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The landed gentry and nobility of Devonshire, like the rest of the English and European gentry, bore heraldic arms from the start of the age of heraldry circa 1200–1215. The fashion for the display of heraldry ceased about the end of the Victorian era (1901) by which time most of the ancient arms-bearing families of Devonshire had died out, moved away or parted with their landed estates.[1]
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In the 21st century, a very few ancient families remain in the county represented by direct male descendants, including Courtenay of Powderham, Fulford of Fulford, Kelly of Kelly, Cruwys of Cruwys Morchard, Clifford of Chudleigh, Acland of Killerton and Broadclyst, Wrey of Tawstock. A few ancient Devon estates are still owned by descendants via female lines, for example Castle Hill, Filleigh, Molland, Incledon, Braunton, Hall, Bishop's Tawton, Newnham Park. In most cases, the laws of English heraldry preclude the transmission of paternal arms via a female heiress (other than in the form of quartering), thus most of these inheritors via female lines bring their own paternal heraldry to the estates inherited.
For example, the Irish arms of Gore (Earl of Arran) are now associated with Castle Hill, Filleigh, until 1958 the seat of the last male representative of the Fortescue family, which originated in Devon in the 12th century. In a few cases, however, male heirs via female lines have been required by the legator to seek royal licence to adopt his own arms and surname, otherwise destined to disappearance, in lieu of the legatees own. This was the case with the families most notably of Rolle, Basset, Stucley, Walrond, etc.[citation needed]
The antiquary Sir William Pole (died 1635) compiled a list of blazons of Devon families. It was published with much other material in 1791 as Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon.[2]
List of Devon arms
editThe following armorials are listed in the Heraldic Visitations of Devon, 1531, 1564 & 1620:[3]
A
editName | Escutcheon | Blazon | Seat, parish |
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Abbott | Sable, a cross voided between four eagles displayed or | Hartland Abbey; Luffincott | |
Acland | Chequy argent and sable, a fesse gules | Acland Barton, Landkey; Holnicote, Somerset; Killerton, Devon; Fremington House, Fremington; Hawkridge, Chittlehampton; Combe, Goodleigh; Sprydon, Broadclyst | |
Adams | Or, a lion rampant between six crosses crosslet within a bordure engrailed sable | Townstal, Dartmouth; Bowden, Ashprington(?); (Charlton Adam, Ilchester, Somerset) | |
Addington | Per pale ermine and ermines, on a chevron between three fleurs-de-lys four lozenges all counterchanged | Leigh | |
Aleyn | Per bend rompu argent and sable, six martlets counterchanged | Bampton | |
Amadas | Azure, a chevron ermine between three oaken slips acorned proper | Plymouth | |
Amerideth | Gules, a lion rampant regardant or | Pole,[4] Slapton | |
Amory | Barry nebulé of six argent and gules, over all a bend azure | Whitechapel, Bishops Nympton | |
Arscott | Per chevron azure and ermine in chief two buck's heads cabossed or | Arscott, Holsworthy;[5] Dunsland, Bradford; Tetcott; Annery, Monkleigh | |
Ashe/Aysshe/Esse | Argent, two chevrons sable | Sowton, alias Clist Fomeson/Somson | |
Atwill | Argent, a chevron sable over all a pile counterchanged | Mamhead; Walkhampton | |
Ayre | Gules, on a bend between six crosses formée fitchée argent three mullets sable | Wotton, Atherington | |
Ayshford | Argent, between two chevrons sable three ashen keys vert | Ayshford, Burlescombe | |
Babington | Argent, ten torteaux in chief a label of three points azure | Ottery St Mary |
B
editName | Escutcheon | Blazon | Seat, parish |
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Badcocke | Sable, on a pale argent three cocks gules | Shebbear | |
Bagg | Lozengy argent and gules, on a chief or three cinquefoils azure | Plymouth; Saltram, Plympton St Mary | |
Ball | Argent, a chevron gules between three fire balls proper[a] | Mamhead | |
Bampfylde/Bampfield | Or, on a bend gules three mullets argent | Poltimore; North Molton; Warleigh, Tamerton Foliot; Bampfield House, Exeter | |
Barby | Argent, a chevron between three garbs or | Washfield | |
Barkley | Sable, a fess ermine between three cinquefoils argent[b] | Okenbury, Ringmore | |
Barry | Barry of six argent and gules | Winscott, St Giles in the Wood | |
Bartlett | Ermine, on a pale nebulée azure three sinister gloves pendent tasselated argent the whole between two flaunches of the second each charged with two crescents palewise of the third | Ludbrooke, Ermington | |
Basset | Barry wavy of six or and gules | Whitechapel, Bishops Nympton; Umberleigh; Heanton Punchardon; Watermouth Castle | |
Bastard | Or, a chevron azure | Efford, Egg Buckland; Garston, West Alvington; Kitley, Yealmpton; Sharpham, Ashprington; Lyneham, Yealmpton; Buckland Court, Buckland-in-the-Moor | |
Battishill | Azure, a cross-crosslet in saltire between four owls argent legged and beaked or | South Tawton; Drewsteignton; Spreyton | |
Beaple | Gules, a bend vairy between six escallops argent | Barnstaple; Knowstone; | |
Beaumont | Barry vair and gules | Youlston, Shirwell; Gittisham | |
Bellew | Sable fretty or | Stockleigh English; Ash, Braunton | |
Bellot | Argent, on a chief sable three cinquefoils of the field | Downton[c] | |
Bennett | Sable, a chevron engrailed erminois between three ears of wheat or | Whiteway, Chudleigh | |
Bere (alias Beare) | Argent, three bear's heads erased sable muzzled or | Huntsham; Morebath | |
Berry | Or, three bars gules | Berrynarbor | |
Beryman | Argent, a chevron between three horses trippant sable | Berrie, (Dunsford?) | |
Bidlake | Gules, a fess between three pigeons argent | Great Bidlake, Bridestowe | |
Bishop | Gules, three lozenges argent each charged with an eagle displayed of the field | "Coldash/Choldashe" | |
Blackall[d] | Paly of six or and sable on a chief gules three bezants | Cowick; Hampsted, Totnes | |
Blackmore | Or, on a fess sable between three Moor's heads in profile couped of the last as many crescents argent | Bishop's Nympton | |
Blagdon / Blackdon | Azure, three trefoils slipped argent on a chief indented gules two annulets or | Blackdon, Ashwater (?) | |
Blewett | Or, a chevron between three eagles displayed vert | Holcombe Rogus; (And in Somerset: Greenham Barton; Cothay Manor; Kittisford) | |
Bodley | Argent, five martlets saltirewise sable on a chief azure three ducal crowns or | Dunscombe, Crediton; Exeter | |
Bogan | Sable, a cockatrice (displayed) argent crested membered and jelloped gules | Totnes | |
Bolitho | Ermine, on a plain chevron between two chevronels engrailed and three fleurs-de-lys sable five bezants | Exeter; Holcombe Burnell | |
Bonville | Sable, six mullets argent pierced gules | Shute | |
Bourchier | Argent, a cross engrailed gules between four water bougets sable | Tawstock; Bampton | |
Bowerman | Ermine, on a bend cotised sable three boar's heads couped or | Culm Davy, Hemyock; Whitehall, Hemyock | |
Broughton | Argent, on a chevron between three crosses pommée sable as many buck's heads cabossed or on a chief of the second a goat passant of the first | Warbrightley (modern: Waspley), Stoodleigh[6] | |
Browne | Gules, a chevron ermine between two chevronells and three escallops or | Brown's Ilash,[7] Langtree | |
Bruton | Per pale gules and azure, a fess between two chevrons argent | Heavitree | |
Budockshed | Sable, three fusils in fess between three buck's faces argent | Budockshed, St Budeaux | |
Burgoyne | Azure, a hound passant argent | South Tawton | |
Burnard[e] | Argent, three escallops in bend between two bendlets azure in chief and in base a leopard's face jessant-de-lys of the last | Chatsworth Lodge, Compton Gifford | |
Burnby | Argent, two bars counter-embattled ermines | Burnby, Bratton Clovelly | |
Burrington | Argent, a lion rampant sable flory or | Idford, Chudleigh; Sandford | |
Bury | Ermine, on a bend engrailed azure three fleurs-de-lys or | Colleton, Chulmleigh | |
Butler[f] | Azure, three covered cups or | Parkham; Littleham |
C
editName | Escutcheon | Blazon | Seat, parish |
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Cabell | Vert fretty argent, over all a fess gules | Brook, Buckfastleigh | |
Cade | Argent, three piles in point wavy sable | Fremington; Barnstaple | |
Callard | Gyronny of six or and sable, three Moor's heads sidefaced couped proper wreathed round the temples (argent)[8] | Callard, Burrington (?);[g] Southcott House, Winkleigh | |
Calmady | Azure, a chevron between three pears or | Calmady, Penfound, Poundstock, Cornwall;Langdon, Wembury; Stoke Climsland, Cornwall; Leawood, Bridestowe; | |
Calwoodleigh | Azure, two wings conjoined argent over all on a fess gules three bezants | Calwoodleigh (mod:Calverleigh); Cove, Stoodleigh; Uplowman | |
Carew | Or, three lions passant sable | Crowcombe; Antony, Cornwall; Tiverton Castle; Haccombe; Bickleigh Castle; Mohuns Ottery | |
Carswell | Sable, a bend or | Carswell, Holbeton | |
Carwythan | Argent, a fleur-de-lys gules a bordure engrailed of the second | Panston, Sydenham Damerel; St Petrock, Exeter; Manaton; (Carwythan, Cornwall) | |
Cary | Argent, on a bend sable three roses of the field | Cary, St Giles on the Heath; Clovelly; Cockington; Torr Abbey | |
Champernowne | Gules, a saltire vair between twelve billets or | Modbury; Bere Ferrers; Dartington; Ilfracombe | |
Champneys | Argent, a lion rampant gules a bordure engrailed sable | Cockworthy,[h][9] | |
Chanon | Argent, on a chevron gules two couple closes or | Escot, Talaton | |
Chappell | Or, an anchor in pale sable | Barnstaple; Whitston | |
Charles | Ermine, on a chief wavy gules an eagle displayed or | Tavistock | |
Cheney | Gules, four fusils in fess argent on each an escallop sable | Pinhoe | |
