
 
 The Chafys derive their name from their ancient heritage, 
 " Chafecombe," now Chaffcombe, near Chard, which is the 
 " ceaf cumbe " (in English, the light or breezy valley) of the 
 Saxon period, and which was held by their ancestor, Hugo the
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 317 
 
 Thegn, or Thane, in the days of Ethelred " the Unready," 
 and by his son, Raynald Fitz-Hugh, in those of Edward ''the 
 Confessor.'' 
 
 But although the Chafys can thus trace back with unerring 
 certainty to a period long anterior to the Conquest, and so 
 justify the assertion inscribed on the ancient tomb of one of 
 them in Devonshire, as to his own identity with the " per- 
 antiqua " race of the Chafes of Chafecombe (see Post, p. 326), 
 yet they are nor, paternally at least, of Saxon origin, 
 which at once accounts for their continued possession of 
 Chafecombe under Norman rule, for though their representative 
 then nominally became sub-tenant under the Bishop of Cou- 
 tance, he practically remained the owner of the land of his 
 ancestors under the newly-devised feudal system. This was 
 " Ralph Fitz-Reginald," the grandson of Hugo or Hugh, 
 whose own names and those of his immediate posterity and 
 their adoption of the Norman "Fitz" as expressive of their 
 parentage, sufficiently prove that the long prevalent idea as 
 to the "Saxon origin of the Chafecombe family" is as erroneous 
 as the position of its earliest ascertained members in Saxon 
 England is unique and interesting. 
 
 " Hugo," who is said by many of his English detractors to 
 have been of " mean origin, and the son of a French churl," 
 was the confidential adviser of Emma of Normandy, second 
 wife of King Ethelred, and came to England in her train in 
 the year 1002. It is a well-known historical fact that the 
 constant incursions of the Danes, which marked that period, 
 were secretly encouraged by the Queen, who detested the 
 English and despised her husband, whom she had married 
 purely from political motives. That her Norman follower 
 was faithful to her, to her second husband, King Knut the 
 Dane, and to her children, is shown by his retention of his 
 property at Chafecombe under Saxons, Danes, and Normans, 
 and although King Edward the Confessor had suffered for 
 some quarter of a century by the interpolation of the Danish 
 dynasty, he evidently recognised the fidelity Hugo had 
 evinced towards his royal mother. 
 
 With the title of Ealdorman, or Earl, Hugo was sent into 
 the West very soon after the arrival of Queen Emma. He
 
 318 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 had secret instructions, which he seems to have followed 
 implicitly, and which resulted in the siege of Exeter by 
 Sweyn, to whom the garrison, under the command of Earl 
 Hugo, capitulated iQth August, 1003. The fortifications were 
 demolished, the people were put to the sword, and the 
 memory of the " Norman governor," who left with the 
 besiegers, was long held in execration. Exeter was betrayed, 
 says Hovenden, who wrote in the reign of Henry II., through 
 " perjurium, et proditionem, Normanici comitis, Quern Emma 
 Domnani(E pr&ficerat." 
 
 The term " Ealdorman " was subsequently supplanted by 
 "Thegn," and we next hear of Hugo as "Thegn of Chaff combe" 
 during the reign of Ethelred, which continued until April, 
 A.D. 1016. His son, Reginald "Fitz-Hugo" is shown by the 
 Domesday record to have been joint-owner of the " vill of 
 Chaffecumbe on the day King Edward was alive and dead," that 
 is to say on 5th January, 1065-66. He had also a separate manor 
 in that parish, and other lands, quite independently of his joint 
 holding. At the Norman conquest King William gave the 
 whole of the Chafecombe property to his Chief Justiciary and 
 powerful favourite, Jeffery, Bishop of Coutance, in Normandy, 
 who, however, permitted "Ralph Fitz-Reginald" to succeed 
 his father in the "whole township" as "sub-tenant." The 
 latter's son, Robert Fitz-Ralph, succeeded to the lands held 
 by his ancestor, Reginald Fitz-Hugh, and is described as 
 " Lord of Chaffecumbe," and as holding lands of the King- 
 in-Chief to the value of one knight's fee, in the reign of 
 Henry I. 
 
 From the " Black Book of the Exchequer," we learn that 
 his son and successor, " Ranulph Fitz-Robert," owned the 
 manor lands together with the town of Chafecombe and the 
 perpetual advowson and right of presentation to the parish 
 church in the following reign, and that the Lord of Chafe- 
 combe in the time of Henry II. was Robert Fitz-Ranulph, 
 who had a younger brother known as " Ranulph Fitz- 
 Ranulph." 
 
 Robert, Lord of Chafecombe, had an only child, Agnes, 
 who was " Lady of Chaffecumbe " in her own right. By 
 her first husband, who bore the well-known Devonshire name
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 319 
 
 of Avenel, she had two daughters, co-heirs, Emma and 
 Margery. She married secondly one of the Justices in Eyre, 
 John de Aure, and had by him a third daughter, Margaret, 
 and a son, John de Aure, who died in his mother's life- 
 time and without issue. 
 
 The line of Emma of Chafecombe, the eldest co-heir, 
 terminated with Idonea de Insula, her great-granddaughter, 
 in the reign of Edward I. Margery had issue only by her 
 second husband, Philip de Cantilupe, a family now maternally 
 represented by Lord de la Warr, and well known in this 
 county in connection with Broadhempston. Her son and 
 heir, Balderic de Cantilupe, is mentioned in legal proceedings 
 connected with the advowson of Chafecombe in 1275, being 
 then in his minority. Margaret de Aure, the third co-heir, 
 had two sons, John and Odo. They are also mentioned in 
 law proceedings as late as the years 1294 and 1295. 
 
 Between these co-heirs and their representatives the lord- 
 ship of Chafecombe seems to have become divided, although 
 there was a certain amount of interpleading on the part of 
 " Robert Fitz-Ranulph." The latter is the ancestor of the 
 present race of Chafy and Chaffe ; he was the son and heir 
 of " Ranulph Fitz-Ranulph," already mentioned as younger 
 brother of the Lord of Chafecombe and uncle of Agnes, 
 the inheritrix of the property. His father had received, for 
 his younger son's portion, " one carrucate of land in Chaffe- 
 cutnbe," as shown by existing documents. The son of 
 Robert Fitz-Ranulph is especially noteworthy as being the 
 first of the family who assumed a regular surname, which 
 was, of course, derived from his property. As " Thomas 
 Chafe" of Chafecombe, he was seized of land "of the 
 inheritance of Robert, his father." He married Matilda, 
 daughter of Andrew de Bosco (Anglice, Boys) of Knolle, 
 Co. Somerset, and died in 1281. His widow recovered the 
 custody of his son and heir, Thomas Chafe, against a certain 
 cleric known as William de St. Esprit, in 1284. 
 
 This Thomas Chafe of Chafecombe married Christina, 
 daughter and heir of Robert de Mandevill, youngest son of 
 Geoffry de Magna Villa (Steward of Normandy in right of 
 his mother, Margaret, daughter of Eudo Dapifer), by his
 
 320 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 wife Rohesia, daughter of the Chief Justice of England 
 Alberic de Vere. Geoffry de Magna Villa was the first 
 Earl of Essex so created by King Stephen and confirmed 
 by the Empress Maud. He was afterwards in rebellion 
 against the King and plundered the abbeys of St. Albans 
 and Ramsey ; ultimately, during a raid on a Kentish castle, 
 he was shot through the head with an arrow, having 
 discarded his helmet in consequence of the heat of the sun. 
 His granddaughter, Christina Chafe, seems to have been 
 dowered with lands in Somerset since known as Kingston 
 Mandevill, and which were sold by her husband in or about 
 the year 1310. She had two sons, the youngest being 
 called Andrew. 
 
 The eldest brother of the last named left three daughters 
 co-heirs, who divided the lands their father had held in 
 Chafecombe about the middle of the fourteenth century. 
 Their uncle, Andrew Chafe, who was seized of lands in 
 Chafecumbe, seems to have died at Bridgewater subsequently 
 to !375> ar >d his son, Thomas Chafe, is the last of the 
 family who is described as of Chafecombe. He was living 
 at Bridgewater in 1405, and his son, John Chafe, who suc- 
 ceeded him there, had also land in Devonshire, on which he 
 is shown to have paid subsidy. He was alive at Bridgewater 
 in 1413. His son, John " Chafie," who fought at the battle 
 of Agincourt, left the property at Bridgewater to his son, 
 also called John, who seems to have resided at Ilminster, 
 and was the father of Richard "Chafy" of Sherborne, Dorset, 
 who was also seized of the Somersetshire property in 1522, 
 in which year he died. 
 
 This Richard " Chafy " had three sons, viz., John " Chafy " 
 of Sherborne and of Holwell, Co. Somerset the direct 
 ancestor of the Rev. Dr. Chafy, now of Rous Lench Court, 
 Co. Worcester; Richard "Chaffie" of Holwell, whose male 
 line is extinct ; and William " Chaffe " of Wellington, who 
 also inherited property at Sherborne, and was the ancestor of 
 the Devonshire branch of this ancient family. He had two 
 sons, Robert and Nicholas. The latter's two younger sons, 
 Peter and William Chaffe, acquired lands at Buckfastleigh, 
 in this county, and were seized of them in the year 1660,
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 321 
 
 and their name and race still flourish in that and neigh- 
 bouring parishes. 
 
 The uncle of the said Peter and William, Robert Chaffe, 
 resided in the parish of St Petrock, Exeter, of which city he 
 was mayor in 1568, I575> anc ^ I 57&i and he was also governor 
 of the "Guild of Merchant Adventurers" an important federa- 
 tion which was incorporated by Queen Elizabeth. His will, in 
 which he mentions his birthplace at Wellington, was proved 
 1 3th August, 1580. He had been buried in the nave of Exeter 
 Cathedral on 26th July. By his wife, Elizabeth Biggleston, 
 he had five sons and two daughters. Of these Robert and 
 George were both of Exeter, and were living there in 1605 
 and 1611 ; Richard, another son, was seized of land also in 
 Exeter at his death, I2th May, 1596; and Thomas, the 
 second son, resided in the Parish of St. Olave, in the same 
 city. He married Dorothy, second daughter of John Shorte, 
 of the parish of St. Petrock. His will was dated 24th 
 May, 1604, and at his death he owned the parsonage of 
 Constantine and the tithes of St. Winnow, both in Cornwall. 
 His eldest son, William, died without issue in 1604. John, 
 the second son, married Anne Mayho (and was father of 
 Thomas "Chafe" of Sherborne; admitted of the Middle 
 Temple, June 25th, 1631, to whom I shall have again to 
 refer). Thomas, the third son, was of Doddescot, in the parish 
 of St. Giles on the Heath. Besides these sons there were four 
 daughters Pascha, of whom presently ; Elizabeth, who married 
 John Mules; Dorothy, wife of Robert Biggleston; and Richarda 
 (marriage license dated February ist, 1611, "to be married at 
 Penhoe,") whose husband, Humphrey Curzon, then of London, 
 merchant, afterwards resided in South Street, Exeter, in a 
 house recently removed, and which was situated on the right 
 hand side of the entrance to College Hall, and in which 
 was a shield of the arms of Curzon : Arg. on a bend between 
 3 wyverns' heads sa. 3 martlets? Imp. Chafe, az. 5 fusils in 
 fesse arg. 
 
 Between Thomas Chafe and his third sister, Pascha, there 
 appears to have been a very strong affection ; and it was, perhaps, 
 on this account that he took up his residence at Doddescote, a 
 property with which he had no apparent family connection.
 
 322 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Pascha Chafe was the wife of Tristram Risdon of Winscot, the 
 celebrated local antiquary, who, at the time of his marriage, 
 1608, had left Oxford, and had been at work upon his 
 "Devonshire History" for three years. Redoes not appear at 
 this time to have been particularly steady, or at all events 
 during the few subsequent years, and did not succeed in 
 acquiring the esteem of his mother-in-law, old Mrs. Chafe. 
 
 That lady made her will 23rd March, 1611, and was buried 
 with her husband in St. Olave Church, 3rd October, 1612. 
 
 She describes herself as Dorothie " Chafe," widdowe, and leaves 
 5 to the poor of Exeter, and 53. to the prisoners in the gaol of 
 the Castle. She states that her late husband, Thomas Chafe, by 
 his will gave all his silver plate amongst his children, to be 
 allotted and divided between them at her discretion ; and this 
 plate, which must have been particularly handsome and valuable, 
 she proceeds to apportion as follows : 
 
 She gives to her daughter, Elizabeth Mules, a tankard of silver 
 double gilt, with cover belonging to the same, and a double gilt 
 silver goblet. To her daughter, Dorothy Bigleston, a tankard of 
 silver with its cover " pcell guilted," a goblet of silver double gilt, 
 and six silver spoons. 
 
 The next bequest to her daughter, Pascoe Risdon, must have 
 afterwards formed a portion of the family plate at Winscot, and 
 is therefore specially interesting. She gives her a white silver 
 tankard with its cover, a " goblet of silver pcell guilted, a little 
 trencher salt of silver double guilted, and half a dozen of silver 
 spoons, with apostles' heads." 
 
 To her daughter, Richarda " Cursane," who, as I have previously 
 mentioned, seems to have resided in South Street, Exeter, she 
 gives her second-best silver salt, double guilted, with its cover, 
 an ale cup of silver, double guilt, a " little silver bowle," and 
 half a dozen apostle spoons. To her son Thomas "Chafe" "a 
 beere bowle of silver, a little ale cup of silver, and a little goblet 
 of silver." 
 
 To her son John Chafe, she says, " I give during his natural 
 life the use and occupation of my best salte of silver, double 
 guilted, with the cover, a sack cup of silver, double guilt, and one 
 white bowle of silver," with remainder to the son and heir of the 
 said John, and in default to his eldest daughter.
 
 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 323 
 
 Her son Thomas appears to have been the intimate friend of 
 Tristram Risdon, and to have occasioned her no small amount 
 of anxiety. He must have been much younger than Risdon, 
 as the inscription on his tomb shows that he was born in 1585. 
 He appears to have been educated for the law, and is des- 
 cribed in the pedigree as a barrister ; he took his degree at 
 Exeter College, Oxford, but seems to have been both careless 
 and extravagant, judging from the next paragraph in his 
 mother's will. 
 
 After leaving him, in addition to the plate mentioned above, 
 his father's gold signet ring and all his father's books, she 
 adds : " Alsoe whereas the said Thomas my Sonne heretofore 
 to my great greife and dislikinge, in Rystoris manner, hath 
 most vainely wasted and consumed a farr greater porcion of 
 my goods than my abilitie was or now is able to afforde 
 him for his mayntenance, but now hath faithfully promised 
 unto me reformacon and amendment of the same, therefore 
 my will mynde and intent is, that if my said sonne doe nowe 
 give over those his ill courses and practises wch he hath 
 need with all other such lyke misdemeanors, and doth hence- 
 forth apply himself to learninge as he ought to doe, so as by 
 reason thereof at the tyme of my death, by the opinion and 
 judgment of my overseers hereafter named he shall be by 
 them adjudged and thought worthie, uppon his amendment, 
 and not otherwise, then I bequeath him 100 to be paid three 
 months after my death." To this will her elder son, John, 
 is executor, and administration was granted P.C.C, 3rd October, 
 1612. 
 
 The overseers were Philip Biglestone, her uncle, and Robert 
 Chafe, her brother in-law. 
 
 Whether Thomas Chafe reformed sufficiently to entitle him to 
 the .100 I cannot say. He lived for many years subsequently 
 at peace with his relatives, as shown by his own curious will, 
 which bears date September 24th, 1648, and was proved P.C.C. , 
 1 8th February, 164!- 
 
 He desires to be buried in decent and silent manner " some 
 few hours before the candle doth inheritt the Suns office." He 
 gives to the poor of St. Giles 2os., and to his wife a mourning 
 gown, and " his bedsted with the greenc curtains while she lives."
 
 324 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 To his niece, Mrs. Catherine Brookin, 20, and to her husband, 
 Thomas Brookin, ,5. He adds, " I would heartily acknow- 
 ledge another niece, but her impious deserts deserve nothing 
 for present but teares and prayers that she may prove second 
 Mary." 
 
 He mentions his " dearly beloved " sisters, Mrs. Dorothy 
 Biglestone and Mrs. Richard Curson. His nephews, Philip, 
 John, and Thomas Biglestone, his cousin Peter, and his 
 " gratious " cousin James Biglestone. 
 
 He also refers to his niece, Mrs. Dorothy Biglestone, and to 
 his nephews, Thomas, John, and George Curzon. He gives his 
 niece, Mrs. Mary Serrell, 6 for a " momento," to his " virtuous " 
 niece Mrs. Margaret Yeo 2Os., and to her good husband ios., and 
 desires " their noble goodness to accept of my myte." There are 
 bequests to his loving niece, Mrs. Joane Serrell, to his nephew, 
 William Ryledon, and to his friends, Arthur Rolle and Thomas 
 Baylis, " a little piece of plate with my arms thereon," for the 
 purchase of which money is devised to his executor. He leaves 
 his nephew's wife, Catherine, 1 2s. for a ring with a death's 
 head thereon, and he gives 40 to, and settles his plate upon, 
 " my hopeful 1 Godson and young nephew Thomas Chafe." He 
 further requires his Exor. to inter his body " as neere as he can 
 by my Sister Risedon, and I doe ordain appointe and require 
 ^30 rather more than lesse to be bestowed in a monument of 
 my Effigies by my Executor, of whose love herein I am not 
 diffident, who have reaped so many gratuities formerly from 
 mee, and now in present burthening his conscience for effecting 
 it as he shall answer Coram Deo. I desire him to inscript in 
 my monument some memory of his good Aunt Rysedon, and 
 of the family deceased there interred, also of my wife and 
 her two children, no great onus to an ingenious, generous, 
 and gratefull minde." 
 
 The executor and residuary legatee is his nephew, Thomas 
 Chafe, Esq., councillor-at-lavv ; and the will concludes with the 
 following quaint words : 
 
 " This my last will and Testament written with mine own 
 hande and soe well known that I do not greatly repute the 
 subscription of Witnesses to strengthen it. And this my last 
 will and Testament to corroborate and to make it legall I
 
 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 325 
 
 doe impresse my scale and subscribe my name the day and 
 yeare above written. 
 
 "Vale T. Chafe, Scripsi." 
 
 "Item vale T. C. Laws deo pax Hominibus. T. Ciiafe de 
 Docldescott." 
 
 In accordance with his uncle's injunctions, Thomas Chafe 
 erected in the chancel of St. Giles, and within the altar-rails, 
 a high tomb to the memory of deceased, with his effigy 
 thereon. The figure, with moustache and peaked beard, is 
 lying upon the right side, the face supported by the hand, the 
 elbow resting upon a cushion. The costume consists of a coif 
 or skull-cap which entirely conceals the hair, a short cloak 
 with tight sleeves, and which being open in front shows that 
 the body is protected by a cuirass, frequent ly worn in those 
 troublous times, fastened down the front with studs ; breeches 
 and long stockings gartered below the knee with roses or 
 knots, and on the feet are low shoes similarly decorated. 
 There were also two female .figures, who probably represented 
 the two children referred to in the will. Over the figure are 
 three coats of arms. In the centre the ancient, but question- 
 able, arms of Chafe, already blazoned, with mantling and 
 crest : A demi lion ramp, or, holding between its paws a 
 fusil, az. 
 
 On the dexter side ; Chafe impaling Burgoyne : Az. a talbot 
 pass. arg. in chief a mullet. 
 
 And on the sinister side Risdon : Arg. 3 bird bolts sa., 
 impaling Chafe. 
 
 During the " restoration " of St. Giles' Church, to which I 
 have already alluded, this monument was taken down and 
 removed from its original position to another part of the 
 building. The two female figures then disappeared ; and I 
 understand that "they fell to pieces, and could not be put 
 together again."
 
 326 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 The inscription upon the front of the monument is as 
 follows : 
 
 IN 
 
 PlAM 
 
 THOM^: CHAFE 
 GENEROSI MEMORIAM 
 
 EX PER ANTIQUA CHAFORUM DE CHAFE COMBE FAMILIA IN COMITATU 
 
 SOMERSET 
 
 ORIUNDI EQ : COLLEGIO EXON. IN ACADEMIA OXON. ARTIUM MAGISTER VIRI 
 PROBITATE VIRTUTE AC INGENIO INSIGNIS QUI IN APOSTOLICA FIDE 
 CONSTANTER VERSATUS IN BEATA JUSTORUM RESURRECTIONIS SPE 
 ANIMAM EXSPIRAVIT XXV TO DIE NOVEM R ANNO SALUTIS 1648 
 AETATIS QUE SU^E CLIMACERIO MAGNO 
 
 EXUVlAS SVAS EXUlT MEDICVS. UXOREM RELIQUIT MARGERIAM 
 FILIAM PHILIPPI BURGOYNE E CLARISSIMA BURGOYNORUM 
 PROSAPIA ORTI MATRONAM RELIGIOSISSIMAM BONORUM Q OPERUM 
 
 PLENISSIMAM 
 
 QUj ET OBDORMIVIT IN DOMINO - DIE - ANNO 
 A CHR. NATO 16 AETATIS VERO 
 
 ABSTUIIT A NOBIS MISERE QUEM FLEMUS ADEMPTUM 
 
 ABSTULIT E vivis MORTIS INIQUA MANUS 
 
 NEC CECIDIT SOLUS NAM Q ET PRUDENTIA VIRTUS 
 
 CANDOR AMOR PIETS INTERIERE SIMUL 
 
 TESTE VEL INVIDIA VITA LETHO QUE BEATUS 
 
 Vivus ERAT DOMINI MORTUUS IN DOMINO. 
 
 The spaces left blank for Margery Chafe's death have 
 never been filled in. She was buried with her husband 
 30th March, 1655. 
 
 Thomas Chafe must have passed his sixty-second birthday, 
 since he died in the year of his "grand climacteric" (which 
 was 7 x 9), and therefore in his sixty-third year. The in- 
 scription actually gives the age as 47, which is obviously owing 
 to a mistake of the stone-cutter, who failed to enlarge the 
 letters "u" in "medicus" and "x" in "uxorem," had this been 
 done, the age would have appeared correctly 62. I have 
 made the necessary alterations above, in view of the fact that 
 the inscription has become very faint, and unless the words 
 are recut, they will speedily become almost entirely obliterated. 
 Chafe's sister, Pascha, had pre-deceased him, although she 
 survived her husband, Tristram Risdon, for about six years. 
 Her will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 
 loth September, 1647. It is dated April 2ist, 1646, and in
 
 DE VONSH1KE WILLS. 327 
 
 it she is described as "Pascoe" Risdon, of "Winscott," in the 
 parish of St. Giles, and county of Devon, widow. She gives 
 her son, William Risdon, "her heir and sole Executor," "the 
 Manor of Winscott and the Barton farm & demesne thereof 
 and all her other lands in Devon for ever." This bequest 
 upsets the assertion of the authors of the additions to Risdon 
 (p. 422, edit. 1811), who state that Giles Risdon (her eldest son, 
 who had then been dead about two years) " inherited the estate 
 after his father, and was succeeded by his brother William." 
 
 She gives her daughter-in law, Mrs. Margery Risdon, two 
 stocks of bees and her still. To " my daughter, Mrs. Joane 
 Hearle, all my best woollen and lynnen apparel and my 
 wedding-ring." To my grandchild, Margaret Rattenbury, 5 
 at sixteen years of age. Her daughter, Margaret, had died 
 26th of August, 1636, and her memorial inscription is given 
 by Prince in the Worthies of Devon. She likewise leaves to 
 her grandchild, Joane Hearle, " a bearing blanket and all my 
 child bed linnen." There are also bequests to several of her 
 god-children, and to John Maddcote, " godson of my husband, 
 Mr. Tristram Risdon, deceased." The overseers are her nephew, 
 Thomas Chafe, already mentioned, and her son-in-law, Mr. 
 James Hearle. 
 
 William Risdon, of Winscot, the second son of the antiquary, 
 proved his mother's will, and succeeded to the property at her 
 death. He died in 1701, and was buried in St. Giles' Church 
 with his family. He had one daughter, Mary, who by her first 
 husband, John Prust, had one child, a daughter, who died in 
 infancy. She was subsequently married three times viz , to 
 Amos Rolle, to John Holland, and to John Stafford but had 
 no issue by either of them, therefore Winscot ultimately 
 descended to Joane, daughter of James Hearle and Joane his 
 wife, the daughter of Tristram Risdon. This Joane, who by 
 her grandmother's will is to receive "two bearing blankets," 
 and other equally useful articles, became the wife of Edward 
 Lovatt, of Corfe, in the parish of Tawstock, who was 
 the sixth son of Sir Robert Lovatt, of Liscombe, in Buck- 
 inghamshire. Her husband gave a large silver flagon to the 
 church of Tawstock. They had three children Robert, who 
 died without issue ; Joan, who married Hatch ; and Penelope,
 
 328 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 who was the wife of Sir Henry Northcote, M.D., the fourth 
 baronet, and the present Lord Iddesleigh is now the repre- 
 sentative of Tristram Risdon. Winscote, which descended in 
 the Northcote family, has of late years become the property 
 of the Hon. Mark Rolle. 
 
 Thomas Chafe, the Executor of his uncle's will, was, as I 
 have stated al'ready, the son of John Chafe, and of his wife, 
 Anne Mayho. He survived until 1662, married Katherine, 
 daughter of Sir Thomas Malet, and left a son and six 
 daughters. The son, also called Thomas, acquired property near 
 Sherborne, with his wife, Susanna Molyns, and went to reside 
 at Folke. He was patron of the Rectory of Constantine, 
 in Cornwall. The death of his only son, Molyns Chafe, 
 S.P., in 1685, terminated the male line of this branch of the 
 family. 
 
 Their ancestor, as I have already said, was William " Chaffe," 
 of Wellington, who was the younger brother of John Chafy, 
 of Sherbourne, who was buried at Stoke under Hamdon, 
 26th Sept., 1558, He was the father of Thomas " Chafye," 
 of Sherbourne, whose grandson, " Robert Chaffie, of the same 
 place, married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of William Ham- 
 bridge, of East Coker, County Somerset, and niece and heir 
 to Joseph Compton, of Yeovil. This William Hambridge was 
 the second son of John Hambridge, of East Coker (who was 
 twelfth in direct descent from Stephen de Hambrigge, Lord 
 of Hambrigge, in Somerset, in the reign of Henry II.), by his 
 first wife, Joan, daughter and co-heir of William Hemenford. 
 (He married, secondly, Katherine, daughter of Sir John Syden- 
 ham.) Mrs. " Change's " mother, Elizabeth Compton, ultimate 
 heir to her brother Joseph, was sixteenth in descent from 
 Walter of Compton, Co. Somerset, who held that property 
 under the Bishop of Salisbury, at the time of the Domesday 
 Survey, and whose younger great grandson, Martin de Compton, 
 gave name to an estate in Marldon, Co. Devon, and there 
 founded Compton Castle, which, with the heiress of Compton, 
 passed to the Poles, and thence to Doddescombe, and ultimately 
 became divided between W^orthe and Gilbert. Through this 
 marriage, the Chafys, who already quartered the arms of Boys 
 and Mandeville, obtained the right to add those of Hambrigge,
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 329 
 
 Micheldever, Compton, de Alva, Newton, and Helpeston. 
 Walter Chafe, of Sherborne, baptized there 28th December, 
 1653, was the grandson of the Compton heiress. He acquired 
 the additional armorials of Scott, of Child-Okford, by his 
 marriage with Ann Scott, heir to her brothers George and John 
 Scott, of Sherborne. His son, John " Chafy," Rector of Lilling- 
 ham, and of Purse Caundle, Dorsetshire, married Elizabeth, 
 daughter and co-heir of Capt. John Corbyn, of Hazlebury 
 Brian, and the direct descendant of Sir Philip Corbyn, Kt, of 
 Corbyn, Co. Stafford, in the reign of Henry I., and thus acquired 
 the quarterings of Corbyn, Brian (of Hazlebury Brian, Co. 
 Dorset, temp. Hy. III.), De Cancy, and Warren. The Heraldry 
 of the House of Chafy became repeated by the marriage of 
 the younger son of the last named, the Rev. William Chafy, 
 Vicar of Faversham and Sturry, and Minor Canon of Canterbury, 
 with his first cousin's daughter Mary, daughter of John " Chafie," 
 of Sherbourne ; their eldest son, Dr. William Chafy (C.C. Coll., 
 Cambridge, Master of " Sidney Sussex," and Vice-Chancellor 
 of the University, Chaplain-in-Ordinary to her Majesty the 
 Queen, and to her three royal predecessors), married, 4th Dec., 
 1813, Mary, daughter and co-heir of John Westwood, of 
 Chatteris, in the Isle of Ely, and the descendant and representa- 
 tive of William de Westwode, who was seized of lands in Lek, 
 County Stafford, jure uxoris, 3/th Hy. III. His wife was the 
 daughter and heir of Clement de Dysteley, by Matilda, daughter 
 and heir of Robert Fitz-John, the owner of the said manor 
 of Lek. 
 
 Dr. Chafy was buried in Sidney Sussex College Chapel in 
 May, 1843. He died, universally respected and lamented, on 
 the i6th of that month. 
 
 Dr. Chafy, of Rous-Lench Court, Worcestershire, is the eldest 
 son by his first marriage with Annette, daughter of the Rt. Rev. 
 Samuel Kyle, D.D., Lord Bishop of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, of 
 the only son of the Master of Sidney Sussex College, who 
 died in 1873. 
 
 Dr. Chafy was baptized by the names of William Kyle West- 
 wood, 1 7th July, 1841, and assumed the additional name of 
 Chafy in pursuance of a too loosely worded claim in the will 
 of his grandfather, from whom he inherited a small property
 
 330 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 at Haslebury Brian, some scattered fragments of Chafy 
 property in Dorset and Somerset, and an estate at Sheriff's 
 Lench, in Worcestershire. 
 
 He graduated at Cli. Ch., Oxford ; was ordained deacon in 
 1869, and priest in 1870. He was subsequently for two years 
 curate in sole charge of Lydford, in this County; for an account 
 of the church of that parish, see my "Devonshire Parishes," vol. i., 
 pp. 220-248. Dr. Chafy, who took his D.D. degree in 1891, 
 married, 2nd May, 1872, Mary Clara, the second daughter of 
 the late Evelyn Philip Shirley, of Ettington, Co. Warwick, and 
 Lough Trea, Co. Monaghan, the well-known author of the 
 " Noble and Gentle Families of England," of the " History of 
 the County of Monaghan," etc., and who was the great grandson 
 of the Hon. George Shirley, of Ettington, fifth son of the first 
 Earl Ferrers, who terminated the abeyance of the ancient 
 baronies of Ferrers of Chartley, Bourchier, and Louvaine, his 
 grandmother, Lady Dorothy Devereux, having been daughter 
 and co-heir of Robert, last Earl of Essex, of the house of 
 Devereux, from whom Mr. Shirley inherited his Irish property 
 in Co. Monaghan. These baronies are now again in abeyance, 
 between the representatives of the daughters of the eighth 
 Lord Ferrers. 
 
 Dr. Chafy's son and heir, Hugh Edmund Chafy-Chafy, was 
 born at Lidford Rectory, May I7th, 1876. He has also a 
 second son and four daughters. 
 
 The arms used for many centuries by this family, " azure, 
 five fusils in fesse, argent, a canton of the last," and which 
 surmount the tomb already referred to in the parish church 
 of St. Giles in the Heath, have been superseded, since 1822, by 
 Dr. Chafy's predecessors. In pursuance of an Earl Marshal's 
 warrant in that year directed to the Kings of Arms, consequent 
 upon the application of the Rev. W. Chafy, great-grandfather 
 of the present owner of Rous-Lench, a coat, which satisfactorily 
 marks the descent of the Chafy's from Hugo, Thegn of Chafe- 
 combe, and his connection with the Saxon Earldom of Devon, 
 the badge of which was a gryphon then, and down to the 
 commencement of the third century after the Conquest, was 
 granted to him and his heirs, and may be thus blazoned : 
 Per pale gules and azure, a gryphon segreant, argent; on
 
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 a chief, engrailed erm., three lozenges in fess of the second. 
 
 Crest, on a mount vert, a peacock in its pride, between two 
 palm-branches, all ppr. 
 
 HORNIMAN OF BRADWORTHY. 
 
 It is evident, from the fact that a certain portion of our coast 
 was known as the littns Saxonicnm during the last years of the 
 Roman occupation of Britain, that some time prior to the 
 evacuation of our island in 418 there had been periodical settle- 
 ments in it of predatory Teutons from the neighbourhood of 
 the Rhine and Elbe. These invaders, having settled themselves 
 permanently in the country at various but uncertain dates, were 
 of course subject to the Roman dominion, and took part with 
 the Britons in their several struggles to throw off the Latin 
 yoke. Thus it came about that there was a very considerable 
 Saxon settlement established in this and other parts of the 
 kingdom long prior to the arrival of the great horde of German 
 invaders, in the first year of the Emperor Marcianus, A.D. 450, 
 which was nearly seventy years prior to the actual establish- 
 ment of the Saxon kingdom of Wessex by King Cerdic. That 
 one of these so-called Saxon incursions was undertaken by the 
 " Hermanduri " seems probable from the existence of the great 
 Roman road known as " Hermin Street," which runs from 
 St. Davids to Southampton, and the latter port was the favourite 
 landing place of the several tribes of Saxon adventurers down 
 to the arrival of the future King Cerdic at the close of the fifth 
 century. 
 
 Thus a very ancient tradition as to the German origin of the 
 Hernimans, or Hornimans, may be plausibly accounted for, and 
 its strong probability may be very freely admitted ; but not so 
 the period at which their migration from the European Continent 
 has been usually fixed, or the supposition that the founder of 
 their family in England was " a follower of Peter of Provence, 
 the uncle of Eleanor, queen of Henry III.," who in such case 
 must have settled here during the first half of the thirteenth 
 century. 
 
 It is a significant proof of the very great antiquity of this
 
 332 
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 family in Britain that their connection with the Saxon Manor, 
 to which they certainly gave name, but not with the county, 
 which has remained unsevered, had ceased apparently in the 
 reign of Edward the Confessor. It is shown by the Domesday 
 record that one of them held manors, under Norman rule, 
 both in north and south Devon, notably in the neighbourhood 
 of Totnes, in which a branch of the family have continued 
 until modern times, and in that of Chulmleiyh, where the 
 name is still extant. 
 
 Amongst the property granted by King William to the 
 Norman Bishop of Coutance was the manor of Harmon's 
 Sward, " Hermondesuorda," and now known as Hermonsworthy, 
 in the parish of Broadworthy, commonly called Bradworthy. 
 
 The Saxon word " sweard," as applied to the soil, signified 
 that it was covered with grass ; the affix " worthy," also of 
 Saxon origin, that it was an enclosed estate ; hence the name of 
 such parishes as Bradworthy, Pyworthy, Hexworthy, etc., but I 
 need not multiply instances of similar nomenclature. 
 
 When King William seized upon " Hermon's Sward," it was 
 the property of Alward, the King's Thegn, who paid tax there 
 for a sufficient quantity of arable land to occupy " two ploughs," 
 exclusive of twenty acres of meadow, and five furlongs of 
 pasture, two furlongs wide. The Bishop of Coutance sublet 
 this property to the ancestor of the Drewes of Broadhembury 
 and elsewhere, and in subsequent ages it was held by an old 
 family known as" De Bosco,'' or Boys, Anglice^ Wood, a member 
 of which built a chapel upon it by license from the Abbot of 
 Tor, and his male line became extinct in the reign of 
 Edward III. 
 
 But although the " Hermons " the name is, I should remark, 
 variously written, Herman, Hermer, Herniman, Horniman, and 
 Harniman, the latter spelling being in exact accordance with its 
 customary pronunciation had no special interest in "Hermon's 
 Sward" in 1086, yet one of their name, " Hernan," which, 
 allowing for contraction, would read Herniman, had been settled 
 close to the old " Hermin " road, and had held the bishopric 
 of St. Davids from 1023-1039 during the reign of Canute, and 
 that the members of the family accommodated themselves to 
 circumstances is sufficiently clear from the fact that, under
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 333 
 
 Norman rule, the Saxon landowner of the same name, who was, 
 I think, clearly the progenitor of the Hornimans of the middle 
 and later ages, was permitted to hold the three Devonshire 
 manors known as " Nymet," near Sampford Courtenay, Wash- 
 bourne, nigh Totnes, and another property called " Esprewi," 
 under Norman rule, and to transmit them to his posterity, 
 although, being a Saxon, he did not hold them directly from 
 the king in chief, but under Goscelmus Brito (see " House of 
 Brito," post}, and another great Lord paramount, Walter de 
 Douay, Baron of Bampton. 
 
 Thus much for the great antiquity of the race of Horniman, 
 which I may now claim reasonably to have established. It is 
 improbable that the immediate descendants of the Domesday 
 sub-tenant, who doubtless founded the north and south Devon 
 branches of the family, ever moved far from their first settle- 
 ments, for we find them mentioned in the early parish registers 
 both of Totnes and Sampford Courtenay, and in those of Wink- 
 leigh, South Tawton, and elsewhere, always of importance and 
 consideration in their respective neighbourhoods, whilst their 
 seventeenth century residence at South Molton took name from 
 them, and was known as " Hernimans." This house stands on 
 rising ground near the confluence of the rivers Bray and Mole, 
 and in the midst of about a hundred and fifty acres of fertile 
 land. Although it has been of late years divided into tene- 
 ments for farm labourers, it bears evident signs of its ancient 
 importance in vestiges of old oak panelling and similar 
 decoration. One of its former owners, Luke Herniman, who 
 died childless in 1686, was the son of Mr. John Herniman of 
 South Tawton. 
 
 His ancestor, John " Hernaman," of the latter parish, dead 
 before 1539, had three children, John, Thomas, and Ann, the 
 latter married "Richard Wikes," October 3Oth, 1565, and the 
 marriage of her nephew William Hernaman with Arminell, 
 daughter of William " Weekes " of Honichurch, is recorded in 
 the Herald's Visitation of Devonshire of 1620. 
 
 Her brother John's son " Henri " was baptized at Sampford 
 Courtenay in 1 559? ne of her elder nephews by her brother 
 Thomas, of South Tawton and Sampford Courtenay, married 
 the one Maria Oxenham of Oxenham ; whilst the other, James
 
 334 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Herniman, was the ancestor of the Hernimans of Wood- 
 terald, in the parish of Winkleigh, and of his successors also at 
 South Tawton. 
 
 The Totnes branch of this family, descended most probably 
 from the Domesday owner of Washbourne, in the neighbouring 
 parish of Harberton, were always of repute in South Devon, 
 and held positions of confidence and importance. Their imme- 
 diate ancestor was George, brother of Thomas Herniman, 
 baptized in 1661, and their present representative is the Rev. 
 J. W. Duncombe Hernaman, clerk in holy orders, son of the 
 late John Hernaman of Clealand Hall, Sunderland, who was 
 born in 1794, and was the son of William Hernaman of Totnes 
 by his wife Elizabeth Lapthorne. A branch of the Totnes 
 Hernimans migrated to Appledore, and have of late years 
 been resident at Truro in the adjoining county. 
 
 Robert " Hernaman " of Wood-terald, a fair estate in the 
 parish of Winkleigh, baptized there I5th October, 1598, was 
 the father of John Herniman of Hernimans above mentioned, 
 and also of William Herniman, who was born in 1619. The 
 latter's son, of the same name, seems to have succeeded his 
 cousin Luke at Hernimans, whilst the elder son, Robert " Herni- 
 man," baptized at South Tawton 1656, was the father of George 
 " Horniman," who migrated to the neighbouring county of 
 Somerset, and settled at Lydeard St. Laurence. The latter's 
 great grandson John Horniman was the father of another John, 
 who was born at Reading in 1803, and was one of the most 
 eminent philanthropists of the present age. During a long 
 life of ninety years, by close attention to business, and by 
 unswerving rectitude, he not only succeeded in founding the 
 great house known as " Hornimans," but amassed a very con- 
 siderable fortune, and in addition to the large sums he similarly 
 disbursed in his life-time, he left, at his death in 1893, no less 
 than ^89,000 in various charities. His eldest son, Mr. W. H. 
 Horniman, still resides in the county adopted, as I have shown 
 above, by his ancestors nigh upon eighteen hundred years ago. 
 His second son, Mr. Frederick John Horniman now M.P. for 
 Penryn and Falmouth, is the well-known owner and founder of 
 the Surrey House Museum at Dulwich a magnificent collection 
 of art treasures, which is freely open to the public, and which
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 335 
 
 will probably in the future be entirely dedicated to their uses. 
 Although for some generations his own branch of this ancient 
 family have been truly worthy and beneficent members of the 
 Society of Friends, Mr. F. J. Horniman is an attached follower 
 of the tenets of the Established Church, and munificently 
 contributed ^4,000 towards the new church of St. Peter on 
 Dulwich Common. 
 
 The Horniman Museum is so varied in its character, so 
 unique in its possessions, that few towns in England have any- 
 thing to compare with it; it is the outcome of the labour and 
 outlay of thirty years, and is distributed over no less than 
 twenty-three rooms of a very capacious residence, behind which 
 Mr. Horniman proposes to build lecture halls and technical 
 schools before it is finally handed over to some public body for 
 the exclusive good of future generations. If merely in memory 
 of his father's charities and of his own beneficence, his name 
 and history, apart even from its great antiquity, would have 
 deserved commemoration in these pages ; as it is, it must be 
 admitted that no account of our old West country families 
 could be complete without a somewhat extended notice of 
 the race of Horniman. Mr. J. F. Horniman married, in 1859, 
 the youngest daughter of John Elmslie of Dalston, county 
 Middlesex, by whom he has a son and heir, Elmslie J. 
 Horniman, born 1860. 
 
 The arms used by the Hornimans, vert, a lion passant 
 guardant, or, between three annulets, arg. ; and the crest a 
 lion couchant guardant, or, beneath a palm-tree proper, were 
 confirmed by Garter and Clarencieux, kings of arms to the 
 family of Herman of Middleton Stoney, County Oxford, loth 
 December, 1630. 
 
 NORTHMORE OF CLEVE. 
 
 The Northmores of Cleve, in the parish of St. Thomas, 
 nigh Exeter, are said by Lysons and others " to have migrated 
 from Somersetshire," a statement which does not appear to 
 have the slightest foundation in fact, and probably originated 
 in the bequest by one of their collateral relatives, whose will
 
 336 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, in 1411, 
 of a considerable quantity of gold plate to the Church of 
 St. Mary at Taunton. That a branch of the family long 
 flourished in much repute in the adjoining county is as unques- 
 tionable as that their name, anciently written " Nordmoor," 
 is derived from the residence of their Saxon ancestors upon 
 the northern border of Dartmoor, in the parish of South Tawton, 
 within which royal manor, held at the Conquest by King 
 William, and which had been a portion of the dowry of Githa, 
 the mother of Harold, a noble Saxon, called Alfric or Aluric, 
 one of the higher or baronial thanes, had another " in partage " 
 (" quam tenuit Uluricus pariter" are the words of the Survey) 
 at the death of Edward the Confessor, and which was known 
 as " Aissa " or Ash. 
 
 That the Northmores are the veritable descendants of this 
 Saxon Thegn is as probable as their long connection with the 
 manor of East Ash is certain ; their first recorded nominal 
 residence in the parish of South Tawton, however, under the 
 name of "Northmore," was at "Wille," or Well, a residence now 
 occupied by a farmer, and apparently of sixteenth century 
 date, and which still exhibits the initials of Edward Northmore, 
 1600, and of John Northmore, " anno 1641,'' in one of its windows. 
 This property is shown by an extant deed to have been granted 
 by " William Ythel " (at Wille) to John Northmore, in the sixth 
 year of the reign of King Edward III., A.D. 1332. On the 
 29th June, 1377, this John Northmore, or his successor of the 
 same name, attested a deed at Tiverton. He was succeeded 
 by Richard Northmore, who flourished between the years 
 1453-81, who obtained from Richard Wyke of North Wyke* 
 certain lands in the manor of East Ayshe, already referred to, 
 by deed dated 4th Edward IV., A.D. 1464, and they eventually 
 acquired the whole manor, which manor, Lysons complacently 
 remarks, " had belonged to the Northmores, for some years, in 
 1711." As Samuel Lysons was long " Keeper of the Records,' 
 it is somewhat surprising and irritating to find that in this 
 as well as in numerous other instances he did not trouble 
 himself to be more precise and accurate. William Northmore 
 
 * See Wyke of Northwyke, post.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 337 
 
 succeeded his father Richard in 1481, and was himself the father 
 of John Northmore who was buried at South Tawton in 1577, 
 and pre-deceased his mother, Joan Northmore, by eight years. 
 
 The South Tawton registers commence in 1540, and amongst 
 the earliest entries I find the baptism of this John Northmore's 
 son Bartholomew on February 24th that year. 
 
 He appears, however, to have been succeeded at Welle by 
 his son Richard Northmore, who married Joan Southwood, or 
 Southmeade, in 1567, and who was the father of Edward North- 
 more of Well, whose son (by his marriage with Philote, daughter 
 of Edward Haywoode of Haywoode, in the parish of Bund- 
 leigh), John Northmore, was also of Welle, and was buried at 
 South Tawton in 1671. This last John Northmore, who adopted 
 the legal profession, and acquired a large estate, which included 
 an eighth part of the manor of Okehampton, married Joan, 
 daughter of John Stronge of Tor-hill, in the same parish, and left 
 five sons and two daughters, married to Battishill and Weeks, 
 both members of houses with recorded pedigrees.* I should 
 have stated that Richard Northmore had granted to his son Ed- 
 ward above mentioned the lands of East Ash by deed dated 1587. 
 
 John Northmore of Well and of East Ash was the eldest 
 of the five sons of John Northmore and of Joan Stronge. He 
 was a lawyer, like his father, and also a magistrate, and long 
 filled the office of town clerk of Okehampton, and married 
 into an old county family, that of the Chudleigh branch of the 
 Woolcombes, and died without issue in 1713. His next brother 
 Edward, who was Vicar of Newton St. Cyres and of Chudleigh, 
 predeceased him in 1687, so that his heir-at-law was his brother 
 William Northmore, born 1639, who married, first, Mary, 
 daughter and heir of William Knapman of Wonson, in the 
 parish of Throwleigh, by which marriage he acquired that 
 interesting property, and was also Mayor of Okehampton. In 
 a panel of one of the rooms in the old house at Wonson there 
 is, carved on panel, the semblance of an ace of diamonds, by 
 which card this William Northmore is said to have lost the 
 very large sum, in those days, of .17,000. However, his son 
 succeeded to Wonson, and subsequently, as I shall presently 
 
 * For the marriage of Elizabeth Norihmore with Richard Weekes, see " Weekcs 
 of IIonichurch,"/0.tf. 
 
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 338 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 show, to Cleve as well. By his second marriage with a Miss 
 Hutton, daughter of the rector of Northlew, William North- 
 more the elder left a daughter Elizabeth, who was the direct 
 ancestress of the late wife of the present owner of Cleve, a 
 property originally acquired by the said William of Wonson's 
 next younger brother Thomas. 
 
 The latter had succeeded to the moiety of the profits of an 
 annual fair at Exeter as a younger son's portion, which had 
 been originally granted to John Northmore of South Tawton, 
 who died in 1577, by King Henry VIII., in whose household 
 he had in his younger days been a page of honour, and with 
 whom he seems to have been a great favourite. Thomas North- 
 more, however, who was a Master in Chancery and M.P. for 
 Okehampton, appears to have accumulated a great deal of 
 money in the practice of his profession, and about the year 
 1675 settled in St. Thomas, nigh Exeter, and in 1705 he 
 purchased Cleve, since the principal seat of the Northmores, 
 from the devisees of one Robert Gubbs ; he also obtained 
 two-thirds of the rental of Topsham Quay, then the port of 
 Exeter, and much other property in the city. He died (S.P.M.} 
 in 1713, when he divided his wealth between his nephew John, 
 son of his fifth and last brother Jeffery, then the owner of 
 Well in South Tawton, and his daughter and heir Anne, at that 
 time married to her first cousin William Northmore the younger 
 of Wonson, who thus inherited Cleve in right of his wife. This 
 William Northmore, of Wonson and Cleve, had been born in 
 1690, and, like others of his ancient race, some time represented 
 Okehampton in Parliament. In 1722 he was permitted to 
 register his arms, and the simplicity of the coat is sufficient to 
 show its extreme antiquity ; his first wife and cousin Ann 
 Northmore only survived her father three years, and he was 
 afterwards twice married ; his second wife being Florence, 
 daughter of Sir Arthur Chichester of Ralegh, and his third an 
 Oxenham of Oxenham, in the parish of South Tawton. His 
 first wife's stepmother, by the way, who died in 1735, was 
 a daughter of John St. Aubyn of Clowance, and sister of the 
 first St. Aubyn Baronet, as well as of the wife of Nicholas 
 Martin of Oxton and Netherexe. 
 
 William Northmore of Cleve died (5.P.) in 1734, when that
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 339 
 
 property passed to his cousin John Northmore, son of his 
 already mentioned uncle Jeffery Northmore of Well, by 
 Grace Risdon of Spreyton, of the house of Bableigh. This 
 third Northmore, owner of Cleve, married Anne, daughter of 
 John Collacot of Chagford,' but only enjoyed that property 
 a few months, as he was buried at South Tawton in December, 
 1735. He was succeeded by his son Thomas, then only a few 
 months old, and who had therefore a long minority. He was 
 Sheriff of Devon in 1769, and left by his wife, the only daughter 
 and heir of Richard Osgood of Fulham, three sons, Thomas 
 of Cleve ; William, in holy orders ; and Edward, an officer in 
 the army. Thomas Northmore of Cleve,* son and heir, married, 
 secondly, Emmeline, daughter of Sir John Eden, Baronet, by 
 whom he had a son, Edmund Shafto, who died, issueless, at 
 sea, and six daughters. His first wife was a daughter of Sir 
 W. E. Welby, first Baronet of Denton, County Lincoln, by 
 whom he had issue Thomas Welby Northmore, born in 1791, 
 who commenced life with a commission in the Guards, retired 
 as a captain, graduated, became a clergyman, and was long 
 Vicar of Winterton, in Lincolnshire. He married his cousin 
 Katherine, daughter of Sir W. E. Welby, second Baronet, and 
 was buried in the family vault in the church of St. Thomas. 
 He was the father of the Rev. Thomas Welby Northmore, 
 Vicar of Weston, Co. York, who has two sons and a daughter, 
 and also of John Northmore, the present owner of Cleve. 
 Mr. Northmore was born in 1826, and is a justice of the 
 peace for Devon, and was for some years of H.M. Ceylon Civil 
 Service; he married, secondly, in 1873, his far-away kins- 
 woman, Olympia, a daughter of Northmore Herle Pierce 
 Lawrence, the descendant and representative of Elizabeth, only 
 daughter, by his second marriage, of William Northmore the 
 elder of Wonson, as I have previously mentioned. She died in 
 
 * Mr. Thomas Northmore of Cleve, a well-kncwn geologist and antiquary, and 
 Fellow of the Royal Society, married, firstly, Penelope, only daughter of Sir William 
 Earle Welby, first Baronet (creation 27lh June, 1801), by his wife, Penelope, third 
 daughter of Sir John Glynne, Bait., of Hawarden, Flintshire ; and, secondly, 
 Emmeline, daughter of Sir John Eden, fourth Baronet of West Auckland, 
 Co. Duiham, and sister of Lady Aghrim, afterward Countess of Athlone. Her 
 father's baronetcy became extinct in 1841, but her uncle Robert was created a Baronet 
 in 1776, and his brothers, William and Morton, were respectively raised to the 
 peerage as Barons Auckland and Henley, 1789-1799.
 
 340 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 1875, leaving issue a son and heir, John Northmore, born in 
 1874, and one daughter, of her own name. 
 
 Mr. Northmore had previously married the only daughter of 
 the late Rev. William Hames, Rector of Chagford, but by that 
 lady had no issue; she died in 1869. 
 
 The Northmore arms may be thus blazoned : Gules, a 
 lion rampant, or, crowned, argent. Crest A lion's head erased, 
 gules, crowned as in the arms, charged with a rose, argent, 
 barbed and seeded, vert. 
 
 Motto" Nee Elata, Nee Dejecta." 
 
 The rose was evidently intended to mark Cadency, but it is 
 hard to see why it was employed in lieu of a mullet, the usual 
 distinction, since the fourteenth century, of the third son, from 
 whom William of Wonson, who sought the interference of the 
 officers of arms in 1722, unquestionably derived. 
 
 WISE OF SYDENHAM, MOUNT WISE AND WONWELL, 
 CO. DEVON, AND OF CLAYTON HALL, CO. STAFFORD. 
 
 The Saxon race of Wise, in the vernacular written " Wis." 
 and by the Danes " Viis," have resided in the west of England 
 literally from time immemorial, and, although the principal seat 
 of the family in the first half of the present century was 
 removed to Staffordshire, in consequence of a marriage with 
 the heir of Booth and Lovatt of Clayton, in that county, the 
 name still flourishes in Devonshire. Humfrey "Vis " or " Wis " 
 of Lew, since known as JLew Trenchard, near Tavistock, was 
 living there in the year 1080, when that manor, which had 
 belonged to Brictric, the son of Algar, the first-love of Matilda, 
 the Conqueror's consort, had passed into Norman hands. 
 According to ancient heraldic records, this Humfrey le Wis was 
 the father, but I consider him to have been more probably the 
 brother, of Oliver le Wis, who was at about the same period 
 settled upon the manor of Greston, in Cornwall, and the latter 
 was the undoubted ancestor of Sir John Wise, Knight, of Greston 
 late in the twelfth century, whose younger brother, Sir Andrew 
 Wyse, accompanied Strongbow to Ireland in 1169, and obtained 
 great possessions in Waterford, since held directly from the
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 341 
 
 Crown ; his descendant and representative, whose predecessors 
 had inherited the lands of the Priory of St. John in 1495, was 
 the late Sir Thomas Wyse of St. John, county Waterford, who 
 married the daughter of Prince Lucien Bonaparte, and was long 
 member of Parliament for the county. 
 
 Sir John Wise of Greston had three sons, viz., Henry, son 
 and heir, Serlo, and Osbert, who founded branches of their 
 name in Kent and Oxfordshire. Roger Wise, younger son of 
 Sir Henry Wise of Greston, was the ancestor of the Gloucester- 
 shire Wises. His eldest brother, Sir William Wise of Greston, 
 held sixteen librates of land in Cornwall in the year 1255, and 
 by his marriage with Ela de Vepont (" Veteri ponte ; " in English, 
 Oldbridge) acquired the Devonshire manor of Thrushelton, a 
 chapelry dependent on Maristow, County Devon, in which latter 
 parish his son Serlo obtained the Sydenham estate by his 
 alliance with Albreda Trevage. Their son, Thomas Wise, 
 Lord of Sydenham, Thrushelton, and Greston, and eighth 
 in descent from the aforesaid Oliver le Wise, left the Cornish 
 property to his son of the latter name, who had no male issue, 
 but by his granddaughter Margaret Beaumont, who married 
 John Chichester of Ralegh, he became the ancestor of subse- 
 quent members of that ancient Devonshire house, and also of 
 the Marquesses of Donegal. 
 
 Oliver's brother, John Wise of Sydenham, was the father of 
 Thomas Wise, whose wife, Margaret, daughter and heir of 
 Robert Britt (see " House of Brito," post}, brought him much 
 additional property in various parts of Devonshire, notably that 
 since known as " Mount Wise," which has long been the military 
 headquarters at Devonport, otherwise Stoke Damarel. 
 
 The next John Wise of Sydenham married Thomazine, 
 daughter of Sir Baldwin Fulford, of Great Fulford, near Exeter, 
 Knight of the Sepulchre, and Sheriff of Devon 38th Henry VI. 
 He had two children, a son and daughter ; the latter was the 
 mother of the first Lord Russell, and the ancestress of the 
 Uukes of Bedford. 
 
 Lord Russell's uncle, Oliver Wise, by his wife Margaret 
 Tremayne of Collacombe, in the parish of Lamerton, had issue 
 John, who was thrice married ; one of his younger sons is 
 supposed to have founded the Warwickshire branch of the
 
 342 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 family ; by his first wife, Maria Chudleigh, of Ashton-under- 
 Haldon, of the race of the celebrated Duchess of Kingston, 
 he had a son and heir, James Wise of Sydenham, who married 
 Alice Dynham. Their younger son, Sir William Wise, was 
 knighted at the "Battle of the Spurs" in 1513; their elder, 
 John Wise of Sydenham, by Alice Harris of Hayne, was the 
 father of James, Charles, Erkenbold, Thomas, and John. Of 
 these Thomas succeeded to Sydenham, and built " the faire 
 mansion house " at Stoke Damarel, since called Mount Wise, 
 and there his posterity principally resided afterward ; by his 
 wife, Mary Buller of Shillingham, he was the father of Sir 
 Thomas Wise, Knight of the Bath, who died in 1629, whose son 
 and heir of the same name, Sheriff of Devon 1638, Knight 
 of the Shire 1640, married the Honourable Mary Chichester, 
 daughter of Edward, first Viscount Carrickfergus, and sister of 
 the first Earl of Donegal ; they had a son, Sir Edward Wise, 
 Knight of the Bath, who married Arabella St. John, daughter 
 of Oliver Lord St. John, son of the Earl of Bolingbroke. 
 
 The two sons of this marriage, St. John, and Thomas Wise, 
 both died childless, wheu the great Sydenham property, which 
 was unfortunately unentailed, passed by the marriage of their 
 sister Arabella to the Tremaynes of Collacombe, and since then 
 of Sydenham. I say " unfortunately," merely because the present 
 owner of Sydenham, Mr. John Tremayne, has inherited the 
 property from his grandfather, who came to it by bequest from 
 a kinsman of his own name in 1808, and is not descended from 
 Arabella Wise, whereas the male line of her family did not 
 become extinct by the death of her brothers without issue. 
 
 At that time the male heir-at-law was John Wise of Totnes, 
 great grandson of John Wise and of hi* wife Emmot Vavasour, 
 second son of John Wise of Sydenham and of Alice Harris. 
 
 This John Wise of Totnes, born in 1640, was the grandfather 
 of John Wise, who married Margaret, daughter and sole heir 
 of John Ayshford of Wonwell Court, in the parish of Kingston, 
 near Modbury. 
 
 The Ayshfords, descended from Stephen de Eisforde, a 
 follower of the Conqueror, were long of Ashford, in the parish 
 of Burlescombe ; Robert, second son of William Ayshford 
 of Ashford, towards the end of the fifteenth century married
 
 DE VON SHI RE WILLS. 343 
 
 Philippa, daughter and heir of Robert Hyndeston of Wonvvell, 
 and from this marriage Margaret, wife of John Wise, was sixth 
 in descent She died in 1780, leaving five sons and six daughters ; 
 from her second son, George Wise of Woolston, in Loddiswell, 
 the present Colonel Dacres Wise of that parish is descended. 
 
 Her eldest son, John Wise, succeeded to Wonwell, and 
 married Elizabeth Froude, aunt of the late James Antony 
 Froude, Regius Professor of Modern History; their eldest son, 
 Ayshford Wise, sold the property in 1820, and removed to 
 Ford House, a place memorable for its siege and capitulation 
 to the Parliamentary forces during the great rebellion, and 
 which from the Reynelis passed by marriage to the Courtenays. 
 Mr. Ayshford Wise married Mary, daughter of the Rev. Thomas 
 Whitby of Cresvvell Hall, Staffordshire, long represented that 
 county in Parliament, and died in 1847. His third daughter, 
 Julia, married, first, in 1837, R. F. De Barry-Barry, by whom she 
 had a son, Robert, late Captain 6oth Rifles, and, secondly, in 
 1845, the late J. T. Coward, by whom she is the mother of 
 Blanchard R. T. Coward, Lieutenant R.N., who married, in 1884, 
 Geraldine, daughter of Major H. W. Portman, and niece of the 
 first Viscount. His son and heir, John Ayshford Wise, a 
 Deputy Lieutenant for Devonshire, Sheriff of Staffordshire 
 1852, and M.P. for the borough of Stafford, married the 
 daughter and heir of Hugh Booth, by Anne, daughter and 
 heir of Thomas Lovatt of Clayton Hall, whose ancestors had 
 resided there from the sixteenth century. At his death in 1870 
 he was succeeded by his only son, the present Major Lewis 
 Lovatt Ayshford Wise, formerly of the 8th, "King's," Regiment, 
 who also owns property in Somersetshire. Major Wise has two 
 daughters; his only son and heir died in infancy, A.D. 1877. 
 
 The arms of Wise are, sable, three chcvronels, ermine ; 
 quartering, first, Vepont ; second, Trevage ; third, Britt (see 
 " House of Brito," post} \ fourth, Prestwood ; fifth, Brooking ; 
 sixth, Ayshford ; seventh, grand quarter ; first and fourth, 
 Booth; second and third, Lovatt of Clayton. 
 
 Crest A demi-lion rampant, gules, holding a sceptre. 
 
 Motto "Sapere Aude." 
 
 Sir Thomas Wise had a grant of supporters as a Knight of 
 the Bath, viz., dexter, a lion, gules ; sinister, an ape, ppr.
 
 344 DR VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 PYKE OF WIDWORTHY AND PARRACOMBE. 
 
 Although the connection of the Pykes of Parracombe, with 
 Widworthy, was long since completely severed, it appears to 
 me certain that the first settlement in Devonshire of their 
 Norman ancestor was within the latter parish, upon the 
 manor of Sutton, afterwards known as Sutton Lucy, which 
 was held in 1087 by " Richard " as sub-tenant to William the 
 king's doorkeeper (" Gulielmus Portitor," sometimes called 
 " Hostiarius," or the Usher). 
 
 The manor of "Acha" (Haeg), Anglice Hayes, long subse- 
 quently known as Lucy Hayes, in the same parish, was also 
 then held by a certain " Richard," under Baldwin the Sheriff; 
 hence it has been generally assumed that the two " Richards " 
 were identical, but it is practically certain that " Richard of 
 Acha " was Baldwin's brother, Richard de Redvers, afterwards 
 Earl of Devon, and the fact that both Sutton Lucy and Lucy 
 Hayes, after an occupation of several centuries by the Lucies, 
 eventually passed to the Courtenays, who had then succeeded 
 to the property of the Redvers family, has not rendered the 
 matter more explicable. 
 
 The sub-tenant of " Sutton," under the King's porter, was 
 probably Richard de Lucie, a son of Richard, Lord of Disce, in 
 Norfolk, and grandson of " Geoffry " of Loiset, in Normandy, an 
 admiral in the service of William the Conqueror, who fought at 
 Hastings, and was afterwards one of the forty-four knights who 
 were quartered for five years upon the rebellious monks of Ely. 
 Richard de Loiset, afterwards known as De Lucie, received 
 the lordship of Disce from Henry I., was guardian of the 
 kingdom during the transfretation of that monarch in 1112, 
 and also Chief Justice of England. 
 
 He seems to have left two sons, Geoffry and Richard. The 
 first of these predeceased him, but had sons, Richard and 
 Herbert, whose line soon expired ; and daughters, Maud, who is 
 said to have been, as a widow, the second wife of Richard, Earl 
 of Devon (which may account for the acquisition of Lucy Hayes 
 by her uncle or his descendants), and Rohesia, to whom I shall 
 presently return. 
 
 Geoffry's brother, Richard de Lucie, held lands both in Devon
 
 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 345 
 
 and Cornwall in the reign of King Stephen. He had two sons, 
 viz., Maurice, who was of Sutton Lucy, in Widworthy, in the 
 time of Henry II., and Reginald de Lucie, the ancestor of the 
 Multons, who assumed the maternal name, and were Barons of 
 Cockermouth from the I4th Edward II. until 1369, when the 
 property devolved upon Maud de Lucie, alias Multon, wife of 
 Henry Percy, first Earl of Northumberland. She died without 
 issue, but by settlement, 8th Richard II., her lands were secured 
 to her husband and his descendants, who have therefore since 
 quartered the Lucie arms. 
 
 Through the marriage of his younger son, Osbert,* Maurice 
 de Lucie was the grandfather of Maurice de Lucie, who was of 
 Sutton Lucie, co. Devon, late in the thirteenth century, but his 
 eldest son, Geoffrey de Lucie, was Baron of Newington, co. 
 Kent, and in litigation with his cousin Rohesia, above mentioned, 
 as to the lands in Cornwall, which he had inherited from his 
 grandfather, the aforesaid second Richard de Lucie. 
 
 This Rohesia, wife of Fulbert de Dovor, had succeeded to the 
 lordship of Disce, in Norfolk, upon the death of her nephew, 
 Richard, son of her brother, Richard de Lucie, and had livery 
 of the whole barony in 1208; she therefore claimed all the 
 Cornish lands of her second cousin, Geoffrey, as " of the honour 
 of Lucie," and King John handed them over to William de 
 Briwere, as the said Rohesia's devisee, in 1215. 
 
