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MAGNA BRITANNIA; 
 
 BEING 
 
 A CONCISE TOPOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT 
 
 OF 
 
 THE SEVERAL COUNTIES 
 
 OF 
 
 GREAT BRITAIN. 
 
 By the Rev. DANIEL LYSONS, A.M. F.R.S. F.A. and L.S. 
 
 RECTOR OF KODMARTON IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE ; 
 
 And SAMUEL LYSONS, Esq. F.R.S. and F.A.S. 
 
 LATE KEEPER OF HIS MAJESTY'S RECORDS IN THE TOWER OF LONDON. 
 
 VOLUME THE SIXTH, 
 
 CONTAINING 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 PRINTED FOR THOMAS CADELL, IN THE STRAND. 
 1822. 
 
ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 The publication of the present volume has been thus long delayed 
 principally in consequence of the melancholy loss I sustained in 
 1819 by the death of my brother. It was a considerable time 
 before I could feel equal to resume the work ; and I should wholly 
 have shrunk [from the task, had I not considered myself pledged 
 in various ways to complete the Devonshire volume. Our personal 
 collections had long been made, and we had finished our last 
 notes, those for the northern part of the county, in 1818 ; but my 
 brother had made little progress in the subjects which had fallen 
 under his department, namely, the Geology and Minerals, and 
 whatever relates to Antiquities in the General History, except the 
 heads of Ancient Architecture, for which he had collected and ar- 
 ranged ample notes. The articles which I havedrawn up from these 
 have been kindly revised by Robert Smirke, Esq., jun., R.A., &c. 
 For the Geology of the county, its Mineralogy, &c, I have been 
 so fortunate as to have been favoured with the very able assist- 
 ance of John Hawkins, Esq. ; the Rev. Professor Buckland ; the 
 Rev. J. Conybeare ; and Mr. J. Miller. The late learned Bishop 
 of Cloyne obligingly transmitted his paper on the Roman Roads 
 and Stations not long before his death ; and on the subject of 
 Ancient Encampments, I have been kindly assisted by his friend 
 and fellow-traveller, the Rev. T. Leman. 
 
 DANIEL LYSONS. 
 
 Rodmarton, July 20. 1822. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 OF 
 
 THE SIXTH VOLUME. 
 
 General history of Devonshire 
 
 Name and Etymology 
 
 Ancient Inhabitants, Language, and Government 
 
 Historical Events - 
 
 Civil Division of the County 
 
 Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Division of the County 
 
 Table of Parishes - 
 
 Chapels of Ease - - - 
 
 Monasteries, Colleges, and Ancient Hospitals 
 
 Borough and Market Toims 
 
 Markets - - - * 
 
 Disused Markets 
 
 Fairs and Great Markets - - - 
 
 Population 
 
 Division of Property at the Time of the Domesday Survey 
 
 Chief Landed Property at various Periods 
 
 Nobility of the County - 
 
 Nobility resident in or connected with the County 
 
 Irish Peers connected with Devonshire 
 
 Noble Families extinct 
 
 Baronial Families not summoned to Parliament 
 
 Irish Earldom extinct 
 
 Noblemen's Seats 
 Baronets 
 
 Extinct Baronets, and such as are no longer connected with the County 
 
 Baronets' Seats 
 
 Page 
 iii — ccclv 
 iii 
 ibid. 
 iv — xx 
 xx — xxii 
 xxii. xxiii 
 xxiv — xxx 
 xxxi 
 xxxi. xxxii 
 - xxxii — xxxiv 
 xxxiv 
 xxxv 
 xxxv — xxxviii 
 xxxviii — xlix 
 xlix — lxxxii 
 lxxxiia. lxxxiiii. 
 lxxxiii — cvii 
 Ixxxiii — xciv 
 xciv. xcv 
 xcv — cv 
 cv. cvi 
 cvii 
 cvii. cviii 
 cviii — cxxii 
 
 cxxiii — cxxxi 
 
 cxxxi. cxxxii 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Gentry - 
 
 Existing Gentry - 
 
 Ancient Families extinct, or removed, before 1620 
 
 Ancient Families of which the Principal Branch is extinct, or removed, 
 
 since 1620, yet some of the Descendants remain in the County 
 Families known or supposed to be extinct since 1620, or removed out of 
 
 the County - - - 
 
 Gentlemen's Seats ... 
 
 Forests and Deer-Parlcs . . - 
 
 Geographical and Geological Description of the County 
 
 Situation, Boundaries, Extent, SfC. . - - 
 
 Soils, Strata, Sfc. - 
 
 Surface and Scenery • 
 
 Rivers - 
 
 Navigable Rivers, Creeks, and Canals 
 
 'Roads _..---- 
 
 Rail-Roads - - ■ " 
 
 Natural History . . - - - 
 
 Minerals - 
 
 Meteoric Stones - - 
 
 Organic Remains - " 
 
 Indigenous Plants - . 
 
 Birds - 
 
 Mineral and other remarkable Springs ... 
 
 Produce - 
 
 Trade of the Principal Ports of Devon 
 
 Manufactures - 
 
 Antiquities • 
 
 British and Roman British Antiquities - 
 
 Circidar Enclosures « - 
 
 Sepulchral Stones - - - ' 
 
 Cromlech ------ 
 
 Crosses - 
 
 Celts . - - - - 
 
 Roman Antiquities - - 
 
 British and Roman Roads and Stations 
 Ancient Church Architecture - 
 
 Saxon - 
 
 Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries 
 
 Fifteenth Century • 
 
 Sixteenth Century - - 
 
 Ancient Painted Glass - 
 
 Rood-lofts, Screens, 8fc. • • 
 
 Ancient Pulpits 
 
 Page 
 cxxxii — ccxxv 
 
 cxxxii — clx 
 clxi — clxxii 
 
 clxxiii — clxxxiii 
 
 clxxxiii — ccxxv 
 
 ccxxvi — ccxxx 
 
 ccxxx. ccxxxi 
 
 ccxxxii — ccliii 
 
 ccxxxii 
 
 ccxxxii — ccli 
 
 ccli — ccliii 
 
 ccliii — cclxx 
 
 cclix — cclxi 
 
 cclxi — cclxv 
 
 cclxv 
 
 cclxv — cclxxvi 
 
 cclxv — cclxx 
 
 cclxx 
 
 cclxx — cclxxii 
 
 cclxxii — cclxxiv 
 
 cclxxv 
 
 cclxxv. cclxxvi 
 
 cclxxvi — ccxcvi 
 
 ccxcvii. ccxcviii 
 
 ccxcviii — cccvi 
 
 cccvi — cccliii 
 
 cccvi — cccx 
 
 cccvi 
 
 cccvii — cccix 
 
 cccvii 
 
 cccix. cccx 
 
 cccx 
 
 cccx. cccxi 
 
 cccxii — cccxxiii 
 
 cccxxiii — cccxliv 
 
 cccxxiii 
 
 cccxxiv 
 
 cccxxiv. cccxxv 
 
 cccxxv. cccxxvi 
 
 cccxxvi 
 
 cccxxti — cccxxix 
 
 cccxxix 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Stone Stalls - - . 
 
 Fonts --... 
 
 Ancient Sepulchral Monuments - - - 
 
 Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries 
 
 Fifteenth Century - - 
 
 Sixteenth Century - 
 
 Monastic Remains - - - . . 
 
 Ancient Castles, and Sites of Castles, and Castellated Mansions 
 Ancient Mansions .... 
 
 Camps and Earthworks - 
 
 Local Customs - 
 
 PAROCHIAL HISTORY 
 
 The Isle of Lundy .... 
 
 Additions and Corrections to the General History 
 
 ' to the Parochial History 
 
 Index of Parishes - 
 
 of Villages, Manors, arid Bartons 
 
 of Families, •with their Monuments and Arms 
 
 of Names and Titles 
 
 General Index 
 
 Page 
 
 ccexxix. cccxxx 
 
 ccexxx. cccxxxi 
 
 cccxxxi — cccxliv 
 
 cccxxxii — cccxxxvi 
 
 cccxxxvi — cccxl 
 
 cccxl — cccxliv 
 
 cccxliv. cccxlv 
 
 cccxlv. cccxlvi 
 
 cccxlvii. cccxlviii 
 
 cccxlix— -cccliii 
 
 cccliv. ccclv 
 
 1-579 
 580, 581 
 582, 583 
 583—616 
 617—621 
 622—635 
 636—644 
 645—675 
 676—681 
 
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ERRATA. 
 
 GENERAL HISTORY. 
 
 Page xlii. for Dimchidiock, read Dunchidiock. 
 lxvii. col. 3. read Edric tiuice. 
 
 cv. 1. 24. for Nonant, read Novant. 
 cxli. 1. 13. and 15. for Clark, read Clarke, 
 clxxiii. 1. penult, there should be a comma only after Barry. 
 clxxxii. 1. 5. for Touissaints, read Toussaints. 
 clxxxvi. I. 27. after Bremridge, read of Breinridge. 
 cci. 1. 23. for Duke, read Dukes, 
 ccxiv. 1. 12. and 15. and p. ccclii. 1. 20. for Paracombe, read Farracombe. 
 ccxix. 1. I. for Thore, read Thome. 
 cexx. 1. 17. for Pustlinch, read Puslinch. 
 
 cexxii. 1. 1. for Walker, read Walter ; and 1. 3. for Woolcombe, read Woollcombe. 
 eclxx. 1. 25. and p. eclxxi. 1. 9. far Icthyosaurus, read Ichthyosaurus. 
 
 eclxxi. 1. 28. for quadricostata, and quinque costata, read cjuadricostatus and quinque costatus. 
 1. 29. for spinulosum, read splnulosus. 
 
 PAROCHIAL HISTORY. 
 
 Page 28. 1. 15. for Cynegilous, read Cynegilsus. 
 
 57. 1. 11. for Charles, read George Hunt. 
 
 70. 1. 19. after Coryndon, dele the hyphen. 
 
 78. 1. 31. for Labell, read Cabell. 
 
 103. 1. 30. for Kennich, read Kennick. 
 
 111. 1. 18. fur Henry, read Humphrey. 
 
 126. 1. 6. and p. 144. 1. 29- after Combe, dele Lancelles. 
 
 132. 1. 22. and note ° and 133. 1. 25. for Samson, read Sampson. 
 
 144. 1. 5. for Queen Elizabeth, read King Henry VIII. 
 
 210. L 28. for 1485, read 1508. 
 
 217. 1. 4. for Richard, read John. 
 
 226. 1. ult. dele the apostrophe in Columber's. 
 
 377. 1. 3. for wool, read cotton. 
 
 390. I. 30. for Coneybeare, read Conybeare. 
 
 431. 1. 29. for Corydon, read Coryndon. 
 
 448. 1. 5. for Burrowes, read Burroughs. 
 
 487. Supply the letter of reference ( ' ) to the second note, 
 
 517- 1. 25. for Paignton, read Coffinswell. 
 
 536. 1. 7. for Kendell, read Kendall. 
 
 540. 1. 25. for families, read family. 
 
 551. 1. I- for Exeter, read Windsor. 
 
 560. note, for Sibbon read Sibston. 
 565. note, 1. 23. after therein, supply I. 
 
 573. 1. 13. 14. The punctuation i? incorrect : in 1.13. after rectory, instead of a 
 full stop, insert a comma; and in 14. after Swete, instead of a comma, insert 
 a full stop. 
 
 
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DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Vol. VI. 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 GENERAL HISTORY. 
 
 Name and Etymology. 
 
 THHIS county was called, by the Cornish Britons, Dunan ; by the Welsh, 
 Deuffneynt ; by the Saxons, Devenascyre, Devnascyre, and Devenschire. 
 Ptolomy, and Richard of Cirencester call it Au^vmov, Danmonium, or 
 Dunnionium. Sammes supposes Danmonium to be derived from two 
 Phoenician words, dan or dun, a hill ; and moina, mines ; Camden defines 
 the Welsh, DeufFneynt, deep vallies ; both, names sufficiently appropriate 
 to the county. 
 
 Ancient Inhabitants, Language, and Government. 
 
 It is supposed that Devonshire was inhabited from a very remote 
 period ; and that its inhabitants had commercial transactions with the 
 Phoenicians, Greeks, and other foreign nations. a Mr. Pohvhele says, 
 that these aboriginal Britons were the Danmonii. The late Mr. Whitaker, 
 on the contrary, supposes, and of this opinion are some of the most 
 eminent antiquaries of the present day, that the Danmonii were the 
 Belgic invaders ; and that the aboriginal inhabitants of Devonshire were 
 the Cimbri, some of whom, in consequence of these invasions, emigrated 
 to Ireland, whilst others continued to occupy the north-west of Devon. 
 
 * Numerous words of eastern origin, as well as Greek words, appear to have been incor- 
 porated in the ancient British language. 
 
 a 2 Cassar 
 
iv DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Caesar tells us, that, when he landed in Britain, he found the BelgEe still 
 inhabiting the neighbourhood of the sea-coast. b Richard of Cirencester 
 speaks of the neighbourhood of Hartland point, as inhabited by the Cim- 
 bri ; the sea-coast opposite Gaul, being occupied by the Danmonii : he 
 describes the latter as " Gens omnium validissima." 
 
 Under the Romans, Devonshire formed an important part of Britannia 
 Prima. After the Saxon conquest, it became part of the kingdom of the 
 West Saxons. The dialect of the ancient British, which was called the 
 Cornu British, or Cornish, prevailed also in Devonshire, or at least was 
 spoken in common with the Saxon, till the expulsion of the Britons beyond 
 the Tamar, by Athelstan, in the tenth century. 
 
 There has been nothing peculiar in the government of Devonshire, as 
 distinct from that of the rest of the kingdom, except that of the Stannary- 
 laws, which have been in force from an early period in the mining district, 
 the south-west of the county. The Stannary-parliaments were anciently 
 held in the open air, on an elevated spot, called Crokern-tor, in Dartmoor. 
 Mr. Polwhele, writing about the year 1795, says that then, not long since, 
 the president's chair, the jurors' seats, &c, remained entire, cut out in the 
 rude stone ; but that it had been for a long time customary only to open 
 the commission and swear in the jury on the site of the ancient court, and 
 then to adjourn to the court-house at one of the Stannary-towns. c Indeed 
 the custom even of opening the court at Crokern-tor has been for many 
 years disused. The Stannary-prison d was at Lidford Castle, now a ruin. 
 
 Historical Events. 
 
 The numerous remains of fortresses in Devonshire evince, that it had at a 
 remote period been the scene of frequent warfare. It is most probable that 
 many of these were formed by the aboriginal Britons, as a defence against 
 the attacks of the Belga;, and other invaders ; but we have no historian of 
 these early periods ; nor have we any intimation, from well-authenticated 
 
 b " Britannia; pars interior ab iis incolitur quos natos in insula ipsa memoria proditum 
 dicunt ; maritima pars ab iis qui pra?das ac belli inferendi causa ex Belgio transierunt." Caesaris 
 Comment. Delph. Edit. 4to. p. 93. 
 
 c The Stannary-towns are Ashburton, Chagford, Plympton, and Tavistock. 
 
 4 See more of this wretched place of confinement, under the account of Lidford. 
 
 history, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. v 
 
 history, whether this county was the scene of war during the occupation 
 of Britain by the Romans, although some of the ancient encampments 
 bear evident marks of having been constructed by that nation. One 
 historian, indeed, whose authority is but little esteemed, Geoffrey of Mon- 
 mouth, relates that Exeter was besieged by Vespasian, and that it was 
 relieved by Arviragus, between whom and the Roman General a battle 
 ensued, in which neither party could claim the victory. 
 
 The earliest military transaction among the Saxons, connected with this 
 county, and recorded by our historians, is a battle at Bampton, (Beamdune,) 
 in which Cynegilsus, King of the West Saxons, vanquished the Britons 
 with great slaughter, in or about the year 614. Matthew of Westminster 
 relates, that Exeter being held by Brien, nephew of Cad wallo, the last British 
 King, was besieged by Penda, King of Mercia, in 633 ; and that Cad- 
 wallo, who had some time before been obliged to leave his kingdom, by 
 the success of the Saxons, returned ; and having collected an army, fought 
 a battle with Penda, whom he vanquished near Exeter, and relieved the 
 town. After this, we find nothing in the historians, relating to Devon- 
 shire before the Danish invasions, which are spoken of with the greatest 
 horror. 
 
 Some modern writers have erroneously supposed, that the first landing 
 of the Danes was at Teignmouth, having been led into the mistake by the 
 similarity of name. On consulting the ancient historians, it will be very 
 evident, that it was at Tinemouth, in Northumberland, where they first 
 landed, in 787. Their first ravages were in the north of England. 
 
 The Danes appear to have been in Devonshire during part of the years 
 876, 877, and 878. e It may be collected from the Saxon Chronicle, and 
 Matthew of Westminster, that they wintered in Exeter both in 876, and 
 877 ; and that in 877 Alfred besieged them in that town. It is said, that 
 they betook themselves to their fortress, where they were secure from his 
 attacks ; but that they soon afterwards (straightened probably for want of 
 provisions) made their peace, and gave the King such hostages as he 
 required. 
 
 In S78, Hubba, the brother of Halfden, made a descent on the north 
 coast with 23 ships, and landed at Appledore. The Saxons gave him 
 battle, and he was defeated with the loss of above 800 men, and the Danish 
 standard of the raven. f In 894, the Danes landed in Devonshire, besieged 
 
 « Sax. Chron. Asserius. Mat. West. Hen. Huntingdon, &c. ' Sax. Chron. 
 
 Exeter 
 
vi DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Exeter and another fortified town ; but, on the approach of Alfred's army, 
 fled to their ships. s In or about the year 926, Athelstan is supposed to 
 have vanquished Howell, King of Cornwall, near Exeter, and to have ex- 
 pelled the Britons, who then inhabited that town jointly with the Saxons, 
 beyond the Tamar. It was probably about this time, that Athelstan kept 
 his Christmas at Exeter, which he appears to have done when he made his 
 celebrated laws at that place. h In 937 is said to have happened, near 
 Axminster, the most bloody conflict which had ever been known in Eng- 
 land, between King Athelstan, accompanied by his brother Edmund, against 
 the Kings of Ireland and Scotland confederated with the Danes, in which 
 Athelstan was victorious. The relation so exactly corresponds with that 
 of a battle, said by the historians to have taken place in 937> or 938, in 
 Northumberland, that it must have been one and the same event, whatever 
 may be decided as to its locality. In part of an old French chronicle, 
 printed in Leland's Collectanea, it is said that the enemy landed at Seaton, 
 and that the battle began at Brunedune, near Colyton, and continued to 
 Axminster, then called Bronebury. ' The cartulary of Newenham Abbey, 
 in Axminster, relates also that the battle began near Colyton, (Kaletyne,) 
 and continued to Colecroft, under Axminster ; and that Athelstan founded 
 a collegiate minster of priests to pray for the souls of the earls and others, 
 slain in the battle. In the old chronicle above mentioned, the slaughter is 
 described as immense : five of the leaders slain are there called Kings ; 
 these with eight earls, and others, are said to have been buried in the 
 cemetery at Axminster. 
 
 William of Malmsbury speaks of the Danes having laid waste Devon- 
 shire, and burnt Exeter, in the reign of King Ethelred. " In the year 
 997> (during the same reign,) they came up the Tamar, and ravaged the 
 country as far as Lidford. ' Tavistock abbey was burnt by them during 
 this inroad." In 1001, the Danes, having landed at Exmouth, marched to 
 Exeter, which they besieged, but being disappointed in their attempt to 
 
 f Mat. West, and Sax. Chron. >> See Jo. Brompton, in Dec. Scrip, i. 850. 
 
 1 The Saxon Chronicle describes the battle as fought at Brunanburh, which Camden sup- 
 poses to be Ford, near Bromeridge, in Northumberland. Taking the whole into consideration, 
 it seems most probable, that Axminster, of which Branbury is said to have been the ancient 
 name, was the site of this great conflict. The name of Axminster evidently arose from the 
 n:inster, founded in consequence of this battle near the river Axe. 
 
 k Scrip, post. Bedam. 35. ■ Sax. Chron. Sim. Dunelm. J. Bromton. Mat. West. 
 
 m Sax. Chron. Mat. West. 
 
 gain 
 
DEVONSHIRE. vii 
 
 gain possession of it, they laid waste the surrounding country. n At 
 Pinhoe, they were encountered by Cola, the King's commander-in-chief, 
 with such forces as he could hastily collect : the Danes were victorious ; 
 and the day after the battle burnt Pinhoe, Broad Clist, and other neigh- 
 bouring villages. They then returned with a great spoil to their ships. 
 In the year 1003, the Danes again landed at Exmouth, and besieging 
 Exeter, took it through the treachery or negligence of the governor, and 
 nearly destroyed the town. p 
 
 In IO67, Exeter held out against King William, but was yielded on the 
 approach of the monarch with his army. Q The next year, Godwin and 
 Edmund, sons of Harold, having landed in Somersetshire, committed great 
 spoil in Devon and Cornwall. r In 1069, the disaffected Saxons having 
 taken up arms in Devonshire, attempted to possess themselves of Exeter, 
 but the citizens, mindful of what had happened in IO67, refused to admit 
 them : the King sent some forces to their relief, by whom the Saxons were 
 defeated with great slaughter. ' 
 
 It appears by the Domesday survey, that, not long before that survey 
 was taken, Thurlestone, Portlemouth, West Allington, Collaton-Prawle, 
 East Sewer, and other manors on the southern coast, were laid waste 
 by the Irish. Upon the accession of William Rufus, the favourers of 
 Robert, Duke of Normandy, took up arms, and Exeter was then laid waste 
 by Robert Eitz-Baldwin. ' Soon after Stephen came to the crown, in 1137, 
 Exeter Castle being held against him by Baldwin de Rivers, Earl of Devon, 
 underwent a long siege, and was at length surrendered to the King, the 
 garrison having been reduced to the greatest distress for want of water. 
 Some knights, who held Plympton Castle for the Earl, entered in the mean 
 time into treaty with the King for the surrender of that fortress ; and a 
 party of 200 men being sent to take possession of it, destroyed the castle, 
 and laid waste all the Earl's extensive manors, 1 
 
 Until the middle of the fiftenth century we find few events relating to 
 this county, and those connected with the sea-coast. The French made 
 several attacks upon the maritime towns, burning and plundering Teign- 
 mouth, Plymouth, and others/ During one of these attacks in 1404, 
 
 " Sim. Dunelm. Mat. West. • Sax. Chron. p Sax. Chron. Sim. Dunelm. 
 
 1 Ordericus Vitalis. ' Stowe. » Ordericus Vitalis. 
 
 • Ralph de Diceto. « Gesta Stephani, inter Norman. Scrip. 
 
 * Teignmouth, 1350 (Stowe). Plymouth in 1338, 1377, 1400, and 1403. Holinshed, &c. 
 
 they 
 
viii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 they were repulsed by the country people near Dartmouth ; Monsieur 
 Castell, their commander, with several others, being slain, and many 
 prisoners of rank taken. y The Lord of Pomiers burnt several towns in 
 Devon, in 1457. z It might be mentioned also that the Black Prince, 
 returning from his victorious expedition into France, in 1356, landed at 
 Plymouth with his illustrious prisoners, King John, and the Dauphin of 
 France. 1 
 
 During the civil wars between the houses of York and Lancaster, this 
 county was much divided ; and although we have no record of any battle 
 fought in it, yet it appears that bloodshed sometimes ensued between 
 the partisans of the two houses. The roll of parliament, of the year 
 1455, speaks of several riots and murders committed in the west by 
 the Earl of Devon and Lord Bonville, who were near neighbours, the 
 former being a Lancastrian, and the latter a Yorkist. Some writers mention 
 a duel which took place that year between these noblemen on Clist Heath : 
 it was rather a combat, for they fought attended by numerous retainers, 
 who engaged in the conflict ; and several persons were killed on either 
 side. Lord Bonville was victorious, and the gates of Exeter were opened 
 to him and his party. b 
 
 In the year 1469, Lord Fitzwarren, Lord Dinham, and Lord Carew, 
 being assembled with a great force at Exeter, where the Duchess of 
 Clarence also then was, they were besieged by Hugh Courtenay, Earl of 
 Devon. The siege was raised by the mediation of the members of the 
 church. Shortly afterwards, happened the battle of Loosecote, in which 
 the Lancastrians were worsted. The Duke of Clarence and the Earl of 
 Warwick, retiring into Devonshire, sailed from Dartmouth to Calais : 
 about four months afterwards, returning to England with reinforcements, 
 they landed at Exmouth, Dartmouth, and Plymouth. A short time 
 before the battle of Tewksbury, in 1472, the Lancastrian forces from 
 Cornwall and Devonshire, under the command of Sir John Arundell and 
 Sir Hugh Courtenay', mustered at Exeter, whence they marched to the 
 fatal field. 
 
 In 1497, the Cornish rebels appeared before Exeter, but being repulsed 
 by the citizens, marched forwards towards Somersetshire. The same year 
 Exeter was besieged by Perkin Warbeck : the siege was raised by Edward 
 
 y Walsingham. r Stowe. a Walsingham. 
 
 b Holinshed. ' Ibid. 
 
 Courtenay, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ix 
 
 Courtenay, Earl of Devon, attended by several Devonshire knights, with 
 the posse comitatus: Warbeck and his followers marched towards 
 Taunton. d 
 
 In the year 1549, some serious commotions arose in Devonshire, occa- 
 sioned by the change of religion. It first broke out at Sampford Court- 
 enay on Whit-Monday, the day after the act for reforming the church- 
 service had been put in force. At first only some of the lower orders were 
 engaged, and they compelled the priest to say mass as had been accus- 
 tomed. By degrees the commotion began to assume a more serious 
 aspect, and the disaffected assembled all over this county and Cornwall. 
 Sir Peter and Sir Gawen Carew were then sent to quell the disturb- 
 ances. The rebels who had assembled at Crediton made trenches at 
 the town's end, and fortified some barns, which being set fire to by a 
 servant of Sir Hugh Pollard, they quitted the town and fled. This served 
 as a fresh cause for exasperating the people, who rose soon afterwards at 
 St. Mary Clist, and fortified that village and the bridge. They stopped 
 all the highways, and took several gentlemen of the country prisoners. 
 Ere long they were joined by some of the discontented gentry of 
 Devon and Cornwall, among whom were Sir Thomas Pomeroy, Mr. Berry, 
 and Mr. Coffin, of Devonshire, and Mr. Humphrey Arundell, and Mr. 
 Winslade of Cornwall. On the 2d of July, they began to besiege Exeter : 
 previously to this they had sent up to the King certain articles to 
 which they demanded his assent. An answer to these demands, dis- 
 cussing the subjects of complaint at considerable length, but refusing 
 to comply with their demands, and exhorting them to return to their 
 allegiance, was drawn up by the council on the 8th of July, and sent to 
 the rebels, but without effect. c Lord ltussell having been sent to suppress 
 the rebellion, marched into Devonshire with a considerable force, by way 
 of Honiton : here he was quartered for some time, during which he defeated 
 a body of the Cornish rebels near Feniton bridge, in which action Sir 
 Gawen Carew was wounded. Lord Russell being joined by some rein- 
 forcements under Lord Grey, on the 3d of August encamped on Wood- 
 bury down, and defeated a body of the rebels near the windmill. After 
 this, the rebels mustered from all quarters at Bishop's Clist, where they 
 entrenched themselves, and fortified the bridge. Lord Russell having at- 
 
 d Holinshed. 
 
 c These papers are printed at full length in Fox's Acts and Monuments, and in Holinshed's 
 Chronicle. 
 
 Vol. VI. b tacked 
 
x DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 tacked them in their trenches: the rebels were for a while successful ; Sir 
 William Francis was slain, and the waggons with the royal treasure and 
 ammunition taken ; but the success was of short duration. Clist town 
 was set on fire by the King's forces, the bridge recovered, and the rebels 
 repulsed with great slaughter. They mustered again, being reinforced 
 from all quarters, upon Clist Heath, where they were totally defeated. The 
 siege of Exeter was in consequence raised, after it had been reduced to the 
 greatest distress. Lord Russell entered it, to the great joy of the inhabit- 
 ants, on the 6th of August. Arundell, Winslade, Berry, and most of 
 the ringleaders were taken and executed. Sir Thomas Pomeroy, who was 
 also taken prisoner to London, appears to have made his peace. Sir Peter 
 and Sir Gawen Carew and others were rewarded with the rebels' lands. f 
 In 1554, Mary being then Queen, we find Sir Peter and Sir Gawen Carew 
 up in arms to oppose the coming of Philip King of Spain, and we are 
 told that they took possession of the city and castle of Exeter. g It does 
 not appear what was the event of this insurrection, or whether the authors 
 of it suffered any punishment. Sir Peter and Sir Gawen Carew were both 
 living in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 At the commencement of the civil war, in the seventeenth century, the 
 whole of the county of Devon was in the hands of the committees, and 
 the majority of the inhabitants, particularly in the north part of the county, 
 attached to the cause of the parliament. " The important post of Plymouth, 
 during the absence of its governor, Sir Jacob Astley, whom the King 
 had appointed his Major-General of foot, was seized by the townsmen and 
 strongly fortified. The Earl of Ruthen was soon afterwards made governor. 
 Exeter was garrisoned by the parliament in October, 1612, and was the 
 head-quarters of their General, the Earl of Stamford. ' The head-quarters 
 of the small force which the royalists then had in Devon was at 
 Plympton. k In the month of December, Modbury castle, then held by 
 its owner, Mr. Champernowne, was taken by the Plymouth garrison. ' 
 About the beginning of the year 1643, we find Sir George Chudleigh, an 
 active officer for the parliament, stationed at Tavistock with some troops 
 of horse raised in the county. m 
 
 f These particulars are taken from Hoker, who was living at Exeter during the time of 
 the siege. 
 
 s Stowe. I do not find this circumstance mentioned in any of the annals of Exeter. 
 
 h Clarendon's History, ii. 128. ' Vicars's Parliamentary Chronicle, i. 172. 
 
 k Vicars's Parliamentary Chronicle, 226. ' Ibid. m Clarendon, ii. 130. 
 
 After 
 
DEVONSHIRE. xi 
 
 After the defeat of the parliamentary army at Bradock-down, nearLiskeard, 
 on the 19th of January, the royalists having taken Saltash, quartered them- 
 selves at Tavistock ; and Sir John Berkeley made incursions into various 
 parts of Devon, dispersing the parliamentarians in all directions. In 
 one of these expeditions, Mr. Sidney Godolphin was killed at Chag- 
 ford. " In the month of February, Sir Nicholas Slanning being entrenched 
 at Modbury with 2000 men, was defeated by the Devonshire clubmen, 
 and Sir Ralph Hopton, who had stationed himself before Plymouth, was 
 driven from his quarters by the Earl of Stamford. ° About this time a 
 treaty of peace for the counties of Devon and Cornwall was set on foot, 
 and a cessation of hostilities was agreed on. A general treaty was talked 
 of not long afterwards, but all conciliatory efforts proved ineffectual. 
 
 On the 25th of April, Major-General James Chudleigh, son of Sir George, 
 at that time an active officer for the parliament, and acting as com- 
 mander-in-chief for the Earl of Stamford, then laid up with the gout, 
 being on his return from an unsuccessful attempt upon Launceston, with 
 a small force, fell in with Sir Ralph Hopton's army on a down near 
 Bridestowe, which Vicars calls Reber-down, and Lord Clarendon, Bradock- 
 down, and totally defeated them. Lord Clarendon, who speaks of this 
 as a night-skirmish, says that it was the only interruption given to the 
 victorious progress of the Cornish army. Vicars, who describes it as a 
 brilliant action, proposes that a pyramid should be erected to commemorate 
 it, and offers an inscription, in which he states that only 108 of the par- 
 liamentary soldiers were engaged in the action. About the middle of 
 May, the Earl of Stamford marched into Cornwall, where the parlia- 
 mentary army was defeated at the battle of Stratton, on the 16th. Major- 
 General Chudleigh, who was accused of treacherous conduct in this 
 action, was taken prisoner. Induced, as it is said, by the kindness of his 
 captors, and the unjust accusations of his own party, he went over to the 
 royalists, and was killed at the siege of Dartmouth, under Prince Maurice, 
 on the 30th of September in the same year. 
 
 The King's forces, under Sir Ralph Hopton, called the Cornish army, 
 after the battle of Stratton marched into Devonshire, established some 
 small garrisons near Exeter, as a check upon that city, and advanced to 
 Tiverton, whence they dispossessed Colonel Weare. p 
 
 » Clarendon. ° Vicars, i. 271. 
 
 p John Were, Esq., of Halberton, who died in 1658. 
 
 b 2 Later 
 
xii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Later in the summer, we are told, that the King had no force in this 
 county, except a small garrison at Columbjohn, the seat of Sir John 
 Acland, which was some check upon the garrison at Exeter. q Sir John 
 Berkeley was then sent into Devonshire with a regiment of horse, to 
 take the command of the King's forces, to recruit their numbers, and 
 take measures for blockading Exeter. After the capture of Bristol, Prince 
 Maurice was sent down into the west as commander-in-chief. He found 
 Sir John Berkeley's forces, much augmented by new levies from the 
 country, straitly besieging Exeter, with his guards close to the gates. ' 
 The parliamentary Admiral, the Earl of Warwick, attempting to relieve 
 the city, took a fort of the King's at Apsham, (Topsham,) and brought 
 some ships up the river, but the attempt was unsuccessful ; three of the 
 ships being left by the falling of the tide, two of them were taken, and 
 one burnt. ' About the same time the parliament, who had a strong fort 
 at Appledore, garrisoned Barnstaple and Bideford ; their power being 
 thus strengthened in the north of the county, Colonel John Digby was 
 sent thither by the King with a regiment of horse. He fixed his quarters 
 at Torrington, where he soon procured reinforcements from Cornwall. 
 While stationed there, he was attacked by a considerable force from the 
 above-mentioned garrisons, under the command of Colonel Bennet. Colo- 
 nel Digby, whose force was much inferior, taking advantage of a sudden 
 panic which had seized the parliamentary soldiers at the commencement of 
 the skirmish, obtained an easy victory, and within a few days, in the 
 beginning of September, Appledore fort, Barnstaple, and Bideford, were 
 surrendered. ' 
 
 The tide of success now ran high for the King in the west. Exeter 
 was surrendered on the 4th. u Colonel Digby was sent with a consider- 
 able force to block up Plymouth, and it was supposed that if Prince 
 Maurice had then marched thither with his army, it would have sur- 
 rendered. About this time Sir Alexander Carew, who commanded 
 the fort and island of St. Nicholas at this port, formed a design of 
 betraying it to the royalists, but his intentions having been discovered, he 
 was taken prisoner, sent to London, and beheaded on Tower Hill. Prince 
 Maurice having been advised to attack Dartmouth, which was esteemed 
 an easy conquest, marched thither, but found himself so far deceived in 
 his expectation, that it was not till after a month's siege, during which 
 
 i Clarendon/ii. 281. * Clarendon. ' Printed letter. 
 
 ' Clarendon, Heath,' &c. n Dugdale and Whitelocke. 
 
 he 
 
DEVONSHIRE. xiii 
 
 he lost great numbers of his men by sickness *, that this garrison was surrend- 
 ered (on the 4th of October y ). The Prince then proceeded to Plymouth, 
 which in the mean time had received great reinforcements, whilst his own 
 army had been so much diminished. After a short time, Prince Maurice 
 left Colonel Digby in the command of the besieging army. The siege or 
 blockade of Plymouth was carried on for many months with various 
 success. Mount Stamford was taken by the royalists on the 6th of Novem- 
 ber, two assaults were made in the month of December with little success, 
 and the siege was then for a while abandoned. z Sir Richard Grenville 
 made several attempts upon Plymouth in the spring of 1644. About the 
 beginning of April he was defeated by Colonel Martin, the governor of St. 
 JBudeaux, and two companies were taken prisoners in the church. a 
 
 No military transaction took place in Devonshire this year, except 
 before Plymouth, till the arrival of the Earl of Essex with his army in 
 July. About this time, Barnstaple being left with a small garrison, the 
 townsmen rose and took possession of it. Prince Maurice sent Colonel 
 Digby to the relief of the garrison, but his party was repulsed by Lord 
 Roberts and Sir R. Stapleton, sent by the Earl of Essex to support 
 the townsmen. b The Earl of Essex fixed his quarters for a considerable 
 time at Tiverton : soon after his arrival, the Queen, who had been at 
 at Exeter since the month of April, and had lain in there, quitted that 
 city, and retired to France. Prince Maurice was with his army at 
 Oakhampton in the beginning of July : thence he marched to Creditor], 
 but quitted it on the approach of the Earl of Essex, and removed to 
 Heavitree c , near Exeter, then the chief royal garrison in the west. Soon 
 afterwards he appeared before Plymouth, but after a short stay he raised 
 the siege, and left the charge of the blockade to Sir Richard Grenville. 
 About the end of this month, Lord Henry Percy, who held Colyton for 
 the King, was dispossessed by the parliamentary garrison from Lyme. " 
 About this time Whitelocke speaks of a skirmish between a party of 
 Lord Essex's horse and Lord Pawlet, at Cheriton, in which- Lord 
 Pawlet having suffered much loss retreated to Exeter. e About this time 
 also the Earl of Essex, by the advice of Lord Roberts, determined to 
 march with his army into Cornwall : upon his approach Sir Richard Gren- 
 
 * Clarendon. r Dugdale and Whitelocke. z Vicars iii. 111. 
 
 > Vicars, iii. 215. » Ibid. iii. 265, 266. 
 
 c Walker's Historical Discourses, p. 42 J Vicars, in. 296. 
 
 « Page 92. 
 
 ville 
 
xiv DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 ville retired from before Plymouth ; the Earl re-captured Mount Stamford, 
 took the royal garrison at Plympton, and Sir Richard Grenville's house 
 at Tavistock. f The King having determined to follow Essex into the 
 west, fixed his quarters on the 25th of July at Honiton ; on the 26th 
 lie came to Exeter, where he first saw his daughter Henrietta Maria ; 
 on the 27th, he reviewed Prince Maurice's forces at Crediton ; on the 
 30th, he was with his army at Oakhampton ; on the 31st at Lifton : thence 
 he marched into Cornwall, by way of Polston bridge. s 
 
 The particulars of the success of this expedition, and the dispersion of 
 the army of the Earl of Essex, have been spoken of in the History of 
 Cornwall. The Earl of Essex and Lord Roberts escaped to Plymouth, 
 and the latter was made governor of that garrison. A few days before the 
 capitulation of Essex's army, Colonel Middleton had arrived at Tiverton. 
 (August 29.) Sir William Balfour, with the fugitive horse, was quartered 
 at Egg Buckland ", on his route from Cornwall ; and we soon afterwards 
 find him skirmishing with Sir John Berkeley at Tiverton, of which town 
 Sir John had then possession. The King was at Tavistock with his army, 
 on his return from Cornwall, on the 8th of September ; and thence he sent 
 a message to parliament on the 9th. Accompanied by his nephew, Prince 
 Maurice, he then invested Plymouth, and summoned the town. On its 
 refusing to surrender, after holding a council of war, it was determined 
 not to attempt an assault, and the blockade was again committed to the 
 charge of Sir Richard Grenville. The King returned with his army to 
 Tavistock on the 14th, and marched thence to Oakhampton on the 16th ; 
 on the 17th they arrived at Exeter, and the army was quartered about 
 Bradninch, Crediton, &c. On the 23d they halted at Honiton, on their 
 route eastward. ' During the month of October, Ufracombe was taken 
 for the King by Sir Erancis Doddington ; Barnstaple surrendered to 
 General Goring on the 17th. k Sir Richard Cholmondeley, who had been 
 left at Axminster with a party of horse, was attacked by some parliament- 
 ary forces, and slain in the skirmish. 1 
 
 In the month of January, 1645, Sir Richard Grenville made an assault 
 on Plymouth, in which some of the outworks were taken, but recovered 
 afterwards by the garrison, and the royalists repulsed with great loss. 
 
 f Vicars. s Walker's Historical Discourses, p. 45 — 49. h Walker. 
 
 1 Walker's Historical Discourses, whence all the dates and facts relating to the King's 
 progress are taken. 
 
 * Walker, p. 86. ' Ibid. 87. 
 
 About 
 
DEVONSHIRE. xv 
 
 About the same time, Sydenham House, a garrison of the King's, in the 
 parish of Maristow, was taken by Colonel Holborn. ra In February, the 
 garrison at Plymouth gained fresh advantages ; Mount Stamford was re- 
 taken on the 18th, and Sir Richard Grenville defeated on the 24th. n Sir 
 Richard was superseded in his command, and the blockade entrusted to 
 Sir John Berkeley, in the montli of June. In the same month, Prince 
 Charles was resident for a while at Barnstaple, and there heard the tid- 
 ings of the fatal battle of Naseby. ° Whitelocke relates, that, in September, 
 1645, the clubmen of Devon declared for the parliament. 
 
 From this time, nothing but a series of disastrous events happened to 
 the royal party in Devonshire : nor is it to be wondered at, that these dis- 
 asters should have been hastened by the cruelties and oppressions of Sir 
 Richard Grenville, the licentious conduct of Lord Goring, and the dis- 
 sensions between all the King's generals. p 
 
 Lord Goring having been defeated by Sir Thomas Fairfax, in Somerset- 
 shire, had retired to Barnstaple in the month of July. The Prince was at 
 Exeter in August and September. In the latter month the blockade ot 
 Plymouth was again entrusted to General Digby. 
 
 In the midst of the various dissensions which prevailed among the royal 
 cenerals in the west, Sir Thomas Fairfax, commander-in-chief of the 
 parliamentary army, entered Devonshire, and pursued his victorious career, 
 till he had reduced every town and fortress in the county. Lord Goring, 
 who had been quartered at Poltimore, with 1500 horse, retired into Exeter : 
 he afterwards removed to Newton Bushell, Totnes, and Dartmouth. From 
 the latter place, having quitted his command, he sailed to France. 
 
 Sir Thomas Fairfax having entered Devon, halted at Honiton on the 
 14th of October. The King's forces, which were stationed at Ottery St. 
 Mary, Collumpton, &c, retreated. On the 15th, General Massey was 
 sent forwards to besiege Tiverton. Fairfax advanced with his army to 
 Bradninch on the 16th ; and on the 18th, he advanced in person to the 
 sie-e of Tiverton. The next day, the church and castle were stormed 
 and taken. After the reduction of Tiverton, the General and his army 
 removed to Silverton, which they reached on the 20th; on the 22d, they 
 
 - Vicars, iv. 96. » Ibid. iv. 112. • Clarendon. ? Ibid 
 
 i Sprigge's England's Recovery, whence most of the events relating to the exped.tion ot 
 
 Sir Thomas Fairfax are taken. 
 
 marched 
 
xvi DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 marched to Newton St. Cyres. They removed to Crediton on the 23d ; 
 on Sunday the 26th, again to Silverton ; and on the 27th, to Topsham. 
 
 Poltimore, Bishop's Clist, and Stoke Canon, were made garrisons for 
 the parliament. From the 19th of November to the 6th of December, 
 Fairfax's army was quartered at O ttery St. Mary. During this time, a 
 great sickness prevailed there, to which, among others, Colonel Pickering, 
 a distinguished officer, fell a sacrifice. When Fairfax stationed his army at 
 Ottery, Sir Richard Grenville was with the King's forces at Oakhampton, 
 and had thrown up some entrenchments to secure himself in that town, 
 but about the end of November he retired into Cornwall. ' 
 
 Sir Thomas Fairfax removed his army to Tiverton on the 6th of 
 December. A council of war was held at that place on Sunday the 7th. 
 On the 8th, he took possession of Crediton, where Sir Hardress Waller 
 was left with some regiments of foot. During the month of December, 
 Sir Thomas Fairfax took three strong garrisons of the King's ; Fulford 
 House, Canon Teign, and Callyntyn House. s The command of Fulford 
 and Canon Teign was given to Colonel Okey. Powderham was at- 
 tempted, but at first without success : a temporary garrison was formed by 
 the besiegers in the church, and victualled from Nutwell House, a gar- 
 rison of the parliament, but soon evacuated. During the same month, 
 Colonel Okey had a skirmish with some of the King's forces near Chulm- 
 leigh, and took Lord Chichester's house at Eggesford. Sir Thomas Fairfax 
 held a rendezvous of his army at Cadbury fort, on the 26th of December. 
 Ashburton was taken on the 29th, and garrisoned for the parliament. 
 
 On the 1st or 2d of January, \6i6, Canterbury! fort, near Plymouth, 
 and St. Budeaux church and church-yard, both strongly fortified, were 
 taken by the garrison at Plymouth. ° Tiverton continued to be the head- 
 quarters of the parliamentary army till the 8th of January. About this 
 time, the principal strength of the King's forces in the west, except the 
 garrison at Exeter, was under the command of Lord Wentworth, and 
 stationed in the neighbourhood of Ashburton. On the Sth of January, 
 Fairfax marched with his army to Moreton ; the same day there was a 
 skirmish at Bow, in which Sir Hardress Waller took several prisoners. In the 
 
 ' Clarendon. 
 
 s I have not met with any account of a house of this name, nor can I learn where it was : 
 it is described in the Chronicles as situated on the river, west of Exeter. 
 
 • Kinterbury, in the parish of St. Budeaux. « Sprigge ; and Vicars, iv. 340. 
 
 evening 
 
DEVONSHIRE. xvii 
 
 evening of the 9th, Cromwell, with a detachment of the parliamentary 
 army, fell in with part of Lord Wentworth's brigade stationed at Bovey 
 Tracey, and dispersed them. Ilsington » church was for a while occupied 
 as a place of retreat by some of the fugitives, but quitted on Cromwell's 
 approach. On the 10th, Fairfax was with his army at Ashburton. 
 Prince Charles, who had been residing for some time at Tavistock, now 
 withdrew into Cornwall ; and about the same time the blockade of Ply- 
 mouth was wholly abandoned. z 
 
 On the 15th of January, when the King's cause was almost hopeless, 
 Lord Hopton was made commander-in-chief in the west. Totnes was 
 quitted on the approach of Sir Thomas Fairfax, who halted there on his 
 march to Dartmouth. On the 12th, he sent two regiments to besiege 
 that town, which was stormed by him in person on the 18th, when 
 it was taken with the castle, Townstall church, Mount Boone, and 
 King's Weare fort, assisted by the fleet under Admiral Batten. The 
 army moved onwards on the 19th. Charles fort, at Salcombe, was sum- 
 moned on the 23d, but held out some months longer. The army returned 
 to Totnes on the 21st, marched to Newton Bushell on the 24th, and to Chud- 
 leigh on the 25th. On that day, Powderham Castle was taken by Colonel 
 Hamond ; but it seems to have been retaken, and again garrisoned for 
 the King, since Vicars relates the surrender of that castle to Sir Hardress 
 Waller, about the end of March, and gives the particulars. Soon after 
 Colonel Hamond took Powderham, the royalists are said to have aban- 
 doned a garrison at St. Peter Byrne's. " Sir Thomas Fairfax summoned 
 Exeter on the 27th of January, without effect : after this he was diverted 
 to the north of Devon. Sir Hardress Waller began the blockade of 
 Exeter on the 9th of February. Barley House was garrisoned by him 
 during this month, and Reymouth House b , (within a mile of Exeter). 
 Colonel Shapcote began to blockade Exmouth fort. Alphington was the 
 head-quarters of the besieging army. c 
 
 Sir Thomas Fairfax was with his army at Crediton, from the 10th to 
 the 14th of February ; from thence he advanced, by way of Chulmleigh, 
 towards Torrington, in which town Lord Hopton had just established 
 
 >' Erroneously called Ellington. z Clarendon. 
 
 a Whitelocke. This must have been Mamhead, then Sir Peter Ball's. 
 
 ! ' I have not been able to hear of any house of this name, or at all resembling it, near 
 Exeter. c Sprigge. 
 
 Vol. VI. c his 
 
xviii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 his head-quarters. Having held a rendezvous of his army at Ash 
 Reigny on the morning of the 16th, and on his march taken Mr. Rolle's 
 house at Stevenstone, then occupied by a party of the King's dragoons, 
 on the same night he attacked Lord Hopton in his quarters, and totally 
 defeated his army. Lord Hopton and Lord Capel were both wounded in 
 the action. About 200 prisoners were the next day blown up in the 
 the church. i A thanksgiving was appointed for this victory, which in- 
 deed seems to have been the death-blow of the power of the royalists in 
 the west. 
 
 On the 17th of February, Sir Thomas Fairfax sent a party to take pos- 
 session of Holsworthy, then occupied by some of the King's forces : on 
 the 19th, he placed a garrison in Tawstock House, and returned to Ste- 
 venstone, the quarters at Torrington being inconvenient, on account of the 
 accident which had happened to the church. 
 
 On the 15th of March, Exmouth fort was surrendered. e On the 25th, 
 Sir Thomas Fairfax visited the garrison at Plymouth, and went thence to 
 Oakhampton : there he was met by the army from Launceston, which 
 halted in that town on the 28th. The next day the general advanced 
 with the army to Crediton, which he quitted on the 30th. At this 
 time Heavitree was occupied by the besieging army. On the 31st, Sir 
 Thomas Fairfax was at Columbjohn, the army being quartered at Silver- 
 ton. ' A treaty, relative to the surrender of Exeter, was begun at Polti- 
 more, on the 3d of April. Previously to the commencement of this treaty, 
 three forts had been delivered into the General's hands : St. Downes s , on 
 the north side of Exeter, Mount Radford, and a very large house in St. 
 Thomas's parish. The treaty was carried on till the 9th, on which day 
 the city was surrendered on articles, by Sir John Berkeley, the governor. 
 
 On the 10th of April, Sir Thomas Fairfax appeared before Barnstaple ; 
 and on the following day, that town and the castle were surrendered on 
 nearly the same terms as Exeter. " Sir Thomas Fairfax marched thence 
 to Exeter, which city he entered with his victorious army, on the 14th : 
 here he stayed till the 18th, when having incorporated the men raised by 
 Colonel Shapcote, Colonel Were, and Colonel Frye, into one regiment, 
 he left it to garrison the city, under the command of Colonel Hamond. 
 
 d Sprigge. e Vicars, iv. 404. ' Sprigge. 
 
 s Vicars, iv. 407. The fort of Dowries was in the parish of St. David. 
 '■' Sprigge. 
 
 Mount 
 
DEVONSHIRE. xix 
 
 Mount Edgecumbe surrendered to Colonel Hamond on the 21st of April. ' 
 This was the last garrison in Devonshire which held out for the King, 
 except Charles fort, at Salcombe Regis, which was defended by its gal- 
 lant governor, Sir Edmund Eortescue, till the beginning of June, when it 
 surrendered on honourable terms to Colonel Welden, the governor of 
 Plymouth. k 
 
 This county became memorable, in 1688, as having witnessed the firs*, 
 scenes of the happy revolution of that year. The Prince of Orange landed 
 at Torbay, on the 5th of November, and immediately rode to Ford, the 
 house of Sir William Courtenay, near Newton Abbot, where he stayed till 
 the 8th. ' On that day he made a public entry into Exeter m : the next 
 day he went to the cathedral, where he returned thanks for his safe arrival. 
 After Te Deum had been sung, the Prince's declaration was read by his 
 chaplain, Dr. Burnet, afterwards Bishop of Salisbury. The Prince re- 
 mained several days at Exeter, before any of the principal persons of the 
 county came in to him. An association is said to have been signed in 
 the cathedral on the 17th. On the 21st, the Prince quitted Exeter, ac- 
 companied by several gentlemen of Somersetshire and Devonshire ; and 
 having dined that day at Ottery, proceeded to Axminster, where he re- 
 mained four days. " A small garrison was placed at Exeter, under the 
 command of Sir Edward Seymour. 
 
 Teignmouth was burnt by the French in the year 1690.° It may be here 
 mentioned, that the great military hero of that day, the Duke of Marlbo- 
 rough, was a native of Devonshire, having been born at Ash, in the parish 
 of Musbury, the seat of his maternal grandfather, Sir John Drake. 
 
 In the year 1719, in consequence of the great preparations made by the 
 French, for the invasion of England, several regiments of horse and foot 
 were sent into Devonshire, and there was an encampment on Clist heath. ? 
 
 In the year 1779, the combined fleets having appeared off" Plymouth 
 caused a great alarm, especially on account of the dock-yard, and the 
 
 I Whitelocke, 207. 
 
 k See Whitelocke, who says June I., and Vicars (iv. 436.), who speaks of the surrender as 
 having happened about the 3d. 
 
 1 Tract printed in the Harleian Miscellany, vol. i. p. 438. 
 
 m The account of the procession, quoted in p. 188. of the Parochial History, was originally 
 printed in this tract, in 1688. 
 
 n See the above-mentioned tract. 
 
 See the account of that place. p Jenkins. 
 
 c 2 numerous 
 
XX 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 numerous prisoners of war then collected at that port. The prisoners were 
 removed to Exeter ; and William Bastard, Esq., of Kitley, who had, Avith 
 great spirit, on the first appearance of danger, raised a corps of volunteers, 
 commanded them on their march. For his active and prompt exertions upon 
 this occasion, the King, without any previous communication of his design, 
 ordered a baronet's patent to be made out for him. The citizens of Exeter 
 also raised a corps of volunteers to guard the prisoners, who were con- 
 fined in the county Bridewell, given up by the justices for that purpose. 
 Several regiments of volunteers were raised in Devon during the expect- 
 ation of a French invasion, in 179S ; and the following year, cannon were 
 brought from Plymouth for the defence of Exeter, and a camp was formed 
 on Woodbury down, the park of artillery being stationed within the an- 
 cient entrenchment. These preparations were repeated in 1803, and a 
 camp again formed on Woodbury down, Lieut.-General Simcoe having 
 the chief command of the district. 
 
 Civil Division of the County. 
 
 In the Exeter survey of Domesday, we find mention of at least 3S 
 hundreds into which Devonshire was then divided. At p. 59. of the printed 
 survey occurs a list of the hundreds, with the number of hides in each, 
 but in this list some hundreds are omitted, which are mentioned in p. 56. 
 and 57. The list from p. 59- to p. 65. contains 30 hundreds, with the 
 number of hides in each as follows : 
 
 Hundreds. 
 
 No. of Hides. 
 
 Hundreds. 
 
 No. of Hides. 
 
 Hundreds. 
 
 No. of Hides. 
 
 Alleridge <i 
 
 40 
 
 Culintone 
 
 f 25 and 3 
 \ virgates. 
 
 Plintone 
 
 25 
 
 Axemenistre 
 
 50 
 
 Sutmoltone 
 
 22 
 
 Axemuda 
 
 f9andl 
 
 |_virgate. 
 
 Dippeforde 
 
 38 
 
 Sulfertone 
 
 52 
 
 
 Esseministre 
 
 50 
 
 Taintone 
 
 30 
 
 Badentone 
 
 25 
 
 Framintone 
 
 20 
 
 Tautone 
 
 42 
 
 Brauntoneandl 
 Scirewelle J 
 
 50 
 
 Hamioke 
 
 24 
 
 Twertone 
 
 20 
 
 Hasbertone r 
 
 18 }, 
 
 Toritone 
 
 34 
 
 Cadelintone 
 
 46 
 
 Hertilande 
 
 20" 
 
 Walchentone 
 
 25 
 
 Carsewille 
 
 50 
 
 Liftone 
 
 20 
 
 Wenfort 
 
 54 
 
 Chridiatone 
 
 20 
 
 Mertone 
 
 48 
 
 Witric 
 
 30 
 
 Clistone 
 
 27 
 
 Offecolum 
 
 14 
 
 
 
 In pages 56. and 57. we find mention of Budeleie, Clawetone, Herme- 
 tone, Hertesbie, Mollande, Otrie, Rueberge, Tainebruge, Tulvertone, 
 
 1 Probably Harrige, or Hayridge. 
 
 > At p. 57. written Halbreton. 
 
 and 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 xxi 
 
 and Wetrigge : supposing the two last to have been the same, as it is 
 probable they were, as Twertone (Tiverton), and Witric (Witheridge), 
 it will make the number, as before mentioned, 38. 
 
 In the Hundred Roll, temp. Edw. I., 32 hundreds are recorded, besides 
 the hundred of Lovetot, incidentally mentioned in p. 70. as appertaining 
 to the manor of Fremington, and co-extensive with that manor. 
 
 The others are 
 
 Axeministre 
 
 Exminstre 
 
 Axemue 
 
 Fremington 
 
 Baunton 
 
 Harrige 
 
 Blaka Toriton 
 
 Hauberton 
 
 Braunton 
 
 Haytorr 
 
 BudJele 
 
 Hemyok 
 
 Cliston 
 
 Hertilande 
 
 Colrige 
 
 Lifton 
 
 Cridiaton 
 
 Nortauton 
 
 Ermyntone 
 
 Plympton 
 
 Rouburg 
 
 Schefbeare 
 
 Stanburg 
 
 Sudmolton 
 
 Syrewell 
 
 Tavystoke 
 
 Teynebrugg or Tingebrugg 
 
 Womford or Wonford 
 
 Wynklegh 
 
 Wyrugg or "Wytherugg. 
 
 As the hundreds, in which the several manors are situated, are not spe- 
 cified either in the Exchequer or in the Exeter Domesday, it wou-ld be 
 impossible to ascertain the respective situations or contents of the ancient 
 hundreds, whose names are not now retained. Carswelle, Dippeforde, 
 and Mertone, probably occupied nearly the same situation as Haytorr, 
 Stanborough, and Shebbeare, which are not in the Domesday list ; Ax- 
 minster and Axmouth have been united in one, sometime called the 
 hundred of Axminster and Axmouth, but now generally Axminster only. 
 
 The names of the modern hundreds, 33 in number % with their re- 
 spective lords, are given in the following table : — 
 
 Axminster 
 
 s The county is divided into three districts, called the North, East, and South divisions, in 
 which the hundreds are thus distributed : 
 
 North. 
 
 Witheridge 
 North Taw ton 
 Black Torrington 
 Shebbear 
 Winkleigh 
 Hart] and 
 Sherwell 
 South Molton 
 Braunton 
 Fremington. 
 
 East. 
 
 Hay ridge 
 
 Hemyocke 
 
 Tiverton 
 
 Bampton 
 
 Halberton 
 
 East Budleigh 
 
 Colyton 
 
 Axminster 
 
 Cliston 
 
 Ottery St. Mary. 
 
 South. 
 
 Stanborough 
 
 Coleridge 
 
 Wonford 
 
 Haytor 
 
 West Budleigh 
 
 Plympton 
 
 Tavistock 
 
 Lifton 
 
 Crediton 
 
 Teignbridge 
 
 Exminster 
 
 Ermington 
 
 Roborough. 
 
xxu 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Axminster - - Lord Petre. 
 
 Bampton - - Honourable Newton Fellowes 
 
 Black Torrington - G. P. M. Young, Esq. 
 
 Braunton - - Lord Rolle. 
 
 Cliston - - Sir T. D. Acland, Bart. 
 
 Coleridge - - Earl Morley. 
 
 Colyton - - Sir William Templer Pole, Bart. 
 
 Crediton - - Benjamin Cleave, Esq. 
 
 East Budleigh - Lord Rolle. 
 
 Ermington - - John Bulteel, Esq. 
 
 Exminster - - Lord Viscount Courtenay. 
 
 Fremington - - G. A. Barbor, Esq. 
 
 Halberton - - Richard Hall Clarke, Esq. 
 
 Hartland - - Rev. T. H. Morrison. 
 
 Hayridge - - Albany Savile, Esq., M. P. 
 
 Haytor - - Mrs. Dorothy Brown, widow. 
 
 Hemiock - - Mrs. Simcoe, widow of General Simcoe. 
 
 Lifton - - W. A. Harris, Esq. 
 
 North Tawton - Honourable Newton Fellowes. 
 
 Ottery - - Rev. Samuel How. 
 
 Plympton - - Earl Morley. 
 
 Roborough - - Sir M. M. Lopes, Bart. 
 
 Shebbear - - The Sheriff of Devon for the time being. 
 
 Sherwell - - Sir Arthur Chichester, Bart. 
 
 South Molton - Earl Fortescue. 
 
 Stanborough - - John Bulteel, Esq. 
 
 Tavistock - - The Duke of Bedford. 
 
 Teignbridge - - Lord Clifford. 
 
 Tiverton - - Sir Henry Carew, Bart. 
 
 West Budleigh - Albany Savile, Esq., M.P. 
 
 Winkleigh - - Sir T. B. Lethbridge, Bart. 
 
 Witheridge - - Honourable Newton Fellowes. 
 
 Wonford - - Albany Savile, Esq., M. P. 
 
 Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Division of the County. 
 
 Upon the ecclesiastical division of the kingdom, which took place in 
 703 ', Devonshire formed part of the diocese of Sherbourne. About the 
 year 910 this diocese was subdivided, and Devonshire constituted a diocese of 
 itself, the bishop having his see at Crediton. About the year 1040 the bishop- 
 ric of Cornwall was united to it, at the solicitation of Livingus, the bishop 
 of Devonshire. His successor, Bishop Leofric, in 1050, removed the see 
 from Crediton to Exeter, where it has ever since continued. The diocese 
 is divided into four archdeaconries, of which Cornwall is one. Devon- 
 shire is divided into the archdeaconries of Exeter, Barnstaple, and Totnes, 
 and subdivided into 23 deaneries, which are thus distributed : — 
 
 Ayles- 
 1 Before this period, the whole southern part of the kingdom, from Kent to the extremity 
 of Cornwall, was under one bishop. 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 XX1U 
 
 Archdeaconry of Exeter. 
 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 Cadbury 
 
 Christianity or Exeter 
 
 Dunkeswell 
 
 Dunsford 
 
 Honiton 
 
 Kenne 
 
 Plymtree 
 
 Tiverton. 
 
 Archdeaconry of Barnstaple. 
 
 Barum or Barnstaple 
 
 Chulmleigh 
 
 Hertland 
 
 Shirwell 
 
 South Molton 
 
 Torrington. 
 
 Archdeaconry of Totnea. 
 
 Holsworthy 
 
 Ipplepen 
 
 Moreton 
 
 Okehampton 
 
 Tamerton 
 
 Tavistock 
 
 Totton or Totnes 
 
 Woodleigh. 
 
 Camden, from Wolsey's list, makes the number of parishes in this county 
 to be 394. u Including subordinate or daughter churches, the chapelries 
 belonging to which are now esteemed and called separate parishes, the pre- 
 sent number is 4-7 1 ; and I cannot understand how it should ever have been so 
 small as 394, since that of the chapelries, just spoken of, does not exceed 41 . 
 Two ancient parishes, Wolverchurch or Wolford church, and Sticklepath, 
 formerly rectories, are now wholly annihilated as parishes, nor are they even 
 deemed chapelries, although there is a chapel at Sticklepath, at which 
 Divine service is occasionally performed. Rousedown has only a dilapidated 
 church ; Blackborough Bolhay, not even the ruins of a church. 
 
 Not taking into the account the 41 subordinate or daughter churches, the 
 number of benefices in the county is 430 ; of which 258 (a much greater 
 proportion than in some counties) are rectories ; 130 vicarages ; and 42 
 donatives or curacies. Of the two latter, 108 were appropriated to monas- 
 teries, and the tithes are now, for the most part, in lay hands. 
 
 Above 40 benefices have been appropriated, from early times, to eccle- 
 siastical bodies, in which they are still vested ; as the bishop, the dean 
 individually, the dean and chapter, the chancellor, precentor, and vicars 
 choral of Exeter cathedral, the churches of Windsor and Sarum, and 
 Eton college. 
 
 Six churches are in the peculiar jurisdiction of the bishop ; 22 (inclu- 
 ding eight daughter churches) in that of the dean and chapter ; one 
 (Braunton) in that of the dean ; one other (Woodbury) in that of the 
 vicars choral ; and one other (Uffculme) in that of the dean and chapter 
 of Sarum. 
 
 The office of dean rural is, in this diocese, an efficient office, the deans 
 rural being elected annually at the visitations. 
 
 u Westcote says, that there were only 381 parishes, in 1371, when the clergy voted the King 
 an aid of 50,000/., to be levied at so much each parish. 
 
 Table 
 
XXIV 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Table of Parishes. 
 
 Names of 
 Parishes. 
 
 Rectory 
 3r Vicar- 
 age. 
 
 Hundred. 
 
 Deanery. 
 
 Names of 
 Parishes. 
 
 Rectory 
 or Vicar- 
 age. 
 
 Hundred. 
 
 Deanery. 
 
 Abbotsham - 
 
 V. 
 
 Sbebbear 
 
 Hertland 
 
 Bittadon 
 
 R. 
 
 Braunton 
 
 Shirwell 
 
 EastAllington 
 
 R. 
 
 Stanborough 
 
 Woodleigh 
 
 Blackauton - 
 
 V. 
 
 Coleridge 
 
 Totton 
 
 West Ailing- 
 ton 
 
 1- 
 
 Stanborough 
 
 Woodleigh 
 
 Blackborough 
 Bolhayf - 
 
 }»■ 
 
 Hayridge 
 
 Plymtree 
 
 Alphington - 
 
 R. 
 
 Wonford 
 
 Kenne 
 
 North Bovey 
 
 R. 
 
 Teignbridge - 
 
 Moreton 
 
 Alverdiscott - 
 
 R. 
 
 Fremington - 
 
 Hertland 
 
 Bovey Tracey 
 
 V. 
 
 Teignbridge - 
 
 Moreton 
 
 Alwington 
 East Anstey - 
 
 R. 
 R. 
 
 Shebbear 
 South Molton 
 
 Hertland 
 South Molton 
 
 Bradford 
 
 "•{ 
 
 Black Tor-1 
 rington -J 
 
 Holsworthy 
 
 West Anstey - 
 
 V. 
 
 South Molton 
 
 South Molton 
 
 Bradninch 
 
 c. 
 
 Hayridge 
 
 Plymtree 
 
 Arlington 
 
 R. 
 
 Sherwill 
 
 Shirwell 
 
 Bradstone 
 
 R. 
 
 Lifton - 
 
 Tavistock 
 
 Asliburton 
 Ashbury - - 
 Ashcombe 
 
 V. jTeignbridge - 
 R f| Black Tor-1 
 "l rington -j 
 R. Exminster 
 
 Moreton 
 
 Okehampton 
 
 Kenne 
 
 Bradwortliy - 
 
 Brampford 
 Speke 
 
 K. 
 
 Black Tor-1 
 rington - j 
 
 Wonford 
 
 Holsworthy 
 Cadbury 
 
 Ashford - - 
 
 R. 
 
 Braunton 
 
 Shirwell 
 
 Branscomb 
 
 V. 
 
 Colyton 
 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 Ashprington - 
 
 R. 
 
 Coleridge 
 
 Totton 
 
 Bratton Clo- 
 
 !»• 
 
 Lifton - 
 
 
 Ash Reigney 
 
 R. 
 
 North Tawton 
 
 Dunsford 
 
 velly - 
 
 Okehampton 
 
 Ashton - 
 Ashwater 
 
 R. 
 
 Exminster 
 Black Tor- \ 
 rington - j 
 
 Dunsford 
 Holsworthy 
 
 Bratton Flem- 
 ing - 
 Braunton 
 
 V. 
 
 Braunton 
 Braunton 
 
 Shirwell 
 Shirwell 
 
 Atherington - 
 
 R. 
 
 North Tawton 
 
 Barnstaple 
 
 High Bray 
 
 R. 
 
 Sherwill 
 
 Shirwell 
 
 AvetonGiffard 
 
 R. 
 
 Ermington 
 
 Woodleigh 
 
 Brendon 
 
 R. 
 
 Sherwill 
 
 Shirwell 
 
 Awliscombe - 
 
 V. 
 
 Hemiock 
 
 Dunkeswell 
 
 South Brent - 
 
 V. 
 
 Stanborough - 
 
 Totton 
 
 Axminster 
 
 V. 
 
 Axminster 
 
 Honiton 
 
 Brent Tor 
 
 C. 
 
 Tavistock 
 
 Tavistock 
 
 Axmouth 
 
 V. 
 
 Axminster 
 
 Honiton 
 
 Bridestowe - 
 
 R. 
 
 Lifton - 
 
 Tavistock 
 
 Aylesbeare - 
 
 V. 
 
 East Budleigh 
 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 Bridford 
 
 R. 
 
 Wonford 
 
 Dunsford 
 
 Bampton f 
 Barnstaple 
 
 V. 
 V. 
 
 Bampton 
 Braunton 
 
 Tiverton 
 Barnstaple 
 
 Bridgrule 
 
 "■ { 
 
 Black Tor-1 
 rington - J 
 
 Holsworthy 
 
 Beaford 
 
 R. 
 
 Shebbear 
 
 Torrington 
 
 Brixham 
 
 V. 
 
 Haytor 
 
 lpplepen 
 
 Beaworthy 
 
 Beer Ferrers 
 
 R. 
 
 Black Tor- J 
 
 rington - j 
 
 Roborough - 
 
 Okehampton 
 Tamerton 
 
 Brixton 
 Broadwood 
 Kelly 
 
 R. 
 
 Plympton 
 Black Tor-\ 
 rington -j 
 
 Plympton 
 Okehampton 
 
 Belston - 
 
 »•{ 
 
 Black Tor-1 
 rington -J 
 
 Okehampton 
 
 Broadwood- 
 Wiger 
 
 }- 
 
 Lifton - 
 
 Tavistock 
 
 Berry Nerber 
 
 R. 
 
 Braunton 
 
 Shirwell 
 
 Brushford 
 
 c. 
 
 North Tawton 
 
 Chulmleigh 
 
 Berry Pome- 
 roy _ - 
 
 \"- 
 
 Haytor 
 
 lpplepen 
 
 Buckerell 
 
 Buckfastleigh 
 
 V. 
 V. 
 
 Hemiock 
 
 Stanborough - 
 
 Plymtree 
 Totton 
 
 * Bickington, 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 * Buckland in 
 
 
 
 
 appendant to 
 
 [ 
 
 Teignbridge - 
 
 Moreton 
 
 the Moor, 
 
 ) 
 
 
 
 Asliburton - 
 
 s 
 
 
 
 appendant 
 
 } 
 
 Haytor - 
 
 Moreton 
 
 Abbots Bick- 
 ington - - 
 
 jcj 
 
 Black Tor-j 
 rington -J 
 
 Holsworthy 
 
 to Aslibur- 
 ton - 
 
 ) 
 
 
 
 High Bicking- 
 ton - 
 
 }"■ 
 
 North Tawton 
 
 Barnstaple 
 
 Buckland 
 Brewer 
 
 } v - 
 
 Shebbear 
 
 Hertland 
 
 Bickleigh 
 
 R. 
 
 Hayridge 
 
 Tiverton 
 
 East Buckland 
 
 R. 
 
 Braunton 
 
 Shirwell 
 
 Bickleigh 
 
 V. 
 
 Roborough • 
 
 Tamerton 
 
 Egg Buckland 
 
 V. 
 
 Roborough - 
 
 Tamerton 
 
 Bickton - 
 Bideford 
 
 R. 
 R. 
 
 East Budleigh 
 Shebbear 
 
 Aylesbeare 
 Hertland 
 
 Buckland Fil- 
 leigh - 
 
 }=• 
 
 Shebbear 
 
 Torrington 
 
 Bigbury - - 
 
 R. 
 
 Ermington 
 
 Woodleigh 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 f In this parish is the chapel of Petton. 
 
 % The church of this parish is dilapidated. 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 XXV 
 
 Names of 
 Parishes. 
 
 Rectory 
 or Vicar- 
 age. 
 
 Hundred. 
 
 Deanery. 
 
 Names of 
 Parishes. 
 
 Rectory 
 or Vicar 
 
 age. 
 
 Hundred. 
 
 Deanery. 
 
 Buckland 
 
 h 
 
 
 
 Chulmleigh - 
 
 R. 
 
 Witheridge - 
 
 Chulmleigh 
 
 Monacho- 
 
 Itoborough - 
 
 Tamerton 
 
 Churchstow - 
 
 V. 
 
 Stanborough - 
 
 Woodleigh 
 
 rum 
 
 
 
 * Churston 
 
 ^ 
 
 
 
 * Buckland 
 Toussaints, 
 
 i 
 
 
 
 Ferrers, ap- 
 pendant to 
 
 
 Haytor - 
 
 Ipplepen 
 
 appendant 
 
 i 
 
 j 
 
 Coleridge 
 
 Woodleigh 
 
 Brixham - 
 
 J 
 
 
 
 to Loddis- 
 well 
 
 
 
 Clannabo- 
 rough 
 
 j„j 
 
 North Taw- \ 
 ton -J 
 
 Chulmleigh 
 
 West Buck- 
 land - 
 
 JR. 
 
 Braunton 
 
 Shirwell 
 
 Clawton 
 
 c.j 
 
 Black Tor- ) 
 rington - j 
 
 Holsworthy 
 
 East Budleigh 
 
 V. 
 
 East Budleigh 
 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 Clayhanger - 
 
 R. 
 
 Bampton 
 
 Tiverton 
 
 * St. Budock, 
 
 ] 
 
 
 
 Clay-hydon - 
 
 R. 
 
 Hemiock 
 
 Dunkeswell 
 
 appendant 
 
 
 
 Broad ClistJ 
 
 V. 
 
 Cliston 
 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 to St. An- 
 drew, Ply- 
 
 J. 
 
 Roborough - 
 
 Plympton 
 
 Clist St. 
 George 
 
 H 
 
 East Bud- 1 
 leigh -j 
 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 mouth. 
 
 
 
 
 Clist Hydon 
 
 R. 
 
 Cliston 
 
 Plymtree 
 
 * Bulkworthy, 
 appendant 
 toBuckland 
 Brewer 
 
 { 
 
 Shebbear 
 
 Hertland | 
 
 Honiton Clist 
 
 Clist St. Lau- 
 rence 
 
 
 East Bud- 1 
 leigh -j 
 
 Cliston 
 
 Aylesbeare 
 Plymtree 
 
 Bundleigh 
 Burlescombef 
 
 R. 
 V. 
 
 North Tawton 
 Bampton 
 
 Chulmleigh 
 Tiverton 
 
 Clist St. Mary 
 
 »•! 
 
 East Bud- ] 
 leigh - j 
 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 Burrington - 
 
 V. 
 
 North Tawton 
 
 Chulmleigh 
 
 Clovelly 
 
 R. 
 
 Hartlandf 
 
 Hertland 
 
 Butterleigh - 
 
 R. 
 
 Cliston 
 
 Plymtree 
 
 Cockington - 
 
 C. 
 
 Haytor 
 
 Ipplepen 
 
 Cadbury 
 
 V. 
 
 Hay ridge 
 
 Cadbury 
 
 * Coffinswell, 
 
 ^ 
 
 
 
 Cadleigh 
 Calverleigh - 
 
 R. 
 R. 
 
 Hayridgc 
 Tiverton 
 
 Cadbury 
 Tiverton 
 
 appendant - 
 to St. Mary 
 
 
 Haytor - 
 
 Ipplepen 
 
 Abbots Cars- 
 well - - 
 
 }- 
 
 Haytor 
 
 Ipplepen 
 
 Church 
 Colebrooke - 
 
 J 
 
 V. 
 
 Crediton 
 
 Cadbury 
 
 * King's Cars- 
 
 
 
 
 Coleridge 
 
 R. 
 
 North Tawton 
 
 Plymtree 
 
 well, ap- 
 
 ) 
 
 
 
 Collumpton - 
 
 V. 
 
 Hayridge 
 
 Plymtree 
 
 pendaat to 
 
 } 
 
 Haytor 
 
 Ipplepen 
 
 Colyton 
 
 V. 
 
 Colyton 
 
 Honiton 
 
 St. Mary 
 Church 
 
 J 
 
 
 
 Colyton Ra- 
 leigh 
 
 W 
 
 East Bud- 1 
 leigh -j 
 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 Chagford 
 Challocombe 
 
 R. 
 R. 
 
 Wonford 
 Sherwill 
 
 Dunsford 
 
 Shirwell 
 
 Comb in 
 Teignhead 
 
 i R. 
 
 Wonford 
 
 Kenne 
 
 Charles - 
 
 R. 
 
 Sherwill 
 
 Shirwell 
 
 Comb Martin 
 
 R. 
 
 Braunton 
 
 Shirwell 
 
 Charleton 
 
 R. 
 
 Coleridge 
 
 Woodleigh 
 
 Comb Pyne - 
 
 R. 
 
 Axminster 
 
 Honiton 
 
 Chawleigh 
 
 R. 
 
 North Tawton 
 
 Chulmleigh 
 
 Comb Raleigh 
 
 R. 
 
 Axminster 
 
 Dunkeswell 
 
 Cheldon 
 
 R. 
 
 Witheridge - 
 
 South Molton 
 
 * Cookbury, 
 
 ) 
 
 
 
 Cheriton Bi- 
 shop - 
 
 J„ 
 
 Wonford 
 
 Dunsford 
 
 appendant 
 to Milton 
 
 [ 1 
 
 Black Tor- j 
 rington -J 
 
 Holsworthy 
 
 Cheriton Fitz- 
 
 }r.I 
 
 West Bud-1 
 leigh - J 
 
 Cadbury j 
 
 Damarell - 
 
 ) 
 
 
 
 paine 
 
 Cornwood 
 
 V. 
 
 Ermington 
 
 Plympton 
 
 Chittlehamp- 
 ton 
 
 H 
 
 South Mol-| 
 ton - ] 
 
 Barnstaple 
 
 Cornworthy - 
 Coryton 
 
 V. 
 R. 
 
 Coleridge 
 Lifton 
 
 Totton 
 Tavistock 
 
 * Chivelstone, 
 
 
 
 Cotleigh 
 
 R. 
 
 Colyton 
 
 Honiton 
 
 appendant 
 to Stoken- 
 
 
 Coleridge 
 
 Woodleigh 
 
 Countesbury - 
 Creacomb 
 
 C. 
 R. 
 
 Sherwill 
 Witheridge - 
 
 Shirwell 
 South Molton 
 
 ham - 
 
 ) 
 
 
 
 Crediton 
 
 V. 
 
 Crediton 
 
 Kenne 
 
 Christow 
 
 v. 
 
 Wonford 
 
 Dunsford 
 
 Culmstock 
 
 \ . 
 
 Hemiock 
 
 Tiverton 
 
 Chudleigh 
 
 v. 
 
 Exrainster 
 
 Kenne 
 
 Dartington - 
 
 R. 
 
 Stanborough 
 
 Totton 
 
 f In this parish is the chapel of Ayshford. J In this parish is the chapel of Columbjohn. 
 
 § The hundred is usually spelt Hartland ; the deanery Hertland. 
 
 Vol. VI. d 
 
XXVI 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Names of 
 Parishes. 
 
 Rectory 
 
 or Vicar 
 
 age. 
 
 Hundred. 
 
 Deanery. 
 
 Names of 
 Parishes. 
 
 Rectory 
 or Vicar- 
 age. 
 
 Hundred. 
 
 Deanery. 
 
 Dartmouth 
 
 -| 
 
 
 
 Exeter, cont. 
 
 
 
 
 ,; ' St. Saviour, 
 appendant 
 
 
 
 
 St. Stephen 
 Trinity 
 
 I:} 
 
 Wonford 
 
 Exeter 
 
 toTownstall 
 
 ■ 
 
 Coleridge 
 
 Totton 
 
 Exminster 
 
 v. 
 
 Exminster 
 
 Kenne 
 
 * St. Petrock, 
 
 
 
 
 Farringdon 
 
 R. 
 
 East Budleigh 
 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 to Stoke- 
 
 1 
 
 
 • 
 
 Farway - 
 
 R. 
 
 Colyton 
 
 Honiton 
 
 Fleming 
 
 J 
 
 
 
 Feniton 
 
 R. 
 
 Hayridge 
 
 Plymtree 
 
 * St. David's, 
 
 1 
 
 s 
 
 
 
 Filleigh - 
 
 R. 
 
 Braunton 
 
 Barnstaple 
 
 appendant 
 
 Wonford 
 
 Exeter 
 
 Fremington - 
 
 V. 
 
 Fremington - 
 
 Barnstaple 
 
 to Heavitree 
 
 
 
 Frithelstock - 
 
 C. 
 
 Shebbear 
 
 Hertland 
 
 Dawlish 
 
 V. 
 
 Exminster 
 
 Kenne 
 
 Georgeham - 
 
 R. 
 
 Braunton 
 
 Shirwell 
 
 Dean Prior - 
 
 V. 
 
 Stanborougb - 
 
 Totton 
 
 * Germans- 
 
 
 
 
 Denbury 
 
 R. 
 
 Haytor 
 
 Ipplepen 
 
 wick, ap- 
 
 ) 
 
 
 
 Diptford 
 
 R. 
 
 Stanborough - 
 
 Totton 
 
 pendant to 
 
 \ 
 
 Lifton 
 
 Okehampton 
 
 Dittisham 
 
 R. 
 
 Coleridge 
 
 Totton 
 
 Broadwood 
 
 
 
 
 Dodbrooke - 
 
 R. 
 
 Coleridge 
 
 Woodleigh 
 
 Wiger 
 
 ) 
 
 
 
 Doddescomb- 
 leigh 
 
 }*. 
 
 Exminster 
 
 Dunsford 
 
 Gidley 
 
 St. Giles, see 
 
 R. 
 
 Wonford 
 
 Dunsford 
 
 Dolton - 
 
 R. 
 
 North Tawton 
 
 Torrington 
 
 Stow 
 
 
 ( 
 
 Trigg Major, 
 
 Dowland 
 
 C. 
 
 North Tawton 
 
 Torrington 
 
 St. Giles in 
 
 Jcj 
 
 Black Tor- I 
 
 in the arch- 
 
 East Dovvne - 
 
 R. 
 
 Braunton 
 
 Shirwell 
 
 the Heath - 
 
 rington - | 
 
 deaconry of 
 
 West Dovvne 
 
 V. 
 
 Braunlon 
 
 Shirwell 
 
 
 
 ( 
 
 Cornwall 
 
 Downe St. 
 Mary 
 
 H 
 
 North Taw- 1 
 ton - - J 
 
 Cadbury 
 
 Gittisham 
 Goodleigh 
 
 R. 
 
 R. 
 
 East Budleigh 
 Braunton 
 
 Honiton 
 Shirwell 
 
 Dunchidiock 
 
 R. 
 
 Exminster 
 
 Kenne 
 
 Haccombe 
 
 R. 
 
 Wonford 
 
 Kenne 
 
 Dunkeswell - 
 
 V. 
 
 Hemiock 
 
 Dunkeswell 
 
 Halberton 
 
 V. 
 
 Halberton 
 
 Tiverton 
 
 Dunsford 
 Dunterton 
 
 V. 
 R. 
 
 Wonford 
 Lifton 
 
 Dunsford 
 Tavistock i 
 
 Halwell 
 
 ,,{ 
 
 Black Tor-1 
 rington -J 
 
 Holsworthy 
 
 Eggesford 
 
 R. 
 
 North Tawton 
 
 Chulmleigh i 
 
 * Halwell, ap- 
 
 ^k 
 
 
 
 Ermington 
 
 R.&V 
 
 Ermington 
 
 Plympton 
 
 pendant to 
 
 I 
 
 Coleridge 
 
 Totton 
 
 Exbourne 
 
 ,,{ 
 
 Black Tor- 7 
 rington -j 
 
 Oakhampton 
 
 Harberton - 
 Harberton 
 
 Jv. 
 
 
 
 Exeter 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 Harford 
 
 R. 
 
 Ermington 
 
 Plympton 
 
 Allhallows - 
 
 R. 
 
 
 
 Harpford 
 
 R. 
 
 East Budleigh 
 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 Alihallows 
 
 
 
 
 Hartland 
 
 C. 
 
 Hartland 
 
 Hertland 
 
 on the 
 
 
 
 
 Hanvood 
 
 R. 
 
 Fremington - 
 
 Barnstaple 
 
 Wall 
 St. Edmund 
 
 C. 
 
 
 
 Hatherleigh - 
 
 M 
 
 Black Tor- \ 
 rington -J 
 
 Okehampton 
 
 on the 
 
 
 
 
 Heanton Pun- 
 
 Ik. 
 
 Braunton 
 
 Shirwell 
 
 Bridge - 
 
 R. 
 
 
 
 chardon 
 
 j 
 
 
 
 St. George 
 
 R. 
 
 
 
 Heavitree 
 
 v. 
 
 Wonford 
 
 Exeter 
 
 St. John - 
 St. Kerrian 
 
 R. 
 R. 
 
 
 
 Broad Hem- 
 bury - 
 
 } v - 
 
 Hayridge 
 
 Plymtree 
 
 St. Lau- 
 
 „ . 
 
 Wonford 
 
 Exeter 
 
 Hemiock f - 
 
 R. 
 
 Hemiock 
 
 Dunkeswell 
 
 rence 
 St. Martin - 
 
 R- 
 R. 
 
 
 
 Broad Hernp- 
 ston - 
 
 I 1 '- 
 
 Haytor 
 
 Ipplepen 
 
 St. Mary- 
 Arches - 
 
 R. 
 
 
 
 Little Hemp- 
 ston - 
 
 }H. 
 
 Haytor 
 
 Ipplepen 
 
 St. Mary . 
 
 
 
 
 Hennock 
 
 V. 
 
 Teignbridge - 
 
 Moreton 
 
 Major 
 St. Mary 
 
 R. 
 
 
 
 Highampton - 
 
 E.{ 
 
 Black Tor-1 
 rington -J 
 
 Holsworthy 
 
 Steps 
 
 R. 
 
 
 
 * High week J, 
 
 ) 
 
 
 
 St. Olave - 
 St. Paneras 
 
 P.. 
 R. 
 
 
 
 appendant 
 to King's 
 
 
 Teignbridge - 
 
 Moreton 
 
 St. Paul - 
 
 R. 
 
 
 
 Teignton - 
 
 s 
 
 
 
 St. Petrock 
 
 R.j 
 
 
 
 Hittisleigh 
 
 R. 
 
 Wonford 
 
 Dunsford 
 
 f In this parish is the chapel of Culm Davy. % Newton Bushell, is a chapel to Highweek. 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 XX vn 
 
 Names of 
 Parishes. 
 
 Rectory 
 
 or Vicar 
 
 age. 
 
 Hundred. 
 
 Deanery. 
 
 Names of 
 Parishes. 
 
 Rectory 
 
 or Vicar 
 
 age. 
 
 Hundred. 
 
 Deanery. 
 
 Hockworthy - 
 
 V. 
 
 Bampton 
 
 Tiverton 
 
 Landkey 
 
 c. 
 
 South Molton 
 
 Barnstaple 
 
 Holbeton 
 
 V. 
 
 Ermington 
 
 Plympton 
 
 Langtree 
 
 R. 
 
 Shebbear 
 
 Torrington 
 
 Holcombe 
 Burnell 
 
 S* 
 
 Wonford 
 
 Dunsford 
 
 Lapford 
 
 St. Leonard - 
 
 R. 
 R. 
 
 North Tawton 
 Wonford 
 
 Chulmleigh 
 Exeter 
 
 Holcombe 
 Rogus 
 
 }.«• 
 
 Bampton 
 
 Tiverton 
 
 North Lew - 
 
 ,,{ 
 
 Black Tor-] 
 rington -j 
 
 Okehampton 
 
 Hollacombe - 
 
 E.{ 
 
 Black Tor-1 
 rington -J 
 
 Holsworthy 
 
 Lew Trench- 
 ard - 
 
 >»• 
 
 Lifton - 
 
 Tavistock 
 
 Holne - 
 
 V. 
 
 Stanborough - 
 
 Totton 
 
 Lidford 
 
 R. 
 
 Lifton - 
 
 Tavistock 
 
 Holsworthy - 
 
 M 
 
 Black Tor-1 
 rington -j 
 
 Holsworthy 
 
 Lifton - 
 Limpstone 
 
 R. 
 R. 
 
 Lifton - 
 East Budleigh 
 
 Tavistock 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 Honeychurcb 
 
 E.{ 
 
 Black Tor-1 
 rington -J 
 
 Okehampton 
 
 Linton - 
 
 Littleham 
 
 C. 
 V. 
 
 Sherwill 
 East Budleigh 
 
 Shirwell 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 Honiton f 
 
 R. 
 
 Axminster 
 
 Honiton 
 
 Littleham 
 
 R. 
 
 Shebbear 
 
 Hertland 
 
 Huisli - 
 
 R. 
 
 Shebbear 
 
 Torrington 
 
 iLoddiswell 
 
 V. 
 
 Stanborough 
 
 Woodleigh 
 
 North Huish - 
 
 R. 
 
 Stanborough - 
 
 Plympton 
 
 jLoxbear 
 
 R. 
 
 Tiverton 
 
 Tiverton 
 
 * South Huish, 
 
 } 
 
 
 
 'Loxhore 
 
 R. 
 
 Sherwill 
 
 Shirwell 
 
 appendant 
 to West Al- 
 
 
 Stanborough - 
 
 Woodleigh 
 
 Luffincott 
 
 a.| 
 
 Black Tor- ] 
 rington -J 
 
 Holsworthy 
 
 lington 
 
 J 
 
 
 
 Luppit - 
 
 V. 
 
 Axminster 
 
 Dunkeswell 
 
 Hunshaw 
 
 R. 
 
 Fremington - 
 
 Barnstaple 
 
 Lustleigh 
 
 R. 
 
 Teignbridge - 
 
 Moreton 
 
 Huntsham 
 
 R. 
 
 Tiverton 
 
 Tiverton 
 
 
 ( 
 
 East, in Corn- 
 
 East in the 
 
 Huxham 
 
 R. 
 
 Wonford 
 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 Maker - 
 
 1 
 
 wall, and 
 
 Archdea- 
 
 Ide 
 
 C. 
 
 Exminster 
 
 Kenne 
 
 Roborough, 
 
 conry of 
 
 Ideford 
 
 R. 
 
 Teignbridge - 
 
 Moreton 
 
 
 in Devon - 
 
 Cornwall 
 
 Iddesleigh 
 
 R. 
 
 Shebbear 
 
 Torrington 
 
 Mamhead 
 
 R. 
 
 Exminster 
 
 Kenne 
 
 Ilfracombe 
 
 V. 
 
 Braunton 
 
 Shirwell 
 
 Manaton 
 
 R. 
 
 Teignbridge - 
 
 Moreton 
 
 Ilsington 
 
 V. 
 
 Teignbridge - 
 
 Moreton 
 
 *Marlborough 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 Instow - 
 
 R. 
 R.{ 
 
 Fremington - 
 
 Barnstaple 
 
 appendant 
 
 Stanborough 
 
 Woodleigh 
 
 Inwardsleigh - 
 
 Black Tor- 1 
 rington -j 
 
 Okehampton 
 
 to West Al- 
 lington 
 
 ) 
 
 
 
 Ipplepen 
 
 V. 
 
 Haytor 
 
 Ipplepen 
 
 * Marldon, ap- 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 Jacobstow 
 
 ».{ 
 
 Black Tor-1 
 rington -j 
 
 Okehampton 
 
 pendant to 
 Paignton - 
 
 ! 
 
 Haytor 
 
 Ipplepen 
 
 Kelly - 
 
 R. 
 
 Lifton - 
 
 Tavistock 
 
 Martinhoe 
 
 R. 
 
 Sherwill 
 
 Shirwell 
 
 Kenne - 
 
 R. 
 
 Exminster 
 
 Kenne 
 
 Marwood 
 
 R. 
 
 Braunton 
 
 Shirwell 
 
 Kennedy 
 
 11. 
 
 Crediton 
 
 Cadbury 
 
 MaryAnsleigh 
 
 C. 
 
 Witheridge - 
 
 South Molton 
 
 Kentisbeer - 
 Kentisbury - 
 
 R. 
 R- 
 
 Hayridge 
 Braunton 
 
 Plymtree 
 
 Shirwell 
 
 St. Wary 
 Church 
 
 } v - 
 
 Haytor 
 
 Ipplepen 
 
 Kenton - 
 
 V. 
 
 Exminster 
 
 Kenne 
 
 Mary Stowe - 
 
 V. 
 
 Lifton - 
 
 Tavistock 
 
 * Kilmington, 
 
 ) 
 
 
 
 Meavy 
 
 R. 
 
 Roborough - 
 
 Tamei'ton 
 
 appendant 
 
 I 
 
 Axminster 
 
 Honiton 
 
 Meeth - - 
 
 R. 
 
 Shebbear 
 
 Torrington 
 
 to Axmin- 
 
 c 
 
 
 
 * Membury, 
 
 \ 
 
 
 
 ster - 
 
 S 
 
 
 
 appendant 
 
 Axminster 
 
 Honiton 
 
 *Kingsbridge, 
 
 ) 
 
 
 
 to Axmin- 
 
 c 
 
 
 
 appendant 
 to Church- 
 
 
 Stanborough - 
 
 Woodleigh 
 
 ster - 
 Merton 
 
 K. 
 
 Shebbear 
 
 Torrington 
 
 stow - 
 
 ) 
 
 
 
 Meshaw 
 
 R. 
 
 Witheridge - 
 
 South Molton 
 
 * Kingston, 
 
 ) 
 
 
 
 Milton Abbot 
 
 V. 
 
 Tavistock 
 
 Tavistock 
 
 appendant 
 to Erming- 
 
 
 Ermington 
 
 Plympton 
 
 Milton Dama- 
 rell - 
 
 },,{ 
 
 Black Tor- 7 
 rington -J 
 
 holsworthy 
 
 ton - 
 
 ) 
 
 
 
 * South Mil- 
 
 ~k 
 
 
 
 Knowstone 
 Lamerton 
 
 V. 
 V. 
 
 South JMolton 
 Lifton - 
 
 South Molton 
 Tavistock 
 
 ton, append- 
 ant to West 
 
 
 Stanborough 
 
 Woodleigh 
 
 Landcross 
 
 R. 
 
 Shebbear 
 
 Hertland 
 
 Allington - 
 
 ) 
 
 
 
 f In the town of Honiton is the chapel of Allhallows. 
 d 2 
 
XXV1U 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Names of 
 Parishes. ' 
 
 U'Ctory 
 
 >r Vicar 
 
 age. 
 
 Hundred. 
 
 Deanery. 
 
 Names of 
 Parishes. 
 
 Rectory 
 or Vicar- 
 age. 
 
 Hundred. 
 
 Deanery. 
 
 Modbury 
 
 v. 
 
 Ermington 
 
 Plympton 
 
 Paignton 
 
 V. 
 
 Haytor 
 
 Fpplepen 
 
 Molland 
 
 V. South Molton 
 
 South Molton 
 
 'Pancras 
 
 \ 
 
 
 
 North Molton 
 
 V. 
 
 South Molton 
 
 South Molton 
 
 Week, ap- 
 
 { 
 
 Black Tor-\ 
 rington -j 
 
 
 South Molton 
 
 c. 
 
 South Molton 
 
 South Molton 
 
 pendant to 
 
 Holsworthy 
 
 Monklcigh 
 
 V. 
 
 Shebbear 
 
 Hertland 
 
 Bradworthy 
 
 ) 
 
 
 
 *Monkton, ap- 
 
 ) 
 
 
 
 Parkham 
 
 R. 
 
 Shebbear 
 
 Hertland 
 
 pendant to 
 
 Colyton 
 
 Honiton 
 
 Parracombe - 
 
 R. 
 
 Sherwill 
 
 Shirwell 
 
 Colyton 
 
 
 
 
 Peahembury - 
 
 V. 
 
 Hayridge 
 
 Plymtree 
 
 Morchard 
 
 \ R " 
 
 Crediton 
 
 Cadbury 
 
 Petersmerland 
 
 C. 
 
 Shebbear 
 
 Torrington 
 
 Bishop 
 
 
 
 
 
 [ 
 
 Trigg Major, 
 
 Cruwys Mor- 
 chard - - 
 
 Jr. 
 
 Witheridge - 
 
 South Molton 
 
 North Pether- 
 win 
 
 N 
 
 Black Tor- J 
 rington - | 
 
 in the arch- 
 deaconry of 
 
 Morebath 
 
 v. 
 
 Bampton 
 
 Tiverton 
 
 
 
 ( 
 
 Cornwall 
 
 Moreleigli 
 
 R. 
 
 Stanborough - 
 
 Woodleigh 
 
 Petrockstow - 
 
 R. 
 
 Shebbear 
 
 Torrington 
 
 Moreton 
 
 Hampstead 
 
 | R. 
 
 Teignbridge - 
 
 Moreton 
 
 Pilton 
 Pinhoe 
 
 C. 
 V. 
 
 Braunton 
 Wonford 
 
 Barnstaple 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 Morthoe 
 
 V. 
 
 Braunton 
 
 Shirwell 
 
 Plymouth 
 
 h 
 
 )V. 
 
 
 
 Musbury 
 
 R. 
 
 Axminster 
 
 Honiton 
 
 St. Andrew-f- - 
 
 Roborough - 
 
 Plympton 
 
 Netherex 
 
 C. 
 
 Hayridge 
 
 Cadbury 
 
 Charles 
 
 
 
 Newton St. 
 Cyres 
 
 Newton Fer- 
 rers 
 
 j- V. 
 
 Crediton 
 Ermington 
 
 Cadbury j 
 Plympton 
 
 Plympton St. 
 
 Mary - - 
 Plympton 
 
 Maurice 
 
 ): 
 
 Plympton 
 
 Plympton 
 
 Newton St. 
 
 1 u - 
 
 Shebbear 
 
 Torrington 
 
 Plymstock 
 
 c 
 
 Plympton 
 
 Plympton 
 
 Petrock 
 
 
 
 
 Plymtree 
 
 R. 
 
 Hayridge 
 
 Plymptree 
 
 Newton Tra- 
 cey 
 
 1 R - 
 
 Fremington - 
 
 Barnstaple 
 
 Poltimore 
 South Pool - 
 
 R. 
 R. 
 
 Wonford 
 Coleridge 
 
 Aylesbeare 
 Woodleigh 
 
 St. Nicholas - 
 
 V. 
 
 Won ford 
 
 Kenne 
 
 Portlemouth - 
 
 R. 
 
 Coleridge 
 
 Woodleigh 
 
 Broad Nimet - 
 Nnnet Row- 
 
 R. 
 [ R ' 
 
 North Tawton 
 North Tawton 
 
 Chulmleigh 
 Chulmleigh 
 
 Pougbill 
 
 ,,{ 
 
 West Bud- 1 
 leigh -j 
 
 Cadbury 
 
 land 
 
 
 
 
 Powderham - 
 
 R. 
 
 Exminster 
 
 Kenne 
 
 Nimet Tracey 
 or Bow 
 
 1 R ' 
 
 North Tawton 
 
 Chulmleigh 
 
 Puddington - 
 l*East Putford, 
 
 R. 
 
 Witheridge • 
 
 South Molton 
 
 Northa'm 
 
 Nortlileigh 
 
 V. 
 R. 
 
 Shebbear 
 Colyton - - 
 
 Hertland 
 Honiton 
 
 j appendant 
 to Buckland 
 
 
 Shebbear 
 
 Hertland 
 
 Bishop's 
 
 Nympton - 
 
 George 
 
 Nympton - 
 
 King's Nymp- 
 ton 
 
 1 V. 
 JR. 
 | R. 
 
 Witheridge - 
 South Molton 
 Witheridge - 
 
 South Molton 
 South Molton 
 South Molton 
 
 Brewer 
 West Putford 
 
 Py worthy 
 Rackenford - 
 
 ) 
 
 a.{ 
 
 R. 
 
 Black Tor-j 
 rington - j 
 
 Black Tor- 7 
 rington - j 
 
 Witheridge - 
 
 Holsworthy 
 
 Holsworthy 
 South Molton 
 
 Oakford - - 
 
 R. 
 
 Witheridge - 
 
 South Molton 
 
 Rattery - - 
 
 V. 
 
 Stanborough - 
 
 Totton 
 
 Oakhampton - 
 
 V. 
 
 Lifton 
 
 Okehampton 
 
 j* Revelstoke, 
 
 \ 
 
 
 
 Offwell - - 
 East Ogwell - 
 
 R. 
 R. 
 
 Colyton 
 Woriford 
 
 Honiton 
 Kenne 
 
 1 appendant 
 to Yealmp- 
 
 
 Plympton 
 
 Plympton 
 
 West Ogwell - 
 
 R. 
 
 Won ford 
 
 Kenne 
 
 ton 
 
 ) 
 
 
 
 Otterton - - 
 
 V. 
 
 East Budleigh 
 
 Aylesheare 
 
 |Rew - : 
 
 R. 
 
 Wonford 
 
 Plymtree 
 
 Ottery St. 
 Mary 
 
 M 
 
 Ottery St. 1 
 Mary -j 
 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 Ringmore 
 Roborough - 
 
 K. 
 R. 
 
 Ermington 
 Fremington - 
 
 Woodleigh 
 Torrington 
 
 Up-Ottery 
 
 v. 
 
 Axminster 
 
 Dimkeswell 
 
 Rockbear 
 
 V. 
 
 East Budleigh 
 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 * Ven-Ottery, 
 
 \ 
 
 
 
 Romansleigh 
 
 H. 
 
 Witheridge - 
 
 South Molton 
 
 appendant 
 to Harp- 
 
 
 East Budleigh 
 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 Roseash - - 
 Rousedown % 
 
 R. 
 R. 
 
 Witheridge - 
 Axminster 
 
 South Molton 
 Honiton 
 
 ford 
 
 ) 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 f The chapel of Weston Peverell is in this parish. 
 
 £ The church of this parish is dilapidated. 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 xxix 
 
 Names of 
 Parishes. 
 
 Salcombe 
 Regis - • 
 
 Sampford 
 Courtenayf 
 
 Sampford Pe- 
 verell - - 
 
 Sampford Spi- 
 ney 
 
 Sandford 
 
 Satterleigh - 
 
 Seaton and 
 Beer - 
 
 Shaugh 
 
 Shebbear 
 
 Sheldon - - 
 
 *Sherford, ap- 
 pendant to 
 Stokenham 
 
 Sherwill - • 
 
 Shillingford 
 St. George 
 
 * Shipstor, ap 
 
 pendant to 
 Bickleigh 
 *Shipwasn,'ap- 
 pendant to 
 Shebbear 
 
 Shobrooke 
 
 * Shute, ap- 
 pendant to 
 Colyton 
 
 Sidbury - 
 Sidmouth 
 
 * St. Sidwell, 
 appendant 
 toKeavitree 
 
 Silverton 
 
 Slapton - - 
 Sourton, ap- 
 pendant to 
 Brides towe 
 
 Southleigh 
 
 Sowton - 
 
 Spreyton 
 
 Church Staun- 
 ton 
 
 Staverton 
 
 Stockleigh 
 English 
 
 Stockleigh 
 Pomeroy - 
 
 Stoke Canon - 
 
 Rectory 
 
 Vi ear- 
 age. 
 
 c. 
 
 R. 
 
 C 
 
 V. 
 
 c. 
 
 R. 
 
 Hundi 
 
 ed. 
 
 Deanery. 
 
 a.{ 
 
 ) 
 
 V. 
 V. 
 
 R. 
 C 
 
 R. 
 R. 
 
 V. 
 
 }B. 
 
 V. 
 
 !■•{ 
 H 
 
 East Budleigh 
 
 Black Tor- J 
 rington -J 
 
 Halberton 
 
 Roborough - 
 
 Crediton 
 South Molton 
 
 Colyton - 
 
 Plympton 
 
 Shebbear 
 Hayridge 
 
 Coleridge 
 
 Sherwill - 
 Exminster 
 
 Roborough 
 
 Shebbear 
 
 West Bud- 
 leigh 
 
 Colyton - - 
 
 East Budleigh 
 East Budleigh 
 
 Wonford 
 
 Hayridge 
 Coleridge 
 
 Lifton 
 
 Colyton - - 
 
 Wonford 
 
 Wonford 
 
 Hemiock 
 
 Haytor - 
 West Bud-1 
 
 leigh - ) 
 West Bud- I 
 
 leigh - I 
 Wonford 
 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 Okehampton 
 
 Tiverton 
 
 Tamerton 
 
 Cadbury 
 South Molton 
 
 Honiton 
 
 Plympton 
 
 Torrington 
 
 Dunkeswell 
 
 Woodleigh 
 
 Shirwell 
 Kenne 
 
 Tamerton 
 
 Torrington 
 Cadbury 
 
 Honiton 
 
 Aylesbeare 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 Exeter 
 
 Plymtree 
 Woodleigh 
 
 Tavistock 
 
 Honiton 
 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 Dunsford 
 
 Dunkeswell 
 
 Ipplepen 
 
 Cadbury 
 
 Cadbury 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 Names of 
 Parishes. 
 
 Rectory 
 orVicar 
 
 Stoke Dama 
 rell - ■ 
 
 Stoke Fleming 
 
 Stoke Gabriel 
 
 Stoke in 
 Teignhead 
 
 Stoke Rivers - 
 
 Stokenham 
 
 * East Stone- 
 house, ap- 
 pendant to' 
 Plymouth - 
 
 Stoodley 
 
 Stow St. Giles 
 
 Stowford 
 
 Sutcombe 
 
 Swymbridge - 
 
 South Syden- 
 ham 
 
 Tallaton - - 
 
 Tamerton 
 Foliot - 
 
 Tavistock 
 
 Mary Tavy 
 
 Peter Tavy 
 
 Tawstock 
 
 Bishop's Taw- 
 ton 
 
 North Tawton 
 
 South Tawton 
 
 Tedburne St 
 Mary - - 
 
 iTeigngrace - 
 
 East Teign- 
 mouth 
 
 West Teign- 
 mouth 
 
 Bishop's 
 
 Teignton - 
 
 Drew's Teign- 
 ton 
 
 King's Teign 
 ton 
 
 Templeton 
 
 Tetcott - 
 
 Thelbridge 
 St. Thomas 
 
 Thornbury 
 
 Thorncombe 
 Thorverton 
 
 } K . 
 
 R. 
 
 V. 
 
 Hundred. 
 
 R. 
 V. 
 
 R. 
 C. 
 R. 
 
 '••{ 
 
 C. 
 
 J,, 
 
 R. 
 
 K: 
 
 R. 
 R. 
 R. 
 
 K. 
 
 V. 
 
 ) 
 
 i- 
 
 R. 
 
 a.{ 
 
 R. 
 
 V. 
 
 „.{ 
 
 Roborough 
 
 Coleridge 
 Haytor - 
 
 Wonford 
 
 Sherwill 
 Coleridge 
 
 Roborough 
 
 Witheridge - 
 Fremington 
 Lifton 
 
 Black Tor-1 
 rington - J 
 South Molton 
 
 Lifton 
 
 Hayridge 
 
 Roborough - 
 
 Tavistock 
 Lifton 
 
 Roborough - 
 Fremington - 
 
 South Molton 
 
 North Tawton 
 Wonford 
 
 Wonford 
 
 Teignbridge - 
 
 Tamerton 
 
 Ipplepen J 
 Ipplepen 
 
 Kenne 
 
 Shirwell 
 Woodleigh 
 
 Deanery. 
 
 V. 
 V. 
 
 Exminster 
 
 Exminster 
 Wonford 
 
 Teignbridge - 
 
 Witheridge • 
 Black Tor-1 
 
 rington -J 
 Witheridge • 
 Wonford 
 Black Tor- 1 
 
 rington -j 
 Axminster 
 Hayridge 
 
 Tamerton 
 
 South Molton 
 
 Torrington 
 
 Tavistock 
 
 Holsworthy 
 
 Barnstaple 
 
 Tavistock 
 
 Plymtree 
 
 Tamerton 
 
 Tavistock 
 Tavistock 
 Tamerton 
 Barnstaple 
 
 Barnstaple 
 
 Chulmleigh 
 
 Dunsford 
 
 Dunsford 
 Moreton 
 
 Kenne 
 
 Kenne 
 
 Moreton 
 
 Moreton 
 
 Tiverton 
 
 Holsworthy 
 
 South Molton 
 Kenne 
 
 Holsworthy 
 
 Honiton 
 Cadbury 
 
 f In this parish is the chapel of Sticklepath. 
 
 j In the visitations inserted as in the deanery of Totton. 
 
XXX 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Names of 
 Parishes. 
 
 Rectory 
 or Vicar- 
 age. 
 
 Hundred. 
 
 Deanery. 
 
 Names of 
 Parishes. 
 
 Rectory 
 
 or Vicar 
 
 age. 
 
 Hundred. 
 
 Deanery. 
 
 Throwley 
 
 R. 
 
 Wonford 
 
 Dunsford 
 
 Welcombe 
 
 c. 
 
 Hartland 
 
 Hertland 
 
 * Thrushelton, 
 
 ) 
 
 
 
 Wembury 
 
 c. 
 
 Plympton 
 
 Plympton 
 
 appendant 
 
 \ 
 
 Lifton 
 
 Tavistock 
 
 Wemworthy - 
 
 R. 
 
 North Tawton 
 
 Chulmleigh 
 
 to Maristow 
 Tburlestone - 
 
 
 
 
 
 ( 
 
 Trigg Major, 
 
 R. 
 
 Stanborough - 
 
 Woodleigh 
 
 Werrington - 
 
 <M 
 
 Black Tor- I 
 
 in the arch- 
 
 Tiverton 
 
 R.f 
 
 Tiverton 
 
 Tiverton 
 
 rington -1 
 
 deaconry of 
 
 Topsham 
 
 C. 
 
 Wonford 
 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 
 
 * 
 
 Cornwall 
 
 Tor Bryan 
 
 R. 
 
 Haytor - 
 
 Ipplepen 
 
 Westleigh 
 
 v. 
 
 Fremington - 
 
 Barnstaple 
 
 Tor Molnin - 
 
 C. 
 
 Haytor - 
 
 Ipplepen 
 
 Whimple 
 
 R. 
 
 Cliston 
 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 Black Tor- 
 rington 
 
 I'M 
 
 Black Tor-1 
 rington -j 
 
 Holsworthy 
 
 Whitechurch 
 Whitstone 
 
 V. 
 It. 
 
 Roborough - 
 Wonford 
 
 Tamerton 
 Dunsford 
 
 Great Tor- 
 rington 
 
 h 
 
 Fremington - 
 
 Torrington 
 
 Widdecomb in 
 the Moor - 
 
 }»■ 
 
 Haytor - 
 
 Moreton 
 
 Little Tor- 
 rington 
 
 JK. 
 
 Shebbcar 
 
 Torrington 
 
 Wid worthy - 
 Willand - - 
 
 R. 
 R. 
 
 Colyton - - 
 Halberton 
 
 Honiton 
 Tiverton 
 
 Totnes 
 
 V. 
 
 Coleridge 
 
 Totton 
 
 Winkleigh 
 
 V. 
 
 Winkleigh 
 
 Torrington 
 
 Townstall 
 
 V. 
 
 Coleridge 
 
 Totton 
 
 * Withecombe 
 
 
 
 
 Trentishoe 
 
 R. 
 
 Braunton 
 
 Shirwell 
 
 Raleigh, ap- 
 
 ) 
 
 
 
 Trnsham 
 
 R. 
 
 Exminster 
 
 Kenne 
 
 pendant to 
 
 \ 
 
 East Budleigh 
 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 *T\vitcben, ap- 
 
 ) 
 
 
 
 East Bud- 
 
 j 
 
 
 
 pendant to 
 North Mol- 
 
 \ 
 
 South Molton 
 
 South Molton 
 
 leigh - - 
 i\\ itheridge - 
 
 V. 
 
 Witheridge - 
 
 South Molton 
 
 ton 
 
 ) 
 
 
 
 Woodbury 
 
 c. 
 
 East Budleigh 
 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 UfFculme 
 
 V. 
 
 Bampton 
 
 Tiverton 
 
 * Woodland, 
 
 \ 
 
 
 
 Ugborough - 
 
 V. 
 
 Erraington 
 
 Plymptoa 
 
 appendant 
 
 Haytor - - 
 
 Ipplepen 
 
 Uplime - 
 
 R. 
 
 Axminster 
 
 Honiton 
 
 to Ipplepen 
 
 
 
 Uplowman 
 
 R. 
 
 Tiverton 
 
 Tiverton 
 
 Woodleigh 
 
 R. 
 
 Stanborough - 
 
 Woodleigh 
 
 Upton Helions 
 Upton Pyne - 
 
 R. 
 
 West Bud-1 
 leigh - j 
 Wonford 
 
 Cadbury 
 Cadbury 
 
 Woolborough 
 Woolfardis- 
 worthy 
 
 c. 
 
 J, 
 
 Haytor 
 Witheridge - 
 
 Ipplepen 
 South Molton 
 
 Virginstow 
 Walkhampton 
 
 R. 
 V. 
 
 Lifton 
 Roborough - 
 
 Tavistock 
 Tamerton 
 
 Woolfardis- 
 worthy 
 
 }c. 
 
 Hartland 
 
 Hertland 
 
 Warkley 
 
 Washfield 
 
 Washford 
 
 R. 
 
 South Molton 
 West Bud- } 
 leigh -j 
 
 South Molton 
 Tiverton 
 
 East Worling- 
 
 ton 
 West Wor- 
 
 lin°"ton 
 
 V. 
 
 Witheridge - 
 Witheridge - 
 
 South Molton 
 South Molton 
 
 Pyne - - 
 
 Witheridge - 
 
 South Molton 
 
 Yarcombe 
 
 Axminster 
 
 Dunkeswell 
 
 \\ eare Giffard 
 
 R. 
 
 Shebbear 
 
 Hertland 
 
 Yarnscombe - 
 
 V. 
 
 Hartland 
 
 Barnstaple 
 
 * King's 
 
 \ 
 
 
 
 Yealmpton 
 
 V. 
 
 Plympton 
 
 Plympton 
 
 Weare, ap- 
 pendant to 
 
 
 Haytor - 
 
 Ipplepen 
 
 Zeal Mona- 
 chorum 
 
 }E. 
 
 North Tawton 
 
 Chulmleigh 
 
 Brixham - 
 
 ) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 f In four portions. There is a chapel of St. George in the town, and Cove chapel, in Pitt Quarter. 
 
 The 
 
DEVONSHIRE. xxx! 
 
 The chapels of ease in this county are, 
 
 In the parish of 
 
 Brixham town Brixham. 
 
 Budleigh Salterton Budleigh 
 
 Cove Tiverton 
 
 Culm Davy Hemiock 
 
 Culmjohn Broad Clist 
 
 St. George Tiverton 
 
 Honiton town Honiton 
 
 Newton Abbot Wolborough 
 
 Newton Bushell High Week 
 
 Newton Poppleford Aylesbeare 
 
 Okehampton town Okehampton 
 
 Oldridge St. Tbomas 
 
 Petton Bampton 
 
 Sticklepath Sampford Courtenay. 
 
 There is an intention of building chapels at Exmouth and Torquay. 
 The dilapidated chapels, and those destroyed, which have been very nume- 
 rous, are spoken of in the parishes in which they were respectively 
 situated. 
 
 Monasteries, Colleges, and ancient Hospitals. 
 