Chichester | Chequy or and gules, a chief vair | Raleigh, Pilton; Eggesford; Hall, Bishop's Tawton; Pill, Bishop's Tawton; Arlington; Youlston, Shirwell; Widworthy; Ruxford, Sandford; Westcott, Marwood[10] Hearsdon, Swimbridge; Stowford, Swimbridge | |
Cholmeley | Gules, in chief two close helmets argent in base a garb or | Tiverton | |
Cholwill | Argent, on a bend sable three arrow shafts of the field heads and feathers or | Lutsford, Hartland | |
Chudleigh | Ermine, three lions rampant gules | Ashton; Haldon | |
Clapham[11] | Argent, on a bend azure six fleurs-de-lys or, two, two and two | Barnstaple; (Beamsley Hall,[i] Yorkshire) | |
Clement[j] | Argent, two bends wavy gules on a chief of the last three estoiles or | Plymouth | |
Clifford | Chequy or and azure a fess gules | Chudleigh; Kingsteignton. | |
Clobbery | Argent, a chevron between three bats displayed sable | Bradstone | |
Clotworthy | Azure, a chevron ermine between three chaplets or | Clotworthy, Wembworthy; Rashleigh, Wembworthy | |
Cockeram | Argent, on a bend sable three leopard's faces of the field | Hillersdon, Cullompton; Growen, Cullompton | |
Cockshead | Azure, a cinquefoil argent a chief lozengy of the second and gules | Chulmleigh | |
Coffin | Azure, three bezants between eight crosses crosslet or | Portledge, Alwington; Monkleigh; Inwardleigh | |
Cogan | Gules, three (mulbery) leaves argent[k] | Bampton | |
Cole | Argent, a bull passant sable armed or a bordure of the second bezantée | Nethway, Brixham; Slade, Cornwood; Bucks, Woolfardisworthy | |
Collamore | Gules billetée or, three crescents of the second | Saunton, Braunton | |
Colleton | Or, three stag's heads couped proper[12] | Exeter | |
Collins | Azure, three torches or enflamed proper | Ottery St Mary; Offwell | |
Colman | Per fess argent and sable, a cross flory between four mullets all counterchanged | Gornhay, Tiverton | |
Cooke | Ermine, on a bend cotised gules three cats-a-mountain passant guardant or | Thorne, Ottery St Mary | |
Coplestone | Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three leopard's faces azure | Copplestone, Colebrooke; Warleigh, Tamerton Foliot; Eggesford | |
Coram | Argent, a cross sable between four eagles displayed gules | Ottery St Mary | |
Cory | Argent, a saltire sable on a chief azure three cinquefoils or | Cory, West Putford | |
Cottell | Or, a bend gules | Yealmbridge, Yealmpton; Sampford Peverell;[13] Cottles Barton, North Tawton | |
Cotton | Argent, a bend sable between three pellets | Bishop's Palace, Exeter; Shobrooke; Silverton | |
Courtenay | Or, three torteaux | Okehampton Castle; Tiverton Castle; Powderham; Molland; Colcombe, Colyton; Upcott, Cheriton Fitzpaine; Moreton Hampstead[14] | |
Croker | Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three crows proper | Croker's Hele, Meeth; Lyneham, Yealmpton | |
Crossing | Or, on a chevron azure between three crosses crosslet fitchée gules as many bezants | Exeter | |
Cruwys | Azure, a bend per bend indented argent and gules between six escallops or | Cruwys Morchard | |
Crymes / Grymes | Or, three bars gules each charged with as many martlets of the field on a chief azure two bars nebulée argent | Crapstone,[15] Buckland Monachorum; Meavy | |
Cudmore | Argent, a fess nebulee gules between three eagles displayed sable armed of the second | Templeton | |
Culme | Azure, a chevron ermine between 3 pelicans vulning their breasts or | Molland Champson; Canonsleigh Abbey | |
Cutcliffe | Gules, three pruning hooks argent | Damage, Mortehoe; Weach, Westleigh; Webbery, Alverdiscott; Coombe, Witheridge[16] |
D
editName | Escutcheon | Blazon | Seat, parish |
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Davie (Bardolph arms) | Azure, three cinquefoils or on a chief of the last a lion passant gules | Creedy, Sandford; Canonteign, Christow; Ruxford, Sandford; | |
Davie (de Way arms) (see also Davy of Ebberly below) | Argent, a chevron sable between three mullets pierced gules | Way, St Giles in the Wood; Creedy, Sandford; Canonteign, Christow; Ruxford, Sandford; | |
Daviles | Argent, a chevron embattled erminois between three fleurs-de-lys azure | Marland, Petrockstowe[l] | |
Davy alias Dewy (de Way arms) (see also Davie of Creedy above) | Argent, two chevronells sable between three mullets gules | Way, St Giles in the Wood; Ebberly, Roborough; "Beauford"[17] (Beaford); Owlacombe, Roborough; | |
Delves | Argent, a chevron gules fretty or between three delves sable (a "delve" being a "sod of turf") | Crediton | |
Dene | Argent, a lion rampant purpure | Newton St Petrock | |
Denys/Dennis | Ermine, three battle-axes gules | Holcombe Burnell; Bicton | |
Denys/Dennis | Azure, three Danish battle axes erect or | Orleigh | |
Diamond | Gules, three fusils conjoined in fess argent over all a fess gules (sic) | Tiverton | |
Dillon | Argent, a lion rampant between three crescents an estoile issuant from each gules over all a fess azure[m] | Chymwell, Bratton Fleming; Hart, Heanton Punchardon | |
Docton | Per fess gules and argent, two crescents in chief or another in base sable | Docton, Hartland | |
Downe | Gules, a buck's head cabossed ermine attired or | Tushill,[18] Pilton | |
Dowrish | Argent, a bend cotised sable a bordure engrailed of the last | Dowrish, Sandford | |
Drake | Argent, a wyvern wings displayed and tail nowed gules | Ash, Musbury; Mount Drake, Musbury | |
Drake | Sable, a fess wavy between two estoiles argent | Buckland Abbey, Buckland Monachorum; Nutwell, Woodbury | |
Drewe | Ermine, a lion passant gules | Sharpham, Ashprington; Killerton, Broadclyst; The Grange, Broadhembury | |
Duck | Or, on a fess wavy sable three lozenges of the field | Heavitree, Exeter; Mount Radford, Exeter | |
Duke | Per fesse argent and azure, three chaplets counterchanged | Otterton | |
Dyer[n] | Or, a chief indented gules a mullet for difference | Yarde, Malborough | |
Dynham | Gules, four fusils in fess a bordure ermine | Wortham, Lifton |
E
editName | Escutcheon | Blazon | Seat, parish |
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Edgcumbe | Gules, on a bend ermines cotised or three boar's heads couped argent | Edgcumbe, Milton Abbot; Tavistock; Ottery, Lamerton (Mount Edgcumbe, Cornwall; Cotehele, Cornwall) | |
Edmonds | Or, a chevron azure on a canton of the second a boar's head couped between three fleurs-de-lys of the first | Plymouth | |
Edwards | Per bend sinister ermine and ermines, a lion rampant or | St Mary Major, Exeter | |
Elford | Per pale argent and azure, a lion rampant gules | Sheepstor, Yelverton | |
Eliot | Azure, a fess or | Tavistock | |
Ellacott | Lozengy or and azure, a bordure gules | Milbury;[o] Exeter, St Petrock's | |
Ellyot | Argent, a fess gules between two bars gemelles wavy azure | Farringdon | |
English | Sable, three lioncels rampant argent | Stockleigh English | |
Eveleigh | Per pale or and sable, two chevronels between three griffins passant counterchanged | Holcombe, Ottery St Mary |
F
editName | Escutcheon | Blazon | Seat, parish |
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Farringdon | Sable, three unicorns courant in pale argent armed and crined or[p] | Little Farringdon,[19] Farringdon | |
Fenner / Venner | Azure, on a cross argent between four eagles displayed or a cross formée sable | Rose Ash | |
Fitz | Argent guttée de sang, a cross engrailed gules | Fitz-Ford, Tavistock | |
Flay[q] | Ermine, on a pale azure three birds argent | Charlton, Payhembury | |
Floyer | Sable, a chevron between three arrows points downward argent | Floyer Hayes | |
Ford | Party per fesse or and sable, in chief a greyhound courant in base an owl within a bordure engrailed all counter-changed | Nutwell; Chagford; Ashburton; Bagtor, Ilsington | |
Ford | Gules, a castle argent crowned or on the port a cross formée of the third | Ford's Moore (modern: "Fordmore"), Plymtree | |
Fortescue | Azure, a bend engrailed argent cotised or | Whympston, Modbury; Castle Hill, Filleigh; Weare Giffard; Fallapit, East Allington; Buckland Filleigh; Preston, Devon; Wood, Woodleigh; Spridleston, Brixton; | |
Fountayne | Argent, three bars gemelles gules on a canton azure a lion passant guardant or | Bawcombe | |
Fowell | Argent, a chevron sable on a chief gules three mullets pierced of the first | Fowelscombe, Ugborough; Black Hall, North Huish[20] | |
Fownes | Azure, two eagles displayed in chief and a mullet in base argent | Plymouth; Whitleigh, St Budeaux; Kittery Court, Kingswear; Nethway, Brixham; (Dunster Castle, Somerset) | |
Fry | Gules, three horses courant in pale argent | Yarty, Membury; Fry's Hele,[r] Meeth; Buckerell | |
Fulford | Gules, a chevron argent | Great Fulford, Dunsford | |
Furlong | Argent, two bars between eight martlets sable | Tamerton Foliot; Bawcombe, Ugborough | |
Fursdon | Argent, a chevron azure between three fireballs sable fired proper | Fursdon, Cadbury; | |
Furse | Gules, a chevron embattled counter-embattled between six halberds in pairs saltire-wise or | Morshead, (Dean Prior (?)[s]) | |
Fursland | Or, a lion rampant sable between three crosses pattée gules | Bickington |
G
editName | Escutcheon | Blazon | Seat, parish |
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Gale | Azure, a fesse argent fretty of the field | Crediton | |
Garland | Or, three pales gules on a chief per pale gules and sable a chaplet and a demi-lion issuant argent | Whitfield, Marwood[21] | |
Gay | Or, a chevron between three escallops azure | Goldworthy, Parkham; Frithelstock | |
Geere | Gules, two bars or each charged with three mascles azure on a canton of the second a leopard's face of the third | Heavitree; Holloway,[22] Kenn | |
Giffard | Sable, three fusils conjoined in fesse ermine | Brightley, Chittlehampton; Tiverton Castle; Halsbury, Parkham | |
Gilbert | Argent, on a chevron gules three roses of the field[t] | Compton, Marldon; Sandridge, Stoke Gabriel; Greenway, Churston Ferrers; Bovey Tracey; (Bodmin Priory, Cornwall) | |