 Geoffrey de Lucie, of Newington, survived until 1252. His 
 son of the same name was summoned to Parliament in 4Oth 
 Henry III., and died in 1283, when he was succeeded by another 
 Geoffrey, aged 21, 1287, who received his summons in 1296, and 
 was the last Parliamentary Baron of this branch of the family. 
 His father, the Lord Geoffrey, had acquired the manor of Kings- 
 Nympton, in Devonshire, by the gift of Roger Le Zouch, and 
 his posterity there, down to the reign of Henry V., were 
 known as " De Cornwall." The last of them, Sir " John de 
 Cornwall," died between 1415-1422, and was the son of Sir 
 Bryan, whose father, Geoffrey de Cornwall, was a minor, and in 
 the guardianship of Ingelram de Courcy, at the death of his 
 father, who was also called Geoffrey, c. 1367. The family bore 
 
 * He witnessed a deed for Richard de Grenvile of Stowe and Bideford, r. 1202.
 
 346 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 the well-known "canting" armorials, gules, three pikes hauriant, 
 argent; these fish were termed "lucies" in early heraldry, from 
 the Graeco-Latin word " lucius," a term applied to the pike or 
 jack, because it was looked upon as the wolf of the river. 
 
 The Lucys of Charlecote, Co. Warwick, are the descendants 
 of the Norman " Gilbert de Ghent," who, after six descents 
 in various surnames, for some reason which has never been 
 satisfactorily explained, suddenly assumed the name of "Lucy" 
 in the reign of King John. Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote 
 was satirised by Shakespeare in the character of "Justice 
 Shallow." 
 
 During the end of the thirteenth and commencement of 
 the fourteenth centuries the descendants of the great Norman 
 houses began very commonly to Anglicise their continental 
 patronymics, thus " De Calvo Monte " became Chammond, " De 
 Campo Arnulphi " Champernowne, " De Bosco" Boyes, or 
 Wood, " De Lupo" Wolf, and "De Lucie" Pyke, and as Pyke 
 or Pike the name is still extant, and has been always frequent 
 in the neighbourhood, both of Kings-Nympton and Widworthy. 
 Henry Pike was Sub-Dean of Exeter, in 1350, and the Pyke's 
 gave name to Pyke's Ham and Pyke's Ash in the adjoining 
 county of Somerset. 
 
 There have been numerous branches of the family in the 
 course of long ages ; one of these terminated with co-heirs at 
 the time when Alice Luce married Simon Cole of Slade, who 
 died in 1497. 
 
 The head of another branch married the fourth co-heir of the 
 great house of Valletort of North Tawton, and there was a 
 subsequent marriage with a co-heir of Crewys of Netherex in 
 the persons of Richard Lucy and Nichola, eldest daughter of 
 William, the descendant of Sir Richard Crewys, who resided 
 there in 1233, and was the second son of Richard Crewys of 
 Cruse Morchard. George Pyke, in 1687, married again into 
 this very ancient family ; his wife was Anne, daughter of John 
 Crewys, great-grandson of John Crewys, by Anne, daughter 
 of Humphry Keynes. 
 
 Their son and heir Humphry Pyke, owner of Nethercott, in 
 the parish of Braunton, and co-patron of the vicarage of Chew- 
 Magna, Co. Somerset, married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of
 
 . DEVONSHIRE IV ILLS. 347 
 
 Robert Isaac of Westdown, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter and 
 heir of Arthur Ellis of Herne ; she was buried at Tawstock 
 nth April, 1675. 
 
 The said Arthur Ellis was maternally the grandson of Ann, 
 daughter of Dr. Sutcliffe, Dean of Exeter, wife of Richard 
 Hals of Kenedon, who was descended, through Fortescue, 
 Speccott, Grenvile, Gorges, and Hankford, from Thomasine, 
 daughter and heir of Sir Richard Stapeldon, grand niece of 
 Walter Stapeldon, Bishop of Exeter, Lord Treasurer of Eng- 
 land, and the munificent founder of Exeter College, Oxford, 
 who fell a victim to the fury of a London mob on Tuesday, 
 1 5th October, 1326. (See my Stapeldon, pp. 10, u. See 
 also Stapeldon, a Tragedy, J. N. Pyke-Nott, Act v., scene 6, 
 pp. 87 et seq.} 
 
 Through this marriage the Py-kes, whose pedigree is recorded 
 at the College of Arms, have, through the Grenviles, a descent 
 from the Dukes of Normandy. In right of Robert Isaac, 
 whose grandmother was Grace, daughter and co-heir of 
 Richard Roberts of Combmartin, they inherited a moiety of 
 that manor, once, as already mentioned, famous for its silver 
 mines, which were first worked in the reign of Edward I., and 
 successful!)' in that of Elizabeth, at which latter period a large 
 cup was made by order of Sir Beavis Bulmer, who then had 
 a lease of the property, and was presented with a suitable 
 inscription to the Corporation of London. 
 
 Humphry Pyke of Nethercott and his wife, Elizabeth Isaac, 
 were the great-grandparents of the Rev. John Pyke, who was 
 born in 1798, and was lord of the Manor of Parracombe, six miles 
 distant from Combmartin, and patron of his own rectory. He 
 married Elizabeth, daughter of John Nott of Bydown, in the 
 parish of Swimbridge, and co-heir to her brother John Nott of 
 Bydown, who died in 1858. They were the parents of the 
 present owner of Bydown and Parracombe, John Nott Pyke- 
 Nott, who assumed the latter name, in addition to that of Pyke, 
 by Royal license ist September, 1863, and married, in 1867, 
 Caroline Isabella, daughter of Frederick Ward of Gilhead, 
 Co. Westmorland, by whom he has, with other issue, John 
 Moels Pyke-Nott, first son and heir, who was born 3rd February, 
 1868.
 
 348 DE VONSHIRE WILLS 
 
 The Pykes at one time owned the manor of Bowrings-Leigh, 
 in the parish of West Alvington, acquired by marriage with 
 Bowring about the year 1463, but they sold it in the seventeenth 
 century, and it has been of late years the property of the 
 Ilberts. 
 
 Arms of Pyke of Parracombe. Quarterly or and gules, on a 
 chevron, barry wavy of four arg. and azure, between two trefoils 
 in chief and another in base, counterchanged, a lucy naiant ppr. 
 
 Crest. On a mount vert, a demi lucy hauriant ppr, between 
 two wings, gules, each charged with a trefoil, or. 
 
 NOTT OF BYDOWN AND PARRACOMBE. 
 
 The Notts derive their name from their early settlement 
 upon the Saxon Manor of " Noteswrde " (the neat or compact 
 enclosure), now known as Notsworthy, or more commonly, 
 and incorrectly, as Natsworthy, in the parish of Widecombe- 
 in-the-Moor. 
 
 This property, which in the Confessor's reign belonged to 
 " Edward," was given by Norman William to his uterine brother, 
 the powerful Earl of Cornwall, described in Domesday as 
 " Robert, Earl of Mortain," and who was, with Odo Earl of 
 Kent, one of the two sons of Harlowen de Conteville, or De 
 Burge, by his marriage with Harlotta. 
 
 Under Earl Robert, Notsworthy was held, in 1086, by 
 Richard Fitz-Turolf, and was then taxed for "a ferling of 
 land," sufficient for two ploughs, in addition to five acres of 
 pasture and six of c6ppice wood. Resident upon it were two 
 villeins or farmers, as many cottagers, and one serf. 
 
 There is the strongest probability that the descendants of 
 Fitz-Turolf took name from their residence, and that one of 
 them, William of Notsworthy, was identical with the "William 
 Notte " mentioned in Camden's list as one of the thirty-six 
 principal officers who served in the Irish expedition of the year 
 1169 under Richard Earl of Pembroke, as all these adventurers 
 belonged to the noblest Norman houses, and many of them, 
 such as the Fitz-Stephens, Cogans, and Bohuns, were also 
 Devonshire landowners.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 349 
 
 The descendants of William de Notsworthy subsequently 
 migrated to other parts of the county of Devon, one of them, 
 John " Node," was a Fellow of Stapeldon Hall, Oxford (now 
 Exeter College), between 1382-1388, whilst others of his name 
 and kindred were considerable landowners at East Budleigh, 
 and were benefactors to that parish, as shown by the deed of 
 Ralph Node and Margaret his wife, dated December 8th, 1441, 
 and although their benefaction has become somewhat involved 
 in obscurity, it very possibly originated the foundation of the 
 "Church house" at Budleigh, as to the history of which the 
 Charity Commissioners have been unable to recover the par- 
 ticulars. 
 
 There is a tradition at Budleigh that Ralph Node met his 
 death by attempting to fly from the summit of the church 
 tower with the assistance of an unsatisfactory mechanical con- 
 trivance of his own invention ; he seems to have been buried 
 under a flat coffin-shaped stone, the Latin inscription upon 
 which, " Pray for the soul of Ralph Node," has been recorded 
 by Risdon and his contemporary writers of the seventeenth 
 century, but has now become obliterated. 
 
 The Notts of Bydown, in the parish of Swimbridge, have been 
 settled there and in that neighbourhood for very many cen- 
 turies ; they had also property at Irishcombe, an outlying 
 portion of the parish of Lapford, which, however, was sold, 
 some years since, to the Lanes, and subsequently to Sir R. G. 
 Keats. In 1524, John Nott of Swimbridge was a party, with 
 his son John Nott the younger, to a fresh trust deed of the 
 parish lands ; a little earlier James, son of John Nott, had 
 married Cicely, called " Syffrels " in the Visitation record, 
 daughter of John Bonville (a natural son of Lord Bonville), 
 by the eldest daughter and co-heir of John Denis of Comb- 
 Ralegh, and the daughter and heir of St. Albyn. Cicely 
 Bonville had been first the wife of Morys More of Morehayes, 
 in the parish of Cullompton, by whom she had sons, Humphry 
 and Christopher, and a daughter Elizabeth ; she was left a 
 widow in the year 1500, and then married Thomas Wyvell, so 
 that James Nott was her third husband ; she inherited property 
 at Comb-Martin, once famed for its silver mines, a portion of 
 which, by virtue of subsequent marriages, ultimately descended
 
 350 DE VONSH1RE WILLS, 
 
 to the Pykes (see the preceding genealogy), and still belongs to 
 Mr. John Nott Pyke-Nott of Bydown. John Nott, who appears 
 to have been the great-great-grandson of James Nott and Cicely 
 Bonville, was of Cobbaton, in the parish of Svvimbridge, and 
 added Uppacott to his ancestral acres in 1587 ; by his wife Joan 
 Lewes he was the father of William Nott of Cobbaton, whose 
 descent is duly recorded at the College of Arms, and who 
 married Ellinor, daughter of John Berry of Chittlehampton, of 
 the ancient house of Berrynarber. She was the sister of Dr 
 John Berry, Canon of Exeter, and Vicar of Heavitree, and the 
 aunt of Colonel John Berry, a celebrated Parliamentary officer 
 in the West. 
 
 John, son and heir of William Nott and Eleanor Berry, 
 married Mary Bellew of Yarnscombe, marriage settlement 
 dated 1644, descended from Patrick Bellew of Alverdiscott 
 and his wife Anne Dennis of Orleigh, tenth in direct descent 
 from Roger Bellew of Bellewstone, in the parish of Devildike, 
 Co. Meath, the common ancestor of the Lords Bellew, of 
 the Bellew baronets of the sister kingdom, and of the Bellews 
 of Stockleigh Court, Co. Devon, and descended, maternally, from 
 Archibald Flemyng, Baron of Slane, whose arms the Bellews 
 quarter. 
 
 The issue of this marriage was William Nott, son and heir 
 of Cobbaton, whose wife Mary, eventual co-heir of James 
 Harvey, brought him a son John Nott of Cobbaton, whose 
 memorial inscription in Swymbridge Church gives the date of 
 his death pth May, 1756. 
 
 He had married, in 1711, Agnes, the only daughter and sole 
 heir of John Hamond of Okewill, grandson of Hugh Hamond 
 of East Downe, by his marriage with Jane, youngest of the six 
 children, but, nevertheless, eventual heir of William, third son 
 of Philip Wyatt, Steward and Town Clerk of Barnstaple, and 
 brother of Hugh Wyatt, the husband of Lady Mary Bourchier, 
 and of Thomas Wyatt, whose wife Margaret, widow of Richard 
 Inglett, was an aunt, paternally, of Tristram Risdon, the Devon- 
 shire antiquary. 
 
 The son of this marriage, James Nott, who was buried in 
 1790, at Swymbridge, married at Tawstock, in 1762, Emma, 
 daughter of John Mules, the descendant of Roger Moels, of the
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 351 
 
 Ernsborough branch of the great baronial house of Moels or 
 Mules, of which Nicholas Lord Mules was Governor of Gascony 
 and Guienne, and captured the King of Navarre, for which 
 service Henry III. gave him the west country manor of King's 
 Cars well. (See my Devonshire Parishes^ vol. ii., p. 372.) 
 
 James Nott and Emma Mules were the parents of John 
 Nott of Bydown, in Swymbridge, who by his wife Susannah, 
 only daughter and heir of Richard Norris of Southmolton, had a 
 son James, who died childless, and a son John, who succeeded to 
 Bydown, was a justice of the peace for the county of Devon, 
 and died without issue in 1855, when his sisters Elizabeth and 
 Marianne became his co-heirs. The former married, in 1838, 
 the Rev. John Pyke, M.A. and J.P., of whose ancestry I have 
 already treated, and whose eldest and only surviving son John 
 Nott Pyke-Nott is the present owner of Bydown. 
 
 Mr. Pyke-Nott, who was born in 1841, and was educated at 
 Winchester and Exeter College, Oxford, assumed the arms of 
 Nott in preferential addition to those of Pyke (together with 
 the name of Nott), by Royal license, at the date already men- 
 tioned, ist Sept., 1863. 
 
 Arms of Nott. Gules, on a bend engrailed, of, between four 
 leopards' faces, arg., an estoile of eight points between two 
 martlets of the first. 
 
 Crest. Two mascles interlaced, in fess, or, thereon a martlet, 
 gules, ducally gorged of the first, in the beak a sprig of laurel, 
 ppr. 
 
 THE HOUSE OF BRITO. 
 
 It is shown by the Devonshire "Domesday" that, at the 
 completion of the Conqueror's survey in the year 1086, the 
 land in Devonshire had become divided into one thousand one 
 hundred and twelve manors of varied extent and importance. 
 Seventy-eight of these, inclusive of the seats of the subsequent 
 important baronies known as Plympton, Barnstaple, and Tor- 
 rington, were then held by the king in demesne ; the Baron of 
 Totnes, who was probably a " Brito," together with the Lords 
 of Darlington, Bradninch, Bampton, Harberton, and Berry,
 
 352 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 owned four hundred and thirty-three between them. (Valletort 
 of " Herberneforde," by the way, is incorrectly said by Lysons, 
 who has also wrongly identified the propeity, to have been 
 "sub-tenant" there to the Earl of Mortain, and the Barony of 
 Harberton was ultimately annexed to that of Berry.) The said 
 Earl of Mortain, as William's half brother, naturally acquired 
 a somewhat undue proportion of the soil here as elsewhere ; 
 he had eighty-two, the Norman warrior Bishop of Coutance 
 ninety-one, and Hugh de Abrincis, " Lupus," Earl of Chester, 
 four, of these Devonshire manors. The Barony of the Bishopric 
 of Exeter, then held by Osbern Britt or Britolio, absorbed 
 twenty-four more, that of Galfred, Abbot of Tavistock. fourteen. 
 
 The Church in Devonshire, as well as in several other 
 counties, and in Normandy, had become possessed of twenty- 
 seven, the king's clerks and his domestic chaplain, " Gerald," of 
 five, and his majesty's servants had been " gratified " with 
 sixteen. 
 
 As " a sop to Cerberus," a very few of the noblest and most 
 influential Saxons had been permitted to share in the common 
 plunder, or to retain possession of fifty-one of their ancient 
 heritages, by their unscrupulous conqueror. Thus two hundred 
 and eighty-seven valuable properties had been left open for 
 distribution amongst others of the leading Normans, and three 
 alone of these, alike described as " Brito," and between whom 
 there was an evident and intimate connection, and, indeed, very 
 probably a close relationship, divided no less than fifty- six 
 " lordships," besides being the virtual owners of many more, 
 as sub-tenants to the puissant Robert of Mortain. 
 
 The Britos doubtless derived their distinctive surname from 
 their native province, and, under Alan Fitz-Hoel, 'Fergant," Earl 
 of Bretagne and Richmond, flocked to the standard of Duke Wil- 
 liam, and assisted him in his invasion of England. Hence it is 
 that there are many " Britons, Brutons, Le Bretons, Brutaynes, 
 and Bruttons," to be found in different parts of the country, 
 who may be possibly unrelated to their Devonshire namesakes, 
 or to each other, yet are, nevertheless, of kindred origin. But 
 there were only six " Britos," positively so styled, who were 
 "tenants in chief" at the period to which I am referring, viz., 
 "Oger," "Waldin," " Mannus " or " Morinus," Alured, Ansger,
 
 DE VOSSH1RR WILLS. 353 
 
 and Goscelmus or Jocelyn, and all, save the first, were then 
 Devonshire landowners, and their common name is still in- 
 timately associated with this and the adjacent counties. 
 
 " Maigno," " Mannus," or " Morinus " Brito, whose lands here 
 are entered as those of "a free knight," was tenant in capite of 
 the manor of "Linor" (Lyneham in Yealmpton), of Stottis- 
 combe, in the same hundred, to which I shall presently refer 
 again, and of Culbeer and Wilmington, in the parish of Ofifwell, 
 near Honiton. The last three were held by him as sub-tenant 
 to Baldwin de Brion, the Conqueror's nephew by marriage, and 
 nearly of kin to him by blood ; he also held land directly from 
 the Crown in Hertford, Northampton, and Leicester. 
 
 Waldin Brito, who was a tenant in chief in county Lincoln, 
 held the Devonshire manors of Cary and Medland under Juhel 
 (Brito ?) Baron of Totnes. 
 
 Goscelmus, or Jocelyn, Brito had twenty-seven manors in 
 Devonshire as tenant in capite, and held similarly from the 
 Crown, in the counties of Gloucester, Bedford, and Bucks. 
 
 The chief seat of his Devonshire property was at Halwell, in 
 the parish of Brixton; he had a son Richard, who styled himself 
 " Richard de Halwell," and who conveyed to the monks of 
 Plympton his manor of Wembury (one of the " twenty-seven " 
 above mentioned), as shown by the confirmation charter of King 
 Henry II. to that Priory. The grandson of this Richard 
 was evidently " Sir Richard Brito, Knt .," whose name is found, 
 amongst the Pole "evidences," as a considerable landowner in 
 the county in the reign of Henry II. (1154-1189), and whose 
 brother (Edmund ?) probably continued the male line, but from 
 this period the name of Brito was abandoned for several genera- 
 tions, and the family most certainly assumed that of " Halwell." 
 Soon afterward 'Martin de Halwell" was seised of the manor 
 of <l Stottiscombe," which, according to the survey of 1086, 
 was then held by " Morinus " Brito, under Baldwin de Brion, 
 and which points, I think clearly, to a relationship between 
 Morinus and Jocelyn, or else to a subsequent matrimonial 
 alliance between the two families of Halwell and Stottiscombe. 
 
 The latter manor is on the border line, between the parishes 
 of Wembury and Plymstock, and after several descents the "de 
 Ilalwells" of Stottiscombe re-assumed the name of Brito or 
 24
 
 354 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Britt, and became also the owners of the manor of " Widefelle " 
 (Walreddon), and also of " Brucheswrde " (Britsworthy), both in 
 the parish of Whitchurch, near Tavistock, and which had been 
 held under Mortain, the one by Alured, the other by Ansger Brito ; 
 so that certain land which had been owned here by four of these 
 " Britos " respectively ultimately became centred in the family 
 of Britt or Britun of Stottiscombe, six of whom were succes- 
 sively called " Guy de Britt," and bore for arms, sable, a fess, 
 arg.) between three escallops, or (the tinctures are found occa- 
 sionally varied). 
 
 Guy "Bretun" was dead before 1348, in which year his son 
 " Ralph de Britt of Stottiscombe " was Sheriff of Devon. Robert 
 " Britt " of Stottiscombe, " son," or more probably grandson, of 
 the said Ralph, and who is said in the Wise pedigrees to have 
 been "eleventh in descent from Alured Brito," had an only child, 
 Margaret, who married Thomas Wise of Sydenham (see Wise 
 of Sydenham ante] during the first quarter of the fifteenth century, 
 and through her the Wises became the owners of Halwell and 
 Stottiscombe, as also of much property at Stoke Damarell, 
 where they built Mount Wise, and in other parts of Devonshire. 
 Tims the elder male line of Britt of Stottiscombe became ex- 
 tinct some time prior to the year 1435. 
 
 " Richard Brito," hitherto presumed to have been a descendant 
 of " Ansger," and a son of Simon Brito, is said to have been 
 identical with the third of the four murderers of Thomas a 
 Becker. 
 
 There has been always some doubt as to the exact connection 
 of this " Richard " with the Britos of the West of England from 
 the complete absence of any contemporary confirmation of his 
 traditional origin. 
 
 It is shown, by the De Banco Rolls, that, as a descendant of 
 "Ansger," through "Simon Brito," an ancestor of the Bretts of 
 Sandford Brett, " Sir Richard " must have been great-grandson 
 of Adam, younger brother of Walter Brito of Odecumbe, who 
 was third in descent from the said Ansger ; but, although there 
 are several pedigrees of these Britos entered on the De Banco 
 Rolls, on which there are to be found three " Simons " in succes- 
 sion, there is no mention of any " Richard." I find notice of an 
 " Edmund," the name of Sir Richard Brito's brother, but this
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 355 
 
 " Edmund de Sandford " was the half-uncle of the first Simon 
 in the pedigree by the second marriage of his grandmother, 
 " Alice." 
 
 Yet, as I have shown above, there actually was a Sir Richard 
 Brito, Kt., of Devon, in the reign of Henry II., and the facts 
 that the Britos of Holvvell subsequently repudiated that name 
 for several generations, and adopted coat armour, as already 
 blazoned, of a very suggestive character, and perfectly different 
 from the bearings of other branches of the family point strongly 
 to the identity of this Sir Richard with the actor in the Becket 
 tragedy.* Sir Richard Brito was a favourite at Court, and one 
 of the gentlemen-in-waiting on his Royal master. 
 
 I need not enter upon the details of the murder, with 
 which most of my readers are conversant, and which I have 
 already dealt with elsewhere, suffice it that Brito appears to 
 have inflicted the final blow, which severed the scalp from the 
 skull, and "his sword snapped in two on the marble pavement 
 of the desecrated church," in which its fragments were afterward 
 long preserved. 
 
 The Archbishop thus met his memorable death on December 
 29th, 1170. Brito was one of the three who fled to Rome to 
 " receive the sentence of the Pope," and is said, after three 
 adventurous years in the Holy Land, to have been buried 
 outside the church of the holy sepulchre at Jerusalem. 
 
 The escallops in the arms of the Britts of Holwell, Stottis- 
 combe, and Stoke Damarell, now quartered by Major Ayshford 
 Wise of Clayton, point, conclusively I think, to Sir Richard's 
 crime, and consequent pilgrimage, undertaken by Papal order in 
 its expiation ; it is said that, although the male line was con- 
 tinued by his brother Edmund, Sir Richard left a daughter, 
 Maud, whose daughter Alice was a benefactress to Wood- 
 spiing Priory, Somersetshire, which had been founded in memory 
 of the murder by William de Courtenay in 1210. 
 
 Collinson, " History of Somerset," asserts the parentage of 
 "Maud and Alice," apparently in reliance upon the "hope," 
 expressed by the latter, " that the intercession of the glorious 
 
 * Jocelyn hrito of Holwell, Co. Devon, 1086, father of Richard, father of Simon, 
 fnthrr of :?ir Richard Hrito, 1170.
 
 356 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 martyr might never be wanting to her and her children ;" it is, 
 however, noteworthy that there happens to have been a contem- 
 porary "Alice Brito," daughter of Walter of Odecumbe, one 
 of the three sons of Walter Fitz-Ansger, and an elder brother 
 of Adam Brito. This Alice was the mother of Richard de 
 Hestercumbe, whose descendants bore the maternal name, for 
 " Stephen le Bret," as the descendant of the said Alice, was 
 shown to be heir-at-law to the reversion of Odecumbe, etc., 
 which had then been alienated to the Brewers, by an " Inq. 
 pm." 49th Henry III., 1266. 
 
 William Brito, the third brother of Walter Brito of Odecumbe, 
 as a younger son, inherited some property in Dorsetshire known 
 as " Sidling," and land under the same name in the latter county 
 had been held by Ansger de Montacute under Mortain. 
 William Brito of " Sidling " appears to have inherited that 
 property as " son and heir of William " in 1 166, and in that 
 same year we find "Simon Brito" holding a half knight's fee 
 in Somersetshire under William Mohun. All writers have agreed 
 that Richard Brito was " son of a father called Simon," and 
 the connection between the Dorsetshire branch and this latter 
 Simon is proved by the fact that in 9th Richard I., 1198, 
 Henry le Bret admitted a liability of $ with respect to a 
 knight's fee in Maperton against " Simon le Bret;" so that "Sir 
 Richard Brito" must have been actually of the same genera- 
 tion as the said " Simon," his hitherto reputed father. 
 
 Alured Brito, who is described also as Alured " Pincerna," and 
 also as Alured " de Montacute," held property in Devon, Corn- 
 wall, and Somerset, and was, presumably, the ancestor of the 
 Cornish Britos, and of one or more of the Devonshire branches 
 of the family as well, particularly of those long seated at Mor- 
 thoe, Alwington, Parkham, and High Bickington ; but the chief 
 seat of his barony appears to have been fixed at Chiselborough, 
 in Somerset, where his descendants, under the name of " Mon- 
 tacute," flourished until the thirteenth century. Richard " Pin- 
 cerna," who was probably his eldest son, was one of the earliest 
 benefactors to the monks of Plympton, like his kinsman," Richard 
 de Holwell," as shown by their confirmation charter already 
 mentioned. 
 
 Alured Brito " de Montacute " appears to have been of the
 
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 household of Robert of Mortain, and to have there occupied the 
 position of chief butler ; he was the sub-tenant, under the Earl, 
 of ten Devonshire and of seven Cornish manors, besides which 
 he was tenant-in-chief of no less than twenty-two manors in this 
 county. He may also have been identical with that "Bretellus" 
 who was the practical owner of the large manor of Colebrook 
 under Mortain, and he was certainly so with "Alvidus Brito," 
 the sub-tenant, under Ruald Adobat, of the manor of Pains- 
 ton, which is situated in the same parish. 
 
 As I have said above, he owned the manor of " Widefelle," 
 now Walreddon, which subsequently went to the Britts of 
 Stottiscombe, and, after several changes of ownership, has now 
 long been held by the Powderham branch of the Courtenays ; 
 and it is particularly noteworthy that he was the tenant-in- 
 chief of the very important manor of Wolborough, which even- 
 tually passed by sale to the Brewers, and formed a portion 
 of the endowment of Tor Abbey. 
 
 And in connection with Brewer it should also be noted that 
 Alured Pincerna held, under Mortain, the manor of Dunkeswell, 
 " Donewoldham," and another estate adjacent to it, known as 
 " Wifleurde " (Walford), in demesne. Both these properties 
 afterward went to a certain " William " (who may have been 
 identical with the " William," ancestor of Wydo Brito, who was a 
 sub-tenant of ludhel de Totnes, sec post}, and whose descendant, 
 Henry Fitz-William, alienated both Dunkeswell and Walford to 
 William Brewer to pay off a mortgage in security for money 
 borrowed from one " Amades," a Jew. Brewer, with the consent 
 of King John, as shown by that Monarch's deed of confirmation, 
 gave both the properties to the Abbey of Dunkeswell in 1201. 
 Walford, now within Dunkeswell, was long a separate parish, 
 and known as " Walford Church." 
 
 I now come to Ansger Brito, also called " de Montacute," and 
 as frequently " de Senarpont," who was a very large landowner 
 under Mortain, both in Somerset and Dorset. In this county, 
 of which I treat more particularly, he held six principal manors 
 in chief four under the Earl of Mortain, and twelve more as 
 sub-tenant to Baldwin de Brion, the "sheriff." One of his 
 estates, Brittsworthy, as already stated, subsequently became 
 the property of the Stottiscombe family, and passed with
 
 358 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 its sole heir to Wise. His son Fulk, " Fitz-Ansgerii," was, 
 like "Richard Pincerna" and Richard de Holwell, one of the 
 earliest donors to the Plympton community. 
 
 Ansger Brito was the founder of the family of Brito of 
 Odecumbe, in Somerset, which was the seat of his titular 
 " Barony " or honour. He had another son, Walter, who con- 
 firmed his father's gifts to the monks of Bermondsey, and the 
 latter was the father of Walter, Roger, Adam, and also of 
 William Brito, who held the paternal acres at Sidling, and 
 founded the Dorsetshire branch of the family, as already men- 
 tioned. 
 
 In the 25th of Henry II., however, the honour of Ode- 
 cumbe was in the hands of the Crown ; and, although it was 
 afterwards temporarily restored to the Britos, it ultimately passed 
 to the Brewers, as did Wolborough, in Devonshire, to which 
 I have just above drawn attention as having been originally land 
 of Alured Brito. 
 
 It is shown by contemporary records that William Brewer's 
 Devonshire estates, known as " Bocland (now Buckland 
 Brewer), Puttsford, Buckeford, Sutton, and Uppecotte," were 
 held as "of the honour of Odecumbe," in Somerset, and the 
 latter, as the seat of Ansger Brito's Barony, was in like manner 
 held as of the Earl of Mortain's " honour of Montacute," as 
 was Alured Brito's " honour of Chiselborough," and thus the 
 surname of " Montacute," as adopted by both Ansger and 
 Alured Brito, is to be readily explained. 
 
 According to the Survey of 1086, Ansger then held Susta- 
 tone (Sutton) in demesne Bocland under Baldwin de Brion, 
 Bocheforde and Poteforde under the Earl of Mortain ; whilst 
 Uppecotte (in Shebbear hundred), although it belonged to 
 Baldwin de Brion, was held under him by Motbert, and must 
 have been subsequently acquired by Ansger, and, with the 
 others, annexed to his honour of Odecumbe. 
 
 Collins and others have supposed Ansger Brito, alias de 
 Montacute, to have been a brother of Drogo de Montacute, the 
 ancestor of the Dukes of Montagu and other illustrious houses. 
 
 It is certain that Drogo de Montacute was also a very 
 important unit in the retinue of Robert, Earl of Mortain, and 
 his name has been assumed, I think hastily, to have been derived
 
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 "from the town of Montagu, in Normandy"; it is certain, how- 
 ever, that he held lands similarly under Mortain as of the 
 " honour of Montacute " in Somerset, and that he was identical 
 with that " Drogo " who was the Earl's sub-tenant of several 
 manors in Devonshire, one of which, viz., Feniton, continued in 
 the hands of his descendants for many generations, as proved 
 by contemporary records. 
 
 The history of this Somersetshire " Drogo " prior to his 
 arrival in England has never, to the best of my knowledge, 
 even been suggested, beyond the supposition that he was a 
 native of Montagu, in Normandy, which does not, I think, follow 
 his appellation, " de Montacute." The original name of the 
 place, afterwards so called in Somerset, was " Lutegarsbury " 
 (Lutegar's Castle) ; it stood within the manor of Bishopstone, 
 which Mortain had acquired from the Church in exchange for 
 another property called Caudel, and within this manor of Bishop- 
 stone, Drogo held a single hide of land as of the Castle of 
 Montacute, so called by Mortain without any reference to the 
 Norman " Montagu," but simply in allusion to its position on 
 the top of a steep hill. This castle then formed the head of his 
 honour, and from it, in accordance with feudal custom, his 
 numerous sub-tenants were said to hold their lands ; hence I 
 should suppose the name of Montacute became common to 
 Drogo, to Alured Brito the butler, and to his relative Ansger 
 Brito, de Senarpont a fact which, taken alone, would not 
 necessarily make them related either to the said Drogo de 
 Montacute or to each other. 
 
 There was a " Drogo " who held seventy-three manors in 
 Devonshire under Jeffrey, Bishop of Coutance, who was the 
 ancestor of the Cliffords, Drews, and Bremridges, and whose 
 descent from the Dukes of Normandy has been ascertained. It 
 is evident from the respective pedigrees that this Drogo " Fitz- 
 Ponz," or " Fitz-Mauger," was not identical with " Drogo de 
 Montacute" ; the latter, however, held the manor of " Wiborde," 
 like " Finitone," under Mortain ; and within " Wiborde," since 
 known as Oakford, was another manor called " Sprewe," also 
 held by " Drogo," but under the Bishop of Coutance, and 
 which gave name to the family of Spurway, the present owners 
 of Oakford, which, however, was sold by the Montacutes, Earls
 
 360 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 of Salisbury, to the Pollards, and by the latter to the Spurvvays 
 of Spurvvay, who are quite possibly descended from Drogo de 
 Montacute. 
 
 It is noteworthy that the arms of the D'Aubenys and 
 those of the earlier descendants in Somerset of Drogo de 
 Montacute should have been the same save for tincture. I 
 should have explained this as merely evidence of feudal alliance, 
 which was, I think, clearly the case with respect to the coat 
 armour of Brito of Odecumbe. The Montacutes bore, " argent, 
 five fusils in fess, gules " (although in later times two of these 
 fusils became hidden by a sable bordure, which probably was 
 intended to mark their feudal dependence upon Mortain's 
 Cornish Earldom), whilst D'Aubeny (De Albini) bore, "gules, 
 five fusils in fess, argent." Brito of Odecumbe bore quarterly, 
 per fess, indented argent and sable, in first quarter a mullet of 
 the last, apparently derived from De Vere ; Jordan le Bret held 
 knights fees in Northampton under Hugh, Earl of Oxford, 
 1234-1263, as shown by the Testa de Nevil ; whilst Fitzwarine's 
 coat, now quartered by Wrey as co-heir to their barony, is 
 quarterly per fess indented argent and gules. Walter, son of 
 Ansger Brito, acknowledged the service of fifteen knights, whose 
 names have been preserved, and one of them, who held two 
 fees of the honour of Odecumbe, was Alexander Fitzvvarine. 
 
 But in the case of Montagu I think that it permits the sug- 
 gestion that there was an actual relationship between Drogo de 
 Montacute and the Britos. 
 
 Robert de Todeni, the Norman lord of Belvoir, County 
 Lincoln, had a son William, who fought at Tinchebray in 1106, 
 and is said by the strength of his single arm to have determined 
 the fate of that day, which led to the annexation of Normandy 
 by Henry I. to the prejudice of his Royal brother Robert. 
 
 This William was certainly a very liberal benefactor to the 
 monastery of St. Alban, and is said to have at last professed there 
 as a monk, and to have been known as William de Albini. But 
 there was another William de Albini, his contemporary, who 
 was the King's "Pincerna," an office held by Alured Brito in the 
 household of the King's half brother, and this William "Pin- 
 cerna " was the ancestor of the pseudo de Albini, " Earl of 
 Arundell."
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 361 
 
 De Todeni's son, William de Albini, has been supposed to 
 have assumed the name of Brito in addition to " Albini," to 
 distinguish himself from William Pincerna ; but, however he 
 may have come by the name, he was certainly known as William 
 Brito, and his eldest son William, who died I4th Henry II., was 
 called " William Meschines alias Brito," whilst Ralph de Albini 
 Brito was the ancestor of the Lords Daubeny. It is therefore 
 quite possible, I think, that Drogo de Montacute was actually 
 Drogo Brito, and that all the Britos who held lands in Devon- 
 shire in the years that succeeded the Conquest were near 
 relatives, either originally or by subsequent intermarriage. 
 
 Another very probable ancestor of the Devonshire Britos 
 must not be overlooked, viz., "Tehelus or Tehellus Britto," who 
 was a tenant in capite in Essex and Norfolk, and quite possibly 
 identical with that powerful Baron of Totnes and Barnstaple, 
 " luhel of Totnes," whose extraction and parentage have been 
 always open to a considerable amount of question. 
 
 That " luhel," or " luhellus," as he is styled in the Devon- 
 shire Domesday, stood very high in the Conqueror's favour is 
 sufficiently proved by the enormous amount of land he was 
 possessed of in 1086, and the King ultimately gave him 
 the whole Barony of Barnstaple. John Burhed of Totnes, 
 who wrote in 1433, and whose manuscript is preserved at 
 Exeter, calls him "Ludhellus." In his foundation charters of the 
 priories of Totnes and Barnstaple he styles himself " Juhellus 
 filius Aluredi;" and Risdon, the seventeenth century historian of 
 the county tells us that he was the son of " Alured, Earl of 
 Bretagne," but as the charters referred to are, it is to be feared, 
 but monastic transcripts of the original documents, they form 
 but little authority for the original spelling of the names either 
 of the son or sire. Whoever he may really have been, it is 
 certain that several of his Devonshire Manors were held under 
 him by a certain "William," and it is shown by the Testa 
 de Nevil, that a number of knights' fees, in respect of the 
 said manors, were held of Roger de Valletort, temp. Henry 
 II., and up to the 5th of King John, as of the honour of 
 Totnes, by " Wydo le Brette," who is also styled " Wydo 
 de Bretteville." 
 
 Juhellus of Totnes was in arms against William Rufus, and
 
 362 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 was consequently proscribed ; he escaped to the continent and 
 never returned to England, and, as I have noticed in my chapter 
 on the " Borough of Totnes " (Ashburton and its Neighbour- 
 hood^ p. 108), William de Braose, his great-grandson, was 
 permitted to hold a moiety of that honour, and " made par- 
 tition thereof with Roger de Valletort, heir to Henry, son of 
 Roger de Novant," who, upon the disgrace of "Juhellus," had 
 obtained from the Crown a very considerable portion of his 
 property. 
 
 Finally, there was an individual called " Brettel " in the 
 Survey, who was sub-tenant to the Earl of Mortain in the 
 manors of Ferentone, Colebrook, and " Cherletone," or Charlton, 
 and, unless it has become extinct there very recently, the name 
 of Britton may still be reckoned amongst the villagers of 
 Colebrook, distant a few miles from Crediton. 
 
 With regard to the later social position of the family in the 
 West of England, I find Oliver Breton returned member for the 
 borough of Truro as early as 1309. Sir Adam le Bret repre- 
 sented Somerset in 1329-30; John Briton, senior or junior, 
 represented Bodmin from 1384 to 1397; John Breton, Lost- 
 withiel, 1386. William Breton of Canonsleigh, co. Devon, 
 was returned for Bossiney, in Cornwall, in 1746. 
 
 Thomas "Bruerton," who was Mayor of Exeter 1580, received 
 a letter from "Lord Thomas Howarde," dated April iith, 1581 
 (Thomas, first Earl of Suffolk), desiring him to examine a thief 
 who had stolen property from his house, and to forward said 
 thief to " Wareham," " for that I mean to make an example of 
 so lewde a part in myn own house." 
 
 Contemporary with this Mayor of Exeter was William 
 " Bruton," whose depositions concerning the rent of a house 
 belonging to the Dean and Chapter, and dated "June, 1586," 
 are still extant. Guy " Breton " of Stottiscombe was appointed 
 an attorney for Thomas West from February 1st to the " Feast 
 of St. Peter ad Vincula," August 1st, 1328, during the latter's 
 absence at Santiago on a pilgrimage. This " Thomas West " 
 was the ancestor of the Lords Dclawarr and the first peer of his 
 family by writ of summons in 1342, and of Broadhampston, 
 Co. Devon, in right of his wife Alianore de Cantalupe. 
 
 In 1333, April 24th, "Robert Briton" of Exeter (Jocelyn
 
 DE VONSH1RE WILLS. 363 
 
 Brito had property in that city in 1086) was pardoned uncon- 
 ditionally. 
 
 He seems to have been outlawed for contempt of court, in 
 that he did not appear to answer a plea of trespass alleged 
 against him by John Perer of Crediton. 
 
 BRUTON, ALIAS BRETON, OF LANGLEY AND BOROUGH. 
 
 Amongst the Devonshire property held by Alured Brito in 
 1086, there were two manors on the north or north-western side 
 of this county, then known respectively as " Bacetesberie " and 
 " Lege." 
 
 The latter, since known as Langley, i.e., long leigh, or the 
 long pasture, is situated in the parish of High Bickington, the 
 greater portion of which at that time belonged to Robert, Earl 
 of Mortain, in whose household Alured was " Pincerna," or chief 
 butler. I have already remarked that the chief seat of Alured's 
 barony was at Chiselborough, in Somerset, and that his son 
 Richard "Pincerna" was the probable ancestor of the Devon- 
 shire branch of his family ; in any case, however, it is certain 
 that Alured's descendants, collateral or otherwise, held the manor 
 of Langley for many centuries under the name of " Britton," 
 and although there were doubtless several younger branches, as 
 the name has never become extinct in the district, the daughter 
 and heir of Britton of Langley brought that property to her 
 husband, Roger Pollard, about the middle of the fifteenth 
 century. 
 
 This Roger is unfortunately omitted from the pedigree 
 recorded at the Visitation of 1620, and signed "Richard Pollard," 
 which, however, is deficient in the matter of several generations, 
 and, indeed, only records four of them between " Roger Pollard," 
 who lived in the reign of Richard II., and the said " Richard," 
 whose will was proved 8th May, 1626. The name of " Richard," 
 I may remark, was peculiar to this branch of the Pollards of 
 Way, and may possibly have been derived from the Brittons, as 
 it accords with that of their presumptive ancestor " Richard 
 Pincerna."
 
 364 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 As an old topographer remarks in 1638, " Roger Pollard," on 
 marriage with " the daughter and heir of Britton of Langley, 
 whose lands they were in times past, planted himself so firmly 
 that his posterity have hitherto possessed the same." He was 
 fourth in descent from the Roger of the " Visitation," whose 
 mother was Emma, one of the daughters and co-heirs of Sir 
 John Doddiscomb of Compton Pole, and a sister of Cicelye 
 wife of Sir John Worthe of Worth, who had Compton Pole and 
 other property for her portion (see ante, p. 297, where Sir John 
 Worthe is inadvertently called " Richard.") The Pollards 
 remained at Langley until about the middle of the seventeenth 
 century, when the property passed by sale to Barry. Richard 
 Pollard, the last of this branch, was living in 1667. 
 
 The manor of " Bacetesberie," which was also held in demesne 
 by Alured " Pincerna " in 1086, has been since known as 
 " Burgh " or " Borough," and is situated in the parish of Morthoe, 
 on the north coast of Devon. In the reign of Henry III. and 
 Edward I., Thomas le Brethon held the eighth part of a knight's 
 fee there, as shown by the Testa de Nevil, and it is interesting, 
 as confirmatory of the evident connection between the several 
 families of Brito, to find that by an undated deed of the end of 
 the twelfth century " Julian le Croc, in her widowhood, grants 
 land in Morthoe to Hugh Valletort and Lucy his wife." The 
 Crocs derived from Walter Croc, son of Annora, one of the 
 sisters and co-heirs of Walter Brito in 1196, and the latter was 
 the great-grandson of Ansger Brito aforesaid. 
 
 Although King John gave the barony of Barnstaple to the 
 Tracys, his predecessor, King Stephen, had transferred much of 
 ludhel Fitz-Alured's property to Henry Tracy, who was the 
 only Devonshire gentleman who openly supported his interests 
 against Maud the Empress ; amongst these lands was the manor 
 of Combe, where "William" aforesaid was sub-tenant to ludhel 
 in 1086, and it has since been known as Wollacombe (the valley 
 of the Walla), and probably passed by marriage with Grace, 
 Henry Tracy's daughter, to John de Sudeley, and thence to their 
 youngest son William de Sudeley, alias de Tracy, the prime 
 actor in the murder of Thomas a Becket Sir William de 
 Tracy appears to have resided upon his manor of Wollacombe, 
 and to have retired there after his return from Normandy in
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 365 
 
 1176; he must therefore have been well acquainted with his 
 neighbours the Britos, and hence possibly the subsequent unfor- 
 tunate association of Sir Richard Brito with the crime which 
 Tracy is understood to have conceived and arranged. 
 
 There is, I think, sufficient heraldic evidence to prove that the 
 Britos of Morthoe and Brixton must have been, even at that 
 time, intimately related to each other. 
 
 Sir William de Tracy is said to have been buried in Morthoe 
 Church, but the tomb there, for many years exhibited as his, is 
 that of a namesake, priest of the parish in 1322, and the mistake 
 as to its identity may be referred to one of Camden's numerous 
 errors. 
 
 A pedigree of " Bruton of Heavitree " (Arms, " Per pale, gules 
 and azure, a fess between two chevrons, arg. ; Crest, a dcmi-wolf, 
 ducally crowned, holding a mullet, ppr.") appears to have been 
 entered at Heralds' College in 1622, but merely records the 
 descent of William, third son of " Thomas Bruton alias Breton 
 of Borough, in the parish of Morthowe," who married Elizabeth, 
 daughter of William Ryder. This William had five brothers, 
 Thomas, George, Philip, Robert, and Adam, and to the eldest of 
 them I shall refer later on. 
 
 It appears from the will of the said Elizabeth, who died 
 2ist March, 1610-11, and was buried in Exeter Cathedral, that 
 the family resided at Whipton Barton, a hamlet in Heavitree 
 parish, and that her husband must have been a man of con- 
 siderable property is shown by his own will likewise. He 
 appears to have been lay impropriator of several rectories in 
 the diocese, situated both in Devon and Cornwall ; he was also 
 buried in the Cathedral, 23rd April, 1608, as were his two sons 
 William and John ; the latter survived him but three years ; the 
 former was interred in February, 1661-62. William Bruton, alias 
 Breton, the elder, had also five daughters, the first of whom was 
 the wife of Arthur Periman, and her sisters all married into well- 
 known county families, viz., Eveleigh, Fortescue, Stroud, and 
 Peter. 
 
 Margaret, wife of "Will Peter," is mentioned with her husband 
 in her mother's will, and the latter is to have furniture and goods 
 in the house at Whipton to the amount of several hundred 
 pounds. He resided there for the few months that he outlived
 
 366 DE VON SHIRE WILLS. 
 
 his mother-in-law, and a full account of his murder in January, 
 1611-12, by Edward, son of Edward Drew of Killerton, serjeant- 
 at-law, and one of Prince's " Worthies," will be found in my 
 Suburbs of Exeter, under the head of " Heavitree." His 
 widow married, secondly, Edward Cotton, Archdeacon of Totnes, 
 second son of William Cotton, Bishop of Exeter, and died 
 10th August, 1643. 
 
 Margaret's eldest brother, " John Bruton alias Breton," died 
 blind, as noted in the registers of Exeter Cathedral, where he 
 was buried, iQth October, 1611 ; his two children, William and 
 John, were then aged six and three years old, and the license 
 for the second marriage of their affectionate mother, who had 
 been a Miss Dorothy Leigh of Heavitree, with Lewis Hayman, 
 gentleman, of Dunchidcok ("to be married at Heavitree"), is 
 dated the following 4th December. Her first husband's only 
 brother, William, was then a minor, and only twelve years of 
 age ; he subsequently married " Edith," a daughter of Sir 
 George Smith, of Madford, in the parish of Heavitree, and 
 sister of Lady Monk and of Lady Grenville (see my Suburbs 
 of Exeter, p. 17), by whom he had a family of ten children, 
 all baptized at the Cathedral, of whom "William," 7th April, 
 1629, was the eldest. His wife died in giving birth to her 
 youngest son George, and was buried the day after his bap- 
 tism, 7th October, 1740. 
 
 In 1622 her husband, "William Bruton," then "aged 23," 
 appears to have recorded the family pedigree ; on the 2Oth 
 February, 1639-40, he made further application to the College of 
 Arms for a crest and motto, and, under that date, was granted by 
 Sir John Borough, Garter King of Arms, " a hinde couchant 
 under a hawthorn tree, all ppr.," with the legend, " Quae delectant 
 desiderantur." The preamble sets forth that " William Bruton, 
 of the city and county of Exeter, Esquire," had requested that a 
 crest and motto might be assigned to him to bear with his 
 paternal coat of arms " without doing wrong or prejudice unto 
 any other person," and the crest and motto, above mentioned, is 
 therefore " assigned and appropriated unto the foresaid coat of 
 arms," as " depicted in the margin," and which is similar to the 
 coat appended to the recorded pedigree, and which I have 
 already blazoned. The said " crest and motto" however, are
 
 DEVONSHIRE IV ILLS. 367 
 
 limited to the " said William Bruton and the heirs of his body 
 lawfully begotten." 
 
 In the " margin " of the grant there is the usual painting of 
 arms, helmet mantling, crest and motto, and, on the right of the 
 illuminated border, the new crest of the hind and hawthorn 
 bush, in the centre the Bruton arms impaling those of the said 
 William's wife, Edith Smith, viz., Sable, a fess cotised between 
 three martlets, or, and on the left the crest of the wife's family, 
 a greyhound sejant, gules, collared and lined, or. 
 
 The anomalous introduction of the crest of the wife's family 
 into an instrument, vouched for by Garter's signature, would 
 claim more serious comment were it not for the fact that the 
 heraldry of that period had shared the fate of Gothic architec- 
 ture, and had become about as equally debased ; nevertheless, 
 such and similar irregularities are responsible for modern errors, 
 such as the absurd and too prevalent decoration of carriages, 
 plate, and servants' buttons with "ladies' crests" as they are very 
 improperly termed. As I have remarked in Practical Heraldry, 
 " ladies could neither bear, inherit, or transmit crests," and, 
 " John Borough principale Kynge of Armes of Englishmen " 
 nevertheless, this rule is, and always has been, in force, and very 
 properly so, when it is remembered that in their origin crests 
 could only be acquired by knights who had seen actual service 
 in the field. The arms, called by Sir John Borough " the 
 paternal arms of William Bruton," and therefore the legally 
 admitted arms of the family of Bruton alias Breton of Borough, 
 in Morthoe, are practically the same, save for tincture, as those 
 accredited to Robert Fitz-Walter (" or, a fess between two 
 chevronels, gules "), the Baron who headed " the army of God 
 and Holy Church, "and extorted Magna Charta from King John. 
 These arms, again, are those of Clare, Earl of Gloucester, 
 differenced by the apparent elimination of a chevronel, and the 
 substitution of a fess in lieu of it, and their acquisition by Breton 
 evidently points to a feudal dependency on the house of Clare, 
 much of whose " honour of Gloucester " was situated in Devon- 
 shire. (See my Afanor of Winkleigh, pp. 1-24, etc.) 
 
 It happens, singularly enough, that there were manors, both 
 of "Leigh" and "Bickington," which were held from this honour, 
 but both were Royal demesne lands at the period of the Survey,
 
 3 6S DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 and not identical either with Alured Brito's manor of Langley, or 
 Robert of Mortaine's "Bickington" holding. But the chief seat 
 of the property of Jocelyn Brito was situated, as already stated 
 (ante p. 353), at Halwell, in the parish of Brixton, and Halwell 
 was held from the Crown as of the " honour of Gloucester," 
 which "honour" came to the Clares in 1217, and remained with 
 their heirs male for ninety-seven years. " Fitz- Walter " was 
 actually a Clare, being the grandson of Robert, youngest brother 
 of Gilbert de Clare, therefore he simply differenced his paternal 
 arms by surmounting them with a fess, and thus one of the 
 chevronels of Clare became entirely obliterated ; but as Brito 
 evidently assumed them to mark his mere feudal connection 
 with the Earldom of Gloucester, such difference would not have 
 sufficed without an entire change of tincture a course which was 
 adopted by his kinsman of Odecumbe to mark his own feudal 
 connection with the De VeVe Earldom of Oxford (see ante, 
 p. 360) ; and both these Brito shields may consequently be 
 reckoned amongst the most ancient and interesting examples of 
 arms, which were indisputably feudal in their origin. 
 
 John Prince, having blazoned the escallop coat of Britt of 
 Stottiscombe, already dealt with above, proceeds to remark, 
 very carelessly and inaccurately, as to Breton of Bacetesberie 
 or Borough. " And Britt of Bathin or Bachins arms were, 
 argent, 2 chevrons, paly of six, or and azure'' 
 
 In his " Worthies of Devon," Prince includes the biography 
 of " Walter Britte," supposed, by himself, and Risdon, " to have 
 proceeded from the British race," but to have been born at 
 Stottiscombe. This Walter Britte, who flourished in the reign 
 of Richard II., was one of the early reformers, and an advocate 
 of the doctrine that " neither king or secular lord could give 
 anything in perpetuity to Churchmen." 
 
 BRUTON OF ALWINGTON. 
 
 The Brutons of Alwington, a few miles south of Morthoe, are 
 descended from Thomas Bruton alias Breton first son of 
 Thomas Breton of Borough, in the latter parish, and eldest 
 brother of William Bruton alias Breton of Heavitree. This
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 369 
 
 Thomas Bruton had three sons, Thomas, William, and George 
 the latter baptized at Alwington 2nd January, 1596-97 and two 
 daughters. Of the sons, William's daughter, Margaret, married 
 Edward Cotton, Archdeacon of Totnes, and a son of Dr. William 
 Cotton, Lord Bishop of Exeter 1598-1621. 
 
 John Bruton, son and heir of Thomas, had a son, William, 
 born 1607, who, by his wife, Elizabeth Atken, was the father of 
 another William, and also of John Bruton, who died in 1694, 
 aged forty-four. This John Bruton, " in, or about," 1683, is 
 said to have purchased of the Carys of Cockington the ancient 
 property and residence of the Yeos of Alwington, known as 
 " Yeo Vale"* a statement which is doubted by his present 
 representative, who considers that his family had then resided 
 at Yeo for more than a century at least. He was succeeded 
 by his son, William Bruton, born 3Oth August, 1683. His eldest 
 surviving son, Thomas, inherited Yeo Vale, and was followed, 
 in 1769, by his son and heir, William Bruton, at whose death, 
 1 7th February, 1779, the property was sold to the Morrisons ; 
 by his wife, Ann James, a sister-in-law of John Meddon of 
 Winscot, in the same paiish, he was the father of five sons and 
 two daughters. His second son, Richard, born 2 1st Apiil, 
 1765, was the grandfather of Mr. D. Yeo Biuton, who now 
 lives in Sussex. 
 
 In 1812 William Bruton's two youngest sons, William and 
 Charles, inherited part of the Meddon property by devise of 
 Mr. John Meddon, their cousin, and the last heir male of that 
 family, which had settled at Winscot through a marriage with 
 the daughter and heir of the Burgoynes, in 1624. Col. William 
 Bruton, who had a moiety of Winscot, for many years com- 
 manded the North Devon Militia ; he married into a younger 
 branch of the Worths of Worth, in Washfield, his wife having 
 been Gertrude, daughter of the Rev. J. Worth, Rector of High 
 Bickington, and died in 1846. His second son, William, some- 
 time Vicar of Siddlesham, Sussex, died July loih, 1881. Col. 
 Bruton's brother Charles married Frances Cory Walter ; he was 
 a Deputy Lieutenant for Devonshire, and held a commission 
 for thirty years in his brother's regiment of militia, and was 
 
 * Lyson's Mag. firit. t Vol. II., p. 10. 
 
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 370 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 adjutant of that corps. He died in 1850, aged seventy-one ; 
 his eldest son, the Rev. Walter Meddon Biuton, Rector of East 
 and West Worlington, died in 1885, and his son and heir, 
 John Meddon Burgoyne Bruton, was born at Woolfardis- 
 worthy, April 5th, 1847. 
 
 THE BRITTONS OF BITTON. 
 
 The honour of Bitton in Gloucestershire, distant a few miles 
 from Bristol, originally comprised two hides of land, one of 
 which, in 1086, belonged to the Church, was afterwards known 
 as the "Rectorial Manor," and was appropriated as a prebend 
 to the See of Worcester. 
 
 The other hide, with an appanage known as " Hanham," and 
 which included nearly the whole remainder of the parish, was 
 given by Henry II. to Robert Fitz-Hardinge, and was thence- 
 forth nominally regarded as parcel of the Berkeley barony, as 
 shown by an assise of 1287; yet "Bitton" was held by the 
 D'Amnevilles and their descendants, not from the Berkeleys, 
 but directly from the Crown, as appears from a confirmation 
 charter of nth Henry III., in favour of Robert D'Amneville. 
 The latter had two daughters, co-heirs, who each had a moiety 
 of Bitton, from that time known as Bitton and Oldland. 
 
 Oldland passed by marriage to Oxehaye, with one of the 
 co heirs, and after failure of her issue was sold to Richard de la 
 More, who died 1292. The other co-heir married William de 
 Putot, her only daughter, Petronilla, Hugh de Vivon, or Vivian, 
 and in her widowhood she became the wife of David le Blund ; 
 and Bitton, not without litigation, went to her younger son of 
 the same name. 
 
 In 1515, John Lord Hussey, of Bitton, in right of his wife 
 Margaret Blund or Blount, sold Bitton to Dormer, who re-sold 
 it to Berkeley, and with the Berkeleys it remained until 
 1633, when the manor was dismembered and the estates 
 separated. 
 
 Similarly the manor of Hanham was divided into moieties 
 knowji as " East and West Hanham." I need not follow the 
 descent of this property through its several alienations. In the
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 371 
 
 4th Edward III., William de la Grene and John Bagworth gave 
 the manor of West Hanham to the abbot and convent of 
 Keynsham, in Somerset, and with that community it remained 
 until the dissolution ; it was surrendered to the Crown 3<Dth 
 Henry VIII., and was always known as Hanham Court, and 
 since then it has passed through various hands, and is now 
 the property of Mr. Philip William Poole Britton, hereinafter 
 mentioned. The manor of East Hanham, or Barre's Court, 
 anciently the residence of Sir John de Button, a younger son 
 of Adam D'Amneville, acquired its later name by the marriage 
 of Sir John Barre with the granddaughter of Sir John de 
 Button or Bitton, who died in 1382. 
 
 This Lady Barre died 2nd Richard III., 1485, seised of the 
 manor of East Hanham, held of John Blount, as lord of the 
 manor of Bitton ; by Ing. p.m. her ladyship's heirs were found 
 to be the daughters, or their descendants, of Sir John de 
 Bytton, her maternal great-great-grandfather. Sir John's second 
 daughter, Elizabeth, married Philip Hampton, her great-great- 
 granddaughter, Lucy Hampton, Sir Thomas Newton, and the 
 Newtons afterward owmd Barre's Court, otherwise East Han- 
 ham. The Newton baronetcy became extinct in 1743, ar| d the 
 last baronet, Sir Michael Newton, pulled down Barre's Court 
 shortly before his death. 
 
 As to the family of Britton, of Bitton, there is the same 
 uncertainty as to the exactitude of their earlier descent as 
 exists in the cases of other members of the family. Jocelyn 
 Brito was a tenant in capite in Gloucestershire in the year 1086. 
 Later on, Richard le Bret held three parts of a knight's fee in 
 Weston, near Telbury, temp. Henry II., of the fee of Ansger de 
 Kylpec. In 1384, Joan, widow of Philip Vynour, claimed a 
 capital messuage in Tewkesbury by devise of Stephen de 
 Bruton (" De Banco," Mich. Term, 8th Richard II.). After the 
 first quarter of the fourteenth century the then lords of Bitton, 
 the Blounts, appear to have chiefly resided at Filton or Mangots- 
 field, and Bitton Court and the surrounding property was usually 
 let upon farming leases. Prior to the sixteenth century I cannot 
 recover evidence of the presence there of the Brittons, who were, 
 1 am much disposed to consider, cadets of the house of Breton 
 of Borough, several members of which settled in the parishes
 
 372 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 of Parkham and Alwington considerably before the time of 
 Thomas Bruton, the ancestor of the Brutons of Yeo Vale. 
 
 With respect, however, to Gloucestershire, Thomas and John 
 Breton paid subsidy in Oldland, the moiety of the Bitton manor 
 already mentioned, as early as 1523 ; Thomas Brytayne was 
 taxed for Bitton and Hanham in 1545 ; John Breten and Walter 
 his son held land at Hanham Abbots in 1556; whilst Lewse 
 and Thomas Brytton were subsidised on the same estates in 1557- 
 
 John Bryttan in his will, dated ist March, 1560, and proved 
 at Gloucester, 9th October, 1562, describes himself as of the 
 parish of Bitton ; his son Thomas, who died in 1 574, was 
 twice married ; by his first wife, Agnes, daughter of William 
 Hotsington, he had six sons and three daughters ; of the sons 
 I need only treat of the first and fifth. 
 
 The latter, John Britten of Bitton, married Jane Burnell at 
 Bitton Churcli 26th June, 1571 ; his will was proved I4th 
 September, 1612. His eldest son, Thomas Britten, baptized 
 at Bitton nth January, 1573, was the father of John Britten, 
 who purchased the fee simple of the property upon which 
 several of his ancestors are known to have resided, and became 
 the owner of Bitton Court about the year 1633. 
 
 I must now return to the eldest son of Thomas Britten and 
 Agnes Horsington, Jasper Britten, who resided at Swinford, in 
 Bitton parish, and desires, by his will, dated August I2th, 1590, 
 to be buried at Bitton near his father; his son John was the 
 father of John, whose son, of the same name, by his wife, Eliza- 
 beth Deane, had three sons, John, Thomas, and Morris Britten. 
 The last named, Morris, was baptized at Oldland in 1642. By 
 his second son, Stephen Britten, he was the great-grandfather 
 of Simon Britton, of the parish of St. George, Bristol, who by 
 his second wife, Mary, daughter of James Gage (married 1781, 
 died 1788), had, with other issue, a son, Simon Gage Britton, 
 born 5th November, 1782, and a second son, Daniel Britton of 
 Bristol, born 1784, died 1871, and who lived to welcome his 
 great-grandson, Philip William Poole Britton (son of Henry 
 William Britton, by his marriage with the daughter and heir 
 of Benjamin Poole, who was only son of William Simon Brit- 
 ton of Caer Brito, Bristol, by his wife Caroline Gell, son and 
 heir of the said Daniel Britton).
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 373 
 
 Mr. Philip William Poole Britton, F.S.A., now of Bitton 
 House, Enfield, in the county of Middlesex, and of Hanham 
 Court, in that of Gloucester, was born I3th October, 1863, and 
 married at Bristol, in 1886, Agnes Cassandra, daughter of 
 Charles Alfred Carlyon, in right of her grandmother, Emily 
 Carlyon, a double descendant of the ancient family of Carlyon 
 of Tregrehan, co. Cornwall, and who derive their name from 
 their original property, Carlyon, near Truro. Winstanley 
 Britton, eldest son of Mr. Philip William Poole Britton, was 
 baptized at St. Saviour's, Bristol, 9th October, 1887, and, 
 maternally, is twenty-second in direct descent from King Ed- 
 ward III. (Coll. Ar. Arnndel, 2, No. 155); he has also, through 
 a maternal great-grandmother, Mary Stackhouse, a descent 
 from King Edward I., through Bohun and Courtenay.* 
 
 Simon Gage Britton, M.D., R.N., Surgeon of the Victory 
 at Trafalgar, eldest son of Simon Britton, by his wife Mary 
 Gage, long resided at King's Close, Barnstaple, and was buried 
 at Ilfracombe in 1856. By his wife Jane, only daughter and 
 heir of Thomas Hopkins, B.A., Jesus Coll., Oxford, and rector 
 of Donyatt, co. Somerset, by his wife Mary, daughter of 
 Robert Ford of Bridgewater, he had issue (with two daughters), 
 Thomas Hopkins Britton, born 1817, and Paul Ford Britton, 
 born 25th January, 1819 (M.A., Exeter Coll., Oxford), and now 
 rector of Cadeleigh, near Tiverton, and who, by his wife Helen, 
 daughter of William Short Tyeth of Pillhead, Barnstaple, is 
 the father of the Rev. Arthur Paul Britton, M.A., the present 
 rector of Ubley, co. Somerset, who is married, and has issue. 
 Thomas Hopkins Britton was educated at Barnstaple School 
 (M.A., Exeter Coll., Oxford, 1842), and afterwards Vicar of 
 Newly n East, co. Cornwall. He married, in 1846, Frances 
 Hamilton, second daughter of Thomas Hoskins, Captain R.N., 
 of Broxbouine, Hants., and died at Exeter, 8th May, 1880, 
 and was buried at Cadeleigh. He had issue, one daughter, 
 Emily Jane, and two sons, Alfred Hoskins Britton, and Herbert 
 Britton, born 1849 (B.A., Balliol Coll., Oxford). 
 