 The Benedictine monks had a priory at Exeter ; a mitred abbey at 
 Tavistock ; a cell at Pilton, near Barnstaple ; an alien cell at Covvick, 
 near Exeter ; and another at Modbury. The nuns of this order had a 
 priory at Polesloe, near Exeter. The Austin canons had monasteries at 
 Frithelstock, Hartland, and Plympton ; a cell at Marsh, near Exeter ; an 
 alien priory at Otterton ; and, according to Lelancl, cells at Axmouth and 
 Sidmouth. The nuns of this order had priories at Canonleigh and Corn- 
 worthy. The Cistertians had abbies at Buckland Monachorum, Buckfast- 
 leigh, Dunkeswell, Ford in Thorncombe, (removed from Brightley, in 
 Oakhampton,) and at Newenham in Axminster. The Cluniac monks had 
 priories at Barnstaple, and at Carswell in Plymtree, and an alien priory 
 dedicated to .St. James, near Exeter. The Premonstratensians had an 
 abbey at Tor. The Austin friers had priories at Barnstaple and Tavistock ; 
 the Dominicans had a priory at Exeter ; the Franciscans, or Grey friers, 
 had convents at Exeter and Plymouth; the White friers one at Plymouth; 
 and the Trinitarians one at Totnes : Tanner mentions a priory of the 
 
 latter 
 
xxxii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 latter order at Blakedon. In the year 1331 Sir Richard Stapeldon had 
 the King's licence for founding a Carthusian monastery on any of his 
 estates in the bishopric of Exeter a : but it does not appear that such 
 foundation was effected. 
 
 There are said to have been some monasteries at Exeter, destroyed 
 at an early period, and priories at Churchill in East Downe, Townstall, 
 Dartmouth, and Indio in Bovey Tracey ; but the existence of some of 
 these is doubtful, and no particulars are known of any of them. The 
 Knights Templars had a preceptory or hospital at Clayhanger. 
 
 The churches of Axminster, Beer Ferrers, Chulmleigh, Clovelly, 
 Crediton, Haccombe, South Molton, Ottery St. Mary, Plympton, Slapton, 
 and Stoke in Teignhead, were formerly collegiate. There was a collegiate 
 chapel within the castle at Exeter. The only collegiate bodies remaining 
 are the dean and chapter, and the vicars choral of the church of St. Peter 
 Exeter, unless we reckon under this head Tiverton, which, having four 
 portionists, has sometimes been deemed a collegiate church. 
 
 Some of the ancient hospitals, founded before the Reformation, still 
 remain, as St. John's, St. Mary Magdalen's, and God's House, founded 
 by William Wynard, at Exeter ; the ancient hospital of St. Mary Magda- 
 len, at Honiton, endowed by Abbot Chard ; that of St. Margaret at 
 Pilton, near Barnstaple, and Greneway's and Waldron's almshouses at 
 Tiverton. 
 
 There were ancient hospitals, now demolished or disused, at Barnstaple, 
 Clist Gabriel, Crediton ; St. Alexis' cell, and Lord Bonville's almshouse 
 at Exeter, and ancient hospitals at Plympton, Tavistock, Teignmouth, 
 and Totnes. 
 
 Borough and Market Towns. 
 
 Besides the two county members, Devonshire sends 24 members to 
 parliament ; two for Exeter, and two for each of the following boroughs : 
 Ashburton, Barnstaple, Beer Alston, Dartmouth, Honiton, Oakhampton, 
 Plymouth, Plympton, Tavistock, Tiverton, and Totnes. The following 
 boroughs formerly sent members to parliament : Bradninch, Crediton, 
 
 * Rot. Pat. 5 Edw. III. 
 
 Fremington, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. xxxiii 
 
 Fremington, Lidford, Modbuiy, South Molton, and Great Torrington. 
 The ports of Exmouth and Teignmouth sent representatives to the great 
 councils for maritime affairs. It lias often been said that what are called 
 the disused boroughs, which formerly sent members to parliament, ceased 
 to send them in consequence of having been excused, under the plea of 
 poverty, from what was considered as a burden, since the boroughs 
 paid the expenses of their members during their attendance in parliament. 
 I have never found any record in confirmation of this tradition, except in 
 the instance of Great Torrington : a copy of the record is given in the 
 note. a It seems that the burgesses of Torrington, to get rid of the 
 burden of which they complained, did not scruple in their statement to 
 deviate a little from the truth, since they represent it as a new burden 
 imposed on them by the sheriff, they never having been summoned to send 
 burgesses to parliament till the 21 of Edw. III. It is even stated that 
 they had searched the rolls to prove this fact. Yet the burgesses for 
 Torrington are regularly entered from the 23d of Edw. I. to the 15th of 
 Edw. III. It appears therefore that they did not carry their researches 
 back beyond the Kith. It is clear that the sentiments which the burgesses 
 of Torrington express were by no means universal at that period, for 
 
 1 Rex ballivis et probis hominibus et toti communitati villae de Toriton in comitatu 
 Devonian salutem. Ex parte vestra nobis est mandatum quod cum villa praedicta ad mittendum 
 aliquos homines pro eadem villa ad parliamenta nostra onerari non debeat, nee aliquos 
 homines pro dicta villa ad parliamenta nostra, vel progenitorum nostrorum quondam Regum 
 Angliae non miserit, nee mittere consueverit, ante annum regni nostri vicesimum primum, quo 
 tempore vicecomes noster comitatus praedicti, qui tunc fuit, dictam villam de Toriton burgum, 
 et duos homines pro eodem burgo, ad veniendum ad Parliamentum nostrum dicto anno 
 vicesimo tentum summonitos fuisse malitiose in cancellariam nostram retornavit. Et sic eadem 
 villa de Toriton ab eodem anno vicesimo primo ad inveniendum duos homines pro eadem 
 villa in singulis annis Parliamentis nostris tentis, praetextu retornati prsedicti onerata extitit. 
 Et vos ea occasione laboribus et expensis multipliciter gravati fuistis, ad vestrum dampnum 
 non modicum et depressionem manifestam ; super quo nobis supplicastis vobis remedium 
 adhiberi opportunum. Et quia scrutatis rotulis et memorandis cancellaria: nostra?, non est 
 compertum nomina aliquorum hominum pro dicta viUa seu Burgo Toriton, ad veniendum ad 
 Parliamenta nostra ante dictum vicesimum primum retornata fuisse. Nos nolcntes dictam 
 villam de Toriton occasione praxu'eta indebite onerari, vos et villam praedictam ad inveniendum 
 seu mittendum aliquos homines ad Parliamenta nostra, de cactero communis summonitionis 
 parliamentorum eorundem, habemus et tenemus excusatos : et vos inde exoneramus per 
 praesentes in perpetuum. In cujus rei testimonium, &c. Teste Rege apud West. 18 die 
 Maii. 
 
 Vol. VI. e about 
 
XXXIV 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 about the same time we find their neighbours at Barnstaple claiming the 
 right of sending burgesses to parliament, as an important privilege. 
 
 The editor of the Magna Britannia (1720) enumerates 40 market- 
 towns in this county ; Bradninch is reckoned among them ; Moreton 
 Hampstead and others are omitted. Among Mr. Chappie's Collections is 
 an imperfect list of market-towns, dated Oct. 1775, amounting to 40, 
 including Bow, Bradninch, Dodbrook, Hartland, Lifton% Sheepwash, 
 Thorncombe, and, with a query, Beer Alston : at all these there are now 
 no markets. He refers to a list, which he calls Thorn's list, which had 
 omitted the markets of Beer Alston, Bradninch, &c. Mr. Chappie says, 
 that Teignmouth had then lately assumed a market, although he does not 
 insert it in his list ; he observes, that the market-towns of Devon had 
 generally been reckoned at forty. 
 
 Markets. 
 
 Appledore 
 
 Ashburton 
 Axminster 
 
 Bampton 
 
 Barnstaple 
 
 Bideford 
 
 South Brent 
 
 Brixham 
 
 Chagford 
 
 Chudleigli 
 
 Chulmleigh 
 
 Collumpton 
 
 Colyton 
 
 Crediton 
 
 Culmstock 
 
 Dartmouth 
 
 Exeter 
 
 Hatherleigh 
 Holsworthy 
 Honiton 
 
 {Wednesday and Satur- 
 day. 
 Saturday. 
 
 ■ Saturday. 
 
 {Wednesday and Satur- 
 day. 
 {Tuesday, Thursday, and 
 Friday. 
 Tuesday and Saturday. 
 Friday. 
 Saturday. 
 • Saturday. 
 Saturday. 
 Friday. 
 Saturday. 
 
 Thursday and Saturday. 
 Saturday. 
 Friday. 
 Friday. 
 
 {Tuesday, Friday, and 
 Saturday. 
 Tuesday and Saturday. 
 Wednesday. 
 
 ■ Saturday. 
 
 Ilfracombe 
 Kingsbridge - 
 Modbury 
 
 South Molton 
 
 Moreton Hamp- 
 stead 
 Newton Abbot 
 Oakhampton - 
 Ottery St. Mary 
 
 Plymouth 
 
 Plymouth Dock 
 
 Plympton 
 
 Sidmouth 
 
 Stonehouse 
 
 Tavistock 
 
 East Teignmouth 
 
 Tiverton 
 
 Topsham 
 
 Torrington 
 
 Totnes 
 
 Uffculme 
 
 - Saturday. 
 Saturday. 
 
 - Thursday. 
 
 f Tuesday, Thursday, and 
 " \ Saturday. 
 
 {■ Saturday. 
 
 - Wednesday. 
 
 - Saturday. 
 
 - Tuesday. 
 
 {Monday, Thursday, and 
 Saturday. 
 V Tuesday, Thursday, and 
 * "[ Saturday. 
 
 - Friday. 
 
 - Tuesday and Saturday. 
 
 - Wednesday. 
 
 - Friday. 
 Saturday. 
 
 - Tuesday and Saturday. 
 
 - Saturday. 
 
 - Saturday. 
 
 - Saturday. 
 
 - Wednesday. 
 
 The principal corn-markets are Exeter, Tavistock, Totnes, Barnstaple, 
 Plymouth, and Kingsbridge. 
 
 A market is about to be established at Torquay. 
 
 3 Lifton never had a regular market ; but some years ago butchers' meat was exposed to 
 sale weekly. . 
 
 Disused 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 xxxv 
 
 Disused Markets. 
 
 West Allington. 
 
 Awliscombe. 
 
 Beer Alston, in Beer 
 
 Ferrers. 
 High Bickington. 
 Bovey Tracey. 
 Bow or Nymet Tracey. 
 Bradninch. 
 Buckfastleigli. 
 Buckland Monachorum. 
 East Budleigl). 
 Canonleigh in Burles- 
 
 combe. 
 Bishop's Clist. 
 Cockington. 
 Comb Martin. 
 
 Denbury. 
 
 Dodbrooke. 
 
 Ermington. 
 
 Harton. 
 
 Broad Hembury. 
 
 Holcombe in Winkleigh. 
 
 Ipplepen. 
 
 Kenneford in Kenne. 
 
 Kenton. 
 
 Langford in Collumpton. 
 
 Lidford. 
 
 Moreleigh. 
 
 Newport in Bishop's Taw- 
 ton. 
 
 Newton Bushell in High- 
 week. 
 
 Newton Poppleford in 
 Aylesbeare. 
 
 Paignton. 
 
 Pilton. 
 
 Rackenford. 
 
 Sidbury. 
 
 Silverton. 
 
 Tamerton Foliot. 
 
 North Tawton. 
 
 Thorncombe. 
 
 Witheridge. 
 
 Woodbury. 
 
 South Zeal in South Taw- 
 ton. 
 
 Fairs and Great Markets. 
 
 Towns, &c. 
 Alphington 
 
 Ashburton 
 
 Ashwater 
 
 Axminster 
 
 Bampton 
 
 Barnstaple 
 
 High Bickington 
 Bideford 
 
 Bovey Tracey 
 
 Bow 
 
 Bradworthy 
 
 Brent 
 
 Bridestowe 
 
 On what day held. 
 
 Remarks. 
 
 The November fair has a 
 great show of sheep. 
 
 ( 
 
 
 First Wednesday after June 10 ; Wednes- 
 day in the week after Michaelmas day. 
 
 First Thursday in March; first Thursday') . 
 in June ; first Thursday in August ; and > 
 first Thursday in November. - -J 
 
 First Tuesday in May ; and first Monday 
 after August 1. 
 
 First Tuesday after April 25.; first Tuesday 
 after June 14.; and first Wednesday after 
 October 10. 
 
 Tuesday in Whitsun-week ; and last Thurs-"\ The October fair is one 
 day in October. Great markets — Wed- I of the largest fairs in 
 nesday before Lady Day ; and the last j the west of England 
 Wednesday in April. - - -) for sheep. 
 
 September 19. Great markets — Friday ~l 
 before April 21. ; and second Friday in > Cattle and horses. 
 December. - - - -J 
 
 May 14. 
 
 February 14. ; July 19. ; November 14. 
 
 Easter Monday ; Ascension-Day ; first 
 Thursday in July ; and the first Thurs- 
 day in November. 
 
 Ascension Day ; and November 22. Great 
 market — third Thursday in March. 
 
 September 9. 
 
 The last Tuesday in April ; and the last 
 Tuesday in September. 
 
 The second Wednesday in June, unless on 
 a Saturday or Tuesday ; in which cases 
 it is held on the Monday following. 
 
 e 2 
 
 Bridgetown, 
 
XXXVI 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Towns, &c. 
 
 Bridgetown, in Berr 
 Pomeroy 
 
 Buckfastleigh 
 
 Buckland Brewer 
 Buckland Monacho- 
 
 rum 
 Chawleigh 
 
 Chudleigh 
 
 Remarks. 
 
 '25. 
 
 Now only a holiday fair. 
 
 Chulmleigh 
 
 Churchenford, in 
 Church Staunton 
 
 Broad Clist 
 
 Collumpton 
 
 Colyford, inColyton 
 
 Colyton 
 
 Comb Martin 
 
 Cornwood 
 
 Crediton 
 
 Culmstock 
 
 Dawlish 
 
 Dodbrooke 
 
 Ermington 
 
 Exeter 
 
 Hartland 
 
 Hatherleigh 
 Broad Hembury 
 
 Holsworthy 
 
 Honiton 
 Ilfracombe 
 
 Lifton 
 
 lorses, 
 sheep. 
 
 bullocks, and 
 
 Cattle, cloth, &c. 
 
 On what day held. 
 
 Jjuly! 
 
 \ The third Thursday in June ; and the second 
 ^ Thursday in September. 
 Whit-Tuesday, and November 2. 
 
 [ Trinity Tuesday. 
 
 -_ May 6.; December II. 
 
 - j Easter Tuesday. - - - - j Hc 
 
 {Third Thursday in June ; October 2., unless^ 
 on Saturday, Sunday, or Monday, in I „, 
 which cases it is held on the Tuesday f Shee P and bu 'locks. 
 following. - - - -J 
 
 f Third Friday in March ; Wednesday in 
 
 - ■< Easter-week ; and the last Wednesday in 
 ( July. 
 
 J- January 25. ; and March 6. 
 
 {First Monday in April, and the first 
 Monday in September. 
 _ J" The first Wednesday in May, and the first! 
 \ Wednesday in November. - - j 
 
 - The first Wednesday after March II. 
 
 - May 1.; October 14. 
 
 - Whit-Monday. 
 
 {The first Monday in May, and the fourth 
 Monday in September. 
 fMay 11.; August 21.; (but if on Friday 
 I or Saturday, the Monday following,) 
 
 - <| and September 21. Great markets — 
 
 Saturday preceding the last Wednesday 
 L in April. 
 _ ( May 21. ; and the Wednesday before Sep- 
 * 1 tember 29. 
 
 - Easter-Monday - ... 
 
 - Wednesday before Palm-Sunday. 
 February 2. ; June 24. ... 
 
 ( The second Wednesday in March, June, 
 
 - \ August, and December. Great market — 
 (. the second Tuesday in every month. 
 f Wednesday in Easter-week, and September 
 
 -•j 25. Great market — the second Saturday 
 L in March. 
 
 f May 21 . : June 22. ; September 7. ; No- 
 \ vember 9. 
 
 - November 30. 
 ("April 27.; July 9.; and October 2. 
 { the latter day happen on Friday, Satu 
 
 _ J day, or Monday, it begins on th 
 j Tuesday following. 
 
 Great market on the second Wednesday in 
 (. February. 
 
 Wednesday after July 19. 
 f April 14-th; and the first Saturday after 
 ' | August 23. 
 
 {February 2. ; Ascension Day ; and Octo- 
 ber 28. 
 
 A holiday fair. 
 On the decline. 
 
 :her 
 
 The last is a great fair 
 for cattle and all sorts 
 of commodities. 
 
 Modbury 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 XXXVIJ 
 
 Towns, &c. 
 
 Modbury 
 North Molton 
 South Molton 
 
 Moreton Hampstcad 
 Newton Abbot 
 
 Newton St. Cyres 
 Bishops Nympton 
 
 Oakhampton 
 
 Ottery St. Mary 
 Paignton 
 
 Plymouth 
 
 Plympton 
 
 Rackenford 
 Sampford Peverell 
 
 Seaton 
 
 Silverton 
 
 Stokenham 
 
 Stonehouse 
 
 Tamerton Foliot 
 
 Tavistock 
 
 On what day held. 
 
 Remarks. 
 
 great fair for cattle, 
 cloth, &c. &c. 
 
 fMay 4., if it happen on Tuesday or "J . 
 i Wednesday ; otherwise, on the Tuesday > 
 following. .J 
 
 Great market — thesecondTuesday in every 
 
 month. 
 Tuesday after May 11. ; November 12. 
 f Wednesday before June 22.; Wednesday 1 „ 
 | after August 26. - - '. J Horses and cattle 
 
 ■{ Great markets — Saturday after February 
 I 13., and March 25.; before April 23.; Au- 
 [_ gust 1.; October 10.; and December 12. 
 ■ T The third Thursday in July, and the last 
 i Thursday in November. Great market 
 (_ ■ — Saturday before Whitsun-week. 
 
 ! Midsummer-Day, if on a Wednesday; if 
 not, the Wednesday following ; Septem- 
 ber 11., under the same rule; Novem- 
 ber 6. 
 Monday before Midsummer Day. 
 April 14. ; October 20. 
 fThe second Tuesday after March 11.; 
 i May 14. ; the first Wednesday after 
 <j July 6. ; August 5. ; the first Tuesday 
 | after September 11.; the first Wednesday 
 L after October 11. 
 Saturday after Christmas. 
 Great market — Saturday before Christmas. 
 
 {Tuesday before Palm-Sunday; Tuesday 
 before Trinity-Sunday; August 15. 
 Tuesday in Whitsun-week. 
 f The first Monday in April, and the first 
 -J Monday in November. Great market 
 L — the second Thursday in every month. 
 ^February 25. ; eve of the Annunciation, 
 ) O. S. ; August 12. ; and October 28. ; 
 | unless it fall after Thursday, in which 
 v case it is held on the Tuesday following. 
 Wednesday before September 19. 
 The last Wednesday in April. 
 September 9. - ... 
 
 Whit-Tuesday. - ... 
 
 fThe first Thursday in March, and the first 
 \ Thursday in July. 
 
 Easter-Tuesday. .... 
 
 ( The first Wednesday in May ; the second 
 < Wednesday in September, and the day 
 ( following. 
 
 The third Wednesday in July, 
 f January 16. ; May 6. ; September 19. ; 
 October 10. ; and December 11. Great 
 markets — the last Friday in June, and 
 the first Friday in November. It has re- 
 cently been determined, that in lieu of 
 these fairs and great markets, there shall, 
 after the first of January 1822, be fairs 
 on the second Wednesday in January, 
 May, July, September, October, No- 
 vember, and December. 
 
 A great holiday fair. 
 
 A holiday fair. 
 
 A great horse fair. 
 A holiday fair. 
 A holiday fair. 
 
 A holiday fair. 
 
 North 
 
XXXV1U 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Towns, &c. 
 North Tawton 
 
 East Teignmouth 
 
 Thorncombe 
 Thorverton 
 
 Tiverton 
 
 On what day held. 
 
 f The third Tuesday in April ; October 3, ; 
 ' \ and December 18. 
 fThe third Tuesday in January 
 
 - < Tuesday in February ; and 
 (_ Tuesday in September. 
 
 - Easter-Tuesday. 
 ■ The last Monday in February. 
 
 Monday after July 18. 
 
 Remarks. 
 
 ; the 
 the 
 
 last 
 last 
 
 "i 
 
 Topsham 
 
 Tomngton 
 
 Totnes - 
 Twobridges, in Lidford 
 
 Uff'culme 
 
 Ugborough 
 
 Underwood, in Plymp 
 
 ton St. Mary 
 Whimpl'e 
 Wilmington, in Wid- 
 
 worthy 
 
 Winkleigh 
 Witheridge 
 
 (J 
 
 Yealmpton 
 
 The second Tuesday after Trinity. 
 ("Michaelmas-Day. Great markets — the 
 second Tuesday in March j Tuesday 
 before April 25. ; August 26. ; Decem- 
 ber 14., when on a Tuesday, otherwise 
 the Tuesday after. 
 The first Wednesday after July 10. 
 I May 4. ; July 5. ; October 10. Great 
 ( market — the third Saturday in March. 
 May 12. ; October 28. 
 Wednesday after August 16. 
 I Wednesday in Passion-week ; June 29. 
 J and the middle Wednesday in Sep 
 / tember. 
 
 f Great market the third Tuesday in every 
 \ month. 
 
 | July 5. 
 
 Monday before Michaelmas. 
 
 I Monday after St. Matthew. 
 
 f Monday after July 7. ; but if that day hap- 
 
 ■} pens on a Sunday, it is then held on the 
 
 (. Monday se'nnight. 
 June 24. - - - 
 
 Great markets — the last Wednesday in 
 April ; the first Wednesday after Sep- 
 tember 21.; and the first Wednesday in 
 November 
 
 f Great market — the fourth Wednesday in 
 
 \ every month. 
 
 Fat sheep. 
 
 The most celebrated fair 
 
 for lambs in the west 
 
 of England. 
 Cattle, horses, &c. 
 
 Horses, sheep, cattle, &c. 
 On the decline. 
 
 Chiefly for sheep. 
 
 - jur 
 
 {Gre 
 A 
 * 
 
 I 
 
 A small fair. 
 On the decline. 
 
 Population. 
 
 The number of persons in Devonshire, assessed in the year 1377. to a 
 poll-tax, from which only mendicants and children under fourteen years of 
 age were exempted b , (including the religions of both sexes, who were 
 
 b It seems doubtful whether the inhabitants of Exeter and Dartmouth, who were rated 
 
 separately, and amounted together to 6903, were included in this number. With this addition 
 
 the number would have been 53,853. 
 
 taxed 
 
DEVONSHIRE. xxxix 
 
 taxed separately, and amounted to 1315,) was 46,950. This tax was 
 levied immediately after a great plague, by which this county, and par- 
 ticularly the great towns of Exeter and Plymouth, had been much de- 
 populated. c 
 
 It appears, that the decayed state of the Devonshire towns had at- 
 tracted the attention of parliament in the reign of Henry VIII. An act 
 passed, in 1540, for encouraging the re-building of houses in the towns of 
 Plymouth, Plympton, Barnstaple, Tavistock, and Dartmouth ; with certain 
 towns in other counties therein expressed. The preamble of the act states, 
 that in these towns many houses had fallen down and decayed ; and at 
 that time remained unre-edified, lying as desolate and void ground. The 
 Magna Britannia of 17-0, computes the number of houses in this county 
 at 56,310, that of the inhabitants at 300,000. The total number of in- 
 habited houses in Devonshire, according to the census of 1801, was 57,955; 
 that of inhabitants, 343,001 ; in 1811, the number of houses was 62,31S ; 
 that of inhabitants 383,308 ; in 1821, the number of houses was 73,982; 
 that of inhabitants 438,760. " 
 
 " The register of Newenham abbey, (in the possession of Dr. Wavell,) records a great mor- 
 tality about sixty years before this, in the time of Abbot Pupplisbury, occasioned by famine. 
 " In cujus tempore bussellus frumenti pro 3*. id. ; et aliq. pro is. vendebatur, et bussellus 
 grossi salis pro is. Sd. fames nam erat valida, et inaudita ; et mortalitas hominum sed praecipue 
 pauperum ; et magna mortalitas armentorum, maxima et inaudita videlicit bourn, vaccarum 
 et vitulorum, per multos annos durans." It is said, that 167 of the cattle belonging to the 
 Abbey died during this mortality. 
 
 A The great increase of population, in this and other counties, particularly in the great 
 towns, within the last thirty years, is to be attributed in a great measure, to the immortal dis- 
 covery of Dr. Jenner ; and to the various great improvements of modern times in medical 
 science; especially in the treatment of women in child-birth, and infants. See some very in- 
 genious remarks on the late population returns for Plymouth, Plymouth-dock, &c, by George 
 Harvey, M.D., printed on single sheets. 
 
xl 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 PARISHES. 
 
 Inhabited Houses. 
 
 Families. 
 
 Number of Inhabitants. 
 
 1801. 
 
 1811. 
 
 1821. 
 
 1801. 
 
 1811. 
 
 1821. 
 
 1801. 
 
 181i. 
 
 1821. 
 
 Abbotshain - 
 
 59 
 
 30 
 
 61 
 
 59 
 
 38 
 
 64 
 
 313 
 
 321 
 
 386 
 
 East Allington 
 
 77 
 
 92 
 
 81 
 
 79 
 
 93 
 
 107 
 
 468 
 
 502 
 
 615 
 
 West Allington 
 
 104 
 
 119 
 
 118 
 
 116 
 
 136 
 
 128 
 
 655 
 
 732 
 
 778 
 
 Alpliington 
 
 98 
 
 188 
 
 221 
 
 184 
 
 205 
 
 221 
 
 845 
 
 911 
 
 1,070 
 
 Alverdiscott - - - 
 
 51 
 
 47 
 
 63 
 
 52 
 
 50 
 
 64 
 
 278 
 
 257 
 
 334 
 
 AKvington 
 
 56 
 
 56 
 
 72 
 
 61 
 
 64 
 
 76 
 
 310 
 
 359 
 
 386 
 
 East Anstey 
 
 30 
 
 28 
 
 30 
 
 33 
 
 28 
 
 30 
 
 165 
 
 171 
 
 171 
 
 West Anstey 
 
 34 
 
 36 
 
 30 
 
 40 
 
 45 
 
 38 
 
 215 
 
 199 
 
 220 
 
 Arlington - - - 
 
 37 
 
 35 
 
 34 
 
 42 
 
 36 
 
 36 
 
 207 
 
 157 
 
 177 
 
 Ashburton 
 
 369 
 
 349 
 
 396 
 
 664 
 
 684 
 
 778 
 
 3,080 
 
 3,053 
 
 3,403 
 
 Aslibury - - - 
 
 4 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 41 
 
 72 
 
 74 
 
 Ashcombe 
 
 51 
 
 53 
 
 45 
 
 57 
 
 53 
 
 53 
 
 280 
 
 272 
 
 283 
 
 Ashford - - - 
 
 18 
 
 22 
 
 23 
 
 21 
 
 22 
 
 23 
 
 73 
 
 101 
 
 98 
 
 Asliprington 
 
 96 
 
 103 
 
 117 
 
 99 
 
 107 
 
 126 
 
 509 
 
 519 
 
 619 
 
 Ash-Reigney 
 
 151 
 
 149 
 
 183 
 
 159 
 
 149 
 
 185 
 
 756 
 
 752 
 
 858 
 
 Ashton - 
 
 39 
 
 35 
 
 53 
 
 42 
 
 40 
 
 53 
 
 176 
 
 221 
 
 258 
 
 Ashwater - - - 
 
 115 
 
 117 
 
 133 
 
 115 
 
 117 
 
 136 
 
 643 
 
 677 
 
 774 
 
 Atherington 
 
 79 
 
 98 
 
 101 
 
 89 
 
 98 
 
 113 
 
 484 
 
 456 
 
 535 
 
 Aveton Uiffard 
 
 143 
 
 146 
 
 152 
 
 152 
 
 153 
 
 195 
 
 746 
 
 828 
 
 924 
 
 Awliscombe 
 
 86 
 
 93 
 
 87 
 
 105 
 
 97 
 
 100 
 
 426 
 
 471 
 
 513 
 
 Axminster » - 
 
 406 
 
 445 
 
 490 
 
 411 
 
 488 
 
 540 
 
 2,154 
 
 2,387 
 
 2,742 
 
 Axmouth 
 
 60 
 
 79 
 
 100 
 
 66 
 
 96 
 
 100 
 
 375 
 
 466 
 
 52D 
 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 139 
 
 162 
 
 181 
 
 181 
 
 184 
 
 199 
 
 687 
 
 747 
 
 854 
 
 Bampton 
 
 279 
 
 280 
 
 294 
 
 279 
 
 288 
 
 332 
 
 1,364 
 
 1,422 
 
 1,633 
 
 Barnstaple 
 
 619 
 
 628 
 
 774 
 
 828 
 
 836 
 
 1,028 
 
 3,748 
 
 4,019 
 
 5,079 
 
 Beaford 
 
 95 
 
 96 
 
 110 
 
 100 
 
 100 
 
 110 
 
 516 
 
 540 
 
 582 
 
 Beaworthy 
 
 35 
 
 40 
 
 54 
 
 36 
 
 43 
 
 56 
 
 218 
 
 235 
 
 299 
 
 Beer Ferrers 
 
 206 
 
 146 
 
 361 
 
 217 
 
 165 
 
 413 
 
 1,110 
 
 1,504 
 
 2,198 
 
 Belston 
 
 29 
 
 28 
 
 36 
 
 29 
 
 30 
 
 37 
 
 137 
 
 120 
 
 157 
 
 Berry Nerber 
 
 83 
 
 103 
 
 124 
 
 94 
 
 103 
 
 130 
 
 532 
 
 573 
 
 648 
 
 Berry Pomeroy 
 
 157 
 
 147 
 
 152 
 
 226 
 
 196 
 
 231 
 
 1,124 
 
 1,179 
 
 1,255 
 
 Bickington 
 
 40 
 
 48 
 
 36 
 
 40 
 
 49 
 
 52 
 
 237 
 
 258 
 
 301 
 
 Abbots Bickington 
 
 10 
 
 12 
 
 11 
 
 12 
 
 15 
 
 12 
 
 68 
 
 72 
 
 75 
 
 High Bickington 
 
 125 
 
 125 
 
 125 
 
 129 
 
 135 
 
 145 
 
 693 
 
 662 
 
 748 
 
 Bickley in the Hundred of") 
 Hayridge - - J 
 
 56 
 
 48 
 
 50 
 
 56 
 
 48 
 
 50 
 
 297 
 
 254 
 
 273 
 
 Bickley in the Hundred of") 
 Roborough - - J 
 
 39 
 
 43 
 
 72 
 
 51 
 
 54 
 
 92 
 
 264 
 
 300 
 
 457 
 
 Bickton 
 
 24 
 
 37 
 
 40 
 
 36 
 
 38 
 
 46 
 
 173 
 
 174 
 
 217 
 
 Bideford - 
 
 582 
 
 634 
 
 683 
 
 613 
 
 720 
 
 796 
 
 2,9S7 
 
 3,244 
 
 4,053 
 
 Bigbury ... 
 
 90 
 
 87 
 
 99 
 
 91 
 
 95 
 
 100 
 
 430 
 
 474 
 
 536 
 
 Bittadon - - - 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 9 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 8 
 
 24 
 
 34 
 
 52 
 
 Blackauton - - - 
 
 198 
 
 114 
 
 226 
 
 198 
 
 115 
 
 234 
 
 1,019 
 
 1,109 
 
 1,227 
 
 North Bovey - - - 
 
 77 
 
 87 
 
 103 
 
 96 
 
 93 
 
 111 
 
 519 
 
 497 
 
 603 
 
 Bovev Tracey 
 
 28G 
 
 203 
 
 325 
 
 286 
 
 301 
 
 343 
 
 1,431 
 
 1,385 
 
 1,685 
 
 Bradford - - - 
 
 44 
 
 63 
 
 73 
 
 63 
 
 64 
 
 71 
 
 352 
 
 338 
 
 384 
 
 Bradmnch - 
 
 247 
 
 268 
 
 285 
 
 260 
 
 271 
 
 345 
 
 1,187 
 
 1,321 
 
 1,511 
 
 Bradstone - - - 
 
 14 
 
 18 
 
 17 
 
 20 
 
 23 
 
 18 
 
 105 
 
 133 
 
 115 
 
 Bradworthy 
 
 94 
 
 129 
 
 147 
 
 124 
 
 145 
 
 173 
 
 634 
 
 763 
 
 978 
 
 Bramptord Speke 
 
 44 
 
 38 
 
 44 
 
 44 
 
 60 
 
 63 
 
 273 
 
 273 
 
 303 
 
 Branseombe 
 
 116 
 
 128 
 
 150 
 
 ! 119 
 
 132 
 
 155 
 
 603 
 
 595 
 
 773 
 
 Bratton 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 xli 
 
 T"» 4 Tl TC TT T"* C 
 
 Inhabited Houses. 
 
 , Families. 
 
 Numb 
 
 ;r of Inhabitants) 
 
 PARISHES. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1801. 
 
 1811. 
 
 1821. 
 
 1801. 
 
 1811. 
 
 1821. 
 
 1801. 
 
 1811. 
 
 1821. 
 
 Bratton Clovelly 
 
 84 
 
 72 
 
 106 
 
 ;' 96 
 
 98 
 
 115 
 
 548 
 
 5/3 
 
 705 
 
 Bratton Fleming 
 
 67 
 
 82 
 
 85 
 
 79 
 
 89 
 
 93 
 
 406 
 
 434 
 
 490 
 
 Braunton - - - 
 
 255 
 
 275 
 
 311 
 
 265 
 
 275 
 
 331 
 
 1,296 
 
 1,390 
 
 1,699 
 
 High Bray 
 
 45 
 
 44 
 
 49 
 
 45 
 
 46 
 
 49 
 
 264 
 
 262 
 
 278 
 
 Brendon - - 
 
 40 
 
 46 
 
 50 
 
 51 
 
 46 
 
 54 
 
 260 
 
 236 
 
 275 
 
 South Brent 
 
 163 
 
 189 
 
 235 
 
 163 
 
 209 
 
 246 
 
 1,032 
 
 1,230 
 
 1,401 
 
 Brent Tor - - 
 
 17 
 
 16 
 
 18 
 
 17 
 
 16 
 
 19 
 
 108 
 
 104 
 
 151 
 
 Bridestowe 
 
 91 
 
 106 
 
 126 
 
 98 
 
 116 
 
 139 
 
 581 
 
 664 
 
 787 
 
 Bridford - - - 
 
 70 
 
 68 
 
 78 
 
 SO 
 
 81 
 
 91 
 
 444 
 
 416 
 
 491 
 
 Bridgerule - 
 
 22 
 
 22 
 
 28 
 
 23 
 
 28 
 
 36 
 
 140 
 
 143 
 
 198 
 
 Brixham - - 
 
 701 
 
 746 
 
 800 
 
 906 
 
 891 
 
 924 
 
 3,671 
 
 4,371 
 
 4,503 
 
 Brixton ... 
 
 125 
 
 125 
 
 145 
 
 147 
 
 141 
 
 152 
 
 635 
 
 729 
 
 854 
 
 Broadwood Kelly 
 
 61 
 
 66 
 
 59 
 
 63 
 
 74 
 
 64 
 
 311 
 
 342 
 
 389 
 
 Broadwood Wiger 
 
 106 
 
 90 
 
 125 
 
 126 
 
 105 
 
 132 
 
 586 
 
 688 
 
 748 
 
 Brushford - - - 
 
 25 
 
 23 
 
 23 
 
 25 
 
 24 
 
 23 
 
 146 
 
 140 
 
 134 
 
 Buckerell ... 
 
 56 
 
 52 
 
 43 
 
 56 
 
 59 
 
 63 
 
 280 
 
 290 
 
 315 
 
 Buckfastleigh - - - 
 
 260 
 
 340 
 
 359 
 
 307 
 
 392 
 
 581 
 
 1,525 
 
 1,836 
 
 2,240 
 
 Buckland in the Moor 
 
 19 
 
 18 
 
 19 
 
 20 
 
 IS 
 
 19 
 
 106 
 
 107 
 
 137 
 
 Buckland Brewer 
 
 152 
 
 152 
 
 187 
 
 164 
 
 157 
 
 189 
 
 872 
 
 787 
 
 1,043 
 
 East Buckland 
 
 20 
 
 26 
 
 23 
 
 21 
 
 26 
 
 25 
 
 138 
 
 153 
 
 165 
 
 Egg Buckland 
 
 121 
 
 126 
 
 170 
 
 142 
 
 149 
 
 193 
 
 711 
 
 772 
 
 954 
 
 Buckland Filleigh 
 
 47 
 
 39 
 
 44 
 
 47 
 
 45 
 
 44 
 
 252 
 
 273 
 
 274 
 
 Buckland Monachorum 
 
 144 
 
 167 
 
 198 
 
 157 
 
 198 
 
 219 
 
 918 
 
 931 
 
 1,177 
 
 Buckland Toussaints 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 6 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 6 
 
 9 
 
 25 
 
 40 
 
 West Buckland 
 
 42 
 
 48 
 
 47 
 
 54 
 
 48 
 
 49 
 
 257 
 
 256 
 
 288 
 
 East Budleigh 
 
 203 
 
 254 
 
 379 
 
 215 
 
 260 
 
 362 
 
 1,014 
 
 1,190 
 
 1,706 
 
 St. Budock 
 
 78 
 
 95 
 
 131 
 
 86 
 
 135 
 
 120 
 
 544 
 
 621 
 
 689 
 
 Bulkworthy 
 
 17 
 
 23 
 
 28 
 
 17 
 
 23 
 
 29 
 
 110 
 
 126 
 
 155 
 
 Bundleigh - - 
 
 55 
 
 56 
 
 59 
 
 63 
 
 56 
 
 59 
 
 2S6 
 
 303 
 
 335 
 
 Burlescombe 
 
 139 
 
 158 
 
 173 
 
 188 
 
 260 
 
 213 
 
 853 
 
 1,177 
 
 1,073 
 
 Burrington - - - 
 
 142 
 
 160 
 
 150 
 
 142 
 
 166 
 
 192 
 
 755 
 
 825 
 
 939 
 
 Butterleigh 
 
 26 
 
 29 
 
 28 
 
 27 
 
 30 
 
 28 
 
 125 
 
 137 
 
 144 
 
 Cadbury - 
 
 31 
 
 33 
 
 44 
 
 41 
 
 44 
 
 44 
 
 238 
 
 223 • 
 
 242 
 
 Cadleigh - - - 
 
 38 
 
 39 
 
 40 
 
 38 
 
 45 
 
 49 
 
 226 
 
 228 
 
 236 
 
 Calverleigh - - 
 
 16 
 
 12 
 
 17 
 
 16 
 
 20 
 
 24 
 
 70 
 
 71 
 
 93 
 
 Abbots Carswell 
 
 95 
 
 97 
 
 99 
 
 95 
 
 97 
 
 102 
 
 389 
 
 379 
 
 437 
 
 King's Carswell 
 
 122 
 
 121 
 
 140 
 
 132 
 
 149 
 
 163 
 
 532 
 
 585 
 
 679 
 
 Chagford - - 
 
 236 
 
 249 
 
 276 
 
 251 
 
 271 
 
 290 
 
 1,115 
 
 1,197 
 
 1,503 
 
 Challocombe 
 
 31 
 
 33 
 
 41 
 
 32 
 
 38 
 
 43 
 
 158 
 
 181 
 
 240 
 
 Charles 
 
 42 
 
 55 
 
 59 
 
 43 
 
 55 
 
 62 
 
 217 
 
 276 
 
 322 
 
 Charleton - - 
 
 103 
 
 96 
 
 125 
 
 110 
 
 109 
 
 131 
 
 522 
 
 528 
 
 618 
 
 Chawleigh 
 
 144 
 
 130 
 
 154 
 
 156 
 
 171 
 
 177 
 
 755 
 
 705 
 
 792 
 
 Cheldon 
 
 19 
 
 17 
 
 20 
 
 19 
 
 17 
 
 20 
 
 91 
 
 78 
 
 96 
 
 Cheriton Bishop 
 
 100 
 
 98 
 
 127 
 
 128 
 
 117 
 
 142 
 
 604 
 
 680 
 
 753 
 
 Cheriton Fitzpaine 
 
 173 
 
 168 
 
 185 
 
 173 
 
 168 
 
 196 
 
 884 
 
 854 
 
 1,002 
 
 Chittlehampton 
 
 281 
 
 323 
 
 351 
 
 281 
 
 327 
 
 362 
 
 3,003* 
 
 1,527 
 
 1,748 
 
 Chivelstone 
 
 99 
 
 101 
 
 140 
 
 99 
 
 101 
 
 120 
 
 562 
 
 56S 
 
 637 
 
 Christow - - 
 
 72 
 
 96 
 
 96 
 
 99 
 
 99 
 
 106 
 
 422 
 
 460 
 
 531 
 
 * It is evident that there must have been some mistake in the return, or an error in the 
 printed account. 
 
 Vol. VI. f Chudleigh 
 
xlii 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 PARISHES. 
 
 Inhabited House?. 
 
 ] Families. 
 
 Number of Inhabitants. 
 
 1801. 
 
 1811 
 
 1821. 
 
 1801. 
 
 1811. 
 
 1821. 
 
 1801. 
 
 1811. 
 
 1821. 
 
 Chudleigh 
 
 360 
 
 370 
 
 384 
 
 412 
 
 456 
 
 392 
 
 1,786 
 
 1,832 
 
 2,053 
 
 Chulmleigh - - 
 
 270 
 
 282 
 
 303 
 
 276 
 
 291 
 
 327 
 
 1,333 
 
 1,340 
 
 1,506 
 
 Churchstow 
 
 50 
 
 54 
 
 52 
 
 50 
 
 54 
 
 52 
 
 219 
 
 289 
 
 316 
 
 Churston Ferrers 
 
 124 
 
 145 
 
 146 
 
 130 
 
 134 
 
 146 
 
 663 
 
 708 
 
 726 
 
 Clannaborough 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 59 
 
 41 
 
 56 
 
 Clawton - - - 
 
 66 
 
 79 
 
 81 
 
 75 
 
 89 
 
 100 
 
 383 
 
 519 
 
 534 
 
 Clayhanger 
 
 29 
 
 43 
 
 54 
 
 •■ 29 
 
 45 
 
 55 
 
 213 
 
 233 
 
 342 
 
 Clayhydon - - 
 
 113 
 
 116 
 
 147 
 
 139 
 
 139 
 
 153 
 
 690 
 
 69S 
 
 822 
 
 Broad Clist 
 
 394 
 
 306 
 
 402 
 
 394 
 
 337 
 
 414 
 
 1,540 
 
 1,737 
 
 1,885 
 
 Clist St. George - 
 
 51 
 
 57 
 
 67 
 
 51 
 
 57 
 
 69 
 
 249 
 
 279 
 
 345 
 
 Clist Hydon 
 
 48 
 
 48 
 
 52 
 
 60 
 
 48 
 
 55 
 
 257 
 
 266 
 
 297 
 
 Honiton Clist 
 
 66 
 
 70 
 
 78 
 
 66 
 
 72 
 
 87 
 
 348 
 
 325 
 
 383 
 
 Clist St. Laurence 
 
 34 
 
 33 
 
 30 
 
 34 
 
 33 
 
 30 
 
 156 
 
 162 
 
 149 
 
 Clist St. Mary 
 
 21 
 
 21 
 
 28 
 
 23 
 
 21 
 
 32 
 
 97 
 
 112 
 
 145 
 
 Clovelly 
 
 132 
 
 151 
 
 184 
 
 158 
 
 159 
 
 199 
 
 714 
 
 836 
 
 941 
 
 Cockington - - - 
 
 63 
 
 51 
 
 50 
 
 69 
 
 62 
 
 50 
 
 294 
 
 274 
 
 280 
 
 Corfinswell 
 
 59 
 
 60 
 
 56 
 
 59 
 
 60 
 
 65 
 
 261 
 
 259 
 
 255 
 
 Colebrooke 
 
 135 
 
 138 
 
 156 
 
 135 
 
 142 
 
 164 
 
 762 
 
 759 
 
 875 
 
 Coleridge 
 
 112 
 
 106 
 
 120 
 
 115 
 
 109 
 
 121 
 
 697 
 
 577 
 
 632 
 
 Collumpton 
 
 615 
 
 609 
 
 695 
 
 655 
 
 644 
 
 754 
 
 3,138 
 
 2,917 
 
 3,410 
 
 Colyton 
 
 257 
 
 343 
 
 399 
 
 334 
 
 400 
 
 399 
 
 1,641 
 
 1,774 
 
 1,945 
 
 Colyton Raleigh 
 
 95 
 
 121 
 
 142 
 
 123 
 
 128 
 
 152 
 
 627 
 
 634 
 
 770 
 
 Comb in Xeignhead 
 
 109 
 
 93 
 
 102 
 
 109 
 
 96 
 
 110 
 
 505 
 
 409 
 
 430 
 
 Comb Martin 
 
 151 
 
 195 
 
 221 
 
 183 
 
 199 
 
 229 
 
 S19 
 
 732 
 
 1,032 
 
 Comb Pyne 
 
 28 
 
 25 
 
 28 
 
 28 
 
 31 
 
 28 
 
 141 
 
 125 
 
 132 
 
 Comb Raleigh 
 
 35 
 
 51 
 
 49 
 
 41 
 
 51 
 
 59 
 
 237 
 
 249 
 
 285 
 
 Cookbury 
 
 37 
 
 44 
 
 48 
 
 57 
 
 49 
 
 52 
 
 261 
 
 262 
 
 282 
 
 Corn wood - - - 
 
 94 
 
 111 
 
 181 
 
 98 
 
 159 
 
 181 
 
 745 
 
 807 
 
 1,057 
 
 Cornworthy 
 
 80 
 
 69 
 
 104 
 
 80 
 
 90 
 
 109 
 
 468 
 
 477 
 
 607 
 
 Coryton 
 
 30 
 
 33 
 
 42 
 
 35 
 
 39 
 
 48 
 
 154 
 
 180 
 
 258 
 
 Cotleigh - . 
 
 42 
 
 41 
 
 44 
 
 46 
 
 41 
 
 49 
 
 214 
 
 245 
 
 239 
 
 Countesbury 
 
 24 
 
 21 
 
 26 
 
 24 
 
 24 
 
 26 
 
 120 
 
 113 
 
 118 
 
 Creacomb 
 
 3 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 3 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 29 
 
 34 
 
 40 
 
 Crediton - - 
 
 1,045 
 
 1,100 
 
 1,149 
 
 1,076 
 
 1,172 
 
 1,221 
 
 4,929 
 
 5,178 
 
 5,515 
 
 Culmstock 
 
 326 
 
 293 
 
 298 
 
 392 
 
 372 
 
 304 
 
 1,496 
 
 1,345 
 
 1,357 
 
 Dartington - • - 
 
 76 
 
 97 
 
 99 
 
 94 
 
 103 
 
 103 
 
 486 
 
 575 
 
 602 
 
 Dartmouth 
 
 342 
 
 340 
 
 564* 
 
 683 
 
 629 
 
 1,197 
 
 2,398 
 
 2,608 
 
 4,485 
 
 Dawlish - - 
 
 291 
 
 328 
 
 511 
 
 301 
 
 354 
 
 522 
 
 1,424 
 
 1,882 
 
 2,700 
 
 Dean Prior 
 
 93 
 
 93 
 
 97 
 
 97 
 
 103 
 
 119 
 
 495 
 
 519 
 
 561 
 
 Denbury - - 
 
 67 
 
 80 
 
 91 
 
 78 
 
 84 
 
 94 
 
 330 
 
 397 
 
 412 
 
 Diptford 
 
 83 
 
 71 
 
 107 
 
 92 
 
 97 
 
 143 
 
 578 
 
 630 
 
 653 
 
 Dittisham 
 
 128 
 
 146 
 
 142 
 
 150 
 
 146 
 
 147 
 
 639 
 
 690 
 
 704 
 
 Dodbrooke - - 
 
 84 
 
 112 
 
 117 
 
 136 
 
 163 
 
 183 
 
 608 
 
 942 
 
 885 
 
 Doddeseombleigh 
 
 49 
 
 52 
 
 59 
 
 55 
 
 54 
 
 61 
 
 317 
 
 326 
 
 356 
 
 Dolton 
 
 96 
 
 129 
 
 140 
 
 115 
 
 131 
 
 142 
 
 582 
 
 490 
 
 748 
 
 Dowland 
 
 22 
 
 33 
 
 38 
 
 32 
 
 34 
 
 38 
 
 184 
 
 166 
 
 196 
 
 East Downe 
 
 51 
 
 51 
 
 66 
 
 51 
 
 53 
 
 68 
 
 311 
 
 312 
 
 422 
 
 West Downe 
 
 42 
 
 81 
 
 90 
 
 54 
 
 88 
 
 93 
 
 257 
 
 450 
 
 562 
 
 Downe St. Mary 
 
 44 
 
 60 
 
 63 
 
 55 
 
 60 
 
 68 
 
 313 
 
 336 
 
 400 
 
 * Townstall was included in the returns of Dartmouth in 1821. 
 
 Dimchidiock 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 PARISHES. 
 
 Dimchidiock 
 
 Dunkeswell 
 
 Dunsford 
 
 Dunterton 
 
 Eggesford 
 
 Ermington - 
 
 Exbourne 
 
 Exeter 
 
 Exminster 
 
 Farrington 
 
 Farway 
 
 Feniton 
 
 Filleigh 
 
 Fremington 
 
 Frithelstock 
 
 Georgeham 
 
 Germansweek 
 
 Gidlev 
 
 St. Giles 
 
 St. Giles in the Heath 
 
 Gittisham 
 Goodleigh 
 
 Haccombe f 
 
 Halberton 
 
 Halwell, in the hundred 
 Coleridge 
 
 Halwell, in the hundred 
 Black Torrington 
 
 Harberton 
 
 Harford 
 
 Harpford 
 
 Hartland 
 
 Harwood 
 
 Hatherleigh 
 
 Heanton Punchardon 
 
 Heavitree 
 
 Broad Hembury 
 
 Hemiock 
 
 Broad Henipston 
 
 Little Hempston 
 
 Hennock 
 
 Highampton 
 
 Highweek 
 
 Hittesleigh 
 
 Hockworthy 
 
 Holbeton 
 
 Holcombe Burnell 
 
 Inhabited Houses. 
 
 1801. 1811. 1821 
 
 34 
 
 165* 
 96 
 25 
 18 
 
 147 
 74 
 2,692 
 91 
 45 
 61 
 42 
 33 
 
 164 
 68 
 
 141 
 42 
 17 
 
 105 
 36 
 64 
 53 
 
 265 
 47 
 
 21 
 
 229 
 24 
 33 
 
 279 
 20 
 
 206 
 77 
 
 163 
 
 152 
 
 174 
 
 127 
 38 
 
 107 
 38 
 
 160 
 24 
 51 
 
 167 
 35 
 
 37 
 
 74 
 
 111 
 25 
 27 
 
 157 
 
 76 
 
 2,879 
 
 164 
 50 
 60 
 53 
 54 
 
 174 
 89 
 
 143 
 53 
 15 
 98 
 51 
 68 
 58 
 1 
 
 249 
 
 49 
 
 26 
 
 261 
 
 28 
 
 41 
 
 290 
 
 19 
 
 223 
 
 78 
 
 190 
 
 113 
 
 179 
 
 137 
 
 41 
 
 83 
 
 40 
 
 170 
 
 27 
 
 49 
 
 162 
 
 40 
 
 30 
 65 
 
 118 
 30 
 26 
 
 153 
 
 84 
 
 3,256 
 
 167 
 64 
 64 
 46 
 58 
 
 200 
 
 101 
 
 167 
 44 
 20 
 
 144 
 53 
 67 
 70 
 
 277 
 50 
 
 26 
 
 267 
 25 
 55 
 
 261 
 24 
 
 286 
 97 
 
 211 
 
 141 
 
 277 
 
 148 
 50 
 
 129 
 43 
 
 182 
 21 
 42 
 
 189 
 40 
 
 Families. 
 
 1801. 1811. 1821. 
 
 39 
 
 165* 
 
 128 
 28 
 29 
 
 186 
 
 74 
 
 3,947 
 
 158 
 56 
 66 
 49 
 51 
 
 176 
 38 
 
 149 
 42 
 17 
 
 105 
 36 
 64 
 53 
 
 303 
 
 47 
 
 26 
 
 260 
 24 
 45 
 
 298 
 20 
 
 222 
 93 
 
 178 
 
 152 
 
 180 
 
 132 
 50 
 
 107 
 43 
 
 163 
 28 
 51 
 
 163 
 38 
 
 37 
 84 
 
 145 
 34 
 27 
 
 197 
 
 80 
 
 4,465 
 
 167 
 50 
 65 
 53 
 59 
 
 186 
 89 
 
 157 
 52 
 15 
 
 101 
 
 51 
 
 68 
 
 58 
 
 1 
 
 318 
 
 65 
 
 31 
 
 263 
 
 28 
 
 51 
 307 
 
 21 
 246 
 
 82 
 202 
 113 
 182 
 138 
 
 54 
 106 
 
 41 
 177 
 
 27 
 
 57 
 170 
 
 44 
 
 32 
 
 80 
 
 153 
 
 36 
 
 31 
 
 187 
 
 84 
 
 5,154 
 
 167 
 
 65 
 
 65 
 
 54 
 
 63 
 
 214 
 
 106 
 
 170 
 
 56 
 
 20 
 
 149 
 
 53 
 
 67 
 
 72 
 
 342 
 69 
 
 31 
 
 276 
 29 
 63 
 
 373 
 24 
 
 287 
 99 
 
 248 
 
 180 
 
 284 
 
 152 
 50 
 
 142 
 56 
 
 196 
 32 
 73 
 
 196 
 43 
 
 Number of Inhabitants. 
 
 1801. 
 
 183 
 393 
 661 
 129 
 173 
 917 
 421 
 17,398 
 795 
 293 
 287 
 252 
 220 
 875 
 479 
 627 
 133 
 125 
 547 
 187 
 459 
 248 
 
 1,436 
 358 
 
 156 
 
 1,138 
 142 
 190 
 
 1,5 46 
 103 
 
 1,218 
 418 
 833 
 780 
 
 1,020 
 667 
 266 
 537 
 204 
 777 
 124 
 283 
 869 
 176 
 
 1811. 
 
 167 
 390 
 708 
 164 
 149 
 104 
 472 
 18,896 
 824 
 336 
 300 
 258 
 295 
 941 
 504 
 675 
 268 
 98 
 566 
 273 
 403 
 269 
 13 
 1,355 
 
 414 
 
 210 
 
 1,342 
 182 
 193 
 
 1,734 
 100 
 
 1,380 
 410 
 957 
 654 
 882 
 708 
 300 
 575 
 221 
 823 
 136 
 324 
 926 
 223 
 
 1821, 
 
 200 
 441 
 819 
 225 
 144 
 1,370 
 503 
 23,479 
 928 
 379 
 346 
 321 
 307 
 1,099 
 632 
 811 
 324 
 121 
 786 
 301 
 351 
 351 
 
 1,598 
 468 
 
 216 
 
 1,425 
 199 
 262 
 
 1,96S 
 144 
 
 1,499 
 485 
 
 1,253 
 892 
 
 1,159 
 789 
 323 
 678 
 282 
 907 
 163 
 354 
 
 1,083 
 237 
 
 * It is evident that there must have been a mistake in these numbers. 
 
 contains only Sir Henry Carew's house, was included in the return of 
 
 f 2 Holcombe 
 
 f This parish, which 
 Comb in Tejgnhead in 1801 and 
 
 1821. 
 
xliv 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 PARISHES. 
 
 Inhabited Houses. 
 
 Families. 
 
 Number of Inhabitants, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1801. 
 
 1811. 
 
 1821 
 
 1801. 
 
 1811. 
 
 1821. 
 
 1801. 
 
 1811. 
 
 1821. 
 
 Holcombe Rogus 
 
 193 
 
 141 
 
 157 
 
 193 
 
 Ill 
 
 157 
 
 662 
 
 937 
 
 829 
 
 Hollacombe 
 
 13 
 
 13 
 
 14 
 
 14 
 
 14 
 
 14 
 
 74 
 
 75 
 
 96 
 
 Holne - - - 
 
 59 
 
 61 
 
 68 
 
 62 
 
 64 
 
 78 
 
 359 
 
 360 
 
 410 
 
 Holsworthy 
 
 192 
 
 253 
 
 199 
 
 223 
 
 270 
 
 240 
 
 1,045 
 
 1,206 
 
 1,440 
 
 Hone) church 
 
 11 
 
 11 
 
 11 
 
 11 
 
 11 
 
 11 
 
 66 
 
 69 
 
 66 
 
 Honiton - - - 
 
 546 
 
 581 
 
 681 
 
 563 
 
 581 
 
 685 
 
 2,377 
 
 2,735 
 
 3,296 
 
 Huish - - - 
 
 15 
 
 15 
 
 17 
 
 15 
 
 17 
 
 17 
 
 97 
 
 136 
 
 118 
 
 North Huish 
 
 64 
 
 65 
 
 70 
 
 64 
 
 65 
 
 78 
 
 380 
 
 396 
 
 440 
 
 South Huish 
 
 54 
 
 46 
 
 66 
 
 58 
 
 61 
 
 76 
 
 286 
 
 313 
 
 383 
 
 Hunshaw 
 
 35 
 
 43 
 
 53 
 
 35 
 
 44 
 
 53 
 
 212 
 
 221 
 
 291 
 
 Hnntshara * - 
 
 23 
 
 28 
 
 26 
 
 23 
 
 29 
 
 26 
 
 158 
 
 163 
 
 153 
 
 Huxham 
 
 22 
 
 26 
 
 16 
 
 24 
 
 34 
 
 28 
 
 135 
 
 139 
 
 172 
 
 Ide - - •- 
 
 123 
 
 120 
 
 131 
 
 123 
 
 130 
 
 144 
 
 507 
 
 608 
 
 724 
 
 Ideford - - 
 
 71 
 
 77 
 
 73 
 
 71 
 
 77 
 
 75 
 
 339 
 
 348 
 
 356 
 
 Iddesleigh 
 
 62 
 
 57 
 
 76 
 
 74 
 
 81 
 
 78 
 
 441 
 
 481 
 
 482 
 
 Ilfracombe 
 
 435 
 
 434 
 
 486 
 
 435 
 
 434 
 
 537 
 
 1,838 
 
 1,934 
 
 2,622 
 
 Ilsington ... 
 
 164 
 
 148 
 
 189 
 
 174 
 
 152 
 
 199 
 
 866 
 
 861 
 
 1,122 
 
 Instow 
 
 70 
 
 51 
 
 61 
 
 80 
 
 52 
 
 75 
 
 341 
 
 291 
 
 353 
 
 Iuwardsleigh 
 
 75 
 
 78 
 
 78 
 
 75 
 
 85 
 
 92 
 
 384 
 
 500 
 
 540 
 
 Ipplepen - - 
 
 130 
 
 148 
 
 168 
 
 138 
 
 165 
 
 186 
 
 821 
 
 746 
 
 815 
 
 Jacobstow 
 
 34 
 
 49 
 
 42 
 
 34 
 
 30 
 
 44 
 
 193 
 
 199 
 
 269 
 
 Kelly 
 
 25 
 
 29 
 
 37 
 
 36 
 
 32 
 
 47 
 
 201 
 
 199 
 
 218 
 
 Kenne 
 
 168 
 
 163 
 
 163 
 
 182 
 
 175 
 
 179 
 
 818 
 
 791 
 
 906 
 
 Kennerley 
 
 15 
 
 16 
 
 20 
 
 15 
 
 16 
 
 20 
 
 94 
 
 96 
 
 93 
 
 Kentisbeer - - 
 
 141 
 
 191 
 
 215 
 
 226 
 
 204 
 
 228 
 
 1,042 
 
 951 
 
 1,143 
 
 Kentisbury 
 
 41 
 
 44 
 
 59 
 
 51 
 
 51 
 
 60 
 
 241 
 
 260 
 
 307 
 
 Kenton 
 
 307 
 
 343 
 
 399 
 
 381 
 
 343 
 
 406 
 
 1,639 
 
 1,793 
 
 1,891 
 
 Kilmington 
 
 89 
 
 97 
 
 104 
 
 96 
 
 99 
 
 109 
 
 444 
 
 430 
 
 484 
 
 Kingsbridge 
 
 153 
 
 136 
 
 158 
 
 226 
 
 262 
 
 303 
 
 1,117 
 
 1,242 
 
 1,430 
 
 Kingston 
 
 52 
 
 56 
 
 89 
 
 67 
 
 81 
 
 105 
 
 354 
 
 420 
 
 525 
 
 Knowstone 
 
 82 
 
 73 
 
 79 
 
 82 
 
 74 
 
 84 
 
 427 
 
 384 
 
 444 
 
 Lamerton 
 
 133 
 
 123 
 
 133 
 
 143 
 
 165 
 
 191 
 
 722 
 
 804 
 
 1,069 
 
 Landcross 
 
 8 
 
 12 
 
 11 
 
 10 
 
 12 
 
 14 
 
 50 
 
 65 
 
 83 
 
 Landkey - - 
 
 96 
 
 99 
 
 122 
 
 114 
 
 105 
 
 131 
 
 607 
 
 625 
 
 683 
 
 Langtree r - 
 
 90 
 
 113 
 
 136 
 
 94 
 
 115 
 
 144 
 
 583 
 
 537 
 
 778 
 
 Lap ford 
 
 111 
 
 129 
 
 127 
 
 128 
 
 131 
 
 144 
 
 587 
 
 637 
 
 674 
 
 St. Leonard 
 
 26 
 
 33 
 
 42 
 
 33 
 
 33 
 
 42 
 
 133 
 
 167 
 
 206 
 
 North Lew 
 
 111 
 
 124 
 
 145 
 
 112 
 
 124 
 
 151 
 
 638 
 
 681 
 
 868 
 
 Lew Trenchard 
 
 20 
 
 26 
 
 36 
 
 29 
 
 43 
 
 60 
 
 154 
 
 237 
 
 344 
 
 Lidford ... 
 
 34 
 
 24* 
 
 139 
 
 34 
 
 31 
 
 146 
 
 222 
 
 782 
 
 734 
 
 Lifton 
 
 145 
 
 137 
 
 206 
 
 174 
 
 143 
 
 239 
 
 843 
 
 1,006 
 
 1,214 
 
 Limpstone 
 
 194 
 
 208 
 
 221 
 
 203 
 
 237 
 
 243 
 
 883 
 
 963 
 
 1,020 
 
 Linton 
 
 100 
 
 108 
 
 118 
 
 100 
 
 108 
 
 118 
 
 481 
 
 571 
 
 632 
 
 Littleham and Exmouth 
 
 406 
 
 459 
 
 559 
 
 422 
 
 473 
 
 617 
 
 1,909 
 
 2,301 
 
 2,841 
 
 Littleham, in the hundred "l 
 of Shebbear - - J 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 45 
 
 47 
 
 60 
 
 57 
 
 58 
 
 62 
 
 292 
 
 312 
 
 367 
 
 Loddiswell 
 
 112 
 
 121 
 
 133 
 
 112 
 
 126 
 
 138 
 
 608 
 
 686 
 
 762 
 
 Loxbear ... 
 
 22 
 
 16 
 
 23 
 
 22 
 
 19 
 
 25 
 
 132 
 
 118 
 
 138 
 
 Loxhore 
 
 3S 
 
 39 
 
 43 
 
 42 
 
 40 
 
 46 
 
 209 
 
 190 
 
 241 
 
 * It is evident that there must, have been some mistake in the return of 1811. 
 
 Luffincott 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 xlv 
 
 PARISHES. 
 
 Inhabited Houses. 
 
 Families. 
 
 Number 
 
 of Inhabi 
 
 ants. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1801. 
 
 1811. 
 
 1821. 
 
 1801. 
 
 1811. 
 
 1821. 
 
 1801. 
 
 1811. 
 
 1821. 
 
 Luffincott 
 
 11 
 
 10 
 
 12 
 
 11 
 
 10 
 
 13 
 
 76 
 
 63 
 
 90 
 
 Luppit - - 
 Lustleigh 
 
 109 
 
 110 
 
 130 
 
 124 
 
 141 
 
 152 
 
 675 
 
 639 
 
 739 
 
 34 
 
 48 
 
 54 
 
 36 
 
 48 
 
 58 
 
 246 
 
 292 
 
 325 
 
 Maker (Devonshire part, in- "1 
 eluding Vaultershome) -J 
 
 245 
 
 232 
 
 221 
 
 328 
 
 341 
 
 298 
 
 1,614 
 
 1,569 
 
 1,222 
 
 Mamhead 
 
 48 
 
 51 
 
 51 
 
 53 
 
 53 
 
 58 
 
 230 
 
 252 
 
 320 
 
 Manadon - - - 
 
 57 
 
 55 
 
 56 
 
 68 
 
 59 
 
 69 
 
 348 
 
 374 
 
 403 
 
 Marlborough 
 
 190 
 
 252 
 
 248 
 
 205 
 
 255 
 
 256 
 
 1,056 
 
 1,353 
 
 1 ,552 
 
 Marldon 
 
 56 
 
 70 
 
 64 
 
 59 
 
 70 
 
 73 
 
 364 
 
 373 
 
 384 
 
 Martinhoe 
 
 30 
 
 31 
 
 43 
 
 30 
 
 32 
 
 47 
 
 165 
 
 190 
 
 204 
 
 Marwood 
 
 132 
 
 138 
 
 165 
 
 132 
 
 140 
 
 181 
 
 632 
 
 682 
 
 869 
 
 Mary Ansleigh 
 
 42 
 
 45 
 
 54 
 
 48 
 
 45 
 
 54 
 
 199 
 
 221 
 
 289 
 
 St. Mary Church 
 
 172 
 
 202 
 
 199 
 
 183 
 
 206 
 
 208 
 
 801 
 
 909 
 
 1,005 
 
 Mary Stowe 
 
 36 
 
 54 
 
 48 
 
 48 
 
 62 
 
 68 
 
 297 
 
 346 
 
 376 
 
 Meavy 
 
 37 
 
 43 
 
 53 
 
 41 
 
 43 
 
 55 
 
 239 
 
 222 
 
 321 
 
 Meeth 
 
 43 
 
 47 
 
 43 
 
 43 
 
 47 
 
 48 
 
 257 
 
 272 
 
 270 
 
 Membury 
 
 112 
 
 120 
 
 136 
 
 138 
 
 142 
 
 155 
 
 709 
 
 699 
 
 837 
 
 Merton 
 
 77 
 
 121 
 
 143 
 
 87 
 
 131 
 
 146 
 
 689 
 
 676 
 
 697 
 
 Meshaw 
 
 22 
 
 29 
 
 31 
 
 26 
 
 29 
 
 31 
 
 135 
 
 158 
 
 163 
 
 Milton Abbot 
 
 152 
 
 151 
 
 154 
 
 160 
 
 172 
 
 218 
 
 862 
 
 951 
 
 1,151 
 
 Milton Damarell 
 
 80 
 
 89 
 
 89 
 
 90 
 
 120 
 
 104 
 
 469 
 
 564 
 
 661 
 
 South Milton 
 
 45 
 
 42 
 
 47 
 
 53 
 
 55 
 
 65 
 
 302 
 
 325 
 
 356 
 
 Modbury 
 
 296 
 
 312 
 
 367 
 
 351 
 
 397 
 
 446 
 
 1,813 
 
 1,890 
 
 2,194 
 
 Molland 
 
 90 
 
 92 
 
 n 
 
 102 
 
 96 
 
 91 
 
 473 
 
 429 
 
 456 
 
 North Molton 
 
 288 
 
 329 
 
 334 
 
 330 
 
 344 
 
 389 
 
 1,541 
 
 1,526 
 
 1,847 
 
 South Molton 
 
 559 
 
 520 
 
 675 
 
 572 
 
 555 
 
 734 
 
 2,753 
 
 2,739 
 
 3,314 
 
 Monkleigh 
 
 60 
 
 60 
 
 61 
 
 79 
 
 83 
 
 91 
 
 379 
 
 390 
 
 509 
 
 Monkton 
 
 18 
 
 24 
 
 22 
 
 22 
 
 24 
 
 27 
 
 121 
 
 127 
 
 136 
 
 Morchard Bishop 
 
 310 
 
 338 
 
 347 
 
 312 
 
 346 
 
 373 
 
 1,698 
 
 1,846 
 
 1,935 
 
 Cruwvs Morchard 
 
 87 
 
 89 
 
 113 
 
 110 
 
 113 
 
 1)4 
 
 556 
 
 590 
 
 652 
 
 Morebath 
 
 65 
 
 69 
 
 72 
 
 82 
 
 80 
 
 78 
 
 420 
 
 427 
 
 415 
 
 Moreleigh 
 
 21 
 
 28 
 
 32 
 
 21 
 
 29 
 
 32 
 
 127 
 
 165 
 
 202 
 
 Moreton Hampstead 
 
 402 
 
 337 
 
 386 
 
 402 
 
 337 
 
 398 
 
 1,768 
 
 1,653 
 
 1,932 
 
 Morthoe 
 
 44 
 
 41 
 
 51 
 
 ! 46 
 
 41 
 
 52 
 
 254 
 
 248 
 
 280 
 
 Musbury 
 
 63 
 
 48 
 
 53 
 
 76 
 
 63 
 
 79 
 
 280 
 
 318 
 
 375 
 
 Netherex 
 
 14 
 
 21 
 
 19 
 
 17 
 
 23 
 
 19 
 
 86 
 
 102 
 
 103 
 
 Newton St. Cyres 
 
 168 
 
 187 
 
 215 
 
 170 
 
 206 
 
 230 
 
 867 
 
 1,049 
 
 1,083 
 
 Newton Ferrers 
 
 112 
 
 101 
 
 132 
 
 112 
 
 111 
 
 138 
 
 590 
 
 601 
 
 719 
 
 Newton St. Petrock 
 
 36 
 
 39 
 
 40 
 
 36 
 
 40 
 
 49 
 
 215 
 
 237 
 
 278 
 
 Newton Tracey 
 
 12 
 
 14 
 
 16 
 
 12 
 
 14 
 
 16 
 
 86 
 
 80 
 
 84 
 
 St. Nicholas 
 
 128 
 
 160 
 
 233 
 
 129 
 
 170 
 
 255 
 
 585 
 
 772 
 
 969 
 
 Broad Nimet * - 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Nimet Rowland 
 
 14 
 
 19 
 
 16 
 
 14 
 
 20 
 
 16 
 
 76 
 
 106 
 
 102 
 
 Nimet Tracey, or Bow 
 
 150 
 
 149 
 
 162 
 
 181 
 
 197 
 
 192 
 
 677 
 
 727 
 
 872 
 
 Northam 
 
 490 
 
 491 
 
 524 
 
 492 
 
 496 
 
 542 
 
 2,054 
 
 2,197 
 
 2,550 
 
 Northcottf 
 
 12 
 
 13 
 
 15 
 
 12 
 
 13 
 
 15 
 
 71 
 
 65 
 
 83 
 
 Northleigh 
 
 36 
 
 32 
 
 42 
 
 36 
 
 38 
 
 42 
 
 180 
 
 151 
 
 214 
 
 Bishops Nympton 
 
 169 
 
 185 
 
 188 
 
 171 
 
 185 
 
 211 
 
 902 
 
 920 
 
 1,090 
 
 George Nympton 
 
 51 
 
 47 
 
 53 
 
 | 54 
 
 47 
 
 53 
 
 237 
 
 230 
 
 259 
 
 * The inhabitants of this parish, which contains only one house, were numbered with 
 of North Tawton. 
 f A hamlet of Boyton in Cornwall. 
 
 those 
 
 Ki 
 
xlvi 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 
 Inhabited He 
 
 uses. 
 
 Families. 
 
 Number of Inhabitants. 
 
 PARISHES. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1801. 
 
 1811. 
 
 1821. 
 
 1801. 
 
 1811. 
 
 1821. 
 
 1801. 
 
 1811. 
 
 1821. 
 
 King's Nympton 
 Oakford 
 
 94 
 
 77 
 
 124 
 
 94 
 
 110 
 
 144 
 
 510 
 
 554 
 
 623 
 
 81 
 
 85 
 
 89 
 
 ! 81 
 
 85 
 
 96 
 
 408 
 
 440 
 
 474 
 
 Oakhampton 
 
 275 
 
 242 
 
 326 
 
 330 
 
 299 
 
 397 
 
 1,506 
 
 1,554 
 
 2,023 
 
 Monk Oakhampton 
 
 44 
 
 34 
 
 42 
 
 44 
 
 34 
 
 43 
 
 182 
 
 186 
 
 229 
 
 Offwell 
 
 60 
 
 56 
 
 69 
 
 64 
 
 66 
 
 69 
 
 302 
 
 312 
 
 379 
 
 East Ogwell 
 
 56 
 
 53 
 
 59 
 
 58 
 
 53 
 
 59 
 
 256 
 
 260 
 
 295 
 
 West Ogwell 
 
 , 7 
 
 7 
 
 7 
 
 7 
 
 7 
 
 7 
 
 53 
 
 52 
 
 42 
 
 Otterton 
 
 187 
 
 190 
 
 206 
 
 187 
 
 204 
 
 257 
 
 920 
 
 966 
 
 1,071 
 
 Ottery St. Mary 
 
 513 
 
 554 
 
 693 
 
 546 
 
 753 
 
 715 
 
 2,415 
 
 2,8S0 
 
 3,524 
 
 Up-Ottery 
 
 150 
 
 161 
 
 158 
 
 168 
 
 161 
 
 177 
 
 795 
 
 820 
 
 886 
 
 Ven-Ottery 
 
 21 
 
 20 
 
 23 
 
 29 
 
 22 
 
 23 
 
 127 
 
 108 
 
 120 
 
 Paignton 
 
 246 
 
 333 
 
 309 
 
 323 
 
 355 
 
 359 
 
 1,575 
 
 1,639 
 
 1,796 
 
 Pancrasweek 
 
 41 
 
 67 
 
 90 
 
 72 
 
 76 
 
 95 
 
 330 
 
 403 
 
 529 
 
 Parkham 
 
 107 
 
 144 
 
 175 
 
 107 
 
 149 
 
 179 
 
 584 
 
 789 
 
 967 
 
 Parracombe 
 
 64 
 
 65 
 
 69 
 
 75 
 
 74 
 
 69 
 
 322 
 
 365 
 
 364 
 
 Peahembury 
 
 67 
 
 89 
 
 71 
 
 88 
 
 89 
 
 91 
 
 416 
 
 460 
 
 507 
 
 Peters Merlano. 
 
 40 
 
 49 
 
 42 
 
 54 
 
 49 
 
 59 
 
 289 
 
 306 
 
 343 
 
 North Pethervvin 
 
 145 
 
 152 
 
 149 
 
 164 
 
 152 
 
 185 
 
 672 
 
 828 
 
 955 
 
 Petrockstow 
 
 75 
 
 75 
 
 90 
 
 78 
 
 100 
 
 98 
 
 467 
 
 497 
 
 571 
 
 Pilton - - - 
 
 87 
 
 179 
 
 233 
 
 95 
 
 204 
 
 244 
 
 831 
 
 936 
 
 1,230 
 
 Pinhoe 
 
 81 
 
 79 
 
 102 
 
 81 
 
 84 
 
 106 
 
 353 
 
 412 
 
 477 
 
 Plymouth * - - 
 
 1,782 
 
 2,099 
 
 2,447 
 
 4,051 
 
 5,012 
 
 5,221 
 
 16,378 
 
 21,156 
 
 22,004 
 
 Plympton St. Mary 
 
 245 
 
 263 
 
 308 
 
 313 
 
 317 
 
 434 
 
 1,562 
 
 1,727 
 
 2,044 
 
 Plympton Maurice 
 
 83 
 
 87 
 
 103 
 
 117 
 
 145 
 
 165 
 
 604 
 
 715 
 
 762 
 
 Plymstock 
 
 286 
 
 332 
 
 408 
 
 366 
 
 471 
 
 588 
 
 1,633 
 
 2,164 
 
 2,735 
 
 Plymtree - - 
 
 72 
 
 72 
 
 76 
 
 72 
 
 80 
 
 77 
 
 375 
 
 371 
 
 3S1 
 
 Poltimore 
 
 46 
 
 34 
 
 51 
 
 46 
 
 51 
 
 55 
 
 250 
 
 266 
 
 270 
 
 South Pool 
 
 83 
 
 63 
 
 72 
 
 82 
 
 87 
 
 103 
 
 412 
 
 433 
 
 493 
 
 Portlemouth 
 
 46 
 
 50 
 
 71 
 
 57 
 
 60 
 
 72 
 
 298 
 
 331 
 
 391 
 
 Poughill 
 
 60 
 
 60 
 
 65 
 
 63 
 
 62 
 
 67 
 
 274 
 
 280 
 
 321 
 
 Povvderham 
 
 47 
 
 48 
 
 43 
 
 50 
 
 51 
 
 46 
 
 175 
 
 245 
 
 216 
 
 Puddington 
 
 28 
 
 33 
 
 33 
 
 28 
 
 33 
 
 35 
 
 135 
 
 158 
 
 176 
 
 East Putford 
 
 18 
 
 19 
 
 29 
 
 20 
 
 21 
 
 32 
 
 139 
 
 139 
 
 194 
 
 West Putford 
 
 41 
 
 53 
 
 60 
 
 55 
 
 62 
 
 78 
 
 274 
 
 314 
 
 425 
 
 Pyworthy 
 
 89 
 
 98 
 
 109 
 
 89 
 
 100 
 
 110 
 
 499 
 
 560 
 
 630 
 
 Rackenford 
 
 68 
 
 70 
 
 79 
 
 77 
 
 71 
 
 87 
 
 340 
 
 326 
 
 395 
 
 Rattery - - - 
 
 77 
 
 64 
 
 62 
 
 82 
 
 79 
 
 87 
 
 451 
 
 481 
 
 559 
 
 Revelstoke 
 
 75 
 
 78 
 
 80 
 
 78 
 
 81 
 
 103 
 
 417 
 
 445 
 
 484 
 
 Rew ... 
 
 33 
 
 53 
 
 48 
 
 41 
 
 56 
 
 50 
 
 195 
 
 283 
 
 280 
 
 Ringmore 
 
 54 
 
 55 
 
 60 
 
 60 
 
 63 
 
 70 
 
 309 
 
 302 
 
 328 
 
 Roborough 
 
 73 
 
 81 
 
 97 
 
 83 
 
 84 
 
 102 
 
 461 
 
 453 
 
 523 
 
 Rockbear 
 
 78 
 
 56 
 
 90 
 
 79 
 
 69 
 
 96 
 
 419 
 
 363 
 
 443 
 
 Romansleigh 
 
 28 
 
 30 
 
 31 
 
 30 
 
 30 
 
 36 
 
 156 
 
 168 
 
 214 
 
 Roseash - - 
 
 59 
 
 64 
 
 68 
 
 70 
 
 74 
 
 87 
 
 397 
 
 388 
 
 436 
 
 Rousedownf 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Salcombe Regis 
 
 56 
 
 61 
 
 73 
 
 56 
 
 67 
 
 76 
 
 300 
 
 340 
 
 436 
 
 Sampford Courtenay 
 
 171 
 
 182 
 
 18S 
 
 173 
 
 184 
 
 193 
 
 960 
 
 971 
 
 1,017 
 
 Sampford Peverell - 
 
 143 
 
 159 
 
 171 
 
 143 
 
 194 
 
 174 
 
 763 
 
 894 
 
 739 
 
 * Including the parishes of St. Andrew and Charles, with 
 and Conipton Giffard. 
 
 t This parish was numbered with Axmouth. 
 
 the tithings of Weston Peverell 
 
 Sampford 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 xlvii 
 
 PARISHES. 
 
 Inhabited Houses. 
 
 Families. 
 
 Number oflnhabitants. 
 
 1801. 
 
 1811. 
 
 1821. 
 
 1801. 
 
 1811. 
 
 1821. 
 
 1801. 
 
 1811. 
 
 1821. 
 
 Sampford Spiney 
 
 32 
 
 54 
 
 53 
 
 35 
 
 59 
 
 63 
 
 205 
 
 319 
 
 333 
 
 Sandford - - 
 
 320 
 
 351 
 
 380 
 
 339 
 
 366 
 
 452 
 
 1,742 
 
 1,720 
 
 1,906 
 
 Salterleigh 
 
 12 
 
 14 
 
 7 
 
 16 
 
 14 
 
 10 
 
 64 
 
 84 
 
 55 
 
 Seaton and Beer 
 
 2C9 
 
 303 
 
 330 
 
 323 
 
 326 
 
 362 
 
 1,497 
 
 1,524 
 
 1,745 
 
 Shaugh 
 
 72 
 
 74 
 
 156 
 
 97 
 
 88 
 
 190 
 
 480 
 
 485 
 
 551 
 
 Shebbear 
 
 126 
 
 138 
 
 195 
 
 129 
 
 144 
 
 202 
 
 744 
 
 738 
 
 1,006 
 
 Sheldon - - 
 
 22 
 
 22 
 
 31 
 
 28 
 
 22 
 
 34 
 
 128 
 
 140 
 
 186 
 
 Sherford 
 
 57 
 
 72 
 
 78 
 
 65 
 
 73 
 
 83 
 
 380 
 
 366 
 
 429 
 
 Sherwill - - - 
 
 90 
 
 97 
 
 111 
 
 93 
 
 97 
 
 134 
 
 513 
 
 533 
 
 645 
 
 Shillingford St. George 
 
 12 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 13 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 71 
 
 60 
 
 70 
 
 Shipstor - - 
 
 18 
 
 16 
 
 19 
 
 18 
 
 16 
 
 19 
 
 99 
 
 84 
 
 129 
 
 Sbipwash 
 
 74 
 
 65 
 
 83 
 
 74 
 
 71 
 
 92 
 
 ; 348 
 
 378 
 
 436 
 
 Shobrooke 
 
 134 
 
 134 
 
 144 
 
 : 140 
 
 144 
 
 147 
 
 ! 686 
 
 724 
 
 737 
 
 Shute - - - 
 
 91 
 
 109 
 
 105 
 
 107 
 
 109 
 
 123 
 
 558 
 
 5S4 
 
 593 
 
 Sidbury 
 
 252 
 
 241 
 
 307 
 
 262 
 
 351 
 
 334 
 
 1,233 
 
 1,359 
 
 1,612 
 
 Sidmouth 
 
 229 
 
 310 
 
 480 
 
 247 
 
 310 
 
 562 
 
 1,252 
 
 1,688 
 
 2,747 
 
 Silverton - - 
 
 234 
 
 242 
 
 257 
 
 298 
 
 268 
 
 288 
 
 1,236 
 
 1,231 
 
 1,308 
 
 Slapton 
 
 102 
 
 109 
 
 123 
 
 ' 102 
 
 114 
 
 133 
 
 558 
 
 572 
 
 689 
 
 Sourton - - 
 
 56 
 
 70 
 
 94 
 
 75 
 
 90 
 
 114 
 
 450 
 
 484 
 
 546 
 
 Southleigh 
 
 41 
 
 39 
 
 55 
 
 41 
 
 46 
 
 63 
 
 237 
 
 246 
 
 327 
 
 Sowton 
 
 54 
 
 50 
 
 68 
 
 62 
 
 52 
 
 71 
 
 318 
 
 261 
 
 183 
 
 Spreyton - - - 
 
 51 
 
 69 
 
 68 
 
 76 
 
 69 
 
 81 
 
 333 
 
 400 
 
 398 
 
 Church Staunton 
 
 112 
 
 122 
 
 175 
 
 196 
 
 145 
 
 193 
 
 j 730 
 
 741 
 
 862 
 
 Staverton 
 
 190 
 
 152 
 
 183 
 
 217 
 
 156 
 
 201 
 
 1,053 
 
 1,001 
 
 1,042 
 
 Storkleigh English 
 
 21 
 
 18 
 
 19 
 
 21 
 
 18 
 
 24 
 
 116 
 
 128 
 
 127 
 
 Stockleigh Pomeroy 
 
 41 
 
 39 
 
 43 
 
 46 
 
 39 
 
 43 
 
 196 
 
 212 
 
 226 
 
 Stoke Canon 
 
 47 
 
 51 
 
 63 
 
 60 
 
 58 
 
 67 
 
 254 
 
 285 
 
 337 
 
 Stoke Damarell 
 
 2,352 
 
 2,857 
 
 3,147 
 
 5,970 
 
 7,165 
 
 7,844 
 
 23,747 
 
 30,083 
 
 33,578 
 
 Stoke Fleming 
 
 111 
 
 109 
 
 118 
 
 116 
 
 114 
 
 133 
 
 578 
 
 620 
 
 686 
 
 Stoke Gabriel 
 
 90 
 
 75 
 
 128 
 
 96 
 
 84 
 
 128 
 
 531 
 
 572 
 
 638 
 
 Stoke in Teignhead 
 
 123 
 
 112 
 
 129 
 
 127 
 
 123 
 
 132 
 
 574 
 
 669 
 
 610 
 
 Stoke Rivers 
 
 37 
 
 35 
 
 49 
 
 43 
 
 40 
 
 54 
 
 225 
 
 237 
 
 291 
 
 Stokenham 
 
 250 
 
 262 
 
 286 
 
 250 
 
 262 
 
 317 
 
 1,301 
 
 1,273 
 
 1,487 
 
 East Stonehouse 
 
 358 
 
 532 
 
 717 
 
 739 
 
 1,492 
 
 1,592 
 
 3,407 
 
 5,174 
 
 6,043 
 
 Stoodley* 
 
 48 
 
 66 
 
 72 
 
 48 
 
 75 
 
 78 
 
 355 
 
 434 
 
 466 
 
 Stowford 
 
 43 
 
 56 
 
 60 
 
 62 
 
 62 
 
 75 
 
 235 
 
 339 
 
 394 
 
 Sutcombe 
 
 52 
 
 57 
 
 69 
 
 52 
 
 61 
 
 75 
 
 330 
 
 320 
 
 405 
 
 Swimbridge 
 
 163 
 
 202 
 
 242 
 
 188 
 
 222 
 
 256 
 
 1,082 
 
 1,150 
 
 1,374 
 
 South Sydenham 
 
 39 
 
 42 
 
 57 
 
 45 
 
 42 
 
 58 
 
 199 
 
 214 
 
 288 
 
 Tallaton' 
 
 72 
 
 72 
 
 55 
 
 75 
 
 72 
 
 91 
 
 393 
 
 348 
 
 393 
 
 Tamerton Foliot 
 
 122 
 
 146 
 
 165 
 
 137 
 
 176 
 
 186 
 
 747 
 
 949 
 
 1,101 
 
 Tavistock ... 
 
 472 
 
 495 
 
 680 
 
 804 
 
 1,026 
 
 1,194 
 
 3,420 
 
 4,723 
 
 5,483 
 
 Mary Tavy ... 
 
 58 
 
 59 
 
 66 
 
 58 
 
 110 
 
 133 
 
 376 
 
 631 
 
 933 
 
 Peter Tavy 
 
 50 
 
 62 
 
 77 
 
 59 
 
 62 
 
 88 
 
 291 
 
 376 
 
 444 
 
 Tawstock - - 
 
 181 
 
 207 
 
 240 
 
 226 
 
 238 
 
 253 
 
 1,131 
 
 1,136 
 
 1,237 
 
 Bishops Tawton 
 
 144 
 
 195 
 
 230 
 
 162 
 
 202 
 
 246 
 
 747 
 
 978 
 
 1,200 
 
 North Tawton 
 
 275 
 
 225 
 
 281 
 
 300 
 
 267 
 
 306 
 
 1,436 
 
 1,417 
 
 1,563 
 
 South Tawton 
 
 267 
 
 283 
 
 303 
 
 298 
 
 283 
 
 365 
 
 1,538 
 
 1,516 
 
 1,878 
 
 Tedburne St. Mary 
 
 84 
 
 107 
 
 113 
 
 94 
 
 117 
 
 122 
 
 527 
 
 580 
 
 709 
 
 Including the extra-parochial tithing of Highley St. Mary. 
 
 Teigngrace 
 
xlviii 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 
 Inhabited Houses. 
 
 Families. 
 
 Number of Inhabitants. 
 
 PARISHES. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1801. 
 
 1811. 
 
 1821. 
 
 1801. 
 
 1811. 
 
 1821. 
 
 1801. 
 
 1811. 
 
 1821. 
 
 Teigngrace - 
 East Teignmouth 
 
 16 
 
 23 
 
 23 
 
 16 
 
 23 
 
 24 
 
 132 
 
 149 
 
 131 
 
 103 
 
 150 
 
 263 
 
 103 
 
 160 
 
 308 
 
 484 
 
 813 
 
 1,466 
 
 West Teignmouth 
 
 354 
 
 414 
 
 522 
 
 410 
 
 463 
 
 547 
 
 1,528 
 
 2,080 
 
 2,514 
 
 Bishops Teignton 
 Drew's Teignton 
 
 157 
 
 148 
 
 155 
 
 159 
 
 146 
 
 167 
 
 673 
 
 753 
 
 946 
 
 187 
 
 205 
 
 222 
 
 191 
 
 209 
 
 243 
 
 959 
 
 998 
 
 1,188 
 
 Kings Teignton 
 Templeton - 
 Tetcott - 
 
 167 
 
 192 
 
 219 
 
 169 
 
 195 
 
 223 
 
 856 
 
 1,001 
 
 1,131 
 
 3S 
 
 37 
 
 39 
 
 40 
 
 40 
 
 39 
 
 200 
 
 179 
 
 198 
 
 24 
 
 42 
 
 48 
 
 26 
 
 42 
 
 49 
 
 166 
 
 204 
 
 256 
 
 Thelbridge 
 
 St. Thomas • • • 
 
 31 
 
 32 
 
 24 
 
 35 
 
 32 
 
 24 
 
 155 
 
 185 
 
 168 
 
 424 
 
 415 
 
 492 
 
 501 
 
 539 
 
 777 
 
 2,189 
 
 2,538 
 
 3,245 
 
 Thornbury - - - 
 
 60 
 
 72 
 
 97 
 
 64 
 
 74 
 
 105 
 
 330 
 
 383 
 
 517 
 
 Thorncombe 
 
 217 
 
 236 
 
 257 
 
 231 
 
 274 
 
 257 
 
 1,092 
 
 1,189 
 
 1,322 
 
 Tliorverton ... 
 
 306 
 
 264 
 
 274 
 
 306 
 
 280 
 
 276 
 
 1,168 
 
 1,248 
 
 1,317 
 
 Throwley . - - 
 Thrushelton 
 
 57 
 
 59 
 
 60 
 
 57 
 
 61 
 
 60 
 
 331 
 
 352 
 
 386 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
 69 
 
 69 
 
 66 
 
 78 
 
 417 
 
 385 
 
 397 
 
 Thurleston - - - 
 
 65 
 
 75 
 
 87 
 
 74 
 
 80 
 
 87 
 
 356 
 
 392 
 
 426 
 
 Tiverton - - 
 
 1,221 
 
 1,260 
 
 1,321 
 
 1,397 
 
 1,340 
 
 1,587 
 
 6,505 
 
 6,732 
 
 8,651 
 
 Topsham - • 
 
 Tor Bryan - - - 
 
 Tor Mohun 
 
 462 
 
 573 
 
 567 
 
 625 
 
 669 
 
 619 
 
 2,748 
 
 2,871 
 
 3,156 
 
 36 
 
 43 
 
 52 
 
 41 
 
 50 
 
 53 
 
 258 
 
 280 
 
 277 
 
 143 
 
 253 
 
 308 
 
 188 
 
 273 
 
 389 
 
 838 
 
 1,350 
 
 1,925 
 
 Black Torrington 
 
 142 
 
 142 
 
 168 
 
 148 
 
 162 
 
 169 
 
 706 
 
 754 
 
 880 
 
 Great Torrington 
 
 347 
 
 390 
 
 455 
 
 408 
 
 446 
 
 545 
 
 2,044 
 
 2,151 
 
 2,538 
 
 Little Torrington 
 
 77 
 
 84 
 
 92 
 
 82 
 
 89 
 
 102 
 
 449 
 
 481 
 
 505 
 
 Totnes - 
 
 295 
 
 317 
 
 346 
 
 576 
 
 599 
 
 651 
 
 2,503 
 
 2,725 
 
 3,128 
 
 Townstall ... 
 
 118 
 
 124 
 
 # 
 
 221 
 
 233 
 
 — 
 
 1,014 
 
 987 
 
 — 
 
 Trentishoe . - - 
 
 23 
 
 23 
 
 24 
 
 26 
 
 25 
 
 24 
 
 128 
 
 124 
 
 130 
 
 Trusham - - - 
 
 26 
 
 31 
 
 34 
 
 26 
 
 31 
 
 37 
 
 135 
 
 152 
 
 192 
 
 Tvvitchen - 
 
 25 
 
 23 
 
 30 
 
 34 
 
 31 
 
 30 
 
 145 
 
 167 
 
 162 
 
 Ufl'culme - - - 
 
 356 
 
 360 
 
 390 
 
 390 
 
 375 
 
 405 
 
 1,837 
 
 1,564 
 
 1,979 
 
 Ugborough 
 Uplime - 
 Uplowman 
 
 160 
 
 193 
 
 241 
 
 160 
 
 202 
 
 244 
 
 956 
 
 1,137 
 
 1,429 
 
 126 
 
 122 
 
 176 
 
 137 
 
 135 
 
 191 
 
 549 
 
 629 
 
 848 
 
 62 
 
 58 
 
 80 
 
 80 
 
 67 
 
 80 
 
 360 
 
 377 
 
 425 
 
 Upton Helions 
 
 19 
 
 30 
 
 32 
 
 27 
 
 30 
 
 32 
 
 136 
 
 143 
 
 168 
 
 Upton Pyne 
 
 46 
 
 72 
 
 85 
 
 56 
 
 72 
 
 90 
 
 409 
 
 363 
 
 431 
 
 Virginstow ... 
 
 19 
 
 13 
 
 16 
 
 19 
 
 16 
 
 19 
 
 101 
 
 91 
 
 116 
 
 Walkhampton 
 
 63 
 
 83 
 
 88 
 
 63 
 
 94 
 
 88 
 
 336 
 
 532 
 
 670 
 
 Warkley . - - 
 
 52 
 
 49 
 
 48 
 
 52 
 
 50 
 
 48 
 
 291 
 
 298 
 
 268 
 
 Washfie'ld 
 
 82 
 
 84 
 
 78 
 
 84 
 
 84 
 
 86 
 
 422 
 
 431 
 
 457 
 
 Washl'ord Pyne 
 
 23 
 
 22 
 
 26 
 
 24 
 
 22 
 
 26 
 
 109 
 
 116 
 
 139 
 
 Weare Giffard 
 
 75 
 
 74 
 
 94 
 
 77 
 
 77 
 
 98 
 
 419 
 
 438 
 
 469 
 
 Kings Weare 
 
 52 
 
 58 
 
 66 
 
 85 
 
 77 
 
 71 
 
 300 
 
 280 
 
 328 
 
 Weleombe 
 
 38 
 
 36 
 
 48 
 
 38 
 
 40 
 
 51 
 
 220 
 
 224 
 
 247 
 
 Wembury - 
 
 81 
 
 79 
 
 95 
 
 81 
 
 88 
 
 109 
 
 390 
 
 450 
 
 564 
 
 Wemvvorthy 
 
 57 
 
 61 
 
 65 
 
 58 
 
 67 
 
 66 
 
 323 
 
 325 
 
 349 
 
 Werrington 
 
 95 
 
 84 
 
 111 
 
 104 
 
 84 
 
 111 
 
 489 
 
 491 
 
 635 
 
 Westleigh ... 
 
 83 
 
 84 
 
 84 
 
 86 
 
 89 
 
 94 
 
 408 
 
 391 
 
 452 
 
 Whimple ... 
 Whitechurch 
 
 79 
 
 91 
 
 96 
 
 89 
 
 96 
 
 120 
 
 483 
 
 461 
 
 557 
 
 79 
 
 86 
 
 103 
 
 79 
 
 117 
 
 119 
 
 478 
 
 595 
 
 692 
 
 Whitstone 
 
 91 
 
 91 
 
 101 
 
 91 
 
 101 
 
 113 
 
 471 
 
 515 
 
 585 
 
 Townstall was included in the enumeration of Dartmouth in 1821. 
 
 Widdecombe 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 xlix 
 
 TARISHES. 
 
 
 Inhab 
 
 ited Houses. 
 
 Families. 
 
 Number of Inhabitants. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1801. 
 
 1811. 
 
 1821. 
 
 1801. 
 
 1811. 
 
 1821. 
 
 1801. 
 
 1811. 
 
 1821. 
 
 Widdecombe in the Moor 
 
 
 102 
 
 184 
 
 144 
 
 102 
 
 197 
 
 148 
 
 1,043 
 
 1,151 
 
 934 
 
 Widworthy 
 Willand 
 
 . 
 
 45 
 
 37 
 
 50 
 
 45 
 
 44 
 
 50 
 
 245 
 
 230 
 
 274 
 
 . 
 
 50 
 
 48 
 
 59 
 
 54 
 
 49 
 
 66 
 
 255 
 
 221 
 
 289 
 
 Winkleigh 
 Withecombe Raleigh 
 
 . 
 
 211 
 
 202 
 
 262 
 
 246 
 
 225 
 
 280 
 
 1,214 
 
 1,168 
 
 1,436 
 
 . 
 
 151 
 
 160 
 
 185 
 
 152 
 
 166 
 
 242 
 
 692 
 
 859 
 
 1,054 
 
 Witheridge 
 Woodbury 
 Woodland 
 
 _ 
 
 176 
 
 208 
 
 246 
 
 176 
 
 212 
 
 254 
 
 875 
 
 913 
 
 1,121 
 
 _ 
 
 2fi3 
 
 273 
 
 212 
 
 297 
 
 277 
 
 304 
 
 1,286 
 
 1,361 
 
 1,494 
 
 . 
 
 2-1 
 
 34 
 
 40 
 
 26 
 
 45 
 
 45 
 
 2 1 2 
 
 241 
 
 233 
 
 Woodleigh 
 
 _ 
 
 39 
 
 28 
 
 42 
 
 41 
 
 46 
 
 45 
 
 240 
 
 259 
 
 298 
 
 Woolborough 
 
 . 
 
 165 
 
 244 
 
 342 
 
 341 
 
 363 
 
 446 
 
 1,623 
 
 1,627 
 
 1,859 
 
 Woolfardisworthy, in th 
 
 !} 
 
 98 
 
 109 
 
 IIP 
 
 99 
 
 109 
 
 140 
 
 591 
 
 782 
 
 754 
 
 hundred of Hartland 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Woolfardisworthy, in th 
 
 !} 
 
 29 
 
 29 
 
 36 
 
 34 
 
 33 
 
 3G 
 
 131 
 
 181 
 
 213 
 
 hundred of Witheridge 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 East Worlington 
 West Worlington 
 
 » 
 
 32 
 
 35 
 
 43 
 
 3S 
 
 42 
 
 44 
 
 190 
 
 215 
 
 253 
 
 . 
 
 26 
 
 27 
 
 28 
 
 27 
 
 27 
 
 29 
 
 158 
 
 151 
 
 172 
 
 Yarcombe 
 
 . 
 
 no 
 
 116 
 
 102 
 
 132 
 
 129 
 
 117 
 
 740 
 
 708 
 
 793 
 
 Yarnscombe 
 
 . 
 
 70 
 
 73 
 
 68 
 
 70 
 
 73 
 
 86 
 
 358 
 
 394 
 
 225 
 
 Yealnipton 
 
 _ 
 
 182 
 
 187 
 
 241 
 
 183 
 
 192 
 
 274 
 
 993 
 
 1,051 
 
 1,235 
 
 Zeal Monachorum 
 
 - 
 
 117 
 
 101 
 
 104 
 
 117 
 
 101 
 
 115 
 
 622 
 
 624 
 
 681 
 
 Divisio7i of Property at the Time of the Domesday Survey. 
 
 The following is a table of the general division of property, at the time 
 of the Domesday survey : 
 
 Tenants in Capite. 
 
 Number of Manors held in 
 Demesne. 
 
 Number of 
 Manors held by 
 Under-Tenants. 
 
 Total. 
 
 The King - 
 
 The Bishop of Exeter 
 
 Jeffrey, Bishop of Constance b 
 
 78" 
 
 20 
 
 5 
 
 4 
 86 « 
 
 78 
 24 
 91 
 
 a Twenty-three of these manors had been ancient demesne of the crown, ad rcgmim pertinentes, 
 as it is expressed in the Exeter Domesday. Eighteen of them had belonged to Bristric, son 
 of Algar a Saxon noble, and were afterwards settled on Queen Matilda: on her death, in 
 10S3, they had become vested in the crown. Misled by the title of these lands in the Exeter 
 Domesday, we had supposed that they had still been in her hands at the time of the survey, 
 and that, therefore, that survey was of a few years prior date to the Exchequer survey. On a 
 further examination of the record, it appears, however, that she died before it was taken, and 
 that the manors were then in the King's hands. Nineteen of the King's manors had belonged 
 to Earl Harold ; eight of them to Ghida, the Earl's mother, sister of Swein King of Denmark ; 
 four to Edith, Queen-consort of Edward the Confessor, ; one had belonged to Asgar, a Saxon 
 thane ; and six to Earl Lewin, one of the sons of Earl Godwin. 
 
 b He was Chief Justiciary of England ; and some time William the Conqueror's Lieutenant 
 General. 
 
 c Seventy -three of these were held by Drogo, or Dru, a noble Norman, son of Walter de Ponz, 
 and brother of Richard, ancestor of the noble family of Clifford, who seems to have had the 
 largest possessions of any person in Devonshire. One of the others was held by the Bishop's niece. 
 
 Vol. VI. g The 
 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Tenants in Capite. 
 
 Number of Manors held in 
 Demesne. 
 
 Number of 
 Manors held by 
 Under- Tenants. 
 
 Total. 
 
 The church of Glastonbury 
 
 1 
 
 
 1 
 
 The church of Tavistock ... 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 14 
 
 The church of Buckfastleigh 
 
 12 
 
 
 
 12 
 
 The church of Horton 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 The church of Cranbourn 
 
 1 
 
 f2 churches, to one of! 
 
 — 
 
 1 
 
 The church of Battle ... 
 
 -j which was annexed a > 
 (. hide of land. J 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 The church of St. Mary Rouen 
 
 2 
 
 — 
 
 2 
 
 The church of Mount St. Michael 
 
 3 
 
 — 
 
 3 
 
 The church of St. Stephen Caen 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 The church of the Holy Trinity, Caen - 
 
 1 
 
 — 
 
 1 
 
 The King's clerks ... 
 
 2 
 
 — 
 
 2 
 
 Karl Hugh d - - - 
 
 4 
 
 — 
 
 4 
 
 The Earl of Moreton • 
 
 5 
 
 77 ' 
 
 82 
 
 Baldwin the Sheriffs 
 
 17 
 fl4, besides the bo-^v 
 J rough and manor of ( 
 J Totnes, the site of ( 
 V, his barony - -) 
 
 164 
 
 181 
 
 Judhel, or Juhel de Totenais, or Totneis '' 
 
 92 
 
 107 
 
 
 
 
 William de Moion ' 
 
 — 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 William Capra, or Chievre 
 
 19 
 
 25 
 
 44 
 
 William de Faleise ... 
 
 9 
 
 9 
 
 IS 
 
 William de Poilgi, or Poillei 
 
 13 
 
 8 
 
 21 
 
 William de Owe k 
 
 — 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 d Hugh Earl of Chester. 
 
 c Robert Earl of Mortaine, half-brother to the Conqueror. 
 
 f Seventeen of these had belonged to Etmar Atre: seven to Ordulf Duke of Devon. Several of 
 the Earl's manors were held under him, at the time of the survey, by Reginald de Valletort; 
 four by Drogo ; eleven by Alured, probably Alured de Ispania, who held some manors in 
 cdpite. 
 
 6 He was one of the sons of Gilbert Earl of Brion (who was murdered in Normandy). 
 This Baldwin, who was one of the King's generals at the battle of Hastings, was called Bald- 
 win de Molis, Baldwin de Brion, and Baldwin de Sap ; and sometimes, at a later period, Bald- 
 win de Exeter. He had the barony of Okehampton, which was his chief seat ; and the castle 
 of Exeter, which he had built at the King's command. Earl Gilbert was son of Godfrey Earl 
 of Ewe, a natural son of Richard Duke of Normandy, the Conqueror's grandfather. It is pro- 
 bable, that Roger de Molis, who held some manors under this Baldwin, was his brother or son. 
 Ralph de Pomerei, who had a large estate in capite, held some manors under Baldwin the 
 Sheriff. Robert de Beaumont, brother probably of Roger de Beaumont, who was one of the 
 Conqueror's generals at the battle of Hastings, held four manors under Baldwin ; Rogo, or 
 Rogus, whose posterity gave their name to Holcombe Rogus, held seven ; Ralph de Bruer, 
 ancestor most probaby of the Lords Brewer, held three manors under Baldwin. 
 
 h Nothing is known of this person but that he possessed the baronies of Totnes and Barn- 
 staple ; which intimates that he was a Norman, and high in the Conqueror's favour. 
 
 1 Mohun ; his principal estate was in Somersetshire. 
 
 k Son of Robert Earl of Ow, or Ewe, in Normandy. The lands of William de Owe, and the 
 following persons, are entered in the Exeter survey, as the lands of free knights. Richard, son of 
 Earl Gilbert, Roger de Busli,' Ralph de Limesi, Ralph Paganel, Ralph de Felgcres, Aiulf, 
 Osbern de Salciet, Girold the Chaplain, Ansger Girard, Morin, and Floher, (not mentioned in 
 the Exchequer Domesday,) qu. ancestor of the Floyers ? Ralph Paganel and some others are 
 .called thanes in the Exeter survey. 
 
 Walter, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 li 
 
 Tenants in Capite. 
 
 Number of Manors held in 
 Demesne. 
 
 Number of 
 Manors held by 
 Under- Tenants. 
 
 Total. 
 
 Walter, or Walscin de Douay l 
 
 5 
 
 23 
 
 28 
 
 Walter de Claville" 1 
 
 22 
 
 9 
 
 31 
 
 Goscelm .... 
 
 13 
 
 14 
 
 27 
 
 Goscelm de Exeter - - 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 Richard, son of Earl Gilbert » 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 Roger de Busli ° - - 
 
 1 
 
 
 1 
 
 Robert de Albemarle P - 
 
 9 
 
 8 
 
 17 
 
 Robert Bastard 1 
 
 7 
 
 2 
 
 9 
 
 Richard, son of Turolf ' - 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 Ralph de Limesi r - - - 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 4 
 
 Ralph Paganel s 
 
 7 
 
 3 
 
 10 
 
 Ralph de Felgers 
 
 2 
 
 — 
 
 2 
 
 Ralph de Pomerei ' 
 
 27 
 
 27 
 
 54 
 
 Ruald Adobed, or Adobat 
 
 12 
 
 18 
 
 30 
 
 Tetbald Fitz-Berner" - - - 
 
 12 
 
 16 
 
 28 
 
 Turstin Fitzrolf - 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 Ahired de Ispania - - 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 Aimed Brito 
 
 10 
 
 12 
 
 22 
 
 Ansgar de Montagud - - - 
 
 6 
 
 — 
 
 6 
 
 Aiulf* .... 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 Odo Fitz Gamelin - - - 
 
 12 
 
 12 
 
 24 
 
 Osbern de Salcied, or Salciet 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 The wife of Hervei de Helion 
 
 2 
 
 — . 
 
 2 
 
 Girold the chaplain - - - 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 Girard - - - 
 
 2 
 
 — . 
 
 2 
 
 Godbold Balistariuss - - - 
 
 12 
 
 2 
 
 14 
 
 Nicholas ArchibalistariusJ 
 
 8 
 
 3 
 
 11 
 
 Fulcher Balistariusy 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 Haimer de Arcis ... 
 
 5 
 
 — 
 
 5 
 
 1 A great baron, who had the seat of his barony at Bampton ; his gand-daughter married 
 William Paganel. 
 
 m His male descendants continued to possess lands in Dorsetshire till of late years ; the last 
 heir male died in 1774. 
 
 " Gilbert Earl of Brion ; he was brother to Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 A Norman baron, who was possessed of numerous manors, chiefly in the north of England ; 
 his chief seat was at Tickhill, in Yorkshire. 
 
 p Ancestor of the Damarells, who gave name to Milton Damarell, and Stoke Damarell : a 
 branch of this family remained in Sir William Pole's time, but in a mean condition. 
 
 4 Sir William Pole observed, that the family remained in the county in his time, although 
 no longer possessed of the lands they held at the time of the survey. The present member for 
 the county is its representative. 
 
 r Son of the Conqueror's sister. 
 
 s William Paganel, the last of this family, was summoned to parliament as a baron, in the 
 reign of Edward II. Ralph Paganel was sheriff of Yorkshire. 
 
 ' The ancestor of a baronial family, who had their seat at Berry Pomeroy, till the reign of 
 Edward VI. 
 
 " Ancestor of a family who possessed Holcombe Burnell ; improperly so called. 
 
 * Aiulf, who held lands in Dorsetshire, and who probably was the same person, is called 
 the chamberlain. 
 
 v It is possible, that these persons might have been so called from holding, as many persons 
 did, their lands by the render of a cross-bow. Archibalistarius might have been the chief 
 bow-bearer. The descendants of some of these persons bore the name of Alabaster for some 
 generations as a surname, and for their arms three cross-bows. 
 
 p; 2 Servants 
 
 o 
 
Hi 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Tenants in Capite. 
 
 Number of Manors held in 
 Demesne. 
 
 Number of 
 Manors held by 
 Under- Tenants. 
 
 Total. 
 
 Servants of the King. 
 
 
 
 
 William Portitor z ... 
 
 1 
 
 — 
 
 1 
 
 William Hostiarus a 
 
 8 
 
 2 
 
 10 
 
 Fulcher - - - 
 
 1 
 
 — 
 
 1 
 
 Ansger - 
 
 1 
 
 — 
 
 1 
 
 Morin - 
 
 1 
 
 — 
 
 1 
 
 The priests of Bomine b - 
 
 2 
 
 — 
 
 2 
 
 The King's Thanes. c 
 
 
 
 
 Colvin - 
 
 8 
 
 — 
 
 8 
 
 Godwin . . - 
 
 11 
 
 — 
 
 11 
 
 Godric 
 
 2 
 
 — 
 
 2 
 
 Odo ... 
 
 4 
 
 — 
 
 4 
 
 Eldred, or Edred - - 
 
 3 
 
 — 
 
 - 3 
 
 Ahvard - 
 
 1 
 
 — 
 
 1 
 
 Ansgot .... 
 
 2 
 
 — 
 
 2 
 
 Donne - - - 
 
 2 
 
 — 
 
 2 
 
 Alnod - - 
 
 1 
 
 — 
 
 1 
 
 Ahvin - - - 
 
 1 
 
 — 
 
 1 
 
 Edwin - - - 
 
 2 
 
 — 
 
 2 
 
 Ulf 
 
 1 
 
 — 
 
 1 
 
 Algar - ... 
 
 2 
 
 — 
 
 2 
 
 Alric - 
 
 1 
 
 — 
 
 1 
 
 Aluric - - - - 
 
 2 
 
 — 
 
 2 
 
 Leuric .... 
 
 1 
 
 — 
 
 1 
 
 Saulf - 
 
 3 
 
 — 
 
 3 
 
 Saxon Ladies. 
 
 
 
 
 Alveva d .... 
 
 1 
 
 — 
 
 1 
 
 Alfhilla ... 
 
 1 
 
 — 
 
 1 
 
 Godeva e .... 
 
 2 
 
 — 
 
 2 
 
 The following table shows more particularly who were the lords para- 
 mount, and the immediate holders of the several manors in the reign of 
 Edward the Confessor ; and at the time of the survey. The modern names 
 of the several manors are annexed, as far as they could be ascertained : — 
 
 * Door-keeper. a Usher. 
 
 b These priests are reckoned among the English thanes, in the Exeter Domesday. I sup- 
 pose them to have been the secular priests of Bodmin, which were settled there before the 
 foundation of the priory. See Leland. 
 
 The higher thanes were supposed to have been nearly of the same degree as barons ; these 
 are called in the Exeter Domesday, English thanes. 
 
 d Mother of Earl Morcar. * Widow of Brictric, in dower. 
 
 Acha 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 liii 
 
 Ancient Names of Manors. 
 
 Aclia 
 
 Achia 
 
 Addeberia 
 
 Aexminstre 
 
 Afeton 
 
 Ailesburge 
 
 Ailesvestcote 
 
 Ailevescote 
 
 Ainechesdone 
 Ainechesdone 
 
 Aisbertone 
 
 Aiscirewell 
 
 Aiseforde 
 
 Aiseforde 
 
 Aisse 
 
 Aisse 
 
 Aisse 
 
 Aisse 
 Aisse 
 
 Aisse - 
 
 Aissecoma 
 
 Aleslant 
 
 Alfintone 
 
 Alford 
 
 Alfordintone 
 
 Alfreincome - 
 
 Alintone 
 
 Almerescote 
 Alra 
 Alra - 
 
 Alra 
 Alra 
 
 I 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 J 
 
 1 
 
 Exminster - 
 jAfton in West) 
 X Worlington - J 
 
 Aylesbeare 
 
 Qu. Allicott? 
 Aynkesdon - 
 
 Ashburton - 
 Shirwell 
 
 Ashford 
 
 Ash 
 
 f Ash, in South 1 
 \ Tawton - - j 
 
 Possessors in the Reign of 
 Edward the Confessor, 
 
 Ashcomb 
 Alphington 
 
 Allington 
 Alter 
 
 1 
 
 Ansgot 
 
 Vithelet - 
 
 Saricius 
 
 The King in demesne 
 
 Ailsi 
 
 Ailmar - 
 
 Merlesven 
 Frawin 
 
 Brictric 
 
 Brismar 
 Ailmer 
 Oluarda 
 Alwin 
 
 Brictric 
 
 Abbot of Buckfast- 
 leigh - 
 
 Letmar 
 Oluric 
 
 Seward - 
 
 Al uric Piga 
 Godric 
 Earl Harold 
 Brisnet 
 Alwid 
 
 Aimer 
 
 Godus 
 
 Levesgar 
 
 Merlesvanus 
 
 Edmer 
 
 Edmer 
 Godeva 
 
 :} 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of 
 Domesday was taken. 
 
 f Richard, under Baldwin 
 I the Sheriff. 
 
 {Ahvis, under Odo Fitz 
 Gamelin. 
 f William, under Ralph de 
 { Pomerai. 
 
 f Ralph de Pomerai, 
 \ demesne. 
 f Baldwin the Sheriff, in 
 { demesne. 
 
 !Drogo, under the Bishop 
 of Constance. 
 Geffrey, Bishop of Con- 
 stance, in demesne. 
 Ralph Paganel. 
 Osbern de Salciet. 
 ( Queen Matilda; afterwards 
 -j Juhel de Totnais, in de- 
 ( mesne. 
 
 f Robert de Beaumont, un- 
 \ der Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 ("Robert, under Baldwin the 
 X Sheriff. 
 
 {Walter Dapifer, under 
 Walter. 
 J Geffrey, Bishop of Con- 
 X stance, in demesne. 
 
 {Queen Matilda; afterwards 
 Goscelm, in demesne. 
 
 fRalph de Pomerai, in de 
 X mesne. 
 
 The King. 
 
 {Ansger, under Baldwin the 
 Sheriff. 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 Colvin, in demesne. 
 The King. 
 William Chievre, in demesne. 
 Alured de Ispania. 
 
 f Robert, under Baldwin the 
 
 I Sheriff. 
 