Giles | Per chevron argent and azure, a lion rampant counterchanged collared or | Bowden, Ashprington; Sharpham, Ashprington; Dean Court, Dean Prior | |
Glanville | Azure, three saltires or | Holwell; Kilworthy, Tavistock | |
Godwyn/Goodwyn | Or, on a fess between six lion's heads erased gules an annulet of the field | Clistwill, Plymtree; Torrington | |
Goodridge | Argent, a fess sable in chief three cross crosslets fitchée of the last | Totnes | |
Gould | Per saltire azure and or a lion rampant counterchanged | Downes, Crediton; Floyer Hayes; Lew Trenchard | |
Gourney | Argent, a cross engrailed gules in the first quarter a cinquefoil vert | Townstal; Dartmouth | |
Gove | Azure, a cross lozengy (argent and sable?) between four eagles displayed sable | Woodbury | |
Greenwood | Paly of six argent and sable, on a bend gules three escallops or | Torrington | |
Grylls | Or, three bendlets enhanced gules | Tavistock |
H
editName | Escutcheon | Blazon | Seat, parish |
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Hakewill | Or, a bend between six trefoils slipped purpure | Exeter | |
Hals | Argent, a fess between three griffin's heads erased sable | Kenedon, Sherford; Efford, Egg Buckland | |
Hamlyn | Gules, a lion rampant ermine crowned or | Widecombe; Buckfastleigh; Woolfardisworthy; Clovelly | |
Hancock | Gules, on a chief argent three cocks of the field | Combe Martin; Mount Radford, Exeter | |
Harewood[u] | Sable, on a chief argent three hart's heads erased of the field | South Molton | |
Harlewyn | Azure, a fess argent in base three apples of the last | Sidmouth | |
Harper | Argent, a lion rampant a bordure engrailed sable a crescent for difference | Berry Narbor; (Swarkestone Hall, Derbyshire) | |
Harris (of Radford) | Sable, three crescents argent | Radford, Plymstock | |
Harris (of Hayne) | Sable, three crescents argent a bordure of the last | Hayne, Stowford | |
Harris (of Cornworthy) | Sable, an antelope salient argent armed and crined or | Cornworthy Priory, Cornworthy | |
Harvey | Gules, on a bend argent three trefoils slipped vert | Aylesbeare | |
Hatch | Gules, two demi-lions passant guardant in pale or | Hatch/Hacche, South Molton; Aller, South Molton; Woolleigh, Beaford | |
Haydon | Argent, three bars gemels azure on a chief gules a fess dansettée or | Cadhay, Ottery St Mary; Ebford, Woodbury | |
Hele | Gules, five fusils in bend argent on each an ermine spot[23] | Hele, Cornwood; Flete, Holbeton; Wembury | |
Helman | Vert, a chevron argent guttée de sang between three pheons or | Furland | |
Hext | Or, a tower triple-turreted between three battle axes sable | Kingston; Kingston, Staverton (?)[v] | |
Hill | Argent, a chevron between three water bougets sable | Shilston, Modbury[w] | |
Hill | Gules, a chevron ermine between three garbs or | Plymouth; Cotleigh | |
Hillersdon | Argent, on a chevron sable three bull's heads cabossed of the field | Hillersdon, Cullompton; Membland, Holbeton | |
Hockmore | Per chevron sable and or, in chief two pairs of reaping hooks endorsed and entwined blades azure handles of the second in base a moorcock of the first combed and wattled gules | Buckland Baron, Combe-in-Teignhead[x] | |
Hody | Argent, a fess per fess indented vert and sable between two cotises counterchanged of the fess[24] | Nethway,[25] Brixham; (Pilsdon, Dorset)[y] | |
Holbeame | Argent, a chevron enarched sable | Holbeame, West Ogwell; Bawcombe, Ugborough(?) | |
Holland[z] | Azure semée-de-lys argent, a lion rampant of the second | Countess Wear; Upcott, Sheepwash | |
Holway of Waton[aa] | Sable, two swords in saltire hilts and pommels in chief the dexter surmounted by the sinister | Waton (alias Wadeton, Wayton, etc.), Stoke Gabriel[26] | |
Hooker alias Vowell | Or, a fess vair between two lions passant guardant sable | St Mary Major, Exeter | |
Hore | Sable, an eagle double-headed displayed argent a bordure engrailed of the last | Chagford | |
Howper/Hooper | Gyronny of eight or and ermine, over all a castle triple-towered sable | Musbury; Fullabrook, Braunton; Raleigh, Pilton | |
Howpill | Argent, on a pale gules three lion's faces or | Exeter, St Mary Arches (?) | |
Hunkin | Argent, a mascle sable over all a fess of the last | Gatherleigh, Lifton | |
Hunt[ab] | Azure, on a bend between two water bougets or three leopard's faces gules | Hams, Chudleigh[ac] |
I
editName | Escutcheon | Blazon | Seat, parish |
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Incledon | Argent, a chevron engrailed between three tuns sable fire issuing from the bung hole proper | Incledon, Braunton; Buckland, Braunton; Colleton, Chulmleigh; Pilton House, Pilton; Yeotown, Goodleigh | |
Inglett | Sable, a bend argent between three escallops or | Alwington; Lamerton | |
Isack | Per pale azure and purpure, a cross flory or between four lambs argent[27] | Boreat, Atherington |
J
editName | Escutcheon | Blazon | Seat, parish |
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Jarvys | Argent, six ostrich feathers sable, three, two and one | Stralling[ad] | |
Jewell | Or, on a chevron azure between three gillyflowers gules stalked and leaved vert a maiden's head of the first ducally crowned of the third on a chief sable a hawk's lure double stringed between two falcons argent beaked and legged of the first | Bowden, Berry Narbor |
K
editName | Escutcheon | Blazon | Seat, parish |
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Kellond | Sable, a fess argent in chief three fleurs-de-lys of the last | Painsford, Ashprington | |
Kelloway | Argent, two grozing irons in saltire sable between four Kelway pears proper[ae] | Stowford/Stafford, Dolton | |
Kelly | Argent, a chevron between three billets gules | Kelly | |
Kendall | Argent, a chevron between three dolphins naiant embowed sable | Kingsbridge; Cofton, nr. Dawlish | |
Kirkham | Argent, three lions rampant gules a bordure engrailed sable | Blagdon, Paignton; Bidwell, Newton St Cyres[28] | |
Knapman | Or, on a cross gules between four Cornish choughs proper five blocks of tin marked with the letter W | Wonson,[af] Throwleigh |
L
editName | Escutcheon | Blazon | Seat, parish |
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Land | Gyronny of eight or and sable a bend gules | Silverton | |
Langford | Paly of six argent and gules, on a chief of the first a lion passant sable | Bratton Clovelly | |
Lante[ag] | Per pale argent and gules, a cross engrailed counterchanged | Exeter | |
Larder | Argent, three piles sable each charged with as many bezants | Upton Pyne | |
Leach | Ermine, on a chief engrailed gules three ducal coronets or | Cadeleigh; All Hallows, Goldsmith Street, Exeter | |
Lee[ah] | Azure, on a fess cotised or three leopard's faces of the field | Pinhoe; Totnes | |
Leigh | Argent, a lion rampant gules on a sinister canton azure an escallop or | Borough, Northam | |
Leigh | Argent, two bars azure over all a bend compony or and gules | Rudge,[29] Morchard Bishop | |
Lippingcott | Per fess embattled gules and sable, three leopards passant argent | Luffincott/Lippingcott;[30] Wibbery, Alverdiscott | |
Longe[ai] | Sable semée of crosses pattée, a lion rampant argent | North Molton | |
Lowman | Argent, three escutcheons sable each charged with a dexter gauntlet back affrontée or | Whitestone; Netherton, Farway[31] | |
Luscombe | Argent, on a pile azure a lion rampant guardant crowned or | Luscombe, Rattery | |
Lutton | Vert, an eagle displayed with two heads within an orle of trefoils or | Cofford, Kenton | |
Luttrell | Or, a bend between six martlets sable | Hartland Abbey; Saunton; (Dunster Castle, Somerset) | |
Lynn | Gules, a demi-lion rampant argent a bordure sable bezantée | Exeter |
M
editName | Escutcheon | Blazon | Seat, parish | |
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Mainwaring | Argent, two bars gules within a bordure gobony or and sable | Exeter | ||
Mallet | Azure, three escallops or[32] | Ash, Iddesleigh; Curry Mallet; Woolleigh, Beaford; Deandon and St Audries; Widdecombe; Hatch, South Molton; West Quantoxhead; | ||
Mallock | Per chevron engrailed or and sable, on three roundels three fleurs-de-lys all counterchanged | Cockington | ||
Mapowder | Barry gules and argent, on the chief of the second a greyhound courant sable | Holsworthy | ||
Martyn | Argent, two bars gules[33] | Feudal barony of Barnstaple; Oxton, Kenton; Lindridge; (Athelhampton, Dorset). | ||
Martyn[aj] | Argent, on two bars gules three crosses formée or | Broad Hempston | ||
Marwood | Gules, a chevron between three goat's heads erased ermine attired or | Westcot,[34] Marwood | ||
Maynard | Argent, three sinister hands couped at the wrist gules | Sherford, Brixton | ||
Menyfie | Vert, on a chevron between three martlets argent as many eagles displayed of the first | Collumpton; Harberton | ||
Milford | Argent, three oak leaves in pale all proper | Wickington, South Tawton | ||
Minshull | Azure, an estoile of six points issuing from a crescent argent | Exeter | ||
Molford | Sable, a fess ermine between three swans argent | South Molton | ||
Mohun | Or, a cross engrailed sable | Tavistock; Mohuns Ottery, Luppitt; Tor Mohun (Dunster Castle, Somerset; Hall, Lanteglos-by-Fowey, Cornwall; Boconnoc, Cornwall) | ||
Monck | Gules, a chevron between three lion's heads erased argent | Potheridge, Merton | ||
Moore | Argent, a chevron between three moorcocks sable crested gules[35] | Moore, "near Tavistock";[36] Broadwoodwidger; Upcott, Cheriton Fitzpaine | ||
Moore | Ermine, on a chevron azure three cinquefoils or | Moor Hayes, Cullompton | ||
More | Sable, three garbs argent a bordure gobony or and gules | Broadclyst | ||
Moulton | Per pale argent and ermine three bars gules | Cullompton |
N
editName | Escutcheon | Blazon | Seat, parish |