 * The second son of Henry William Brilton and of his wife, daughter and heir of 
 Benjamin Poole, Arthur Henry Daniel Britton, is a Lieut, in the 3rd Battalion Royal 
 Fusiliers, in the 1st Volunteer Battalion of which regiment his elder brother also 
 holds a commission.
 
 374 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Mr. Alfred Hoskins Britton,* born at Hockworthy, co. Devon, 
 and baptized I3th September, 1848, is a Barrister-at-Law of 
 the Middle Temple, and Director, Audit Department, H.M. 
 Exchequer. He married, I3th September, 1878, Florence Mary, 
 second daughter of S. E. Martyn, of Thurloe Square, South 
 Kensington, and has, with two daughters, an eldest surviving 
 son and heir, John Alfred Hamilton Britton, born 22nd 
 September, 1882. 
 
 The Arms of this branch of Brito, as now recorded and 
 attached to their pedigree, at Heralds' College, are thus 
 blazoned in the " grant " : " Quarterly, or and gules, two 
 lions passant in chief, and as many mullets of six points in 
 base, within a bordure engrailed, all counterchanged." 
 
 Crest. " A lion's gamb erect and erased az., gutte'e d'eau, 
 between two mullets of six points, also azure." 
 
 Motto." Salut a tous." 
 
 WYKES OF NORTHWYKE. 
 
 There is a popular, but erroneous, tradition in this county that 
 the "Wykes of Northwyke," in the parish of South Tawton, 
 are as old as the Conquest ; and a much more absurd one, to 
 the effect that a fine table tomb in the parish church there, 
 evidently Elizabethan, bears the counterfeit presentment of 
 ' old warrior Wykes," who is roundly stated to have been 
 master farrier to " Norman William," and a trusted and highly 
 valued retainer of that monarch, whose charger he is said to 
 have supplied with a new set of shoes on the eve of the 
 battle of Senlac. 
 
 Although there can be no question as to the great antiquity 
 of the race of Wykes as Devonshire landowners, these tales 
 are as hypothetical as another which very misleadingly describes 
 them as having been originally known as " Wray, but styled 
 Wyke, or Wykes, since the reign of Richard the Second." 
 
 In 1086, the manors of South Tawton with Ash, Wray, in 
 
 * His uncle, the Rev. Paul Ford Britton, who has now been for fifty years rector 
 of Cadeleigh, in this Diocese and County, was ordained priest in 1843.
 
 DE VONSH1RE WILLS. 375 
 
 Moreton Hampstead, and Cheverstone, in Kenton (I am adopt- 
 ing modern spelling), all of which save Ash, had belonged to 
 the family of Harold, were alike held, in demesne, by King 
 William. Wray and Cheverstone were subsequently owned 
 by a family long known as de Cheverstone ; whilst North- 
 \\yke, in South Tawton, said by Risdon, with an anachronism 
 as to date, " to have been anciently the lande of William 
 de Wigoren, alias Chamberlain," was for several generations, 
 subsequently to 1242, held by the De Wrays of Northwyke, 
 otherwise North Wigorn. 
 
 It appears to me as certain that this William de Wigornia, 
 rather than " Wigoren," was not only the common ancestor 
 of the Wrays, Cheverstones, and Wykes, but that he also gave 
 name to the several properties in South Tawton, afterwards 
 corrupted into West-wyke, Week-Town, or '' Wiggaton," and 
 Northwyke, neither of which seem to be identical with the 
 Domesday manors known as " Wic," or " Wice," the Saxon 
 equivalent for a hamlet, from the verb, vichian, which signifies 
 to reside or dwell ; hence we get Prancras-wick, Germans-wick, 
 Wick Dabernon, Great Wick, and many other parishes, towns, 
 and manors, in this and other parts of the country. 
 
 But in Devonshire there are only "Wykes," thus written, 
 in the parishes of South Tawton and Axminster ; and North 
 Wyke, in the latter parish, is also not a Domesday manor, 
 but takes name from an adjacent property, long known as 
 Wigost 
 
 There is every reason to assume that "William de Wigornia"* 
 gave his name to North and West Wyke, and to Wiggaton, 
 in the parish of South Tawton ; he was certainly the ancestor 
 of the Wykes, and was also the owner of Wray, in Moreton 
 Hampstead, and of Cheverstone, in Kenton, and seems to have 
 been one of the younger sons of Robert de Bellomonte, Earl 
 of Mellent, and dejure, Earl of Worcester, by his marriage with 
 Maud, daughter and co-heir of Reginald, Earl of Cornwall. 
 Hence he was known as "de Wigornia" in English, William of 
 Worcester. The whole of the South Tawton property I have 
 
 * His brother, "Robert de Wigornia," a'ias "Chamberlain," married Jane, 
 daughter and co-heir of Baldwin de Belston, and seem* to have died, s. p.
 
 376 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 mentioned came into the hands of Henry the First upon the 
 death of his brother, William Rufus, in the year noo. King 
 Henry, by Elizabeth, daughter of Robert de Bellomonte, Earl 
 of Leicester, had with other left-handed issue, the aforesaid 
 Reginald, Earl of Cornwall, possibly,* and a daughter, Con- 
 stance, certainly, to whom he gave the whole of the manor 
 of South Tawton, upon her marriage with Rosceline, Viscount 
 de Bellomonte, and it is shown, by the Pipe Rolls, that she 
 received the rents, etc., etc., in 1157. 
 
 Therefore, Elizabeth de Bellomonte was, in such case, not 
 only the mother of the lady of the manor of South Tawton, 
 but she was also the aunt of Robert of Worcester, Earl of 
 Mellent, the husband of her granddaughter, Maud of Corn- 
 wall, and both the great-grandmother and the great-aunt of 
 "William de Wigornia," who doubtless obtained, primarily, the 
 Royal manors of Wray and Cheverstone, through his frail 
 relative's connection with royalty, and the Wyke estates, 
 subsequently, by arrangement with his cousin, Richard de 
 Bellomonte, who succeeded his mother at South Tawton 
 after 1157. This Richard had no male issue; his daughter 
 and heir, Constance de Bellomonte, married Roger de Toni, 
 about the year 1162, and the ultimate heir of de Toni 
 brought the Devonshire property to Guy Beauchamp, Earl 
 of Warwick, who died in 1315. The latter was maternally 
 descended from Henry de Bellomonte, alias de Newburgh, 
 brother of the first Earl of Leicester, and therefore uncle 
 of the first Earl of Mellent and Worcester, as well as of 
 Elizabeth, King Henry's mistress ; and it was in consequence 
 of the minority of Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, who 
 was only two years old in 1315, that the manor of South 
 Tawton was sometime in the hands of King Edward II. a 
 fact worth mentioning, because the county historians who have 
 referred to the Warwicks, as owners of South Tawton, have 
 never attempted to explain how the manor came into their 
 possession. f 
 
 * It has been sometimes asserted that the mother of Reginald, Earl of Cornwall, 
 was a daughter of Sir Robert Corbet. 
 
 f The Earls of Mellent were of kin to the Dukes of Normandy. Adeline, daughter 
 of Waleran, and sister and heir of Hugh, Earls of Mellent, married Roger de
 
 DE VONSHIKE WILLS. 
 
 377 
 
 As both Robert and William de VVigornia, who were 
 equally related to the early lords of South Tawton, both 
 before and after the separation of that manor from the Royal 
 demesne, are sometimes called "Camerarius" or Chamberlayn, 
 they probably held office, successively, under King Henry II., 
 their kinsman. I may add that they were likewise the 
 brothers-in-law, through the marriage of their sister Mabel, 
 of William de Vernon, Earl of Devon, who died a very old 
 man, in 1217. Her daughter Mary married Robert Courtenay, 
 and hence it may have been that William de Wigornia's 
 descendant, Sir John Cheverstone, some generations afterward, 
 devised the whole of his property to the Courtenays, failing 
 his issue by Jane, his wife, sister of his kinsman, Sir Philip 
 Courtenay of Powderham ; thus Cheverstone has descended 
 in the Courtenay family since the reign of Richard II. 
 
 W T illiam de Wray, who, according to Sir William Pole and 
 others, was seised of North wyke 2/th Henry III., was a 
 grandson of William de Wigorn, and son of William de Chever- 
 stone, and the uncle of Sir John Cheverstone, who owned Wray, 
 and married the heir of Bozun, through which match he obtained 
 Ilton Castle and other property, which was also eventually 
 devised to the Courtenays.* William de Wray of Northwyke, 
 thus described in 1242, seems to have inherited that pro- 
 perty, together with the other estates in South Tawton, now 
 known as West Wyke, Middlewick, Gooseford, and the Manor 
 of Ash, and Ash House was an occasional seat of the younger 
 sons of the family down to the end of the sixteenth century, 
 and was last held, as a residence, by John, fourth son of the 
 real " Warrior Wykes," who was buried at South Tawton in 
 1597, aged forty-five. Ash Manor was an appanage of the 
 Royal Manor of South Tawton, and was originally held, in 
 partage with Queen Githa, by Alric the Theign, and taxed 
 
 Bellomonte, and had sons, Robert, Earl of Mellent and Leicester, and Henry of 
 Newburgh, Earl of Warwick. 
 
 Robert commanded the right wing of the Conqueror's army at Hastings, and after- 
 ward "exceeded all the nobles of England in favour and riches." His son Robert 
 succeeded to the Earldom of Leicester, whilst Waleran inherited the Earldom of 
 Mellent, and became officiary Earl of Worcester in 1144, and was thence known as 
 "Waleran de Wigornia." He was the father of Robert, father of " William de 
 Wigornia " of South Tawton, and of Robert de Wigornia of Belston. 
 
 * See Cheverstone genealogy, post.
 
 378 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 for a virgate and a lialf of land. In 1086 the king had six 
 villeins and one serf upon Ash Manor, together with three 
 ploughs. William de Wray was succeeded at South Tawton 
 by Walter de Wray of Wyke, in 1278, whose son William, a 
 younger son of "Walter of Wyke," granted to "William, son of 
 Anthony " of Tavistock, a meadow called " Blakedhic mede," with 
 metes and bounds, reserving a six-foot way to his (the grantor's) 
 other meadow, called " Le Ham," by deed dated " morrow of the 
 Circumcision, 141!) Edward I." (2nd January, 1285-86). This 
 property was situated at Wilmington, near Tavistock. Both the 
 Wykes, and their connections the Beaumonts, had outlying 
 property at Tavistock, and the former are frequently mentioned 
 in official connection with the Devonshire Stannary. The son 
 and heir of Walter de Wray of Wyke, Roger de Wray of 
 Northwyke, appears to have left Walter de Wray of North- 
 wyke, son and heir, and " John atte Wyke." The latter was 
 the father of John Wykes, a benefactor to Stapeldon Hall, 
 now Exeter College, Oxford, 8th November, 1358, and who 
 was Recorder of Exeter from 1354-1379. 
 
 The Recorder's uncle, Walter de Wray of Northwyke, was 
 succeeded by his son Roger de Wray of North wyke in 1345. 
 
 The Wray estate appears to have been settled upon the 
 first Walter's younger son, William of Tavistock, 1285, and his 
 heirs of body, and to have passed with his daughter and heir 
 to a certain Ralph Abbot (see Wray genealogy, post\ and 
 by the marriage of Joane, daughter of " Archinalds " Abbot 
 to Norris. During the reign of Richard II. it again reverted 
 to a descendant of its early owners by the marriage of Richard 
 de Wraye, whose branch had settled at " Trussell," with 
 Alice, sister and heir of John Norris, and afterward descended, 
 with successive heiresses, to Ford, Corsett, and Southmeade. 
 That the "Wrays" of "Trussell," now represented by Sir 
 Henry B. T. Wray of Tawstock Court, are collateral kinsfolk 
 of the Wykes, is proved by the similarity of the armorial 
 bearings of the two families. Until they removed to Trebitch, 
 in Cornwall, they resided at "Trussell," otherwise Thrushelton, 
 near Maristow, upon some barton land, to which they had 
 given the name of their ancient property at Moreton. 
 
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 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 379 
 
 contemporary with the Abbots of Wray, and it was probably 
 for this reason that they abandoned the surname of Wray, an 
 estate with which they had become disassociated, in favour 
 of Wyke, the property with which for some generations they 
 had been more closely identified. John (Risdon calls him 
 "Joseph") Wyke replaced John Herle, Sheriff of Devon, during 
 the latter portion of the third year of Henry IV., and "William 
 Wyke of Northwyke," alive in 1421, commences the pedigree 
 entered at the earlier visitations of the Heralds of Arms, which 
 were first held in Devonshire in 1531. 
 
 He married Katherine, daughter and heir of John Burnell of 
 South Tawton, a family which had been settled for several 
 generations at Great Cocktree in that parish, and is said to have 
 made his wife's home the principal future residence of himself 
 and his immediate successors. That the King's Royal Manor 
 of Elintone, in South Tawton, which also belonged to the 
 Wykes, should have been subsequently known as " Ilton," the 
 name of the Castle in the parish of Marlborough, built by 
 the Cheverstones, and subsequently left to the Courtenays, may 
 be another slight, but quite unnecessary, proof of the identity 
 of the latter name with that of Wykes. These two "Iltons" 
 are the only places so called in Devonshire. 
 
 William Wykes and Katherine Burnell had four sons, viz., 
 John, the eldest, who married into the Luttrell family the 
 marriage settlement is dated in 1421 and died childless; 
 Richard Wykes of Cocktree and Northwyke, second son and 
 heir to his brother ; John, whom I suppose to have been the 
 ancestor of Weekes of Honeychurch, and who will be referred 
 to later on ; and Roger Wykes of Bindon, in the parish of 
 Axmouth. 
 
 This Roger Wykes, by grant of Nicholas Bach, dated 
 7th Henry IV., 1406, appears to have acquired Bindon, perhaps 
 in marriage with the devisee's daughter; he resided there after- 
 ward, and abandoned his paternal for his maternal arms, and 
 bore the coat of Burnell of Cocktree, arg. t three barnacles, sab., 
 differenced with a chevron, enn. By his marriage, as a widower, 
 with Jane Bisset, he obtained a life interest in Radbours, County 
 Dorset. He was buried in Trent St. Andrew's, near Sherborne. 
 By his first wife he left a son, John, who married into the house
 
 380 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 of Camill of Shapwick, and had issue John, whose wife, Eliza- 
 beth Lyte, of Lytes-Cary, County Somerset, brought him two 
 sons, John and Richard. The latter eventually succeeded as 
 heir of entail to his nephew William Wykes, married a Somaster, 
 and left four daughters, who married Giffard, Hays, Barry, and 
 Erie, and amongst them and their descendants the property 
 became divided. Mary Wykes, the youngest daughter, was the 
 wife of Walter Erie, who purchased his brother-in-law Giffard's 
 share, and made Bindon his residence. He was the grandfather 
 of Sir Walter Erie, a distinguished Parliamentary general, whose 
 grandson, General Erie, commanded the centre of the English 
 army at the battle of Almanza, 1707. The latter's daughter, 
 Frances, married Sir Edward Erie, Bart, of Maddington, Wilt- 
 shire, and their only child was the wife of Henry Drax, of 
 Ellerton Abbey, Yorkshire, secretary to Frederick, Prince of 
 Wales. Bindon was sold by her son Thomas Erie Drax, who 
 married Mary, daughter of Lord St. John of Bletshoe. Two of 
 the sisters of the last owner of Bindon were the Ladies Berkeley 
 and Castlehaven, another was the wife of Sir William Hanham, 
 Bart. The Charborough Park estate and other property, inherited 
 from Wykes through Camill, descended to the late Mr. J. S. 
 Sawbridge, M.P., who assumed the name of Drax by Royal 
 licence, and his daughters and their issue still represent the 
 family of Wykes of Bindon. 
 
 To return to Northwyke. Richard Wyke, of Northvvyke 
 and Cocktree, brother of Roger of Bindon, was dead in 1476, 
 by his wife, to whom he had been married at least thirty-eight 
 years, and who was a daughter of John Avenel, of Blackpool, 
 one of the direct representatives of the ancient Earls of Devon, 
 of the house of Redvers, as I have shown elsewhere,* he had 
 three sons and a daughter, Margaret, who married one of the 
 Whiddons of Chagford, and was the grandmother of the well- 
 known Judge Whiddon, who died in 1575. 
 
 It is to be feared that this Richard Wykes alienated much of 
 the family property. It was about his time that the Battishills 
 became settled at Westwyke, and it is certain, from an extant 
 conveyance, that he sold a considerable portion of the manor 
 
 * See my Suburbs of Exeter, sub. "Earldom of Devon," pp. 81-87, etc.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 381 
 
 of East Ayshe to his neighbour, Richard Northmorc of Well 
 (see Northmore Pedigree, ante). The deed is dated 4th Edward 
 IV., A.D. 1464. It was also about this period that the Milfords 
 (evidently a place-name, Mill-ford} became settled at Wigginton, 
 alias Wyke-Town ; the first of them, described as of Wiccanton 
 in the Heralds' Visitation of 1620, was buried at South Tawton, 
 in 1588. 
 
 Richard Wykes' son, William, is described as of Northwyke, 
 in 1476; it is shown by an Inquisition, I5th Henry VIII., that 
 his son of the same name duly succeeded to Northwyke ; the 
 latter, by his wife Jane Prideaux of Thuborough, in the parish 
 of Sutcombe (a baronetcy, recently extinct, was afterwards 
 created in this family) had sons, John, Richard, William, and 
 Thomas, and a daughter, Jane, the wife of John Baron. 
 
 The eldest son, John, commences the pedigree of the family 
 entered at the Heralds' Visitation of 1620, and is duly described 
 as "John Wykes, of Northwyke, in com. Devon, Esq." His first 
 wife, and the mother of his family, was Elizabeth, a co-heir of 
 the Pokeswells of Criston, co. Somerset ; but he married, 
 secondly, a kinswoman, Jane, daughter of Walter Wray, of 
 W 7 ray, in Thrushelton, and left her a widow, loth August, 1545. 
 
 His son and heir, John Wykes, of Northwyke, was "aged 20 
 years and more in 1545." He married Mary, daughter of Sir 
 Roger Gifford, Knight, of Brightleigh, a direct ancestor of the 
 present Lord Chancellor, died at the end of October, 1591, and 
 was- buried in South Tawton church on the following first of 
 November. He was evidently the "Warrior Wykes" of the 
 local tradition already mentioned. His fine specimen of an 
 Elizabethan tomb may be seen in the noith, or " Wyke's 
 aisle," of the parish church, and supports his full-length 
 effigy clad in the half armour and enormous ruff of the 
 period. 
 
 He left a large family eight sons and three daughters and 
 of them it is only necessary to mention here the two eldest, 
 Roger and Mark, and to the latter I shall presently refer again. 
 The eldest son, Roger Wykes of Northwyke, whose will was 
 proved at Exeter, in February, 1603-4, was the father of John 
 " Wikes " of " Northwicke," alive in 1620. His wife, Grace, 
 was of the good old county family of Arscott of Tetcott, and by
 
 382 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 her he had seven children ; of these his eldest son, Roger, pre- 
 deceased him, and is the last entered upon the Visitation 
 Pedigree, in which he is described as "over 15 years of age" in 
 1620. He married Mary, daughter of Thomas Southcote of 
 Mohuns Ottery, and a member of a well-known county family. 
 
 His second son, John Wikes, baptized 2nd May, 1611, 
 married Priscilla Kingwell, and succeeded his nephew, John 
 Wykes of Northwyke, as heir 'male at law, in 1661, and died 
 in 1680, but was unjustly deprived of his heritage, under cir- 
 cumstances which may well be regarded as a romance of 
 history. By his wife Priscilla Kingwell, widow of Richard 
 Hole, he had two sons and three daughters ; his eldest son 
 died before him unmarried ; the younger, Roger Wikes, was 
 twice married, died at sea in 1694, and left an only daughter 
 and heir, Grace, who was baptized at South Tawton, 23rd 
 April, 1673. 
 
 John Wykes, son of Roger, and Mary Southcote, and who 
 had a sister Katherine, the second wife of Edmund Parker 
 of Boringdon, ancestor of Lord Morley, succeeded to North- 
 wyke upon the death of his grandfather. He was of an 
 exceedingly weak and vacillating disposition, and fell into 
 the hands of designing men, who, after his early death, from 
 phthisis, in 1661, at about the age of twenty-five, literally 
 entered upon Northwyke at the point of the sword, as will 
 be fully explained hereafter. I have now, however, to return 
 to Mark Wykes, his great-great-uncle, and his great-grand- 
 father's second brother. 
 
 This Mark, the favourite son of his mother, Mary Giffard, 
 was settled at South Tawton upon an estate known as Colli- 
 bear ; he was twice married, and had issue by both alliances. 
 His eldest son, John Wykes of Collibear, by his wife Joan Hole 
 of Blackball, in South Tawton, was the father of John Wykes 
 of Collibear, whose son, Nathaniel Wykes of Swansea, claimed 
 the Northwyke estates as heir male at law, upon the death, 
 at sea, of his kinsman Roger Wyke?, in 1694. His pedigree is 
 duly set forth in the pleadings connected with this memorable 
 Chancery suit, which extended over forty years, and was never 
 satisfactorily settled. He had several children, and of them his 
 son, Nathaniel, was the father of William Wykes, buried at
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 383 
 
 South Tawton, 9th November, 1800, whose only daughter and 
 heir, Mary Wykes, was married to Charles, grandson of Wil- 
 liam Finch, who married Agnes Lambert of South Tawton, in 
 1719 ; he was of the Kentish family which claims a common 
 origin with the Herberts, Earls of Pembroke, and which is 
 now represented in the peerage by the Earls of Winchilsea. 
 Mary Wykes had a son, Charles Finch, baptized at South 
 Tawton, i8th February, 1798, who was the father of the Rev. 
 William Finch, M.A., St. John's College, Cambridge, now of 
 Northwyke in the parish of South Tawton, and of Chaddesley 
 Corbett, co. Worcester. 
 
 Mr. Finch, of Northwyke, married a daughter and co-heir 
 of Josiah Perrin, of Wharton, co. Chester, and maternally 
 descended from John Dudley of Davenham, co. Chester. 
 
 WEEKES OF HONEYCHURCH. 
 
 The connection between this family, and that of which I have 
 just previously treated, must doubtless be referred to a certain 
 Robert Wyke, whose daughter Joan married John de Honey- 
 churche late in the fifteenth century, who resided at Tavistock, 
 but was the owner of land in Honeychurch, situated seven 
 miles from Oakhampton, from about the reign of Henry III. 
 
 This Robert Wyke was contemporary with William Wykes of 
 Northwyke, who I consider must have been his first cousin, and 
 the nephew of his father, John Wykes, who was living in 1435. 
 Otherwise the arms of Wyke of Northwyke would not have been 
 admitted to " Weeks of Honeychurch," as they appear to have 
 been at the Heralds' Visitation of 1620. 
 
 That the primary settlement of this branch at Honeychurch 
 was due to the marriage of Joan Wykes with John de Honey- 
 church is tolerably certain, but there is a hiatus in their history 
 for three generations, since the ancestor of Weekes of Honey- 
 church, as recorded at the Visitation referred to, was " Sir 
 Richard Weekes, Knight, of Honeychurch " (contemporary with 
 John Wykes of Northwyke, " aged 20 years and more, 1545"), 
 and who is reputed to have married an unknown daughter of 
 Cary of Clovelly. Sir Richard was the grandfather of Simon
 
 384 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Weekes, also of Honeychurch, whose son William married 
 Arminell, daughter of John Yeo of Hatherley by his wife 
 Anne, daughter of William Honeychurch of Honeychurch and 
 Tavistock. 
 
 Their son Simon seems to have removed to Broadwood- 
 Kelly, and his eldest son Francis Weekes, aged thirty in 1620, 
 married Wilmot Coffin of Portledge, and had six sons and a 
 daughter. Of these, Richard Weekes, the third son, resided at 
 Hatherleigh, was a " gentleman pensioner," that is to say, a 
 member of the body now known as " The Honourable Corps of 
 Gentlemen at Arms," and died in the Fleet Prison in February, 
 1670. 
 
 Mr. Richard Weekes seems to have been little better than a 
 common adventurer, and his history has been handed down to us, 
 very clearly, through the medium of original documents filed in 
 the Court of Cliancery ; he made the acquaintance of poor 
 young John Wykes of Northwyke, persuaded him that he was a 
 near relative, although the family at that time, or since, have had 
 no clue even to the slight connection, which doubtless subsisted 
 between them, as above explained, and persuaded him, to the 
 prejudice of his immediate relatives, to execute a conveyance of 
 the Northwyke estates in his favour. 
 
 John Wykes of Northwyke was, as I have already said, a 
 victim to consumption. Shortly before his death, in 1661, his 
 friend, and very remote kinsman, of the Royal bodyguard 
 persuaded him, in opposition to the wishes of his widowed 
 mother and of his only sister Katherine, afterwards Mrs. Parker 
 of Boringdon, to undertake a journey to Plymouth on the 
 pretence of some special medical advice. Ultimately John 
 Wykes was induced to execute a deed of settlement, dated 
 2Qth August, 1661, of the whole of his property, inclusive of the 
 ancient seat of the family, to this Richard, under great pressure 
 by the latter, and two medical men, his near relatives, whom he 
 had secured in his interests. But this conveyance was endorsed 
 with a power of verbal revocation, and left in the custody of the 
 young squire of Northwyke, who then insisted on returning 
 forthwith to South Tawton. He died at Northwyke shortly 
 afterward, but in his last moments expressed sorrow to his 
 mother, sister, and other witnesses, for the action adverse
 
 DE VO.VSHIRE WILLS. 385 
 
 to their interests, which he had been induced to take, and 
 solemnly revoked the deed by word of mouth, but failed 
 to cancel it in writing. 
 
 John Wykes was gathered to his ancestors on Saturday, 
 2 ist September, 1661, and on the following Sunday evening 
 Mr. Richard Weekes made his appearance at Northwyke, stated 
 that he was " come to perform the devil's part and his own," 
 drew his sword, and held it at the breast of Katherine Wykcs 
 and her mother, and threatened to kill them both unless they 
 forthwith left the house and gave him quiet possession. 
 
 Ultimately, as sworn in the " pleadings," he knocked down 
 the sister, locked up the mother, then broke into the room 
 where " all the deeds, evidences, and writings of the family " 
 were preserved, and carried them away. He survived for nine 
 years, and died a prisoner for debt in London, as I have 
 already stated, in 1670. His son Richard, despite the pro- 
 tracted Chancery proceedings, entered into possession by virtue 
 of the deed of settlement, which had been duly signed and 
 sealed by John Wykes before he left Plymouth ; married the 
 daughter of Mr. John Northmore of Well (see Northmore 
 history, ante), and left at his decease, 1696, three sons and 
 three daughters. 
 
 The eldest son, John Weekes, succeeded to Northwyke, 
 married Elizabeth, daughter of William Northmore, of Throw- 
 ley, and was buried at Lezant in 1750. He had no family, 
 and in consideration of an annuity he sold the Northwyke 
 estates to his sisters during his lifetime. 
 
 The manor of Ilton was thus conveyed to Robert Hole of 
 Zeal Monachorum, the husband of Martha Weekes, together 
 with Great Cocktree and other lands. Northwyke became the 
 property of George Hunt of North Bovey, the second husband 
 of Elizabeth Weekes, who administered to her brother's effects, 
 unadministered, in 1751. 
 
 There are said to have been more than a hundred different 
 suits in respect of the Northwyke lands between the years 
 1 66 1 and 1700. Of late years the old mansion has been 
 divided into two farmhouses, but is rich in mullioned windows 
 and fine oak panelling of the Elizabethan period. It was not, 
 however, as recently stated in a newspaper, " the residence of a 
 26
 
 386 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Lord Chief Justice Hunt in the sixteenth century," and history, 
 moreover, is silent as to any such individual of the race of Hunt. 
 
 It has recently been sold by the executors of a late owner, 
 together with four hundred acres of the surrounding property, 
 and has been promptly purchased for over ^4,000 by the 
 Rev. William Finch, who, as I have already shown, is the great 
 grandson, twice removed, of Nathaniel Wykes of Swansea, who 
 became the head of the family of Wykes of Northwyke and 
 South Tawton in 1694. 
 
 The Arms of Wykes of Northwyke, allowed also to Weekes 
 of Honeychurch in 1620, are, ermine, three battleaxes, sable. 
 The Northwyke family quarter Burnell, Avenel, and Powkes- 
 well. 
 
 The Honeychurch branch was entitled to quarter Kelly by 
 the marriage of Richard, eldest grandson of Sir Richard Weekes, 
 with Alice, daughter and heir of Henry Kelly, but the right 
 passed with her daughter and heir to the Hay dons of Ottery 
 St, Mary. 
 
 South Tawton extends over 10,878 acres of land, five 
 thousand of which were owned by the Wykes of Northwyke 
 for many centuries. 
 
 CHEVERSTONE OF CHEVERSTONE, WRAY, EAST 
 AYSHE, AND ILTON. 
 
 " William de Wigornia," son of Robert de Bellomonte, Earl of 
 Mellent, son and heir of Walleran, officiary Earl of Worcester, 
 and whose brother, Roger de Wigornia, or "de Wyrescestrin," 
 also styled " Roger de Meuelent," was a churchman, and held 
 the prebendal stall of Bromesbury in St. Paul's Cathedral in 
 1 192 (Reg. Dec. and Cap., Lond., f. 57), obtained a grant of 
 the above manors, with the exception of Ilton, during the reign 
 of Henry II., as shown by the preceding history of the family 
 of " Wykes of Northwyke." 
 
 He appears to have had a son, William, who certainly in- 
 herited the South Tawton manor of Ayshe, and is mentioned 
 also as the owner of Wray, in Moreton-Hampstead. He seems 
 to have assumed the name of his Kenton property and to have
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 387 
 
 been known as " William de Cheverstone." He was the father 
 of " William de Wray," who was found seised of Northwyke 
 in 1242, and also of another son, " Sir John de Cheverstone," 
 whose son, of the same knightly rank and name, acquired 
 Iltcn Castle, in the parish of Marlborough, near Kingsbridge, 
 in marriage with a co-heir of Bozun, whose sister, the other 
 co-heir, married Ferrers of Bere. His son, Ralph Cheverstone 
 of Ilton, temp. Henry III., has been described as the "father," 
 but was actually the grandfather of Sir John Cheverstone, 
 whose wife was Joan, a daughter of Hugh, Earl of Devon, 
 and sister of Sir Philip Courtenay of Powderham. 
 
 The last Sir John's father, John Cheverstone, had license, 
 9th Edward III., to castellate his residence at "Ydilton" (Ilton) 
 as shown by the Patent Rolls of the year 1335, and the latter 
 had also a daughter who married into the Halwell family, of 
 Harberton, and left a son, Thomas de Halwell. 
 
 Sir John Cheverstone the younger, by deed of settlement, 
 gave the reversion of the whole of his property to his brother- 
 in-law, Sir Philip Courtenay, failing his own male issue. His 
 wife, Joan Courtenay, is mentioned in her mother's will, dated 
 28th January, 1390, and, although the Courtenays duly suc- 
 ceeded to the Clieverstone estates by virtue of the con- 
 ditional reversion, Thomas de Halwell, upon his uncle's death, 
 became heir general at law. 
 
 The latter's descendant, Sir John Halwell, appears to have 
 assumed the arms of Cheverstone, and immediately after the 
 accession of Henry VII., 1485, he commenced an action 
 against Sir William Courtenay of Powderham, for the recovery 
 of the Cheverstone estates. After a tedious litigation, which 
 extended over some years, it was ultimately decreed that the 
 Courtenays should continue in the quiet possession of their 
 land, as they have since done, but only after payment to the 
 plaintiff of the sum of one thousand pounds, upon a day named 
 " within the King's Tower of London." 
 
 Sir William Courtenay, who survived until 1512, was ex- 
 ceedingly indignant at this award, after the lapse of so many 
 years of undisputed possession of the lands, and is said to have 
 counted the money out to his antagonist in groats, which he 
 maintained to be an ancient, and still strictly legal, tender.
 
 388 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 These Halwells of Harberton must not be confounded with 
 their namesakes of the "House of Brito" (ante, p. 353), there 
 were, and are, several places in the county called Hal well, 
 the word being a corruption of " Holy-well." (See my Ash- 
 burton and its Neighbourhood, p. 7.) 
 
 Sir John Halwell of Harberton had a son and heir, Richard, 
 and is also asserted to have had another son, the father of 
 Andrew " Holwell," to whom I shall presently refer. Richard 
 Halwell, son and heir of Sir John, married Anne, daughter and 
 heir of Sir John Norbury, by whom he had an only daughter, 
 Jane, erroneously described (Lyson's, Magna Britannia, Devon, 
 Vol. I., p. clxvi.) as the eldest of " six co-heiresses." 
 
 The five ladies thus cited, minus one, " Fridiswide," who has 
 been omitted entirely, were the daughters of the said Jane 
 Halwell, by her marriage with Sir Edmund Bray, Knt, who 
 was summoned to Parliament as Lord Bray, 2ist Henry VIII. 
 Jane's only son, the second Lord Bray, died s.p. in 1557; her 
 eldest daughter, Anne Bray, was the wife of George Brooke, 
 Lord Cobham ; her grandsons, Henry, Lord Cobham, and his 
 younger brother, George Brooke, were both attainted, conse- 
 quently the abeyance of the Bray barony was permitted in 
 1839, to the descendant and representative of Jane Hal well's 
 second daughter, Elizabeth Bray, who married Sir Ralph 
 Verney, the ancestor of Sir John Verney, created Baron Verney 
 and Viscount Fermanagh by Queen Anne. The third daughter 
 of Lord Fermanagh, Margaret Verney, married Sir Thomas 
 Cave, and her great-granddaughter, Sarah Cave, became, with 
 Royal permission, Lady Bray, in her own right, at the date 
 above mentioned. 
 
 Lady Bray married Henry Otway of Castle Otway, and 
 survived all her four sons. At her death, in 1862, the Bray 
 barony again fell into abeyance between her four surviving 
 daughters, and was terminated, in 1879, by the youngest of 
 them, Henrietta, the wife of the Rev. E. Wyatt-Edgell, and 
 the mother of the present Lord Braye,* whose eldest brother, 
 as Adjutant of the I7th Lancers, was killed in action at 
 Ulundi, 4th July, 1879. 
 
 * The name, now thus written, appears to have been originally spelt as above.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 389 
 
 Jane Halwell's great-grandson by her eldest daughter Anne, 
 was, with his brother, Lord Cobham, implicated in the plot 
 known as " Ralegh's Conspiracy," for the asserted advancement 
 of Arabella Stuart to the throne, in 1603, and (although the 
 principal actors, inclusive of his brother, were reprieved, and 
 the sentence upon Sir Walter Ralegh was not carried out 
 until 1618), George Brooke was executed, his property was 
 attached, and his attainder was never reversed; he married, 
 however, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas, last Lord Borough, 
 and had an only son, Sir William Brooke, Knight of the Bath, 
 whose wife was Penelope, daughter of Sir Moses Hill, by whom 
 he had three daughters, the eldest of whom, by her second 
 marriage with Sir William Boothby, had an eldest son, William 
 Boothby, who inherited the baronetcy at the decease of his 
 step-brother's son, Sir Henry Boothby, and a younger son, 
 Brooke Boothby, whose son of the same name became the 
 sixth baronet in 1787, and was the great-great-grandfather of 
 Sir Brooke Boothby, the present baronet, of Broadlovv Ash, 
 co. Derby, who is, therefore, the direct representative and heir 
 at law of the Cheverstones of Kenton and Ilton. 
 
 As I have previously remarked, however, Sir John Halwell, 
 who recovered the large sum of one thousand pounds in his 
 litigation with the Courtenays, in right of his descent from 
 Ann, sister and heir general of Sir John Cheverstone of Ilton. 
 the husband of Joan Courtenay, is said to have had a younger 
 son, who was the father of a certain Andrew " Holwell," who 
 died in 1624, and who was the ancestor of an Exeter physician, 
 William Holwell, whose grandson, Edward Holwell, of Exeter, 
 married Isabella Newte, of Tiverton, and was the father of the 
 Rev. William Holwell, Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, 
 1779-93, when he was presented to the vicarage of Menheniot. 
 He afterwards married Lady Charlotte Hay, eldest daughter 
 of the fourteenth Lord Erroll, whose son, the sixteenth Earl, 
 assumed his mother's name of Carr, a course which was also 
 adopted by Lady Charlotte's husband in 1798, as additional 
 to his own name. 
 
 Mr. Holwell-Carr, who died in London in 1830, was a 
 distinguished amateur artist and Fellow of the Royal Society. 
 He painted a portrait of Sir William Petre, which he presented
 
 390 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 to Exeter College, and bequeathed his fine gallery of examples 
 of the Italian School, including da Vinci's " Christ disputing 
 with the Doctors," to the National Gallery. 
 
 The Cheverstones bore a "canting" coat, viz., "or, on a 
 bend, gules, three goats passant, arg." 
 
 THE WREYS OF TAWSTOCK. 
 
 As I have shown in the preceding genealogies, William de 
 Wigornia appears to have left the whole of his Devonshire 
 property to his son William, who assumed the name of 
 Cheverstone, from the Kenton manor of that name, which, 
 from the time of Sir John Cheverstone, who died in the reign 
 of Richard the second, has belonged, by devise of the latter, 
 to the Powderham branch of the Courtenay family, whose right 
 to the Earldom of Devon, dormant after 1556, was admitted 
 to Sir William Courtenay, Viscount Courtenay of Powderham, 
 in 1831.* But the manor of Wray, in Moreton-Hampstead, of 
 which the said William de Cheverstone was seised in the 
 reign of King John, was evidently given to his other son 
 William, who is known as William de Wray, and whose prin- 
 cipal residence, in 1242, was at Northwyke. This William de 
 Wray of Northwyke, had a son, Walter de Wray, of Northwyke, 
 in 1278, who, as I have already shown, p. 378, ante, was the 
 father of Roger de Wray, who carried on the line of North- 
 wyke, and also of "William, son of Walter of Wyke," 1285-86, 
 and I can only conclude that this last " William " must have 
 inherited Wray, and have left it to his daughter and heir, the 
 wife of Ralph Abbot, as the latter was found seised of it early 
 in the fourteenth century. 
 
 The family known as Le Abbe, or Abbot, were at an early 
 date settled upon the manor of Loughtor, within the parish of 
 Plympton St. Mary, and were also the owners of the manor 
 and church of Washfield, near Tiverton. I believe Ralph 
 Abbot of Wray to have been a son of William Abbot of 
 Loughtor, another of whose sons, Walter Abbot, presented to 
 Washfield Church in 1335, and had an only daughter and heir, 
 
 * See my Earldom of Devon (Suburbs E.von., pp. 74-118 and 200-202).
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 391 
 
 Alice Abbot, who married Humphry, second son of Hugh 
 Beauchamp of White Lackington, co. Somerset, and gave the 
 manor and advowson of Washfield to her son, Hugh Beau- 
 champ, whose eventual co-heir, Margery Beauchamp, brought 
 them to her husband, Thomas Wortlie of Worth, in the same 
 parish ; and " Great Beauchamp," then the old seat of the 
 manor of Washfield, in distinction to that of Worth, was the 
 only property reserved from the sale of the ancient Worth 
 estates, which was effected in the years 1887 and 1888. (See 
 ante, p. 52, and Worth of Worth, post.} 
 
 Ralph Abbot was the father of Walter Abbot of Wray, and 
 grandfather of Arkonald Abbot, whose daughter and heir, 
 Joane, was the wife of John Norris, and the latter's daughter, 
 Alice Norris, eventually inherited Wray, upon the deaths of 
 her grand-nephews Thomas and John Norris, successively of 
 Wray, and who died without issue. 
 
 This Alice Norris married a certain " Richard de Wray," 
 a match which has created a considerable amount of confusion 
 as to the actual earlier habitation of the Wreys of Tawstock, 
 whose pedigree, entered at the Heralds' Visitation of Devon- 
 shire, in 1564 (Colby, p. 213), commences with "William Wray 
 of Wray," great-grandfather of " Walter Wraye of North 
 Russell," whereas the said William Wray was actually of Wray, 
 in North Thrushelton, otherwise " North Russell," and not, as 
 might be inferred from this description, of Wray in Moreton 
 Hampstead. 
 
 That the Wrays of North Thrushelton, near Tavistock, were 
 cadets of the house of Wray of South Tawton, is sufficiently 
 evident from their coat armour, which, but for tincture and for 
 one of the due differences of the period, is identical with the 
 arms borne by the Wrays, afterward Wykes, of South Tawton, 
 and it is probable that " William Wray " of North Thrushelton, 
 who gave his name to his residence within that manor, which 
 had been held in the reign of Edward III. by the Talbots, 
 and who seems to have become possessed of it during the 
 latter half of the fourteenth century, was a younger son of 
 Walter de Wray of Northwyke, whose son and heir, Roger 
 de Wray, was seised of Northwyke in 1346. 
 
 It is quite possible that " Richard de Wraye," the husband
 
 392 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 of Alice Norris of Wray, in Moreton Hampstead, was a 
 descendant of William Wray of Wray in North Thrushelton, 
 or he may have been quite unconnected with the old " de 
 Wrays," and may have simply been known from his habitation, 
 jure uxoris, upon his wife's property of that name. On the 
 other hand, his wife, Alice, cannot have succeeded to that 
 property until late in life, upon the decease, without issue, of 
 John Norris of Wray, the last of her grand-nephews, yet as 
 the somewhat peculiar name of "Erkenwald" (pronounced 
 Arkonald) was perpetuated in the Wykes' family, who only 
 abandoned the name of Wray in favour of Wykes during the 
 reign of Richard II., the evidence, on the whole, appears to 
 be in favour of the conclusion that "Richard de Wraye" was 
 a cadet of the Wrays of Northwyke and Thrushelton, but he 
 was certainly nothing more than a collateral relative of the 
 Wreys of Tawstock, as his issue was confined to an only 
 daughter and heir, Christian Wraye, upon whose marriage with 
 Richard de la Ford, the name of Wray became extinct at 
 Moreton Hampstead. 
 
 William Wray of Wray and Thrushelton, and, presumably, 
 a younger son of Walter de Wray of Northwyke, had sons, 
 Walter Wray of Wray, and Thomas Wray, second son. 
 
 Walter Wray was the father of Robert Wray, who, by his 
 wife Constance, daughter of John Shilston, had four sons, and 
 a daughter, Alice, the wife of John Glanville. 
 
 Of the sons, I think it quite probable that Robert Wray, 
 the youngest of them, and uncle of Jane Wykes of Northwyke, 
 may have been identical with the husband of Alice Norris, 
 called " Richard " Wraye in the unsigned Southmeade pedigree, 
 which is included in the original " Visitation of Devon," and 
 which is certainly more or less unreliable ; Robert Wray's 
 eldest brother, Walter " Wraye," the first described in the 
 pedigree of 1564 as of "North Russell," married Bridget, 
 daughter of Robert Shilstone, and had a daughter, Jane, 
 incidentally referred to above, who became the second wife 
 of John Wykes of Northwyke, in 1540, and subsequently 
 married Thomas Walcot, and afterwards Robert Fry of 
 Exeter. 
 
 Her brother, John Wraye, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1585, by
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 393 
 
 his wife, Blanch, daughter and co-heir of Henry Killigrew of 
 Woolston, co Cornwall, had six sons and two daughters. 
 
 His second son, Sir William " Wrey,"* Knt, succeeded to 
 the Killigrew Manor of Trebitch, otherwise written " Trebigh," 
 or " Trebeigh," in the said adjoining county, of which he was 
 sheriff in 1598. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Wil- 
 liam Courtenay of Powderham, survived until 1636, and thus 
 lived to see his son, Sir William Wrey, created a Baronet on 
 the 30th June, 1628 ; the latter's wife was Ann, daughter of 
 Sir Edward Chichester of Eggesford, afterwards created 
 Viscount Chichester of Carickfergus, and by her, he was the 
 father of Sir Chichester Wrey, second Baronet, who married 
 Ann, youngest daugher and co-heir of Edward Bourchier, Earl 
 of Bath, and Baron Fitz-Warine, and relict of James Cranfield, 
 Earl of Middlesex. 
 
 The Earldom of Bath had been created in 1536 in favour 
 of John Bourchier, Baron Fitzwarine, grandson of William, 
 summoned to Parliament in his wife's (Thomasine Hankford's) 
 maternal barony in fee, as Lord Fitz-Warine, 27th Henry VI. ; 
 the said Sir William Bourchier having been the third son of 
 William Bourchier, titular Earl of Ewe, in Normandy, by his 
 wife Anne Plantagenet, daughter and eventual sole heir of 
 Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, and sixth son of 
 King Edward III. 
 
 The father of the Countess of Middlesex died without 
 surviving male issue in 1636, and was succeeded by his kins- 
 man, Sir Henry Bourchier, as fifth Earl, at whose death, in 
 1654, the Earldom of Bath became extinct. But the Barony 
 of Fitz-Warine in fee had previously fallen into abeyance 
 between the three daughters of the fourth Earl, and, of these, 
 Lady Middlesex was the youngest. By her second husband, 
 Sir Chichester Wray, she had a son, Bourchier, who succeeded 
 as third Baronet, and who married Florence, daughter of Sir 
 John Rolle of Stevenstone, and died in 1695. 
 
 Henry, last Earl of Bath, had married Lady Rachel Fane, 
 daughter of Francis, Earl of Westmoreland, and she had a 
 
 * The name is still pronounced in accordance with the ancient spelling, which 
 was either "Wray" or "Wraye." The Baronets, however, have always written 
 themselves " Wrey," as above.
 
 394 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 life interest in Tawstock Court, and resided there until her 
 death in 1680, when Sir Bourchier Wray inherited that property 
 and also the manor of Holne, near Ashburton. (See my 
 account of the latter, Ashburton and its Neighbourhood, 
 pp. 122-28.) 
 
 From that date Tawstock Court has been the principal 
 residence of the Wreys. Sir Bourchier Wrey's great-grandson, 
 Sir Bourchier Wrey, D.C.L., born in 1759, by his first marriage 
 with Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Palk, Bart, of Haldon, 
 had a son, Sir Henry Bourchier Wrey, born 1797, and who 
 died without male issue in 1879, when he was succeeded by 
 his half brother, the Rev. Sir Henry Bourchier Wrey, Rector 
 of Tawstock, at whose decease, in 1882, the title came to his 
 eldest son, Sir Henry Bourchier Toke Wrey, the ninth and 
 present Baronet 
 
 Sir Henry Wrey married, in 1854, The Honourable Marianna 
 Sarah, only daughter and heir of Philip Castell, ninth Lord 
 Sherard, of the kingdom of Ireland, a title some time merged 
 with the Earldom of Harborough, and has an eldest son and 
 heir to the title, Robert Bourchier Sherard Wrey, R.N., born 
 
 i8S5- 
 Arms of Wray of Wray, and of Wraye of North Thrushelton, 
 
 as now borne by Sir H. B. T. Wrey, Bart, of Tawstock Sable, 
 a fess between three battle axes, arg., helved gules. 
 
 Sir Henry Wrey quarters Bourchier together with the Royal 
 Arms of Edward III., in right of descent from Thomas, Duke 
 of Gloucester, and is also a co-heir to the Barony of Fitz- 
 Warine in abeyance. 
 
 GIDLEY OF GIDLEY AND HOLCOMBE PARAMORE. 
 
 This ancient family derives its name from the parish of 
 Gidley on the north-eastern escarpment of Dartmoor, which 
 land was given by William the Conqueror to his half brother 
 the Earl of Mortain, and held under him, in 1086, by a 
 certain " Godwin," and in the Confessor's reign it had also 
 belonged to " Godwin," described as the " Priest" 
 
 Westcote, in his seventeenth century View of Devonshire,
 
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 declares that he had seen a grant of this land, by " Martine," 
 Earl of Cornwall, in favour of his " nephew, Giles de Gidleigh,'' 
 the seal bearing the impress of a triple towered castle, and 
 that the said grant was "exemplified, under the great seal of 
 England, in the reign of Henry VIII." 
 
 The said " Giles de Gidleigh," to have been a " nephew " of 
 the Earl of Mortain, whose brother Odo, Earl of Kent, and 
 Bishop of Bayeux, had no issue, should have been a son of 
 his sister Emma D'Abrincis, the mother of Hugh, Earl of 
 Chester, and there is no record that she had such a son as 
 "Giles." Robert of Mortain, Odo, and Emma were the chil- 
 dren of Harlotta of Falaise by her marriage with Harlowen 
 de Conteville. Their half-brother and sister, King William 
 and Adeliza, were the offspring of an earlier, and less res- 
 pectable, intimacy on the part of Harlotta, with Duke Robert 
 of Normandy, and it is most probable that the several 
 personages who have been handed down to us as " nephews " 
 and " nieces " of the Conqueror, or of Mortain, such as 
 "Albreda," wife of Baldwin de Brion of Okehampton, Wil- 
 liam " Warlewast," Bishop of Exeter, and this Giles de 
 Gidleigh, were children of the king's whole sister, Adeliza 
 de Falaise aforesaid, who was married thrice, and had issue 
 by each marriage, inter a/us, Adeliza, Countess of Albe- 
 marle in her own right, 1081-1090 ; Stephen, who succeeded 
 his half sister in that earldom ; and Judith, wife of Waltheof, 
 Earl of Huntingdon. The daughter of Albreda of Okehampton 
 was also called Adeliza, and doubtless so after her grand- 
 mother. 
 
 It is certain that this Dartmoor property descended in the 
 name of Gidleigh for some generations, and down to the 
 middle of the fourteenth century, when the daughter and heir 
 of Giles de Gidley married William, son of Waiter Prouz, by 
 the daughter of the Lord Dinham. Her eldest son and heir 
 succeeded to Gidleigh, and his only child, Alice, married, first, 
 Sir Roger Moels, and, second, Sir John Damerell. The latter 
 family inherited Gidley for several generations, until it passed 
 by intermarriage with one of them to the Coades of Morvell, 
 in the county of Cornwall. It was during their ownership that 
 Gidley Castle probably fell to decay ; the remains of it appear
 
 39 6 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 to be of early fourteenth century date, and consist chiefly of 
 the large square keep, the lower chamber of which is barrel 
 vaulted, and has two newel staircases communicating with the 
 upper portion of the building. 
 
 The name of Gidley, however, appears to have been pre- 
 served by a younger branch of the family which settled at 
 Winkleigh, the Devonshire seat of the Honour of Gloucester, 
 upon a property called Holecombe, which had been held under 
 those Earls by William de Portu Mortuo in the reign of 
 Henry III., and was afterward corruptly known as Holcombe 
 Paramore. Richard Gidley was buried at Winkleigh, 26th 
 March, 1574. (See my Manor and Church of Winkleigh, p. 18.) 
 He was the father of Bartholomew Gidley, whose son of the 
 same name re-purchased the ancient family property at Gidley 
 from the Coades. 
 
 Bartholomew Gidley, the elder, had nine children, and of 
 these Bartholomew, born in 1611, was the first. He matriculated 
 at Exeter College, Oxford, i6th July, 1632 ; married, in 1637, 
 Joan, daughter of Robert Northleigh of Peamore, Exminster, 
 (a property which of late years has belonged to the Kekewich 
 family, who purchased it of H. H. Coxe at the beginning of 
 the present century), and is described as of Gidley Castle and 
 of Holcombe Paramore. He was captain of the Stannary of 
 Chagford, during the great rebellion espoused the Royal cause, 
 and raised a troop of horse for the king's service, of which he 
 took command. 
 
 In commemoration of his bravery and zeal, during the 
 troubles that preceded, and followed, the execution of the king, 
 a large silver medal, nearly three inches in diameter, was struck 
 in his honour, and is still preserved by the family ; on the 
 reverse are his Arms, granted by Edward Bysshe, Clarencieux, 
 24th November, 1666, and which may be thus blazoned : Or, 
 a castle, within a bordure, sa., bezantee" ; Crest, a gryphon's head, 
 couped, or, between two wings, tinctured as the bordure in the 
 arms. It is expressly stated in the grant that these Arms and 
 Crest were granted him for " his eminent services " before 
 " Lyme, Plymouth, and elsewhere in the West," and they were 
 limited to " him and his heirs of body, and to those of his 
 brother, John Gidley." There is a plate of the medal in the
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 397 
 
 Medallic History of England (J. Pinkerton, London, 1790), 
 and it bears the following inscription : 
 
 " M. S. Mnemosynon et vel aere perennius 
 
 Bartholomaei Gidley Armigeri Comitatus Devoniae. 
 
 Quern non avita magis illustrant insignia 
 
 Ouam se sua virtus illustrior insignivit ; 
 
 Quein regi suo constantem agnovere res Anglorum 
 
 versatiles, 
 
 Et extrema fidelitatis tentamina pax et helium. 
 Pro exule Carolo in bello Praefectum, 
 Pro reduce ad pacem Justitiarum 
 utro que munere fidelissimum, 
 Annos agit 72, Salutis anno 1683. 
 Non aetate non munere gravatus 
 vel adhuc dici voluit emeritus." 
 
 He was also an active magistrate, and a strong Churchman, 
 and was conspicuous for his opposition to the Conventicles 
 after the passing of the Act of Uniformity in 1662. He died 
 without issue, in January, 1686 ; his will, dated November 
 28th, 1683, was proved at Exeter on the 5th of the October 
 following his demise. He settled his real estate upon his 
 nephew, Bartholomew, son of his brother John, who inherited 
 the manor, park, and farm of Gidley, and the advowson of, 
 and right of presentation to, Gidley Church, together with the 
 manor of Holcombe Paramore, and all other messuages, bur- 
 gages, lands, and tenements in the parishes of Winkleigh and 
 Roborough. 
 
 Although prior to the middle of the thirteenth century we 
 have no certain knowledge as to the official arms of the Earls 
 of Cornwall, yet, whether they simply mean " all peas" and 
 refer to the province of Poitou (as suggested by the late J. 
 R. Planche"), or not, is quite beyond the question, for, doubt- 
 less, Robert of Mortain knew as little about them as did 
 Edward the Confessor of the cross and martlets with which 
 he has been since accredited by English heralds. 
 
 In the seventeenth century the bezants on a sable field had 
 been identified with the Cornish Earldom from time immemorial, 
 and it is unlikely that Sir Edward Bysshe would have granted
 
 398 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 permission to Bartholomew Gidley to bear a representation of 
 Gidley Castle, within the Cornish bordure, in the absence of fair 
 evidence, both of his descent from its original owners, and of 
 his connection with the earldom, and the fact that such a coat 
 was granted "by letters patent under the great seal of England/' 
 is strong confirmatory evidence of the descent of the Gidleys 
 from a sister or half sister of the first Norman monarch and of 
 his brother, Robert of Mortain. Certain " tin bounds " within 
 the ducal forest of Dartmoor are still owned by the Gidleys. 
 
 Bartholomew, nephew and heir of Bartholomew Gidley, of 
 Gidley and Holcombe, died, aged thirty-four, 2nd August, 
 1702, leaving, inclusive of a son and heir, Bartholomew, a family 
 of eight children. This Bartholomew was born in 1689, was 
 a godson of the king, William III., and a Royal letter is pre- 
 served by the family in which his Majesty favours him with 
 much practical advice, which, it is to be feared, failed to profit 
 him to any considerable extent ; he cut the entail of the 
 property, which has since become dispersed, lived to the age of 
 eighty-seven, and was buried in the "Gidley Aisle" of Wink- 
 leigh Church, 2ist March, 1776; his son, Gustavus, was the 
 ancestor of the present head of the family, Mr. Gustavus Gidley 
 of Plymouth. 
 
 His grandfather, John Gidley, had married Rebecca Dunning 
 of Winkleigh, in which parish he had inherited an estate called 
 Beuford ; he was a Court surgeon, and resided chiefly in London, 
 but his will is dated at Winkleigh, 2ist September, 1712. He 
 left his eldest grandson the Beuford property, and his silver 
 plate, hangings, and other furniture in his house in London to 
 his second but eldest surviving son, John, and to his daughter, 
 Rebecca, after their mother's death. His said grandson, 
 Bartholomew, born 1689, had a younger brother, John Gidley, 
 born 1690, who married Margaret, daughter and heir of Robert 
 Ellicombe of Kenn, by Theodosia, daughter of the Rev. John 
 Mauduit, Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and Senior 
 Proctor. His grandson, the late Courtenay Gidley of Honiton, 
 was the grandfather of John Gidley, formerly Town Clerk of 
 Exeter, who married, in 1823, Elizabeth, daughter of Robert 
 Cornish of Exeter, and aunt of John Robert Cornish, who 
 assumed by Royal license the surname of Mowbray, 26th July,
 
 DE VONSH1RE WILLS. 399 
 
 1847, was created a baronet 3rd May, 1880, is a Privy Coun- 
 cillor, and now, 1895, the senior active member of the House 
 of Commons. By this marriage Mr. John Gidley had a son, 
 Bartholomew Gidley of Hoopern, near Exeter, who, like his 
 father, was town clerk of Exeter, and died in 1888, and left, 
 with other issue, a son, the present Mr. John Gidley of Hoopern 
 House. 
 
 HAMLYN OF WIDECOMBE, COLEBROOK, AND 
 CLOVELLY. 
 
 Like the House of Brito, the family of Hamlyn is coeval 
 with all that is really authentic in the history of Devonshire. 
 Its name is derived from the Saxon words "ham " and " lynna" 
 which, in composition, signify the home by the spring or pool ; 
 and as the " Hamelins," from the town of that name in Lower 
 Saxony, they helped to swell the ranks of the Conqueror's 
 army, and soon became settled in various parts of England, 
 notably in Devonshire, Cornwall, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, 
 Worcestershire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, and Rutland. 
 
 The two most important Hamlyns of the eleventh century 
 were those whose names are found mentioned in the roll of 
 Battle Abbey as "Hammeline" and " Hammeline de Balun." 
 The " Sire de Balun " had probably migrated from Germany 
 to France, sometime before the Conquest, to the French town 
 of Ballun, in the diocese of Mons ; after the victory at Senlac 
 King William gave him the land of Ober Went, in Monmouth- 
 shire, and he was the subsequent founder of the Castle of 
 Bergavenny. 
 
 He died childless in the reign of Rufus, and was succeeded 
 by his nephew " Brian," son of his sister Lucy. This " Brian " 
 had two afflicted sons, so he made his nephew, son of his 
 sister Emma, his heir, and this nephew, or " cousin," as, in 
 accordance with old custom, he is loosely described, was 
 Constable of Gloucester, and afterward High Constable of 
 England. The latter's son was created Earl of Hereford in 
 succession to Roger de Bretteville, alias Fitz-Osbern, whose 
 younger brother was Bishop of Exeter in 1072. Roger Brito,
 
 400 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 or Bretteville, was eventually proscribed for treason, but is 
 said to have had a son, Reginald, who married " Emmeline 
 de Balun," who may probably have been a sister of the afore- 
 said Emma of Gloucester. 
 
 With the other " Hamelin " of the Battle Abbey Roll we 
 have more concern here. He may have been a brother, or at least 
 a near kinsman, of the Sire de Balun ; at all events, he was a 
 very important personage in the eleventh century, and, like the 
 Britos, he came to the west of England in the following of 
 Robert, Earl of Mortain. 
 
 He is called "Hamelinus" in Domesday, and was tenant 
 in capite of many important manors in Cornwall. Some of his 
 posterity remained in the latter county, and one of them was 
 Portreeve of Launceston in 1207, but many of them settled in 
 Devonshire, where " Hamelinus," at the period of the Survey, 
 held the broad lands of Broadhempston and Alwington as 
 sub-tenant to the Earl, 
 
 The Hamlyns soon disappeared from both their original 
 settlements in Devonshire : Broadhempston went to the Canti- 
 lupes, one of whom, William de Cantilupe, was the husband of 
 Eva Braose, granddaughter of Emma de Balun of Gloucester, 
 which may be merely a coincidence ; whilst Alwington passed 
 to the Cofrins afterward of Portledge, a family which, although 
 its name has been preserved by assumption, has been now some- 
 time extinct in the male line. 
 
 But, probably by exchange, and simultaneously with their dis- 
 appearance from Alwington, the Hamlyns acquired the manor 
 of Natsworthy, another of Mortain's concessions, situate in the 
 parish of Widecombe-in -the- Moor, and but a few miles distant 
 from Broadhempston, and also of the manor of Bratton, in the 
 immediate neighbourhood of Alwington. The fifth in descent 
 from " Hamelinus" of Domesday, Richard Hamlyn, acquired an 
 estate known as Larkbeare, in the parish of St. Leonard, adjacent 
 to the city of Exeter. One of his sons remained at Larkbeare, 
 and was the ancestor of Hamlyn of Colebrook, of which branch 
 I shall treat hereafter ; the other, known as " Hamlyn the 
 Harper," was of Hill, in Holne, a neighbouring parish to Wide- 
 combe, as shown by the " Fine Rolls " of 3rd Henry III. 
 
 The Hill estate remained in the hands of his posterity until
 
 D E VONSHIRE WII. LS. 
 
 401 
 
 it wa.s sold some few years since by James Hamlyn, to whom 
 it had descended. Hamlyn, "the Harper," of Hill, was the 
 father of William, father of Sir William Hamlyn of Deandon, 
 in Widecombe, Kt, and of Bratton, near Alwington. Sir Wil- 
 liam was one of the knights who returned the great assize for 
 Devon in the year 1250, but died without issue. His brother, 
 Walter, carried on the line, and was the father of William 
 Hamlyn of Dunstone, 34th Edward I., of John Hamlyn .of 
 Chittleford, three years earlier, of Hugh and of Roger Hamlyn, 
 both of Corndon, all estates in the said parish of Widecombe, 
 and also of Robert Hamlyn, who represented Totnes in Parlia- 
 ment in 1311. 
 
 The Hennock branch of the Hamlyns derive from another 
 brother of Sir William. William Hamlyn, of Dunstone, 1306, 
 a property which was purchased from the Pomeroys, left a son, 
 John Hamlyn, whose descendant, of the same name, 1412, was 
 grandfather of John Hamlyn of Dunstone, 1442, and the latter 
 bore the same relationship to Richard Hamlyn of Dunstone, 
 1506, who died in 1522. He left four sons, viz., Robert, son 
 and heir ; 2nd, Richard, ancestor of the Hamlyns of an adjacent 
 property called Southcombe ; 3rd, Thomas of Spitchwick, in 
 Widecombe, and of Hill and Littlecombe, in Holne, ancestor 
 also of branches of the family settled at Ash and Lake, both 
 in Widecombe ; 4th, John, ancestor of the Hamlyns of Clovelly. 
 
 Robert Hamlyn, son and heir of Dunstone, had " seisin " of 
 Dunstone on his father's death in 1522. It is shown by the 
 Inquisition upon his own death that he was the owner of 
 Scobetor, Venton, and Dunstone in Widecombe, of Dawnton in 
 Buckfastleigh, and had also land at Doddiscombleigh, near 
 Exeter ; he died 1556. 
 
 Dawnton then passed to his third son, Richard. His son and 
 heir, Robert Hamlyn, was the direct ancestor of William Hamlyn 
 of Dunstone (see the Ped., Vivian's Additions to Visitations of 
 Devon}, who sold that property, and died in 1782. 
 
 The uncle of the last owner of Dunstone, Hugh Hamlyn of 
 Blackslade Manor, Widecombe, had a second son, John, who 
 settled at Brent ; the lattcr's son, Joseph Hamlyn, purchased 
 land in Buckfastleigh, and died in 1 866. 
 
 It .is due to his energy and perseverance that the woollen trade, 
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 402 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 the old staple business of this county, and which in the past has 
 afforded both honourable occupation and livelihood to very 
 many cadets of our ancient county houses, still flourishes in the 
 valley of the Dart. Joseph Hamlyn founded the great manu- 
 factory at Buckfastleigh, and thus recommenced there an industry 
 which had been long fostered by the Cistercian monks of the 
 neighbouring abbey of Buckfast, and which was afterward con- 
 tinued profitably by his sons Joseph, John, and William, and is 
 now the property of James, Joseph, and William Hamlyn, 
 who are the sons of the late William Hamlyn by his marriage 
 with his kinswoman, Mary, daughter of James Hamlyn of Hill 
 and Littlecombe, already mentioned, and the latter estate is still 
 the property of their mother. 
 
 I must now return to " Hamlyn of Larkbeare, ' the brother of 
 " Hamlyn the Harper" of Hill. He was the father of Sir John 
 Hamlyn, Kt, whose son, Sir Osbert Hamlyn, Kt, of Larkbeare, 
 married the daughter and co-heir of Sir William Pipard of 
 Blakedon, in Widecombe. He was attainted for high treason in 
 1 370, on which account, possibly, his posterity, who long resided 
 at Exeter, St. Thomas, and Alphington, and were benefactors to 
 the latter parish in the early portion of the seventeenth century, 
 prospered in mercantile pursuits, gave mayors to the " faithful 
 city," and filled other municipal offices from time to time ; one 
 of them settled at Paschoe, in the parish of Colebrook, in 1611, 
 by marriage with a co-heir of that family. 
 