 J Turginus, under Juhel de 
 
 ( Totnais. 
 
 j" Colvin, under Odo Fitz 
 
 X Gamelin. 
 Ralph Paganel. 
 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop 
 
 X of Constance. 
 
 {John, under Nicholas 
 Archibalistarius. 
 Odo Fitz Gamelin. 
 
 Alra- 
 
liv 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Ancient Names of Manors. 
 
 Alraforde 
 
 Alseministre 
 Alesministre - 
 Alsemuda 
 
 Alveredescote 
 
 Alvingtone 
 
 Alwinetone - 
 
 Ahvinestone - 
 
 Alwinestone 
 
 Alwynelancavile 
 
 Anestiga 
 
 Anestige - 
 Anestige 
 
 Anestinge 
 
 Anestinghes 
 
 Apledore 
 
 Aire, or Avre 
 
 Asaberga 
 Assacote 
 
 Assileie 
 
 Aulescome 
 Aulescome - 
 Aulescome 
 
 Ausa 
 
 Aveton 
 Bacetesberie 
 
 Bachamore 
 Bacliedone 
 Bachemore 
 
 Badestane 
 
 Baentone 
 Bagathora 
 
 Baldrintone l 
 
 :} 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 ) 
 
 Axminster 
 
 Axmouth 
 Alverdiscot 
 Allington 
 Alwington - 
 
 Anstey 
 
 Appledore 
 
 Ashbury 
 Ashleigh 
 
 Avdescombe 
 Aveton Gifford 
 
 Batson 
 
 Bampton 
 
 Bagtor 
 
 Possessors in the Reign of 
 Edward the Confessor, 
 
 ! 
 
 I 
 
 Ivinus 
 
 The King in demesne 
 
 The King in demesne 
 Ordulf - 
 
 The King in demesne 
 Ordulf - 
 
 Alvvin 
 
 Alwin 
 
 Letwyn 
 
 Algar 
 
 Norman 
 Alnod 
 
 Godwin 
 
 Licunot 
 
 Ailward 
 
 Wadellus 
 Almar 
 
 Ailward 
 Chenias 
 Wichinus 
 
 Alebric 
 
 Ansger 
 Almar 
 
 Siricius 
 Algar 
 Ealous - 
 
 Uluric 
 
 The King 
 Ordritius 
 
 Alured 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of 
 Domesday was taken. 
 
 fRanulph, under Baldwin 
 I the Sheriff. 
 
 Ulf, under William Chievre. 
 
 {Erchenbald, under 
 Earl of Moreton. 
 
 the 
 
 Earl 
 
 f Was an appendage to Raweberge. 
 
 f Hamelin, under the 
 I of Moreton. 
 Fulgo,under Juhel deTotnais. 
 
 JMauger de Cartreo, under 
 the Earl of Moreton 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 
 TDrogo, under the Bishop 
 
 | of Constance. 
 Earl Hugh. 
 Earl Hugh. 
 
 f Ansger, under Baldwin the 
 
 I Sheriff. 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 {Ralph de Bruer, under 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 ("William Niger, unde 
 
 \ Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Tetbald Fitz Berner. 
 William Poillei. 
 
 f Ralph, under Juhel de 
 
 \ Totnais. 
 
 5 Ralph, under William 
 
 ( Chievre. 
 Goscelm. 
 
 {Hamo, under William 
 Chievre. 
 ( Roger, under Baldwin the 
 I Sheriff. 
 The King. 
 Alured Brito. 
 
 {Ralph, under Juhel de 
 Totnais. 
 JOsbert, under Juhel de 
 Totnais. 
 f Ralph, under Juhel de 
 ( Totnais. 
 
 fHugh, under the Earl of 
 X Moreton. 
 Walscin de Douay. 
 Nicholas Archibalistarius. 
 
 {Drogo, under the Bishop 
 of Constance. 
 
 Barne- 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Iv 
 
 Ancient Names of Manors. 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 Barnestaple - 
 Batesilles - 
 Bechatone 
 
 Bedendone 
 
 Bediforde - 
 
 Begatore - 
 
 Beldrendilant 
 
 Bellestan 
 
 Beneadone 
 
 Bera 
 
 Bere - 
 
 Bere 
 
 Bera 
 Bere 
 
 Beri 
 
 Beria 
 Berlescome 
 
 Berne' 
 
 Bernardesmore - 
 
 Bernintone, or Ber-] 
 nurtone - -J 
 
 Beuleie, or Benleie 
 
 Bigatone 
 
 Bicheberie 
 
 Bichecome 
 Bicheleie 
 
 Bichelia 
 
 •1 
 
 Bicheneleie k , orBich- 
 
 enlie 
 Bichenelie 1 
 Bichentone ' - 
 Bicheorde™ 
 
 Barnstaple 
 Bicton 
 
 Bideford 
 
 JBagtor, in Using 
 I ton 
 
 Belston - 
 
 Possessors in the Reign of 
 Edward the Confessor. 
 
 Beer - 
 
 Beer 
 
 Berry Pomeroy 
 
 Burlescombe 
 
 I 
 
 Qu. Bendley: 
 
 Bicaton 
 
 Bigbury 
 
 Bickleigh - 
 
 Bickington 
 
 J 
 
 The King, in demesne. 
 
 Doda 
 
 Ailsa 
 
 Ailmer 
 
 Brictric 
 
 Erdulf - 
 
 Elward 
 
 Osfers 
 
 Adnet 
 
 Ailnod 
 
 Brictrie 
 
 Bristuoldus 
 
 Abbot of Horton 
 Wordron 
 
 Alricius 
 
 Bishop of Exeter. 
 Oluietus 
 
 Aimer 
 
 Abbot of Tavistock. 
 
 Ailward 
 
 Godo, the priest 
 
 Ordulf 
 
 Ailmer 
 Brismar - 
 Ahvard 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of 
 Domesday was taken. 
 
 Brictric 
 
 Brictric 
 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 William Portitor. •> 
 
 {Drogo, under the Bishop 
 of Constance 
 Queen Matilda, 
 f Ansger, under Baldwin the 
 \ Sheriff. 
 J Drogo, under the Bishop 
 \ of Constance. 
 
 i Richard, under Baldwin 
 the Sheriff. 
 The wife of Hervei, under 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 5 Walter, under Baldwin the 
 Sheriff. 
 {Drewe, under the Bishop 
 of Constance. 
 {Roger, under William de 
 Falesia. 
 
 Walter. 
 
 {Ralph de Pomerai, or 
 Pomeroy. 
 
 Walter de Claville. 
 Tigel, ui 
 Totnais, 
 "Rogo, under Baldwin the 
 • Sheriff. 
 
 {Gilbert, under Robert de 
 Albemarle. 
 Girold the Chaplain. 
 f Reginald de Valletort, un- 
 l der the Earl of Moreton. 
 fRobert de Herefort, under 
 I Robert de Albemarle. 
 William de Poillei. 
 f Ahvard, under the Earl of 
 \ Moreton. 
 
 Queen Matilda. ' 
 
 Queen Matilda. 
 William Chievre. 
 
 k In Bridestowe. 
 
 h The porter, who, as possessor of this manor, had the custody of the county gaol. 
 
 '• Was appendant to Tavy. k Was appendant to Tavistock ; but afterwards to Bickenton. 
 
 1 Were appendant to North Molton. "i Was appendant to Lin. 
 
 Biheda 
 
Wi 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Ancient Names of Manors. 
 
 Bilieda 
 
 Birlande 
 
 Biude 
 
 Blacaberge 
 
 Blacaberge 
 Blacagrave 
 Blacapole ° 
 Blachagua 
 
 Blacheberia 
 
 Blacheorde 
 Blacbeslac 
 Blachewilla 
 
 Boccbelande 
 
 Bocbeforde 
 
 Bocbelande 
 
 Bocbelande 
 
 Bochelande 
 
 Bocbelande 
 
 Bocbelande 
 Bocbelande 
 
 Bocbelande p 
 
 Bocbelande 
 
 Bochelande 
 Bochelande 
 
 Bochelande 
 
 Bocbelande 
 
 Bocbelant 
 Bochelant 
 
 Bocbelant 
 
 Bocheourde 
 
 } 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 {Probably Beer 1 
 Alston" - -J 
 
 Probably Beer 
 Alston" 
 
 Blackborough 
 
 Buckland - 
 
 Buckland - 
 
 Buckland 
 
 Possessors in the Reign of 
 Edward the Confessor. 
 
 Olueron 
 Brisfort 
 
 Ordulf 
 
 Alvvard 
 
 Lewin 
 
 Alnod 
 Haca 
 The King in demesne. 
 
 Godric 
 
 Aihvin 
 Edwitius 
 
 Godo 
 
 Irich - - - 
 
 Ailsi 
 
 Alcerus 
 
 Alric 
 
 Alnot - 
 
 Alurix 
 Brismar 
 
 Edeva 
 
 Edmaratorius 
 
 Hecus 
 Odoman 
 
 Ulf 
 
 Ulmer 
 
 Brictric 
 Ulf 
 
 Ulveva 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of 
 Domesday was taken. 
 
 Walter. 
 
 !Sawin the priest, nephew 
 of Brisfort, to whom it 
 was given by Queen 
 Matilda. 
 {Rainald, under the Earl of 
 Moreton. 
 Walter de Claville. 
 f Ralph Botiner, under Wil 
 \ Ham the door-keeper. 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 William Poillei. 
 
 William Poillei. 
 
 {William Niger, under Bald 
 win the Sheriff. 
 {Ralph, under Juhel de 
 Totnais. 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 
 {Robert de Punchardon 
 under Baldwin. 
 
 fAlvietus, under Odo Fitz 
 
 £ Gamelin. 
 
 f Ansger, under the Earl of 
 
 \ Moreton. 
 Nicholas Archibaldistarius. 
 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop 
 
 \ of Constance. 
 William Chievre. 
 
 ( Ansger, under Baldwin the 
 
 ( Sheriff. 
 
 Baldwin, under Goscelm. 
 William de Poillei. 
 
 5 Hugh, under the Earl of 
 Moreton. 
 ! Ansger Brito, under the 
 Earl of Moreton. 
 Juhel de Totnais. 
 Walter de Claville. 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop 
 \ of Constance. 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop 
 \ of Constance. 
 William Chievre. 
 Godfric, under Wm. Chievre. 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop 
 \ of Constance. 
 The Earl of Moreton. 
 
 " See the account of mines. 
 P Was appendant to Boltesberie. 
 
 Was appendant to Molland. 
 
 Bochiywis 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 lvii 
 
 Ancient Names of Manors. 
 
 -i 
 
 Bochiywis 
 
 Bodeleie 
 Boldesworde 1 
 
 Boleham 
 
 Boleham 
 Bolehorde 
 
 Bolewis 
 
 Bolneie 
 
 Boltesberre, or Botes- ' 
 
 berie 
 Bontintone r , or Bo-'j 
 
 tintone - -J 
 
 Borne 
 
 Bosleie 
 
 Boteberie 
 
 Botesforde - 
 
 Botreforde - - ( 
 
 Botreforde - - J 
 
 Bovelie 
 
 Bovi - -7 
 
 Bovi - -j 
 
 Bradaleia 
 
 Bradeforde 
 Bradeforde 
 Bradeforde 
 
 Bradeforde 
 
 Bradefort 
 Bradefort ■ 
 Bradehode 
 
 Bradeleie 
 
 Bradeleie 
 
 Bradeleie 
 Bradenese 
 Bradestane 
 Bradeville 
 
 Bradewode 
 
 . r" 
 
 :) 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 Bokish 
 
 Bolham 
 
 •! 
 
 Boterford, 
 terford 
 
 or But- 
 
 Possessors in the Reign of 
 Edward the Confessor. 
 
 Bovey 
 Bradley 
 
 Bradford - 
 
 Bradford - 
 Broadwood 
 
 Bradley 
 
 Bradninch 
 
 Brad well 
 
 Broadwood 
 
 I 
 
 Three Thanes 
 
 The King in demesne. 
 
 Godwin 
 
 Aimer - 
 
 Brictric 
 Almar - 
 
 Lieuegar 
 
 Alwin 
 
 Edmer 
 
 Ednet - - - 
 Chippinus - 
 Brictric 
 
 Wado 
 
 Alwin - 
 Alric 
 Tovi - 
 Olmar - 
 Edric 
 
 Joannes 
 
 Hardolf - 
 
 Aimer - - - 
 
 Brangar 
 
 Edritius 
 
 Sawinus 
 
 Aileva - 
 
 Algar 
 
 Leuric 
 
 Ailwin 
 
 Algar --. 
 
 Edmer 
 Bristold 
 Earl Harold 
 Edric 
 
 IChenistanus - 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of 
 Domesday was taken. 
 
 Tetbald Fitz Berner. 
 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 f Otelin, under Baldwin the 
 
 I Sheriff. 
 
 William the Door-keeper. 
 Godric. 
 
 {Richard, under Ralph de 
 Pomerai. 
 ! Drogo, under the Bishop 
 of Constance. 
 f Hugh, under the Earl of 
 I Moreton. 
 
 The Bishop of Exeter. 
 
 Godbold Balistarius. 
 f Ruffus, under Baldwin the 
 I Sheriff. 
 f Richard, under the Earl of 
 ( Moreton. 
 William Poillei. 
 f Torgis, under Juhel de 
 I Totnais. 
 William de Poillei. 
 Geffrey Bishop of Constance. 
 C Turgis, under Juhel de 
 \ Totnais. 
 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop 
 X of Constance. 
 f Beatrix his sister, under 
 \ William Chievre. 
 William de Falesia. 
 f Reginald de Valletort, tin- 
 \ der the Earl of Moreton. 
 f Nigel, under Juhel de 
 \ Totnais. 
 
 ( William, under Juhel de 
 X Totnais. 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 f Motbert, under Baldwin 
 X the Sheriff. 
 ( Ralph, under Juhel de 
 X Totnais. 
 
 {Drogo, under the Bishop 
 of Constance. 
 Haimer de Arcis. 
 William Chievre. 
 The King. 
 Ralph de Limesei. 
 J Nigel, under Juhel de 
 ) Totnais. 
 
 « In Bridestowe manor. 
 
 r This manor was an appendage of Braunton, and afterwards of Haustone. 
 
 Vol. VI. h 
 
 Braie 
 
lviii 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Ancient Names of Manors. 
 
 Braie 
 
 Braie 
 Braie 
 
 Branchescome 
 
 Brandone 
 Branfort 
 
 Branfortune 
 
 Brantone 
 
 Braordine s 
 
 Bratone 
 
 Bratone 
 
 Bratone 
 
 Brawordine 
 Bredelie 
 
 Bredvice 
 
 Bremelcome 
 
 Bremerige 
 
 Brenfort 
 
 Brente 
 
 Bretricestan 
 
 Brideforde 
 
 Bridestou 
 
 Brlge 
 Brigeforde 
 
 Brigeforde 
 
 Briseham 
 
 Brisestone 
 
 Brisestone 
 
 Brisforde 
 
 Bristanestone 
 
 Bristeleshorde 
 
 Bristricliestone 
 
 Brochelande 
 
 Bruehesurde 
 
 Bulgeret 
 
 Bulfestre 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 Possessors in the Reign 
 of Edward the Con- 
 fessor. 
 
 Bray 
 
 Branscombe 
 Brendon 
 
 Braunton 
 
 Bratton 
 Bradworthy 
 
 fBremridge, in") 
 I South Moltonj 
 
 Brent 
 
 Brixton 
 Bridford 
 Bridestmve 
 Bridgerule - 
 
 Brixham 
 
 Brusliford 
 Brixton 
 
 Buckfastleigli 
 
 (Aihvard 
 Ahvin 
 Ulvin - - 
 (The Bishop of 
 Exeter for the 
 support of the 
 canons. 
 Alward Tochesone 
 Aluevia 
 
 Wlnot 
 
 J The King in de- 
 l mesne. 
 
 i 
 
 Brictric 
 Ordafers 
 
 Ordulf 
 
 Tavi 
 Olweva 
 
 Ailmar 
 
 Algher 
 
 Edmer 
 
 Brungar 
 
 (The Abbot of 
 
 { Buckfastleigli. 
 
 | The Bishop of 
 
 1 Exeter. 
 Alwin 
 
 Edmer 
 
 Frawin 
 Alviss 
 
 Lieuric 
 
 Ulf 
 
 Aluric 
 
 Sedwin 
 
 Aluric 
 
 Olnot 
 
 Colvin 
 
 Elmer 
 
 Ailard the monk 
 
 Iric 
 
 Oslac 
 
 (The Abbot of 
 I Buckfastleigli. 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of Domesday 
 was taken. 
 
 {Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 stance. 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 { stance. 
 Alnod. 
 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 Walter de Claville. 
 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 
 X stance. 
 
 William Chievre. 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Earl of Moreton. 
 
 {Erchenbold, under the Earl of 
 Moreton. 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 Rainald, under Odo Fitz Gamelin. 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con 
 \ stance. 
 Ansger. 
 
 {Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 stance. 
 Walter, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 Juhcl de Totnais. 
 
 ! Ralph de Pomerai, under Baldwin 
 the Sheriff. 
 Ruald Adobed, or Adobat. 
 Godfrey, under Goscelm. 
 
 f Godfrey the chamberlain, under 
 
 ( Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Juhel de Totnais. 
 William, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 William, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 Ciodbold Arbalistarius. 
 Richard, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Colvin. 
 
 Ralph, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 Godfrey, under Ralph de Pomerai. 
 Ansger, under the Earl of Moreton. 
 Robert de Albemarle. 
 
 An appendage of Esestaple. 
 
 Buretone 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 lix 
 
 Ancient Names of Manors. 
 
 Buretone 
 
 Buriestecome 
 
 Buterleie 
 Cacheberge 
 Cadabirie 
 Cadelie 
 Cadelie 
 Cadewile' 
 Cagefort,orChage 
 ford 
 
 Cagefort 
 
 Celodelie 
 Caluclie 
 
 Cannes 
 
 Carsville 
 
 Carsewille 
 
 Carsvelle 
 
 Casford " 
 Cedelintone 
 
 Celdccombe 
 
 Celvertesberie 
 
 Cercille 
 
 Cercitone 
 
 Cerintone 
 
 Ceritone 
 
 Chadeledone 
 
 Chadeledone 
 
 Chadewille 
 
 Chaeledone 
 
 Chalmonleage 
 
 Chederlie 
 
 Cheleforde 
 
 Cheletone 
 
 Cheletone 
 Chelvertesberie 
 
 Chemeworde 
 
 Cheneoltone 
 Chenighedone 
 Chenistetone 
 Chenleie 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 Burraton 
 
 Butterleigh 
 
 Cadbury 
 Cadleigh 
 Cadwell 
 Chagford 
 
 Calverleigh 
 
 Kings Carswell ■ 
 Abbots Carswell ■ 
 
 Cheriton 
 
 Chalvedon 
 Chederleigh 
 
 Knighton, or 7 
 Knightestonj 
 
 Possessors in the Reign 
 of Edward the Con- 
 fessor. 
 
 Ahvin 
 
 Ahiric 
 
 Edwin 
 Sewin 
 Inguar 
 
 f Ahvard 
 
 X Two Thanes 
 Alveron. 
 
 Merlosuan 
 
 Dodo 
 
 Almar 
 Sedward 
 
 Brismar 
 
 Merlesoan 
 fThe King 
 \ demesne. 
 5 The Abbot 
 \ Horton. 
 
 Sawin Tope 
 
 Guitda 
 
 Ulmer 
 
 Ailwin 
 
 Bristuold 
 Ulf 
 
 J Aimer 
 Alestan 
 Mathildis 
 Brismar 
 Alveron 
 Elmerd 
 Brismer 
 Hadimar 
 Oseva 
 
 Edric 
 
 Hecus 
 
 Alwin 
 
 Edwin 
 
 Algar 
 Edwi 
 
 of 
 
 Osfers 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of Domesday 
 was taken. 
 
 Odo, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 ! Drogo, under the Bishop of Con> 
 stance. 
 Edwin. 
 
 Rainer, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 William Chievre. 
 William Chievre. 
 William the Door-keeper. 
 
 Ralph Paganell. 
 
 C Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 
 \ stance. 
 Godric. 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 {Robert de Bellomonte, or Beau- 
 mont, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Gonher, under Ralph Paganel. 
 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 The King. 
 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con 
 
 \ stance. 
 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 
 \ stance. 
 
 Norman, under William de Falesia. 
 
 Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Tetbald Fitz Bcrner. 
 
 Godwin. 
 
 Ansger de Senarpont. 
 
 Ansger de Senarpont. 
 
 Walter de Claville. 
 
 Walter, under Baldwin the Sheriff 
 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 Alured, under the Earl of Moreton. 
 
 Colvin. 
 
 {Robert, under the Bishop of Con- 
 stance. 
 Juhel de Totnais. 
 Odo, Bishop of Constance. 
 f The niece of the Bishop of Con- 
 \ stance, under the Bishop, 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 X stance. 
 Roger, under Ralph de Pomerai. 
 
 Roger, under the Bishop of Exeter. 
 
 Motbert, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 1 An appendage of Sideham. 
 
 » Appendant to the manor of Bridestowe. 
 h 2 Chent 
 
lx 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Ancient Names of Manors. 
 
 :} 
 
 Client 
 Chentesbere 
 
 Chentesbere 
 
 Chentesberie 
 
 Chentone 
 
 Chenutdestane 
 
 Clienutdestane 
 
 Chenvestan 
 
 Cliereforde 
 
 Cherletone 
 
 Cherletone 
 
 Cbetellescome 
 
 Chetellescote 
 
 Cheveletone 
 
 Chevetorne 
 
 Chichelesberie 
 
 Chiempabere 
 
 Chienemetone 
 
 Chinnesfort - 
 
 Cbiveorne 
 
 Chiwarthiwis 
 
 Cocbintone - 
 
 Chritetone 
 
 Cicetote 
 
 Ciclet 
 
 Cilletone 
 Ciretone 
 
 Citremetone, orCu- 1 
 remtone - ■ j 
 Clavetone 
 Clehangre 
 Cliforde 
 Clifort 
 
 Clis 
 
 Clisewic or Cbisewic 
 
 Clist - -1 
 
 Clist 
 
 Clist 
 
 Clist 
 
 Clist 
 
 > 
 
 Clist 
 Clist 
 
 -J 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 Possessors in the Reign 
 of Edward the Con- 
 fessor. 
 
 Kenne 
 
 Kentisbeer 
 
 Kentisbury 
 Kenton 
 
 Knowstone 
 
 Cbeinstone 
 
 Cbarleton 
 
 Cbarlton 
 
 Chettescombe 
 
 Chivelstone 
 Cbevethorne 
 
 Chivenor 
 Cockington 
 
 Cbillaton 
 
 Clavvton 
 Claylianger 
 
 Clist 
 
 Clist St. Mary 
 
 Brismer 
 f Edwin 
 
 (.Norman 
 
 Almar 
 Eideta 
 
 fAlfilla 
 
 I Algar 
 Algar 
 
 CTbe Abbot of 
 
 \ Buckfastleigh. 
 
 Semar 
 Olmar 
 Chetel 
 Aluric 
 Almar 
 Ailric 
 
 Aiolf 
 
 Earl Lewin 
 
 Ezius 
 
 Almar 
 
 Two Thanes 
 
 Alric 
 
 ( The Bishop of 
 
 \ Exeter. 
 Brismar 
 
 Goner 
 
 Ailmar 
 Chitel 
 
 Godwin 
 
 Aluered 
 Oltred 
 Adred 
 Brismer 
 
 Edritius 
 
 Wichinus 
 
 fAlward 
 
 Alwm 
 
 Ultret 
 
 Boughred 
 
 Four Thanes - 
 
 Ulveuia 
 [Wigo 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of Domesday 
 was taken. 
 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 {William Niger, under Baldwin 
 the Sheriff. 
 William Niger, under Baldwin 
 the Sheriff. 
 Baldwin in demesne. 
 The King. 
 Alfilla. 
 Algar. 
 Roll, under Walscin de Douay. 
 
 Odo, Bishop of Constance. 
 Bretell, under the Earl of Moreton. 
 Ansger, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Riculf, under Walter. 
 Ralph, under Juhel deTotnais. 
 Beatrix, under Ralph de Pomerai. 
 William, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 ( Roger Flandrensis, under Ruald 
 
 ( Adobed. 
 The King. 
 
 ("William Niger, under Baldwin 
 
 I the Sheriff. 
 Rogro, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 {Helgot, under Fulcher Archibalis- 
 tarius. 
 William de Falesia. 
 
 Roger, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 ( Walter Silvestris, under Walter de 
 
 1 Claville. 
 Odo Fitz Gamelin. 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 
 Godwin. 
 
 Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Robert, under William de Moione. 
 
 Godbold Balistarius. 
 
 Stephen, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 {Godfrey, under the Bishop of Con- 
 stance. 
 Roger, under Ralph de Pomerai. 
 Alward, under the Earl of Moreton. 
 Edwin. 
 Osbern. 
 Otelin, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 {The canons of St. Mary, under 
 Baldwin. 
 {The canons of St. Mary, under 
 Baldwin. 
 Geffrey, Bishop of Constance. 
 
 Clistone 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 1X1 
 
 Ancient Names of Manors, 
 
 Clistone 
 Clouelie 
 
 Cloenesberge 
 
 Cochalescome 
 
 Codaford 
 
 Coic 
 
 Colacome 
 
 Colebroce 
 
 Colebroce 
 
 Coleleie 
 
 Coletone 
 Coletone 
 
 Coletone 
 
 Coletone 
 
 Colewille 
 
 Collabere 
 
 Colrige 
 
 Colrige 
 
 Colrige 
 
 Colrige 
 
 Colsovenescote 
 
 Colteshorde 
 
 Colum 
 
 Colura 
 
 Colun 
 
 Colunp 
 
 Come 
 
 Come 
 
 Come 
 
 Come 
 
 Come 
 
 Combe 
 
 Combe 
 
 Combe 
 
 Combe 
 
 Combe 
 
 Combe 
 
 Combe 
 
 Combe * 
 
 Conba 
 
 Conma 
 
 I 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 Broad Clist 
 Clovelly 
 
 Cofford 
 
 Cowick 
 
 Colcombe 
 
 Colebrooke 
 
 Colebrooke 
 
 Cowley 
 
 Colyton 
 
 Colybeare 
 Coleridge 
 
 Columb-David, Co 
 lumb-john, Co- 
 lumb-Pyne, and 
 Collumpton 
 
 Comb 
 
 Possessors in the Reign 
 
 of Edward the Con 
 
 fessor. 
 
 Ordulph 
 Brictric 
 
 Godman the priest 
 
 Ineguar 
 
 Eldric 
 Ailmar 
 Oslac 
 Samer 
 
 Aimer 
 
 Cliepin 
 
 Colo 
 
 Alward 
 
 Aluric 
 
 Earl Harold - 
 Almar 
 Adelwold 
 
 fBichus 
 
 | Alvieva 
 
 \ Edmer 
 
 [■ 
 
 Alward 
 Colvin 
 
 {Adestan 
 Brismar 
 Godwin 
 Brismer 
 
 Ailward 
 
 Aluric 
 
 Brongar 
 
 Gonerd 
 
 Edmar 
 <j Alrist 
 Ailmer 
 
 Ahvold 
 
 Aluric 
 Ansgot 
 Bristric 
 Colbrand 
 '(.Dodo 
 
 Edmar 
 
 Alnod 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of Domesday 
 was taken. 
 
 The King. 
 
 J Queen Matilda, and afterwards 
 
 I Goscelm. 
 
 f Ralph de Pomerai, under Baldwin 
 
 I the Sheriff. 
 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 
 \ stance. 
 Odo. 
 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Robert de Albemarle. 
 Bretel, under the Earl of Moreton. 
 Mainfred, under William Chievre. 
 
 SHerchenbold, under theEarl of 
 Moreton. 
 Turgis, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 Warin, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 {Ralph de Pomerai, under Juhel 
 de Totnais. 
 The King. 
 
 Rogro, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Morin, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Ailric, under Walscin de Douay. 
 Alvieva, under Walscin de Douay. 
 Odo, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 
 l stance. 
 Alward. 
 Colvin. 
 Godwin. 
 
 Fulcerius Archibalistarius. 
 Otelin, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Rogo, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 ( Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 
 \ stance. 
 Rainald, under the Earl of Moreton 
 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 
 £ stance. 
 
 {Walter Silvestris, under Walter 
 de Claville. 
 Odo, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 William, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 Jagelin, under Tetbald Fitz Berner. 
 
 {Ralph de Pomerai, under Juhel 
 de Totnais. 
 William Chievre. 
 
 Donnus, under the Earl of Moreton. 
 William de Falesia. 
 Oliver, under Tetbald Fitz Berner. 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Haimer de Arcis. 
 Goscelm 
 
 1 This manor was in Bridestowe. 
 
 Contesberie 
 
lxii 
 
 DEVONSHIRE, 
 
 Ancient Names of Manors. 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 
 Contesberie 
 Contone 
 
 Coritone 
 
 Cornehude 
 
 Corneorde 
 
 Corr.eorde 
 
 Cortescanole 
 
 Coteleie 
 
 Crabecombe 
 
 Cravelec 
 
 Crauuecome 
 Crawecome y 
 Crawecome* 
 
 Cressewalle 
 
 Crideholde 
 
 Cridie 
 
 Cridie 
 Crochewelle 
 
 Crue 
 
 Culitone 
 Culmcstoclie 
 
 Cume 
 Dalilea 
 Danescome 
 Deidestan orTEdel- 
 stan 
 
 Dene 
 
 Deneorde a 
 Denesberge 
 Deneswynesdone 
 Depdone b 
 
 Depeforde 
 
 Deppaford 
 
 Derte 
 
 Derte 
 
 Dertere 
 
 Dertrintone 
 
 Devenaberie 
 
 Didasam 
 
 Countesbury 
 Compton 
 
 Coryton 
 
 Cormvood 
 
 Cornworthy 
 Corn worthy 
 
 Cotleigh 
 Creacomb 
 
 Creedy 
 Crockernwell 
 
 Culmstock 
 
 Possessors in the Reign 
 of Edward the Con- 
 fessor. 
 
 :] 
 
 Dean 
 Denwortliy 
 
 Dipford and 
 Diptford 
 
 Dart 
 
 Dartington 
 
 Denbury 
 
 Dittisham 
 
 Ailmer 
 Osolf 
 
 Alwin 
 Edmar 
 
 Ulf 
 Alwin 
 
 Edmar 
 
 Seward 
 
 Alwin Dapifer - 
 
 (Lieuegar 
 < Aimer 
 £ Seward 
 Ordric 
 
 Ordulf 
 
 fGoda 
 
 (.Goda - 
 
 Ulf 
 Ailward 
 
 f The King in de- 
 
 \ mesne. 
 
 fThe Bishop of 
 
 { Exeter. 
 Alestan 
 Bristric 
 Sagar 
 
 Etzi 
 
 Alwin 
 
 Ailricli 
 Godric 
 Tovi 
 Alric 
 
 f The King inde- 
 
 \ mesne. 
 
 f Alric 
 
 \ Leuegar 
 Alwald 
 Alwin 
 
 f Archbishop 1 
 
 I Aldret. -j 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of Domesday 
 was taken. 
 
 William Chievre. 
 
 Stephen, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 {Drogo, son of Malger, under the 
 Bishop of Constance. 
 t Reginald de Valletort, under the 
 | Earl of Moreton. 
 Alured Brito. 
 Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 5 Ralph de Pomerai, under Juhel 
 de Totnais. 
 f Ricardus, under the Earl of More- 
 { ton. 
 Ansger, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 {Earner, under the Bishop of Con 
 stance. 
 Ansger, under Baldwin. 
 Alured Brito. 
 Ansger, under Baldwin. 
 Girard, under Walscin de Douay. 
 
 {Erchenbold, under the Earl of 
 Moreton. 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 \ stance. 
 
 William, under Ralph de Pomerai 
 Rainald, under Ruald Adobat. 
 William the door-keeper. 
 
 Godwin. 
 
 Odo EitzGamelin. 
 
 William, under Ralph de Pomerai 
 
 J William Chievre and Ralph de 
 
 \ Pomerai in moieties. 
 
 I Four knights, under William de 
 
 | Falesia. 
 The King. 
 Colvin. 
 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 William de Falesia. 
 
 Oluric, of Walscin de Douay. 
 Ralph, under William de Poillei. 
 Ralph, under William de Poillei. 
 Alwald, under Tetbald Fitz Berner. 
 William de Falesia. 
 
 The Abbot of Tavistock. 
 
 Bald win, under the Bishop of Exeter 
 
 y An appendage of Bacetesberie. 
 a An appendage of Alseministre. 
 
 2 An appendage of Crabecome. 
 b An appendage of Cochintone. 
 
 Dime- 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 IXIll 
 
 Ancient Names of Manors. 
 
 Dimewoldesham 
 
 Dinintone 
 
 Dise 
 
 Dochorde 
 Dodebroce 
 Dodecote 
 Doduceswille 
 
 Doelis 
 Dondritone 
 
 Done 
 
 Done 
 Done 
 Doneslande 
 
 Donestantone 
 Donewoldham 
 Donicestone 
 
 Donitone 
 
 Donsedoc 
 
 Doune 
 
 Drakeforde 
 
 Dueltone 
 
 Dueltone 
 Duueltone 
 
 Dune 
 
 Dune 
 
 Dunesforde 
 
 Dunestal 
 
 Dunestanetune 
 
 Dunewinasdone 
 
 Dunitone 
 
 Dwelande d 
 
 Dwelande 
 
 Edeslege 
 
 Edetone 
 
 Efforde 
 
 Eighebere 
 
 Eisse 
 
 Ele 
 Elintone 
 
 I 
 
 } 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 Doniton 
 
 Dodbrook 
 Doddescote 
 Qu. Dunkswell ? 
 
 Dawlish 
 
 Donne 
 
 Dunsland 
 f Doningston, 1 
 \ or Dunston j 
 
 Dunston 
 
 (Do 
 I 1 
 
 oniton, ( 
 Dotton 
 Dunchidiock 
 
 Dolton 
 
 Donne 
 
 Dunsford 
 
 Qu. Townstall ? - 
 
 Qu. Dunston ? - 
 
 Qu. Dunterton ? 
 
 Dowland 
 
 Iddesleigh 
 
 Eft'ord 
 Eggbeare 
 
 Qu. Hele? 
 
 Possessors in the Reign 
 of Edward the Con- 
 fessor. 
 
 Algar 
 
 Donna 
 
 Alviva 
 
 Alfleta 
 
 Bristric' 
 
 Dodo 
 
 Aimer 
 
 f Tbe Bishop of 
 
 { Exeter. 
 
 Brismer 
 
 !The Abbot of 
 Buckfastleigli. 
 Alebric 
 Mathild 
 Oluric 
 
 Algar 
 
 Ademar 
 
 Doninus 
 
 Earl Harold 
 
 Merlesvein 
 
 Edric 
 
 Alveron 
 
 !01f 
 Bristric 
 Edric 
 
 Algar 
 
 {o 
 
 Ltjroan'in 
 Saulf 
 Ansger 
 Edwin 
 Toui 
 
 f Two thanes 
 
 ^ Award 
 Bristric 
 Algar 
 Brismar 
 Lieuegar 
 Two thanes 
 
 Two thanes 
 
 {The King in de- 
 mesne. 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of Domesday 
 was taken. 
 
 William de Falesia. 
 
 f Reginald de Valletort, under the 
 
 I Earl of Moreton. 
 Goscelm. 
 
 Walter, under Ruald Adobat. 
 Godeva, widow of Bristric. 
 Walter Burgoin, under Goscelm. 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 
 Ralph de Bruer, under Baldwin 
 the Sheriff. 
 
 William, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Odo 
 
 Cadio, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 Algar 
 
 j Aluered, under the Earl of More 
 
 i ton. 
 
 j Mauger de Cartreo, under the 
 
 | Earl of Moreton. 
 
 j The Abbot of St. Michael d 
 
 \ Monte. 
 Ralph Paganel. 
 Ralph de Limesei. 
 Walter de Claville. 
 
 f William, son of 
 
 1 married the daughte 
 
 /. win. 
 
 Ansger de Senarpont. 
 
 Ansger. 
 
 fDrogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 
 \ stance. 
 Godwin. 
 Saulf. 
 
 Ralph, under Walscin de Douay. 
 Roger, under Ralph de Pomerai. 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 Reginald, under the Earl of Moreton. 
 Walter de Claville. 
 Walter de Claville. 
 Queen Matilda. 
 
 Fulgo, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 Robert, under Baldwin the Sheriff'. 
 .VIotbert, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 
 SErchenbald, under the Earl of 
 Moreton. 
 
 Wimund, who 
 of Bald- 
 
 c The name is sometimes written Bristric and sometimes Brictric in the two records. 
 <! An appendage of Lollardesdone. 
 
 Eltemetone 
 
lxiv 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Ancient Names of Manor;- 
 
 Es 
 
 Eltemetone 
 Engeborne 
 
 Engestecote - 
 
 Englebome - 
 Erintone 
 
 Erticome 
 Esastaple, or Eses 
 
 taple 
 Escage 
 Escapeleie - 
 Escapeleie - 
 Escapeleie - 
 Eschipebroce 
 Escobecome d 
 Eslapaforde 
 Esmarige or 
 
 maurige 
 Esmithebam 
 Esnideleie 
 Espice 
 Esprecome 
 Espredelestone 
 Espreitone 
 Esse 
 Essaple 
 
 Essebertone - 
 
 Essecestre - 
 
 Esselingaforde 
 
 Esseministre 
 
 Essemundehorde 
 
 Esseorde ° 
 
 Essetone 
 
 Essoic 
 
 Estaforde 
 
 Estandone - 
 
 Estantone 
 
 Estapeleie 
 
 Estatforde 
 
 Estaveforde 
 Estoche - 
 Estocbe 
 
 Estocheleie 
 Estocheleie 
 
 :] 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 orXaVcTt^r Possessors when the Survey of Don,esdav 
 c was taken, 
 
 lessor. 
 
 Qu. Hcngescot ? 
 
 Ingleborne 
 
 Qu. Ermington ? 
 
 Yarcomb 
 
 Sbapleigh 
 
 Scobbescombe 
 Smallridge 
 
 Spriddleston 
 Spreyton 
 Rose Ash 
 
 Ashburton 
 
 Exeter - 
 
 ShiUingford 
 Exminster 
 
 Ashton 
 
 . Stafford 
 ' I Staunton 
 Stapley 
 
 I 
 
 : 
 
 Stafford 
 
 Stoke 
 
 Stockleigh 
 
 Elmer 
 
 Brismar 
 
 fGole, Hedric,"} 
 1 and Godric, > 
 (_ three thanes J 
 
 Alrix 
 
 Ansger 
 
 Earl Harold 
 
 Godric 
 
 Alebricius 
 
 fAret ■ - 
 
 i A thane 
 
 LUluric 
 Bristric 
 Bristric 
 Bristric 
 
 Olnod 
 
 A 1 uric 
 
 Edric 
 
 Earl Harold 
 
 Fitell 
 
 Four thanes 
 
 Osfers 
 
 Elward 
 
 Aluric 
 
 f The Bishop 
 
 | Exeter. 
 
 iThe King in de 
 mesne. 
 Brismar 
 Wichin 
 Brismar 
 
 Eurewac 
 Ednod 
 
 f Algar the priest 
 
 \ Ahvena. 
 Bristold 
 
 of 
 
 I 
 
 Sawin 
 
 Edric 
 Alric 
 Ulveva 
 
 Alsi 
 Alveva 
 
 Rainald, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 stance. 
 
 Rainald, under William de Falesia. 
 
 The King. 
 
 The abbey of St. Michael de Monte. 
 
 inschetel, under William Chievre. 
 
 Torgis, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 Robert, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Girold the chaplain. 
 Godwin, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Walter, under Walter de Claville. 
 Ludo, under Walscin de Douay. 
 Queen Matilda. 
 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 
 Ansger, under the Earl of Moreton. 
 
 Gilbert, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 The King. 
 
 Tetbald Fitz Berner. 
 
 Rainald, under the Earl of Moreton. 
 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 Ralph, under William Chievre. 
 
 Aluric. 
 
 Fulcer or Fulcher Archibalistarius 
 
 William Chievre. 
 
 Gilbert, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 The wife of Hervei. 
 
 The wife of Hervei de Helion. 
 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 Earl Hugh. 
 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 
 Nicholas Archibalistarius. 
 f Redulf Vitalis, under Odo Fitz 
 \ Gamelin. 
 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 \ stance. 
 William de Poillei. 
 f Winemer, under William de Fa< 
 \ lesia. 
 
 IErchenbald, under the Earl of 
 Moreton. 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 
 d This manor was an appendage of Hainberie, afterwards of Grenoulie. 
 
 e It was made an appendage to the manor of Sufferstan : it is written in the Exchequer 
 
 Estocheleie 
 
 .... ..«« ......... — .-j 
 
 Domesday Hacheurde. 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Ixv 
 
 ent Na 
 
 s of Manors. 
 
 Estocheleie - 
 Estoclieleie - 
 Estocheleie - 
 
 Estoclieleie - 
 
 Estocheleie - 
 Estocheleie 
 Estodleie - 
 
 Estolie 
 
 Estotacome - 
 
 Estotdone 
 
 Estotleie 
 
 Estrete 
 Etcheborne 
 
 Falleie 
 
 Farweie 
 Farweie - 
 Fedaven 
 
 Fen - 
 
 Ferdendelle, or 
 Ferdindela 
 
 Ferdendelle 
 
 Ferentone 
 
 Fereordin 
 
 Ferhendone 
 
 Ferleie f 
 
 Ferleie - 
 
 Fernehille 
 
 Fernewode s 
 
 Ferse 
 
 Ferurdi 
 
 Fileleie 
 
 Finatone 
 
 Fluta 
 
 Flutes 
 Folefort 
 
 Foletona 
 
 Forde 
 Forde 
 
 -1 
 
 A 
 
 -J 
 
 :] 
 
 Stockleigh- 
 
 Stoodley 
 
 ' Stodiscombe, 
 or Stuttes- 
 comb - - 
 
 Street 
 Exborne 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 Far way 
 
 Qu. Feniton? 
 
 Fardell - 
 
 Farringdon 
 Farringdon 
 
 Fernhill 
 Farwood 
 Fursham - 
 
 Qu. Feniton? 
 
 Fleet 
 
 Fulford - 
 Foleton 
 
 Ford 
 
 ■{ 
 
 Possessors in the Reign 
 
 of Edward the Con 
 
 lessor. 
 
 ■ 
 
 Alward 
 
 Colvin 
 
 Hadimar 
 
 Haimer 
 
 Orgar 
 Saulf 
 Aimer 
 
 Alwin 
 
 Ulf 
 
 Alwin 
 
 Bristwold 
 
 Ailmer 
 Aimer 
 
 Bristuold 
 
 Ailmer 
 
 Chenias 
 fEdlovedief & 
 I Eideva 
 
 Norman 
 
 Domnus - 
 
 Two Brothers. 
 
 Edwin 
 
 Alric 
 
 Dona 
 
 Alwin 
 
 Godwi 
 
 Alcerlus 
 
 Godric - 
 
 Osfers 
 
 Etmar 
 
 jThe Abbot 
 I Horton. 
 
 Bristwold 
 
 Aritius 
 
 Aluric 
 
 Alveva 
 Otrus 
 
 •} 
 
 of 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of Domesday 
 was taken. 
 
 Alward, under the Earl of Moreton. 
 Albered, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 The Earl of Moreton. 
 
 {Alured Pincerna, under the Earl 
 of Moreton. 
 Alured Pincerna, under the Earl. 
 Rainald, under the Earl. 
 Robert, under Ralph de Pomerai. 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 X stance. 
 
 Morin, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 William, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 
 [ stance. 
 
 Torstin, under Ralph de Pomerai. 
 Roger, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 
 \ stance. 
 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 
 X stance. 
 Ludo, under Goscelm. 
 
 Walter Burgoin, under Goscelm. 
 
 ' Reginald de Valletort, under the 
 Earl of Moreton. 
 
 Godfrey, under the Earl of Moreton. 
 
 f Reginald de Valletort, under the 
 
 X Earl of Moreton. 
 Bretell, under the Earl of Moreton 
 Ricolf, under Goscelm and Walter. 
 Fulcer, Archibalistarius. 
 The King. 
 Ansgot. 
 
 Torgis, of Juhel de Totnais. 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 William de Falesia. 
 William Chievre. 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Drogo, under the Earl of Moreton. 
 
 Robert de Albemarle. 
 
 Motbert, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 f The church of St. Mary, by the 
 j gift of Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Ranulf, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 Ralph, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 f An appendage of Depeforde. 
 Vol. VI. 
 
 E An appendage of Bridestowe. 
 
 Fra- 
 
lxvi 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Ancient Names of Manors. 
 
 :} 
 
 Framintone 
 Fredeletescoc 
 
 Friseham - 
 
 Furintone 
 
 Galmentone - 
 Gatcumbe 
 Gatepade - 
 
 Gateshore 
 
 Ghemeslete 
 
 Ghiderleie, or Chi 
 
 derleie 
 Gidesam 
 
 Gildescote 
 
 Godelege 
 
 Godescote 
 
 Godevacote 
 
 Gohewis - 
 
 Gorwille 
 
 Gosewelle 
 
 Grennelize 
 
 Grenoveia 
 
 Gretedone 
 
 Haberie - 
 
 Hacome 
 
 Hacome 
 
 Hadreleie 
 
 Hagawile 
 
 Hagintone 
 
 Hagintone 
 
 Hagintone, or Ha- | 
 intone - -j 
 Hainghestecote 
 
 Hainoc 
 
 Haiserstone - 
 
 Haldiurdi - 
 Haleston - - 1 
 Haletron - - J 
 Halgewille 
 Halsbretone 
 
 :} 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 Fremington 
 Fritlielstock 
 
 Galmton 
 
 Gatcombe 
 
 Gappah 
 
 Gittisham - 
 
 Goodleigh - 
 
 Gorbuish - 
 Goosewell - 
 Greenway - 
 
 Haccomb - 
 Hatherleigh 
 
 Heanton Pun-1 
 chardon - J 
 
 Hengescot 
 
 Hennock 
 
 Qu. Ascerton? - 
 
 Qu. Hardworthy? 
 
 Halstow - - -! 
 
 Halwell - 
 Halberton 
 
 Possessors in the Reign 
 
 of Edward the Con 
 
 fessor. 
 
 Earl Harold 
 Ordulf - 
 
 Edmeratorius 
 
 Ahvin 
 
 Goda 
 Burgered 
 Five Thanes 
 
 Edwi - - , - 
 
 Walo 
 
 Godwin the priest 
 
 Chinias 
 
 Ulward 
 
 Ulward 
 Bristric 
 Godeva 
 Alnot 
 
 Colbrand - 
 Hoccha 
 Four thanes 
 Alsi 
 
 Alcerius 
 
 Alnod 
 
 Ote - 
 
 Ulf 
 
 J The Abbot of 
 
 I Tavistock. 
 
 Aluric 
 
 Ulfert - 
 
 f Ulmar and 7 
 I Godritius -j 
 
 Ulf 
 
 Alnod 
 
 f The Abbot of 
 \ Buckfastleigh. 
 
 Earl Harold 
 
 Aired - 
 
 Bristric 
 
 Bristric 
 
 Bristric - 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of Domesday 
 was taken. 
 
 Geffrey, Bishop of Constance. 
 
 {Robert Fitz Ivo, under the Earl 
 of Moreton. 
 {Alured de Pincerna, under the 
 Earl of Moreton. 
 iThe wife of Engelbald, under 
 the Bishop of Constance. 
 Ralph de Felgers. 
 Ansger, the King's servant. 
 Roger, under Ralph de Pomerai. 
 f Ansger Brito, under the Earl of 
 \ Moreton. 
 f Rainer Dapifer, under Baldwin 
 \ the Sheriff. 
 
 Godwin, under the Earl of Moreton 
 
 Goscelm. 
 
 {Gilbert, under Robert de Albe- 
 marle. 
 Robert de Albemarle. 
 Colwin, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Goscelm. 
 
 Bernard, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Oliver, under Tetbald Fitz Berner. 
 Robert, under William de Poillei. 
 Nicholas Archibalistarius. 
 Ludo, under Walscin de Douay. 
 
 SDrogo, under the Bishop of 
 Constance. 
 Rainer, under Baldwin. 
 Robert, under William Chievre. 
 Stephen, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 William, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 {Drogo, under the Bishop of Con< 
 stance. 
 
 Uluric, under Walscin de Douay. 
 
 {Robert de Punchardon, under 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Geffrey, Bishop of Constance. 
 
 {Roger Fitzpaine, under Baldwin 
 the Sheriff. 
 
 The King. 
 
 Godbold Balistarius. 
 
 Robert de Albemarle. 
 
 Queen Matilda, afterwards Goscelm. 
 
 Queen Matilda The King. 
 
 Hame 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 ixvn 
 
 Ancient Namesof Manors. 
 
 Hame - 
 
 Hame 
 Hamberie 
 
 Hamilioc 
 
 Hamistone 
 
 Hamistone 
 
 Hanberie - 
 
 Hanca 
 
 Hane, or Hanc 
 
 Hanenchelole 
 
 Hantone 
 
 Hantone - 
 Hantone 
 Hantone 
 Hareoe 
 Harestane - 
 Harestane 
 Hanstone lj 
 Hax - 
 Heicrde 
 
 Hele 
 
 Hele 
 
 Hele - 
 
 Helescavea 
 Hemberie - 
 Henleie 
 Heppastebe ' 
 
 Herberneforde 
 
 Hercfarde 
 
 Herlescome 
 
 Hermondesworthe 
 
 Hernescome 
 Herstanaliaie 
 Hertitone 
 Hesmalacome 
 
 Hetfelt 
 
 Hevetruue 
 
 Hevis 
 
 Hewis 
 
 Hewis 
 
 Hewise 
 
 Hidone 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 :} 
 
 !! 
 
 Ham 
 
 Ham 
 
 Hembury 
 
 Hemiock - 
 Hempston 
 
 Qu. Annery? 
 Anke 
 
 Heanton,or Hamp 
 ton 
 
 Harston 
 
 Hele - 
 
 - Hembury - 
 
 Qu. Hippestan ? 
 Qu. Wobernford? 
 
 Harford 
 
 Hermanswortby 
 Yarnscomb 
 
 Harton 
 
 Heathfield - , 
 Heavitree - 
 
 Huish 
 
 § 
 
 Possessors in the Reign 
 of Edward the Con- 
 fessor. 
 
 J Clay, or Clistl 
 \ Hydon -j 
 
 f The Abbot of 
 \ Tavistock. 
 Godric - 
 
 {The King in de 
 mesne. 
 Earl Harold 
 Ordulf 
 Bristric 
 
 f Oluardus - - 
 I Burgered 
 Wadel - 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of Domesday 
 was taken. 
 
 
 Brismar 
 
 ■> Brismar - 
 I Bristeva 
 
 v UIf - 
 
 f Edric - - 
 
 / Sueta 
 Ordulf 
 Aimar 
 Cbippin 
 
 r Edwi 
 
 ' Olf - 
 
 '.Two thanes 
 
 ,, edric 
 *-dnc 
 Brismer 
 Oluardus - 
 
 Alric 
 
 Ordulf 
 Two thanes 
 Ahvard - 
 
 Godwin 
 
 Canistrus - 
 
 Guitda 
 
 Godwin 
 
 /The Abbot of 
 
 { Buckfastleigh 
 
 Wichin 
 
 (Algar - 
 Ailwin - 
 Edric 
 Wichinus 
 
 Godwin 
 
 Colvin. 
 
 Odo Fitz Gamelin. 
 
 The King. 
 
 Hamelin, under the Earl ofMoreton. 
 
 Odo Fitz Gamelin. 
 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 
 Ifalph de Pomerai. 
 
 Rainald, under the Earl ofMoreton. 
 
 f Robert de Punchardon, under 
 
 I Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Roger, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Colvin. 
 
 Helgod, under Ralph de Pomerai 
 Geffrey Bishop of Constance. 
 Rainald, under the Earl ofMoreton. 
 Rainald undertime Earl ofMoreton. 
 The Bishop of Exeter. 
 Motbert, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Godbold Balistarius. 
 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con 
 
 ( stance. 
 Godbold Balistarius. 
 
 {Erchenbold, under the Earl of 
 Moreton. 
 William, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Odo. 
 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 
 {Reginald de Valletort, under the 
 Earl of Moreton. 
 {Reginald de Valletort, under the 
 Earl of Moreton. 
 Tetbald Fitz Berner. 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con 
 ( stance. 
 Robert, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Goscelm de Exeter. 
 The King. 
 Roger, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 Roger, under Ralph de Pomerai. 
 Ralph, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 Ralph, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 Rainald, under the Earl ofMoreton. 
 Hamo, under William Chievre. 
 
 Otelin, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 It had been part of Brantone. 
 
 i 2 
 
 An appendage of Hanca. 
 
 Hierde 
 
lxviii 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Ancient Names of Manors. 
 
 Modern Names, 
 
 Possessors in the Reign 
 of Edward the Con- 
 fessor. 
 
 Hierde 
 
 Hierlege 
 
 Hille - 
 Hillesdone - 
 
 Hindefort 
 
 Hitenesleie - 
 
 Ho 
 
 Hoca, or Hoche 
 
 Hochaorde 
 
 Hochesam - 
 
 Hochesile 
 
 Hocoorde 
 
 Hole 
 
 Hole - 
 
 Holbeme 
 
 Holebroce 
 
 Holcome 
 
 Holecome - 
 
 Holecome 
 
 Holecome - 
 
 Holecome, or 
 
 Holescome k 
 Holecumbe 
 Holescome 
 Holle 
 Holne 
 Holnham 
 Homacheforde 
 Honecberche - 
 
 Honelande 
 
 Honessam 
 Honetone 
 Horeode ' 
 
 Horeuude 
 
 Horewode - 
 
 Hortone 
 
 Hundatore 
 
 Huneseva 
 Hunitone 
 Huntesberie - 
 Hywis 
 
 Ide - 
 
 Ilesam 
 Ilestintone m - 
 
 ■S 
 
 Hill 
 Hillersdon 
 
 Hittesleigh 
 
 Hooe 
 Hooke 
 Hockford 
 Huxham 
 
 Hole 
 Holbeame 
 
 Holcombe 
 
 Holcombe and 
 Hollacombe 
 
 Holne 
 
 Honeychurch 
 
 Huntsbam 
 Honiton 
 
 Horwood 
 
 Hountor 
 
 Huish 
 Ide 
 
 lllsington 
 
 Almar 
 
 Oliveva - 
 
 Etmar 
 Sirwald 
 
 Brorus - 
 
 Doda 
 
 Alebrix 
 
 Ulf 
 
 Etnod 
 
 Wichin 
 
 Ahvard 
 
 Colebran 
 
 f Etmar 
 
 \ Saw-in 
 Ordritius - 
 Godwin 
 
 f Aimar 
 
 \ Alwin - 
 
 f Seward 
 
 -J The priests 
 
 (_ Bomine. 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of Domesday 
 was taken. 
 
 Of 
 
 Bristric 
 
 Leugar 
 
 Alwin 
 
 Edolf 
 
 Edmar - 
 
 Edmer 
 
 Alwin Niger 
 f Halebrix and 7 
 1 Algard -j 
 
 Alric the Priest - 
 
 Elmer 
 
 f Osulf - 
 I. Alward - 
 Osulf - 
 
 Alward 
 Alwald - 
 Editda - 
 Alwid 
 
 fThe Bishop of 
 
 (_ Exeter. 
 
 Berus 
 Merlesuen 
 
 Ansger, under Baldwin. 
 
 j Drogo, son of Malger, under the 
 
 I Bishop of Constance. 
 Haimer de Arcis. 
 Ratnald, under Odo Fitz Gamelin. 
 
 {Ralph de Pomerai, under Juhel 
 de Totnais. 
 i Ralph de Pomerai, under Baldwin 
 the Sheriff. 
 Stephen, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 Godbold Archibalistarius. 
 Girard, under Walscin de Douay. 
 Roger, under Ralph de Pomerai. 
 Ruald Adobat. 
 
 Roger, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Tetbald Fitz Berner. 
 Gosbert, under Tetbald Fitz Berner. 
 Nicholas Archibalistarius. 
 Godwin. 
 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 Walter de Douay. 
 Rogo, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 William Chievre. 
 
 Queen Matilda. 
 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 
 William de Falesia. 
 
 Otelin, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 Gilbert, under Ruald Adobat. 
 
 Rainald, under Ruald Adobat. 
 
 Walter, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 Ralph, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Odo Fitz Gamelin. 
 
 Dreus, under the Earl of Moreton. 
 
 Geffrey, Bishop of Constance. 
 
 {Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 stance. 
 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Can- 
 't stance. 
 
 f Rainald, under the Abbot of Ta- 
 \ vistock. 
 
 William Chievre. 
 
 Odo Fitz Gamelin. 
 
 Walter de Douay. 
 
 Goscelm. 
 
 f Roger, under William the door 
 \ keeper. 
 Ralph Paganel. 
 
 An appendage of Otric 
 
 Appendant to Hortone. 
 
 Appendant to Linton. 
 
 Incrintone 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Ancient Names of Manors 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 Possessors in the Reign 
 of Edward the Con- 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of Domesday 
 was taken. 
 
 
 
 
 fessor. 
 
 
 Incrintone 
 
 _ 
 
 • 
 
 Algar 
 
 William Chievre. 
 
 Inudeborde 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 . 
 
 Tetbald Fitz Berner. 
 
 Iplepene 
 
 - 
 
 Ipplepen 
 
 Goda 
 
 Ralph de Felgers. 
 
 Jacobescherche 
 
 - 
 
 . 
 
 Alvevia 
 
 Alvevia. 
 
 Johanesto 
 
 _ 
 
 Instow 
 
 Ahvard 
 
 Walter de Claville. 
 
 Juelie 
 
 . 
 
 - 
 
 Brismar 
 
 Eulcer Balistarius. 
 
 Kari 
 
 . 
 
 Cary 
 
 Chenestan 
 
 Waldin, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Labera 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 Etmar 
 
 Hubert, under Odo Fitz Gamelin. 
 
 Lachebroc 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 Algar 
 
 Roger, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 Lacome '" 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 Edwin 
 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 
 Laierde » 
 
 . 
 
 - 
 
 . 
 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 Lamesete 
 
 _ 
 
 Lambside 
 
 Tovi 
 
 Ralph, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Lanbertone 
 
 _ 
 
 Laraerton 
 
 Ordulf 
 
 Ruald Adobat. 
 
 Lanchers 
 
 . 
 
 Lancras 
 
 Alveva 
 
 Robert, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 Lancome ° 
 
 p 
 
 . 
 
 Edwin 
 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 
 Landeshers 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 Alnod 
 
 Earl Hugh. 
 
 Lanforde 
 
 - 
 
 Langford 
 
 Leuegar 
 
 Osbern de Salcei. 
 
 Langadone 
 
 _ 
 
 Langdon 
 
 Hecus 
 
 Waldin, under Juhel. 
 
 Langafort 
 
 . 
 
 Langford - 
 
 Earl Lewin 
 
 The King. 
 
 Langetrewe 
 
 . 
 
 Langtree 
 
 Bristric 
 
 Queen Matilda. 
 
 Langhestan 
 
 . 
 
 Langston - 
 
 Edwin 
 
 Hugh, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 Langehewis 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 Sawin 
 
 f Leuric, under the Bishop of Con- 
 | stance. 
 
 Lannor 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 Semer 
 
 Walter de Claville. 
 
 Lantfort 
 
 . 
 
 - 
 
 Alestan 
 
 Godwin. 
 
 Laurochesbere 
 
 . 
 
 Larkbeare 
 
 Aimer 
 
 Alured Brito. 
 
 Lege 
 
 A 
 
 . 
 
 f Alebrix 
 
 Ralph, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Lege 
 
 
 . 
 
 Alwald 
 
 Alured Brito. 
 
 Lege 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 Alwin 
 
 Juhel de Totnais. 
 ( Beatrix, sister of Elmer, under 
 { William Chievre. 
 
 Lege 
 
 ~ 
 
 - 
 
 Elmer 
 
 Lege 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 Etmar 
 
 Aiulf. 
 
 Lege 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 Godwin 
 
 Roger, under Fulcer Balistarius. 
 
 Lege 
 
 :• 
 
 Leigh 
 
 Inwar 
 ' Ordulf - - 
 
 Otelin, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 Lege 
 
 Alured, under the Earl of Moreton. 
 
 Lege 
 
 . 
 
 - 
 
 Osferd 
 
 William de Poillei. 
 
 Lege 
 
 . 
 
 - 
 
 Osmer 
 
 William, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Lege 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 Sawin or Salwin 
 
 Alward, under the Earl of Moreton. 
 
 Lege 
 
 . 
 
 - 
 
 Summerlete 
 
 Nicholas Archibalistarius. 
 
 Leie 
 
 . 
 
 - 
 
 Ahvard 
 
 Anschetel, under William Chievre. 
 
 Leige 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 Aldred 
 
 William the door-keeper. 
 
 Leige 
 
 -j 
 
 - 
 
 [ Alveron 
 
 Walter de Claville. 
 
 Levalige 
 
 
 . 
 
 Alsi 
 
 Godbold Arbalistarius. 
 
 Leuga 
 
 - 
 
 . 
 
 Alstus 
 
 Godbold Arbalistarius. 
 
 Leuage or Lewe 
 
 - 
 
 Lew 
 
 Bristric 
 
 J Roger Molis, under Baldwin the 
 ( Sheriff. 
 Queen Matilda, afterwards Goscelm. 
 
 Levie 
 
 . 
 
 
 Bristric 
 
 Levestone 
 
 . 
 
 Leveton 
 
 Saward 
 
 Richard, son of Earl Gilbert. 
 
 Lewendone 
 
 . 
 
 
 rwo thanes 
 
 Rainald, under Godbold Balistarius. 
 
 Liclemore or Lide-l 
 more - -J 
 
 
 Aiulf 
 
 Aiulf, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 m Appendant to Brandone. 
 ° An appendage of Brandone. 
 
 » Appendant to Lincome. 
 
 Lidefordc 
 
lxx 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 A ncient Names of Manors. 
 
 -I 
 
 :} 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 Lideforde 
 
 Lidefort 
 
 Lideltone 
 
 Liege 
 
 Liege 
 
 Leuriehestone 
 
 Lim 
 
 Limas 
 Limet 
 Limet 
 Limet 
 Limet 
 
 Limet 
 
 Limet 
 
 Limete - -J 
 
 Line 
 
 Lincome 
 
 Linor or Limor 
 
 Lintone 
 
 Lisitone or Lisistone 
 
 Listone 
 
 Liteham 
 
 Lidford 
 
 Liddaton 
 Leigh 
 
 Possessors in the Reign p ossessors when the Surv f Domesdav 
 of Edward the Con- KXj ^^ 
 
 lessor. 
 
 Liteham 
 
 Letehvere 
 
 Lobe 
 
 Lochebroc 
 
 Lochesbere 
 
 Lochesore 
 
 Lochessare 
 
 Lochetone 
 
 Lochetore 
 
 Lodebroc 
 
 Lodebroc or 
 
 broc 
 Lodeswille 
 Lollardesdone 
 
 ! 
 
 Lyn 
 Lincombe 
 
 Linton 
 
 Lifton 
 Littleham 
 
 Lobb in Braunton 
 
 Loxbear - 
 Loxore 
 
 1 
 
 r Lude- J 
 
 Ludbrook ■ 
 Loddiswell 
 
 The King in de- 
 mesne. 
 ' Wadels 
 
 Ailric 
 
 {■ 
 
 Saolf 
 (The Abbot of 
 I Glastonbury. 
 | The Abbot of 
 \ Buckfastleigh. 
 f Ailric 
 
 Alwin 
 
 Osfers 
 <j Walo 
 
 Walo - 
 
 Four thanes 
 [Alestan - 
 Algar 
 Brismer 
 Frawin 
 Aihvard Tochesone 
 
 Gowin 
 
 Queen Edith 
 (The Abbot of 
 \ Horton. 
 
 Bristric 
 
 Bristric 
 
 Ulf 
 
 Algar 
 
 Algar 
 
 Doleswif 
 
 Ulward 
 
 Roger, under Ralph de Pomerai. 
 
 5 Godfrey, under the Abbot of 
 Tavistock. 
 Walter, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 C Nigel and Robert, under the 
 { Abbot of Tavistock. 
 Odo, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Ahvin 
 
 Hecus 
 Aluric 
 
 Walter, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 ^ Drogo, under the Bishop of Con 
 
 \ stance. 
 Otelin, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 {Ralph de Bruer, under Baldwin 
 the Sheriff'. 
 
 f Ralph de Pomerai, under Baldwin 
 
 I the Sheriff. 
 Odo Fitz Gamelin. 
 Godwin. 
 
 William Chievre. 
 
 Robert, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Morin. 
 William Chievre. 
 
 {Rainald, under the Earl of 
 Moreton. 
 The King. 
 
 ! Queen Matilda, afterwards Gos 
 eel m. 
 Odo Fitz Gamelin. 
 Rainald, under Ruald Adobat. 
 Roger, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 {Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 stance. 
 {Robert de Bellomonte, under 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 f Robert de Bellomonte, under 
 \ Baldwin. 
 
 {Ralph de Pomerai, under Juhel 
 de Totnais. 
 Ralph, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 ( Reginald de Valletort, under the 
 | Earl of Moreton. 
 f Reginald de Valletort, under the 
 I Earl. 
 Juhel de Totnais. 
 Goscelm. 
 
 Lol- 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 lxxi 
 
 
 
 
 Possessors in the Reign 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of Domesday 
 
 Ancient Namesof JIanors. 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 of Edward the Con- 
 fessor. 
 
 was taken. 
 
 
 
 
 fAlward Mert, 1 
 
 
 Lollardesdone 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 -] under Bris- £■ 
 ( trie - - ) 
 Alveron 
 
 Walter de Claville. 
 
 Lonmele or Lonnele 
 
 - 
 
 Walter de Claville. 
 
 Lommine 
 
 . 
 
 Lowman 
 
 Alnod 
 
 Goscelm. 
 
 Loperidge or Ope 
 ridge 
 
 :} 
 
 Luprige 
 
 Eddric 
 
 f Reginald, under the Earl of 
 \ Moreton. 
 
 Losbere 
 
 
 Loosebear - 
 
 ("The Abbot of 
 { Cranbourne. 
 
 
 Loscombe - 
 
 . 
 
 Luscombe 
 
 A thane 
 
 Anschetil, under William de Falesia. 
 
 Lotelande - 
 
 . 
 
 Qu. Lukesland ? - 
 
 Soteman 
 
 Goscelm 
 
 Lovapit 
 
 _ 
 
 Luppit 
 
 Ailsi 
 
 Ludo, under Walscin de Douay. 
 
 
 
 
 ( Ralph de Pomerai, under Juhel 
 ) de Totnais. 
 
 Lovenetorne 
 
 " 
 
 Loventor - 
 
 Otro 
 
 Ludaford 
 
 . 
 
 Lidt'ord - 
 
 Ordricius - 
 
 Nicholas Archibalistarius. 
 
 Luperige - 
 
 - 
 
 Luprige 
 
 Estnota - 
 
 Baldwin, under Goscelm. 
 
 Macretone 
 
 . 
 
 Makerton - 
 
 . 
 
 The King. 
 
 Madescame - 
 
 - 
 
 Maidencomb 
 
 Elmer 
 
 Hamond, under William Chievre. 
 5 Alured Pincerna, under the Earl 
 \ of Moreton. 
 
 Madfort 
 
 " 
 
 Madford - 
 
 Ahvid 
 
 Madone 
 
 . 
 
 Meddon 
 
 Ansgot 
 
 Ansgot. 
 
 Magnelege 
 
 _ 
 
 Manlegh 
 
 Alwid - 
 
 Goscelm. 
 
 Magnetone - 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 Edwi 
 
 Edwi, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 Malacote 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 Godbold. 
 
 f Richard de Noville, under Bald- 
 { win the Sheriff. 
 
 Mameorde - 
 
 * 
 
 - 
 
 Lieuric 
 
 Mammebetva - 
 
 - 
 
 Mamhead - 
 
 Algar - 
 
 Ralph de Pomerai, under Baldwin. 
 
 Manberie 
 
 _ 
 
 Membury 
 
 Eldell 
 
 William Chievre. 
 
 Manedore 
 
 . 
 
 Manaton - 
 
 Colbert - 
 
 Odo, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Manelie 
 
 . 
 
 Manley 
 
 Alestantilie 
 
 Girard. 
 
 Manitone 
 
 - 
 
 Manaton 
 
 f Adret,Eldred,| 
 ( or Edred -) 
 
 The same. 
 
 Matford 
 
 - 
 
 Matford - 
 
 Wichin 
 
 Ralph, under William Chievre. 
 J Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 l stance. 
 
 Matingeho 
 
 " 
 
 - 
 
 Dodo 
 
 Mavessart - 
 
 _ 
 
 - 
 
 Alvereton 
 
 Gilbert, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 Mede 
 
 . 
 
 - 
 
 Alnot 
 
 Bernard, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 Meleberie 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 Ulnod - 
 
 William de Poillei. 
 
 Meleford 
 
 "J 
 
 Milford 
 
 fSawin - 
 
 Gosbert, under Tetbald Fitz Berner. 
 f The wife of Englebald, under the 
 £ Bishop of Constance. 
 
 Melefort 
 
 "J 
 
 
 1 Alwin - 
 
 Melewis 
 
 
 Melhuisb - 
 
 Brismer 
 
 f Hugh Redonensis, under Baldwin 
 \ the Sheriff. 
 
 Mellestone - 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 Bristric - 
 
 Ralph, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Merehode 
 
 o 
 
 
 fBristrc 
 
 Oliver, under Tetbald Fitz Berner. 
 
 Mereude 
 
 ■} 
 
 Marwood - 
 
 1 Ulward 
 
 J Two knights, under Robert de 
 \ Albemarle. 
 
 JGausbert, under Tetbald Fitz 
 \ Berner. 
 
 Merlande - 
 
 - 
 
 Merland - 
 
 Leuegar 
 
 
 
 
 C 
 
 f Richard, son of Torolvus, under 
 \ Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 Mertone 
 
 Merton - 
 
 \ Jadolf - 
 
 Mertone - 
 
 
 (.Torquillus 
 
 Geffrey, Bishop of Constance. 
 
 
 
 
 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 \ stance. 
 
 Metcome 
 
 
 
 Bristric - 
 
 Mewi 
 
lxxii 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Ancient Names of Manors. 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 Possessors in the Reign 
 of Edward the Con- 
 fessor. 
 
 :! 
 
 Mewi 
 
 Mewi 
 
 Mewi 
 
 Mewi 
 
 Midelande 
 
 Midelcote 
 
 Midelton 
 
 Midetone 
 
 Mildedone 
 Mildelcote - 
 Milehywis - 
 Miltitone 
 Mimidlande 
 Mirlande - 
 
 Mochelesberie 
 
 Modleie 
 Modleie 
 
 Mogecome 
 
 Molacote 
 Holland - 
 
 Molland 
 Molland - 
 
 Monacohchamtone 
 
 More 
 
 Morbathe 
 
 Morcet 
 
 Morcete 
 
 Morchet - 
 Morcliet 
 
 -1 
 
 Morleie - 
 
 Morleie 
 Morteho 
 Mortone 
 Motberie 
 
 Motbilie 
 
 Musberie 
 Nevetone 
 Newentone 
 Newentone 
 
 Newentone 
 Nietone 
 
 :} 
 
 Meavy 
 
 Medland 
 
 Middlecote 
 
 Milton Abbot 
 
 Middlecote 
 Melhuish - 
 Milton - 
 Qu. Medland ? 
 Merland 
 
 Motbecombe 
 
 Molland 
 
 f Monk Oak 
 \ hampton 
 
 More 
 
 Morebath - 
 
 Morchard 
 
 Moreleigh 
 Mortboe - 
 Modbury 
 
 -} 
 
 I 
 
 Musbury 
 Newton - 
 
 Newton 
 
 !Alward - 
 Alwin 
 Edward - 
 Osolf - 
 Alestan 
 Uwin 
 
 ( The Abbot of 1 
 \ Tavistock, j 
 
 Edmer 
 
 Edilda - 
 
 Alwold 
 
 Saulf 
 
 Alebricius 
 
 Elric 
 
 f Five thanes, "| 
 I under Bristric ' 
 
 Alwin 
 
 Godwin 
 
 Alceric - 
 
 Alger 
 r Earl Harold ■ 
 
 I Norman - 
 
 Ulwin 
 
 Olnot 
 
 Aldret 
 Earl Harold 
 ("Algar - 
 
 J Algar 
 
 | Bristric 
 L Alraerd - 
 
 Alnod 
 
 Edritius 
 Earl Harold 
 Wado - 
 
 Ordritius - 
 
 Aimer - 
 Alwod 
 
 {Aluric - 
 Domnus 
 1 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of Domesday 
 was taken. 
 
 Elward - 
 
 ' The priests 
 1 Bomine. 
 
 of 
 
 William, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 Torgis, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 Torgis, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 Nigel, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 Godwin. 
 Alwin. 
 
 {Drogo, under the Bishop of Con 
 stance. 
 William Chievre. 
 
 Ranulf, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Saulf. 
 
 Alured Brito. 
 
 Waldin, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 Rainold, under Ruald Adobed. 
 
 Ansger de Senarpont. 
 
 Odo, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 Odo, under Juhel. 
 
 {Robert de Punchardon, under 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Godbold Balistarius. 
 The King. 
 
 f Bernard, under Tetbald Fitz 
 \ Berner 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 \ stance. 
 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 Nigel, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 The King. 
 William Chievre. 
 
 {Drogo, under the Bishop of Con 
 stance. 
 Queen Matilda. 
 William Chievre. 
 
 f Walter Silvestris, under Walter de 
 i Claville. 
 
 (_ Alured Brito. 
 Ralph de Limesei. 
 The King. 
 Richard, under the Earl of Moreton. 
 
 f Reginald, under the Earl of 
 
 ( Moreton. 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Ansger, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Godbold Arbalistarius. 
 Domnus. 
 
 {Walter Burgundensis, or Burgoin, 
 under Goscelm. 
 
 Nimet 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 lxxiii 
 
 Ancient Names of Manors. 
 
 Nimet 
 
 Nimet - - 
 
 Nimet 
 
 Niraetone 
 
 Nimetone - 
 
 Niresse 
 
 Nistenestoc 
 Niuetone - 
 Niuuetone - 
 Nochecote 
 Norcote 
 
 Norcote 
 
 Northara 
 
 Nortmoltone 
 
 Nortone 
 
 Noteswille 
 
 Notone 
 
 Ocheneberie 
 
 Ochenitone 
 
 Odeborne 
 
 Odeforde 
 
 Odeforde - 
 
 Odelie 
 
 Odeordi 
 
 Odesclive f 
 
 Odetreu 
 
 Odetrewe 
 
 Offacome 
 
 Offawille 
 
 Oghawille 
 
 Oghawille - 
 
 Oladone 
 
 Olfereor 
 
 Olperige 
 
 Olvardesdone 
 
 lOlueberie 
 
 Oluelie 
 Oluieuetone 
 
 Oluridintone 
 
 Olurintone 
 
 Vol. VI. 
 
 3 
 '] 
 
 -\ 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 Nimet 
 Nympton 
 
 Newton - 
 - 
 Northcote 
 
 Northam - 
 North Molton 
 Norton - 
 Nutwell 
 
 Okenbury 
 Oakhampton 
 
 Woodford 
 Woodleigh 
 
 Uffculme 
 Offwell 
 
 Ogwell - 
 
 Wollaton 
 
 Qu. Oldridge ? 
 
 Wolverston 
 
 Woolley 
 
 Worlington 
 
 Possessors in the Reign 
 of Edward the Con- 
 fessor. 
 
 rAlward 
 
 i Alward 
 (.Alvold - 
 f" Earl Harold 
 -J The Bishop of 
 (_ Exeter 
 
 Wlnot - 
 
 Certain canons 
 
 under Girold 
 Bristoinus 
 
 "i Edmar - 
 
 ' Alestilla - 
 
 , Ailmar 
 
 Ulf - 
 
 The Abbot of Caen 
 Queen Editha 
 Brictrich 
 Donnus 
 
 CThe Abbot of 
 
 I Buckfastleigh. 
 Tovi 
 Osfers 
 Aldred 
 
 fAlebrix - 
 
 ^Elmar 
 Aluric 
 Seric 
 
 Edritius 
 
 Oslac 
 
 Two thanes 
 Etdeva 
 Borgaret 
 
 f Aluric 
 
 1 Edric - 
 
 Sewin 
 
 Godric 
 
 Boia 
 
 Seward 
 
 Alsi 
 Aluric 
 
 \ Olueva 
 
 (.Aluric 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of Domesday 
 was taken. 
 
 Osmund, under Goscelm. 
 Walter, under Walter de Claville. 
 Hermer, under Goscelm. 
 The King. 
 
 JDrogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 \ stance. 
 
 Girold the chaplain. 
 
 Osmund, under Goscelm. 
 
 f Reginald de Valletort, under the 
 
 I Earl of Moreton. 
 Girard. 
 
 {Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 stance. 
 SDrogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 stance. 
 
 The King. 
 
 William, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Donnus. 
 
 Ralph, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 Oswic, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 Ralph, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Ralph, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Robert de Albemarle. 
 
 William under Ralph de Pomerai. 
 
 f William, son of Edritius, under 
 
 \ the King. 
 
 Robert de Albemarle. 
 
 Walscin de Douay. 
 
 Reginald, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 {William Pictavensis, under Ralph 
 de Pomerai. 
 Albured, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Colvin. 
 Rainald, under the Earl of Moreton. 
 
 {Queen Matilda. 
 Hadolf. 
 
 {Ralph de Bruer, under Baldwin 
 the Sheriff. 
 Colvin, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 William, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 ! Drogo, under the Bishop of Con 
 stance. 
 Alvius, under Odo Fitz Gamelin. 
 
 P An appendage of the manor of Alseminstre. 
 
 k 
 
 Olu- 
 
lxxiv 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Ancient Names of Manors 
 
 ■I 
 
 -1 
 
 Olurintone 
 Olurintone 
 
 Olwritone 
 
 Opecote 
 
 Opesse 
 
 Oplomia 
 
 Oppalume 
 
 Orcartone 
 
 Oidie 
 
 Orescome ■ 
 
 Orescome 
 
 Orescome 
 
 Orrawie 
 
 Oteri 
 
 Oteri 
 
 Otri 
 
 Otri 
 
 Otri 
 
 Otri 
 
 Otrie 
 
 Otrie 
 
 Otrit 
 
 Otritone 
 
 Panestan 
 
 Pantesfort 
 
 Patford 
 
 Patsole 
 
 Pavestan 
 
 Pech 
 
 Fech 
 
 Pecheelle 
 
 Pedehad 
 
 Pediccheswelle or 1 
 Wedicheswelle j 
 Pedracome 
 
 Peintone 
 
 Perchehami 
 Petecote 
 
 Petrocestoue 
 
 -J 
 
 ! 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 Possessors in the Reign 
 of Edward the Con. 
 fessor. 
 
 Worlington 
 
 Upcot 
 
 Uplowman 
 
 Uplime 
 
 Orchardton 
 
 Orway - 
 
 Ottery 
 
 Otterton 
 Painston 
 
 Painsford 
 
 Patehole 
 Qu. Panson ? 
 
 Peck 
 
 Paignton 
 
 Parkham 
 Patchcote - 
 
 Petrockstow 
 
 ■i 
 
 {The Abbot M 
 Tavistock. 
 Elmer 
 
 Olnotdus 
 
 Elmer 
 
 Ahvin 
 
 Norman 
 
 Aimer 
 
 Edmer 
 
 Alwin 
 
 Ahvin 
 Bristric 
 Godric 
 Ailsi 
 
 Ailsi 
 
 Leuritius 
 ( The canons 
 
 St. Mary ai 
 ( Rouen. 
 Olnotdus 
 Semar 
 
 Dodo the priest - 
 Countess Gutda - 
 
 Edwin, or Sedwin 
 
 Godric 
 
 Ednod 
 
 Leiuegar 
 
 {Alcherlus 
 Edwin 
 Two thanes 
 Algar 
 
 Ulf 
 
 Bristoald - 
 
 fThe Bishop of 
 
 \ Exeter. 
 Algar 
 Alwold 
 
 fThe Abbot of 
 
 I Buckfastleigh. 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of Domesday 
 was taken. 
 
 Alveius, under the Earl of Moreton 
 William de Falesia. 
 
 Motbert, under Baldwin the Sheriff, 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 ^ stance, and Unfrid under Drogo. 
 
 Aimer the priest, under Goscelm. 
 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 
 Reginald, under the Earl of Moreton. 
 
 Anschetil, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 Hegot, under Ralph de Pomerai. 
 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 
 William Chievre. 
 
 Alured Ispaniensis. 
 
 Warin, under William Chievre. 
 
 Roscelm, under Ralph de Pomerai, 
 
 Hubert, under Walscin de Douay 
 
 Ludo, under Walscin de Douay. 
 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 
 Warin, under William Chievre. 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 Rainer, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 The Abbot of St. Michael de Monte. 
 Rualdus Adobat. 
 
 J William Niger, under Baldwin the 
 I Sheriff. 
 Osbern de Salciet. 
 
 ! Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 stance. 
 Alvid Brito, of Ruald Adobat. 
 f Reginald de Valletort, under the 
 \ Earl of Moreton. 
 
 {Walter de Osmundville, under 
 Ruald Adobat. 
 {Alured Pincerna, under the Earl 
 of Moreton. 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 \ stance. 
 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 j stance. 
 William de Falesia. 
 
 Richard, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Richard, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 i An appendage to Setebrige. 
 
 Pen 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 lxxv 
 
 Ancient Names of Manors, 
 
 Peumore 
 
 Picaltone 
 Pidalige 
 Pidehel - 
 Piedelege r 
 Pihede 
 
 Pillande 
 
 Pilland or Welland 
 
 Piltone or Wiltone 
 
 Pinnoe 
 
 Pissewille 
 
 Pleiestou 
 Plemestoche 
 
 Plintone 
 
 Plumtrei 
 Pochehille 
 Poldreham - 
 Pole - O 
 
 Pole - - - 
 
 Pole 
 
 Polesleuge 
 
 Polham 
 
 Polochestone 
 Pontimore s 
 Pontimore 
 Porlamute 
 
 :} 
 
 Porrigt 
 
 Potaforde or Pota- ") 
 fort - - | 
 
 Potaford or Pote- j> 
 ford - - | 
 
 Potiforde - - J 
 
 Potitone 
 Prenla 
 Pudeforde 
 Pultiraore 
 Puteforde - 
 Racheneforde 
 Racombe - -1 
 Racum - - j 
 
 Raddone or Radone 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 Peamore 
 
 Pilland 
 Willand 
 
 Pilton 
 
 Pinhoe 
 Pisjrell 
 
 Plj'mstock 
 
 Plympton - 
 
 Plymtree 
 Poughill - 
 
 Powdeiham 
 
 Pole or Pool 
 Polesloe 
 
 Poltimore 
 Portlemouth 
 Potherige - 
 
 Putford - 
 
 Puddington 
 Qu. Primley ? 
 Qu. Patford? 
 Poltimore - 
 Putford 
 Rackenford 
 
 Rocombe - 
 R addon 
 
 Possessors in the Reign 
 of Edward the Con- 
 fessor. 
 
 of 
 
 Wicliin 
 
 Godwin 
 
 Hacca 
 
 Alebricius 
 
 Liuredus 
 Ednier 
 
 Aluric 
 
 Dodo 
 
 Earl Lewin 
 Aluric 
 
 Bristuold - 
 
 fThe Abbot 
 \ Tavistock. 
 
 {The King in 
 demesne. 
 Bristric 
 Edmar 
 Torssus 
 rAlgar - 
 
 < Bristric - 
 
 (Edwi - 
 Aluric 
 Two thanes 
 Bristwold - 
 
 | Odo 
 
 | Olmer 
 Hecus the Sheriff 
 
 Olf 
 
 f Alwold and Lew- 
 in, two thanes 
 \ Two thanes 
 
 I 
 
 |_ Edmaratorius - 
 
 Alward Tochesone 
 Osbern - 
 Letniar 
 Bertricius - 
 
 Seward 
 
 {Edric 
 Ordritius 
 j" Abbot of Ta- 
 £ vistock 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of Domesday 
 was taken. 
 
 {Roger Fitz Paine, under Ralph 
 de Pomerai. 
 Bernard, under TetbaldFitz Berner. 
 Ralph, under William de Poillei. 
 Torgis, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 William de Poillei. 
 Walter de Claville. 
 
 {Drogo, under the Bishop of Con 
 stance 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con 
 \ Constance. 
 
 {Drogo, under the Bishop of Con 
 stance. 
 The King. 
 Hamo, under William Chievre. 
 
 {Drogo, under Odo Bishop of 
 Constance. 
 
 Odo Fitz Gamelin. 
 Ruald Adobed. 
 William de Hou or Owe. 
 William, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 {Ansfredon, under Walter de Cla- 
 ville. 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 The canons of St. Mary. 
 Rainald, under Ruald Adobat. 
 Robert, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 The canons of St. Mary. 
 Fulgo, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 {Alberidus, under Baldwin the 
 Sheriff. 
 
 [ Rainald, under Ruald Adobat. 
 
 William Chievre. 
 
 f Ansger Brito, under the Earl of 
 
 \ Jloreton. 
 
 Ralph, under William Chievre. 
 Otelin, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Roger, under Ralph de Pomerai. 
 Hamericus de Arcis. 
 Ralph de Pomerai, 
 Joscelin, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 William Chievre. 
 Nicholas Archibalistarius. 
 William the door-keeper, under the 
 Abbot. 
 
 ' An appendage to Blachagua. 
 
 8 An appendage of Clist. 
 
 Rade- 
 
 k 2 
 
lxxvi 
 
 D E VO N S H I R E. 
 
 Ancient Names of Manors. 
 
 Radeclive ' - 
 
 Radehide - 
 Radeude 
 
 Radeleie 
 Raordin 
 
 Ratdone - 
 
 Ratdone 
 Ratdone - 
 Ratreu 
 
 Raweberge 
 
 Reddix or Redic 
 Reddone 
 Reimore 
 Restone 
 
 Rewe 
 
 Ridelecome 
 Righendone u or 
 Ringhendone 
 
 Rinestandone 
 
 R isfort 
 Rluperige or 
 
 perige 
 Rocebere - 
 Rochebere 
 Rochebere 
 Rocheba 
 
 Rodelei 
 
 Rouerige 
 
 Rovecome 
 
 Ruraon 
 
 Sancome 
 
 Sanforde - 
 
 Sanforde - 
 
 Sanforte - 
 
 Santone 
 
 Saterleie 
 
 Sedeborge 
 
 Selac 
 
 Selcome 
 
 Selingefbrde 
 Selvestan 
 Sepisberie 
 Sideberie 
 
 I 
 
 "J 
 
 Lu- 
 
 3 
 
 :} 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 Possessors in the Reign 
 of Edward the Con 
 
 Redcliffe 
 
 Raddon 
 
 Rattery - 
 Roborougb 
 
 Raddon 
 
 Qu. Ringmore ? 
 
 Rew 
 Riddlecombe 
 
 Rushford 
 
 Lupridge 
 
 Rockbear 
 
 Rorige 
 
 Rocombe 
 
 Qu. Rumonsleigh : 
 
 Sandford - 
 
 Sandford - 
 
 Santon 
 Satterleigb 
 Sadborough 
 Sealake 
 
 Salcomb 
 
 Shillingford 
 
 Shilston - 
 
 Sidbury 
 
 Alric 
 
 Edritius 
 Alric 
 
 Bristric 
 
 f Ailward To- 
 \ chesone 
 
 !Alveva - 
 Ordulf 
 Osulf - 
 Ahvin 
 
 Ulweia - 
 
 Two thanes 
 Etward 
 Hecus 
 Ailmar 
 
 Wlnot 
 
 Algar - 
 
 Chepin 
 
 Abbet 
 
 Edwin - 
 
 Cola 
 
 f Edmar 
 i Sawin 
 l_ Sawin 
 Ulmer 
 
 Ahvard 
 
 Olieva - 
 
 Almar 
 
 Bristric 
 
 Esnot 
 
 Bristritius 
 
 ( Brismer - 
 
 \ Norman 
 Doda 
 Olnod 
 Brismer 
 Brismer 
 
 {The Bishop 
 Exeter. 
 Edmar 
 Edvititius - 
 Earl Harold 
 Ahvin and Godwin 
 
 of 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of Domesday 
 was taken. 
 
 {Roger Flandrensis, under Ruald 
 Adobat. 
 Ralph de Limesei. 
 Rainald, under William Poillei. 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con 
 \ stance. 
 
 William Chievre. 
 
 {Walter Dapifer, under Walter de 
 Claville. 
 The Earl of Moreton. 
 Nigel, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 William de Falesia. 
 
 {Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 stance. 
 Godfrey, under Ralph de Pomerai. 
 William the door-keeper. 
 Ralph, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 Albric, under Tetbald Fitz Berner. 
 j Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 I stance. 
 Goscelm. 
 
 Ansger, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 J Etdilla, under the Bishop of Con- 
 | stance. 
 Edwin, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 Walter de Claville. 
 
 Rainer, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Ahvard, under the Earl of Moreton 
 Rainer, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Goscelm, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 {Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 stance. 
 The canons of St. Mary at Rouen. 
 Haimer de Arcis. 
 
 Stephen, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Turgis, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 Roger de Buslei. 
 Robert, under William de Poillei. 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Tetbald Fitz Berner. 
 Godbold Balistarius. 
 Ansgot. 
 Goscelm, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 William Chievre. 
 
 Osbert, or Osbern de Salcey. 
 
 The King. 
 
 The Bishop of Exeter. 
 
 1 An appendage of Chiempabare. 
 
 " An appendage of Anestinghes. 
 
 Sideham 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 lxxvii 
 
 Ancient Names of Manors. Modern Names. 
 
 Possessors in the Reign 
 of Edward the Con- 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of Domesday 
 was taken. 
 
 
 
 
 fessor. 
 
 
 Sideham 
 
 ) 
 
 - 
 
 f Alverona 
 
 Osbert, under Walter de Claville. 
 
 Sidelhara, or 
 reham 
 
 Sid-f 
 
 Sydenham 
 
 < Four thanes 
 
 Nigel, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Sidreham 
 
 j 
 
 . 
 
 ^ Bristric 
 
 William, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Sigeforde 
 
 
 Sigford 
 
 Bristric - 
 
 Solomon, under Ruald Adobat. 
 
 Sildenne 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 Alric 
 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 
 Silt'estane - 
 
 ■ 
 
 Shilston - 
 
 Wado 
 
 Richard, under the Earl of Moreton. 
 
 Siredone 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 Aluric 
 
 Aluric. 
 
 Sirefort * 
 
 :} 
 
 Sherford 
 
 J Alebricius 
 
 The Abbot of Battle. 
 
 Sirefort 
 
 William, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Sirewille 
 
 
 Sherwill 
 
 Ulward 
 
 William de Poillei. 
 
 Sladone 
 
 - 
 
 Qu. Slaten 
 
 C The Bishop of 7 
 X Exeter J 
 Four-thanes 
 
 Baldwin, under the Bishop. 
 
 Slapeford 
 
 . 
 
 - 
 
 Walter de Claville. 
 
 Sotebroce 
 Sotrebroe 
 
 :} 
 
 Southbrook 
 
 fOrdulf - 
 I Alviet - 
 
 The Earl of Moreton. 
 Floher. 
 
 Spececote 
 
 
 Speccot in Merton 
 
 Ailaf 
 
 t Gausbert, under Tetbald Fitz 
 \ Berner. 
 
 Sperchewille 
 
 . 
 
 Sparkwell 
 
 Bristric - 
 
 Richard, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 Sprewe 
 
 - 
 
 . 
 
 Algar 
 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 X stance. 
 
 St. Marie Cherche~) 
 St. Marie Cherche J 
 
 St. Mary Church 
 
 f The Bishop of 
 J Exeter. 
 
 JOrdulf - 
 
 f Richard, son of Torold, under the 
 \ Earl of Moreton. 
 
 Stadforde 
 Stafort 
 
 :} 
 
 Stafford 
 
 \ Aluric - 
 
 Ansger. 
 Ansger. 
 
 Stanlinz 
 
 - 
 
 . 
 
 Alric 
 
 Odo Fitz Gamelin. 
 
 Stoc 
 
 :] 
 
 Stoke 
 
 f Ansgar - 
 
 Ludo, under Walscin de Douay. 
 
 Stoche 
 
 Stoke Canon 
 
 | The Bishop of 
 ■\ Exeter, 
 j Brismar - 
 
 
 Stoches 
 
 Stoke Damarell 
 
 Robert de Albemarle. 
 
 Stoches 
 
 - j 
 
 . 
 
 (_Odritius - 
 
 Nicholas Archibalistarius. 
 
 Stotberie 
 
 
 . 
 
 Tovi 
 
 Ralph, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Stotescome 
 
 . 
 
 Stuttescomb 
 
 Alebricius 
 
 William, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Stotlege 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 Algar 
 
 Arnald, under Walscin de Douay. 
 
 Stouretone, 
 Souretone 
 
 "-•] 
 
 Sourton 
 
 fThe Bishop of 
 I Exeter. 
 
 
 Suetatone - 
 Suetetone 
 
 :} 
 
 Swetton 
 
 fGodric 
 [Etdric 
 
 Ansger de Senarpont. 
 Aiulf. 
 
 Sufferstan, or 
 fretone 
 
 Sul- J 
 
 Silverton - 
 
 (The King in 
 \ demesne. 
 
 
 Sure 
 
 . 
 
 Sewer 
 
 Algar 
 
 Odo, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Suraple 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 Olwiet 
 
 Walter. 
 
 Surleie 
 
 . 
 
 - 
 
 Algar 
 
 Fulco, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Sutecome 
 
 - 
 
 Sutcomb - 
 
 Edritius 
 
 Odo, Bishop of Constance. 
 
 Sut Moltone 
 
 - 
 
 South Molton 
 
 f The King in 
 { demesne. 
 
 
 Sutone 
 
 L 
 
 . 
 
 J Sutton, now Ply- 
 \ mouth - 
 
 The King in 
 demesne. 
 
 fRichard, under William the door- 
 \ keeper. 
 
 sutune 
 
 " 
 
 Sutton 
 
 Ulwin 
 
 : An appendage of Cedelintone. 
 
 Taigne 
 
1XXV111 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Ancient Namesof Manors, 
 
 Taigne 
 Taigne 
 Taincombe - 
 
 Taintone 
 
 Taintone 
 Talc 
 Talc 
 
 Talebreie 
 Talebrue, or Tale 
 brige 
 
 Taletone 
 
 Tamerlande 
 
 Tanbretone 
 
 rapcleie 
 
 Tavelande 
 
 Tavestoche 
 
 Tavcstoche 
 
 Tavetone - 
 Tavi 
 
 Tautone 
 
 Tawetone 
 
 Teigne 
 
 Tcigne 
 
 Teintone 
 
 Teteborne - 
 
 Teteborne 
 
 Tetecote 
 Tewibie 
 Topeshant 
 Tore, or Tori 
 
 Toredone - 
 
 Torilande - 
 
 Little Torrilande 
 
 Torintone 
 Torintone 
 Toritone 
 Toritone 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 Possessors in the Reign 
 of Edward the Con- 
 fessor. 
 
 ] 
 
 Teign 
 
 Feign Bruer - 
 
 reigncombe 
 
 Bishop's Teignton 
 
 Teignton 
 
 Tale 
 
 Thelbridge 
 
 Tallaton 
 
 Tamerton 
 Tapeley 
 
 Tawstock 
 
 Tavistock - 
 
 Tawton - 
 Tavy 
 
 Bishop's Tawton 
 Tawt on 
 
 Teign 
 
 King's Teignton - 
 
 Tedbourn 
 
 Tetcot - 
 
 Qu. Thuborough 
 
 Topsham 
 
 Tor 
 
 1 
 
 Great Torrington 
 Torrington - 
 
 Aluric - 
 
 Ulf 
 
 Alric 
 
 {The Bishop of 
 Exeter. 
 Osfers - - 
 
 {Alnotdus 
 Borgaret 
 
 Olveva 
 
 f The Bishop of 
 I Exeter. 
 
 Sedvvin - 
 
 j" The King in 
 I demesne. 
 
 Ulveia 
 
 Godric 
 
 Earl Harold 
 fThe Abbot of 
 \ Tavistock. 
 
 Guitda 
 
 Bristwit Camesone 
 f, The Bishop of 
 \ Exeter. 
 fThe King in 
 I demesne. 
 
 j Edric 
 
 I Ustret - 
 
 {The King in 
 demesne. 
 CBogred - - 
 
 j Doda 
 
 Aldret 
 Bristold - 
 Earl Harold 
 Wado - 
 
 Aluric Colin 
 
 Aimer 
 
 Ehvard Rufus 
 
 Earl Harold 
 fEtmar 
 < Geda - 
 ^Bristric 
 
 Possessors when tlie Survey of Domesdav 
 was taken. 
 
 {Hugh Redonensis, under Baldwin 
 the Sheriff, 
 f Ralph de Bruer, under Baldwin 
 I the Sheriff. 
 
 {Drogo, under the Bishop of Con 
 stance. 
 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 
 Odo, Bishop of Constance. 
 
 j Walter de Osmundville, under 
 i Ruald Adobat. 
 
 f Osbern and Roger, under the 
 { Bishop of Constance. 
 
 {Robert, under William the door- 
 keeper. 
 The King. 
 
 The King. 
 
 Nigel, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Gauffrid de Trailli, under the 
 
 Bishop of Constance. 
 
 ," Roger de Molis, under Baldwin 
 
 1 the Sheriff. 
 
 William Chievre. 
 
 f Ralph de Pomerai, under Baldwin 
 
 ( the Sheriff. 
 Juhel de Totnais. 
 Robert de Albemarle. 
 The King. 
 Rainald, under the Earl ofMoreton 
 
 f William Chievre, held under him 
 
 l by his sister Beatrix. 
 Roger, under Ralph de Pomerai. 
 
 f AluredPincerna, under the Earl of 
 
 I Moreton. 
 The King. 
 Richard, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 The King. 
 Odo Fitz Gamelin. 
 
 Torix- 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 lxxix 
 
 Ancient Names of Manors. 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 Torix 
 forlestan 
 
 Tome 
 
 Torneberie - O 
 
 Torneberie - - t 
 
 Tornecome 
 
 Torre - - 1 
 
 Torre - - j 
 
 Torsewis 
 
 Totescome 
 
 Totenais 
 
 Touretone - - f 
 
 Touretone - ) 
 
 Trendesholt 
 
 Tresetone - 
 
 Trisme 
 
 Trule 
 Tuchel y 
 
 Tuicabere - -1 
 Tucabere - -j 
 Ulsistone - 
 Ulucumbe or Ole- 7 
 cumbe - -§ 
 Uluredintone 
 
 Ulwitone 
 
 Umberleie 
 
 Ulwrintone 
 
 Vennacre - 
 
 Wachetone 
 
 Wadeham 
 
 Wadelescote 
 
 Wadestan - 
 Wafort 
 Wagesfelle z 
 
 Walcome 
 
 Walderidge - 
 
 Waleforde 
 Walenitone, orWa-1 
 lementone - 1 
 
 Torridge 
 Thurlston 
 
 Thorne 
 
 Tbornbury 
 
 Thorncomb 
 Tor 
 
 Totnes 
 Tiverton 
 
 Trentishoe 
 
 Qu. Trimstone ? 
 Trill 
 
 Tackbear - 
 Woolston - 
 Wollacombe 
 
 Umberleigh 
 
 Wadham 
 Waddlescote 
 
 Welcomb - 
 
 Possessors in the Reign 
 of Edward the Con. 
 fessor. 
 
 Alebrix - 
 Jobannes 
 
 Sawin 
 
 fAlcerlo - 
 
 Etward 
 
 {Ailric 
 Bristric 
 
 Ulveva 
 
 Edric 
 
 King Edward 
 Gida 
 
 Merlesoan 
 Bricsius 
 
 Grim 
 
 fThe Abbot of 
 \ Buckfastleigh. 
 
 Merlesoan 
 
 Bridewold 
 
 {Alward - 
 Alsi 
 Ustret - 
 
 Alvevia 
 
 Earl Harold 
 Dodo - 
 Bristric 
 Two thanes 
 
 Olviet 
 
 f The King in 
 
 X demesne. 
 Ulf. 
 
 Wadell 
 
 Edmar 
 
 Chenegar - 
 
 Ansgot 
 
 Doda - 
 Halebrix - 
 Alward 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of Domesday 
 was taken. 
 
 Ralph, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 {The wife of Engelbald, under 
 the Bishop of Constance. 
 Alured, under the Earl of Moreton. 
 
 f Ralph, under the Abbot of Tavis- 
 
 X tock. 
 
 Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 William the door-keeper. 
 Godeva, widow of Bristric. 
 
 f Drogo, son of Malger, under the 
 
 { Bishop of Constance. 
 
 {William de Lestre, under the 
 Earl of Moreton. 
 Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 {Queen Matilda. 
 The King. 
 Ralph Paganel. 
 
 {Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 stance. 
 Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Ralph Paganel. 
 
 Alured de Ispania. 
 
 Ruald Adobat. 
 
 Ruald Adobat. 
 
 Colbert, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 {Goscelm, under Tetbald Fitz 
 Berner. 
 The King. 
 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 X stance. 
 
 The Abbess of Trinity, at Caen, 
 f Hugh de Dol, under William de 
 \ Falesia. 
 Osmund, under Goscelm. 
 
 Ulf. 
 
 {Roger de Molis, under Baldwin 
 the Sheriff. 
 Ansger, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 William de Falesia. 
 Nigel, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 Ohv, under the Bishop of Con- 
 stance. 
 Goscelin Bervin, under Baldwin 
 the Sheriff. 
 William, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Ralph, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Near Plymouth. 
 
 An appendage of Tavi. 
 
 Waleurde 
 
lxxx 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 
 
 
 Possessors in the Reign 
 
 Ancient Names of Manors. 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 of Edward the Con- 
 
 
 
 
 fessor. 
 
 Waleurde 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 Leugar 
 
 Wafforde 
 
 - 
 
 . 
 
 Two thanes 
 
 Warcome 
 
 - 
 
 Warcombe - 
 
 Bristric 
 
 Waseborne 
 
 . 
 
 Washbourn - - 
 
 Algard 
 
 Wasfelle 
 
 :) 
 
 Wasbfield - 
 
 Goda 
 
 Wasfelt 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 Wasforde 
 
 
 Wash ford - 
 
 Merlesoan - 
 
 Wedrerige 
 
 - 
 
 . 
 
 Otrus 
 
 Welesidinge, or 
 Welingedinge 
 
 -} 
 
 . 
 
 Topi - 
 
 Wellecome - 
 
 -} 
 
 Wei comb 
 
 fBrisid - 
 
 Welnecome - 
 
 ■S 
 
 
 (.Edwin 
 
 Weuforde 
 
 - 
 
 . 
 
 Edmer - 
 
 Wenfort 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 Queen Edith 
 
 Wenneham - 
 
 - 
 
 . 
 
 Doda 
 
 Were 
 
 ••) 
 
 
 fOrdulf - - 
 
 Were a 
 
 [ 
 
 Wear 
 
 < Suetricius thel 
 t Abbot -j 
 
 -j 
 
 
 Wereie 
 
 
 . 
 
 Adestan 
 
 Weringehorde 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 Wesforde, or Wes-~\ 
 
 forte - - 1 
 
 W r esforde - - ( 
 
 Washford - 
 
 f Colbert -"] 
 ] Ulmar - -f 
 
 Wesforde 
 
 .) 
 
 
 V.Four thanes J 
 
 Weslege 
 
 . 
 
 Westleigh 
 
 Ulward 
 
 Westone 
 
 - 
 
 W'eston 
 
 Olnod - 
 
 Wibeberie 
 
 . 
 
 Wibbery 
 
 Odritius 
 
 Wiborde 
 
 - 
 
 . 
 
 Olward 
 
 Wic - 
 
 -■\ 
 
 
 ^Aldret. 
 
 Wic, or Wice b 
 
 . 
 
 
 Brismar - 
 
 Wic, or Wice - 
 
 _ > 
 
 Week, or Wick - 
 
 Bristric 
 
 Wic, or Wice 
 
 - 
 
 
 Ednod - 
 
 Wic, or Wice 
 
 -J 
 
 
 lOrdulf - - 
 
 Wicham 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 Ulverona - 
 
 Wide 
 
 . 
 
 Widey 
 
 Wadelo 
 
 Widebere 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 Wine'mer - 
 
 Widecome - 
 
 - 
 
 Widescome 
 
 Alveva 
 
 Widefelle 
 
 - 
 
 . 
 
 Almar Rufus 
 
 Wideworde 
 
 . 
 
 Widworthy - - 
 
 Almar 
 
 Wigacrofte - 
 
 - 
 
 Wy croft 
 
 Wichin 
 
 Wilavestrew 
 
 - 
 
 Willestrew 
 
 Bulgeret. 
 
 Wilelmetone - 
 
 - 
 
 Wilmington 
 
 Etmer 
 
 Wille - 
 
 ■1 
 
 
 f Archbishop Al- 
 i diet - 
 
 Wille 
 
 ■S 
 
 
 (.Merlesuen 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of Domesday 
 was taken. 
 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 
 | stance. 
 Walter de Claville. 
 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 
 ^ stance. 
 
 Hermer, under Goscelm. 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 Ralph Paganel. 
 Walter de Claville. 
 Rainald, under the Earl of Moreton. 
 
 William, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 {Goscelin under Tetbald Fitz 
 Berner. 
 William Chievre. 
 
 f Walter de Osmundville, under 
 { Ruald Adobat. 
 The King. 
 ("Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 \ stance. 
 Ruald Adobat. 
 
 Baldwin. 
 
 Godwin. 
 
 Nigel, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Tetbald Fitz Berner. 
 
 Robert de Albemarle. 
 
 Odo, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 
 Nicholas Archibalistarius. 
 
 Dreus, under the Earl of Moreton. 
 
 f Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 
 \ stance. 
 Odo. 
 
 Rainer under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 The Earl of Moreton. 
 Robert de Albemarle. 
 Robert de Albemarle. 
 Godfrey, under Goscelm. 
 Walter de Claville. 
 
 {Alured Pincerna, under the Earl 
 of Moreton. 
 Oliver, under Tetbald Fitz Berner. 
 Roger, under Ralph de Pomerai. 
 
 Morin, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 {Grento, a knight, under the 
 Abbot of Tavistock. 
 Ralph Paganel. 
 
 An appendage of Bridestoue. 
 
 An appendage of Talebreie. 
 
 Wille- 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 lxxxi 
 
 Ancient Names of Manors 
 
 Willecvostra - 
 Willedonne - 
 Willeland 
 Willematone ' 
 Willemitone m 
 Winleswille 
 Wincheleia 
 Winescote 
 
 Winestone - 
 
 Winple 
 
 Winple 
 
 Wipletone 
 
 Wirige 
 
 Wirlsbeslige, 01 
 
 Wasberleige 
 
 Witechenolle 
 
 Witefelde ° - 
 
 Witefelle - 
 
 Witefelle" - 
 
 Witefort 
 
 Witleie 
 
 Witeleie P 
 
 Witleie 
 
 Witenes 
 
 Witestane 
 
 Witestan 
 
 Witeweie 
 
 Wodeberie - 
 
 Wodiacome 
 
 Wogwell - 
 
 Wogwell 
 
 Wolstantecote 
 
 Wide 
 
 Wrdiete 
 
 Wyce 
 
 Ywis - 
 
 Ywis 
 Ywisleie 
 
 -! 
 
 3 
 
 Willand 
 Wilmington 
 
 Winkleigh 
 
 Winscot 
 f Wimpston 
 \ Modb 
 
 Wliimple 
 
 Modem Names. 
 
 Hi, in! 
 
 ury -j 
 
 White Knolle 
 
 Whitfield - 
 f Whitfield, 
 \ Marwood 
 
 Whitfield 
 
 Whitford - 
 
 '•} 
 
 Whitlegh 
 
 Qu. Whitninch? 
 
 Whitstone - 
 
 Whiteway 
 Woodbury 
 
 Ogwell - 
 
 i 
 
 Huish 
 
 Possessors in the Reign 
 ot" Edward the Con- 
 fessor. 
 
 Norman 
 Etmar 
 Ahvard 
 
 fAh 
 
 Alwin 
 
 Bristric 
 
 Alfers 
 
 Edwin 
 
 f Almar 
 
 1 Ultret - 
 Wichin - 
 Ghitda, or Gida 
 
 A.lric 
 Chepin 
 
 Ahvin 
 
 Sawin 
 
 Earl Lewin 
 f Edmar - 
 i Wadolo - 
 (_ Godwin - 
 
 Olmer 
 f Tolus 
 
 1 Edritius - 
 
 Osferd 
 
 Guitda 
 
 Edric - 
 ( Ordritius 
 ^Alestan - 
 
 Ulestan 
 
 Saward - 
 fThe Abbot 
 \ Tavistock. 
 
 Alward 
 
 I Sawin - 
 Alevesclif - 
 
 of 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of Domesday 
 was taken. 
 
 Roger, under Ralph de Pomerai. 
 Ralph, under Odo Fitz Gamelin. 
 Vitalis, under Odo Fitz Gamelin. 
 Tetbald Fitz Berner. 
 Tetbald Fitz Berner. 
 Ruald Adobat. 
 Queen Matilda. 
 Ruald Adobat. 
 
 ( Reginald, under the Earl of 
 
 \ Moreton. 
 
 Baldwin held under him by his wife 
 Ralph, under William Chievre. 
 William Chievre. 
 The King. 
 
 Alric. 
 
 f Jachelinus, under Godbold Bal 
 ( istarius. 
 Alured Brito. 
 
 {Two Knights, under Robert de 
 Albemarle. 
 !Drogo, under the Bishop of Con- 
 stance. 
 The King. 
 The wife of Hervei. 
 Robert de Albemarle. 
 Odo, under Juhel de Totnais. 
 Goscelm. 
 William de Owe. 
 
 ( Robert de Bellemonte, under 
 I Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 Rainulf, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 The King. 
 
 Ailric, under Walscin de Douay. 
 Nicholas Archibalistarius. 
 Godwin. 
 Goscelm. 
 Ralph, under William de Poillei. 
 
 Ralph de Pomerai. 
 
 f Held under Odo, by his father-in- 
 
 \ law Tebald. 
 
 f Ralph Vitalis, under Odo Fitz 
 
 I Gamelin. 
 The King. 
 
 1 An appendage to Wideworde. 
 ■ An appendage of Corneude. 
 P An appendage of Wide. 
 
 m An appendage to Inudeborde. 
 An appendage of Braie. 
 
 Vol. VI. 
 
 The 
 
lxxxii 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 The manors in the following table are recorded in the Exchequer 
 Domesday, but are not to be found in the Exeter copy. 
 
 Ancient Namesof Manors 
 
 Modern Names. 
 
 Possessors in the Reign 
 of Edward the Con- 
 
 Possessors when the Survey of Domesday 
 
 
 
 fessor. 
 
 was taken. 
 
 Alfelemestone 
 
 - 
 
 Offerd - 
 
 Ruald Adobed. 
 
 Alintone 
 
 Allington 
 
 Ulnod 
 
 Richard Fitz Torulf. 
 
 Avetone 
 
 Aveton 
 
 Sawin 
 
 Ruald Adobed. 
 
 Bacheleforde - 
 
 . 
 
 Saulf 
 
 William, under Alured Brito. 
 
 Bachestane 
 
 Qu. Batson ? 
 
 Aluric 
 
 Robert Bastard. 
 
 Bichefor 
 
 Bickford 
 
 Ahvin 
 
 Robert Bastard. 
 
 Blachestane - 
 
 Blakestan - 
 
 Inewar 
 
 Alured Brito. 
 
 Blacheurde 
 
 Blackworthy 
 
 Alwin 
 
 Robert Bastard. 
 
 Bucheside 
 
 St. Budock 
 
 Ahvin - 
 
 Alured Brito. 
 
 Corneurde - 
 
 Cornwood - 
 
 Three thanes 
 
 f The same thanes, under Alured 
 1 Brito. 
 Alured Brito. 
 
 Crawecome 
 
 Creacorabe 
 
 Almar 
 
 Cumbe 
 
 Comb 
 
 Aluric 
 
 Osbern, under Robert Bastard. 
 
 Dunestanetone 
 
 Dunston 
 
 . 
 
 Ranulf, under Robert Bastard. 
 
 Dunesford 
 
 Dunsford 
 
 Elsi 
 
 Girard, under Walter de Douay. 
 
 Elford 
 
 Efford - 
 
 Alwin 
 
 Robert Bastard. 
 
 Esprewei 
 
 ... 
 
 Uluric 
 
 Hermer, under Walter de Donay. 
 
 Esseberie 
 
 Ashbury 
 
 Leuric 
 
 Wihuenech, under Alured Brito. 
 
 Ferding 
 
 . 
 
 Sawin 
 
 Fulco, under Alured Brito. 
 
 Genelie 
 
 . 
 
 Godwin 
 
 Alured Brito. 
 
 Gerwelle 
 
 - 
 
 Colbrand - 
 
 Oliver, under Tetbald Fitz Berner. 
 
 Godrintone 
 
 Godrington 
 
 Asgar 
 
 Radulf, under Walter de Douay. 
 
 Grismetone 
 
 - 
 
 Alnod 
 
 William, under Alured Brito. 
 
 Hainemardun 
 
 . 
 
 Godo 
 
 Walter, under Ruald Adobed. 
 
 Haroldesore 
 
 ("Now called 1 
 \ Hazard i - ) 
 
 Aluric 
 
 Robert Bastard. 
 
 Hechesburne 
 
 - - - 
 
 Ulnod 
 f The church of! 
 
 Alured Brito. 
 
 Herticome 
 
 Yarcombe - 
 
 i St. Michael J- 
 i de Mont. J 
 
 
 Hetfelle - 
 
 Heathfield 
 
 Alsi 
 
 Ludo, under W T alter de Douay. 
 
 Hiele - 
 
 - 
 
 Aiolf - 
 
 Wihuenech, under Alured Brito. 
 
 Laurochesbere 
 
 Larksbear - 
 
 Ulf - 
 
 Alured Brito. 
 
 Lochebroc 
 
 - 
 
 Algar 
 
 Roger, under Baldwin the Sheriff. 
 
 Macheswelle 
 
 . 
 
 Sawin 
 
 Rainald, under Ruald Adobed. 
 
 Metwi 
 
 Qu. Meavy? 
 
 Alwin 
 
 Robert Bastard. 
 
 Mideltone 
 
 Milton - 
 
 Aluric 
 
 William, under Alured Brito. 
 
 Morlei 
 
 Morley 
 
 Aluric 
 
 William, under Alured Brito. 
 
 Noteswode 
 
 Notsworthy 
 
 Edward 
 
 Uichard, son of Torulf. 
 
 Odehiwis - 
 
 Woodhouse - - 
 
 Ordulf - 
 
 Richard, son of Torulf. 
 
 Otri 
 
 Ottery - 
 
 Semar 
 
 Radulf, under William Chievre. 
 
 Litel-Racheneford - 
 
 Little Rackenford 
 
 Godric - 
 
 Ludo, under Walter de Douay. 
 