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Newcombe | Argent, a fess embattled between two escallops in pale sable | Great Worthy, Drewsteignton; Easton, South Teign, Drewsteignton?;[37] Exeter, St David's; Starcross, Kenton | |
Newcourt | Sable, a bend ermine between two eagles with two heads displayed or | Pickwell, Georgeham | |
Newton[ak] | Vert, two shinbones in saltire the sinister surmounted by the dexter argent | Crabadon, Diptford | |
Noble | Or, two lions passant guardant in pale azure between as many flaunches of the last on a fess gules three bezants | Bishop's Tawton | |
Northcote | Argent, three cross-crosslets in bend sable | Northcote, East Down; Newton St Cyres; Pynes, Upton Pyne | |
Northleigh | Argent, a chevron sable between three roses gules | Northleigh, Inwardleigh; Peamore, Exminster; Matford, Alphington | |
Northmore | Gules, a lion rampant or armed and langued azure crowned with an eastern crown argent | Cleve, St Thomas, Exeter; Well, South Tawton | |
Nutcombe | Or, a fess embattled between two escallops gules | Nutcombe, Clayhanger[al] |
O
editName | Escutcheon | Blazon | Seat, parish |
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Osmond | Sable, a fess dancettée ermine in chief an eagle displayed or | Stagmill, Uplowman; Exeter |
P
editName | Escutcheon | Blazon | Seat, parish |
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Parker | Sable, a stag's head cabossed between two flaunches argent | North Molton; Boringdon; Saltram; Whiteway, Chudleigh | |
Passmore[38] | Or, a fess between three escutcheons gules on each a bend vair between two cinquefoils of the first all within a bordure azure bezantée[am] | Passmore Hayes, Tiverton;[an] Sutton, Halberton;[39] Grilstone, Bishop's Nympton; (Withyshaw, Merstham, Surrey[40]) | |
Pearse | Argent, two bars sable between six estoiles gules 3, 2 and 1 | Blackmore, Plympton St Mary | |
Perry | Quarterly gules and or, on a bend argent three lions passant azure | Water (mod: Waterhouse), Membury | |
Petre | Gules, on a bend or between two escallops argent a Cornish chough proper between two cinquefoils azure | Bowhay, Dunchideock; Tor Newton, Tor Bryan, (and Ingatestone Hall, Essex). | |
Phillips | Or, on a chevron engrailed sable three eagle's heads erased argent | Alverdiscott | |
Pincombe | Per pale gules and azure, three close helmets argent garnished or | South Molton; North Molton; Filleigh; East Buckland | |
Plumleigh[ao] | (Argent?), a bend fusily gules | Dartmouth | |
Pointington | Argent, a bend gules between six fleurs-de-lys vert | Penicott, Shobrooke | |
Pole | Azure semée of fleurs de lis or, a lion rampant argent | Shute; Colcombe Castle | |
Pollard | Argent, a chevron sable between three escallops gules | Way, St Giles in the Wood; Grilstone, Bishop's Nympton; King's Nympton; Langley, Yarnscombe; Abbots Bickington; Horwood | |
Pollard (de Way arms)[ap] | Argent, a chevron sable between three mullets pierced gules | Way, St Giles in the Wood; Grilstone, Bishop's Nympton; King's Nympton; Langley, Yarnscombe; Abbots Bickington; Horwood; Ford Abbey, Thorncombe; Knowstone | |
Pollexfen | Quarterly argent and azure, in the 1 and 4 quarter a lion rampant gules | Kitley, Yealmpton; Mothecombe, Holbeton; Caleston, Holbeton; Nutwell, Woodbury; Wembury | |
Pomeroy | Or, a lion rampant gardant gules armed and langued azure within a bordure engrailed sable | Berry Pomeroy Castle; Bowden, Ashprington; Sandridge, Stoke Gabriel; Beenleigh,[aq] Harberton Ford, Harberton | |
Popham | Argent, on a chief gules two stag's heads cabosed or | Lynton; (Huntworth in Somerset; Popham in Hampshire; Littlecote in Wiltshire) | |
Pote | Azure, a chevron engrailed cotised argent between three doves of the second | Clawton | |
Potter[ar] | Sable, a fess ermine between three cinquefoils argent[as] | Iddesleigh | |
Preston[at] | Argent, two bars gules on a canton of the last a cinquefoil or | Upottery | |
Prestwood | Sable, a lion rampant between two flaunches or | Exeter | |
Prideaux | Argent, a chevron sable in chief a label of three points gules | Orcheton, Modbury; Adeston, Holbeton; Thuborough, Sutcombe; Soldon, Holsworthy; Netherton, Farway; Ashburton; Nutwell, Woodbury; Ford Abbey, Thorncombe; (also Prideaux Place, Padstow and Prideaux Castle, Luxulyan, Cornwall) | |
Prouse | Sable, three lions rampant argent | Gidleigh Castle; Chagford; Lustleigh; Barnstaple; Tiverton | |
Prouse[au] | Ermine, three lions rampant argent | Exeter | |
Prust | Gules, on a chief argent two estoiles sable | Thorry, Hartland; Gorven, Hartland; Annery, Monkleigh | |
Prye | Ermine, a chevron sable a chief azure fretty or[av] | Horwell, Colebrooke | |
Pyne[aw] | Gules, a chevron ermine between three pine apples or | East Down; Portledge, Alwington |
Q
editName | Escutcheon | Blazon | Seat, parish |
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Quicke | Sable, a chevron vaire or and of the first between three griffin's heads erased of the second | Newton House, Newton St Cyres; Sherwood,[ax] Newton St Cyres |
R
editName | Escutcheon | Blazon | Seat, parish |
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Radford | Sable, three lampagoes passant coward in pale argent | Upcott, Cheriton Fitzpaine; Okeford; Rockbeare | |
Raleigh | Gules crusilly or, a bend vair or Gules, a bend vair between six cross-crosslets or | Raleigh, Pilton | |
Raleigh | Gules, five fusils conjoined in bend argent[ay] | Fardel, Cornwood; Colaton Raleigh;[41] Smallridge, Axminster;[42] (Nettlecombe Raleigh, Somerset) | |
Randall | Sable, three demi-lions rampant erased argent | Kentisbury | |
Rede | Gules, on a bend nebulée argent three shovelers sable | Wembury | |
Reynell | Argent, masonry sable a chief indented of the second | Forde, Wolborough; East Ogwell | |
Rider | Azure, three crescents or | Bere Ferrers | |
Ridgeway | Sable, a pair of wings conjoined and elevated argent | Tor Mohun; Abbots Carswell | |
Risdon | Argent, three birdbolts sable | Winscott, St Giles in the Wood; Bableigh, Parkham | |
Roache | Azure, three roaches naiant in pale argent | Welcombe[az] | |
Rolle | Or, on a fesse dancette between three billets azure each charged with a lion rampant of the first three bezants | Stevenstone, St Giles in the Wood; Bicton; Hudscott, Chittlehampton; Beam, Great Torrington; Heanton Satchville, Petrockstowe; Buckfast Place, Cathedral Close, St Martin's, Exeter[ba] | |
Roope | Argent, a lion rampant per fess gules and vert between seven pheons azure | Horswell, South Milton; East Allington; Bidwell, Newton St Cyres[43] | |
Roope[bb] | Argent, a lion rampant gules an orle of nine pheons azure | Townstal | |
Rowcliffe | Argent, on a chevron between three lion's heads erased gules a chess-rook or | Yarnscombe | |
Rowe | Gules, three paschal lambs or staff cross and banners argent | Lamerton | |
Rowe | Argent, on a chevron azure between three trefoils slipped per pale gules and vert three bezants | Kingston, Staverton; Bearton, Broad Hempston[44] |
S
editName | Escutcheon | Blazon | Seat, parish |
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Sainthill | Or, on a fess engrailed azure between three leopard's faces gules three bezants each charged with a fleur-de-lys of the second on a pile in chief of the second three demi-fleurs-de-lys attached to the top and sides of the first | Bradninch | |
Salisbury | Gules, a lion rampant crowned or between three crescents argent | Barnstaple | |
Sanford | Argent, a chevron between three martlets sable | Exeter | |
Savery | Gules, a fess vair between three unicorn's heads couped or | Shilston, Modbury; Willing, Rattery; Slade, Cornwood | |
Searle | Gules, on a chevron between three trefoils argent as many pellets | "Gotford in the parish of Holford in the hundred of Hemiock";[bc] Awliscombe | |
Seccombe alias Thorne[bd] | Argent, a fess gules between three lions rampant sable a bordure engrailed of the last a crescent for difference | Weston, North Petherwin; Webworthy, North Petherwin | |
Segar | Azure, a cross moline argent[45] | Highweek | |
Servington | Ermine, on a chief azure three buck's heads cabossed or | Tavistock; (Longford, Wiltshire) | |
Seward | Gules, on a fess or between two chevrons ermine three leopard's faces azure | Stoke-in-Teignhead | |
Seymour | Gules, two wings conjoined in lure or | Berry Pomeroy; Stover, Teigngrace; | |
Shapcott | Sable, (a chevron or[be] between) three dovecotes argent | Shapcott, Knowstone | |
Shapleigh[bf] | Vert, a chevron argent betyeen three escallops or | Totnes; Dartmouth | |
Sharpe[bg] | Argent, three falcon's heads erased sable a bordure engrailed azure | Tiverton | |
Sherman | Or, a lion rampant sable between three holly leaves vert | Knightstone,[46] Ottery St Mary | |
Shorte | Gules, a griffin segreant or a chief ermine | Newton St Cyres | |
Simonds | Per fess dancetée gules and argent, a pale counterchanged three trefoils one and two slipped of the first | Exeter | |
Skerrit | Or, a chief indented sable | Whitchurch | |
Skinner | Argent, a chief azure semée-de-lys of the first | Cowley | |
Slader | Gules, a chevron ermine between three horse's heads erased argent | Bath, North Tawton | |
Slanning | Argent, two pales engrailed gules over all on a bend azure three griffin's heads or | Ley, Plympton St Mary;[bh] Bickleigh (South Hams); Maristow, Tamerton Foliot | |
Slowley | Gules, a chevron between three bats displayed or | Sloley, Shirwell; Fremington | |
Smith (of Exeter) | Sable, a fess cotised between three martlets or[bi] | Madworthy, nr. Exeter; Madford House, Exeter; Larkbeare, Exeter | |
Smith (of Dartmouth) | Barry undé of sixteen argent and azure on a chief gules three barnacles or[bj] | Dartmouth; Totnes | |
Snelling | Argent, three griffin's heads erased gules a chief ermine | Chadlewood, Plympton St Mary | |
Somaster | Argent, a castle triple-towered within an orle of fleurs-de-lys sable | Painsford, Ashprington; Nether Exe | |