 Robert Paschoe Hamlyn, of Paschoe, was the father of 
 Christopher Hamlyn of Paschoe, who married Elizabeth, daughter 
 and eventual co-heir of Vincent Calmady of Langdon, by Eliza- 
 beth, daughter and heir of John Pollexfen, and by this marriage 
 acquired Leawood, in the parish of Bridestowe. Both estates 
 were inherited by their son, Calmady Pollexfen Hamlyn, of 
 Paschoe and Leawood, born 1775, who married the only 
 daughter of Richard Cross of Great Duryard, near Exeter, 
 and had a son, Shilston Calmady Hamlyn, J.P. and D.L., of 
 Paschoe and of Leawood, who by his wife, Sarah Carter, of 
 Neston, Cheshire, was the father of the present owner of these 
 estates, Mr. Vincent Pollexfen Calmady Hamlyn. 
 
 The Hamlyns of Paschoe and Bridestowe bear for arms : 
 * Sa., two swords in saltire, the points upward, hiltcd or; but
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 403 
 
 their ancestor, Sir John Hamlyn, bore the ancient arms of 
 the family, hereinafter blazoned, as shown by the " Borough- 
 bridge " Roll of Arms. 
 
 John Hamlyn, youngest son of Richard Hamlyn of Dunstone, 
 who died in 1522, appears to have settled, probably through 
 marriage, at Mershwell, in the parish of Wool fard is worthy, and 
 his arms, as tinder, with the date 1540, were to be seen in one of 
 the windows of his house. His son, William, born in that year, 
 married, about 1558, Agnes Yeo of Stratton, whose son William, 
 born 1559, was the father of William Hamlyn, baptized at 
 Woolfardisworthy, 2ist October, 1579, and whose grandfather 
 survived until 1597, when he inherited Mershwell. 
 
 His son, William Hamlyn of Mershwell, married Gertrude 
 Gary, and died in 1708, and was succeeded by Zachary Hamlyn, 
 the eldest of fourteen children. 
 
 The latter purchased the Clovelly estate of the Carys in 1729, 
 died without issue, and left his property by will to his grand 
 nephew, James Hammett, grandson of Thomazine Hamlyn. 
 He recorded his pedigree at Herald's College, but did not carry 
 it behind the William Hamlyn of Mershwell who married Agnes 
 Yeo. Mr. Hammett assumed the name of Hamlyn by Act of 
 Parliament in 1760, and was created a baronet in 1795. His 
 son and heir, the second baronet, assumed his mother's name, 
 Williams. The third baronet, Sir James Hamlyn-Williams, 
 married Lady Mary Fortescue, but had no male issue, so the 
 baronetcy became extinct ; his eldest daughter succeeded to the 
 Clovelly property, married Lieut.-Col. Fane, who assumed the 
 additional name of Hamlyn, and had, with other issue, the 
 present Mrs. Hamlyn of Clovelly, whose husband has taken her 
 name. 
 
 Arms of Hamlyn of Widecombe-in-the-Moor, now of Buck- 
 fastleigh : " Gules, a lion rampant, ermine, crowned or."
 
 404 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 THE VENNS OF PEYHEMBURY, ETC. 
 
 William " Pictavensis," who was a sub-tenant in Devonshire 
 under the Norman Ralph de Pomeroy, was the ancestor of 
 " Robert de Peytevin," the owner of the manor and church of 
 Feniton, otherwise Veniton, or " Peytevin's Town," in the year 
 1273, as proved by the "Hundred Roll," and which afterwards 
 passed to his neighbours, the Malherbes, who had then been 
 resident in the parish for several generations. The Domesday 
 entry of the manor of "Feniton" probably refers to the manor 
 now called " Venton," in Widecombe, nigh Ashburton, and 
 which belonged to King William's half-brother Robert, Earl of 
 Mortain, or else to " Fenton " in Rattery. 
 
 Robert de Peytevin probably also gave its prefix to the 
 adjacent parish of Peyhembury, anciently " Petit Hembury," 
 but the manor of Broad-Hembury, which, in 1087, belonged to 
 " Odo," was afterwards parcel of the Duchy of Lancaster, and 
 was long held, from that honour, by the Abbey of Dunkeswell, 
 but it is not my present purpose to trace the descent of the 
 manor of Broad-Hembury, which, prior to the creation of the 
 Duchy of Lancaster, pertained to the Barony of Torrington. 
 
 Both Peyhambury and Broad-Hembury, however, have been 
 long associated with the Venns, who may possibly derive their 
 patronymic from the earlier residence of their ancestors in the 
 neighbouring parish of Venton, alias Feniton. John Venn of 
 Broad-Hembury, whose will was proved at Exeter in 1595, had 
 four sons and two daughters ; his contemporary, Richard Venn, 
 was a benefactor to the poor of Peyhembury, in 3rd James I., 
 1605, an d his descendants have resided there ever since, and are 
 still numbered amongst its principal landowners, and are also 
 lords of the manor of Upton Piudhome, in the same parish. 
 The eldest son of John Venn of Broad-Hembury, William Venn, 
 was baptized there, February 8th, 1568-9. He graduated at 
 Exeter College, Oxford, in 1595, and four years later, on 
 March 2ist, he was instituted to the vicarage of Otterton, which 
 preferment he held for twenty-one years. His patron was 
 John May, by grant, for that turn, of Richard Duke, whose 
 family had then obtained the advowson, which formerly be- 
 longed to the Abbess and Convent of Sion, in the county of
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 405 
 
 Middlesex, and, originally, to the alien priory of Otterton, 
 which had been suppressed in 1414. William Venn was buried 
 at Otterton in 1621, and was immediately succeeded by Isaiah 
 Faringdon, who resigned, probably by arrangement, in 1625, 
 upon which the Dukes conferred the vacant benefice upon the 
 son of their old vicar, Richard Venn, then twenty-four years 
 old, and a graduate, like his father, of Exeter College, Oxford. 
 Richard Venn was twice married ; by his first wife, Elizabeth 
 Westcott, he had two sons and a daughter ; by his second, 
 Margaret Venn, he had a further family of eight children, and 
 the eldest of them became vicar of Holbeton. 
 
 Richard Venn suffered many and grievous hardships at the 
 hands of the Parliamentary Commissioners, was ejected from 
 his living, and confined in prison at Exeter for eleven months 
 from October, 1646, to September in the following year. At 
 one time he was siezed by a party of Puritan soldiers and 
 taken out for summary execution, but his life was saved by 
 the opportune arrival of a detachment of the Royal forces. 
 
 He left a record of his troubles in manuscript, portions of 
 which are considered to be identical with some fragmentary 
 MSS. at the Bodleian Library, and his adventures are included 
 in Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, part ii., pp. 386-7. Hence it 
 appears that during the years of his deprivation he officiated 
 temporarily both at Black Aveton and at Liskeard, but was 
 similarly driven out of each parish. At the Restoration he 
 is said to have been the first clergyman to resume the use of 
 the Book of Common Prayer, at a service which he conducted 
 at the neighbouring church of Ottery St. Mary. 
 
 Immediately after the Restoration of Monarchy had happily 
 become an accomplished fact, he was at once replaced in 
 his vicarage, which had been held by a Nonconformist of the 
 name of Conant, who had characteristically refused to pay 
 him his "fifths" throughout the fourteen years of his intrusion ; 
 when compelled to disgorge by the law, in 1660, Conant is 
 said to have thrown the money at him, and it consequently fell 
 on the floor, but Mr. Venn merely smiled and remarked, " Well, 
 well, I will take the pains to pick it up." He survived his 
 return to Otterton but two years, and was buried there, 28th 
 June, 1662.
 
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 His son, Dennis Venn, born in 1648, was probably named 
 after Dennis Rolle of Bicton, whose early death, in 1638, had 
 been much deplored by his many friends and neighbours. 
 Dennis Venn also graduated at Exeter College, and, at the 
 age of twenty-five, was instituted to the vicarage of Holbeton, 
 and held it for twenty -two years, and was buried there, I2th 
 February, 1695-6. By his first wife, Lucy Fortescue, to whom 
 he was married in 1683, he had a daughter, of her mother's 
 name, who died in infancy; by his second wife, Patience 
 (married 1689), daughter of the Rev. John Gay of St. Anthony, 
 he had two sons and three daughters. 
 
 His eldest son, Richard Venn, was baptized at Holbeton, 
 January 7th, 1690-1, was educated at Blundel's School, Tiverton, 
 where he obtained a Scholarship, and proceeded to Sidney 
 College, Cambridge. He was afterwards rector of St. An- 
 tholin's, in the city of London, from 1725-39, and died of 
 smallpox, February i6th, in the latter year. His wife was 
 the only surviving child of John Ashton, who was keeper of 
 the privy purse in the household of Queen Mary D'Este, 
 consort of King James II., who was Mrs. Venn's godmother. 
 
 John Ashton unfortunately twice failed to escape from 
 England after the abdication of his Royal patrons, and on 
 Monday, the I9th of January, 1690-1, he was indicted, together 
 with " Sir Richard Grahame, Bart." (Viscount Preston), and 
 Edmund Elliot, " for conspiring the deaths " of the new King 
 and Queen, ''and adhering to their enemies." Mr. Ashton 
 appears to have made a bargain for a vessel to take him with 
 his friends across to France on the previous " New Year's Day," 
 and actually deposited the sum of ninety-three guineas for his 
 passage with Mr. Burdett ; they got away safely from the 
 " Surrey Stairs," but were arrested and brought back from 
 Gravesend, with treasonable papers in their possession. They 
 were all found guilty, and Ashton was executed at Tyburn, 
 January 28th following. A full account of the proceedings 
 will be found in Tryals for High Treason, London, 1720, 
 Vol. 5, pp. 614-1636. One of the eight grandchildren of 
 this unfortunate political victim, Henry Venn, was baptized 
 at Barnes, March I5th, 1724-5, graduated at Jesus College, and 
 was afterward a Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge. He
 
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 was the author of The Complete Duty of Man, or a System 
 of Doctrinal and Practical Christianity, which was first pub- 
 lished in 1764, and has gone through numerous editions. He 
 also published a volume of sermons in 1759 ; and Mistakes 
 in Religion, Exposed in an Essay on the PropJiecy of ZacJiarias, 
 in 1774. His l< Life," with a selection from his letters, 
 was published by one of his grandsons, the Rev. Henry 
 Venn, Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, and Vicar 
 of St John's, Holloway, and this work went through six 
 editions. 
 
 He married, firstly, a daughter of the Rev. Thomas Bishop, 
 D.D., and secondly Catherine, daughter of the Rev. James 
 Askew, and widow of a clergyman of the name of Smith. By 
 his first wife he had four daughters, and a son, John. He 
 held the Vicarages of Huddersfield and Yelling during his 
 clerical career, and died at Clapham in 1797. 
 
 His son, John Venn, born at Clapham, March 9th, 1759, 
 graduated at Sidney College, Cambridge, in 1781, and was in- 
 stituted to the Rectory of Little Dunham, Norfolk, in 1783. 
 He died Rector of Clapham, July 1st, 1813, and was a well- 
 known divine and one of the founders of the Church Missionary 
 Society ; he was the author of Sermons, in three volumes, 
 London, 1814-18. By his first wife, Katherine, daughter of 
 William King of Hull, he became the father of five daughters 
 (the eldest of whom was the wife of the Right Honourable 
 Sir James Stephen, K.C.B., the father of Mr. Justice Stephen) 
 and two sons, John Venn, Fellow of Queens' College, already 
 referred to above, and Henry Venn, who was born at Clapham 
 in 1796, graduated at Queen.s', Cambridge, in 1818, and of 
 which College he was a Fellow. In 1826 he was preferred 
 by Simeon's Trustees to the Vicarage of Drypool, Hull, and was 
 Vicar of St. John's, Holloway, from 1834-48, and Prebendary 
 of St. Paul's Cathedral. He was for many years secretary of 
 the Church Missionary Society, and died at East Sheen, 
 January i6th, 1873. By his wife Martha, daughter of Nicholas 
 Sykes of Swanland, Yorkshire, he was the father of the Rev. 
 Henry Venn, M.A., Caius College, Cambridge, Rector of Clare 
 Portion, Tiverton, in this county, from 1870-1885, when he 
 removed to the Vicarage of Sittingbourne ; and also of Dr. John
 
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 Venn, his eldest son, born at Hull, August 4th, 1834, and now 
 Senior Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge, 
 
 Dr. Venn, who was ordained in 1858, has held the curacies 
 of Cheshunt and Mortlake, but resigned his orders, under the 
 recent Act, in 1883. Since then he has resided chiefly in his 
 University, is lecturer in Moral Sciences, and a University ex- 
 aminer, and was Hulsean lecturer in 1869. He is the author 
 of Logic of Change, Empirical Logic, Symbolic Logic, and of 
 various papers in scientific and other periodicals. He was 
 elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1883, and is also a 
 Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He edited the Bap- 
 tismal Register of St. Michael's, Cambridge, 1588-1837, in 1891, 
 and is at present engaged in the preparation of the Caius 
 College admissions, one volume of which has been published. 
 (See also Men of the Time, Edit. 1895, p. 853.) 
 
 Dr. Venn married, June 2ist, 1867, Susanna Carnegie, 
 daughter of the Rev. Charles Edmonstone, Vicar of Christ Church, 
 Hornsey, and has a son, John Archibald Venn, born Novem- 
 ber loth, 1883. 
 
 The arms of Venn, as borne by the Broad- Hembury branch 
 for at least five generations, are thus blazoned : Arg., on a fess 
 within a bordure engrailed az., 3 escallops of the field. 
 
 Crest A dragon's head erased arg., about its neck a collar 
 azure, charged with 3 escallops of the first. 
 
 KELLY OF KELLY. 
 
 The Kellys derive their name from the parish of Kelly, 
 near Tavistock, and have been Lords of the Manor there from 
 time immemorial. It is the " Celodelie " of the Domesday 
 record, and has been curiously confused with Calverleigh, near 
 Tiverton, by Lysons, in the Devonshire volumes of the Magna 
 Britannia. 
 
 As to its earlier history, the neighbouring Manor of "Tave- 
 lande" (that of West Tavy, which includes the church of St. 
 Mary) was held in the reign of Kin^ Edward the Confessor 
 by a Saxon Thegn called " Godric," who was a very consider- 
 able landowner prior to the Conquest, after which, although
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 409 
 
 he seems to have been deprived of the whole of his original 
 property in the county, he appears in Domesday as tenant in 
 capite of the Manors of " Celodelie " (or Kelly), and of 
 " Bolehorde," since known as "Balbury" or " Balbeny," and 
 now as Babeny, in the parish of Lidford, and fifteen miles 
 distant from the Parish Church there. (See my Ashburton 
 and its Neighbourhood, p. 71.) 
 
 Both these Manors had hitherto belonged to another, but 
 less distinguished, Saxon known as " Almar." 
 
 The primary settlement of the Kellys at Kelly can only be 
 a matter of conjecture. It is not only possible, but probable, 
 that they are the veritable descendants of Godric the Saxon, 
 but how the late Sir Bernard Burke can have considered that 
 their authenticated pedigree enables them to derive themselves 
 from the ancient Britons, it is somewhat difficult to understand. 
 
 The most complete pedigree of Kelly, which can at all be 
 regarded as authentic, is that entered on the original roll of 
 the Visitation of Cornwall in 1620 (M. S. Harl., 1079), and 
 which commences with "Nicholas de Kelly," temp. Henry II., 
 1154-1189. He was probably the son of "Martin de Kelly," who 
 flourished in the same reign, as Risdon, writing in 1638, tells 
 us that " Kelly, in King Henry the second's time had its in- 
 habitor Martin de Kelly, whom divers knights of that name 
 succeeded." It is shown by the Exeter Episcopal Registers 
 that John de Kelly presented, as patron, to Kelly Church in 
 1275, and he appears to have been the first of the family who 
 had the Manor of Heavitree, near Exeter, under John de Pycot, 
 and the latter property remained with his descendants until 
 it was sold to the Barings, by Arthur Kelly of Kelly, in 1773. 
 (See my Suburbs of Exeter, p. 8.) 
 
 The Visitation of Devonshire, 1564 (Coll. An D. 7) com- 
 mences with " Thomas Kellye of Kellye," who married Eliza- 
 beth, daughter and co-heir of William Talbot of Spreyton. 
 This Thomas, who married, secondly, Mary Pcnhallow, died 
 I4th September, 1404, as shewn by an " Inq. p.m. 6th Hy. IV." 
 He was the father of Richard Kelly of Kelly, whose great 
 grandson, John Kelly of Kelly, was second son of Oliver Kelly 
 by Joan Tremayne of Collacombe. (For Tremayne genealogy 
 see my Devonshire Parishes, vol. I, pp. 171, 212, et scq.}
 
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 This John was the brother and heir of Oliver Kelly of 
 Kelly, and the first of the family who was entered at the 
 Devonshire "Visitation" of 1620. From him the pedigree is 
 continued to William Kelly of Kelly and his family, and is 
 duly authenticated by his signature (M. S. Harl., 1163, fo. 92b.) 
 
 This William " Kelley " was born loth September, 1589. 
 He married Philippa, daughter of John Conocke of Treworgie, 
 co. Cornwall, by whom he had four daughters and two sons ; at 
 his death, pth November, 1627, his eldest son, Thomas, was a 
 minor, and afterward died childless, when he was succeeded at 
 Kelly by his younger brother, John, whose will was proved at 
 Exeter, I7th June, 1689, and, failing his male issue, he devised 
 his property to his first cousin, Francis, eldest son of his uncle, 
 the Rev. Authur Kelly, rector of the parish, who died in 1662. 
 
 Francis Kelly of Kelly married Elizabeth Tucker of Hols- 
 worthy, and died within eighteen months of his accession to 
 the estate ; his son and heir, Arthur Kelly of Kelly, by his wife, 
 Susannah Handcock, was the father of Arthur Kelly of Kelly 
 who married Mary Tucker of Coryton, and died in 1762. Their 
 eldest son, Arthur Kelly of Kelly, who long commanded the 
 South Devon Regiment of Militia, died in 1823, at eighty- 
 one years of age. His eldest surviving son, Arthur Kelly, was 
 the father of another Arthur, born in 1804, who was Sheriff 
 of Devon in 1836, and died in 1873. 
 
 The late Mr. Kelly's eldest son, Arthur Kelly, who was baptized 
 6th October, 1830, predeceased him in 1846; he was therefore suc- 
 ceeded at Kelly by its present owner, Reginald Kelly of Kelly, 
 J.P. and D.L. for Devon, Sheriff of the county in 1880, and who 
 was born in 1834. Mr. Kelly owns the whole of the parish, which 
 includes 1,700 acres of land (with a population of over 200), and 
 is also patron of the Rectory of Kelly, to which 73 acres of 
 glebe are appropriated. Kelly House, which is a picturesque 
 residence of late Tudor style, is situated near the church. 
 
 Arms of Kelly of Kelly Arg., a chevron between three 
 billets gules. 
 
 Crest. Out of a ducal coronet gu. y an ostrich's head, 
 holding in the beak a horse-shoe or. 
 
 This family quarters Talbot of Spreyton, viz : Arg., a 
 chevron between three talbots sa.
 
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 BREMRIDGE OF BREMRIDGE. 
 
 I have already referred, in notes on previous pages (189 
 and 293), to the ancient family of Bremridge, as to which, 
 Westcote, the seventeenth century author of the View of 
 Devonshire, has observed, in his quaint language, whilst treating 
 of " the progress of the Greedy river ; " " his next neighbour, 
 Bremridge of Bremridge, or rather (as it may be supposed) 
 Bremel-ridge, a place full of brambles and briars, hath had 
 the like good fortune for antiquity ; that race having enjoyed 
 this place the best part of four hundred years, with such a 
 temperate moderation in every succession that greedy desire 
 of riches hath neither much increased nor prodigality de- 
 creased it." (See also my Manor of Winkleigh, p. 41). 
 
 The Bremridges appear to have derived their name from 
 the ancient Manor of " Bremerige," in Southmolton (which 
 afterward passed to the Tracys, and, in more recent times 
 to the Dodderidges), and to have given it to their subsequent 
 residence, " Bremridge," within the Manor of Posbury-Brad- 
 leigh, in the hundred of Crediton and parish of Sandford. 
 
 Sandford is an ancient Chapelry in Crediton parish, and 
 here the Dodderidges, and Dowrishs, were likewise settled at 
 an early date, and gave name also to their respective pro- 
 perties. 
 
 In the year 1087 the Manor of Sandford, to the extent of 
 two hides and a half of land, belonged to the Barony of 
 Okehampton, that of " Bremerige " and Bradleigh, to the latter 
 of which the land afterward known as Bremridge, in Sandford, 
 was appendant, had been given by the Norman Conqueror 
 to his Chief Justice, Jeffery, the warrior Bishop of Coutance, 
 under whom both these Manors were held by the King's relative, 
 Drogo Fitz-Mauger. This " Drogo " was a son of Mauger 
 le Ponz,* who was the third son of Richard " le Bon," second 
 Duke of Normandy, the Conqueror's grandfather, and nephew 
 of Mauger, the ancestor of the Granvilles of Stowe and 
 Bideford, whose descent from Rollo the Dane will be found 
 in my Notes, Genealogical and Historical, p. 12, et seq. 
 
 * Lysons, and others, call him son of " Walter de Ponz."
 
 412 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Another son of Mauger, Richard Fitz-Ponz, was the ancestor 
 of the noble house of Clifford. 
 
 Drogo Fitz-Mauger, although he did not hold directly from 
 the Crown, was, as a sub-tenant to Jeffery de Coutance of no less 
 than seventy-three Manors, one of the largest landed proprietors 
 in Devonshire. His Manor of Bremerige in Southmolton, 
 which passed at an early date to the Tracys, and from them 
 descended to the Martins, probably came to the former in 
 marriage with a granddaughter, heir, or co-heir to one of his 
 several sons, another of whom, " Drogo," appears to have 
 been settled upon his Manor of " Hagintone," since known as 
 Hayne, in the parish of Newton St. Cyres, and has been 
 claimed as the forefather through " a younger branch " of the 
 " Drewes " of Grange, sometime of Killerton, and of the 
 " Drews " of Youghal, co. Cork. Hayne, however, passed to 
 the Northcotes, i/th May, 1585, by the marriage of Mary, 
 daughter and heir of Edmund Drewe of Hayne, with Walter 
 Northcote of Crediton, who had an only child, Elizabeth, first 
 the wife of George Yarde of Churston, by whom she had issue, 
 and afterward of Dr. Barnabas Potter, the Calvinist, Lord 
 Bishop of Carlisle. (See my Ashburton and its Neighbourhood, 
 p. 135). Hayne, however, has descended in the issue of 
 Walter Northcote's elder brother, John Northcote of Uton. 
 (See Northcote genealogy, post}. 
 
 The pedigree of Drewe of Sharpham, afterward of Killerton, 
 and since of Grange, in the parish of Broad- Hembury, as 
 entered at the Herald's Visitations of Devonshire, commences 
 with William Drewe of Sharpham, whose third son died 22nd - 
 June, 1548. His descendant, Edward Drewe, purchased the 
 Grange, which had belonged to the dissolved Abbey of Dunkes- 
 well, of Henry Wriothesley, third Earl of Southampton, in or 
 about the year 1601. The same Edward (who was a sergeant- 
 at-law, Recorder of Exeter, 1592, and grandson of John Drewe 
 of the parish of St. Leonard, Exeter, second in descent from 
 William, third son of the William Drewe who commences the 
 pedigree, and who acquired Sharpham by his marriage with 
 Joan, daughter and co-heir of John Prideaux of Modbury) also 
 purchased Killerton of the devisors of the last daughter and 
 heir of that name and house, and his son, Sir Thomas Drewe, Kt,
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 413 
 
 sold it to Sir Arthur Acland, father of the first Baronet and 
 nephew of Sir John Acland, Kt, who purchased Columb John, 
 in the same parish, the ancient residence of the Culmes, of 
 William Rowswell, and died in 1620. (See Acland genealogy, 
 post). 
 
 Sir Thomas Drewe, the first of the family who resided at 
 the " Grange," which was built by him in his father's life-time, 
 1610, died there I5th July, 1651. 
 
 According to their pedigree in Burke's Landed Gentry, the 
 Drews of Youghal, co. Cork, and of Drevvsboro', co. Clare, claim 
 to originate from " Drogo," through Drewe of Hayne, in right 
 of descent from Francis, asserted to have been the " second son 
 of John Drew of Hayne, etc., by Joan Williams of Ivesbridge."* 
 I have neither space nor inclination to notice, at any length, 
 the very obvious errors and assumptions in the earlier portion 
 of the genealogy I now quote, according to which this 
 Francis " went to Ireland, a captain in the army of Queen 
 Elizabeth, about the year 1598, was afterward of Kilwinny, 
 co. Waterford, &c., married twice, and was the father of John 
 Drew of Kilwinny, and of Barry Drew of Ballyduff, the an- 
 cestors of these Irish branches." 
 
 It is sufficient to say that it was Joane, not " John Drew," 
 who was the wife, not " husband," of John Williams of Tro- 
 bridge, co. Devon, that the father of Francis, younger brother 
 of Edward Drewe of Hayne, not "Richard," does not appear 
 to have been the Francis, if he ever had any real existence, 
 who settled in Ireland ; at all events Francis Drew of Newton 
 St. Cyres, and the nephew, not "son," of Joan Williams, was 
 buried there, as shewn by the parish register, 2Oth June, 
 1605. 
 
 " Walter," another son of Drogo Fitz-Mauger, and therefore 
 brother of " Drogo," the ancestor of Drewe of Hayne (which 
 estate now belongs to Lord Iddesleigh), was known, probably 
 from his birthplace, as " de Bremerige." That he was settled 
 upon that portion of his father's property which was situated in 
 Sandford, that he must have given his name to it, and that 
 
 * Ivy Bridge, in the parish of ILirford, on ihe Erme. For " Williams," see my 
 Devonshire Parishes, vol. ii., pp. 220, 221.
 
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 it was appendant to his father's Manor of Bradleigh, otherwise 
 Posbury-Brad!ei<jh, is sufficiently proved by existing con- 
 temporary records, together with the fact that he was the 
 father and grandfather of Richard and Robert de Bremerige. 
 
 The latter " recovered " his land in Sandford in or about 
 the year 1218, upon doing the customary homage and service 
 to the chief lord of the fee, and upon surrender of " one ox 
 and one horse" as an heriot, as "son of Richard, son of Walter 
 de Bremelrig, whose land it was." The tenure was the annual 
 render of " three little sieves of chimney soot, five sieves of 
 oats, and a small money payment." Amongst the witnesses 
 to this " recovery " I find the name of his neighbour, " Gilbert 
 de Dodarig." 
 
 In the third year of Henry III., 1218, Jordan de Coketrewe, 
 in the presence of Josceline, Bishop of Bath and Wells, Roger 
 Cole, Canon of Exeter, and others, acknowledged the right 
 of " Robert, son of Richard de Bremelrigg," to one ferling 
 of land in " Bremelrigg." His descendants continued to possess 
 this Sandford property from generation to generation, but 
 when the Manor of Posbury-Bradleigh became alienated from 
 the posterity of Drogo Fitz-Mauger, I am, at present, unable 
 to say. It is shown by an indenture dated 2oth April, I2th 
 Henry VIII., 1521, that John Bremridge then held Bremridge 
 as of the Manor of Bradleigh, whose then owner was a certain 
 John Ford. This John Bremridge, who had sisters, Thomasine 
 and Mary, was the son of John Bremridge of Bremridge, by 
 his wife, Christian Ware, and died in 1581, and the latter was 
 the son and heir of William Bremridge of Bremridge (twelfth 
 in direct descent from Drogo Fitz-Mauger), who had release 
 of all tenements, lands, reversions, rents, etc., etc., in " Breme- 
 rygge," 1 8th January, Qth Edward IV., 1469. 
 
 On the 5th April, 23rd Elizabeth, 1581, John Bremridge, 
 son of the John of 1521 above mentioned, did homage and 
 service to George Pollard, then the Lord of the Manor of 
 Posbury-Bradleigh, and duly recovered seizin of Bremridge, 
 his inheritance. By an Inq. p.m. taken at Okehampton, i6th 
 June, 4ist Elizabeth (1599), it appears that he died "seized 
 of one capital messuage or tenement called Bremridge, with 
 three orchards, two gardens, seventy acres of land, four of
 
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 4'5 
 
 meadow, and half an acre of wood, within the parish and 
 hundred of Crediton, all held of Richard Pollard and John 
 Hele, serjeant-at-law, as parcel of the Manor of Posbury- 
 Bradleigh, by the eighth part of a knight's fee and by the 
 annual rent of seven shillings and five pence, that he held 
 no other Manors in reversion, remainder, or in use, on the 
 day he died, and that William Bremridge was his son and 
 next heir and aged twenty-one years or more." 
 
 The grandson of the latter, John Bremridge, was the father 
 of John, son and heir, of Bremridge, and also of a younger 
 son who liekwise resided in Sandford, and had a son, also of 
 Sandford, the father of Samuel Bremridge, of whom here- 
 
 \ 
 
 after, and of two daughters, Sarah (Langworthy) and Mary 
 Force. 
 
 John, son and heir of John Bremridge, married Mary Reed 
 of Priors Town, Sandford, and was the father of John Brem- 
 ridge, who, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of William Smale 
 of Witheridge, had a son, John, who died unmarried, and a 
 daughter, Anna Maria,* heir to her brother, and who brought 
 Bremridge, in 1788, to her husband, Richard Melhuish of 
 Poughill (a brother of John Melhuish of Hill in Cruse Morchard), 
 whose daughter, Elizabeth, married Jonathan Worthy. (See 
 ante, pp. 79, 80 ; and " Worthe of Worth," post.} 
 
 Thomas Melhuish of Poughill inherited Bremridge in right 
 of his mother, and married his kinswoman, Elizabeth, daughter 
 of the Rev. T. Melhuish of Clawton and Ashwater, by whom 
 he had Thomas Bremridge Melhuish, son and heir, born 1812, 
 of Bremridge and Poughill, and rector of the latter parish. 
 Upon his death, October 7th, 1885, his son John, then a minor, 
 succeeded to Bremridge and the rest of the property, which 
 has all been recently sold 1894-1895. 
 
 Samuel Bremridge, above mentioned, of Sandford, and after- 
 ward of Barnstaple, acquired a lease of a house in the latter 
 borough in 1806, and was a Coroner of the County. He married 
 Ann, daughter of Thomas Scott of High Bickington in 1763, 
 and was the father, inter altos, of John Bremridge, first son 
 
 * She was married 2oth November, 1775, and was the first wife of Richard 
 Melhuish, who afterward married Prideaux.
 
 416 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 and heir, who married Anne Colley ;* Samuel Bremridge, whose 
 son, Richard, some time represented Barnstaple in Parliament ; 
 and also of Thomas Bremridge of the H.E.I.C.N.S., who was 
 born in 1769, and married, in 1818, Elizabeth Hicks, daughter 
 and co-heir of John, elder brother of Jonathan Worthy of 
 Exeter, above mentioned, by whom he had issue James Philip, 
 Thomas Julius, and Maria Worthy. 
 
 The eldest son, James Philip Bremridge, born 7th February, 
 1820, of St. John's College, Oxford, was for some years Vicar 
 of Winkleigh, and married, in 1847, Mary, daughter of Henry 
 Melhuish Ford of Exeter, and died in 1887, leaving issue 
 Philip Bremridge, eldest son, born I4th July, 1848, who now 
 resides at Winkleigh ; Henry, late of Exeter College, Oxford, 
 and who was instituted to the Vicarage of Winkleigh in suc- 
 cession to his father upon the presentation of the Dean and 
 Chapter of Exeter, and has issue ; and a daughter, Mary. He 
 had also a second son, John, who predeceased him, nth 
 September, 1884, set 31. 
 
 The second son, Thomas Julius Bremridge, of the Vineyard 
 (Exeter Castle), was born 7th March, 1824, has long held the 
 offices of Registrar of the Archdeaconry of Exeter and Clerk 
 
 * John Bremridge had, with three daughters, a son and heir, James Bremridge, 
 who died s.p., and a second son, John, who died unmarried in 1878, aet. 76. Their 
 mother, Anne Colley, who was married in 1796, and died in 1845, after a widow- 
 hood of thirty-seven years, was the grand-daughter of the Rev. James Colley, 
 Rector of Martinhoe, great-grandson of Sir Anthony Colley, Kt., by his wife, 
 Anne, daughter and heir of Sir William Turpin, Kt., by Elizabeth, sister of 
 Richard Fiennes, whose claim to the Barony of Say and Sele (writ 3rd March, 
 1447) was recognised by letters patent of 9th August, 1603. His lordship was 
 the grandson of Edward, who, for family reasons, never assumed the title, 
 grandson of Henry " Lord Saye, who was never summoned to Parliament," 
 and died in 1476. The latter was son and heir of William, second Lord Saye, by 
 Margaret, daughter and sole heir of William Wickham, son of Sir Thomas Perot, Kt., 
 who assumed the name of Wickham in memory of his grandmother, Agnes Perot de 
 Wickham, wife of William Champneis, and sister of William Perot, otherwise 
 "William of Wickham," the celebrated Bishop of Winchester, the founder of Win- 
 chester College and of New College, Oxford, and the architect of that portion of the 
 fabric of Windsor Castle which was erected in the reign of Edward III. The 
 Bishop died at South Waltham, Saturday, 27th September, 1404. His ancestors, 
 the Perots of Wickham, co. Hants, were the descendants of Sir Stephen Perot by his 
 marriage with Princess Helen, daughter and sole heir of Marchin, son of Howel 
 Dhu, surnamed "the good," who died in 947, grandson of Roderick the Great, 
 King of all Wales. 
 
 The Colleys settled in Devonshire upon the preferment of Thomas Colley, Clerk in 
 Holy Orders (son of Dr. Thomas Colley, Registrar to the Bishop of London, son of 
 the aforesaid Sir Anthony Colley) to the Rectories of Georgeham and Sherwill. He 
 mairied Mary, daughter of Sir T. Stukeley, and died in 1698. He claimed a com- 
 mon origin with the family of Colley of Castle Carbery, the paternal ancestors of the 
 Wellesleys, Earls of Mornington and Dukes of Wellington, whose original name was 
 Colley.
 
 DE VONSH1RE If 'ILLS. 
 
 4>7 
 
 of the Peace for that city. He married in 1857, Margaret, 
 youngest daughter of the late Henry Melhuish Ford, of Exeter, 
 and younger sister of the late Mrs. J. P. Bremridge of Wink- 
 leigh. 
 
 Anns of Bremridge Sa., a chevron between 3 crosslets or. 
 
 Crest An arm embowed in armour, holding a dagger 
 point upward in pale ppr. hilted or. 
 
 Motto " Nil Desperandum." 
 
 The Bremridges quarter Worthy (lit post, Worth of Worth, 
 but differenced with a crescent). 
 
 FULFORD OF GREAT FULFORD. 
 
 There are so many discrepancies, inaccuracies, and palpable 
 genealogical errors, in the several notices of the ancient owners 
 of Great Fulford, for whom a " Saxon origin " has been com- 
 monly, but hypothetically, claimed, that I have decided, without 
 unnecessary reference to other writers, to confine myself to the 
 facts I have been able to recover as to their descent, and to 
 dwell but lightly upon those points in their history which have 
 manifestly originated in mere tradition. 
 
 Although the several pedigrees of this family, as recorded by 
 the Heralds at the sixteenth century Visitations of the county, 
 differ considerably in the earlier generations, the long residence 
 of the Ful fords at Great Fulford possibly from the time of 
 Richard the first, positively from that of Henry III. may be 
 freely admitted ; but this property, which is situated in the 
 parish of Dunsford and hundred of Wonford, and invariably 
 described in old records as the " Vill " of Fulford, has been 
 strangely confused with the only manor of similar name men- 
 tioned in the Exeter Domesday, and written " Folefort " in 
 that record, and " Foleford " in the Exchequer Copy of the 
 Survey. 
 
 " Folefort," however, was the property now merged with 
 " Shobrooke Park," and known as Little Fulford, which, in 
 1086, consisted of about forty acres of land, inclusive of four of 
 meadow and twenty of pasture. It was rated, in the Confessor's 
 reign, at seven shillings p. #., and passed at the Conquest to 
 28
 
 418 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Baldwin de Brion, under whom it was held by Motbert, who 
 was the owner, under the same chief lord, of other neighbouring 
 estates, such as Kennerleigh and Eggbeare, in Cheriton Bishop, 
 and after descending through several families it was ultimately 
 sold by the Mallets (who had acquired it in marriage with Hatch, 
 of Wolleigh, in Beaford), to Sir William Perriam, Lord Chief 
 Baron of the Exchequer, who built a house there, and died 
 in 1605 ; his co-heirs again sold it to the Tuckfields, who 
 erected the mansion now known as " Shobrooke Park," which, 
 from them, has descended by devise, through Hippesley, to 
 its present owner, Sir John Shelley, Bart. This property is 
 situated partly in Shobrooke and partly in the parish of 
 Crediton. 
 
 The Manor of Dunsford did not change hands at the Con- 
 quest, but was left in the quiet possession of a Saxon Thegn 
 called "Saulf," together with a neighbouring property, in Tedburn 
 St. Mary, known as Melhywis (Melhuish). Saulf, however, was 
 deprived of other lands which he had held in the reign of 
 Edward the Confessor, which were given to Robert of Mortain 
 and to the latter's powerful henchman, Alured Brito, and it is 
 improbable that this Saxon owner was left at ease in his 
 curtailed estates during the troublous times that followed the 
 death of William the First and the reigns of his sons, Rufus 
 and Henry, and their nephew, Stephen. Risdon (A.D. 1638) 
 remarks that " Dunsford by Teign side was in ancient times 
 the lands of William Bacon the Norman," and the " William 
 Bacon " thus referred to can only have been the younger of 
 the great-grandsons of " Grimbald," the kinsman of Earl Warren, 
 and the commonly asserted ancestor of our premier Baronet. 
 This William and his brother, " Robert," are both said to have 
 taken the name of " Bacon," and they must have been contem- 
 poraries of King Henry II. 
 
 But the parish of Dunsford extends over nearly six thousand 
 acres, and there are several estates in it, which, like Great 
 Fulford, have not descended with the manor, which was 
 not owned by the Fulfords until the sixteenth century, nor 
 has any proof at all been adduced as to their connection 
 even with the parish until the reign of Richard I. at the earliest, 
 and then it is that a certain "William tfk Turpi Vado" or William
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 449 
 
 of \\\z foul ford > a designation which appears to point plainly to 
 some memorable episode in the Holy wars, possibly to the 
 defeat of the Army of the Cross at Tiberias, in 1187, is 
 described as " de Fulford." This William de Fulford, or " de 
 Turpi Vado" is traditionally believed to have distinguished 
 himself greatly in the third Crusade, and is the first recorded 
 ancestor of the family. It must be remembered, however, 
 that there are other places of the same name both in Stafford- 
 shire and Yorkshire, and it was at the "foul ford " (Fulford) near 
 York that Edwin and Morcar were defeated by Harold Hardrada, 
 King of Norway, just before the Battle of Hastings, September 
 2Oth, 1066. Whatsoever he may have done to deserve such a 
 signal mark of Royal favour as the grant of these lands must 
 suggest, or however he may have come by his surname, it 
 seems to me clear that " William de Turpi Vado " gave it, in 
 its English form, to the "Vill of Fulford," and that the latter 
 had been originally a portion of Saxon Saulf's great Manor 
 of Dunsford, which had become subdivided when taken in 
 hand by the Crown, as chief lords of the fee, probably very 
 soon after the completion of the Domesday Survey, and thus 
 the lordship of Dunsford, after an interval of some years, was 
 again resumed by King John, and given by him to the Sack- 
 villes ; whilst that part of it since known as Fulford, was 
 doubtless acquired by " William," either in the latter part of 
 the reign of Henry the Second, or perhaps upon the return 
 to England of his son, King Richard the First, in 1194, and 
 after the second coronation of that monarch. 
 
 The pedigree of Fulford, as recorded at the Devonshire 
 Visitation of 1564 (MS. Harl., 5185), commences with this 
 " William de Turpi Vado" therein described as " William de 
 Fulford, temp. R. I.," whose son, Nicholas de Fulford, was 
 the father of "William de Fulford," whose first wife was Mary, 
 daughter and co-heir of Baldwin de Belston, who was also 
 the owner of the Manor of Parkham, near Bideford. 
 
 Both these Manors had been held, in 1087, by " Richard," 
 under Baldwin de Brion, and it is probable that the succeeding 
 " de Belstons," most of whom were called Baldwin, were the 
 natural grandchildren of " de Brion," whose eldest son, 
 Richard, had no lawful issue, on which account the hereditary
 
 420 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Shrievalty of Devon passed to his sister, Adeliza, as I have 
 fully explained elsewhere. (Devonshire Parishes, vol. i, pp. 78, 
 et seq. Suburbs of Exeter, pp. 144, et seg.} 
 
 Mary de BeLstone inherited a third of the Manor of Belstone, 
 situated about three miles distant from Okehampton Castle, 
 the seat of "de Brion's" Barony, and also a third of Parkham. 
 Her husband, " William de Fulford," as co-patron with her 
 brother-in-law, " Richard de Speckot," jointly presented to the 
 vacant Rectory of Belstone, 23rd April, 1260 (44th Henry III.), 
 and this is the first time the Fulfords are referred to in the 
 registers of the Diocese of Exeter. The advowson of Belstone 
 and the third share* of the manor of the parish were sold by 
 John Fulford of Great Fulford, who died, s. p., 1780, to the 
 Rev. Joshua Hole. 
 
 According to the Visitation pedigree of 1564, "William de 
 Fulford and Mary de Belstone " had issue, " Henry," who had 
 issue, "William," temp. " Edward III.," who was the father of 
 " Henry de Fulford, Justic. in lege eruditus" his legal skill, 
 and status, being a mere family tradition. This " Henry," 
 moreover, is made the father of " Baldwin de Fulford, Kt," 
 who was She-riff of Devon in 1460, by the omission of very 
 many generations. 
 
 The Visitation pedigree of 1620 commences with " Edmondus 
 Fulford de Fulford," from whom the said " Sir Baldwin " ap- 
 pears to be eighth in descent, " Edmondus " being the grand- 
 son of the " Henry skilled in the law," of the Herald's record 
 of 1564. The pedigree of 1620 is vouched for by the sig- 
 nature of " Andrew Fulford," who was a cadet of the family, 
 and resided at Littleham, where he was buried in January, 
 1626-27. 
 
 The editors of Westcote's View of Devonshire^ 1627-42, 
 published in 1845, have substituted a descent of their own, 
 " compiled," as they remark, " on better authority " than 
 that supplied by their author, "and his continuator," John Prince. 
 This genealogy entirely overlooks the descent vouched for, 
 to SS. George and Lennard, by the signature of Andrew 
 
 * The third sister married de Wigomia, see ante, families of Wykes and 
 Cheverstone. 
 
 f The Rev. Dr. Oliver and Pitman Jones.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 421 
 
 Fulford in 1620, and has added considerably to the already 
 sufficient genealogical confusion; they have also made "Sir 
 Henry, alias Sir William, Fulford," whose knighthood is not 
 asserted in the Herald's pedigree, but who flourished in the 
 reign of Richard II., the father of the Sir Baldwin Fulford of 
 1460. 
 
 I shall now endeavour to reconcile and correct these several 
 contradictory descents. William de Fulford, son of Nicholas, 
 and grandson of William, the first of his family of Great 
 Fulford, presented, as I have said, to the Rectory of Belstone 
 in the year 1260; by his wife, Mary, youngest daughter and 
 co-heir of Baldwin de Belston, he had Baldwin and Amias, 
 who appear to have been amongst the several gentlemen 
 of this county who accompanied Prince Edward, the heir to 
 the throne, to the Holy Land in the year 1269, and another 
 son, Henry, who succeeded him at Great Fulford. 
 
 Doubtless Baldwin was the hero of an adventure, which may 
 perhaps be referred to, the capture of Acre by the infidels in 
 1291 (when, it will be remembered, the Christian recluses in 
 that city disfigured their faces in order to escape the lust of 
 their conquerors), and which the figures of two Saracens, borne, 
 by prescriptive right, as supporters to the arms of this family, 
 are said to commemorate. I will give the story in the words 
 of Tristram Risdon : "Sir Baldwin Fulford of deserved memory 
 for worth and valour, records testify that for the honour and 
 liberty of a royal lady in a castle besieged he fought a combat 
 with a Saracen, for growth an unequal match, and obtained 
 victory by the death of his opponent." With respect to the 
 "bulk, and bigness," of this redoubtable Saracen, John Prince 
 adds, " as the representation of him cut in the wainscot, in 
 Fulford Hall, doth plainly show." 
 
 The old writers have evidently confused this Sir Baldwin with 
 a collateral descendant who flourished many generations later ; 
 but how the late Sir Bernard Burke can have gravely per- 
 petuated such an anachronism, by explaining, when repeating 
 the tradition, that its hero was " Sheriff of Devon in 38th o( 
 Henry VI." (1459-60), it is indeed difficult to understand.. 
 Henry de Fulford, brother of Baldwin and Amias, succeeded 
 to Great Fulford, and was the father of William, Visitation 1564,
 
 422 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 who probably died without issue, as his brother, " Edmund 
 Fulford of Fulford," commences the pedigree entered by 
 Andrew Fulford in 1620. This Edmund was the father of 
 John Fulford of Fulford, who, by his wife, Alice, daughter 
 and co-heir of Ralph, son and heir of Sir Reginald de Fitzurse, 
 had issue, Henry de Fulford of Fulford, son and heir. 
 
 This Henry de Fulford is said, but erroneously, to have 
 been a Judge, and in the Visitation pedigree of 1564 he is 
 described as " skilled in the law." Prince misquotes Sir 
 William Pole, and has published the hypothetical history, 
 founded upon a misprint in Godwin's De Prczsulibus Anglice 
 Eboracenses, p. 59, of " Sir William Fulford, Kt.," whom he 
 describes as " a younger brother of Henry Fulford," and relates 
 that, as one of the Justices of the King's Bench, he presided 
 at the trial of Richard Scroope (L'Escrope), Archbishop of 
 York, who was beheaded for opposition to the usurpation 
 of Henry IV., June 8th, 1405. John Prince blandly explains 
 that he cannot discover any such "Justice," but presumes 
 that the first portion of his name must have been omitted and 
 that he was identical with the "William Ford " mentioned by 
 Dugdale as a "Baron of the Exchequer," I2th Richard II. 
 and ist Henry IV. However, as he gives us particulars of 
 his education, and asserts his connection with the Fulford 
 family, the inclusion of his biography is alone sufficient to 
 disparage the general value of The Worthies of Devon, which 
 is full of similar inaccuracies. In this particular instance, 
 in which he has been misled by Bishop Godwin, the latter 
 author doubtless intended to refer to Sir William Fulthorp, who 
 was certainly "skilled in the law of the kingdom," legum regni 
 perito, as the Bishop says, although others who have pointed out 
 Prince's error, and have referred to Fulthorp as a mistake for 
 Fulford, have asserted that he was "a Knight, not a Judge." 
 Nevertheless, Fulthorp happens to have been one of the five 
 judges* from whom King Richard obtained an opinion at 
 Nottingham, August 25th, 1387, that the council of eleven, 
 with the Duke of Gloucester at their head, and which had 
 deprived him of all power since the previous October, was 
 
 * The five judges were Trtsilian, Belknap, Holt, Burgh, and Fulthorp.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 423 
 
 illegal, and that those who acted under it were traitors. All tlic 
 extant records of the Visitation of 1564 are merely accepted 
 copies of the original notes of the Heralds, and, as there does not 
 appear to have been any such person as "Sir William Fulford," 
 at the period referred to, it is probable that Godwin's error was 
 perpetuated, perhaps by Dugdale, by the subsequent insertion of 
 the words " Justic. in lege eruditus " after the name of Sir Henry 
 Fulford, who was certainly not a judge, in the copies of the 
 Visitation pedigree. The first edition of Godwin's work ap- 
 peared in 1 60 1. Henry Fulford, who is made the father of 
 Sir Baldwin in the pedigree of 1564, had by his wife and 
 kinswoman, Wilhelmina, daughter and heir of John Laiigduii, 
 by a co-heir of Ralph Fitz-Urse, a son, William, who was born, 
 probably about 1355, and was the father of William, son and 
 heir, who seems to have died without issue and to have 
 been succeeded at Great Fulford by his brother, Thomas, who 
 is set down as his son in the original MS. of the Visitation 
 of 1620. 
 
 Thomas Fulford of Great Fulford, born about 1378, married 
 a daughter and co-heir of William de Moreton of West Put- 
 ford (the other co-heir married Gary), and was the father of 
 John Fulford, son and heir, c. 1399, whose son and heir, Henry 
 Fulford of Fulford, married the daughter and heir of Philip 
 Bryan, third son of Guy Lord Biyan of Tor Bryan, in this 
 county, who died in 1391. He had a daughter, Katherine, 
 wife of Ralph Prye, and who afterward married John Glynn 
 of Morvell, and two sons, William, a Canon of Exeter and 
 Archdeacon of Barnstaple, 1462, and who died in 1475, and 
 Sir Baldwin Fulford, son and heir, of Great Fulford. 
 
 Sir Baldwin, who, as I have previously remarked, has 
 been confounded both in family tradition as well as by 
 the Heralds and by the several county historians, with his 
 namesake, the Crusader, who was brother of his ancestor, 
 Henry Fulford, the son of that William Fulford who flourished 
 in 1260, was Sheriff of Devon in 1455-56, and again filled 
 the same office in 1460-61. He was a Knight of the Sepulchre 
 and subordinate to Henry Holland, third Duke of Exeter, 
 in the office of High Admiral of England. He fought at 
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 424 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 escaped from that sanguinary engagement, but he was after- 
 ward taken prisoner at Hexham and beheaded, by order 
 of the Lord Montacute, May I5th, 1465. By his wife, Jennet, 
 daughter and heir of John Bosome, alias Bozun, of Bosome- 
 Hele, in the parish of Dittisham (a younger branch of the 
 Bozuns of Ilton, whose heiress brought that property to Chever- 
 stone (see Cheverstone pedigree, ante), and great-granddaughter 
 of Robert Bosome, by Joan, daughter and heir of Henry St. 
 George) Sir Baldwin had a son and heir, Thomas ; a son John, 
 who was Archdeacon of Totnes, Cornwall, and Exeter, succes- 
 sively, between the years 1499 and 1518, when he died and 
 was buried in Exeter Cathedral ; and two daughters, the eldest 
 of whom, Thomazine, married Sir Thomas Wise, and, through 
 her daughter, Alice, was the ancestress of the present Dukes 
 of Bedford (see Wise pedigree, ante}, whilst the youngest, Anna, 
 married Sir William Cary, her kinsman, who fell at Tewkesbury 
 in 1471. 
 
 Sir Thomas Fulford, who has been confused by Lysons, 
 Mag. Brit., with his younger son of the same name, has 
 been said, by several authors, to have been beheaded in or 
 about the year 1471. He was, however, attainted with other 
 malcontents by Richard III. in October, 1483, but survived 
 the accession of Henry VII., and died 2Oth February, 1489 
 (6th Henry VII., Inq., p.m.}. By his wife, Philippa, daughter 
 of Sir Philip Courtenay of Powderham, he had a son, Sir 
 Humphry Fulford, Kt. of the Bath ; a third son, Thomas, above 
 mentioned, and who was the " Sir Thomas " cited by Lysons as 
 having assisted at the relief of Exeter in the Perkin Warbeck 
 siege of that city in September, 1497 ; a second son 
 William, and a fourth son Philip. Sir Humphry married a 
 daughter and co-heir of John Bonvile of Shute, but as he died 
 childless he was succeeded by his next brother, William, as 
 heir-at-law ; the latter married Joan, daughter of John Bonvile 
 of Combe Ralegh,* and had five sons, the eldest of whom was 
 a minor at his father's death in 1517, and was left to the 
 guardianship of his uncle, Philip Fulford, the fourth son of 
 Sir Thomas and Philippa Courtenay, who survived until 1532. 
 
 * See note as to the Fulford Armorials, post.
 
 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 425 
 
 Philip's nephew, Sir John Fulford of Great Fulford, Kt., 
 attained his majority in 1523, was Sheriff of Devon in 
 1534-35, and again in 1540-41. His will, dated nth July, 
 1544, was proved in London, 3ist May, 1546, sometime after 
 his death, which had occurred on the I4th November, 1544. 
 
 As I have remarked above, up to this date the Fulfords 
 had not acquired the lordship of the Manor of Dunsford, 
 although they had been settled for so many generations upon 
 that portion of its ancient lands, which, in accordance with the 
 reflection of the Psalmist, they " had called after their own 
 names." According to Risdon, the successor of Saulf, the 
 Saxon Thegn, in the Manor of Dunsford, appears to have been 
 " Bacon," who can only have been identical with Sir William 
 Bacon, of Monks Bradfield, co. Suffolk, brother of Robert, 
 great-grandson of "Grimbaldus," the Norman kinsman of Earl 
 Warren, who was created Earl of Surrey by William Rufus. 
 This William, who, with his brother " Robert," flourished in 
 the reign of Henry II., assumed the name of Bacon, but did 
 not long remain the owner of Dunsford, which is said to have 
 been given by King John to Robert Sachville, or Sackville, 
 whose family owned Clist Sachville, in the parish of Faringdon. 
 I may here remark that the lordship of the Hundred of W r on- 
 ford, in which Dunsford is situated, was restored by the same 
 monarch to the Mandeville family, whose gift of it to them 
 by Henry I. had been forfeited by a subsequent attainder. 
 
 The Manor of Dunsford seems to have descended from 
 Robert Sachville to his nephew, Philip Causbeuf, whose 
 daughter and heir, Amisia, brought it in marriage to her hus- 
 band, Robert de Blackford. John, son of Robert de Black- 
 ford, sold the Manor of Dunsford, with the advowson of 
 the parish church, which had been dedicated, as the church 
 of St. Mary, by Bishop Broncecombe, 29th July, 1262, to 
 Bishop Peter Quivil, or Quiril, of Exeter, as agent for Maud, 
 daughter of John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, and widow of 
 Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, in or about the year 
 1284, in order that it might form a portion of the magnificent 
 endowment of that charitable lady to the priory of Canonsleigh, 
 in the parish of Burlescombe, and which, originally dependent 
 on Plympton, was turned into an Abbey for Canonesses of the
 
 426 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 order of St. Augustine in that year through the Bishop's 
 exertions and influence with the said Countess. By deed en- 
 rolled before the King's Justices at Exeter, I4th Edward I., 
 1285-6, John de Blakeford executed a quit claim of this 
 property with the reservation of an annual rent of one penny, 
 to himself and his heirs, at Michaelmas, and by a further 
 deed he authorised the purchasers to exchange it with the 
 Dean and Chapter of Exeter for the Manor of Clist Hynton 
 if they wished. The sale was duly confirmed April /th, 6th 
 Edward II., 1313, by the Lords of the Hundred of Wonford, 
 as Chief Lords, under the Crown, of the Manor of Dunsford, 
 viz., by John de Mandeville and Sir Robert Fitz-Payne. 
 
 On 5th August, 1314, Bishop Stapeldon assigned for the 
 support of the then Vicar of Dunsford, Pagan de Excestria 
 (who had been previously allowed a hundred shillings a year out 
 of the Episcopal Treasury), and his successors, a house and 
 garden on the south side of the church, a close near said garden 
 on the east, with the altarage, the tithe of hay and apples, and 
 the great titJus of the Vills of Folforde and Cliffort. 
 
 At this period the value of the rectorial tithes was assessed 
 at g 145. od., whilst the manor rents amounted to 10 8s. io^d. 
 per acre. Dunsford Manor and Church, with the rest of the 
 Canonsleigh property, was surrendered to Henry VIII. on 
 February i6th, 1538-9. The manor was then worth 26 8s. 3d., 
 the rectorial tithes 9 135. 4d., and the vicarage was valued at 
 19 I os. od. a year ; the net value of the vicarage in 1835 was 
 returned at ,297 a year, for a population of 903. 
 
 On the nth June, 1544, King Henry VIII. sold the Manor 
 of Dunsford, together with the Rectory and right of patronage 
 of the vicarage, together with Dunsford Wood and other 
 properties to " Sir John Fulford, Kt, and Humphry Colles, Esq." 
 The former only survived the acquisition of Dunsford, which, 
 with the church, has since remained with his descendants, a little 
 over four months, as I have already shown. Within a month 
 of the purchase he made his will, which was not proved by his 
 eldest son and executor for nearly two years, probably because 
 at the time of his father's death he had not attained his majority. 
 By his wife, Lady Dorothy Bourchier, second daughter of the 
 first Earl of Bath (who was a great-grandson of William
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 427 
 
 Bourchier, Earl of Eu, by Anne Plantagenet, daughter of 
 Thomas of Woodstock, youngest son of King Edward III.), 
 Sir John Fulford had a family of two sons and four daughters. 
 The eldest son, Sir John Fulford, Kt., of Great Fulford, was 
 over twenty years of age in 1544, and was Sheriff of Devon 
 in Queen Mary's reign, 1558, and again in that of Queen 
 Elizabeth, 1574-75. He died in August, 1580. He was twice 
 married, first to his neighbour, Anna, daughter of Sir Thomas 
 Dennis of Holcombe Burnell, and afterward to Ellinor, daughter 
 and heir of Bernard Smyth of Totnes, who was a widow, and 
 had, moreover, been four times a wife, at her death, some- 
 time after 1610, when she is mentioned in the will of her 
 eldest step-son. The latter, Thomas Fulford, was the eldest 
 of eleven children, the sixth of whom, Andrew Fulford of 
 Littleham, signed the family pedigree in 1620. 
 
 Thomas Fulford of Great Fulford died in 1610, aged 58, 
 and was buried at Dunsford. By his wife, Ursula Bamfeild 
 of Poltimore, he had three sons and four daughters ; the second 
 son, who was a Barrister of the Middle Temple, was buried at 
 Bovey Tracy, in 1639; tne eldest son, Sir Francis Fulford, Kt., 
 was baptized at St. Mary Majors Church, Exeter, 1st Septem- 
 ber, 1583. He distinguished himself in the "troublous times" 
 in which lie lived, and held a Colonel's commission in the 
 Royal Army and garrisoned Great Fulford House, which had 
 been rebuilt in the reign of Henry VII., probably by Sir 
 Humphry Fulford, and was compelled to capitulate to Fairfax in 
 1645, two years after his eldest son, Thomas Fulford, had fallen 
 fighting before Exeter. One side of the quadrangle, round 
 which the house is built, was then rendered ruinous, and has 
 been for many years disused and uninhabitable. After the 
 restoration, King Charles sent the Fulfords a full length picture 
 of his unfortunate father, which has since hung in the great 
 entrance hall, which is wainscotted with Tudor carving, a por- 
 tion of which was intended to illustrate the traditional combat 
 between Sir Baldwin Fulford and the gigantic Saracen already 
 referred to. Besides Thomas Fulford, killed at the siege of 
 Exeter in 1643, an d whose issue male expired with the death 
 of Col. Francis Fulford, his grandson, in October, 1700, Col. Sir 
 Francis Fulford, who died in 1664, had, inter alios, a fifth son,
 
 428 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 George Fulford, born in 1599, who settled at Toller Fratrum, 
 in Dorsetshire, and whose great-grandson, Francis Fulford, 
 born in 1704, eventually succeeded to Great Fulford, and was 
 buried at Dunsford, loth January, 1749. By his wife, Ann, 
 daughter of Sir Arthur Chichester of Goulston, he had a 
 numerous family, and many of his children predeceased him. 
 He was succeeded by his fourth son, John Fulford, who died 
 without issue in 1780, when Great Fulford passed to the eighth 
 and youngest son, Benjamin Swete Fulford, born 1743. and 
 who married Joan, daughter of Thomas Galpine. His son and 
 heir, Col. Baldwin Fulford of Great Fulford, who long com- 
 manded the 1st Devon Militia, and had previously held a 
 commission in the 6th Dragoons, Inniskilling, married Anna 
 Maria Adams, of Bowden, whose son and heir, Baldwin Fulford 
 of Great Fulford, and an officer of the 1st Devon Yeomanry, 
 died childless in 1871, when Great Fulford passed to its present 
 owner, Francis Drummond Fulford, his nephew, who is the 
 eldest son of the late Rt. Rev. Francis Fulford, Bishop of 
 Montreal and Metropolitan of Canada, who predeceased his 
 brother Baldwin in 1868. Mr. Francis Fulford, now of Great 
 Fulford, was born 25th October, 1831, married, in 1856, a 
 daughter of Mr. Philip Holland of Montreal, and has, with other 
 issue, a son and heir, Francis Algernon Fulford, who was born 
 at Montreal, 1 5th September, 1861. 
 
 The very simple Arms of the family of Fulford, "gules, a 
 chevron argent',' mark the extreme antiquity of the family ; 
 their Crest, " a Bear's head, erased sa., muzzled, or" is evidently 
 derived from Fitz-Urse ; the origin of their supporters, two 
 Saracens, I have already explained. They have, moreover, 
 fully exemplified their motto, "Bear Up" perhaps under com- 
 paratively adverse conditions of late years. Since the sale of 
 the Worth estates at Tiverton, within the last decade, no 
 family in Devonshire can pretend to show a longer possession 
 of, and residence upon, one of the most important properties 
 in Devonshire than the Fulfords, save, possibly, Kelly of Kelly 
 (ante), and Edgcumbe of Edgcumbe, in the parish of Milton 
 Abbot (see my Devonshire Parishes, vol. I, p. 253). Acland 
 Barton, in the parish of Landkey, has long ceased to have 
 any claim to be regarded as a county residence and can
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 429 
 
 certainly never have had any pretension to equal such estates 
 as those I have mentioned. But it is nevertheless still the 
 property of the representative of its original owners, Sir 
 Thomas Dyke Acland, Bt, of Killerton, and has belonged 
 to that family since the twelfth century. (See Acland of 
 Killerton, post.} 
 
 In the published edition of the original Visitation of Devon- 
 shire, 1620, recently edited by Lt.-Col. J. L. Vivian, a blazon 
 of the Fulford arms and quarterings is affixed to their pedigree, 
 as follows : 
 
 " 1st. Fulford. Gu., a chevron, arg. 
 
 "2nd. Fitz-Urse. Arg., a bend between three bears' heads, 
 erased, sa. 
 
 " 3rd. Moreton. Arg., a chevron between 3 moorcocks, sa. 
 " 4th. Bilston. Or, on a bend gu., 3 crosses formic, arg." 
 
 5th. ? 
 
 "6th. St. George. Arg., a lion ramp, gu., a chief az. 
 "7th. Cantilupe. Az., 3 leopards' faces jessant de lis, or. 
 " 8th. St. Albyn. Erm., on a cross gu., 5 bezants. 
 " 9tii. Challons. Gu., two bars, and an orle of martlets, arg" 
 I desire to draw attention, 
 
 1st, to the entire omission of number 5 in the above quar- 
 terings. 
 
 2nd, to the introduction of numbers 7, 8, and 9, which are 
 not only incorrectly marshalled, but are coats which the 
 Fulfords do not appear to be entitled to quarter at all. 
 
 They evidently refer to the marriage of William Fulford, 
 who succeeded his brother Sir Humphry, and died in 1517, 
 with Joan, daughter of John Bonvile, who, according to an 
 imperfect descent attached to the Visitation record, was the 
 daughter of the said John, by Alice, daughter and heir of 
 William Dennis, by daughter and heir of Thomas Challons, 
 son of Sir Robert Challons, Kt 
 
 In such case the quarterings would be 
 
 7th. Bonvile. 
 
 8th. Dennis, brought in by Bonvile. 
 
 9th. Challons, brought in by Dennis. 
 
 And Cantilupe and St. Albyns are unaccounted for. 
 
 As a matter of fact, Challons, then entitled to quarter the
 
 430 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Arms of Leigh, married a daughter and heir of Cantilupe ; 
 the daughter and heir of Challons married St. Albyn, who then 
 quartered Ralegh ; the daughter and heir of St. Albyn 
 married William Dennis; the daughter and heir of Dennis 
 married John Bonvile ; and Joan Bonvile was the wife of 
 William Fulford. (An heiress of Ralegh was the grandmother 
 of Alice St. Albyn ; and an heiress of Leigh, the ancestress 
 of Challons who married Cantilupe.) 
 
 So that the quarterings, correctly marshalled, would follow 
 thus : 
 
 1st, Bonvile; 2nd, Dennis; 3rd, St. Albyn; 4th, Ralegh; 
 5th, Challons ; 6th, Leigh ; 7th, Cantilupe. 
 