 Radewei 
 
 Radvvay 
 
 Godric 
 
 William, under Alured Brito. 
 
 Sprei ... 
 
 . 
 
 Alcher 
 
 Wihuenech, under Alured Brito. 
 
 Stanehus 
 
 Stonehouse 
 
 Alwin 
 
 3obert Bastard. 
 
 Sutrebroc 
 
 Southbrook 
 
 Asgar 
 
 Ansger, under Walter de Douay. 
 
 Tambretone - 
 
 Tamerton - 
 
 [newar 
 
 \lured Brito. 
 
 Tavei 
 
 Tavy 
 
 Siward 
 
 Alured Brito. 
 
 Tideford 
 
 
 VVadels - 
 
 Roger, under Ralph de Pomerai. 
 
 Ulgeberge 
 
 Wolborough 
 
 Alwin 
 
 Alured Brito. 
 
 Wifleurde 
 
 
 Siward 
 
 Alured Brito. 
 
 Wicerce 
 
 Whitchurch 
 
 Sawin 
 
 luald Adobed. 
 
 Witelie 
 
 Whitlegh - 
 
 Wadelo 
 
 Dsulf, under Robert de Albemarle. 
 
 
 i In 
 
 Harberton. 
 
 
DEVONSHIRE. lxxxiia 
 
 There does not, I believe, exist any document to prove, that there is a 
 single estate in the county remaining in the possession of a descendant of 
 any person who held it at the time of the Domesday survey ; although 
 it is not improbable that some of the ancient families, who, according to 
 the custom of that period, took their names from the places of their resi- 
 dence \ in the reign of King John, or that of Henry III., may have in- 
 herited their estates, in direct descent from the Ralphs, Rogers, Walters, 
 and Williams, who were sub-tenants in the reign of William the Conqueror, 
 under Baldwin the Sheriff, and other great Lords paramount. 
 
 The chief landed property of the county, was divided soon after the 
 conquest into several great baronies, as Oakhampton, Plympton, Totnes, 
 Barnstaple, Dartington, Braneys, or Bradninch, Bampton, Harberton, 
 Berry, the Bishop of Exeter's, and the Abbot of Tavistock's barony. 
 
 The barony of Oakhampton belonged to Baldwin de Brioniis ; Plymp- 
 ton, to Redvers, or Rivers, Earl of Devon ; both centered in the Courte- 
 nays, and the lands were dispersed among the co-heirs of the last Earl 
 of Devon. That of Totnes was dispersed after the forfeiture of Lord 
 Zouch ; but most of the estates passed by grant from Henry VII. to the 
 Edgecumbes. Dartington, which had been originally in the Martins, and 
 Barnstaple, which came to them by inheritance, passed to Lord Audley ; 
 and having been entailed on the crown, were dispersed under various 
 grants ; as were most of the lands of the bishopric, in the reign of Queen 
 Elizabeth. Berry and Harberton, which belonged to the Pomeroys, were 
 alienated about the time of Sir Thomas Pomeroy's attainder ; a great part 
 was purchased by the Seymour family. Torrington was dispersed among 
 the co-heirs of Torrington at an early period. Bradninch was settled on 
 the dukedom of Cornwall. Bampton descended to the Earls of Bath, but 
 
 « Westcote makes the following sensible observations, in answer to those who have errone- 
 ously supposed, that where the name of the place and the person are the same, the family gave 
 its name to the place. " I think good to give you this caveat by the way, once for all, that 
 when you find gentlemen and the houses in name alike, you be not confident, as some are, to 
 maintain, that the house took name of the man, but rather the contrary, the house to give de- 
 nomination to the possessor ; for who can well imagine, think, or believe, or can yield a reason, 
 why a gentle tribe, or any man should be called Ashford, Greneville, Fulford, Northcote, and 
 Westcote, with many other the like in this county, but from the place of their habitation, as 
 de Ashford, or Vado Fraxini ; de Greneville, Villa Virida, or Campo Virido ; de Fulford, Vado 
 Pleno, or as some, de Turpi Vado ; de Northcote ; and de Westcote, according to the site of 
 their houses? On the other side, there are some, which, to distinguish the places, have the 
 name of the owners attached, as Moore, of Moore Hayes ; Rogus, of Holcombe llogus, &c." 
 
 Vol. VI. [11] is 
 
lxxxii b DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 is not now in the possession of their representatives. The whole of the 
 great barony of the Abbot of Tavistock, was granted to the ancestor of the 
 Duke of Bedford, and by far the greater part is now his property , together 
 with the lands belonging formerly to Dunkesvvell Abbey, with others 
 granted also to his ancestor. His Grace is one of the principal landholders 
 in the county. Lord Rolle has the most extensive landed property, his 
 estates consisting of the accumulation of various purchases made in, and 
 since, the reign of Henry VIIL, besides what has accrued by the marriage 
 of heiresses. Sir John Rolle died seised of above forty manors in Devon, 
 in 1706. The other great landholders, are Earl Fortescue, the Earl of 
 Morley, Lord Clinton, whose estates, formerly belonging to another branch 
 of the Rolles, and inherited with the barony of Clinton, have lately been 
 confirmed to him by a decision of the House of Lords ; the Honourable 
 Newton Fellowes, Sir T. D. Acland, Bart., Sir Charles Bampfylde, Bart., 
 Sir Henry Carew, Bart., and Sir M. M. Lopes, Bart. The estates of the 
 latter have been acquired by recent purchases. 
 
DEVONSHIRE. Ixxxiii 
 
 Nobility resident in, or connected with, the County. 
 
 Seymour, Duke of Somerset. — This noble family first became con- 
 nected with Devonshire in consequence of the Protector Somerset's 
 purchase of the castle and manor of Berry Pomeroy, in the reign of 
 Edward VI. Edward his son, by his first wife, the co-heiress of Fillol, 
 having inherited this estate, under his father's will, resided at Berry 
 Pomeroy, and was sheriff of Devonshire in 1582. In the inquisition taken 
 after his death, in 1593, he is styled Edward Seymour, Knt., Lord 
 Seymour. Edward his son, by the heiress of Welsh, was created a baronet 
 in 1611, and died in 1613. Sir Edward Seymour, his great-grandson, 
 the fourth baronet, was a distinguished member of the house of Commons, 
 of which he was sometime speaker : he moved the impeachment of the 
 Earl of Clarendon, and was one of the chief promoters of the Habeas 
 Corpus act. Sir Edward at several times filled the offices of treasurer, 
 and one of the commissioners of the navy, and comptroller of the House- 
 hold. Francis his son, by his second wife, was created Lord Conway, 
 and was ancestor of the marquis of Hertford. Sir Edward Seymour, the 
 sixth baronet, grandson of the last-mentioned Sir Edward, upon the death 
 of Algernon, Duke of Somerset, in 1750, succeeded to the titles of Baron 
 Seymour and Duke of Somerset, and was grandfather of the present 
 Duke ' who occasionally resides at Berry Pomeroy. 
 
 Arms : — Quarterly, 1 and 4, Azure, three lions of England, (being 
 an augmentation, granted by King Henry VIII. on his marriage with 
 Jane Seymour,) 2 and 3, G. two wings conjoined in lure, the tips down- 
 wards, Or. 
 
 Crest : — Out of a ducal coronet, Or, a phcenix in flames, Proper, with 
 wings expanded, of the first. 
 
 Supporters: — On the dexter side an unicorn, Arg. maned Or, and 
 gorged with a ducal coronet Az., to which is affixed a chain, Or ; on the 
 sinister a bull, Az., maned, collared and chained, as the dexter supporter. 
 
 r Edward, Duke of Somerset, who died without issue in 1792, was succeeded bv his 
 brother, Lord Webb Seymour, father of the present Duke. Lord Webb was of Monkton 
 Farleigh, in Wilts, the seat of his maternal ancestors the Webbs. 
 
 1 2 Russell, 
 
Ixxxiv DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Russell, Duke of Bedford. — John Lord Russell, afterwards created 
 Earl of Bedford, had a grant of the site of Tavistock abbey, with the 
 whole of its rich demesnes, and other valuable estates in this county. 
 William, the fifth Earl, was, in 1694, created Marquis of Tavistock and 
 Duke of Bedford. Before the civil war, the Earls of Bedford had oc- 
 casionally resided at Bedford House in Exeter, built on the site of the 
 Blackfriers, of which Lord Russell had a grant. We do not find that 
 this noble family had any residence in this county for more than a century 
 past, till the present Duke built a spacious mansion in the cottage style, at 
 Endsleigh, in the parish of Milton Abbot. 
 
 Arms:. — Argent, a lion rampant G., on a chief S., 3 escallops of the 
 first. 
 
 Crest : — On a wreath, a goat passant Argent, attired Or. 
 
 Supporters : — On the dexter side a lion, on the sinister an antelope, 
 both G., the latter gorged with a ducal coronet, chained, armed, tufted, 
 and hoofed, Or. 
 
 Percy, Duke of Northumberland. — Sir Hugh Smithson, who, on suc- 
 ceeding to the Earldom of Northumberland, at the death of his father-in- 
 law, Algernon Duke of Somerset, took the name of Percy by act of 
 parliament, and was afterwards created Duke of Northumberland, purchased 
 Werrington, in this county, in the year 1775. It has since been the 
 occasional residence of this noble family, and belongs to the present Duke. 
 
 Arms : — Quarterly, 1 and 4> ; quarterly, 1 and i, Or, a lion rampant, 
 Az., being the armorial bearing of the ancient family of Brabant, 2 and 3 
 G., 3 luces or pikes for Lucy : the second and third principal quarters, 
 Az., five fusils in fesse for Percy. 
 
 Crest : — On a chapeau G. turned up Erm., a lion passant Azure, his 
 tail extended. 
 
 Supporters: — On the dexter side a lion, Azure: on the sinister an 
 unicorn, Arg., collared, gobony, Or, and Az., with a chain appendant and 
 reflecting over his back, Or. 
 
 Edgecujibe, Earl Mount Edgecumbe. — The ancestors of this noble 
 family were originally of Eggescombe, now called Lower Edgecumbe, 
 in- the parish of Milton Abbot, where Richard Edgecumbe, Esq., the 
 lineal descendant of the elder branch, still resides. In the reign of 
 Edward III. William de Eggescombe married the heiress of Cothele, in 
 
 consequence 
 
DEVONSHIRE. lxxxv 
 
 consequence of which marriage the immediate ancestors of Lord Mount 
 Edgecumbe resided some time at Cothele, or Coteel, in Cornwall. The) 
 became possessed of Mount Edgecumbe, their present seat, (then called 
 East Storehouse,) and a large landed property in the neighbourhood of 
 Plymouth, by the marriage of Sir Piers Edgecumbe with the heiress of 
 Durnford : Richard Edgecumbe, Esq., the immediate descendant of Sir 
 Piers, was, in 1742, created Baron Edgecumbe, of Mount Edgecumbe. 
 In 178 1 his younger son, George, the third Lord Mount Edgecumbe, 
 (having succeeded his elder brother in I76I) was created Viscount Mount 
 Edgecumbe and Valletort, and, in 1789, Earl Mount Edgecumbe. Mount 
 Edgecumbe is now the seat of his son Richard, Earl Mount Edgecumbe, 
 Lord Lieutenant of the county of Cornwall. 
 
 Arms : — G. on a bend Ermines, cottised Or, 3 boars' heads couped, 
 Argent. 
 
 Crest : — On a wreath Or, and G., a boar passant, Arg., about the neck 
 a chaplet of oak leaves, fructed, Proper. 
 
 Supporters : — On each side a greyhound, Arg., guttee de poix, collared 
 dove tail double, Gules. 
 
 Fortescue, Earl Fortescue. — The common ancestor of this ancient 
 and widely spreading family, appears to have settled at Wymondeston, or 
 Wimpston, in the parish of Modbury, at a period not much subsequent to 
 the Conquest. s William Fortescue, the fourth in descent from the first 
 possessor of Wimpston, married a co-heiress of Delaport ; his grandson, of 
 the same name, married a co-heiress of Beauchamp, of Ryme in Somer- 
 setshire, by whom he had two sons; William, and Sir John Fortescue, 
 Captain of Meaux. William was ancestor of the Fortescues of Wimpston ', 
 
 s The earliest record which connects this ancient family with Devonshire, is a grant or 
 confirmation of Wimpston by King John to John Fortescue, in 1209; but the pedigrees of the 
 family derive its descent from Sir Richard Le Forte, shield-bearer to William the Conqueror, 
 and the tradition is, that Wimpston was originally given to him for his good services at the 
 battle of Hastings, and that his son Adam first bore the name of Fortescue. 
 ' The extinction of the elder branch is involved in some obscurity. At the time of the visita- 
 tion, in 1620, Thomas Fortescue of Wimpston, then the head of the family, had an only 
 daughter, Joan, and two brothers, Henry and William, who resided at Morley, and was 
 married, but had no issue. It appears by Sir William Pole's collections, that Joan Fortescae 
 above mentioned married Edmund Babington, of Worcestershire. Wimpston had been sold or 
 mortgaged in Sir William Pole's time. It is probable that Henry and William Fortescue, 
 brothers of Thomas, left no male issue. The heiresses of Falwell and Pruteston, and a co- 
 heiress of Bonville, had married into this elder branch of the family. 
 
 Preston 
 
lxxxvi DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Preston and Spriddleston, all extinct in the male line. Sir John Fortescue 
 was ancestor of the Fortescues of Shipham, Wood, Fallopit", Weare- 
 Giffard, Filleigh, and Buckland Filleigh, all in Devonshire ; and those of 
 Pulesbourn, in Hertfordshire, Fulbourn, in Essex, and Salden, in Buck- 
 inghamshire. All these, except the Fortescues of Weare-Giffard and 
 Filleigh, and those of Buckland Filleigh *, are also extinct in the male 
 line of the elder branch. 
 
 Hugh, Earl Fortescue, the present male representative of this ancient 
 family, is descended from Sir John Fortescue, the learned chief justice 
 and chancellor of England, in the reign of Henry VI. The Chancellor 
 is in some pedigrees represented as the son of Sir Henry Fortescue, chief 
 justice of Ireland, but in others, which seem to correspond better with 
 dates, as younger brother of Sir Henry, and a younger son of Sir John 
 Fortescue, Captain of Meaux. Martin Fortescue, son of the Chancellor, 
 married the heiress of Denzell, or Densell, of Weare-Giffard, repre- 
 sentative, through the Trewens, of the ancient family of Giffard. Arthur, 
 the seventh in descent from Martin, married a co-heiress of Elford of 
 Shipstor, by one of the co-heiresses of Copleston. His son and heir, 
 Hugh, having married the only daughter of Hugh Boscawen, by Margaret, 
 daughter and co-heiress of Theophilus, Earl of Lincoln ; Hugh, his son, 
 succeeded to the barony of Clinton, in right of his mother, in 1721, and 
 was, in 174G, created Earl of Clinton, and Baron Fortescue, of Castle- 
 hill, with remainder of the barony to his half brother, Matthew. Upon 
 the Earl of Clinton's death, the barony of Clinton y devolved upon his 
 sister, Margaret, who died without issue, and the barony of Fortescue 
 on Matthew Fortescue above mentioned, whose son, Hugh, was created 
 Earl Fortescue, and Viscount Ebrington in 1789, and is the present repre- 
 sentative of the Fortescue family. His Lordship is Lord Lieutenant of 
 the county, and resides at Castle-hill. 
 
 Edmund, a younger son of Hugh Fortescue, Esq., of Filleigh, who 
 died in 166"1, having married the daughter of Henry Aland, Esq., of 
 Waterford : his son, Sir John Fortescue Aland, one of the justices of the 
 
 u For an account of the Fortescues of Preston, Spriddelston, Wood, and Fallopit, see 
 extinct baronets. 
 
 * See the head of Gentry. They have a male representative in William Fortescue, Esq., 
 of Writtle in Essex. The Earl of Clermont, in Ireland, is descended also from this branch, 
 and there are male descendants of some other younger branches. 
 
 y Now enjoyed by Robert Cotton St. John Trefusis. See p. xc. 
 
 Common 
 
DEVONSHIRE. Ixxxvii 
 
 Common Pleas, was created Baron Fortescue of Credan, in the kingdom 
 of Ireland, which title became extinct in I78I. The Fortescues of 
 Penwarne in Cornwall, extinct by the death of John Fortescue, Esq., in 
 177G, were a younger branch of the Fortescues of Filleigh. 
 
 Arms of Fortescue, Earl Fortescue : — Azure, a bend engrailed, Arg. 
 cottised, Or. 
 
 Crest : — On a wreath a plain shield, Arg. 
 
 Supporters : — Two greyhounds, Arg., each having a ducal collar and 
 line, Gules. 
 
 Parker, Earl of Mori ey. — The family of Parker resided for several 
 generations at North Molton. . Thomas, the first mentioned in the 
 pedigree, married the heiress of Frye, of Frye's-hall in Hatherleigh : 
 John, his son, married the heiress of Ellicott, of Bratton ; Edmund, his 
 grandson, the heiress of Smyth of Essex ; John, son of Edmund, who 
 married the heiress of Mewe, or Mayhew, of Boringdon, was sheriff of 
 the county in 1575, and died in 1G10. John Parker, Esq., the fifth in 
 descent from the last-mentioned John, having several times represented 
 the county of Devon in parliament, was, in 1784., created Baron Boring- 
 don. His son John, the second and present Lord Boringdon, was, in 1S15, 
 advanced to the dignity of Viscount Boringdon of North Molton, and 
 Earl of Morley, in this county. His Lordship's principal seat is at 
 Saltram, in the parish of Plympton St. Mary. 
 
 Arms : — Sable, a stag's head caboshed, between two flaunches, Arg. 
 
 Crest : — On a wreath an arm erect, vested Azure, cuff Arg. the hand 
 holding the attire of a stag, Proper. 
 
 Supporters : — On the dexter side a stag, Argent, on the sinister a grey- 
 hound regardant, Sable, each collared Or, and thereto antique shields 
 appendant G., that on the dexter charged with a horse's head couped Arg. 
 bridled, Or, that on the dexter with a ducal coronet, Or. 
 
 Courtenay, Viscount Courtenay. — This ancient and noble family took 
 its name from the town of Courtenay in France, and had been from a 
 very remote period connected with the royal family of that kingdom. 
 Reginald de Courtenay, the immediate ancestor of the English branch, 
 came over into this country with King Henry II., in the year 1151, and 
 having married the heiress of Robert de Abrincis, or Averinches, here- 
 ditary sheriff of Devon, Baron of Oakhampton, and governor of the 
 
 castle 
 
lxxxviii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 castle of Exeter, his eldest son Robert succeeded to these honours of his 
 maternal grandfather, and married a daughter (and eventually heiress) of 
 William de Redvers, Earl of Devon. His son and grandson did not enjoy 
 the title, although it was their inheritance, but were only Barons of Oak- 
 hampton. Hugh, his great-grandson, was summoned to parliament, in 
 1335, as Earl of Devonshire, by reason of his descent from the daughter 
 of William de Redvers. 
 
 Sir Hugh Courtenay, eldest son of the second earl, was a distinguished 
 military character, and one of the original Knights of the Garter ; his 
 younger brother, Sir Peter, was distinguished also as a military officer ; 
 another brother, William, was Archbishop of Canterbury, and Chancellor 
 of the University of Oxford. Sir Hugh Courtenay, and his son of the 
 same name, who grew up to manhood, having died before the second 
 Earl ; Edward Courtenay, elder son of Edward, the next brother of 
 Sir Hugh, succeeded as third Earl of Devonshire. 
 
 Thomas, sixth Earl of Devonshire, was taken prisoner at the battle of 
 Towton, and beheaded at York in 1462 ; his brother Henry, the suc- 
 ceeding earl, was attainted and beheaded at Salisbury in 1466. John, a 
 younger brother, who had been restored to the title in 1470, was slain at 
 the battle of Tewksbury : dying without issue, the elder branch of this 
 noble family became extinct. 
 
 In 1485 Sir Edward Courtenay, grandson of Sir Hugh, a younger 
 brother of Edward, the third Earl of Devonshire, was created Earl of 
 Devonshire, and was the ninth Earl of that family. William, his son, the 
 tenth Earl, married Catherine, youngest daughter of King Edward IV. 
 Henry, his son, the eleventh Earl, was, in 1525, created Marquis of 
 Exeter. In 1538 he was tried for high treason, convicted and executed : 
 his son Edward, who, in 1553, had been restored to the Earldom of 
 Devonshire, died without issue in 1556, on which event the descendants 
 of the four daughters 2 of Sir Hugh Courtenay, of Boconnoc in Cornwall, 
 
 sisters 
 
 z Matilda, the eldest, married John Arundell, Esq., of Talverne in Cornwall, whose 
 immediate representative, the Rev. Francis Vyvyan Jago, took the name of Arundell in 1815 ; 
 Elizabeth married John Trethurfe, Esq., from whom are descended the Vyvyans of Trelowarren 
 the Bullers, &c. Isabella married William Mohun, Esq., ancestor of the Barons Mohun, 
 extinct ; and Florence, the ancestor of the Rev. Sir Henry Trelawney, Bart. As some pub- 
 lications have assigned the eldership to Elizabeth, it may be proper to mention that I follow 
 the authority of the oldest book in the College of Arms, the visitation of Devonshire, by 
 
 Thomas 
 
DEVONSHIRE. Ixxxix 
 
 sisters of Edward, the ninth Earl of Devonshire, became heirs general of 
 the elder branch of this noble family. 
 
 The immediate ancestor of the Powderham branch was Sir Philip 
 Courtenay, sixth son of Hugh, second Earl of Devonshire. Richard, the 
 eldest son of Philip, was Bishop of Norwich, and Chancellor of the 
 University of Oxford. Sir Philip Courtenay, nephew and heir of the 
 Bishop, was born in 1401 : he had several sons y , the elder of whom, 
 Sir William, was of Powderham. Sir William, his great grandson, died 
 in 1535 : Sir William Courtenay, the sixth in descent from the last-men- 
 tioned Sir William, was created a baronet before the Restoration, but 
 never assumed the title. Sir William Courtenay, the third baronet, was, 
 in 1762, created Viscount Courtenay of Powderham, and was grandfather 
 of William, the present Viscount, who resides abroad. Powderham castle, 
 the seat of the family, is kept up. 
 
 Arms of Courtenay, Earl of Devonshire: —Or, three torteauxes with a 
 label of three. 
 
 Crest : — A plume of feathers, Arg. one, two, and three, issuing from a 
 ducal coronet. 
 
 Arms borne by Viscount Courtenay : — Quarterly 1 and 4, Or, three 
 torteauxes, 2 and 3, Or, a lion rampant, Azure. 
 
 Crest : — A dolphin naiant, Arg. 
 
 Supporters : — Two boars, Arg., bristled, tusked, and hoofed, Or. 
 
 Addington, Viscout Sidmouth. — The Right Honourable Henry Ad- 
 dington, who was created Viscount Sidmouth in 1805, possesses the 
 manor of Up-Ottery in this county, and occasionally resides in the manor- 
 house. There was an ancient family of this name at High Bickington 
 in Devon, extinct in its principal branch in 1668, which bore arms nearly 
 similar to those now borne by Lord Sidmouth. 
 
 Arms : — Per pale Erm. and Sab., a chevron charged with four lozenges 
 counterchanged between three fleurs-de-lis counterchanged. 
 
 Thomas Benoilt, who was Clarencieux King of Arms in the reign of Henry VII I., bearing 
 date 1531, in which she is expressly called the first daughter, and Elizabeth the second. 
 Elizabeth is called also " alterius filiarum" in the inquisition taken after the death of the last 
 Earl of Devon. 
 
 J Sir Philip, the second, had Molland given him for his portion, and was ancestor of the 
 Courtenays of Molland See extinct Gentry. 
 
 Vol. VI. m Crest : 
 
xc DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Crest : — A mountain-cat on a wreath, holding a shield within its paws, 
 charged with a lozenge. 
 
 Supporters : — Two stags, Proper, each encircled round the neck with 
 a chain, to which a key is pendant. 
 
 Pellew, Viscount Exmouth. — > Sir Edward Pellew, who had been long 
 distinguished for his gallant services, was, in 181 i<, created Baron 
 Exmouth, of Canon-Teign, and in 1816, after his glorious and successful 
 expedition against Algiers, Viscount Exmouth. His Lordship, who is 
 G. C. B., resides at Teignmouth : the old mansion of Canon-Teign, pur- 
 chased in 1812, is occupied by the tenant of the demesne, but a few 
 rooms are kept for the occasional residence of the family. 
 
 Arms, with the augmentation, as granted after the expedition to 
 Algiers in 1816: — Gules, a lion passant gardant ; in chief two civic 
 wreaths, Or. On a chief wavy A. in front of a city, intended to represent 
 that of Algiers ; a range of batteries flanked on the sinister by a circular 
 fortified castle, with triple battlements, Proper; thereon two flags displayed, 
 the one barry wavy, Or, and G., (indicative of the presence of the Dey of 
 Algiers within the said castle,) and the other of the last ; on the dexter 
 and abreast of the said batteries, a ship of the line, bearing the flag of an 
 Admiral of the Blue squadron moored, also Proper, in allusion to the 
 situation of His Majesty's ship, the Charlotte, at the moment of the 
 attack upon the said city, with the motto Algiers. 
 
 Crest : — The stern of a ship with part of the foremast and bowsprit 
 standing and appearing as a wreck, on a rock, the waves breaking round 
 her, Proper ; on the stern the word Dutton, to commemorate the circum- 
 stance of Lord Exmouth having saved the Dutton East Indiaman, off 
 Plymouth. 
 
 Supporters : — On the dexter side a lion gardant, Or, navally crowned 
 Azure, his sinister paw resting on an increscent Arg., and on the sinister 
 side a figure, designed to represent a Christian slave, naked from the waist 
 upwards, holding in his dexter hand a cross, Or ; and in his sinister hand 
 his fetters broken, Proper. 
 
 Treiusis, Baron Clinton and Say. — It has been already stated, in the 
 History of Cornwall, that the ancient barony of Clinton was, in 1794, 
 adjudged to George William Trefusis, Esq., he being the fourth in descent 
 from Francis Trefusis, Esq., who married the heiress of Robert Rolle, 
 Esq., of Heanton Sachville, in this county, by the elder co-heiress of 
 
 Theophilus, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. xci 
 
 Theophilus, Earl of Lincoln, and Baron Clinton and Say. The barony 
 being in abeyance between the daughters of this Earl, was given by King 
 George I. in 1721, to Hugh Fortescue, son and heir of Hugh Fortescue, 
 Esq., of Filleigh, by Bridget, sole heiress of Hugh Boscawen, Esq., who had 
 married another of the Earl of Lincoln's co-heiresses, and, in 17 '46, the 
 said Hugh Fortescue, was created Baron Fortescue and Earl Clinton. On 
 his Lordship's decease without issue, in 1751, the Barony of Clinton and 
 Say devolved to Margaret, only daughter of Samuel Rolle, Esq., then 
 recently become the widow of Robert Walpole, the second Earl of Orford. 
 After the death of her son, George, Earl of Orford, in 1791, without issue, 
 the barony of Clinton was claimed by Mr. Trefusis, and adjudged as above 
 mentioned. It is now vested in his son, Robert Cotton St. John Trefusis. 
 Lord Clinton has lately purchased Huish, some time the seat of Sir James 
 Norcliffe Lines, Bart, (now Duke of Roxburgh) ; Heanton, which was the 
 seat of the Countess of Orford, and of the last Earl, is in a dilapidated state. 
 
 Arms of Trefusis : — Arg. a chevron between three wharrow spindles, 
 Sable, borne by Lord Clinton, quartered with Rolle, Clinton, and Fiennes. 
 
 Crest : — A griffin seiant, Or, resting his dexter foot on a shield, Arg. 
 
 Supporters : — Two greyhounds, Arg. plain collared and leashed, Gules. 
 
 Petre., Baron Petre. — Sir John Petre, created Baron Petre, of Writtle, 
 in Essex, in 1603, was son of Sir William Petre, Secretary of State, a 
 younger brother of John Petre, or Peter, of Tor-Bryan, in Devonshire. 
 The Secretary, who was a native of Exeter, died seised of seven manors in 
 Devonshire. The greater part of the Devonshire estate has been sold by 
 his descendant, William Francis Henry, the present Lord Petre, but he still 
 retains the manor of Axminster and other landed property in this county. 
 
 Anns: — G. abend, Or, between two escallop shells, Ar. 
 
 Crest : — On a wreath, two lions' heads erased and addorsed ; the first, 
 Or, the other, Az. each charged with a plain collar counterchanged. 
 
 Supporters : — On the dexter side, a lion regardant, Az. collared, Or, 
 on the sinister, a lion regardant, Or, collared, Azure. 
 
 Clifford, Baron Clifford, of Chudleigh. — This noble house is descended 
 trom Sir Lewis Clifford, K. G., a younger brother of Thomas Lord Clifford 2 , 
 ancestor of the Earls of Cumberland. The family appears to have become 
 
 * The common ancestor of the Clifford family was Walter de Clifford, grandson of Richard 
 Fitzpons, who came over with William the Conqueror : he was called De Clifford, from his 
 castle of Clifford in Herefordshire. Richard Fitzpons is said to have been brother of Drogo, 
 who held such large possessions in Devon, at the time of the Domesday survey. 
 
 m 2 first 
 
xcii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 first connected with Devonshire, by the marriage of Thomas Clifford, great 
 grandson of Sir Lewis, who died in 1404*, with a daughter of John Thorpe 
 of Kings Teignton. Anthony Clifford, Esq., great grandson of Thomas, 
 married a co-heiress of Sir Peter Courtenay of Ugbrook. His eldest son, 
 Henry, was ancestor of the Cliffords of Kings Teignton, whose heiress 
 married Colonel Hugh Bamfylde. Thomas, younger son of Anthony 
 Clifford, settled at Ugbrook, and married the heiress of Staplehill. His 
 grandson, Sir Thomas Clifford, was, in I672, created Baron Clifford of 
 Chudleigh, and the same year made Lord High Treasurer of England : he 
 married a co-heiress of Martyn of Lindridge. The Lord Treasurer was a 
 patron of Dryden, who is said to have been a frequent visitor at Ugbrook. a 
 Hugh, third Lord Clifford, (who succeeded an elder brother,) married a co- 
 heiress of Sir Thomas Preston, a Lancashire baronet, and was grandfather 
 of Charles, the present and seventh Lord Clifford, who resides at Ugbrook. 
 
 Arms : — Cheeky, Or, and Az., a fesse, G. 
 
 Crest : — Out of a ducal coronet, Or, a wyvern rising, Gules. 
 
 Supporters : — On the dexter side, a wyvern, with wings expanded, 
 Gules ; on the sinister, a monkey, Proper ; environed about the loins, and 
 chained, Or. 
 
 King, Baron King. — Peter King, some time Lord High Chancellor of 
 England, created Baron King, in 1725, was a native of Exeter, and on the 
 mother's side nephew of the celebrated John Locke. He had four sons 
 who successively inherited the title : the elder married the heiress of Frye 
 of Yarty, in Devon, who brought that estate into the family. Peter, the 
 present Lord King, possesses Yarty, but the mansion has not been for 
 some time inhabited by the family. 
 
 Arms : — Sable, three spears' heads, Arg., the points sanguine ; on a 
 chief, Or ; as many battle-axes, Azure. 
 
 Crest : — On a wreath, a dexter arm, couped at the elbow, habited, Az. 
 adorned with three spots, Or, the cuff' turned up ; grasping a truncheon of 
 a spear, S. the head, Arg. 
 
 Supporters : — Two English mastiffs regardant, Proper, each having a 
 plain collar, Gules. 
 
 Dunning, Baron Ashburton. — John Dunning, Esq., a native of Ash- 
 burton, having distinguished himself by great professional abilities, was in 
 1767 made Solicitor-General, and in 178^, created Baron Ashburton. 
 
 a Collectanea Cliffordiana, p. 93. 
 
 His 
 
DEVONSHIRE. xciii 
 
 His Lordship resided chiefly at Speechwick, in the parish of Withecomb- 
 in-the-Moor, having taken a long lease of that estate, which will expire in 
 1845. His widow built a mansion at Sandridge, in Stoke Gabriel, now 
 the property of his son, Richard Barre, the present Lord Ashburton, 
 who resides in Scotland. 
 
 Arms : — Bendy, sinister of eight, Or, and V., a lion rampant, Sable. 
 
 Crest: — On a wreath, an antelope's head couped, Proper, attired, Or. 
 
 Supporters : — Two antelopes, Proper, attired, hoofed, and charged on 
 the breast, with an acorn slipped, Proper, and gorged with collars, bendy 
 of eight, Or, and V. 
 
 Rolle, Baron Rolle. — The ancestor of Lord Rolle, settled in Devon- 
 shire, in the reign of Henry VIII., having made considerable purchases of 
 abbey lands, and among others the manor of Stevenstone, which he fixed 
 on for his residence. Sir Henry Rolle, grandson of George Rolle, Esq., 
 who purchased Stevenstone, married the heiress of Watts, of Somersetshire ; 
 his son, Sir Henry, married the heiress of Dennis, of Bicton and Hol- 
 combe Burnell, in this county, and had a son, Dennis Rolle, Esq., who 
 died in 1638, leaving an only son, who died in his infancy. Henry Rolle, 
 Esq. of Beam, near Torrington, being a nephew of the first-mentioned Sir 
 Henry, inherited the family estates, but died without issue in 164<7, when 
 they devolved on John Rolle, Esq. of Marrais in Cornwall, grandson of 
 George Rolle, (second son of George first mentioned,) who married the 
 heiress of Marrais, of Marrais, and settled at that place. This John Rolle, 
 was afterwards K. B., and many years one of the representatives for this 
 county : he married one of the co-heiresses of his relation, Dennis Rolle, 
 Esq. of Bicton, and at the time of his death, in 1706, was possessed of 
 upwards of forty manors in Devonshire, besides large estates in Cornwall, 
 Somersetshire, and Northamptonshire. His great grandson, Henry Rolle, 
 Esq. was, in 1748, created Baron Rolle, of Stevenstone : dying unmarried, 
 in 1759, the title became extinct : it was revived in 1796, when his 
 nephew, John Rolle, Esq. was created a Peer, by the same style and title. 
 His Lordship's principal seats are at Stevenstone, near Great Torrington, 
 and at Bicton. 
 
 Henry, a younger son of George Rolle, Esq., first mentioned, having 
 married the heiress of Yeo of Heanton-Sachville, settled at Heanton, and 
 was ancestor of the Rolles of that place. Robert Rolle, great grandson of 
 Henry, and son of Sir Samuel Rolle of Heanton, married one of the co- 
 heiresses 
 
xciv DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 heiresses of Theophilus, Earl of Lincoln, in consequence of which marriage, 
 Margaret, the only daughter of his son Samuel, who had married Robert Wal- 
 pole, the second Earl of Orford, became Baroness Clinton in her own right. 
 
 Dennis Rolle, younger brother of Robert above mentioned, was settled 
 at Hudscot, in Chittlehampton ; his grandson died without issue, and 
 bequeathed Hudscot to the present Lord Rolle's father. Henry, a younger 
 brother of Sir Samuel Rolle above mentioned, was Lord Chief Justice of 
 the King's Bench, at the time of King Charles the First's death, and con- 
 tinued in that high office during the government of the Commonwealth ; 
 his posterity became extinct after three generations. 
 
 Arms of Rolle, Baron Rolle : — Or, on a bar dauncettee, between three 
 delves, Az. charged with as many lions rampant of the first, three bezants. 
 
 Crest : — An arm couped, Az. the hand, Or, holding a flint, Proper. 
 
 Supporters : — On either side a leopard regardant, Gules, spotted, Or, 
 each crowned with a coronet flory of the second. 
 
 The earls of Dartmouth and Plymouth take their titles from those cele- 
 brated sea-ports, but the families have no other connection with the county. 
 The Earl of Ilchester possesses estates in this county, by descent from the 
 Wadhams, and Earl Stanhope, by inheritance from the earls of London- 
 derry, but neither of them have any residence in the county. 
 
 Irish Peers connected with Devonshire. 
 
 Vaughav, Earl of Lisburne. — The father of the present Earl became 
 possessed of Mam head, in consequence of having married to his first wife 
 the heiress of Nightingale. The property of Mamhead devolved to the 
 present owner, John, Earl of Lisburne, on the death of his half-brother 
 Wilmot, the fourth Earl, in 1820. Wilmot, the third Earl, resided at 
 Mamhead : it is now in the occupation of a tenant. 
 
 Arms of Vaughan, Earl of Lisburne : — Sable, a chevron, between 
 three fleurs-de-lis, Argent. 
 
 Crest : — On a wreath an armed arm, bent at the elbow, brandishing a 
 fleur-de-lis, all Proper. 
 
 Supporters : — On the dexter side, a dragon, with wings expanded, 
 regardant, Vert, gorged witli a plain collar, Sable, edged, Argent, charged 
 with three fleurs-de-lis, as in the coat, having a- gold chain thereto affixed ; 
 on the sinister side an unicorn regardant, Argent, the mane, horn, tufts, 
 and hoofs, Or, gorged and chained as the dexter. 
 
 Graves, 
 
DEVONSHIRE- xcv 
 
 Graves, Baron Graves. — The present Lord Graves, who resides at 
 Bishops Court, in the parish of Farfingdon, is son of Thomas Graves, 
 Admiral of the Blue, who was created a Peer of Ireland, in 1794, for his 
 services in Earl Howe's victory over the French fleet. 
 
 Arms : — G. an eagle displayed, Or, crowned, beaked and taloned, Arg. 
 on a canton of the last, an anchor erect with fluke, Sable. 
 
 Crest: — A demi-eagle displayed, Or, each wing charged with an Ermine 
 spot ; the body encircled by a ducal coronet, Arg. 
 
 Supporters : — Two vultures, Proper. 
 
 Shore, Baron Teignmouth. — Sir John Shore, some time Governor- 
 General of Bengal, when created a Peer of Ireland, in 1797, took the title 
 of Teignmouth. He is son of Thomas Shore, Esq. of Melton, in the 
 county of Suffolk, and descended from Sir John Shore, an eminent phy- 
 sician at Derby, in the reign of Charles II. 
 
 Arms : — Arg. a chevron, S. between three holly leaves, Vert. 
 
 Crest : — A stork regardant, Arg. holding in the dexter claw a pellet. 
 
 Noble Families Extinct. 
 
 Holland, Duke of Exeter. — John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon, (third 
 son of Thomas de Holland, Earl of Kent, by the heiress of Edmund de 
 Woodstock, Earl of Kent,) was created Duke of Exeter, in 1388. He had 
 two seats in this county, Exeter castle, and Dartington. The title was 
 forfeited by his attainder, in 1399 ; but restored to John his son, in 1443. 
 The second Duke distinguished himself by his military services in France. 
 His son Henry, the third Duke, who was the last of the elder line a of this 
 noble family, was dangerously wounded at the battle of Barnet-field, and, 
 having been disinherited by parliament, fled to the continent, where he is 
 said to have been reduced to such great poverty that he was obliged to 
 beg his bread : he married a sister of King Edward IV. 
 
 Arms: — Gules, three lions passant, Or, within a border, Azure, charged 
 with fleur-de-lis of the second. 
 
 Crest : — The royal lion on a chapeau, gorged with a collar, Az. charged 
 with fleurs-de-lis, and ducally crowned. 
 
 1 The account of a younger branch of this family settled at Weare, in Topsham, will be 
 given hereafter. 
 
 Beaufort, 
 
xcvi DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Beaufort, Duke of Exeter. — Thomas Beaufort, Earl of Dorset, (son 
 of John of Gaunt,) who Jed the rereward at the battle of Agincourt, 
 between the forfeiture of that title and its restoration to the Holland family, 
 was, in 1416, created Duke of Exeter for life; and among other grants had 
 a pension of 40/. per annum assigned him, out of the city of Exeter. He 
 died in 1426. 
 
 Arms : — The arms of England, within a border, gobony, Arg. and Az. 
 
 Crest : — A portcullis, Or, nailed, Az. chains of the first. 
 
 Grey, Duke of Suffolk. — Thomas Grey, Marquis of Dorset, having 
 become possessed of Shute-park, and other large estates in this county, by 
 a marriage with the heiress of Bonville, resided occasionally at Shute. All 
 these estates were forfeited by the attainder of his son Henry, who had been 
 created Duke of Suffolk, in 1551, and was beheaded in 1554. 
 
 Arms : — Barry of six, Arg. and Az. in chief, three torteauxes : a label 
 of three, Ermine. 
 
 Crest : — An unicorn salient, Ermine, in front of the sun in splendor. 
 
 Supporters : — On the dexter side an unicorn : on the sinister, a bull 
 with a human face. 
 
 Monk, Baron Monk of Potheridge, Earl of Torrington and Duke of 
 Albemarle. — The celebrated General Monk, a native of this county b , the 
 restorer of King Charles II., and of the English monarchy, had a grant of 
 the above titles from his grateful sovereign, a few weeks after his restor- 
 ation. The family of Le Moyne, or Monk, had been settled at Pother- 
 idge, in the parish of Merton, near Torrington, as early as the reign of 
 Edward I. c , and continued there for 15 or 16 generations, having married 
 heiresses, or co-heiresses of Tilley, Estcott, Rishford, Trenchard, Cru- 
 kerne, Grant, Champernowne of Inswerk, Wood, and Plantagenet, 
 
 b Born at Lancras, near Torrington, in 1608. 
 
 c The pedigree in the visitation is traced seven generations before 3 Edward I. ; but Sir 
 William Pole says, that they first settled at Potheridge, in that monarch's reign. It seems not 
 unlikely, that the first of the Le Moynes, who was of Potheridge, might have been a younger 
 son of the family, who gave name to Shipton Moyne, or Moigne, in Gloucestershire, and that 
 the heiress of Estcott, who was married to Le Moyne before the time of their settling in Devon- 
 shire, might have been the representative of some early possessors of Eastcote, or Estcourt, in 
 the same parish of Shipton Moyne. Estcourt again gave name to a family who possessed it for 
 many generations, and is now the seat of Thomas Grimston Estcourt, Esq., M.P. 
 
 Viscount 
 
DEVONSHIRE. xcvii 
 
 Viscount Lisle. d The Duke of Albemarle was second son of Sir 
 Thomas Monk c : his elder brother having died without issue, he became 
 the representative of this ancient family. The title became extinct in 
 1C88, by the death of Christopher his son, the second duke. The great 
 Duke of Albemarle resided at Potheridge, and in I672 rebuilt the mansion, 
 which had been the seat of his ancestors. It is now in ruins. 
 
 Arms : — Gules, a chevron between three lions, heads erased, Arg. 
 
 Crest: — On a chapeau a cat-a-mountain guardant, per pale, Sab. and 
 Arg, between two branches of olive. The old crest of the family was a 
 cockatrice, Argent. 
 
 Supporters : — On the dexter side a dragon ; on the sinister a lion ; each 
 holding a branch of olive. 
 
 Redvers, De Ripariis, or Rivers, Earl of Devon. — Richard de Redvers 
 was created Earl of Devon by King Henry I. Richard, his grandson, the 
 third Earl, married one of the co-heiresses of Reginald, Earl of Cornwall. 
 Richard, the fifth Earl, who succeeded an elder brother, married a co- 
 heiress of Lord Biset. Baldwin, the seventh Earl, was, in 1240, created 
 Earl of the Isle of Wight ; his son Baldwin, the last Earl of the family, and 
 the fifth of that Christian name, dying without issue, his sister, Isabel de 
 Fortibus, who had married William de Fortibus, Earl of Albemarle, 
 became Countess of Devon in her own right. She died without issue, in 
 1292. The title descended to the Courtenay family as before mentioned f , 
 and the elder branch of that family bore the arms of Redvers, quartered 
 with Courtenay. 
 
 Arms of Redvers, Earl of Devon : — Or, a lion rampant, .Azure. 
 
 d The coat of Monk, in the visitation of 1620, has 88 quarterings. Champernowne 
 Drought in Hamely, Talbot, Valletort, and Cornwall. 
 
 ' William Monk, one of the younger sons of Sir Thomas, married the heiress of Foster, and 
 settled in Sussex. William Monk, Esq., the last of this branch died in 1714; his daughter 
 married Knight of Godmersham. 
 
 f See p.lxxxviii. After the attainder of Henry Courtenay, Earl of Devon, in 14-66, Hugh 
 Stafford, having before been created Barori of Southwick, in Devonshire, was, in 1469, made 
 Earl of Devonshire, but was beheaded the same year. The title was restored to the Courtenays 
 in 1485. After the extinction of this family, Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy, was, in 1603, 
 created Earl of Devonshire. The title became extinct by his death in 1606. In 1618, William 
 Cavendish was created Earl of Devonshire, and the title has continued ever since in this 
 noble family, who in 1691 were elevated to the dukedom. 
 
 Vol. VI. n Bourchier, 
 
xcviii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Bourchier, Earl of Bath. — William Bourchier, third son of William 
 Bourchier, Earl of Ewe, by Anne Plantagenet E , a grand-daughter of King 
 Edward III., having married the heiress of Sir Richard Hankford, by the 
 heiress of the Lords Fitzwarren, became possessed of a considerable estate 
 in Devonshire. Both he and his son, who married a co-heiress of John 
 Lord Dinham, sat in parliament as Lords Fitzwarren. John, the grandson, 
 was, in 1536, created Earl of Bath. The title became extinct by the 
 death of Henry, the fifth earl, in 1654. This noble family had their re- 
 sidence at Tawstock, now the seat of their descendant Sir Bourchier Wrey, 
 Bart. The last earl left no issue ; Edward, his predecessor, had three 
 daughters, co-heiresses ; Elizabeth married the Earl of Denbigh, and died 
 without issue ; Dorothy married Thomas Lord Grey, whose son Thomas, 
 Earl of Stamford, died without issue ; Anne married James, Earl of Mid- 
 dlesex, and afterwards Sir Chichester Wrey, Bart. The Bourchiers of 
 Westaway, in Pilton, are supposed to have been a younger branch of the 
 Bourchiers, earls of Bath. A co-heiress of this family brought Westaway 
 to an ancestor of Sir T. B. Lethbridge, Bart. 
 
 Arms : — Arg. a cross engrailed, G. between four water-bougets Sable. 
 
 Crest : — An old man's head side-faced, couped at the shoulders, du- 
 cally crowned, Or, issuing therefrom a cap, G. tasseled of the last. 
 
 Supporters : — On the dexter side, an heraldic tiger, Arg. tufted, Or, 
 on the sinister, a falcon, Arg. vulned in the wing, beaked and legged, Or. 
 
 Ley, Earl of Marlborough. — Ley, in Beer Ferrers, is said to have been 
 the original seat of this family, and to have been repurchased by Sir James 
 Ley, who was, in 1624, created Baron Ley of Ley, and in 1626, Earl of 
 Marlborough. These titles became extinct, in 1679, by the death of 
 William, the fourth earl. His daughter and heir married Tristram. 
 
 Arms : — A chevron between three bears' heads, couped Sable. 
 
 Crest : — A lion seiant, Or, the dexter fore paw raised. 
 
 Supporters: — On the dexter side, a lion Arg. semee of trefoils, slipped, 
 V. on the sinister a lion, G. bezanty. 
 
 Carew, Earl of Totnes. — Sir George Carew \ a distinguished military 
 
 i Eventually heiress of her father, Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, who had 
 married one of the co-heiresses of Humphry de Bohun, Earl of Hereford. 
 
 h He was the younger son of Sir Edmund Carew, of Mohuns Ottery, and grandson of 
 Sir Nicholas Carew, who married one of the co-heiresses of John Lord Dinham. (See Carew 
 of Haccombe, Baronet.) 
 
 officer 
 
DEVONSHIRE. xcix 
 
 officer in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and that of her successor James I., 
 was, in 1606, created Lord Carew, of Clopton ; and in 1626, Earl of 
 Totnes. He died in 1628, when these titles became extinct. 
 
 Arms : — Or, three lions passant, Sable. 
 
 Crest : — A lion passant, Sable. 
 
 Supporters : — On either side an antelope, G. armed, crined, and hoof- 
 ed, Or. 
 
 Granville, Earl of Bath. — The very ancient family of Grenville, of 
 late years written by this branch of the family Granville, was possessed of 
 Bideford, which appears to have been their original habitation in the west 
 of England, soon after the conquest. After they became possessed of 
 Kilkhampton, in Cornwall, they divided their time between that place and 
 Bideford. Although Kilkhampton appears to have been their chief, if 
 not sole residence, during the time of the most eminent persons of this 
 family, particularly Sir Beville Grenville ' , yet Prince contends for the 
 right of ranking them among Devonshire worthies. Sir Beville's son, Sir 
 John Grenville, who had so active a share in the restoration of King 
 Charles II., was created, in 1661, Baron Grenville of Kilkhampton and 
 Bideford, and Earl of Bath : he was made also Lord Lieutenant of the 
 county of Devon. His youngest son, John, was, in 1702, created Baron 
 Granville of Potheridge, and died without issue in 1709. The title of 
 Earl of Bath became extinct by the death of William Henry, the third 
 earl, in 1711. Bideford still belongs to the representatives of the Gran- 
 ville family. 
 
 Arms: — Gules, three rests, Or. 
 
 Two crests, A griffin's head, Or, the wings elevated ; and a griffin passant, 
 Or, the wings elevated. 
 
 Supporters : — Two griffins, Or, the wings elevated. 
 
 Walpole, Earl of Orford. — It has been already mentioned, that Mar- 
 garet, wife of Robert the second Earl of Orford, inherited the barony of 
 Clinton and Say, and the Devonshire estates of that family. Heanton 
 Sachville was in consequence one of the seats of the Countess of Orford, 
 in her widowhood ; and of George, Earl of Orford, her son, who died 
 in 1791. 
 
 ' For a further account of the Grenville family, see the History of Cornwall. 
 
 n 2 Arms : 
 
c DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Arms : — Or, on a fesse between two chevrons, Sab. three cross crosslets 
 of the first. 
 
 Crest: — On a wreath, the bust of a man side-faced and couped, Proper, 
 ducally crowned with a long cap G. thereon a Catherine wheel, Or. 
 
 Supporters : — On the dexter side, an antelope, Arg. attired, Proper, 
 unguled Or, and gorged with a collar exchequettee, Or, and Az. with a 
 golden chain affixed thereto, parting between his fore legs, and reflected 
 over his back ; on the sinister a hart, Arg. attired, Proper, unguled, and 
 gorged with a like collar and chain. 
 
 Martyn, or Martin, Baron Martin, of Barnstaple and Dartington. — 
 This ancient Norman family was at an early period of Comb Martin, and 
 of Dartington, which Risdon calls the site of their barony, as early as the 
 reign of Henry I. Nicholas, the fourth in descent from Martin de Tours, 
 the founder of the family, acquired the lordship of Barnstaple and other 
 large possessions, by marrying the heiress of Guy de Brien, by the heiress 
 of Tracey. William, grandson of Nicholas, was summoned to parliament 
 as Baron Martin of Barnstaple. William, the second Baron Martin, died 
 without male issue, in 1324 ; his co-heiresses married Columbers, who died 
 without male issue, and Audley. In consequence of the marriage of his 
 father with the co-heiress of Martin, James Lord Audley inherited the 
 baronies of Barnstaple and Dartington. Nicholas, Lord Audley, son of 
 James, died without male issue, in 1389 ; his co-heiresses married Tuchet 
 and Hilary,but by virtue of an entail, his Devonshire estates went to the 
 crown. Younger branches are supposed to have continued the male line 
 of the Martyn family. 
 
 Arms of Baron Martin : — Arg. two bars gules. 
 
 Arms of Baron Audley : — Gules, fretty, Or. 
 
 Crest : — Out of a ducal coronet a swan issuant, Proper, crowned, Or. 
 
 Moels, Baron Moels or Mules. — Nicholas de Moels, or Molis, who 
 married the heiress of Newmarch, in the reign of Henry III., was de- 
 scended from Roger de Molis, who possessed Lew, and other estates in 
 Devon, at the time of the Domesday survey. This Nicholas possessed 
 Kings Kerswell by a royal grant. His son married the heiress of De 
 Preux. John, his grandson, was summoned to parliament as Lord Moels, 
 in 1292; John, grandson of the last-mentioned John, married the heiress of 
 Lovell, of Castle Cary, and dying in or about 1337, left two daughters, 
 
 co-heiresses, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ci 
 
 co-heiresses, married to Courtenay and Bottreaux. A younger branch of 
 the family of Moels, or Mules, was of Ernsborough, in Swimbridge. The 
 co-heiresses of Sir John Mules, of Ernsborough, married Gilbert and 
 Dabernon. John Mules, the son of a younger brother, settled at Halmes- 
 ton, in Bishops Tawton. His son George married the heiress of Bridges of 
 Exeter. The heiress of the last of the elder line of Mules of Halmeston, 
 who had married an heiress of the Acland family, married Richard Bennet, 
 Esq., who died in I7I8 ; a younger son is supposed to have continued the 
 male line, and that it is now represented by the Rev. John Hawkes Mules 
 of Ilminster ; the Rev. William Mules, a younger brother, resides at Mar- 
 wood, in this county. 
 
 Arms : — Arg. two bars, G. in chief three torteauxes. 
 
 Crest : — A mule passant. 
 
 Monthermer, Baron Monthermer, of Stockenham. — Ralph de Mon- 
 thermer, of Stokenham, was summoned to parliament as a baron, in 1308 ; 
 his son Thomas, who was slain in a sea-fight, in 1340, left a daughter and heir 
 married to John de Montacute, who, in 1357, was summoned to parliament 
 as Baron Montacute of Stokenham. His son, who received the like sum- 
 mons, succeeded afterwards to the earldom of Salisbury, and was father of 
 Thomas, the celebrated Earl of Salisbury, in the reign of Henry V., whose 
 heiress married Richard Neville, afterwards Earl of Salisbury. 
 
 Arms of Monthermer. — Or, an eagle displayed, V. beaked and mem- 
 bered, G. 
 
 Arms of Montacute, Baron Montacute. — Arg. three fusils in fesse, G. 
 within a border, Sable. 
 
 Zouch, Baron Zouch of Harringworth and Totnes. — Eudo Le Zouch 
 having married one of the co-heiresses of Cantilupe, became possessed of 
 the barony of Totnes : William, his son, was summoned to parliament 
 in 1308. Their descendant, John Lord Zouch, having taken part with 
 Richard III., was attainted in 1485, and the castle and barony of Totnes 
 seized by King Henry VII. The title was restored to the son, and became 
 dormant in the reign of James I., on the death of Edward Lord Zouch, 
 who left two daughters, co-heiresses, married to Tate and Leighton. It 
 was, not many years ago, claimed by Sir Cecd Bishop, Bart. ; and he having, 
 in 1807, made out his descent from one of the co-heiresses, it was taken 
 out of abeyance, and given to him by his late Majesty in 1S15. 
 
 Arms : 
 
cii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Arms : — G. ten bezants and a canton, Ermine. 
 
 Crest : — A trunk of a tree, Or, leafed, V. thereon a falcon rising, Arg. 
 
 Brian, Brien, or Bryan, of Tor Bryan. — This ancient family was 
 settled at Tor Bryan at a very early period. The heiress of an elder branch 
 married Martin as before mentioned, but the male line was continued by 
 younger sons. Sir Guy de Bryan, or Brien, was summoned to parliament 
 in 1351 ; his son died in his lifetime, leaving two daughters, Philippa, 
 married to Devereux, and afterwards to Scrope ; and Elizabeth, married 
 to Lovell. k 
 
 Arms : — Or, 3 piles in point, Azure. 
 
 Bottreaux, Baron Bottreaux of Molland Bottreaux. — This ancient 
 baronial family resided at Molland Bottreaux, and at Bottreaux castle, in 
 Cornwall, (now Boscastle,) from the reign of Henry I. William Baron 
 Bottreaux was first summoned to parliament in 1367. The heiresses, or 
 co-heiresses, of Corbet, Moels, Dawbeny, and St. Loe, married into this 
 family. William, the last Baron Bottreaux, died in 1462, leaving a daughter 
 and heiress, who brought the barony of Bottreaux to the Hungerfords, 
 and through them to Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon. 
 
 Arms : — Arg. a griffin segreaut, G., beaked and legged, Azure. 1 
 
 k Sir William Pole says in his Collections, (see the printed copy, p. 286.) that Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Sir Guy de Brien, had two husbands, and that by the first, Sir Robert Fitzpayne, 
 she had a daughter, Isabel, married to Richard Lord Poynings, through which match Henry 
 Earl of Northumberland claimed the manor of Slapton and other lands, which, after a long 
 controversy, were allotted to him by arbitration. There seems to be some great mistake in 
 this. The inquisition, taken after the death of Sir Guy de Brien the elder, 14 Ric. II., states 
 that his grand-daughter Philippa, the wife of Sir John Devereux, was then twelve years of age ; 
 and Elizabeth, then the wife of Robert Lovell, only nine. In the first year of Henry IV. the 
 estates of Sir Guy de Brien were divided between the said Philippa, then the wife of Sir 
 Henry Scrope, and the said Elizabeth Lovell. On the other hand, it appears that Sir Robert 
 Fitzpayne, who died 28 Edw. III., was seised, jointly with Ela his wife, of certain estates ; 
 and that they had an only daughter and heir, Isabel, who became the wife of Sir Richard 
 Poynings, Knt. ; and it appears by Esch. 16 Ric. II. and CI. Rot. 17 R. II., that the said 
 Isabel was then 30 years of age. These records seem wholly irreconcileable with the above 
 statements ; and it appears unaccountable that the Earl of Northumberland should have been 
 deemed, as Sir William Pole calls him, (p. 524-.) the heir general of Brien, and as such should 
 have had lands awarded to him : for Isabel, the heiress of Fitzpayne, appears to have been 
 30 years of age at the same time that the co-heiress of Brien, erroneously, as it should seem, 
 supposed to have been her mother, was only 1 1. 
 
 1 The family sometimes bore other arms. — Seethe History of Cornwall. 
 
 BONVILLE, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ciii 
 
 Bonville, Baron Bonville. —Nicholas Bonville, who died in 129*, 
 married the heiress of Pyne, of Shute. William, the fourth in descent 
 from Nicholas, was summoned to parliament as Baron Bonville in 1449- 
 Lord Bonville was beheaded after the battle of St. Alban's. His only son 
 had been killed in battle not many months before at Wakefield : his grand- 
 daughter and heiress married Thomas Grey, Marquis of Dorset. 
 
 Arms : — Sable, six mullets, Arg., pierced, 3, 2, and 1. 
 
 Dinan, or Dinham, Baron Dinham. — The ancient family of Dinan had 
 large possessions in this county and in Cornwall, and were founders of 
 Hartland abbey. Oliver de Dinan, of Cardinham, in Cornwall, was 
 summoned to parliament as a baron in the reign of Edward I. : his imme- 
 diate descendant, Sir John Dinham, was summoned to parliament as 
 Baron Dinham in 1464, and in 1485 was made Lord Treasurer. He died 
 1501, leaving no surviving issue. His sisters and co-heirs married Sir 
 Foulke Fitzwarren, John Lord Zouch, Sir Nicholas Carew, and Sir 
 Thomas Arundell. The Dinhams were possessed of Hemiock castle, in 
 this county, by inheritance from the Hydons. John Lord Dinham 
 rebuilt the house at Nutwell, in Woodbury, which had been an ancient 
 inheritance of the family, and resided there. The heiress of De Arches, 
 and a co-heiress of Lord Moels, married into this family, a younger 
 branch of which, now extinct, settled at Wortham, in Lifton, and con- 
 tinued there for several descents. 
 
 Arms : Gules, five lozenges conjoined in fesse, Ermine. 
 
 Brooke, Baron Cobham. — Holdich, in Thorncombe, was the seat of the 
 family of Brooke from the reign of Henry III. till the attainder of Henry 
 Lord Cobham, in the reign of James I. They had also a castle and park 
 at Wycroft in Axminster. Sir John Brooke of Holdich and Wycroft was 
 summoned to parliament as Baron Cobham m in 1472. 
 
 Arms : — G. on a chevron, Arg., a lion rampant, Sab. crowned, Or. 
 
 Crest : — A chapeaux, G., therefrom a wing of the same charged with a 
 chevron, Arg., thereon a lion rampant, S. crowned, Or. 
 
 Supporters : — Two lions rampant. 
 
 - As descended from John Lord Cobham, who died in the ninth year of Henry IV., by 
 
 the heiresses of De la Pole and Braybroke. 
 
 WlLLOUGHBY, 
 
civ DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Willoughby, Baron Broke Sir Robert Willoughby, who was sum- 
 moned to parliament as Baron Broke in 1492, married the heiress of 
 Champernowne, of Beer Ferrers. His son Robert, the second Lord 
 Broke, who married a co-heiress of Beauchamp of Powick, died without 
 surviving male issue. The daughters of his son Edward married Sir 
 Fulke Greville " and Sir Francis Dautrey. 
 
 Arms : — Or, two bars, G., charged with three waterbougets, two, one, 
 Arg., quartering Brooke and Latimer. 
 
 Crest : — An old man's head couped at the shoulders, ducally crowned, 
 Or. 
 
 Mohun, Baron Mohun of Oakhampton. — John Mohun, descended 
 from the ancient baronial family of Mohun of Dunster, was, in 1628, 
 created a peer, by the title of Baron Mohun, of Oakhampton. The title 
 became extinct by the death of Charles, the third Lord Mohun, who was 
 killed in a duel with the Duke of Hamilton, to whom it also proved fatal, 
 in 1712. The heiress of Lord Mohun married Arthur, Viscount Doneraile. 
 
 Arms : — Or, a cross engrailed, Sable. 
 
 Crest : — A dexter arm embowed, maunched, Erm. in the hand, 
 Proper, a fleur-de-lis, Or. 
 
 Supporters : — Two lions rampant gardant, Arg., crowned with earls' 
 coronets, Or, the balls, Arg. 
 
 Eliott, Baron Heathfield. — The first Lord Heathfield, the brave de- 
 fender of Gibraltar ° having married a daughter of Sir Francis Drake, 
 Bart., who died in 174-1, the late baronet of that name, who died in 1794, 
 bequeathed Buckland Abbey, Nutwell in Woodbury, and other estates in 
 Devon, to his nephew, Francis Augustus, the late Lord Heathfield, who 
 resided at Nutwell, and died in 1813, when the title became extinct. 
 
 Arms : — G. on a bend, Arg., a baton, Az., on a chief of the last the 
 fortress of Gibraltar, under it plus ultra, as an augmentation. 
 
 Crest : — A dexter arm holding a cutlass, Proper ; the arm charged with 
 a key. 
 
 n Correct the account in p. lxxxii. of Cornwall, where for Grenviile read Greville. The 
 daughters of Robert, the second Lord Broke, by his second wife, married Pawlet and Blount, 
 and inherited, by bequest, most of his estates. 
 
 • Created Lord Heathfield ih 1787. 
 
 Sup- 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cv 
 
 Supporters : — On the dexter side a ram ; on the sinister a goat, each 
 wreathed with flowers round the neck. 
 
 Baronial Families not summoned to Parliament. 
 
 De Sap, Baron of Oakhampton. — The heiress married Avenell. 
 Arms : — Cheeky, Or, and Az., over all two bars, Argent. 
 
 Fitz Robert, or De Torrington, Baron of Torrington. — After six 
 descents the co-heiresses married Merton, Waleis, Tracey, Sully, and 
 Umfraville. 
 
 Arms : — G. 2 bars, and in chief a lion passant, Or. 
 
 Tracey, Baron of Barnstaple. — The heiress of Henry Tracey, who 
 died about the latter end of Henry the Third's reign, married Nicholas 
 Martin, Baron of Dartington, and afterwards Sir Jeffery Camville, and 
 had issue by both. 
 
 The Traceys of Toddington, in Gloucestershire, of which the late Viscount 
 Tracey was the representative, were of this family, but the early pedi- 
 grees are not sufficiently clear to enable us to ascertain the exact relation 
 of this Henry. It is probable that the younger branch remained at Tod- 
 dington ; for it appears that William de Traci, the common ancestor, in 
 the reign of Henry I. possessed both Toddington and the barony of 
 Barnstaple. This William de Traci was a younger son of John de 
 Sudely, Lord of Sudely, in Gloucestershire, by the heiress of Henry de 
 Traci, who possessed the barony of Barnstaple in the reign of Henry I. 
 
 Arms : — Or, an escallop in chief, S. between 2 bends, Gules. 
 
 Nonant, Baron of Totnes. — The heiress married Beauchamp. 
 Arms : — Arg. a lion rampant, Gules. 
 
 Cantilupe, Baron of Totnes. — The heiress married Eudo le Zouch, in 
 the reign of Henry III. 
 
 Arms : — Az. three leopards' faces jessant de lis, Or. 
 
 Brewer, or Briwere, Baron Brewer. — Dugdale, who spells the name 
 
 Briwere, says that the first mention he had seen of the family was in the 
 
 Vol. VI. o 26 
 
cvi DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 26 of Henry II., when William Briwere purchased lands in Devon : but 
 it may be observed that Ralph de Bruera, or Brewer, held three 
 manors under Baldwin the Sheriff at the time of the Domesday survey. 
 William Brewer, a powerful baron in the reign of King John, and a great 
 favourite of that monarch, was founder of Tor and Dunkesvvell abbies : 
 his son William died without issue in 1232 : Grace, the elder sister, married 
 Braose, or Brus ; Isabel married Dover, and afterwards Wake ; Margaret, 
 Ferte, or De Feritate ; Alice, Mohun ; and Joan, Percy. 
 
 Arms of Brewer : — Gules, 2 bends undy, Or : a different coat is 
 assigned to Brewer of Teign Bruer. 
 
 Pomeroy, Baron of Berry. — This ancient family continued to possess 
 the barony of Berry till the attainder of Sir Thomas Pomeroy, in the 
 reign of Edward VI. The heiresses or co-heiresses of Valletort, Merton, 
 Beavill, and Denzell, married into this family. 
 
 The elder branch of this family became extinct in the reign of Queen 
 Elizabeth, when the heiress is said to have married Penkevil : younger 
 branches were of Sandridge and of Ingesdon in this county ; a co-heiress 
 of Pomeroy of Sandridge married Gilbert, ancestor of the Rev. Pomeroy 
 Gilbert of Bodmin, about a century ago, About the middle of the seven- 
 teenth century the co-heiresses of Pomeroy of Ingesdon married Thomas 
 and Ford. Arthur Pomeroy, Viscount Harberton, of the kingdom of 
 Ireland, is supposed to be descended from a younger son of the Pomeroys 
 of Ingesdon. 
 
 Arms of Pomeroy. — Or, a lion rampant, G., a border invecked of the 
 second. 
 
 Valletort, Baron of Harberton. — Extinct about the year 130i : the 
 co-heiresses married Corbet and Pomeroy. 
 
 Arms : — Arg. 3 bends, G., within a border, Sable bezanty. 
 
 Paganel, or Pannel, Baron of Bampton. — William Paganel married 
 the grand-daughter and heiress of Walter de Douay, who possessed Bamp- 
 ton by the gift of William the Conqueror ; his son Fulke married a co- 
 heiress of Averinches. The male line of Paganel became extinct after 
 four descents, when the inheritance came to Sir John Cogan, whose grand- 
 father had married the sister of the second William Paganel. 
 
 Arms : — Or, two lions passant in pale, Azure. 
 
 Irish 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 cvu 
 
 Irish Peer Extinct. 
 
 Ridgway, Earl of Londonderry. — John Ridgway, alias Pecock, pur- 
 chased the manor of Tor Mohun, and resided at Torwood. His grandson 
 was, in 1612, created a baronet; in 1616 Baron Ridgway of Galen Ridg- 
 way, in the county of Londonderry ; and, in 1622, Earl of Londonderry. 
 These titles became extinct by the death of Robert, the fourth Earl, in 
 1713. His only son, Henry Lord Ridgway, had died in 1708. Co-heiresses 
 of Southcote and Mack- Williams, and the heiress of "Weston, had married 
 into this family. The co-heiresses of the last Earl of Londonderry married 
 Arthur, Earl of Donegall, and Thomas Pitt, Esq., who, in 1719, was 
 created Baron Londonderry, and, in 1726, Earl of Londonderry. 
 
 The original arms of Ridgway, alias Pecock, were, Arg. on a chevron 
 engrailed three trefoils, Or, between three peacocks' heads erased, Az., 
 their necks encircled with crowns, Or. The Ridgvvays afterwards bore 
 Sable two angels' wings conjoined in fesse, the tips upwards, Argent. 
 
 Noble?nen's Seats. 
 
 Berry Pomeroy 
 Bicton 
 Bishop's Court 
 
 Canon Teign 
 
 Castlehill 
 
 Court 
 
 Endsleigh 
 
 Huish 
 
 Mamhead 
 
 Mount Edgecumbe 
 
 Up-Ottery 
 
 Powderham Castle 
 Saltram 
 Stevenstone 
 Ugbrook 
 
 Werrington 
 
 Parishes. 
 
 Farringdon 
 Chrislow 
 Filleigh 
 North Molton 
 Milton Abbot 
 
 Maker 
 
 Plympton St. Mary 
 St. Giles 
 Chudleieh 
 
 Duke of Somerset. 
 Lord Rolle. 
 Lord Graves. 
 
 {Occasionally inhabited by Viscount 
 Exmouth. 
 Earl Fortescue. 
 
 f Occasionally inhabited by the Earl of 
 \ Morley. 
 Duke of Bedford. 
 Lord Clinton. 
 
 Earl of Lisburne (inhabited by a tenant). 
 Earl Mount Edgecumbe. 
 
 {Occasionally inhabited by Viscount 
 Sidmouth. 
 Viscount Courtenay (resides abroad). 
 Earl of Morley. 
 Lord Rolle. 
 Lord Clifford. 
 
 {Occasionally inhabited by the Duke 
 of Northumberland. 
 
 O X 
 
 There 
 
cviii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 There are few remains of the ancient seats of the extinct nobility ; 
 the principal are, Colecombe castle, a seat of the Earls of Devon ; Pothe- 
 ridge, the seat of the Duke of Albemarle ; and Heanton Sachville, that 
 of the Earl of Orford. There are some remains of Oakhampton Castle, 
 a seat of the Earls of Devon ; merely a tower of Hemiock Castle, a seat 
 of the Dinhams ; and a gateway only of the old mansion of the Bour- 
 chiers, Earls of Bath, near the seat of their representative, Sir Bourchier 
 Wrey, Bart. 
 
 Baronets. 
 
 Prideaux, of Netherton, 1622. — This ancient family was originally of 
 Prideaux castle, in Cornwall. A younger branch settled at Orchardton, 
 in the parish of Modbury, in this county, in the reign of Henry III. 
 The elder line of the Orchardton branch became extinct in the reign of 
 Queen Elizabeth. A younger son of this branch settled at Adeston, in 
 Holbeton, and afterwards removed to Theoborongh, or Thuborough, in 
 Sutcomb. Before the separation from the Orchardton branch, the heiresses 
 of Treverbin and Clifford, and daughters of Mortimer, Earl of March, and 
 Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, had married into this family. Sir John, 
 second son of Sir Piercy Prideaux, of Orchardton, Knight Banneret, 
 acquired Adeston, by his marriage with the heiress of Adeston : his son 
 married the heiress of Gavestone, his grandson, the heiress of Bromford ; 
 his great grandson the heiress of Gitfard, of Thuborough. Sir Richard 
 Prideaux, sixth in descent from Sir John above mentioned, had two sons, 
 William of Thuborough p , and Roger of Soldon, in the parish of Hols- 
 worthy. This Roger had two sons, Nicholas q , and Edmund, an eminent 
 lawyer, who purchased Netherton, and was created a baronet in 1622. 
 The second wife of Sir Edmund Prideaux, the fourth baronet, (who died 
 in 1719,) was a co-heiress of Saunderson of Lincolnshire. Sir Edmund, 
 the fifth baronet, had two daughters co-heiresses, married to Winstanley of 
 Leicestershire, and Basset of Tehidy, in Cornwall. Sir John Prideaux, 
 
 p The late John Prideaux, Esq. of North Tawton, whose heiress married John Sillifant, 
 Esq., of Combe, is supposed to have been the representative of this branch. 
 
 •1 Ancestor of the Prideauxes of Soldon. The heiress of this family married a younger 
 brother of Sir Edmund Prideaux, Bart., who died in 1719. 
 
 half- 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cix 
 
 half-brother of Edmund, was the sixth baronet, and was succeeded by his 
 grandson, Sir John Wihnot Prideaux, the present baronet. 
 
 A younger branch of Prideaux of Netherton, being descended from a 
 younger son of the first baronet, who married a co-heiress of Franceis of 
 Comb Flory, in Somersetshire, was of Ford Abbey. The heiress of this 
 branch, in 1G90, married Gwynn. 
 
 Arms : — Arg. a chevron, S., a label of three points. 
 
 Crest : — On a cap of dignity, a Saracen's head, coupedat the shoulders, 
 looking sideways, Proper. 
 
 Wrey, of Tawstock, 1628. — The ancestors of this ancient family 
 were originally of Wrey, in the parish of Moreton Hampstead, whence 
 they removed to North Russel ', and afterwards, in consequence of a 
 marriage with the heiress of Killigrew, to Trebigh, in Cornwall. Sir 
 William Wrey was described of Trebigh, when created a baronet, in 1628. 
 At an earlier period, the heiresses of Holway and Norris had married into 
 this family. Sir Chichester Wrey, the second baronet, married the Countess 
 Dowager of Middlesex, who was one of the co-heiresses of Edward 
 Bourchier, Earl of Bath. s In consequence of this marriage, he became 
 possessed of Tawstock, in Devonshire, the present seat of the family, and 
 other estates in the county. Sir Bourchier Wrey, the third baronet, was a 
 distinguished military officer. His grandson, Sir Bourchier, is the present 
 and sixth baronet. 
 
 Arms : — Sable, a fesse between three pole-axes, Argent, helved, Gules. 
 
 Crest of Wrey : — An arm embowed, habited, S. the hand, Proper, 
 holding a hatchet, Arg., helved, G. 
 
 The present baronet uses the crest of Bourchier, and bears the arms of 
 Plantagenet, Bourchier, and Bohun, quartered with Wrey. ' 
 
 Pole, of Shute, 1628. — Arthur Pole, ancestor of this ancient family 
 who settled in Devonshire in the reign of Richard II., was a younger son 
 of Pole or Poole, of Poole, in the hundred of Wirral, in Cheshire. This 
 Arthur married the heiress of Pole of Honiton. " Sir William Pole, fifth 
 in descent from Arthur, was the industrious and learned collector of the 
 
 ' It does not appear where North Russel is. s See p. xcviii. 
 
 1 See how they are entitled to these coats, p. xcviii. 
 
 u The father of this heiress had married the heiress of Ockbeare, by the heiress of ayounger 
 branch of Bonville. 
 
 valuable 
 
ex DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 valuable materials for a history of his native county, which were published 
 by his descendant, the late Sir John William De la Pole, in 1791. He 
 married a co-heiress of Chief Baron Periam. His eldest son, John, was 
 created a baronet in the lifetime of his father, and died in 1635. Periam 
 , Pole, a younger son of Sir William, was ancestor of the Poles of Ireland, 
 of whom the late William Pole, Esq. x , was the representative. Sir William 
 Templer Pole y , the present baronet, is the seventh in succession. 
 Arms : — Azure, semee-de-lis, Or, a lion rampant, Argent. 
 Crest : — A lion's gamb, G., armed, Or. 
 
 Bampfylde, of Poltimore, July 14. 1641. — John Baumfield, ancestor of 
 this family, acquired Poltimore, in the reign of Edward I. ; his father 
 married the heiress of Faber, and the pedigree is traced two generations 
 higher. John Baumfield, the fifth in descent from John, who settled at 
 Poltimore, married the heiress of Pederton, and had two sons, the younger 
 of whom was ancestor of the Bampfyldes of Hardington, in Somersetshire, 
 (his mother's inheritance,) extinct about the beginning of the eighteenth 
 century. William, the great grandson of the last-mentioned John, married 
 a co-heiress of St. Maure. John Bampfylde, Esq., the sixth in descent from 
 William, was created a baronet in 1641. He married one of the co- 
 heiresses of the elder branch of Copleston. Sir Richard Warwick Bamp- 
 fylde, the late baronet, married the heiress of Codrington, by the heiress 
 of Gorges of Wraxall, in Somersetshire ; his son, Sir Charles Warwick 
 Bampfylde, is the fifth baronet, and the seventeenth in lineal descent from 
 John Baumfield, who first acquired Poltimore. 
 
 Arms : — ■ Or, on a bend, G., three mullets, Arg. 
 
 Crest : — On a wreath a lion's head, erased, Sab., ducally crowned, G. 
 
 Northcote, of Hayne, July 16. 1641. — This family derives its descent 
 from Galfridus de Northcote, who possessed Northcote, in the parish of 
 East Downe, in the twelfth century. After many descents, during which 
 the heiresses or co-heiresses of Hilion, Meols, Hawkworthy, Guamed or 
 Mamhede, and Passmere, married into the family, Walter Northcote 
 acquired Hayne, in the parish of Newton St. Cyres, by marriage with the 
 
 * He bequeathed his estates to the Honourable William Wellesley, who took the name 
 of Pole. 
 
 i His father, the late baronet, wrote his name De la Pole. 
 
 heiress 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cxi 
 
 heiress of Drew. This Walter left a daughter and heiress, married to 
 Yarde. John Northcote, elder son of his brother John, was created a 
 baronet, in 1641 ; he married the heiress of Haswell ; his son, Sir Arthur, 
 the heiress of Welsh. Sir Henry, the fifth baronet, married the heiress of 
 Stafford, of Pynes, in the parish of Upton Pyne, now the seat of the I 
 family. His son, Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, is the sixth and present 
 baronet. 
 
 Arms: — Quarterly, 1. and 4., Arg., a fesse between three crosses mo- 
 lines, Sab. 2. and 3., Arg., three crosses in bend, S. 
 
 Crest : — Upon a cap of dignity, a stag trippant, Arg. 
 
 Chichester, of Ralegh, August 4. 1641. — This family is said to have 
 taken its name from Cirencester, in Gloucestershire, the residence of ite 
 remote ancestors. The first person of the family mentioned by Prince is 
 Waleran de Cirencester, great-grandfather of Sir Thomas de Cirencester z , 
 who was lord of the manor of St. Mary Church, in the reign of Henry III. 
 Ptichard, great grandson of Sir Thomas, is said to have been the first of 
 the family who wrote his name Chichester. Sir John Chichester, grandson 
 of Richard, married the heiress of Ralegh, of Ralegh, in the parish of 
 Pilton. John, son of Sir John, married the heiress of Woolton, or Wotton, 
 of Widworthy. Richard, a younger son of this John, was ancestor of the 
 Chichesters of Hall. a John, great-grandson of the last-mentioned John, 
 married the heiress of Beaumont, of Youlston : by a second wife, he had 
 two sons, ancestors of the Chichesters - of Arlington b and Widworthy. 
 Edward, son of the first wife, married a daughter of Bourchier, Earl of 
 Bath. His son, Sir John, was father of Sir John Chichester of Ralegh, who 
 died of the gaol-fever, so fatal at the assizes at Exeter, in 1,585; Arthur 
 Chichester, Lord Deputy of Ireland, created Lord Belfast, who died 
 without issue ; Sir Edward Chichester of Eggesford, created Viscount 
 
 1 According to Sir William Pole, Sir Thomas de Cirencester bore for his arms, Arg., a 
 chevron, Azure, a label of three points, Gules. 
 
 a James, son of Richard, married a co-heiress ofGough; John, grandson of James, a co- 
 heiress of Marwood. At a later period, the heiress of Hanvood married into this family. The 
 present representative is Charles Chichester, Esq. now of Hall. This branch has resided at 
 Atherington and at Stowford, in Swimbridge. 
 
 b Arlington, now the seat of John Palmer Chichester, Esq., was settled on a younger branch 
 in the reign of Henry VII. The grandfather of the present Mr. Chichester married the heiress 
 of Palmer of Dorney, Bucks. 
 
 Carrick- 
 
cxii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Carriekfergus, ancestor of the present Marquis of Donegal ; and other 
 children. Sir Robert Chichester, K. B., son of Sir John Chichester of 
 Ralegh, married one of the co-heiresses of Lord Harington of Exeter, by 
 whom he had an only daughter, married to an ancestor of the Earl of 
 I Aylesbury. John Chichester, Esq., of Ralegh, his son by a second wife, 
 was created a baronet in 1641. Sir John Chichester, the fifth baronet, 
 who died in 17§4, married one of the co-heiresses of Sir George Chud- 
 leigh, Bart. Sir Arthur Chichester of Youlston, cousin c of the late Sir 
 John Chichester, is the present and seventh baronet. 
 
 Arms: — Cheeky, Or, and G., a chief Vaire. 
 
 Crest : — On a wreath, a heron rising with an eel in his beak, Proper. 
 
 ^IDavie, ofCreedy, Sept. 9- Kill. — The original name of this family 
 was De la Way, taken from a place called Way or Wey, in the parish of 
 St. Giles, which was their ancient inheritance, and which the heiress of 
 Walter De la Way brought at a very early period to the Pollards. In 
 process of time, the name of the younger branch, which continued the 
 male line, was altered to Dewey, De Vye, or Davy. d Robert de Via, 
 or Davyc, in the early part of the fourteenth century married the 
 heiress of Owlacombe. The heiress of Upcot of Upcot, in Beaford, mar- 
 ried into this family also at an early period. They flourished for many 
 years at Upcot, and at Ebberleigh and Owlacombe or Oldacombe, both 
 in Roborough. 
 
 William Davie, Esq., was member for Barnstaple in 1446 ; his son 
 Richard had two sons, William the elder, who continued at Ebberleigh % 
 and Robert, who settled at Crediton. This Robert married the heiress of 
 
 « Descended from the Rev. William Chichester, a younger son of Sir John Chichester, (grand- 
 father of the late baronet,) who died in 1740. 
 
 d There was a John Davy, one of the bailiffs of Exeter in 1314^. 
 
 c John Davie of Ebberleigh, fourth in descent from Roger, married a co-heiress of Blinsam 
 or Blinsham ; John, grandson of John, a co-hjir ess of Doderidge of Doderidge, in Crediton. 
 John, son of the last-mentioned John, was of Ebberleigh, in 1620 ; he was then the head of the 
 family, and had four sons, of whom Henry wa» the elder; Thomas, the second son of John 
 Davie, by the co-heiress of Blinsam, had settled at Upcot, in Beaford, where his great grand- 
 son Henry was living at the age of 28, in 1620. This is the Henry Davy of Upcot spoken of 
 as an antiquary by Risdon. There were also, in 1620, male descendants of a third son of John 
 Davie, and the co-heiress of Blinsam. Mr. Hugh Davy of Oldacombe, who died in 1763 
 was the last of this elder branch of the family. It is probable that the Davies, merchants of 
 Bideford, ancestors of the Davies ofOrleigb, were descended from one of the younger sons of 
 this branch. 
 
 Thomas, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cxiii 
 
 Thomas, by the heiress of Bardolph, and had four sons, John, ancestor of 
 the Davies of Crediton ; Gilbert, ancestor of the Davies of Canon 
 Teign ' ; Lawrence, ancestor of the Davies of Medland g ; and John, 
 ancestor of the Davies of Creedy. This last-mentioned John was mayor 
 of Exeter in 1584, and in that year entertained Don Antonio, King of 
 Portugal : his son of the same name was created a baronet in 11)41. The 
 second wife of Sir John Davie, the third baronet, was a co-heiress of 
 Reynell, by a co-heiress of Periam. Sir William Davie, his successor, was 
 the son of a younger son of the first baronet ; he also dying without male 
 issue, the title went to John, son of Humphrey, youngest son of the firsA 
 Baronet. This Sir John was great-great grandfather of Sir John Davie^ 
 of Creedy, the present and ninth baronet. 
 
 Arms: — Arg. a chevron, S., between three mullets pierced, Gules. ^^ 
 
 Crest : — A holy lamb. 
 
 Acland, of Columbjohn, l6tk — This ancient family derived its name 
 from Aclana, or Akeland, (i. e. Oakland,) in the parish of Landkey, which 
 had been their property and residence for sixteen descents at the time of 
 the last heralds' visitation, in 1620. Before the year 1500, the heiresses 
 or co-heiresses of Leigh, (of Leigh in Loxbeare,) Hawkridge, Riverton, 
 and Hakworthy, had married into the family. John Acland, who lived about 
 the latter end of the fifteenth, or the beginning of the sixteenth century, 
 had two sons, the younger of whom, Anthony, left posterity settled at 
 Hawkridge, and afterwards at Fremington. " John, grandson of the last- 
 mentioned John, (in the elder line,) married a co-heiress of Radcliffe, and 
 had two sons, the younger of whom, Sir John Acland, is recorded by 
 Prince for his extensive charities, and his benefactions to his native county 
 and to the university of Oxford. He built the house at Columbjohn, 
 which was some time the chief seat of the family. 
 
 Sir Arthur Acland, son of Hugh, elder brother of Sir John, and heir 
 to his father and uncle, married the heiress of Malet of Wooley. John 
 (son of Sir Arthur) was a zealous royalist, and garrisoned his house at 
 
 ■Edmund Davie, M. D., the last of this branch, died in 1692, and was buried in Exeter 
 cathedral. 
 
 s In Cheriton Bishop. Andrew Davy, the last of this branch, (so they spell their name,) died 
 in 1722. 
 
 h John Acland, Esq., the last of this branch, died in 1767 : his sisters and co-heiresses 
 married Barbor and Fortescue : the latter had no issue. 
 
 Vol. VI. p Columb- 
 
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 cxiv DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Columbjohn for the King. He was created a baronet in 1644, but the patent 
 not having been made out, it was confirmed to his younger son Hugh', in 
 1677. with precedency from the date of the former patent. Sir Hugh Acland, 
 the sixth baronet, (being grandson of the last-mentioned Hugh,) married 
 a co-heiress of Sir Thomas Wroth, Bart. A younger son of this Sir Hugh 
 settled at Fairfield in Somersetshire. k Sir Thomas Acland, the seventh 
 baronet, married the heiress of Dyke of Somersetshire, and was succeeded 
 by his grandson John, son of the brave Major Acland, distinguished by 
 his gallant services in America, and of the excellent Lady Harriot ', whose 
 fferings and resolution, during an anxious attendance upon her husband, 
 ftughout the perils of a long campaign, have been related by the pen of 
 neral Burgoyne, and will bear comparison with what has been recorded 
 f the most celebrated heroine of antiquity. The present and tenth 
 aronet is son of the late- baronet, and nephew of the brave Major Acland 
 and Lady Harriot. 
 
 Arms : — Cheeky A. and S., a fesse, G. 
 
 Crest : — On a wreath a man's hand couped at the wrist, with a glove 
 on, and a falcon perched thereon, Proper. 
 
 Carew, of Haccombe, 1661. — The first of the ancient baronial family 
 of Carew, or De Carru, who was connected with Devonshire, was Sir 
 John de Carru, who married one of the co-heiresses of Sir William Mohun, 
 of Mohun's Ottery, about the year 1S0O. The only son of this marriage 
 died without issue. Sir John's second wife was a daughter of Lord 
 Talbot. Sir Nicholas, his great-great-grandson, married the heiress of 
 Courtenay of Haccombe, by the heiress of L'Ercedekne, Archdekne, or 
 Archdeacon. This lady, being in her widowhood possessed of most of 
 the great estates of the family, gave Haccombe to her second son m Nicho- 
 
 ' Sir Francis, the elder son of the first baronet, died without issue ; Sir John, the younger 
 son, succeeded to the title, and had an only son, Sir Arthur, who died in his minority. 
 
 k See p. cxx. ' Daughter of Stephen, Earl of Ilchester. 
 
 "' Sir Thomas Carew, the elder son, inherited Mohun's Ottery, and married a co-heiress of 
 C'arminow ; his son, Sir Nicholas, who was buried in Westminster Abbey, married one of the 
 co-heiresses of John Lord Dinham ; Sir Edmund Carew, his son, had three sons, Sir William, 
 whose two sons, Sir Peter and Sir Gawen, both distinguished military characters, died without 
 issue, and whose only daughter married Kirkham of Blagdon. Thomas, ancestor of the 
 Carews of Bickleigh, one of whose coheiresses married Sir Thomas Carew, Bart., of Hac- 
 combe, and George, father of George Carew, created Earl of Totnes. 
 
 las. 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cxv 
 
 las. Thomas Carew, Esq., sixth in descent from Nicholas, was created a 
 baronet in 1661 ; he married a co-heiress of Carew of Bickleigh, and to 
 his second wife, the heiress of Duck, by whom he had an only daughter. 
 Sir Thomas, the fourth baronet, married one of the co-heiresses of West. 
 His great grandson, Sir Henry, the seventh and present baronet, married 
 the heiress of the late Walter Palk, Esq. 
 
 Arms : — See Carew Earl of Totnes. 
 
 Crest : — On a wreath, a main-mast, the round top set off with palisa- 
 does, Or, a lion issuing thereout, Sable . 
 
 Supporters : — Two antelopes, G., armed and unguled, Arg. 
 
 Rogers, of Wisdom, 1698. — John Rogers, Esq., who was created a 
 baronet by King William III., was an eminent merchant and M. P. for 
 Plymouth : he was the immediate descendant of Mr. John Rogers, the 
 first martyr in Queen Mary's reign. Sir John Lemon Rogers is the fourth 
 in descent from the first Sir John, and is the fifth baronet. The seat of 
 the family has been, of late years, at Blachford in Cornwood. Wisdom 
 is now a farm-house. 
 
 Arms: — Arg. a chevron, G., between three roebucks current, S., attired 
 and gorged with ducal coronets, Or. 
 
 Crest : — On a mount, Vert., a roebuck current, Proper, attired and 
 gorged with a ducal coronet, Or, between two branches of laurel, Proper. 
 
 Duntze, of Rockbeare House, 1774. — John Duntze, a merchant in 
 Exeter, and M. P. for Tiverton, was created a baronet in 1774, and was 
 father of Sir John Duntze of Tiverton, the second and present baronet. 
 
 Arms : — Arg. a holy lamb passant, Or. 
 
 Crest : — A mullet between two eagles' wings. 
 
 Baker, of Loventor, in the parish of Berry Pomeroy, 1776. — Sir 
 George Baker, late physician in ordinary to His Majesty, was created a 
 baronet Aug. 24. 1776. His father was rector of West Allington, and 
 his ancestors had for several generations been possessed of property in the 
 county. Sir Frederick, son of Sir George, the second and present baronet, 
 resides at Bath, but possesses property in the county. Loventor is inha- 
 bited by his aunt. 
 
 p 2 Arms: 
 
 r~'» 
 
 i 
 
cxvi DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Arms : — Arg. on a saltier engrailed, Sable, five escallops of the first ; 
 on a chief of the second a lion passant of the field. 
 
 Crest : — A dexter arm embovved, vested, Azure, cuffed, Arg., holding 
 in the hand, Proper, an arrow of the last. 
 
 Palk, of Haldon House, 1782. — The ancestors of this family were 
 resident in Devonshire, and possessed of Ambrook, in the parish of Ipple- 
 pen, about the end of the fifteenth century. Sir Robert Palk was created 
 a baronet in 1782. The present and third baronet, Sir Lawrence Vaughan 
 Palk, is his grandson, being son of the late Sir Lawrence, by Lady Eliza- 
 beth Vaughan, daughter of Wilmot, Earl of Lisburne. 
 
 Arms : — S. an eagle displayed, Arg., beaked and legged, Or, a border 
 engrailed of the second. 
 
 Crest : — On a semiterrestrial globe of the northern hemisphere, Proper, 
 an eagle rising, as in the arms. 
 
 Buller, of Lupton, 1789. — The late eminent lawyer, Francis Buller, 
 Esq., a younger son of James Buller, Esq., of Shdlingfbrd in Cornwall, 
 and of Downe, in Devonshire, and one of the justices of the court of 
 King's Bench, married the heiress of Yarde of Lupton, in the parish of 
 Brixham. He was created a baronet November 28, I7S9. His son, 
 Sir Francis, the present baronet, who took the name of Yarde, has not 
 resided in Devonshire since he inherited the title ; but the estates and 
 Lupton are still in the family. 
 
 Arms : — Quarterly of nine, S. and A., in the second, fourth, sixth, and 
 eighth quarter, an eagle displayed of the first. 
 
 Crest : — A Saracen's head, couped, Proper. 
 
 Kennaway, of Escot, 1791. — John Kennaway, Esq., son of a merchant 
 of Exeter of Scottish origin, distinguished himself in the wars in India 
 against Hyder Ali and Tippoo Sultan, and in negotiating the alliance 
 between the East India Company and the Nizam, in 1790, and the treaty 
 of peace between the allied powers and Tippoo, in 1792. He was created 
 a baronet for the former services in 1791 • Escot House having been burnt 
 down and not rebuilt, Sir John Kennaway resides in a house not far 
 distant. 
 
 Arms : 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cxvii 
 
 Arms : — Arg. a fesse, Az., between two eagles displayed in chief, and 
 in base an annulet, G., through which a slip of olive and another of palm 
 
 in saltier. 
 
 Crest : — An eagle rising, Proper, from the beak an escocheon pendant, 
 
 Azure, charged with the sun in splendour, Proper. 
 
 Hamlyn Williams, of Clovelly Court, 1795. — Richard Hammett, Esq., 
 father of Sir James Hamlyn, married the heiress of Risdon of Woolfardis- 
 worthy : his son James, who took the name of Hamlyn in 17<J0, pursuant 
 to the will of his great uncle Zachary Hamlyn, Esq., of Clovelly Court, was 
 created a baronet in 1?95, and died in 1811 : he married the heiress of 
 Williams of Carmarthenshire. His son, Sir James Hamlyn Williams, the 
 present baronet, took the name of Williams, in addition to Hamlyn, in 
 
 1798. 
 
 Arms of Hamlyn : — Or, a falcon regardant, the wings elevated, S., 
 
 belled, G., between three roses. 
 
 Arms of Williams : — G. a lion rampant, per fesse wavy, A., and Erm. 
 ducally crowned, Or. 
 
 Crest : A swan with wings endorsed, Arg.. collared, G, winged, 
 
 beaked, and legged, Or, holding in the beak a bolt, Sable. 
 
 Crest of Williams : — A demi-swan, A., the wings elevated, S., each 
 charged with a rose of the first, on the breast a birdbolt erect of the 
 second, the head downwards. 
 
 Milman, of Levaton in Woodland, Nov. 4. 1800. — The late Sir 
 Francis Milman, physician to His Majesty, who was created a baronet in 
 1800, was son of the Rev. Francis Milman, and grandson of another 
 Francis Milman, both beneficed in Devonshire, and descended from the 
 ancient family of Milman of Yorkshire, and of Chelsea near London. 
 The late Sir Francis married the heiress of Hart of Stapledon, in Glou- 
 cestershire : his elder son, Sir Francis, is the present baronet. The grand- 
 father married a co-heiress of Dyer, of Levaton. 
 
 Arms : — Azure, a serpent nowed, Proper, between three sinister gaunt- 
 lets, Arg. 
 
 Crest: — A stag lodged, per pale, Erm. and Erminois, attired, Or, the 
 
 body charged with two hurts. 
 
 Elford, 
 
cxviii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Elford, of Bickham, Nov. 26. 1800. — This ancient family is said to 
 have been of Cornish extraction. Robert de Elford was sheriff of Devon- 
 shire in 1302. Before the year 1400, they settled at Longstone, in the 
 parish of Shipstor, where the elder branch remained till 1748, when it 
 became extinct in the male line. John Elford, of Longstone, in 1517, 
 married the heiress of Scudamore. John, the fourth in descent from the 
 last-mentioned John, married a co-heiress of Copleston, by whom he had 
 four daughters ; two of these married into the Fortescue family ; and a 
 third married Woollcombe. The Rev. Lancelot Elford, who, on the ex- 
 tinction of the Longstone branch, had become the male representative of 
 the family, was father of Sir William Elford, created a baronet in 1800. 
 A co-heiress of Hals married into this family. Sir William resides at 
 Bickham, which has for a considerable time been the seat of his branch of 
 the family." 
 
 Arms : — Quarterly, 1 and 4., per pale, wavy, A. and S., a lion ramp- 
 ant, G., 2 and 3. Arg., three stirrups and leathers, Sab., for Scudamore. 
 
 Crest: — A demilion rampant, per pale, wavy, A. and S., ducally 
 crowned, Or. 
 
 Lethbridge, of Sandhill Park, 1804. — John Lethbridge, Esq. of West- 
 away House, in Devonshire, great grandson of John Lethbridge, who 
 married a co-heiress of Bourchier of Westaway, was created a baronet in 
 1804, and was father of Sir Thomas Buckler Lethbridge, Bart., who re- 
 sides at Sandhill Park, in Somersetshire, but possesses Court in Winkleigh, 
 and other lands in this county. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, over water, Proper, a bridge embattled of five arches ; 
 on the centre arch a turret, G., in chief an eagle displayed, S., charged on 
 the breast with a bezant. 
 
 Crest: — From a bridge embattled of one arch a demi-eagle issuant, 
 S., wings elevated Erminois ; on the breast a leopard's face, Or. 
 
 Lopes, of Maristow, 1S05. — Manasseh Masseh Lopes, Esq., of Mari- 
 stow House, son of Abraham Lopes, Esq., of the island of Jamaica, was 
 created a baronet in 1805, with remainder to his nephew, Ralph Franco. 
 
 n Jonathan Elford, of Bickham, was second son of John Elford, (then the representative of 
 the family,) who was li years of age in 1620. 
 
 Arms : 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cxix 
 
 Arms : — Az. a chevron, Or, charged with five barrulets, G., between 
 three eagles rising of the second ; on a chief of the same, five lozenges of 
 the field. 
 
 Crest: — A lion seiant Erminois, gorged with a collar gemelle, G., the 
 dexter fore-paw resting on a lozenge, Azure. 
 
 Louis, of Cadwell, 1806. — The late Admiral Sir Thomas Louis, of 
 French extraction, was, for his gallant services in the West Indies, created 
 a baronet in 1806, and was succeeded in the title by his son now Sir John 
 Louis, who is a captain in the navy. 
 
 Arms : — Az. a lion rampant, Arg. charged on the shoulder, with an 
 eagle displayed, S. ; on a chief wavy Erin., an anchor erect of the third ; 
 the shank surrounded with a naval coronet ; the rim Az., the stern and 
 sails, Proper. 
 
 Crest: — A griffin's head erased, between two wings elevated, Or, in the 
 beak a fleur-de-lis, on the breast a trident erect, Or. 
 
 Supporters : — On the dexter side a British sailor, habited, Proper, his 
 exterior hand supporting a staff, thereon hoisted a flag, Arg., charged with 
 a cross, G. surmounted by a pair of wings, Or, and inscribed with the words 
 St. Domingo, in base, Sable. 
 
 On the sinister an allegorical figure, representing the Nile, the head and 
 the upper part of the face concealed by a veil, Arg., the mantle Vert., in- 
 scribed with hieroglyphicks ; wreathed about the waste with bulrushes, 
 Proper, and in the exterior hand an ancient rudder, Or. 
 
 Perring, of Membland, or Memland, in the parish of Holbeton, 1808. — 
 John Perring, Esq., alderman of London, and of Memland, in Devonshire, 
 (which estate was purchased by his uncle, Peter Perring, Esq.,) was 
 created a baronet in 1808. 
 
 Arms: — Argent, on a chevron, Sable, between three leopards' faces of 
 the fields, as many fir-cones, Proper. 
 
 Crest : — A fir-cone, Proper. 
 
 Duckworth, of Weare, September, 1813. — Sir John Thomas Duck- 
 worth, K. B., then Admiral of the Blue, who had been distinguished by a 
 series of brilliant services, was created a baronet in 1813: he died in 
 1817, an d was succeeded by his son, John Thomas, a minor. 
 
 Arms : — Arg., on a chevron, Az., between two ducks in chief, Proper, 
 
 and 
 
cxx DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 and a naval crown in base of the second, a bomb fired between two etoiles, 
 Or, on a chief of the second, the words St. Domingo encircled by two 
 branches of laurel, Or. 
 
 Crest : — A castle fired, Proper, supported on the sinister side by a 
 sea-lion, Azure. 
 
 Supporters, granted in 1814 : — On the dexter side, a human figure, 
 holding in the exterior hand a sword erect, Proper, pannel and hilt, Or; 
 around the head a halo, composed of seventeen etoiles of the last ; across the 
 dexter shoulder a belt, Az. fimbriated, and charged with three etoiles, Or, 
 the waist encircled by a vest, Arg. ; pendant from the sinister side a scab- 
 bard of the second, and under the feet the hide of an ox, Proper; the 
 same being emblematical of the constellation Orion, the name of his 
 Majesty's ship commanded by Sir J. T. Duckworth, on the 1st of June, 
 1 794. 
 
 On the sinister side, a British sailor habited, Proper, the exterior hand 
 supporting a flag-staff; thereon hoisted the flag of a Rear Admiral of the 
 White Squadron, Proper, with the word Minorca inscribed on the cross 
 in letters of gold ; to commemorate his services at Minorca. 
 
 Palmer Acland, of Newhouse, Devon, and of Fairfield, Somersetshire, 
 1818. — John Palmer Acland, Esq., who was created a baronet in October, 
 ISIS, is the grandson of Sir Hugh Acland, Bart., being the eldest surviv- 
 ing son of Arthur Acland, Esq., by the heiress of Oxenh'am, who married 
 the heiress of Long; of Newhouse. Sir John Acland took the name of 
 Palmer, of Fairfield, in Somersetshire, in addition to that of Acland, in 
 181S. Sir John Palmer Acland bears the arms of Acland and Palmer, 
 quarterly, and the crests of both families. 
 
 Arms of Palmer: — Or, two bars, G., each charged with three cinque- 
 foils ; in chief a greyhound current, Sable. 
 
 Crest : — A demi-panther, A., semee of hurts, bezants, torteauxes, and 
 pommes ; in the paws a branch of palm-tree fructed, Proper. 
 
 Drake, of Nutwell, 1821. — Francis Drake, who was created a baronet 
 in 1622, was nephew of the great Sir Francis Drake, and son of John Drake, 
 some time vicar of Upnor, in Dorsetshire ; but it does not appear that he 
 was of the same family as the Drakes of the eastern part of Devonshire. 
 The title became extinct, in 1794, by the death of Sir Francis Henry 
 
 Drake, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cxxi 
 
 Drake, Bart., who bequeathed Buckland, and other family estates in 
 Devonshire, to the late Lord Heathfield, son of his sister and heir", who 
 had married the gallant defender of Gibraltar. The late Lord Heathfield 
 dying without issue, his estates devolved on Thomas Trayton Fuller, Esq., 
 second surviving son of John Trayton Fuller, Esq., of Brightling, in 
 Sussex, who had married his sister and heir. Mr. T. T. Fuller, in 1813, 
 took the additional names of Elliot and Drake, and in July, 1821, was 
 created a baronet. 
 
 Francis Samuel, a younger son of Sir Francis Henry, the fourth baronet, 
 (who died in 1740,) was an admiral in the navy, and was, in 1782, created 
 a baronet, for his share in Sir George Rodney's glorious action. The title 
 became extinct at his death, in 1789. 
 
 Arms : — Sable, a fesse wavy, between two pole stars, Arg. ; borne 
 quarterly p with Elliot and Fuller. q 
 
 Crest : — On a helmet, a ship under ruff, drawn round the globe with a 
 cable rope, by a hand out of the clouds. Over it this motto : Auxilio di- 
 vino, and underneath it, Sic parvis magna. 
 
 These arms, with the crest, were granted to Sir Francis Drake, the 
 circ u mnavigator. 
 
 Sir Walter Roberts, who resides at Courtland, near Exmouth, is son of 
 Sir Thomas Roberts, of Glassenbury, in Kent, and of Brightfield town, in 
 the county of Cork. Sir Thomas was created a baronet in 1809. 
 
 Arms : — Az. on a chevron, Arg., double cottised, Or, three mullets 
 pierced, Sable. 
 
 Crest : — On a mount vert an eagle displayed, Erm., wings, Arg., gorged 
 with a wreath of shamrocks. 
 
 It would be improper, whilst treating of the Devonshire baronets, to omit 
 the name of Bastard, of Kitley, although the gentleman on whom the title 
 was so handsomely conferred declined the honour. The patent had 
 passed the privy seal, and was gazetted before it was notified to the party 
 thus deservedly honoured. It is in the recollection of many yet living, 
 that William Bastard, Esq., of Kitley, made a most prompt tender of his 
 services upon the appearance of the combined fleet off Plymouth, in 1779 ; 
 on the 16th of August, he offered the governor to raise 500 men, as a 
 
 ° The other co-heiress married the Rev. John Pugh. 
 
 P Seep. civ. i Arg. 3 bars and a canton, Gules. 
 
 Vol. VI. q corps 
 
cxxii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 corps of fencibles ; setting the first example of raising men for the public 
 service at that important juncture. On the 18th, he had to select from 
 1500 young men, contending who should have the honour of serving under 
 him in defence of their country. On the 1 9th, his regiment being com- 
 plete, and officered by the principal gentlemen of the neighbourhood, he 
 was appointed to the service of guarding the French prisoners on their 
 march to Exeter. On the 23d, they set out from the prison at Plymouth, 
 and on the 25th he delivered them, being about 1300 in number, to the 
 commanding officer at that city. With a due sense of the merit of these 
 prompt services, the late king signed the warrant for a baronetcy, which 
 was gazetted on the 1st of September, and notified to Mr. Bastard, in a 
 letter from Earl Paulett, on the 4th. The title thus handsomely conferred 
 was modestly declined, with a due sense of the intended honour. 
 
 The ancient family of Bastard derives its origin from Robert Bastard, 
 who held several manors in this county, in the reign of William the Con- 
 queror. An an early period, Efford, in the parish of Egg Buckland, was 
 for several generations the seat of this family. Sir William Pole reckons 
 Bastard among the old families whose estates had been sold, but whose 
 descendants remained in the county ; and he mentions William Bastard, 
 Esq., " learned in the laws," as living, in his time, at Wolston, in West 
 Allington. Garston, or Gerson, in that parish, was the chief residence of 
 the immediate ancestors of the late William Bastard, Esq., already men- 
 tioned. Kitley was acquired in marriage with the heiress of Pollexfen, 
 about the beginning of the last century. The heiresses of Atley and 
 Killiowe, had previously married into this family. The present represent- 
 ative of the family is Edmund Pollexfen Bastard, Esq., one of the members 
 of the county, grandson of William Bastard, Esq., created a baronet as 
 above mentioned, and nephew of the late John Pollexfen Bastard, Esq., 
 who was one of the representatives of the county in several parliaments. 
 His younger brother, John Bastard, Esq. M. P. for Dartmouth, resides at 
 Sharpham, which was the inheritance of his mother, the heiress of Pownall. 
 Arms of Bastard : — Or, a chevron, Azure. 
 
 Crest : — Out of a wreath, a dexter arm embowed in plate armour, 
 Proper ; garnished, Or, the elbow towards the sinister ; the hand in a gauntlet 
 grasping a sword, also Proper, pomel and hilt, Or, in bend sinister, the 
 point downwards. 
 
 Extinct 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 CXX11! 
 
 Extinct Baronets, and such as are no longer connected "with the County. 
 Rjdgway, of Torwood, 1612. — See p. cvii. 
 
 Chudleigh, of Ashton, 1622. — This ancient family was originally of 
 Chudleigh. They acquired Broad Clist by purchase, and settled there in 
 the reign of Edward III. Some time afterwards they removed to Ashton 
 which came into the family with the heiress of Prous, in the rei^n of 
 Edward II. John Chudleigh, the third in descent in the pedigree, entered 
 at the Heralds' visitation, in 1620, married the heiress of Martin ; his 
 grandson, a co-heiress of Novant. Christopher, the ninth in descent, 
 married the heiress of Stretchley, of Stretchley : his son John died in the 
 Streights of Magellan, being on a voyage of discovery, in the reign of 
 Queen Elizabeth. George Chudleigh, Esq., his grandson, was created a 
 baronet in 1622. Sir George Chudleigh, who married one of the co- 
 heiresses of Sir William Davie, Bart., of Creedy, died in 1738, lea vino- 
 three daughters co-heiresses, married to Oxendon, Chichester, and Pri- 
 deaux. The title and the male line of this ancient family became extinct 
 by the death of Sir James Chudleigh, the sixth baronet, who was killed at 
 the siege of Ostend, in 1745. The celebrated Duchess of Kingston was 
 daughter and heiress of Colonel Thomas Chudleigh, yonnger brother of 
 Sir George Chudleigh, above mentioned. 
 
 Arms : — Ermine, three lioncels rampant, Gules. 
 
 Crest : — On a wreath, a savage, Proper, a garland about his head, a 
 bugle-horn hanging on a string from his shoulder, on his left side ; his left 
 arm bent, and in his right hand a Hercules club, Proper. 
 
 Supporters : — Two savages, or wild men, Proper. 
 
 Drake, of Buckland Monachorum, 1622. — See p. cxx. 
 
 Hele, of Fleet, 1627. — Sir William Pole describes two ancient families 
 of this name, one descended from Hele, of Hele, in the parish of Brad- 
 ninch ; the other of Hele, in the parish of Cornwood ; but the pedigree, in 
 the Heralds' Visitation of 1620, makes all the Heles to descend from the 
 former, the heiress of the elder branch of which married Francis, in the 
 
 1 * reign 
 
cxxiv DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 reign of Richard II. p About this time Roger, a younger brother of the 
 family, is said to have settled in Cornwood. John, the third in descent, of 
 that place, married the heiress of Broking, and appears to have died with- 
 out issue. Hugh, a younger brother, who succeeded to the Cornwood 
 estate, was ancestor of the Heles of Cornwood and Diptford. Jacob Bick- 
 ford Hele, Esq., now of Stert in Diptford, is the representative of this 
 branch, and of the ancient family of Hele. 
 
 Nicholas, a younger brother of Hugh, was of South Hele, and had by 
 two wives several sons. The elder died without issue. John, the second, 
 was ancestor of the Heles of Gnaton and Holwell q ; Thomas, ancestor of 
 the Heles of Fleet ; Hugh, ancestor of those of Newton Ferrers r ; Walter, 
 ancestor of the Heles of Brixton s ; and Sir John Hele, Sergeant-at-la\v, 
 ancestor of the Heles of Wembury. ' 
 
 Thomas Hele, Esq., of Fleet, above mentioned, was created a baronet 
 in 1627 : his son Samuel, and the two sons of Samuel, (Samuel and Henry,) 
 successively enjoyed the title, which became extinct on the death of Sir 
 Henry Hele, the fourth baronet, in 1677- Under the will of the first Sir 
 Samuel, the Fleet estate passed to his cousin Richard, on the death of 
 whose great grandson, James Modyford Hele, in ]7lG, the Fleet branch 
 of the Heles became extinct. Mr. Bulteel is the representative of this 
 branch. 
 
 Arms : — Gules, a bend lozengy, Ermine. 
 
 Crest : — On a chapeau, a falcon, the wings elevated, Arg. 
 
 Pollard, of Kings Nympton, I627. — This ancient family was of Way, 
 
 p Nicholas, the last of the elder branch, (whose heiress married Francis,) had himself married 
 the heiress of Percehay. 
 
 1 The Holwell branch became extinct in the early part of the last century, by the death of 
 Roger Hele, Esq., who left two daughters ; Juliana, married to the Duke of Leeds, by whom 
 she had no issue, and afterwards to the Earl of Portmore, ancestor of the present Earl ; and 
 Charity, married to the Right Hon. George Treby, whose representatives are Paul Treby Treby, 
 Esq., Treby Hele Hayes, Esq., and Arthur Kelly, jun., Esq. 
 
 r The Heles of Newton Ferrers were descended, according to Prince, from Hugh, second sou 
 of Nicholas Hele, by his second wife. This branch is supposed to have been long ago extinct. 
 
 s The Heles of Brixton were descended from Walter, whom Prince calls the third son of 
 Nicholas, by his second wife, but whom other accounts make the second. He was father of 
 Elizeus Hele, who died in 1635, and bequeathed his estates to charitable uses ; and another 
 son, whose posterity failed after two generations. 
 
 ' Sergeant Hele, by a co-heiress of Warwick, had Sir Warwick Hele, Sir Francis, and other 
 sons ; but the male issue of this branch became extinct by the death of John, son of Sir Francis. 
 The heiress of this branch married Sir Edward Hungerford, K. B. 
 
 near 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cxxv 
 
 near Torrington, in the reign of Henry III. John Pollard, in the reign of 
 Edward II., married the heiress of Doddescomb ; his son Walter, the heiress 
 of Cornu of Horwood, which became the chief seat of the family. The 
 elder branch of the Pollards of Way and Horwood continued in the male 
 line till the reign of Queen Elizabeth. There was remaining in Sir William 
 Pole's time (about 1620) an ancient branch of this family, then residing at 
 Langley, in High Bickington, descended from Roger, second son of the 
 heiress of Doddescomb, which Roger married a co-heiress of Harford, and 
 the fourth in descent from him, the heiress of Britton, of Langley. This 
 branch is extinct. 
 
 Sir Lewis Pollard, made one of the Justices of the Court of Common 
 Pleas in 1515, was son of Robert, second son of John Pollard (which 
 John was son of the heiress of Cornu). Sir Lewis purchased Kings 
 Nympton, and built the family seat there. Lewis Pollard, Esq., his imme- 
 diate descendant, was created a baronet in I627. Sir Hugh, the second 
 baronet, was a zealous royalist, and was governor of Dartmouth, at the 
 time of its capture by Sir Thomas Fairfax, in 1646 : he was afterwards 
 comptroller of the household to King Charles II. At his death, in 1667, 
 the title became extinct. Robert, fourth son of the Judge, settled at 
 Knoweston Beaupell, and his posterity remained there in 1630. 
 
 Arms : — Arg., a chevron, Sab., between three escallops, G. 
 
 Crest : — A stag, trippant, Arg., attired, Or. 
 
 Lawday, of Exeter, 1612. — Sir Richard Lawday, who was created a 
 baronet in 1642, lost his life in the King's service during the civil war. 
 Mr. William Lawday, some time of the city of Bath, and one of the 
 sheriff's officers for Somersetshire, claims to be the immediate male repre- 
 sentative of Sir Richard. The title, nevertheless, has lain dormant ever 
 since his death, and Le Neve says that he died without issue. 
 
 Arms : — Party per Saltier, G. and Sab., a griffin segreant, Or. 
 
 Crest : — A talbot's head issuing out of a mural crown. 
 
 Drake, of Ash, 1660. — John Drake, ancestor of this family, settled 
 at Ash, in the parish of Musbury, in consequence of a marriage with the 
 heiress of Billett. Gilbert, third son of John Drake, the fourth in descent, 
 was of Axmouth, and had three sons u ; George Drake, the elder, who 
 
 was 
 
 ■ It is probable that one of these was ancestor of the Drakes of Bystock, near Exmouth, of 
 
 whom George Drake, Esq., of Ipplepen, is the present representative : his ancestor married 
 
 one 
 
cxxvi DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 was of Spratshayes, in the parish of Littleham, left an only daughter, 
 married to Forde. 
 