Southcott | Argent, a chevron gules between three coots sable | Indio, Bovey Tracey; Mohuns Ottery; Calverleigh; Shillingford; Buckland-Tout-Saints | |
Southcott | Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three coots sable | Milton Abbot; Calstock, Cornwall; Callington, Cornwall; | |
Southmeade | Per fess wavy gules and ermine, an eagle displayed in chief or | Wray, Moreton Hampstead[47] | |
Sparke | Chequy or and vert, a bend ermine | The Friary (Whitefriar's Priory), St Jude, Plymouth | |
Speccot | Or, on a bend gules three millrinds argent | Speccot, Merton; Thornbury; (Penheale, Cornwall) | |
Spicer | Per pale gules and sable, three castles in bend or cotised within a bordure engrailed ermine | Exeter | |
Spurway | Argent, on a bend azure a spur-rowel or between two garbs of the first | Spurway, Oakford | |
Stafford (Kelloway)[bk] | Argent, two grozing irons in saltire sable between four Kelway pears proper[bl] | Dowland; Pynes, Upton Pyne | |
Staplehill | Argent, a chevron sable | Dartmouth; Bremells, Trusham | |
Staveley | Argent, on a chevron between three lozenges azure as many buck's heads cabossed of the first | East Buckland | |
Stretchleigh | Or, on a chevron azure three cinquefoils of the field | Stretchleigh (now "Strashleigh"), Ermington[bm] | |
Strobridge | Or, over water proper on a bridge of three arches gules a tower of the last and a pennon hoisted thereon | Howber Hayne & Street Hayne, Colyton;[48] Modbury | |
Strode | Argent, a chevron between three conies courant sable | Old Newnham and Newnham Park, Plympton St Mary | |
Stucley | Azure, three pears or | Affeton Castle; Hartland Abbey; Daddon/Moreton House | |
Sture | Argent, a bend sable in chief a pile of three points gules | North Huish |
T
editName | Escutcheon | Blazon | Seat, parish |
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Tawley | Argent, a chevron azure between three lozenges sable | Marldon; (Guildford, Surrey) | |
Thorne (see also "Seccombe alias Thorne" above) | Argent, a fess gules between three lions rampant sable | Thorne, Holsworthy;[49] Thorne, Ottery St Mary; Upcott, Sheepwash | |
Tilley | Argent, a wyvern wings endorsed sable charged on the breast with an annulet or for difference | Upottery | |
Tothill | Azure, on a bend argent cotised or a lion passant sable | Peamore, Exminster; City of Exeter | |
Tremayne | Gules, three dexter arms conjoined at the shoulders and flexed in triangle or the fists clenched proper[50] | Collacombe, Lamerton; Sydenham, Marystow | |
Trevelyan | Gules, the base barry wavy argent and azure a demi-horse issuant of the second maned and hoofed or | Yarnscombe; (Nettlecombe, Somerset) | |
Tristram | Argent, three torteaux a label of three points azure a chief gules | Duvale & Castle Grove, Bampton | |
Trobridge | Or, over water proper a bridge triple-towered gules[51] | Trobridge, Crediton | |
Trosse | Gules, three cutlasses barways in pale argent the handles or | Exwick | |
Turberville | Argent, a lion rampant gules crowned or | Sampford Peverell; South Molton; (Bere Somerset; Coity Castle, Glamorgan;) | |
Turner | Sable, a chevron ermine between three fers-de-moline or on a chief argent a lion passant gules | Halberton | |
Twiggs[bn] | Azure, three bendlets or on a chief argent a bar dancettée gules | Werrington |
U
editName | Escutcheon | Blazon | Seat, parish |
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Upton | Sable, a cross moline argent[bo] | Puslinch, Newton Ferrers;[52] Lupton, Brixham |
V
editName | Escutcheon | Blazon | Seat, parish |
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Velly[bp] | Argent, a chevron between three castles or | Higher Velly, Hartland; Galsham, Hartland;[53] | |
Venner | Gules, three bends or a chief per fess ermine and argent[54] | Hudscott, Chittlehampton | |
Voysey | Or, a cross sable in the first quarter a crescent of the last a bordure gules | Townstal (Dartmouth) |
W
editName | Escutcheon | Blazon | Seat, parish |
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Waddon | Argent, a lion rampant gules debruised with a bend sable charged with three cross crosslets fitchée of the field | Plymouth | |
Wadham | Gules, a chevron between three roses argent | Edge, Branscombe; Wadham, Knowstone; (Merryfield, Ilton; Somerset) | |
Wakeman[bq] | Argent, on a cross sable a ducal coronet or encircled with clouds proper rayonée or | Bere Ferrers; Charleton | |
Wakeman | Vert, a saltire wavy ermine | Exeter | |
Walrond | Argent, three bull's heads cabossed sable armed or | Bradfield, Uffculme; Bovey House, Beer | |
Walter | Azure, a griffin segreant or a bordure ermine | Ashbury | |
Waltham[br] | Sable, a chevron between three suns in glory argent | Trehill, Kenn; Exeter | |
Waye | Gules, a chevron or between three lucies hauriant argent | Torrington; Marsh,[bs] Newton St Cyres[bt] | |
Weare/Treawin[bu] | Argent, on a bend vert between six crosses crosslet fitchée gules three crosiers or | Clyst Honiton | |
Webbe | Or, a plain cross sable in the first quarter an eagle displayed of the second | St Petrock, Exeter; St Mary Major, Exeter | |
Webber | Gules, on a chevron engrailed argent between three plates three annulets of the first | Incledon, Braunton; Buckland, Braunton | |
Westcott | Argent, a bend cotised sable a bordure gules bezantée | Raddon, Shobrooke | |
Weston | Argent, on a chevron sable three leopard's faces or | Heath Hayne,[55] Colyton | |
Whiddon | Argent, a chevron between three spearheads gules | Whiddon, Chagford; Sidbury | |
White | Argent, a chevron between three wolf's heads erased sable | "Diray" | |
Whitlock | Per fess or and sable, a bend wavy between two padlocks counterchanged | Warkleigh | |
Wichalse | Per fess argent and sable, six crescents in pale counterchanged | Barnstaple | |
Willesford | Azure, a chevron ermine between three leopard's faces or | Tavistock | |
Willoughby | Quarterly 1 & 4: Sable, a cross engrailed or (Ufford); 2 & 3: Gules, a cross moline argent (Bec of Eresby); all within a bordure gobonée of the second and azure | Molland Champson, Molland Bottreaux; Leyhill,[56] Payhembury | |
Wise | Sable, three chevronels ermine | Sydenham, Marystow; Mount Wise, Stoke Damerel | |
Withie<[bv] | Per pale ermine and or, a lion salient gules | Berry Narbor | |
Wolcot | Per pale azure and gules, on a cross fleury or five martlets sable a chief of the third charged with a fleur-de-lys between two annulets of the second | Wolcot, Thrushelton[57] | |
Wollocombe (see also Woollcombe) | Argent, three bars gules | Wollocombe, Mortehoe; Combe (alias Over Wollocombe[58]), Roborough | |
Wood | Sable semée of cross-crosslets or, three leopard's faces of the last | Orchard,[bw] Lew Trenchard | |
Woode | Argent, on a mount in base proper an oak tree vert fructed or | Hareston, Brixton | |
Woodley | Sable, a chevron between three owls argent | Halshanger, Ilsington | |
Woodrouffe[bx] | Gules, on a chevron argent three buck's heads erased sable a chief per fess nebulée of the third and second | Barnstaple; Uffculme | |
Woollcombe (see also Wollocombe) | Argent, three bars gules | Pitton, Yealmpton; Ashbury | |
Worth (Wrothe) | Argent, an eagle with two heads displayed sable beaked and legged or[by] | Worth, Washfield, near Tiverton; Calstock, Cornwall | |
Wotton | Argent, a cross engrailed between four mullets sable | Inglebourne,[bz] Harberton | |
Wyatt[ca] | Per pale gules and azure, a pair of barnacles argent | Braunton | |
Wykes/Weekes | Ermine, three battle-axes sable | North Wyke, South Tawton; Bindon, Axminster;[cb] Honeychurch | |
Wyvell | Argent, three mullets between two bars sable a bordure engrailed gules[59] | Crediton |
Y
editName | Escutcheon | Blazon | Seat, parish |
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Yard | Argent, a chevron gules between three water bougets sable[cc] | Yarde, Malborough;[60] Teignwick, Kingsteignton; Bradley, Kingsteignton; Whiteway, Kingsteignton;[61] Churston Court, Churston Ferrers; Sharpham, Ashprington | |
Yeo | Argent, a chevron sable between three shovelers azure[cd] | Heanton Satchville, Petrockstowe; Huish; Hatherleigh; Fremington | |
Yonge | Ermine, on a bend cotised sable three griffin's heads erased or | Great House, Colyton; Escot, Talaton; Mohuns Ottery, Luppitt | |
Yonge[ce] | Per fess sable and argent, three lions rampant guardant counterchanged | Landsend,[62]Colebrooke |
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ As seen in 19th c. stained glass window in Mamhead Church. Blazoned with chevron sable and with difference of a martlet, per Vivian, p. 35
- ^ Barkley arms identical to Potter arms, see Vivian pp. 43, 612. Escallops in place of cinqufoils per Pole, p. 469
- ^ Location of this estate unknown
- ^ The mural monument survives in St Mary's Church, Totnes, Devon, to Christopher Blackall (1581-1633) of Hampsted in the parish of Totnes, and his four wives, see File:ChristopherBlackall Died1633 TotnesChurch Devon.jpg. Christopher Blackall (1581–1633) donated 50 books to Totnes Church, many of which were used by John Prince (1643–1723) in writing his Worthies of Devon
- ^ Charles Frederick Burnard (1816-post 1894) of Chatsworth Lodge in the parish of Compton Gifford, near Plymouth, Devon, was Mayor of Plymouth in 1882 (Vivian, p. 849)
- ^ Although Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormonde (d.1515) (whose wife was Anne Hankford the heiress of Annery, Monkleigh, Devon, and whose heraldry survives on a bench-end in Monkleigh Church) is known to have died without male progeny (the earldom descended to his distant male cousin), the family of Butler of Parkham submitted a pedigree to the heralds at the Heraldic Visitation of Devon of 1620 which claimed descent from a certain Humfridus Boteler de Annery (Vivian, p. 104), whose identity is therefore uncertain. The arms however of Butler of Parkham are the arms of Butler, Earl of Ormond (Gules, three covered cups or) differenced with a field azure.