 That is to say, Bonvile should replace Cantilupe as No. 7 
 in the blazon affixed to the printed copy of the Visitation, and 
 then proceed as above. 
 
 But Joan, daughter of John Bonvile of Combe Ralegh, in- 
 herited from Ralegh, as above, was not entitled to transmit 
 arms to her descendants, as she had a brother John, who 
 married Edith Blewitt, and was the father of Humphry Bonvile, 
 who, besides daughters, left no less than five sons ; so that it 
 is indeed hard to understand how any claim to the arms and 
 quarterings of this branch of the Bonvile family can ever have 
 been suggested for the Fulfords.* 
 
 John Bonvile, the husband of Alice Dennis, was an 
 illegitimate son of William, Lord Bonvile of Chewton, co. 
 Somerset. 
 
 The arms of Fulford, in accordance with their successive 
 alliances with heirs or co-heirs should, I venture to consider, 
 be thus marshalled : 
 
 ist, Fulford ; 2nd, Belston ; 3rd, Fitzurse ; 4th, Langdon 
 (arg., a chevron between 3 bears' heads erased sa.} ; 5th, Fitz- 
 urse (repeated by Langdon) ; 6th, Moreton ; 7th, Bryan (or., 
 3 piles, in point #.); 8th, Bozun (gu., 3 bird bolts arg.} ; 
 9th, FitzGeorge (by Bozun) ; roth, Samways (sa. on a fess 
 between 3 crosses pattee or., as many martlets of the field). 
 
 * The Fulfords certainly acquired property with Joan Bonvile, e.g., the Manor of 
 Godford, in the parish of Awlescombe, but this fact would not entitle them to quarter 
 her arms, failing proof of the absolute extinction of the issue, male or female, of her 
 five nephews, or of any lawful descendants of her brother.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 431 
 
 THE HOUSE OF WORTH. 
 
 Just previously to the Christian Era, there was a very con- 
 siderable exodus of Roman emigrants to Neustria, since known 
 as Normandy, who declined, as far as possible, any intercourse 
 with their new neighbours, the aboriginal Gauls, but confined 
 themselves to the towns and villages which in the course of 
 ages replaced their primary encampments, and which were 
 known in their own language as " Pagi," and their inhabitants 
 as " Pagan i," hence the French " Pay en "or peasant, and the 
 words " Paynim " and " Pagan," the medieval equivalents for 
 infidel and heathen. 
 
 And long after Rollo, the son of Rognwld, had laid the 
 foundation of the future Dukedom of Normandy in the early 
 years of the tenth century these " Pagani " or " Payens " clung 
 to their ancient rites and superstitions, although, of course, they 
 had to be subservient to the laws and customs of their adopted 
 country, so that in process of time they found it more and more 
 difficult to keep themselves apart from the general population 
 of the country, and ultimately they became attached to the rule 
 of Richard Sans Peur, and to that of his successor, Richard 
 Le Bon, and from time to time were notably connected with 
 the public service of the Norman Duchy in accordance with their 
 duties as good citizens. Yet, under such successive and varied 
 changes in their conditions, they appear never to have been 
 forgetful, and were doubtless, not unreasonably, proud of their 
 descent from the ancient fathers of Imperial Rome, although 
 by the tenth and eleventh centuries their distinctive cognomina 
 alone remained to denote their remote connection with the 
 yellow Tiber, and hence it was that many of these Normanized 
 Romans helped to swell the ranks of that miscellaneous col- 
 lection of continental adventurers which effected the conquest of 
 this island under the ducal son of Harlotta of Falaise. And 
 one of the most important of the Norman Pagani appears 
 to have been "Ralph Paganel," or " Paynel," who heads the 
 family pedigree* of Worth of Worth, in the parish of Washfield, 
 and whose extraction is sufficiently commemorated by the 
 
 * Vide " Visitations of the co. of Devon " (Vivian), pp. 805-809.
 
 432 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 ancient prescriptive arms which have been borne by them, in 
 successive generations, ever since, indeed, such family distinc- 
 tions became hereditary in England the Roman eagle, with 
 the addition of a second neck, as adopted by Charlemagne to 
 denote his completed conquest of Germany in the year 802. 
 
 Ralph Paganel, or Paynel, whose immediate descendants 
 were known as " Fitz-Payne," appears in Domesday as Sheriff 
 of Yorkshire, in which county he had fifteen manors in 1087, 
 a like number in Lincolnshire, five in Somerset, and ten, in- 
 clusive of the Manor of Washfield, in this county, in which all his 
 lands are entered as those of "a free Knight." His three younger 
 sons, Ralph, Reginald, and Robert Fitz-Payne, settled in Devon- 
 shire, and are believed to have first come here with the Con- 
 queror's army in its march westward in the year 1067. (See 
 my Suburbs of Exeter, p. 83.) His eldest son, Fulk Fitz- 
 Paynel, married Beatrix, daughter and heir of William Fitz- 
 Asculph, and thus acquired the Staffordshire Manor of Dudley, 
 and had a son, Ralph,* whose son, Gervase Fitz-Paynel, as 
 " Baron of Dudley," attended the ceremony of the coronation 
 of Richard " Cceur de Lion." 
 
 Of the three great uncles of this Baron of Dudley, Reginald 
 Fitz-Payne, afterward known as " de Worth " from his residence 
 on that Saxon Manor, and by which name he is entered in the 
 original Visitation of Devon in 1620, and as a " Knight" in the 
 prior record of 1564, was Lord of the Manor of Witheridge 
 under Mortain, and of Radford in Plymstock. In the latter 
 parish, his brother Robert owned an estate known as Gosewell ; 
 in the former, his brother Ralph possessed " Dart," which has 
 since been known as Dart Ralph. 
 
 He had also acquired, under William de Pollei, the Worth 
 estate in Washfield, which appears to have descended to his 
 brother Reginald aforesaid, doubtless through failure of his 
 own issue. This property was adjacent to that Manor of 
 Washfield which was held in demesne by his father, Ralph 
 Paganel, or Paynel, and which afterward seems to have be- 
 come merged with it. There was, however, a second Manor, 
 which is still known as that of Washfield, a portion of which 
 
 * Another son of this Ralph, " William Fitz-Payne," acquired the Devonshire 
 Barony of Bampton by marriage with the daughter and heir of Robert de Douay.
 
 DE VONSHIRK WILLS. 433 
 
 the Worthes subsequently acquired by marriage, as will be 
 shown hereafter. I may remark here, however, that at a later 
 period the Manor of Worth, presumably with Washfield 
 " Paganel," was assessed at more than double the amount 
 charged upon the other Manor of Washfield, which at the 
 period of the survey in 1086 belonged to Ralph de Pomeroy. 
 Sir Reginald Fitz-Payne, having succeeded his brother Ralph 
 at Worth, assumed the name of that propeity ; his son, Robert, 
 otherwise "de Worthe," left Witheridge to a son of the same 
 name (who was the ancestor of Robert Fitz-Payne, Lord of 
 Witheridge in 1245), but Worth descended to his son Alexander. 
 
 Alexander " Fitz- Robert," alias "de Worthe," was the father 
 of Sir Richard Worthe, Kt , whose son, Sir Hugh Worthe, 
 Kt, of Wortli, married Avis, eldest daughter of Richard de 
 Redvers, third Earl of Devon, by his wife, Avis, daughter of 
 Reginald, Earl of Cornwall, and thus his descendants not only 
 derive a descent, on the same terms as the " Conqueror," from 
 the Dukes of Normandy, and thence through Edgina, grand- 
 daughter of King Alfred, from Cerdic King of the West Saxons, 
 but also co-represent, with the Courtenays, the ancient house 
 of Redvers.* 
 
 Lady Avis Worthe, and her son and heir, Robert, are men- 
 tioned in an existing deed by her nephew, William Redvers 
 "de Vernon," sixth Earl of Devon, c. 1166, and this deed is 
 sealed with the three torteaux, since borne as the arms of the 
 Courtenays, Earls of Devon. I have already given the general 
 descent of the Worthes of Worth, and of the several branches 
 of the family, on previous pages, in the form of foot notes to 
 such of their testamentary documents as have been included 
 in this volume, and as their pedigree has been already printed 
 at length elsewhere,t it only remains for me to add a 
 few particulars as to their history, fortunes, and misfortunes- 
 Tile elder line failed at the death of Alexander Worthe, 
 sometime after 1366, when Wortli and other property at 
 Topsham and Tiverton, which had been acquired in marriage 
 
 * For a further descent from Redvers, through Courtenay, see ante, p. 69, note. 
 
 t Vivian, ut ante. See also Visitation, 1564, Colby, pp. 212, 213. Sir William 
 Pole (pub. 1791) has included several authenticated generations, which are omitted 
 in the Visitation Records (ante, p. 312). Westcote, 1627-1642 (pub. 1845), "Worth 
 of Exeter, Compton Poole, and Harum," p. 561. 
 29
 
 434 1>E VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 with Lady Avis Redvers, passed to his younger brother, 
 Sir John Worthe, Kt. Their grandfather, Alexander Worthe, 
 of Worthe, had been one of the claimants to the Earldom of 
 Devon in 1293, the succession to which dignity, after the 
 death of Isabella " de Fortibus," and until it was finally 
 granted to the Courtenays by their Royal cousin, King Ed- 
 ward III., was a bone of contention amongst the kin of 
 Redvers* for over forty years. 
 
 Sir John Worthe of Worth, married Cicelye, daughter and 
 co-heir of Sir John Doddescombe of " Leigh " (since known as 
 Doddiscombesleigh, six miles from Exeter), and of Compton 
 Pole, in the parish of Marldon. " Here," writes Thomas West- 
 cote in 1630, " the family of Worth set a younger scion which 
 prospereth well," and the descendants of this " younger scion " 
 have since written their name " Worthy ,"f instead of Worthe, 
 as indeed some members of the family did as far back as 
 the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, % from which it may be 
 inferred that the final letter was always pronounced, although 
 the name has been altered to "Worth" by the elder line, of 
 Washfield, since the sixteenth century, and was entered by 
 them as " Worth " (but as " Worthe " by the second house 
 and their branches) at the several Visitations of Devon and 
 Somerset in the following century. 
 
 By the marriage with Cicelye, who was granddaughter of 
 Ralph Doddescombe, by Johanne, daughter and co-heir of 
 Hugh Peverell, by Alice, daughter of Ralph Pole, by Alice 
 Dalditch, and granddaughter and eventual co-heir of Maurice 
 de la Pole, by Dionisia, daughter and heir of Compton, the 
 family became entitled to quarter the arms of Doddiscombe, 
 Peverell, Pole, Dalditch, Compton, de Alva, and Marldon. 
 
 John Worthe of Worth, son and heir of John and Cecilia 
 
 * This family had become extinct, in the male line, at the death of Baldwin, 8th 
 Earl of Devon, in the year 1261. 
 
 t See Ante, p. 44, note. 
 
 $ Ep. Reg. Braiityngham, Vol. I, f. 31 (1372). 
 
 Exeter Mun. Rec. No. 1116 (1424). 
 
 /(to/, 1127 (1425-6), 1159-1436. 
 
 Aljs " Worthie," pensioned as a "nun of Polsloe " 315! Henry VIII. She was 
 daughter of Otho Worthe of Compton Pole, and died 1586. Her maternal aunt 
 presided over the community and died in 1530. 
 
 Burke calls him "Sir John Wrothe " (sub. Wellington), an error which ma}' be 
 due to a misprint in Lysons, Mag. Brit., Devon, vol. I, p. 172, but which is cor- 
 rected in vol 2, p. 1 8, of the same work.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 435 
 
 Doddescombe, married Margaret, second daughter and co-heir 
 of Sir John Wellington of Umberleigh, by Matilda, daughter 
 of Sir Walter Carminow. 
 
 The Willingtons were descended from John Willington of 
 Willington St. Michael, co. Derby, whose great grandson mar- 
 ried Joan, daughter and heir of William Champernowne, and 
 by this marriage the Worthes acquired a large addition to their 
 property in the form of lands in Barnstaple and the surrounding 
 district. (See ante, pp. 260-1, note.} And thus also became 
 entitled to quarter the arms of Willington, Franc, Champer- 
 nowne, Soleigny, and Loman, of Uplowman and Gittisham, and 
 became co-heirs to the ancient Barony of Willington of Keir- 
 kenny, in abeyance, created by writ of nth Edward I. (1283). 
 The son and heir of this marriage, Thomas Worthe of Worth, 
 was the father of a son and heir, of like name, who married 
 Margery, daughter of Hugh and sister and co-heir of Humphry 
 Beauchamp, Lord of the Manor of Washfield and patron of 
 the church. This was the second Manor of Washfield to which 
 I have already referred, and which, in 1086, belonged to Ralph 
 de Pomeroy of Berry, and in or before the time of Henry III., 
 when it was held by William le Abbe, had passed to the 
 Abbots of Loughtor, in the parish of Plympton St. Mary, and 
 was held, not under the Lords of Berry, but under the Lords 
 of Totnes Castle, the transfer having probably taken place 
 during some period of forfeiture by the Pomeroys. 
 
 The seat of the Pomeroy Manor of Washfield, now and for 
 many ages known as Great Beauchamp, came to Humphry, 
 younger brother of Hugh Beauchamp of White Luckington, 
 the maternal ancestor of the Spekes, by his marriage with 
 Alice, daughter and heir of Walter Abbot of Loughtor and 
 Washfield, who afterward married John Strokesdon. 
 
 This branch of the great house of Beauchamp was descended 
 from Milo Beauchamp of Eaton, co. Bedford, fourth son of 
 Hugh de Bello-Campo, Baron of Bedford, and younger brother 
 of Walter Beauchamp, who was himself a third son, the ancestor 
 of the Earls of Warwick. The great-grandfather of Humphry 
 Beauchamp (the first of his race at Washfield), John Beauchamp 
 of Hache, co. Somerset, married Cecilia, daughter and heir of 
 John " Vy von," or Vivian, by Maud, third daughter of William
 
 436 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Ferrers, Earl of Derby, and co-heir to her mother, Sibyl, 
 daughter and co-heir of William, le Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. 
 The third Earl of Derby married Margaret, daughter and heir 
 of William Peverell of Nottingham, whose arms were : Quar- 
 terly git. and vair, a lion ramp arg., and the husband of Cecilia 
 Vivian usually bore a plain shield " vair " in lieu of his paternal 
 arms, quarterly or. and gu., a bend of the last, and thus the 
 " vair coat of Beauchamp " came to be adopted as the arms of 
 the prior and convent of Frithelstock, which, however, had been 
 founded by Robert Beauchamp, the father-in-law of the said 
 Cecilia Vivian. 
 
 By this marriage the Worthes acquired one-third, with the 
 lordship, of the Manor of Washfield Pomeroy, and the right of 
 patronage to Washfield Rectory, and sixteen additional quarter- 
 ings to their family arms, including those of the old Earls of 
 Chester, the Clares, the Marshals, Earls of Pembroke, and other 
 powerful families. 
 
 Margerie Beauchamp, the wife of Thomas Worthe of Worth, 
 who presented to Washfield Rectory, nth January, 1410, was 
 the eldest of three co-heirs, her sisters, Muriel and Matilda, 
 having married Simon Bernville and Richard Donington. 
 
 Alice Abbot, described as " now wife of John Strokysdone," 
 granted the Manors of Washfield and Loughtor to her son, 
 Hugh Beauchamp, with the advowson of Washfield Rectory, 
 by deed dated 36th Edward III. (1362). By deed dated at 
 Worth, Tuesday after the Conversion of St. Paul, 5th Edward 
 IV., John, son and heir of Simon Bernville, and Muriel, his 
 wife, daughter and one of the heirs of Hugh Beauchamp and 
 sister of Humphry Beauchamp, released his lands and rights in 
 Washfield and the advowson of the church to "Thomas, son and 
 heir of Thomas Worthe, son and heir of Margerie Worthe, 
 daughter and co-heir of Hugh Beauchamp, and sister of the 
 said Humphry." In the year 1500 Robert and George Whityng 
 were co-patrons of this rectory with Thomas Worth and others. 
 In 1517 Anthony and John Worth presented to it, with the 
 consent of Christina Leche, widow, and Alice Rasshelegh, and 
 in the fifteenth year of Henry VIII. (1523) Anthony, son and 
 heir of Thomas Worthe, was amerced in the sum of fourpence 
 at Totnes Castle for "one third," the heirs of Alice Rayshlegh,
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 437 
 
 threepence for a moiety, and Joana, daughter of Richard Leche 
 and next of kin to said Alice, threepence for another moiety 
 of " Wayshefyld Manor," held by them " under the Lord of 
 Totnes Castle." 
 
 Hence it is that the Worthes, having only inherited a third 
 of the Maror of Washfield Pomeroy, the other two-thirds 
 were from time to time split up into smaller holdings and 
 passed to several owners, but from the date of the marriage 
 with Margery Beauchamp, and until the sale of the property, 
 witli the exception of Great Beauchamp, referred to on a 
 previous page (ante, p. 52), her posterity owned the whole of 
 the parish of Washfield (3,319 acres in all), with the exception 
 of two-thirds of the lands of the Manor of Washfield Pomeroy. 
 
 The grandson of Thomas Worthe and Margery Beauchamp, 
 also called Thomas, married Isabel!, daughter and co-heir of 
 Humphry Bevill of Wolston and Barkenden, in the parish 
 of Staverton, by which they acquired much land on the south- 
 eastern side of the county and four additional quarterings, 
 including Avenel, a family which co-represented, with them- 
 selves and Courtenay, the ancient house of Redvers. (See my 
 Suburbs of Exeter, p. 87). 
 
 Thomas Worthe and Isabell Bevill were the parents, inter altos, 
 of Thomas " Worthe," son and heir of Worth, and of Roger 
 Worthe, second son, who, by devise of his grandfather, who 
 died in 1463, inherited Compton Pole; property in Doddis- 
 combesleigh, and the co-patronage of the latter church; together 
 with much Willington property at Pilton and Barnstaple. His 
 grandson, Otho Worthe of Compton Pole, had a son and heir, 
 John, and a second son, Roger Worthe, who had the Barn- 
 staple and Pilton property, and represented that borough in 
 Pailiament in 1553; his grandson, Paul Worthe of Barnstaple, 
 who died in 1615, was the ancestor of the Worths of Penryn, 
 represented in the last century by Charles Worth of Penzance, 
 who died in 1766, and also of the Worths of Timberscombe, 
 co. Somerset, descended from John Worthe, who was baptized 
 at Barnstaple in 1541 and who was the third brother of the 
 aforesaid Paul. 
 
 The Manor of Sydenham, and much other Somerset property, 
 was held by several younger branches of the family, who were
 
 438 DEVONSHIRE II' ILLS. 
 
 considerable landowners in that county also, from the four- 
 teenth century until within the last seventeen years. Their 
 pedigrees will be found in the Visitations of Somersetshire, 
 1623, MS. Harl. (original} 1141 and 1445. 
 
 The son and heir of Otho Worthe, John Worthe of Compton 
 Pole (brother of Roger, M.P. for Barnstaple), married Agnes, 
 daughter of John Bodley of Dunscombe, Crediton, first cousin 
 of John, the father of Sir Thomas Bodley, M.A., of Merton 
 College, Oxford, Esquire of the Body in the household of 
 Queen Elizabeth, and the celebrated founder of the Bodleian 
 Library. Their son, John, resided at Dunscombe, but left 
 Compton Pole to his eldest son, who was seised of it in 1638. 
 His second son, George, of the city of Exeter, was the father 
 of John " Worthy," who was a Parliamentary Commissioner 
 for Devon in 1643, and the great great-grandfather of John 
 Devvdney Worthy, son and heir, born 1760, and whose daughter 
 and co-heir married Bremridge (see the history of that family, 
 ante}] and of Jonathan Worthy, second son, born 1762,* Sheriff 
 of Exeter, 1797 and 1803, and Mayor of Exeter, 1799, who 
 married Elizabeth, daughter of John Melhuish of Hill, in Cruse 
 Morchard, and died at Ide, 26th of June, 1815, and was buried 
 with other members of his family at Stoke Canon. See notes 
 pages 46 and 80, ante. 
 
 Having now traced the descent of the Worthes of Compton 
 Pole, I must return to the brother of their immediate ancestor, 
 Thomas Worthe of Worth. He seems, like very many others 
 his contemporaries, to have attracted the attention of Richard 
 Empson, one of the iniquitous agents of Henry VII., for we find 
 from the Royal Household Accounts (MS. Add. 21480, fol. 35) 
 that "Thomas Woithe of Devonshire hath enfeoffed Richard 
 Empson, and others in his manor called Berkenden, for a 
 yearly annuity of 20, to be given at the King's pleasure," 
 and further, that the said Thomas Worthe "shall owe, by 
 obligacion, at Mydsomer, 150 45. od." Thus, as is well known, 
 the existing laws of that period were perverted for the purposes 
 of extortion by the King's shrewd lawyers, Messrs. Empson 
 and Dudley, and quiet country gentlemen like poor Thomas 
 
 * The Issue male of their younger brothers, Richard and Thomas, is extinct ; their 
 third brother, James, d.ed unmarried in 1823, aged 60.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 439 
 
 Worthe were compelled to pay similar enormous fines to avoid 
 utter ruin. This Thomas Worthe was the father of Anthony 
 "Worth" of Worth, who, as I have already mentioned, was 
 amerced at Totnes Castle for his Manor of Washfield in 1517, 
 and who married Katherine, daughter of Simon Digby of Coles- 
 hill, the ancestor of the Lords Digby. 
 
 Anthony's grandson, Arthur Worth, had the Bevill property, 
 Barkenden, settled upon him and his heirs male, by deed dated 
 9th May, 1559, and there is a fine prie Dieu monument to the 
 memory of this branch of the family in Staverton Church. The 
 body of Simon Worth of Barkenden, who died in Italy in 1669, 
 was brought home and buried beneath it in that year. In the 
 Philosophical Transactions, vol. 47, p. 253, is an account of the 
 exhumation of his body during some repairs to the church, 
 pending which the coffin seems to have been placed in a dry 
 ditch in the churchyard. Although it had been then buried 
 for eighty-one years, the corpse, which had been doubtless 
 embalmed in Italy, was found perfectly fresh and the features 
 quite recognisable, but, unfortunately, before it was returned 
 to the vault one of the workmen accidentally jumped upon the 
 coffin whilst it was resting in the ditch, and thus broke in the 
 cover and destroyed the face of the deceased. 
 
 The elder brother of Arthur Worth of Barkenden, Henry 
 Worth of Worth, was the direct ancestor of his successors in 
 that ancient property, who, in successive generations, inter- 
 married with the Frys of Yarty, the Bampfyldes of Poltimore, 
 the Calmadys of Langdon, the daughters and heirs of Fursc 
 of Morsehead, and of Furlong of Langford Budville. The said 
 Henry Worth's mother was a Foriescue, and after him there 
 were two other Henrys, followed by three Johns, the last 
 of whom died without issue, when Worth went to his younger 
 brother, Henry Worth of Worth, who died in 1777. He was 
 the great-grandfather of the late John Francis Worth of Worth, 
 who died in 1878, when he was succeeded by his only surviving 
 son, Reginald. 
 
 Thus the senior line of Worth, of Worth, commenced 
 and ended with Reginald, and thus an old family tradition was 
 fulfilled, that whenever a second Reginald succeeded to the 
 property the land " would fade away." Some, but not many, of
 
 440 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 the younger sons had been called Reginald, but no Reginald 
 had ever succeeded to the property since the time of Reginald 
 Fitz-Payne, Lord of Witheridge and Worth, and the second 
 Reginald of Worth inherited the property quite accidentally by 
 the early deaths of two elder brothers, John and Henry. 
 
 Reginald Worth, who was in Holy Orders, married Elizabeth 
 Susannah, daughter of John Barbensom, but died without issue 
 at Sharcott Manor, Wiltshire, I2th March, 1880. 
 
 His only sister, Henrica Duntze Worth, married the Rev. W. 
 L. Jones, Rector of Washfield, who, in 1882, assumed the name 
 of Worth by Royal license, and died 8th January, 1884, leaving 
 issue. His wife resided at Worth for a few years prior to the 
 dispersal of the property by sale in 1887-8, when it realized 
 55,000 (see ante, p. 52), and died at Great Beauchamp in 
 Washfield, 2nd July, 1891. 
 
 The mere name, Worth, or Worthy, is, of course, by no means 
 singular to Devonshire, as it is simply a place name derived 
 from the Saxon '* weord," an enclosed estate, or land near the 
 head of a river. This particular Worth is watered by the river 
 Exe. 
 
 The Anns of the family, as admitted at all the county Visita- 
 tions are \Arg., an eagle displayed with two necks sa., beaked 
 and legged gu. 
 
 Crest An arm erect, vested erms,, gloved erm., tasselled or, 
 holding an eagle's leg couped at the thigli of the last. 
 
 Motto "Nee imbellem feroces progeniant aquil(g columbam " 
 
 The field is sometimes tinctured ermine, as on the book 
 plate of the late Jonathan Worthy of Exeter, who died 
 December; 1784, and, according to Robert Glover, Somerset 
 Herald, 1571, the arms of "Sr. de Worthe, Deuon," were: 
 Erm. an eagle double headed, dispd. s., beaked and legged 
 gules. 
 
 The same arms as admitted to Worthe (of Compton Pole, 
 etc.) in 1564 had the field arg. According to Westcote, his 
 ancestor, Roger Worthe, surmounted his eagle with a bar gu., 
 and charged the latter with a crescent to mark his cadency, 
 but his descendants never adopted the said " bar gu'.' 
 
 The arms of Richard Worthe of Timberscombe, co. Somerset, 
 who was second son of Richard Worthe of Luckombe, in the
 
 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 44' 
 
 same county, third son of John Worthe of Timberscombe, are 
 those of his family above blazoned and duly differenced with 
 a mullet, thereon a crescent. Said Richard Worthe died I7th 
 August, 1637, and his arms are "tricked." (Coll. Ar., /., 24, 
 fol. 101.) 
 
 Finally, the arms of Peter Worthe of Braunton, near Barn- 
 staple, fifth son of Thomas Worthe of Worth, and younger 
 brother of the said Roger Worthe of Compton Pole, have also 
 the field arg., and are duly differenced with an annulet. (Coll. 
 Ar. C. 22. MS. Harl., 1445.) 
 
 NORTHCOTE, EARL OF IDDESLEIGH AND VISCOUNT 
 ST. GYRES. 
 
 No attempt has been hitherto made to trace the family of 
 Northcote beyond the year 1103, when a certain "Sir Geoffrey," 
 called in records " Galfridus Miles," was the owner of the Manor 
 of Northcote, in the parish of East Downe, and presumably of 
 another estate of the same name in the parish of Inwardleigh, 
 which long remained with his descendants, and is said by our 
 old writers, Pole and Risdon, erroneously according to the 
 pedigree which was laboriously compiled by Robert Cooke, 
 Clarencieux (1566-1592), to have passed to " Lutterell " in mar- 
 riage with " Joan, daughter and heir of John Northcot," in the 
 reign of King Henry IV. 
 
 The Manor of Northcote, in East Downe, however, from 
 which the family name is derived, remained with the North- 
 cotes until the commencement of the last century, when the 
 house, having been then recently destroyed by fire, the 
 lands were sold, in parcels, by Sir Henry Northcote, Bt., who 
 died in 1729-30. Both these Manors of Northcote were held 
 in 1086 by " Drogo," under Geoffrey, Bishop of Coutance, and 
 this "Drogo" was one of four brothers, said in the Clifford 
 Pedigree, published at Paris in 1817, to have been the sons 
 of " Wm. de Owe," * who was really the ancestor of the 
 
 * William de Owe, " Comte D'Eu," was an illegitimate son of Richard "Sans 
 Peur," Duke of Normandy.
 
 442 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Buttons, from whom Lord Sherborne is descended on the 
 "spindle" side. 
 
 "Walter," " Osborne," "Drogo,"* and "Richard," the last 
 being the Clifford ancestor, were the sons of " Mauger Le 
 Ponz" (uncle of William the Conqueror), by his wife, Basilia, 
 nephew of Mauger, the ancestor of the Granvilles, and youngest 
 son of Richard " Le Bon," Duke of Normandy, and I have 
 come to the conclusion that "Galfridus Miles," the owner of 
 Northcote in 1 103, was the nephew of Drogo, the sub-tenant 
 of Northcote in 1086 (son of his brother Walter), and that 
 he was named after Geoffrey of Coutance the chief lord of 
 the fee. 
 
 He should, in such case, therefore, in accordance with the 
 custom of the times in which he lived, be described as Sir 
 Geoffrey Fitz- Walter. He was, in any case, however, the father 
 of Sir John Fitz-Geoffrey, "Johannes films Galfridi Miles," who 
 owned Northcote after him and transmitted it to his son, 
 Geoffrey of Northcote, in the year 1118. The latter held one 
 knight's fee of the Abbot of Tavistock, and owned lands 
 likewise in Witheridge hundred, and had two sons, William 
 and Walter. 
 
 William Northcote, son and heir, of Northcote, married 
 Margaret de Afeton, and had three sons, Walter, Andrew, and 
 Edmund ; the line was continued by the second of these, who 
 married a daughter and co-heir of Faber of Bovey Tracy in 
 the 7th year of Edward I., 1278, and their eldest son, William 
 Northcote of Northcote, by his wife Matilda, daughter and 
 heir of Robert Hillion, had two sons, John and Andrew. 
 
 The wife, " Uxor Hervei de Helton" appears as tenant in 
 capite of two manors in Devonshire in 1086. Her son Robert 
 was the father of Gelenus de Helion, father of Alan, great- 
 grandfather of Robert, whose daughter, Matilda, married 
 William Northcote. Their eldest son, John Northcote, Sheriff 
 of Devon, 1354-55, became the husband, in 1343, of Joan de 
 Moels. Her father, Roger de Moels, who died in 1325, was 
 the second son of Nicholas, Lord Moels, by Margaret, sister 
 of Hugh de Courtenay, first Earl of Devon of that line. Her 
 
 * "Drogo " was the ancestor of Bremridge and Drewe. (Sec " Bremrklge," ante.)
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 443 
 
 mother was Alice, daughter and heir of Sir William Prowse ; 
 she had sisters married to Damarel and Wibery, with whom 
 she divided the inheritance of her parents, as shown by a writ 
 of partition dated I4th Edward III., 1340. 
 
 Her son and heir, John Northcote of Northcote, married 
 Margery de Bickington, widow of John de Graas ; their great- 
 grandson, John Northcote of Northcote (son of Walter, by a 
 co-heir of Hawkworthy, son of John, by his wife, Isolda Sutton), 
 was the father of another John, who married Joan, daughter 
 of John Luttrell, and to the error which this marriage has 
 occasioned, with respect to the descent of the Northcote property 
 at Inwardleigh, I have already referred. 
 
 The husband of Joan Lutrell, however, was a third son, 
 and possibly did not inherit the Northcote Manor of Inward- 
 leigh, although Northcote in East Downe seems to have 
 descended in his line. His son Walter, by Alice, daughter 
 and co-heir of Baldwin de Mamhead, was the grandfather of 
 John Northcote (son of Walter) of Yewton, Crediton, who 
 married Alice, daughter and co-heir of John Dart, alias Walleis, 
 of Barnstaple and Colebrook. Their son, Walter, who was 
 buried at Crediton 5th May, 15/2, married Elizabeth Hill of 
 Shilston, co. Devon, and was the father of John Northcote of 
 Crediton, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Dowrish 
 of Dowrish, in Sandford, and was the father of John Northcote, 
 second son, described as of " Uton " (Yewton) " Esq." in the 
 " Visitation" of 1620, and who, as third in descent from John 
 Northcote of Yewton, signs the pedigree which was then 
 entered ; the previous generations, from " Galfridus Miles," 
 being also on record at the College of Arms. This John North- 
 cote, who was baptized at Crediton 2/th May, 1570, and was 
 buried at Newton St. Cyres 22nd December, 1632, had, accord- 
 ing to Risdon, the custody of the county committed to him 
 the third year of Charles I. He appears to have acquired 
 Hayne, the old seat of the Drewes, in Newton St. Cyres, 
 although it was his elder brother, Walter Northcote, who 
 married on the i/th May, 1585, Mary, daughter and heir of 
 Edmund Drewe of Hayne, by whom he had issue, Elizabeth 
 Northcote, who married, first, Edward Yarde of Churston, by 
 whom she had issue, and secondly, Dr. Barnabas Potter,
 
 444 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Bishop of Carlisle. (See my Devonshire Parishes, vol. 2, 
 pp. 69, 292 ; and also Ashburton and its Neighbourhood, 
 
 P- I35-) 
 
 John Northcote of Yewton and Hayne (the latter property 
 
 still belongs to Lord Iddesleigh) married firstly, Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Sir Anthony Rouse of Halton, co. Cornwall, by 
 whom he had a son, Anthony, who died without issue in 1619 ; 
 and secondly, Susan, daughter of Sir Hugh Pollard of Nymet- 
 Regis (Mar. Lie., roth April, 1596), and by that lady he had 
 a large family, twelve sons and six daughters. There is a 
 memorial to him and his two wives in the little church 
 of Newton St. Cyres, which bears a somewhat singular 
 inscription. Under the figure of the first lady are the words, 
 " My fruit was small, one son was all, that not at all " ; and 
 under the second, " My John had by me as many sons as he'd 
 daughters, twice three." The word phis before twice would 
 have made this statement more intelligible.* 
 
 Of this family, the eldest son, John, born 1599, who was, 
 according to the Visitation pedigree, " the first son living, 
 and aged twenty-one," 1620 (his younger brother, Benja- 
 min, the eleventh son, was buried 27th June that year), 
 succeeded to the family property. He was Sheriff of Devon in 
 his father's lifetime, third of Charles I., 1627, and was created 
 a Baronet i6th July, 1641. At the outbreak of the Civil War 
 he declared for the Parliament, and joined Lord Bedford's 
 army in the west in 1642. In 1643 he was one of the Com- 
 missioners for the County who were appointed in that year 
 to make arrangements for sequestrating the estates of their 
 
 * The issue of John Northcote and Elizabeth Rouse one son, Anthony Northcote, 
 died J./., 1619. 
 
 The issue of the said John and Susan Pollard : 
 
 1st. Sir John Notthcote, the first loth. Pollard Northcote, b. 1618. 
 Baronet, b. 1599. nth. Benjamin ,, b. 1620. 
 
 2nd. Lewis Northcote, b. 1601. I2th. Robert ,, b. 1621-2. 
 
 4th. Edmund 
 5th. Edmund 
 6th. Amias 
 7th. Franciscus 
 8th. William 
 9th. Walter 
 
 b. 1605-6. 
 (twin) b. 1608. 
 b. 1613. 
 (twin) b. 1614. 
 b. 1615. 
 b. 1617. 
 
 1st. Elizabeth Northcote, b. 1604. 
 2nd. Susan ,, (twin) b. 1607-8. 
 3rd. Dorothy ,, b. 1609. 
 4th. Geitrude ,, b. 1611. 
 5th. Francisca ,, (twin) b. 1614. 
 6th. Anne ,, b. 1619. 
 
 The sequence of the twelve sons, according to Vivian, Visitation of Divon, p. 582, 
 is quite inaccurate.
 
 DEVO.VSH1KE WILLS. 
 
 445 
 
 opponents, and he sat as a representative of the Borough of 
 Ashburton in the "Long Parliament," 1640-1653. No writ for 
 Ashburton appears to have been issued for the Parliament of 
 1654, but Sir John Northcote, with ten others, was returned 
 for the county, 12th of July, 1654, to the "Protector's Parlia- 
 ment," which met on September 4th that year ; and again to 
 the Convention Parliament, March, 1660, which voted the 
 return of the King. He died 29th June, 1676, and was buried 
 at Newton St. Cyres. By his wife, Grace, daughter and heir 
 of Hugh Halswell of Wells, he had seven sons and four 
 daughters ; his eldest son, Sir Arthur Northcote, second 
 Baronet, born 1627. By his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter 
 of Sir Francis Godolphin, and sister of the Lord High Treasurer 
 of that name, lie had,* inter altos, two sons who succeeded to 
 the title. The younger of these, Sir Henry Northcote, fourth 
 Baronet, born 1655, married Penelope, daughter and co-heir of 
 Robert Lovett of Liscombe, co. Bucks., and of Corfe, co. Devon, 
 and was the father of Sir Henry Northcote, fifth Baronet, who 
 married Bridget Maria, only daughter and heir of Hugh 
 Stafford, by which alliance the Northcotes acquired the pictur- 
 esque property known as Pynes, in the parish of Upton Pyne, 
 which is the present seat of the family. Lady Northcote's 
 mother, Bridget, was the daughter of John Kellond of Pains- 
 ford, M.P. for Totnes, 1678, son of John Kellond, f by Susannah, 
 daughter of Thomas Fownes, by his wife, Joan, daughter of 
 Walter Hele of Gnaton, by Elizabeth, daughter of William 
 Strode of Newenham, by Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Philip, 
 second son of Sir Philip Courtenay of Molland, second son of 
 Sir Philip, grandson of Sir Philip Courtenay of Powderham, 
 who was the sixth son of Hugh, Karl of Devon, by Lady 
 Margaret, his wife, youngest daughter of Humphry de Bohun, 
 Earl of Hereford, by the Princess Elizabeth, fifth daughter 
 of Edward I., King of England, by Eleanor, daughter of 
 
 * His second daughter, Penelope, marrried, at Newton St. Cyres, 2nd January, 
 1708-9, John Hesketh of Exeter, and his wife's family purchased for him the patent 
 office of Lancaster Herald. There is a painting of him at the College of Arms. 
 Lancaster resigned his Tabard in 1727 in favour of Stephen Martin Leake, who was 
 afteiwards advanced to the position of Garter King of Arms. 
 
 f Although " Lysons," A/agna Brit., and others write the name "Kelland," it is 
 spelt as above, both in the Parliamentary returns and on the mem. to John Kellond, 
 1679. See my Devonshire Parishes, vol. I, p. 324.
 
 446 DE VONSH1KE WILLS. 
 
 Ferdinand, King of Castile. Sir Henry Northcote was long 
 M.P. for Exeter, died in 1743, and was buried at Newton 
 St. Cyres on the 28th May that year, when he was succeeded 
 by his eldest son, Sir Stafford Northcote, as sixth Baronet, 
 whose only son, Sir Stafford, seventh Baronet, married 
 Jaquetta, daughter of Charles Baring of Larkbeare, whose 
 brother, Francis, was the ancestor of the Lords Northbrooke 
 and Ashburton. 
 
 Their eldest son, Henry Stafford Northcote, died v.p., and 
 the late Sir Stafford H. Northcote succeeded as eighth Baronet 
 on the death of his grandfather, i/th March, 1851. I have 
 already dwelt elsewhere, and at some length, upon the life 
 of that illustrious statesman,* who was born on the 27th Octo- 
 ber, 1819, and died, Lord-Lieutenant of his native county, and 
 to the great grief of the nation, I3th January, 1887. On the 
 3rd July, 1885, he had been deservedly elevated to the peerage 
 as Viscount St. Cyres and Earl of Iddesleigh. His Lordship 
 married, 5th August, 1843, Cecilia Frances, daughter of Thomas, 
 and sister of Sir Thomas Farrer, Baronet, by whom he had a 
 family of seven sons and three daughters. His second son, the 
 Honourable Henry Stafford Northcote, C.B., born in 1846, 
 was created a Baronet 23rd November, 1887, and has long 
 represented Exeter in Parliament. He married, in 1873, Alice, 
 daughter of Sir George Stephen, Bt, who was raised to the 
 peerage as Lord Mt. Stephen, 1891. 
 
 Lord Iddesleigh was succeeded in his title and estates by 
 his eldest son, Viscount St. Cyres, born 7th August, 1845, wno 
 married, 1868, Elizabeth Lucy, eldest daughter of Sir H. S. 
 Meysey-Thompson, Bt, of Kirby Hall, Yorks., and has issue, 
 with three daughters, Stafford Henry Northcote, Viscount St. 
 Cyres, who was born 29th August, 1869. 
 
 Arms of Northcote as admitted at the Visitation of Devon, 
 1620 Arg., 3 crosslets in bend sa. 
 
 Crest On a chapeau gules turned up erm., a stag trippant 
 argent. 
 
 Supporters Two stags ppr., from the neck of each suspended 
 
 * Life of the late Right Honourable the Earl of Iddesleigh, G.C.B., second edition, 
 London, 1887, pp. 11-53.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 447 
 
 by a chain or., an escutcheon erm. charged with a pine cone of 
 the second. 
 
 Motto " Christi Crux Est Mea Lux" 
 
 NOTE. The Northcotes have customarily borne their arms : 
 
 Quarterly, ist and 4th arg., a fess between 3 crosses moline sa. 
 2nd and 3rd arg., 3 crosslets in bend sa. 
 
 One and four are very similar to the arms of Faber of Bovey Tracey. 
 The daughters and co-heirs of Peter Faber of that parish, 1289, mar- 
 ried Northcote, as above stated, Beare, and Bampfylde ; and I consider 
 that the second and third quarterings of Northcote may have been 
 also founded upon Faber, and adopted subsequently to the marriage 
 of Andrew Northcote with Matilda Faber in the reign of Edward I. 
 Faber, as quartered by Bampfylde, bore arg. on a fess sa. 3 crosslets 
 or, a bordure azure. 
 
 The Northcotes should rightly quarter, ist Faber, 2nd Million, 3rd 
 Meols, 4th De Bickington, 5th Hawkworthy, 6th de Mamhead, yth 
 Dart of Barnstaple and Colebrook, 8th Halswell, Qth Lovett of Lis- 
 combe, loth Stafford of Pynes. 
 
 Although the Newton St. Gyres property has descended to Lord 
 Iddesleigh it must be remembered that its devolution was not due to 
 the match with Drewe of Hayne in that parish ; the Yardes of Churston 
 quartered Northcote and Drewe of Hayne in right of the marriage of 
 Elizabeth, sole daughter and heir of Walter Northcote, by his wife, 
 Mary, daughter and heir of Edmund Drewe of Hayne. According to 
 Lysons, Mag. Brit., Vol. i, p. ex. (Devon), " the heiress of Passmere " 
 married a Northcote subsequently to the match with de Mamhead. 
 The surname of Alice, wife of Walter, son of Walter Northcote, by 
 Alice de Mamhead, is omitted from the pedigree anterior to the Visit., 
 1620, which is preserved at the College of Arms. 
 
 The arms of Dart of Barnstaple, &c. (miswritten " Durke " in the 
 Northcote pedigree) were " Gu., a fess and canton erm" 
 
 THE WALRONDS OF BRADFIELD. 
 
 In the years immediately subsequent to the Norman Con- 
 quest, the King's great Barons commonly granted smaller 
 manors within their own honours to be held under them by 
 persons of somewhat lesser importance, and in process of time 
 many of these sub-infeudations acquired most, if not all, of the 
 privileges of the parent manors, although being non-existent 
 at the period of the Survey, they are not to be found entered 
 in the pages of " Domesday Book." 
 
 One of such, in respect of which the latter record is silent, 
 is the Manor of Bradfield, within the parish of Uffculme, a
 
 448 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 few miles from Cullompton, now the seat of Sir W. H. 
 Walrond, Bt, and which, for more than six centuries, was 
 the residence of the Walronds in direct male line ; it was 
 originally parcel of the Domesday Manor, then known as 
 Offacome, which became included in Walscin de Douay's great 
 Barony of Bampton. The property within Offacome, in early 
 records written " Bradfelle," or the Broadfield, gave name to 
 a family who tenanted it under the Barons of Bampton for 
 four generations, from the time of Henry I. to that of King 
 John, and although the late Sir Bernard Burke has ventured 
 to set them down as the ancestors of the House of Walrond, 
 existing evidence is quite adverse to his assertion, and that 
 these " de Bradfelles " were removable at the lord's pleasure 
 is sufficiently evident from the fact that the then Baron of 
 Bampton, " Fulke Paynel," as shown, Sir Bernard Burke ad- 
 mits, by a deed "still in possession of the family," transferred 
 Bradfield "to Walerande "in the reign of King John, 1199-1216; 
 and there is abundant evidence that since the latter date, 
 that is from the period of the accession of Henry III., Richard, 
 or Robert, Walrond's posterity have been hereditary owners 
 of this property. 
 
 This Fulk Paynel, as I have previously stated,* was the son 
 of Julian, granddaughter of Walscin de Douay, and was dead 
 before the loth of King John (1209), in which year his son 
 and heir paid two hundred marks for livery of his inheritance, 
 and for the further consideration that his mother, Ada, should 
 not be disturbed in her " pure widowhood," or, in plainer terms, 
 that she should not be constrained by the crown to take a 
 second husband, in accordance with the agreeable fashion of 
 those times. 
 
 It is almost needless to remark that the de Bradfelles, who 
 were known by the name of their residence, and as " Robert," 
 or "Richard," from the time of Henry I. to that of Richard 
 " Cceur de Lion," were not of baronial rank, which the Wal- 
 ronds were in the reign of Henry II.. at which time Walter 
 Waleran, the great-grandson of the Norman owner of Sutton- 
 Walrond, in Dorset, married Isabel, the eldest daughter of 
 
 * House of Worth, ante.
 
 'DEVONSHIRE IVU.l.S, 449 
 
 William, Earl of Salisbury (William Longespee), and his barony 
 was divided by his three daughters and co-heirs. (Their 
 mother afterward married Wm. Fitz-Eustace, alias de Vesci.) 
 
 He was probably the uncle of Robert and of William 
 Walrond, the former of whom married Isabel, daughter and 
 co-heir of Hugh de Kylpec, and thus obtained that lordship 
 in the county of Hereford. 
 
 This Robert disinherited his nephew Robert, son of his 
 brother, William Walrond, and gave the honour of Kylpec 
 to another nephew, Alan Plugenet, son of Alice Walrond, his 
 sister, and who was summoned to Parliament in his Barony 
 of Kylpec in 1295. 
 
 William Walrond flourished in the reign of King John. He 
 was, as I have shown, a younger son, and I believe therefore 
 that Fulk Paynel's grant of Bradfield was made to him or to 
 his son Robert, who is called "Richard" in the Walrond 
 pedigrees. 
 
 Whether " Richard" or Robert, he was the father of William 
 Walrond of Bradfield, whose daughter, Alice, married John 
 Ayshford of Ayshford, in the parish of Burlescombe, who died 
 in 1265, and whose brother, John Walrond, was the father 
 of another John, whose wife, Alice, daughter and heir of John 
 Stowford of Stowford, in Colyton, brought him that property 
 which remained with the Walronds until the sixteenth century, 
 when it was sold by Humphry Walrond of Bradfield to William 
 Pole, who died in 1587, an 1 was the father of Sir W'illiam Pole, 
 the antiquary. 
 
 William, son and heir of John Walrond and Joan Stowford, 
 commences the pedigree of the family which was entered at 
 the Devonshire Visitation of 1564; by his wife, Julian, he had, 
 with two daughters, a son and heir, John Walrond of Bradfield, 
 who, as Tristram Risdon tells us, " well increased their inheri- 
 tance by an heir of Uflet that had formerly married an heir of 
 Martin Fishacre, Kt." His wife was Agnes, daughter and heir 
 of John Ufflett, by Agnes, daughter and heir to Sir Martin 
 Fishacre, by an heir of Spekes, and thus the ancient heritage of 
 the latter in the parish of Little Hempston and elsewhere came 
 to the Walronds, " in which name Combefishacre cloth yet 
 remain," says Risdon, writing in 1638. 
 3
 
 450 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 The issue of this marriage, according to the Visitation pedi- 
 gree, 1564, MS. Harl., 5185 (Colby, 204), was John Walrond, 
 son and heir, of Bradfield, and, according to Westcote, Joan, 
 wife of Robert Battin of Dunsland. It has been asserted that 
 there was another son, " William Walrond,"* who, by his wife, 
 "Joan, daughter of John Bret, and widow of Higgens," was 
 the ancestor of " Walrond of Bovey," " whose eventual heiress," 
 says Sir Bernard Burke, " was the wife of Lord Rolle," creation, 
 1796. 
 
 But this " William Walrond of Bovey," if he ever had any 
 actual existence, must, to have been the "ancestor" of Lady 
 Rolle, have flourished at a much later period, because there 
 were as many as nine generations between the issue of John 
 Walrond and Joan Ufilett, and the year 1638, at which period, 
 Risdon tells us, the then proprietor of Bovey, " Edmond 
 Walrond," was its third owner in that line, and that this branch 
 had therefore then become " a distinct family," but that pre- 
 viously this " ancient inheritance of the Walronds had been 
 usually given to a younger son."t 
 
 The " Bovey " referred to is not either of the parishes of 
 that name in South Devon, but a property at Seaton, near 
 Axminster. Its last male owner of this name was William 
 Walrond, after whose death it came to Judith Maria, daughter 
 of Henry Walrond, who married Mr. (afterward Lord) Rolle, 
 in 1778, and died without issue in 1820. 
 
 John, son and heir of John Walrond and Alice Ufflett, 
 married Margaret Moore of Moorhayes, in the parish of Cul- 
 lompton, and had issue John and Humphry; the latter was 
 the ancestor of the Walronds of Eveleigh, in the parish of 
 Broadclist, which estate had been derived by the Ufflett 
 marriage, having come to the latter through Valletort, Speke, 
 and Fishacre. 
 
 John Walrond, son and heir, of Bradfield, was the father 
 of Humphry, son and heir, and of Oliver* Walrond, who 
 settled in Somersetshire (and to whom I shall refer later on 
 
 * Burke's Landed Gentry, sub. " Walrond of Dulford." Vivian, Visit, of Devon, 
 p. 768. 
 
 t Risdon, Survey of Devon, pp. 31, 32, edit. 1811. 
 
 j He is called " Osmond " by Burke and also by Vivian, Visitations of Devon, 
 p. 768. He is not mentioned at all in Westcote's pedigree?.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 451 
 
 as the ancestor of the Walronds now of Broadhembury), and 
 also of Ellen,* wife of Anthony, son of Robert Fortescue ; 
 of Eleanor, who married Michael Keys, and secondly, Nicholas 
 Dillon, and of Elizabeth, wife of Walter Reigny ; although, 
 according to Westcote (Pedigrees 484) he had but an only 
 daughter, Alice, married to Robert Yeo of Heanton Sachville. 
 
 Humphry Walrond, by his wife, Eleanor, daughter of Henry 
 " Ovvgan " of Saltwinch, co. Somerset, had, with a second son, 
 John (and daughters, Jane, wife of William Tyllye, see my 
 Suburb^ of Exeter, p. 9, and Elizabeth, wife of John "Hall" 
 according to Westcote, of "John Hake"), of Collompton, an 
 eldest s6n a~nd heir, Henry Walrond of Bradfield, who died 
 in 1550, and left, with a daughter, Ellen, wife of Thomas 
 Yorke, a son, Humphry, who commences the pedigree entered 
 at the Visitation of 1620, and had, according to the record of 
 1564, three younger brothers, viz., Thomas, William, and 
 Alexander, the second of whom was probably the real ancestor 
 of Lady Rolle.f 
 
 According to both the Visitation records I have cited, 
 Humphry Walrond, of Bradfield, by his wife Mary, daughter 
 of Sir Thomas Willoughby, Justice of the Common Pleas, 
 was the father of William Walrond, son and heir, Thomas, 
 and Alexander, who both died issueless, and of two Humphrys, 
 the first baptized in 1554, and the second in 1555. Both 
 these Humphrys lived to maturity. The elder of them resided 
 at Upham, in the parish of Farringdon, a property which 
 had belonged to the Dukes. He married Mary Audley, of 
 Holbury, co. Wilts., had " no issue " in 1620, and died in 
 1632. His brother, Humphry, the younger, settled at Ash, 
 in the parish of Ottery St. Mary, an estate which had been 
 granted to his father, the son-in-law of Justice Willoughby, 
 after the attainder of the Duke of Suffolk in 1553. He 
 married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Duke, of Otterton, 
 and had issue, Humphry Walrond, son and heir, "aged 6, 
 1620." 
 
 His eldest brother, William Walrond, of Bradfield, married 
 
 * She is made " daughter," of Humphry IValrond, by Westcote and Vivian, 
 who do not mention her sisters Eleanor and Elizabeth, 
 f See above, Walrond of Bovey, in the parish of Seaton.
 
 452 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Mary, widow of John Warre, and daughter of Nicholas Sanford, 
 and died in 1627, but the family pedigree as entered before 
 the Heralds, is signed by " Humphry" and by " H. Walrond." 
 The latter was probably his son and heir, then thirty-six 
 years old, and the husband of Penelope Sidenham, of Dulverton, 
 by whom he had thirteen children. The eldest of them, William 
 Walrond, "aged 10," in 1620, duly succeeded to Bradfield 
 in 1650, and had, by his wife, Ursula Speccot, of Launcells, 
 co. Cornwall, besides three daughters, an eldest son, Sir William 
 Walrond, the owner of Bradfield in 1667, and who was knighted 
 by the king at Bedford in 1671. Sir William died unmarried 
 in 1689, and was succeeded by his only brother, Henry 
 Walrond, a Barrister of the Middle Temple, who survived 
 until 1724. By his first wife, Elizabeth Maynard, a widow, 
 and daughter of Sir William Strode, of Newnham, he had 
 two sons and two daughters. The youngest of the latter, Hester, 
 was the wife of the Rev. John Carwithen, Rector of Willand 
 and Woolfardisworthy, and Vicar of Crediton, who died in 
 1742. 
 
 Mrs. Carwithen's eldest brother, William Walrond, married 
 Anne, daughter of Francis Courtenay, and had a son, Courtenay, 
 who died without issue in 1761, when he was succeeded by 
 his next brother, the Rev. H. Walrond, Rector of Woolfardis- 
 worthy, who married Dorothy Milford, at Woolfardisworthy 
 in 1759, and died in 1787, and had, with two daughters, an 
 only son, William Henry W'alrond, of Bradfield, who married 
 Mary Alford, of Sandford, and left two daughters, co-heirs, 
 the eldest of whom, Frances Walrond, became the wife of 
 Benjamin, son of John Dickenson, by his wife, Harriet Bowden. 
 Mr. Dickenson assumed the name of Walrond by Royal License 
 2ist April, 1845, ar >d was the father of the late owner of Brad- 
 field, Sir John Walrond, D.L. and J.P., Sheriff of Devon, 1874, 
 and M.P. for the Borough of Tiverton. Sir John, who was 
 created a baronet 24th February, 1876, married The Honourable 
 Frances Caroline Hood, daughter of the second Lord Bridport, 
 and his eldest son, Sir William Hood Walrond, M.P. for 
 Devonshire (Tiverton Division), and now of Bradfield, was 
 born 26th February, 1848, Sir William Walrond was for- 
 merly a Captain in the Grenadier Guards, and subsequently
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 453 
 
 commanded the 1st Devon R V. for many years ; he married 
 in 1871 Elizabeth, daughter and heir of the late James Pit- 
 man, of Dunchideock, co. Devon, and lias had, with other 
 issue, John Neville Hood Walrond, son and heir, born 26th 
 November, 1874. 
 
 WALROND OF DULFORD, IN THE PARISH OF 
 BROADHEMBURY. 
 
 " Osmond," or Oliver, Walrond, as he is called in the 
 Visitation Pedigree of 1564, appears, by that record, to have 
 settled in Somerset, and to have been the uncle of Henry 
 Walrond of Bradfield, and second son of John W r alrond, 
 son and heir of John and Margaret Moore. According to the 
 pedigrees, as printed," he married " Emlyn, daughter of Buck- 
 thought of Devonshire,"! and had three sons, the eldest of 
 whom, Humphry Walrond, in tight of his first wife, Eliza- 
 beth Brokehampton, settled at Sea, in the parish of Ilminster. 
 He married, secondly, Katherine, daughter of Sir John Popham, 
 chief justice of the King's Bench. By his first wife, he had 
 issue, Hemy Walrond, who succeeded to Sea, and is said to 
 be "named in the will of his cousin, Humphry Walrond, of 
 Bradfield." 
 
 Henry Walrond, of Sea, married Elizabeth, daughter and 
 co-heir of William Devenish, of Hellingleigh, co. Sussex, the 
 descendant of Sir John Devenish, whose wife was Elizabeth, 
 widow of Thomas Massingberd, and third daughter and co-heir 
 of Thomas, first and last Lord Hoo and Hastings (so created 
 by Patent 2nd June, 26 Hy. VI.) by his wife, Alianore, eldest 
 daughter and co-heir of Leo, seventh Lord Welles (writ 27th 
 Ed. I.), and, in right of descent from this marriage, the late 
 Mr. Walrond, of Broadhembury, established his claim to 
 the co-heirship of the Welles Barony, and " petitioned the 
 King, in 1832, to terminate its abeyance in his behalf," J a 
 
 * Burke, Landed Gentry. Vivian, Visitation Devon, p. 770. 
 
 t The Buckthoitghts were Somersetshire people ; but it is worthy of note that there 
 was a family connection with ihe " Buckyats," variously spelt, one of whom married 
 Jane Walrond of Bovey, and who were of Buckyat in the parish of Little Hempston 
 in this county. See my Devonshire Parishes, vol. 2., p. 69. 
 
 J Sir Bernard Rurkf.
 
 454 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 concession which was not accorded.* Henry Walrond, of Sea, 
 died in the year 1616. His son, Humphrey, also of Sea, 
 by his wife, Elizabeth Colles, was the father of the brave 
 Col. Humphry Walrond, of Sea, who suffered much for the 
 King's sake, and was one of the six hostages surrendered to 
 Fairfax at Bridgwater after the capitulation of that town 
 in 1645 ; his companions in misfortune being Sir John Hale, 
 Sir Hugh Wyndham, Mr. Warre, Mr. Sydenham, and Mr. 
 Speke. He was also, I believe, one of the four lieut.-colonels 
 taken at Dartmouth in the following January with Lord 
 Newport, the King's Governor there, with more than forty 
 other officers of various rank.-f He subsequently emigrated 
 to Barbadoes, and became President of that island, which was 
 our first settlement in the West Indies, and the cradle of the 
 English sugar trade. 
 
 On the 5th April, 1653, Philip IV. of Spain created him, 
 by patent of that date, Count of Parma and Valderonda, 
 Marquis of Vallado, and a Grandee of the first class ; and his 
 own Royal Master, to mark his fidelity, permitted him to bear 
 the crest of his ancestors upon a mural crown. He married 
 first, Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel Napier, of More Critchel, 
 co. Dorset, who died in 1635; but his second wife, "Grace 
 Walrond," was alive thirty years later. He left a large 
 family, six sons and three daughters. Of the sons, the third, 
 Henry Walrond, attained the rank of Lieut-General and died 
 in 1693. The fifth, Col. Thomas Walrond, was resident in 
 the parish of Christ Church, Barbadoes, 22nd December, 1679, 
 upon three hundred and forty acres of land, and maintained 
 there eighteen white servants and one hundred and seventy 
 slaves. He married Frances, daughter of Col. Sir Jonathan 
 Atkins, and had an only child, who was the wife of Wiiliam 
 
 * Lady Devenish was, as above intimated, a second wife. She had, moreover, two 
 sisters, co-heirs with herself, Eleanor, ancestress of the Carews, of Beddington, and 
 Jane, ancestress of the Moyle-Copleys. Their mother, Alianure de Welles, had 
 three sisters, similarly co-heirs Margaret, wife of Sir Thomas Dymoke, of Scrivelsby, 
 Hereditary Champion of England, and father of Sir Robert, who executed that office 
 at the coronations of Richard III. and Henry VII. and VIII ; Cicely, wife of Sir 
 Richard Willoughby ; and Catherine, who married Sir Thomas Launde, and hnd 
 issue ; so it is not surprising to find that Mr. Walrond did not receive a summons in 
 the Barony of Welles. 
 
 t See my Devonshire Parishes, vol. I., p. 352. But, in the return from which I 
 copied, the name is written Wadland,
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 455 
 
 Adams. The eldest son, George Walrond, was a captain of the 
 Royal Horse, and also settled in Barbadoes, where he died in 
 1688, and married Frances, daughter of William Coryton, of 
 Coryton, co. Devon, by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Chiches- 
 ter, of Ralegh, and had two sons, Theodore and George. The 
 latter was of St. Philip's, Barbadoes, married, and had issue. 
 
 His elder brother, Theodore Walrond, settled in the island of 
 Antigua, died in the summer of 1766, and left by his first wife, 
 Elizabeth Wills, of Wiveliscombe, co. Somerset, a son, Maine 
 Swete Walrond, also of Antigua, who died in 1764, at the age of 
 thirty-nine. By his wife, Sarah Lyons, of Philadelphia, he 
 had, with two younger sons, a son Theodore, who survived 
 him three years, and died in his minority, when he was 
 succeeded by his next brother, Joseph Lyons Walrond, of 
 Antigua, born 1752, who married Caroline, daughter of 
 Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, in 1797, and re-established 
 himself in England. After the death of the last Earl of 
 Montrath (Coote), who died in 1802, he purchased of that noble- 
 man's executors a house which his lordship had built within the 
 manor of Carswell-cum-Dulford, in the parish of Broadhem- 
 bury, then known as " Montrath House," the necessary land 
 having been acquired from the Drewes, of Grange, in the 
 said parish, and this property has since been known as " Dul- 
 ford House." He died I3th January, 1815. Failing the issue 
 of his eldest son, Lyons Walrond, who never attained his 
 majority, Bethell Walrond, the second son, born in 1801, 
 succeeded to this property at his mother's death, was a deputy 
 lieutenant for Devon, and M.P. for the Borough of Saltash. 
 He married Lady Janet St. Clair, daughter of the second 
 Lord Rosslyn, and died in 1876, leaving an only son, Henry 
 Walrond, now of " Dulford House," and Lieut-Col, of the 4th 
 Battalion Devonshire Regiment (ist Devon Militia), who was 
 born in 1841, is married, and has issue. 
 
 Arms of Walrond Arg., 3 bulls' heads cabossed sa. 
 armed or. 
 
 C res t An heraldic tiger sejant sa., semee of plates. 
 
 Crest of Walrond, of Dulford House, Broadhembury ; out 
 of a mural crown or, an heraldic tiger sa., semee of plates, 
 maned, and tufted, or.
 
 456 DEl'ONSHIRK IV ILLS. 
 
 THE FORTESCUES. 
 
 The Fortescue family, of Norman origin, as its name implies, 
 is commonly said to be descended from a certain Sir Richard 
 le Fort, and to have been settled in England since the eleventh 
 century, as a consequence of the victory at Hastings. Accord- 
 ing to tradition, this Sir Richard le Fort, so styled in reference 
 to his prodigious strength, was a " cup bearer " in the 
 household of Duke William, and thrice saved his master's life 
 at Senlac, by protecting him, whilst unhorsed, from the blows 
 of his assailants, and was therefore afterward known as :< Richard 
 le Fort Escu (Richard the strong shield), and was rewarded, 
 in the person of his son, Adam Fortescue, with "grants of 
 Wymondeston, or Winston, and other lands in the County of 
 Devon.* Sir Richard himself is reputed to have returned 
 to Normandy and to have founded there a second family, and 
 thus to have become the progenitor of those Fortescues who, 
 in many branches, long flourished on the French sea-board 
 known as the Cotentin. 
 
 It is possible that Sir Richard le Fort may not be an entirely 
 mythical personage, although the only authority that has been 
 cited in proof of his existence is that very unsatisfactory and 
 unreliable document known as the "Roll of Battle Abbey," 
 in one of the several pretended "copies" of which there is 
 mention of the Sire de la Ferte, and in another of the Seigneur 
 de la Ferte, otherwise Fort, but who is nowhere called 
 " Richard," or identified in any way with the ducal household- 
 But, granting the presence at Hastings of the " Seigneur de 
 la Ferte," he doubtless took name either from Ferte-Alais or 
 Ferte-Milon, both towns in the Isle of France, and without 
 any reference to his bodily strength at all. The name is 
 not to be found in either of the three lists of the Norman 
 invaders which Stowe has included in his Annales, nor is 
 it to be discovered in Fox's catalogue of those Normans who 
 received territorial grants in return for their services at Senlac, t 
 whilst it is abundantly clear, from the Devonshire Domesday, 
 
 * Burke, Landed Gentry, sub. ff Fortescue of Fallopit." 
 f Acts and Mon., Vol. I, p. 237.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 457 
 
 that neither a Fort, nor a Fortescut-, held lands, either as 
 tenant in capite or even as sub-tenant, at the period of the 
 Conqueror's Survey. 
 