 Sir Bernard Drake, grandson of the last-mentioned John, was an eminent 
 naval commander in the reign of Queen Elizabeth : he died of the gaol- 
 fever (caught at the assizes at Exeter) in 1585. Robert, an uncle of Sir 
 Bernard, was of Wiscomb, in the parish of South Leigh. * Richard, a 
 younger brother of Robert, was ancestor of the Drakes of Shardeloes, in 
 Buckinghamshire. Sir John Drake, Knt., grandson of Sir Bernard, 
 had a younger brother, William, ancestor of the Drakes of Yardbury. y 
 Sir John Drake, eldest son of Sir John above mentioned, by a co-heiress of 
 Lord Boteler of Bramfield, was created a baronet in 166'0. The title 
 became extinct on the death of Sir William Drake, the fifth baronet, in 
 1733. 
 
 Arms : — Arg., a wyvern witli wings displayed, Gules. 
 
 Crest : z — On a wreath a spread eagle, Gules. 
 
 Colleton, of Exmouth, or London, 1G0O. — John Colleton, created a 
 baronet in 1060, was, or had been, a merchant in Exeter, and was descended 
 from an ancient family, which took its name from the village of Collaton : 
 he was one of the lords proprietors of South Carolina. This family had 
 some time a residence at or near Exmouth. On the death of Sir John 
 Snell Colleton, in 1801, the title went to his cousin, Sir John Nassau 
 Colleton, grandson of Sir John Colleton, who died in 1778. The present 
 and seventh baronet is Lieut.-Colonel Sir James Roupell Colleton. 
 
 Arms : — Or, three stags' heads couped, Proper. 
 
 Crest : — A stag's head. 
 
 one of the co-heiresses of Sir Henry Ford, in the reign of Charles II. A younger branch of 
 the Drake family settled in and near Barnstaple, are descended from Henry Drake, Esq., mayor 
 of Barnstaple in 1679 : Henry Drake, Esq., of this branch, is now town-clerk of that borough. 
 
 * The Drakes of Wiscomb left posterity. The elder son of the family, and a younger 
 brother, who married the heiress of Crukerne of Dorsetshire, had both male issue in 1620. 
 
 y Yardbury was acquired by marriage with the heiress of Westofer. The representative of 
 this branch is Francis Horatio Nelson Drake, Esq., of Wells, son of the late Francis Drake, 
 Esq., who had resided, in the capacity of minister, at several foreign courts : his great grand- 
 father married a co-heiress of Pennington. 
 
 z The old crest of the family was an arm issuing from a wreath, Proper, holding a battle-axe, 
 Sable, helved, Arg. 
 
 MoiUCE, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cxxvii 
 
 Morice, of Wellington, April 20. 1661 William, elder son of Sir 
 
 William Morice, principal Secretary of State to King Charles II., who 
 was a native of the city of Exeter, and of Welch origin, was created a 
 baronet in 1661. The title became extinct on the death of Sir William, 
 the third baronet, in 17-19. His sisters and co-heiresses married Sir John 
 St. Aubyn, Bart., and Sir John Molesworth, Bart. 
 
 The Right Honourable Humphrey Morice, M. P. for Launceston, and 
 some time Lord Warden of the Stannaries, who died in 1785, without 
 issue, was descended from a younger brother of the first baronet. 
 
 Arms : — G., a lion rampant regardant, Or. 
 
 Crest : — On a wreath, a falcon standing on a perch, Or. 
 
 Fowell, of Fowells Combe, April 30. 1661. — This family is traced for 
 nine descents in the Heralds' Visitation of 1620. Thomas, the first men- 
 tioned in the pedigree, married the heiress of Trevaige of Cornwall ; his 
 son Richard, the heiress of Hayes. Sir Edmund Fowell was created a 
 baronet in 1661. The title became extinct by the death of his grandson, 
 Sir John Fowell, the third baronet, in 1692. The co-heiresses married 
 Parker and Champernowne. 
 
 A younger branch of the Fowells was settled at Blackball in North 
 Huish, of which the Rev. John Digby Fowell is the representative. The 
 heiress of Newton of Crabaton, and a co-heiress of Knowling, have 
 married into this branch. 
 
 Arms : — Arg., a chevron, S., on a chief, G., three mullets of the first. 
 
 Crest : — An heraldic tiger issuing out of a mural crown. 
 
 *s^ 
 
 Yonge, of Colyton, September 26. 1661. — Walter Yonge, a younger 
 son of the Yonges of Berkshire, whose ancestor had represented Bristol in 
 parliament in the fourteenth century, settled in Devonshire in the reign 
 of Henry VII. John Yonge, grandson of Walter, married the heiress 
 of Colliton. Walter, grandson of John, married a co-heiress of Peiyam, 
 and was father of John Yonge, Esq., created a baronet in 1661. Sir 
 Walter Yonge, the third baronet, married to his second wife a co-heiress 
 of Williams ; Sir William Yonge, the fourth baronet, a co-heiress of Lord 
 Howard of Effingham ; Sir George Yonge, the last baronet, the heiress 
 of Cleve. It is remarkable that Sir William and Sir George Yonge, the 
 two last baronets, were both members of the Privy Council, and Knights 
 
 of 
 
cxxviii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 of the Bath, and both held the office of Secretary of War. Sir William 
 had also been successively one of the lords commissioners of the Treasury 
 and the Admiralty. Sir George was governor of the Cape of Good Hope : 
 the title became extinct at his death in 1812. 
 
 Arms : — Erm., on a bend between two cottises, S., three griffins' heads 
 erased, Or. 
 
 Crest : — On a wreath, A. and S., a boar's head erased, bristled, Or, 
 mantled, G., doubled, Argent. 
 
 Slanning, of Maristow, 1662. — The ancestor of this famdy having 
 married the heiress of Nicholas At-Ley, settled at Ley, in the parish of 
 Shaugh. They were afterwards of Bickleigh and Maristow. Sir Nicholas 
 Slanning, a distinguished officer in the royal army, who was killed at 
 the siege of Bristol, left a son of the same name, who was one of the 
 Knights of the Bath at the coronation of Charles II., and was created a 
 baronet in 1662. The title became extinct by the death of his son, Sir 
 Andrew, who was run through the body in a duel at the Golden Key in 
 Fleet Street, in 1695. 
 
 Arms : — Arg., two pales engrailed, G., over all on a bend, Az., three 
 griffins' heads erased, Or. 
 
 Crest : — A demi-lion salient, Az., collared, Or, thereon three tor- 
 teauxes. 
 
 Fortescue, of Fallopit, 1664. — The Fortescues of Fallopit, in East 
 Allington, were descended from Sir Henry Fortescue *, Chief Justice of 
 the Common Pleas in Ireland, by his second wife, the heiress of Fallopit. 
 The heiress of this branch married Lewis Fortescue, a younger son of the 
 Fortescues of Spridleston, in Brixton, who was one of the Barons of the 
 Exchequer in the reign of Henry VIII. Sir Edmund, the fifth in 
 descent from this Lewis, was a zealous royalist during the civil war ; he 
 was knighted by King Charles I., and in 1664 was created a baronet. 
 The title became extinct on the death of his son, Sir Sandys Fortescue in 
 1683. Edmund Wells, whose maternal grandfather, Thomas Bury, 
 married one of the cousins and co-heiresses of Sir Sandys Fortescue, took 
 
 1 Sir Henry Fortescue was the elder son of Sir John Fortescue, Captain of Meaux, who 
 distinguished himself in the wars of France in the reign of Henry V. ; which Sir John was a 
 younger son of William Fortescue, Esq., who lived in the reign of Richard II., and married 
 a co-heiress of Beauchamp of Ryme. 
 
 the 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cxxix 
 
 the name of Fortescue in I768, and was father of Edmund Nathaniel 
 William Fortescue, Esq., the present possessor of Fallopit. 
 
 Fortescue of Wood, in Brixton, 1666. — The Fortescues of Wood 
 were descended from Sir Henry Fortescue, before mentioned, by his first 
 wife, a daughter of Bosum or Boson, of Boson's Hele, by the heiress of 
 Wood. The heiress of this branch married Lewis Fortescue of Preston, 
 representative of another younger branch of Fortescue of Wimpston. 
 Peter Fortescue, Esq., the immediate descendant of this Lewis, was 
 created a baronet Jan. 29. 1 666-7. The title became extinct at his 
 death without, male issue : one of his daughters married John Fortescue, 
 Esq., of Filleigh. 
 
 Arms of Fortescue of Fallopit, and Fortescue of Wood, the same as 
 those of Earl Fortescue, with clue difference. 
 
 Putt, of Combe, 1666. — Nicholas Putt, Esq., purchased Combe and 
 Gittisham in 1615. Thomas Putt, Esq., his grandson, was created a baronet 
 in 1666 : he married a co-heiress of Cholmondeley of Yorkshire, one of the 
 maids of honour to Queen Catherine. Sir Thomas Putt, the second 
 baronet, dying without issue in 1721, the title became extinct. The 
 sisters of Sir Thomas married Robert Dillon, Earl of Roscommon ; 
 Charles Gorsuch, Esq. ; and Sir John Doyley, Bart. The present male 
 representative of the family, and the possessor of Combe, is the Rev. 
 Thomas Putt, descended from a younger brother of the first baronet. 
 
 Arms : — Arg. in a mascle, S., a lion rampant of the first. 
 
 Harris, of Stowford, 1673. — Sir Arthur Harris of Hayne, in the 
 parish of Stowford, who was created a baronet in 1673, dying without 
 issue in 16S6, the title became extinct. The Hayne branch of the Harris 
 family was descended from John, a younger brother of the Harris's of 
 Radford, who married the heiress of Stone ; William, son of John, 
 married the heiress of Hayne, and was father of John Harris, sergeant- 
 at-law to King Henry VIII., who rebuilt the house at Hayne. Arthur 
 Harris, his grandson, married the heiress of Davailes or Davels, of 
 Totely, near Torrington ; his elder son was (by his second wife, a daugh- 
 ter of Lord Mohun,) father of Sir Arthur Harris, Bart. The late Chris- 
 topher Harris, Esq., of Hayne, descended from a younger son of Arthur 
 Vol. VI. r Harris, 
 
cxxx DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Harris, above mentioned, by the heiress of Davels, died in 1775, without 
 male issue, leaving two daughters, co-heiresses, one of whom married 
 Isaac Donnithorne, Esq. Mr. Donnithorne took the name of Harris in 
 1799, and resides at Hayne. 
 
 Arms of Harris of Hayne. — Sable, three crescents and a border, Arg. 
 
 Crest : — On a wreath the trunk of a tree fesse-wise, Vert ; thereon a 
 falcon with wings expanded, Erm., beaked, membered, and belled, Or. 
 
 Lear, of Lindridge, 1683. — Peter Lear, Esq., a West India merchant, 
 was created a baronet in 1683, with remainder to the sons of his brothers, 
 John and William. The title became extint by the death of Sir John 
 Leai - , the third baronet, in 1736. His heiress married Sir Thomas 
 Tipping, Bart., of Oxfordshire, and after his death Thomas Comyns, 
 Esq., grandfather of the Rev. John Comyns, now of Wood, in Bishops 
 Teignton. 
 
 Arms : — Arg. a fesse counter-embattled between three unicorns' heads 
 erased, Or. 
 
 Crest : — A demi-unicorn supporting a ragged staff! Or. 
 
 There has been a family of Lear for four descents in the parish of Hal- 
 berton, of which William Lear, a minor, is the representative. The 
 estate was purchased of the Risdons. 
 
 Elwill, of Exeter, 1709. — Sir John Elwill, Knt., whose mother was 
 heiress of Pole of Exeter, was created a baronet in 1709 ; his son, Sir 
 John, the second baronet, married the heiress of Style of Langley, in the 
 parish of Beckenham, Kent, and settled at that place. He died without 
 issue, and was succeeded by his brother, Sir Edmund. The title became 
 extinct on the death of Sir John Elwill, the fourth baronet, in 1778. The 
 sole heiress married Felton Harvey, Esq., and after his death, William 
 Freemantle, Esq. 
 
 Arms : — Erm. on a chevron engrailed between three eagles displayed, 
 G., as many annulets, Or. 
 
 Crest : — On a wreath an arm erect, habited, V., cuffed, Arg., and 
 holding a fleece, Or. 
 
 Laforey, of Whitley, 1789. — The late Admiral John Laforey, de- 
 scended from a family of that name in Poictou, was created a baronet 
 
 Nov. 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 CXXX1 
 
 Nov. 3. 1789 : his son, Sir Francis Laforey, Vice-Admiral of the Blue, 
 and Knight Commander of the Bath, is the second and present baronet. 
 
 Arms: — Quarterly, 1 and 1, Arg., on a chevron, Az., 3 mullets, 
 Or, in chief two fleur-de-lis of the second, in base an anchor erect, S., 
 2 and 3, Arg., a cross engrailed, S., in each quarter a torteaux. 
 
 Crest: — A lion rampant regardant, in his right paw a fire-brand, all 
 Proper. 
 
 Trowbridge, of Asher, 1799. — The gallant Sir Thomas Trowbridge, 
 described as of Asher, in Devonshire, then a captain in the royal navy, 
 afterwards Rear- Admiral of the White, was created a baronet Nov. 23. 
 1799. He was lost at sea, on his return from the East India station in the 
 Blenheim, in 1807. His son of the same name is the second and present 
 baronet. 
 
 The father of the first Sir Thomas Trowbridge resided in London. 
 When he was created a baronet, although it might be presumed from the 
 singularity of the name, that he was descended from the ancient family of 
 Trowbridge of Trowbridge, in Devonshire, the connection could not be 
 made out, and the following arms, nearly the same as those of the 
 Devonshire family, were granted by the Heralds' College. 
 
 Arms : — Or, on a bridge of three arches in fesse embattled, a tower, 
 Proper, thereon a broad pendant flying, Azure, charged with a cross 
 potent of the first, and two keys in saltier, their wards upwards. 
 
 Crest : — A dexter arm embowed, habited, Az., the cuff, Arg., hold- 
 ing a flagstaff', thereon a broad pendant as in the arms. 
 
 Baronets' Seats. 
 
 Bickford - 
 
 Buckland Monachorum 
 
 Blachfurd 
 
 Cornwood 
 
 Brendon - 
 
 - 
 
 Cadwell 
 
 St. Mary Church 
 
 Courtland 
 
 Withecomb Ralegh 
 
 Creedy 
 
 Sandford 
 
 Haccombe 
 
 - 
 
 Haldon-house 
 
 Kenne 
 
 Killerton 
 
 Broad Gist 
 
 Lupton 
 
 Brixham 
 
 Maristow 
 
 Tamerton Foliot 
 
 Membland 
 
 Holbeton 
 
 r 2 
 
 Sir William Elford. 
 
 Sir J. L. Rogers. 
 
 A hunting box of Sir Arthur Chichester's. 
 
 Sir John Louie. 
 
 Sir Walter Roberts. 
 
 Sir John Davie. 
 
 Sir Henry Carew. 
 
 Sir L. V. Palk. 
 
 Sir T. D. Acland. 
 
 f Sir F. Buller Yard (lately fitted up 
 
 \ for his son). 
 Sir M. M. Lopes. 
 Sir John Perring. 
 
 Netherton 
 
cxxxn 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Netherton 
 Pynes 
 
 Poltimore 
 
 Shute 
 Tawstock 
 Tetcott 
 Tiverton Castle 
 
 Weare 
 
 Yoldford 
 Yolston 
 
 Farway 
 Upton Pyne 
 
 Topsham 
 
 Thorverton 
 Sherwill 
 
 Sir J. W. Prideaux. 
 Sir Stafford Northcote. 
 
 {Sir C. W. Barnpfylde (at present un- 
 occupied). 
 
 Sir W. T. Pole. 
 
 Sir Bourchier Wrey. 
 
 Sir A. O. Molesworth. 
 
 Inhabited by Dowager Lady Carew. 
 f Inhabited by Lady Duckworth, rao- 
 X ther of Sir J. T. Duckworth, Bart. 
 
 Sir Henry Carew (unoccupied). 
 
 Sir Arthur Chichester. 
 
 The principal dilapidated mansions of baronets are : Ash, some time a 
 seat of the Drakes ; Bickleigh, of the Carews ; Court-house, in North 
 Molton, of the Bampfyldes ; Hayne, of the Northcotes ; and Place, in 
 Ashton, of the Chudleighs. Wisdom, formerly a seat of the Rogers' 
 family, is a farm-house. 
 
 Gentry. 
 Acland, of Little Bray. — See Acland, baronet. 
 
 Adams, of Bowden, in Ashprington. Bowden is now inhabited by the 
 widow of William Adams, Esq., M. P. for Totnes, by whom it was pur- 
 chased. Mr. Adams died in 1811. His eldest son, Major-General George 
 Pownal Adams, resides at Ashprington-house. 
 
 Arms : — Or, semee of cross-crosslets fitche^, Sable ; a lion rampant, 
 G., a border engrailed of the second. 
 
 Crest : — An arm embowed in armour, Proper, garnished, Or, the elbow 
 charged with a torteaux, the gauntlet also Proper, grasping a cross-crosslet 
 fitchee, Sable. 
 
 Barbor, of Eremington. — This family came from Upcot, in Somerset- 
 shire. William Barbor, who settled at Barnstaple, as a physician, in the 
 seventeenth century, married the heiress of Pointz, of Northcote, in 
 Bittadon; his grandson, of the same name, married a co-heiress of Acland, 
 of Fremington. The present representative of this family is George 
 Acland Barbor, Esq. 
 
 Arms, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cxxxiii 
 
 Arms, as in Fremington church : — Arg., two chevrons between three 
 fleurs-de-lis, Gules. 
 
 Bartlett, of Hole, now of Weston, in Branscombe. — The Bartletts 
 became possessed of Hole, in this parish, by purchase, in the early part of 
 the sixteenth century. The present representative is Barnaby John 
 Stuckey Bartlett, Esq., who took the additional name of Stuckey, with the 
 arms of that family, pursuant to the will of his relation John Stuckey b , 
 Esq., of Weston, who died in 1810. 
 
 Arms : — Quarterly 1 and 4., Arg., 2 bars between 3 cinquefoils, S. ; for 
 Bartlett: 2 and 3 per bend dovetail, sinister, Or, and Az., a lion rampant 
 double queuee, Erm., a canton, gules for Stuckey. 
 
 Crest of Stuckey : — A demi-lion rampant issuant, double queuee, 
 Ermine. 
 
 Crest of Bartlett : — A demi-griffin, Sable, collard, gemelle, Arg., holding 
 a cinquefoil of the second. 
 
 Basset, formerly of Heanton Court, and of Umberleigh, now of Water- 
 mouth. — Sir Alan Basset, great grandson of Osmund Basset, who was 
 of Stoke Basset, in Oxfordshire, in the reign of Henry I., settled in Devon- 
 shire, in consequence of his marriage with Lucy Peverell, and was ancestor 
 of the late Francis Basset, Esq., of Heanton, the last heir male of the elder 
 branch, who died in 1802, and of Sir Francis Basset, Bart., of Tehidy, in 
 Cornwall, who was created Baron De Dunstanville, in 1796. Heiresses 
 of Balun, Walleis, Helligan, Beaumont, Acland c , and Hooper, and co- 
 heiresses of Plantagenet, Viscount Lisle ; Periam, Leigh, and Bluett, mar- 
 ried into this family. The sisters and co-heirs of Francis Basset, Esq., of 
 Heanton, before mentioned, married Cambell and Davie. Joseph Davie, 
 Esq., son of the latter, took the name of Basset, in addition to his own 
 family-name, pursuant to his uncle's will, in 1802; and resides at Water- 
 mouth, near Ilfracombe. The Davies, of Orleigh, ancestors of Mr. Davie 
 Basset, are not known to have been of the same family as those of Owla- 
 combe, Upcot, &c, though it is very probable that they were descended 
 from some of the numerous younger sons of those elder branches of the 
 family who resided in the neighbourhood of Torrington. They became 
 
 b Robert, the father of this John Stuckey, Esq., married the heiress of William Bartlett, Esq. 
 c There was no issue from this marriage. 
 
 possessed 
 
cxxxiv DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 possessed of Orleigh about the year 1700, and had before been settled as 
 merchants at Bideford. Mr. Davie Basset bears the arms of Basset and 
 Davie quarterly, and the crests of both families. 
 
 Arms of Basset : — Barry wavy of six, Or, and G. 
 
 Arms of Davie, of Bideford and Orleigh : — Az. a ship with two masts, 
 Or, the sails trussed up and hoisted to the yards, A., adorned with flags, 
 charged with the cross of England ; on a chief of the second, three 
 cinquefoils, pierced, Gules. 
 
 Crest of Basset : — An unicorn's head, couped, Arg., mane, beard, and 
 horn, Or, on the neck two bars indented, G. 
 
 Crest of Davie : — On a wreath, A. and Az., a mount, Vert; on it a 
 lamb, passant, A. ; in the mouth a sprig of cinquefoil, G., slipped, Vert. 
 
 Bellew, of Court, in Stockley English. This family appears to have 
 come into Devonshire, in consequence of a marriage with one of the co- 
 heiresses of Fleming, of Bratton Fleming, in the reign of Edward IV. 
 The ancestors of John Bellew, Esq., of Stockley English, lately deceased, 
 have resided at that place about 200 years : his son, William Bellew, a 
 lieutenant in the navy, is now the representative of the family. 
 
 Arms : — Sable, fretty, Or. 
 
 Crest : — An arm embowed, habited, V., the hand, Proper, grasping a 
 bell, Or, round the wrist a ruff, Arg. 
 
 Bere, or Beare, of Court, in Morebath, formerly of Huntsham. — This 
 family was settled at Huntsham as early as the reign of Edward II. The 
 elder branch became extinct by the death of Thomas Bere, Esq., in 1744. 
 Richard, a younger son, settled at Court in the latter part of the seven- 
 teenth century : his grandson left a son, Davy Bere, Esq., who died un- 
 married, in 1774 ; and two daughters, co-heirs, married to Musgrave and 
 Baker. Montague Bere Baker, Esq., son of the latter, took the name of 
 Bere in 1776, and was father of Montague Baker Bere, Esq., the present 
 proprietor of Morebath. The present male representative is John Bere, 
 Esq., of Milverton, in Somersetshire, grandson of John, next brother of 
 Davy Bere, Esq., above mentioned. The heiresses of Clavell, Faber, 
 Ballard, and Chalvedon, and a co-heiress of Sayer, married into this family. 
 
 Arms : — Arg., three bears' heads couped, Sable, muzzled, Or. 
 
 Crest : — A bear's head muzzled, issuant. 
 
 Bluett, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cxxxv 
 
 Bluett, of Holcombe Ilogus. — John Bluett, descended from the 
 Bluetts, lords of Ragland, acquired Holcombe Ilogus in the fifteenth 
 century, by marriage with a co-heiress of Chiselden. His ancestors had 
 married heiresses or co-heiresses of Ragland, Greenham, and Beaupeny. 
 Richard Bluett, great grandson of John, had two sons, Sir Roger Bluett, 
 who died in 1566, and Francis, ancestor of the Bluetts of Cornwall. Arthur, 
 great grandson of Sir Roger, married the heiress of Lancaster. The elder 
 branch of the direct line became extinct in 1636, by the death of his son, 
 John Bluett, Esq., whose daughters and co-heirs married Jones, Wallop, 
 Lenthall, and Basset. John, the son of Francis, (a younger son of Arthur,) 
 who was killed at the siege of Lyme, in 1644, dying without issue in 1700, 
 the elder line was supposed to be extinct d , and he bequeathed his estates 
 to Robert Bluett, Esq., then the representative of the Bluetts of Colan, 
 in Cornwall, descended from the younger brother of Sir Roger. Buckland 
 Nutcombe Bluett, Esq., (son of Robert,) who died in 17S6, made a long 
 but fruitless search to ascertain the existence of any male descendants of 
 his family; on the presumption, however, that he might be descended from 
 one of the sons of Francis Bluett, half-brother of Colan Bluett, who lived 
 in the early part of the seventeenth century, he bequeathed his estate to 
 Peter Bluett, Esq., then of Falmouth, now of Holcombe Court. 
 
 Arms of Bluett : — A chevron Vaire between three spread eagles of the 
 second. 
 
 Crest : — A fox seiant, Or, in his paw an acorn, V., fructed, Or. 
 
 Bkagge, of Sadborough, in Thorncombe. — The ancestors of John 
 Bragge, Esq., now of Sadborough, have resided at that place ever since the 
 reign of Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 Arms : — Arg., a chevron, V., between three bulls passant, G. 
 
 Crest : — A lion's head erased, Arg., collared, Vaire, Or, and Az. 
 
 Buck, of Daddon, in Bideford. — An Irish family, settled in Devonshire 
 towards the latter end of the seventeenth century. The father of Hart- 
 well Buck, who was of Bideford, and died in 1691, married the heiress of 
 Hartwell of Ireland. George Buck, Esq., who died in 17-13, married 
 
 <i Roger Bluett, a grandson of Sir Roger, being the son of his younger son Nicholas, had five 
 sons living at the time of the visitation, in 1620 ; Roger the elder of them being then 14 years 
 of age : but no trace could be found of this branch of the family. 
 
 the 
 
cxxxvi DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 the heiress of Stucley of Daddon and Afton Castle. The present repre- 
 sentative is Lewis William Buck, Esq. 
 
 Arms : — Per fesse embattled, Arg. and Sable. 
 
 Buller, of Downes. — The grandfather of James Buller, Esq., some 
 time M. P. for Exeter, became possessed of Downes, the present seat of the 
 family, by marrying the heiress of Gould. Mr. Buller is the represent- 
 ative of an ancient family, originally of Somersetshire, who had married 
 the heiress of Beauchamp of Lillersdon, and the heiress of Cheding- 
 ton. Their immediate ancestors settled in Cornwall, in consequence 
 of a marriage with a co-heiress of Trethurfe, one of the representatives of 
 Courtenay, Earl of Devon. The elder line became extinct by the death 
 of James Buller, Esq., of Shillingham, M.P. for Cornwall, in 1710. John 
 Buller, Esq., of Morvall, whose ancestor had married the heiress of 
 Coode, then became the head of the family. It has since spread into 
 numerous branches, of which Mr. Buller, of Downes, is the head. 
 
 Arms : — Sable, on a cross, Arg., pierced of the field, four eagles dis- 
 played. 
 
 Crest : — A Moor's head full faced, couped, Proper, wreathed about the 
 temples, Arg. and Az. 
 
 Bulteel, of Fleet, in Holbeton. — James Bulteel, Esq., the ancestor 
 of John Bulteel, Esq., now of Fleet, became possessed of that place in 
 1716, by bequest: he married a co-heiress of Crocker of Lyneham. 
 
 Arms : — Arg. a bend between 14 billets, Gules. 
 
 Crest : — Out of a ducal crown, G., a pair of wings, A., billetty of 
 the first. 
 
 Burdon, of Burdon, in Bradford. — John Dennis Burdon, Esq., now of 
 Burdon, is the representative of this ancient family, which has been 
 settled at Burdon from nearly the time of the Conquest. The co-heiresses 
 of a younger branch married Lanyon and Trehawke. 
 
 Arms : — Az. three candlesticks, and as many cross-crosslets fitchee, Or. 
 
 There was a family of the same name settled at King's Teignton from 
 the reign of Richard I. to that of Henry IV., when the heiress married 
 Thorp. This family, a branch probably of the Burdons of Burdon, bore 
 for their arms, Arg. three pilgrims' staves in pale, G. 
 
 Calmady, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cxxxvii 
 
 Calmady, of Langdon in Wembury. — Richard Calmady, M. P. for 
 Plympton in 1555, was father probably of Richard' and Vincent Calmady. 
 The latter, who was of the profession of the law, purchased several 
 estates in Devonshire in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and settled at 
 Brixton : his son Josias married the heiress of a younger branch of 
 Courtenay of Powderham, by whom he was father of Sir Shilston Cal- 
 mady ; their descendants some time afterwards settled at Langdon, now 
 the property and residence of Mrs. Calmady, daughter of Francis Vincent 
 Calmady, Esq., and sister and co-heiress of Francis John Calmady, Esq. 
 Having been first married to her cousin, Warwick Calmady, Esq., who 
 died without issue, she married to her second husband, Charles Holmes 
 Everitt, Esq., a captain in the navy f , who, in 1788, took the name and 
 arms of Calmady, and was father of Charles Biggs Calmady, Esq., now 
 of Holne Chace. 
 
 Arms of Calmady. — Az. a chevron between three pears slipped, Or. 
 
 Crest : — A pegasus rising, S., wings elevated, the hoofs, main, and 
 tail, Arg., gorged with a collar invected, Or. 
 
 Bury, of Doniton in Swimbridge. — Bury in Lapford was the original 
 residence of the ancient family of Bury, the elder branch of which re- 
 mained there in 1630, but it is probable that they possessed also Coleton 
 in Chulmleigh, which came by the heiressof Cole in the reign of Richard II. 
 and is described as their seat in the Heralds' visitation of 1620. Doni- 
 ton subsequently belonged to them. The heiress of Giffard, of Yeo, 
 married into this family. Thomas Bury, Esq., the last heir-male, died in 
 1804 ; he married a co-heiress of Molineux, but left no issue. His 
 widow bequeathed the estates of Bury and Coleton to Richard Incledon, 
 Esq., now Vice- Admiral of the White, who has taken the name of Bury, 
 and resides at Doniton, but is not the representative of the family. 
 
 Arms : — Erm. on a bend, Az., three fleur-de-lis, Or. 
 
 Sir Thomas Bury of Exeter is supposed to have been of this family ; 
 his elder son left a daughter, married to Wells, the ancestor of Edmund 
 Wells Fortescue, Esq. A younger son of Sir Thomas Bury settled in 
 London and left male issue. 
 
 e Richard purchased Muxbear of Sir William Kelloway, and left it to his nephew Josias. 
 Sir William Pole 198. 
 
 ' At the time of his death, in 1807, he was Admiral of the Blue. 
 
 Vol. VI. s Cary, 
 
cxxxviii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Cary, of Tor Abbey. — The origin of this ancient family seems enve- 
 loped in much obscurity : it has been supposed by some, but I think without 
 any good reason, that they came from Castle Cary in Somersetshire ; 
 others suppose, with more probability, that they derive their name from 
 Cary 5 , in the parish of St. Giles in the Heath. It is stated in Collins's 
 peerage that the widow of William Cary, who died 31 Edw. I., held 
 Panston and Cary under the honour of Tavistock. It is most probable " 
 that Cary, which adjoins to Panston, and is still held with it, was the 
 original place of their residence. In the succeeding century they had 
 acquired such consequence in the county, that Sir John Cary, and Sir 
 William, his brother, were elected knights of the shire in 1363, and again 
 in 1368 : Sir William, who married the heiress of Bozom or Boson of 
 Clovelly', .is said to have died without issue." Sir John Cary has been 
 supposed by Collins, Prince, and others, to have been the same person 
 who was afterwards one of the Barons of the Exchequer ; but it appears 
 evident from records that John Cary, the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, 
 was not knighted till 1387, and it is most probable that he was son of 
 Sir John, the knight of the shire. The Chief Baron was implicated with Sir 
 Robert Tresilian and other of the judges in having given an opinion hostile 
 to the views of the Duke of Gloucester and his party, and was in consequence, 
 by the preponderance of their interest in parliament, sentenced to death : 
 his estates were forfeited, but his sentence was changed to banishment, and 
 he was sent to Waterford, in Ireland, with an allowance of 20/. per 
 annum. He died in HOI, and his estates were restored to his son. 
 
 The Chief Baron had two sons, by one of the co-heiresses of Sir Guy 
 de Brien ', Sir Robert, and John Cary, Bishop of Exeter. Philip, 
 son of Sir Robert, married a co-heiress of Orchard of Somersetshire. 
 Sir William Cary, of Cockington, (son of Philip) was one of the knights 
 beheaded by order of King Edward IV. after the battle of Tewksbury. 
 
 s The name is said to have been originally spelt with a K., so was the manor of Cary, as 
 appears by the record of Domesday. 
 
 h Edit. 1741, on the authority of Sir William Pole's Collection : it is not to be found, 
 however, in the printed work. 
 
 ' Pedigree at Tor Abbey. k Collins. 
 
 1 The pedigree at the Heralds' College states her to have been daughter of Sir Guy de 
 Brien, and heiress to her mother, who was heiress of Holway, of Holway. The pedigree at 
 Tor Abbey introduces here another descent, and makes John Cary, son of Sir John, to marry 
 the heiress of Holway. 
 
 The 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cxxxix 
 
 The immediate representative of Sir William Cary, (descended from the 
 elder son of his first wife,) was of Launceston, in Cornwall, in 1620. 
 This branch became extinct after a few descents. Thomas, second son 
 of the first wife, was father of Sir George Cary, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 
 who died in 1615, without surviving issue. On his death, Sir Edward 
 Cary, of Stantor, in the parish of Marldon, became the representative of 
 the family. Sir George Cary, son of Sir Edward, purchased Tor Abbey, 
 and was the immediate ancestor of George Cary, Esq., the present pro- 
 prietor of that place. 
 
 The Clovelly branch of the Cary family, which became extinct by the 
 death of Robert Cary, Esq., in 1724, was descended from Robert (son 
 of Sir William) Cary, by his third wife, the heiress of Foulkery, or Fouk- 
 eray, of Dartmouth. Sir William Cary had by his second wife, (Alice 
 Fulford,) a son, Thomas, who by a co-heiress of Sir Robert Spencer, of 
 Spencer's Combe in Devon, (who had married a co-heiress of Beaufort, 
 Duke of Somerset,) had two sons, Sir John and William. Sir John was 
 ancestor of the Carys, Lords Falkland ; William, who married the only 
 sister of Queen Anne Boleyn, was ancestor of the Barons Hunsdon and 
 the Earls of Monmouth, of that name ; the latter of which titles became 
 extinct in 1661, and the former in 1765. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, on a bend, Sable, three roses of the field. 
 
 Crest : — A swan, Argent, wings endorsed. 
 
 Champernowne, of Dartington. — The name of this ancient family was 
 originally De Campo Arnulphi, and it appears from Leland, that in the 
 reign of Henry VIII., they were called Campernulph. The name in re- 
 cords of the best authority, is sometimes spelt Champernon, and sometimes 
 Champernowne. We first find them as early as the reign of Henry II., at 
 Clist St. George, called occasionally in records Clist Champernon. The 
 heiress of the elder branch, which was of Clist and of Ilfracombe, after 
 about six descents, married Polglass. Sir Richard, a younger son of Sir 
 Henry Champernowne, of Clist, married the heiress of Sir Alexander de 
 Okeston, by his wife Joan, relict of Richard de Valletort ; which Joan, is 
 supposed to have been a concubine of Richard, King of the Romans. 
 His son Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, calls the daughter of De Okeston, in 
 a deed, sister. Sir Richard Champernowne, the son, had a grant of Mod- 
 bury, where he settled : Sir Richard, son of the last mentioned Sir Richard, 
 
 s 2 married 
 
cxl DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 married a co-heiress of Valletort, of North Tawton ; his son, Sir Thomas, 
 the heiress of Rohant. Sir Richard, son of Sir Thomas, had by his first 
 wife, Alexander Champernowne, who married the heiress of Ferrers, and 
 settled at Beer Ferrers. The heiress of his son, who was then represent- 
 ative of the family, married Lord Willoughby de Broke. By his second 
 wife, Sir Richard had two sons, Richard Champernowne, of Modbury, and 
 John Champernowne, ancestor of the Champernownes of Inswerke, in 
 Cornwall, the co-heiresses of which branch, married Trevelyan, Fortescue 
 of Wood, and Monk. Hugh Champernowne, of Modbury, son of Richard, 
 married the heiress of Boys ; his son William, the heiress of Chiderlegh. 
 Sir Philip, grandson of William, had two sons, John, and Sir Arthur, an- 
 cestor of the Champernownes of Dartington. Henry, son of John, had two 
 sons ; Sir Richard, who died without issue, and Sir Arthur, who was 
 knighted by the Earl of Essex in Ireland, in 1599 '• he married the heiress 
 of Crukerne ; Philip, one of his descendants, married a co-heiress of Hil- 
 lersdon, of Membland, who died without issue ; and afterwards a daughter 
 of Wise, heiress to her maternal grandfather, (Full). Arthur Champer- 
 nowne, Esq., the representative of the Modbury branch, and the possessor 
 of Modbury Castle, died in 1697, or 1698, without issue. 1 " Rawlin Cham- 
 pernowne, Esq., the last heir male of the Dartington, and only remaining 
 branch of this ancient family, died without issue, in 1774. The heiress of 
 Arthur Champernowne, Esq., who died in 1766, married a younger son of 
 Sir John Harrington, Bart., whose only son, Arthur, took the name and arms 
 of Champernowne, in 1774, and died in 1820: his elder son, Arthur, a 
 minor, is the present representative of the family. 
 
 Arms : — Gules, a saltier Vaire between, 12 billets, Or. 
 
 Crest : — A swan sitting, Proper, in the beak, a horse-shoe, Or. 
 
 The manors of Umberleigh and North Tawton, came into the possession 
 of younger sons of the Champernowne family, by the marriage of heiresses, 
 at an early period. Jordan Champernowne, married the heiress of Soleny, 
 of Umberleigh, and left a daughter and heiress married to Sir Ralph Wil- 
 lington, of Gloucestershire, in the reign of Edward III. Oliver Cham- 
 pernowne married a co -heiress of Valletort " , of North Tawton, and his 
 
 m The last entry in the Modbury register of the burial of a Champernowne, is that of Mr. 
 Henry Champernowne, in 1730; he might have been of a younger, or an illegitimate branch. 
 
 " One of the younger sisters married Sir Richard Champernowne, of Modbury, as before 
 mentioned. 
 
 daughter, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cxli 
 
 daughter, according to Risdon, or, according to Prince, his grand-daughter, 
 brought North Tawton, to the Atwoods. 
 
 Cholwich, of Farringdon. — This family was originally of Cholwich, in 
 Holbeton, afterwards of Oldstone, in Blackawton, by marriage with the 
 heiress of Rich. The co-heiresses of Thomas Cholwich, Esq., of Oldstone, 
 married Lear, Fowell, and Cholwich, of a younger branch. The father of 
 John Burridge Cholwich, Esq., of Farringdon House, the present represent- 
 ative of the family, married the heiress of Burridge. 
 
 Arms : — Per pale, Or, and A., three chevrons, Sab. ; over all, a file of 
 as many lambeaux, G. 
 
 Crest : — A lion's paw supporting a shield, per pale Or, and Arg., man- 
 tled G., doubled Arg. 
 
 Clark, of Bridwell, in Halberton. — This family appears to have been 
 settled above two hundred years at Bridwell, late the seat of Richard Hall 
 Clark, Esq., who died in 1821, leaving a son, John Were Clarke, Esq., 
 then of Burrington, near Plymouth. The heiress of Were, or Weare, has 
 married into this family. 
 
 Arms, as on a monument in Halberton Church : — Arg., on a bend G., 
 between three pellets, as many swans, Proper. 
 
 Coffin, of Portledge. — The Coffins possessed the manor of Alwington, 
 in which parish Portledge is situated, as early as the reign of William the 
 Conqueror : different branches of the family were of Combe-Coffin, and 
 Coffin's Well. The heiress of Hathey, and a co-heiress of Hingeston, 
 married into this family. A younger branch, which eventually became the 
 head of the house, was of Goldworthy. Upon the death of Richard 
 Coffin, Esq., the last heir-male, in I76G, Richard Bennet, Esq., his sister's 
 son, took the name of Coffin, and died without issue, in 1796. The re- 
 presentation of this ancient family then became vested in the Rev. John 
 Pine, his great-grandmother having been the elder daughter of Richard 
 Coffin, Esq., who died in 1G99 ; her younger sister married Yeo. Mr. 
 Pine, took the name of Coffin, in addition to that of his own family, by 
 sign-manual, in 1797- He is now resident at Bath : his eldest son, Richard 
 Pine Coffin, Esq., resides at the old family-seat at Portledge. 
 
 Arms : — Az., semee of cross crosslets, O/, and three bezants. 
 
 Crest : — A martlet charged with three bezants. 
 
 Coham, 
 
cxlii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Coham, of Coham and Upcot. — The co-heiresses of Holland of Upcot, 
 married Coham, of Coham ; and Coham of Bovacot, in the reign of 
 Charles II. The Rev. William Holland Coham, of Coham, the represent- 
 ative of these families, married a co-heiress of Bickford, of Dunsford. Mr. 
 Coham bears the arms of Holland. 
 
 Collins, of Ham, near Plymouth. — George Collins, Esq., the present 
 owner of this place, is of an ancient Kentish family: he married the heiress 
 of Trelawney, of Ham. 
 
 Arms : — Vert., a griffin segreant, Or. 
 
 Crest : — A camel's head. 
 
 Comyns, of Wood in Bishop's Teignton. — The grandfather of the Rev. 
 John Comyns, now of Wood, married the heiress of Sir John Lear, Bart., 
 being then the widow of Sir Thomas Tipping, Bart. 
 
 Arms : — G., three wheat-sheaves, Proper, eared, Or. 
 
 Cutcliffe, of Damage in Ilfracombe, now of Wibbery in Alverdiscott. — 
 The heiresses of Grenowne ° , Chichester p , and Newell, and a co-heiress of 
 Mervin, have married into this ancient family ; of which John Mervin 
 Cutcliffe, Esq., is the representative. 
 
 Arms : — G., 3 pruning-hooks q , Arg. 
 
 Deane or Dene, of Newton Petrock, and of Horwood. — The heiresses 
 of Leigh of Ashwater, and of Putts of Horwood, married into this family, of 
 which the Rev. John Dene of Horwood, is now the representative. The 
 Deanes appear to have settled at Newton Petrock, in the sixteenth century. 
 
 Arms: — Arg., a lion rampant, Purpure. 
 
 Crest : — A lion's head erased, Argent. 
 
 Doidge, of Comb, in Milton Abbot, — The ancestors of this family are 
 said to have been tenants to the Abbot of Tavistock, as early as the thir- 
 teenth century. Morris Doidge, Esq., is the present representative. 
 
 Arms: — A woman's breast distilling drops of milk. 
 
 Grenowne married the heiress of Stodden, and Stodden the heiress of Franklin, 
 p There was no issue of this marriage. 
 
 i I. xxv. in the Herald's College, f. 141. On the monument at Ilfracombe, they are hedge 
 bills. 
 
 Drewe, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cxliii 
 
 Drevve, of Grange, in Broad-hcmbliry. — Prince supposes, that the 
 Drewes, of Grange, were descended from a younger son of a family of that 
 name, which was of Drewe's Cliff', and of Hayne in the parish of Newton 
 St. Cyres. The heiresses of Worsford, and of Farr, married into this 
 family ; and its heiress married, first Northcote, and afterwards, Giles of 
 of Bowden. There was also a family of Drewe, of Modbury. William 
 Drewe, the immediate ancestor of Edward Drewe, Esq., Serjeant-at-law, 
 who died in 1622, married an heiress or co-heiress of Prideanx, of Sharp- 
 ham, and one of his ancestors the heiress of Huckmore. Sergeant Drewe, 
 settled at Killerton, now the seat of Sir T. D. Acland, Bart., and built the 
 old house there. His son, Sir Thomas, built the Grange, which has ever 
 since been the seat of the family. William Drewe, Esq., is the present 
 representative : his father married the heiress of Rose, of Dorsetshire. 
 There was a younger branch of the Drewes of Sharpham, settled at Kenne, 
 one of whom married a co-heiress of Cruwys. This branch is extinct. 
 
 Arms : — Ermine, a lion passant, gules. 
 
 Crest : — On a mount, Vert, a buck salient, Or. 
 
 The Kenne branch bore an antelope's head ; in the mouth, a bunch of 
 wheat-ears. Sergeant Drewe, bore a bull's head, S., armed Or, holding 
 three barley reeds of the second. 
 
 Edgcumbe. — See Earl Mount Edgcumbe. 
 
 Fellowes, of Eggesford. — The family of Fellowes purchased this 
 place in 1718. The Honourable Newton Fellowes, now of Eggesford, 
 is younger son of the last Earl of Portsmouth, by the heiress of Coulson 
 Fellowes r , Esq. He took the name and arms of Fellowes in 179-i. 
 
 Arms of Fellowes : — Az. a fesse indented, Erm., between three lions' 
 heads erased, Or. mural ly crowned, Arg. 
 
 Crest : — A lion's head erased, Or, crowned as in the arms, and gorged 
 with a collar indented, Ermine. 
 
 Fortescue, of Buckland Filleigh. — William Fortescue, second son of 
 Martin Fortescue, by the heiress of Denzell, or Densell s , and grandson 
 
 r This is a Huntingdonshire family : the present representative, William Henry Fellowes, 
 Esq., is now member for that county. 
 
 ■ She afterwards married Sir R. Pomeroy. 
 
 Of 
 
cxliv DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 of Sir John Fortescue, the Lord Chancellor, married the heiress of Atkins, 
 of Milton Abbot, and was of Buckland Filleigh, which had been settled 
 upon him by his mother, as the inheritance of her ancestors, the Filleighs. 
 William, the eighth in descent of this branch, was Master of the Rolls : 
 he married one of the co-heiresses of Fortescue of Fallopit, and left an 
 only daughter, married to John Spoon er, Esq., by whom she had no 
 surviving issue. John Fortescue, a first cousin of the Master of the 
 Rolls, whose father, George, had married the heiress of Fortescue of 
 Spridleston, became the representative of this branch, and possessed 
 Buckland Filleigh : he died without issue. His sister Rebecca married 
 Caleb Inglett, Esq. 1 , whose son Richard took the name of Fortescue in 
 1777j and was father of John Inglett Fortescue, Esq. u , the present repre- 
 sentative of this, and of the Spridleston branch. 
 
 Sir Faithful Fortescue, elder son of John Fortescue, of Buckland 
 Filleigh, by his second wife, Susanna Chichester, settled in Ireland in the 
 reign of .James I., and was ancestor of the Earl of Clermont. 
 
 Younger branches of the Fortescues of Buckland Filleigh settled at 
 Shebbear, Hatherleigh, Milton Abbot, Northam, Parkham, and High 
 Bickington. There are male descendants from some of these branches. 
 John Fortescue, Esq., is representative of the Shebbear branch. 
 
 Arms : — The same as those of Earl Fortescue, with due difference. 
 The arms of Inglett were, S., a bend, Arg., between 6 escallops, Or. 
 
 Fortescue, of Fallopit. — See Fortescue of Fallopit among the extinct 
 baronets. 
 
 Fowell, of Blackball. — See Fowell amongst the extinct baronets. 
 
 Fownes, of Nethway in Brixham, purchased in 1696. — Henry Fownes, 
 Esq., in 1750, married the heiress of Luttrell of Dunston. The family, 
 of which John Fownes Luttrell, Esq., is the representative, still possess 
 Nethway, but do not at present reside there. 
 
 Arms — Az. 2 eagles displayed in chief, and a mullet in base, Arg. 
 
 Fulford, of Fulford, in the parish of Dunsford. — This ancient family 
 
 ' The father of Caleb Inglett married the heiress of Cruvvys of Ashburton. 
 
 " By his first wife Mr. Fortescue has one son, John Dicker Fortescue, Esq.; his second 
 wife, lately deceased, was one of the co-heiresses of Marwood, and relict of Henry Stevens, 
 Esq., of Cross. 
 
 is 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cxlv 
 
 is traced with certainty to the reign of Richard I., and it is probable that 
 they have resided at Fulfbrd, at least from the time of the Conquest. x 
 It is now the seat of their representative, Baldwin Fulford, Esq. The 
 heiresses, or co-heiresses, of Fitz Urse, Belston, Moreton, Brien, Bosum, 
 Bonville, Samways, and Tuckfield, have married into this family. 
 
 Arms — Gules, a chevron, Argent. 
 
 Crest : — A bear's head erased, Arg., muzzled, Sable. 
 
 Fursdon, of Fursdon in Cadbury. — This ancient family, of which 
 George Sydenham Fursdon, Esq., is now the representative, is traced by 
 Sir William Pole up to the reign of Henry III. The heiresses of Hayes, 
 Cullen, and Elsworth ; and the co-heiresses of Dunsmore and Cheyney y , 
 have married into this family. 
 
 Arms : — Arg. a chevron, Az., between three fire-balls, Proper. 
 
 Crest : — Five feathers issuing out of a ducal coronet. 2 
 
 Furse, of Furse, in the parish of Spreyton, afterwards of Halsdon in 
 Dolton. — The ancestors of this ancient family are known to have been 
 of Furse in the reign of Richard I. : in consequence of a marriage with 
 a co-heiress of Bellew, they removed to Halsdon, now the property and 
 occasional residence of the Rev. Peter Wellington Furse, whose father 
 married one of the co-heiresses of Wellington, of Way, in the parish of 
 St. Giles. 
 
 Arms : — Gules, a chevron embattled, counter-embattled, between six 
 halberds, in pairs, saltier-wise, Or. 
 
 Gilbert, of Greenway and Compton, now of Holwell. — The ancestor 
 of this ancient family, who was of Greenway in the reign of Edward II., 
 had a son who married a co-heiress of Compton : the heiress of Reyn- 
 ward, and co-heiresses of Champernowne, Ager, and Pomeroy, have 
 married also into this family. The representative of the elder branch is 
 the Rev. Pomeroy Gilbert, of Bodmin, in Cornwall. Sir Humphrey Gilbert, 
 the celebrated navigator, was of this family. Younger branches of it 
 were settled at Holwell in South Milton, and at Comb Royal. A co-heir- 
 ess of Osborne married into the Holwell branch, of which the Rev. 
 Henry Abraham Gilbert, now of Holwell, is the representative. The 
 
 * See more particulars of this family, p. 171, 172. 
 
 y The only issue of this marriage, was a daughter, married to Lyons. 
 
 1 Borne by Mr. Fursdon, as representative of the Elsworths. 
 
 Vol. VI. t heiress 
 
cxlviii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 scended from a youuger son of the ancient family of Hereward, one of 
 whom married an heiress of Cornu. The late Charles Harward, Dean of 
 Chichester, married a co-heiress of Dr. Ball, Dean of Chichester, by a 
 co-heiress of Mills, who married the sister and heiress of the last of the 
 Sussex branch of Monk. The Rev. Charles Blake, who married his 
 daughter and heir, took the name of Harward in 1816. 
 
 Arms : — Gules, on a cross crosslet, A., between four guttes d'eau five 
 annulets, Azure. 
 
 Crest : — A leopard statant, Erm., collared, Or, surmounting a cross 
 crosslet fitchee, Sab., from the collar a chain, Or, reflexed and attached 
 to the cross. 
 
 Hawkins, now of Norton, in the parish of Churchstow. — Sir John 
 Hawkins, grandson of "William Hawkins, Esq., of Tavistock, and his son, 
 Sir Richard Hawkins, were both celebrated navigators and naval com- 
 manders in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The immediate descendant and 
 representative of these gallant officers, is John Hawkins, Esq., of Norton. 
 His brother, Abraham Hawkins, Esq., is of Alston in Marlborough. 
 
 Arms, granted in 1565 to Sir John Hawkins : — Sab. on a base wavy, 
 Arg. and Az., a lion passant, Or, in chief three bezants : on a canton, 
 Or, an escallop between two palmers' staves of the field. 
 
 Crest : — A demi-moor, Proper, bound and captive with annulets on his 
 arms and ears, Or, mantled, G., doubled, Argent. 
 
 Hays, of Dallamore. — Benjamin Hays, Esq., father of Treby Hele 
 Hays, Esq., now of this place, married one of the co-heiresses of the 
 Honourable George Treby, who had married a co-heiress of Hele. 
 
 Arms borne by Hays : — Gules, a fesse, Or, between three bezants ; 
 quartering Treby, and Hele borne quarterly. 
 
 Crest : — A swan's head issuing from a wreath. 
 
 Hele. — See Hele, Baronet. 
 
 Hoare, of Luscombe in Dawlish. — There was an ancient family of 
 the name of Hore, in later times occasionally spelt Hoare, settled at 
 Risford, or Rushford, in the parish of Chagford, in the reign of Richard II., 
 having married the heiress of Risford, of that place. This family became 
 extinct in its principal branch by the death of Charles Hoare, Esq., in 
 1726. Charles Hoare, Esq., now of Luscombe, (half brother of Sir 
 
 Richard 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cxlix 
 
 Richard Colt Hoare, Bart., J is supposed to have been descended from one 
 of this family, who had removed into Buckinghamshire. On this suppo- 
 sition he bears the arms of Hoare of Rushford, with a trifling difference, 
 as confirmed by the Heralds' College. 
 
 Arms: — Sab., an eagle displayed with two heads, Arg., charged on 
 the breast with an Ermine spot ; a border engrailed of the second. 
 
 Crest : — An eagle's head erased, Argent, charged with an ermine spot. 
 
 Holdsworth, of Widecombe. — This family came from Halifax in 
 Yorkshire, about the year 1620. The son of the Rev. Mr. Holdsworth, 
 who was then of Modbury, settled at Dartmouth, and was ancestor of 
 Arthur Holdsworth, Esq., late M.P. for that town. 
 
 Arms : — Arg. a trunk of a tree erased and raguly in bend sinister, 
 Proper. 
 
 Huyshe, of Sand near Sidmouth. — Rowland Huyshe, Esq., of Doniford 
 in Somersetshire, (descended probably from a younger branch of the 
 ancient family of Hiwis, or Huish, of Huish in this county,) purchased 
 Sand about the year 1560. His immediate descendant, and the present 
 owner of Sand, (now a farm-house) is the Rev. Francis Huyshe, rector of 
 Clist Hydon. One of the co-heiresses of Reynell, by an heiress of Peryam, 
 married into this family. 
 
 Arms : — Arg. on a bend, S., three fish (luces) naiant of the first. 
 
 Crest : — An elephant's head, issuing, Argent, crowned, Or. 
 
 Ilbert, formerly of Rill, in Buckfastleigh, now of Bowringsleigh. — 
 William Ilbert, Esq., purchased Rill in the reign of William III. The 
 heiress of Roope married into this family, the representative of which is 
 the Rev. Roope Ilbert, now of Bowlings Leigh, in South Allington. 
 
 Arms : — Or, two chevrons engrailed, Vert., between three roses, G. 
 
 Crest: — A cock -pheasant, Arg., combed and wattled, G. 
 
 Incledon, now of Yeotown in Goodleigh. — The Incledons were of Incle- 
 don in Braunton, where they are traced by records as early as the reign of 
 Edward III. Family pedigrees carry them up to the reign of King John. 
 The heiress of the elder branch married the late P. R. Webber, Esq. 
 The representative of a younger branch, and the heir male of the family, 
 is Robert Newton Incledon, Esq., now of Yeotown. The heiresses of 
 
 Wolf and Newton married into this family. 
 
 Arms : 
 
cl DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Arms : — G. three tons, Argent, hooped, Or, flames of fire issuing 
 from the bung-holes. 
 
 Kekewich, of Peamore. — Samuel Kekewich, Esq., who purchased 
 Peamore about 20 years ago, is of a Lancashire family, settled in Cornwall 
 about the middle of the sixteenth century, in consequence of a marriage 
 with the heiress of Talcarne. The heiresses of Bradfield and Essex 
 married also into this family, and Mr. Kekewich is representative also of 
 the Trehawkes of Liskeard. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, two lions passant in bend, S., between two cottises, 
 Gules. 
 
 Kelly, of Kelly. — This ancient family, into which one of the co- 
 heiresses of Talbot married, has resided at Kelly ever since the reign of 
 Henry II. Arthur Kelly Esq., is the present representative. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a chevron between three billets, Gules. 
 
 Crest : — An ostrich's head, Argent, issuing out of a ducal coronet, G., 
 in the mouth a horse-shoe. 
 
 Lee, of Ebford, in Woodbury. — Now Thomas Huckell Lee, Esq. 
 Ebford was in possession of the Lees before 1759. 
 
 Arms : — G. two bars, Or, over all a bend engrailed, Vaire ; in chief 
 an eagle displayed of the second. 
 
 Crest : — A bear seiant, Proper, muzzled and chained, Or. 
 
 Ley, now of Lee House, in Marwood. — The ancestors of George 
 Ley, Esq., of this place, were of Combe Martin for nearly two centuries. 
 Lee House was acquired by a marriage with the heiress of Thome ; the 
 heiress of Downe also married into this family. 
 
 Arms : — The same as Ley Earl of Marlborough. 
 
 Henry Ley, Esq., of Trehill, is the representative of a family who have 
 been settled for several descents in the parish of Kenne. 
 
 Luscombe, of Luscombe, afterwards of Comb Royal, in West Ailing- 
 ton. — The Luscombes were of Luscombe, in the parish of Rattery, in the 
 reign of Henry IV. The sister and heir of John Luscombe, Esq., who died 
 in 1776, married Creed, whose heiress married Manning. In 1813 John 
 Luscombe Manning, the son, took the name of Luscombe. Mr. Luscombe, 
 
 who 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cli 
 
 who died in 1776, had a cousin of the same name, who was of Woolcombe 
 in Woodleigh, and had several sons. 
 
 There is no record of any arms belonging to this family. 
 
 Luxmoore, of South Week, in German's Week. — The representative 
 of this family, into which a co-heiress of Coryndon had married, is the 
 Rev. C. T. Coryndon Luxmoore, to whom South Week now belongs. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a chevron between three moorhens. 
 
 Malet, of Ash in Iddesleigh. — Sir Baldwin Malet, of Enemer in the 
 reign of Henry III., married one of the co-heiresses of Deaudon, of 
 Deaudon, in the parish of Withecombe in the Moor, which estate was 
 sold by Sir John Malet, K. B. A younger branch of this family was of 
 Wolley, in the parish of Beaford. The heiress of this branch married 
 Acland. A younger brother of Malet of Wolley married the heiress of 
 Vyel of Ash, probably about the year 1500. This branch is represented 
 by Hugh Malet, Esq., now of Ash. The heiresses of Holcombe and 
 Veale married also into this family. A younger son of Sir John Malet, 
 K. B., married the heiress of Monford, and settled in Devon, where his 
 posterity continued for four descents. The heiress married Fulford. 
 
 Arms of Malet : — Azure, three escallops, Or. A hind's head, a tiger's 
 head, and an antelope's head, have been borne as crests by different 
 branches of this family. 
 
 Mallock, of Cockington. — This place was purchased in 1654 by 
 Roger Mallock, Esq., ancestor of the Rev. Roger Mallock, now of Cock- 
 ington. The family had been before settled at Rouse-Downe. 
 
 Arms : — Per chevron engrailed, Or, and S., in chief two pellets, each 
 charged with a fleur-de-lis of the first, in base a bezant, charged with a 
 fleur-de-lis of the second. 
 
 Crest : — A cubit arm erect, vested, Or, thereon two bends wavy, S., 
 in the hand, Proper, a mallet of the first. 
 
 Northmore, of Cleve, near Exeter. — The ancestors of Thomas 
 Northmore, Esq., now of Cleve, being of an ancient Somersetshire family, 
 settled in Devonshire in the early part of the seventeenth century. They 
 were of South Tawton and of Wonford in Throwley, before the purchase 
 
 of 
 
clii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 of Cleve, in the reign of Charles II. The heiresses of Risdon, and 
 Sydenham, and a co-heiress of Knapman, married into this family. 
 
 Arms : — G. a lion rampant, Or. 
 
 Crest : — A lion's head erased, charged with a cinquefoil and crowned 
 with a radiant crown, Argent. 
 
 Osmond, of Stagmill in Uplowman, Heine in Halberton, and Pool-An- 
 thony, in Tiverton. — Four descents of this family are described in the 
 visitation of 1620. The present representative is the Rev. Charles Osmond 
 Osmond, of Tiverton. Two co-heiresses of an elder son of this family, in 
 the reign of Queen Elizabeth, married Foxwell. 
 
 Arms : . — Sable, a fesse dancettee, Ermine ; in chief an eagle displayed, 
 Argent. 
 
 Pengelly, of Sortridge in Whitchurch. — This family, of which the 
 Rev. Henry Pengelly is the representative, have been settled here more 
 than a hundred years. 
 
 Arms : — Gules, a lion rampant, within an orle of trefoils, Argent. 
 
 Pyne or Pine, of East Downe. — Oliver Pyne, of Ham, in Cornwall, 
 married the heiress of Downe, of East Downe, in the reign of Edward III. 
 The representative of this ancient family is the Rev. John Pine Coffin, of 
 Bath. The Rev. Charles Pine Coffin, one of his younger sons, resides at East 
 Downe. Besides the heiress of Downe, the heiresses or co-heiresses of 
 Ilcombe, Salle, Brit, Appleton, and Penfowne, have married into this 
 family. 
 
 Arms : — Gules, a chevron, Ermine, between 3 pine-cones, Or. 
 
 Pitman, of Dunchidiock. — This family, of which James Pitman, Esq., 
 is the representative, have been settled at Dunchidiock for several gener- 
 ations. 
 
 Mr. Pitman bears the following arms : — Quarterly, A. and Or, an eagle 
 displayed, with two heads, G. 
 
 Crest : — A martlet upon a shell. 
 
 Pode, of Slade. — John Spurrell Pode, Esq., possessed this place by in- 
 heritance from the Spurrells. 
 
 Arms of Pode: — Az. on a chevron, Or, between two eagles displayed 
 
 in 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cliii 
 
 in chief, Argent, and a lion's head erased of the second ; in base, three 
 etoiles, Gules. 
 
 Crest: — From clouds Proper, a demi-eagle issuant, Az., collared, Or, 
 wings elevated, Argent, on the breast and on each wing an etoile counter- 
 changed. 
 
 Quicke, of Newton St. Cyres. — This family, which has been for about 
 two centuries at Newton St. Cyres, came out of Somersetshire. The 
 heiresses of Sharland and Nutcombe have married into it. The present 
 representative is John Quicke, Esq. 
 
 Arms : — S., a chevron Vaire, Or, and S., between three griffins' heads, 
 erased, of the second. 
 
 Crest : — A demi-antelope, A., armed, attired, tufted, and maned, G., 
 collared, S., lined, Or. 
 
 Radcliffe, of Hockworthy, now of Warleigh. — This family, which 
 came out of Lancashire, was of Kingset in Devon, in 1560, and of Hock- 
 worthy, in 1693. Warleigh, the seat of the Rev. Walter Radcliffe, the 
 present representative, was purchased by Jasper Radcliffe, Esq., who was 
 sheriff in 1689. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a bend engrailed, S., a canton of the first, charged 
 with a horse's head couped, of the second. 
 
 Crest : — Within a mural crown, Argent, a bull's head, S., armed and 
 crined, Or. 
 
 Saltren, of Petticombe. — A younger branch of the Saltrens, of Trelu- 
 dick, in Cornwall, settled at Petticombe before the middle of the seven- 
 teenth century. The present representative is Augustus Saltren Willett ", 
 Esq. ; Petticombe is in the possession of Miss Saltren, the representative 
 of a younger branch. 
 
 Arms : — Az., a lion rampant within an orle of mullets, Argent. 
 
 Sampson, of Colyton. — This family, of which Samuel Sampson, Esq., 
 now of Colyton, is the representative, have been settled here more than two 
 centuries. They are supposed to have come from Somersetshire : Mr. Samp- 
 son has estates in that county, which have been long in the family. The 
 grandfather of Mr. Sampson married the heiress of Braddich. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a cross moline, Azure. 
 
 tt See p. clix. 
 Vol. VI. u Savery, 
 
cliv DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Savery, of South Efford, in the parish of Aveton Gifford This family 
 
 was originally settled at Halberton and Totnes, afterwards, at Shilston in 
 Modbury, still their property. Co-heiresses of Servington, of Gilbert alias 
 Webber, and Dyer, have married into this family, of which John Savery, 
 Esq., of Bristol, is the present representative ; but the family estate is now 
 the property and residence of his younger brother, Christopher Savery, Esq. 
 
 Arms : — G., a fesse Vaire, between three unicorns' heads, couped, Or. 
 
 Crest : — An eagle's head erased, Argent, between two wings expanded, 
 Sable, in the beak an olive sprig, Vert. 
 
 Seale, of Mount Boon, near Dartmouth. — This family, which came 
 from Northumberland, have been settled here more than a hundred years. 
 The present representative is John Seale, Esq. 
 
 Arms : — Or, a fesse, Az., between 3 wolves' heads erased, Sable. 
 
 Crest : — Out of a ducal coronet, Or, a wolf's head, Argent, embrued at 
 the nose and mouth. 
 
 Short, now of Bickham, in Kenne. — Four descents of this family are 
 described in the visitation of 1620, as of Newton St. Cyres and of Exeter. 
 John Short of Newton married the heiress of Shirland. The represent- 
 ative of this family is Francis Baring Short, Esq. 
 
 Arms : — G., a griffin segreant, Or, a chief, Ermine, 
 
 Sielifant, of Combe, in Colebrooke. — This family, who formerly wrote 
 their name Sullivan or Syllivan, came from Beare, in Ireland, in 1641. 
 Combe was acquired by marriage with Snell, in 1677. John Sillifant, Esq., 
 now of Combe, married the heiress of Prideaux, of North Tawton. 
 
 Arms : — Per pale, S. and A., on a fesse between two boars passant, 
 the one in chief towards the dexter, the other in base towards the sinister, 
 2 cross-crosslets, all counterchanged. 
 
 Crest : — At the foot of a cross of Calvary, Or, a lizard, Proper. 
 
 Southmead, of Wrey, in Chagford. — This family is traced for six de- 
 scents, in the visitation of 1620. Thomas, the first mentioned in the 
 pedigree, married the heiress of Corsett, whose ancestor had married the 
 heiress of Delaford, by the heiress of Wrey. John Rowe Southmead, Esq., 
 of Holy Street, in Chagford, is the present representative of this family : 
 his father married the heiress of Rowe, of Holy Street. 
 
 Arms : — Party per fesse, wavy, G., and Ermine ; an eagle displayed 
 
 in chief, Or. 
 
 Spurway, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. civ 
 
 Spurway, of Spurway and Oakford. — This ancient family, originally 
 Grede, had assumed the name of Spurway as early as the reign of Henry III. 
 Co-heiresses of Stringer and Listen, and the heiress of Ley of Dartmouth, 
 have married into this family ; the representative of which is the Rev. John 
 Spurway, of Pilton, near Barnstaple, who possesses the manor of Spurway. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, on the bend Az., a spur-rowel, Or, between two 
 garbs of the first. 
 
 Crest : — A garb, Or. 
 
 Stawell, formerly of Merton, by marriage with a co-heiress of Merton, 
 now of West Anstey. — The descendant of the elder branch of this family, 
 into which co-heiresses of Farway and St. Main - had also married, was 
 created Baron Stawell : the male line of this branch became extinct by the 
 death of Edward Lord Stawell, in 1755 : the heiress married Legge, who was 
 created Lord Stawell. Willoughby Bryant Stawell, Esq., of West Anstey, 
 in Devonshire, is the representative of a younger branch of this ancient 
 family : his great-great-grandfather married a co-heiress of Holbrooke. 
 
 Arms : — G., a cross lozengy, Argent. 
 
 Stevens, of Vielstone, in Buckland Brewer and Cross, in 1672. — Henry 
 Stevens, Esq., the last heir male of this family, died in 1802. Thomas 
 More, Esq., his sister's son, took the name and arms of Stevens, in 1817, 
 and is now of Cross and Winscot. 
 
 Arms : — Per chevron, Argent, and G., in chief, 2 falcons rising, Pro- 
 per, belled, Or. 
 
 Crest : — A falcon rising, Or, wings, Az., each charged with an etoile 
 of the first, gorged with a collar gemelle of the second. 
 
 The heiress of a younger branch of this family, which was of Frithel- 
 stock and Winscot, married Awse, and afterwards Clevland. By the 
 bequest of the late John Clevland, Esq., Winscot is now the property of 
 Thomas Stevens, Esq. 
 
 Strode, of Newnham. — This ancient family was originally of Strode, 
 in the parish of Ermington, where they are traced as early as the reign of 
 Henry III. John, the seventh in descent, married a co-heiress of Newn- 
 ham, in the reign of Henry IV. The heiresses of Peniles of Plympton, 
 and Courtenay of Loughtor c , married into this family, of whicli George 
 Strode, Esq., is the present representative. 
 
 c A younger branch of Courtenay of Molland. 
 
 u 2 Arms : 
 
clvi DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a chevron between 3 conies, current, Sable. 
 Crest : — On amount, a tree Vert, fructed gules. 
 
 Swete, formerly of Trayne, in Modbury, now of Oxton. — The last heir 
 male of this family, which had acquired Trayne by a marriage with the 
 heiress of Trayne, of that place, in the reign of Edward VI., died in 1755. 
 The Rev. John Tripe, of Ashburton, whose family had been long settled 
 at Dawlish, took the name of Swete, by act of parliament, in 1781 : he died 
 in 1821, and was succeeded by his eldest son, John Beaumont Swete, Esq., 
 who is representative also of the ancient family of Martyn. 
 
 Arms of Swete : — G., two chevrons between two mullets, in chief, and a 
 rose in base, Argent, the rose seeded, Or. 
 
 Crest : — A mullet, Or, pierced, Az., between three gillyflowers, Proper. 
 
 Symoxs, of Chaddlevvood. — William Hales Symons, Esq., of this place, 
 is descended from a younger branch of a Suffolk family of that name, 
 which settled in Cornwall in the seventeenth century. William Symons, 
 Esq., the first who settled in Devonshire, married, the heiress of the Rev. 
 Christopher Jelinger, a learned and pious divine, who fled his native place, 
 Worms, in the palatinate of the Rhine, on account of religious perse- 
 cution, and was some time vicar of South Brent. Having been dispos- 
 sessed at the Restoration, he retired to the neighbourhood of Kings- 
 bridge, being possessed of an estate there, now the property of his de- 
 scendant, the Rev. H.J. Symons, LL.D. Dr. Symons's father, the late 
 Rev. Jelinger Symons, was rector of Whitburn, in the county of Durh'am, 
 to which benefice he was most honourably presented by the bishop of that 
 diocese, for his useful publications in defence of the church of England. 
 
 Arms of Symons : — Per fesse, Sab. and Argent, a pale counterchanged ; 
 3 trefoils, Vert. 
 
 Crest : — On a mount, Vert, an Ermine, Proper, in its mouth a trefoil, 
 
 as in the arms. 
 
 Taylor, of Denbury and West Ogwell. — Joseph Taylor d , Esq., ancestor 
 of Pierce Joseph Taylor, Esq., now of Ogwell House, married the heiress 
 of Whitrow, by one of the co-heiresses of Reynell, of West Ogwell, in the 
 early part of the last century : his father married the heiress of Pierce. 
 
 Arms : — Sable, a lion passant, Argent. 
 
 J Son of Captain Joseph Taylor, of the R.N., whose immediate ancestors were of Lyme, in 
 
 Dorsetshire. rr, 
 
 lEMPLER, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. civil 
 
 Templer, of Stover Lodge, in Teigngrace, purchased by the grandfather 
 of George Templer, Esq., now of that place. 
 
 Arms : — Quarterly, Az. and G., the perspective of an antique temple, 
 Arg. ; on the pinnacle and exterior battlement a cross, Or; in the first quarter, 
 an eagle displayed ; in the second, a stag trippant regardant, of the last. 
 
 Crest : — On a wreath, a mount Vert ; thereon a holy lamb, Argent, in 
 the dexter foot a pennon of the second charged witli a cross of St. George; 
 the streamers wavy, Az. and G., the staff, Or, under an oak-tree, Proper, 
 fructed, Or. 
 
 Treby, of Goodamoor, in Plympton. — Paul Treby Treby, Esq., of this 
 place, is sou of Paul Ourry, Esq., by Charity, sister and heiress of George 
 Treby, Esq., who was son of the Honourable George Treby, and grandson 
 of Sir George Treby, one of the Justices of the Common Pleas. Mr. 
 Treby took that name by sign manual, in 1785. The Honourable George 
 Treby married a co-heiress of Hele, of Halwell. 
 
 Arms: — Sable, a lion rampant, Argent, collared, Vaire, (Az., and Er- 
 minois) ; in chief, three bezants. 
 
 Crest : — A demi-lion, rampant, collared as in the arms. 
 
 Tremayne, of Sydenham, in Maristow. — The ancient family of Tre- 
 mayne, originally of Cornwall, settled in Devonshire in consequence of a 
 marriage with the heiress of Trenchard, of Collacombe. Edmund Tremayne, 
 the representative of this family in Prince's time, married the .heiress of 
 Wise of Sydenham, since which time Sydenham has been the chief seat of 
 the Tremaynes. Arthur Tremayne, Esq., who died in 180S, was the last 
 of the elder branch. On his death, the Rev. Henry Hawkins Tremayne, 
 of Heligan, in Cornwall, succeeded to the estates, and became the male 
 representative of this ancient family. Co-heiresses of Clotworthy and 
 Hearle married into the Heligan branch. 
 
 Arms: — G. 3 dexter arms conjoined at the shoulders, and flexed in 
 triangle, Or, with fists clenched, Argent. 
 
 Crest : — Two arms embowed, Vested, Or, holding between their hands 
 a head Proper, thereon a hat, Sable. 
 
 Troyte, of Huntsham. — The ancestor of the Rev. Edward Berkley 
 
 Troyte, D.D., now of Huntsham, settled here about the middle of the last 
 
 century 
 
 Arms : 
 
clviii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Arms : — Or, an eagle displayed, with two heads, Proper, a border in- 
 vected, Ermine. 
 
 Crest : — An eagle's wing, Sable, charged with five etoiles, Or, and 
 environed with a snake, Proper. 
 
 Tucker, of Coryton. — The ancestors of William Tucker, Esq., now of 
 Coryton, were settled at Axminster more than 200 years ago, and were 
 before of Exeter. Coryton was purchased in 1697. 
 
 Arms : — Az., on a chevron embattled between 3 sea-horses, Argent ; as 
 many hearts, Gules. 
 
 Crest : — A demi sea-horse regardant, Argent, holding between his paws 
 a heart, G. 
 
 Tuckfield, of Fulford Park. — Crediton was the original residence of 
 this family, who were opulent manufacturers, soon after the first extension 
 of the clothing trade, in the reign of Henry VIII. Their first country resi- 
 dence was at Great Raddon, in Thorverton. Henry Tuckfield, Esq., the 
 last heir male, died in 1797- Richard Hippisley, son of the Rev. John 
 Hippisley, of Stow, in Gloucestershire, took the name and arms of Tuck- 
 field, in 1808, and resides at Fulford Park. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, three lozenges in fesse, Sab., for distinction, a canton, 
 Gules. 
 
 Crest : — An eagle, Proper, beaked and legged, Or, the dexter claw 
 supporting an arrow erect, G., barbed and flighted, A. ; and for distinction, 
 on the breast of the eagle a rose, Gules. 
 
 Walrond, of Bradfield, in Uffculm This ancient family, of which 
 
 William Henry Walrond, Esq., is the representative, was settled at Brad- 
 field as early as the reign of Henry III. The heiresses of Stowford, 
 Ufflete, and Whitinge, have married into this family. A younger branch 
 was settled for several descents at Bovey : the heiress of this branch married 
 Lord Rolle, and is lately deceased. 
 
 Arms : — Or, 3 bulls' heads caboshed, Sable. 
 
 Crest : — A tiger seiant, charged with plates. 
 
 Webber. — The late Philip Rogers Webber, Esq., of Buckland, in 
 Braunton, married one of the co-heiresses of the elder branch of the Incle- 
 don family. Buckland is now the seat of his son, Henry W T ebber, Esq., a 
 General in the East India Company's service. 
 
 Arms, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. clix 
 
 Arms, as in Braunton Church : — G., on a chevron engrailed, Or, be- 
 tween 3 plates, as many annulets, Azure. 
 Crest : — A wolf's head. 
 
 Willett, of Combe in Abbotsham, Porthill in Northam, and Tapeley in 
 Westleigh. — John Willett, Esq., who died in 1J36, was the last heir male 
 of this family, who had been settled for a few descents at Combe: he be- 
 queathed his estates to William Saltren, second son of Thomas Saltren, Esq., 
 of Stone, in Parkham ; his elder son, Augustus, who took the name of 
 Willett in addition to that of Saltren, was of Porthill in Northam, and died in 
 1803, leaving a son, Augustus Saltren Willett, Esq., who inherits Tapeley, 
 in the parish of Westleigh, under the will of the late John Clevland, Esq. 
 
 Arms of Willett : — Argent, 3 bars gemelles, S., in chief, three lions 
 rampant, of the second. 
 
 Woollcombe, of Hemerdon and Ashbury. — There can be little doubt 
 that the Woollcombes are descended from the same common ancestor as 
 the ancient family of Wollacombe. Two hundred years ago the name 
 was spelt Wolcomb, and in the visitation of 1620 the arms of Wollacombe 
 are assigned to this family, with a mullet for difference. The first of the 
 Woollcombes, or Wolcombes, of whom we rind mention, is William Wol- 
 combe, of Holland in Plympton, who married the heiress of Bawden in 
 the reign of Henry VII. : his two sons married the co-heiresses of Pitts 
 of Pitton in Yealmton. Thomas Woollcombe, Esq., now of Plymouth, 
 is the representative, and the seventh in lineal descent from the elder. 
 His son, George Woollcombe, Esq., possesses and resides at Hemerdon. 
 The heiresses of Winston, Stokes, and Avent, and a co-heiress of Bedford, 
 have married into this branch. 
 
 The younger branch resided for some generations at Pitton : in conse- 
 quence of a marriage with the heiress of Walter, they removed to Ashbury. 
 The heiress of Morth, and a co-heiress of Pascoe, married into this branch, 
 of which John Morth Woollcombe, Esq., of Ashbury, is the representative. 
 
 Arms : — The same as Wollacombe d , with a mullet for difference. 
 
 Crest : — A falcon, Proper, with wings expanded and inverted, charged 
 with three bars, G., beaked, belled, and legged, Or. 
 
 Worth, of Worth, in Washfield. — This ancient family, into which the 
 heiresses of Furlong and Furse have married, was of Worth in the reign of 
 Henry III. The present representative is John Worth, Esq., now of Worth. 
 
 d See p. clxxxiii. 
 
 Arms : 
 
clx DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Arms : — Erm. an eagle displayed with two necks, S. 
 Crest : — An arm erect, vested and gloved, Ermines, holding an eagle's 
 leg, couped at the thigh, Or. 
 
 Yarde, originally of Yarde, in Malborough, now of Trowbridge, which 
 was acquired by purchase in 1759- — The heiresses of Bussell and Ferrers 
 married into this family : the elder branch, in consequence of the last- 
 mentioned marriage, settled at Churston Ferrers, and became extinct in 1773, 
 by the death of John Yarde, Esq. His brother, Francis Yarde, Esq., of Ottery 
 St. Mary, who had married a co-heiress of Northleigh, left an only daughter, 
 heiress to the family, who married the late Sir Francis Buller, Bart. Gilbert 
 Yarde, a younger son of this family, settled at Bradley, and was ancestor of 
 John Yarde, Esq., now of Trowbridge. There was another branch of Trea- 
 surer's Bere, in Clist Honiton, the representative of which took the name 
 of Sainthill. c 
 
 Arms : — G. a chevron between three measuring yards, Or. 
 
 After the marriage with Bussell, this family generally bore the arms of 
 Bussell. 
 
 Yonge, of Puslinch. — This family, which came from Sturminster New- 
 ton, in Dorsetshire, had resided for several generations at Landsend, in 
 the parish of Colebrooke : they removed to Puslinch in consequence of a 
 marriage with a co-heiress of Upton, in the beginning of the last century. 
 The Rev. John Yonge, of Puslinch, is the present representative. The 
 late Sir William Young, G. C. B., was of this family : he had a younger 
 brother, Admiral James Young, now of Barton-end, in Gloucestershire. 
 
 The following arms were granted, in 1725, to James and William 
 Yonge, brothers, of this family. — Or, six ogresses in fesse, between 
 three lions saliant, Gules. 
 
 Crest : — On a wreath, Or, and G., a buck's head couped between two 
 fern branches, Vert. In this grant of arms the name is "spelt both Yonge and 
 Young. At this time the parties to whom the grant was made had failed in 
 proving their right to arms ; but it appears clearly from documents in the 
 Heralds' College, that the ancestor of the Yonges, then of Landsend, in 
 Colebrooke, and of Sturminster Newton, in Dorsetshire, had a grant from the 
 celebrated Camden, when Clarencieux King of Arms, of the following coat: 
 Per fesse, S. and Argent, three lions passant gardant counterchanged. 
 
 Crest : — A demi-unicorn, Argent, armed, Or. 
 
 • See the account of that family. 
 
 Ancient 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 clxi 
 
 Ancient Families extinct or removed before 1620. 
 
 Affeton, of Affeton 
 
 Aller, or Awre, of North 
 Aller 
 
 Anke, of Anke 
 
 Archdeacon e , or Erce- 
 dekne 
 
 Arundel], of Hemp- ) 
 ston Arundell - j 
 
 , of Yewton 
 
 Arundell l 
 Ashlegh, of Ashlegh 
 Avenell, of Loxbeare 
 
 Avenell, who married 
 
 the heiress 
 
 Reginald, of 
 
 wash 
 Bagworthy, of Bag 
 
 worthy 
 
 Balister, or Alabaster 
 
 married^ 
 
 of Fitz I 
 
 f Sheep- i 
 
 :} 
 
 Bamhouse, of Kingston 
 
 Baron, of Buekland 7 
 Baron - - j 
 
 Bathon, of Colebrooke 
 Battens, ofDunsland 
 Bauceyn 11 , of Wash-1 
 borne Bauceyn - j 
 Bawcomb, of Bawcomb 
 Beaumont, of Gittesbam 
 Beauple, or Beaple, of \ 
 Landkey - - j 
 
 Belston, of Belston 
 
 About what Time extinct or 
 removed. 
 
 f Six descents after 
 
 I Edw. I. 
 
 I About thelatterend 
 
 -^ of tlie 11th cei 
 
 ( ury. 
 
 f About the begin-) 
 
 X ning of Hen. HI. j 
 
 end } 
 
 ent- > 
 
 Families into which the 
 Heiresses married. 
 
 Five descents after 27 
 Hen. III. - 
 
 Temp. Hen. III. 
 
 TRemovedintoCorn- ) 
 < wall at an early > 
 (_ period - - ) 
 Temp. Edw. III. 
 
 Temp. Hen. VI. 
 
 Temp. Hen. III. 
 
 Removed temp. Hen. IV. 
 
 In the 14th century 
 
 f Seven descen 
 \ low Edw. I 
 
 Temp. Edw. Ill 
 
 Stuckley 
 Hach 
 
 Dagville 
 
 I One of the co-^ 
 heiresses mar- I 
 ried Courte- | 
 tenay -J 
 
 Crispin 
 
 Tirrell 
 f Trowbri 
 \ and Rii 
 
 dge \ 
 chards J 
 
 cents be- 
 
 About 1500 
 
 Temp. Edw. I. 
 
 Temp. Hen. V. 
 1599 
 
 Temp. Edw. HI. 
 Temp. Hen. HI. 
 
 fCopleston, of) 
 \ Eggesford - J 
 
 Rowe 
 
 Pollard 
 
 Metsted 
 Arscot 
 
 Hiwis 
 
 Muttlebury 
 fSir Nigel Lo-1 
 X ringe, K.G. j 
 
 ISpeccot and I 
 Fultbrd - } 
 
 ', Arg. a chevron between 3 
 I fleur-de-lis, Sable. 
 
 j" A rg. 3 parrots, Vert, beak- 
 [ ed and membered, Or. 
 
 " G. 2 bars and 3 annulets in 
 chief, Arg. 
 
 A. 3 chevrons, Sable. 
 
 A. 6 swallows, Sable. 
 
 Sable, 6 swallows, A. 
 
 — , a pheon. 
 A. 5 fusils in fesse. 
 
 3 spread eagles. 
 
 A. 3 cross-bows bent, Or. 
 
 JG. 2 wings conjoined in 
 
 X lure, Arg. 
 
 ( A. a chevron between 3 
 
 X men's hearts, Sable. 
 Erm. a bend, Gules. 
 Arg. 3 battle-axes, Az. 
 
 {Arg. 2 bars wavy G., and 
 a quarter, Sable. 
 Arg. 3 bats displayed, S. 
 Barry of 6 Vaire and G. 
 G. a bend Vaire, between 
 
 6 escallops, Arg. 
 Or, on abend, G., 3 crosses 
 formte, Are. 
 
 c The heiress of Haccomb married into this family. 
 f Ancestor of the Arundells of Lanberne. 
 f The heiress of Dabernon married into this family. 
 b The heiress of Sbilston married into this family. 
 
 Vol. VI. 
 
 Bernville, 
 
clxii 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Bernville, of Hock- 
 worthy 
 
 Bicklcigh, of Bickleigh 
 
 Bigbury "', of Bigbury 
 
 Bolhay, of Blackbo- 
 rough Bolhay 
 
 Boterford, of Boterford 
 
 Bottreaux,of Holland 
 
 Bottreaux 
 Bowring, of Bowrings- 
 
 legh 
 
 Boys, of Halberton 
 
 Boys, of Woode - 
 
 Boys, of Boys Hele 
 
 Bozon, of Bozon's Hele 
 and Churston - 
 
 "•I 
 
 , of Clovelly 
 
 Brightley k , of Bright 
 
 ley, originally F 
 
 warren 
 
 Britt, of Stottescombe 
 
 Brixton ', of Brixton • 
 
 Bruer, of Teign Graas 1 
 or Teign Bruer -J 
 
 Bulkworthy, of Bulk- 1 
 worthy - - j 
 
 Bunion, of King's! 
 Teignton - -j 
 
 Burnell, of Cocktree ■ 
 
 , of Croke ] 
 
 Burnell - - j 
 
 Bussell, of Bradley 
 
 About what Time extinct or 
 removed. 
 
 f Five descents from 1 
 I 27 Hen. III. -j 
 
 Uncertain 
 
 ("Three descents be-l 
 \ low 8 Edw. III. J 
 
 r Continued four de-"J 
 i scents at an early V 
 (_ period - -J 
 
 Temp. Hen. IV. 
 About temp. Hen. VI. 
 Temp. Edw. IV. 
 Temp. Edw. III. 
 
 1 Edw. II. 
 
 {Seven descents be-1 
 low 1 Edw. II. -J 
 {The elderlinetemp.~v 
 Edw. I. - J 
 
 A younger branch j 
 temp. Hen. VI. J 
 Temp. Edw. III. 
 
 Families into which the 
 Heiresses married. I 
 
 Arms. 
 
 De Belfago 
 
 ( Champer- "i 
 
 < nowne and > 
 ( Durnfbrd -) 
 
 Cobham 
 Mey 
 
 Pike 
 Burton 
 
 Boys, of Boys Hele 
 
 Speccot 
 
 Ferrers and Chi- 
 
 verston 
 IFulford 
 
 3 
 
 Cary. 
 
 f Coblegh, and' 
 11 descents below H. II. -J afterwards | 
 J (. Fortescue -_ 
 
 {8 descents from ) 
 temp. Hen. III. J" 
 ( 7 descents below 7 
 I 27 Hen. III. -j 
 
 Temp. Hen. III. 
 
 Temp. Edw. I. 
 
 Temp. Hen. IV. 
 Temp. Edw. III. 
 
 Temp. Edw. III. 
 
 ents b 
 
 en. III. -j 
 
 (" 5 descents below | 
 1 46 Hi 
 
 Wise 
 
 Wivill, Carswell,7 
 andBarnhouse j 
 
 Graas and Downe - 
 
 (The heiress "\ 
 seems to have ( 
 married ( 
 
 Stockhey -J 
 
 Thorp 
 Wike 
 Colles 
 Yarde 
 
 f Arg. three pellets, each 
 -? charged with a bend of 
 ( the field. 
 
 f Arg. a bend engrailed, S 
 \ between 3 crows. 
 
 Az. an eagle displayed, Or. 
 
 f A. on a chevron, S., 3 
 
 •J bezants between 3 tor 
 
 l_ teauxes. 
 
 ( Or, on a bend, Az., 3 but 
 
 I terflies, Argent. 
 
 f Arg. a griffin segreant, G., 
 
 I beak and legs, Az. 
 
 {G. a chevron between 3 
 lioncels rampant, Or. 
 J A. a chevron, G., between 
 \ 2 oak-trees, Proper. 
 (A. a chevron, S., between 
 -' 3 acorns, erect, Or, cup- 
 ( ped, Vert. 
 
 {A. a chevron, G., between 
 3 cockatrices, Sable. 
 
 Az. 3 bird-bolts, Arg. 
 
 G. a chief indented, Argent. 
 
 {A. a fesse between 3 es 
 callops, Sable. 
 
 Arg. 3 boars' heads, Gules. 
 
 f A. four bars gemelles, Az. 
 < over all a chevron en- 
 (_ graded, Gules. 
 
 Sable, a bend Vaire. 
 
 !A. 3 pilgrims' staves in 
 pale, G. 
 f A. a chevron, Ermines, be- 
 ■£ tween 3 barnacles, Sab. 
 
 {The same arms (the chev- 
 ron, Sable). 
 I A. a chevron, G., between 
 I 3 water-bougets, Sable. 
 
 ' Co-heiresses of Doddescombe and of Champernowne of North Tawton married into this family. 
 k The heiress of Stowford, and a co-heiress of Merton, married into this family. 
 1 A co-heiress of Dymmock married into this family. 
 
 Cadbury, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 clxiii 
 
 Name. 
 
 Cadbury, of Cadbury - 
 Cadiho, of Dunsland 
 
 Carminow, of Ashwater 
 
 Carslake, of Harston 
 
 Carswell '", of Hach 
 Arundell 
 
 Chagford, of Chagford 
 
 Cliallons, of Legh » 
 Challons - - -. 
 
 Chanceaux, or De > 
 Cancellis - - ' 
 
 Cheney, of Up-Ottery 
 
 About what Time extinct or 
 removed. 
 
 Before 1600 
 Temp. Hen. IV. 
 
 Temp. Hen. VI. 
 
 About 1500 
 
 C Settled at Hach in 
 I the reign of He 
 
 Families into which the 
 Heiresses married. 
 
 
 , of Pinho, (a 7 
 
 younger branch) - j 
 
 Chiseldon, of Hoi- 7 
 comb Rogus - \ 
 
 Chiverston °, of Chi- 
 verston 
 
 Clavell, or ClavilleP, A 
 of Lomen, (came I 
 over with William X 
 the Conqueror) -J 
 
 Clist,ofClistandHen-l 
 nock - -j 
 
 Cobhami, of Black-) 
 borough Bolhay - J 
 
 Coblegh r , of Brightley 
 
 Cockington, of Cock-"} 
 ington (originally > 
 Fitz-Martin) -J 
 
 Z) 
 
 lef 
 
 J IV., extinctinth 
 v. 16th century 
 
 Temp. Edw. I. 
 
 Uncertain (continued 
 12 descents) 
 
 Removed temp. Edw. I 
 
 Temp. Edw. IV. 
 
 In the 16th century 
 
 5 descents below 52 
 Hen. III. 
 
 Temp. Ric. II. 
 
 Temp. Hen. III. 
 Uncertain 
 
 Tn the 16th century 
 Temp. Edw. III. 
 
 Molford 
 Dabernon 
 
 Carew 
 
 Wood 
 
 Langworthy 
 
 St. Aubyn and 
 Ferrers 
 
 'One of the co-" 
 heiresses 
 married 
 Willoughby, 
 LordBrooke j 
 
 Walgrave. 
 
 Wadham and Bluett 
 
 Halgewell, or Hal 
 well 
 
 fBere,ofHunt-l 
 \ sham - j 
 
 Trcmenet 
 Charlton 
 
 Giffard 
 
 No arms known. 
 f A. 3 piles in point wavy 
 I Sable. 
 
 I Az., a bend, Or, a label of 
 1 3, G. 
 
 f Arg., a mullet, S., between 
 I 3 trefoils, Vert. 
 
 f Sable, a bend, Arg., a label 
 1 of 5. 
 
 {Sab., crusuly fitchtie, 3 
 lions rampant, Argent 
 G., 2 bars and an orle of 
 martlets, Arg. 
 f Arg., a chevron, Az., be- 
 I tween 3 mullets, Sable. 
 
 G., 4 fusils in fesse, Arg., 
 each charged with an es- 
 callop, Sable. 
 
 fOr, on a chevron, G., 3 
 I martlets of the field. 
 Or, on a bend, G., 3 goats 
 passant, A. 
 
 Or, 3 keys, Gules. 
 
 A. 3 piles in point wavy, 
 
 Azure. 
 G. on a chevron, Or, 3 
 
 eaglets displayed, S. 
 Gyronny of 6, G. and S., 
 
 on a bend engrailed, A., 
 
 3 hurts between 2 swans, 
 
 Proper. 
 
 A., achevron, Az., between 
 3 cocks, G. 
 
 1 
 
 m The heiress of Prall and a co-heiress of Brixton married into this family. 
 
 n The heiress of Legh, and co-heiresses of Cantilupe, Mauduit, Beauchamp, and Waterton, 
 married into this family. 
 
 A co-heiress of Boson, of Ithelton, married into this family. 
 
 p A younger branch of this family married the heiress of Wyot, of Smedmore, and settled in 
 Dorsetshire. This branch became extinct by the death of George Clavell, Esq., of Bath, in 
 1774 ; his father was the first of his branch who wrote the name Clavell. A nephew (William 
 Richards) took the name of Clavell, and was sheriff of Dorsetshire in 1797. 
 
 i The heiress of Bolhay married into this family. 
 
 ' The heiress of Brightley married into this family. 
 
 Cock. 
 x 2 
 
clxiv 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Cockworthy,ofYarns- 1 
 
 combe - - j 
 
 Cogan s , of Bampton - 
 
 Compton, of Compton } 
 
 Castle - - J 
 
 Cornu, of Horwood 
 
 , ofThornbury - 
 
 Coryton, of Coryton - 
 
 Crispin, of Woolston • 
 
 Curtoys, of Goldworthy 
 Dabernon, of Bradford 
 
 , of Dunsland 
 
 Name. 
 
 About what Time extinct ( 
 removed. 
 
 Damarell ', of Milton 1 
 Damarell - - j 
 
 , of Nortli ) 
 
 Huish - - ] 
 
 , of Woodbury 
 
 , ofGidley 
 
 , of Aveton) 
 
 Giffard - - f 
 
 Deaudon, of Deaudon 
 
 De la Ford, of Ford 
 Dernford, of Stonehouse 
 
 Dirwyn, of Fulford 
 
 Doddescomb, of 1 
 Doddescomb Legh j 
 
 Uncertain 
 Temp. Ric. II. 
 Temp. Edw. III. 
 
 About temp. Hen. IV. 
 
 About temp. Hen. VII. 
 Removed into Cornwall 
 
 Temp. Edw. II. 
 
 About 1400 
 Temp. Edw. I. 
 
 Temp. Hen. VI. 
 Removedtemp. Edw.II. 
 Temp. Edw. III. 
 Temp. Edw. III. 
 In the 14th century 
 
 Temp. Edw. III. 
 
 Temp. Hen. III. 
 
 {At an early period 1 
 (uncertain) -j 
 
 {3 descents below 
 Edw. III. 
 
 Families into which the 
 Heiresses married. 
 
 Trevelyan 
 
 Fitzwarren 
 J Gilbert and Chi- 
 \ derlegh 
 V Pollard and } 
 
 Arms. 
 
 I Wilfo 
 
 Speccot 
 
 4 descents belon 
 I J Edw. II. 
 
 Temp. Edw. III. 
 
 Donne, or Doune u , of 
 Doune Raph and 
 Bridgrule 
 
 Edmerston, of Ed 
 merston 
 
 English, of English I 
 Hayes - -j 
 
 Englishville, of Bradley 
 
 -! 
 
 Bradstone 
 
 Gay 
 Dennis 
 
 Arscot 
 
 Trenchard. 
 
 {Bonville and 
 Maltravers 
 
 Code, of Cornwall 
 
 {Dernford and 
 Berry. 
 
 Claville and Alalet 
 
 Bonville 
 
 5Dinham and") 
 afterwards > 
 (^ Edgecumbe J 
 
 Hach 
 
 5 descents below 27 
 Hen. III. 
 
 Continued five deO 
 scents : time of ex- > 
 tinction uncertain -J 
 
 Temp. Hen. IV. - 
 Temp. Hen. III. - 
 
 ! 
 
 Bigbury,New-~\ 
 enliam, Prall, I 
 and Brans- i 
 comb -) 
 
 Ledred and Hoi 
 comb 
 
 Rouse. 
 
 Gredy 
 Bussell 
 
 f Arg., a chevron between 
 
 \ 3 cocks, Gules. 
 
 G., 3 mulberry leaves, Vert. 
 
 S., a chevron, Erm., between 
 
 3 shovelers, Arg. 
 
 Arg., a chevron between 3 
 hunting-horns, Sable. 
 
 Arg., a saltier, Sable. 
 
 f G., 10 lozenges, 4, 3, 2 
 
 I 1 Ermine. 
 Arg., 3 fleur-de-lis, Sable. 
 Az., a chevron, Or. 
 
 f Az., a chevron, and in chief 
 
 { 3 escallops, Or. 
 
 fAz., on a chief, G., 3 
 
 \ crescents, A. 
 
 Per fesse, G., and Az., 3 
 
 crescents, Arg. 
 
 {The same coat with the 
 crescent, Or. 
 
 {S., a poppy with roots and 
 fruit, Or. 
 
 Sab. a ram's head caboshed, 
 Arg., attired, G. 
 
 f G., a pale engrailed, Erm 
 < debrused with a fesse 
 (_ Erminois. 
 
 A., 3 eaglets displayed. 
 Gules. 
 
 ( Paly of 6, Arg. and Az., 
 -? ' on a fesse G., 3 mullets, 
 ( Or. 
 
 Az. 3 garbs and a chief, Arg 
 
 fG. on a bend, Argent, 3 
 \ bendlets, Sable. 
 
 s Descended from Sir Milo Cogan, who undertook the conquest of Ireland : his five imme- 
 diate successors were all knights. 
 
 1 A younger branch of this family, which had been of Stone in Ugborough, was in existence 
 in Sir William Pole's time, in a reduced condition, and the name is still to be found among the 
 yeomanry in the south-west part of the county. 
 
 » The heiress of De Mora, and a co-heiress of Bruer, married into this family. 
 
 Esse, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 clxv 
 
 Name. 
 
 Esse, of Esse Ralph x 
 Eston, of Eston 
 
 Fallowpit, or Fallopit, | 
 of Fallowpit - - ) 
 
 Faringdon, of Little J 
 Faringdon - - j 
 
 Ferrers, of Bere Fer- 1 
 
 -, of Churston 
 
 Filleigh, of Filleigh 
 
 Fishacre, of Comb } 
 Fishacre v - -j 
 
 Fitz, of Fitzford - 
 
 Fitz Bernard, of Hoi- 1 
 comb Burnell - ) 
 
 Fitz Payne, of Cheri-1 
 ton Fitzpayne -j 
 
 Fitz Stephen, of Norton 
 
 Flemin 
 
 -, of Bratton 
 
 ■! 
 
 Fleming 
 Folkeray, of Buck-"/ 
 
 land Baron z - - } 
 Frank Cheney, of Clist 7 
 
 Gerald - -J 
 
 Gambon, of Morston - 
 
 Gibbes, of Fenton - - 
 Giffard, of Wear Giffard 
 Gorges, of Tamerton ^ 
 Foliot - -J 
 
 Graas, of Teign Graas - 
 Haccomb, of Haccomli 
 
 About what Time extinct or 
 removed. 
 
 Temp. Edw. II. - 
 In the 16th century 
 
 Before 1450 
 
 Eleven descents below | 
 4 Edw. I. - -J 
 
 In the 14th century 
 
 Temp. Hen. VI. - 
 Temp. Hen. IV. - 
 Temp. Henry IV. 
 
 " In the early part of 
 the 17th century - 
 
 Temp. Edw. I. - 
 
 Temp. Edw. III. - 
 Temp. Hen. III. 
 
 Temp. Hen. VI. - 
 
 Three descents below 1 
 Richard II. - -j 
 
 Temp. Hen. VIII. 
 
 Temp. Edw. IV. 
 
 Temp. Elizabeth - 
 Temp. Hen. III. - 
 Four descents below 1 
 27 Hen. III. -j 
 
 Before 1500 
 
 {3 descents after ") 
 27 Hen. HI. -j 
 
 Families into which the 
 Heiresses married 
 
 Giffard - 
 Winslade - 
 
 Fortescue. 
 
 Cooper 
 
 f Champernowne, 
 1 Poynings, and 
 f. Fleming - 
 
 Ashford and Yarde 
 Trewen 
 
 Ufflete and Holway 
 
 The heiress was 
 married to 4 bus 
 bands ; Percy 
 Darcy, Howard 
 and Grenville • 
 
 Kaull 
 Austill 
 
 Bellew and Dillon 
 Huckmore 
 
 Strode 
 
 Gay and Sydenham 
 
 Drewe and Wotton 
 Widworthy - 
 
 Bonville 
 Copleston 
 Ercedekne - 
 
 A. 2 chevrons, Sable. 
 
 (Per chevron G. and Or, 3 
 sea-dragons, counter- 
 changed in pale, and 
 crowned. 
 
 f Sab. 3 unicorns current in 
 I pale, Arg. 
 
 | Or, on a bend, S. 3 herse- 
 lf shoes, Arg. 
 
 {The same arms, with a 
 mullet for difference. 
 f G. a fesse Vaire, between 
 \ 6 crosses formed, Or. 
 
 {Arg. on a chevron, Az. 3 
 fishes haurient, Or. 
 
 Arg. a cross engrailed be- 
 tween \1auttes de Sana. 
 
 f Vaire on a chief, G. 2 
 I mullets, Or. 
 
 A. 2 wings ci njoi ed, Gules. 
 
 JG. an eagle displayed with 
 2 heads, Or. 
 
 {Vaire, a chief cheeky, Or, 
 and G. 
 ("Cheeky, A. and S. a fesse 
 \ Vaire, A. and G. 
 f Erm. on a chief, G. 3 lions 
 \ rampant, A. 
 f A. a fesse between 3 men's 
 I legs, couped, Sable. 
 A. 3 battle-axes, Sable. 
 Sab. 3 fusils in fesse, Erm. 
 f Az. 3 gorges, or whirlpools, 
 "j one within another, Arg. 
 
 {Erm. a fesse between 3 
 cinquefoils, G. 
 
 A. 3 bends, Sable. 
 
 1 The Ash's, of Middlesex, an extinct baronet's family, were descended from a younger 
 branch of Esse, of Esse Ralph. 
 
 J The heiress of Speke married into this family. 
 
 ' The heiress of a younger son of the Folkeray family married Hearle, and afterwards Cary, 
 of Cockington, by both of whom she had issue. 
 
 Halghwell, 
 
clxvi 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Halghwell, or Hal-] 
 well, of Hahvell a I 
 
 Hall, of Hall - 
 
 Halton, of Ditishain 
 Hankford l ' , of Annery 
 
 Hayne, of Hayne, 
 HeantonS of Old Port 
 Helion, of Asseriston - 
 
 Hereward, of Dodescot 
 
 Hidon, of Hemiock 
 
 , of Clist Hidon 
 
 Hill, of Hill's Court 
 
 near Exeter - 
 Hiwis, of Stowford 
 Holbeam, of Holbeam 
 
 and Coffinswell 
 
 Holcomb, of Hole, in", 
 Branscomb - - ' 
 
 About what Time extinct or 
 removed. 
 
 About 1500 
 
 Famib'es into which tile 
 Heiresses married. 
 
 Uncertain 
 
 Temp. Edw. I. 
 About 1500 - 
 
 {About the middle of 
 the 16th century 
 Uncertain 
 
 Temp. Edw. I. 
 
 3 
 
 rt, 7 
 
 Temp. Edvv. III. 
 
 Temp. Edw. I. 
 Temp. Ric. II. 
 
 Temp. Edw. III. - 
 Before 1600 
 
 Removed about 1600 
 
 Six co-heiresses 
 married — 
 
 < 3 
 
 Bray ; 
 
 Brooke Lord 
 Cobham; 
 Verney, and 
 afterwards 
 Catesby ; 
 i. Pecham ; 
 
 5. Bruges ; 
 
 6. Lifield 
 
 Arms. 
 
 1 
 
 , A. on a chevron, G., 3 
 annulets, Or. 
 
 ■Chichester - 
 
 Ingpen. 
 
 f Butler, Earl of 
 \ Ormond 
 
 Harris 
 
 Somaster 
 
 Berkeley (ob. s. 
 p.). The aunts 
 of the heiress 
 married Den- 
 band, Moul- 
 ton, Prudhome 
 and Sore. 
 
 " 1 
 
 Dinham ■ 
 
 •St. Clere 
 
 ■jMalet 
 ■ Hawley ■ 
 Marwood 
 
 ( Az. a chevron, Erm., be- 
 -; tween 3 chaplets of 
 ( roses, A. 
 
 f G. a chevron barry wavy, 
 \ A. and S. 
 
 {A chevron, G., between 3 
 martlets, Sable. 
 Vert, a bend, Or. 
 | A. on a bend, Sab., 3 mart 
 \ lets, Or. 
 
 f G. 3 bezants ; a label of 
 { three, A. 
 fThe same arms, with a 
 1 label of five. 
 f G. a saltier Vaire, between 
 "^ 4 mullets, A. 
 G. fretty, and a canton, Arg. 
 
 {Arg. a chevron, enarched, 
 Sable. 
 fAz. a chevron, Arg., be 
 ■2 tween three men's heads 
 (_ wreathed, Or. 
 
 a The heiress of Piperell, Norbury, and Chiverston married into this family, and the arms 
 of Chiverston were sometimes borne by them instead of their own. A younger branch of this 
 family, as they were supposed to have been, who wrote their name Holwell, was of Thorne 
 Hopping. Andrew Holwell, of that place, who died in 162-1, appears by the pedigree to have 
 been grandson of Sir John Halwell : his descendant, William Holwell, M. D., resided at 
 Exeter, and was great-grandfather of the Rev. William Holwell, some time of Exeter College, 
 who married Lady Charlotte Carr, daughter of the Earl of Errol, and has assumed the name 
 of Carr. 
 
 b The heiress of Stapledon married into this family. 
 
 c A co-heiress of De la Port, and the heiress of Sainthill, married into this family r . 
 
 Hull, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 clxvii 
 
 Name, 
 
 Hull, of Larkbeare 
 
 Hurst, of Whiteway 
 Huxham, of Huxham - 
 
 Ingpen e 
 
 Le Jewe, of Cotlegh 
 
 Jule, or Jewell 
 Bowden - 
 
 f, of) 
 
 Kaleway, of Mokisbeare 
 
 , of Cullorapton 
 
 Kaulls, of Holcombl 
 Burnell - - j 
 
 Keynes h , of Winkley 
 Keynes 
 
 Knovill, of Battishorne 
 
 Lamprey, of Church ) 
 Horwood - - ) 
 
 Lancelles, of Combe 
 Lancelles 
 
 Langford, of Langford 
 
 Larder ', of Upton ) 
 Pyne - -j 
 
 -} 
 
 About what Time extinct or 
 removed. 
 
 (Appears to have^v 
 been extinct be- I 
 fore the visitation j 
 of 1620 - -J 
 
 Soon after 1600 - 
 Temp. Edw. III. 
 
 !4< descents below 7 
 27 Hen. III. -J 
 {i descents below 
 Edw. II. - 
 
 Before 1600 
 
 Temp. Eliz. 
 
 Before 1600 
 
 Four descents below 1 
 Hen. III. - -j 
 
 C Removed into So-"| 
 mersetshire about 
 1600, after re- 
 maining at Wink- 
 ley for IS gener- 
 ations, from the 
 time of Henry II. 
 The heiress of the 
 elder branch had 
 
 (_ previously married _ 
 
 About MOO 
 
 Temp. Edw. II. 
 
 Temp. Edw. III. 
 
 f 7 descents below 1 
 
 1 Hen. III. -j 
 
 In the early part of 7 
 
 the 17th century j 
 
 Families into which the 
 Heiresses married. 
 
 Bodley 
 Bampfylde 
 
 Fitchet 
 Yeo 
 
 Lighte 
 
 Speke 
 
 PAchard, Dun," 
 -J and Erce- 
 i dekne 
 
 Passelew 
 
 Copleston 
 
 Arms. 
 
 ( Sab. a chevron between 
 1 3 talbots' heads, erased 
 ( Arg." 
 
 Or, a sun, Gules. 
 
 A. a lion rampant, S. 
 f G. 2 bars gemelles, Or, a 
 \ chief engrailed, Erm. 
 
 iVert. a lion rampant gat'd 
 ant, Erm., a fesse, G. 
 
 f Or, on a chevron, Az., be 
 
 tween 3 July flowers, a 
 
 demi-maiden, G. crinetl, 
 
 Or, on a chief, S. a lure 
 
 between 2 falcons, A., 
 
 |_ legs and bells, Or. 
 
 f Arg. 2 glaziers' irons in 
 
 i saltier, S., between four 
 
 (_ pears pendant, Or. 
 
 f The same arms, within a 
 
 | border engrailed. 
 
 {Quarterly embattled, A 
 and S. 
 
 f Az. a bend wavy, cottised. 
 I Arg. 
 
 A., 3 mullets, G. 
 
 SS., a chevron between 3 
 lampreys, A. 
 {A., a chief, S., 3 lances in 
 pale countercbanged. 
 f Paly of 6, A. and G., a 
 | chief, Azure, 
 f A. on 3 piles in chief, Sab., 
 \ as many bezants. 
 
 d Perhaps the arms of Talbot : the heiress of Talbot, of Exeter, married into this family. 
 e The heiress of Halton married into this family. 
 
 I Bishop Jewell was of this family. 
 
 s The heiress of Fitz Bernard married into this family. 
 
 II Co-heiresses of Wake and Wampford married into this family. 
 
 ■ The heiress of Pyne, of Upton Pyne, married into this family. A younger branch, which 
 was of Loders, in Dorsetshire, married the heiresses of Coudrey and Owgan, and became 
 extinct by the death of George Larder, Esq., in 1766. The co-heiresses (aunts of the last 
 male heir) married Brown, Walrond of Bovey, and Bragge of Sadborough. 
 
 Lomen, 
 
clxviii 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Lomen, or de Lumine - 
 
 Malherbe, of Fenyton - 
 
 Marshall, of Radway - 
 Merton, of Merton * - 
 
 Metsted 
 
 [Viewy, of Mewy 
 Molton, of Pinho 
 
 Morris, of Morris 
 Orwey, of Orwey 
 
 I About what Time extinct or 
 removed. 
 
 1 f Temp. Hen. III. or) 
 { Edw. I. - -J 
 
 Temp. Hen. VII. 
 
 Removed about 1630. 
 Temp. Edw. III. 
 
 10 Ric. II., after 71 
 descents - -j 
 Temp. Edw. III. 
 
 About MOO 
 
 5 descents below27 
 
 Families into which the 
 Heiresses married. 
 
 i5 des 
 I He 
 
 en. III. 
 anell, of Baunton - Before Edw. I. 
 
 : -} 
 
 Passelew, of Church 1 
 Horwood - -J 
 
 Penniles, of Lupton 
 
 Pery, of West Waters - 
 
 Peverell, of Ermington 
 -, of Sampfordl 
 
 Peverell 
 , of Wolmerston 
 
 Ferrers 
 
 Stowell 
 Walleis 
 
 Streche 
 Fortescue 
 
 Hampton 
 Cogan 
 
 Removed before 1600 - 
 
 About Hen. VII. 
 
 Temp. Eliz. 
 Temp. Edw. I. 
 Temp. Edw. I. 
 
 Arms. 
 
 Upton 
 
 Peytevin, (Pictavensis) 
 of Credy Peytevin - 
 
 Temp. Hen. IV. 
 
 Temp. Edw. I. : a > 
 younger branch I 
 continued till i 
 Edw. III. - -J 
 Pillond, of Pillond - Temp. Hen. VII. 
 Pipard, of Larkbear -Temp. Edw. III. 
 Poer or Power, ofPoers (6 descents below 
 
 Hayes 
 Poltimore, of Poltimore 
 Potesford, or Putford 
 of Church Putford 
 Powlet, or Pawlet ', 
 of Legh Powlet 
 
 '} 
 
 Prescot, of Prescot 
 
 ( 6 descents below ") 
 I Hen. II. -] 
 
 Temp. Edw. II. or III. 
 Removed about 1600 - 
 
 Carew 
 
 Cottle.Wroke- 
 shall, ant 
 ers 
 Lord Hungerford. 
 
 ^arew 
 
 fCottle.Wroke-'l 
 -? shall, and V 
 f_ Rivers -) 
 
 Wiger. 
 
 Brett 
 De Lisle 
 
 Duke 
 
 Jewe 
 
 f Stockhey and 
 [ 
 
 Pollard 
 
 Temp. Hen. IV. 
 
 [The heiress ~| 
 seems to have | 
 married Al- ! 
 mescombe, 
 | who took the 
 [_ name - -J 
 
 Sab., a sun, Or. 
 
 ' Or, a chevron, G., between 
 3 nettle-leaves erect, V. 
 
 Az., 3 bends, Arg. 
 J Quarterly, Or and G., 4 es- 
 \ callops counterchanged. 
 
 {G., 3 sea-mews, A., beaks 
 and legs, Or. 
 Cheeky, Or and S. 
 f Quarterly G. and A., the 
 1 first and fourth quarters 
 i fretty, Or. 
 f Arg., on a chief indented, 
 < S., 3 cross-crosslets fit- 
 (_ chee, Or. 
 
 ( Or, 2 lions passant in pale 
 { Az. 
 
 f Bore the arms of Lamprey, 
 ^ whose heiress their an- 
 (. cestor married. 
 f Arg., on a chevron, Az., 
 j 3 fishes, Or. 
 ( Quarterly, G. and Or, on 
 J abend of the first 3 lions 
 (^ passant, Azure. 
 Or, a spread eagle, Az. 
 
 Az., 3 garbs, Arg. ; a chief, 
 Or. 
 
 S. an eagle displayed, Arg. 
 Arg., 3 bars gemelles, Az. 
 
 Per pale wavy, Or and Az. 
 
 Az., a griffin segreant, Or. 
 Arg., a plain cross fitchee in 
 base, Gules. 
 
 f Sab. 3 swords in pile, A 
 
 I the hilts, Or. 
 
 Erm., a chevron, S., on a 
 chief, Or, 2 leopards' facet, 
 Gules. 
 
 k One of the co-heiresses of the Baron de Torrington married into this family. 
 1 Ancestors of Earl Pawlet. 
 
 Prodhome, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 clxix 
 
 About what Time extinct or 
 removed. 
 
 Families into which the 
 Heiresses married 
 
 Prodhome, of Upton ) 
 Prodhome - f 
 
 Pruteston, of Prutes- 1 
 ton, now Preston -J 
 
 Punchardon, of Pun-~i 
 cliardon in Kentis-f 
 bear, and of Hean- ( 
 ton Punchardon -J 
 
 Pym m , of Sidford 
 
 Rake, of Rake 
 
 Ralegh,. 
 
 of Ralegh 
 
 -, of Collaton 
 
 Ralegh", and Fard 
 ell 
 
 :■} 
 
 Temp. Edw. III. 
 Temp. Ric. II. 
 
 Temp. Hen. III. or 
 Edw. I. 
 