- ^ Location of Callard uncertain, however an ancient farmhouse of than name survives in the parish of Burrington (see listed building text [1])
- ^ Former seat of the Cockworthy family, today "Cogworthy" Farm Yarnscombe
- ^ The home from 1980-2005 of the son and heir of the 11th Duke of Devonshire, and today part of the Bolton Hall estate of the Duke of Devonshire
- ^ John Clement was a member of the Corporation of Plymouth in 1620 and married Judith Sparke, a sister of John Sparke (c. 1574–1640), MP, of The Friary, in the parish of St Jude, Plymouth, Devon (Vivian, pp. 193, 856)
- ^ As blazoned by Sir William Pole (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 447 and as depicted quartered on monument of Lady Frances Bourchier (1587-1612), daughter of William Bourchier, 3rd Earl of Bath (d.1623), in the Bedford Chapel at Chenies, Buckinghamshire.[2] The arms of Cogan (a branch of which later became known as Goggin) are variously blazoned elsewhere as oak leaves, aspen leaves, etc.
- ^ Location of Marland in parish of Petrockstowe per Vivian, p. 497
- ^ As stated in Vivian, p. 284, with obvious printer's error ("Az" in place of "Ar") in that the field is given erroneously as azure, with a fess also azure, in contravention of the "Rule of Tinctures", and would not show fully against the same background. Pole (p. 480) gives the field as argent, but gives the location of the crescents incorrectly as on the fess. A relief-sculpted image of these arms survives on the large monument of John Chichester (died 1569) of Raleigh, Pilton, Devon, see image:File:HeraldicPanelChichesterMonumentPiltonDevon1569.JPG, which shows the correct arrangement of the crescents and estoiles, although the tincture of the field has been wrongly re-painted as or
- ^ Richard Dyer c.1545/54 purchased Yarde from the Yarde family, whose longtime seat it had been, following their removal to Bradley (Risdon, p. 176; Allan et al., p. 244). His great-great-great-grandson was the botanist Richard Dyer (born 1651), a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, who inherited Yarde from his elder brother William Dyer (d.1714) and rebuilt it in 1718 (John Allan, Nat Alcock, David Dawson, West Country Households, 1500-1700, p. 244 The Stained Hangings at Yarde Farm[3])
- ^ Location of Milbury unknown. Several streets in Exminster are named "Milbury"
- ^ Courant, per Pole, p. 482
- ^ Thomas Flay (d.1634) of Exeter, 2nd son of John Flay of Charlton, was Mayor of Exeter. A portrait of his wife Elizabeth Spicer was hanging in the Guildhall, Exeter, in 1895 (Vivian, p. 343, note 3)
- ^ Today "Friars Hele Farm"; the arms of Fry of Fry's Hele are differenced by a field vert (Pole, p. 484) see image File:Fry (of Fry's Hele) arms.svg
- ^ Vivian's pedigree, p. 385, shows a long history of baptisms, marriages and burials at Dean Prior of members of this family
- ^ Gilbert: Argent, on a chevron gules three roses of the field. These are the ancient arms of the family, as evidenced on monuments in Marldon Church 1496 and 1530 and in Churston Ferrers Church c.1575 (Source: Burke's Landed Gentry, 1937, p. 886). In the 1620 Heraldic Visitation of Devon by William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms, the following arms were allowed to Raleigh Gilbert (1584–1634) of Compton: Ermine, on a chevron sable three roses argent. (Source: Burke's Landed Gentry, 1937, p. 886). The family's arms are very confused, for example as given in Vivian, p.405: Or, on a chevron sable three roses of the field leaved proper a bordure gules. Pole, p. 484, gives: Argent, on a chevron sable three roses of the field
- ^ Henry Harewood (d.1631) by his will donated £100 as the "Harewood Gift", a charity for the poor of South Molton (Report of the Commissioners Appointed ...: To Inquire Concerning Charities ..., 1825, pp. 125-6 [4])
- ^ The family of Hext resided at a place named "Kingston", which although Pole (d.1635) suggests (almost as a post scriptum) is Kingston in the parish of Staverton ("At Kingston their also dwelled Thomas Hext in King Edw 4 tyme" (Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 277), cannot be reconciled with the well documented contemporaneous tenure of Kingston, Staverton, by the Barnhous family, whose heiress is known to have married John Rowe of Totnes. (During the reign of King Edward IV (1461–1483) "Kingston" was the seat of Thomas Hext, (Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 277; Vivian, p. 484, pedigree of Hext of Kingston) one of whose daughters, Agnes Hext, married Sir Lewis Pollard (Vivian, p. 598, pedigree of Pollard) (c.1465-1526) of Grilstone in the parish of Bishop's Nympton, Devon, Justice of the Common Pleas from 1514 to 1526 (Hoskins, W.G., A New Survey of England: Devon, London, 1959 (first published 1954), p. 338) and a MP for Totnes in 1491) There is however a parish and village named Kingston in South Devon, about 14 miles south-west of Kingston, Staverton, and Thomas Hext "of Kingston", the first member of the family recorded in the Heraldic Visitations of Devon, married a member of the Fortescue family of Whympston, Modbury, about 2 1/2 miles north-west of the village of Kingston.
- ^ Today, see Shilston Barton or Shilstone near Modbury. Sir Robert Hill jCP of Shilston and Houndstone, the father of Robert Hill Sheriff of Devon was kinsman to Sir John Hill jKB of Hill's Court, Exeter and Houndstone, the father of Robert Hill of Spaxton MP
- ^ In the parish of Combe-in-Teignhead per Lysons, Magna Britannia, Vol.6, p. 135
- ^ Sir John Hody (d.1441) of Pilsdon in Dorset and Stowell, Wiveliscombe, Somerset, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, married Margaret Cole, heiress of Nethway (Pole, pp. 282-3)
- ^ This family was descended from Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand (c. 1283 – 1328), son of Sir Robert de Holland of Upholland, Lancashire (See Vivian, p. 475)
- ^ Not to be confused with arms of Holway of Holway, Tor Bryan, Devon (see Pole, p. 488)
- ^ Thomas Hunt (d.1548) was thrice Mayor of Exeter (Vivian, p. 494)
- ^ For Hams as the seat of Hunt see: Jones, Mary, History of Chudleigh, 1852
- ^ "Stralling" (Vivian, p. 504), location unknown; ? Stalling Thorne in the parish of Huntsham ?
- ^ Vivian, p. 510 adds a bordure engrailed of the second. No such border is visible in any of the many depictions of the Kelloway arms surviving in the churches of Dolton, Iddisleigh, and Dowland; However, the bordure does appear in the Kelloway arms shown in Branscombe Church, Devon, on the Mural monument to Joan Tregarthin (d.1583) widow successively of John Kelloway of Cornwall and John Wadham (d.1578) of Merifield, Ilton, Somerset and Edge, Branscombe. See File:JoanTregarthinMonument BranscombeChurch Devon.PNG
- ^ Residence at Wonson per Baring-Gould, Sabine, An English Home, p. 277, Scapegraces
- ^ John Lante (d.1614) was Mayor of Exeter and has a monument in Exeter Cathedral (Vivian, p. 523)
- ^ Richard Lee (d.1620) of Totnes was Mayor of Totnes in 1620 (Vivian, p. 527)
- ^ In 1620 Anthonie Longe (born 1597) was a servant of the Earl of Bath (Vivian, p. 532) at Tawstock in North Devon. A junior branch of the prominent Long family (Vivian, p. 532) of South Wraxall and Draycot Cerne in Wiltshire, descended from Robert Long (died 1447)
- ^ The first member of this family (whose arms are a differenced version of FitzMartin, feudal barons of Barnstaple in Devon and Lords of Cemais in Wales) was Thomas Martin (d.1588) of Salisbury, Wiltshire, Mayor of Totnes, who married Christiana Savery of Totnes (Vivian, p. 558)
- ^ Col.John Newton (d.1655) of Crabaton (mod: Crabadon) was a Royalist in the Civil War (Burke's General Armory). Difference of arms of Newton baronets of Barrs Court, Gloucestershire (1660), of which family Sir Isaac Newton claimed to be a member
- ^ In Clayhanger parish (not Combe Martin), see: Extract of 1785 will of Buckland Nutcombe Bluett of Nutcombe, Clayhanger and Holcombe Court, Holcombe Rogus, archives of North Devon Record Office, Reference: 1777 B/FW8 [5]
- ^ Per Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p. 1761, pedigree of Passmore of Withyshaw, with drawing of arms confirming this blazon; The arms of Passmore are blazoned incorrectly in Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 589, pedigree of Passmore of Passmore Hayes as: Or, on a fess between three escutcheons gules each charged with a bend vair two cinquefoils of the first all within a bordure azure bezantée, which gives File:PassmoreArms.png
- ^ Passmore Hayes, now a small cottage 3.75 miles N-NE of Tiverton, at the end of the farm track to Longhayne Farm, approaching the Town Leat in an eastward direction. Passmore Hayes was in the parish of Tiverton, per: The topographer: containing a variety of original articles ..., Volume 1 edited by Sir Egerton Brydges, p. 142 [6]
- ^ Several members of the Plumleigh family served as Mayor of Dartmouth
- ^ de Via arms, as also used by the Davie family of Creedy, Sandford, who claimed common origin with the Pollards from the de Way family, were quartered by Pollard with their escallop arms, (Prince, pp. 284 (footnote), 783) but were sometimes used alone, as evidenced most notably by all the surviving Pollard monuments and ledger stones in Horwood Church
- ^ "Bingley" or "Bindley" (Vivian, p. 609)
- ^ Hugh Potter (1596-1661/2) (eldest son and heir of Tobias Potter of Iddesleigh) was a lawyer of Lincoln's Inn and a member of the household of the Earl of Northumberland (Vivian, p. 612)
- ^ Potter arms identical to Barkley arms, see Vivian pp. 43, 612
- ^ The Preston family of Devon was a junior branch of the de Preston family which during the reign of King Henry II (1154–1189) was seated at Preston Richard and Preston Patrick in Westmorland. On 1 April 1644, George Preston (of same ancient descent, same arms) was created a baronet "of Furness in the County of Lancaster". (Burke, Bernard, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies ..., 2nd ed, 1844, pp. 424 et seq [7])
- ^ Members of this family include Richard Prouse (d.1608), Mayor of Exeter, and his son John Prouse (d.1624/5), Mayor of Exeter in 1620, whose memorial exists in Exeter Cathedral (Vivian, p. 628, "MI")
- ^ per Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 498. Alternatively: Ermine, a chevron gules a chief azure fretty or (per Vivian, p. 631, pedigree of Prye of Horwell). These arms are visible on the monument to John Wrey (d.1597) in Tawstock Church, Devon. John Wrey's son Edmond Wrey married Katherine Prye, daughter of Roger Prye of Horwell (Vivian, p. 631)