 The compound word " Fortescue " is evidently of military 
 otigin, and I am inclined to attribute its assumption to the 
 period of the first Crusade rather than to that of the Norman 
 Conquest, and there can be but little question that the 
 previous possession of the place-name " le Ferte," or " Fort," 
 primarily suggested the happy combination of the two 
 words to its original owner, or to his appreciative knightly 
 contemporaries. But, as " Fortescue," this family has 
 been indisputably known for nigh upon eight centuries, and 
 hence originated its famous canting motto, Forte Scutum 
 Sains Ducinn, and the legend as to King William's cup bearer. 
 Unfortunately, however, the history of the house of Fortescue 
 has hitherto been made to accord with the ancient and popular 
 tradition lather than with historical facts. The two Manors 
 of Great Modbury and Wimpston were both given by the Con- 
 queror to his half-brother, Robert, Earl of Mortain, and were 
 held under him by Reginald cle Valletort. Either Reginald, 
 or his son and successor, founded, at Modbury, a cell of Black 
 Monks, which consisted of a prior and two religious brothers, 
 and made it dependent upon the great Benedictine Abbey 
 of St. Pierre, Sur Dive, in the lower Normandy Diocese of Se'ez. 
 
 In many cases, but not in all, it has become somewhat diffi- 
 cult to identify the several "Ralphs," "Reginalds," "Richards," 
 and others, described only by their Christian names, who were 
 sub-tenants in 1086, under the King's tenants in capite ; but 
 it is noteworthy that the Manor of Little Modbury was at that 
 time held by a certain ''Richard," under the aforesaid Robert of 
 Morlain, and if this "Richard" was identical with Sir Richard 
 le Forte, alias Fortescue, it upsets the traditional story as to 
 his return to France, but establishes the connection of the 
 Fortescues with Modbury more than a century before the 
 Wimpston property was granted, or confirmed, to them by 
 King John, A 1208, and that they certainly were connected 
 with Modbury at a period anterior to this concession is proved 
 by an existing record.* 
 
 * Assize, i John, 1199.
 
 458 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 " Sir Richard le Forte's " reputed son, Adam Fortescue, had, 
 according to the pedigree, a son, Ralph Fortescue, who, it 
 has been asserted, without reference to the authority,* " granted 
 lands to Modbury Priory by deed dated 1135," and in such 
 case he must have been one of the earliest benefactors to the 
 community, which, according to the commonly accepted date 
 of its foundation, did not exist prior to that year. This grant 
 of Ralph Fortescue, said to have been duly " confirmed by 
 his son, Richard Fortescue," is not referred to in the Monasticon 
 Dioc. Exon., or in Oliver's Ecclesiastical Antiquities, and Dr. 
 Oliver attributes the foundation of the Priory to the Champer- 
 nowne family, on the evidence of the Registers of the See of 
 Exeter ; yet, although the Champernownes may have in process 
 of time become to be regarded as the founders, they were 
 quite unconnected with Modbury until some time subsequently 
 to the admission of the earliest Prior, noted by Dr. Oliver, 
 2 1st July, 1275, and the name of a still earlier one has been 
 found amongst the Charters of Plympton Priory.t 
 
 Whoever the " Richard " may have been who held the Manor 
 of Little Modbury under the Earl of Mortain, that estate, 
 which consisted of a hide of land, was owned, in the reign of 
 Henry III., by Ralph, son of William Rous. 
 
 Reginald de Valletort, as sub-tenant under the same lord, 
 was followed by his son and grandson in the Manor of Great 
 Modbury, which comprised four hides, and possibly also in that 
 of " Winestona," which was taxed for half a hide. His great- 
 grandson, Sir Roger Valletort, who was alive and of full age 
 8th King JohnJ (1208), married, after 1240, Joan, daughter of 
 Richard, Earl of Cornwall, and titular King of the Romans, 
 and had issue an only daughter and heir, Joan, who, as widow 
 of Sir Ralph Valletort, married, about 1270, Sir Alexander 
 Okeston, Kt., and had issue two children, James and Joan. 
 The latter became the wife of Richard Champernowne some- 
 where about the year 1290. At about the latter period a 
 family had become associated with the Valletorts who gave 
 their name to their residence, Lapflode, within the Valletort 
 
 * Vivian, Visitations of Devon, p. 352. 
 
 f Tanner, Not. Monas., sub., Modbury. 
 
 I See my Ashburton and its Neighbourhood, p. 108.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 459 
 
 Manor of Bridford, and which the aforesaid Sir Roger Valletort 
 had obtained in partition with William de Braose in 1208.* 
 
 In the ninth year of the reign of Edward II. (1316), by 
 deed of that date, Henry Lapflode granted the Manor of 
 Great Modbury, by power of the King's Charter, to James de 
 Okeston aforesaid, and to Ida, his wife, for life, with remainder 
 to Richard de Champernowne,t whose wife, as I have shown 
 above, was the granddaughter of the former owner of the 
 property, Sir Roger Valletort, and thus the Champernownes 
 became settled at Modbury, which remained with their de- 
 scendants for many generations. 
 
 To return to the Fortescues, Richard Fortescue, who is said 
 to have " confirmed his father's gift to Modbury Priory in 
 1 135," was certainly resident in the County of Devon in 1199, 
 when, with William Bastard, the undoubted descendant of a 
 Domesday tenant in capite, he was attached for non-appearance 
 at an Assize de Morte d'A ncestre. J This Richard, accord- 
 ing to some of the pedigrees of Fortescue, left a son, William, 
 who was the father of Sir John, Sir Richard, and Sir Nicholas 
 Fortescue. The two latter were companions in arms of Richard 
 " Cceur de Lion " in the Holy Land, and Knights of the Order 
 of St. John of Jerusalem. 
 
 Their brother, " Sir John Fortescue," is generally supposed to 
 have become settled upon the Manor of Wimpston in Modbury, 
 in 1208, by virtue of a "grant" from the Crown, but which 
 was doubtless a mere confirmation of a previous grant by the 
 Valletorts to one of his ancestors, as his son, Richard Fortescue, 
 held the same in 1252, as "one knight's fee of the barony of 
 Reginald de Valletort, whose ancestor, Reginald cle Valletort, 
 had been sub-tenant of the said manor under Robert of Mor- 
 tain, to whom it had been given by King William." 
 
 Adam, son and grandson of Fortescues, of the same 
 name (and great-grandson of the said Richard Fortescue), 
 by his wife, Anna, daughter of " William de la Port, of Old 
 Port," in the same parish, had, with sons Richard and Nicholas, 
 a son and heir, William Fortescue, of Wimpston, who paid 
 
 * See my Ashburton and its Neighbourhood, p. 1 08. 
 
 f See Abstract of the Conveyance. Risdon, Suivey of Devon , p. 187. 
 
 J Rot. Cm: JKeg., Palgrave, 2, 201.
 
 460 DEVONSHIRE WILLS, 
 
 his "knight's fee in 1345, at the ceremony of the knighthood 
 of the 'Black Prince'"; Wimpston being held by him as "of 
 the honour of Trematon " in Cornwall, which had also belonged 
 to Robert, Earl of Cornwall and Mortain, and was one of 
 his two castles and the head of his honour in that county. 
 This William Fortescue married Alice, daughter of Walter 
 Strechleigh, of Strechleigh, in the parish of Ermington, and 
 thus obtained lands in Tamerton ; and, in 1360, by grant 
 of his kinsman, Richard Maldett (Malduit), alias Somaster, 
 whose mother had been a co-heir of De la Port, he had a 
 further extension of property in the form of tenements at Old 
 Port, in Modbury, and at Painston* He was succeeded by his 
 son, William Fortescuef (alive 1394), whose son of the same 
 name, married, vitd patris, Elizabeth Branscombe, widow, who 
 was a daughter of Sir John Beauchamp, and sister and co-heir 
 of Thomas Beauchamp, of Ryme, co. Somerset. Her assign- 
 ment of dower, dated Tuesday after the feast of St. Martin, 
 1394, is sealed with the Fortescue Arms, differenced with a 
 crescent, which is, I think, conclusive evidence that the 
 Wimpston Fortescues were not the elder, but the second, 
 line of the family, or else that the father of the said William 
 (described as "William Fortescue the younger") was not the 
 eldest of the three sons of Adam Fortescue and Anne de la 
 Port, as stated in the pedigrees. 
 
 William Fortescue and Elizabeth, his wife (who had no 
 issue by her first husband, Richard Branscombe), were the 
 parents of William and John. (To the latter I shall refer 
 piesently.) 
 
 The eldest son, William Fortescue, of Wimpston, by his 
 wife, Isabel Falwell, was the father of John Fortescue, of 
 Wimpston, who married Jane Preston, and had three sons, 
 John, William, and John. 
 
 The second of these, William Fortescue, was the ancestor 
 of Sir Peter Fortescue, " aged half a yeare" in 1620, who was 
 
 * Probably Painsfor.I, in the parish of Ashprington, not " Painstone," which is in 
 Newton St. Gyres, and belonged to the D. and C. of Exeter. There is another 
 I'ainstone in the parish of Colebrook. Pain^ford, however, ha-; been supposed to have 
 been purchased by the Somasters in the reign of Henry VII. See my Devonshire 
 Parishes, vol. i., p. 307. 
 
 + Omitted in the Pcd. Visitation Devon Vivian, p. 352.
 
 DE VONSHIRE 117 L l.S. 46 1 
 
 created a baronet in 1667, and was buried at Ermington, in 
 1685, when, by failure of his male issue, the title became 
 extinct. 
 
 John Fortescue, youngest son of John and Jane Preston, and 
 mentioned in the will of his brother William, was the father of 
 Lewis Fortescue, Baron of the Exchequer, who died in 1545, 
 and who, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Lewis 
 Fortescue, of Fallapit, in the parish of East Allington,* was 
 the ancestor of Sir Edmund Fortescue, of Fallapit, who was 
 the governor of Salcombe Castle, near Kingsbridge, and held 
 it for four months after its investment by Col. Weldon, the 
 Parliamentary Governor of Plymouth, in 1645. 
 
 Sir Edmund, at length forced to capitulate, was permitted 
 to march out with the honours of war, and, with his small 
 garrison, retired to Fallapit, distant about four miles, and he 
 carried with him the key of the great gate of the fortress 
 he had so stubbornly defended, and which has since been 
 known as Fort Charles, and this key has since been handed 
 down as a heirloom to his descendants. His son and 
 heir, Sir Edmund Fortescue, in return for the father's loyalty, 
 who had died an exile in Holland before the restoration, was 
 created a baronet in 1664; but the title became extinct at 
 the death of his son, Sir Sandys Fortescue, in 1683. 
 
 Fallapit, in 1752, came to Elizabeth Fortescue, the grand 
 niece of Sir Edmund, of " Fort Charles." Her sister, Dorothy, 
 married Sir Thomas Bury, whose daughter, Catherine Bury, 
 became the wife of the Rev. Nathaniel Wells, whose son and 
 heir, Edmund Wells, inherited Fallapit, by devise of his great- 
 aunt, the said Elizabeth Fortescue, and assumed her name. 
 Of this branch, there is elder issue, Walter George, born 1866, 
 who has brothers, sons of Captain Edmond Fortescue, of the 
 Rifle Brigade ; but Fallapit was sold about twenty years ago 
 to Mr. E. Cubitr. 
 
 I must now return to John Fortescue, the elder brother of 
 John Fortescue, of Spridleston, the ancestor of the Fallapit 
 branch. 
 
 * She was great-granddaughter of Sir Henry Fortescue, chief justice of the 
 Common Pleas, by his second wife, the daughter and heir <>f " Fallapit."
 
 462 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 He was the son and heir of John Fortescue, by Jane Preston, 
 and inherited Wimpston, which descended to his son and 
 grandson. The latter, Henry Fortescue, of Wimpston, is 
 described as " of that property," but the right heir was Joane, 
 only daughter of Thomas, his elder brother, who had died 
 v.p. She was the wife of Edmund Babington, of Wyke, 
 co. Worcester. About this time Wimpston seems to have 
 been sold, but Henry Fortescue was the grandfather of Edward 
 Fortescue, who died in 1631, and left, by his wife, Elizabeth, 
 daughter of William Bruton, of Heavitree,* an only son and 
 heir, John Fortescue. It has been suggested that his ancestor, 
 Sir John Fortescue, the first certain owner of W T impston, by 
 virtue of King John's " grant," or confirmation, may have been 
 the husband of Margerie, " second daughter, and one of the 
 eventual five co-heirs of William Lord Briwere by his wife 
 Beatrice, widow of Reginald, Earl of Cornwall"; because this 
 " Margerie," who was merely of about the same generation 
 as the said Sir John Fortescue, is said, by Dugdale, to have 
 married La Ferts. 
 
 This assertion, however, appears to have been one of the 
 numerous errors for which Dugdale's works are remarkable, 
 and which have been perpetuated over and over again by 
 those who have simply repeated his statements without any 
 attempts at verification, and in mistaken reliance on his accuracy. 
 Margery Briwere was the eldest of the five sisters and married, 
 not " La Ferte," or " La Forte," as others have styled him, 
 but De Fernac, as shown by an almost contemporary record ; t 
 she had issue a daughter, Gondreda de Fernac, who married 
 Payen de Chawerth, whose son and heir, Payen de Chawerth, 
 died without issue, when his inheritance descended to Patrick, 
 his brother, who married a daughter of Earl W T arrenne ; she 
 was probably one of the illegitimate daughters of John " Plan- 
 tagenet," Earl of Warrenne, Surrey, and Sussex, by Maud de 
 Hereford, who, although he obtained a divorce from his 
 Countess, Joan, daughter of the Comte de Barre, on plea of 
 " pre-contract " to Maud de Hereford, does not appear to have 
 
 * See Breton, alias Bruton, of Borough, ante. 
 t See my Devonshire Parishes, vol. ii., pp. 97, 98.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 463 
 
 ever actually married the latter, and his sister, as heir-at-law, 
 carried the Earldom of Surrey to her husband, Richard Fitz- 
 Alan, son and heir of Edmund, Earl of Arundel. 
 
 John Fortescue, son of William and Elizabeth Branscombe 
 (nee Beauchamp), and younger brother of William Fortescue, 
 of Wimpston, lived in the reign of Henry V., and was in that 
 monarch's following at the battle of Agincourt, October 25th, 
 1415. Upon the capitulation of the French town of Mcaux, 
 in 1422, he was appointed its governor, and has since been 
 known in the Fortescue family as " Captain of Meaux."* By 
 his wife, Eleanor Norries, he was the father of Sir Henry 
 Fortescue, son and heir, Chief Justice of the Irish Common 
 Pleas, whose issue by a first marriage terminated, after four 
 descents, in a daughter, who married John Fortescue, of Preston, 
 and was the ancestress of the afore-mentioned Sir Peter For- 
 tescue, Bart, of Wood. By his second marriage, Sir Henry 
 was, similarly, through Elizabeth Fortescue, the ancestor of 
 the Fallapit branch. He had a brother Richard, from whom 
 descended the Fortescues of Hertfordshire, Essex, and Bucks. 
 
 Sir John Fortescue, who was raised to the Chief Justice- 
 ship of England 25th January, 1441-2, and held it until, in 
 consequence of the dethronement of King Henry VI., he was 
 superseded on the I4th May, 1461, is said to have been a third 
 brother of Sir Henry Fortescue (who is declared by some 
 writers to have been his father), and a younger son of " the 
 Captain of Meaux." Sir John was the learned author of the 
 De Laudibus Legum Anglic, but has made no mention of his 
 parentage or extraction in this or either of his other works, 
 although he has dilated at some length upon his experiences as 
 a student of the law. It is not my present purpose to dwell 
 at any length upon his history or career. The proof as to his 
 extraction is of the slightest conceivable character, and rests 
 principally upon supposition, upon the period at which he 
 flourished, and upon his possession of the family name. His 
 birthplace is as unknown as the exact date of his birth, and he 
 
 * As an evidence of heraldic inaccuracy, I may mention that in the Visitation 
 of Devon, 1564" (Colby, p. 100), this John Foriescue, " Captain of Meaulk," is 
 made fifth in descent from his usually accepted tiephew, John Foriescue, and "son 
 of William F." by " Isabella " Beauchamp, son of William F. by Catherine " Welch." 
 Admon. to the estate of said Catherine Walch was granted 6lh February, 1580-81.
 
 464 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 never had ostensible connection with this county, and the 
 property he acquired, by success in his profession, was 
 situated at Ebrington, in Gloucestershire, in the chancel 
 of which church he was buried at an unknown date, and 
 at the age of ninety, according to tradition ; and the inscrip- 
 tion over his remains was placed there by Colonel Fortescue, 
 of Weare Gifford, in 1677. In proof of his parentage, "a 
 deed of the i6th of Henry VI.," without reference to its 
 whereabouts, has been asserted, by which " Henry, son of 
 John Fortescue, grants, etc., to brother John and Isabella 
 his wife," and there is also a statement by Dugdale, Origines 
 Jndiciales, which may be accepted, as evidence of paternity, 
 for what it is worth, that, as "Governor of Lincoln's Inn," 
 1422-1425, he is described as " Fortescue junior." 
 
 In the Visitation of Devonshire, 1564 (Colby, p. 101), he 
 is described as " John Fortescue Capit. Justic. de Banco, 
 et in fine regni H. 6 Cancel!. AnglifZ." He is, moreover, there 
 set down as son of Henry Fortescue, " Cap. Justic. in Hib." 
 brother of Richard, of " Valovvpit," and Henry, of Wood, and 
 as great-great-grandson of " Catherine Welch," whose will, as 
 I have stated above, was proved in 1581, more than a century 
 after her thus strangely asserted descendant in the fourth 
 degree was " Chancellor of England." The original record of 
 the Devonshire Visitation of 1620 is of course somewhat more 
 reliable, and there "Sir John Fortiscue, Justice of England," 
 whose ancestry is unrecorded, commences the pedigree of For- 
 tescue of Buckland, Filleigh, and Weare Gifford estates which 
 were acquired by his son, Martin Fortescue, in marriage with 
 Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Richard Densell, in 1454. 
 
 They had two sons, John and William ; upon the latter 
 the Buckland Filleigh property was settled by his mother, and 
 through him it descended to John Fortescue, who was buried 
 at Weare Gifford, in April, 1604. 
 
 By his wife, Anne, daughter of Walter Porter, and widow 
 of Digory Thome, he had, with other issue, Roger, who con- 
 tinued the line at Buckland Filleigh, and was the direct 
 ancestor of John Fortescue, of Bampton. who, at the death 
 of his kinswoman, Mary Spooner, of Fallapit, and Buckland 
 Filleigh (only daughter and heiress of Wm. Fortescue, of
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 465 
 
 Filleigh, by Mary, daughter and coheiress of Edmond For- 
 tescue, of Fallapit), inherited the Buckland property, which, 
 upon his death in 1776, reverted to his daughter, Rebecca, 
 wife of Caleb Ingletr, of Dawlish, and her descendants assumed 
 the name of Fortescue, and resided at Buckland until that 
 property was sold by Col. Inglett-Fortescue, who died in 1841. 
 Sir Faithfull Fortescue was the half brother of the afore- 
 said Roger Fortescue, of Buckland Filleigh, by the second 
 marriage of their father with Susanna, daughter of Sir John 
 Chichester, of Goulston, 22nd September, 1584, and sister of 
 Arthur, Lord Chichester of Belfast, Deputy of Ireland. To 
 advantage himself of his uncle's powerful patronage, he migrated 
 to Ireland, and was Governor of Knockfergus in 1620. He 
 is vaguely said, in the Visit. Fed., to have married " an Irish- 
 woman" ; his wife was Anna, daughter of Garret, Viscount 
 Moore, of Drogheda ; he afterward returned to England, and was 
 one of the gentlemen of the Privy Chamber subsequently to the 
 Restoration of King Charles II. He was buried at Carris- 
 brook, 29th May, 1666, being then nearly eighty-one years 
 of age, and left several children, the third of whom, Sir Thomas 
 Fortescue, of Dromisken, co. Louth, had two sons; the youngest 
 of them was the ancestor of William Henry Fortescue, Baron, 
 Viscount, and Earl of Clermont, so created 1720 and 1777, 
 with remainder, of the viscounty only, to his brother, who 
 succeeded to it, and died without issue, when the title became 
 extinct. 
 
 The eldest of Sir Thomas Fortescue's sons, Col. Chichester 
 Fortescue, of Dromisken, was the great great-grandfather of 
 Chichester Fortescue, of Dromisken, whose eldest son, Thomas, 
 the late Lord Clermont, obtained the revival of that Irish 
 Barony in his favour in 1852, and was also created a peer of 
 the United Kingdom in 1866. By special limitation, his lord- 
 ship's brother, Chichester S. P. Fortescue, who had been raised 
 to the English Peerage as Baron Carlingford 28th February, 
 1874, has inherited the said Barony of Clermont of Dromisken, 
 failing the issue of the first peer of the last creation. 
 
 John, son and heir of Martin Fortescue, by his wife, Elizabeth 
 Densell, was born in 1461, and died in 1503. He inherited the 
 property now known as Castle Hill, in the parish of Filleigh, and 
 3 1
 
 466 DE VONSHIKE WILLS. 
 
 hundred of Braimton, near South Molton, and which must not be 
 confused with his brother's property, Buckland Filleigh, which 
 parish is in the Hundred of Shebbear.* His descendant, in the 
 sixth generation, Hugh Fortescue, of Filleigh, who was born in 
 1 592, had a third son, Arthur Fortescue, of Penwarne, co. Cornwall, 
 and of Weare-Giffard, in this county, whose elder brothers died 
 without male issue. This Arthur married Barbara, daughter of 
 John Elford, of Sheepstor (for whose somewhat singular and 
 romantic history I must refer my readers to the first volume 
 of my Devonshire Parishes, pp. 37 et seq.), and had four sons, 
 of whom the eldest, Hugh Fortescue, married, firstly, Bridget, 
 daughter of Hugh Boscawen, in 1692, by whom he had Hugh, 
 son and heir, and eight other children ; and, secondly, Lucy, 
 daughter of Matthew, first Lord Aylmer, who was the mother 
 of Matthew, second Lord Fortescue, and of Lucy, Lady 
 Lyttelton. 
 
 Bridget Boscawen's mother, Lady Margaret Clinton, was the 
 youngest co-heir of Theophilus, Earl of Lincoln, and her son, 
 Hugh Fortescue, was permitted to terminate the abeyance, 
 since 1692, of the Clinton Barony, and was summoned to 
 Parliament, as fourteenth Baron Clinton, i6th March, 1721. 
 On the 5th July, 1746, his Lordship was created Baron Fortes- 
 cue of Castle Hill, in the parish of Filleigh, and co. of Devon, 
 with remainder to his half-brother, Matthew Fortescue, his five 
 whole brothers having died without issue. 
 
 At his death, unmarried, in 1751, the Fortescue Barony passed 
 according to the limitation in its patent, whilst that of 
 Clinton once again went into abeyance between his only sur- 
 viving sister, Margaret Fortescue, who died unmarried in 1760, 
 and Margaret Rolle, Countess of Orford, granddaughter of 
 Lady Arabella Rolle, Lady Margaret Boscawen's elder sister, 
 and, in view of such seniority, it is somewhat singular that 
 Hugh Fortescue should have been permitted to terminate the 
 previous abeyance. From 1760 to 1791 the Clinton Barony 
 was merged with the Earldom of Orford ; the third Lord Orford 
 and sixteenth Baron Clinton then died unmarried, and three 
 years afterward Robert George William Trefusis, who was fifth 
 
 * Both Filleigh and Buckland Filleigh came to the Densells, through Trewen, by 
 the heiress of Filleigh.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 467 
 
 in descent from the said Lady Arabella Rolle, through her 
 daughter, Bridget, wife of Francis Trefusis, was summoned 
 as seventeenth Lord Clinton, and was the grandfather of the 
 present and twentieth Baron Clinton, of Heanton Sachville, now 
 Lord-Lieutenant of Devonshire. 
 
 Matthew Fortescuc succeeded his half-brother as second 
 Baron Fortescue 3rd May, 1751 ; in the following year he mar- 
 ried Anne Campbell of Cawder, and died in December. 1785, 
 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Hugh, as third Baron, 
 who was advanced to the dignities of Viscount Ebrington, in 
 allusion to his ancestor's residence, and Earl Fortescue, ist 
 September, 1789. He died in 1841. By his wife, Hester, 
 sister of the first Marquess of Buckingham, he had, with other 
 issue, the late Countesses of Devon and Portsmouth, and a son, 
 Hugh, born in 1783, who succeeded as second Earl, and was the 
 father, by his wife, Lady Susan Ryder, of the present Lord 
 Fortescue of Castle Hill, who was summoned to the House of 
 Lords, during his father's life-time, in the Barony of Fortescue. 
 
 The present Earl married, in 1847, the eldest daughter of 
 Lieut.-Col. the Right Honourable Dawson-Damer, and his 
 eldest son, Viscount Ebrington, was born i6th April, 1854. 
 
 Although the Fortescues have frequently married cousins, 
 and the name has thus been preserved, in many cases without 
 assumption, all the houses derived, with absolute certainty, from 
 the Wimpston branch have been long extinct in the male line, 
 and the connection, with Devonshire, of the Filleigh, and Buck- 
 land Filleigh, Fortescues can only be referred, authoritatively, 
 to the date of the marriage settlement of Elizabeth Densell 
 and Martin Fortescue, loth September, 1454, four hundred and 
 forty-one years ago, since which time Lord Fortescue's ancestors 
 have resided at Filleigh, and upon the property now known 
 as " Castle Hill," in reference to an artificial ruinous castle 
 which crowns the summit of an acclivity near the house, and 
 which was, I believe, erected by Hugh, Lord Clinton and 
 Fortescue, who made many alterations to the home of his 
 forefathers at Filleigh, about the middle of the last century. 
 Although their descent, in some way, from King John's grantee 
 of Wimpston has been commonly accepted, yet it must be 
 admitted to be remarkable that no attempt was made to carry
 
 468 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 the pedigree behind Chief Justice Fortescue, of Ebrington, at 
 the Visitation of 1620, whilst his descent, as set down in the 
 copy of the Visitation of 1564, is so manifestly erroneous, if 
 only on account of its anachronisms, that it is not even worthy 
 of serious consideration. It cannot, therefore, be a matter of 
 surprise that the actual ancestry of the learned judge has, 
 from time to time, given birth to a considerable amount of 
 controversy. Possibly, too, some of my own statements may 
 differ considerably from those of the late Lord Clermont 
 (History of the Fortescues}, with the contents of which work 
 I am unacquainted. 
 
 An early deed of Fortescue, 3<Dth Edward I., is sealed with 
 an estoile ; and the crest of Fortescue appears, at first, to have 
 been an uncharged escutcheon, arg. 
 
 Lord Carlingford bears the same crest as Lord Fortescue, but 
 the tiger supports, with fore paw, an escutcheon arg., and by 
 some authorities the crest is thus blazoned for Fortescue of 
 Castle Hill. 
 
 The present Arms of the Earls Fortescue may thus be 
 blazoned : 
 
 " Az. a bend engrailed arg., cotised or" (Visitation, 1564). 
 
 Crest An heraldic tiger statant arg. 
 
 Supporters Two greyhounds arg., ducally collared and lined 
 gules. 
 
 Motto " Forte Scutum Salus Ducum." 
 
 THE ACLANDS OF KILLERTON. 
 
 The Aclands are supposed to derive their name from Acland, 
 in the parish of Landkey, near Barnstaple, which small but 
 ancient residence, long utilised as a farmhouse, is still their 
 property, and was originally named after the " grove of oaks 
 by which the house is seated," according to Thomas Westcote, 
 the quaint author of The View of Devonshire. 
 
 The Key of Alwyris land, called in Domesday Alwyne- 
 landavile belonged in 1066 to " Letwyn," the Saxon, and 
 twenty years later to Ralph de Pomeroy. As " Landkey," it 
 afterward became the property, for several descents of the
 
 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 469 
 
 Beauples, one of whom was Sheriff of Devon, 2ist Edward II., 
 and passed, in marriage with a daughter of that race, to Sir 
 Nigel Loring, during the reign of Edward III. But the 
 " Eccelins, Acalans, or Akelanes," as the name is indifferently 
 written, had then been living at " Accellana," within the said 
 parish, almost, if not quite, as long as the Beauples, and 
 although, apparently, they were not at that period of pre- 
 cisely the same importance as their knightly neighbours, yet 
 that they were, even then, an eminently respectable family 
 is proved by their marriage with the daughter and heir of 
 Hawkridge of Hawkridge, in Chittlehampton, as early as the 
 reign of Richard II. ; and, prior to the reign of Edward VI., 
 they had formed alliances matrimonial with other well-known 
 county families, such as Prideaux, Fortescue, and Hext, so 
 that it is somewhat surprising to find that no pedigree of 
 the Aclands was entered at either of the earlier Visitations of 
 the County in 1531, 1564, or 1572. 
 
 In 1620 Sir John Acland of Columb-John, then "aged 29," 
 and who was created a Baronet 24th June, 1644,* appeared 
 before Henry St. George, Richmond Herald, and Sampson 
 Lennard, Blue Mantle, Deputies for William Camden Claren- 
 ceux, who held the County Visitation at Exeter on the latter's 
 behalf that year, and attested the pedigree of his family 
 which was then entered, and which commences with " Baldwin 
 Eccelin," who is believed to have been the son of Hugh, and 
 is set down as the great-grandfather of "Baldwin" of " Akelane," 
 in 1320, son of "William" of Acalan," by " Sara, daughter and 
 heir of John de la Pile," or Pyll. 
 
 The grandson of Baldwin de Akelane, who was of the same 
 generation as the " Black Prince," father of Richard II., married 
 Alice, daughter and heiress of William Hawkridge, and, after an 
 interval of six generations, Hawkridge, in the parish of Chittle- 
 hampton, was left to the second son of '' John Akeland of 
 Akeland," by his wife, " Elizabeth Cruwys of Cruwys Morchard." 
 
 Anthony Akeland of Hawkridge married Agnes, daughter of 
 John Courtenay of Molland, and his descendants, in the first 
 and second lines, were of Hawkridge and Goodleigh, for 
 
 * Foster, and Vivian. But according lo Burke, and Stockdale, Eng. /far., 1806, 
 the original patent was dated 1st March, 1644-5.
 
 470 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 several generations. The second son of Baldwin " Ackland " 
 of Hawkridge, John Ackland, settled in Exeter as a merchant, 
 was Mayor of that city in 1627, and died in 1640. His eldest 
 son, Baldwin, Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, was subse- 
 quently Senior Proctor of that University, but ultimately retired 
 to his native county and was presented to the Rectory of 
 Tedburn St. Mary, and died, treasurer of Exeter Cathedral, 
 in 1672. 
 
 The treasurer's next brother, John Acland, merchant, of 
 Exeter, died, without surviving male issue, in 1674. His 
 mother had been a daughter of Richard Duck of Heavitree. 
 
 "John Akeland of Akeland," the eldest brother of Anthony, 
 aforesaid, of Hawkridge, was born about 1523, and married the 
 daughter and co-heir of a rich London tradesman, Hugh Ratcliff 
 of Stepney, an alliance which seems to have largely contributed 
 to the future prosperity of the elder Aclands. The good lady 
 left much of her money to her favourite but second son, " John 
 Akeland." Her eldest son, Hugh, however, married Margaret 
 Monk of Potheridge (grandaunt of " the greatest general of the 
 age," George, Duke of Albemarle, whilst her mother was 
 Frances, daughter and heir of Arthur Plantagenet, Viscount 
 Lisle). He was sheriff of Devon in 1611, and, at the age of 
 seventy, became "right heir" to all the accumulated property 
 of his fortunate and truly charitable brother, John. 
 
 The latter was born in or about the year 1565, and was, as 
 I have said, the second of the two sons of " John Akeland, of 
 Akeland," by Margery Ratcliff of Stepney. He was knighted 
 by King James in 1603, in the following year he was returned 
 to Parliament as a Knight of the Shire, and became Sheriff of 
 the County in 1608. His elder brother, and his uncle, Anthony, 
 having inherited respectively the lands of the family at Landkey 
 and Chittlehampton, Sir John Acland, as the name is now 
 written, purchased of William Rowswell an ancient property 
 known as Columb John, in the parish of Broadclist, an old 
 Domesday Manor, which, after passing through several families, 
 such as the Culmes, Cliffords, St. Aubyns, Beares, Prideauxs, 
 and Courtenays, became forfeited to the Crown by the attainder 
 of the Marquess of Exeter, Henry Courtenay, in 1539. Queen 
 Mary had granted it to Sir George Basset, a cadet of
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 471 
 
 the house of Umbcrleigh ; and the latter's son, Philip Basset, 
 sold it to Rowswell aforesaid. Sir John Acland built a fine 
 residence here, upon a foundation said to have been laid 
 " by one of the Earls of Devon," but more probably by Richard, 
 second son of Thomas Bamfield of Poltimore, who died i$th 
 March, 1429, and who had had a grant of the Manor of 
 Columb John, " to him and his heirs male," from Hugh, Earl 
 of Devon, between the years 1419-1422, and upon whose death 
 it had reverted to the Earldom, failing issue of the said Richard 
 Bamfield. Its propinquity to Poltimore would have made it 
 a very desirable residence for a younger branch of that house. 
 Sir John also restored and endowed an ancient domestic 
 chapel upon this property, which was consecrated as a Chapel 
 of Ease to Broadclist Church on Sunday, September nth, 1608, 
 and he usually resided at Columb John until his death, I4th 
 February, 1620. He was a considerable benefactor to Exeter 
 College, Oxford, and gave the sum of .800 towards the build- 
 ing of the Hall, and beer cellar beneath it, and also founded 
 two Scholarships there of the annual value of 8, for boys from 
 Exeter School. Over thirty parishes in the county, inclusive 
 of six of the Exeter churches, have since participated in his 
 gift of bread to the poor, the expense of which, to the amount of 
 80 per annum, was charged upon the proceeds of "the rectory 
 and church of Churchstoue and chapel of Kingsbridge.* His 
 will, dated 9th February, was proved P.C.C., 4th July, i62O.t By 
 his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of George Rolle of Steven- 
 stone, he had one daughter, Dorothy, who died in her infancy, 
 and had no further issue by his second marriage with Margery 
 Hawley, a widow and daughter of Sir Henry Portman, Kt, of 
 Orchard Portman. He was buried between his two wives, under 
 a fine, but undated, monument, in Broadclist church, upon which 
 there is a recumbent figure of himself in armour, with a lady 
 on either side.J By an Inq. p.m. dated 2Oth James I. (1622), 
 his " right heir " was found to be his elder brother, " Sir Hugh 
 
 * By deeds dated aoth January and 2Oth August, I3th and I7th James I. 
 
 f (Soame 76.) 
 
 J The Lysons ! Mag. Brit., vol. ii., p. 116, " Devon," state that it " appears by 
 the parish books that he was buried in 1613." Moore, History of Devon, vol. ii., 
 p. 433, carelessly plagiarises the same fable, although a few lines further on he cites 
 the deeds of the said Sir John of " I3th and l?th James I.," 1616-1619.
 
 472 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. . 
 
 Akeland " ; the will was proved by the said Hugh's second son 
 as executor, who left no surviving issue at his death in 1649-50 
 (3rd February), and Columb John had then passed to his 
 nephew, Sir John " Aclande," who thus signed the pedigree of 
 1620, son and heir of Sir Arthur Aclande, Kt, who had died 
 in 1610, v.p. 
 
 This Sir John "Aclande/' "aged 29, 1620," was created a 
 Baronet, as above stated. He garrisoned Columb John for the 
 king in 1643 ; in 1646 it had become the headquarters of 
 General Fairfax, and that Cromwell, in person, was there during 
 the period of its occupation by the Parliamentary forces is 
 proved by a letter dated " Colomb John, near Exeter, 23rd 
 July, 1646," and addressed to him by Elizabeth, Lady Acland,* 
 in which she writes : " I received such ample testimony of your 
 love when you were pleased to quarter at my house, as that I 
 cannot express my thankfulness for the same, and hope for 
 your interest in favour of my husband with the Commissioners 
 at Goldsmith's Hall." That this poor lady's supplication was 
 of little avail is proved by the fact that at her husband's death, 
 at Stoke d'Abernon, in Surrey, thirteen months later (24th Aug., 
 1647), his creditors proved his will, and even the patent of his 
 baronetcy was lost or destroyed during the troubles to which 
 he had been subjected. Lady Acland only survived him until 
 1649, and "admon. de bonis non" to her effects was also granted 
 to a creditor, William Brown, 6th July, 1671, her son, Hugh 
 Acland, having renounced further trouble with respect to his 
 parents' personality. 
 
 The latter, in the following year, became fifth Baronet in 
 succession to his two elder brothers, Sir Francis and Sir John, 
 and the latter's son, Sir Arthur, fourth Baronet, who died in his 
 minority. The king granted him a fresh patent of the baronetcy 
 to replace the one which had been destroyed during the recent 
 wars on January 3ist, 1677-78, which gives precedence to the 
 Aclands over all Baronets created since the date of the original 
 patent. He married Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Daniel, Kt., 
 of Beswick, co. York, and was of Columb John and Killerton, 
 which latter estate, in the same parish, had given name to a 
 
 * She was the daughter of Sir Francis Vincent, first Baronet of Stoke d'Abernon, 
 and step-daughter of her husband's mother.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 473 
 
 family who possessed it for many generations, and whose 
 daughter and heir had married Sir John de Vere, and, secondly, 
 Sir W. Courtenay, Kt. It was subsequently purchased by the 
 Drevves, who were residing there when Edward Drewe murdered 
 Will Petre, a tragical episode to which I have already sufficiently 
 referred in these pages and elsewhere (Suburbs of Exeter, pp. 12 
 et seq^) 
 
 But as this happened in 1611, and as the property was sold 
 to the Aclands by Thomas Drewe, who succeeded to it in 1622, 
 the purchaser cannot have been " Sir Arthur Acland, Kt," 
 Sir Hugh's grandfather, as stated by the several county his- 
 torians, since Sir Arthur had died v.p. in 1610, 26th December, 
 and Edward Drewe, father of the said Thomas, and owner of 
 Killerton, was interred in the parish church of Broad-Clist in 
 1622, M.I. Sir Hugh Acland, of Columb John and Killerton, 
 was buried at Broad-Clist pth March, 1714, and was succeeded 
 by his eldest son, Hugh, as sixth Baronet, the third of whose 
 sons, Arthur Acland, was the father of Sir John Palmer Acland, 
 created a Baronet pth December, 1818, and whose only grand- 
 daughter and eventual heir married Sir A. B. P. Hood, Bt., 
 in 1849. 
 
 On the death of Sir Hugh, sixth Baronet, 2Qtli July, 1728, 
 the title passed to his eldest son, Sir Thomas, seventh Baronet, 
 who was followed by his grandson, Sir John, whose mother 
 was a daughter of the first Lord Ilchester, as eighth baronet, in 
 1785. On the death of the latter, without issue, within two 
 months of his succession, viz., I5th April that year, the title 
 passed to his uncle, Sir Thomas Dyke Acland as ninth Baronet, 
 the additional name of "Dyke" having been assumed in right 
 of his mother, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Dyke, of Tetton. 
 
 The ninth Baronet's eldest son, by his wife Henrietta, daughter 
 of Sir Richard Hoare, Bt., was the tenth Baronet, and died at 
 Killerton 22nd July, 1871, at the age of eighty-four. He was 
 the father of the present Right Honourable Sir Thomas Dyke 
 Acland, of Acland, Columb John, and Killerton, who was born 
 25th May, 1809, was M.P. for North Devon and West Somer- 
 setshire, and is a Privy Councillor. (See Men of the Time, p. 8.) 
 Sir Thomas married, firstly, in 1841, Mary, eldest daughter 
 of Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bt., and secondly, in 1856, Mary,
 
 474 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 daughter of John Erskine, and niece of James, second Lord 
 Rosslyn. By his first marriage he has had, with other issue, a 
 son and heir, Charles Thomas Dyke Acland, M.P., born 1842, 
 and who married, in 1879, Gertrude, daughter of the late Sir 
 John W. Walrond, Bt. Arthur, second brother of the present 
 Baronet, assumed the name of Troyte, by Royal licence, in 
 1852. His fourth brother, Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, 
 K.C.B., Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, born 1815, was 
 created a Baronet in 1890, and has seven sons. 
 
 Killerton House, which is surrounded by an extensive deer 
 park, was built as a temporary residence by the seventh baronet, 
 who died in 1785 ; the tenth and late baronet was the first of 
 the family who presented to the Vicarage of Broad-Clist, through 
 his trustees, in his minority, 7th December, 1795. The old 
 mansion house at Columb John was pulled down some years 
 ago, and the family have since resided permanently at Killerton. 
 The new chapel there was provided by the late Sir Thomas 
 Dyke Acland, who obtained an Act of Parliament to transfer to 
 it the endowments of the ancient structure at Columb John, 
 already referred to, I2th July, 1837. 
 
 The arms of Acland may be thus blazoned " Chcquy arg. 
 and sable, a fess gufes." 
 
 Crest. A man's hand gloved, and couped at the wrist, 
 thereon a falcon, all ppr. 
 
 Motto f< Inebranlable." 
 
 THE BAMPFYLDES OF POLTIMORE. 
 
 Poltimore Park, the Devonshire seat of Lord Poltimore, is 
 situated about four miles from Exeter, and the property is 
 not identical with either of those which in the Domesday record 
 are described as "Pontimora" and "Pultimora" respectively. 
 At the period of the Survey, it had no separate existence as a 
 manor, and appears to have been parcel of the Royal manor of 
 " Clistone," since known as ' Broad-Clist," or great Clist, and 
 to have been originally known as " Clist Moins," or Clist the 
 less, and ultimately its identity became entirely overlooked 
 and lost, through its acquisition by a family who were its
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 475 
 
 owners for several descents, and who were known by the name 
 of their residence, " Pultimore," in the parish of Farway, and 
 three miles distant from Honiton.* 
 
 From a note appended to one of the copies of the Visitation 
 of Devon, 1564,! it appears that " Stephen of Poltymore, temp. 
 
 * The early acquisition of the manor of " Clist Moyns, or Moins " by the Polti- 
 mores of Farway, and its consequent change of name from "Clist Moins" to 
 Poltimore, has been the occasion of endless topographical confusion. Sir William 
 Pole, whose error has been repeated by his contemporary, Thomas Westcote, and 
 later on by John Prince, has corrupted " Moins " into Moys, and has asserted that it 
 had " formerly owners of the latter name who had lands also so called in Gla- 
 morganshire." Neither Risdon (c. 1638) or Westcote (c. 1642) have supplied any 
 information at all as to the early owners of " Clist Moins," otherwise Poltimore ; 
 the first author has merely stated that " Poltimore was long since the seat of the 
 Poltimores' knights," the last that, "Clist Moys, now called Poltimore, Sir Richard 
 de Poltimore held, and his predecessors, and posterity for a while after him." 
 
 The authors of the Mag. Brit., Devon, vol. ii., p. 419, confound this estate with 
 that Manor of Poltimore, which was, and is, in the parish of Farway, and which 
 belonged, in 1 086, to Haimer de Arcis, and afterward gave name to the " Polti- 
 mores," as in my text, but this property did not pass to the Bampfyldes, but to 
 a family known as " le Jewe," which, after several descents, terminated in 
 daughters and co-heirs. In their "Table of the Domesday division of property" 
 (Mag. Brit., Devon, vol. i.) these same authors mention two other manors, which 
 they alike term " Poltimore," and describe as, anciently written, " Pontimore," 
 one of which they state, as "an appendage of Clist," was held by "Odo," and 
 afterward by "Baldwin the Sheriff" in demesne; the other by "Olmer," and in 
 1086 by the "Canons of St. Mary" in demesne. 
 
 But the Domesday record, in fact, has mention but of a single manor of " Pon- 
 timore," which was the property of Baldwin the Sheriff, and held wider him at the 
 period of the Survey by the Canons of St. Mary of Rouen, in Normandy. This 
 manor of "Pontimore" descended with Aylesbeare to Baldwin's posterity, the 
 Courtenay Earls of Devon, and is now known as "Newton Poppleford," a modern 
 parochial district, but an ancient chapelry, with a market and fair of its own, 
 within the said parish of Aylesbeare. 
 
 The hypothetical manor of " Pontimore, or Poltimore," which the brothers 
 Lysons assign to "Odo" the Saxon, and to "Baldwin the Sheriff," under the 
 Normans, is a pure invention on their part, which seems to l>e founded on a very 
 obvious clerical inaccuracy on the part of the Domesday scribes, and the careless 
 perpetuation of the error is the less inexcusable, because the authors of the Magna 
 Britannia, have noted that this "Pontimore" was "an appendage of Clist." 
 
 The facts are as follows : 
 
 The said Canons of St. Mary held, as sub-tenants to Baldwin, two manors, written 
 "Clist" and "Cliste." The first of these has been since known as "Clist St. 
 Mary," the second as " Clist William," and the latter is situated within the parish 
 of Plymtree, near Cullompton, which, as " Plumtree," was held by Odo Fitz- 
 Gamelin at the period of the Survey, from which record it appears that " one farthing 
 of land, valued at twelvepence per annum," had been taken " from the manor of Clist, 
 held by the Canons of St. Mary under Baldwin, and added to " Odo's manor of 
 Pontimore," according to the Exeter Domesday, and " Ponamore," according to the 
 Exchequer copy of the Survey. 
 
 And as no such manor as " Pontimore, or Ponamore," was held by any such 
 individual as Odo, who was a king's thegn in Saxon times, or by " Odo Fitz-Gamelin," 
 under Norman rule, and as it is only mentioned in connection with a portion of 
 "Cliste," which was situated in "Odo's manor "of " Plumtree," it is evident that 
 there was no such manor of "Pontimore" as Lysons mentions, and that "Ponti- 
 more," instead of " Plumtree," was merely an accidental error of description. 
 
 Finally, neither of the manors respectively written " Pontimore," or " Pultimore," 
 in Domesday, had anything in common with the property now known as Poltimore 
 Park, but the second of them is identical with the estate, still called " Poltimore," in 
 the parish of Farway. 
 
 f See Colby, Visit., 1564, pp. 10, u.
 
 476 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Henry III., had issue, Bartholomew of Poltymore, who had 
 issue Richard of Poltymore, Kt, who had issue Richard of 
 Poltymore, Kt, who 21 Edward I. gave the manor by deed to 
 a certain Simon de Montacute, Kt, called his " lord " or 
 " master," in the deed by which he gave all his lands in Polty- 
 more, Wibridge, Bocombe, and South Tawton to the said Simon 
 de Montacute in case he should die without issue. Simon de 
 Montacute afterwards, by a deed dated 26th Edward I. (1298) 
 gave the manor of Poltymore to William Pontington, canon of 
 the Cathedral of Exeter, and to a certain John de Baunfield." 
 
 The above notes add much to the " confusion " to which I 
 have already referred. The reversionary conveyance by 
 "Richard of Poltymore, Kt," dated 21 Edward I., and which 
 is also applied by Lysons' Mag. Brit, to " Poltimore, near 
 Exeter," had literally nothing whatever to do with the latter 
 property, as proved by the mention of " Wibridge and Bocombe," 
 which, like Poltimore, are, and were, situated in the parish of 
 Farway. 
 
 " Wibridge '' (Wood bridge) is now a hamlet, whilst "Bocombe" 
 (Boycombe) and Poltimore have been long occupied as farms. 
 From the expression " lord " or " master," it may be inferred 
 that the " Poltymores " held land under the Barony of Shipton 
 Montagu, in the adjoining county, of which the said " Simon " 
 was " seized " in the 5th Edward I.* 
 
 That these Poltimores of Poltimore, in Farway, were also the 
 owners of Clist Moins, since known also as Poltimore, is suffi- 
 ciently evidenced by the fact that Richard, son of Bartholomew 
 de Poltymore,t presented John Blundell to the parish church 
 of Clist Moins, or Poltimore, in July, 1259, and from the fact 
 that he was the patron instead of his father, I think it probable 
 that he may have then recently become the owner of Clist 
 Moins. It is certain that the parish has been ever since 
 known as Poltimore, and it is thus named in the " Taxatio " 
 of Pope Nicholas IV., 1288-1291, when the " firstfruits " 
 amounted to ,2 135. 4d. 
 
 Bartholomew de Poltimore, father of Richard, presented 
 "Sampson of Hocesham " (Huxham) to Poltimore Rectory 
 
 * See " House of Brito," ante. 
 t Ep. Reg. Exon.
 
 DEVONSHIRE ll'I/./.S. 
 
 477 
 
 i6th August, 1263, and again exercised the right of patronage 
 in favour of "Adam de Stratton," 28th February, 1265-66. 
 
 It is stated in the Cartulary of St. John's Priory, Exeter 
 (Exeter Mun. Archives], that this " Bartholomew sold Poltymore 
 Manor to Nicholas de Potyngdon, and to John Bampfeld " 
 (c. 1291). John Prince tells us that the last "Sir Richard de 
 Poltimore, having no issue of his own, granted the property 
 to Simon Lord Montacute, who sold it unto William Pon- 
 tington, Canon of the Church of Exeter, for 200, in the 
 twenty-sixth year of King Edward I., A.D. 1298, and he gave 
 it unto John Bampfield, whom he had the care and tuition of, 
 for he is styled his alumnus or pupil."* 
 
 The Pointingtons were settled for eight descents at Pennicott, 
 in the parish of Shobrooke, near Crediton, from the time of 
 Edward III., and their pedigree was entered at the Heralds' 
 visitation of the county in 1564, and again in 1620. The names 
 "William" and "Nicholas" are to be found in the recorded 
 generations of this family, who seem to have migrated to 
 Devonshire from Somerset, and to have derived their name 
 from the parish of Poyntington, near Sherborne. Possibly 
 William de Pointington was the son of Nicholas, mentioned as 
 the co-purchaser with John Bampfeld of the manor of Polty- 
 more, nigh Exeter, from Bartholomew de Poltymore in 1291. 
 " The Canon of Exeter," ' William de Puntyngdon," succeeded 
 Thomas de Charleton as Archdeacon of Totnes 28th September, 
 1303, and had been precentor of Exeter Cathedral in the 
 previous year; he was succeeded in that office by Walter 
 Stapcldon, afterward Bishop of the See, and died in 1307. 
 "John de Bamfeld" first occurs as patron of the Rectory of 
 Poltimore 5th March, 1340-41, but his father is described, in 
 the Nomina Villarum, as "Lord of Poltimore" in the year 
 1316. 
 
 With regard to the constantly asserted "gift" of the property, 
 either to "William Pontington," or to the latter and to "John 
 de B.imfeld," by Simon de Montacute in 1238, this was, I feel 
 assured, nothing more than a "quit claim" and "confirma- 
 tion" of the actual sale of " Clist Moins." alias Poltimore, 
 
 * Prince's Worthies of Devon, sub Sir C, Bampfeild, Bt. The story is repeated by 
 Lysons' Mag. ftrit., Devon, vol. ii. , p. 419.
 
 478 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 to Poyntington and Bampfeld, by Bartholomew de Poltymore, 
 in 1291, and was merely granted by the said Simon, in 1298, 
 by virtue of his rights over the hundred of Wonford, in which 
 Poltimore Park is situated. He had obtained from the king, 
 1 8 Edward I., 1289, a confirmation of his honour of Shepton 
 Montague, and, with like rights in other counties, the Lordship 
 of the whole hundred of Wonford, and was therefore, under the 
 Crown, chief lord of the fee of Poltimore, otherwise Clist 
 Moins. 
 
 The Bampfyldes have been independently settled at Polti- 
 more, near Exeter, with absolute certainty since 1316, and have 
 as certainly presented to its rectory since 1340. By what means 
 their ancestors may have become possessed of the Poyntington 
 moiety of the manor, whether by gift or purchase, is immaterial, 
 but if it is a fact that " John de Baunfield was seized of the 
 manor of Poltymore I Edward II.," as noted against his name 
 in the copy of the Visitation of 1564,* that date synchronises 
 with the death of Archdeacon William Poyntington, or " de 
 Puntyngdon," in 1307, and supports the story as to his having 
 been a " favoured pupil " of that clerical dignitary, but, as he 
 was the son of John de Baunfeld, by Joan Hastings, his father 
 was doubtless the original purchaser of the Bampfylde moiety of 
 the manor in 1291. 
 
 The name of Bampfylde, which was spelt "Bampfield" by 
 the fifth baronet, who died in 1823, and Bamfield at the creation 
 of that title in 1641, has been also variously written Bamfeild, 
 Bamfeld, Baunfelde, and Baunfeld. 
 
 John de Baunfelde, the father of the first Baunfelde of 
 Poltimore, by his wife Joan de Hastyngs, appears to have been 
 settled in the parish of Weston Baunfell, or Baunville, now 
 Bamfyld in Somersetshire, and was most probably a cadet of 
 the house of Bonville, derived from Sir Nicholas Bonville, who 
 was a landowner in that county as early as the first year of 
 King John, and who took his surname either from " Bonneville " 
 in Savoy, or else from the town of the same name in the fertile 
 province of Beauce, on the confines of the Isle of France. The 
 " son " (or grandson ?) of Sir Nicholas, Sir William Bonville, 
 
 * The several copies of the Visitation of 1564 are not authoritative; and this 
 statement is not repeated in the original Visitation of 1620.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 479 
 
 recovered his lands in Somerset upon the customary homage 
 and service, in 1265, and was the grandfather of Nicholas 
 Bonville, who married Avis, daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas 
 Pyne of Shute,* and died in 1294, leaving issue, Sir Nicholas, 
 father of Sir William Bonville of Shute (an estate long subse- 
 quently, and after attainder, acquired from Petre, by Pole), the 
 ancestor of William, Lord Bonville of Chewton, who was sum- 
 moned to Parliament, as a baron, 28 Henry VI., and also a 
 second son, John Bonville, who is saidf to have married Joan, 
 daughter of Waryn Hampton, of Musbury, and to have died 
 without issue.i 
 
 " John Bamfielde of Poltimore," who commences the pedigree 
 recorded by the Heralds at the Devonshire Visitation of 1620, 
 married Ellinor, daughter of Sir Humphry Beauchamp, of 
 Ryme, and is named as " Lord of Poltimore " in the year 1316. 
 He had a son of the same name, who married Isabella, daughter 
 of John Cobham, by his wife Anne Bollay, and who presented 
 to Poltimore Rectory, 5th March, 1340-41. His son and heir, 
 also called John, married Joan, daughter of Geoffrey Gilbert, 
 and was dead, I3th November, 1360, when the said Joan, as 
 " relict of John Bampfeld the elder," presented William Seger to 
 the rectory of Poltimore. Consequently her son Thomas, who 
 married a " daughter of Coplestone, must have been also dead 
 at that date, but the latter's son and heir, " John Baunfeld, Esq.," 
 was of full age, 7th November, 1361, when he gave the family 
 living to a certain J. de Cobham, who was doubtless his kinsman. 
 This " John Baunfeld, Esq ," married Joane, daughter of Sir 
 
 * Vivian calls her " widow of Sir Thomas Pyne," whose daughters and coheirs, 
 however, married Bonville and Umfraville, and thus Shute descended in the Bonville 
 family. 
 
 t Vivian " Visit. Devon," p. 101, who cites "Pole, various Harl. MSS., and 
 Maclean's History of Trigg Minor, with additions and corrections." The only pedigree 
 of Bonville entered before the Heralds, appears in the copies of the 1564 "Visitation," 
 and refers to the illegitimate descendants of Lord Bonville of Chewton. 
 
 Although the ancestor of the Bampfykles may have belonged to an 
 earlier generation, it is just possible that this John Bonville of Weston was 
 identical with John Baunfelde, father of John of Poltimore, by Joan de Hastyngs. 
 Joan Hampton was doubtless a second wife, and the wife of his old age, as she is said 
 to have mairied twice, subsequently to her first widowhood. The arms of Bonville 
 of Chewton were, "ja., six mullets arg., pierced git. ; " but several branches of the 
 family bore, "or., on a bend sa., three mullets arg.," and these latter, but for slight 
 variation of tincture, are precisely similar to the present arms of Bampfylde, who 
 are said, however, to have originally borne the field, "paly of six arg. and vert." 
 
 Nomitia villarum, ut ante.
 
 480 DEVONSHIRE 
 
 Richard Merton,* but died at a very early age, on which account 
 his father-in-law, the said Sir Richard Merton, Kt, presented to 
 Poltimore only sixteen months later, 24th March, 1362, as 
 " Guardian of John Baunfeld, a minor, son and heir of John 
 Baunfeld." This youthful heir also died young, but added much 
 to the fortunes of the family by his marriage with Joan, 
 daughter and heir of John de Hocesham, through which alliance 
 his posterity acquired the adjacent manor of Huxham,-f- which 
 is still the property of Lord Poltimore. His widow, Joan, 
 presented to Poltimore Rectory, as "relict of John Baunfeld," and 
 by right of her dowry, 4th January, 1372-73. Her eldest son, 
 Thomas " Bampfeld," presented to Poltimore 24th September, 
 1404, and to Huxham, as " true patron," 3rd February in the same 
 year. | He married Agnes, daughter and co-heir of John Faber 
 of Bovey Tracy, and was the grandfather of John Bamfield of 
 Poltimore, who by his wife Agnes, daughter and heir of John 
 Pederton, by Cecilia, daughter and heir of John Turney, was 
 the father of Sir William Bdmfield, son and heir of Poltimore. 
 This John and his wife rebuilt the Parish Church of Poltimore, 
 as shown by an inscription on a gravestone which was, some 
 years since, removed from the nave to the chancel, and which 
 bears the following inscription : 
 
 " MC.C.C.XC." 
 
 " Hie jacent Johes Baunfeld et Agnes uxor ejus, Pater et 
 
 Mater Willi Baunfeld, qui hanc Ecclesiam et maximam 
 
 Canipanam fieri fecerunt." 
 
 Their son, Sir William Bamfield, was sheriff of Devon in 
 1426, and died in 1474. The Manor of Huxham appears 
 to have been settled upon his second son William Bamfield, 
 
 * According to the Visitation Pedigrees, the inaccuracies and omi-sions ia which I 
 can only thus slightly notice, the Son of John B. and Ellinor Beauchamp, married 
 "Joane, daughter of Sir Richard Martin, Kt." The 1620 pedigree is not vouched 
 for by the signature of any member of the family. Said Joane Martin is made the 
 mother of Thomas, who married Agnes Coplestone. Martin is, of course, an error 
 for Merton. 
 
 t By deed daUd 28th September, 1461, and which is, or was, preserved at Wardour 
 Castle, " William Bamfeld, Esq." mortgaged the manor of Huxham, with other lands 
 in " Pynho and Beare," to Jane, widow of Sir Jno. Dynham, to her son John D. and 
 to Richard Levermore, as security for the payment of ^80. 
 
 J John Baunfeld, probably by arrangement with " William de Hocesham," had 
 piesented to Huxham, I3th August, 1349. 
 
 Where the spelling of the name differs from Bampfylde, it is in all cases a 
 quotation.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 481 
 
 who may have acquired the Pinlioe property, mentioned in 
 the mortgage above noted, by his second marriage with 
 Margaret Kirkham, widow of John Cheyney, of Pinhoe ; 
 he succeeded his elder brother Walter " Bamfield," at Poltimore, 
 ist Sept., 1478, and was the father, by his first wife Margaret St. 
 Maur, of Sir Edward Bamfield of Poltimore, who married Eliza- 
 beth Wadham, and died in 1528. His son and heir, Richard 
 Bamfeild, who was an only child and but two years of age at 
 his father's death, was, presumably, the hero of a sensational 
 story which has been handed down to us by John Prince, the 
 author of the "Worthies of Devon," published in 1701, and 
 which he tells us is " a most memorable passage of undoubted 
 credit," and to the effect that "one of the heirs of the house, 
 not many generations back," being ward to "some very great 
 person in the east country," was taken away in his infancy, and 
 brought up in ignorance of his real position and prospects. He 
 was trained to be a servant, and, when di>covered by one of his 
 late father's tenantry, was employed as huntsman in his said 
 guardian's establishment. The Poltimore farmer is then said to 
 have abducted him, to have taken him before the proper 
 authorities, and to have duly established the right of his young 
 landlord to his inheritance. 
 
 This Richard Bamfeild, at the age of fifty, became Sheriff 
 of Devon in the eighteenth year of the reign of Queen 
 Elizabeth. His mother, a widow, at the time of her second 
 maniage, was a daughter of Nicholas Wadham, of Merrifield, 
 co. Somerset, and his wife was a daughter of Sir John Sydcn- 
 ham of the same county ; by her he had a family of twelve 
 children, viz., nine daughters and three sons. The eldest of 
 the latter, Giles, predeceased him, having been drowned during 
 his passage to Ireland, so he was succeeded in 1594 by his 
 second son, Amias, then over thirty years of age, who was Sheriff 
 of the county in 1603, and was knighted that same year at 
 Windsor.* He married Elizabeth, daughter -of Sir John 
 Clifton, of Barrington, Somerset, and had ten children ; one of 
 
 * This Sir Amias Bampfeild built, in 1618, the very interesting house in " Decide- 
 hay," now Bampfylde Street, Exeter, long the city residence of the family, and now 
 used as offices. It is rich in armorial bearings of the families allied to Bampfylde by 
 marriage. See post. 
 
 32
 
 482 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 his daughters married the nephew of the great Sir Francis 
 Drake, who was created a baronet in 1622, and whose sister, 
 Elizabeth, was the wife of his eldest son and successor, John 
 Bamfeild, of Poltimore, who was born about 1590. The latter 
 also had a large family, fifteen children ; one of the daughters, 
 Dorothy, was the wife of Henry Worth, of Worth. The sixth 
 son, Francis, was a Nonconformist minister, and died in Newgate 
 Gaol in the spring of 1604 ; the eighth son, Thomas Bampfield, 
 was Recorder of Exeter during the Usurpation, and member for 
 Exeter in 1656. The third son, John Bamfield, was created 
 a baronet I4th July, 1641, and through the deaths of his two 
 elder brothers, Amias and Arthur, succeeded to Poltimore at his 
 father's death, and married Gertrude, sister and co-heir of John 
 Coplestone, of Warleigh. During the great rebellion this first 
 baronet was active on the side of the Parliament, and Poltimore 
 House was garrisoned by Fairfax in 1645 ; its owner died in 
 1650, aged forty, when he was succeeded by his son, Sir Cople- 
 stone Bampfield, the eldest of a family of nineteen, and who 
 was as zealous for the Restoration of monarchy as his sire had 
 been for its overthrow, and who was duly " pricked " Sheriff 
 of Devon as soon as the king "came home again." He was, 
 however, equally zealous in his promotion of the Revolution, 
 being actuated, as evidently as his father had been, by perfectly 
 conscientious motives, and on his death-bed he called his family 
 around him, and impressed upon them the necessity of an 
 invariable adherence to the " religion of the Established 
 Church of England, and of allegiance to the right heirs of the 
 Crown." He experienced a great domestic bereavement 
 shortly before his demise, through a melancholy and fatal 
 accident of which his eldest and promising son was the 
 victim. This son, Colonel Hugh Bampfield, who commanded 
 the county militia, was returning from a wedding, when his 
 horse tripped whilst descending a hill near Plymouth, and 
 the young rider's neck was broken. He left a widow, Mary, 
 daughter of James Clifford, of Ware, who administered to 
 the will of her father-in-law in the minority of her eldest 
 son, Coplestone Warwick Bampfield, who succeeded as third 
 baronet in 1692, and also, by devise, to the estates of his 
 far away kinsman, Warwick Bampfield, of Hardington,
 
 DEVONSHIRE II 'ILLS. 483 
 
 'co. Somerset* (Sir Coplestone was M.P. for Exeter, and 
 also for the county, and was buried at Poltimore with his 
 ancestors, I4th Oct., 1727), he left issue a daughter, Mary 
 (Lady Carevv), and a son, Richard Warwick Bampficld, fourth 
 baronet. The latter, who also represented Devonshire in 
 Parliament, married Joan Codrington, of Wraxhall, Somerset, 
 and died at the age of fifty-four, 24th July, 1776, when he was 
 succeeded by his second but eldest surviving son, Charles 
 Warwick Bampfield, as fifth baronet. 
 
 The latter, who was born and baptized in Bristol, 23rd January, 
 1753, represented the city of Exeter in Parliament from 1774 to 
 1807, and, at the age of seventy, came to an untimely end at 
 the hands of his servant, Morland, who immediately afterward 
 committed suicide. He died at his town residence, No. I, 
 Montague Square, and was buried 25th April, 1823, at Har- 
 dington, co. Somerset, which he evidently preferred to his 
 Devonshire home, as he is described as of " Hardington Park," 
 without any mention of Poltimore, in the London Directory of 
 1822. By his wife, Catherine, daughter of Admiral Sir John 
 Moore, Bt., and K.C.B., he left a daughter, Louisa, wife of 
 Edward W. Wells, Captain R.N. ; a son, Charles, in holy orders ; 
 and a son and heir, Sir George Warwick " Bampfylde," who was 
 born 23rd March, 1786, succeeded as sixth baronet, was a 
 Deputy Lieutenant for Devon and Somerset, and colonel of 
 the North Devon Militia. On the loth Sept., 1831, Sir George 
 was raised to the peerage as Baron Poltimore, of Poltimore, and 
 was afterward a Lord- in- Waiting to Her Majesty the Queen, 
 and died i8th December, 1858. His Lordship by his second 
 wife, Caroline, eldest daughter of Lieut-General Frederick 
 Buller, of Pelynt, was the father of the second and present 
 baron and seventh baronet, who was born in 1837, and married 
 the second daughter of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, M.P., of 
 Frampton, Dorset, by whom he has, with other issue, a son, the 
 Honourable C. R. G. Warwick Bampfylde, born 1859, late of 
 the 1st Life Guards, who is married, and has issue. 
 