 Removed about 1600 ■ 
 
 Soon after 44 Edw. Ill, 
 
 f After 8 descents") 
 
 \ (time uncertain) j 
 
 Removed temp. Jac. I. 
 
 of Warklegh 
 -, ofStreet-Ra- 
 
 :J 
 
 legh 
 Rashleigh , of Rashleigh 
 
 Reigny, of EggesfordP 
 
 , of Brixton] 
 
 Reigny - -j 
 
 Revell, of Revelstoke 
 
 Rogus, of Holcombe I 
 Rogus (originally - 
 Fitz-Rogon) - - ) 
 
 Rohant, of Dodbrook 
 
 Rous % of Modbury 
 
 St. Aubyn"-, of Comb! 
 Ralegh - -J 
 
 ontinued from "J 
 Hen. II. to Hen. 5- 
 IV. - -) 
 
 {9 descents below 1 
 Hen. III. -j 
 
 f Continued from 
 
 i descents below ) 
 Hen. III. - -j 
 
 Temp. Hen. VII. 
 
 descents below 
 III 
 
 4 Edw. I. 
 
 Whiting - 
 
 {Fortescue, of) 
 Wimpston -j 
 
 f Beaumont, "1 
 i Ralegh, and > 
 (_ Beauple -J 
 
 Chichester 
 
 {After 5 descents! 
 (time uncertain - j 
 
 Temp. Edw. III. 
 
 Temp. Edw. III. 
 Removed into Cornwall 
 
 St. Aubyn 
 Clotworthy 
 
 Copleston 
 
 4 co-heiresses 
 married — 
 
 1. Crubb ; 
 
 2. Prous ; 
 
 3. Luscombe; 
 I 4. Horey and 
 |_ Wanton 
 
 Hurst. 
 Chiseldon 
 
 Champernowne 
 
 {Dennis and 7 
 Trethurfe -J 
 
 C Az., 3 lions' heads erased, 
 I Or. 
 
 Or, on a bend, Az., 3 crosses 
 formee fitchee, Arg. 
 
 A. a cross sarcele" voided, G, 
 
 A., an annulet, S. 
 
 S., 3 rakes in pale, Arg. 
 
 f Cheeky; Or and G., a chief 
 
 ( Vaire 
 
 G., 5 fusils in bend, A. 
 
 G., 3 fusils in bend, Arg. 
 
 f G., a bend Vaire between 
 ( 6 cross-crosslets, Or. 
 
 {A., a cross, S., in chief 2 
 text T's of the second 
 iG., 2 wings conjoined in 
 fesse, Erm. 
 
 G., 3 paring knives, Arg 
 hafts, Or. 
 
 {Az.,a chevron, A., between 
 3 chess-rooks, Or. 
 
 !Or, 2 chevrons, Gules : a 
 canton of the second 
 charged with a mullet of 
 the field. 
 f Or, an eagle displayed 
 \ biting its wing, Azure. 
 Erm., on a cross, G., 5 be- 
 zants. 
 
 m The heiress of Trivet, of Sidford, married into this family. 
 
 n A younger branch of Ralegh, of Nettlccombe Ralegh, in Somersetshire ; but it is probable 
 that they were all originally descended from the Raleghs, of Ralegh. Sir Walter Ralegh, 
 who was the representative of this family, sold most of his estates in Devonshire. 
 
 • A younger branch settled at Mcnabilly in Cornwall. — See the history of that county. 
 
 P The heiresses of Page and Weele married into this family. 
 
 i The Rev. Richard Rous, one of the male descendants of this family, died rector of Clist 
 St. George in Devonshire, in the year 1S10. 
 
 ' The heiress of Ralegh married into this family. 
 
 VOL. VI. v St. Clere. 
 
clxx 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Name. 
 
 St. Clere, of Tidwell ■ 
 
 St. Leger s , of Annery 1 
 and Dartington -J 
 
 St. Mary Church', of'7 
 St. Mary Church -J 
 
 St. Maur ", of North 1 
 Molton - - j 
 
 Sachville, of Clist 
 Sachville 
 
 Santon, of Santon 
 
 -'} 
 
 Scobahull*, of Scob- 
 bahull 
 
 About what Time extinct or 
 removed. 
 
 Temp. Eliz. 
 Removed before 1600 
 Temp. Hen. IH. 
 Uncertain 
 
 Removed Temp. Edw. I. 
 
 (Temp. Hen. III., or 1 
 ( Edw. I. - -j 
 
 Servington 
 
 Seward, of Comb in 1 
 Teignhead - -J 
 
 Shillingford, of Shu- 
 Hneford 
 
 Shilston, of Shilston 
 
 Another Shilston, who'} 
 had married a co- > 
 heiress of Upcott - ) 
 
 Snape - 
 
 Soleigny, of Umber-') 
 
 leigh - - -j 
 Speke y , of Bramp-1 
 
 ford Speke - - j 
 
 Stanton of Clovelly 
 Stapledon, of Stapledon 
 
 Stockhey z , of Santon 
 
 Temp. Hen. IV. - 
 
 Temp. Eliz. 
 
 Before 1600 - 
 
 fUncertain, (con- 1 
 1 tinued 9 de- > 
 (_ scents) - -J 
 
 Temp. Hen. III. - 
 Temp. Eliz. 
 
 About 1200 - 
 Removed before 1600 
 
 Temp. Edw. III. 
 
 fin the early part of 1 
 the 15th century J 
 
 55 descents below \ 
 Edw. I. - - / 
 
 Families into which the 
 Heiresses married. 
 
 f Per pale, Or, and Az., a 
 
 \ sun counterchanged. 
 
 Az., fretty and a chief, Arg. 
 
 Arscot 
 
 De Rotomago. 
 Drury 
 
 Stockhey 
 
 f Holbeam, Ched- 
 
 Ider, Kirkham, I 
 and Speccot. | 
 The heiress of } Arg. 3 fleur-de-lis, G. 
 
 {A. 2 chevrons, G. a label 
 of 3 Vert, 
 f S. a chevron, Erm. be- 
 -j tween 3 bundles of ar 
 (_ rows, A. 
 
 Arg. a chief, Azure. 
 
 1 
 
 I 
 
 a younger 
 branch mar. 
 ried Cole 
 
 Croker and Savery 
 Chase and Furlong 
 
 Bauceyne, and 
 afterwards 
 Ashleigh 
 
 Whiddon. 
 
 Baghill - 
 Champernowne 
 
 Crewkern 
 Hankford 
 
 Beaumont 
 
 J 
 
 f Erm., on a chevron, Az., 
 i 3 stags' heads cabosh'd. 
 [ Or. 
 
 fG.ona fesse, Az. between 
 1 2 chevrons, Erm. 3 lions' 
 (_ faces, Or. 
 
 {A. a bend, G. a label of 
 five, Azure. 
 
 Erm. a saltier, Azure, be- 
 tween 4 cross-crosslets, 
 fitchee, Sable. 
 
 A. a lion rampant, Erm. 
 Quarterly, A. and G. 
 
 {A. 2 bars, Az. over all an 
 eagle displayed, Or. 
 f S. a chevron, between 3 
 \ lions' heads erased, A. 
 
 A. 2 bends wavy, S. 
 
 f"S. a chevron, Erm. be- 
 J tween 2 chevronels en- 
 (_ grailed, Or. 
 
 s A co-heiress of Butler, Earl of Ormond, married into this family. 
 
 ' A younger son of Richard de Redvers, Earl of Devon, is said by Dugdale to have taken 
 this name. 
 
 n The heiress of Zouch married into this family. 
 
 1 There is a younger branch of this family in Cornwall. 
 
 y The heiresses of Gervais, Keynes, Beauchamp, and Winard, married into this family. 
 
 1 A co-heiress of Potesford, and the heiress of Crawthorne, married into this family. 
 
 Stone, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 clxxi 
 
 Stone, of Stone - 
 Stone, or De la Stane 
 
 Stoner, of Ermington - 
 
 Stowford,of Stowford, 7 
 in Colyton - - j 
 
 Streche z , of Wolston • 
 
 Strechleigh * , of 1 
 
 Strechleigh, in Er- > 1583 
 
 mington - - ) 
 
 Sully <>, oflddesleigh -j About Edw. III. 
 Talbot of Spreytonl T Hcn . VI . . 
 
 and bourton - -j 
 
 Thome, of Thome 
 
 Name*. 
 
 About what Time extinct or 
 removed. 
 
 Temp. Hen. VI. 
 f6 descents from! 
 i Henry II. (re- > 
 {_ moved) - -J 
 
 Removed before 1600 
 
 Temp. Edw. I. - 
 
 {4 descents after 
 Edw. II. 
 
 Thorpe, of King's ' 
 Teignton - 
 
 Till, of Tilhouse - 
 
 (Uncertain) 
 
 1509 
 
 ,'7 descents below ", 
 I Hen. III. - -' 
 
 Tidwell, or Todwell, of 
 Todwell 
 
 Tracey,of Wollacomb 1 
 Tracey - - j 
 
 After 6 descents 
 (time uncertain 
 
 -} 
 
 Temp. Edw. II. or III. 
 
 Families into which the 
 Heiresses married. 
 
 Harris 
 
 Walrond 
 
 Cheyney and 1 
 Beauchamp - j 
 
 Chudleigh - 
 
 Kelly 
 
 Cooke 
 
 Clifford 
 
 Hext and Wadham 
 
 St. Clere - 
 
 fOne of the co- 
 heiresses mar 
 ried succes 
 sively Maw- 
 ris, Roges, and 
 Boteler ; th 
 other Fitz Ste- 
 phen, and 
 JMauger - 
 
 Or, on a fesse 3 plates. 
 
 The same arms. 
 
 f Az. 2 bars dauncettee and 
 I a chief, Or. 
 \ Or, a chevron between 3 
 I bulls' faces, Sable. 
 
 A. a lion rampant, G. 
 
 fPer pale A. and S., six 
 1 crescents counterchang- 
 t ed. 
 
 A. 2 chevrons, G. 
 f A. a chevron between 3 
 \ talbots, passant, Sab. 
 (A. a fesse, G. between 3 
 \ lions, rampant, Sab. 
 
 Az. a fesse dauncettee, Erm. 
 
 ( A. a fesse, per fesse in- 
 J dented, Or, and G., in 
 [ chief, 3 trefoils, S. 
 I A. a fesse between 3 an- 
 1 nulets, S. within a bor- 
 ( der engrailed, G. 
 1 
 
 Trelosk, of Dunterton ,Temp. Edw. I. 
 Tremail, of Sand -In the 16th century 
 
 Tremenet, of HennockTemp. Edw. III. - 
 Temp. Edw. III. 
 
 Trenchard, of Colla-1 
 
 comb - -j 
 
 Trewin, or Trewen, of) 
 
 Weare Giffard, and > 
 
 Whitchurch - - J 
 
 Trivet, of Stone - 
 
 Temp. Hen. IV. - 
 
 f 3 descents after 1 
 I Edw. III. - -J 
 
 Ashley 
 
 f Dymc 
 
 \ Tumour 
 
 Tremayne 
 
 Densell 
 
 Pym and Tremail 
 
 , Or, 2 bends, G., a label of 
 three, Az. 
 
 f Per pale A. and G., on the 
 | second a fret, Or. 
 
 5A. a fesse G. between 2 
 tremails. 
 {S. a chevron between 3 
 mullets of 6 points, Or. 
 ( Or, a chevron between 3 
 \ escallops, Az. 
 ( A. on a bend V., between 
 < 6 cross-crosslets fitchee, 
 ( 3 crosier staves, Or. 
 
 A. a trivet, Sable. 
 
 2 The heiresses of Bradstone and Molton married into this family. 
 
 a A co-heiress of Goold married into this family. 
 
 b One of the co-heiresses of the Barons de Torrington married into this family. 
 
 y2 
 
 Tuden- 
 
clxxii 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Tudenham, of Stan- 
 ton Tudenham 
 
 Ufflete, of Comb - ■ 
 
 Umfraville c , of Lap- 1 
 ford - . -J 
 
 Upcott, of Upcott 
 
 About what Time extinct or 
 removed. 
 
 Valletort, of North 
 Tawton 
 
 ''} 
 
 Removed, after 6 de- 
 scents. 
 
 Temp. Hen. VI. - 
 
 (Uncertain) 
 
 , of Clist St. 
 
 Lawrence 
 Wadeton, of Wadeton 
 
 Wadham, of Edge 
 
 Wampford, of Wamp- 1 
 ford - -} 
 
 Whiteway, of Whiteway 
 
 Whitfield of Whitfield 
 
 About 1300 
 
 Temp. Hen. VIII. 
 Temp. Hen. III. 
 
 r By the death of Ni-~| 
 cholas Wadham, 
 founder of Wad- [ 
 
 or about 1609 -J 
 After 7 descents 1 
 (time uncertain) -J 
 In the 14-th century 
 
 Before 1500 - 
 
 Wibbery, of Wibbery - (Uncertain) 
 
 [ Temp. Edw. I. 
 
 Widvvorthy, of Wid 
 
 worthy 
 Willington, of Gittis-About the latter end 
 
 ham 
 
 Winscot, of Winscot - 
 Wolfe, (anciently Lu-^ 
 
 pus,) of Kentisbury j 
 
 Wolrington, of Hache - 
 
 , of West", 
 
 Wolrington, or ) 
 Worlington 
 Woodland, of Wood- 
 land and Cocki 
 ton 
 
 od-1 
 "S- > 
 
 Yartye, of Yartye 
 
 of the 14th century 
 Temp. Edw. III. - " 
 
 1493 
 
 Temp. Edw. II. or III. 
 
 Temp. Edw. II. 
 
 Temp. Edw. III. - 
 Temp. Hen. IV. - 
 
 Families into which the 
 Heiresses married 
 
 Walrond 
 
 JFurneaux and! 
 St. John -J 
 f One of the co- 
 1 heiresses mar 
 ( ried Shilston 
 f 5 co-heiresses: 1. 
 | and 2. married 
 Champernowne; 
 3. Lyff; 4. 
 Lucy, and af- 
 terwards Fran- 
 cis ; 5. Brad- 
 L ney 
 
 Pollard - 
 
 J Fishacre, or 
 \ Fissacre. 
 
 Arms. 
 
 1 
 
 ' A. on a fesse, Sab., 3 cross 
 i crosslets, Or, in chief, 3 
 i martlets of the second, 
 k two and one. 
 
 . crusuly and a rose, Or. 
 
 "A. on a chevron between 
 3 boars, passant, S., as 
 many roses, Arg. 
 
 Strangwayes, 
 Martyn, a 
 Wyndham 
 
 ,] 
 
 Keynes 
 
 Hurst and Horwell 
 fHensleigh and 
 I Garland 
 
 Lippincot 
 
 Dinham. 
 
 Wroth and Beau 
 
 mont 
 Barry. 
 
 Randall 
 Atwater 
 
 :} 
 
 {Wybury, Solers ; 
 and Burell 
 
 Frye 
 
 V. on a bend, A., 3 mul 
 lets, G. 
 
 J 
 
 A. a fesse, and in chief 2 
 mullets, Sab. 
 
 G. a chevron between 3 
 roses, Arg. 
 
 {A. a fesse between 3 mul 
 lets, Sab. 
 
 G. a fesse between 6 cross 
 
 crosslets fitchee, Arg. 
 f A. a fesse embattled, coun- 
 i ter-embattled, Sab., be- 
 (_ tween 3 quatrefoils, G. 
 
 G. a saltier, Vaire. 
 
 'A. a chevron between 3 
 wolves, passant, Az. 
 
 " G. 2 demi-leopards, pas- 
 sant, Or. 
 
 "Sab. 3 eagles' heads eras- 
 ed, and an orle of mart- 
 
 . lets, Or. 
 
 A. on a bend, S., 3 harts' 
 heads caboshed, Or. 
 
 f Sab. a fesse engrailed be- 
 \ tween 3 mullets, Arg. 
 
 c One of the co-heiresses of the Barons de Torrington married into this family. 
 
 Ancient 
 
DEVONSHIRE. clxxiii 
 
 Ancient Families, of 'which the principal Branch is extinct, or removed, since 
 1620, yet some of the Descendants remain in the County. 
 
 Sir Willam Pole has a list of this description, which he entitles, " Such 
 auncient Gentlemen which arc yeat remainynge in the County of Devon, 
 but have departed with their auncient Lands, and dwell in other Places." 
 In the following list will be found some families which remain only in a re- 
 duced state, and others who, although in the rank of gentry, have perhaps 
 no landed property or residence in the county, but such as is connected 
 with their profession. 
 
 Beavis, of Clist. — This family is traced in Devonshire to the reign of 
 Henry IV. The present male representative of the elder branch is Mr. 
 James Beavis, of Bradford, in Wiltshire. Colonel Henry Beavis, the repre- 
 sentative of a younger branch, resides at Barnstaple. The heiresses of 
 Forward and Coade married into this family. 
 
 Arms : — Az., 3 close helmets, Argent, garnished, Or. 
 
 Crest : — A pheon, Argent. 
 
 Berry, of Berry Narbor, East Leigh, Lobb, Winscot, &c. &c. — It 
 is probable from the similarity of arms, that these families are from the 
 same common origin. Ralph de Bury possessed Bury Narbor in the reign 
 of Henry III. The name of the family and of the place was soon after- 
 wards spelt Berry, and at a later period Berne. The heiress of the elder 
 branch, which continued at Berry Narbor till the death of Thomas Berrie 
 in 1708, married Francis Kirkham, Esq., who died in 1737- Co-heiresses 
 of Penrise and Giffard, and the heiress of Bowden, married into this 
 family. 
 
 The Berrys of East Leigh were descended from the second son of Berry 
 of Berry Narbor, by the co-heiress of Giffard. On the death of the last 
 of the elder line of this branch *, which, by Sir William Pole, is called 
 Barry. East Leigh devolved to Thomas Berry, Esq., (younger brother of 
 George Berry of Lobb,) which Thomas died in 1S02 : his sister and heiress 
 
 * A co-heiress of Salle and the heiress of Lane married into this branch. 
 
 married 
 
clxxiv DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 married Boatfield, whose only child married Tuplin, and the co-heiresses 
 of Tuplin the Rev. John Torr and Francis Southerton, M.D. 
 
 A younger branch of Berry, descended from the third son of the co- 
 heiress of Giffard, settled at Chittlehampton, and seems to have become 
 extinct soon after the visitation of 1620. 
 
 A younger branch of Berry, of East Leigh, settled at Lobb, in Braunton. 
 The younger brother of George Berry, of Lobb, Gent., who died in 
 1723, without issue, became possessed of East Leigh, and removed thither. 
 
 Daniel Berry, a younger son of Berry, of Berry Narbor, was vicar of 
 Holland, as was his grandson of the same name. Sir John Berry, the 
 eminent naval officer in the reign of William III., whose monument is at 
 Stepney, in Hiddlesex, was son of the latter. Thomas Berry, Esq., of 
 Crediton, attorney-at-law, is descended from this branch. 
 
 John Berry, another younger son of the Berry-Narbor family, died 
 rector of Georgeham in 1649. His descendant, Hr. John Berry of Clo- 
 velly, died in 1788. Sir Thomas Berry, Knt., of Northam, who died in 
 1698, without issue, was of a younger branch of this family. I have not 
 been ableto learn that there are any male descendants now in the county, 
 except Hr. Berry of Crediton, above mentioned. 
 
 Arms : — G., 3 bars, Or. 
 
 Carwithex, of Paunston, in the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Heath. — An 
 ancient and respectable, but now reduced family, into which the heiress 
 of Paunston and Bawdon, and a co-heiress of Heo, or Hee, had married. 
 The present representative is Hr. William Carwithen, of Fairtown, in the 
 parish of Buckland Honachorum. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a fleur-de-lis, G., a border engrailed of the second. 
 
 Copleston, or as the name is written in some pedigrees and other 
 records, Coplestone. — This ancient family, which had the rank of White 
 Spur b , was originally of Copleston, in the parish of Colebrook. I believe 
 it does not exist in the county in the rank, of gentry, except in the person 
 of the Rev. J. B. Copleston, rector of St. Thomas, (father of the provost 
 of Oriel College,) descended from a younger branch which had settled in 
 
 l> The esquires of the White Spur were so called in the west of England : when so 
 created by the King, they were vested with a silver spur : it was hereditary to the elder son. 
 See Spelman and Weever. 
 
 Dorset- 
 
DEVONSHIRE. clxxv 
 
 Dorsetshire. The family is traced in the pedigrees to the reign of 
 Edward II. John, the third in descent, married a co-heiress of Graas, 
 of Teio-n Graas ; his son, of the same name, married the rich heiress of 
 Hawley, who had married the heiress of Tresilian, by the heiress of Hiwis. 
 The last-mentioned John had three sons, Philip, ancestor of the Cople- 
 stons of Copleston and Warleigh ; John, ancestor of those of Exeter c ; 
 and Walter, ancestor of those of Bowden d , in Yealmton. 
 
 Philip Copleston, the head of the family in the reign of Edward IV., 
 married the heiress of Bonville of Shute, by the heiress of Wibbery. 
 The elder line of Copleston failed in three or four descents after the last- 
 mentioned marriage : the co-heiresses married Elford of Sheepstor and 
 Bampfylde c : the elder of these left four daughters co-heiresses, one of 
 whom died unmarried, and the other three were married into the Eortescue 
 family : from one of these Hugh, Earl Eortescue, is the fourth in descent. 
 
 Edward, younger son of Philip Copleston, by the heiress of Bonville, 
 settled at Bow, alias Nymet Tracey, and was ancestor of the Coplestons 
 of Instow, and those of Wyke in Little Torrington. The Instow branch 
 ended in females after two descents. Anthony Copleston, of Wyke or 
 Week, married the heiress of Larder, of Upton Pynes, and removed 
 thither. This branch appears to have removed to London, and most 
 probably is extinct. Sir John Copleston, of Westminster, Knt., had a 
 son and heir, Disborough : they were both living in 1675. 
 
 Ralph Copleston, of Warlegh and Copleston, son of Philip above men- 
 tioned, had two younger sons ; one of whom, Nicholas, was ancestor of 
 the Coplestons of Dorsetshire, before mentioned ; and the other of the 
 Cornish Coplestons, of Otterham and Morwinstow, long since extinct. 
 A younger son of John Copleston, Esq., of Copleston, (son of Ralph,) 
 was ancestor of the Coplestons of Woodland in Little Torrington, long 
 since extinct. 
 
 Besides those already mentioned, there was a branch of the Coplestons 
 settled at Knighteston in Ottery f , and another at Fullingcote, not extinct 
 in 1630. 
 
 <= In the church of St. Mary Arches is a monument for Thomas Copleston, Esq., alderman 
 of Exeter, who died in 1754- 
 
 J The ancestor of this branch, which continued for many generations, married Stone of 
 Bowden. Thomas Copleston, Esq., the last of this branch, sold Bowden in 1753. 
 
 ' Ancestor of Sir Copleston Warwick Bampfylde, Bart. 
 
 1 They married the heiress of Sherman of Knighteston ; the last of this branch, John Co- 
 pleston, Esq., died in 1759; the heiress married Hawtrey. 
 
 Arms : 
 
clxxvi DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Arms : — Arg., a chevron engrailed between 3 leopards' faces, Azure. 
 Crest : — A fox passant, Azure. 
 
 Cory, of Cory. — John, the first mentioned in the visitation of 1620, 
 married a co-heiress of Sheviock of Cornwall. The representative of this 
 family is Mr. Samuel Cory of Holsworthy. 
 
 Arms : — Argent a saltier, S., on a chief, Az., 3 cinquefbils, Or. 
 
 Dennis, formerly of Orleigh and Holcombe Burnell. — This ancient 
 family derives its descent from Jellanus Dacus, the Dane, or Le Deneis, who 
 was lord of Pancras Week in the reign of Henry II. Sir Robert le Deneis, 
 the fifth in descent from Jellanus, died without male issue ; his sisters and 
 co-heirs married Ferrers and Kirkham. William, a younger son of Ralph 
 Dacus, or Le Deneis, was common ancestor of the Dennis's of Orleigh, in 
 the parish of Buckland Brewer, Bradford, Holcombe Burnell, Bicton, &c. 
 Sir Alan Dennis, of Holdsworthy, descended probably from a younger 
 son or brother of the above-mentioned William, appears to have married 
 the heiress of Manworthy, and was ancestor of the Dennis's of Manwor- 
 thy and Gidecot, whose heiress, after a few descents, married Butterford. E 
 The Dennis's of Orleigh married heiresses or co-heiresses of Bolhay, 
 alias Boway, Esse, Thorn, and GifTard" of Theoborough. This branch 
 became extinct about the year 1700 ; the co-heiresses married Sir Thomas 
 Hamson, Bart., and Glynn, of Glynn. John Dennis, a younger son of 
 the Orleigh branch, in the reign of Edward I., married the heiress of 
 Dabernon, of Bradford Dabernon, and was ancestor of the Dennis's of 
 Bradford and of Holcombe Burnell. The heiress of the Bradford branch, 
 after seven descents, married GifTard of Yeo. This branch had married 
 the heiresses of Bokerell ', and Christenstow, of Wycroft. 
 
 The Dennis's of Holcombe Burnell were descended from Thomas 
 Dennis, Esq., of Bradford, by a second wife. After a continuance of 
 five descents at Holcombe, the co-heiresses of Sir Thomas Dennis, who 
 married a daughter of the Marquis of Winchester, married Sir Henry 
 
 * The heiress of Butterford married Mey ; and the heiress of Mey married Gibbes : hence 
 the family of Gibbes bear the Danish battle-axes in their arms. 
 
 h Giffard married the heiress of Uggesworthy, by the heiress of Esse of Theoborough. 
 
 1 By the heiress of Hockway, who married the heiress of Goldesly, by the heiress of 
 Chidersley. 
 
 Rolle 
 
DEVONSHIRE. clxxvii 
 
 Rolle and Sir Arthur Mainwaring. Sir Thomas Dennis, grandfather of 
 tire last Sir Thomas Dennis of Holcombe, was sheriff of the county seven, 
 or, according to Sir William Pole, nine times. The heiress of Don, or 
 Dune, and a co-heiress of Godolphin, married into this branch. A 
 younger branch of the Dennis's of Holcombe, was some time of Creed 
 and Menheniot in Cornwall : another branch was settled, for several gener- 
 ations, at Whimple ; the Rev. Jonas Dennis, one of the prebendaries of 
 Exeter castle, is representative of the latter. 
 
 The editor of " Prince's Worthies" mentions a branch of the Dennis 
 family (descended from a younger son of the Orleigh branch) settled at 
 Windey Cross, near Torrington, of which was Abraham Dennis, con- 
 temporary with the last of the Orleigh line : his great grandson, Abraham, 
 married the heiress of Northleigh ; and the grandson of that marriage, 
 Abraham Freeman Dennis, of Tavistock, is said to have been the last of 
 the branch. ' This may probably have been the same branch as Dennis of 
 Malcot, descended from Henry, the fifth son of John Dennis of Orleigh, 
 by the heiress of Giffard : this Henry married the heiress of Viell of 
 Malcot; his son Henry, who was of Malcot, a co-heiress of Merifield. 
 William, the fourth in descent from Henry, was of Malcot, in 1620, and 
 had male issue. Mr. Nicholas Dennis, now of Teignmouth, is descended 
 from a branch of this family, long settled at Barnstaple. 
 
 Arms of Dennis of Orleigh : — Az. 3 Danish battle-axes, erect, Or. 
 Dennis of Holcombe bore, Erm., 3 battle-axes, Gules. 
 
 Crest : — A tiger's head erased, Ermine. 
 
 Gay, of Goldworthy. — The heiress of Curtoys of Goldworthy, and a 
 co-heiress of Gamond, or Gambon, married into this ancient family, 
 which came from Hampton Gay in Oxfordshire, and appears to have 
 settled here about 1420. John Gay, the poet, was of this family ; the 
 heir male of which appears toTieTTSTr. Lawrence Gay, now of South 
 Molton. 
 
 Arms : — Or, on a fesse, Sab., between 3 escallops, Az., 6 lozenges 
 conjoined, Argent. 
 
 Gidley, of Gidley. — Bartholomew Gidley, of this family, was an 
 1 Mr. Dennis, an apothecary, of Tavistock, claims descent from this family. 
 
 Vol. VI. z officer 
 
clxxviii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 officer in the service of King Charles II.* ; the present representative is 
 Courtenay Gidley, Esq., of Honiton. 
 
 Arms, as exemplified by Edward Byshe, Clarencieux in I67I : — Or, 
 a castle, Sable, a border of the second bezanty. 
 
 Crest : — An eagle issuing, Or, the wings, S., bezanty. 
 
 Hill, formerly of Shilston, descended from Sir Robert Hill ', one of 
 the justices of the Common Pleas in the reign of Henry VI. The Rev. 
 Charles Hill, rector of Instow, recently deceased, was the representative of 
 this family. One of his ancestors married a co-heiress of Budockside, or 
 Butshed : his father married the heiress of Kingswell. 
 
 Arms : — Arg., a chevron between 3 water-bougets, Sable. 
 
 Honeychurch, of Honeychurch and Aveton Giffard. — This family 
 was settled at Honeychurch as early as the reign of Henry III. Mr. John 
 Honeychurch, yeoman, who, jointly with his brother Samuel, possesses 
 some lands in North Lew, is the present representative of this family. 
 
 There was a younger branch settled at Aveton Giffard : Henry Honey- 
 church, Esq., of this branch, died in 1662. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a dragon's head erased, between 2 mullets in bend, 
 sinister, G. 
 
 Isaac, or Izacke, of Buriatt in Atherington. — This ancient family 
 was settled at Buriatt as early as the reign of Henry III. The estate has 
 been long ago alienated, but the family, I am informed, still exists, the 
 representative living at Newton Tracey, and a younger branch at Newport, 
 near Barnstaple. There was a branch of this family settled for several 
 
 k By an expression in the inscription, on a large silver medallion, (nearly three inches in 
 diameter) now in the possession of his descendant, it seems that he was in arms for the King 
 previously to the Restoration. " M. S. Mnemosynon et vel aere perennius Bartholomew 
 Gidley, Armigeri, Comitatus Devonian, quem non avita magis illustrant insignia quam se sua 
 virtus illustrior insignivit ; quem Regi suo constantem agnovere res Anglorum versatiles, et 
 extrema fidelitatis tentamina, pax et bellum. Pro exule Carolo in bello Pratfectum, pro 
 reduce ad Pacem Justitiarum utroque munere fidelissimum, annos agit 72 Salutis anno 16S3, 
 non aetate non munere gravatus, nee adhuc dici voluit emeritus." On the reverse are the arms 
 of Gidley. 
 
 1 Sir Robert Hill is supposed by Prince to have been descended from the Hills of Hill 
 in Kilmington. 
 
 generations 
 
DEVONSHIRE. clxxix 
 
 generations at Exeter and Heavitree, one of whom wrote a history of 
 Exeter. Colonel Sebastian Isaac, who died in 1688, and Sebastian Isaac, 
 M. D., who died in 1693, were of this branch. 
 
 Arms : — Sable, a bend, Or ; on a canton, A., a leopard's face, Gules. 
 
 Loveis, of Hennock, now a reduced family, into which the heiress of 
 Upcott had married. Six descents are described in the visitation of 1620. 
 The representative of this family is said to be Mr. Joseph Loveis, yeoman, 
 of Bowden in Christow. 
 
 Arms : — Or, a chevron engrailed, G., between 3 ducks, Proper. 
 
 Crest : — A bear seiant, S., chained and muzzled, Or. 
 
 Milford, of Wickington, in South Tawton. — This family had been 
 settled there some generations before the Visitation in 1620. Risdon 
 observes that they were said to have been descended from a judge of that 
 name : but this seems to have been a mistake ; there is no record of a 
 judge of the name of Milford. No arms are assigned to this family in the 
 Visitation ; but Risdon says, they bore Argent, 3 oak-leaves in pale, 
 Proper. Samuel Frederick Milford, Esq., is supposed to be the repre- 
 sentative of this family, afterwards settled some time at Thorverton. 
 Mr. Milford bears G., an inescutcheon, Az., within a border, Argent. 
 
 Crest : — A griffin seiant, the wings elevated. 
 
 Newcombe, of Stanton Drew, afterwards of Exeter. — Three descents 
 of this family are given in the Visitation of 1620. John Newcombe, Esq., 
 of Star Cross, is the representative of this family. 
 
 Arms : — Arg., a fesse embattled on the upper side between 2 escallops, 
 Sable. 
 
 Crest : — On a mural crown, Or, a falcon rising, Proper. 
 
 Parminter, of Watermouth. — This ancient family had been settled at 
 Tockington in Gloucestershire, as early as the reign of Henry III. They 
 removed to Watermouth in the reign of Hen. VII., in consequence of a 
 marriage with one of the co-heiresses of Reed. m Branches of this family 
 continued for several descents at Watermouth. Mr. John Parminter, who, 
 if living, is the representative of the family, is supposed to be leading a 
 
 m The other co-heiresses married Adams and Snow. 
 
 z 2 wander- 
 
clxxx DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 wandering life on the continent. Mrs. Mary Parminter, a cousin, is the 
 female representative of the family ; an aunt married Mr. Hurlock, an 
 apothecary, in London, who left male issue. There was another branch, of 
 Whitfield in Marwood, supposed also to be extinct. William Parminter, 
 Esq., of this branch, died in South America, in 1737 ; his brother settled 
 in London. It is not known that there is any male descendant of this 
 branch. The sister married George Ley, Esq., of Prixford, in Marwood, 
 ancestor of George Ley, Esq., now of Ley. There are several male 
 descendants of younger branches, but not in the rank of gentry. 
 
 Arms : — A. a saltier between 4 mascles, G., on a chief Vert, a demi- 
 eagle displayed, with two heads, Or. 
 
 Passmere, of Passmere Hayes and of Exeter. — Six descents are des- 
 cribed in the Visitation of 1620, when there was male issue. William 
 Passmere, the then representative, had a son and grandson. A younger 
 branch married the heiress of Seyman, of Swetton in Halberton, settled 
 there, and was afterwards of Exeter, where there were male descendants 
 in 1620. 
 
 Arms : — Or, a fesse G., between 3 escutcheons of the second, each 
 charged with a bend Vaire, between 2 cinquefoils of the field ; all within 
 a border, Azure, bezanty. 
 
 Crest : — A demi-leopard, Azure. 
 
 Peard, a mercantile family. — Oliver Peard, mayor of Barnstaple in 
 1565, was afterwards a merchant at Tiverton, where the family continued 
 for several descents. The heiress married Dickinson. 
 
 Arms : — Or, 2 wolves passant, Sable, their mouths bloody, Proper. 
 
 Crest : — A tiger's head, Or, pierced through the neck with a demi- 
 lance rompu, the point, Argent. 
 
 Prust, originally of Gorven. — Fifteen descents of this ancient family 
 are traced in the Visitation of 1620. John Prust, the eighth in descent, 
 married the heiress of Holman, of Gorven ; his great-grandson, of the 
 same name, a co-heiress of Drue ; and Hugh, grandson of the last-men- 
 tioned John, a co-heiress of Anderdon, of Cornwall. The elder branch 
 removed to Notticott in Hartland, and became extinct more than a 
 century ago. There are still some male descendants of this family at 
 Hartland, but not of the rank of gentry. A co-heiress of Davie married 
 
 into 
 
DEVONSHIRE. clxxxi 
 
 into a younger branch of this family, which was settled at Woolfardiswor- 
 thy, near Hartlancl. Captain Bartholomew Prust, the last heir male of 
 this branch, died in 1752. The Rev. Joseph Prust Prust, son and heir of 
 Joseph Prust Prust, formerly Prust Hamlyn, had a grant from the 
 Heralds' College, in 1808, to bear the name and arms of Prust. 
 Arms: — G., on a chief, A., 2 etoiles, Sable. 
 
 Rowe, of Lamerton. — Three generations of this family are described 
 in the Visitation of 1620. The first mentioned in the pedigree married 
 the heiress of Hill ; the second, a co-heiress of Fitz, of Tavistock. The 
 elder branch became extinct by the death of the only son of Nicholas 
 Rowe, the poet. The heiress married Lock, and afterwards Pyle, by both 
 of whom she had issue. The Rev. John Rowe, rector of Alverdiscott, is 
 supposed to be descended from a younger branch, settled at Tavistock ; 
 the son of his elder brother resides in Jamaica. 
 
 Arms : — Gules, 3 holy lambs with standards, Argent. In the new 
 edition of Prince's Worthies, these arms are erroneously appropriated to 
 Rowe of Kingston. 
 
 Southcote, or Southcott, originally of Southcote in Winkleigh. — 
 This ancient family was of Southcote in the reign of Henry III. The 
 elder branch, into which the heiresses of Keynes and Pury, and a co- 
 heiress of Bosum, had married, became extinct in the sixteenth century. 
 The heiress married Callard. John Southcote, appointed one of the 
 justices of the King's Bench in 1562, was son of a younger brother of 
 the last Southcote of this place. " The Southcotes of Indiho, in Bovey 
 Tracey, and of Mohun's Ottery °, were descended from a second son. Mo- 
 hun's Ottery was sold by Thomas Southcote, then the representative of 
 this branch, in I678. At Collumpton is a monument without date, said to 
 
 n The Southcotes of Bliborough, in Lincolnshire, were descended from Sir George South- 
 cote, Knt., who died in 1639, which Sir George was son, or grandson, of the Judge. Sir 
 George Southcote, grandson of Sir George above mentioned, was created a baronet in 1661 ; 
 the title became extinct in 16S9, on the death of his only son, Sir George, who was born 
 after his father's death. Sir George, the son, left two infant daughters, afterwards married to 
 Smith and Fitzherbert. 
 
 Mohun's Ottery was acquired by a marriage with a daughter of Carew, who eventually 
 became heiress of that family. 
 
 be 
 
clxxxii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 be for the last heir male of the Southcote family ; the last probably of this 
 branch. 
 
 Sir George Southcote, of Shillingford, eldest son of Thomas Southcote, 
 of Indiho, by his third wife, married a co-heiress of Cole, of Buckland 
 Touissaints, and was ancestor of the late John Henry Southcote, Esq., 
 who sold Buckland, and died in 1820. 
 
 Another branch of this family, descended from a younger son of South- 
 cote of Indiho, was of Calverleigh, which was sold before 1700 to Sir 
 Henry Fane : a co-heiress of Robins married into this branch. A younger 
 branch of the Southcotes of Calverleigh settled at Dulcis, in Kilmington, 
 in consequence of a marriage with the heiress of Fiye. The heiress of 
 the elder son of this branch brought Dulcis to the Hallets : a younger 
 son settled at Colwell, in OrTwell, having married the heiress of Collins. 
 The late Michael Southcote, of this line, married the heiress of Popkin, 
 of Wales : his elder son, erroneously supposing himself descended from 
 the Southcotes of Bliborough, in Lincolnshire, assumed the title of 
 baronet ; he died without issue, and his younger brothers, Henry and 
 Philip, are supposed to be the only male descendants of the family. 
 
 Aims : — Arg., a chevron, G., between 3 coots, Proper. 
 
 Wise, of Sydenham. — Five descents are described in the Visitation of 
 1620 : the heiress, as before mentioned, married Tremayne. Younger 
 branches still remain in the male line. Ayshford Wise, Esq., now 
 residing at Ford near Newton Abbot, is the representative of a branch 
 which has been settled for many generations at Totnes. 
 
 Arms : — S. 3 chevrons, Erm. 
 
 Crest: — A demi-lion rampant, G., guttee, Argent, holding in his 
 dexter paw a mace, Or. 
 
 Woolston, of Tor Newton. — John Woolston, Esq., the represent- 
 ative of this family, which has been settled here for many generations, 
 resides abroad. 
 
 Arms : — S. a bend between 6 pouches, Argent. 
 
 Wollacombe, originally of Wollacombe, in Roborough, or Wollacombe, 
 in Morthoe , from nearly the time of the Conquest. — The last heir male 
 
 See the account of Roborough, p. 427. 
 
 of 
 
DEVONSHIRE. clxxxiii 
 
 of this family (into which the heiresses of Barry, alias Atcomb, and 
 Michaelstow, and a co-heiress of Elford, had married) died in 1707. 
 The heiress married Stafford p , whose two sons successively took the name 
 of Wollacombe. Roger left a daughter, married to Langford, whose heiress 
 married Hammet. Thomas was father of Thomas Wollacombe, Esq., 
 who married a co-heiress of Hierne, and was father of the Rev. John Wol- 
 lacombe, rector of Stowford, the present representative of the family. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, 3 bars, Gules. 
 
 Crest : — A spur, Or, the rowels, G. 
 
 Families known, or supposed, to be extinct since 1620, or removed out of the 
 
 County. 
 
 Abbot, of Hartland. — The ancestor of this family was grantee of the 
 abbey, in 1545. William Abbot, Esq., the last heir male, who married a 
 co-heiress of Milliton, died in 1609. One of the co-heiresses married 
 Luttrell. 
 
 Arms : — S. a cross voided between four eagles displayed, Or. 
 
 Addington, of High Bickington. — The last of this family, which came 
 from London in the reign of Henry VIII., was Thomas Addington, Esq., 
 who died in 1668. His sisters and co-heiresses married Incledon, Docton, 
 and Williams, of Cornwall. The heiress of Cliffe married into this family. 
 
 Arms : — Per pale Ermine and Ermines ; between 3 fleur-de-lis, a che- 
 vron charged with 4. lozenges, all counter-changed. 
 
 Crest : — A leopard seiant, Argent, pelletee. 
 
 Arscott, of Tetcott. — The Arscotts were originally of Holsworthy. 
 In the reign of Henry VI., they settled at Dunsland, in Bradford, in con- 
 sequence of a marriage with the heiress of Batten. This elder branch became 
 
 p The Staffords, originally Stowfords, are descended from a branch of the ancient family 
 of Kaleway, which settling at Stowford (in the parish of Dolton) took the name of De 
 Stowford. The heiress of Menwenick, of Cornwall, married into this family ; and the 
 heiress of its elder branch married Sir Thomas Wise, K. B. Younger branches were re- ■ 
 maining in 1620 at Dowland and Ottery St. Mary, and had male issue. The StafFords, 1 ,**^* 
 Stowfords, bore the arms of Kaleway. See p. clxvii. V 
 
 extinct "-- 
 
clxxxiv DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 extinct in l664<: the heiress married Bickford. A younger branch settled 
 at Tetcott by purchase, in the reign of Henry VIII. John Arscott, Esq., 
 the last of this branch, died in I788 : Sir Arscott Ourry Molesworth, Bart., 
 is its representative, in consequence of a marriage of his great-grandfather, 
 Sir John Molesworth, Bart., who died in 1724. Another younger branch of 
 Arscott settled at Tidwell, in East Budleigh, having married the heiress 
 of St. Clere. The estate was sold, and the family removed about 1730. 
 Arms : — Per chevron, Az. and Erm., 2 stags' heads, caboshed, Or. 
 
 Ash, ofSowton. — This family was settled here as early as the reign of 
 Edward III., most probably a branch of Esse, or Ash, of Ralph Ash. 
 Henry Ash, Esq., the last heir male, died in 1763. Miss Salter was ad- 
 judged by the House of Lords, to be heir-at-law, in 1775. 
 
 Arms : — the same as Esse. q 
 
 Crest : — A cockatrice, Or, legged and beaked, G. 
 
 Ashford, or Ayshford, of Ashford, in Burlescomb. — The heiress of 
 Wadham, and a co-heiress of Whiting, of Wood, married into this family. 
 John Ayshford, Esq., the last heir male, died in 1688 : the heiress married 
 Sandford, ancestor of William Ayshford Sandford, Esq., of Ninehead, in 
 Somersetshire. A branch of this family settled at Wonwell, in Kingston, in 
 consequence of a marriage with a co-heiress of Hingeston. John Ayshford, 
 Esq., the last of this branch, died in 1732: the heiress married Wise, now 
 represented by Ayshford Wise, Esq. 
 
 Arms: — Argent, 3 Ash-crops, Vert, between '2 chevronels, S. 
 
 Crest: — Issuing out of a wreath of leaves, Proper, a man's head side-faced. 
 
 Atwell, from an early period at Exeter. — Dr. Atwell, some time 
 rector of Exeter College, in Oxford, was of this family. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a chevron, S., a pile in point, counter-changed. 
 
 Atwood, or Wood, of Ashridge, in North Tawton. — This family was 
 not extinct in Sir William Pole's time, when they were called Wood : they 
 had possessed Ashridge from the reign of Edward III. A daughter of 
 Christopher AVood, Esq., who probably was the last of the family, mar- 
 ried Gregory, and died in 1719. 
 
 Anns : — S. semee of acorns, Or, a lion rampant, Argent. 
 
 1 See p. clxv. 
 
 Balle, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. clxxxv 
 
 Balle, of Mamhead, originally of Balle-Hayes, in Axminster, married 
 the heiress of Torriton and Bridges : extinct, 1749. 
 Arms : — Argent, a chevron between 3 fire-balls, G. 
 Crest : — An arm holding a fire-ball, Proper. 
 
 Barkleigh, of Kingsbridge and Oakenbury. — Four descents are de- 
 scribed in the visitation of 1620 : not extinct in 1675. 
 Arms : — S. a fesse Erm., between 3 cinquefoils, Argent. 
 
 Barnefield, of Mambury, in East Putfordi married the heiress of 
 Mambury : extinct in 1759 : the heiress married Philips. 
 
 Barry, of Winscot. — The ancestor of this family married the heiress of 
 Winscot, in the reign of Richard II., and from the arms it appears likely 
 that he was of the Berry Narbor family. Michael Barry, the last heir 
 male of the elder branch, died in the reign of Charles I. : the heiress married 
 Tripcony, who died without issue. A younger brother of this family 
 married a co-heiress of Wike, of Bindon : his grandson was of Buckfast- 
 leigh, in 1620, and had male issue. 
 
 Arms : — Barry of six, A. and G. A crescent on a crescent for dif- 
 ference. 
 
 Crest : — A wolf's head, Sable, 
 
 Batishall, of East Week, in South Tawton, seven generations before 
 1620: not extinct in 1675. The heiress of Wood, of Bridestowe, married 
 into this family. 
 
 Arms : — Az., a cross-crosslet saltier-ways, between 4 owls, Argent. 
 
 Bickford, of Dunsland. — The Bickfords were, at an early period, of 
 Bickford, in Plympton St. Mary. William Bickford, Esq., who died in 
 16.59, married the heiress of Arscott, of Dunsland. Arscott Bickford, 
 Esq., the last heir male of this ancient family, died in I8I7. One of his 
 sisters and co-heiresses married Philip Furse, Esq., by whom she had no 
 issue ; the other, the Rev. William Holland Coham. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a chevron engrailed between 3 martlets. 
 
 '»■ 
 
 Bidgood, of Rockbeare. — Chappie says, that the name of this family 
 
 appears in deeds of 1453. Dr. John Bidgood, as appears by Prince's 
 
 Worthies, made his fortune as a physician, and died in 1690 : his descend- 
 
 Vol. VI. a a ant, 
 
clxxxvi DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 ant, the late Charles Bidgood, Esq., who died in 1813, was the last of the 
 the family : his widow now possesses the estate. His sister married 
 Drewe. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, on a chief engrailed, Az., a tortoise, Proper. 
 
 Bidlake, of Bidlake, in Bridestowe. — This family had been settled 
 here as early as the year 1 154. William Bidlake, the representative of the 
 family, died an infant in 171S; two of his sisters and co-heirs married 
 Herring and Hiern : Phillippa, the third, died unmarried in 1792. It is 
 probable, that the late Dr. Bidlake, of Plymouth, was of a younger branch 
 of this family. 
 
 Arms : — Gules, a fesse between 3 pigeons, Argent. 
 
 Blagdon, of Blagdon, in Clawton, married the heiress of Downe, or 
 Downing, and a co-heiress of Browne. There was male issue at the time 
 of the visitation, in 1620. In 1685, John Blagdon, Esq., who married the 
 heiress of Crossing, (being probably of the same family,) was of Northcote, 
 in Honiton. The namesake and representative of the last-mentioned 
 Blagdon resides in Gloucestershire. There are no arms assigned to 
 Blagdon in the visitation of 1620. Edmondson gives the arms of Blagdon, 
 of Devonshire, thus, Az., 3 trefoils slipped, Argent, on a chief indented, 
 Or, 2 annulets, Gules. 
 
 Bodley, of Dunscombe, in Crediton, six generations before 1620. 
 
 The place was sold and the family removed before 1700. The heiresses 
 of Tremell, or Trenvill, and Hurst, married Bodley. Sir Thomas Bodley, 
 founder of the Bodleian Library, at Oxford, was of a younger branch of 
 this family. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, 5 martlets in saltier, S. on a chief, Az., 3 crowns, Or. 
 
 Bremridge, or Bremebrig, in Sandford, in the time of King John 
 
 John Bremridge, the representative of this ancient family, died without 
 issue : his sister married the father of Richard Melhuish, Esq., now of 
 Bremridge. There were younger branches of this family at Kenne, and at 
 Exeter. 
 
 Broughton, of Warbrightesley, in Stoodleigh. — John Broughton, in 
 the reign of Henry VI., married a co-heiress of Crukerne, of this place. 
 
 Hugh, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. clxxxvii 
 
 Hugh, the fifth in descent from John, married a co-heiress of Estcott. 
 Mr. Arthur Broughton, the last of this family, died in 1734. 
 Arms : — Argent, a chevron between 3 mullets, G. 
 
 Burgoyne, of South Tawton, — A younger branch of the Bedfordshire 
 family of that name, continued here for several generations, having mar- 
 ried the heiresses of Sheldon, Stoning, and Courtenay. The heiress of 
 the Burgoynes married Jackson, of Exeter. William Courtenay Bur- 
 goyne, Esq., died in 1750. 
 
 Arms : — Az., a talbot passant, Argent, on a mullet, Or, a crescent S., 
 for difference. 
 
 Burnaby, of Burnaby, in Bratton Clovelly, seven generations before 
 1620; not extinct in 1630. — There are no traces of them in the parish- 
 register after 1603. It is probable, that the descendant who possessed 
 the estates in Sir William Pole's time, sold it and removed out of the 
 county. 
 
 Arms : — Az., two bars embattled, Ermine. 
 
 Cabell, of Buckfastleigh. — About six descents ; not extinct in I675. 
 Arms : — S. a horse upright, Argent, bridled, Or. 
 
 Callard, of Callard, in Burrington. — Seven descents of this family are 
 described in the visitation of 1620. In the preceding century, the heiress 
 of Southcote had married into this family. It is probable, that the estate 
 was sold not long after the time above mentioned. There were younger 
 branches at Tavistock and Winkley. 
 
 There was a family of this name at Ford, near Axminster. Amos Cal- 
 lard, Esq., of Ford, who died in 17-17> had a nephew of the name of John. 
 This family is supposed also to be extinct. 
 
 Arms : — Gyronny of 6, Or, and S., 3 Moors' heads side-faced, Proper, 
 filleted, Argent. 
 
 Crest : — a demi-lion rampant, S., holding a scaling ladder, Or. 
 
 Calwoodley, of Calwoodley, now Calverley, traced to the time of King 
 John. — The elder branch became extinct in the reign of Henry VIII. : the 
 heiress married Arundell. There was a younger branch at Up-loman, the 
 last heir male of which died about the year 1750. A younger branch was 
 settled at Padstow, whence they removed to London. 
 
 a a 2 Arms : 
 
clxxxviii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Arms : — Az., a pair of wings, Argent, over all a fesse, G., charged with 
 3 bezants. 
 
 Crest : — A falcon's claw, Az., with a bell, Or, surmounted by a wing, 
 Argent. 
 
 Champneys, of Yarnscombe. — About six descents; extinct in 1681. 
 The heiress married Cottle. 
 - Arms : — Arg., a lion rampant, Gules, within a border engrailed, Sable. 
 
 Charles, of Tavistock. — Five descents to the time of Queen Elizabeth, 
 married the heiress of Forde. 
 
 Arms : — Erm., on a chief wavy, G., an eagle displayed, Or. 
 
 Clevland, of Tapley. — The family of Clevland were settled at 
 Tapley, in Westleigh, early in the last century. The sisters and co-heirs 
 of the late John Clevland, Esq., M. P. for Barnstaple, who died in 1817, 
 married Ibbetson and Saltren. 
 
 Arms : — Az., a hare salient, Or, to the collar a bugle-horn pendent, 
 Sable. 
 
 Crest : — A cubit arm erect, vested, Az., cuffed, Argent, holding in 
 the hand, Proper, a dagger, Or. 
 
 Cloberry, of Bradstone. — This ancient family had resided at Brad- 
 stone for eleven descents in 1620. The heiress, in the year 1711, married 
 Robert Glynn, Esq., father of Stephen Glynn, M. D., of King's College, 
 Cambridge, who died without issue in 1800. An heiress of Rous mar- 
 ried into this family. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a chevron between 3 bats, Sable. 
 
 Crest : — An antelope's head erased, Argent, attired, Or. 
 
 Clotworthy, of Clotworthy. — This ancient family had been settled 
 here as early as the reign of King Edward I. Mr. Simon Clotworthy, the 
 representative, died in 1755 ; and Robert Clotworthy, who seems to have 
 been the last male of the family, in 1756. The heiresses of Clement and 
 Rashleigh married into this family. Sir Henry Clotworthy, a younger son 
 of this family, was knighted by King James, in Ireland, in 1618, and left 
 a son, John ; the same perhaps who, in 1660, was created Viscount Mas- 
 sareene, with remainder to his son-in-law, Sir John Skeffington, ancestor 
 of the late Earl of Massareene, who died in 1816, leaving an only daugh- 
 ter, now Viscountess Massareene in her own right. 
 
 Arms : 
 
DEVONSHIRE. clxxxix 
 
 Arms : — Az., a chevron, Erm., between 3 garlands, Or, leaves, Vert. 
 Crest : — A stag's head erased, Argent, transfixed with an arrow headed 
 and fleched of the first. 
 
 Cockeram, of Hillersdon in Collnmpton. — Four descents are de- 
 scribed in the visitation of 1620. There is a monument of this family at 
 Collumpton, with the date of 1606. 
 
 Arms : — Argent on a bend, S., 3 leopards' faces, Or. 
 
 Cocke, of Plymouth. — Four descents of this family are described in 
 the visitation of 1620, when Edmund Cocke, the representative, had a 
 son and heir, aged two years. Captain William Cocke, a native of 
 Plymouth, was the only Englishman of note killed in the memorable en- 
 gagement with the Spanish Armada. If not extinct, this family is reduced : 
 there are some tradesmen of the name at Plymouth and Dock. 
 
 Arms : — A. a ciievron engrailed between 5 griffins' heads, erased, G., 
 on a canton, Az., an anchor, Or. It is probable that this was an augment- 
 ation, granted to the family for the services of Captain Cocke. 
 
 Code, or Coade, of Gidley Castle, married the heiress of Damarell of 
 Gidley, and were representatives, through that of Mules, of the elder 
 branch of the family of Prous. This family removed to Morvall, in Corn- 
 wall, having married the heiress of Glynn, of that place : the heiress of 
 the elder branch married Buller. Edward Coade, Esq., now of St. Austell, 
 is the representative of a younger branch. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a chevron, G, between 3 Cornish choughs. 
 
 Cole, of Slade, — settled there in the reign of Henry IV., and became 
 extinct, in the elder branch at least, in the reign of Charles I. The 
 heiresses of Walcot and Hill, and a co-heiress of Luce, married into this 
 family. Richard Cole, Esq., bequeathed the estate to — Cole, of 
 London. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a bull passant, Sab., within a border of the second, 
 bezanty. 
 
 A family of the same name, bearing an ass passant, were lords of 
 Bokeish, in Wool fardis worthy. The Rev. Potter Cole, the last of this 
 family, was rector of Hawksbury in Gloucestershire, where he died, in 
 1802, at the advanced age of 96, having been rector of that parish above 
 
 seventy 
 
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cxc DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 seventy years : he bequeathed Bokeish to his nephew, the Rev. William 
 Loggin, who took the name of Cole, and was father of the Rev. William 
 Loggin, the. present owner of Bokeish. This family of Cole were some 
 time resident at Enstone, in Oxfordshire. 
 
 Colman, originally of Gornhay in Tiverton, afterwards of Hillersdon 
 in Collumpton. — A co-heiress of Searle married into this family, eight 
 generations of which are to be traced in Devonshire. Francis Colman, 
 Esq., the representative and last heir male of this family, died in 1820. " 
 
 Arms : — Per fesse, Arg. and Sab., a cross flory between 4 mullets, all 
 counterchanged. 
 
 Columb, or Culme, of Molland Saracen. — Sir William Culme lived 
 in the reign of Edward I. The heiress of Walter married into this family, 
 which became extinct, in the elder branch, by the death of Hugh Culme, 
 or Columb, Esq., in 16.58. A younger branch became extinct by the 
 death of John Culme, Esq., of Tothill, in 1804. : his son, who died in 
 his father's lifetime, left two daughters, co-heiresses. Sir Thomas Gery 
 Cullum, Bart., of Hawsted, in Suffolk, is said to have been descended from 
 this family ; but the late Sir John Cullum, in his history of Hawsted, 
 seems to doubt it. They were settled in Suffolk previously to 1454. They 
 bear however the same arms. 
 
 Arms : — Az., a chevron, Era., between 3 pelicans, wings expanded, 
 Or. 
 
 Crest : — A lion seiant, Proper, supporting a Corinthian column. 
 
 Cooke, of Thorne, in the parish of Ottery, married the heiress of 
 Thorne, and continued for several descents. John Cooke, Esq., the last 
 of this family, died in 1632 : the heiress married Misson. 
 
 Arms : — Erm., on a bend cottised, G., 3 cat-a-mountains, Argent. 
 
 Crest : — A demi-leopard gardant, Or, supporting a branch of oak, 
 fructed, Or. 
 
 Cottle, of Sampford Peverell, by marriage with a co-heiress of Peverell. 
 The heiresses of Cahurta, Godfrey, Bodigood, and Browne, married into 
 
 i Mr. Colman's mother was sister of Edward, the eighth duke of Somerset : his daughters 
 and co-heiresses married, 1. Collins, and afterwards Shiell ; 2. Pettiward, of Finborough-hall, 
 Suffolk; 3. Trafford, of Trafford, in Lancashire. 
 
 this 
 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cxci 
 
 this family, of which there was male issue in 1620 : a younger branch, 
 settled at North Tawton, was not extinct in 1720 ; but none of the family 
 now remain. 
 
 Arms : — Or, a bend, G. 
 
 Crest : — A tiger seiant, on a ducal crown. 
 
 Courtenay, of Molland Bottreaux. — Descended from Sir Philip 
 Courtenay, a younger son of Sir Philip Courtenay, of Powderham, who 
 settled at this place in consequence of a marriage with the daughter of Lord 
 Hungerford. John Courtenay, Esq., the last heir male of this branch, 
 died in 1732 : the co-heiresses married Chichester and Paston : a daughter 
 of the latter married Throckmorton. George Throckmorton, Esq., 
 brother of the late Sir John Throckmorton, Bart., took the name of 
 Courtenay ; but upon succeeding to his brother's title, resumed that of 
 Throckmorton ; and in 1819 his younger brother, Charles Throckmorton, 
 took the name of Courtenay. 
 
 Arms : — The same as Lord Courtenay, with due difference. 
 
 Courtenay, of Walreddon. — Descended from James, fifth son of 
 Sir William Courtenay, (the sixth of that name,) by Margaret, daughter 
 of Sir William Wallis. The ancestor of William Courtenay, Esq., now of 
 Walreddon, settled at this place about 1694 : extinct by the death of 
 William Courtenay, Esq., in 1787. 
 
 Arms : — The same as Lord Courtenay, with due difference. 
 
 Croker, or Crocker, of Lyneham, in Yealmton. — The ancestor of 
 this family, who settled at Lyneham before the year 1400, was son of 
 John Crocker, Esq., of Hele. Courtenay Crocker, Esq., the last heir male 
 of this family, died in 1740 ; one of his co-heiresses married Bulteel of 
 Fleet. The heiress of Corim of Hemeidon had married into this family. 
 
 A younger branch was of Windsor in Yealmton, and afterwards of Bovey 
 Tracey. There was a younger branch of this family at St. Agnes, in 
 Cornwall. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a chevron engrailed, G., between 3 crows, Proper. 
 
 Cruwys, of Morchard Cruwys. — This ancient family was settled at 
 Morchard and Netherex nearly from the time of the Conquest. The 
 Netherex branch became extinct in or about the reign of Edward I., when 
 
 five 
 
cxcii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 five co-heiresses married Lucy, St. Clere, Lucombe, Reis, and Whifield. 
 The co-heiresses of a younger branch, settled at Anstey Cruwys, married 
 Norton and Pollard, in the fourteenth century. The Morchard Cruwys, 
 which I believe was the elder line, became extinct by the death of the 
 late Dr. Henry Shortridge Cruwys, in 1S04 : his daughters and co-heir- 
 esses married Sharland and Melhuish. Prince observes that no heiress had 
 rparried into this family. 
 
 Arms : — Az., a bend, per bend dauncettee, A. and G., between G 
 escallops, Or. 
 
 Crest : — On a mount, Vert, a stork, Proper, holding in the dexter foot 
 an escallop, Or. 
 
 Crymes, of Buckland Monachorum. — The late Amos Crymes, vicar 
 of Buckland Monachorum, and of Lovicombe House, in that parish, was 
 representative of the family of Crymes, who were the original grantees of 
 the abbey after the dissolution : he married the heiress of Andrews, of 
 Thornton House, in South Wales, where his eldest son, Amos Crymes, 
 M. A., of the University of Oxford, at present resides. 
 
 Arms : — Or, 3 bars, G., charged with 2 martlets on the upper, and 1 
 on the lower bar, Argent, a chief nebulee, A. and S. 
 
 Crest : — A martlet, Vert. 
 
 Cudmore, of Loxbear. — Four descents of this family are described in 
 the visitation of 1620. Daniel Cudmore, Esq., the last heir male, died 
 in 1723. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a fesse nebulee, G., between 3 spread eagles, 
 Sable. 
 
 Culme. — See Columb. 
 
 Dillon, of Chimwell, in Bratton Fleming, and of Wroughton and Hart, 
 in Heanton Punchardon. — Thomas Dillon settled in this county in con- 
 sequence of having married a co-heiress of Fleming. Chimwell was sold 
 in the reign of Charles I. Sir William Dillon, of the Heanton branch, 
 married an heiress of Chichester. The Dillons of Chimwell removed 
 about the middle of the seventeenth century to Farthingoe, in Northamp- 
 tonshire. 
 
 Arms : 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cxciii 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a lion rampant between 4 crescents surmounted by as 
 many etoiles, G., over all a fesse, Azure. 
 
 Crest : — A clemi-lion issuing and holding a crescent, surmounted by an 
 etoile, as in the arms. 
 
 Dinham, of Wortham. — The ancestor of this branch of the ancient 
 and baronial family of Dinham, or Dynham, married the heiress of Wor- 
 tham, of Wortham, in the parish of Lifton, in the reign of Richard II. 
 The heiress of Westmanton, and a co-heiress of Westlake, married into 
 this branch. One of the co-heiresses of John Dynham, Esq., who died 
 in 1641, married Hicks, whose heiress married Harris. George Dynham, 
 Esq., probably of a younger branch, died in 1773- I cannot find that 
 any of the male line now remain. 
 
 Arms : — G. 4 lozenges conjoined in fesse, Erm., a border of the last. 
 
 Crest : — An arm couped, Or, the hand, Argent, holding a lock of 
 hay, Sable. 
 
 Docton, of Docton in Hartland. — Philip Docton, Esq., the last of 
 this ancient family, died in 1742. William Waddon Martyn, Esq., is the 
 representative. The heiress of a branch of this family, which had been 
 settled in Cornwall, and was afterwards of Whitleigh, in St. Budeaux, 
 married Gennys. Sir Richard Docton, of this family, who died in 1623, 
 was one of the justices of the King's Bench. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a crescent, S., on a chief, G., 2 crescents, Or. 
 
 Crest : — A fleur-de-lis, Sable. 
 
 Downe, of East Downe, Tutshill, Barnstaple, &c. — The heiress of the 
 elder branch of this ancient family married the ancestor of the Rev. John 
 Pine Coffin, in the reign of Edward III. A younger branch was of Tutshill 
 in Pilton : the heiress of this branch married Ley, of Comb Martin. One of 
 the ancestors of another branch, which was of Barnstaple and Holds- 
 worthy, married a sister of Bishop Jewell ; his son, who was rector of 
 Instow, died in 1631 ; his grandson, Henry Downe, M.D., was settled at 
 Barnstaple. The grandson of Dr. Downe, who was of Borough, in 
 Northam, married the heiress of Phillips of Cornwall. Henry Downe, Esq., 
 the last of this family, died in 1805. His daughter married Robert Barton, 
 Esq., Vice-Admiral of the Blue, now of Borough. 
 
 Arms : — Gules, a buck's head caboshed, Erm., attired, Or. 
 Vol. VI. b b Dowrish, 
 
cxciv DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Dowrish, of Dowrish, in Sandford. — Henry Dowrish, Esq., the last 
 heir male of this ancient family, which had been settled at Dowrish at 
 least as early as the reign of Henry III. died in 1717- 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a bend cottised, Sab., a border engrailed of the 
 second. 
 
 Duck, of Heavitree and Mount Radford. — Nicholas Duck, Esq., of 
 this family, was recorder of Exeter in the reign of James I. Richard 
 Duck, Esq., the last heir male, died in 1755. The co-heiresses of this 
 family married Byrdall and Roach ; the former died without issue. Jerom 
 Roach, Esq., captain in the South Devon militia, is representative of the 
 latter. 
 
 Arms : — Or, on a fesse wavy, S., 3 fusils of the first. 
 
 Duke, of Otterton. — William Duke, the ancestor of this family, who 
 was a citizen of Exeter, married a co-heiress of Poer, of Poers Hayes, in 
 the reign of Richard II. : one of the co-heiresses of Cossington, of Kent, 
 appears to have married into this family also at an early period, and in 
 later times a co-heiress of Reynell, of Creedy Wiger. Robert Duke, Esq., 
 the last heir male of this family, died in 1755 r ; his sisters married Doidge, 
 Yonge, and Taylor, the former died without issue ; the Rev. Duke Yonge, 
 of Cornwood, is the present representative of the family. 
 
 Arms : — Per fesse, Arg. and Az., 3 chaplets counterchanged. 
 
 Dyer, of Yard, in Malborough. — Four descents of this family are 
 described in the Visitation of 1620. The heiress of Martin of Malbo- 
 rough married into this family, which became extinct about 1700. The 
 heiress married Savery. 
 
 Arms : — Or, a chief indented, Gules. 
 
 English, of Stockley English. — . The heiress of the elder branch mar- 
 ried Champernowne at an early period. A younger branch was of Brad- 
 ninch, in 1G20, and had male issue. 
 
 Arms : — Sab., 3 lioncels rampant, Argent. 
 
 ' Upon the death of Robert Duke, Esq., most of his estates passed under the will of Richard 
 Duke, who died in 1741, to John Heath, Esq., nephew of the said Richard, who took the 
 name of Duke, but died without issue ; when the estates passed to the sisters and co-hiresses 
 of Robert Duke, as right heirs of Richard above mentioned. 
 
 Erle, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cxcv 
 
 Erle, of Bindon, in Axmoutli. — Walter Erie, Esq., descended from an 
 ancient Somersetshire family, settled at Bindon, having acquired that 
 estate and Cliarborough, the seat of the family in Dorsetshire, by a 
 marriage with a co-heiress of Wikes ; his grandson, Sir Walter, who was an 
 officer in the parliamentary army, married the heiress of Dymock. General 
 Thomas Drax, who died in 1720, was the last heir male of the family. 
 The heiress of Erie having married Ernley; the heiress of Ernley, Drax ; and 
 the heiress of Drax, Grosvenor ; Richard Edward Erie Drax Grosvenor, 
 Esq., M.P., is the present representative of this family. 
 
 Arms : — G. 3 escallops, Argent, a border engrailed of the second. 
 
 Eveleigh, of Eveleigh, in Broad Gist. — Sir William Pole speaks of 
 the Eveleighs as having been of good antiquity at tins place : four de- 
 scents are described in Glover's visitation, made in the reign of Queen 
 Elizabeth. They are not mentioned in the visitation of 1620. I do not 
 find that there are any of the name now in the county. Dr. Eveleigh, the 
 late provost of Oriel College, was of this family. 
 
 Arms : — Per pale, Or and S., a chevron between 3 griffins, passant, 
 counterchanged. 
 
 Floier, or Floyer, of Floier Hayes, in the parish of St. Thomas, near 
 Exeter, removed into Dorsetshire in the seventeenth century. The 
 heiresses of Dunstanville, Clive, Basse, Kirke, and co-heiresses of Crooke, 
 Martyn, and Wadham, married into this family. The Rev. William Floyer, 
 vicar of Stinsford, in Dorsetshire, is the present representative. 
 
 Arms : — S. a chevron between 3 arrows, Argent. 
 
 Ford, of Chagfbrd, &c. — Eight descents of this family are described in 
 the visitation of 1G20. Prince supposes them to have been descended 
 from the Fords, of Fordmore, in Moreton Hampsted, settled there as early 
 as the 12th century; the heiress of that family married Charles, of Tavi- 
 stock. The Fords, of Chagford, settled there in consequence of a marriage 
 with the heiress of Hill. John, the fourth in descent, who was of Ashbur- 
 ton, married the heiress of Hohvell, by whom he had a daughter and 
 heiress married to St. Clere. The son of a second marriage continued 
 the family. John Ford, of Bagtor, married the heiress of Drake, of 
 Spratshays, in Littleham, and was father of Sir Henry Ford, of Nutwell, 
 who was chief secretary for Ireland, under Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex, 
 
 b b 2 and 
 
cxcvi DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 and was buried at Woodbury, in 1684 : he left a son Charles, supposed to 
 have died in his minority, and three daughters, married to Drake, (ancestor 
 of George Drake, Esq., of Ipplepen,) Holwill, and Egerton. John, second 
 son of John Ford above mentioned, continued the line at Ashburton ; Mr. 
 John Ford, who died in 1677» is supposed to have been the last of the 
 branch : there was another younger branch at Totnes. 
 
 Arms : — Party per fesse, A. and S., in chief, a greyhound current ; in 
 base, an owl within a border engrailed, all counterchanged. 
 
 Crest : — A demi-greyhound, charged with a bend, Argent, collar'd, Or, 
 between 2 apple branches fructed of the second. 
 
 Forde, of Fordmore, in the parish of Plymtree. — George Forde, the last 
 heir male of this ancient family, which had been settled at Fordemore as 
 early as the reign of Edward I., died in 1702. The co-heiresses married 
 Jope and Chave. 
 
 Arms as described by Sir William Pole. — A castle Argent, in the port 
 a cross formee ; over all a ducal crown, Or. 
 
 Fountaine, of Bawcomb, in Ugborough. — It is probable that the an- 
 cestor of this family, which resided for several generations at Bawcomb, 
 and possessed a moiety of the estate, married a co-heiress of Bawcomb. 
 
 Arms : — A. 3 bars gemelles, G. on a canton, Az., a lion passant, Or. 
 
 Fraunceis, of Fraunceis Court, in Broad Clist, settled at this place in or 
 about the reign of Edward II., married the heiress of Hele. They removed 
 to Combe Flory, in Somersetshire : one of the co-heiresses married Pri- 
 deaux ; the descendants bore the name of Fraunceis, and were ancestors of 
 John Fraunceis Gwynn, Esq., now of Forde Abbey. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a chevron engrailed, between 3 mullets, Gules. 
 
 Frye, of Yartye, settled at Yartye, in the reign of Henry IV., in conse- 
 quence of a marriage with the heiress of Yartye. Robert Frye, Esq., the last 
 of the elder branch, died in 1726 : the heiress married a collateral ancestor 
 of Lord King. There were younger branches of this family at Deer 
 Park, Wood, and Dulcis. Henry Frye, Esq., the last of the Deer Park 
 branch, died in 1772. The heiress of the Dulcis branch, which had been 
 extinct a considerable time before, married Southcote. 
 
 Arms : — G. 3 horses current, Argent. 
 
 Fursland, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cxcvii 
 
 Fursland, of Bickington, near Ashburton. — Seven descents of this 
 family, which had married the heiress of Whitchurch, are described in the 
 visitation of 1620. One of the co-heiresses of this family, which was soon 
 afterwards extinct in the male line, married Wood. 
 
 Arms : — Or, a lion rampant, S., between 3 crosses formee fitchee, 
 Gules. 
 
 Garland, originally of Garland, in Chulmleigh ; afterwards, in con- 
 sequence of a marriage with the co-heiress of Whitfield, of Whitfield, in 
 Marwood. — John Garland, Esq., the last of this ancient family, died in 
 1710 ; the estate had been previously sold, and his only daughter died un- 
 married, in a state of poverty. 
 
 Arms : — Or, 3 pales, G., a chief per pale, G. and Az. ; on the dexter 
 side, a garland ; on the sinister, a demi-lion rampant, Or. 
 
 GiPfard, of Halesbury and Brightleigh. — This ancient family is de- 
 scribed as maternally descended from the Giffards, Earls of Buckingham- 
 shire, whose name was assumed by Robert, the common ancestor of the 
 Devonshire Giffards, in the reign of Henry II. Sir Walter GifTard was of 
 Aveton Giffard, and of Weare GifTard, in the reign of Henry III. The 
 heiress of the elder branch married Trewen. Bartholomew GifTard, a 
 younger son of this family, settled at Halesbury in the reign of Edward I. 
 This branch, into which the heiress of Smith, of Totnes, had married, 
 became extinct about the middle of the seventeenth century, by the death 
 of John GifTard, Esq., who left Halesbury to the Giffards, of Brightleigh, 
 descended from Sir Roger GifTard, a younger son of the Halesbury family, 
 who had settled at Brightleigh in consequence of a marriage with the 
 heiress of Cobleigh, in the early part of the sixteenth century. Hardinge 
 GifTard, Esq., the immediate descendant and representative of this branch, 
 is now Chief Justice of Ceylon. A younger brother of Mr. Giffard's 
 father resided some years ago at Atherington, and left male issue, but 
 I cannot learn that any of the family are now living in Devonshire. 
 There was a younger branch settled at Instow ; one of the co-heiresses 
 of which married Berry ; and another younger branch, of Tiverton 
 Castle. The grandson of Roger GifTard, Esq., who died in 1603, was 
 the last of this branch j his daughter and heiress married Burgoyne. 
 Another branch was of Milton Damarell and Tapelegh in 1620. Tapelegh 
 was sold by the Giffards about the beginning of the last century. 
 
 Arms : 
 
cxcviii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Arms of Giffard : — Sab., 3 lozenges conjoined in fesse, Ermine. 
 Crest : — A cock's head erased, Or, holding in the beak a sprig of 3 
 leaves, Vert. 
 
 Gilbert, of Tackbeare, in Bridgerule, and of North Petherwin. — This 
 family, which, as residents of Tackbeare, should have been inserted among 
 the Cornish families, was descended from a younger son of the family of 
 Gilbert, otherwise Kniveton, of Derbyshire. They had been settled at 
 Tackbeare for five descents in 1620. John Gilbert, grandson of William, 
 who came out of Derbyshire, married an heiress of Pomeroy. The heiress 
 of this family married Amy. s A younger branch was of North Petherwin, 
 in this county, in 1620. 
 
 The Arms ascribed to this family, in the visitation of that year, (a fesse 
 between 3 crescents,) are those of Rossington, of Derbyshire, whose heiress 
 married Gilbert. The Arms of Gilbert, alias Kniveton, as described in the 
 visitation of Derbyshire, are Gules, a bend Vaire, A. and S. 
 
 Crest : — A griffin's head, Gules, beaked, Or, issuing out of a ducal c6ro- 
 net of the second. 
 
 Giles, of Bowden, in Ashsprington. — Four descents of this family, into 
 which the heiress of Tuckerman, and a co-heiress of Drewe, of Hayne, had 
 married, are described in the visitation of 1620. The heiress of John 
 Giles, Esq., who died in I676, married Sir Richard Gipps. There was a 
 family of the same name settled at Dean Prior, soon after the Reform- 
 ation. Sir Edward Giles, who died in 1642, and has a monument in Dean 
 Prior church, seems to have been the last of this family. 
 
 Arms : — Per chevron, Argent and Az., a lion rampant, counter-changed. 
 
 Crest : — A hand erased, Or, holding a bough of apples, fructed of the 
 second. 
 
 Glanville, of Halwell, in Whitchurch, of Tavistock, and of Kilworthy, 
 in Tavistock. — This ancient family settled at Halwell about the year 
 1400. Nicholas Glanville, its representative, was of Tavistock, and 
 aged 23, in 1620 : a second branch was then of Launceston, in Corn- 
 wall. Halwell, their original residence, was sold by the family in 
 the last century. John Glanville, the representative of the elder branch, is 
 
 6 See the History of Cornwall. 
 
 in 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cxcix 
 
 (/ in the service of Arthur Kelly, Esq., of Kelly. John Glanville, of this 
 family, one of the justices of the King's Bench, in the reign of Elizabeth, 
 settled at Kilworthy, and died in 1(J00. The grand-daughter of his elder 
 son (being heiress to her brother) married Kelly, whose heiress married 
 Manaton. Julius, youngest son of Sir John Glanville, second son of the 
 Judge, was ancestor of the Glanvilles of Catchfrench, in Cornwall. The 
 three elder sons of Sir John died without issue. 
 
 Arms : — Az., 3 saltiers, Or. 
 
 Crest : — On a mount Vert, a stag trippant, Proper. 
 
 Hache, of Hache, and North Aller, or Awre, in South Molton. — It does 
 not appear when these families branched off; it is most probable, that 
 Hache, of Hache, was the elder : the heiresses of Leigh, Murdach, and 
 Dirwyn, married into this branch. John Hache, Esq., who died in 1731, 
 had a grandson Thomas, who died unmarried, leaving a sister. The an- 
 cestor of Hache, of North Aller, married the heiress of Aller in the reign 
 of Edward III. The heiress of Horton also married into this branch, 
 which appears to have become extinct about the year 1750. 
 
 Arms : — G. 2 demi-lions passant, couped, Or. 
 
 Hals, or Halse, of Kenedon and EfFord. — This was originally a 
 Cornish family. They settled at Kenedon in the reign of Edward III. 
 The heiresses of Mewy, Sutcliffe, and Lapflode ; and co-heiresses of Hidon, 
 Esse, Latimer, Whitlegh, and Speccot, married into this family. Matthew- 
 Hals, Esq., who lived at Efford in the reign of Charles II., left two daugh- 
 ters co-heiresses, married to Elford and Trelawney. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a fesse between 3 griffins' heads erased, Sable. 
 
 Harlewin, of Ascerton, in Sidmouth, from the time of Henry VI. — 
 This family was not extinct in the middle of the seventeenth century. ' 
 Arms : — Az., 3 apples, Argent, a file in chief, G. 
 
 Haydon, of Boughwood, in Harpford ; Ebford, in Woodbury ; and 
 Cadhay, in Ottery. — This family is traced in the pedigrees to the reign of 
 Edward IV. They had married the heiresses of Weeks, of Honeychurch, 
 and Tiderleigh, of Tiderleigh. In consequence of a marriage with the 
 heiress of Cadhay, the Haydons settled at Cadhay in the sixteenth century. 
 
 ' John Harlewin, Esq., of Sidmouth, who died in 1658, left two sons. 
 
 This 
 
cc DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 This family has been many years removed from Devonshire : the present 
 representative is William Haydon, Esq., of Crewkerne, in Somersetshire, 
 a lieutenant in the navy. 
 
 Anns : — Argent, 3 bars gemelles, Az., on a chief, G., a bar dauncettee, 
 Or. 
 
 Crest : — A lion preying on a bull. 
 
 . Hayne, of Fuge, in Blackauton, settled there for several generations : 
 extinct in the male line by the death of Charles Hayne, Esq., in 1821. 
 His devisee, a grandson of John Seale, Esq., of Mount Boone, who 
 married his sister, is to take the name when of age. 
 
 Hey wood, of Maristow, married the heiress of Modyford ; James Mody- 
 ford Heywood, Esq., the last of this family, died in 1798. His daughters 
 and co-heiresses married Musters, of Nottinghamshire, Bertie, Montolieu, 
 and Orby Hunter. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, 3 torteauxes in bend between 2 cottises, G., within a 
 border of the second. 
 
 Crest : — A falcon on a stump, Proper. 
 
 Hillersdon, originally of Hillersdon, in Collumpton. — This ancient 
 family was settled at Membland, in Holbeton, as early as the reign of 
 Henry VI., and continued there till 1630, or later. Heiresses of Grim- 
 ston, Edgecumbe, and Snape, and a co-heiress of Clisdon, had married into 
 this family. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, on a chevron Sable, 3 bulls' heads caboshed of the 
 first. 
 
 Crest : — A squirrel cracking a nut. 
 
 Hody, of Netheway, in Brixham. — Sir John Hody, of Stowel, in So- 
 mersetshire, acquired this place in marriage with the heiress of Cole, who 
 had a residence also at Pillesdon, in Dorsetshire ; his son, Sir John Hody, 
 Chief Justice of the King's Bench, married the heiress of Jewe, of Whit- 
 field, and Beerhall, in Devon ; the posterity of his elder son continued at 
 Netheway for several descents. John Hody, Esq., sold Netheway in 
 1696, and left Devon. Edmund Hody, M.D., of this branch, was of 
 London in 1750. Hugh and Arthur, two younger sons of Christopher 
 Hody, Esq., of Netheway, who wrote their name Huddy, were of Brixham 
 
 in 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cci 
 
 in 1620 : the co-heiresses of Hugh married Burland, of Dorsetshire, and 
 Hody, of Northover, in Somersetshire. Sir William Hody, second son of 
 the Lord Chief Justice, was Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and ancestor of 
 the Hody's of Pillesdon, in Dorsetshire, and Crewkerne, in Somersetshire. 
 Robert Hody, Esq., who was of Crewkerne in the reign of Queen 
 Elizabeth, had two sons ; John, the elder, who was of Beer-hall, (Thorn- 
 combe,) in Devon, left an only daughter married to Bowditch ; the next 
 son was ancestor of the Hodys, of Northover, in Somersetshire; of which 
 branch was the learned Dr. Humphry Hody, archdeacon of Oxford, who 
 died in I7O6. 
 
 Arms of Hody : — Argent, a fesse party, per fesse indented, V. and S. 
 between two cottises counterchanged. 
 
 Crest : A bull passant, Argent. 
 
 Hext, of Kingston. — Removed into Cornwall. 
 
 Holcombe, of Hole. — Seven descents of this family are described in 
 the visitation of 1620. Thomas Holcombe, the representative, was then 
 a comedian at one of the theatres in London. 
 
 Arms: — Az., a chevron, Argent, between 3 men's heads, Or, filleted 
 of the second. 
 
 Holland, of Weare, in Topsham, Shipwash, and Black Torrington. — 
 Descended from John, fourth son of Robert Lord Holland, who died in 
 or about 1328, and brother of Thomas Holland, ancestor of the Earls 
 and Duke of Exeter of that family. This John married the heiress of 
 Sir Andrew Metsted, who was lord of Shipwash in 1314, and had mar- 
 ried the heiress of Bathe, of Weare. The heiresses of Holsworthy, Apple- 
 dore, and Thorne of Upcott, married also into this family. John Holland, 
 Esq., great grandson of the last-mentioned marriage, and the last heir male, 
 died in 1703 ; his sisters and co-heiresses married Coham, of Coham, 
 and Coham, of Bovacot. The Rev. William Holland Coham, descended 
 from the elder, is the representative of this ancient family. 
 
 Arms : — Az., a lion between 3 fleur-de-lis, Or. 
 
 Holway, of Watton, in Stoke Gabriel. — James Holway, Esq., the last 
 Vol. VI. c c of 
 
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 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 of this family, which had married the heiress of Fishacre, by the heiress 
 of Watton, died in IG96. The co-heiresses married Blackmore and 
 Windsor. 
 
 Arms : — Sable, 2 swords in saltier, Argent, the points downwards. 
 
 Huckmore, or Hockmore, of Bokeyt, in Little Hempston ; and Buck- 
 land Baron, in Comb-in-Teignhead. — The ancestor of this family married 
 the heiress of Bokeyt, about the latter end of the fourteenth century. The 
 third in descent married the heiress of Folkeray, of Buckland Baron. Sir 
 Gregory Hockmore, who appears to have been the last heir male of this 
 family, died in I67S ; his heiress married the father, or grandfather, of the 
 late Mr. Justice Gould, whose co-heiresses married Luttrell, and Richard, 
 Earl of Cavan. 
 
 Arms : Per chevron, Or, and S. ; in chief, 2 pair of sickles conjoined, 
 
 Argent, handles, Or ; in base a moor-cock, bill and wattles, G. 
 
 Crest : — A falcon, Proper, seizing on a moor-cock, as in the arms. 
 
 Hunt, of Exeter and Chudleigh, traced to about the year 1500 in the 
 Heralds' visitation of 1620, — appears not to have been extinct before the 
 year 1730, when the last burial of that name occurs in the Chudleigh re- 
 gister. 
 
 Arms : — Az., on a bend, between 2 water bougets, Or, 3 leopards' faces, 
 Gules. 
 
 Crest : — On a mount, V., a hound seiant, Or, collared, G., chained to a 
 pikestaff, S., the head per pale, Or, and Argent. 
 
 Kelland, of Painsford, in Ashprington, — married the heiress of So- 
 master. John Kelland, Esq. the last of this family, died in 1712 : his co- 
 heiresses married Stafford, Coffin, and Courtenay. 
 
 Arms: — Sab., a fesse Argent, in chief, 3 fleur-de-lis of the last. 
 
 Crest : — A demi-tiger salient, Or, maned, Argent. 
 
 Kirkham, originally of Ashcomb, (temp. Henry III.) afterwards, (by 
 marriage with the heiress of Dennis, temp. Edward I.) of Blagdon, in 
 Paignton. — The heiress of this family, into which the heiresses of Scob- 
 hull and Ferrers had married, brought Blagdon, in the seventeenth cen- 
 tury, to Sir George Blount, Bart, of Oxfordshire. There was a younger 
 
 branch 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cciii 
 
 branch of this family at Pinhoe, descended from a younger son of Sir 
 John Kirkham, who lived in the reign of Henry VII. William Kirkham, 
 Esq., of Pinhoe, died in 1659. I have not been able to trace them lower, 
 but it is probable, that Thomas Kirkham, Esq., who sold the manor of 
 Ringmore in 1759, was of this branch. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, 3 lions rampant, G., a border engrailed, Sable. 
 
 Crest : — A lion's head erased, Argt. 
 
 Knapman, of Throwleigh, — had been settled there for five generations 
 in 1620 : the heiress married North more. There were two younger 
 branches of this family settled at Chagford, and Drewe's Teignton. The 
 Chagford branch had married a co-heiress of Newcombe ; the other a co- 
 heiress of Cove, of St. Thomas. 
 
 Arms : — Or, on a cross, A., between 4 Cornish choughs, 5 blocks of 
 tin marked with the letter W. 
 
 Leach, of Crediton and Cadleigh. — This family, originally of an hum- 
 ble origin, flourished for a few generations, and became extinct by the 
 death of Sir Simon Leach, K. B., in 1708. 
 
 Arms : — Erm., on a chief indented, G., 3 ducal coronets, Or. 
 
 Leigh, of Borough, in Northam. — Descended from the Leighs of High 
 Leigh, in Cheshire ; married the heiress of Borough, and a co-heiress of 
 Butler, of Stone in Parkham ; extinct before the middle of the seventeenth 
 century. The co-heiresses married Basset and Berry. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a lion rampant, G., on a sinister canton of the second, 
 an escallop, Or. 
 
 Crest : — ■ A demi-lion rampant, Erminois, holding an escallop, Argent. 
 
 Leigh, of Ridge, in Bishop's Morchard, married the heiress of Ridge. 
 Ten descents are described in the visitation of 1620, when there was 
 male issue. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, 2 bars, Az., a bend compony, O. and G. 
 
 Leigh, of Leigh, near Tiverton and of East Allington. — The heiress 
 of the elder branch, which became extinct in the reign of Edward III., 
 married Hache. Four descents are described in the visitation of 1620 
 
 cc 2 as 
 
cciv DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 as of East Allington. John Leigh, the elder son of the family, settled 
 in London. 
 
 Arms : — Vert, a saltier between 4 eagles displayed, Or. 
 
 Lippincott, or Luppincott, of Wibbery, in Alverdiscot, originally Luf- 
 fencot, of LnfFencot. u — This family had married the heiress of Wibbery, 
 and co-heiresses of Gough and Elford. Harry Luppincot, Esq., the last 
 heir male x of the elder branch of this family, died in I779. 
 
 Sir Henry Lippincot, Bart., of Stoke in Gloucestershire, is descended 
 from a younger son of the Lippincots of Wibbery, whose descendants 
 were originally settled at Pynhill, in Sidbury, and afterwards for some 
 generations at Culmstock. 
 
 Arms : — Per fesse counterembattled, G. and S., 3 talbots statant, 
 gardant, Argent, two and one. 
 
 Lowman, of Whitstone. — Five descents are described in the visitation 
 of 1620, when there was male issue. 
 
 Arms: —Argent, 3 escutcheons, S., charged with as many gauntlets, Or. 
 
 Lutton, of Mowlish and Cofford, in Kenton, from the time of Henry V. 
 — There was male issue in 1620, but the family is supposed to have been 
 many years extinct. 
 
 Arms : — Vert, a spread eagle within an orle of trefoils, Or. 
 
 Luttrell, of Hartland. — A branch of the Luttrells of Somersetshire 
 settled at Hartland in consequence of having married a co-heiress of 
 Abbot, who died in 1609. A co-heiress of this branch of Luttrell married 
 Orchard. Some of the Luttrell family resided for some time at Santon in 
 Braunton. The heiress of the Luttrells of Somersetshire married, in 
 1716, Henry Fownes, Esq., of Netheway, in this county, who took the 
 name of Luttrell. 
 
 Arms : — Or, a bend between 6 martlets, S. 
 
 Crest : — A boar, Argent, bristled, Or, charged with a rose of the 
 second. 
 
 " So it appears from Sir William Pole ; but a pedigree in the collection of Sir Isaac Heard 
 derives the name from a place called Lippincot, in the parish of Sidbury. 
 
 * He was one of thirteen children, but his brothers and sisters all died without surviving issue. 
 
 Mapowder, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 ccv 
 
 Mapowder, of Holsworthy and Pyeworthy. — Five descents are de- 
 scribed in the visitation of 1620. Roger Mapowder, of this family, was 
 buried at Pyeworthy in 1722. 
 
 Arms : — Barruly G. and A., on a chief of the second a greyhound 
 current, Sable. 
 
 Martyn, of Exeter. — Descended from a younger branch of the baro- 
 nial family of Martyn, or Martin, of Dartington, which had been settled at 
 Athelhampston, in Dorsetshire. y William Martin, grandson of Richard, 
 second son of Sir William Martin, of Athelhampston, was recorder of 
 Exeter. This branch had settled at Oxton before 1620. 'William Clifford 
 Martin, Esq., the last heir male, died in 1769 : the heiress married the 
 father of the late Rev. John Swete, (formerly Tripe,) of Oxton. 
 
 Arms : — The same as the baronial family of Martin, with due difference. 
 
 Crest : — On the trunk of a tree, A., a bear seiant, Proper, chained of 
 the first, holding a mirror, Or. 
 
 Martin, of Plymouth, descended from Kent. — Captain John Martin, 
 of this family, went round the world with Sir Francis Drake in 1577 ' 
 his father was of Bridgetown, near Totnes : there was male issue of this 
 family in 1620. 
 
 Arms : — G., on a chevron, Or, 3 talbots passant, Sable. 
 
 Crest : — On a globe, Or, a falcon rising, Argent, gorged with a ducal 
 coronet. 
 
 Marwood, of West Marwood, near Barnstaple, from the time of 
 Henry III. till the reign of Elizabeth, when two of the co-heiresses married 
 Chichester and Wichalse. — About the beginning of the last century, James 
 Marwood, Esq., (but whether descended from a younger branch of the 
 Marwoods above mentioned I have not ascertained) purchased Sutton in 
 Widworthy. J. T. B. Marwood, Esq., the last of this family, (which had 
 removed into Somersetshire) died in 1811 : his sisters and co-heiresses 
 married Stevens z , Wolcot, and Elton. 
 
 y The Martins of Seaborough in Somersetshire, who married the heiress of Gould, and 
 those of Suffolk, of whom Sir Roger Martin was created a baronet in 1639, were also of this 
 branch. The elder line of the Athelhampston branch, became extinct in 1595: the co-heiresses 
 married Brune, Titchbourne, White, and Floyer. 
 
 '■ And afterwards Fortescue of Buckland Filleigh. Mrs. Fortescue is recently deceased. 
 
 Arms 
 
ccvi DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Arms of Marwood, of Marwood : — G., a chevron, Argent, between 3 
 goats' heads erased, Erm., attired, Or. 
 
 Crest: A o-oat's head erased, Argent, attired, Or, charged with a 
 
 chevron, G. 
 
 Maynard, of Sherford, in Brixton, and of Milton. — Six descents of this 
 family, into which a co-heiress of Heliar had married, are described in the 
 visitation of 1620, when there was male issue from both branches. Alexander 
 Maynard, Esq., a younger son of this family, resided at Tavistock, and 
 was father of Sir John Maynard, sergeant-at-law. One of the co-heiresses 
 of the sergeant's son married Sir Henry Hobart, Bart., ancestor of the 
 Earl of Buckinghamshire ; the other the Earl of Stamford. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, 3 sinister hands, Gules. 
 
 Michell, of Salcombe Regis, and of Sea-side House, in Branscombe. 
 
 Thomas Michell, Esq., the last heir male of this ancient family, which 
 
 had married the heiress of Rowe, died in 1785. Sir Isaac Heard, Garter 
 King of Arms, is the representative. z 
 
 Arms : Per chevron, G. and S., a chevron Argent, between 3 swans. 
 
 Molford, of Cadbury. — Roger Molford married the heiress of Cad- 
 burv : his grandson was living in 1620. 
 
 Arms : — S. a fesse, Erm., between 3 swans, Proper. 
 
 C res t ; A swan issuing out of a ducal coronet, the wings elevated. 
 
 Moore, of Moorehayes, in Collumpton, from the time of Henry III. 
 
 ■ Married heiresses of Treslake, Furneaux, and Botour, by the heiress of 
 
 Stawell ; and co-heiresses of Clivedon and Bonville. George Moore, Esq., 
 the last heir male of this ancient family, died in 17 11 ; the heiress mar- 
 ried Blackmore. 
 
 Arms : — Erm., on a chevron, Az., 3 cinquefoils, Or. 
 
 Crest : — A cubit arm couped, holding a sword. 
 
 More, alias Moring, or Mooringe, of Moretown, in Whitchurch. — 
 
 z His father, John Heard, of Bridgewater, Gent., married a daughter of Benjamin Michell, 
 Esq., who married the heiress of Rowe. 
 
 This 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccvii 
 
 This family, which continued here for many descents, appears to have 
 become extinct, or to have removed about the year 1640. 
 Arms : — Argent, 6 martlets, 3, 2, and 1. 
 
 Moulton, of Plympton. — Four descents of this family, which had 
 married heiresses of Quicke and Thomas, are described in the visita- 
 tion of 1620. The last of the name whom I find in the parish register 
 is Edward Moulton, buried in 1674. 
 
 Arms : — Per pale, Arg. and Erm., 3 bars, Gules. 
 
 Newcourt, of Pickwell, in Georgeham. — This family, which is traced 
 to the reign of Edward III., was originally of Halesworthy. A co-heiress 
 of Merrifield, and an heiress of Floyer, married into it. The heiress of 
 Newcombe, of Pickwell, married Chichester about the middle of the 
 seventeenth century. There was male issue, of younger branches, in 
 1620. 
 
 Arms : — Sable, a bend, Erm., between 2 eagles displayed, with 2 
 heads, Or. 
 
 Crest : — A demi-griffin issuant, Gules, guttee, Or, beaked of the second. 
 
 Newte, of Tiverton, traced to the time of Queen Elizabeth. — Thomas 
 Newte, Esq., captain of an East Indiaman, who died in 1806, was the 
 last heir male. His aunts married Holwell and Pitman. 
 
 Arms : — G., a chevron, Argent, between 3 human hearts, transfixed 
 with so many swords. 
 
 Northleigh, of Northleigh, in Inwardleigh. — Eleven descents of this 
 ancient family are described in the visitation of 1620. The heiress of 
 1/ Chapman married into this family. A younger branch, which afterwards 
 married a co-heiress of Tothill, of Peamore, had settled at Matford, in 
 Alphington, in the early part of the seventeenth century. Stephen North- 
 leigh, Esq., the last of this branch, married a co-heiress of Davie, and 
 died in 1713. The heiress of Northleigh married Hippisley Coxe, of 
 Stone Easton. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a chevron, S., between 3 roses. 
 
 Nutcombe, of Nutcombe. — This family, which married a co-heiress of 
 Foster, is traced to the reign of Richard II. Richard Nutcombe, Esq., 
 
 the 
 
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 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 the last heir male, died in 1736. The Rev. Nutcombe Quicke, late 
 chancellor of the diocese, took the name of Nutcombe by act of parlia- 
 ment in 1792, and died in 1809, without male issue. 
 
 Orchard, of Hartland-abbey, married a co-heiress of Luttrell. — The 
 sisters and co-heiresses of the late Paul Orchard, Esq., who died in 1812, 
 married Morrison and Buck. 
 
 Arms of Orchard : — Az., a fesse, Argent, between 3 pears, Or. 
 
 Crest : — A dexter arm couped at the elbow issuing from a mural 
 crown, habited, Az., adorned with 3 fleur-de-lis, Or, 1 and 2, the cuff 
 turned up, Erm., holding in the hand, Proper, a pear as in the field. 
 
 Oxenham, of Oxenham, in South Tawton, from a very early period. — 
 Wlliam Long Oxenham, Esq., the last heir male of this family, died in 
 1814 : the heiress married Arthur Acland, Esq., father of Sir John Palmer 
 Acland, Bart. 
 
 Arms : — G., a fesse between 3 crescents, Or. 
 
 Peter, of Bowhay, in Exminster. — This family was descended from 
 William, the younger son of John Petre % of Tor Newton, who was 
 father of Sir William Petre, ancestor of the lords Petre. John Peter, the 
 only son of the said William, who had issue, was M.P. for Exeter in the 
 reign of Philip and Mary. His elder son died without issue. Otho, the 
 second, was ancestor of the Peters of Bowhay. Thomas, the third, 
 settled in Cornwall, and was ancestor of Henry Peter, Esq., now of 
 Harlyn. John Peter, the last of the Bowhay branch, died in 1643 : 
 his only daughter and heir married Sir Allen Apsley, ancestor of Earl 
 Bathurst. 
 
 Arms : — The same as those of Lord Petre, with due difference. 
 
 Pincombe, or Pyncomb, of South Molton, and of Welsbear. — Pyn- 
 comb of Welsbear became extinct in I672 ; one of the co-heiresses 
 married Tucker. Mrs. Gertrude Pyncombe, the last of this branch, who 
 died unmarried about 1730, left a considerable estate for the augmentation 
 of poor benefices, the endowment of schools, and other charitable pur- 
 
 1 The name is spelt both ways, but, by Lord Petre's family, it has always been spelt 
 Petre. 
 
 poses. 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccix 
 
 poses. Mr. William Pyncombe, the last of the South Molton branch, 
 died in 1691. 
 
 Arms : — Per Pale, G. and Az., three helmets, Argent. 
 
 Crest : — A cubit arm issuing, vested, V., trimmed and gloved, Or, 
 holding a spear, Proper, the head, Argent. 
 
 Pointington, or Poyntingdon, of Pennicot, in Shobrooke, from the 
 reign of Edward III. till after the middle of the seventeenth century. — Mr. 
 T. Poyntingdon, who seems to have been the last of this family, died in 
 1665. The co-heiresses of Hengscott, Haye, and Prust, married into this 
 family. 
 
 Arms, borne by Pointington in 1620: — Argent, a bend, G., between 
 6 fleur-de-lis, Vert. 
 
 Pollexfen, of Kitley. — Four descents of this family are described in 
 the visitation of 1620. The heiress of Strechley, of Madcombe, married 
 into this family. Edmund Pollexfen, Esq., the last heir male, died in 1710. 
 The heiress married Bastard. 
 
 Arms : — Quarterly, Argent and Az., in the first and fourth quarter, a 
 lion rampant, Gules. 
 
 Preston, of Up-Ottery. — This family came from Lancashire : there 
 was male issue in 1620. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, 2 bars, G., on a canton of the second, a cinquefoil of 
 the first. 
 
 There was another family of the same name, (with male issue,) described 
 in the visitation as of Up-Ottery also, that came from Somersetshire. 
 Amias Preston, brother of John, then the representative, is called an egre- 
 gious navigator. Westcote, speaking of these Prestons, calls them " the 
 generous family of Preston, of whom was, not long since, Captain Preston." 
 The arms of this family are not described. 
 
 Prestwood, of Boterford, in North Huish, — purchased in the reign of 
 Queen Elizabeth. I have not been able to ascertain whether this family is 
 extinct, or removed. Thomas Prestwood, Esq., was buried at North 
 Huish, in 1735 ; the estate was sold about the year 17'AO, and has since 
 passed through several hands. 
 
 Vol. VI. d d Arms : 
 
 
ccx DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Arms : — Sab., a lion rampant between 2 flaunches, Or. 
 Crest : — A demi-griffin issuing, Sab., beak Argent, wings, Or, charged 
 with ogresses. 
 
 Prous, — an ancient, numerous, and widely-spreading family; originally 
 of Gidley Castle, as early as the reign of Henry II. The heiress of the 
 elder branch married Mules, in the reign of Edward II. or III. A younger 
 branch, into which the heiresses of Wadecot, Crewse, Norton, and Orchard, 
 of Comb Martin, had married, was of Way, in Chagford, for many gener- 
 ations. John Prowz, Esq., (so the name is spelt on his monument,) the last 
 of this branch, died in 1664. 
 
 There were younger branches also at Withecomb, Barnstaple, Tiverton, 
 and Exeter, all of which are supposed to be extinct. The heiress of White, 
 and a co-heiress of Staplehill, married into the Tiverton branch. It is 
 probable, that the Prowzes, of Crediton, were of this branch ; we find me- 
 morials in that church for Francis Prowze, Esq., 1696 ; and Mrs. Honor 
 Prowze, " the last of a numerous family," 1773. 
 
 Arms : — Sable, 3 lions rampant, Argent. The Prowzes, of Exeter, bore 
 the field Ermines. 
 
 Prye, of Horwell, in Colebrook. — Five descents of this family, now sup- 
 posed to be extinct, are described in the visitation of 1620. 
 Arms : — Erm., a chevron, S., a chief Azure, fretty, Or. 
 
 Radford, of Cheinstone, in Chawleigh. — Ambrose Radford, the last of 
 this family, which had been settled here for many generations, died in 1703. 
 Arms : — Sable, 3 Lampagoes, or mantigers, passant in pale, Argent. 
 
 Randall, of Kentisbury, — came out of Berkshire ; married the co- 
 heiress of Wolfe, of Kentisbury. The heiress of this family married Jones, 
 and died in 1711. 
 
 Arms : — Sable, 3 demi-lions rampant, erased, without tails, Argent. 
 
 Crest : — On a wreath, a staff couped and raguly, lying fesse ways, 
 Vert, thereon a wolf passant, Az., collared, Or. 
 
 Reede, of Wembury. — Four descents are described in the visitation of 
 1620, when there was male issue. 
 
 Arms : — G., on a bend nebulee. Arg., 3 shovelers, Sab., membered of 
 
 the field. 
 
 Reynell, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccxi 
 
 Reynell, of Malston, in Sherford, and of East Ogwell. — This ancient 
 family settled at Trumpington, in Cambridgeshire, in the reign of Edw. I. 
 Walter Reynell, having married the heiress of Trumpington. His grandson 
 of the same name, married the heiress of Stighull, of Malston, by one of the 
 co-heiresses of Malston. Walter, son of this marriage, married the heiress 
 of Francis, of Cambridgeshire. Walter, the third in descent from the heiress 
 of Francis, left two sons : Robert, the elder, had an only son, John, who 
 died without issue in 1478 ; Walter, the second son, had two sons, John, 
 the elder, ancestor of the Reynells, of East Ogwell ; and Thomas, ancestor 
 of the Reynells, of Malston. Richard Reynell, son of John, had five sons, 
 four of whom were knights. Richard Reynell, Esq., the great grandson of 
 Sir Thomas Reynell, the elder of these sons, died without issue, in 1735, 
 and by his death the elder branch became extinct : his half sisters married 
 Whitrow, Copleston, and Morice ; and the heiress of Whitrow married Jo- 
 seph Taylor, Esq., ancestor of Pierce Joseph Taylor, Esq., of East Ogwell. 
 
 Sir Richard Reynell, Knight, the next brother of Sir Thomas Reynell, 
 who lived in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, was of Ford, near Newton 
 Abbot ; he left an only daughter and heir, who married Sir William Waller, 
 the parliamentary general, whose heiress married Sir William Courtenay. 
 Thomas, the second son of Sir Thomas Reynell, married the heiress of 
 Spiller, of Sheperton, Middlesex, was afterwards knighted, and took the 
 name of Spiller, which his descendants some time bore : the present repre- 
 sentative of this branch is Thomas Reynell, Esq., of Leatherhead. 
 
 Richard Reynell, elder son of Sir Thomas, had a younger son, Richard, 
 who was in the law, and became Chief Justice of the King's Bench, in 
 Ireland. He was created a baronet of the kingdom of Ireland, and was 
 ancestor of Sir Richard Reynell, Bart, now residing in America. 
 
 Thomas, to whom Malston was given, as before mentioned, married the 
 heiress of Matthewes, by the heiress of Rous : his posterity continued in the 
 male line at Malston, till the early part of the last century. Mr. Giles 
 Reynell, who died in 1735, a few years after the sale of Malston, is sup- 
 posed to have been the last of this branch of the family. A younger 
 branch of the Malston Reynells was some time of Creedy Wiger, in Upton 
 Helion, in consequence of a marriage with a co-heiress of Periam. The 
 heiress of these Reynells married into the elder branch. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, masonry and a chief indented, Sable. 
 
 Crest : — A fox passant, Sable. The family appear also to have borne, 
 formerly, two foxes as supporters. 
 
 d d 2 Risdon, 
 
ccxii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Risdon, of Bableigh in Parkham, and of Winscot. — This family was 
 originally from Risdon in Gloucestershire : they settled at Bableigh in the 
 reign of Edward I. The heiresses of Bremell and Bromescombe, and a 
 co-heiress of Viell, married into this family. In consequence of the last- 
 mentioned marriage, a younger branch settled at Vielston, in Buckland 
 Brewer, married a co-heiress of Abbot of Hartland, and was not extinct 
 in 1630. Giles Risdon, Esq., of Bableigh, had a son, baptized at Park- 
 ham, in 1732. The family do not appear to have been buried at Parkham 
 after 1697. The last Risdon of Bableigh had a brother, a tanner at 
 Torrington, whose son, if living, would be the representative of the 
 family, but he is supposed to have died some years ago in the West 
 Indies : a daughter of the last Giles Risdon married the father of Mr. 
 Samuel Turner, now of Bideford. 
 
 Tristram Risdon, the antiquary, settled at Winscot, in the parish of 
 St. Giles, which he possessed by bequest. William Risdon, Esq., the last 
 of this branch, died in 1701 ; the heiress married Hearle, and Sir Stafford 
 Northcote, Bart., is now its representative. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, 3 bird-bolts, Sable. 
 
 Crest : — An elephant's head erased, Erminois. 
 
 Rogers, of Pilton. — This family, which had been settled at Pilton 
 about seven generations, became extinct, in the male line, in 179 1. The 
 co-heiresses married Griffiths and Studdy. A co-heiress of Warren mar- 
 ried into this family. 
 
 Arms : — Arg., a chevron between 3 stags current, G., (as on monu- 
 ments at Pilton). 
 
 Roope, of Horsewell, in South Milton. — The last of this family, of 
 whom three descents are described in the visitation of 1620, was William 
 Roope, Esq., buried at South Milton in I76O : the heiress married Ilbert. 
 A co-heiress of Irish, and the heiress of Ford, married into this family. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a lion rampant, G., within an orle of pheons, Azure. 
 
 Rous, of Modbury. — Sir Ralph Rous resided at Little Modbury in 
 the reign of Henry III. ; the heiress of this branch, after five descents, 
 married Dymock. A younger branch settled at Edmerston in Modbury, 
 in consequence of a marriage with the heiress of Edmerston : after residing 
 there for several descents, this branch removed to Halton in Cornwall, 
 where Francis Rous, provost of Eton, and one of Cromwell's lords, was 
 
 born. 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccxiii 
 
 born. The Rev. Richard Rous, late rector of St. George's Clist, who died 
 in 1810, was representative of the provost's brother : his daughter and 
 heiress married Ellicombe. The Rev. William Rous Ellicombe is the 
 representative of this branch. 
 
 Arms of Rous : — Or, an eagle displaced, Azure. 
 
 Rowe, of Kingston in Staverton, afterwards of Bearton, in Broad 
 Hempston, said to have been descended from a Kentish family. — Sir William 
 Pole mentions William Rowe, Esq., among " the persons of very good 
 rank formerly residing in Totnes." His son John, who was sergeant-at-law 
 in the reign of Henry VIIL, married the heiress of Barnhouse of Kings- 
 ton : the descendant of the sergeant, the late John Rowe, Esq., took 
 the name of Hussey, on succeeding to the estates of Hussey of Marnhull, 
 in Dorsetshire. Bearton is now a farm-house belonging to his widow. 
 Kingston has passed into other hands. His son of the same name is the 
 representative of the family. 
 
 Arms : . — Argent, a chevron, Az., between 3 trefoils, Gules. 
 
 Crest : — A stag's head issuant, Gules, attired, Or. 
 
 Rowsewell, of Ford Abbey, of a Somersetshire family. — Sir Henry 
 Rowseweli sold it to Prideaux about the middle of the seventeenth century. 
 Arms : — Per pale, G. and Az., a lion rampant, Argent. 
 Crest : — A lion's head erased, Argent. 
 
 Sainthill, of Bradninch. — Four descents only of this family are de- 
 scribed in the visitation of 1620, but it appears that they were of con- 
 siderable antiquity. Sir Walter de Sweynthill, or St. Hill, was one of the 
 knights of the shire in 1327, and in several ensuing parliaments. A co- 
 heiress of Browne 3 , and the heiress of Parker, of Zeal Monachorum, married 
 into this family. Samuel Sainthill, Esq., the last heir male, died in 1708. 
 His only sister married Thomas Yard, Esq., of Treasurer's Bere, whose son 
 took the name of Sainthill, by act of parliament. The name became again 
 extinct by the death of Samuel Sainthill, Esq., (great grandson of the 
 heiress,) in 1798 : his sister, and now only surviving heiress, married Rear 
 Admiral Thomas Pearse, who resides occasionally at Bradninch house. 
 There was a family of this name branched off, probably at an early period, 
 
 a There was no issue by this marriage. 
 
 from 
 
ccxiv DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 from the Bradninch Sainthills, who resided for several generations at Top- 
 sham. Richard Sainthill, Esq., now residing in Ireland, near Cork, is the 
 representative of this family. 
 
 Arms : — Or, on a fesse engrailed, Az., between 3 leopards' faces, G., 
 as many bezants, each charged with a fleur-de-lis of the second ; in chief 
 on a pile, Az., 3 fleur-de-lis of the first. 
 
 Crest : — Within a ducal coronet 2 dragons' heads erased combatant, 
 Vert. 
 
 Arms of Pearse : — G., a bend embattled, between 2 unicorns' heads 
 erased, Or. 
 
 Crest : — A wyvern, G., the wings displayed, Argent. 
 
 St. Albyn, of Paracombe. — This was, in the reign of Edward I., and 
 for many generations, a seat of the St. Albyn family, and from hence 
 they removed to Allfoxton, in Somersetshire, now the seat of their repre- 
 sentative, Lawrence St. Albyn, Esq., who still possesses Paracombe, but 
 it has not been for many generations a residence of the family. 
 
 Arms : — Erm., on a bend, Sable, 3 bezants. 
 
 Crest: — A wolf seiant, Erm., collared, lined, and ringed, Or. 
 
 Saint Leger, of Annery, and of Canonleigh, in Burlescombe. — James 
 St. Leger, the ancestor of this family, married a co-heiress of Thomas 
 Boteler, Earl of Ormond : his descendant, Sir John St. Leger, sold 
 Annery before 1600 to his son-in-law, Arscott ; John St. Leger, and 
 Dudley, the two sons of Sir John, died without issue : the elder of the co- 
 heiresses married Grenville ; the second Stucley, of Afton, and the youngest 
 Tremayne, and afterwards Arscott. 
 
 Arms : — Az., fretty, A., a canton, Or. 
 
 Crest : — A falcon issuing from a plume of ostrich feathers, Argent. 
 
 John St. Leger, Esq., ancestor of Viscount Doneraile, became possessed 
 of Eggesford, in this county, by marrying a daughter of Chichester, Earl 
 of Donegal. 
 
 Salusbury, of Barnstaple. — Eive descents of this family are described 
 in the visitation of 1620. Mr. Richard Salusbury, who appears to have 
 been the last heir male, died in 1701. 
 
 Arms : — G., a lion rampant, Or, between 3 crescents, Argent. 
 
 SAMrFORD, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccxv 
 
 Sampford, or Sandford, of Collumpton, Halberton, and Exeter. — 
 There was male issue of this family in 1620. 
 Arms : — A., a chevron between 3 martlets, Sable. 
 
 Secomb. — See Thorne. 
 
 Shapcott, of Shapcott, in the parish of Knoweston. — The heiress of 
 Windegate married into this family, of which ten descents are described 
 in the visitation of 1620. The ancient seat of the family was sold soon 
 after 1700 by Mr. Shapcott, a barrister at law, who afterwards resided at 
 Exeter. 
 
 Arms : — Sable, a chevron, Or, between 3 dove-cotes, Argent. 
 
 Crest : — A goat's head erased. 
 
 Shapleigh, of Newcourt in Topsham, before of Dartmouth. — Four 
 descents of this family are described in the visitation of 1620. The late 
 John Shapleigh, Esq., barrister-at-law, of the Temple, was represent- 
 ative of this family, and left male issue. 
 
 Arms : — V., a chevron, A., between 3 escallops, Or. 
 
 Crest : — A sinister cubit arm couped, Proper, vested, G., cuffed, Arg., 
 the hand holding a chaplet, Gules. 
 
 Sherman, of Knighteston in Ottery, — purchased in the reign of Henry 
 VIII. : the heiress, after a few descents, married 'Copleston. 
 
 Arms : — Or, A lion rampant, Sab., between 3 holly-leaves, Proper. 
 
 Shortridge, of Shortridge, in Tiverton, married the heiress of Bowden 
 of Witheridge. — Richard Shortridge, Esq., the last heir male of this 
 family, being then resident at Thelbridge, died in 1763. The co-heiresses b 
 married Perryman, Treby, Pearce, and Martyn. I find no arms ascribed 
 to this family. 
 
 Skerit, of Buckland Monachorum, afterwards of Peter Tavy. — There 
 was male issue from two branches in 1620. 
 
 Arms : — Or, on a chief indented, S., 3 plates, each charged with a 
 cross-crosslet, G. 
 
 b Aunts of Richard. 
 