- ^ This family was the heir of Coffin of Portledge, Alwington, Devon, and in 1796 assumed the additional surname and arms of Coffin, resulting in the name Pine-Coffin (Vivian, p. 211)
- ^ Lauder, Rosemary, Devon Families, Tiverton, 2002, p. 129, sold by Savilles estate agent February 2017, £1.5M [8]
- ^ Raleigh of Fardel arms per Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 499; Pedigree given in Vivian (pp. 638-9) with same descent as Raleigh of Pilton, but with wrong arms
- ^ Welcombe is a parish near Hartland in North Devon, near the Cornish border. Other estates named "Welcombe" are listed in Pole, which may have been the residence of this family, with a very brief pedigree in Vivian, p. 651 with no mention of parish. However, mention is made of Week St Mary (in Cornwall), 13 miles south of Welcombe near Hartland, and the Roache family originated in "Lesawnte" (Lezant?, Cornwall. Lysons, Magna Britannia, Cornwall, Extinct Gentry, states: "Roche or De la Rupe of Roche — traced to the reign of Richard I. Hals says, that this family became extinct, in the male line, in 1357; that Sir William Blundell, husband of the heiress, took the name of Roche, which continued till the reign of Henry VIII., when the last of the family left four daughters, three of whom married Fortescue, Penkevil, and Boscawen. The Roches had married heiresses of Trevelyan and Page, and a coheiress of Durant. Arms of Roche: — Sab. three roaches, two, one, nayant, Argent." The Devon family used a crescent as the difference of a second son. The name was thus Latinized to de (la) Rupe (Lat: rupes-is, "rock") "from the rock", inspired by the French word la roche, le rocher, "rock", from degraded Latin rocca, recorded in use 980 AD (Larousse Lexis, Paris, 1979, p. 1654) from which the English word "rock" (Collins Dict)
- ^ townhouse of George Rolle (d.1552), where he died, comprising "messuage, garden and curtilage". It was held from the crown in burgage, worth 30 shillings. Details of Buckfast Place from his inquisition post mortem quoted in Byrne, Muriel St. Clare, (ed.) The Lisle Letters, 6 vols, University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 1981, vol.1, Appendix 25, p. 414. This house, later known as the "Abbot's Lodge", was destroyed in 1942 during World War II bombing. It had been the townhouse of the Abbot of Buckfast Abbey, which Abbey and much of its lands, apparently excluding the Abbot's Lodge, had been acquired following the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Sir Thomas Denys (c.1477-1561) of Holcombe Burnell, whose eventual heir (by coincidence) was the Rolle family. It was at the Abbot's Lodge that the Grand Duke of Tuscany was entertained by Sir John Rolle in 1669 and it remained in the Rolle family until 1737 when it was sold to the Rev. John Heskett.(Source:[9]) A photograph of the arms of Sir Henry Rolle (1545–1625) in this building taken shortly before its destruction survives in: Devon Notes & Queries, Vol.9, 1916–17, pp. 97-9: "Armorial Bearings at the Abbot's Lodge", The Close, Exeter. Image see: File:SirHenryRolle (1545-1625) 1602Arms AbbotsLodge CathedralClose Exeter.jpg
- ^ Monuments to the Roope family of Townstal exist in St Clement's Church, Dartmouth and in St Petrox's Church, Dartmouth (Pevsner, pp. 324, 322)
- ^ No such parish as "Holford" appears to exist. This seat (called Goddeford by Pole, p. 201 and Godeford by Risdon, p. 41) is possibly one of two places: Gosford (today Gosford Farm) near the hamlet of Taleford, about 2 miles SE of Awliscombe; Godford, about 1/4 mile NW of Awliscombe. Awliscombe was in the Hundred of Hemyock
- ^ These are the arms of Thorne of Thorne in the parish of Holsworthy, Devon, with difference of a bordure engrailed, with additional difference of a crescent for a second son. The family was descended from Degorie Thorne (second son of John Thorne of Thorne) who (circa 15th c.) married Margaret Seccombe, daughter and heiress of Thomas Seccombe of Seccombe, Devon
- ^ As depicted in stained glass in east window of Shute Church, Devon, impaled by arms of Pole of Shute, representing the marriage of Sir Courtenay Pole, 2nd Baronet (1619–1695) and Urith Shapcott, daughter of Thomas Shapcott of Shapcott in the parish of Knowstone, Devon. Elsewhere the arms are shown with a chevron or (Barnstaple Church on Tucker monument), or without chevron (in Knowstone Church and in Molland Church). (Pole (Vivian 1895, p. 603), Shapcott (Vivian 1895, p. 677), blazoned with chevron or)
- ^ John Shapleigh (d.1628) of Totnes was Mayor of Dartmouth and twice Mayor of Totnes. His monument is in St Saviour's Church, Dartmouth (Vivian, p. 678, "MI"). No connection is known to John Shapleigh (died 1414) of Exeter, MP, father of John Shapleigh (fl. 1414–1427), of Exeter, MP
- ^ William Sharpe (fl.1620) of Tiverton (3rd son of Robert Sharpe, a merchant in the City of London, by his wife Jeliane Mallory, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir Richard Mallory, Lord Mayor of London in 1564) married Alice Woolton, a daughter of John Woolton, Bishop of Exeter. (Vivian, p. 679)
- ^ Ley in the parish of Plympton St Mary, per Prince, John, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, London, pp. 713, 715-6 (note 1)
- ^ Per Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 502. As seen on 1714 mural monument to Sir Bevil Grenville (d.1643), husband of Grace Smith (a daughter of Sir George Smith (died 1619) of Madworthy-juxta-Exeter and Madford House, Exeter, Devon, MP for Exeter in 1604, three times Mayor of Exeter), in Kilkhampton Church, Cornwall; Vivian, p. 691, appears to have ascribed to this family the wrong arms, namely those of Smith of Dartmouth (Vivian, p. 693) and Smith of Totnes
- ^ As seen impaled by Wrey on monument to John I Wrey (d.1597) in Tawstock Church, Devon. Wrey's son John II Wrey was the 3rd husband of Eleanor Smith, daughter of Bernard Smith (d.1591) of Totnes. Arms of Smith of Totnes given by Pole, p. 502, as: Barry undé of six argent and azure on a chief gules three barnacles or(Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 502) Given incorrectly by Vivian, p.691 as arms of Smyth of Exeter, whose arms were: Sable, a fess cotised between three martlets or (Pole, p. 502 and as visible on mural monument to Sir Bevil Grenville (d.1645) in Kilkhampton Church)
- ^ The junior branch of the Kelloway family of Stafford/Stowford, Dolton, which settled at nearby Dowland changed its surname to Stafford but retained the paternal arms of Kelloway. See Vivian, p. 510, footnote
- ^ Vivian, p. 510 adds a bordure engrailed of the second. No such border is visible in any of the many depictions of the Stafford/Stoford/Stowford/Kelloway arms surviving in the churches of Dolton, Iddisleigh, and Dowland; However, the bordure does appear in the Kelloway arms shown in Branscombe Church, Devon, on the Mural monument to Joan Tregarthin (d.1583) widow successively of John Kelloway of Cornwall and John Wadham (d.1578) of Merifield, Ilton, Somerset and Edge, Branscombe. See File:JoanTregarthinMonument BranscombeChurch Devon.PNG
- ^ For "Strashleigh" see: Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p. 356. For its location in the parish of Ermington see: Vivian, p. 157
- ^ The "steward of the court of the Earl of Bedford" at Werrington (then in Devon, now in Cornwall) in about 1600 was John Twiggs, whose family pedigree is included in the 1620 Heraldic Visitation of Devon. (Vivian, p. 742, pedigree of "Twiggs of Werrington"). John Twiggs's grandson was Richard Twiggs "of Werrington", whose son was Benjamin Twiggs (1616-c.1678/9) "of Werrington", who both described themselves as "of Werrington" in their wills.(Richard Twiggs (will dated 1625/6, CRO AP/T/449 Benjamin Twiggs (born 1616 (aged 4 in 1620), will dated 1678/9, CRO AP/T/1221)[10]
- ^ As seen on monument in Brixham Church, blazoned incorrectly as a cross flory in Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 743. Blazoned as cross sarcelly (cercelée) (similar to cross moline) by Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 506
- ^ Arms as visible on monument (transcript Chope, R. Pearse, The Book of Hartland, Torquay, 1940, p. 144) in Hartland Church to John Velly (1617–1694), during the Civil War a Captain-Lieutenant to Sir Robert Cary (1610–1675), lord of the nearby manor of Clovelly, a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to King Charles II, whose mural monument survives in Clovelly Church
- ^ Arms granted in 1616 to Rev. Robert Wakeman (1576-1629), Doctor of Divinity, Parson of Beer Ferrers and Charleton in Devon, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford in 1596, Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral 1616 (Wakeman, Robert, P., Wakeman Genealogy 1630-1899, Meriden, Connecticut, 1900, p. 35 [11])
- ^ Richard Waltham (1560-1632) of Trehill, was Recorder of Exeter 1628-32. His elder brother Jeffrie Waltham (1558–1626) of Exeter, was Mayor of Exeter in 1613 and 1626 and was married to Katherin Duck, a sister of Nicholas Duck (1570–1628), Recorder of Exeter (Vivian, pp. 772, 309); Their aunt Katherin Waltham was the mother of the Devon historian Thomas Westcote (c.1567-c.1637). (Vivian, pp. 772, 778)
- ^ Pole, p. 506, who blazons the arms as Gules, a chevron between three fishes naiant argent, thus with chevron argent not or and with the unnamed fish naiant not hauriant. These arms of Waye of Marsh are however sculpted (without tinctures) quartered by Kirkham of Blagdon in the 16th century Kirkham Chantry of Paignton Church, and show a chevron with fish hauriant, as per Vivian's blazon. Nicholas Kirkham (d.1516) of Blagdon married Jane Waye, daughter and heiress of Robert Waye of Marsh (Vivian, p. 516, pedigree of Kirkham). These are similar to the arms displayed in Exeter Guildhall, Devon, of "John Waye, Sheriff (of Exeter) 1541", shown as Gules, three lucies hauriant in fess argent. They should be distinguished from the completely different arms of Way of St Giles-in-the-Wood, near Great Torrington in Devon, often called "de Via" (i.e. literally "from the way") arms, apparently later adopted by the Pollard family of Way and also by the Davie family (Davy baronets) of Creedy, Devon, which claim their original surname as de Via.