 Arms of Bampfylde. Or, on a bend gu., 3 mullets arg. 
 
 * Warwick Bampfield was descended from Peter (whose will was proved 7th June, 
 1499, P-C.C.), second son of John Bamfield, of Poltimore, by Agnes, daughter and 
 heir of John Pedcrton, of Hardington, by his wife, Cecilia, daughter and heir of 
 John Turney.
 
 484 DE VONSH1RE WILLS. 
 
 Crest. A lion's head erased sa., ducally crowned or. 
 Supporters. Two lions ramp. reg. sa., crowned as crest, and 
 gorged with a collar gemelle or, an escutcheon of the arms 
 pendent therefrom. 
 
 Motto. " Delectare in Domino." 
 
 In the old house in Bampfylde Street, Exeter, to which I 
 have already referred as having been erected by Sir Amias 
 Bamfielde, Kt, in 1618, are the following coats, illustrative 
 of the matrimonial alliances of the family : 
 On a shield over the fireplace in oak 
 1st. Or, on a bend gu., 3 mullets arg. Bampfylde. 
 2nd. Or, a maunch gules Hastings. 
 3rd. Arg., a lion ramp, sa, Hocesham. 
 4th. Arg., on a fess sa., 3 crosslets or, a bordure az. Faber. 
 5th. Arg., a bend gu., between three lions' heads erased sa., 
 crowned of second Pederton of Hardington. 
 
 6th. Gu., semee of crosslets, and a lion pass, guardant arg. 
 Turney* alias Mallet, of Enmore, co. Somerset. 
 7th. Arg., 2 chevrons^., a label az. St. Maur. 
 8th. Turney as above. 
 
 Over a doorway is a shield of the family impaling Clifton. 
 Sa., seme"e of cinquefoils, a lion ramp. arg. 
 
 In the hall windo.v are six shields in painted glass, but the 
 tinctures have in some cases suffered by injudicious repairs. 
 
 1st Bampfylde. (Andrew, son and heir of Walter Bamfield, 
 aged 4 years, anno 1478, died, S.P.") 
 
 2nd Bampfylde. Impaling Turney quartering St. Maur. 
 'Wm. Bampfylde and his first wife, Margaret St. Maur, heiress 
 to her niece, Mary Drury.) 
 
 3rd Bampfylde. Impaling erm., 3 lions ramp, gu., within a 
 bordure engrailed sa. Kirkham. (Wm. Bampfylde and his 
 second wife.) 
 
 4th. The same as No. 3. 
 
 5th Bampfylde. Impaling vert., a chevron between 3 mullets 
 or Pudsey. (Walter Bampfylde, ob. 1478, son and heir of Sir 
 William, and his wife Grace. 
 
 6th. As 2, but St. Maur quarters Turney. 
 
 * The ancient arms of this family were " paly of six gu. and or, a lion statant 
 guardant arg."
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 485 
 
 GIBBS OF FENTON AND OF CLIST ST. GEORGE 
 
 There was an ancient tradition as to " Gibbs, of Deny," that the 
 first of them came to England in the retinue of King William, 
 and their name has been considered, by some, to be equivalent 
 to " Gilbert," by others to be deduced from " an Arabic root." 
 
 Sir Bernard Burke has cited an "ancient roll," originally in 
 the possession of " Jenkin Gibbes (temp. Henry VII.)," as 
 authority for the statement that the Ds Guibes, or Gibbes, 
 existed in Normandy long prior to the Norman Conquest, and 
 adds, that " the name is said to be still found in France," in the 
 first form ; it appears certain, however, that families known as 
 "Gibbe," or "Gibbes," became settled, during the fourteenth 
 century, in the West of England, and were also found long 
 since both in Warwickshire and Kent ; the latter stock are said 
 to be derived from Devonshire, the first of whom," John Gibbes," 
 has been asserted to have been the brother of Gibbes, " of 
 Honington, co. Warwick, in the reign of Richard II.," whilst 
 the Gibbs of Derry, assumed to be of the Devonshire branch, 
 together with those of Bed minster, co. Somerset, the ancestors 
 of Sir E. O. Gibbes, Baronet, alike bear Arms which seem to 
 be connected with this county, and which, but for tincture, are 
 precisely identical with those of Dennis, of Holcombe Burnell, 
 and Orleigh, and also with those of Wyke, of Northwyke, 
 already blazoned on a previous page ; whilst, despite the oft 
 plagiarised assertion as to the Danish origin of the race of 
 Dennis,* I think that it is more than probable that Ralph "le 
 Dan," " Dacus," or " Dennis," who was settled at St. Pancras, 
 near Holsworthy, since known as " Pancraswick," in the reign of 
 Henry II., was responsible for the very suggestive affix of that 
 parish, and that he was, actually, a brother of William, Robert 
 and Roger de Wigornia, of whose ancestry I have already 
 sufficiently treated. t 
 
 Sir Ralf de Wick, otherwise Dennis, who may have acquired 
 the latter appellative from his arms, anciently blazoned as 
 " three Danish axes," was of Wick St. Pancras in the twelfth 
 century. He had issue two sons, Robert and William ; Robert's 
 
 * See Risdon, Survey, pp. 120, 234. Prince, Worthits,sub Dennis, Sir Thomas. 
 
 t A,,tf, p. 375.
 
 486 DE VONSHIKE WILLS. 
 
 line terminated after several descents in two co-heirs, Margaret 
 and Agatha, the wives respectively of Sir Reginald Ferrers, of 
 Beer, and of Sir Nicholas Kirkham. But William had a son, 
 " Sir Alan le Dennis," whose son, Robert, married Maude, 
 daughter and heir of William de Man worthy, of Manworthy, 
 in the parish of Holsworthy. John Dennis, of Manworthy, 
 grandson of the last Robert and Maude, and son of William 
 Dennys, of Gidicot, in the parish of Bradford, acquired the 
 latter manor in marriage with Joan, daughter and heir of John 
 Dabernon, and left it to his own descendants ; but his younger 
 brother, Walter Dennis, succeeded both to Manworthy and 
 Gidicott, and, after several descents, his " heir-general," 
 Thomasine Dennis, married Philip Boterford, of Botterford in 
 South Huish, and his daughter and heir, Margery Botterford, 
 brought the property to her husband, a certain William 
 May, or Mey, between the years 1399-1413. In the mean- 
 time Fenton, a hamlet in the parishes of Rattery and 
 Dartington, had been alienated by one of the barons of 
 Dartington at an early date to a family who styled themselves 
 "de Fenton." "John de Fenton " was its owner in 1242, and 
 Risdon says (Sttrvey, p. 165) that " the inheritance thereof 
 came to William Gibbs about the reign of Henry the Fourth" 
 (1399-1413), and this William was doubtless the son of the 
 "John Gibbes," also of Fenton, who is reputed to have 
 been the " brother of Gibbes, of Honington, co. Warwick." 
 John, grandson of William Gibbs, appears to have married 
 Agnes Mey, or May, of Botterford, Manworthy, and Gid- 
 dicotr, the last two estates having been derived from Dennis ; 
 and hence the connection, between the family of Gibbes, 
 of Fenton, and Dennis, originally of Pancraswick, whose arms 
 the former appear to me to have assumed, is sufficiently clear ; 
 not so, however, the basis upon which these Dennis arms were 
 admitted to the family of "Gibbes, of Bedminster and Bristol," at 
 the Herald's Visitation of Somersetshire in 1672, since their 
 pedigree shows no connection whatever with Gibbes of Fenton, 
 locally pronounced Venton. 
 
 Fenton, Botterford, Manworthy, and Giddicott, descended in 
 the family of Gibbes from the reign of Edward IV. to that of 
 Queen Elizabeth. The last of them, William Gibbes, of Fenton,
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 487 
 
 is said to have sold Manworthy to Hurst, of Exeter, and 
 Butterford to Prestwood. His arms,* attached to his " Funeral 
 Certificate," are impaled with those of his wife, Dorothy 
 Berkeley. He left two daughters, co-heirs, viz., Silvestra, the 
 wife of Walter Wotton, and Elizabeth, who married the said 
 Walter's elder brother, Edward Wotton, and secondly, Edward 
 Drewe, of Hayne, and by their representatives Fenton and 
 the residue of the property was sold. Administration to his 
 estate was granted in 1580, to John Ayer, of Penegett, in the 
 minority of William, son of Silvestra Wotton, a minor. f Peter 
 Gybbes, M.A., Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, Lent Term, 
 1387, was possibly of this family. 
 
 In 1672 the Gibbes family, of Bristol, then represented by 
 William Gibbes, aged 42, of Southwark, and Henry Gibbes, 
 aged 31, alderman of Bristol, and to whom arms, as borne by 
 Gibbes, of Fenton, viz., arg., 3 battle axes in pile sa., were then 
 somewhat unaccountably! admitted, referred their ancestry to a 
 certain William Gibbes, of Bed minster, who, by his will dated 
 1 8th March, 1602, desired to be buried with "his father" in the 
 Church of St. Thomas, Bristol. 
 
 Sir Philip Gibbes, of Barbadoes, created a Baronet 3Oth May, 
 1774, was the son of Philip, grandson of Philip, uncle of the 
 aforesaid Alderman Henry Gibbes, and of his brother William 
 Gibbes, of Southwark. The said Philip Gibbes, on 2Oth 
 December, 1679, was living upon a hundred and seventy-four 
 acres of land in the parish of St. James, Barbadoes, and had 
 there seven white servants, and sixty-nine negroes. 
 
 The first baronet, Sir Philip Gibbes, who was so created 
 3Oth May, 1774, married Agnes, daughter and heir of Samuel 
 Osborne, of Barbadoes, and it is worthy of note that early in 
 the same century Sir Philip's namesakes, at Clist St. George, 
 had been associated as neighbours with the Osbornes of that 
 same parish, in the church of which there are, or were, 
 memorial inscriptions for Julian Osborne, 1614, and for Richard 
 Osborne, 1706. The Gibbes failed to enter their pedigree at 
 
 * Arg. t 3 battle axes sa. Dennis bore errn., 3 battle axes^w. 
 
 t See ante, p. 149. 
 
 1 Scarcely "unaccountably" perhaps, as they were "admitted" by that eccentric 
 officer of arms Sir Edward Bysshe, "Clarenceux."
 
 488 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 either of the Heralds' Visitations of tin's county, so there is 
 some amount of uncertainty as to the precise connection between 
 the Gibbes of Fenton and those of the same name who had 
 become settled in Exeter and its suburban parishes during the 
 fifteenth century, and who are said to have been " a junior 
 branch of the Venton family."* 
 
 The late Dr. Oliver " imagines " that the Gibbes of Clist St. 
 Georgef " came there from Dartington," and notes that Bishop 
 Lacy, on 22nd June, 1437, licensed "Thomas Gybbe and 
 Margaret his wife to have divine service performed within his 
 mansion situated at Dartington." 
 
 On the ist May, 1560, a certain "John Gybb" appears to 
 have been sometime the tenant of a small property called 
 " Peyett," since known as Pytt, in the parish of Clist St. George, 
 and upon that date he purchased the fee simple of his holding, 
 described as " a messuage and tenement and forty acres of 
 land," from his landlord, Thomas, Lord Wentworth, of Nettle- 
 sted, for i 10. 
 
 Henry Gybbes of Woodbury, died in 1549 ; George Gybbe, 
 of Clist Sr. George, in 1562 ; and John " Gibbe," of the same 
 parish, and who was probably the purchaser of Pytt, in 1573. 
 
 Two years previously the Rectory of Clist St. George, the 
 patronage of which was in the family of Prideaux, of Nutwell, 
 Woodbury, had become vacant by the death of the Rev. William 
 Gybbe, and it is again noteworthy that Margery, daughter 
 of Humphrey Prideaux, of Theuborough, who died 8th May, 
 1550, was the wife of Robert Gibbes, of Honington, co. Warwick. 
 
 The Pytt property appears to have descended in the line of 
 George Gybbes, of Clist St. George, who died in 1606, who 
 by his first marriage had an eldest son, John " Gibbe," whose 
 son, Philip, was of Fulford in the parish of Shobrooke, 
 and whose eldest son, George, was the father of George 
 Gibbs,J of Pytt, who died without surviving issue August 9th, 
 
 * Burke, Landed Gentry (Edit. 1858), sub. " Gibbs of Belmont." 
 f Ecclesiastical Antiquities, vol. i., p. 153, published 1840. Clist St. George is 
 now commonly spelt Clyst. Fenton is over two miles west of Dartington village, 
 and both Risdon and Westcote mention it as parcel of the adjacent parish of Kattery. 
 Isabella, daughter of Thomas Gybbe, of Fenton, married John Fortescue, of 
 Wimpston, who died in 1519. 
 
 J His elder broiher, John, born 1637, died 1643.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 489 
 
 1723; and also of Abraham Gibbs, fourth son, who settled at 
 Topsham, and who was the father of another Abraham Gibbs, 
 also of Topsham, born 1686, and who by his first wife Mary, 
 daughter of Nehemiah Monke, of the same parish, had a second 
 son, George Abraham Gibbs, who resided at Exeter, and who 
 succeeded to Pytt, in Clist St. George, as heir-at-law to his 
 great uncle, George Gibbs, in 1723." 
 
 George Abraham Gibbs married Anne, daughter and co-heir 
 of Anthony Vicary, of Exeter, and had a large family, viz., five 
 sons and six daughters. Of the sons, it is only requisite to 
 treat of the second, third, and fifth. 
 
 The second son, who was called Vicary, after his mother, 
 was born, in 1751, at his father's house in the Cathedral Close, 
 near Palace Gate, was privately baptized I2th November, 1751, 
 and was educated at Eton and at King's College, Cambridge. 
 He was eventually called to the Bar at the Middle Temple, and 
 his abilities secured the favourable notice of John Dunning, 
 afterward Lord Ashburton. He became the leading counsel 
 on the Western circuit, and succeeded Richard Burke as 
 Recorder of Bristol. He subsequently represented his University 
 in Parliament, became Chief Justice of the County Palatine of 
 Chester, and in turn filled the orifices of Solicitor and Attorney- 
 General, and received the honour of knighthood. He was raised 
 to the Bench in 1813, and soon afterward attained the Chief 
 Justiceship of the Common Pleas, but resigned in consequence 
 of the increasing infirmities of age in 1818, and survived his 
 retirement but two years. He died at his town house in Russell 
 Square 8th February, 1820. To the patronage of Sir Vicary 
 Gibbs, the first Lord Gifford, so created 1824, and who was 
 also a native of Exeter, was chiefly indebted for his advance- 
 ment and celebrity. 
 
 Sir Vicary married a daughter of Major William Mackenzie 
 (whose brother, Francis Humberstone Mackenzie, succeeded to 
 the Seaforth Barony), and left an only daughter, Maria Eliza- 
 beth, who married Lieut-General Sir Andrew Pilkington, K.C.B., 
 and had two daughters co-heirs. 
 
 George Gibbs, younger brother of the Chief Justice, was of 
 
 * His elder brother, George, had died at Topsham in 1713.
 
 490 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 Bristol, and of Redland, co. Gloucester, and was born in 1753. 
 He had three sons and two daughters, who all died unmarried 
 save one, viz., George Gibbs, who was of Belmont, co. Somerset, 
 and a justice of the peace for that county. He married, 
 secondly, in 1814, his cousin, Harriett, daughter of his uncle, 
 Antony Gibbs, but died childless. 
 
 The latter, Antony Gibbs, youngest brother of the Lord 
 Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, was the founder of the 
 great mercantile house of " Antony Gibbs and Son." He 
 married Dorothea Barnetta, second daughter of William Hucks, 
 and eventual heir to her cousins, the nieces and co-heirs of 
 Robert Hucks, of Aldenham Park, Hertfordshire, and died in 
 1815. 
 
 Of his five sons, the third, William Gibbs, of Tyntesfield, by 
 his marriage, in 1839, with a daughter of Sir T. Crawley 
 Boevey, Bart, was the father of Mr. Antony Gibbs, of Tyntes- 
 field, born loth December, 1841. 
 
 The eldest son, George Henry Gibbs, of Aldenham Park, 
 and of Clifton Hampden, co. Oxford, married, in 1817, Caroline, 
 sixth daughter of the Rev. C. Crawley, by his wife, the third 
 daughter of George Abraham Gibbs, of Exeter, aforesaid, and 
 died in 1842. 
 
 He had issue eight sons and two daughters, and his sixth 
 son, the Rev. John Lomax Gibbs, born 1832, is the present 
 Rector of Clist St. George. The latter's eldest brother, Henry 
 Hucks Gibbs, now of Aldenham Park, Herts., was born 
 3 ist August, 1819, and was educated at Rugby and at Exeter 
 College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. 1841, and M.A. 1844. 
 He is a Commissioner of Lieutenancy for London, and a justice 
 of the peace for Herts, and Middlesex, a director and past 
 governor of the Bank of England, and sometime M.P. for the 
 city. On the 3rd January, 1896, Mr. Hucks Gibbs was raised 
 to the Peerage of the United Kingdom, and on the 4th of 
 February his Lordship was duly gazetted as Baron Aldenham, 
 of Aldenham, in the aforesaid county. 
 
 His lordship married, in 1845, the third daughter of the late 
 William Adams, LL.D., of Thorpe, co. Surrey, by his wife, the 
 Honourable Mary Anne Cokayne, niece and co-heir of the last 
 Viscount Cullcn, and has had, with other issue, a son and heir,
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 491 
 
 the Honourable Alban George Henry Gibb.", now M.P. for the 
 city of London, born 1846, who married, in 1873, the sixth 
 daughter of the late Rt. Honble. A. J. B. Beresford-Hope, and 
 of the Lady Mildred, his wife, a daughter of James, second 
 Marquess of Salisbury, K.G. She died February 27th, 1896. 
 
 Arms of Gibbes : 
 
 " Arg., 3 battle axes sa., two and one." 
 
 Crest. "An arm embowed, in armour ppr., garnished, or; 
 bearing in the gauntlet a battle axe as in the arms. 
 
 Lord Aldenham bears the same coat, with due authority, 
 within a b ordure nebutte, sa. 
 
 NOTE. The arms of " Dennys of Orleigh " were " azure, three 
 battleaxes or" 
 
 Those of " Dennys " of Bradford, Gidicott, and Holcombe Burnell, 
 " Ermine, three bills," (i.e., battle axes) "gules." 
 
 The first " Dennys," or Dennis, of Holcombe Burnell, was the direct 
 descendant of Walter Dennis, of Giddicott. 
 
 After the time of Henry VII., Dennis of Holcombe is said to have 
 borne his arms within a bordure engrailed gules. 
 
 "Post temp. If. 7, Thomas Dennys de Holcombe portabat insignia 
 dicta (erm., 3 bills gu.}, cum bordura ingra de rubro, quo tempore, 
 idem Rex A" 5" fecit enm mil item." 
 
 Vide Visil. Devon., 1564, Colby, p. 78. 
 
 BASTARD OF KITLEY. 
 
 The late Sir Bernard Burke commences his account of this 
 family with the statement that "it has been settled in Devon- 
 shire ever since the Conquest," and adds that " Robert Bastard 
 appears in Domesday book to have had large grants in that 
 county." " His descendants," he says, " have intermarried with 
 the heiresses of Crispin,* and of Killiowe, in the county of 
 Cornwall, and with the families of Fitz-Stephen,* Bessilis,* 
 Damarell,* Gilbert, Reynell, Hele, and Bampfylde, and have, 
 at different periods, served as Sheriffs of the county. Their 
 seat was for many generations at Garston, near Kingsbridge, 
 until about the end of the seventeeth century." f- 
 
 * The names thus marked are not to be found either in the recorded or printed 
 pedigrees of Bastard, nor does the late Sir Bernard Burke give any further explanation 
 as to their connection with that family. 
 
 t Dictionary of the Landed Gentry, edit. 1858, p. 58.
 
 492 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 In several of the hypathetical copies of the Roll of Battle 
 Abbey* but not in all, the name of Bastard is found amongst 
 those who are said to have assisted in the subjugation of England 
 by the warlike son of the fair and frail Harlotta of Falaise ; 
 but it is evident that that personage was unconnected with 
 this county from the earlier chronicle of John de Brompton,t 
 who only mentions " William Bastard, de graunt vigoure" as 
 one of the Conqueror's followers, whilst the commonly supposed 
 ancestor of the Devonshire family was a certain Robert le 
 Bastard, whose name, save possibly as a sub-tenant, and minus 
 the rather equivocal distinctive affix, is not to be found in 
 the "Exeter Domesday," but who appears as the tenant in 
 capite of nine manors, viz., Batson, Bickford, Blackworthy, Efford, 
 Hazard, Meeth, and Stonehouse (I give their modern names), 
 in the Exchequer copy of the same record. 
 
 Of these manors, Efford, in the parish of Egg-Buckland, 
 about three miles from Plymouth, seems to have been made the 
 chief seat of his " honour," and to have been the residence of 
 the said Robert le Bastard and his elder descendants for about 
 two centuries and a half; but, at a very early period, a younger 
 branch of the family appears to have settled at Whitfitld, in the 
 parish of Marwood, although how " William Bastard" (the owner 
 of that estate in the reign of King John, and which had 
 belonged, in 1086, to Robert de Albemarle, under whom it 
 was held by " two Knights ") became possessed of it, is not 
 apparent, but in view of the ultimate devolution of both 
 " Efford " and " Hazard," it is noteworthy that the said Robert 
 de AlbemarleJ was also the Norman owner of two out of four 
 manors in this county, alike known as " Witleie." 
 
 William Bastard was succeeded at Whitfield by his son 
 Richard, known as " Richard de Witefell," and as Witefell, or 
 Whitfield, his posterity remained at Marwood until about the 
 year 1460, when the property passed to John Garland, by mar- 
 riage with a co-heir of Whitfield. 
 
 There were originally, as there are still, two manors in 
 
 * Holinshed (I^TJ}, p. 3. Stowe ( \ 598), p. 107. 
 
 f 'Brompton, Abbot ofjervaux, A.D. 1200-1284. 
 
 This may account for Burke's assertion as to an " intermaniage with Damaiell." 
 The other co-heir married Ilensleigh.
 
 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 493 
 
 Egg-Buckland known as " Efford," which, in Saxon times, be- 
 longed respectively to "Brismar" and to " Alwin." The one was 
 held, in 1086, by " Robert," under Baldwin de Brion, as parcel of 
 the barony of Okehampton, the other by " Robert le Bastard," 
 as tenant-in-chief from the Crown, and it is both possible, and 
 probable, that tins "Robert" was a natural son of the said 
 Baldwin de Brion, and was thus distinctively described in the 
 Survey to prevent confusion between him and his half-brother, 
 Robert Fitz-Baldwin, the governor of Brion in Normandy. 
 
 It is not therefore surprising to find that several of " Robert 
 le Bastard's" manors soon ceased to be identified with him, 
 probably by their settlement upon his junior descendants, who, 
 as Richard Bastard evidently did in the reign of Henry III., 
 preferred to be known, henceforward, by the name of their lands ; 
 thus " Stanhus " ( West-Stonehouse) was, as Risdon says, " the 
 lands of one sirnamed Stonehouse until the latter end of King 
 Edward the third's reign," and "Joel de Stonehouse " gave his 
 own name to " Hepeston," which since the reign of King Henry 
 III. has been known as " East-Stonehouse." 
 
 The subsequent owners of Batson, in the parish of Mal- 
 borongh, another of Robert Bastard's manors, were known as 
 " De Batson," Peter de Batson having been settled there in 
 King John's reign. The co-heirs of Batson married Beare and 
 Davelle, and eventually the daughter and heir of John Davelle 
 brought 'the property to Harris, from which latter family it 
 was purchased by the late Edmund Pollexfen Bastard, M.P., 
 who died in 1838. 
 
 But the Manors of Efford and " Herwarsore," or " Harolde- 
 sore," since known as Hazard, with other property, remained 
 in what was doubtless the elder line of Bastard, and belonged 
 to Sir Nicholas Bastard, Kt., the fourth of his name at Efford, 
 in the year 1242 ; to Sir Richard Bastard of Efford, presumably 
 his son and heir, in 1265 ; and to Sir Baldwin Bastard, Kt., of 
 Efford, as late as the eighth year of the reign of Edward II., 
 1314; and after him the name of Bastard for considerably more 
 than a century and a half disappears entirely from our county 
 records. 
 
 I have already mentioned that the Manors of Whitfield and 
 Wlritleigh both belonged to Robert de Albemarle in the eleventh
 
 494 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 century, that the former of them became the residence of Wil- 
 liam Bastard in the reign of King John, and that his posterity 
 were afterward known as " de Whitfield " ; I may therefore 
 consistently venture to suggest that the " Roger de Whitleigh " 
 who was the owner of Efford in 1345, and for whose presence 
 there our county historians have hitherto been unable to 
 account, had simply inherited Efford, as heir-at-law, upon the 
 decease of Sir Baldwin Bastard. 
 
 This "Roger de Whitleigh" of Efford, who was also the 
 owner of Hazard, or "Haroldsore" (and otherwise variously 
 written), in Harberton parish, was probably the direct descen- 
 dant, through William Bastard of Marwood, of Robert le Bas- 
 tard, the Norman tenant in capite of both these manors. He 
 married Margaret, daughter and heir of Robert Beauden, Lord 
 of Egg-Buckland, by Joan, his wife, daughter and heir of 
 Nicholas Halton, and his descendants, the Whitleigh?, were 
 Lords of the two Effords and of Egg-Buckland for seven 
 generations afterward, when the daughters and heirs of Richard 
 Whitleigh of Efford, Joan and Margaret, married respectively 
 Richard Hals of Kenedon and John Grenville of Stovve. Efford 
 descended in the Hals family for many generations, until, with 
 one of the co-heirs of Matthew Hals, it passed in marriage to 
 Trelawny, and was afterward sold to Mr. William Clark of 
 Plymouth, in whose family it still remains. 
 
 The primary settlement of a family of the name of Bas- 
 tard, in the neighbourhood of Kingsbridge, may possibly have 
 been due to the marriage of a certain Thomas Bastard with 
 the daughter and heir of Thomas Ley, alias " At- Ley," of 
 Leigh, in the adjacent parisli of Churchstow, whose son John, 
 or grandson of the same name, appears to have resided at 
 Wolston, a few miles distant, in the parish of West Allington. 
 Westcote, and Risdon, his contemporary, evidently after very 
 cursory investigations of facts, have given the Manor of 
 Wolston to the Bastards through a marriage with Crispin, 
 and Westcote carelessly affirms that the "co-heir of that tribe 
 was espoused to Baldwin le Bastard," and thus the possession 
 of the property by John Bastard (who was fourth in descent 
 from Thomas Bastard, and the heiress of Leigh, and died 
 in 1634), in Risdon's time, would seem to conclusively prove
 
 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 495 
 
 his descent from Sir Baldwin Bastard of Efford, who must 
 have died about the year 1315, whereas Thomas Bastard, the 
 first ascertained ancestor of the Bastards of West Allington, 
 could not have been born prior to 1460. 
 
 Moreover, the " heiress of Crispin " did not marry into the 
 Bastard family an error casually suggested in the Magna 
 Britannia* on the authority of Sir Wiliam Pole, who is quite 
 wrong, however, as to the ownership, of Wolston, by " Stretch," 
 through the heiress of Crispin aforesaid, although the Stretchs 
 certainly were the owners of Wolston in succession to Crispin, 
 as I have fully explained elsewhcre.t 
 
 Richard Crispin, the last of his name at Wolston, married 
 Arondella, eldest daughter and co-heir of John Arundell of 
 Little Hempston, and had two sons only, who both died in 
 infancy. Consequently Wolston, with other property, passed, 
 by devise of said Richard and Arondella, to the lalter's younger 
 sister, Joan, wife of Walter de Bradestone, who is shown by the 
 "Fine Rolls" to have been living in 1324. 
 
 The daughter and heir of the latter was the mother of Sir John 
 Stretch, Kt., of Little Hempston and Wolston, whose son, 
 Thomas Stretch, of Pinhoe, Little Hempston, and Wolston, was 
 succeeded, through failure of issue, by his sisters, Elizabeth, wife 
 of Thomas Beauchamp, of Lillesdon, co. Somerset, who seems 
 to have had the Wolston property ; and Cicely, whose son, John 
 Cheney (the offspring of her second marriage), succeeded to 
 Pinhoe and Little Hempston. 
 
 Westcote, under " East Allington," which he admits, in a final 
 parenthesis, he has confused with" West Allington," says," wherein 
 John de Rake held some land, and also the family of Bastard, 
 of whose original some will perchance imagine the worst : be it 
 so; yet the Duke, with whom he came into England, disdained 
 not the title, and of this family there have been divers worthy 
 men, as Sir Nicholas le Bastard de Efford, in this county, 
 Kt., and continueth in worshipful estate to this age ; and 
 therefore I think this name to be given for some other cause, for 
 Wisdom saith, ch. iv. 3, ' Spuria vitulamina non agent radices 
 altasl which you see this doth and flourisheth." The Bastard 
 
 * Vol. ii., p. 6. t Devonshire Parities, vol. ii., pp. 58, 59.
 
 496 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 genealogy, however, is not included in this author's " Pedigrees 
 of most of the Gentry" of the county, which were continued 
 to the end of the seventeenth century, by John Prince. In ? 
 list of the "Gentry of Devonshire, with their residences, about 
 the commencement of the seventeenth century," the names of 
 Bastard, Clavill, Culme, and Urflet are inserted, but in these four 
 cases only their " residences " are not mentioned. 
 
 The Bastards did not record their descent at either of the 
 earlier Visitations of the county. A pedigree of four generations 
 only, and which is unsigned, is to be found in the original 
 Visitation of 1620, and runs thus : "Thomas Basterd/' married, 
 and had issue " John Bastard, sonne and heir," father of " John 
 Bastard, sonne and heir," who married " Thomazine, daughter 
 of Geffry Gilbert," and had issue "John Bastard, sonne and 
 heir ; Richard Bastard, 2 sonne ; William Bastard, 3 sonne of 
 Gerston, Recorder of Totnes, and Reader of the Midle Temple, 
 living 1620," and who, it may be presumed, entered this very 
 short and unsatisfactory record of his descent and connections. 
 We have, through it, however, direct evidence that this " William 
 Bastard " was of Gerston, in the parish of West Allington, other- 
 wise Alvington, and he was doubtless also of Wolston, in the 
 same parish, which certainly belonged to the Bastards in the reign 
 of James I., although there is no mention of any such property 
 in their recorded pedigree, as shown above.* He represented 
 Dartmouth in Parliament in 1601. He died, without issue, on 
 the roth March, 1639, and was buried two days later at West 
 Allington. f He was succeeded by his grand nephew and name- 
 sake, William Bastard, then in his twenty-third year, having 
 been born loth November, 1616, and baptized the same day 
 at West Allington. He was the second son of John Bastard, 
 deceased, by his wife, Alice Reynell, of Malston, eldest son 
 of Joseph Bastard, of Dulo, in Cornwall, younger brother of 
 the " Recorder of Totnes," whose name is not included in the 
 Visitation of 1620, but has been interpolated in a later hand 
 upon one or more of the copies of that of 1564,$ and this addition 
 
 * Wolston was subsequently the property of the Dukes of Bolton, Ext., 1794. 
 Gerston has remained in the family of Bastard. 
 
 t Will dated 4th March, 1638-9, proved loth May, 1639, P.C.C. 
 % Rawlinson MS., Bib. Bod., Oxon., Colby, Visit,, 1564, p. 13.
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 497 
 
 makes no mention whatever of his brothers, but, according to it, 
 his wife was "Ann, daughter of John Kelly, of Westworth, in 
 Cornwall." According to the original Visitation record (1620) 
 of that county, she was "daughter and heir of John Killyow, 
 of Dulo." 
 
 His aforesaid grandson, William Bastard, married, in 1635, 
 Joan, daughter of Sampson Hele, and had, with other issue, a 
 third son, Sampson Bastard, born 1643, who was afterward 
 Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, 1664-1670, and Rector of 
 Southpool, in the chancel of which church he was buried in 
 1676; and a son and heir, William Bastard, who was knighted at 
 Whitehall in or about the year 1676. William Bastard, the 
 elder, appears to have been Sheriff of Devon in the 22nd of 
 Charles I., 1646,* and to have been followed in that office by 
 Edmund Parker, of Boringdon. He was buried at West 
 Allington 25th February, 1664. 
 
 His said eldest son, Sir William Bastard, of Gerston, married 
 Grace, daughter of Sir John Bamfield, first Baronet, by Gertrude, 
 daughter of Amias Coplestone.f He represented the borough 
 of Beer-Alston in Parliament in 1678, and died in 1690, when he 
 was succeeded at Gerston by his third but eldest surviving son, 
 William Bastard, born 1667, who married Anne, daughter and 
 heir of Edmund Pollexfen, of Kitley, in the parish of Yealmpton, 
 and was buried at West Allington in February, 1704. His son 
 and heir, Pollexfen Bastard, of Gerston, succeeded his mother, 
 (whose father had died in 1710), at Kitley, in 1724; he married 
 Lady Bridget, daughter of John, first Earl Poulett, and was 
 buried at Yealmpton in 1733. Lady Bridget Bastard continued 
 to occupy Gerston until her own death in 1773, since which the 
 house has been customarily occupied by the tenant of the 
 
 * This is the first mention of any Sheriff of the name of Bastard, and the only one, 
 in the list from which I quote, down to gth Geo. I. (1722). According to Risdon's 
 list of the sheriffs, but one of the name of Bastard occurs from the Conqueror to 
 5oth Geo. III., 1809, viz., "Sir William Bastard," who is there said to have replaced 
 Edmund Parker, who replaced John Arscott in " 28th Charles II." (1676), and to 
 have been himself replaced by Thomas Reynell in 1677. The fact seems to have 
 been that John Arscott died during his shrievalty, but on 22nd September, 1675, 
 his duties were taken up by his nephew and executor, "John Arscott, Esq.," but pos- 
 sibly Sir William and Ed. Parker may have acted for said executor to the end of the 
 year. 
 
 f According to Vivian, Visitation (additions), p. 50, his wife was " Grace, 
 daughter of Copplestone." 
 
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 498 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 surrounding estate. The sheltered garden was long famous for 
 its orange trees. 
 
 Pollexfen Bastard, of Kitley, was succeeded by his eldest 
 surviving son, William Bastard, who was born at Kitley in 
 1727. Upon the appearance of the combined French and 
 Spanish fleets off Plymouth, i6th August, 1779, Mr. Bastard 
 offered the Governor to raise five hundred volunteers, and 
 was thus an actual originator of the volunteer forces of this 
 country ; his regiment was complete and officered by the I9th 
 of the month, and on the 23rd Colonel Bastard, with his 
 gallant following, set out from Plymouth in charge of thirteen 
 hundred prisoners of war, and duly handed them over to the 
 officer in command at Exeter on the 25th. For this very notable, 
 and truly patriotic service, King George III., without consulting 
 the colonel, signed a warrant for a baronetcy in his favour, which 
 was duly gazetted on the following 24th Sept., but as no steps 
 were ever taken for expediting the patent, the title has never 
 been assumed by him or his descendants. By his wife, Anne, 
 daughter of Thomas Worsley, of Hovingham, co. York, he left 
 two sons, John Pollexfen, and Edmund. The latter married 
 Jane, daughter and heir of Philemon Pownall, of Sharpham, 
 and thus acquired that beautiful property on the river Dart.* 
 
 The eldest son, John Pollexfen Bastard, born i8th Septem- 
 ber, 1756, at Kitley, was also of Buckland Court,! near Ash- 
 burton, over seven hundred acres of which delightfully pictur- 
 esque property he converted into its present magnificently 
 timbered woods. He married Sarah Wymondesold,! a widow, 
 of Lockinge, co. Berks. He was sometime M.P. for the county, 
 and died, without issue, 4th April, 1816. 
 
 He was succeeded by his nephew, Edmund Pollexfen, eldest 
 son of Edmund Bastard of Sharpham, who was born in 1784, 
 and married, in 1824, the Honourable Anne Rodney, daughter 
 of the second Lord Rodney, and had three sons ; he also repre- 
 sented the county in Parliament, and died, at his house in 
 Cavendish Square, 8th June, 1838. His eldest son, Edmund 
 
 * See my Devonshire Parishes, vol. i., p. 312. 
 t See' my Ashburton and its Neighbourhood, pp. 49 et seq. 
 
 J Her maiden name, I believe, was Bruton, of the Yeo branch of that family. See 
 ante, "Bruton, of Yec. "
 
 &&YONSHIRE WILLS. 499 
 
 Rodney Pollexfen Bastard, was then a minor, in his thirteenth 
 year, and afterward married Florence Mary, daughter of Simon 
 Scrope of Danby, but on his death, without issue, I2th June, 
 1856, he was succeeded by his next brother, Baldwin John 
 Pollexfen Bastard, then a subaltern in the Qth Regiment, and 
 who is the present owner of Kitley and of Buckland Court. 
 
 Mr. Bastard, who was born iith March, 1830, was educated 
 at Winchester and Balliol College, Oxford, is a Deputy Lieu- 
 tenant for Devon, served the office of Sheriff of the county 
 in 1865, and for some years commanded the 4th Battalion 
 D.R.V. He married, in 1861, his cousin, Francis Jane, youngest 
 daughter of the Honourable Mortimer Rodney, by whom he 
 lias no issue. His younger brother, William Pollexfen Bastard, 
 Clerk in Holy Orders, married, in 1869, Caroline, second 
 daughter of Rear-Admiral Woolcombe of Hemerdon, and 
 has, with other issue, a son, William Edmund Pollexfen Bas- 
 tard, born 1 2th April, 1864. 
 
 Arms of Bastard Or, a chevron azure, differenced with a 
 martlet of the ist (to denote descent from Joseph Bastard of 
 Dulo, younger brother of William Bastard of Gerston, Recorder 
 of Totnes, " living 1620.") 
 
 Crest A dexter arm embowed in armour, grasping a sword, 
 in bend sinister, point downward, all ppr., pommel and hilt or. 
 Motto" Pax Potion Bello." 
 
 NOTE According to Burke, Landed Gen fry, edit. 1858, the Bas- 
 tards of Charlton Marshall, co. Dorset, descended from Thomas 
 Bastard of Bellchalwell, in said county, by his wife, Bridget, sister of 
 Thomas Creech, the poetical translator of Lucretius, etc., etc. and who 
 committed suicide at Oxford in 1700, bear these very ancient Arms 
 of Bastard, undirTerenceil. And for Crest, " a griffin's head, collared 
 and armed or"
 
 5oo 
 
 DEVONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 DISCLAIMERS. 
 
 A list of those whose Pedigrees, by reason of insufficient 
 proof, or for other causes, were " disclaimed, ignobiles" by 
 William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms, through his 
 deputies, Henry St. George, Richmond Herald, and Sampson 
 Lennard, Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms, at the Visitation of 
 Devonshire, A.D. I62O.* 
 
 
 
 DISCLAIMED AT 
 
 77- 
 
 Alford, John, Zeale Monachorum 
 
 Barnstaple. f 
 
 2 3- 
 
 Allerston alias Searle, John, 1 Kingsteignton 
 
 Exeter. 
 
 88. 
 
 Amy, Edward, Tiverton 
 
 Tiverton. 
 
 20. 
 
 Austin, Robert, Chudleigh 
 
 Exeter. 
 
 61. 
 
 Avent, Thomas, 2 Brixton 
 
 Tavistock. . 
 
 76. 
 
 Avery, William, Downe St. Mary 
 
 Barnstaple. 
 
 5 2 - 
 
 Axworthy, John, 2 Brent-Tor 
 
 Tavistock. 
 
 24. 
 
 Babb, Christopher, Teigngrace 
 
 Exeter. 
 
 6. 
 
 Babb, William, Doddiscombsleigh - 
 
 
 
 39- 
 
 Ball, Nicholas, 1 Townstall 
 
 Totnes. 
 
 46. 
 
 Barley, Thomas, Bigbury 
 
 jj 
 
 68. 
 
 Barnefield, John, Buckland Brewer 
 
 Barnstaple. 
 
 96. 
 
 Barton, Henry, Silverton 
 
 Tiverton. 
 
 95- 
 
 Berrie, John, 1 Kentisbeare 
 
 5> 
 
 90. 
 
 Blakedon, John, Loxbeare 
 
 )) 
 
 99- 
 
 Boremonte, James, 2 Hemyock 
 
 5) 
 
 28. 
 
 Bound, Jeffery, Hempston 
 
 Totnes. 
 
 29. 
 
 John, Ipplepen 
 
 )> 
 
 3 2 - 
 
 Peter, Torbrian 
 
 
 
 55- 
 
 Brewer, John, 2 Tavistock 
 
 Tavistock. 
 
 !7- 
 
 Burgoine, Michael, 1 Tedburn St. Mary 
 
 Exeter. 
 
 86. 
 
 Catford, William, 2 Hockworthy 
 
 Tiverton. 
 
 IOO. 
 
 Chant, Francis, 2 Chumleigh 
 
 5) 
 
 66. 
 
 Chapman, Arthur, Buckland Brewer 
 
 Barnstaple. 
 
 67. 
 
 Chappell, Robert, 1 Langtree 
 
 
 
 80. 
 
 Chollacombe, Thomas, Combe Martin 
 
 5? 
 
 69. 
 
 Cliff, Robert, Merton 
 
 
 
 * Extracted from MS. Harl. 1080, fo. 342. The numbers refer to the sequence 
 of the names, in that list, which are not alphabetically arranged. 
 
 f The Court was held at Exeter on Augus' I2th; at Totnes, August 26th; at 
 Tavistock, September 1st ; at Barnstaple, September gth ; and at Tiverton, September 
 i8th, 1620. See ante, p. 313.
 
 DE VONSHIRE WILLS. 
 
 501 
 
 DlSCLAIMKD AT 
 
 31. Coldich, William (PCholwich), Paignton Totnes. 
 
 19. Couse, William, Ide Exeter. 
 
 22. Cove, Nicholas, Tawton Bishop 
 
 12. Dart, Henry, Gidleigh 
 43. Dotting, Nicholas, Thurleston Totnes. 
 72. Downe, Anthony, Wool fardis worthy Barnstaple. 
 
 81. Elston, John, St. Giles-in-the-Heath 
 
 58. Eustace, Stephen 3 , St. Budeaux Tavistock. 
 
 41. Foxworthy, Philip, Churston Totnes. 
 102. Furse, John, 1 Nymet Regis Tiverton. 
 
 45. Gay, John, 1 Aveton Gifford Totnes. 
 
 54. Gery, John, Tavistock Tavistock. 
 
 15. Gidley, George, St. Thomas nigh Exori. - Exeter. 
 75. Gidley, Hannibal, North Lew Barnstaple. 
 
 13. Glanville, John,' Heavitree Exeter. 
 50. Glass, Gawin, Ugborough Totnes. 
 ii. Gorwyn, William, Sandford Exeter. 
 1 8. Gough, Richard, Topsham 
 
 i. Cover, Richard, Cheriton Fitz-Pain 
 
 1 6. Harniman, Wm., S. Tawton - 
 40. Harvey, Anthony, 1 North Huish Totnes. 
 38. Hodge, William, Slapton 
 
 5. Hollacombe, John, 1 Crediton Exeter. 
 79. Hooper (see Shepard). 
 
 71. William, Hartland - Barnstaple. 
 
 37. Huxham, William, Harberton Totnes. 
 
 1 01. Kelland, John, Chulmleigh Tiverton. 
 
 33. Lackington, John, Ashburton Totnes. 
 
 7. Lee, William, 1 Sandford Exeter. 
 
 14. ,, ' Pinhoe 
 
 78. Ley, Jasper, Atherington Barnstaple. 
 65. Stephen, Buckland Brewer 
 
 70. ,, Valentine, Little Torrington - 
 
 27. Lide, Allen, 2 Berry Pomeroy - Totnes. 
 
 42. Maddock, Richard, South Brent 
 
 82. Milton, William, Bampton Tiverton. 
 9. Mogridge, Tristram, Brampford Speke Exeter. 
 4. Moon, Thomas, Washfield 
 
 84. Norman, John, Clayhanger 2 Tiverton. 
 
 21. Paddon, John, Tawton Bishop Exeter. 
 
 62. Pierce, Richard, Brixton 2 Tavistock. 
 
 47. Thomas, Bigbury 2 Totnes. 
 97. Potter, Richard, 1 Silverton Tiverton. 
 
 48. Rich, Nicholas, Modbury Totnes. 
 87. Richards, John, Uffculme Tiverton. 
 56. Robins, Thomas, Bratton Clovelly Tavistock. 
 30. Salter, Edward, Ipplepen Totnes. 
 
 23. Searle 1 (see Allerston). 
 
 10. Seward, James, 1 Combintinhead Exeter. 
 
 35. Sharpham, Thomas, Chivelston Totnes. 
 
 79. Shepard alias Hooper, Robert, Bratton Fleming Barnstaple. 
 74. Shute, William, Ashreigny 
 
 89. Skinner, John, 1 Loxbeare Tiverton.
 
 502 
 
 DE V ON S HIKE I VII. 1. .S. 
 
 DISCLAIMED AT 
 
 93. Skinner, Richard, 1 Cullompton Tiverton. 
 53. Sleeman, John, Milton Abbot Tavistock. 
 44. Slowley, Hugh, 1 Aveton Gifford Totnes. 
 83. Snow, Robert, Burlescombe Tiverton. 
 
 25. Sotherne, John, Teigngrace Exeter. 
 85. Southill, John, Clayhanger Tiverton. 
 5 1 . Spratt, William, Ugborough - Totnes. 
 
 8. Spurway, William, 1 Colebrook - Exeter. 
 
 49. Swete, Adrian, Modbury Totnes. 
 
 103. Timewell, Thomas, 2 Rackenford Tiverton. 
 
 36. Tippett, Nicholas, 2 Harberton Totnes. 
 
 57. Tolley, Henry, 2 Okehampton Tavistock. 
 
 9 1 . Toogood, John, Loxbeare - Tiverton. 
 
 63. Treby, Henry, Treby (" Plympton Hundred ") Tavistock. 
 
 64. Tucker, John Baptist, Bideford Barnstaple. 
 
 26. Tuckfield, Thomas, Tedburn St. Mary Kxeter. 
 98. Vacey, John, Silverton ,- Tiverton. 
 
 94. Venman, Gawen, Bradninch - ,, 
 
 59. Walter, Richard, 1 Manadon Tavitock. 
 73.- Westlake, Nicholas, Inwardleigh Barnstaple. 
 
 2. White, George, 1 Sandford and Exeter Exeter. 
 
 3. Wilson, George, Shobrooke ,, 
 
 92. Wolcott, Hugh, 1 Halberton - - Tiverton. 
 
 60. Worth, Walter, 1 Brixton Tavistock. 
 34. Yeabsley, Robert, 2 Blackawton Totnes. 
 
 1 Families thus marked, but with whom the " disclaimed" failed to show their 
 connection, duly recorded their pedigrees. 
 
 2 These names do not occur in the Visitation record, even incidentally.
 
 CORRIGENDA. 
 
 Page 26. For " 1870" read i6jo. 
 
 ,, 52. First line of last paragraph, for " ninth " read tenth. 
 ,, 103. Line I, for "brother Roger" read uncle. 
 ,, 109. One line from bottom, delete comma after " Walter." 
 ,, 145. General Bennett died Aug. 3rd, 1893. 
 ,, 297. Last line but one, for " Richard " read Sir John. 
 M 339- NOTE. The first Eden Baronetcy did not become "extinct" in i8ln, 
 
 not " 1841," but went to a cousin of the fifth Baronet, who was also 
 
 fourth Baronet of the creation of 1776, and the present Baronet, Sir 
 
 W. Eden, of West Auckland, has therefore two patents of Baronetcy, 
 
 the first of them being dated I3th Nov., 1672. 
 ,, 366. End of second paragraph, for " 1740" read 1640. 
 ,, 369. Line 17, for " 1769" read 1763. 
 > 373- Line II from bottom, for " Pillhead" read Pillhand. 
 374- Line 3, for "Director Audit Department," read Director ff.Af. 
 
 Exchequer and Audit Department. 
 ,, 388. Line 13, for "minus" read plus. 
 ,, 416. Line 9, for " St. John's College" read Exeter College, and line 13, for 
 
 " Exeter " read St. John's. 
 ,, 420. Bottom line, for " SS. George and Lennard " read Sf. George and 
 
 l.ennard. 
 ,, 499. Last line before note, for "Potion" read /'otior. 
 
 P,gi 5 .-Line S 4, 5, I"" " tm*rt prolnl.ili.v " r,;,l A 
 " 3,5. -Line 10, for " King Stephen " read AV,-*.,n, 
 See /to/, page 418.
 
 INDEX 
 
 503 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Abbe, 435 
 
 Abbott, 52, 103-77, 378- 
 
 90-91, 435-36 
 Abraham, 29, 88, 138-58 
 Abrincis, 352 
 Acland (Ackland), 49, 
 
 248,315, 413-29 
 ACLAND (Akeland-Ake- 
 
 lane), 468-69-70-71-72- 
 
 73-74 
 ADAM (Adams), 294-95- 
 
 98 
 Adam (Adams-Addams), 
 
 38, 91, 109-16-28, 256- 
 
 58-59-66-96, 428-55-90 
 Addicot, 155 
 Adobat, 357 
 Afeton, 442 
 Aghrim, 339 
 Aisse, 176 
 Albemarle, 395, 470-92- 
 
 93 
 
 Albini, 360-61 
 Aldenham, 490-91 
 Alder, 80 
 
 Alforcl, 261-67, 452 
 Alfred (King), 433 
 Alfric, 336 
 Algar, 340 
 Allen, I2O 
 Almar, 409 
 Alric, 377 
 Alured, 354-61 
 Aluric, 336 
 Alva, 329, 434 
 AUard, 332 
 Alwin, 493 
 
 Amerie (Amory), 69, 221 
 Andrews (Andrewes), 
 
 219-48 
 
 Anne (Queen), 52, 388 
 Anstey, 75 
 Anthony, 32 
 Archer, 124 
 Arcis, 475 
 Arderne, 301 
 Arnell, 90 
 Arnold, 216 
 
 Arscott, 275, 315-81,497 
 ARUNDEI.L, 81, 103-20- 
 
 22-27-34 
 
 Arundell, 119, 307, 463- 
 
 95 
 
 Ashburton, 446-89 
 Ashe (Ayshe), 56, 132 
 Ash ford (Ayshford-A)sh- 
 forde), 37, 315-42, 449 
 Ashmole, 106 
 Ashion, 406 
 Askew, 407 
 Atherton, 48 
 Atken (Atkin-Atkins), 
 
 47, 85, 369, 454 
 At-Ley, 49 \ 
 Audley, 451 
 Aure (Awre), 255, 319 
 Avenel, 380-86, 437 
 Avis, 261 
 Axe, 40 
 Ayer (Ayre), 66, 148-64, 
 
 487 
 Aylmer, 466 
 
 Babbage, 267 
 Habbington, 462 
 Bach, 379 
 Bacon, 418-25 
 Bagworth, 371 
 Bailey, 236 
 BAKER, 123 
 Baker, 20, 40, 57, 132, 
 
 305 
 
 Balderstone, 80 
 
 Baldwin, 315, 419-75 
 
 Hall, 278, 315 
 
 Ballamy, 234 
 
 Hallemont, 6 
 
 Balliman (Ballyman), 77, 
 140-52, 237 
 
 Ralun, 399, 4.0 
 
 Bamfeld (Bamfeild, Barn- 
 field), 427-71-77 81-82- 
 
 97 
 Bampfield (Bampfylde), 
 
 29, 70, 202, 439-47-9' 
 
 BAMPFYI.DE (BampfeKI, 
 BunpfieUl), 474-75-77- 
 78-79-80-81-82-83-84 
 
 Hampton, 448 
 
 Han bury, 39 
 
 Hand i am, 93 
 
 Barbenson, 440 
 
 Bare (Beare), 150, 252- 
 
 94, 447-70-93 
 Haring, 446 
 Baron, 39, 261, 381 
 Barre, 371, 462 
 Harrow, 168 
 Bany (Barry-Barry), 343- 
 
 80 
 
 Barter, 191 
 BARTLETT(Bartlet), 109- 
 
 10-11-12-13-14-15 - 16- 
 
 51-67, 280 
 Banlett, 108, 295-97-98, 
 
 303 
 
 Barton, 25, 175, 239 
 Barwick ( Karwicke), 229- 
 
 54 
 Basset, 47, IO2, 261-79, 
 
 470-71 
 Bastard, 175, 243 49, 
 
 314, 459 
 BASTARD, 491-92-93-94- 
 
 95-96-97-98-99 
 Bath (Earl of), 119 
 Batson, 493 
 Hal tell, 151 
 Battersby, 29 
 Batti>hcil, 337-80 
 Battisholl, 263 
 Battyn (Battin), 293, 450 
 Baunrield (Baunfeld), 
 
 476-78-80 
 Bawden (Bawdon), 69, 
 
 74, 75, 263 
 Bayie, 176 
 Baylis, 324 
 Bearne, 293-94 
 Brauchamp, 52, 103, 376- 
 
 91, 435-36-37-60-63- 
 
 79-80, 495 
 Beauden, 494 
 Beauford, 124 
 Beaumont, 261, 341 
 Beauple, 469 
 Bedford, 282, 444 
 Hedlakr, 99 
 Beedell, 176 
 Beltield, 295 
 Belknap, 422 
 Bellew, 153, 350
 
 504 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Bello Campo, 435 
 Bellomonte, 375-76-86 
 Belston, 375, 419-20-21- 
 
 30 
 
 Bendall, 73 
 Bennett, 33, 145-66 98 
 Kenolte, 312 
 Benson, 49 
 Berresford-Hope, 491 
 Berkeley, 149, 370-80, 
 
 487 
 
 Berne, 249 
 Bernville, 436 
 BERRY, 212 
 Berry (Berrye, Berrie), 
 
 90, 176, 263-64-66-68, 
 
 350 
 
 Berringe, 108 
 Besly, 29 
 Besse, 104-48 
 Bessilis, 491 
 Best, 37 
 Bevill, 437 
 Bickford, 167 
 Bickington, 443-47 
 Bicklie (Bicklye), 18, 107 
 Bicknell, 208 
 Bidlake, 315 
 Bidwell, 138 
 Biggleston, 321-22-23-24 
 Bildo, 18 
 Bilston, 429 
 Binford, 143 
 Bishop (Bishoppe, 
 Byshop), 13, 42, 248, 
 407 
 
 Bisset, 379 
 BLACHFORD, 97 
 Blackaller, 135, 207 
 Blackford, 425 
 Blackmore, 25, 32, 205- 
 
 30-37-40 
 
 Blake, 106-99, 228 
 Rlakeford, 426 
 Blanchard, 254 
 BLATCHFORD, 93, 97 
 Blatchford, loo 
 
 Hlewitt, 430 
 
 Bligh, 121 
 
 Blount (Blunt, Blund), 
 130, 370-71 
 
 Blundell, 476 
 
 Ely ton, 153 
 
 Bohhyn, 147 
 
 Bobishe, 180 
 
 Bocher, 6 
 
 Bodley, 68, 119, 438 
 
 Boevey, 490 
 
 Bohun, 69, 348, 445 
 
 Bolitho, 142 
 
 Bollay. 479 
 
 BOLT, 122 
 
 Bulton (Duke of), 496 
 
 Bon, 411-31-42 
 
 Bonaparte, 341 
 
 BOND, 122 
 
 Bond, 54, 305 
 
 Bonithon, no 
 
 Bonvile (Bonville), 349- 
 
 50, 424-29-30-78-79 
 Boone, 74, 98 
 Booth, 340-43 
 Boothhy, 389 
 Borde, 58 
 BORLACE (Borlase), 130- 
 
 33-37-42 
 Borne, 8 
 
 Borough, 366 67-89 
 Borrowe, 173 
 Boscawen, 307, 466 
 Bosco, 319-32 
 Bosgrave, 103 
 Bosome, 424 
 Boteler, 128 
 Botetford, 486 
 Bouchier, 350-93, 426-27 
 Bound (Bounde), 281-95, 
 
 304 
 
 Bowchair, 266 
 BOWDEN (Bowdon), 66 
 Bowden (Bowdon), 62, 
 142, 207-22 62-65, 45 2 
 Bowiing, 348 
 Boys, 328-32 
 Bozun, 424-30 
 Braddon, 298 
 Bradestone, 495 
 Bradfelle, 448 
 Bradford, 186, 307 
 Bragg (Bragge), 76, 85, 
 
 199. 263-77-98 
 Brailey (Brayley, Brayly), 
 
 48, 71, 78 
 Brand, 42 
 Branple, 54 
 
 Branscombe, 309, 460-63 
 Braose, 362, 400-59 
 Btaund, 63 
 Bray (Braye), 65, 259 98, 
 
 388 
 
 Bremelridge, 189 
 Bremelrigg, 414 
 BREMRIDGE, 293,411-14- 
 
 15-16-17 
 Bremridge (Bremerige), 
 
 304-59, 413-38 
 Brendon, in 
 Bretellus, 357 
 Breten (Breton, Bretun), 
 
 354-62-68-72 
 Brethon, 364 
 Brett (Bret), 354-56-60- 
 
 61-62-67-71, 450 
 Brettel, 362 
 Bretteville, 361-99 
 Breward, 19 
 Brewer, 212, 356-57-58 
 Brewsey, 96 
 
 Brian (Brion, Bryan), 30, 
 40, 273, 329-53-95, 
 419-20-23-30-93 
 Brice, 247 
 Btictric, 340 
 Bridgmnn, 124 
 
 Bridport, 223, 452 
 Bright, 56, 59 
 Brimcliffe, 22 
 Brindley (Brinley), 43, 
 
 130-50-65 
 Brismar, 493 
 BRITO, 35I-53-54-55-5 6 
 57-58-59-60-61-63-64- 
 65 68-71 
 
 Brito, 399, 400-18 
 Britolio, 352 
 Britt (Britte), 341-43' 5 2 ' 
 
 54-55-68 
 
 BKITTON, 37o-7 T -73-74 
 Britton (Briton, Britten, 
 Briiayne, Bryttan), 362- 
 64-72 
 
 Briwere, 345, 462 
 Broad mead, 44 
 Brocke, 84, 281 
 Brodbeare, 7 
 Broncecombe, 425 
 Brooke, 62, 68, 84, 388- 
 
 89 
 
 Brookin, 324 
 Brooking, 50, 145-57, 
 
 343 
 
 Brown (Browne), 4, 89, 
 102-8-16-88-90, 224-63, 
 472 
 
 Browning, IO, 225 
 Brownsford, 151 
 Browse, 167 
 Bruerton, 362 
 BRUTON, 362-65-66-67- 
 
 68-69-70 
 Bruton (Brutton), 159, 
 
 247, 315-72, 462-98 
 Biyannd, 38 
 Bryant, 64, 126 
 Bryatt (Briyatt), 73, 278 
 Buard, 242 
 Buckingham, 75, 467 
 Buckland, 148 
 Buckthuught, 453 
 Buckyats, 453 
 Biuld, 257-63 
 Bud good, 68 
 Bulleid, 61, 64, 67 
 Buller, 146, 296, 342, 
 
 483 
 
 Bui ley, 297, 309 
 Bulmer, 347 
 Burdett, 406 
 Burge, 348 
 Burgess, 78, 79 
 Burgh, 422 
 Burgoyne, 369 
 Burhed, 361 
 Burke, 489 
 BURI.ACE, 137 
 Burn, 168 
 Burnaberie, 53 
 Bnrnaford, 89, 135 
 Burnell, 99, 372-79-86 
 Barrage, 196 
 lUirridge, 42
 
 INDEX. 
 
 5S 
 
 Burroughs (Burrows), 25, 
 
 1 86 
 
 Burscough, 282 
 Burston, 6 
 Burton, 193, 213 
 Bury, 37, 287, 315, 461 
 Bu.shill, 82 
 Bussell, 13, 234 
 Hutcher, 226 82 
 Butford, 32 
 Butsan, 19 
 Butstone, 12 
 Butter, 248 
 Button, 371 
 Byllyck, 302 
 Bynford, 252 
 Bysshe, 396-97, 487 
 Bytton, 371 
 
 Call, 138 
 Callard, 76, 211 
 Calmady, 296, 315, 402- 
 
 39 
 
 Calverleigh, 209 
 Calvo Monte, 346 
 Calwoodleigh, 209 
 Camden, 469 
 Omill, 380 
 Campbell, 467 
 Campion, 283 
 Campo Arnulphy, 346 
 Cancy, 329 
 Cane, 93 
 Canham, 127 
 Cann (Canne), 8, 275 
 Cannington, 37 
 Cantilupe, 319-62, 400- 
 
 29-30 
 
 Canute (Knut), 317-32 
 Capel, 80 
 Capron, 18 
 CAREVV, 56 
 
 Carew, 302-15, 454-83 
 CAREY (Gary, Carye), 
 
 122-25-27-34 
 Carey, &c., 116-3051, 
 
 315-69-83, 403-23-24 
 Carlmgford, 468 
 Carlyon, 373 
 Carminow, 435 
 Carnegie, 408 
 CARNKLL, 301 
 Carpenter, 186 
 Carr, 389 
 Carrickfergus, 342 
 CARSLEGHE, 157 
 Carter, 276, 402 
 CARWITHEN, 47, 48, 51 
 Carwithen, 124, 452 
 CARWITHY, 124 
 Casely, 276 
 Castell, 394 
 Castleliaven, 380 
 Castlyn, 5 
 Caswyll, 5 
 Ccwndlf, 329 
 
 Caunter, 94, 96 
 
 Causbeuf, 425 
 
 Cave, 1 8, 388 
 
 Ceely, 279 
 
 Cerdic, 331, 433 
 
 Cha, 174 
 
 Chafe (Chafle), 287, 314- 
 
 19-20-21-22-23-24 - 25- 
 
 26-27-28-29 
 Chafecombe, 318 
 CIIAFY (Chafie, Chaffie, 
 
 Chafye), 316-20-28-29- 
 
 30 
 
 Challons, 429-30 
 Chamberlain (Chaml>er- 
 
 lyn), 198, 375 
 Cliammond, 346 
 Champernowne, 260.346, 
 
 435-5 8 -59 
 Chnmpneys (Champneis), 
 
 136, 416 
 CHAPE.I i. (Chappie), 273- 
 
 75 
 
 Chapell, 39, 42, 183 
 Chapman, 25, 38, 148, 
 
 232 
 
 Chardon, 258 
 Charlemagne, 432 
 Charles I , 121-27, 497 
 Charles II., 70, 127, 252, 
 
 313.427-97 
 Charleton, 477 
 Chase, 226 
 Chastor, 91 
 Chave, 222-33-46 
 Chawerth, 462 
 Chears, 145, 235 
 Cheeke, 152-53 
 Cheney, 495 
 Cherriton, 162 
 Chester (Earl of), 395, 
 
 436 
 CHEVERSTONE, 386-87- 
 
 89-90 
 Cheverstone, 375/7-79, 
 
 424 
 
 Cheyney, 481 
 Chichester, 130-33, 315- 
 
 38-41-4293, 428-55, 
 
 465 
 Chilcote (Chilcott), 34, 
 
 196 
 
 Chollashe, 19 
 Cholwill, in 
 Chudleigli, 342 
 Churchward, 108-38, 295 
 Churly, 13, 17 
 Ci>ard, 93 
 Clapp, 154-68 
 Clare, 46, 130, 367-68, 
 
 425-36 
 Clark (Clarke), 75, 108- 
 
 19-67-96, 214- 22-25, 
 
 29-47-70, 494 
 Clatworthy, 29 
 Clavill, 496 
 Clemen's, 29 
 
 Cleverton, 97 
 Clieve, 107 
 CLIFFORD, 123 
 Clifford, 315-59, 442-70- 
 
 82 
 
 Clift, 97 
 Clifton, 481-84 
 Clinton, 466-67 
 Clipit, 57 
 Clode, 146 
 Clokye, 176 
 Clotworthy, 62 
 Clutterbrook, 152 
 Coad (Coade, Coades, 
 
 Code), 104 - 46-47-60- 
 
 88, 395-96 
 Cobham (Cobbam), 389, 
 
 479 
 
 Coblye, 58 
 Cock (Cocke), 44, 99, 
 
 230-35-93 
 Cockram, 315 
 Codner, 41, 188, 241 
 Codrington, 455-83 
 Coffin, 314-84, 400 
 Cogan, 348 
 Cokayne, 490 
 Coke, 124 
 Coketrewe, 414 
 Cole (Coles), I, 65, 69, 
 
 105-28, 237, 346, 414 
 Coll (Colle, Colles), 97, 
 
 274. 426-54 
 Collacot, 339 
 Collard, 83 
 Colley, 416 
 Collier, 115 
 Collihole, II 
 Colling (Collings), 85. 
 