 Skinner, 
 
ccxvi DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Skinner, of Cowley in Brampford Speke. — Four descents are de- 
 scribed in the visitation of 1620, when there was male issue. The heir- 
 esses of Cornish and Maurice married into this family. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a chief, Az., semee de lis, Or. 
 
 Crest : — Out of a ducal coronet a demi-talbot issuing, Argent, collar 
 and leash, G. 
 
 Sloly, of Sloly, in Fremington, married the heiress of Fremington. — 
 The heiress of the representative of this ancient family, who died in 1666, 
 married Hawkins. It is probable that there were younger branches. 
 John Sloly, who died in 1703, was a benefactor to the parish of High 
 Bray : the name still remains among the yeomanry in the neighbourhood 
 of Barnstaple. 
 
 Arms : — G., a chevron between 3 bats, Or. 
 
 Snelling, of Chaddlewood, in Plympton St. Mary, married an heiress 
 of Elford. — The last heir male of this family died in 1653 : the heiress 
 married Martyn, one of whose co-heiresses married Sparke of Plymouth. 
 
 Arms : — G., 3 griffins' heads erased, A., a chief indented, Ermine. 
 
 Somaster, of Widecombe in Stokenham. Eight descents of this family 
 are described in the visitation of 1620. The co-heiresses of the elder 
 branch married Trefry and Kent. A younger brother, who was Arch- 
 deacon of Cornwall, continued the male line. This branch married a co- 
 heiress of Arundell of Trerice, and was of Painsford in Ashsprington, 
 (which had been in the family from the time of Henry VII.) in 1620. 
 John Somaster, Esq., the last of this branch, died in 1681 : the heiress 
 married Kelland. The Rev. John Somaster, descended from a younger 
 son, died in 1769. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a castle triple-towered within an orle of fleur-de-lis, 
 Sable. 
 
 Crest : — A portcullis, Argent. 
 
 Sparke, of Plymouth, descended from a Cheshire family, married the 
 heiress of Cock. — The father of the late Elford Sparke, Esq., married one 
 of the co-heiresses of Martyn of Chaddlewood. Elford Sparke, Esq., by 
 whose death the male line became extinct, in 1789, left three sisters, co- 
 heiresses, married to Eveleigh, Langworthy, and Cookesley. 
 
 Arms : 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccxvii 
 
 Arms : — Cheeky, Or and V., a bend, Ermine. 
 
 Crest : — Out of a ducal coronet, Or, a demi-panther rampant gardant, 
 Argent, spotted with various colours ; out of his mouth and ears fire 
 issuing, Proper. 
 
 Speccot, of Merton. — The antient family of Fitz-Bernard, settling at 
 Speccot, took that name in the reign of Henry II. Co-heiresses of 
 Belston, Fumeaux, and Scobhull, and the heiress of Boys, married into 
 this family. Charles Speccot, Esq., the last heir male, died about the 
 latter part of the reign of Charles II. ; his sisters and co-heiresses married 
 Hals, Hele, and Ileynell. 
 
 In 1620, there were younger branches of this family at Clawton and 
 Thorverton. 
 
 Arms : — Or, on a bend, G., 3 milrinds, Argent. 
 
 Speke, or Espeke. — This ancient family was of Brampfbrd Speke from 
 nearly the time of the Conquest. Heywood, in Wemworthy, was also a 
 seat of the Spekes, who removed into Somersetshire about the middle of 
 the fifteenth century, in consequence of a marriage with the heiress of Beau- 
 champ of White Lackington. The heiresses of Gervais, Keynes, and 
 Winard, married also into this family. Frederick Lord North, afterwards 
 Earl of Guildford, married the heiress of Speke. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, 2 bars, Az., over all an eagle displayed with two 
 heads, Or. 
 
 Spicer, of Weare, in Topsham. — An ancestor of this ancient family 
 was mayor of Exeter in 1273 : John Spicer, probably the grandson, was 
 several times mayor in the reign of Edward III. This spirited citizen, 
 with great alertness, fitted out three ships for the French expedition in 
 1358, and the next year had the honour, whilst mayor, of entertaining the 
 Black Prince, and his prisoner, John King of France. c William Francis 
 Spicer, the representative of this family, sold Weare in or about 1 801, 
 and removed .out of Devonshire. 
 
 Arms : — Sable, a chevron, Erminois, between 3 castles triple-towered, 
 Or. The ancient arms of the family were per pale G. and S., 3 castles, 
 A., in bend, cottised, Erm., a border engrailed of the last. 
 
 c Account of the Spicer family annexed to the edition of Risdon's Survey, 1711. 
 
 Vol. VI. e e Crest : 
 
ccxviii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Crest : — Out of a mural coronet a dexter cubit arm, the hand in a 
 gauntlet holding a bomb, fired, Proper. 
 
 Stucley, or Stuckley, of Affeton, or Afton, in West Worlington, 
 married the heiress of Afl'eton and the heiress of Wood. William Dennis 
 Stucley, Esq., the representative of this family, died in 1755. Thomas Stuc- 
 ley, a younger brother, in 1758. The heiress of Stucley married Buck. 
 
 Arms : — Az., 3 pears pendant, Or. 
 
 Crest : — A demi-lion rampant, holding a battle-axe. 
 
 Sture, of Marridge, in Ugborough. — Five descents are described in 
 the visitation of 1620 as of Huish. Edward Sture, Esq., sold Marridge 
 in 1696. 
 
 Arms of Sture of Devonshire, as given by Sir William Pole : — Or, a 
 mullet, Sable, as given by Edmondson, A., a bend, Sab., over all a label 
 of 3 points, G. These are given as the arms of Sture of Huish. The 
 arms are not described in the visitation of 1620. 
 
 Taylor, of Marridge. — After the death of Edward Taylor, Esq., 
 of Bath, representative of this family, which resided for a few descents at 
 Marridge, that estate devolved to the daughter of the late Mr. George 
 Taylor, of Totnes, now the heiress of the family. 
 
 Arms borne by Taylor of Marridge : — Or, a chevron, S., between 2 
 lions passant in chief) and an annulet in base of the second. d 
 
 Crest : — An unicorn's head erased, Or, ducally crowned, gorged, 
 and armed, Azure. 
 
 Thorne, of Thorne in Holsworthy, and of Upcot in Shipwash. — This 
 family, which is traced to the time of King John, married the heiress of 
 Upcot. The heiress of the elder branch married Holland of Weare in 
 the reign of James I. There were several younger sons at the time of 
 the visitation in 1620. The heiress of a younger branch which was of 
 Buckland Filleigh, married Risdon of Shipwash. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a fesse, G., between 3 lions rampant, Sable. 
 
 Crest : — A lion rampant. Sable. 
 
 a These are the arms (with the difference of the field) described by Edmondson, as those of 
 Taylor of Cambridgeshire. 
 
 There 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccxix 
 
 There was another younger branch of Thore, which married the 
 heiress of Secomb % and was called Secomb, alias Thorne. The heiresses 
 of Hearle, Husband, and Launce, married also into this branch, which 
 was some time of North Petherwin. The representative of this branch, 
 in 1788, was the Rev. Charles Secomb, then residing at Calcutta. 
 
 This branch bore the same arms, with a border engrailed. 
 
 Tothill, of Exeter and Peamore, married the heiress of Sparke of 
 Sowton ; the co-heiresses married Northleigh and a younger branch of 
 Tothill. 
 
 Arms : — Az., on a bend, Argent, cottised, Or, a lion passant gardant, 
 S., langued and armed, G., in chief a label of 3 points, with a crescent for 
 difference. 
 
 Crest: — On a mount, V., a Cornish chough, Proper, in its beak a 
 branch of olive, fructed, Or. 
 
 Trelawney, of Ham near Plymouth. — A younger branch of the Tre- 
 lawneys of Cornwall resided here for nearly two centuries : Samuel Pol- 
 lexfen Trelawney, Esq., the last of this branch, died in 1771 : Iris heiress 
 married George Collins, Esq., now of Ham. 
 
 Arms : — The same as Trelawney, baronet, with due difference. 
 
 Trepe. — Five descents of this family are described, in the visitation of 
 1620, as having lived in the parish of Crediton since the reign of Edward IV. 
 Richard Trepe, then living, had no male issue ; his daughters and co-heir- 
 esses were married to Symonds and Ridge of Ridge. The co-heiresses of 
 Highayne and Gutton, and the heiress of Willes, had married into this 
 family. The arms are not described. 
 
 Trist, of Bowden. — The Rev. Browse Trist, the representative of 
 this family, died in 1791 : his co-heiresses married Haussollier, who, in 
 1799, took the name of Trist, but has no residence in the county, and 
 Stackhouse. A younger son of the Trist family went to Virginia, and 
 had male issue in 1799. 
 
 e Secomb, in the parish of German's Week, gave name to a family of yeomanry, still 
 existing. 
 
 e e 2 Arms : 
 
ccxx DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Arms : — Az., a quatrefoil pierced within an orle of etoiles, Or. 
 Crest : — On a mount, Vert, an osprey, Proper, in the beak a fish, 
 Argent. 
 
 Tristram, of Duvall, purchased in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 
 John Tristram, Esq., the last of this family, died in 1722. Stucley 
 Tristram Lucas, Esq., is the present representative. John Tristram, Esq., 
 of Bampton, who had married a sister and co-heiress of Ley, Earl of 
 Marlborough, left an only daughter and heir, who married Dr. Palmer, 
 warden of All Souls, and afterwards Dr. Bathurst, President of Trinity 
 College, Oxford. This lady, who died in 1690, had an only daughter, 
 married to George Baynard, Esq. 
 
 Arms : — Per chevron embattled, S. and A., 3 bucks' heads caboshed 
 counter changed. 
 
 Crest : — A buck's head issuing, Proper, attired, Arg., in the mouth a 
 trefoil, A., leaved, V. 
 
 Upton, of Postlinch, or Puslinch, in Newton Ferrers. — John Upton ', 
 who settled at Postlinch, married the heiress of Mohun * of Pustlinch. 
 William Upton, Esq., the last of this branch, died in 1709. The heiress 
 married Yonge. 
 
 A younger branch settled at Lupton in Brixham, in consequence of a 
 marriage with the heiress of Penniles, in the reign of Henry VI. John 
 Upton, Esq., the representative of this branch, was of Ingmore-hall, in the 
 county of York, about the middle of the last century. 
 
 Arms : — Sable, a cross sarcely, Argent. 
 
 Crest : — On a ducal coronet a horse, Sable, caparisoned, Or. 
 
 Velley, of Hartland. — Thomas Velley, Esq., the last heir male of 
 this family, died in 1780 : the co-heiresses married Hamlyn and Ley. 
 Arms, as in Hartland church : — Az., a chevron between 3 castles, Or. 
 
 Venner, of Hundescot, in Chittlehampton, and of Knolle. — Four 
 descents of this family are described in the visitation of 1620 ; the last 
 
 ' He was third son of Thomas Upton of Trelask, in Cornwall, by the heiress of Trelawney : 
 the father of Thomas married a co-heiress of Mules, and the grandfather the heiress of 
 Carnother. 
 
 1 By the heiress of Blerick, who married the heiress of Fleming. 
 
 heir 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccxxi 
 
 heir male appears to have been Peregrine Venner, Esq., who died in 1698. 
 The heiress of William Venner, Esq., who died in 1690, married Love- 
 ring. 
 
 Arms : — G., 3 bendlets, Or, a chief per fesse, Erm. and Argent. 
 
 Vowell, alias Hoker, of Exeter, married the heiress of Drewell : not 
 extinct in 1675. 
 
 Arms : — Or, a fesse, Vaire, between 2 lions passant gardant, S. 
 Crest : — A hind, Or, in his month a flower, Argent, leaves, Or. 
 
 Wadham, originally of Wadham, in the parish of Knoweston, afterwards 
 removed (temp. Edw. III.) to Edge, in the parish of Branscombe, where 
 they resided for eight descents before they removed into Somersetshire. 
 This family, which had married the co-heiresses of Chiseldon, Popham, 
 and Tregarthen, became extinct by the death of Nicholas Wadham, Esq., 
 the founder of Wadham College, in 1609- The co-heiresses of Wadham 
 married Strangways ; Martin, one of whose co-heiresses married Latton ; 
 and Wyndham. " 
 
 A branch of this family settled at Catherston, in Dorsetshire, having 
 married the heiress of Payne, of that place : the son married a co-heiress 
 of Tyll, of Tylhouse, in Devon. It appears that there were several male 
 descendants of this branch, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 Arms : — G. a chevron between 3 roses, Argent. 
 
 Crest : — A stag's head erased, Or, on each side a rose-branch, Proper, 
 the roses, A, and G. 
 
 Wakeman, of Exeter, descended from a brother of the last abbot and 
 first bishop of Gloucester : not extinct in 1620. 
 
 Arms : — A., on a cross, Sab., a cloud, Proper, surrounded by the rays 
 of the sun, on the centre of the cloud a coronet, Or. 
 
 Crest : — A cock, Or, combed, G., legged, Az., out of his mouth a label 
 on which evigila qui dormis. 
 
 Walker, of Exeter, from about the middle of the sixteenth century; 
 married a co-heiress of Tothill : the Rev. Robert Walker, vicar of St. 
 Winnow, in Cornwall, is the representative of this family. 
 
 Arms : — Az., a griffin segreant, A., a border engrailed, Ermine. 
 
 h And afterwards Farringdon. 
 
 Walker, 
 
ccxxii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Walker, of Ashbury, descended from Cambridgeshire. The heiress of 
 Ferine married into this family, whose heiress was married, in 1685, to 
 the ancestor of John Morth Woolcombe, Esq., of Ashbury. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, guttee de sang ; 2 swords in saltier, G., the points 
 upwards ; over all a lion rampant, Sable. 
 
 Waltham, of Brenton in Exminster, married a co-heiress of Bowhay, 
 and the heiress of Stephens, of Exminster. John Waltham, the repre- 
 sentative of this family in 1620, had two daughters : his brother had 
 several sons. Richard Waltham, Esq., recorder of Exeter, was of this 
 family. 
 
 Arms : — Sab., a chevron engrailed between 3 suns, Argent. 
 
 Weare, or Were, of Halberton and Honiton Clist. — The only daughter 
 of Colonel Were, the parliamentary officer, married Rose of Wotton 
 Fitzpaine. Mr. Thomas Weare, of Honiton Clist, who left sundry bene- 
 factions for charitable uses, died in 1691. J. Were Clark, Esq., of Bridwell, 
 is descended from the Weres of Halberton. 
 
 Arms: — Arg., on a bend, Vert., between 6 cross-crosslets fitchee, G., 
 3 crosiers, Or. 
 
 Welsh, of Barnstaple and Alverdiscott. — Five descents of this family 
 are described in the visitation of 1620. It appears to have been extinct 
 about the middle of that century. 
 
 Arms : — Az., 6 mullets, 3, 2, and 1, Or. 
 
 Westcote, originally of Westcote in Marwood. — Thomas Westcote, the 
 representative of this family, married the heiress of Lyttelton, of Frankley, 
 in Worcestershire, and removed into that county : he was father of the 
 celebrated Judge Littleton, or Lyttelton, ancestor of the noble family of 
 Lyttelton. A younger branch, of which was Thomas Westcote, the anti- 
 quary, settled at Raddon, in Shobrooke, in the reign of Henry VIII. The 
 co-heiresses of Walter, of Combe, and Roberts, of Comb Martin, married 
 into this branch. Philip Westcote, Esq., of Raddon, died in 1647. 
 Thomas, his son, dissipated his fortune. I have not been able to ascertain 
 any thing farther of this branch. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a chevron between 3 escallops, S. 
 
 Whiddon, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccxxiii 
 
 Whiddon, of" Chagford. — Eight descents of this family are described 
 in the visitation of 1620. One of the ancestors married the heiress of 
 Wray. Sir John Whiddon, the Judge, married a co-heiress of Shilston, by 
 a co-heiress of Upcott. John Whiddon, Gent., who appears to have been 
 the last of this family, was buried at Chagford in I76I. 
 
 Arms : — A chevron between 3 spears' heads, G. 
 
 Crest : — On a ducal coronet, Or, a swan seiant, S., beaked, Or. 
 
 Wichalse, or Witchalse, of Chudleigh, Barnstaple, Lincombe, in Ilfra- 
 combe, and of Linton. — This family continued about six or seven de- 
 scents in Devonshire. A co-heiress of Cottwell, and the heiress of Welsh, 
 of Pilton, married into this family : their estates were sold about the be- 
 ginning of the last century. 
 
 Anns : — Per fesse, A. and S., 6 crescents in pale, counter-changed. 
 
 Crest : — An antelope's head, erased, party per pale, A. and S., the neck 
 charged with 2 crescents in fesse counter-changed ; in the mouth a branch 
 of laurel, Proper. 
 
 Williams, of Stowford, or Stafford, in Harford, married the heiresses of 
 Drewe, of Drewe's Cliffe, and Prideaux, of Ashburton. Thomas Williams, 
 Speaker of the House of Commons, who was of Stafford, married a co- 
 heiress of Crues, of Chimley ; his grandson the heiress of Edgecumbe, of 
 Calstock. The estate was sold by the Speaker's grandson, before the year 
 1630. 
 
 Arms : — Party per fesse Vaire, A. and G., 3 curlews' heads erased, 
 counter-changed. The Speaker bore, Sable, S curlews' heads erased, 
 Argent. 
 
 Crest : — A curlew, Argent, beaked and legged, Or. 
 
 Willoughby, of Leyhill, in Pehembury, settled here before 1600; the 
 heiress married the grandfather of Sir John Trevelyan, Bart. 
 No arms are assigned to this family in the visitation of 1620. 
 
 Wolcott, of Wolcott, in Thurleston, Chagford, Lustleigh, Boterstow, 
 in Hemiock, Moreston, in Halberton, &c. &c. — Walter, the first-men- 
 tioned in the pedigree, married the heiress of Skerrett, of Chagford. 
 A co-heiress of Bozon, of Bozon's Hele, married also into this family. 
 The last of a branch of this family settled at Sidbury, was Captain James 
 
 Wolcott, 
 
CC xxiv DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Wolcott, of the navy, who distinguished himself at the taking of Berbice. 
 He died in 1811, leaving a daughter and only child, married to Yateman. 
 The name remains at Sidbury among the yeomanry. 
 
 Arms : — Per pale, Az. and G., on a cross patonce, Arg., five martlets, 
 on a chief, Or, a fleur-de-lis, between 2 annulets, purpure. 
 
 Crest : — An eagle's head issuant, guttee de sang, in the beak a fleur-de- 
 lis, Az,, charged with a bezant. 
 
 Wood, alias Atwood, of Harston, in Plymstock, and of Brixton. — 
 There had been five descents of the Woods, of Harston, in 1630. The 
 heiress of Carslake married into this family, which became extinct by the 
 deatli of John Wood, Esq., in 1743. One of his sisters died unmarried in 
 1786 ; the other married Winter. Matthew Wood, Esq., alderman of 
 London, is said to have been descended from a branch of this family. 
 
 Arms: — Quarterly 1. and 4., Argent, on a mount V., an oak-tree 
 fructed, Proper, 2. and 3. A., a bull's head erased, Sable. 
 
 Crest : — A demi-savage man, wreathed about the temples, Proper, in 
 his left hand a club guttee de sang, in his right hand an oak tree, eradicat- 
 ed, fructed, Proper. Confirmed in 1533. 
 
 Wood, or Atwood, of Ashridge, in North Tawton. See Atwood. 
 
 Wood, of Lew Trenchard, married a co-heiress of Trelawney. Five 
 descents of this family are described in the visitation of 1620. The 
 heiress married Mr. Joseph Pearce, whose daughter and only child, died 
 unmarried since the year 1800. 
 
 Arms : — Sable, semee of cross-crosslets, 3 lions' heads, Or. 
 
 Wotton, of Ingleborne, in the parish of Harberton. — Purchased in the 
 reign of Henry VIII. A co-heiress of Gibbes, of Venton, married into this 
 family ; the last heir male of which, Samuel Wotton, Esq., died about the 
 year 1795 : the heiress married Estcourt Cresswell ', Esq., now of Pinkney, 
 in the county of Wilts. 
 
 Arms : — Argent a saltier engrailed between 4 mullets, Sable. 
 
 i His daughter and only child, by the heiress of Wotton, married the Rev. Mr. Frye, and 
 
 died without issue. TTT 
 
 Wyke, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccxxv 
 
 Wyke, Wykes, or Weeks, of North Wyke, in South Tawton. — Origi- 
 nally Wray — took the name of Wyke, on settling at North Wyke, in the 
 reign of Richard II. The co-heiresses of Burnell, Avenell, and Chichester, 
 married into this family. Francis Weeks, the last heir male of this family, 
 died in 1711- Two of his sisters and co-heiresses married Hunt, and Hole. 
 A branch of this family, who wrote the name Weeks, was of Honeychurch, 
 and afterwards of Broadwood Kelly, of which manor Francis Weeks was 
 lord, in the reign of Charles I. 
 
 Arms : — Erm., 3 battle-axes, Sable. 
 
 Yeo, of Heanton-Sachville, Hatherleigh, Huish, North Petherwin, &c. ; 
 said to have been originally of Tre Yeo, in the parish of Launcelles, 
 Cornwall ; but, with Mr. Prince, I think it more probable that they were 
 descended from a younger branch of the Yeos, of Yeo, in Alwington, 
 whose heiress, at an early period, married Giffard. This family settled at 
 Heanton, in consequence of a marriage with the heiress of Sachville, in the 
 fourteenth century. The heiresses of Esse, Pyne, Brightley, and a co- 
 heiress of Jewe, married also into this family. The heiress of the elder 
 branch, married Henry Rolle, Esq., who died in or about 1620. Lord 
 Clinton, is the representative of this branch. Younger branches were for 
 some generations of Reed, and Fishley, in Hatherleigh ; the former ap- 
 pears to have become extinct in 1662; the latter in I678. The Yeos, of 
 North Petherwin, were also of a younger branch of the Yeos, of Hather- 
 leigh. Leonard Yeo, Esq., the last of this branch, died in 1741 : the 
 heiress married Herring, whose heiress married Kingdon. The heiress of 
 Stapledon, of Nottinghamshire, married into this branch. 
 
 A younger branch of Yeo, of Heanton, was, for many generations, of 
 Huish. Edward Rooe Yeo, Esq., the representative of this branch, died 
 in 1782, being then one of the members for Coventry. The Rev. Beaple 
 Yeo was, after his death, the heir male of the family, and its present male 
 representative appears to be his grandson, William Arundell Yeo, Esq., of 
 Trevelver, in Cornwall. This branch of the Yeos, possessed Hawkridge, 
 in Chittlehampton. There was another branch of the Yeos at Plymouth, 
 of which was John Yeo, Esq., a superannuated admiral, who died in 1756 ; 
 his grandson, William Yeo, Esq., was living in 1774. The late brave Sir 
 James Yeo, was of this family. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a chevron between 3 mallards k , Azure. 
 
 k The birds are sometimes described as drakes, sometimes shovelers, sometimes turkey- 
 cocks, &c. &c. 
 
 Vol. VI. f f Gentlemen's 
 
CCXXV1 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Gentlemen's Seats. 
 
 Name of the Seat. 
 
 Parish. 
 
 
 Alston - - - 1 
 
 Malborough 
 
 - 
 
 Ambrook - 
 
 Ipplepen 
 
 
 Annery - - 
 
 Monkleigh 
 
 - 
 
 West Anstey 
 
 . 
 
 - 
 
 Arlington 
 
 . 
 
 - 
 
 Ash 
 
 Iddesleigh 
 
 ■ 
 
 Ashbury 
 
 . 
 
 - 
 
 Ashprington 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 Beechwood 
 
 Plympton 
 
 - 
 
 Bellair - 
 
 Heavitree - 
 
 - 
 
 Bellvue 
 
 Plymstock 
 
 - 
 
 Bickham - 
 
 Kenne 
 
 - 
 
 Blackhall 
 
 North Huish - 
 
 • 
 
 Bluehayes - 
 
 Broad Clist 
 
 - 
 
 Borough 
 
 Northam 
 
 - 
 
 Bowden - 
 
 Ashprington 
 
 - 
 
 Bowringsleigh - 
 
 West Allington 
 
 - 
 
 Bradfield 
 
 Urfculme 
 
 - 
 
 Bradford ... 
 
 Witheridge 
 
 - 
 
 Bradley 
 
 Highweek 
 
 - 
 
 Bremridge - 
 
 Sandford 
 
 - 
 
 Bridwell 
 
 Halberton - 
 
 - 
 
 Brookhill - 
 
 Broad Clist • 
 
 - 
 
 Buckland 
 
 Braunton - 
 
 - 
 
 Buckland FiUeigh 
 
 . 
 
 - 
 
 Buckland in the Moor 
 
 . 
 
 - 
 
 Buckland Toussaints - 
 
 ... 
 
 - 
 
 Burrington - 
 
 Tithing of Weston Peverell 
 
 Bystock - 
 
 Colyton Raleigh 
 
 - 
 
 Calverleigh 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 Canonleigh 
 
 Burlescombe - 
 
 - 
 
 Castlepark 
 
 Lifton 
 
 - 
 
 Chaddlewood 
 
 Plympton 
 
 - 
 
 Churston Ferrers 
 
 . 
 
 - 
 
 Cleve 
 
 St. Thomas 
 
 - 
 
 Cockington 
 
 . 
 
 - 
 
 Cockwood 
 
 Dawlish 
 
 - 
 
 Cofflete 
 
 Yealmton 
 
 - 
 
 Coham 
 
 Black Torrington - 
 
 - 
 
 Coleridge - 
 
 Stokenham 
 
 - 
 
 Collipriest - 
 
 Tiverton 
 
 - 
 
 Combe - - 
 
 Gittisham - 
 
 - 
 
 Combe ... 
 
 Colebrooke 
 
 - 
 
 Combe Royal - 
 
 West Allington - 
 
 - 
 
 Combe Sacheville 
 
 Silverton - 
 
 - 
 
 Coryton 
 
 Kilmington 
 
 - 
 
 Cowley 
 
 Brampford Speke 
 
 - 
 
 Cross 
 
 Little Torrington - 
 
 - 
 
 Daddon 
 
 Bideford 
 
 - 
 
 Dallamore - 
 
 Cormvood 
 
 - 
 
 Dartington 
 
 I" 
 
 • 
 
 Owners or Occupiers. 
 
 Abraham Hawkins, Esq. 
 
 Mr. William Neyle. 
 
 William Tardrew, Esq. 
 
 Willoughby Bryant Stawell, Esq. 
 
 Jo. Palmer Chichester, Esq. 
 
 Hugh Malet, Esq. 
 
 John Morth Woollcombe, Esq. 
 
 Major-General Adams. 
 
 Richard Rosdew, Esq. 
 
 G. A. Rhodes, Esq. 
 
 Mrs. Bulteel. 
 
 Mrs. Short. 
 
 Hubert Cornish, Esq. 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Lang 
 
 Vice-Admiral Barton. 
 
 Mrs. Adams. 
 
 Rev. Roope Ilbert. 
 
 William Henry Walrond, Esq. 
 
 Rev. W. P. Thomas. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Lane. 
 
 Richard Melhuish, Esq. 
 
 John Were Clarke, Esq. 
 
 Lieutenant-General Thomas. 
 
 Henry Webber, Esq. 
 
 Jo. Inglett Fortescue, Esq. 
 
 Mrs. Bastard. 
 
 William Clarke, Esq. 
 
 John Were Clarke, Esq. 
 
 Edward Divett, Esq. 
 
 Charles Chichester, Esq. 
 
 Thomas Browne, Esq., (unoccupied). 
 
 William Arundell Harris, Esq. 
 
 William Hales Symons, Esq. 
 
 In the occupation of Hon. George Vernon. 
 
 Thomas Northmore, Esq. 
 
 Rev. Roger Mallock. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Drury. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Lane. 
 
 Rev. William Holland Coham. 
 
 Michael Allen, Esq., (unoccupied). 
 
 James Hay, Esq., (unoccupied). 
 
 Rev. Thomas Putt. 
 
 John Sillifant, Esq. 
 
 John Luscombe Luscombe, Esq. 
 
 Mrs. Brown. 
 
 William Tucker, Esq. 
 
 Mrs. Wells. 
 
 Thomas Stevens, Esq. 
 
 Lewis William Buck, Esq. 
 
 Treby Hele Hayes, Esq. 
 
 Mrs. Champernowne. 
 
 Deerpark 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 ccxxvn 
 
 Name of the Seat. 
 
 Parish. 
 
 Deerpark • 
 
 Buckerell - 
 
 Derriford 
 
 Egg Buckland 
 
 Doniton - 
 
 Swimbridge - 
 
 Dowries 
 
 Crediton 
 
 Dowrish - 
 
 Sandford 
 
 Dunsland 
 
 Bradford 
 
 Dun-ant 
 
 Northam - 
 
 Eastdon - 
 
 Dawlish 
 
 Eastleigh ■ - 
 
 Westleigh 
 
 Ebberley 
 
 Roborough 
 
 Edgecumbe 
 
 Milton Abbot 
 
 Edginswell 
 
 St. Mary Church 
 
 Little Efford 
 
 Egg Buckland 
 
 Eggesford 
 
 . 
 
 Elfordleigh 
 
 Plympton 
 
 Fallopit 
 
 East Allington 
 
 Farringdon - - 
 
 . 
 
 Foleton ... 
 
 Totnes 
 
 Ford 
 
 Woolborough 
 
 Ford Abbey 
 
 Thorncombe - 
 
 Fowelscombe - 
 
 Ugborough 
 
 Franklyn 
 
 St. Thomas 
 
 Fremington 
 
 - 
 
 Fuge ... 
 
 Blackauton 
 
 Fulford House - 
 
 Dunsford - 
 
 Fulford Park 
 
 Shobrooke and Crediton 
 
 Fursdon - - 
 
 Cadbury 
 
 Gatcombe - 
 
 Little Hempston 
 
 Gnaton - - 
 
 Newton Ferrers 
 
 Goodamore 
 
 Plympton 
 
 Grange - . - 
 
 Broad Hembury 
 
 Greenofen 
 
 Whitechurch - 
 
 Green way - - - 
 
 Brixham - 
 
 Hall - 
 
 Bishop's Tawton 
 
 Halsdon 
 
 Dolton 
 
 Ham - 
 
 Weston Peverell Tithing 
 
 Hampton 
 
 St. Mary Church - 
 
 Hartland Abbey - 
 
 Hartland - 
 
 Hayne - 
 
 Plymtree 
 
 Hayne 
 
 Stowford - 
 
 Hembury Fort 
 
 Buckerell 
 
 Hemerdon 
 
 Plympton - 
 
 Hillersdon - 
 
 Collumpton 
 
 Hockworthy - 
 
 - 
 
 Holcombe Rogus 
 
 - 
 
 Holwell ... 
 
 South Milton 
 
 Holystreet 
 
 Chagford 
 
 Horsewell - - - 
 
 South Milton 
 
 Huntsham 
 
 . 
 
 Ingleborne - - - 
 
 Harberton - 
 
 Ipplepen 
 
 . 
 
 Kelly - 
 
 ... 
 
 Kitley ... 
 
 Yealmton 
 
 Langdon 
 
 Wembury 
 
 ff 2 
 
 Owners or Occupiers. 
 
 A. L. Shuldham, Esq. 
 J. C. Langmead, Esq. 
 Vice- Admiral Bury. 
 James Buller, Esq. 
 Mrs. Arabella Morgan. 
 
 ("Occasionally inhabited by the Rev. 
 
 I W. Holland Coham. 
 J. S. Ley, Esq. 
 Richard Eales, Esq. 
 Rev. John Torr. 
 Henry Hole, Esq. 
 Richard Edgecumbe, Esq. 
 Rev. A. Neck. 
 
 Occupied by John Williams, Esq. 
 Honourable Newton Fellowes. 
 William Langmead, Esq. 
 E. N. W. Fortescue, Esq. 
 J. B. Chohvich, Esq. 
 Late Edward Cary, Esq. 
 
 ("Belongs to Lord Courtenay ; in the 
 \ occupation of Ayshford Wise, Esq. 
 John Fraunceis Gwyn, Esq. 
 John King, Esq. 
 Late John Jones, Esq. 
 G. A. Barbor, Esq. 
 Late Charles Hayne, Esq. 
 Baldwin Fulford, Esq. 
 R. H. Tuckfield, Esq. 
 John Sydenham Fursdon, Esq. 
 Mrs. Cornish. 
 Henry Roe, Esq. 
 George Treby Treby, Esq. 
 William Drewe, Esq. 
 George Drake, Esq. 
 John Marwood Elton, Esq. 
 Charles Chichester, Esq. 
 Rev. P. W. Furse. 
 George Collins, Esq. 
 T. W. France, Esq. 
 Mrs. Orchard. 
 Rev. Charles Harward. 
 Isaac Harris, Esq. 
 Admiral R. Graves, (unoccupied). 
 George Woollcombe, Esq. 
 John Laxon Swete, Esq. 
 Charles Webster, Esq. 
 Peter Bluett, Esq. 
 Rev. H. A. Gilbert. 
 J. R. Southmead, Esq. 
 Peter Ilbert, Esq. 
 Rev. Dr. Troyte. 
 R. Brown, Esq. 
 George Drake, Esq. 
 Arthur Kelly, Esq. 
 
 Edmund Poflexfen Bastard, Esq. M.P. 
 Mrs. Calmady. 
 
 Langley 
 
CCXXV111 
 
 UliVUWSHI 
 
 Name of the Scat. 
 
 Parish. 
 
 Langley ... 
 
 High Bickington 
 
 Larkbear 
 
 Tallaton 
 
 Leawood 
 
 Bridestowe 
 
 Leigham 
 
 Egg Buckland 
 
 Lew Trenchard 
 
 . 
 
 Lindridge 
 Loventor 
 Ludbrook 
 
 Bishop's Teignton 
 Berry Pomeroy 
 Ermington 
 
 Lupton 
 Luscombe 
 
 Brixham 
 
 Dawlish ... 
 
 Lymouth 
 
 Linton ... 
 
 Manadon 
 
 C Tithing of Weston Peve- 
 1 rell 
 
 Marpool 
 
 Withecombe Raleigh 
 
 Marridge 
 
 Ugborough . - - 
 
 Marwood 
 
 . 
 
 Montrath House 
 
 Broad Hembury 
 
 Cruwys Morchard 
 
 - 
 
 Mothecombe 
 
 Holbeton ... 
 
 Moult 
 
 Malborough 
 
 Mount Boone - 
 
 Townstall ... 
 
 Mount Ebf'ord 
 
 Woodbury 
 
 Mount Tavy 
 
 Tavistock ... 
 
 Netheway 
 
 Brixham - 
 
 Nevvcourt 
 
 Topsham ... 
 
 Nevvenham 
 
 Newplace 
 
 Newton-house 
 
 Plympton 
 King's Nympton 
 Newton St. Cyres 
 
 Norton 
 
 Churchstow 
 
 Oaklands 
 West Ogwell 
 Orleigh 
 
 Oakhampton 
 Buckland Brewer 
 
 Oxton . - - 
 
 Kenton - - 
 
 Park - - 
 
 Peamore 
 
 Bovey Tracey 
 Exminster 
 
 Pickwell 
 
 Georgeham 
 
 Petticombe 
 
 Monkleigh 
 
 Porthill 
 
 Northam 
 
 Portledge 
 
 Ahvington 
 
 Postlinch, or Puslinch - 
 
 Newton Ferrers 
 
 Pound ... 
 
 Buckland Monachorum - 
 
 Primley 
 
 Paignton 
 
 Priory 
 
 Pilton 
 
 Radford 
 
 Plymstock 
 
 Retreat 
 Rhode 
 
 Topsham 
 Uplime - 
 
 Rockbeare 
 
 - 
 
 Sadborough 
 
 Thorncombe 
 
 Sandridge 
 
 Stoke Gabriel 
 
 Sandwell 
 
 Harberton 
 
 Satterleigh 
 Scobell 
 
 South Pool 
 
 Owners or Occupiers. 
 
 George Smith, Esq. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Clack. 
 
 Calmady Pollexfen Hamlyn, Esq. 
 
 Addis Archer, Esq. 
 
 William Baring Gould, Esq. 
 
 Rev. John Templer. 
 
 Mrs Baker. 
 
 Rev. N. A. Bartlett. 
 J. Buller Yarde Buller, Esq. 
 Charles Hoare, Esq. 
 John Lock, Esq. 
 
 {Lately Mrs. Waldron, now Lady El- 
 ford, at present unoccupied. 
 William Hull, Esq. 
 Unoccupied. 
 
 {C. Cutclirle, Esq., occupied by Rev. 
 William Mules. 
 Mrs. Walrond. 
 Mrs. Sharland. 
 
 f Belongs to Henry Legassick, Esq., 
 
 \ occupied by Mrs. Harris. 
 William Jackson, Esq. 
 John Seale, Esq. 
 Thomas Huckell Lee, Esq. 
 John Carpenter, Esq. 
 J. F. Luttrell, Esq. 
 John Bawden Cresswell, Esq. 
 George Strode, Esq. 
 John Buller, Esq. 
 John Quicke, Esq. 
 John Hawkins, Esq. 
 Albany Savile, Esq. M. P. 
 P. J. Taylor, Esq. 
 John Hanning, Esq. 
 John Beaumont Swete, Esq. 
 George Hunt Clapp, Esq. 
 Samuel Kekewich, Esq. 
 Untenanted. 
 Miss Saltren. 
 
 {Sir R. G. Keats, occupied by Thomas 
 Smith, Esq. 
 Richard Pine Coffin, Esq. 
 John Yonge, Esq. 
 Sir Herbert Sawyer, K.C.B. 
 Rev. Finney Belfield. 
 John Whyte, Esq. 
 John Harris, Esq. 
 
 Alexander Hamilton Hamilton, Esq. 
 Sir John Talbot, K.B. 
 Thomas Porter, Esq. 
 Mrs. Bidgood. 
 J. Bragg, Esq. 
 
 J (Lord Ashburton,) occupied by H. 
 
 \ W. Newman, Esq. 
 J. Bennet, Esq. 
 Henry Byne, Esq. 
 Thomas Cornish, Esq. 
 
 Sharphaui 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 ccxxix 
 
 Name of the Seat. 
 
 
 Parish. 
 
 Sharpham 
 
 . 
 
 Ashprington 
 
 Shaugh 
 
 - 
 
 Luppit 
 
 Sheephay 
 
 - 
 
 St. Mary Church 
 
 Shilston 
 
 - 
 
 Modbury 
 
 Sidbury house 
 
 - 
 
 Sidbury 
 
 Slack 
 
 - 
 
 Cornwood 
 
 Sorteridge 
 
 - 
 
 Whitechurch 
 
 Speechwick 
 
 - 
 
 Widdecomb-in-the-Moor 
 
 Spreydon - 
 
 . 
 
 Broad Clist 
 
 Stedcorabe, or Stul 
 
 :} 
 
 Axmouth 
 
 combe 
 
 
 Stokehill 
 
 
 Heavitree 
 
 Stokeley 
 
 - 
 
 Stokenham 
 
 Stover Lodge 
 
 - 
 
 Teigngrace 
 
 Stoodley 
 
 - 
 
 .... 
 
 Sydenham 
 
 - 
 
 Marystow 
 
 Tapelegh 
 
 - 
 
 Westleigh 
 
 Tidwell 
 
 - 
 
 East Budleigh 
 
 West Timewell 
 
 - 
 
 Morebath 
 
 Tor Abbey 
 
 - 
 
 Tor Mohun 
 
 Tor Royal 
 
 . 
 
 Lidford 
 
 Tothill 
 
 - 
 
 Charles, Plymouth 
 
 Trehill 
 
 - 
 
 Kenne 
 
 Trowbridge 
 
 - 
 
 Crediton 
 
 Umberleigh 
 
 . 
 
 Atherington 
 
 Upland - 
 
 - 
 
 Tamerton Foliot - 
 
 Upton 
 
 . 
 
 Brixham 
 
 Warleigh 
 
 . 
 
 Tamerton Foliot 
 
 Watermouth 
 
 . 
 
 Berry Narbor 
 
 Watton Court - 
 
 . 
 
 Stoke Gabriel - 
 
 Way 
 
 - 
 
 Chagford 
 
 Westcott 
 
 . 
 
 Rockbear 
 
 Weston 
 
 . 
 
 Branscombe 
 
 Whitleigh 
 
 . 
 
 St. Budock 
 
 Wibbery 
 
 . 
 
 Alverdiscott 
 
 Widdecombe 
 
 _ 
 
 Stokenham 
 
 Widey 
 
 - 
 
 Egg Buckland 
 
 Wimpston 
 
 ■ 
 
 Modbury 
 
 Winscot 
 
 . 
 
 Petrockstow 
 
 Winslade 
 
 . 
 
 St. Mary Clist - 
 
 Wiscombe Park 
 
 • 
 
 Southleigh 
 
 Wolford Lodge 
 
 . 
 
 Dunkeswell 
 
 Wood 
 
 . 
 
 Woodleigh 
 
 Woodovis 
 
 - 
 
 Tavistock 
 
 Woolston 
 
 . 
 
 Loddiswell 
 
 Yeotown 
 
 - 
 
 Goodleigh 
 
 Yeo Vale 
 
 - 
 
 Alwington 
 
 Zephyr Lodge 
 
 - 
 
 Tiverton 
 
 Owners or Occupiers. 
 
 John Bastard, Esq., M. P. 
 Rev. James Bernard. 
 Rev. William Kitson. 
 Christopher Savery, Esq. 
 Robert Hunt, Esq. 
 John Spurrell Pode, Esq. 
 Rev. Henry Pengelly. 
 
 f Lord Ashburton, on lease to George 
 
 X Leach, Esq. 
 Aaron Moore, Esq. 
 
 John Hallet, Esq. 
 
 Joseph Sanders, Esq. 
 
 Lydstone Newman, Esq. 
 
 George Templer, Esq. 
 
 J. N. Fazakerley, Esq., M. P. 
 
 J. H. Tremayne, Esq. 
 
 A. Saltren Willett, Esq., (unoccupied). 
 
 {Mrs. Edye, now or lately occupied by 
 — Fisher, Esq. 
 Mrs. Bere. 
 
 (George Cary, Esq., occupied by R. 
 
 \ Peel, Esq. 
 Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt. 
 Mrs. Cuhne. 
 Henry Ley, Esq. 
 
 f John Yarde, Esq., the property of his 
 
 \ niece. 
 
 John Davie Basset, Esq. 
 Jonathan Elford, Esq. 
 George Cutler, Esq. 
 Rev. Walter Radcliffe. 
 Joseph Davie Basset, Esq. 
 Henry Studdy, Esq. 
 John Coniam, Esq. 
 Rev. John Elliot. 
 
 Barnaby John Stuckey Bartlett, Esq. 
 Edward Henry Gennys, Esq. 
 John Mervin Cutcliffe, Esq. 
 Arthur Holdsworth, Esq. 
 Henry Anderson Morshead, Esq. 
 William L. Prettyjohn, Esq. 
 Thomas Stevens, Esq. 
 — Porter, Esq. 
 Charles Gordon, Esq. 
 Mrs. Simcoe. 
 
 John Luscombe Luscombe, Esq. 
 Jonas Morgan, Esq. 
 George F. Wise, Esq. 
 R. N. Incledon, Esq. 
 Rev. Thomas Hooper Morrison. 
 Philip Blundell, Esq. 
 
 Among the seats of the ancient gentry, of which but few traces remain, 
 are, Afton Castle, the seat of the Aftons, and afterwards of the Stucleys; 
 Bradstone, of the Clobenys ; Gidley Castle, of the Prous family ; Mohuns 
 
 Otteiy, 
 
CCXKX 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Ottery, of the Carews ; and Pinhoe, of the Cheyneys. Among those 
 which remain, or did lately remain, in a dilapidated state, and mostly 
 occupied as farm-houses, may be reckoned the following : 
 
 Decayed Mansions. 
 
 Names of the Seats. 
 
 Parishes. 
 
 
 Rashleigh 
 
 Wemworthy 
 
 - 
 
 Sand - - 
 
 Sidbury 
 
 - 
 
 Santon 
 
 Braunton 
 
 - 
 
 Spridlestone 
 
 Brixton 
 
 - 
 
 Totley 
 
 Black Torrington 
 
 - 
 
 Weare Gifford 
 
 . 
 
 - 
 
 Yarty 
 
 Membury 
 
 
 Families to whom they belonged. 
 
 Rashleigh, and afterwards Clotworthy. 
 
 Huyshe. 
 
 Lutterell. 
 
 Fortescue. 
 
 Davels, afterwards Harris. 
 
 Fortescue. 
 
 F'rye. 
 
 Forests and Deer-Parks. 
 
 The ancient and extensive forest of Dartmoor is in this county', and 
 that of Exmoor is generally described as partly in Devonshire ; but I am 
 assured from good authority, that although very extensive commons ad- 
 joining to the forest, and scarcely separated from it by any visible bound- 
 aries, are in this county, yet the whole of the forest is in Somersetshire. 
 
 The only park described as existing in Devonshire, at the time of the 
 Domesday survey, is that of Winkleigh, not noticed in any later account. 
 The peregrination of Dr. Boorde, in the reign of Henry VIII. 6 , mentions 
 parks at Umberley, Testock, (most probably Tavistock,) Mownsatro, 
 (Mohun's Ottery) ; Colriche ; Chymley, (Chulmleigh) ; Chilitilton, (Chit- 
 tlehampton); Whitchurch, Colcombe, Coliton, Shute, Wiscan, (Wiscombej; 
 Kirklake, Kirton, (Crediton) ; Glyst, (Clist) ; Tyverton, alias Goodbere, 
 Ashley, Afton, Okington, (Oakhampton) ; and Caadley, (Calwodley). 
 
 Westcote observes that there were in his time " some few parks re- 
 maining of the great store our fathers could speak of;" he mentions old 
 parks at Annery, Inwardleigh, Brightleigh, Filleigh, and two at Tiverton. 
 Dr. Boorde speaks of but one ; and those at Annery, &c, are omitted by 
 him. I find mention also of some ancient parks, not occurring in either 
 list. The Earl of Cornwall had a park at Braneys, (Bradninch) ; the 
 abbot of Hartland had two ; the Bottreaux family had one at Molland, 
 the Cogans one at Uffculme, the Crockers one at Lyneham, the Pollards 
 
 » See more of Dartmoor, p. 314. of the Parochial History. 
 b MS. in the British Museum. 
 
 one 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccxxxi 
 
 one at King's Nympton, and Sir Thomas Brown one in the parish of 
 Langtree ; Sergeant Hele made a park at Wembury in the reign of 
 Queen Elizabeth. There was a park at Ashton, the seat of the Chudleighs. 
 The present deer-parks in the county are : 
 
 Werrington - - belonging to the Duke of Northumberland. 
 
 Castlehill .... Earl Fortescue. 
 
 Mount Edgecumbe - - - Earl of Mount Edgecumbe. 
 
 Heanton .... Lord Clinton. 
 
 Ugbrook .... Lord Clifford. 
 
 Bicton and Stevenstone - - - Lord Rolle. 
 
 Eggesford .... Honourable Newton Fellowes. 
 
 Killerton - - - - Sir T. D. Acland, Bart. 
 
 Shute - - • Sir W. T. Pole, Bart. 
 
 Poltimore - - - - Sir C. Bampfylde, Bart. 
 
 Creedy - - - - - Sir John Davie, Bart. 
 
 Youlston - • - - Sir A. Chichester, Bart. 
 
 Clovelly - - - - Sir James Hamlyn Williams, Bart. 
 
 Great Fulford ... Baldwin Fulford, Esq. 
 
 Fulford Park - - - - R. H. Tuckfield, Esq. 
 
 Newnham .... George Strode, Esq. 
 
 Ogwell - • - - P. J. Taylor, Esq. 
 
 Whyddon .... Edward Seymour Bayley, Esq. 
 
 Red deei;ferw natures, the remains of the inhabitants of the royal forest 
 of Exmoor, still abound in sufficient quantities in the Devonshire woods, 
 south of the forest, as well as in those of Somersetshire, to yield sport to 
 the neighbouring nobility and gentry. A stag hunt has been for many 
 years kept up in this vicinity. The hounds were formerly kept by Mr. Dyke, 
 of Somersetshire, whose heiress married Sir Thomas Acland's grandfather, 
 and afterwards by the Aclands. After the death of the late Sir Thomas 
 Acland, they were kept for a while by Mr. Basset. After this, they were 
 kept for several years by Lord Eortescue, at Castlehill, who, about three 
 years ago, made them over to R. Lucas, Esq., of Baronshill, in Somerset- 
 shire. The average number of deer killed in a season has been about 10 
 stags, and about double that number of hinds. b Marshall, in his " Rural 
 CEconomy of the Western Counties," observes, that wild deer abounded in 
 the woods of the west of Devon ; but that through the good offices of the 
 Duke of Bedford, the country was then (about 1795) nearly free from them. 
 
 b From the information of Lord Fortescue, who has obligingly furthered my researches in 
 Devon in various ways. 
 
 GEO- 
 
ccxxxii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 GEOGRAPHICAL AND GEOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTY. 
 
 Situation, Boundaries, Extent, §c. — Devonshire is a maritime county 
 in the south-west of England, bounded on the north-east by Somerset- 
 shire ; east and south, by a part of Dorsetshire and the English channel ; 
 west, by Cornwall and the Bristol channel ; and north, by the Bristol 
 channel. It is about 70 miles from north to south ; 65 from east to west ; 
 and about 280 in circumference. It is calculated, that it has, altogether, 
 above 130 miles of sea-coast. Eraser computed its contents at 1,600,000 
 acres ; Vancouver says, that the most modern calculation assigns it an area 
 of 1,595,309 acres ; or, 2493 miles. It appears by the Ordnance Survey 
 to be 1,519,360 acres, or 237* square miles. 
 
 Fraser supposes, that there are about 320,000 acres, being a fifth of the 
 whole county in waste land. Dartmoor alone, has been estimated at 
 100,000. Fraser computes it at 80,000 ; but Mr. T. Gray's survey makes it 
 only 53,644 acres. Former computations had included, probably, the very 
 extensive and numerous commons c which adjoin ; the owners of which, 
 being freeholders, on paying certain small sums, have a right of pasture 
 thereon. These are called venville tenants, or having right of venville. 
 There are also very extensive commons adjoining to Exmoor ; commons 
 of great extent near Bridestowe ; besides Roborough-down, Blackdown, 
 near Plymouth, Blackdown on the borders of Somersetshire, Haldon, 
 &c. &c. &c. The cultivated land is, perhaps, pretty equally divided 
 between arable and pasture ; but the greater portion is of the latter : in 
 the South Hams, arable predominates in a proportion of at least three to 
 one ; in the north of Devon, pasture prevails in about the same proportion ; 
 and both in the east and the extreme western part of the county the 
 greater part of the cultivated land is in pasture. 
 
 Soils, Strata, S^c. — The soil of Devon is extremely various, but may be 
 generally characterised according to the rock, or stratified substances which it 
 covers, as granitical, slatey, calcareous, arenaceous, argillaceous, gravelly, and 
 loamy. The poorest of all these, is the soil which covers the granite of 
 Dartmoor, which has also the disadvantages of a cold wet climate : that 
 which lies on the slate district, is more or less fertile, and fit for all the 
 purposes of agriculture. Very extensive tracts, however, of this soil, are of 
 a thin staple ; others are in contact with a cold bed of clay ; and some are 
 so elevated as to have a very low degree of temperature. Generally speak- 
 ing, the more broken the surface of the country is, the less it partakes of 
 
 e That of Walkhampton alone, is said to contain 10,000 acres. Haytor-down, on the east 
 side, is also very extensive. 
 
 these 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccxxxiii 
 
 these defects, the broadest swells being the most barren. The portions of 
 this soil, which are the most distinguished for their fertility, appear to be 
 indebted for it to the contiguity of limestone, or greenstone rocks, which 
 occur in so many parts of the slate district, particularly in the South Hams. 
 
 The red colour which characterises the best soils both in the South Hams 
 and the eastern division of the county, and which seems to be so closely 
 connected with the principle of fertility, proceeds from an abundant mix- 
 ture of iron, in a highly oxidated state. 
 
 An intelligent correspondent, professionally acquainted with the lands 
 of this district", observes, " the surface and soil of that part of the South 
 Hams which is bounded by the rivers Dart and Erme, generally speaking, 
 is a red loam of a hazel-nut brown colour, mostly on a substratum of 
 of slate, small fragments of rotten slate being frequently mixed with it. 
 
 " This soil is rich and friable. The hills and slopes are excellent corn 
 and sheep lands ; the valleys are remarkably rich, and are converted into 
 orchards and watered meadows; the first producing excellent cyder, and the 
 latter the finest of hay, and the earliest of grass : it may be said of almost 
 every spring, that it is almost equal to any in the kingdom for irrigation. 
 
 " The soil of that part of the South Hams which lies on the east side of 
 the river Dart, and between it and Torbay, is somewhat of the same 
 colour, but more red and rich ; generally on a substratum of marble rock. 
 This part produces excellent pasture for cattle ; the valleys, like those 
 before described, are converted into orchards and watered meadows. The 
 other part of the South Hams, situated to the north-west of the river 
 Erme, is nearly similar to those already described, lying on slate, marble, 
 and in some instances, on clay." 
 
 There is abundance of rich meadow land also in the vales of the Exe 
 and the Otter. 
 
 A considerable part of the county northward of Hatherleigh and Hols- 
 worthy, and extending eastward to Chulmleigh, Bradninch, &c, is chiefly 
 on clay. A large district extending from Dartmoor, westward to the 
 Tamar ; northward to Hatherleigh and Holsworthy ; and eastward towards 
 Newton Bushell, is chiefly sandy or gravelly. To the north-east of the 
 Taw, the soil is of a light quality, on a substratum of grey wacke, 
 or, as it is called in Devonshire, dunstone. Towards Hartland Point 
 
 * Mr. Richard Hawkins, of King&bridge. 
 Vol. VI. g g there 
 
CCXXX1V 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 there is much clay and moorland : a vein of black soil runs through 
 Filleifh and Swimbridge ; and a narrow vein of the red soil from North 
 Molton to Challocombe : the soil about Blackdown and Haldon is 
 flinty. 
 
 The rich red soil before described, and which is of great depth, is some- 
 times used as a manure for the poorer lands. The chief manures of the 
 county are sea sand, brought in great quantities from Bude, on the north 
 coast; for the conveyance of which a canal is now making; and lime. 
 Westcote, who wrote in the reign of Charles I., speaks of the latter as an 
 excellent manure, then lately come into use. 
 
 " The strata of this county are so disposed, that a very considerable por- 
 tion of its entire area will be found to belong to the same formation as 
 Cornwall ; and the remainder, which occupies about one-third, may be- 
 referred with propriety to Somersetshire and Dorsetshire : in the language 
 of geologists, Devonshire is a primitive country on the west, a secondary 
 country on the east, and a country of transition on the north, as well as on 
 the south from Torbay to Plymouth. 
 
 " The characteristic features of this county are, three very elevated groups 
 of hills, which have had a great, influence in determining its hydrographical 
 outline. One of these, (Dartmoor,) is wholly included in the boundary of 
 the county : the others, (Exmoor and Blackdown,) are included in part 
 only : they belong to three distinct systems of formation. 
 
 " The forms of these elevated districts are in some measure characteristic 
 of this difference in the nature of their constituent strata : Dartmoor, 
 which presents the broadest surface, being steep only at its base, or line of 
 junction with the surrounding district of argillaceous slate; Blackdown 
 being distinguished by its tabular summits, and Exmoor, by the gradual 
 rise and expansion of the hills which cluster around it. Some difference 
 too may be perceived in the direction of the ridges which constitute the 
 principal features of these highland districts ; for those of Exmoor run 
 nearly east and west ; those of Blackdown, at right angles to the former; 
 while the predominating undulations of the surface of Dartmoor are nearly 
 in the direction of north-west and south-east : the hills of Haldon being 
 here considered as insulated ridges, belonging to the same formation as 
 Blackdown. 
 
 " The watersheds of Dartmoor and Exmoor are principally to the south. 
 as well as those of the Devonshire portion of Blackdown ; the highest 
 points, therefore, lie to the north of each. In respect to the interior of 
 
 Dartmoor, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccxxxv 
 
 Dartmoor, the inclination of the line of descent in the unbroken surface of 
 this high district, is not very considerable. The same may be observed of 
 the slate district which surrounds Dartmoor, and extends through a great 
 part of Devonshire ; and it is moreover remarkable, that some of the 
 highest points in the county are the farthest removed from this moor ; a 
 circumstance which is very plainly indicated by the rise and semi-circular 
 bend of the Torridge, the sources of which river lie near the north coast, 
 at a very small distance from those of the Tamar. The two other treat 
 rivers of this county point out in the same manner the varying direction 
 of its line of descent; the Taw, which runs northward, taking its rise both 
 from Dartmoor and Exmoor ; and the Exe, which runs southward, proceed- 
 ing from Exmoor and Blackdown. 
 
 " It is a singularity worthy of remark, that the Teign, which rises on the 
 north side of Dartmoor, should find its way by so circuitous a route to the 
 southern coast. Many other considerable rivers flow from the heights of 
 Dartmoor, and wind their way by deep and intricate channels to the estu- 
 aries on the same coast. 
 
 " On a nearer examination of this extensive county, with a view to the 
 analysis of its structure, and the arrangement of the strata which compose 
 it, in the natural order of their succession, the whole may be resolved into 
 four grand divisions: first, the district of granite, and primitive argillaceous 
 slate; secondly, the district of transition slate or grey wac&e ; thirdly, 
 the district of red sand stone ; fourthly, that of green sand. To these 
 must be added, three small tracts occupied by lias, chalk, Bovey coal, and 
 pipe-clay. 
 
 " To begin with the granitic strata, which are the oldest : these compose 
 the greater part of that elevated tract which is known under the name of 
 Dartmoor. A geological traveller, (Berger,) who crossed this district in a 
 direction from south to north, describes its appearance in the following 
 words. ' Erom Harford church, the country assumes quite a bare and 
 Alpine appearance, presenting a vast plain, extending beyond the visible 
 horizon. The face of the country is formed by swellings and undulations, 
 gradually overtopping each other, without ever forming very distinct 
 mountains.' 
 
 " The mean height of Dartmoor, according to the report of General 
 Mudge, is 1782 feet above the level of the sea ; while that of the most 
 commanding situations around it, is only 737 feet. The same gentleman 
 estimates the highest part of the moor, (Cawsand bog,) at 2090 feet ; an 
 
 g g 2 elevation 
 
ccxxxvi DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 elevation much inferior to that of Snowdon, and of Ben Nevis. The 
 effects, however, of this elevation, upon the climate of the whole district, 
 and the contiguous country, are not the less characteristic of a mountain- 
 ous region. c 
 
 " The numerous clusters of rifted rocks, which are exposed on the surface 
 of this dreary waste, and are known under the name of Tors, mark the 
 long period of time during which the strata have heen suhject to decompo- 
 sition. These insulated masses of granite appear not to have been moved 
 by any catastrophe whatever from the position in which they were originally 
 formed ; and they owe their present figure, in a great measure, to the re- 
 sistance which their more perfect crystallization has enabled them to make 
 to the destructive influence of the atmosphere. Similar groups of rocks 
 occur in all the granitic districts of Cornwall. The granite of Dartmoor is 
 remarkable for the great size of the crystals of feltspar which are dis- 
 persed through its mass, and for the binary form of aggregation which they 
 assume in many situations. Its transition into other primitive rocks has 
 been traced in various instances on the borders of the moor, although not 
 to any great extent. To these observations on the strata of Dartmoor, 
 may be added, that they are metalliferous, for they not only contain veins 
 of tin, but even the rock itself is sometimes impregnated with this metal. 
 
 " From Dartmoor, we descend on all sides to a district of argillaceous 
 slate, which closely invests it. The average height of this district can- 
 not much exceed 500 feet ; tne greatest at which Berger perceived it 
 to rise, at the point of contact on the south, was 631 feet ; but on the 
 western flanks of Dartmoor, it was found to rise as high as 1129 feet above 
 the sea level ; its fall from this point being proportionably rapid. 
 
 " An attempt has been made in the late ordnance map of Devon to give 
 some idea of the very uneven surface of this large portion of the county, 
 which has been described by an agricultural writer, (Marshall,) and not 
 inaptly, as ' billowy in the extreme, being wholly composed of high swells, 
 separated by close narrow valleys. Some of these swells,' he adds, ' are 
 nearly hemispherical.' 
 
 " Nor is this character of the surface wholly independent of the strata 
 which compose its interior. Of all the primitive rocks, argillaceous slate 
 is that which is the most subject to decomposition ; and the mouldering 
 
 e As a confirmation of this observation, several plants, which occur only in the most Alpine 
 situations, have been discovered on the higher parts of Dartmoor. 
 
 effects 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccxxxvii 
 
 effects of the weather will, in part, account for the smooth and rounded 
 form which the hills of this district have assumed. On the other hand, 
 some variation in the nature of the slate itself, and the interposition of 
 heterogeneous and subordinate strata, will assist to explain the cause of 
 those differences, or anomalies, which are observable in the external cha- 
 racter of the district. 
 
 " To particularize all these changes and transitions would exceed the 
 limits prescribed by an abridged view of the geology of Devon. The cir- 
 cumstances which most deserve notice, are the beds of limestone, and the 
 masses of greenstone, which occur in so many parts of this district. It is 
 difficult to say, whether the former, alternating as it does with strata of 
 obscurely characterised slate, ought not to be separated from the primitive 
 rocks, and referred to the same period of formation with the limestone 
 rock, which alternates with argillaceous slate, in the vicinity of Plymouth, 
 Ashburton, Torbay, Chudleigh, and Newton Bushel, although the organic 
 remains, which occur in greater abundance in these last, mark more de- 
 cidedly their place in the transition series. Some of these detached masses 
 of limestone rock approach pretty near to the edge of Dartmoor. 
 
 " Strata, which for the most part may be referred to the compound rock, 
 denominated greenstone, present themselves in various parts of the slate 
 district on the northern and western sides of Dartmoor, and appear, by 
 their position, to be of a contemporary origin with the slate in which they 
 occur. A singular variety of this rock, which, from its application to the 
 purposes of building, is there called freestone, occurs in regular beds of 
 great thickness, in the parishes of Clawton, Ashwater, Holwell, Beaworthy, 
 and North Lew : the mass has a whitish grev colour, and is composed of 
 minute aggregated crystals of feltspar. Those detached portions, also, of 
 an amygdaloidal trap-rock, which have been observed in so many situations 
 around Dartmoor, appear to have some connection with this formation. 
 
 " The argillaceous slate of Devon, in those positions where it is either 
 contiguous to, or not far removed from the granitic rocks, is occasionally 
 metalliferous, affording veins of tin, copper, and lead. Those of tin and 
 lead have been opened and worked at an early period of our history ; but 
 those of copper are a comparatively recent discovery. It would be dif- 
 ficult to point out a mining field altogether of more geological interest 
 than that which, in the last thirty years, has been explored both to the 
 east and west of the town of Tavistock. The veins, or as they are here 
 called in the mining language of Cornwall, the lodes, run nearly in the 
 
 same 
 
ccxxxviii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 same direction as those in the adjoining county, the tin and copper lodes, 
 north-east and south-west, approaching more or less to east and west, and 
 the lead lodes nearly at right angles to these : all of them are intersected 
 by lodes of more recent formation. 
 
 " In the description of the Tavistock canal, by Mr. J. Taylor, which has 
 been printed in the Transactions of the Geological Society, many other 
 curious particulars are stated of the lodes which abound in this part of the 
 county ; and it appears, from the section of the mining field between the 
 Tamar and the Tavy, which is there given, that the strata contain a consi- 
 derable number of alternating beds of the porphyritic rock, which is known 
 in Cornwall under the name of elvan. Their line of bearing is east and 
 west, and they seem to have some connection with the granitic strata 
 which lie beneath the slate on the Cornish bank of the Tamar. The same 
 section exhibits an instance of the conformity of the underlie of the veins 
 to the two opposite inclinations of the surface of the hill. The principal 
 lead lode at Beeralston is remarkable for its size, and the extent to which 
 it has been traced. Lodes of tin and copper have been discovered in 
 various situations in the slate district, on the south-eastern side of Dart- 
 moor, but chiefly in the vicinity of Ashburton. Others, of lead ore, at 
 Rattery and Dartington, on the south ; at Usington, on the east , and at 
 Newton St. Cyres, on the north-east of the moor. 
 
 " Adopting the language which is now so much in use, we have applied 
 the denomination of a primitive country both to Dartmoor and to the dis- 
 trict of slate immediately around it ; but it is proper that we should now 
 explain the nature of that distinction which geologists have thought proper 
 to make between the strata which are of primitive, those which are of 
 secondary, and those which are of intermediate formation. It appears then, 
 from all the observations, that have yet been made on the interior structure 
 of the earth, that the various stratified masses of which it is composed 
 have been deposited in succession over each other at irregular intervals, 
 and under very different circumstances. Those which have been formed 
 at a period antecedent to animal or vegetable life, are not improperly called 
 primitive, in opposition to the secondary strata, which comprehend most of 
 the other rocks. It has, however, been found convenient to arrange in 
 an intermediate class, such as form the link of connection between these 
 two, some of which differ in no other respect from the strata of the first 
 class, than in the circumstance of their containing the exuvia; above men- 
 tioned. This is the case with argillaceous slate ; and the consequence has 
 
 been, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccxxxix 
 
 been, that great portions of country composed of this rock, are now sepa- 
 rated from the primitive class, and arranged either among the secondary, 
 or the intermediate ; often not without some violence to natural order, it 
 being scarcely possible, in the absence of the above criterion, to decide 
 where the primitive slate of the same district ends, and the intermediate 
 begins, the characters of both being so much alike. 
 
 " These remarks are particularly applicable to the strata of the north of 
 Devon, which we shall now proceed to consider. The two districts which 
 they compose, have been already noticed among the most prominent fea- 
 tures of the county ; and one of them, (Exmoor,) is very strongly charac- 
 terised by its elevation (1890 feet). 
 
 " In arranging the strata of these districts in the class of intermediate 
 rocks, under the names of transition slate and grey wacke, we follow the 
 authority of two most respectable geologists, (Mr. Leonard Horner, and 
 the Rev. John Conybeare), both of whom have stated, with all the candour 
 and precision of men of science, their reasons for adopting this distinction. 
 With regard to Exmoor, ' The whole of the mountainous part of this 
 district,' says Mr. Horner, ' is formed of a series of rocks differing very 
 considerably in mineralogical characters, but which the repeated altern- 
 ations of the several varieties, and the insensible gradations that are 
 frequently to be traced of one into another, connect in one common form- 
 ation. A great proportion of these have the structure of sand stones, 
 the component parts varying in size from that of a mustard seed to 
 such a degree of fineness, that the particles can with difficulty be dis- 
 cerned. Quartz and clay are the essential component parts of all the 
 varieties, but in different proportions. The quartz in some instances 
 prevails to the entire exclusion of any other ingredient, forming a granular 
 quartz rock ; it is more abundant in the aggregates of a coarse grain, clay 
 being the chief ingredient in those of a close and fissile texture. They 
 have all an internal stratified structure, which is less apparent in those of 
 a coarse grain, but which gradually becomes more distinct as the texture 
 becomes finer, and at last the rock graduates into a fine grained slate, 
 divisible into laminae as thin as paper, and having the smooth silky feel 
 and shining surface of the clay-slate of a primary country. Alternations 
 of the fine grained slaty varieties with those of the coarsest structure, in 
 many successive strata, and without any regularity of position, are of 
 constant occurrence, and frequently without any gradation from one struc- 
 ture to another.' ' Those of a pale reddish brown, and of a greenish 
 
 grey 
 
ccxl DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 grey colour,' he observes, 'all effervesce with acids; but none of the 
 varieties of slate.' He adds, ' I did not discover a trace of any organic 
 body in either variety ; but in many places great beds of limestone full of 
 madrepores are contained in the slate ; the limestone and slate towards 
 the external parts of the beds being interstratified.' 
 
 " Mr. Horner's observations were mostly confined to the eastern extremity 
 of this range of hills ; but a cursory examination of the country between 
 Porlock and Ilfracombe enables him to add, ' In the road which is 
 eastward of Linton, the coarser grained varieties are most frequent ; but 
 westward of that place, the slaty varieties predominate, very often resem- 
 bling some kinds of iron-grey clay-slate, found in primary countries. 
 Towards Ilfracombe this appearance becomes still more decided, and in a 
 cabinet specimen it would be impossible to tell the difference. But beds 
 of limestone with very decided indications of organic remains, contained 
 in this slate, show that it is of secondary formation.' In another place 
 Mr. Horner speaks of the curvatures which are so remarkable in the beds 
 of the slate-rock between Minehead and Porlock, and in other situations 
 he notices their angular contortions. 
 
 " In an account of the strata near Clovelly, which is likewise published 
 in the Transactions of the Geological Society, Mr. Conybeare describes 
 some more instances of this remarkable configuration, which he considers 
 as characteristic of, though not confined to, the grey wacke formation. 
 ' To that class,' says he, ' all the rocks of this neighbourhood may 
 probably be referred. The principal varieties are those known throughout 
 Devonshire by the appellation of dvnstone and shillat ; the former answers 
 pretty accurately to the description usually given by mineralogists to that 
 species of grey wacke, in which the fragments supposed to be cemented 
 together by the intervention of a paste resembling the matter of clay-slate, 
 are too small to be discerned, even by the aid of a considerable magnifier. 
 The latter alternates with the former, and is evidently a finer grey wacke 
 slate of the same nomenclature. Of these rocks, the coast near Clovelly 
 presents the most magnificent and interesting sections which we met with 
 in the course of our tour : both varieties sometimes alternating in distinct 
 and well defined strata, sometimes appearing to graduate into each other, 
 and the compact species assuming the external configuration of greenstone 
 or serpentine. The strata inclining in every direction, and describing the 
 most capricious and picturesque forms, both curved and angular, open an 
 abundant field of instruction to the geologist ; while they present difficul- 
 ties, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccxli 
 
 ties, of which neither the theory of original deposition on an uneven 
 surface, or a subsequent dislocation, appear to promise any plausible solu- 
 tion.' ' In neither variety of the rock could we discover any traces of 
 organic remains, nor could we perceive any imbedded fragments that 
 should indicate their having been formed from the debris of an earlier 
 rock.' 
 
 " In the map which accompanies Vancouver's Agricultural Survey of 
 Devonshire, are traced four or five parallel courses or stratified beds of 
 limestone, which extend through a great part of the Exmoor district, in 
 a direction nearly east and west ; two of these from the vicinity of Ilfra- 
 combe, and two from Barnstaple bay towards South Molton. The existence 
 of one of the former is merely inferred from what Mr. Vancouver had 
 observed on the cliff's at one end of the course, and at a place southward 
 of Lanacre bridge, in Somersetshire. He traces the other from the cliffs 
 a little to the westward of the parish of Ilfracombe, eastwardly to Berry - 
 Narber lime-works, thence north of East Downe, and south of Kentisbury 
 to the Challacombe lime-works, the specimens from all which places, he 
 says, correspond in colour, whicli is a greyish brown : ' its texture is 
 very close, and it is more glossy in its fracture than other limestone, and 
 interspersed with minute veins of calcareous spar. It is not easy to dis- 
 tinguish it at sight from the hard slaty rock.' 
 
 " The next stratum of limestone, according to the same authority, com- 
 poses a part of the promontory that projects northwardly in the parish of 
 Fremington, and occasions that sudden bend in the river Taw, opposite to 
 Heanton House. Mr. Vancouver supposes that this continues through the 
 parishes of Braunton, Heanton-Punchardon, and Barnstaple, but no part of 
 it to the south of the Taw. The fourth stratum or bed crops out, he observes, 
 near St. Anne's chapel, in the parish of Heanton-Punchardon; passing thence 
 eastw r ardly through the parish of Fremington, where it does not exceed 
 five feet in thickness, and is inclosed in a stratum of hard bluish building- 
 stone, occasionally veined with quartz ; thence through Bickington, 
 Bishop's Tawton, Swimbridge, the northern part of Filleigh, and the 
 southern part of Molland Bottreaux, West Anstey, and through the 
 parishes of Dulverton and Shilgate, in Somersetshire. It consists of a 
 stratum of transition limestone, of from ten to twenty feet in thickness, 
 highly inclined and irregular in its dip, and imbedded in a stratum of hard 
 bluish building-stone like the preceding, which it greatly resembles. 
 
 Vol. VI. h h " Southward 
 
ccxlii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 " Southward of this line, and near Instow, is another stratified body of 
 limestone, from one to three feet in thickness, extending eastwardly 
 through the northern parts of the parish of Harwood, thence in the same 
 direction through the parishes of Chittlehampton, South Molton, the 
 northern parts of Bishop's Nympton, by Ward's mill, through the parishes 
 of East Anstey, and Brushford. This, which resembles the preceding, 
 he says, is inclosed in a compact bed of thick slate or flagstone. These 
 beds of limestone contain occasionally organic remains, but not in great 
 abundance : near South Molton Mr. Buckland found fragments of encri- 
 nites and coralline bodies, and a perfect nautilus in the limestone quarries 
 of Filleigh. 
 
 " All these limestone beds have a general agreement in their dark blue 
 colour, and other characters, and all are of contemporary formation with 
 the grey wacke slate rock, with which they alternate. The appellation of 
 transition limestone may therefore, with strict propriety, be applied to them. 
 Marshal speaks of the black limestone of the quarry at Filleigh, which 
 belongs probably to Vancouver's fourth course, and again of the same 
 black limestone near Dulverton. Several courses of limestone, of a 
 similar nature, are pointed out by both these writers to the eastward of 
 Exmoor, on the borders of the county. The very strong resemblance 
 which all these stratified masses of limestone bear to those which are 
 described by Vancouver on the north and south of Dartmoor, leads to a 
 conclusion in favour of their common origin. 
 
 " Mr. Vancouver next notices a bed of culm, or anthracite, in the parish 
 of Chittlehampton, varying from four to twelve inches in thickness, which 
 follows the general direction of the strata of grey wacke in which it is 
 imbedded ; and veins of copper ore in the parishes of Swimbridge and 
 North Molton. According to a report once made to us by Mr. Gullet, 
 who, in the year 1790, re-opened the old mines at Combe Martin, there 
 are a considerable number of lead veins in that part of Exmoor. 
 
 " Of the four districts into which a due respect to received opinions has 
 induced us to divide the strata of this county, we have now described 
 the two first, namely, the primitive and the transition series, between 
 which it is extremely difficult to draw any precise and well-marked line of 
 division. Nature, in fact, can scarcely be said to have justified their 
 separation. The third and fourth, however, which we shall now proceed 
 to consider, present a new aspect ; being composed of strata which are 
 in no respect connected with the preceding, and belong to a much later 
 
 period 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccxliii 
 
 period in the history of stratification. They are usually designated by 
 the names of the red sandstone formation and the green sand district. 
 
 " The boundaries of the first of these are strongly marked by its pecu- 
 liarity of colour, derived from the diffusion through its substance of a 
 brick-red coloured oxyde of iron. Generally speaking, it occupies the 
 least elevated portions of the county, and skirts along the base of the 
 hilly district last described, extending north-eastward into Somersetshire, 
 and stretching away to the westward, between the ridges of argillaceous 
 slate, as far as Hatherleigh. Woodbury Hill, on the south-east of Exeter, 
 and a ridge of hills that lies between Silverton and Crediton, afford the 
 highest points to which it has risen. On the coast, it occupies great 
 part of the cliffs from Sidmouth westward to Torbay. This formation 
 rarely presents any imbedded exuviae of the animal or vegetable kingdom, 
 and its earliest conglomerate beds appear to have been formed under circum- 
 stances of very disturbed deposition. Some change too in their original 
 posture seems to have taken place after their induration ; for the cliffs 
 abound in dislocations which have been attended with partial subsidences 
 in all directions. The most important of its component beds are a stiff* 
 red clay, a red sandstone, and a red conglomerate, the fullest information 
 respecting which is conveyed in the following report by Dr. Berger. 
 
 " The quarry of Heavitree is situated about a mile and half from 
 Exeter, on the road to Honiton. It is worked to the extent of a quarter 
 of a mile in length, and at present (1809) to the depth of about 90 or 100 
 feet, in a plane intersecting that of the strata. The rock worked in this 
 quarry is a conglomerate evidently stratified ; the strata are from 6 to 
 8 feet in thickness, and dip south-east at an angle of about lo°." As 
 long as this rock preserves the character of a conglomerate, it is compact 
 and tenacious, and, according to the report of the workmen employed in 
 the quarry, it hardens more and more by exposure to the air. But as 
 soon as it passes to the state of an arenaceous stone, it becomes tender 
 and friable. It is very common to see blocks of it in this last state, and 
 sometimes of a great size, included in the middle of the conglomerate. 
 The cement of this rock is argillo-ferruginous, and by itself does not 
 effervesce with acids ; but it produces so brisk an effervescence from the 
 calcareous particles that are intimately mixed with it, that it might be very 
 easily mistaken for limestone. The substances which enter into the com- 
 position of this conglomerate are numerous ; and it may first be remarked, 
 that these are of very different sizes and forms, sometimes rolled and 
 
 h h 2 rounded, 
 
ccxliv DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 rounded, sometimes pointed with sharp angles, from very minute grains, 
 to the size of several inches in diameter. There are found in it rhomboidal 
 crystals of calcareous spar, and crystals of feltspar, most frequently of 
 an opaque white, and decomposed ; pieces of flint and grey wacke, 
 yellowish limestone, rolled masses of a sort of porphyry, which somewhat 
 resembles the antique, having a base of a reddish brown colour, not 
 effervescing with acids, and containing numerous small and well-defined 
 crystals of feltspar imbedded in it, pieces of a rock which is itself com- 
 pounded, having the appearance of a porphyry, the base earth)', and in- 
 cluding small grains of quartz, crystals of feltspar, and pieces of bluish 
 carbonate of lime, together with a whitish tender steatite, in small angular 
 fragments." 
 
 " Some farther information on the same subject may be collected from 
 Vancouver's Agricultural Survey of Devon, the author of which very 
 judiciously directed his attention to the strata, on the decomposition of 
 which the quality of the soil so materially depends. We there find that 
 the conglomerate described by Dr. Berger is confined to the western side 
 of the red sandstone district, and that a gradual change, which is marked 
 by the greater frequency of red sandy clay and red marie takes place on 
 advancing eastward, until these strata come into contact with the western- 
 most borders of the green sand formation of Blackdown. 
 
 " The red marl, which forms the lowest portion of the cliffs from Sid- 
 mouth to the mouth of the Axe, abounds with veins and nodules and 
 irregular beds of gypsum, which at Branscombe are sufficiently rich to be 
 worked profitably for the manufacture of plaster. 
 
 " There is also another valuable and very singular mineral deposit, which, 
 although principally connected with the red sandstone formation, occurs in 
 some other parts of the county ; we allude to those beds of manganese 
 which have been found in the parish of Upton Pyne and elsewhere on the 
 right bank of the Exe, and have been for many years past an object of 
 mining speculation. According to Dr. Berger, ' The red argillaceous 
 sandstone, at the spot where the mine is excavated, forms a bed several 
 feet in thickness from the surface ; below this is a conglomerate pudding- 
 stone, the same that is found in the parish of Heavitree, but quite 
 disintegrated ; then a reddish compact feltspar, in mass, containing a 
 few laminae of calcareous spar, and some crystals of quartz. This last 
 rock forms the roof of the mine ; the sides consist of a calcareo-manganesian 
 amygdaloid. As to the floor of the mine, it is not known of what it is 
 
 composed j 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccxlv 
 
 composed ; the vein, which appears to be of considerable magnitude, not 
 having been cut through. Its direction is east and west, dipping north, 
 with an inclination of 3 feet in 6. Of the black oxyde of manganese, 
 several varieties are met with, together with ferriferous carbonate of 
 » . lime. This mine has been since abandoned, and others have been opened 
 Mat Newton St. Cyres, four miles north-west of Exeter." The following 
 particulars respecting this mineral deposit are extracted from the minutes 
 of a traveller who visited this part of the country about 20 years before 
 Dr. Berger. « The mine of manganese,' says he, ' which I saw, is 
 at Pound Living, a tenement in the parish of Upton Pyne, on the road 
 to Thorverton and Tiverton. It is a floor, or bed, which dips in an 
 angle of 50° or 60° to the north-west, where, at the depth of 26 feet 
 from the surface, it terminates. From this point to that where it strikes 
 out on the surface, the distance is upwards of 100 feet. Its extent south- 
 west and north-east is nearly equal to this. A well is sunk 16 feet through 
 the mass.' 
 
 " In the same part of the district where these beds occur, is found a very 
 extensive mass of red amygdaloidal trap or wacke. There are traces of 
 this rock in the vicinity of Crediton, and at Sandford, Chawley, and 
 Silverton, but it is principally quarried at Pocombe-hill, in the parish of 
 Alphington, and at Raddon, in the parish of Thorverton. The quarries 
 at the last-mentioned spot are thus described by Dr. Berger. ' They are 
 all in the same rock, viz., a calcareous amygdaloid, the nature of which 
 however varies considerably in different places. In some, the nodules are 
 small, and very closely united in clusters, forming nearly a homogeneous 
 mass, with here and there nodules of a much larger size than the rest 
 imbedded in it. In other places, the nodules are about the bigness of a 
 pea, all of the same size, and consisting of rhomboidal sparry lamina?. 
 There are other places where the base of the amygdaloid has the appear- 
 ance of a sandstone, in which a small number of calcareous nodules are 
 imbedded, externally coloured green by the steatite, and exactly re- 
 sembling those which enter into the composition of some of the amyg- 
 daloids of Derbyshire, and of the Pentland hills near Edinburgh.' 
 
 " The same writer, speaking of the Pocombe quarry, says, « The rock 
 
 f This mine failed in the year 1810: since which new discoveries of veins of this mineral 
 have been made in the parishes of Doddescombleigh, Ashton, Christow, &c., about seven 
 miles west of Exeter. More recently, manganese pits have been opened in the parishes of 
 Lifton, Lamerton, Coryton, Maristow, Brent Tor, Milton Abbots, Ilsington, and Lew Tren- 
 chard. 
 
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ccxlvi DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 itself is an amygdaloid, the nodules of which are chiefly calcareous, 
 small, and uniform ; the base does not effervesce with acids.' This 
 amygdaloid in some places occurs decidedly as a dyke cutting the red 
 sandstone ; in others it forms irregular beds and masses, overlying and 
 intersecting the same sandstone, and throughout its whole extent, which 
 is not considerable, it is attended with those anomalies and irregularities 
 which are usually presented by rocks of the trap formation. 
 
 " The red clay or marl, which forms the uppermost of the three compo- 
 nent members of the red sandstone formation, is covered along great part 
 of its east frontier by strata belonging to the green sand formation, and 
 constituting the extensive summits of Blackdown and the tabular ridges 
 that project from it to the south coast between the Otter and Axe rivers. 
 They also occupy a similar position in the range of hills that stretch 
 from Axmouth along the east border cf the valley of the Axe, to Lam- 
 bert's Castle and Lewesdon Hill, in the north-west angle of Dorsetshire. 
 
 " On the west of the Exe, the summits of the Haldon hills are of precisely 
 the same formation, and the coincidence in height between the latter 
 and thesummit of Blackdown is very remarkable, the one being 817, 
 the other 818 feet above high water mark ; the same may be considered as 
 the elevation of the summits that divide the valleys of the Axe and Otter, 
 and of the range from Axmouth to Lambert's Castle : these strata extend 
 also along the south coast from Sidmouth to Lyme in Dorsetshire, and the 
 abrupt cliffs which they present afford admirable sections in which the 
 detail and relations of their component parts may be distinctly ascertained. 
 They consist of alternating beds of sand, sandstone, and chert, very 
 variable in thickness, colour, and compactness. 
 
 " The generic term of green sand has been applied to this formation, from 
 the dispersion of grains of green earth, resembling minute fragments of 
 chlorite, throughout most of its component members. Mica also occurs 
 in considerable quantity in many of its sandy beds ; but the predominating 
 feature is a base of siliceous sand, of a dirty yellow colour, inclining to 
 green : the mica and green earth are usually wanting in the beds of chert. 
 Occasionally the upper strata, when nearly in contact with the incumbent 
 chalk, become mixed with calcareous earth in sufficient quantity to consti- 
 tute an useful freestone, of which there are ancient and very extensive 
 quarries at Branscomb, that were used for building many parts of the 
 the interior of Exeter cathedral. 
 
 " Much siliceous sand and green earth are dispersed throughout this 
 Branscomb freestone, but at Beer, a few miles further east, the sand and 
 
 green 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccx l vii 
 
 green earth entirely disappear, and the stratum becomes a simply calcareous 
 freestone, in colour and substance resembling indurated chalk, risino- in 
 large blocks of any shape that may be required, and applicable to purposes 
 of ordinary sculpture for domestic ornaments. It is also capable of re- 
 sisting for many years the action of the weather, and though inferior in 
 durability to that of Bath and Portland, is the best freestone afforded by 
 the county of Devon, and has been recently used by Mr. Kendal for the 
 delicate sculpture of the new altar-screen in Exeter cathedral. 
 
 " The stratum from which this freestone is obtained contains irregular 
 beds and nodules of chert, and may be considered as forming a link 
 between green sand and the incumbent chalk, rather than as being strictly 
 a member of the green sand formation. It is identical with the famous 
 freestone of Toternhoe, near Dunstaple, in Bedfordshire. The only other 
 valuable products afforded by this formation are the whetstones extracted 
 from a variety of micaceous sandstone beds, that occur along the west 
 escarpment of the summits of Blackdown, as well as the east side of Hal- 
 don ; and the beds of chert, that are nearly co-extensive with the whole 
 green sand formation, and which being naturally split into angular frag- 
 ments of the size of gravel, afford an excellent material for making roads. 
 The fissures and cavities in this chert are often filled or lined with crystals 
 of quartz, or stalactitic lamina? of beautiful blue chalcedony, sometimes 
 composing small agates ; and near Sidmouth, the chert passes occasionally 
 into the state of red and green jasper, approaching to bloodstone. The 
 cavities in which the chalcedony is lodged, have in most cases been formed 
 by the decay of organic bodies of the sponge and alcyonium tribe, that 
 were entangled in the chert at the moment of its deposition. 
 
 " All the component strata of this formation abound in marine organic 
 remains, the form of which is accurately retained, whilst the calcareous 
 matter of which they were originally composed has been in most instances 
 removed, and sUex substituted in its place. In the whetstone-pits of Black- 
 down, where this process has been carried on with the greatest degree of 
 delicacy, the embedded shells are converted into transparent chalcedony, 
 and are exquisitely beautiful : and on the summit of Haldon, similar shells 
 are converted into the state of chalcedony and blood-red jasper : fragments 
 of wood, also, that have been lodged along with the shells in this formation 
 have lost their carbonaceous matter, and are completely converted into silex. 
 Many of them appear to have been drifted during a sufficient length of time 
 for marine animals to have perforated their substance, as they abound in 
 
 small 
 
ccxlviii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 small tubular holes and cavities, that seem to have been drilled by animals 
 allied to the pholas and teredo, which cavities are usually lined, or filled, 
 with transparent blue chalcedony, and minute crystals of quartz. 
 
 " This green sand formation constitutes the largest portion of the hills in 
 the south-east of Devon ; and its surface is generally marked by extensive 
 ranges of commons, being by no means favourable to agriculture. Mean- 
 time, the valleys intermediate between these hills, are extremely fertile, as 
 they are composed principally of the red marl. The vales of Honiton and 
 Colyton, afford good examples of the relative fertility of the valleys and 
 hills, inclosing them in this portion of country, derived from the causes 
 just specified. The green sand formation reposes on red marl along the 
 whole of its west and north-west frontier ; but along its east and north- 
 east border, it is divided from it by the interposition of the lias formation, 
 in very considerable thickness, from the cliffs on the east of Exmouth, 
 along the east side of the valley of the Axe to Axminster ; and thence, 
 crossing by Yartcombe to Pitminster, on the borders of the vale of Taunton. 
 It occupies the middle region of the hills between the green sand of the 
 summits, and red marl that forms the base of the valleys. Its general cha- 
 racter is a thick deposit of stratified blue clay, containing three beds of 
 a marly limestone, disposed in regular slabs, which rarely exceed a foot in 
 thickness ; these are usually of a blue colour, but at Uplyme, there occur, 
 with the blue, extensive beds of white lias. 
 
 " Both of these are used for the purposes of paving and building stone, 
 but they are not capable of resisting long the action of the weather. The 
 blue lias affords a useful lime for setting under water, and for agriculture. 
 This formation is full of organic marine remains, and also abounds in fossil 
 wood, that is usually impregnated with much carbonate of lime, and never 
 siliceous, as happens in that which lies in the green sand. 
 
 " As the lias occurs but scantily, so the oolite formation is totally wanting 
 in the county of Devon : were it present, its place in the series would have 
 been between the lias and green sand, as in the adjoining counties of 
 Dorset and Somerset. 
 
 " The chalk formation occurs in this county only in a few small insulated 
 patches, along the east border of Blackdown ; and in a district extending 
 only a few miles inland from the coast between Sidmouth and Lyme Regis. 
 Along this tract it is obscurely developed in the interior, being much 
 covered with surface gravel ; but it makes a conspicuous figure along the 
 shore, crowning great part of the cliffs along the line just mentioned, and 
 
 sometimes, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccxlix 
 
 sometimes, as at Beer Head, forming the entire mass of them. The chalk, 
 however, becomes gradually thinner in its progress westward, till it expires 
 at Salcombe, on the east of Sidmouth. 
 
 " All these may be considered as insulated or outlying masses, originally, 
 perhaps, connected with the chalk of Dorsetshire, and identical with it in 
 substance, and the character of its organic remains. 
 
 " One formation only, now remains to be described, more recent than any 
 that has yet been mentioned, and which, from its striking peculiarities, has 
 long excited public attention ; namely, the strata of pipe-clay, and im- 
 perfect coal, or lignite, at Bovey Heathfield. The position of these, and 
 all the characteristic circumstances of their formation, are thus described 
 by Mr. Vancouver and Dr. Maton. ' After following the western branch 
 of the Bovey river,' says Mr. Vancouver, ' from the commons of Widde- 
 combe on the moor, we descend into a plain, bounded on the north by a 
 range of craggy hills, in the parish of Bovey Tracey ; and westwardly, by 
 the high lands of Ilsington and Heytor rocks. In this plain or valley, are 
 found rising to the surface, and with a gentle dip or inclination to the 
 southward, distinct strata of a fossil substance, called Bovey coal. This 
 lies in several parallel seams, at the distance of six or eight feet from each 
 other, and to the depth of sixty feet, which is here considered above the 
 level of low water line at Teignmouth. 
 
 " ' The Bovey coal exhibits a series of gradations from the most perfect 
 ligneous texture, to a substance nearly approaching the character of pit 
 coal, and which by exposure to air, breaks into thin lamina;, assuming the 
 appearance of the grey, or common schistus rock of the country ; but in 
 which are indistinctly to be traced the original fibrous vegetable of which it 
 was composed, and which is generally the root and trunk of the pi 'n us syl- 
 vestris, or Scotch fir. Among the clay, but adhering to the coal, are found 
 lumps of a bright yellow resinous earth, (ascertained to be retinasphaltum, 
 by Mr. Hatchet,) extremely light, and so saturated with petroleum as to 
 burn like sealing wax ; and, when not carried too far, to produce an agree- 
 able aromatic vapour. Large jjieces of the board and root coal have been 
 taken up at different depths in the Stover plantations, and at the distance 
 of about two miles from the present coal-pits. This substance is also found 
 diffused, in very small pieces, through all the beds of potters' clay, in the 
 parishes of Teigngrace, and King's Teignton.' " 
 
 " In the above account of the natural history of this curious spot, by Mr. 
 Vol. VI. i i Van- 
 
ccl DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Vancouver, our readers will perceive an omission of some importance, 
 which is very ably supplied by Dr. Maton. ' Leaving the Ashburton road 
 to the right,' says this writer, ' we proceeded through Bovey Heathneld, in 
 order to view some curious coal-pits. They are more than a mile however 
 from the village, and about ten miles from the sea, in the midst of an open 
 heath. We were surprised to find the coal in alternate strata with a 
 whitish clay, that constitutes the substance of the adjacent soil. The 
 upper stratum of coal is but a few feet below the surface of the ground, 
 and the others about the same distance from each other, being from four 
 to sixteen feet in thickness. The lowermost rests on clay, which is fol- 
 lowed by a bed of sand, seventeen feet deep ; then the clay appears again 
 without any coal. These pits, which have been worked several years for the 
 supply of a neighbouring pottery, are about eighty feet in depth ; the strata 
 seeming to continue in an eastern direction towards Bovey, and underlying 
 to the south, about twenty inches in a fathom. As to the coal, it retains 
 its vegetable structure, and has exactly the appearance of charred wood, 
 being of a black or blackish brown colour, extremely light and friable, 
 separable into irregular lamina?, and strongly impregnated with bitumen ; 
 its appearance being wholly different from that of the decayed timber 
 found in the adjoining bogs.' 
 
 " The whole of this low plain may be considered as an inland basin ; and 
 it appears from what is here said of the coal-beds at Bovey Heathfield, and 
 the account here subjoined by Vancouver, of the strata to the southward 
 of these, that a great portion of this basin has been filled by the same 
 deposit. ' The lower grounds bordering on the river Teign afford a 
 valuable tract of rich marshes, among which, on their upper and western 
 sides, and in the parishes of Teigngrace and King's Teignton, is found a 
 cold, thin-stapled, grey loam, on very large bodies of potters' clay. These 
 hold a general direction from the church of King's Teignton, towards that 
 of Bovey Tracey. The breadth of these beds varies from a quarter to 
 half a mile; the clay is seldom found of a merchantable quality nearer than 
 from twenty-five to thirty feet below the surface ; it is often separated by 
 veins of inferior woodland clay; but the different beds of potters' clay are 
 always found to hold the same positions with respect to each other, viz. 
 southwardly, the pipe-clay ; the light brown sort in the middle ; and north- 
 wardly, the crackling clay. The criterion of excellence, is to find in this 
 clay certain small specks or particles of Bovey coal.' 
 
 " In the more elevated part of this basin, the beds of clay alternate, and 
 
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DEVONSHIRE. ccli 
 
 are finally covered with granite gravel ; and here, especially in those situ- 
 ations which are contiguous to the moor, has been found a great deal of 
 alluvial tinstone. This portion of the stratification is undoubtedly derived 
 from the high lands of Dartmoor, and both its disintegration, as well as 
 its removal from the parent rock, are indications of a revolution, to which 
 the surface of the globe owes much of its present aspect. 
 
 " We are led to conclusions no less important, with respect to the changes 
 which have taken place in our climate, by a discovery lately made in the 
 quarries of Oreston, near Plymouth. These quarries are worked in a lime- 
 stone rock of the transition class, which as usual abounds in caverns. In 
 one of these, the length of which was forty-five feet, the width fifteen, and 
 the depth twelve, were found imbedded in loose clay, fossil bones and 
 teeth belonging to a species of rhinoceros, being the remains of three dis- 
 tinct individuals. All of these were in the most perfect state of pre- 
 servation, which may be attributed to the matter in which they were en- 
 veloped, and perhaps to the dryness of their situation. The deposition of 
 these bones here, at the depth of seventy feet below the surface of the 
 rock, and one hundred and sixty feet in one direction, and sixty in another, 
 from the original edge of the cliff, by the side of Catwater, has naturally 
 excited much curiosity, and given rise to many erroneous opinions. As 
 the whole has now disappeared, in consequence of the progress made by the 
 workmen in the excavation of the quarry, and even before all the circum. 
 stances of the discovery could be duly investigated, no direct proof can be 
 brought of the original communication between the surface of the rock 
 and this deposit ; but the inference, that such a communication once ex- 
 isted, may be drawn from numerous examples of similar phenomena in 
 this and other countries ; where bones of the same species of rhinoceros, 
 in precisely the same state of preservation, (being not petrified,) have been 
 found in caverns of limestone rocks, of various ages, having no other con- 
 nection with the rocks themselves than that arising from the accidental 
 lodgment of the bones in their cavities, at a period long subsequent to 
 their original formation." ' 
 
 Surface and Scenay. — This county is perhaps more uniformly hdly than 
 any other of the same or nearly the same extent in England. The 
 
 * For the article of Geology I have been indebted to John Hawkins, Esq., of Bignor park ; 
 the Rev. William Buckland, professor of geology and mineralogy in the university of Oxford 
 having kindly made some additions, and described the eastern part of the county. 
 
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cclii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 proportion of level ground indeed is very small : the little vale of the 
 Culme perhaps exhibits a more level surface than is to be found in any 
 other part of the county within the same space. 
 
 The forest of Dartmoor is the highest ground in Devonshire ; its mean 
 height being estimated at 1782 feet; the highest point is supposed to be 
 2090 feet. The highest point of Exmoor, on the borders of Somersetshire, 
 is 1890 feet. Sholsbury Castle, in the parish of High Bray, is 1500 feet ; 
 Chapman's Barrow, between Challacombe and Parracombe, 1200 feet; 
 Hoardown gate, three miles from Ilfracombe, on the Barnstaple road, 
 1000 feet; Blackdown near Tavistock, 1160 feet; Butterton Hill, near 
 Ivybridwe, 1200 feet ; Great Haldon and Blackdown only 800 feet. 
 
 The o-eneral character of a great proportion of the county is a continued 
 succession of hills of the same, or nearly the same height. This circum- 
 stance, and the lofty banks and hedges by which they are flanked in, render 
 most of the Devonshire high roads very tedious and unpleasant to the 
 traveller. From the continued succession of such hills as have been de- 
 scribed, the views must of necessity be bounded in general by the top of 
 the adjoining hill, perhaps a mile distant ; and should any more interesting 
 view occasionally occur, it is totally obstructed by the hedges. This has 
 long been the character of the Devon roads. Westcote observed, near 
 200 years ago, that, numerous as they were, a man might travel through 
 the county without seeing a flock of sheep, except on Dartmoor, or such 
 open districts. 
 
 The county nevertheless abounds with many most beautiful distant views, 
 and exhibits in numerous parts of it very picturesque scenery. Among 
 very many fine distant views may be particularized those from Haldon, 
 looking over the rich vale of the Exe with its estuary ; from Blackdown, 
 over the vale of the Culme ; from Pinhoe and other heights, overlooking 
 Exeter, &c. &c. ; from the heights of Dartmoor, both on the side towards 
 Plymouth, and from High Tor rock, overlooking the vale of the Teign to 
 Teignmouth ; the view from Brent- Tor church-yard ; from the heights 
 above Torquay ; from Mamhead ; the singularly picturesque view from 
 Morwell rock, looking over the Tamar into Cornwall ; the view from the 
 higher grounds of Tawstock park, overlooking Barnstaple and the bay ; 
 and the view from Portlemouth church, overlooking the estuary of the 
 Aven with Kingsbridge, Salcombe, Malborough, South Pool, &c. 
 
 The road from Honiton to Exeter passes through a rich vale, and exhibits 
 pleasing views. The views about Powderham, Exmouth, Teignmouth, 
 
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 &c, have been much admired, and at high water are particularly rich 
 and beautiful ; but picturesque scenery is to be sought for on the banks of 
 some of the principal rivers near their sources. The scenery of the road 
 from Bampton to Tiverton, by the side of the Exe, is very rich. The 
 upper parts of the East Teign and of the Dart, particularly about Holne 
 Chase and bridge are highly picturesque ; and there is much beautiful 
 scenery on the wooded banks of the Tamar, the Tavy, the Taw, the Plym, 
 (particularly about Bickley mill,) the Erme, the Creedy, the Mole, and 
 other rivers. The ride from Moreton Hampstead to Lustleigh is through 
 a beautiful wooded valley ; and there is fine scenery in Whiddon park and 
 elsewhere in that neighbourhood. 
 
 The scenery of the little river Lyn, which falls into the sea atLymouth, 
 is well known and much admired. The valley of stones near Linton has 
 been somewhat over-rated by those who have not seen similar scenery in the 
 north-west of Yorkshire, and other parts of the kingdom. The rocks 
 which skirt this valley of stones towards the sea, as seen from the water, 
 are magnificent. 
 
 The scenery of the romantic village of Clovelly, Sir J. Hamlyn Williams's 
 park, and of the new drive from the Bideford road called the Hoby, may 
 be ranked among the most singularly beautiful in the county. The various 
 and beautiful scenery about Torquay has also been highly and justly cele- 
 brated. The views from Mount Edgecumbe park and other commanding 
 situations about Plymouth are fine and interesting. The scenery of Lydford 
 bridge, and the waterfall on the little river there, should not be omitted, 
 nor the village of Milton, in the parish of Buckland Monachorum, situated 
 in a deep and narrow ravine, which is singularly picturesque, and has 
 much attracted the notice of artists. 
 
 Rivers. 
 
 The principal rivers of Devonshire are the Axe, the Otter, the Exe, 
 the Teign, the Dart, the Aven, the Erme, the Yealme, the Plym, the 
 Tamar, the Tavy, the Torridge, and the Taw. 
 
 The Axe rises in Dorsetshire : near Ford Abbey it becomes for a while 
 a boundary between that county and Devon ; thence it runs to Axminster, 
 having received two brooks from the Dorsetshire parish of Hawkchurch. 
 From Axminster it passes near Kilmington. between Colyton and Mus- 
 
 bury, 
 
ccliv DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 bury, and falls into the sea between Seaton and Axmouth : the smaller 
 rivers Yarty and Coly fall into the Axe ; the former rises on the borders 
 of Dorsetshire, about two miles north of Sheffhayne, in Membury, and 
 passing near Yarcombe and Stockland, between Membury and Dalwood, 
 falls into the Axe near Kilmington : the Coly rises about two miles north 
 of Cotleigh, in this county, passes near Cotleigh and Widworthy, Colyton, 
 and Colyford, falling into the Axe about half a mile beyond the last-men- 
 tioned place ; the course of the Axe from Ford Abbey is about 1.5 miles. 
 The principal bridges over this river are on the roads to Honiton and 
 Colyton, and Axe bridge, on the road from Sidmouth to Lyme. 
 
 The Otter rises in Somersetshire, near Otterford, to which, as well as 
 several of the places on its banks, it gives name ; thence to Up Ottery near 
 Monkton, between Comb Ralegh and Honiton, to Feniton bridge, Ottery 
 St. Mary, between Fen Ottery and Harpford, to Newton Poppleford, 
 thence near Colyton Ralegh and Bicton, to Otterton, about two miles 
 beyond which it falls into the sea at Ottermouth, its course in this county 
 being about 25 miles. The principal bridges over this river are at Up- 
 Ottery, Feniton bridge, on the road from Honiton to Exeter, and the 
 bridges at Newton Poppleford and Otterton. 
 
 The small river Sid rises near Sidbury, and passing through Sidford, 
 falls into the sea near Sidmouth. 
 
 The Exe rises on Exmoor, in Somersetshire, about three miles to the 
 north-west of Exe bridge, at which it enters this county, whence passing 
 near Hightleigh, Oakford, and Washfield, it reaches Tiverton : thence it 
 passes near Bickleigh, between Thorverton and Silverton, near Netherex 
 and Brampford Speke, to Exeter, to which it gives name : thence to Top- 
 sham, and between Powderham and Lympstone to Exmouth, where it falls 
 into the sea. From Topsham to Exmouth the river is nearly a mile wide 
 on an average, and navigable. The principal of the smaller rivers which fall 
 into the Exe are, the Batham, the Loman, the Creedy, the Clist, the Culme, 
 and the Kenn. The Batham, rising near Clayhanger, passes by Bampton, 
 to which it seems to give name, and falls into the Exe about a mile from 
 that town. The Loman, rising in Somersetshire, passes by Up Lowman 
 and Craze Lowman, falling into the Exe at Tiverton. The Creedy, 
 which rises near Cruwys Morchard, passes near Woolfardisworthy, be- 
 tween Sandford and Upton Helions, near Crediton, to which it gives 
 name ; near Newton St. Cyres, and falls into the Exe not far from Cow- 
 ley bridge. The Clist rises near Clist Hydon, and passing near Clist 
 
 St. Law- 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cclv 
 
 St. Lawrence, Broad Clist, Honiton Clist, St. Mary's Clist, and St. George's 
 Clist, to all of which it gives name, falls into the Exe near Topsham. 
 The Culme, rising in Somersetshire, passes Church Staunton and Hemiock, 
 through Culmstock and Uffculme, near Collumpton, Columbjohn, and 
 Stoke Canon, and falls into the Exe near Cowley bridge. The Kenn 
 rises near Dunchidiock, and runs through Kenford near Kenn, and falls 
 into the Exe between Kenton and Powderham. The little river Yeo 
 rises about two miles from Colebrooke, near which village it runs, and 
 passing near the bartons of Yeoford and Yeoton, falls into the Creedy not 
 far from Crediton. The maps describe a small river called the Dart as 
 rising near Cruwys Morchard, and falling into the Exe near Bickleio-h. 
 The whole course of the Exe is supposed to be about 70 miles. The 
 principal bridges over the Exe are that at Tiverton, Bickleigh bridge, a 
 bridge on the road from Crediton to Collumpton, Cowley bridge, and Exe- 
 bridge at Exeter. 
 
 The Dart rises in Dartmoor forest, near Cranmere ; near Two-bridges it 
 is joined by another stream, which rises between two and three miles to the 
 north-west, called the West Dart ; having run to the extent of Dartmoor, 
 it passes through Holne park, near Buckfastleigh, near Staverton, between 
 Dartington and Little Hempston, to Totnes ; thence near Ashprington, 
 Cornworthy, Stoke Gabriel, Dittisham, and to Dartmouth ; about a mile 
 beyond which it falls into the sea, its course having been nearly 40 miles. The 
 principal bridges over the Dart are at Holne, Buckfastleigh, and Totnes. 
 
 The Harbern, rising on the edge of Dartmoor, runs near Harberton, 
 to which it gives name, through Harberton-ford, and falls into the Dart 
 about a mile from Ashprington. 
 
 The Teign rises on the borders of Dartmoor with two heads, meetinc 
 near Holy Street, thence to Rushfbrd, near Chagford, through or near 
 AYhiddon park and Moreton woods, near Dunsford, Christow, Hennock, 
 Teigngrace, and King's Teignton ; hereabouts it becomes a wide estuary, 
 and falls into the sea between Shaldon and Teignmouth, its course 
 having been about 30 miles. The principal bridge over the Teio-n is 
 that on the road from Exeter to Newton Abbot. The West Teign, or 
 Bovey river, rises also on the borders of Dartmoor, passes near North 
 Bovey and Bovey Tracey, and falls into the East Teign not far from 
 Teigngrace. Holwell brook, the small river Hayne, and Radford brook, 
 all rising in or near Dartmoor, fall into the Bovey, as does the small river 
 Wrey, which rises near Moreton Hampstead. 
 
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cc l v i DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 The river Loman, rising near Ilsington, runs near Bickington, and 
 dividing Newton Bushed and Newton Abbot, falls into the Teign about 
 half a mile from those towns. 
 
 The Aven, which rises in Dartmoor, passes near Brent, between Diptford 
 and North Huish ; between Loddiswell and Woodleigh, near Aveton Giffard 
 and Bigbury, falling into the sea at Aven-mouth. The principal bridges 
 over this river are Brent bridge, on the Ashburton road, and Bickham 
 bridge on the road from Modbury to Totnes. 
 
 The Erme which rises also in Dartmoor, passes by Harford, Ivybridge, 
 Ermino-ton, near Holbeton, and falls into the sea at Erm-mouth, its course 
 being about 13 miles. Ivybridge, on the great western road, is the 
 principal bridge over this river ; there is a bridge over it also on the road 
 from Modbury to Plymouth. 
 
 The Yealme rises also on Dartmoor, passing near Cornwood, crossing 
 the Plymouth road at Lee mill, to Yealmton, passing thence near Newton 
 Ferrers, it falls into the sea at Yealme-mouth. There are bridges over 
 the Yealme on the great Plymouth road, and on the road from Modbury 
 to Plymouth. The little river Silver, rising about half a mile N. of the 
 Plymouth road, falls into the Yealme near Kitley. 
 
 The Plym, rising on Dartmoor, passes near Meavy ; between Bickleigh 
 and Shaugh, at about a mile distance from Plympton, which takes its name 
 from it, to Saltram ; near this place it forms a wide estuary, which becomes 
 narrower at Oreston, and it falls into the sea at Plymouth. There is a 
 bridge over the Plym on the road from Plympton to Plymouth. The 
 small river Meavy rising on Dartmoor, passes near Shipstor, and falls into 
 the Plym, in the parish of Meavy. The small river Torey, which rises in 
 the northern extremity of Plympton parish, runs through Newnham park 
 and the town of Plympton, falling into the Plym near New bridge. 
 
 The Tamar rises in the parish of Morwinstow, near the northern ex- 
 tremity of Cornwall ; it soon becomes the boundary between Cornwall and 
 Devonshire, and so continues during nearly the whole of its course, which 
 is about forty miles. In the parish of Werrington, it has Devonshire on 
 both sides, and the village of Wellington on its western side. The Wer- 
 rington river, which rises near Tremaine, runs through Werrington park, 
 and falls into the Tamar near the upper New bridge. On the east side of 
 the Tamar, near the river, are the Devonshire parishes of Pancrasweek, 
 Brid"-erule, (where is a bridge,) Tetcot, Luffincot, St. Giles on the 
 heath, Lifton, Bradstone, Dunterton, Milton Abbot, Sydenham, Beer 
 
 Ferrers, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cclvii 
 
 Ferrers, Tamerton-Foliot, and St. Budeaux. It becomes a wide es- 
 tuary near Beer Alston, and further on, below Saltash, which is on the 
 Cornish side, forms the harbour of Hamoaze, falling into Causand bay, 
 between Mount Edgecumbe and Stonehouse. The principal bridges over 
 the Tamar are Bridgerule, Tamerton, New bridge, Polston bridge, Grais- 
 ton bridge, Horse bridge, and New bridge in the parish of Calstock. 
 
 The rivers which fall into the Tamar, as described in the maps, are the 
 Wick, the Derle, the Deer, the Cary, the Claw, the Lyd, and the Tavy. 
 
 The Wick rises near Pancrasweek, and runs near Pyworthy, falling into 
 the Tamar nearly opposite North Tamerton. The Derle rising near Py- 
 worthy, and the Deer near Holsworthy, join their streams, and fall into the 
 Tamar about a mile and a half more to the south, and half a mile further 
 the Claw, which rises near Clawton, and runs near Tetcot. The Cary 
 rises near Ashwater, passes between the village of Virginstow and the 
 barton of Cary, and falls into the Tamar between the upper New bridge 
 and Polston bridge. The Lyd, which rises on Dartmoor, passes by Lid- 
 ford, where it forms a beautiful cataract ; thence near Coryton, Marystowe, 
 and Lifton, falling into the Tamar, nearly two miles south of Polston 
 bridge. The small river Tinhay falls into the Lyd near Lifton. The 
 Tavy, which rises on Dartmoor, near Bagtor, passes between Peter and 
 Mary Tavy, to Tavistock, giving its name to those places ; thence, near 
 Whitechurch and Buckland Monachorum, between Beer Ferrers and Ta- 
 merton Foliot, it falls into the Tamar opposite Landulph. The little river 
 Stour rises in Dartmoor, and running near Sampford Spiney, Walkhampton 
 and Buckland Monachorum, falls into the Tavy. 
 
 The river Torridge rises from nearly the same spot as the Tamar, in the 
 parish of Morwinstow, in Cornwall, and runs through the north-west part of 
 the county, in a very circuitous course, for about fifty miles, till it falls into 
 the sea near Appledore. It runs between East and West Putford ; 
 between Bulkworthy and Abbots Bickington ; near Newton Petrock ; 
 between Shebbear and Bradford ; near Black Torrington and Shipwash ; 
 between Meeth and Iddesleigh ; and between Dowland, Dolton and 
 Beaford, on the eastern side ; and Huish and Little Torrington on the 
 west, to Great Torrington ; thence leaving Frithelstock and Monckleigh 
 on the west, to Weare GifFard ; thence near Lancras to Bideford ; from 
 Bideford, being there a wide estuary, between Northam and Westleigh ; 
 between Appledore and Instow ; near which it unites with the estuary of 
 
 Vol. VI. k k the 
 
cclviii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 the Taw, and both together, about two miles from thence, fall into Barn- 
 staple bay. The principal bridges over the Torridge are at Tadiport near 
 Torrington, and at Bideford. 
 
 The little river Waldron, which rises near Bradworthy, runs near Sut- 
 combe and Milton Damarell, and falls into the Torridge near Bradford. 
 The Okement rises in two streams, called the East and West Okement, 
 which, falling down from Dartmoor, surround Oakhampton park, and 
 unite near the town of that name ; running thence between Jacobstow 
 and Exbourn, and near Monk Oakhampton, it falls into the Torridge nearly 
 opposite Meeth. 
 
 The river Taw rises on Dartmoor, near Cranmere, passes near Belston, 
 crosses the Oakhampton road between Sticklepath and Soutli Zeal chapels ; 
 runs near South Tawton, North Tawton, Bundleigh, Brushford, Nymet 
 Rowland, Eggesford, about a mile and a half to the west of Chawleigh 
 and Chulmleigh ; leaving High Bickington and Atherington about the 
 same distance to the west, and Warkleigh and Chittlehampton to the east ; 
 it runs between Tawstock and Bishop's Tawton to Barnstaple ;, thence in 
 a broad estuary, having Pilton, Ashford, and Heanton Punchardon, on the 
 north, and Fremington on the south, to Instow, where it joins the estuary 
 of the Torridge, as before mentioned. The course of the Taw to Barn- 
 staple appears to be about forty miles ; and from Barnstaple to the mouth 
 of the bay, eight miles. The principal bridges over the Taw are Umberleigh, 
 New bridge, about a mile from Bishop's Tawton, and Barnstaple bridge. 
 
 The Little Dart river, rising near Rackenford, receives another smaller 
 stream, called the Sturcombe, and passing near Witheridge, East and 
 West Worlington, Cheldon, and Chulmleigh, falls into the Taw about a 
 mile and a half from the last-mentioned place. The river Bray, which 
 rises a little to the south of Parracombe, runs near Challacombe, between 
 Charles and Highbray, near East Buckland, through Lord Fortescue's 
 grounds at Castlehill, under Filleigh bridge, near Satterleigh, and New- 
 place, in King's Nympton, falling into the Taw near Newnham Bridge, in 
 Burrington. 
 
 The Mole rises about two miles north of North Molton, runs by that 
 place and South Molton, and near George Nympton, joining the Bray 
 nearly opposite to Satterleigh. Several nameless streams, rising to the south 
 of Exmoor, join the Mole. A small stream called the Tiddy water joins 
 the Taw in the parish of Burrington. Another nameless stream, passing 
 through Swimbridge, joins it near Bishop's Tawton. The river Yeo rises 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cclix 
 
 in two streams to the south-west of Parracombe : one of these runs near 
 Arlington and Loxhore, and the other near Bratton Fleming ; having 
 united, the Yeo runs by Yeotown, near Goodleigh, and between Pilton and 
 Barnstaple, near which it falls into the estuary of the Taw. There is a 
 bridge over the Yeo between Pilton and Barnstaple. 
 