- ^ Marsh in parish of Newton St Cyres per Prince, John, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, London, p. 554
- ^ Arms of "Treawin of Weare Giffard" per Pole, p. 505; Arms of "Weare of Clyst Honiton" per Vivian, p. 774. Quartered by Fortescue of Weare Giffard and Filleigh, see monumental brass in Filleigh Church of Richard Fortescue (c. 1517–1570)
- ^ John Withie of Berry Narbor married Joane Jewel, a sister of John Jewel (1522–1571), Bishop of Salisbury, born at Bowden in the parish of Berry Narbor (Vivian, pp. 814, 505)
- ^ Re Orchard, see: Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, pp. 535, 613, who places it in parish of Thrushelton (near Lew Trenchard). The Visitations are clear this family resided in the parish of Lew Trenchard, and various monuments of the family exist in that parish church ("MI" per Vivian, p. 799)
- ^ James Woodrouffe (d.1609) of Barnstaple was Mayor of Barnstaple in 1605 (Vivian, p. 802; Lamplugh, Lois, Barnstaple: Town on the Taw, South Molton, 2002, p. 156). His first wife was Jone Worth, a daughter of Pawle Worth, thrice Mayor of Barnstaple in 1577, 1592 and 1603, who signed a letted dated 8 April 1588 concerning the town's objection to having been ordered by the Privy Council to provide an excessive number of ships to meet the Spanish Armada. (Lamplugh, pp. 50, 156)
- ^ Blazon per Pole, p. 509; These arms are visible on several escutcheons in Washfield Church. The arms are blazoned incorrectly as beaked and legged gules in Vivian, p. 805, pedigree of Worth
- ^ Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries during the reign of King Henry VIII (1509–1547) John Wotton purchased the estate of Inglebourne from the crown, previously a possession of Buckfastleigh Abbey (Risdon, p. 165)
- ^ Phillip Wyatt (d.1592) was steward and Town Clerk of Barnstaple, near Braunton. He had several sons, of whom Adam Wyatt (d.1611) was Town Clerk of Barnstaple from 1586 and left a detailed diary which provides valuable information on the town at this period. The identity of the diarist as Adam Wyatt was made by the Devon historian Todd Gray, although traditionally the diarist was thought to have been his brother Philip Wyatt (d.1608) (Lamplugh, Lois, Barnstaple: Town on the Taw, South Molton, 2002, p. 45). Their elder brother Hugh Wyatt of Shillingford, married Lady Mary Bourchier, a daughter of John Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Bath (1499–1561), of nearby Tawstock Court, a highly influential figure in Barnstaple. Another brother, Thomas Wyatt, married Margaret Risdon, an aunt of Tristram Risdon (d.1640) the Devon historian. (Vivian, pp. 823, 107, 648). Pole, p. 508, gives the arms of "Wiatt of Shillingford" slightly differently as: Azure, a chief gules over-all a horse-brake (barnacle) argent
- ^ The Bindon branch of Wyke used their maternal arms of Burnell, having inherited that estate from an heiress of that family (Pole, p. 243; Woodger, L.S., biography of Wyke, Roger (d.c.1467), of Bindon in Axmouth, Devon, published in History of Parliament: House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993 [12])
- ^ Arms inherited from the Bushel family of Bradley/Teignwick (Pole, p. 472)
- ^ Per research conducted by Sheila Yeo of the Yeo Society [13], based on stained glass depictions of Yeo arms in churches of Petrockstowe (Yeo of Heanton Satchville) and Hatherleigh (Yeo of Hatherleigh) both in Devon. The ducks are described as of various breeds by different sources. Heraldic sources give contradictory tinctures: Argent, a chevron between three shovelers sable (Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 834) and Argent, a chevron between three mallards azure (Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 510)
- ^ The return made in 1620 to the heralds was signed by Robert Yonge (d.1636) of Colebrooke, 4th son of Thomas Younge of Sturminster Newton in Dorset. Robert's nephew was Thomas Yonge (of Child, Ockford) who married Bridget Seymer, a sister of Sir Robert Seymer (d.1624) of Hanford in Dorset, a Teller in the King's Exchequer, knighted at Greenwich Palace on 19 February 1619 (Burke, John, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 2 (M-Z), London, 1846, p. 1216 [14])
References
edit- ^ For a discussion of the disappearance of the old gentry families of Devon, see Sabine Baring-Gould, Old Country Life, first published 1889, 5th ed., 1894, pp. 7-22, Old County Families
- ^ Pole, Sir William (died 1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791. pp. 467–510
- ^ Vivian 1895.
- ^ Pole, p. 287; Polwhele, Richard, History of Devonshire, 3 Vols., Vol.3, London, 1793, p. 478
- ^ Hoskins, p. 411
- ^ Vivian, p. 111: "Warbrightley"; Risdon, p. 66: "Warbrighsleigh", Warbrighsleigh Beacon (formerly known as "Warpsley" Beacon), today Stoodleigh Beacon, 1/2 mile N-E of which is "Waspley" Farm (Ordnance Survey map), 2 miles west of Stoodleigh Church; See: Vivian, p. 400, mentioning Broughton of "Warpsley"
- ^ Vivian, p. 112: Brown, Brownishilarshe; Risdon, p. 271: Ilash; today apparently represented by West Browns and East Browns, about 1 mile S-W of Langtree village
- ^ Wreath, per Pole, p. 475: argent, per Vivian, p. 127, of the first and second, i.e. or and sable
- ^ "Little Yarnscombe" per Pole, p. 373
- ^ Pevsner, p. 563
- ^ The inscribed mural monument of Raleigh Clapham (1587–1636), Apothecary, survives in St Peter's Church, Barnstaple. Image see [15]
- ^ Wotton, Thomas, Baronetage of England, 1771, Volume 2, Arms of Colleton Baronets; given by Vivian as roebuck's heads, frequently interchangeable
- ^ Pole, p. 475
- ^ Pole, p. 263
- ^ Pevsner, pp. 233-4
- ^ "Witheridge Memories of Coombe and the Cutcliffe Family".
- ^ Vivian, pp. 274-5
- ^ Reed, Margaret A., Pilton, its Past and its People, Barnstaple, 1985, p. 243
- ^ Pole, pp. 158-9
- ^ Polwhele, Richard, History of Devonshire, 3 Vols., London, 1793, Vol.3, p. 460
- ^ Lysons, Daniel & Lysons, Samuel, Magna Britannia, Vol.6, Devonshire, London, 1822, p. 333
- ^ Polwhele, Richard, History of Devonshire, 3 Vols., Vol.2, London, 1793, Vol.2, p. 183
- ^ Pole, p. 487; as seen on monument of Elize Hele (1560–1635) in Bovey Tracey Church
- ^ Burke's General Armory, 1884, p. 515; Pole, p. 488; the blazon in Vivian, p. 490, appears confused, producing an image thusFile:HodyArms.png
- ^ Pole, pp. 282-3; Risdon, p. 160
- ^ Risdon, pp. 157-8; Pole, p. 284
- ^ Vivian, p. 502, p. 502, footnote, as appears on the Risdon monument in Westdown Church, Devon also in St Giles-in-the-Wood Church, Devon
- ^ Vivian, p. 517
- ^ Pevsner, p. 575, anciently "Ridge", per Vivian, p. 529
- ^ The Lippincotts in England and America, Edited from the Genealogical Papers of the Late James S. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1909, p. 8 [16]
- ^ Pole, p. 492
- ^ Mallet of Idsleigh (Vivian 1895, p. 545); as visible on monument to Sir Arthur Acland (d.1610) in Landkey Church
- ^ As generally blazoned; Vivian 1895, p. 552, Martyn of Oxton, gives three bars
- ^ Westcot in parish of Marwood per Pole, p. 398
- ^ Pole, p. 493, field argent; Vivian, p. 574 azure
- ^ Pole, p. 220
- ^ The Newcombe family of Chagford & Exeter, Peter R. Newcombe, 2005–17 [17]
- ^ See: Passmore, Alfred E., The Pedigree of the Passmores of Passmore Hayes, Devon, 1929. Commissioned by Alfred E. Passmore from researcher Charles E. Bernau. West Country Studies Library (ref S929.2PAS) and Tiverton Museum (ref TM/89/1375/1)[18]
- ^ Westcote, Thomas, A View of Devonshire in 1630 with a Pedigree of most of its Gentry, Exeter, 1845, p. 525; "Swotton/Swetton" per Vivian, p. 589
- ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p. 1761, pedigree of Passmore of Withyshaw
- ^ Vivian, p. 638
- ^ Pole, p. 321
- ^ Vivian, p. 517, inherited from Roope by Kirkham
- ^ Lysons, Daniel & Lysons, Samuel, Magna Britannia, Vol.6, Devonshire, London, 1822 [19]
- ^ Vivian, p. 674
- ^ Risdon, p. 46; Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p. 529; Vivian, p. 680; Rogers, William Henry Hamilton, The Dorset chapel and Knightstone; Bonville and Sherman; Ottery St. Mary, Notes and Queries for Somerset anmd Dorset, Vol.7, 1901, pp. 187–91, 235–43, 322. Reprinted in his Archaeological Papers Relating to the Counties of Somerset, Wilts, Hants and Devon, 1902
- ^ Pole, p. 263; Vivian, p. 704
- ^ Rogers, William Henry Hamilton, Memorials of the West, Historical and Descriptive, Collected on the Borderland of Somerset, Dorset and Devon, Exeter, 1888, pp. 229–31 [20]
- ^ Pole, p. 360, pedigree agrees in part to Vivian, p. 727, pedigree of Thorne of Thorne
- ^ Pole, p. 505, fists argent; Vivian, p. 730, fists proper
- ^ Per Vivian, p. 738; Pole gives the blazon as: Argent, a bridge gules arched with a flag on the top (Pole, p. 505)
- ^ Pole, p. 306
- ^ Seats per Chope, R.Pearse, The Book of Hartland, Torquay, 1940, pp. 144, 198
- ^ Vivian, p. 746
- ^ William Henry Hamilton Rogers, Memorials of the West, Historical and Descriptive, Collected on the Borderland of Somerset, Dorset and Devon, Exeter, 1888, pp. 226-7
- ^ Gray, Todd, (ed.), Devon Household Accounts, 1627–59, Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Part I, 1995, p. xxxvii The Willougby Family and the Accounts of Leyhill
- ^ Vivian, p. 793: Wolecot in parochia de Thrustelton
- ^ Pole, p. 394
- ^ Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 507
- ^ Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of The Reverend John Swete, 1789–1800, 4 vols., Tiverton, 1999, Vol 2, p. 164; Pevsner, p. 556
- ^ Swete, Vol.2, p. 164
- ^ Kelly's Directory of Devon, 1902
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