 219-78 
 Collins, 24, 28, 65, 1 14, 
 
 214-86 
 
 Colman, 62, 285 
 Combe, 54 
 Comer, 6, 54 
 Cumin (Commin, Comyn) 
 
 56, 98, 105, 250-71 
 Commins (Com)ns), 75, 
 
 79, 144, 294 
 Compton, 297, 328-29, 
 
 434 
 Conant (Connante), 9, 
 
 138, 231-36-76,405 
 Coiuly, 137, 284 
 Conebee (Coneby), 39 
 CONETT, 7 
 Connett, 11, 243-45 
 CONNAUNTK, 6 
 CONNAUTR, 8 
 Conocke, 410 
 Conteville, 348-95 
 Cooban, 97 
 Coodeney, 16 
 Cook (Cooke), 24, 267- 
 
 74, 315, 441 
 Coombe, 182 
 Coome, 271
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Coote, 455 
 Copp, 184 
 Copplestone, 479-80-82- 
 
 83-97 
 
 Corbyn, 329 
 Cornish, 65, 83, 120-39, 
 
 255-86, 308 
 Cornwall, 345-95, 433-58- 
 
 59-62 
 
 Corn worthy, 184 
 Corrain, 37 
 Corsett, 378 
 Coryton, 455 
 Cotley, 275 
 Cottihole, 69 
 Cottle, 126 
 Cotton, 366-69 
 Coulton, 90 
 Countenay, 1 1 1 
 Courey, 345 
 
 COURTENAY, 121 
 
 Courtenay (Courtney), 4, 
 69, no, 262, 307-43- 
 44-55-77-79-87, 389 - 
 90-93, 424-33-37-42- 
 45-52, 469-70-73-75 
 
 Courthill, 88 
 
 Coutance (Bishop of), 
 332-59, 411-41 
 
 Coutance, 412 
 
 Coward, 343 
 
 Cowlin (Cowlen), 228- 
 
 32-34 
 
 Cowling, 284 
 Cowyll, 118 
 Cox (Coxx, Coxe), 181, 
 
 243, 396 
 Crabb, 109-26 
 Craddick (Cradocke), 54, 
 
 234 
 
 Cranfield, 393 
 Crawley, 490 
 Creech, 499 
 Crewys, 346 
 Crispin, 134, 494-95 
 Croc, 364 
 
 Crocker, 56, 59, 252 
 Crock well, 309 
 Cioke, 56 
 Croker, 40 
 Cromwell, 472 
 Crook (Crook ), 18, 76 
 Croome, 132 
 Croote, 83 
 Cross (Ciosse), 39, 138- 
 
 69-74-90, 221-68-81- 
 
 402 
 
 Cruse, 281 
 Crutchard, 20 
 Crutchett, 191 
 Crute, 277 
 Cruwys, 49, 469 
 Cubitt, 461 
 Cudlipe, 85 
 Cullen, 490 
 Culme, 413-70-96 
 Cumbe, 221 
 
 Cundett, 97 
 
 Devon (Earl of), 261,344- 
 
 CUNDYE, 83 
 
 87, 445-71 
 
 Cunniby, 226 
 
 Dewdney, 237-44 
 
 Curell, 162-64 
 
 Dhu, 416 
 
 Cursane, 322 
 
 Dickenson, 452 
 
 Curson, 324 
 
 Dicker, 222 
 
 Curzon, 321-24 
 
 Digby, 439 
 
 Cutcliff, 155 
 
 Dillon, 451 
 
 Cuttaford, 25 
 
 Dinham (Dinhame, Dyn- 
 
 Cuttiford, 26 
 
 ham), 81, 342-95, 480 
 
 
 Dingle, 237 
 
 
 Dodarig, 414 
 
 
 Dodd, 105, 269 
 
 Dabernon, 486 
 
 Doddescombe (Doddis- 
 
 D'Abrincis, 395 
 
 comb), 261-97, 328-64, 
 
 Dacus, 485 
 
 434-35 
 
 Dagworthy, 196, 206 
 
 Dodge, 29 
 
 Dalditch, 434 
 
 Dodridge, 175 
 
 Daley, 35, 210-12 
 
 Doidge, 135 
 
 Dally, 69, 231-33 
 
 Dollinge, 185 
 
 Dallynge, 57 
 
 Domett, 139 
 
 Damarell (Damerell), 
 
 Donington, 436 
 
 191, 395, 443-91 
 
 Doorleyne, 120 
 
 D'Amneville, 370-71 
 
 Douay, 333, 432-48 
 
 Dan, 485 
 
 Doubt, 296 
 
 Daniel, 472 
 
 Doune, 302 
 
 D'Anvers, 283 
 
 Doust, 295 
 
 Dapifer, 319 
 
 Dovor, 345 
 
 Darcy, 180 
 
 Dowdney, 194-99 
 
 Dare, 248 
 
 Dowell, 271 
 
 Darke, 20, 169 
 
 Downe, 32, 42, 61, 132- 
 
 Dart, 443-47 
 
 77-78, 302 
 
 Daubeny, 360-61 
 
 Downing (Downinge),58, 
 
 Davelle, 493 
 
 88, 181 
 
 Davide (Davids), 26, 58 
 
 Dowrish, 443 
 
 Davis (Davys, Davise, 
 
 DRAKE, 5, 129, 265 
 
 Davies), 38, 109, 217 
 
 Drake, 18, 166, 249, 316, 
 
 Davy (Davey, Davie, 
 
 482 
 
 Davye), 29, 58, 102- 
 
 Drax, 380 
 
 19, 207-11-27 
 
 Drew (Drewe), 54, 116- 
 
 Daw, 265 
 
 23-49, 220-41-77, 359- 
 
 Dawley, 214 
 
 66,412-13-43-47-55-73- 
 
 Dawson-Damer, 467 
 
 87 
 
 Daymen t, 68 
 
 Driscoll, 129 
 
 Deament, 259 
 
 Drogo, 441-42 
 
 Deane, 372 
 
 Dromant, 65 
 
 Deeble, 285 
 
 Drury, 484 
 
 Delawarr, 362 
 
 Druscombe, 187 
 
 Dellff, 118 
 
 Duck, 470 
 
 Denard, 67 
 
 Duckham, 16 
 
 Dene, 279 
 
 Dudley, 383, 438 
 
 Denet, 162 
 
 Duelly, 170 
 
 Denford, 82 
 
 Duke, 404-51 
 
 Dcnnaford, 139 
 
 Dummitt, 46 
 
 Dennis (Denis, Denys, 
 
 Dunn, 80, 168 
 
 Dennys), 6, 61, 81, 
 
 Dunning, 398, 489 
 
 153, 213-37, 349-5, 
 
 Durant, 139 
 
 427-29-30-85-86-91 
 
 Dutton, 442 
 
 Denny, 121 
 
 Dyer, 150, 237 
 
 Densell, 464-65-66-67 
 
 Dyke, 473 
 
 DENSHAM, 61, 72, 252- 
 
 Dymoke, 454 
 
 53-99 
 
 Dysteley, 329 
 
 Densham, 186 
 
 
 D'Este (Queen Mary), 406 
 
 
 U'Eu, 441 
 
 Eales, 94 
 
 Devenish, 453-54 
 
 Early, 71 
 
 Devereux, 330 
 
 Eastabiook, 290
 
 INDEX. 
 
 507 
 
 Eastchurch, 125 
 Eastcot, 220 
 Easterbrook, 200 
 Eastridge, 150 
 Ebrington, 467 
 Eccelin, 469 
 E.Jen, 339 
 Edgar (King), 282 
 Edgina, 433 
 Edgcombe (Edgcumbe), 
 
 97, 237, 428 
 Edmonstone, 408 
 Edward, 147 
 Edward I., 46, 319-64- 
 
 78, 401-26-45-68-76- 
 
 77-78 
 Edward II., 106, 345, 
 
 426-69-78-93 
 Edward III., 332,420-27- 
 
 34-36-69-77-93 
 Edward IV., 336, 414- 
 
 86 
 
 Edward VI., 157, 469 
 Edward the Black Prince, 
 
 469 
 Edward the Confessor, 
 
 317-32-36-97, 417 
 Edward the Martyr, 282 
 Edwards, 84, 91, 148-70, 
 
 274 
 
 Edwin, 416-19 
 Eisforde, 342 
 Eleanor ol Castile, 69, 
 
 331 
 
 ELFORD, 82 
 
 Elford, 466 
 
 Elfritha, 282 
 
 Elizabeth (Queen), I, 4, 
 
 121, 321, 414-27-81-86 
 Ellat, 176 
 Ellicomb (Ellicombe), 84, 
 
 398 
 Elliot, 6, 137-48, 270, 
 
 406 
 
 Ellis, 248-60, 347 
 Elmslie, 335 
 Elworthy, 215-19 
 Emling, 167 
 Emma (Queen), 317 
 Emmeit, 95 
 Empson, 438 
 Enckledon, 306 
 Endell, 12, 175 
 Enty, 44, 154, 231 
 Erchenliold, 314 
 Erkenwald, 392 
 Erie, 380 
 Erlye, 29 
 Eiroll, 389 
 Erskine, 474 
 Esserye, 17 
 Es worthy, 189, 304 
 Ethelred, 282, 317-18 
 Eton, 104-47-48 
 EVELEIGHR, 8 
 Eveleigh (Evelleighe), o- 
 
 38 
 
 EVANS, 25, 29, 30, 32, 
 
 34,45 
 Evans, 33, 51, 138-52, 
 
 227-39-65 
 Evens, 109 
 Eweine, 274 
 
 Ewen, 187, 274 
 
 Ewin (Ewins, Ewings), 
 
 44, 165 
 
 Exeter (Bishop of), 121 
 Faber, 447-80-84 
 Fabyan, 163 
 Face (fface), 119 
 Facie, 5 
 
 Fairfax, 427-72-82 
 Falaise, 395 
 Falwell, 460 
 Fane, 393, 403 
 Farechilde, 252 
 Faringdon, 405 
 Farrer, 446 
 Farthinge, 41 
 Fenton, 486 
 
 Ferdinand of Castile, 446 
 Fermanagh, 388 
 Fernac, 462 
 Ferreis, 330-87, 436-86 
 FERRIS, 157 
 Fenis (Ferries), 25, 241- 
 
 42-43 
 Feseye, 83 
 Fewins, 78 
 ffaris, 85-89 
 Finney (ffiney), 71-72, 
 
 '36, 295 
 flble, 92 
 ffolette, 26 
 FFUGARS, 6 
 ffures, 64 
 Fiennes, 416 
 Fillmore, 25 
 Finch, 383-86 
 Finnimore, 229 
 Fishacre, 449 
 Fisher, 254 
 Fitz-Alan, 463 
 Fitz-Alured, 364 
 Fitz-Anger, 356 
 Fitz-Angerii, 358 
 Fitz-Asculph, 432 
 Fitz- Baldwin, 493 
 Fitz- Eustace, 449 
 Hiz-Gamelin, 475 
 Fi'z-Geoff.ey, 442 
 Fitz-George, 430 
 Fitz-Haidinge, 370 
 Fitz-Hoel, 352 
 Fitz-IIugh, 317 
 Fitz-IIugo, 318 
 Fitz-John, 329 
 Fii/.-Mauger, 189, 359, 
 
 411-12-13-14 
 Fitz Osborne, 399 
 Fitz- Payne, 426-32-33-40 
 
 Fitz- Pay nel, 432 
 Fitz-Ponz, 359, 412 
 Fitz-Ralph, 318 
 Fitz-Ranulph, 318 
 Fitz- Reginald, 317-18 
 Filz-Robert, 318, 433 
 Filz-Stephen, 348, 491 
 Fitz-Turolf, 348, 
 Fitz-Urse, 422-23-28-29- 
 
 30 
 
 Fitz- Walter, 367-68, 442 
 Fitz- Wai ine, 360-93 
 Fitz-William, 357 
 Flaycross, 14 
 Fleming( Flemyng, Fflern- 
 
 ing), 93, '69, 350 
 Flood, 192-94, 249 
 Floyd, 247 
 Floyer, 237 
 Folker, 58 
 Follett, 210 
 Force (fforce), 149-50, 
 
 305, 415 
 FORD, 283-95 
 Ford (fford), 77,80, lio- 
 
 16-75, 277, 373-78, 
 
 414-16-17 
 
 Fort (Forte), 456-58-62 
 Fortescue, 46, 315-47, 
 
 403-6-39-51-69-88 
 FORTESCUE, 456-58-59- 
 
 60-61-62-63-64-65 - 66- 
 
 67-68 
 Foss (Fosse), 59, 77, 227- 
 
 67 
 
 Eos well, 151 
 Fowell, 255 
 Fownes, 445 
 Fox, 128 
 
 Fox, 40, 83, 138, 309 
 Framingham, 165 
 Franc, 435 
 Francis, 446 
 Francklinge, 82 
 Frankpitt, 35, 218 
 Fratrum, 428 
 Free, 143 
 French, u, 100-34, 206- 
 
 90 
 
 Freville, 261 
 Friend, 254 
 Frobisher, 316 
 Frost (Ffrost), 43, 118, 
 
 242 
 
 Froude, 343 
 FRY (Frye), 177-78-79- 
 
 81 - 97, 210-11-12-69- 
 
 76-79-81-82-83-84-85- 
 
 86-95-98, 302-6-7 
 Fry (Frye), 44, 392, 439 
 FULFORD, 417-19-20-21- 
 
 21 -22 -23-24-25-26-27 ' 
 
 30 
 
 Fulford, 341 
 l-'ulthmp. 422 
 Furlong, 56, 439 
 Furncaux, 116
 
 5 o8 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Fursdon, 15, 315 
 Furse, 46, 49, 64, 90, 296, 
 
 439 
 
 Purser, 245 
 Fursman, 89, 164 
 
 Gage, 372-73 
 
 Galard (Galerd), 30, 38 
 
 Gale, 213 
 
 Galfred, 352 
 
 Galland, 297 
 
 Galpine, 428 
 
 Gammon, 268 
 
 GANDY, 152 
 
 Gandy, 132-40-51-54 
 
 Gardiner, 184 
 
 Garland, 274, 492 
 
 Garnfit, 107 
 
 Garnsey, 181 
 
 GATTRY, 50 
 
 Gaunicliffe, 22 
 
 Gay (Gaye), 84, 406 
 
 Geare, 7, 231 
 
 GEARING, 67 
 
 Gefford, 95 
 
 Cell, 372 
 
 Genney, 68 
 
 Genii) s, 137 
 
 George I., 497 
 
 George IE., 49 
 
 George III., 49, 497-98 
 
 German, 290 
 
 Gerrard, 226 
 
 Ghent, 346 
 
 Gibbens, 22 
 
 GIBBS (Gib, Gibb, Gibbe, 
 Gibbes, Gybbe), 10, 14, 
 20, 22, 23, 24, 42, 43, 
 44, 50, 51, 103-4-23- 
 30 - 38-40-46-47-48-49- 
 50-51-52-53-54-55-59- 
 60-65-69-70,485-86-87- 
 88-89-90-91 
 
 Gibbs, &c., 80, 132-33-41 
 
 GlDLEY, 394-96-98-99 
 
 Gidley (Gidleigh), 395 
 
 Gifford (Giffard). 92, 380- 
 81-82, 489 
 
 Gilbert, 298, 328, 479- 
 91-96 
 
 Giles, 276, 315 
 
 Gill, 126-53-87,230-36 
 
 Gillard(Gillord),i5o, 274 
 
 Githa, 336 
 
 Glanfield, 200 
 
 Glanville, 282, 392 
 
 Glass, 35, 212-66 
 
 Glenvile, 221 
 
 Gloucester (Duke of), 393 
 
 GLOVER, 203 
 
 Glover, 17, 178,278,440 
 
 Glynn (Glynne), 339, 423 
 
 Goche, 189 
 
 Godfrey, 23, 150, 201 
 
 Godolphin, 7, 445 
 
 Godrick, 408 
 
 Godsland, 72 
 
 Godwin, 394 
 
 Gold, 198-99 
 
 Goldsworthy, 14 
 
 Goodridge, 28, 113 
 
 Goolde, 173 
 
 Gorges, 121-27, 347 
 
 Goring, 121 
 
 Gough, 306 
 
 GOULD, 87, 114-61-63 
 
 Gould, 84, 126, 247-74- 
 
 8l 
 
 Goulsworthy, 130 
 Govttt, 245 
 Graas, 443 
 Grahame, 406 
 GRANGER (Graunger), 19, 
 
 36,129-35-39-40-42-43- 
 
 62-64-65-66-67-68, 282 
 GRANVILLE, 308 
 Granville, 285-96, 309, 
 
 411-12 
 Gray, 87 
 Greane, 18 
 Gred, 55 
 Green, 44, 154, 231-33- 
 
 36 
 Greenfield (Greenfeilde), 
 
 294, 307 
 Greenslade, 298 
 GREGORY, 265 
 Gregory, 172 
 GREGSON, 141, 265 
 Gregson, 152 
 Grendon, 105 
 GRENFIELU (Grenfeild, 
 
 Greenfeild), 294-96 
 GRENVILE, 306 
 Grenvile (Grenville), 81, 
 
 345-47-66, 494 
 Griffin (Griffen), 58, 162 
 Grigg, 96 
 Grimbaldus, 425 
 GRINFELD, 293 
 Gubb (Gubbs), 262, 338 
 Gye, 175, 292 
 GYI.ES, 122 
 
 HACCHE, 257 
 
 Haccombe, 147 
 
 Haddridge, 19 
 
 Hager, 64 
 
 Hake, 18, 24, 451 
 
 Hak worthy, 139 
 
 Haldon, 164 
 
 Hale, 1 20, 454 
 
 Halkwill, 205 
 
 Hall, 132-52-54,226,451 
 
 Halles, 9 
 
 Hallet, 236 
 
 Hals (Halse), 102, 347, 
 
 494 
 
 Halsey, 173 
 Halswell, 445-47 
 Halswo thy, 67 
 Halton, 494 
 
 Ilalwell, 353-87-88-89 
 
 Ham, 285 
 
 Hambridge, 328 
 
 Hambrigge, 328 
 
 Hameline, 399 
 
 Hames, 340 
 
 Hamilton, 373 
 
 HAMLYN ( H a m 1 y n e , 
 Hamlin, H a m 1 i n e , 
 Hameline, Hamling, 
 Ilambling, Hamblyn, 
 Hamlinge), 6, 14, 18, 
 6l, 63, 85, 86, 88, 89, 
 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 
 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 
 102-58, 250-51-52-53- 
 54-56-58-60 - 61-63-64- 
 78-79-81-84-86-88-89- 
 90-9 1 , 399. 401-402- 
 403 
 
 Hamlyn (Hamling), 22, 
 
 45 
 Hamlyn - Williams, 61, 
 
 403 
 
 HAMMETT, 253 
 Hammett (Hamett), 196, 
 
 207, 403 
 Hamon, 306 
 Hamond, 262, 350 
 Hampton, 371, 479 
 Hancock, 55, 193 
 Handcock, 410 
 Handcr, 116 
 HanJford, 307 
 Hanham, 380 
 Hankford, 347-93 
 Hanniford, 163 
 Hanver, 254 
 Hardinge, 197 
 Hardrada, 419 
 Hare, 136 
 Harford, 229 
 Harlotta, 395, 492 
 Harman, 106 
 Harness, 48 
 Harold (King), 336 
 I Farrett, 62 
 Harries, 196 
 Harris, 43, 48, 55, 59, 
 
 73, 78, 79- 83, 136- 
 
 43, 210-16-28- 37 - 38- 
 
 50, 342, 493 
 Harrison, 151 
 Harrowby, 246 
 Harte, 6, 184 
 Hartnell, 131 
 HA.RTON, 62 
 Harvey, 126, 350 
 Harward, 229 
 Harwood, 304 
 Hastings (Hastyngs),453- 
 
 78-84 
 
 HATCH, 254 
 Hatch, 327 
 Hatherleigh, 134, 252 
 Ilatherley, 254 
 Hathewell, 58
 
 INDEX. 
 
 509 
 
 Haubsland, 38 
 Haviland, 237 
 Hawkins, 132, 270, 316 
 Hawkridge, 469 
 Hawkworthy, 443 
 Hawley, 471 
 Hawton, 130 
 Hay, 389 
 Haydon, 147-70, 211, 
 
 386 
 
 Hayleighe, 15 
 Hayman, 165-66-89, 366 
 Hayne, 32 
 Hays (Hayes), 151, 344- 
 
 80 
 
 Haywoode, 337 
 Hayzell, 162 
 Head, 144 
 Headen, 59 
 Heard, 209-45 
 Hearding (Herding), 141, 
 
 262 
 Hearl (Hearle, Herle), 
 
 108, 327-79 
 HEATH, 97 
 Heath, 100-41, 276 
 Heaward, 87 
 Heayne, 276 
 Heddon, 77 
 Hedgeland, 172 
 Hele, 167, 4I5-45-9I-97 
 Helion, 442 
 Hellyar, 176 
 Hdmer, 287 
 Helpeston, 329 
 Hemenford, 328 
 Henley (Henly), 130- 
 
 68 
 Henry I., 318-29-44-60, 
 
 448 
 Henry II., 318-28-45-53- 
 
 55-58-61, 419-25-85 
 Henry III., 329-45-51- 
 
 5664-87-96, 400 14- 
 
 17-20-48-58-76-93 
 Henry IV., 255, 379, 
 
 409-22 
 
 Henry V., 303.463 
 Henry VI., 341, 421- 
 
 53-63-64-79 
 Henry VII., 312, 414-21 
 
 24-27-38-54-60-85 
 Henry VIII., IO2, 312- 
 
 38-87, 414-24-26-34-36 
 Hensleigh, 492 
 Herbert, 383 
 Hereford, 462 
 Herman, 335 
 Herne, 164 
 Herniman (llernaman), 
 
 315-33-34 
 Heron, 41 
 Herrick, 121 
 Herring, 136 
 I Kit, 141 
 Heskcth, 445 
 
 cstcrcumbe, 356 
 
 Hewish, 76 
 
 Hewitt, 249 
 
 Hey craft, 14 
 
 Hext, 94, 469 
 
 Ilickeridge, 80 
 
 Hicks, 416 
 
 Hide, 151 
 
 Union, 6 
 
 Higgins, 450 
 
 Hildersham, 257 
 
 HILL, i, 125 
 
 Hill (Hille), 6, 12, 13, 
 18, 35, 125,205-12-41- 
 42-43-52-65-73-89,308- 
 
 89, 443 
 
 Hillion, 442-47 
 Kingston, 25, 274-88 
 Hinnimore, 231 
 Hippesley, 418 
 Hitchcocke, 199 
 Hoare (Hore), 275, 473 
 Hocesham, 480-84 
 Hockin, 92 
 Hodge (Hodge-), 233-45- 
 
 48-91 
 Hogg, 77 
 Hoker, 124 
 Hokeridge, 292 
 Holcombe, no 
 Holditch, 94, 116, 231 
 HOLE, 126-34-37-39-40- 
 
 43 
 Hole, 73, 148, 382-85, 
 
 420 
 
 Holkmore, 280 
 Holland, 78, I5t, 327, 
 
 423-28 
 Holle, 39 
 
 Holman, 6, 92, 285 
 Holmes, 30, 38 
 Holswortbie, 250 
 Holt, 422 
 Holway, 230 
 Holwell, 358-88-89 
 Holwell-Car, 389 
 Honeychurch, 383-8; 
 Honniwill, 98 
 Honny, 134 
 Hoo, 453 
 Hood, 452-73 
 HOOKER, 124 
 Hook ins, 205 
 Hooper, 39, 74, 213-26, 
 
 304 
 
 Hoper, 58 
 
 Hopkins, 50, 200, 373 
 Hopper, 222-26 
 Home, 21, 151 
 HORNIMAN (Hernaman, 
 
 Herniman), 331-32-33- 
 
 34-35 
 
 Horsington, 372 
 Horton, 315 
 Horwell (Horwill), 107, 
 
 277 
 
 Hoskins, 373 
 Houdg, 242 
 
 How (Howe), 63, 108- 
 
 78 
 
 Howarde, 362 
 HOWELI., 100 
 
 Howill, 55, 124 
 
 Howse, 21 1 
 
 Hucks, 490 
 
 Hugh, 23 
 
 Hughes, 190 
 
 Hugo, 309-16-17-18-30 
 
 Huish, 200 
 
 Hull, 231 
 
 Hulse, 315 
 
 Humphrey, 43, 452 
 
 Elunt (Hume), 20, 131- 
 
 36-48, 315-85-86 
 Huntington, 132, 395 
 Hurfer, 62 
 Hurrell, 114 
 Hurst, 487 
 Husband, 138 
 Hussey, 41, 126, 223, 
 
 370 
 
 Hustote, 59 
 Hutchings, 64, 239 
 Huichin (Hutchyn), 146- 
 
 48 
 II ui ton, 338 
 
 IIUYSHK, 46 
 
 Hyndeston, 343 
 
 Iddesleigh, 2, 328 - 29, 
 
 413-44 
 
 Ilchester, 473 
 Incledon, 77, 306 
 Inglett, 350, 465 
 Inglett-P'ortescue, 465 
 Insula, 319 
 Irish, 88, 161 
 Isabella, 347 
 Isaac (Izacke), 45, 149- 
 
 50, 219, 347 
 lobelias, 361 
 
 Jackson, 145-67 
 James, 13, 130, 369 
 Jame I., 4, 470-71 
 James II., 406 
 farman, 252 
 Jealfry, 173 
 Jeffery, 318, 411 
 Jefford, 92 
 jellard, 287 
 Jenkin, 36 
 Jerman, 86, 89, 164 
 Jewe, 475 
 Jewell, 25 
 Jilleard, 274 
 foanes, 252 
 
 John (King), 345-46-61, 
 424-48-57-58-62-67 92- 
 
 94 
 
 Johnson, 78, 139 
 Johnston, 73
 
 5io 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Jones, 52, 92, 103, 200, 
 
 420-40 
 Jordan, 109 
 Jordeyne, 6 
 Joy, 248 
 Joyce, 147 
 Judd, 134 
 Juhellus, 361 
 Jule, 302 
 Jutsum, 228-31 
 
 Keats, 349 
 Keckwiche, 81, 396 
 Keirkenny, 261 
 Kelland (Kellond), ic,o, 
 
 307. 445 
 
 KELLY (Kellye), 408-9-10 
 Kelly, 67, 275-82, 314- 
 
 86, 428-97 
 Kember, 81 
 Kemmett, 165 
 Kemp, 259, 308 
 Kenrick, 51 
 Kensbye, 2 
 Kente, 250 
 Kentisbeere, 170 
 Kerby, 240 
 Keridge, IO 
 Kerslake, 198, 249 
 Kertais, 157 
 Keyner, 160 
 Keynes, 346 
 Keys, 451 
 Killand, 60 
 Killigrew, 393 
 Killiovve, 127 
 KILLOND, 60 
 Killstone, 1 08 
 Killyow, 497 
 Kine, 83 
 King (Kinge), 6, 53, 144, 
 
 407 
 
 Kingdon, 105 
 King-well, 192, 382 
 Kingwill, 163 
 Kirkham, 125, 481-84-86 
 Knapman, 337 
 Knight (Knyght), 147, 
 
 262-70-77 
 Knill, 168 
 Knistone, 69 
 KnolN, 22 
 Knowling, 281 
 Knyle, 59 
 KYLLAND, 8 
 Kyle, 329 
 Kylpec, 371, 449 
 Kynes, 83 
 Kyte, 222 
 
 Lacy, 425-88 
 LAKE, 124 
 Lake, 146-48, 203 
 Lakey, 189 
 Lambe, 191 
 
 Lambert, 383 
 Lamplugh, 203 
 Lancey, 260-64 
 Landeman, 158 
 Lane, 74, 214 
 Laneman, 56 
 Lang, 41, 198 
 Langdon, 242-79-80-93- 
 
 95, 423-30 
 Lange, 65, 285 
 LANG ETON, 300 
 LANGLEY, 104 
 Langley, 248 
 Langworthy, 176, 415 
 Lapflode, 459 
 Lapihorne, 334 
 Laskey, 114-63, 224 
 Latimir (Ladimir), 198 
 Launde, 454 
 Lavercombe, 257 
 Lavington, 44, 47, 154, 
 
 231 
 
 LAW, 125 
 Law, 162-95, 298 
 Lawrence, 76, 339 
 Leach (Leache, Leche), 
 
 176-77, 293, 436-37 
 Leake, 445 
 Leaman, 289 
 Leap, 231 
 Leate, 170 
 Lee, 196, 226 
 Leigh, 144, 366, 430 
 Lendon, 7 
 Lenfee, 121 
 Len field, 121 
 Lennard, 469 
 L'Ercedekne, 106, 302 
 Lerwill, 262 
 L'Escrope, 422 
 Lethbridge, 229 
 Letwyn, 468 
 Levermore, 480 
 Lewes, 350 
 LEWIS, 33 
 Lewis, 51, 73 
 Ley, 68, 238, 494 
 Leyman, 95 
 Liddon, 211-48 
 Light, 32 
 Limbery, 262 
 Lincoln, 130 
 Lincoln (Earl of), 466 
 Lithiby, 258-59 
 Little, 282 
 Lobone, 292 
 
 Lock (Locke), 62, 222-31 
 Lockyer, 226 
 Loisett, 344 
 Loman (Lowman), 108, 
 
 214, 435 
 Longespee, 449 
 Lorde, 302 
 Loring, 469 
 Loosemoore, 299 
 Loudon, 45 
 Loughter (Abbot of), 435 
 
 Lovatt (Lovett), 327-40- 
 
 43, 445-47 
 Lovering(Loveringe), 10, 
 
 123 
 
 Loveys, 108 
 Lowe, 274 
 Lowes, 107 
 Luce, 346 
 Lucke, 58 
 Luckham, 94 
 Lucy (Lucie), 344-45-46, 
 
 446 
 
 LllSg, 226 
 
 Luke, 64, 275 
 
 Lupo, 346 
 
 Luttrell (Lutterell), 132, 
 
 379,441-43 
 Lyde, i 16-70 
 I.YLE, 42 
 
 Lyle, 44, 138-54-65 
 Lyons, 455 
 Lyte, 380 
 
 Mabel!, 147 
 McBride, 155 
 Macclesfield, 38 
 Mackenzie, 489 
 Maddcote, 327 
 Maddicke, 263 
 Madge, 264 
 Magna Villa, 319-20 
 Maine (Mayne), 62, 226- 
 
 54-84 
 Mais, 148 
 Maldett, 460 
 Malherbe, 404 
 Mallet, 155, 328, 418 
 Mamhead, 443-47 
 Manaton, 282 
 Mandeville, 319-28, 425- 
 
 26 
 
 iVTanley, 76, 218-19-21-68 
 Mann (Manne), 87, 91, 
 
 93, 94, 97 
 
 Manninge, 272 
 
 Manworthy, 486 
 
 Mapowder, 50, 190 
 
 Marcianus, 331 
 
 Mardon, 51 
 
 Marldon, 434 
 
 Marsh, 38 
 
 Marshall (Marshalle), 18, 
 29, 33, 232, 436 
 
 Martin (Martyn), 193, 
 240-81-93-94, 338-74, 
 412-80 
 
 MAKWOOD, 2 
 
 Marwood, 21, 57, 106 
 
 Mary (Queen), 203, 427- 
 70 
 
 Massingberd, 453 
 
 M attack, 263 
 
 MATTHEWE, 146-47 
 
 Matthew (Mathewe, Mat- 
 thews), 78, 146-76, 237 
 
 Maud (Empress), 320-64
 
 INDEX, 
 
 Mauditt (Mauduit, Mau- 
 
 dyt), 132-49-51-73. 398 
 Mauger, 442 
 Maunder, 66, 75, 80 
 May (Maye, Mey), 16, 
 
 42, 47, 197, 232-34, 
 
 404-86 
 
 Mayho, 321-28 
 Maynard, 452 
 Mayor, 153 
 MEACHIN, 49 
 Meachin, 154-55 
 Meavyseale, 1 8 
 Meddicke, 171 
 Meddon, 369 
 Medland, 286 
 MELHUISH, 56, 68, 69, 
 
 75, 76, 79, 250 
 Melhuish, 39, 46, 125-89, 
 
 201, 307-15, 415-38 
 Mellent (Earl of), 376 
 Meols, 4tf 
 
 Mercer, 50, 132-40-52 
 Merson, 13 
 Merlon, 480 
 Meschines, 361 
 Meshutt, 258 
 Meuelent, 386 
 Meysey-Thompson, 446 
 Micheldever, 329 
 Michelmore, 273 
 Middlesex, 393 
 Miles, 70, 441-42-43 
 Milford, 45, 264, 381, 
 
 452 
 
 Miller, 55, 181 
 MILLS, 205 
 Mills, 223 
 M.lles, 106 
 Milton, 274-85 
 Minchin, 45 
 Minifer, 18 
 Mitchell, 283-88 
 Moels, 350-95, 442 
 Mogford, 308 
 Mogridge, 180 
 Mohun, 356 
 Molland, 64 
 Molton, 25, 26, 27 
 Molyns, 328 
 Monk (Monke), 138-54- 
 
 98, 366, 470-89 
 Montacute, 356 - 58 - 59 - 
 
 60-61, 424-76-77 
 Montrath, 455 
 Moore, 41, 132-34, 226- 
 
 37, 450-53-65-83 
 Moorecroughte, 53 
 Morcar, 419 
 Moidaunt, 473 
 More, 349-70 
 Moreton, 423-29-30 
 Morgan, 102, 249 
 MorlanH, 483 
 Motley, 382 
 Morris, 16 ) 
 Morii-h, 57, 199 
 
 Morrison, 369 
 
 Node, 349 
 
 Morse, 36, 40 
 
 Norbury, 388 
 
 Mortain, 314-48-52-54- 
 
 Norcott, 7 
 
 57-58-59-63-94-95- 
 
 Norman, 46, 58, 74 
 
 97-98, 400-4-18-32-57- 
 
 Normandy (Duke of), 441, 
 
 58-60 
 
 42 
 
 MORTAMORE (Morti- 
 
 Norris (Norries), 184, 
 
 moor, Mortimoore, 
 
 351-78-91-92, 463 
 
 Mortimore, M o r t y - 
 
 Norrisb, 32, 68, 160-76, 
 
 more, Mortimor, 
 
 201-47 
 
 Mortemor), 15, 51,93, 
 
 Northam, 271 
 
 175-80-85-89-90- 
 
 Northbrooke, 446 
 
 94-96-97, 201-4-6-7- 
 
 Northcot (Northcote), 
 
 13-15- 16- 17- 19-21 - 
 
 102, 205, 328, 412 
 
 22 - 26 - 27 - 29 34 - 
 
 NORTHCOTE, 441-42-43- 
 
 35-45 - 46 - 47 - 52 - 53 - 
 
 44.415-46 
 
 68-69-74-80-81-82- 
 
 Northleigh, 135, 396 
 
 85-87-90 92, 305 
 
 NORTHMORE, 335-36-37- 
 
 Mortamore, &c., 98, 304- 
 
 38-39-40 
 
 9 
 
 Northmen-, 381-85 
 
 MORTIMEK (Mortymer, 
 
 Norwich (Earl of), 121 
 
 Mi>rtimere,Mortemere), 
 
 Nosworthy, 99, 187, 92 
 
 II. 12, 98, 172-75- 
 
 Notsworthy, 349 
 
 76-81-83-85-86-194-99, 
 
 NOTT, 348-49-50-51 
 
 200 - 7 - 22 - 23 - 33-35- 
 
 Nott (Notte), 167, 257- 
 
 41-42-43-44-45-46- 
 
 96, 347 
 
 48-52-57-59-62-69-71- 
 
 Novant, 362 
 
 74-76-79-80-92 - 93, 
 
 Nycholl, 57 
 
 303-4-5-9 
 
 
 Mortimer, &c., 249-87, 
 
 
 307 
 Mory, 90 
 Motbert, 358, 418 
 
 Oats, 244 
 Odo, 475 
 
 Mount-Joy, 7 
 
 MOUNTSTEPHEN, 7, 8 
 Mount-Steph-n, 446 
 Mowbray, 398 
 Moxey (Moxhay), 76, 
 178, 248 
 Moyle-Copley, 454 
 Moysey, 65 
 Mudge, 202 
 Mugford, 68 
 Mules, 248, 321-22-50-51 
 Multon, 345 
 
 Oke, 207 
 Okeston, 458 
 Oliver (Olliver, Olyver), 
 28, 48, 50, 132, 302 
 Orchard, 57, 139, 255 
 Orfoid, 466 
 Osborne, 3, u, 487 
 Osgood, 339 
 
 OSMAN, 2IO 
 
 OSMON, i 6 
 OSMOND (Osmonde, 
 Osmunde), 12, 13, 16, 
 
 Munn, 233 
 Murch, 98, 224 
 Murdock, 225 
 Myddleton, 159 
 Mylleton, 21 
 Mynefee, 18 
 
 17, 18, 19, 20, 35, 36, 
 39, 41, 44, 126-36-44- 
 62 - 80 - 93-94-96-98-99, 
 202-5-8-9-10-11-12-16- 
 17-18- 19-20-24-25-26- 
 27-28-30-31-32-33-34- 
 35-36-40-41-47-48-49 
 
 
 Osmond, 451 
 
 Napier, 454 
 
 Otway, 388 
 
 \T J 0. _ 
 
 ' )\V) 44^^ 
 
 i > ill It Ml ^ f 1 
 
 Netheiton, 91 
 Netheway 58 
 Nevill, 296 
 Newberry, 21 1-14 
 Newburgh, 376 
 Newcoman, 234 
 Newcomb, 137 
 
 Owens, 309 
 Owgan, 451 
 Owsborne, 118 
 OWSMENT, 15 
 Oxenbeare, 160 
 Oxenham, 222, 333-38 
 Oxford (Karl of), 360 
 
 NEWCOMKN, 91 
 
 
 Newson, 100 
 
 
 Newte, 36, 389 
 
 Packer, 266 
 
 Newton, 131, 329-71 
 
 Paddon, 264 
 
 Nicholas IV. (Pope), 4-76 Paganel, 431-32
 
 512 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Paige, 98 
 
 PALKE (Palk), 163-64 
 Palk, 394 
 
 Palmer, 12, 166, 205-52 
 Paltryman, 268 
 Pamer, 252 
 
 Parker, 38, 107-21-24-68- 
 74, 255-78, 307-82-84, 
 
 497 
 Parkhouse (Parkhowse), 
 
 172, 292 
 Parma, 454 
 Parrington, 181 
 Parsons, 46, 284 
 Partridge, 144, 274 
 Pasco (Pascowe), 105, 
 
 270-85 
 
 Passavant, 46 
 Passmore, 94, 176 
 Passord, 189 
 Pathericke, 176 
 Paul (Paule, Pawle), 49, 
 
 64, 254-81 
 PAYNE, 133 
 Payne (Payn), 53, 56,133- 
 
 48-75-76-89, 207-49- 
 
 57-59 
 
 Paynel, 431-48-49 
 PEARCE, 51 
 Pearce (Pearse, Pearsse), 
 
 25. "9-37-64-70-74 
 
 265-84-96 
 Pears, 104 
 Pease, 42 
 Peat, 104 
 Peddericke, 207 
 Pedler, 144 
 Pederton, 480-83-84 
 Peers (Peerse), 148, 271 
 Pembroke (Earl of), 154, 
 
 348, 436 
 Pendarvis, 137 
 Penguin, 142 
 Penhallow, 409 
 Pennington, 40 
 Penny (Peny), 96, 98, 
 
 295 
 
 Pep, 57 
 Peploe, 77 
 Percy, 345 
 Perer, 363 
 Periman (Ferryman), 16, 
 
 365 
 
 Perkins, 165 
 Perot, 416 
 Perriam, 418 
 Perrin, 383 
 Perrye, 16 
 PETER (Peeler, Petre, 
 
 Petter), 9, 81, 105-8- 
 
 21-29, 293 
 Peter (&c.), 6, 111-13, 
 
 297, 365-39, 473-75-79 
 Peternell, 161 
 Peters, 138-65 
 PETOK, 62 
 Petsvene, 83 
 
 Pelt, 138-65 
 Peverell, 297, 434-36 
 Peytevin, 404 
 Phelp, 166 
 Philip IV., 454 
 Phillip, 114-48 
 PHILLIPS, 297 
 Phillips, 46, 111-52, 211- 
 
 14 
 
 Philpe, 175 
 Pidsley, 141 
 PIERCE, 51, 152 
 Pierce, 48, 140-41-53-54 
 Pike, 288, 346 
 1'ile (Pyll), 469 
 Pilkington, 489 
 Pimme, 184 
 Pincerna, 356-57-63-64 
 Pincombe, 28, 257 
 Pine, 225 
 Pipard. 94, 402 
 Pitfield, 136-55 
 Pitman, 453 
 ['lantagenet, 46, 393, 
 
 427-62-70 
 Plimpton, 148 
 Plugenet, 449 
 Pocock, 135, 200-29 
 Podycomb, 118 
 Podyn, 146 
 Pokeswell, 381 
 Pole, 297, 300-28-77, 
 
 422-34-41-49-75-79 
 POLLARD, 73, 74, 75, 77, 
 
 I 3 I -35-36-42-43 
 Pollard (Pollarde), 1 06, 
 
 298, 360-63-64414-15- 
 
 44 
 
 Pollei, 52, 432 
 Pollexfen, 402-97 
 Poltimore, 474-75-76-77- 
 
 78-80-83 
 Pomeroy, 4, 237, 306, 
 
 404-33-35-68 
 Ponslord, 14 
 Pontington (Poinlington, 
 
 Puntyngdon), 476-77- 
 
 78 
 
 Ponz, 411-42 
 Pooke, 9, 18, 273-74 
 Poole, 153-98, 372 
 Pope, 56 
 Popham, 453 
 Port, 459 
 Porter, 52, 464 
 Portman, 343, 471 
 Portour, 301 
 Portu Mortuo, 396 
 Potter, 121-28-99, 4 '2- 
 
 43 
 
 Potyngdon, 477 
 Poules, 4 
 Poulett, 497 
 Pounce, 109 
 Pounsford, 72 
 Powe, 53 
 Powell, loS 
 
 Powkeswell, 386 
 Pownall, 498 
 Powning, 41 
 Poynter, 108 
 Pratt, 227 
 Praunce, 6l 
 Presforde, 305 
 Preaser, 32 
 Preston, 460-61-62 
 Prestwood, 343, 487 
 PRIDEAUX, 131 
 Prideaux, 50, 140, 381, 
 
 412-68-70-88 
 Pridham, 139-80 
 
 P' igg, 47 
 
 Primridge, 43 
 
 Prince, 283 
 
 Pring, 230 
 
 Prouse (Prowse, Prouz), 
 
 1 1 1-43, 285, 395, 443 
 Prust, 6l, 63, 67, 327 
 Prye, 423 
 Prystod, 158 
 Prystone, 158 
 Puddington, 16, 18 
 Pud nor, 144 
 Pudsey, 484 
 Pugh, 249 
 Pullablanke, 273 
 Pullen (Pullin), 200-31-33 
 Purchase, 216 
 Putot, 370 
 Puttercombe, 95 
 Putteven, 305 
 Pycot, 409 
 PYKE, 344-4^-46-51 
 Pyke-Nott, 347-50-51 
 Pyle, 43, 136 
 Pyne, 153, 479 
 
 Quant, 249 
 
 Quick (Quicke), 66, 144- 
 
 73, 226 
 QUICKE, 2 
 Quivil, 425 
 
 Radcliffe, 226 
 Radfon), 249-68 
 Rake, 495 
 Raleigh (Ralegh), 316- 
 
 89, 430 
 Ramsey, 246 
 Rasshelegh (Rayshlegh), 
 
 436 
 
 Rate! iff, 470 
 RATTENBURY, 67, 304 
 Rattenbury, 305-27 
 Rawle, 261 
 Rawling (Rawlings), 13, 
 
 277 
 
 Rayner, 135 
 Reade, 21 
 Redstone, 285 
 Redver-, 52, 261, 3.44, 
 
 433-34-37
 
 INDEX. 
 
 5'3 
 
 REDWAY (Radway), 21, 
 
 24, 25, 26, 27 
 Reed, 252, 306, 415 
 Reigny, 451 
 Remfrey, 69 
 Remmett, 156 
 Rendall, 33 
 Renoles, 278 
 Reyd, 57 
 
 Reynell, 343, 491-96-9? 
 Reynolds, 247 
 Richard I., 189, 356, 
 
 417-18-19-32-48 
 Richard II., 189, 344 63- 
 
 68-92, 469-85 
 Richard III., 420-21-22- 
 
 24-54 
 
 RICHARDS, 80 
 Richards, 25, 34, 6l, 62, 
 
 64, 154, 266-67-90 
 Richmond, 77 
 Ridge way, 1 08 
 Risdon (Risedon, 
 
 Rysedon), 85, 217-53, 
 
 322-23-24-25-26-27-28- 
 
 39-50 
 Rither, 43 
 Robert (Duke), 395 
 Roberts, 68, 166, 347 
 Robbins, 162 
 Rncke, 265 
 Rodney, 498-99 
 Roger (Rogers), 57, 205- 
 
 37 
 
 ROLLE, 71 
 
 Rolle, 229, 324-27-28-93, 
 406-50-51-66-67-71 
 
 Rollo, 431 
 
 Rols, 229 
 
 Rolston, 150 
 
 Roslyn, 455-74 
 
 Ross, 170 
 
 Rous, 41, 44, 165, 458 
 
 Rouse, 444 
 
 Router, 302 
 
 ROW (Rowe), 85, 89, 91 
 
 Row (Rowe), 88, 101-38- 
 63-65, 216-27-47-49-92 
 
 Rowell, 85 
 
 Rowles, 129 
 
 Rowswell, 413-70-71 
 
 Rudge, 60 
 
 Rugg (Rugge), 104, 208 
 
 Russell, 341 
 
 Ryder, 246, 365, 467 
 
 Ryledon, 324 
 
 Sackville (Sachville), 419- 
 
 25 
 
 Safnn, 47 
 
 St. Albyn, 349, 429-30 
 
 St. Aubyn, 338, 470 
 
 St. Clair, 455 
 
 St. Cyres, 2, 446 
 
 St. Esprit, 319 
 
 34 
 
 St. George, 424-69 
 St. John, 342-80 
 St. Maur, 481-84 
 Saiward, 196 
 Salisbury (Bishop of), 328 
 Salisbury (Marquis of), 
 
 491 
 
 Sallis, 278 
 
 Salter, 13, 197, 215-49 
 Sampson, 152 
 Sam ways, 430 
 Sanders, 282 
 Sandford, 98, 223-33-34, 
 
 355 
 Sanford, 34, 42, 232-44, 
 
 452 
 SANGER, 39, 60, 83, 251- 
 
 56-58-59-65-66-67-97- 
 
 98-99, 306-8-9 
 Sanger (Sangor), 58, 6 1 
 Sangwiil, 84 
 SANNER, 305 
 Sans Peur, 431-41 
 Sargent, 109 
 Saulf, 418-19-25 
 SAUNDER (SAUNDERS), 
 
 66, 68, 71, 72, 76, 78, 
 
 79, 142 
 Saunder (Saunders), 13, 
 
 42, 45, 94, 106-22-50 
 Savage, 83 
 
 Savery (Savory), 47, 87 
 Sawnder, I 
 Saye, 416 
 Scholond, 5 
 Schute, 301 
 Score, 67 
 Scott (Scotte), 147-48, 
 
 268, 329, 415 
 Scroope, 422 
 Scrope, 499 
 Seaman, 246 
 Searle, 84 
 SEAWARD, 144 
 Seaward, 5, 145-96, 221, 
 
 302 
 
 Seely, 210 
 Segar, 28 
 Seger, 479 
 Sellack (Sellick.Sellicke), 
 
 35, 212-32-36 
 Senarpont, 357-59 
 Sercombe, 81, 243 
 Sergun, 9 
 
 Serrill (Sen-ell), 258, 324 
 Seward, 148 
 Seyman, 200 
 SEYMOUR, 131 
 Seymour, 49 
 Shackle, 1 8 
 Shafto, 339 
 Shapcot (Shapcote), 56, 
 
 250, 307 
 Shaplonde, 250 
 Shaptor, 157-58 
 Sharbrooke, 66 
 Sharland, 176,268 
 
 Sharlen, 203 
 Sharpham, 274 
 SHEERES, 122 
 Shelley, 418 
 Sheper, 62 
 Shepherd, 237-95 
 Sheppard (Shepperd), 
 
 136-38-80 
 Sherborne, 442 
 Sheridan, 483 
 Sheriff, 255 
 SlIERLONU, 5 
 
 Shtrme, 261-63 
 Sherwill, 90, 99 
 Shilston, 207, 392 
 Shirley, 330 
 Shobrooke, 28 
 Shorte, 65, 254, 321 
 Shower, 32 
 
 Sidenham (Sydenham), 
 328, 452-54-81 
 
 SlNEGAR, 285 
 
 SING, 285 
 
 SINGER, 92 
 
 SINGNAR, 93 
 
 Skeen, 285 
 
 Skinner (Skynner), 16, 
 
 24, 37, 78, 79, 129- 
 
 39, 255, 302 
 Slade, 38 
 Slader, 55, 78 
 Slape, 237 
 Slee, 39 
 Sleeman, 308 
 Sloane, 75 
 Slowley, 131 
 Smale, 54, 71, 251-61, 
 
 415 
 
 Smardon, 157 
 Smeath, 162 
 Smerdon, 99, 164 
 Smith, 21, 27, 55, 74, 
 
 133, 278-93-94, 366-67 
 Smorth, 76 
 Smyth (Smythe), 14, 58, 
 
 174, 293-99. 427 
 Snow (Snowe), 57, 58, 
 
 205-61-98 
 Soleigny, 260, 435 
 Solomon, 87 
 Somastcr, 380, 460 
 Somerhayes, 200 
 Somers (Sommers), 19, 74 
 Soper, 13, 173, 239 
 Southard, 22, 74 
 Southcombe, 73 
 Southcote, 130, 382 
 Southerns, 61 
 Southmeade, 337-78 
 Southwood(Southwoode), 
 
 106-62, 230-39, 337 
 Sowden, 68, 205-6 
 Spark (Sparke), 200 - 54 - 
 
 66 
 
 Sparrow, 173, 239 
 Speare, 67 
 Spearman, 55
 
 5'4 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Speckot (Speccott), 347, 
 
 420-52 
 Speke (Spekes), 103, 435- 
 
 50-54 
 
 Spence, 248 
 Spencer, 259 
 Splatt, 126 
 Spooner, 464 
 Sprague, 41 
 Sprey, 107 
 Spry, 249 
 Spurway, 359-60 
 Squabble, 37 
 Square, 86, 288 
 Squer, 105 
 Squier, 105-6 
 Stabbicke, 180 
 Stackhouse, 373 
 Stafford, 93, 301-27,445- 
 
 47 
 
 Stanbury, 268 
 
 Stanckombe, 95 
 
 Standisli, 265 
 
 Stapeldon, 347, 426-77 
 
 Starkey, 224 
 
 Siarr, 151 
 
 Steer, 289 
 
 Stennett, 233 
 
 Stephen (Stephens, 
 Stephyns), 40, 59, 155, 
 2 65-93 32, 4 7-46 
 
 Stephen (King), 315-20- 
 
 45- 6 4 
 
 Stevens, 6l, 223 
 Stifyn, 6 1 
 Stisson, 270 
 Stogdon, 189 
 Stokes, 142 
 
 Stone, 89, 195,218-20-41 
 Stonehouse, 493 
 Stoneman, 25, 26 
 Stoning, 219 
 Stoodly, 155 
 Stottiscombe, 353 
 Stowell, 162 
 Stowford, 449 
 Strange, 82, 83 
 Stratton, 477 
 Streat, 305 
 Strechleigh, 460 
 Street, 226 
 Stretch, 495 
 Stribling, 251 
 Strode (Strod), 29, 445- 
 
 52 
 Strokesdon (Strokys- 
 
 done), 435-36 
 Strongbow, 340 
 
 Stronge, 337 
 
 Stuart, 389 
 
 Stubinges, 19 
 
 Stucley, 78 
 
 Stukeley, 416 
 
 Styling, 190 
 
 Suchespyche, 147 
 
 Suckespichf, 148 
 
 Sudeley, 364 
 
 Suffolk (Duke of), 451 
 Surete, 119 
 Surry (Earl of), 425 
 Sutcliffc-, 347 
 Sutton, 443 
 Suxpitch, 43 
 Swade, 65 
 SWANGER, 45 
 Sweete, 119 
 Swetland, 272 
 Sweyn, 318 
 Sykes, 50, 407 
 Symes, 14, 221-49 
 Symons, 13, 62, 243 
 Synone, 7 
 
 TACKER, 182 
 
 Talbot, 409-10 
 
 Tallamy, 98 
 
 Tamlyn, 107 
 
 TANNER, 307 
 
 Tanner, 58, 79, 124-44- 
 
 76, 252-53, 303-4 
 Tapper, 163 
 Taprill, 161 
 Tarr, 96, 163 
 TASSELL, 53, 56 
 Tassell, 61 
 Tasle, 53 
 Taunton, 143 
 Taverner. 7 
 
 Tavistock (Abbot of), 442 
 Tawse, 5 
 Taylor, 141 - 52 - 59 - 8l , 
 
 219-27-28-34 
 Temleit, n 
 Templeman, 246 
 THASSELL, 53 
 Thomas, 35, 52, 91, 153- 
 
 90, 278, 307 
 Thomas a Becket, 354 
 Thorbridge, 15 
 Thome, 16, 55, 60, 67, 
 
 268, 464 
 THUELL, 84 
 TIDBALL, 161 
 Tidball, 125 
 Tidbolle, 195 
 Titherly, 32 
 Toake, 130 
 TOCKER (Toker), 5, 21, 
 
 55. 57, 58, 59,64, 107- 
 28-58-71-82-83-89. 
 250-70 
 
 Tocker (Toker), 120, 278 
 
 Todeni, 360 
 
 Tolchard (Tolyard), 83 
 
 Tom, 298 
 
 Tombe, 61 
 
 Toni, 376 
 
 Tokerman, 273 
 
 TOOKER (Toocker), 9 17, 
 
 57, 59, 65. 87, 97, 109- 
 26-72-74-81-82-84-86- 
 
 91, 209-69-72-74-77- 
 86 
 
 Tooker (Toocker), 25, 
 
 55, 56, 58, 107, 123- 
 89, 251-73 
 
 TORNER, 58 
 
 Tomer, 22 
 Torroway, 89 
 
 TORSALL, 267 
 
 TOSSELL (Tossle), 53, 
 62, 63, 67, 73, 74, 
 75> 76, 77, 259-67-68- 
 4 
 
 Tossell (Tossle), 58, 61 
 
 Tothill, 24 
 
 Tottell, 272 
 
 Totnes, 357 
 
 TOUCKER (Towker), 17, 
 
 56, 57, 59, 273 
 Tow, 267 
 
 Townsend, 90, 163, 235 
 Townsentf, 17 
 
 Tozer, 113 
 
 Tracy (Tracey), 178, 275, 
 
 364-65. 412-42 
 Trais, 97 
 Treble, 67, 259 
 Tree, 292 
 Trefusis, 466-67 
 Tregoe, 226 
 Trehawke (Trehawkes), 
 
 51-84 
 
 Trelawney, 494 
 Tremayne, 171, 341-42, 
 
 409 
 
 Tremlett, II 
 Tremure, 109 
 Trenhale, 91 
 Trent (Trente), 13, 199 
 Tresilian, 422 
 Trevage, 341-43 
 Trewant, 305 
 Tristamb, 292 
 Troke, 2OO 
 Trosse, 131 
 Troute, 262 
 Trowbridge (Trobridge), 
 
 119, 169 
 Troyte, 38, 474 
 Truelake, 130 
 Tryslade, 237 
 TUCKER (Tuker), 12, 14, 
 
 15, 17, 26, 29, 30, 31, 
 
 32, 33. 34, 35. 36, 37, 
 40, 66, 70, 73, 75, 77, 
 85, 86, 88, 91, 94, 96, 
 
 98, 105-6-7 - 34 - 37- 
 68-71-72-73-74-75-76- 
 77-78-79-80-81-82-83- 
 84-85-86-87-88-89 - 90- 
 91-92-93-94-95-97-98- 
 
 99, 200-1-2-3-4-5-6-7- 
 8-9-10-11 - 12-13- J 4- 
 15-16-17-18-19-20- 21- 
 22-23-24-25-26-27 - 28- 
 
 29-3-3 I -3 2 -35-36-37- 
 38-39-40-41-42-43-44- 
 45-48-69-70-71-72-73- 
 75-76-77-80-82-87-88
 
 INDEX. 
 
 515 
 
 Tucker (Tuker), 10, 22, 
 2 5 39. ^S, 121-22-23- 
 26-33-38, 266-84, 4' 
 
 Tuckfield, 418 
 
 Tuck hey e, I 
 
 TUKE, 271 
 
 Tupper, 89 
 
 Turner, 27, 199 
 
 Turney, 40, 480-^3-24 
 
 Turpin, 234, 416 
 
 Turpi Vado, 418-19 
 
 Twigge, II 
 
 Twydell, 151 
 
 Tyeth, 373 
 
 Tynes, 276 
 
 Ufflett, 449-50 
 Unifraville, 479 
 Underbuy, 98 
 Upcoit, 240 
 Upliill, 295 
 Upton, 159 
 Urflet, 496 
 
 Vacinover, 35 
 Valderonde (Cou-it of), 
 
 454 
 
 Vailado (Marquis of), 454 
 Valletort, 346-61-62-64, 
 
 450-57-58-59 
 Vavasour, 342 
 Veale (Vele), 135, 302 
 Venicombe (Venycombe), 
 
 9, 14, 106 
 VENMAN, i 
 VENN, 404-5-6-7-8 
 Venn (Venne), 8, 190-97 
 Venning, 277 
 Venton, 488 
 Vepont, 341-43 
 Vere, 320-60-68, 473 
 Verney, 388 
 Veinon, 377, 433 
 Vesci, 449 
 
 Veysey (Veysy), 15, 106 
 Vicary (Vicarie, Vicarye, 
 
 Vickery), 53, 62, 144- 
 
 54-55, 246-56, 489 
 Vickers, 74 
 
 Vigers (Vigors), 33, 74 
 Vighill, 295 
 VIGOR, 46 
 VIGURES, 74 
 Vigurs (Vigurts), 74, 107 
 Vill, 135 
 Vilvayne, 292 
 Vincent, 472 
 Vine, 263 
 Vinicombe (Vynecombe), 
 
 136, 215 
 Vivian, 429-36 
 Vivon (Vyvon), 370, 435 
 Vosper, 283 
 Vowel 1, 124 
 Voysey (Voysie), 56, 150 
 
 Vynour, 371 
 
 Westron, 126 
 
 Vynsent, 271 
 
 Westwode, 329 
 
 
 West wood, 329 
 
 
 Wetyne, 271 
 
 Waad (Wade), 42, 257 
 
 Wheeler, 36 
 
 Wadham, 481 
 
 Whiddon, 380 
 
 Wad land, 275 
 
 Whipham, 51 
 
 Waile, 250 
 
 Whitbere, 57 
 
 Wakeham, 98, 269-89 
 
 Whitby, 343 
 
 Wakely, 263 
 
 White, 99, 100-37, 280 
 
 Walcot, 392 
 
 Whitehead, 235 
 
 Waldron, 229-39 
 
 White- Lackington, 103 
 
 Walker, 205 
 
 WHITEWAY, 123 
 
 Wall, 147 
 
 Whiteway (Whvtwayc , 
 
 Walleis, 443 
 
 '57-59 
 
 Waller (Waller), 4, 167 
 
 Whitficld, 492-94 
 
 Walleran, 386 
 
 Whitleigh, 494 
 
 Walrond, 47, 48, 449-50- 
 
 WhitlocKt-, 220 
 
 5I-52-74 
 
 Whityng, 436 
 
 WALRONU, 447-48-53- 
 
 Wibery, 443 
 
 54-55 
 
 Wick, 485 
 
 Walsh, 251 
 
 Wickham, 416 
 
 Walter, 369 
 
 Wickloe, 306 
 
 Wandricke, 21 
 
 Wicote, 137 
 
 Ward, 97, 193-94, 240, 
 
 Widlake, 77 
 
 347 
 
 Wiet, 192 
 
 Ware (Weare), 38, 152- 
 
 Wiggington, 233 
 
 34-37-48-51, 227-93. 
 
 Wigoren, 375 
 
 414 
 
 Wigorn, 377 
 
 Warlewast, 395 
 
 Wigornia, 375-76-77-86- 
 
 Warr (Warre), 319, 452, 
 
 90, 420-85 
 
 ,54 
 
 Wilcocke (Wilcocks), 98, 
 
 NVarren (Warrene), 129- 
 
 197, 210-25 
 
 35-73-74-81, 329, 418- 
 
 William the Conqueror, 
 
 25-62 
 
 306-18-32-36-44-52-61- 
 
 Watts, IO, 309 
 
 94 - 99. 404- 1 1 -42-56- 
 
 Way (Waye), 74, 170. 
 
 57-58-97 
 
 242 
 
 William Rufus, 36, 99, 
 
 Waymouth (Weymouth), 
 
 425 
 
 51. 233 
 
 William III., 145, 203, 
 
 Waynworth, 168 
 
 398 
 
 Webb, 272 
 
 Williams, 5, 49, 58, 279, 
 
 Webber (Weber), 22, 54, 
 
 413 
 
 73, 75, 168-84-98, 200- 
 
 Willing, 25 
 
 46-75. 307 
 
 Willington (Wellington), 
 
 Wedcot, 143 
 
 260, 435 
 
 Weeks (Weekes), 199, 
 
 Willoughby, 451-54 
 
 215-77, 305-33-37-79- 
 
 Wills 86, 234. 455 
 
 86 
 
 Wilmott, 63 
 
 WEEKES, 383-84-85-86 
 
 Wilson, 92 
 
 Welby, 339 
 
 Wimball, 282 
 
 Weldon, 461 
 
 Wind ball, 277 
 
 Wclland, 13 
 
 Windham (Wyndham), 
 
 Wellesley, 416 
 
 251, 454 
 
 Wellington, 260 
 
 Winter, 43 
 
 Wells (Welles), 453-54- 
 
 Wis, 340 
 
 61-83 
 
 WISE (Wyse), 340-41-42- 
 
 Welsh (Welch), 254, 463- 
 
 43-54 
 
 64 
 
 Wise, 424 
 
 Wentworih, 46, 488 
 
 \\'i,ladf, 214 
 
 WERE, 218 
 
 Witefe 1, 492 
 
 Were, 147, 234 
 
 Wither, 153 
 
 West, 212, 14, 362 
 
 Witheridge, 262 
 
 Westcote (We'tcoti), 42, 
 
 Withers, 44, 231 
 
 47, 164-67, 405 
 
 Withiell, 116 
 
 West lake, 24 
 
 Wolacot (Wollacot), 66, 
 
 Weston, 140-41-54 
 
 3
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Wonstone, n 
 WOOD, 251-55 
 Wood, 43, 49, 172-81, 
 245 
 
 WOODLEY, 143 
 
 Woodley (Woodly), II, 
 12, 90, 175-83, 280 
 
 Woollcombe, 337, 499 
 
 Woollcott, 167 
 
 Woolmer, 50 
 
 Worcester (Earl of), 375 
 
 Worsley, 498 
 
 WORTH (Worthe, 
 Wourth), 21, 28, 45, 
 48, 52, 54, 102-19, 296, 
 431-33-34-35-36-37-38- 
 39-40-41 
 
 Worth (Worthe), 5, 44, 
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 Wylle, 301 
 
 Wymondesold, 498 
 WYNDEATT, 158 
 Wynn, 33, 171 
 Wyrescestrin, 386 
 Wyvell, 349 
 
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 Yealland, 264 
 Yeard, 59 
 Yelmacole, 61 
 Yeo, 263-64-65, 324-69- 
 
 84, 403-5 1 
 Yeoinge, 68 
 Yewman, 37 
 Yoning, 68 
 York (Duke of), 203 
 Yorke, 451 
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