 The little river Lyn rises on Exmoor, and after a course of* about ten 
 miles, having passed near Brendon, falls into the sea at Lymouth, near 
 Linton, to both which it gives name. Near the sea, it has a fall of about 
 fourteen feet, forming at times a fine cascade. 
 
 Navigable Rivers and Creeks; and Canals. 
 
 The river Exe is navigable for large vessels up to Topsham, whence 
 there is a canal for sloops and barges to Exeter. s The Teign is navigable 
 to Newton Bushell, between which and King's Teignton it is joined by 
 the Teigngrace Canal. The Dart is navigable from Dartmouth to Totnes. 
 
 A creek runs from the Mewstone, near Bolthead, to Kingsbridge, about 
 five miles navigable for barges and small sloops ; and this creek having 
 several ramifications, lime, sand, and other manure, are conveniently im- 
 ported to many of the neighbouring parishes, and the produce of the soil 
 exported. 
 
 The Yealm is navigable for sloops and small brigs to Kitley quay, and 
 for barges and small boats half a mile higher. The Tamar is navigable to 
 New Quay, about 24 miles from Plymouth, for vessels of about 130 or 
 140 tons : vessels of fourteen feet draught go up to Morwell-ham quay, 
 six miles from Plymouth. The Plym is navigable at Catwater, near its 
 mouth, for men of war. Small vessels of about 40 or 50 tons go up to 
 Crab tree. 
 
 The Torridge becomes navigable for boats at Weare Giffard, and for 
 ships of larger burden at Bideford. The Taw is not navigable above New- 
 bridge ; from thence to Barnstaple it is navigated by boats and barges, 
 laden with limestone : even below Barnstaple, it is not now navigable for 
 ships of great burden, and is usually navigated only by small vessels of not 
 more than 80 tons : vessels of 140 tons sometimes come up to Barnstaple, 
 the distance from which place to the Channel is about eight miles. 
 
 e See p. 197. 
 
 k k 2 In 
 
cclx DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 In the year 1792, an act of parliament passed for making a navigable 
 canal from Bovey Tracey to the river Teign at Newton Abbot, (five miles 
 and a half,) with a collateral cut to Chudleigh, (the same distance,) for the 
 importation of coals, sea-sand, and lime, and the exportation of pipe and 
 potters' clay, and Bovey coal. This canal was made at the sole expence of 
 James Templer, Esq., and was completed (with the exception of the col- 
 lateral cuts) in or about the year 1794. It is generally called the Stover, 
 or Teigngrace canal. 
 
 Little progress has been made in the Grand Western Canal, for which an 
 act passed in the year 1796 : it was to have gone from Taunton to Top- 
 sham, through a considerable part of Devon ; and with collateral cuts to 
 Tiverton and Collumpton. The only part of this canal which has been 
 finished is the Tiverton cut from that town to Burlescombe, passing 
 through Sampford Peverell ; the distance by the canal being about twelve 
 miles. The chief use of this cut is the conveyance of limestone from the 
 rocks of Canonleigh, &c. 
 
 In the year 1803, an act of parliament passed for making a canal from 
 Morwell-ham quay to Tavistock, for the importation of coals, lime, &c. ; 
 the conveyance of ores from the mines on Morwell-ham down, &c. ; with a 
 branch of two miles to the slate-quarries at Millhill. In making this canal, 
 a tunnel nearly two miles in length was cut through the hills, which in some 
 places are between four and five hundred feet above the level of the tunnel. 
 The canal was opened June 24. I8I7. Goods are conveyed from the Tamar 
 navigable river into this canal, being raised the height of two hundred and 
 forty feet by an inclined plane. The length of the canal from the Tamar 
 to Tavistock is about five miles. 
 
 In the year 1819, an act of parliament passed for making a canal from 
 Bude to Thornbury, &c. in Devon, for the conveyance of sea-sand, lime- 
 stone, and other goods, to pass through the parishes of Bridgerule, Pan- 
 crasweek, Sutcombe, Bradworthy, Pyworthy, Holsworthy, Thornbury, 
 Cookbury, Milton Damarell, and Bradford, with a collateral cut from the 
 Red Post, in the parish of Launcells, (Cornwall,) to Druxton bridge, in 
 the parish of Werrington, passing through several Cornish parishes ; and 
 those of Werrington, North Petherwin, and St. Giles on the Heath, in 
 Devon. In pursuance of this act, a breakwater has been constructed, at 
 a considerable expence, at Bude, which promises to be a complete protec- 
 tion, and to withstand all assaults. A reservoir also, covering an area of 
 6eventy acres, has been constructed, and the canal completed to Hele bridge. 
 
 It 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cclxi 
 
 It has not however yet entered Devonshire, but it is expected that it will 
 be completed as far as Holsworthy on the one branch, and as far as Ta- 
 merton bridge on the other, within twelve months. Steam-engines have 
 been constructed on the inclined planes. 
 
 Roads. 
 
 The great road from London to Exeter and Plymouth enters Devon 
 between the nine and ten milestone from Bridport, and reaches Axminster 
 twelve miles from the last-mentioned town ; thence it passes through 
 Kilmington and the hamlet of Wilmington, leaving Widworthy and OfFwell 
 on the left, to Honiton (eight miles and a half). From Honiton it passes 
 between Feniton and Gittisham, between Whimple and Rockbeare to 
 Honiton Clist ; and leaving Sowton to the left, through Heavitree to 
 Exeter (16 miles). From Exeter it proceeds through Alphington and 
 Shillingford to Chudleigh (nine miles) ; thence through Bickington to 
 Ashburton (nine miles). From Ashburton it passes through Buckfast- 
 leigh, Dean Prior, and South Brent, to Ivybridge (12 miles and a half) ; 
 thence through Plympton to Plymouth (about 12 miles) ; its whole 
 course through the county having been about 77 miles. 
 
 Another road from Exeter to Plymouth branches off at Alphington, 
 and goes through Kenneford, over Haldon to Newton Abbot (15 miles) ; 
 thence 1 ' Mving Ipplepen and Little Hempston on the right, and Abbot's 
 Carswell on the left, to Totnes (eight miles) ; from thence leaving 
 Rattery on the right, and Harberton, Diptford, and North Huish on 
 the left, to Ivybridge and Plymouth (23 miles). 
 
 From Alphington a turnpike-road branches off through Exminster to 
 Star-cross (eight miles) ; from Star-cross to Dawlish (four miles) ; and 
 from the ace by the sea-side to Teignmouth (three miles). There is 
 another ioad from Exeter to Teignmouth, over Haldon, and through 
 Ashcombe (15 miles). 
 
 From Newton Abbot there is a turnpike-road through Abbot's Carswell, 
 to Tor Ilohun and Torquay, continued through Berry Pomeroy to 
 Totnes, with branches to Paignton, Brixham, and King's Weare. 
 
 From Ashburton there is a turnpike road to Totnes, passing through 
 Staverton and Dartington (eight miles). The road from Ashburton to 
 
 Tavistock 
 
cclxii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Tavistock (20 miles) leaves Holne on the left, and Buckland and Widde- 
 combe on the right, coming into the turnpike-road from Exeter to Tavis- 
 tock, at Two-bridges, eight miles from Tavistock. 
 
 From Totnes there is a turnpike-road through Harberton-ford and near 
 Moreleigh to Kingsbridge (12 miles) ; another from Totnes to Dartmouth, 
 leaving Ashprington, Cornworthy, and Dittisham on the left, and going 
 through Townstall (ten miles). The carriage-road from Dartmouth to 
 Kingsbridge is about 12 miles. From Dartmouth to Modbury is a turn- 
 pike-road, leaving Holwell on the right, and passing through More- 
 leigh (12 miles) ; from thence through Yealmton, Brixham, and Plympton, 
 to Plymouth (14 miles) ; but there is now a nearer road, passing over 
 the ferry at Oreston, in a very convenient boat called a flying bridge. 
 
 The great road from London to Falmouth and the Land's End branches 
 off at Exeter, leaves Whitstone, Tedburne St. Mary, and Cheriton 
 Bishops on the right, and Drew's Teignton on the left, passes through 
 Crockernwell, where is a posting house (1 1 miles from Exeter) ; thence 
 leaving South Taw ton on the right, it passes through South Zeal and 
 Sticklepath to Oakhampton (11 miles); thence through Bridestowe, 
 leaving Thrushelton and Stowford on the right, and Lew Trenchard on 
 the left, it passes through Lifton, and quits the county at Polston bridge, 
 about two miles beyond Lifton, and 40 from Exeter. 
 
 Another road from Exeter to the Land's End leaves Holcombe Burnell 
 and Dunsford a little to the left, passing to Moreton Hampstead (12 miles) ; 
 thence over Dartmoor, leaving Sampford Spiney and Whitechuijch on the 
 left, to Tavistock (20 miles) ; about three miles beyond which it enters 
 Cornwall, passing over Newbridge. 
 
 The turnpike-road from Tavistock to Plymouth Dock is about 14 
 miles, leaving Whitechurch on the left, and Buckland Monachorum, 
 Tamerton Foliot, &c, on the right. There is a turnpike-road from 
 Plymouth Dock to Saltash-ferry. The turnpike-road from Tavistock to 
 Ivybridge passes through Sampford Spiney, Walkhampton, a>id Meavy, 
 leaving Shaugh and Cornwood on the right. About eight miles from 
 Tavistock a road branches off to Two-bridges on Dartmoor, on the road 
 from Moreton Hampstead to Tavistock. 
 
 The turnpike-road from Tavistock to Launceston leaves Lamerton on 
 the right, passes through Milton Abbot, and leaving Dunterton on the 
 left, passes through Bradstone to Graiston bridge. 
 
 There 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cclxiii 
 
 There is a turnpike road from Exeter to Topsham, continued to Ex- 
 mouth (nine miles), passing near St. George's Clist and Woodbury, 
 and through Lympstone. From Exmouth a turnpike road continues, 
 passing through Withecombe Ralegh and Littleham, near East Budleigh, 
 through Otterton to Sidmouth ; thence through Salcombe Regis and 
 Colyford, near Comb Pyne, towards Lyme Regis, which is just within 
 the limits of Dorsetshire. Another road from Exeter to Sidmouth passes 
 through Heavitree, between Sowton and Clist St. Mary, through Newton 
 Poppleford, leaving Aylesbeare, Fen Ottery, and Harpford, on the left, 
 and Colyton Ralegh on the right (about 15 miles). A road branching off 
 out of the great road from Honiton to Exeter, at a place called Fairmile, 
 goes to Ottery St. Mary, and thence to the road before described as leading 
 from Sidmouth to Lyme. 
 
 The great road from Bath and Bristol to Exeter enters Devonshire 
 
 near the Red Ball on Maiden Down, passes through the hamlet of South 
 
 Appledore and the village of Willand, to Collumpton ; thence through 
 
 | Bradninch to Broad Clist, leaving Poltimore and Pinhoe on the right, to 
 
 Exeter. The old road passed between Huxham and Poltimore. 
 
 Another road from Bath enters Devonshire about a mile from Church 
 Staunton, and, leaving that village on the right, passes through Churchen- 
 ford, Up Ottery, and Roridge, leaving Luppit and Monkton on the left, and 
 Comb Ralegh on the right, to Honiton, and thence to Exeter as before. 
 A branch from this road passes through Luppit, and comes into it again 
 about eight miles from Honiton. The road from Bath, by way of Ilches- 
 ter, enters Devon about three miles from Chard, passes through Stockland 
 (in a detached part of Dorsetshire, surrounded by Devon) ; near Cotleigh, 
 to Honiton, and thence to Exeter. 
 
 The road from Honiton to Collumpton (11 miles) passes through Aw- 
 liscombe, leaving Broad Hembury and Kentisbeare a little to the right. 
 From Collumpton the road continues to Tiverton, about five miles. 
 
 From Wellington to Tiverton the road branches off beyond South 
 Appledore, and passes through Sampford Peverell and Halberton. There 
 is a turnpike road from Tiverton to Bampton, passing through a beautiful 
 wooded vale by the side of the Exe ; from Bampton it continues to Dul- 
 verton, leaving Devon about two miles beyond Bampton. A road 
 branching from this crosses a nook of Somersetshire, and entering Devon- 
 shire again between five and six miles from Bampton, leaves East Anstey 
 
 about 
 
cclxiv DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 about a mile on the right, and Bishop's Nympton about the same distance 
 on the left, and passes to South Molton. 
 
 The direct road from Tiverton to South Molton (19 miles) passes near 
 Washfield, through Calverleigh, Loxbear, and Rackenford, leaving Knowe- 
 stone on the right, and Creacombe, Rose Ash, and Bishop's Nympton, on 
 the left. The turnpike-road from South Molton to Barnstaple (12 miles) 
 passes through Filleigh, (within sight of Lord Fortescue's house and 
 grounds,) through Svvimbridge and Landkey. 
 
 From Barnstaple there are turnpike roads through Pilton and Marwood, 
 leaving Ashford to the left and Bittadon to the right, to Ilfracombe, (ten 
 miles); another, branching off at Pilton, and leaving Sherwell and Arling- 
 ton on the right, through East Downe to Comb Martin. 
 
 The road from Exeter to Barnstaple, (40 miles,) leaving Upton Pyne 
 on the right, and Newton St. Cyres on the left, passes to Crediton ; 
 thence through Sandford, near Morchard Bishops, leaving Lapford and 
 Eggesford on the left, and Chawleigh on the right, to Chulmleigh ; thence 
 through Burrington, High Bickington and Atherington, leaving Yarns- 
 combe on the left, through Bishop's Tawton, leaving Tawstock, (with Sir 
 Bourchier Wrey's house and grounds,) on the left, to Barnstaple. From 
 Chulmleigh a road branches off, leaving King's Nympton and Satterleigh 
 on the left, and Romansleigh and George Nympton on the right, to South 
 Molton (eight miles). 
 
 The turnpike-road from Barnstaple to Hartland, leaving Fremington, 
 Instow, and Westleigh, on the right, passes through Eastleigh to Bideford 
 (eight miles) ; thence, leaving Abbotsham and Clovelly on the right, and 
 Littleham, Alwington, Parkham, and Wolfardisworthy on the left, to Hart- 
 land (12 miles). The turnpike-road from Barnstaple to Torrington (ten 
 miles) leaves Tawstock, Newton Tracey, and Alverdiscot on the left, and 
 Horwood and Hunshaw on the right. The turnpike-road from Torrington 
 to South Molton (16 miles) leaves Stevenstone (Lord Rolle's) and St. 
 Giles's church on the right, and Yarnscombe on the left, and passes 
 through Atherington and Chittlehampton, leaving Honiton chapel on the 
 right, to South Molton. 
 
 The turnpike-road from Torrington to Bideford (about six miles) passes 
 through no village, leaving Hunshaw on the right, and Weare Giffard and 
 Lancras on the left. The turnpike road from Torrington to Oakhampton 
 passes through Little Torrington, leaves Peter Merland on the right, and 
 Merton, Huish, and Meeth on the left, passes through Petrockstow to 
 
 Hatherleigh, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cclxv 
 
 Hatherleigh, (11 miles,) thence to Oakhampton, leaving Inwardleigh on 
 the right (seven miles). 
 
 From Hatherleigh to Holsworthy, (about 13 miles,) there is a turnpike- 
 road, which leaves Highampton, Black Torrington, and Cookbury, on the 
 right, and Hollacombe on the left : the road continues thence to Stratton 
 in Cornwall, leaving Pancrasweek on the right, and Bridgerule on the left. 
 It leaves Devonshire between four and five miles beyond Holsworthy. 
 
 From Oakhampton, there is another turnpike-road to Exeter, passing 
 through Crediton. The road from Oakhampton to Crediton (about 18 miles, 
 now but little used,) passes through North Tawton, and Bow, or Nymet 
 Tracey, leaving Clannaborough on the left, and Colebrooke on the right. 
 
 The turnpike-road from Crediton to Tiverton (12 miles) leaves Sho- 
 brooke, Stockleigh Pomeroy, and Cadbury, on the right, and Upton Helions, 
 and Cheriton Fitzpayne, at somewhat greater distance on the left. The 
 turnpike-road from Exeter to Tiverton (14 miles) passes through Stoke 
 Canon and Rew, leaving Brampford Speke, Netherex, and Thorverton, on 
 the left, and Poltimore and Huxham on the right, to Silverton. From this 
 place there are two roads; one through Butterleigh, and the other through 
 Bickleigh, to Tiverton. 
 
 Rail-Roads. 
 
 In the year 1819, an act of parliament passed for making a rail-way, or 
 tram-road, from Crabtree in the parish of Egg Buckland, to the prison on 
 Dartmoor, for the conveyance of granite, lime, limestone, coal, culm, 
 manure, &c. By a second act, in 1820, powers were given to extend it to 
 the lime works at Catdown, and to Sutton Pool, at Plymouth. A third act 
 passed, in 1821, to amend the former acts, and empower the commissioners 
 to vary the line. 
 
 A rail-road has recently been completed at the expence of George 
 Templer, Esq., from Heytor or High-tor rock, to the Stover canal, for the 
 purpose of conveying granite. 
 
 NATURAL HISTORY. 
 
 Minerals. — The minerals of Devon are not sufficiently numerous or 
 
 important, to have been made the exclusive subject of any public or pri- 
 
 Vol.VI. 11 vate 
 
cclxvi DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 vate collection ; nor, with the exception of the neighbourhood of Tavi- 
 stock, have any considerable mines been of late years worked in this county. 
 The Devonshire minerals, of which I have been able to procure notice 
 from the British Museum, that at Oxford and a few private collections 
 being not sufficiently numerous for a scientific arrangement, are here given 
 in an alphabetical list. 
 
 Apatite. — Found in large crystals, with fine tourmaline, at North 
 Bovey. 
 
 Arragonite. — In fissures of greywacke slate near Torquay, Ilfracombe, 
 and Buckfastleigh. 
 
 Amphibole (Acthwlite asbestiforme). — In an old copper mine at Buckland 
 in the Moor. 
 
 Anthracite. — On the coast near Bideford : it approaches rather to black 
 chalk, as it contains not above ten per cent, of carbon : it occurs as a bed 
 in the greywacke formation, in a position nearly vertical, and extends 
 inland for many miles, in a straight direction eastward ; its thickness vary- 
 ing from two inches to two feet. 
 
 Arsenic. — Arsenical pyrites in Wheal Friendship mine, Mary Tavy : 
 in fine crystals at Ding Dong mine, near Newbridge. 
 
 Antimony. — In several places in the parishes of Chudleigh, Hennock, 
 and Bovey Tracey. (Polwhele.) 
 
 Asbestos (mountain leather). — In Wheal Friendship mine, Mary Tavy. 
 
 Axinite. — In the bed of the Ockment river near Oakhampton ; mixed 
 with garnets and epidote. (Rev. J. J. Conybeare.) 
 
 Baryte. — Flesh-coloured sulphate, in veins of limestone rock at Petit 
 Tor and Babicombe near Torquay : in Wheal Crowndale mine, Tavistock. 
 
 Blende. — In Wheal Friendship mine, Mary Tavy ; and in the Beer 
 Alston mines. 
 
 Calcedony — beautiful blue, in fissures and cavities of chert, in the 
 green sand formation at Sidmouth, and transfused through fossil shells in 
 the Whetstone pits of Blackdown and Haldon ; and on the hills nearHoniton. 
 
 Calamine. — Small specimens in Wheal Friendship mine. 
 
 Chiastolite. — In the bed of the West Ockment river, near Tavistock. 
 (Rev. P. Searle.) 
 
 • Road side near Ivybridge ; both in black slate. (Rev. J. J. 
 
 Conybeare.) 
 
 Clay. 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cclxvii 
 
 Clay. — Pipe and potters' — Hennock, Ilsington, Bovey Tracey, (in 
 Heathfield) ; Teigngrace, King's Teignton, Merton, Petrockstow, &c. &c. 
 
 . — Coarse — Fremington. 
 
 Cobalt. — Black oxyde, in new red sandstone, half a mile east of Daw- 
 lish. (Rev. J. J. Conybeare). 
 
 . — In the north part of Ugbrook park. 
 
 . — Wheal Huckworthy mine, Sampford Spiney. 
 
 Copper. — Grey copper and ruby copper, Georgina mine in Morwell-down. 
 
 . — Native copper, Wheal Crowndale, Tavistock. 
 
 • - Yer y rich y el ! ow ore ' Wheal Friendship. 
 
 . — Crystallised ditto, ) 
 
 . — Yellow pyrites, abundant in all the mines near Tavistock. 
 
 All the varieties of coated yellow copper ores occur in the Devonshire 
 mines of that neighbourhood, Wheal Friendship, Wheal Crowndale, Wheal 
 Crebor, East Liscombe, Wheal Tamar, &c. 
 
 . — Red copper, North Molton mine (Woodward) ; in octahe- 
 drons, West Liscombe mine, Tavistock ; with arseniate of copper in six 
 sided plates. 
 
 . — Green earthy carbonate, occasionally found in Wheal Tamar 
 
 mine, Tavistock. 
 
 . — Glossy purple copper ore ; Comb Martin (Woodward). 
 
 . — Malachite, Beer Alston. 
 
 Epidote. — In the bed of the Ockment. (Rev. J. J. Conybeare.) 
 
 Felspar. — Crystallised, and rhombic, in veins of killas, at Holne-chase. 
 
 . — Ditto and flesh-coloured, with tourmaline, at Bovey Tracey. 
 
 . — Large white crystals, (chiefly double,) found loose in de- 
 composed granite, near Moreton Hampstead ; and in solid granite all over 
 Dartmoor. 
 
 Fluor. — Beautiful green, at Beer Alston, with octahedral, and other 
 varieties of crystallization. 
 
 . — Purple, Wheal Crowndale, Tavistock. 
 
 Garnets. — In the bed of the Ockment. (Rev. William Gregor, and 
 Rev. J. J. Conybeare.) 
 
 Gold. — Said to have been found in small fragments in stream works on 
 Dartmoor ; found of late by Mr. Flexman of South Molton, in native 
 grains in the copper mine at North Molton, occurring in a matrix of black 
 and red oxyde of iron. 
 
 Gypsum. — See lime sulphate. 
 
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cclxviii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Horn-stone. — Pseudomorphic — moulded apparently in cavities result- 
 ing from the disintegration and loss of fluor spar, and of iron pyrites, in 
 South Hooe mine, Beer Alston. 
 
 Hydrargillite, or Wavellite. — Six miles from Barnstaple, on the road to 
 South Molton, in black greywacke slate (Dr. Wavell) ; in the blue grey- 
 wacke slate at Torquay ; (J. Meade, Esq., 1817.) 
 
 Iron. — Specular or micaceous iron ore, South Molton ; also in a vein, 
 in granite, two feet thick, near Hennock; and near Mount Tavy, Tavistock. 
 
 magnetic. — Wheal Crowndale mine, in the parish of Tavistock j 
 
 in the massive state, Tavistock, South Brent. Risdon, speaking of the 
 latter place, says, not far from hence the wonderful working loadstone hath 
 of late been found. Westcote also mentions a mine or quarry of load- 
 stones at Brent. In I667 Dr. Edward Cotton sent a loadstone of 60 lb. 
 weight to the Royal Society from this place ; though it raised no great 
 weight of iron, it would move a needle at the distance of nine feet. 
 
 spathose iron. — Beer Alston and the neighbouring mines ; fine 
 
 crystals ; Wheal Crowndale, Tavistock. 
 
 carbonate of iron, chiefly in acute rhomboids ; Wheal Crebor mine, 
 
 Tavistock. (Mr. Jehu Hitchins.) 
 
 argillaceous iron ore in Killas on Hangdown. 
 
 iron pyrites ; flattened octahedron ; Ding Dong mine, Tavistock. 
 
 iron-stone at Comb Martin. 
 
 ochre ; East Downe. 
 
 umber ; Berry Narbor. 
 
 Jasper. — Haldon hill ; transfused through the substance, and filling 
 the cavities of shells in the green sand. 
 
 Lead. — Brown carbonate ; Comb Martin. 
 
 . — White carbonate ; Hennock and Lidford. 
 
 galena argentiferous, or sulphuret of lead. — Beer Alston, Beer 
 
 Ferrers, Newton St. Cyres ; Wheal Betsy mine, Mary Tavy ; abundant. 
 
 '—— common. — Rattery, Dartington, llsington, &c. &c. 
 
 . — Steel-grained lead ore, from an ancient work supposed to be 
 
 Roman, at Newton St. Cyres. (Woodward.) 
 
 . — Grey lead ore, Comb Martin. (Woodward.) 
 
 Lime — Carbonate, crystallized in many varieties in the rock at Oreston 
 near Plymouth ; in Wheal Friendship mine, Mary Tavy ; and in fissures 
 and cavities of limestone at Torbay, &c. &c. — Sulphate of (Gypsum) dug at 
 Branscombe ; occurs also in the cliffs of red marl from Seaton to Sidmouth. 
 
 Lime, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccixix 
 
 Lime, fluate of, — with great variety of crystallizations, in the Beer 
 Alston mines. ' 
 
 Lignite. — Occurs in beds alternating with potters' clay at and near Bovey 
 Heathfield ; has decided marks of being fossil wood, retaining the struc- 
 ture, and splitting into flat slabs. 
 
 Manganese. — Black oxyde and grey ; Upton Pyne, Newton St. Cyres, 
 Doddescombleigh, Ashton, Christow, Lifton, Lamerton, Milton Abbot, 
 Coryton, Maristow, and Brent Tor. 
 
 _^_ — , Silicate of, — (rose-coloured) ; Week mine near Tavistock. 
 
 Marcasite. — In Mr. Courtenay's mine at Molland, 1729. (Woodward.) 
 
 Clay Porphyry (called in Cornwall Elvari). — Composed of crystals of 
 quartz disseminated through a base of compact felspar, of a buff colour, 
 occasionally stained by oxyde of iron. — Roborough-down, near Plymouth. 
 
 Quartz. — In fissures of granite ; Dartmoor. 
 
 At Sampford Spiney were found in granite a quantity of crystals of 
 quartz (upwards of a thousand), having perfect pyramids at both ends of 
 the prisms. (Polwhele.) 
 
 amethystine. — In Wheal Hope and Wheal Friendship mines, 
 
 Mary Tavy. 
 
 1 — A variety called capped quartz, having one set 
 
 of the crystalline lamina; decomposed, and the exterior part in consequence 
 separating from the enclosed crystal by a slight blow — near Tavistock ; and 
 in Virtuous Lady mine, Buckland. 
 
 . — A variety called Babel Quartz, — Buckland Monachorum. 
 
 Quartz is found in great variety of crystals in all the mines. 
 
 Retinasphaltum. — At Bovey Heathfield, with lignite. (Mr. Hatchet.) 
 
 Schorl, or Tourmaline. — Long crystals, handsome and well defined, 
 occur shooting through quartz at Black-pit near Bridestowe (between 
 Oakhampton and Tavistock). 
 
 . . — Superb" crystals of a larger variety were re- 
 cently discovered at North Bovey, mixed with apatite and quartz, in a 
 cavity of red granite. 
 
 Silver. — Capillary silver — Sampford Spiney. (Polwhele.) 
 
 . — In a mine at Huckworthy bridge, near Tavistock. (J. Haw- 
 kins, Esq.) 
 
 1 At South Hooe, in one of these mines, are found cubes, which evidently have been fluor ; 
 they are coated with quartz, and the cavity filled with water, the fluor having been decomposed • 
 these are sold by the name of water-cubes. 
 
 Soda. 
 
cclxx DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Soda. — Efflorescing carbonate of, found by Dr. Wavell in the tower of 
 Stoke church, near Hartland. See a paper by Dr. Clarke in the Cambridge 
 Philosophical Transactions. 
 
 Tin. — Old stream-works near the banks of the Plym, the sand near 
 Saltram, the Teign, &c. &c. 
 
 Old mines, on the summit and edge of Dartmoor, &c. &c, on Morwell 
 Down, and other places near Tavistock, in Whitechurch, Buckland Mona- 
 chorum, South Sydenham, &c. 
 
 Mines now worked. — In Plympton, and North Bovey, &c. &c. near 
 Dartmoor. 
 
 Meteoric Stone. — Risdon relates that in the year 1623 a meteoric stone ' 
 of 27lb. weight, fell with a great noise in the lordship of Strechleigh, in 
 the parish of Ermington : he describes it as being like a stone half burnt 
 for lime. A pamphlet, published at the time, says that it fell on the 10th 
 of January, in an orchard, near some men who were planting trees ; that 
 it was buried a yard deep in the ground ; that it measured three feet and 
 a half by two and a half, and was a foot and a half in thickness ; and that 
 pieces broken off from it were in the possession of many gentlemen of the 
 county. 
 
 Organic Remains. — The transition limestone at Torquay contains 
 several species of madrepores, turbinolise, flustra, orthoceras, producti, 
 crinoidea, &c. 
 
 The strata of lias, which extend from Lyme Regis into Devonshire, 
 contain the remains of the Icthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus ; two genera of 
 animals, related to the lizard family, on which the Rev. W. D. Conybeare 
 
 1 The attention of the learned world was first called to the subject of the extraordinary 
 phenomenon of falling stones, by one which was said to have fallen in Yorkshire in 1795, and 
 was exhibited in London. Sir Joseph Banks having received fragments of a stone which was 
 said to have fallen in India, proposed that they should be analysed and compared. They 
 proved to be similar, and of very peculiar ingredients, containing, among others, the only 
 two metallic metals, iron and nickel. Inquiry was called forth ; the records of such occur- 
 rences in various parts of the world were sought for, and there is no longer any doubt, that 
 these stones, or meteoric masses, have fallen from the atmosphere. In Rees's Cyclopaedia is 
 a large memoir on this subject, and a list of all the stones known to have fallen, with the 
 dates. The compiler was not aware of the Devonshire stone : and no other that fell in 
 Great Britain is noticed, except the Yorkshire stone, and one that fell at Glasgow in 1801. 
 
 has 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cclxxi 
 
 has furnished an excellent paper in the fifth volume of the Geological 
 Transactions, wherein he gives a detailed account of their osteology, 
 which proves that they form a link between the lizard family and fish ; the 
 bones of their head nearly correspond in number and form with those of 
 the crocodile, yet, instead of adhering by common sutures, overlap 
 by squamous sutures, as in fish ; an organization which enables them 
 the better to resist the fury of the water. They have four feet, or paddles, 
 formed exclusively for swimming, and their eyes are protected by strong 
 scales under the slerotica. The Icthyosaurus has been described also by 
 Sir Everard Home, in the Philosophical Transactions. 
 
 The strata of lias contain occasionally the remains of fish and Crus- 
 tacea, and abound in shells, chiefly of the genera, plagiostoma, gryphea, 
 nautilus, ammonites : they contain also four species of pentacrinites, 
 viz. caput medusa, briareus, subangularis, and basalt'tformis : these 
 animals present a most complicated organization, immediately between 
 the polypi and stelleridce of Lamarck. A detailed description of them 
 is given in J. S. Miller's k Natural History of the Crinoidea, lately pub- 
 lished. The greensand strata of Blackdown and Haldon are very 
 rich in shells of mollusca, which, in the former place, occur changed into 
 a delicate hydrophanous calcedony, and, in the latter, into an opaque red 
 or yellow jasper, frequently imbedded in a matrix of green chert, bearing 
 some coarse resemblance to prase. 
 
 Mr. James Parkinson, in the third volume of the organic remains of a 
 former world, and Mr. J. Sowerby, in the mineral conchology, have de- 
 scribed the following species from Blackdown : Trigonia eccentrica, daidalea, 
 spinosa, sinuata, alceformis, rudis, qffinis ; Cuculia glabra, decussata, cari- 
 nata, fibrosa ; Cardium hillanum, proboscideum, umbonatum ; Venus plana, 
 angidata, castrensis; Chama plicata; Pecten quadricostata, quinquecostata ; 
 Corbula gigantea, laevigata; Auricula incrassata ; Hamites sp'inulosum. 
 Nucula margaritacea ; Ammonites Goodhalli ; Natica canrena ; and two 
 species of Rostellaria?. There occur also various species of Ammonites, 
 Turbo, Murex, Cerithium, Bulla, Dentalium, Nautilus, Echinus, Spatan- 
 gus, Flustra, and a highly interesting species of Alcyonium. 
 
 The chalk at Beer contains the remains of a variety of Pentacrinites, 
 
 k I have been indebted to this gentleman for the above brief statement of the organic 
 remains of Devon. 
 
 Caput 
 
cclxxii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Caput Medusae, Terebratulaa, Pectens, &c, besides many species which 
 are common to this county and Sussex, of which Mr. G. Mantell gives an 
 account in his Fossils of the South Downs, recently published. 
 
 Indigenous Plants. 
 
 " Of herbes and plants," says Westcote, " there is such diversitie in 
 colour, fashion, taste, smell, and nature, as Mr. Gerarde's best ayde will 
 hardly be able to describe them : and for varietie of flowers (for those are 
 not unsought for neyther of our ladies and gentry,) Lady Flora herself 
 (though canonized by the Romans for a goddess,) will be to seek to fynd 
 out or coyn names severally to distinguish." 
 
 Some of the indigenous plants of this county are, as was observed in the 
 account of the natural history of Cornwall, peculiar to it, and have not been 
 found in any other English county. This was observed of the Illecebrum 
 verticillatum. Withering, however, speaks of it as frequent in Devonshire, 
 and Sir James Smith, in the English Botany, mentions it as peculiar to 
 Cornwall and Devon. The Rev. William Buckland found it growing 
 plentifully on the east side of Shute hill, near Axminster. The cyno- 
 glossum omphaloides, introduced into the English Flora on the authority 
 of Mr. Polwhele, who tells us that it was found by Mrs. Taylor of 
 Ogwell among the rocks at Teignmouth, must no longer, on those 
 grounds, be considered as a native plant. I have been assured by 
 Mrs. Taylor, that the whole has originated in a mistake, and that she never 
 found the plant at Teignmouth or elsewhere ; no wonder that botanical 
 tourists have since searched for it in vain on the Teignmouth rocks. 
 
 The Lobelia urens is peculiar to Devonshire, and I cannot learn, not- 
 withstanding another habitat has been given for it, that it grows anywhere 
 but on Kilmington common, and there, although confined to a small spot 
 of ground, it grows plentifully. This I was shewn by William Tucker, 
 Esq., of Coryton, during one of our Devonshire tours. I saw also 
 during these tours, anchusa sempervirens growing plentifully in several 
 parts of the south of Devon ; aquilegia vulgaris near Torquay and near 
 Ugbrook ; Bartsia viscosa near Stoke Fleming, and near Morwell ; irisfceti- 
 dissima, plentiful about Torquay; lepidium didymum; campanula hcederacea ; 
 
 cistus 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cclxxii a 
 
 cistus polifolius, near Babicomb and Torquay ; hypericum androscemum, oc- 
 curring sparingly in almost every ride ; rubia peregrina, near Torquay ; 
 lathyrus sylvestris, near Sandridge; Euphorbia Portlandka, nearExmouth, 
 and on the warren opposite ; Uthospermum purpurocceruleum, shewn to me by 
 Mr. Neck, on Dungeon Cliff, near St. Mary Church ; melittis grandiflora in 
 several parts of the south of Devon, particularly in great abundance near 
 Ashburton ; Sibthorpia Europwa, at Rattery and Sherford ; trifolium sub- 
 terraneum fy trifolium suffocatum, at Teignmouth; vicia bithynica, Exmouth ; 
 viola lactea on Bovey Heathfield and Woodbury common. I saw oralis 
 cornicidata abounding as a garden-weed, but could not find it in any of 
 the habitats described near Dawlish : Dr. Wavell tells me it grows near 
 Appledore. Polycarpon tetraphyllum, found at Lympstone in Hudson's 
 time, and by the late Mr. Newbery, had been sought for in vain at the 
 habitat described for many years. I was equally unsuccessful ; but about 
 two years after I was at Lympstone, the plant was discovered by Miss 
 Filmore growing abundantly near the spot described, and specimens of it 
 were sent me by the late Rev. Mr. Jervis, of Lympstone. 
 
 It is a singular circumstance, which should be noticed when speaking 
 of the botany of this county, that whilst the primula vulgaris is more 
 than usually abundant, particularly in the southern parts of Devonshire, 
 the primula veris, or cowslip, is to be reckoned amongst the rare plants ; 
 and though it is abundant in a few fields bordering on Dorsetshire, it is of 
 rare occurrence in the southern part of Devon, and in the north, and most 
 other parts, is wholly unknown. ' 
 
 The following brief list of rare plants, or such as are not of general oc- 
 currence, is given chiefly on the authority of botanists of the county, 
 quoted by Mr. Polwhele ; or of the Rev. J. P. Jones, who has lately pub- 
 lished a botanical tour of the county, in which some very interesting dis- 
 coveries appear to have been made by himself and other botanists of the 
 present dayj particularly of the habitats of cryptogamous and other plants, 
 which, though known to grow abundantly in the northern parts of the 
 island, had not before been found in the southern counties. 
 
 1 Mr. Polwhele speaks of one field, at Berrv Narbor, in which it abounds, but supposes that 
 the seed had been sown there. 
 
 Vol. VI. [1 1 4] 
 
cclxxii b 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Names of the Plants. 
 
 Veronica montana 
 Pinguicula Lusitani ca- 
 Schocnus albus 
 Scirpus fluitans 
 multicaulis 
 
 ■ holoschcEnus 
 
 svlvaticus 
 
 :} 
 
 Eriophorum vaginatum - 
 Melica nutans 
 Poa bulbosa 
 Centunculus minimus - 
 
 Exacum filiforme 
 
 Verbascum Lychnitis 
 
 Vinca minor 
 
 Eryngium campestre • 
 
 Bupleurum Odontites c 
 
 Sium repens d 
 CEnanthe pimpinelloides 
 Corrigiola litoralis 
 Radiola millegrana 
 Linum angustifoliura 
 Tulipa sylvestris 
 
 Scilla autumnalis - 
 
 Acorus Calamus 
 Juncus Acutus 
 Alisma ranunculoides - 
 Dianthus Armeria - 
 Silene acaulis - 
 
 Anglica 
 
 Spergula nodosa 
 
 Euphorbia peplis 
 
 Mentha viridis 
 
 rotundifolia 
 
 Leonurus cardiaca 
 Scutellaria minor 
 Alyssum maritimum 
 Cochlearia Danica 
 Teesdalia (Iberis nudicaulis) 
 
 Where found. 
 
 Near Torrington 
 
 Bogs on Haldon and Dartmoor 
 
 On a common near Axminster 
 
 Bovey Heathfield 
 
 {Plentifully on Braunton bo-1 
 rough - - - - J 
 King's Teignton ... 
 On Dartmoor - - 
 
 Wood near Dolton 
 Den at Teignmouth 
 Bovey Heathfield 
 f Said to be more frequent in 
 
 < Devon than any other 
 (, county. 
 
 {Near Chudleigh, &c. 
 Near Axminster. 
 Near Plymouth b - 
 
 SOn the marble rocks at Babi-1 
 combe - - -j 
 
 Bovey Heathfield 
 Near Cleve ... 
 
 Slapton sands. 
 
 Bovey Heathfield - - - 
 Near Dartington bridge - 
 Woods near Hall - 
 ("Near Torquay ... 
 i On a hill above Bigbury 
 (.Berryhead ... 
 Bideford • - - - - 
 Braunton borough 
 Preston near King's Teignton 
 King's Teignton and Trusham 
 On Dartmoor • - - 
 
 {Near King's Teignton and 1 
 Lustleigh - - - y 
 
 High Tor rocks 
 [ Near Exmouth ... 
 
 < Northam borough 
 ( Near Paignton - 
 Near Exmouth - - 
 Lord Lisbourne's grounds 
 Chudleigh, Lustleigh, &c. 
 Woolleigh ... 
 Cliffs at Budleigh Salterton - 
 Near Torquay ... 
 Bovey Heathfield 
 
 Authority. 
 
 Dr. Wavell. 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 Mr. E. Forster, jun. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 
 Dr. Wavell. 
 
 Mr. Anderson. 
 Mr. E. Forster, jun. 
 Dr. Wavell. 
 Rev. Dr. Beeke. » 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 
 Dr. Wavell. 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 Rev. W. Buckland. 
 Ray and Mr. Yonge. 
 Rev. Mr. Neck and Dr. 
 
 Beeke. 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 Rev. Mr. Weston. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 
 Dr. Maton. 
 
 Dr. Wavell. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Weston. 
 
 Mr. Yonge. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 
 Mr. Pike. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Goodenough. e 
 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 
 Hudson. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 
 Hudson. 
 
 Mr. Yonge. 
 
 Mr. Sinclair Cullen. 
 
 Hudson. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Weston. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 
 Dr. Wavell. 
 
 Mr. Forster. 1 807. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Beeke. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 
 » Now Dean of Bristol. b Mr. Jones could not find it in this habitat. 
 
 c An addition to the English Flora since Hudson's time. 
 
 d This species of sium, also, is a modern discovery. c Now bishop of Carlisle. 
 
 Erysimum 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 cclxxiii 
 
 Names of the Plants. 
 
 Erysimum prsecox - - 
 
 Cheiranthus sinuatus - 
 
 Crambe maritima f 
 
 Lavatera arborea - - - 
 Fumaria claviculata - 
 
 Vicia sylvatica - 
 
 Medicago polymorpha - 
 Chrysocoma linosyris 
 Carex extensa - 
 Littorella Iacustris 
 
 Myrica Gale - 
 
 Asplenium marinum 
 Hymenophyllum Tunbrigiense 
 Polypodium Phegopteris 
 Pillularia globifera 
 Fontinalis squamosa 
 
 Splachnum Turnerianum 
 
 ampullaceum 
 
 Gymnostonum fasciculare 
 
 ■ viridissimum - 
 
 Grimmia maritima. 
 
 (Weissia) crispula 
 
 (Weissia) recurvirostra 
 
 Dicranum varium - - - 
 
 flavescens 
 
 . flexuosum 
 
 Trichostomum microcarpum - 
 Tortula tortuosa - 
 Pterogonium Smithii - 
 
 gracile 
 
 Neckera pumila - 
 Polytrichum urnigerum - 
 Bryum roseum ... 
 palustre 
 
 ventncosum 
 
 Hypnum medium 
 ■ undulatum 
 
 alopecurum 
 
 Hookeria lucens - 
 
 Bartramia pomiformis - 
 Jungermannia tomentella 
 
 cochleariformis 
 
 — ^— — humatifolia 
 
 Where found. 
 
 f Near Teignmouth and King's ) 
 I Teignton - - -J 
 
 Rocks near Braunton Borough 
 ("Cliffs near Teignmouth and") 
 \ Sidmouth - - -j 
 
 Rocks at Torbay 
 North Bovey - - - 
 
 {Coppices on the marble \ 
 rocks, King's Teignton - ) 
 Frequent on the south coast - 
 Berryhead - 
 
 Bovey Heathfield 
 
 ("Frequent in the county in 
 
 \ boggy grounds. 
 
 Dartmoor ... 
 
 Lustleigh Cleve 
 
 Near Sidmouth 
 Cawsand hill - 
 
 Rocks at Exwick 
 
 Wall of Heavitree quarry 
 
 Haldon - 
 
 Lidford fall 
 
 Cawsand hill 
 
 Lustleigh Cleve 
 
 Babicombe - - - - 
 
 Near Maidencombe - 
 
 Lustleigh Cleve - - - 
 
 Dartmoor ... 
 
 Haldon .... 
 
 North Bovey - 
 
 Dartmoor - - - 
 
 ("Rocks at Exwick (without] 
 
 1 fruit) - - -j 
 
 Near Exeter - - -} 
 
 Dartmoor - - - > 
 
 Lustleigh Cleve - - J 
 
 (North Bovey, Lidford fall,] 
 
 X and Manaton - -J 
 
 North Bovey - - - 
 
 Lidford fall - 
 
 Streams on Dartmoor 
 
 Authority. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Beeke. 
 
 Mr. Polwhele. 
 
 Dr. Maton and Rev. Dr. 
 
 Beeke. 
 Rev. Mr. Weston. 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Beeke. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Beeke. 
 Rev. Mr. Holbech, lSl^.s 
 Rev. Dr. Goodenough. 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 
 Hudson. 
 Hudson. 
 Hudson. 
 Mr. Polwhele. 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 ("Mr. Turner and 
 \ Sowerby. 
 Miss Dale. 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 
 Mr. 
 
 Miss Dale. 
 Miss Dale. 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 Mr. Greville. 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 Mr. Greville. 
 Mr. Greville. 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 
 Miss Dale. 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 
 Mr. Greville. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 
 See English Botany, 2592. 
 
 ' This plant, when cultivated, is the excellent vegetable called sea-kale, introduced to the 
 notice of the market-gardeners near London, by Mr. Curtis, about the year 1795 : it had been 
 known some years before in the western markets. 
 
 s See English Botany, 2505. 
 VOL. VI. m m Jungermannia 
 
cclxxiv 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Names of the Plants. 
 
 Jungermannia julacea 
 
 purpurea 
 
 Targionia hypophylla 
 Lichen articulatus - 
 
 — aphthosus 
 
 atro-albus - 
 
 — — — « coccineus 
 
 ■ conspersus 
 
 • crassus 
 
 • chrysophthalmus 
 
 • cochleatus 
 
 . exilis 
 fallax - 
 
 ■ furfuraceus 
 flaccidus 
 
 ■ flavicans 
 
 geographicus - 
 globiferus - 
 
 ■ glomuliferus 
 
 ■ gracilis 
 
 . horizontalis 
 
 ■ Islandicus - 
 
 ■ lanatus 
 
 ■ laetevirens 
 
 ■ leucomelos 
 
 ■ Ientigerus 
 
 • miniatus 
 
 • omphalodes 
 
 • pallidus 
 
 ■ perellus ' 
 
 • paschalis 
 
 • pulmonarius 
 
 ■ pustulatus 
 
 ■ proboscideus 
 
 ■ plumbeus 
 
 ■ resupinatus 
 
 ■ saxatilis 
 
 ■ scrobiculatus 
 
 ■ stictoceros 
 
 ■ sinuatus - 
 
 - tartareus * 
 
 - tristis 
 
 - tremelloides - 
 
 ■ torrefactus 
 
 - ventosus - 
 
 - vulpinus 
 
 Where found. 
 
 Authority. 
 
 Dartmoor 
 
 Near Dawlish and Exmoutli 
 
 Widdecombe 
 
 Dartmoor 
 
 Moreton and North Bovey - 
 
 Dartmoor - 
 
 {Near Cliftord'sbridge,Drew's 
 Teignton 
 North Bovey - 
 
 Dartmoor - 
 
 Mountainous parts of Devon 
 
 {Wild Tor rock, five miles 1 
 
 from Chagford - -J 
 
 f More common in Devon 1 
 I than in other counties - J 
 Valley of Stones - 
 Dartmoor - 
 
 Heytor rocks - - 
 
 Heytov rocks 
 Dartmoor 
 
 Babicombe - 
 
 St. Mary Church 
 
 Lustleigh Cleve 
 
 North Bovey - 
 
 Moreton - 
 
 North Bovey - 
 
 fGrimspound and rocks on 
 
 \ Dartmoor 
 
 Lustleigh Cleve 
 
 Heytor rocks 
 
 Dartmoor 
 
 -\ 
 
 Moreton 
 
 Dartmoor - 
 
 Manaton - 
 
 Warren opposite Exmouth 
 
 Dartmoor. 
 
 Dartmoor 
 Dartmoor 
 Dartmoor 
 
 See English Botany, 1021. 
 
 Mr. Newberry. 
 
 Hudson. 
 
 Mr. Puddicombe. 
 
 Hudson. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 
 See English Botany, 1088. 
 f Mr. Slater and Mr. Daw- 
 \ son Turner. 
 Mr. Newberry. 
 Mr. Slater. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Newberry. 
 
 See English Botany, 1653. 
 
 English Botany. 
 
 Mr. Dawson Turner. 
 Mr. Newberry. 
 Mr. Newberry. 
 Mr. Anderson. 
 Mr. E. Forster, jun. 
 Mr. Anderson. 
 Mr. Newberry. 
 Mr. Newberry. 
 Mr. Hooker, 1S13. 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 
 Mr. Jones. 
 
 Mr. Newberry. 
 
 Mr. Newberry. 
 
 Mr. Puddicombe. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Jones. 
 
 James Brodie, Esq. 
 
 See English Botany, 772. 
 
 See English Botany, 720. 
 See English Botany: 
 Mr: Newberry. 
 Mr. Newberry. 
 Mr. Newberry. 
 
 These are the lichens used by the dyers. See the article Produce, p. cclxxix. 
 
 Birds. 
 
DEVONSHIRE- cclxxv 
 
 Birds. — On this head I have little to observe. The black eagle and 
 osprey are sometimes seen in this county, and the latter breeds on the 
 cliffs. The Cornish chough is less frequent than in Cornwall : the black 
 cock is still to be found on the moor, but is become scarce : among the 
 rarer birds are the ring owzle and the aberdevine or siskin. The nightin- 
 gale is so rare, that it has been questioned whether it ever comes into the 
 county. In addition to the authorities given by Polwhele, I am assured 
 by George Drake, Esq., of Ipplepen, that he frequently both saw and 
 heard one, which continued near his house a whole summer, a few years 
 ago. Among birds of passage, flocks of Bohemian chatterers, grossbeaks, 
 and crossbills are occasionally seen, and some rare waterfowl, especially 
 during severe winters. The late G. Montague, Esq., of Kingsbridge, had 
 a large collection of stuffed English birds, among which were many rare 
 species shot in this county : the collection has been purchased, since his 
 death, by government, for the British Museum. The Rev. Mr. Vaughan, 
 of Aveton Giffard, has a collection also of preserved birds. 
 
 Mimical and other remarkable Springs. — Chalybeate springs abound in 
 the county of Devon : some of these have acquired temporary celebrity. 
 A spring near Totnes is spoken of by Westcote as having possessed great 
 popularity about the year 1605 : its virtues were probably over-rated, as 
 it appears to have been in disuse about 20 years afterwards. At Brook, 
 near Tavistock, was a spring much resorted to by the common people, as 
 were springs at Swimbridge, North Molton, Whitwell, on Little Haldon, 
 and Bellamarsh, in King's Teignton. Mr. Polwhele, in 1793, speaks of 
 the latter as still in repute : that gentleman observes that he could learn 
 nothing at Lifton of a mineral spring there, mentioned by tourists. There 
 is a strong chalybeate spring near Lifton bridge. k A spring in St. Sid- 
 well's parish was formerly in repute for its medicinal virtues. Gabb's 
 well, near Cleve, in St. Thomas's parish, was formerly in use as a chaly- 
 beate, and there are others in that parish. There are chalybeate springs 
 also at King's Teignton, on Well estate in Ideford, a very strong one at 
 Bampton, others near Cowleybridge, at Castlehill, Ilsington, &c. ; several 
 in Exminster, near Totnes, &c. &c. Some of those near Totnes are, ox- 
 were in repute for complaints of the eye : there is a spring, said to 
 have similar virtues, at Anchorwood, near Barnstaple. At Ashburton, 
 
 k From the information of the Rev. Mr. Martyn of Lifton. 
 
 m m 2 and 
 
cclxxvi DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 and near the Dart, are springs saturated with ochre. A pool in one of 
 the Bovey coalpits is spoken of as warm, the water being covered with an 
 ochreous incrustation. Laywell in Brixham ebbs and flows. Risdon 
 speaks of a pond at Tidwell, near Otterton, which is of the same nature. 
 
 Produce. 
 
 Westcote, writing in the reign of Charles I., says, that whereas con- 
 siderable quantities of grain used formerly to be exported from this 
 county ; it was in his time, from the increase of manufactures, especially 
 in the north and south parts, become so populous that much grain was 
 imported, and he instances one year (1610) in which as much was brought 
 into the county as sold for 60,000/. Mr. Eraser, in his Survey, (1794,) 
 speaks of the district about Kingsbridge, Dartmouth, and Modbury, as 
 remarkable for the produce of barley, and observes that it was exported 
 from Salcombe in quantities scarcely to be credited. A great part of the 
 barley is now malted in the county : the quantities exported in the year 
 1820 from the port of Dartmouth (in which Salcombe is included) were 
 5548 quarters of barley, and 7180 quarters of malt. There were exported 
 also from this port 2468 quarters of wheat, 558 of wheat flour, and 357 
 of oats ; all these were sent coastwise. Great quantities of corn are 
 grown in the neighbourhood of Hartland, Bideford, and llfracombe ; and 
 there is a considerable exportation from those ports. ' 
 
 The chief corn-markets in the county are Exeter, Tavistock, Totnes, 
 Barnstaple, Plymouth, and Kingsbridge. 
 
 About the year 1770 potatoes were grown in great quantities in the 
 neighbourhood of Moreton Hampstead : they were taken to a market then 
 held at Two-bridges on Dartmoor, and purchased for the supply of Ply- 
 mouth and its populous neighbourhood, which is now entirely supplied with 
 potatoes grown south of Dartmoor. Potatoes are now grown in considerable 
 quantities in the South Hams : 90,498 bushels were exported from Dart- 
 mouth in 1820. 
 
 I find no data for ascertaining when Devonshire first became noted as a 
 cyder county. Orchards are not mentioned in the Domesday survey, and 
 I have not met with any incidental mention of them in records of the two 
 or three centuries succeeding, to throw any light on the subject. It 
 
 1 The annual average exportation from the port of Bideford for the years 1817, 1818, 1819, 
 and 1820,' was 2703 quarters of wheat, 3259 of barley, and 8492 of oats : considerable 
 quantities of oats are exported from llfracombe. 
 
 appears 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cclxxvii 
 
 appears from a passage in Hoker's MS. Survey of Devon m , written in the 
 sixteenth century, that a considerable variety of apples were then culti- 
 vated, and he does not speak of orchards as a novelty. He enumerates 
 thirteen sorts, one of which he calls the cyder fruit. The following passage 
 from the description of Great Britain" by Harrison, who was a contemporary 
 of Hoker, intimates that cyder was then by no means a common liquor ; 
 the more general use of it seems to have taken place before the beginning 
 of the ensuing century. " In some places of England," says he, " there 
 is a kind of drink made of apples, which they call cider, or pomage, 
 but that of peares is named pirrie, and both are ground and pressed in 
 presses made for the nonce ; certes these two are very common in Sussex, 
 Kent, Worcester, and other steedes (Devonshire is not mentioned), where 
 these sorts of fruit do abound ; howbeit they are not their only drinke at 
 all times, but referred unto the delicate sorts of drinke, as metheglin in 
 Wales." A great increase of orcharding took place in Devonshire soon 
 after this. Westcote, writing early in the following century, says, " They 
 have of late years much enlarged their orchards, and are very curious in 
 planting and grafting all kynds of fruits for all seasons, of which they make 
 good use and profyt, both for furnishing their own table and the neighbouring 
 markets ; but most especially for making of cyder, a drink both pleasant 
 and healthye , much desired of seamen for long voyages, more fitte to make 
 beverage than beere, and much cheaper and easier to be had than wyne." p 
 Great quantities of cyder are now made, in a productive year, for ex- 
 portation. The largest exportation ever known was in the year 1820, in 
 which 11,265 hogsheads' 1 were sent from the ports of Exeter and Dart- 
 mouth (the former including Teignmouth, and the latter Salcombe r ). 
 
 Prodigious 
 
 m Quoted by Mr. Polwhele from the Portledge Collection, since dispersed. 
 
 " Prefixed to Holinshed's Chronicle. 
 
 ° In modern times there have been some doubts upon this subject : the species of colic, 
 called from its frequent occurrence in this county, colica Damnoniensis, or the Devonshire 
 colic, has been attributed by Musgrave, Huxham, Sir George Baker, and others, to the free 
 use of this liquor. Sir George Baker, having analyzed it, and detected small portions of 
 lead in its composition, attributed its deleterious qualities to that circumstance, and he ascer- 
 tained that lead had been used in the construction of several of the presses, a practice which, 
 when discovered, it must have been easy to avoid. 
 
 p MS. Survey in the British Museum. 
 
 'l The Devonshire hogshead contains only 63 gallons. 
 
 i This number is exclusive of what is shipped by the growers, and is not liable to duty. 
 Affidavits are made before a magistrate that such cyder is made entirely of fruit of the owners' 
 
 growth. 
 
cclxxviii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Prodigious quantities are made for home-consumption. Almost every part 
 of the county has its orchards ; but the cyder of the South Hams is pre- 
 ferred, and it is there only, and in the neighbourhood of Exeter, that it is 
 made for exportation. I find however in Polwhele an observation that 
 cyder of a fine quality is made in the parishes of Dunkeswell and Church 
 Staunton, said to have been equal to that of the South Hams ; and this ob- 
 servation I have heard confirmed. In the more fertile parts of the county, 
 most adapted for the culture of the apple-tree, the produce is said to be im- 
 mense. Mr. Polwhele speaks of one tree as having produced five hogsheads of 
 cyder. Mr. Eraser mentions an orchard of three acres at Staverton, which, in 
 1793, produced 80 hogsheads. It is estimated that in that parish alone 8000 
 hogsheads are made in a full-bearing year : there are 32 presses and pounds 
 in the parish. Dartington also, and some other of the neighbouring 
 parishes, produce great abundance of cyder, and of the richest quality. 
 
 Cyder is sent from Devonshire to London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sun- 
 derland, Leith, Swansea, Liverpool, and thence by the canals into York- 
 shire, &c. 
 
 The parish of Beer Ferrers has long been noted for its produce of fruit, 
 as cherries, strawberries 1 , pears, walnuts, &c. Goodleigh has long been, 
 and still is, famous for its produce of cherries, which are brought to the mar- 
 ket at Barnstaple. There are cherry-orchards also at Christow. Paignton, 
 on the Torbay coast, is famous for a peculiar sort of cabbage, which takes its 
 name from that village : it is grown also in great quantities in the adjoining 
 parish of Cockington : this cabbage is an excellent vegetable, and there is 
 a great demand for it in the season, as well as for the seed and plants. The 
 great markets for it are Exeter and Plymouth. 
 
 Hemp was formerly grown in great quantities in the parish of Comb 
 Martin. It was spoken o'f as an important commodity when it was pro- 
 posed to make a port at Hartland, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. ' 
 It has long ceased to be cultivated in that neighbourhood. Flax is spoken 
 of by Campbell as one of the principal commodities of Devon at a later 
 
 growth. Abraham Hawkins, Esq., of Alston, before whom great numbers of these affidavits 
 have been made for many years, and to whom I am indebted for various particulars relating 
 to the neighbourhood of Kingsbridge, informs me that between 400 and 500 hogsheads of 
 cyder of this description are exported in a productive year. 
 
 r Marshall's Rural Economy of the Western Counties, i. 215. 
 
 ■ Campbell's Political Survey, vol. i. p. 340. 
 
 period. 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cclxxix 
 
 period. It is still cultivated in considerable quantities in the parish of 
 Halberton, and some is grown in the adjoining parishes, on the borders 
 of Somersetshire. 
 
 Among the vegetable productions of the earth, or rather of the rocks, 
 which have been converted to a commercial purpose, may be mentioned 
 the lichens, or rock-moss, used by the dyers. We are told that, in the 
 years from 1762 to I767 inclusive, Mr. Davy, whose brother had obtained 
 a patent for making it into English orchil, collected, from the rocks and 
 tors of Dartmoor, nearly 100 tons of the lichen tartareus. Many tons of 
 this lichen, and of the lichen parellus, which is applicable to the same pur- 
 poses, were collected in the neighbourhood of Oakhampton about 20 years 
 ago. After they have been well stripped, it requires many years to clothe 
 the rocks again with these vegetable productions ; but I am informed that 
 there is now a plentiful crop of both species. 
 
 The number of cattle bred in this county is considerable ; they are, 
 for the most part, sent in droves from various parts of the county, to 
 the graziers, in Somersetshire, Essex, &c, who fatten them for the London 
 markets- Considerable numbers of sheep also are bred in the north of 
 Devon, and there is a great sheep-fair at Bampton, but not equal to those 
 in Hampshire. Among the exports of 1820 at Dartmouth, I find 368 1< 
 sheep sent coastwise to Portsmouth and Brighthelmstone. 
 
 The wool grown on Dartmoor was formerly (in the reign of Edward I.) 
 exported in considerable quantities to foreign countries. In more modern 
 times it has formed one of the principal articles of importation, especially 
 in the more flourishing periods of the manufactures. 
 
 Butter is sent in considerable quantities from the neighbourhood of 
 Honiton, Axminster, &c, to London. I am assured, from the best autho- 
 rity ', that not less than 1500 dozen pounds are sent weekly from Honiton 
 to London, and about 300 dozen pounds for the supply of the towns on the 
 south coast of Devon. During the war, great quantities were sent to 
 Portsmouth. 
 
 What has been said of the Cornish mines may here be repeated of the 
 tin-mines of this county ; that it appears from Strabo, Herodotus, and 
 other ancient writers, that the Phoenicians, and after them successively the 
 Greeks and the Romans, traded for that article with the western inhabit- 
 ants of Britain, and that there is no doubt that it had become an article 
 
 ' Communicated on the authority of the principal butter-factor of Honiton, by C. Gidley, 
 Esq., of Honiton, to whom I have been obliged for various information relating to that neigh- 
 bourhood. 
 
 Of 
 
cclxxx DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 of commerce at a very remote period, and continued such even during 
 the middle ages. There is no mention of the Devonshire tin-mines in the 
 record of Domesday ; yet we find that so early as the reign of Richard I. it 
 was one of the principal sources of the revenue of the earldom of Cornwall. 
 In the tenth year of that monarch's reign, the earldom being then in the 
 crown, William de Worrham accounted at the exchequer for the ferm 
 and issues of the tin-mines of Devon and Cornwall. u In the 14th of 
 King John, the same William accounted for the sum of 200 marks for the 
 ferm of the stannary of Cornwall, and 200/. for the ferm of that of 
 Devon, by which it seems that the Devonshire mines were then worked 
 to a greater extent than those of Cornwall. It is probable, however, that, 
 from some temporary causes, the tin-mines were not then so productive 
 as they afterwards became ; for the immense wealth which enabled Earl 
 Richard, in 1257, to purchase the title of King of the Romans, has 
 been attributed by the old foreign historians to the revenue which he 
 derived from the tin-mines of his earldom. 
 
 In 1250 King Henry III. had granted a charter of protection to the 
 tinners of Devon, commanding all knights and others, of whom the 
 tinners of Dartmoor held, that they should not exact from them other 
 customs or services than they ought, and had been accustomed to do, 
 nor to vex them contrary to the liberties they had before enjoyed 
 under charters of the King's predecessors, but maintain them in the 
 said liberties. * In 1337 the profits of the coinage of tin to the Earl of 
 Cornwall, in the county of Devon, were 273/. 19s. 5id. v In the years 1373, 
 1374, and 1375, the coinage of tin produced, on an average, only 127/. per 
 annum. 2 In 1471 the quantity of tin raised in Devon was 242,6241b. 
 the profit to the duke 190/. Yfs. Hid., being at the rate of 1*. 6|e?. per 
 hundred weight. The quantity raised in Cornwall that year was 851,116'lb., 
 the profit 1705/. 5d., the rate of duty in that county being at 45. per 
 hundred weight. In 1479 the weight of tin was, in Devon, 211,0451b., 
 the profit 166/. 9s. 5$d. ; in Cornwall, 808,9501b., the profit 1620/. 17*. lW. a 
 The profits in both counties, 15 Hen. VIII., were 2771/. 3s. 9\d. In that 
 year there were, in the county of Devon, 424 tinners, who paid what was 
 
 » Madox's History of the Exchequer. » Pat. Rot. 35 Hen. III. 
 
 y Dodridge's Historical Account of the Principality of Wales, Duchy of Cornwall, &c. 
 2d edit. p. 97. 
 
 « Roll of the Revenues of Edward the Black Prince, 47—49 Edw. III. in the Tower. 
 » From the records of the duchy. 
 
 called 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 cclxxxi 
 
 called the white rent, 8d. per annum, to the duchy. In the year 1602 
 the profit of the coinage of tin in this county was only 102/. 17*. 9%d. ' 
 
 The average quantity of tin raised in Devon for six years, ending at 
 Michaelmas 1820, was 1171 blocks, weighing 586 cwt. and gibs., .and 
 yielding a duty of 45/. 17*. 9^. m Of the tin-mines now worked, Vitifer, 
 in the parish of North Bovey, Ailsborough, in that of Shipstor, and 
 Whiteworks, in that of Lidford, are upon a large scale. The former has 
 been rather productive, but is now on the point of being abandoned. 
 Gobbets, in Widdecombe in the Moor, is, or was lately, working : Wheal 
 Union, in Ashburton, and Bottlehill, in Plympton St. Mary, are, or were 
 lately, working for tin and copper. There are also some stream-works 
 and small mines near Daltmoutli, worked by labouring miners on their own 
 
 account. 
 
 There have been old tin-mines in most of the parishes bordering on 
 Dartmoor n , and stream-works on most of the rivers in its neighbourhood ; 
 
 ' Dodridge. 
 
 ■» The number of tons of tin raised annually, upon an average, in Cornwall and Devon, at 
 the beginning of the last century, was 1600 ; about the latter end, 3245 : but a small propor- 
 tion of this has been raised in Devon. Rees's Cyclopaedia, article Mining. 
 
 n The following table of abandoned tin mines was obligingly communicated by Mr. John 
 Taylor. 
 
 Date when last worked. 
 
 Parishes. 
 
 Ashburton 
 North Bovey 
 Lidford 
 
 Widdecombe 
 Walkhampton 
 
 Shipstor 
 Mary Tavy 
 
 Tavistock 
 Whitchurch 
 
 Name of Mines, 
 
 Whiddon Down 
 Peckpits 
 Bachelor's hall 
 Huntington 
 Brempts 
 Nuns 
 
 Keaglesburrow 
 God's Hal) 
 Whitemoor Mead 
 Ringmore Down 
 Crown Hill 
 Wheal Jewell 
 Wheal Unity 
 Wheal Saturday 
 Devil's Kitchen 
 Wheal Surprize 
 Concord 
 Concord East 
 Wheal Mary 
 Wheal Sidney 
 Furzehill 
 Grimstone 
 
 1810. 
 
 1810. 
 
 1810. 
 1807. 
 1810. 
 1810. 
 1780. 
 1790. 
 1809. 
 1809. 
 1797. 
 1795. 
 1809. 
 1795. 
 1795. 
 1795. 
 1795. 
 1795. 
 1795. 
 1798. 
 1805. 
 
 Walkhampton 
 Shaugh 
 Buckland 
 Sampford 
 
 These had all been abandoned before 1815; since that time East Poldice, in Buckland ; 
 Wheal Greenofen, in Whitchurch; and Wheal Lucky, in Sampford Spiney, have been 
 abandoned. These were worked but a short time. 
 
 Vol. VI. " « the 
 
cclxxxii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 the old stream -works at Plympton were renewed some years ago, but have 
 not been worked since 1805. 
 
 Early in the sixteenth century the stream-works on all these and the 
 Cornish rivers were worked to a great extent, whereby the principal 
 southern ports and havens of the two counties were decayed and destroyed. 
 The act passed for their preservation, in 1531, states in the preamble, 
 that so great a quantity of sand, gravel, stone, rubble, earth, and filth, 
 descending and coining down from the rivers near which the said works 
 were carried on, had so filled and choked the said havens that whereas 
 ships of 800 tons might heretofore have easily entered at low water, then 
 ships of 100 tons could scarcely enter at half-flood. It was enacted, that 
 no person should search for tin near the rivers connected with these havens, 
 unless the searchers should make " hatches or tyes" to secure the said 
 stone, sand, gravel, &c, from being carried down by the rivers, under a 
 penalty of 10/. By another act passed four years after, the penalty was 
 increased to 20/. It was enacted in the fourteenth year of Richard II., 
 that tin should be exported from Dartmouth only ; but this statute was 
 repealed the following year. The tin concerns are regulated by the stan- 
 nary laws", which have been already mentioned. The stannary towns of 
 Devon are, Ashburton, Chagford, Plympton, and Tavistock. The tin 
 was formerly smelted and coined in the county, but since the produce 
 raised has been so much diminished, it has been taken into Cornwall to be 
 smelted. 
 
 It appears that some copper-mines were worked in this county early in 
 the last century ; but it was not before the commencement of the present 
 that they were worked to any extent. Mr. Polwhele, in his History of 
 Devon, published in 1798, speaks of copper-mines at Ashburton, Wood- 
 Huish, in the parish of Brixham, Sampford Spiney, and a mine at 
 Oakhampton, worked some years, but then long since deserted. Of 
 these mines he promised to give a more particular account, but it is not 
 to be found in the subsequent part of his work. By inquiry at Oakhamp- 
 ton, I cannot find that any copper-mine had been ever worked there with 
 success. The history of mining, in the Cyclopasdia of Dr. Rees, states 
 that previously to 1800 it was supposed that the copper-mines of Devon, 
 mostly situated within a few miles of the town of Tavistock, had not alto- 
 
 See p.iv., and an account of its prison and parliaments, p. 313, 314. 414. More relating 
 to the Stannaries may be seen in the account of Cornwall, and some general observations re- 
 specting the mines. 
 
 gether, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 cclxxxiii 
 
 gether, in any one year, yielded more than 100 tons of fine copper, and 
 even this was then a recent occurrence. The rise of price of the metal 
 gave a great stimulus to the exertions of the miners, and from this time 
 the quantity of ore dug greatly increased. 
 
 In 1811 there were seven mines worked in the county of Devon, ex- 
 clusively perhaps of a few others unproductive : the names of these are 
 subjoined, with the quantity of ore offered for sale by each. 
 
 Tons. 
 Wheal Friendship - - - - 1 102 
 
 Wheal Crebor (on the Tavistock canal) - 130S 
 
 Wheal Ciwndale - - - - 863 
 
 East Crowndale - - - - 91 3 
 
 Ding Dong .... 250 
 
 Wheal Hope - 6 
 
 Wheal Huckworthy - ... 10 
 
 The following account of the produce of the copper-mines of Devon 
 from the beginning of the century to 1811, is copied from the new edition 
 of Risdon, having been communicated by Mr. John Taylor, who has 
 obligingly enabled me to continue it to the present time. 
 
 1801 
 
 1802 
 1S03 
 1801 
 1S05 
 1S06 
 1807 
 1808 
 1S09 
 1810 
 1S11 
 1812 
 1813 
 1811 
 1815 
 1816 
 1817 
 1818 
 1819 
 1820 
 
 Copper 
 
 Tons. 
 
 1078 
 2201 
 24S6 
 2578 
 3832 
 4542 
 3916 
 3308 
 3206 
 3747 
 3540 
 5321 
 5020 
 5743 
 4691 
 3650 
 3390 
 4053 
 3776 
 4037 
 
 Ore. 
 
 cnt. qrs. 
 18 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 
 17 
 16 
 13 
 
 5 
 
 3 
 
 7 2 
 
 2 3 
 
 
 
 1 1 
 
 3 
 
 5 
 14 
 
 8 
 15 
 20 
 
 3 
 
 Total 74,126 5 
 
 Fine Copper. 
 Tons. cwt. qrs. lbs. 
 136 6 3 
 252 12 1 
 4 1 
 
 288 
 
 283 16 
 
 332 
 
 412 
 
 394 15 
 
 346 6 
 
 364 19 
 
 358 
 
 371 
 319 
 
 287 
 
 1 
 
 475 10 
 473 5 
 
 10 
 
 323 13 
 506 15 2 
 2 
 
 407 16 
 374 16 1 
 463 1 1 3 
 
 7172 13 1 27 
 
 Value. 
 
 12,878 
 22,950 
 26,584 
 29,119 
 43,130 
 50,714 
 36,526 
 26,894 
 35,245 
 39,56S 
 31,517 
 40,340 
 39,079 
 45,77 l 2 
 30,581 
 21,270 
 21,093 
 40,49S 
 36,418 
 39,593 
 
 s. d. 
 
 6 1 
 
 
 16 95 
 
 9 Hi 
 16 7 
 
 10 8$ 
 6 5\ 
 
 2 3i 
 
 11 6J 
 
 3 1 
 
 15 
 18 11 
 
 16 11 
 
 12 3 
 
 13 9 
 4 6 
 
 12 7 
 2 9 
 9 7 
 
 15 11 
 
 669,779 5 8J 
 
 The principal copper-mines now worked are "Wheal Friendship, in Mary 
 Tavy ; Wheal Crowndale, in Tavistock ; Wheal Crebor, near the tunnel 
 
 9. on 
 
 n n % 
 
cclxxxiv DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 on the Tavistock canal ; East and West Liscombe, on the south side of 
 the Tavistock tunnel ; and Wheal Tamar, adjoining East Liscombe on 
 the west ; and a mine at Buckf'astleigh. 
 
 Wheal Friendship mine, which produces also some lead, is very produc- 
 tive of rich copper ore. It has been working for 25 or 26 years, and is 
 now about 170 fathoms deep. Wheal Crowndale, which was discovered in 
 1799, was very rich in ore for about ten years, but of late years has been 
 so little productive, that it is now nearly abandoned; it is 110 fathoms 
 deep. Wheal Crebor was very rich from about 1811 to 1819, when it 
 became unproductive ; but further discoveries have been lately made which 
 promise to render it again more productive : it is about 80 fathoms deep. 
 East Liscombe, discovered about three years ago, has lately become 
 productive ; a large water-wheel has been erected to drain the mine, for 
 the purpose of prosecuting further discoveries : it is now about 50 fathoms 
 deep. Wheal Tamar, near the river of that name, has been working about 
 SO years, and was rich with copper-ore for a short time, but has not of 
 late years been so productive. This is the only copper-mine in the county 
 which has a steam-engine ; the others being worked by very powerful 
 overshot water-wheels, some of which are from 40 to 50 feet diameter. 
 The four last mentioned mines, Wheal Crowndale, Wheal Crebor, East 
 Liscombe, and Wheal Tamar, are on the same lode which ranges as usual 
 from east to west, and are included in a space of about four miles in length. 
 There are other small copper-mines which have been tried, or are now ex- 
 ploring, but they are not considered as being entitled to particular notice." 
 The copper-mine at North Molton is said to have been worked many years 
 
 <i In the list of mines about 1815, communicated by Mi-. Taylor, is the following class of 
 mines working for copper, which had not then become productive : the event of most of them 
 is subjoined : — 
 
 Parishes. Mines. 
 
 North Molton - - The old mine, since again given up. 
 
 Mary Tavy - - Wheal Hope - - given up. 
 
 Tavistock - - Little Duke 
 
 Bickleigh ... Wheal Henry 
 Tavistock - - Wheal Burn 
 
 Little Duke - -{ s00 n given up. 
 
 North Wheal Crrbor -y ° ' 
 
 ,„, , „ . f produced some copper, but not of 
 
 Wheal Georgma " f importance. 
 
 " 5- unsuccessful. 
 
 ro-ir j -\,t f small produce, given up, but re- 
 
 - W llliam and Mary - -i ji . „„ v 
 
 J l opened last year. 
 
 with 
 
 George and Charlotte 
 
 W 7 heal Irapham - - J- given up. 
 
 South Wheal Tamar 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 cclxxxv 
 
 with good success. r It had been abandoned before 1778. Vancouver 
 speaks of its having been re-opened, and worked about the year 1813 ; but 
 it was not found to answer to the adventurers, and lias since been wholly 
 abandoned/ 
 
 The lead mines of this county and of Cornwall are more enriched with 
 sdver than those of any other part of the kingdom. The produce of the 
 mines at Comb Martin and Beer Alston, is said to have been unusually 
 great in the reigns of Edward I. and II., and to have much enriched the 
 treasury of those monarchs. In the year 1293, William de Wymundham 
 accounted at the treasury for 270 pounds of silver raised in Devonshire, 
 which was given towards the portion of Eleanor, the king's daughter, 
 then married to the Duke of Barr. The next year there was refined the 
 quantity of 521/. 10s. weight; and in 1295, 704/. 3s. Id. weight. In 1296, 
 in which year 360 miners were impressed out of Derbyshire and Wales, 
 there was great profit from the Devonshire mines, t 
 
 In the year 1326 it appears, that the mine of Bir-lond, which I take to 
 have been Beer, was in the king's hands, certain persons being then em- 
 powered to elect miners in the counties of Cornwall and Devon, and to 
 
 ' The ore was plentiful in 1729, and sold then at 6/. 10s. per ton ; a good price for that 
 time. Woodward. 
 
 * Mr. Taylor has favoured me with the following list of abandoned copper-mines, drawn up 
 in or about 1815 : — 
 
 Parishes. 
 
 Ashburton 
 
 Molland 
 
 Oakhampton 
 
 Eridestowe 
 
 Tavistock 
 
 Names of Mines, 
 
 Whitchurch 
 
 Buckland Monachorum 
 
 Whitchurcl 
 Lamerton 
 
 Awsewell Wood 
 Molland Mine * 
 Wheal Oak 
 
 Wheal Bedford 
 Wheal Peter 
 Wheal Adam 
 Great Duke 
 Wheal Tool 
 Holming Beam 
 Marquis 
 
 Wheal Tavistock 
 Wheal Smith 
 Wheal Surprize 
 Virtuous Lady 
 Crakern Beam 
 Wheal Charlotte 
 Wheal Carpenter 
 Wheal Capeltor 
 
 Owlacombe mine, near Ashburton, was abandoned about the year 
 
 • This mine was worked by Mr. Courtenay so early as 1728. 
 
 1 Fuller's Worthies, who quotes from records at the Tower. 
 
 Date when last worked. 
 
 1810. 
 1770. 
 1808. 
 1809. 
 1812. 
 1811. 
 1806. 
 1813. 
 1812. 
 1810. 
 1812. 
 1810. 
 1810. 
 1812. 
 1807. 
 1807. 
 1807. 
 1803. 
 1810. 
 1815. 
 
 bring 
 
cclxxxvi DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 bring back such as had deserted from the works. u In the early part of 
 Edward the Third's reign, I find a grant to the inhabitants of Devon, of 
 liberty to dig for gold or silver on their own lands for two years, giving 
 an account to the king's clerks. x In 1358, the king granted to John 
 Ballantine and Walter Bolbolter, all his mines of gold and silver for two 
 years. y This, probably, was an experiment ; for I find that at the end of 
 the two years, the king took the mines into his own hands. In 1360, a 
 writ was issued authorising certain persons to take up so many miners and 
 workmen as should be necessary to work in the king's mines in Devon- 
 shire, allowing them reasonable wages according to the custom of the 
 country ; to arrest and imprison such as should resist, till they should give 
 security to serve the king in the said mines ; and to buy and provide 
 timber at a competent price. 2 In 1361, John Wolf was made controller 
 of the king's mines in Devonshire. ' In 1370, there was a writ, directed to 
 the masters of the king's mines in the county of Devon, empowering them to 
 take eight men (miners, melters, and boilers,) out of the county of York, and 
 six miners from the counties of Nottingham and Derby. b King Richard II., 
 in 1377, assigned Henry de Burton, by himself and his deputies, to search 
 all mines of gold and silver in the counties of Devon, Cornwall, &c, as 
 well in the banks of rivers, and in rivulets, as in other places in the said 
 counties, where it might seem to him most for the king's advantage ; and 
 also to elect and take, wheresoever they might be found, such labourers 
 and workers as should be necessary for the said digging and works ; and 
 to imprison such as should resist. c 
 
 In 1384, King Richard II. granted to Nicholas Wake, Clerk, license to 
 dig for gold and silver in Devon for ten years 11 , paying tithes to the 
 church, and one-ninth to the king. e In 1405, Henry and John Derby, 
 
 » Pat. Rot. 19 Edward II. m. 18. x Pat. Rot. 12 Edward III. 
 
 y Pettus, p. 13. These were probably the lead and copper mines: the copper was sup- 
 posed to contain, indeed, both gold and silver. 
 
 ' Pat. Rot. 34 Edward III. pt. 1. m. 9. a Pat. Rot. 35 Edward III. 
 
 <> Pat. Rot. 44 Edward III. pt. 2. m. 2. dors. ' Pat. Rot. 1 Richard II. pt. 1. m. 2. 
 
 d The usual history of royal mines has been, that they were first worked at the king's ex- 
 pence ; when they became less productive they were farmed out; afterwards, when aban- 
 doned by the lessees, permission was granted to individuals or companies, who were more 
 enterprising, to work them: hence arose the company for working the mines royal. The 
 power which this society once possessed having been much abused, was justly considered as 
 highly injurious to the liberty of the subject, and has been abridged so as to render it nugatory. 
 
 « Pat. Rot. 8 Richard II. 
 
 had 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cclxxxvii 
 
 had a lease of the king's mines in Devon, the prior of Pilton being made 
 controller. f In 14-27, John Duke of Bedford had a lease of these mines 
 for ten years e ; and in 1 138, John Solers for 20 years, from the expiration 
 of the Duke of Bedford's term, paying to the crown a fifteenth of pure 
 gold and silver. " In 1440, Richard Curson, Esq., had a 20 years' lease 
 of all mines of gold and silver in Devon and Cornwall, with wood and 
 underwood requisite for the purpose of proving and refining the metal. ' 
 John Bottright, the king's chaplain, was made controller of the mines in- 
 1451 k : in 1454, Alured Cornburgh. ' The next year they were granted 
 to Richard Duke of York, for 20 years." 1 John Bottright, abovementioned, 
 was made governor of the mine at Beer Ferrers in 1457"; ar -d soon after- 
 wards he made complaint, as appears by a record in the Exchequer, that 
 Robert Glover, by the command of Roger Champernowne, (lord of the 
 manor) had taken away 144 bonis of glance ore, valued at 15/. 6s. 8d., and 
 made profit of the same without any thing allowed to the king, to the 
 king's damage of 100/.° In 1461, the Devonshire mines were leased to 
 John Ormond, Esq., for 22 years. p The same year, soon after the acces- 
 sion of Edward IV., all the king's mines in Devon and Cornwall were 
 leased to Sir John Neville, of Montague, at the annual rent of 110/. q 
 
 The Comb Martin mines were re-opened in the reign of Queen Elizabeth 
 under the direction of Sir Bevis Buhner, a skilful engineer, much esteemed 
 by that queen and her ministers. Mr. Bushell, a celebrated mineralogist 
 of that day, and a pupil of Sir Francis Bacon, strongly recommended the 
 reworking of the Comb Martin mines to the long parliament, in 1659. 
 Fuller, who wrote soon after the Restoration, observes that the mines had 
 not recovered their former credit. They do not appear to have been re- 
 opened before the close of that century, and then without success. The 
 mines were opened again in 1813, and continued to be worked for four 
 years, during which time 208 tons of ore were shipped for Bristol ; but the 
 quantity of silver obtained being not found sufficient to pay for the ex- 
 pence of working, they were given up in the month of August, 1817- 
 
 The mines at Beer Alston and Beer Ferrers, are remarkable for the 
 length of time for which at different periods they have been worked, and 
 
 ' Pat. Rot. 7 Henry IV. and Pettus. s Pettus. b Ibid. 
 
 1 Pat. Rot. 19 Henry VI. t Pettus. I Pat. Rot. 33 Henry VI. 
 
 ra Pat. Rot. 34 Henry VI. " Pettus. <• Cyclopaedia; article Mining, 
 
 p Rot. Pat. 38 Henry VI. 1 Rot. Pat. 1 Edward IV. 
 
 tor 
 
cclxxxviii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 for the quantity of silver which they contain ; the silver in each ton of lead 
 being from 80 ounces to 120. r This I suppose to be the same mine which 
 in a record of the reign of Henry VI. is called Bir-lond. Either this or the 
 mine at Beer Ferrers, was worked in the reign of Charles II. by Sir John 
 Maynard, but, as it is said, without success. In 1783, or 1784, this mine was 
 again opened by Christopher Gullett, Esq., and the silver produce of the 
 year 1784 and 1785, amounted to 6500 ounces. ' Extensive preparations 
 were made for opening the Beer Alston mines again, about 1809, and the 
 undertaking was divided into 3000 shares of 100/. each. It has been said, 
 that some time after the last re-opening, 6000 ounces of silver were pro- 
 cured in six weeks. The mines are described as 110 fathom deep, and 
 running under the Tamar. z The Beer Alston and Beer Ferrers mines are 
 contiguous, upon two lodes, or veins. They have not answered to the 
 adventurers, and the whole has been again abandoned except the mine 
 called South Hooe. Wheal Betsy lead-mine, in Mary Tavy, which had been 
 worked about 80 years ago, was re-opened about 1806, and has been a 
 productive concern. The quantity of pig-lead obtained from it is now 
 between 300 and 400 tons in a year, and the silver from 4000 to 5000 
 ounces, although a ton of the lead yields only 12 ounces." This mine is 
 drained by large water-wheels, and is now about 60 fathom deep, with 
 good promise of continuing productive. x 
 
 About the year 1787, Mr, Gullet, above mentioned, re-opened a lead and 
 silver mine at Newton St. Cyres ; but it was abandoned after a trial of five 
 or six years. The proportion of silver in this ore is said to have been 30 
 ounces in a ton. y The lead veins or lodes in Devon range from north to 
 south, crossing the usual direction of the copper and tin mines. It is said 
 that there have been lead-mines formerly at Ilsington. Lead-ore has been 
 
 ' From the information of Mr. Taylor. An article in the Cyclopaedia states, that in one the 
 portion of silver is 70 ounces in a ton, and in another 170. Mr. Jehu Hitchings speaks of HO 
 ounces as the greatest quantity occasionally occurring in the ore of South Hooe mine, at Beer 
 Alston. 
 
 s From the information of John Hawkins, Esq. ' Cyclopaedia. 
 
 u From the information of Mr. Taylor. The pig-lead is smelted at the mine : some of the 
 produce is sent away in ore. 
 
 * Other mines now worked are Wheal Prosperous, in Hennock ; Wheal Mary, in Mary 
 Tavy ; Birch and Cleve, Buttspile, and Wheal Ezenedge, in Beer Ferrers parish. 
 
 J From the information of John Hawkins, Esq. 
 
 found 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 cclxxxix 
 
 found at Rattery. Lead is found accompanying the copper in Wheal 
 Friendship mine. At one time, this was the only lead ore raised in the 
 county. m 
 
 Most of the ores dug in the mines near Tavistock, are exported from 
 Plymouth. The quantities have of late decreased ; in 1819, 9271 tons 
 were exported ; in 1820, 8096; and in 1821, only 6312. 
 
 There are said to have been old iron mines at Rattery, and near South 
 Molton. Vancouver mentions, that a considerable quantity of rich iron- 
 stone was sent annually from the neighbourhood of Comb Martin to South 
 Wales. Upon enquiry, I find that this was from the year 1796 to 1S02 ; and 
 it was sent to the iron-works at Llanelly. The quantity sent in the seven 
 years was 9293 tons. n None has been shipped since 1802, which was 
 some years before Mr. Vancouver's survey was published. 
 
 Manganese has been found in great quantities in this county ; and within 
 the last fifty years a considerable trade has been carried on in that article. 
 It was first found about the year 1770, at Upton Pyne, about four miles 
 north of Exeter; and this mine, together with two others of less conse- 
 quence on the same lode at Newton St. Cyres, for many years supplied the 
 whole united kingdom with this article ; and of the finest quality, as I am 
 informed, ever raised any where. The consumption for some years was in- 
 considerable, the use of it being confined almost wholly to manufacturing 
 what was called the Egyptian ware in Staffordshire, and in purifying glass. 
 Its use in bleaching, however, afterwards became considerable ; and from 
 
 m The following list of lead mines abandoned before 1815, was communicated by Mr. John 
 Taylor : — 
 
 Parishes. Names of Mines. Date when last worked. 
 
 Yarnscombe 
 Berry Narbor 
 Lidford - 
 Beer Ferrers 
 
 In 1796 
 1797 - 
 1798 
 1799 - 
 
 Unknown 
 Berry mine 
 Wheal Mercy 
 Wheal Resolution 
 North Hooe 
 Furzehill 
 Whitsum 
 Lockeridge - 
 Wheal Unity 
 
 Tons. 
 
 116. 
 1584. 
 
 2336. 
 1012. 
 
 In 1800 
 1801 
 1802 
 
 1794. 
 1809. 
 1810. 
 1795. 
 1795. 
 1785. 
 1785. 
 1785. 
 1805. 
 
 Tons. 
 2114. 
 2025. 
 106. 
 
 From the information of Walter Locke, Esq., of Ilfracombe. 
 
 Vol. VI. oo 
 
 about 
 
ccxc DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 about 180i to 1810, the quantity shipped from Exeter amounted to 
 between two and 3000 tons per annum. The mines, or pits, at Newton 
 St. Cyres, failed about the year 1810 ; and since that period, the mine at 
 Upton Pyne has been exhausted. New discoveries of manganese, however, 
 were made in the parishes of Doddescombleigh, Ashton, Christow, &c. 
 seven miles west of Exeter, which are said to have produced from ten to 
 1500 tons per annum. They are still worked, but the produce of last year 
 did not much exceed 450 tons. It is shipped at Exeter. 
 
 About 1815, manganese mines were discovered in the neighbourhood of 
 Tavistock, in the parishes of Coryton, Brent Tor, Lifton, Maristow °, and 
 Milton Abbot, from which considerable quantities are procured and shipped 
 at Plymouth ; at which port the exportations of this article are increasing, 
 1336 tons having been shipped off in 1819, 2170 in 1820, and 2212 in 
 1S21 : but a considerable portion of this must have been from the neigh- 
 bouring part of Cornwall. In the note below will be seen the produce of 
 each of the Devonshire mines in the year 1821.° Manganese has been 
 found in the north of the county, in the parishes of Braunton and Mar- 
 wood, but not in sufficient quantity to encourage speculation. 
 
 Antimony is of rare occurrence in this county ; but a considerable and 
 increasing quantity is dug for sale at Pillaton, in the adjoining county of 
 Cornwall p , and exported from Plymouth." 1 
 
 Cobalt has been found near Meavy and Walkhatnpton, but not in a suf- 
 ficient quantity to become an article of commerce. r The same may be 
 said of zinc and arsenic. 
 
 Large quantities of ochre occur in the parish of East Downe. In the 
 year 1785, Mr. Pine Coffin set up a manufactory there for grinding it : 
 umber, raised at Berry Narbor, was sent thither to be ground with it; and 
 for three years 45 tons, on an average, were shipped and consigned to 
 London; but from difficulties which occurred in managing the concern, 
 Mr. Pine Coffin was induced to discontinue it. Whilst the concern was car- 
 ried on, these articles were much in use by the paper-stainers : the umber 
 was esteemed to be of a particularly good quality. 
 
 ° Upton Pyne, 30 tons; Ashton, 130; Doddescombleigh, 280; Christow, 16; Ilsington, 15; 
 Milton Abbot, 250 ; Lamerton, 150; Brent Tor, 40 ; Coryton, 280 ; Maristow, 390 ; Lifton, 
 250; and Lew Trenchard, 80. From the information of Edward Williams, Esq. 
 
 P The vein has been discovered since the History of Cornwall was published. 
 
 i Twenty tons in 1819, 33 in 1820, and 79 in 1821. 
 
 ' Except that about 1700 lbs. of an inferior quality, procured from a mine at Sampford 
 Spiney, were sold about the year 1820. 
 
 In 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccxci 
 
 In the parishes of Hennock and Lustleigh there is found in the granite 
 a species of micaceous or specular iron ore, known by the name of Devon- 
 shire sand ; a i'ew tons of this article were sent, some years ago, from 
 Exeter to London, where it was used for writing-sand, and various other 
 purposes. It was sold from three guineas to eight guineas a ton. 
 
 Pipe-clay was formerly dug in great abundance at Weare GifFard, and in 
 the parishes of Peters Merland, and Petrockstow. It was sent coastwise 
 from the port of Bideford, and by canals to the potteries in Stafford- 
 shire. The pits at the two last-mentioned places have not been worked 
 for nearly 20 years. 
 
 Pipe and potters' clay are found, in inexhaustible quantities s , in the 
 parishes of Hennock, Ilsington, Bovey-Tracey, Teigngrace, King's Teignton, 
 &c. Some years ago pipe-clay was dug at Knighton, in the parish of 
 Hennock, and manufactured into tobacco-pipes on the spot. The manu- 
 facture has been long since given up, and the works abandoned. Both ' 
 pipe and potters' clay are now dug in great quantities on Bovey Heath- 
 field, and in the parish of King's Teignton ; and are conveyed by the 
 Stover canal, constructed by Mr. Templer, to Teignmouth, whence it is 
 shipped to most parts of the united kingdom. The potters' clay is used at 
 the manufactories at Indio and Bovey Heathfield, and sent to most of the 
 manufactories of earthenware. A potters' clay, of a very superior quality, 
 has recently been discovered in the parish of King's Teignton, which 
 burns remarkably white, and is considered as a most valuable discovery 
 for the manufacture of china. About 20,000 tons of clay of the various 
 sorts, are annually exported from Teignmouth. ' 
 
 The clay-pits are for the most part the property of George Templer, 
 Esq. : they were first worked about the year 1730. The demand has 
 greatly increased within the last 40 years, particularly since the Stover 
 canal has been opened. The pits are open works, seldom exceeding 100 
 feet in depth : the clay is cut into square pieces of about 33 lbs. each, 
 which are readily raised by the workmen without machinery. The pits 
 are kept clear of water by common wooden pumps. 
 
 6 In boring for coal some time ago in the parish of Ilsington, the bed of clay was found to 
 be 230 feet in depth. 
 
 ' From the information of the Rev. John Templer, to whom I have been indebted for vari- 
 ous particulars relating to the neighbourhood of Teignmouth. 
 
 o o 2 Brown 
 
ccxcii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Brown. clay is raised in the parish of Fremington, and manufactured into 
 useful coarse earthenware at the potteries at Barnstaple and Bideford. 
 
 The anthracite, already mentioned as found near Bideford, is raised in 
 considerable quantities for the purpose of a pigment, and is employed as 
 such in the dock-yard at Plymouth. 
 
 Several attempts have been made to procure coal in this county. Mr. 
 Northmore sunk a shaft for this purpose near Exeter in 1818, but was 
 unsuccessful, as his father had been in I76I : he still supposes, nevertheless, 
 that coal would be found at a great depth ; but it is the opinion of 
 the most scientific geologists of the present day, that coal does not 
 occur in the strata of this county. It has been said, that it has been found 
 in small quantities at Abbotsham u , and elsewhere ; but culm might have 
 been mistaken for it. Culm has been dug in the parishes of Tawstock, 
 High Heanton, and Chittlehampton. At the two last-mentioned places, 
 the works were soon abandoned ; but, at Tawstock, it was procured in great 
 quantities and of a good quality about the middle of the last century. 
 The works had been given up, and re-opened about 1790 : they were 
 abandoned about 1800, on account of the water ; at that time, about 900 
 bushels a week were procured ; the depth of the pit being then about Q5 
 fathoms. The culm is found at the depth of about five or six fathoms ; 
 the veins, of which there are two, are about nine feet thick, and are 
 supposed to be of great depth. 
 
 The substance called Bovey coal, on Bovey Heathfield, (for an account 
 of which see p. ccxlix.) was first dug for use early in the last century. It is 
 not much used for fuel, except by the neighbouring cottagers, on account 
 of its bituminous smell : its use, indeed, is now chiefly confined to a pot- 
 tery established a few years ago near the pit, and an adjoining lime-kiln. 
 The bed appears to be inexhaustible, and were its smell less offensive, 
 would be a most valuable property. 
 
 There are various beautiful marbles in Devonshire, which occur in the 
 limestone rocks at Chudleigh, Bickington near Ashburton, Buckfastleigh, 
 Denbury, Staverton, Berry Pomeroy, Waddon, Churston, &c. near Torbay, 
 Babicombe, St. Mary Church, King's Teignton, Drewe's Teignton, South 
 Tawton, Yealmton, Brixton, Oreston, &c. ; and some years ago, a good 
 
 u This appears to have been culm : it was in small quantities, and did not pay the expense 
 of digging. 
 
 deal 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccxciii 
 
 deal of the Babicombe marble was polished, and sent to London, The 
 marble from the Chudleigh and Harcombe rocks is now manufactured 
 into beautiful chimney-pieces, and sent from the port of Teignmouth. 
 
 Prodigious quantities of lime are procured from the limestone and marble 
 rocks, which occur in various parts of the county ; near Plymouth, at St. 
 Mary Church, Buckfastleigh, Bickington near Ashburton, Branscombe on 
 the south coast, South Tawton, Bampton, Cannonleigh, Hockworthy, 
 Castlehill, Swimbridge, Comb Martin, &c. &c. &c. Lord Fortescue, who 
 owns the works at Castlehill, had formerly lime-works at Challocombe, but 
 they have been discontinued. The great lime-works at Swimbridge are 
 on an estate called Marsh ; there are other smaller works in that parish 
 and Landkey. There are several small lime-works in Comb Martin : those 
 of J. D. Basset, Esq., are on an extensive scale, as are those at Canon- 
 leigh, in Burlescombe. The great excavations near the present lime-works 
 at South Tawton, show that they have been worked there for a great 
 length of time. So extensive is the use of this article in Devonshire as a 
 manure, that, besides the immense quantities raised in the county, there 
 are at least 20 kilns between Weare GifFard and the mouth of Bidetbrd 
 harbour for the purpose of burning lime imported from Wales, and three 
 or four more scattered round the bay. 
 
 Granite of the best quality, which has of late been brought much into 
 use for bridges and other public works, may be obtained in any quantities 
 from the Dartmoor rocks ; but on account of the difficulties of carriage, it 
 has never till of late been thought of as an article of commerce. A rail- 
 road is now making to convey granite from Dartmoor to Plymouth ; and a 
 rail-road has been completed by Mr. Templer, which conveys this article 
 from his quarries at Heytor to the Stover canal. The Heytor granite is 
 said to be equal in quality to that of Aberdeen, and has great comparative 
 advantages in the facility of carriage. The concern is in its infancy, but 
 a considerable quantity has already been exported from Teignmouth ; 150 
 men are now working the quarries, and it is expected that double that 
 number will soon be employed. 
 
 There are quarries of good building-stone at Flitton, in North Molton, 
 in Ashwater, Lew Trenchard, &c. ; at Great Cocktree, in South Tawton, 
 and at Beer on the south coast. That of the latter quarry exactly re- 
 sembles the fine stone at Toternhoe, in Bedfordshire. A considerable 
 quantity of it is dug and sent coastwise. It was used for the inside work 
 of Exeter cathedral. The clay-porphyry, which occurs in detached 
 
 rocks 
 
ccxciv DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 rocks on Roborough down, near Plymouth, is said by Marshall to have 
 been used formerly for the Gothic ornaments of most of the churches in the 
 west of Devon, and the neighbouring parts of Cornwall. v 
 
 The alabaster which is found in the cliffs from Beer to Salcombe, Brans- 
 combe, and Sidmouth, makes good plaster of Paris ; but it is in small 
 quantities, and, I am informed, is now collected by a labouring man, 
 who scarcely makes a livelihood by it. 
 
 The principal slate-quarries in Devonshire are near Ivybridge ; Cann 
 quarry, about five miles from Plymouth, Lamerton, Lew Trenchard, 
 Wellington (an insulated district of the north of Cornwall), Mill hill, and 
 other places near Tavistock ; West Alvington, and Buckland Toussaints. 
 Before the Dutch war, in 3781, great quantities of slate were exported 
 from the Buckland quarries to Holland. This trade has not since revived. 
 A branch of the Tavistock canal has been carried to the Millhill slate- 
 quarries. The slate from this neighbourhood is exported to Guernsey 
 and Jersey, and has been sent to France, but not of late years. The 
 quantity of slate sent from the quarry has indeed altogether much dimi- 
 nished. 
 
 The soft sandstone on the side of Blackdown, within the parishes of 
 Peahembury, Broad Hembury, and Kentisbeare, is worked on the spot, 
 whilst wet, into whetstones : they are made also on the east side of Haldon, 
 in the parish of Kenne. The greater part of the whetstones, which are 
 sold by the name of Devonshire batts, are sent to Bridgewater, and thence 
 by water to Bristol, Gloucester, Worcester, &c. &c. Some are exported 
 from Topsham to London. 
 
 Westcote mentions the magnets of South Brent as famous in his time, 
 and Chappie speaks of them among the commodities of Devon : but they 
 have long ceased to be considered as such. 
 
 After having spoken at large of the commodities of the land, something 
 should be said of the produce of the rivers and the coast. The most 
 important fishery of the rivers was that of salmon, which has of late years 
 much declined in this, as well as in other counties, in consequence of 
 the fish having been destroyed in the spawning season. Salmons are the 
 produce of all the principal rivers : those of the Exe and Dart are said to 
 be most esteemed. Salmon-peal is found in the Tavy, the Tamar, the 
 Otter, the Dart, the Anne, and the Mole. Trout abound in almost all the 
 
 » Rural Economy of the West of England, I. 18. 
 
 principal 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccxcv 
 
 principal rivers. The lamprey is found in the Exe and the Mole, but has 
 not the same repute as the lamprey of the Severn. 
 
 The herring-fishery on the north coast of Devon, though never to be 
 spoken of as of much importance, compared with the fisheries of Scotland, 
 was formerly much more considerable than it has been of late years, and 
 consituted a chief source of employment for the poorer classes of Clovelly, 
 Lymouth, &c. Both white and red herrings were then cured at Ilfra- 
 combe™ for exportation, and great numbers of both sorts were sent to 
 Bristol. For some years past the herrings have not been so abundant on 
 this coast. During the last year, the fishery promised to be more success- 
 ful ; but the exposed situation of the coast is most unfavourable to the 
 fishermen, and the storms which happened in the month of October last 
 afforded a melancholy instance x of its insecurity. There is a small herring- 
 fishery at Teignmouth : considerable numbers are taken during the winter 
 season in set-nets. 
 
 There has been for some years an extensive pilchard-fishery at Burr- 
 island in Bigbury bay. Large quantities were taken here, and at two adjoin- 
 ing stations, called Clannaborough and the Warren. They are cured on 
 the spot w , and sold to the Cornish merchants. About four years ago, so 
 large a quantity was taken in the bay as produced about 7000/., but the 
 fishermen have not since had a successful season/ In Start bay there is also 
 a pilchard fishery, but not on so extensive a scale : there are also about 
 300,000 pilchards taken annually, on an average, by drift-net boats from 
 Dartmouth and Brixham. There was formerly a pilchard-fishery at Teign- 
 mouth. 
 
 Pilchards taken on the Cornish coast are cured at Plymouth, and ex- 
 ported from thence. Sidmouth is spoken of by Leland as one of the 
 fishing towns of the county, but there is now scarcely any fishing carried 
 on there. Westcote. speaks of the fishing-trade at Plymouth as having 
 been carried on in his time to a great extent ; and says that very often 
 100 sail of fishing-vessels, and sometimes double that number, were to be 
 seen in the harbour. There are now about 40 trawlers belonging to this 
 
 "' It is probable that fish have been cured on the Devonshire coast from a very early 
 period. Numerous salt-works near the coast are mentioned in the record of Domesday. 
 About the middle of the last century, a brine for curing fish was made at Bideford, from rock- 
 salt dissolved in sea-water, which they call salt upon salt. 
 
 * See the Appendix. 
 
 1 From the information of Walter Frideaux, Esq., of Kingsbridge. 
 
 port, 
 
ccxcvi DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 port, which supply Plymouth with fish, besides what is sent from thence to 
 the Bath market. 
 
 Teignmouth has a considerable fishery for whitings, mackerel, soles, 
 turbot, &c. ; but the great fishery of the western part of England is 
 now in Torbay. The number of decked fishing-smacks belonging to 
 Brixham is 89 ; that of open fishing boats 60 ; the number of men and 
 boys employed in the fishery about 54-0. The number of tons weekly 
 brought to market, is, on an average, 120 ; the annual quantity 6240 
 tons. The fish taken are chiefly turbots, soles, whiting, mackerel, &c. 
 The Bath and Exeter markets are supplied from this fishery, and great 
 quantities are sent by sea to Portsmouth, whence they are conveyed by 
 land-carriage to London. 
 
 At Star-cross are oyster-beds, to which the oysters are brought from 
 the Teign* from Weymouth, Pool, Saltash, &c, and having been fed 
 for awhile in these beds, are sent to the Exeter market. The young 
 oysters from the Teign are sent to he fed also in the Thames for the 
 London market. 
 
 The port of Bideford had formerly a great concern in the Newfoundland 
 trade, as is stated more at large in the account of that town. Topsham 
 had also a considerable share of the trade. At present no port in Devon- 
 shire, except those of Dartmouth and Teignmouth, have any great share 
 in it, and the trade of the former has of late years much declined. In 
 1791, 112 ships were employed in this trade at Dartmouth; there are 
 now only 59. In 1820, 10,504 quintals of cod-fish, brought from New- 
 foundland, were shipped from this port, of which JO7S were sent coast- 
 wise, and 9431 to foreign ports. The same year 3326 quintals of cod-fish 
 were sent from the port of Exeter, which includes Teignmouth, from 
 which place 35 vessels sailed that year for Newfoundland. The small port 
 of Torquay has some concern in this trade. At Plymouth two ships only 
 are regularly employed in it : a few ships from this port are now employed 
 in the whale-fishery y ; and a ship is lately gone to South Shetland for furs 
 and skins. 
 
 y The Hydra, of 731 tons; the Wanderer, of 4-28 tons; and the Prince of Wales, of 265 
 tons ; have each made a successful voyage to the South Seas : the Prince of Wales is gone 
 out on a second. The Countess of Morley is returned from a second successful voyage ; the 
 first having cleared sufficient for the outfit of the second. 
 
 Trade 
 
DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 CCXCVll 
 
 Trade of the Principal Ports of Devon. 
 
 Axmouth 
 
 Barnstaple 
 
 Bideford 
 
 Brixham 
 
 Comb Martin 
 
 Dartmouth 
 
 Exeter 
 Hartland 
 Ilfracombe 
 Kingsbridge 
 
 Plymouth 
 
 Salcombe 
 
 Teignmouth, within 
 the port of Exeter 
 
 Torquay 
 
 Exports. 
 
 Timber and bark 
 
 fOak-bark to Ireland and"} 
 i Scotland ; and oats and > 
 t malt to Wales - -J 
 Fish in great quantities 
 Corn and bark 
 
 {Woollen goods, cyder, bar- 
 ley, (Src. 
 
 {Woollen goods, manganese, 
 &c. 
 Corn, &c. - - - 
 
 Oats, &c. - - - 
 
 Cyder, corn, and malt 
 ' Silver, copper, tin, and lead" 
 ores, Antimony (from 
 Cornwall), manganese, 
 marble, granite, lime, &c. 
 pilchards 
 Corn, cyder, &c. 
 
 f Granite, pipe and potters 
 i clay, manganese, timber, 
 (, bark, cyder, fish, &c. 
 
 Imports. 
 
 !Just opened for coasting vessels, 
 which bring in a good deal of 
 culm for the neighbouring lime- 
 works. 
 {Coals and culm from Wales, mer- 
 chandize from Bristol. 
 
 Limestone, coals, and culm. 
 
 Coals, culm, &c. 
 Limestone and coals. 
 ["Dried fish from Newfoundland ; 
 1 coals and other merchandize in 
 (_ coasting vessels. 
 Wine, hemp, tallow, coals, gro- 
 ceries, &c. 
 Limestone and coals, 
 f Coals, groceries, &c, in coasting 
 \ vessels. 
 Coals from Sunderland, &c. 
 
 Corn, coals, &c. &c. 
 
 Coals, &c. &c. 
 
 /Now the chief port in Devon for 
 the Newfoundland trade : the 
 other imports are coals, culm, 
 [^ deals, iron, groceries, &c. 
 
 !Has some portion of the New- 
 foundland trade, and imports 
 coals, culm, &c, in coasting ves- 
 sels. 
 
 Barnstaple was formerly the chief port for the importation of wool from 
 America and Ireland. This trade, as far as relates to America, ceased 
 with the American war, and no wool is imported at Barnstaple now from 
 Ireland. From the £era of the discovery of Virginia, Bideford, in con- 
 sequence of its connection with its discoverer, Sir Richard Grenville, 
 became the chief port for the importation of tobacco; and till the middle 
 
 Vol. VI. p p of 
 
ccxcviii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 of the last century it imported more than any port in the kingdom except 
 London. It had also a great trade to Newfoundland, having sent out 
 more ships thither in the year 1699 than any port in the kingdom, 
 except London and Topsham. Exeter established a trade with Africa in 
 the reign of Queen Elizabeth, from whom the merchants of that city had 
 a charter of monopoly * in that trade during a certain period. 
 
 Manufactures. 
 
 The principal manufacture of this county has, from an early period, 
 been that of woollen cloth. I do not find any mention of fulling-mills in 
 Devonshire in the Domesday survey ; but from the mention of them in 
 records of the reign of Edward I. it is evident that cloth was then made 
 at Exeter and Chudleigh. It appears, nevertheless, from the Hundred 
 Rolls, that the Dartmoor wool was at that time exported. 
 
 King Edward III. forbade the exportation of wool, and gave great en- 
 couragement to weavers and cloth-makers from foreign parts \ who in his 
 reign came to London, and afterwards settled in other parts of the king- 
 dom. John Kempe, a foreigner, is said to have established the clothing- 
 trade at Taunton in this reign, but we have no evidence that any of them 
 settled in Devonshire. 
 
 It appears that cloths called Raies, or dozens of the colour of ray, were 
 made in the west in the reign of Henry IV., but the counties are not 
 specified in the statute of 1409. In the beginning of Edward the Fourth's 
 reign (1463) the inhabitants of the hundreds of Lifton, Roborough, and 
 Tavistock, petitioned parliament to be exempted from the operation of an 
 act which prohibited the using of flocks in the manufacture of woollen 
 cloths ; stating that they had been acccustomed to use such mixtures from 
 time immemorial, and that the cloth made by them could not be otherwise 
 manufactured on account of " the stobernesse of the wool," it being 
 made solely of wool grown in those three hundreds ; and they state, that 
 if the act should be enforced, they should be impoverished, and utterly 
 destroyed. An exemption was in consequence allowed them, and it is 
 recognised in all subsequent acts. In a statute of 1511, these cloths are 
 
 * Printed in Hakluyt's Voyages, edit. 1599, vol.ii. pt. 2. p. 123. 
 i Rot. Pat. 26 Edw. III. pt. i. m. 21. 
 
 exempted 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccxcix 
 
 exempted by the name of Tostocks : in a statute of 1534, they are called 
 Tavestocks, or western dozens. 
 
 It appears that there was another species of coarse cloth, nearly similar, 
 called " white plain streits, or streights," and " white pinn'd streights," 
 to which the same exemption was allowed. They are spoken of in the 
 statutes of 1513, 1553, and 1585. It the statute of 1553, they are de- 
 scribed to be of the nature of Tavestock cloths. It appears that they were 
 made of the refuse of coarse wools, flocks, lambs' wools, and hairy wools ; 
 that they were exported by the Devonshire merchants to Brittany, and 
 bartered for dowlas, lockeram, and canvass. The statutes above mentioned 
 prescribe their measure and weight. 
 
 Westcote, writing in the early part of the seventeenth century, says, 
 that before the reign of Edward IV. only frizes and plain coarse cloths 
 were made in Devonshire ; and that one Anthony Bonvise, an Italian, in 
 that reign, is said to have taught the art of making carsies (kerseys), and 
 the women to spin with the distaff. " For the karsies," says he, " at 
 first, they only used Devon wool, which is more than any stranger travelling 
 the county would suppose, since, except in Dartmoor, Exmoor, and such 
 open grounds, the sheep are hidden by the high-grown hedges of the en- 
 closures. Now they work Cornish and Dorset wools, and from other parts 
 of the kingdom, and from London sent weekly, (though, by the new 
 measure, 150 miles distant,) Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Warwick- 
 shire, Wales, and Ireland, all which is here wrought into cloths or stuffs, 
 wherein most towns have appropriated to themselves a several or peculiar 
 kind. 
 
 " The late made stuff of serges or perpetnanoes is now in great use and 
 request with us, wherewith the market of Exeter is abundantly furnished 
 of all sorts and prizes, fine, coarse, broad, narrow, so that the number 
 will scarcely be credited. Tyverton hath also such store of karsies as 
 (the neighbourhood of other markets consider'd) will not be believed. 
 Crediton yields many of the fynest sort of karsies, for which, and for fine 
 spinning, it hath the pre-eminence. z Totness, and some other places near 
 it, hath besides this a sort of coarse cloth which they call Pynn whites, 
 
 1 In another place, he says that it became a proverb as fine as Kerton (Crediton) spinning. 
 " It is very true," he adds, " that 140 threads of woollen yarne, spun in that town, were drawn 
 through the eye of a taylor's needle, which needle and threads were for many years together 
 to be seen in Watling Street, in the shop of one Mr. Dunscombe, at the sign of the Golden 
 Bottle." 
 
 p p 2 not 
 
ccc DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 not elsewhere made. Barnstaple and Torrington furnish us bayes, single 
 and double, and fryzadoes, and such like ; and Pilton adjoining, vents 
 cottons a and lyninge, so coarse a stuffe as there was a vce (a woe) pro- 
 nounced against them in these words : — ' Woe unto you, ye Piltonians, 
 that make cloth without wool.' 
 
 " At Tavystock there is also a good market for cloth, and for other com- 
 modities of the like nature, without any great difference. Ottery St. Mary, 
 and dyvers other places, hath mixed color'd karsies, Culmton, karsie stock- 
 ings. This might be enlarged with other pretty commodities belonging to 
 other towns, besydes the generality of knytting stockings and spinninge of 
 worsted thread for women's workinge in every towne." b 
 
 It appears, that the Devonshire kersies had acquired celebrity, and were 
 an important article of commerce to the Levant in the early part of the 
 sixteenth century. Fine kersies, of divers colours, coarse kersies, and white 
 western dozens, were sent in English ships to Chio, and other ports in the 
 Levant, from the year 1511 to 1534, by Sir John Gresham, Sir William 
 Bowyer, and other London merchants, as we have it on the authority of 
 Hakluyt. c Each ship that sailed to those ports took from 6000 to 8000 
 kersies. d Thev were bartered to considerable advantage for commodities 
 of the country, which bore a good price in England. Caspar Campion, an 
 English merchant residing in Chio, writing in 15G9, when the trade had 
 been some time in the hands of the Venetians, strongly recommends the 
 revival of a direct trade with this country. e A statute of the year 1552, 
 regulates the weight and measure of the Devonshire kersies. By an order 
 of council, in the year 1587, it appears they were prized at from 185. to 3/. f 
 
 The statute of 1593 speaks of the Devonshire kersies as having been 
 formerly in great request, and of great prize and estimation, both at home 
 and in foreign nations and countries; but then grown into discredit in con- 
 sequence of the frauds of the manufacturers, which it was the object of 
 that statute to reform by the enactment of heavy penalties. In conse- 
 quence of complaints from the States of Holland, it appears, that a royal 
 
 a This was a species of the coarsest woollen cloth, similar to what was made in Wales, and, 
 so early as the year 1575, called Welsh cottons. See Rees's Cyclopaedia, article Cotton. 
 b MS. Survey, in the British Museum. 
 
 c Hackluyt's Voyage, vol. ii. p. 96., or p. 206. of the new edition. 
 
 d Ibid. p. 116. or 230. of the new edition. ' Ibid. p. 127. or 229. of the new edition. 
 
 ' See Hutchins's Dorsetshire, vol. iv. p. 186. 
 
 proclamation 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccci 
 
 proclamation had already been issued, which that statute was intended 
 more strictly to enforce. i 
 
 Westcote, speaking of the progress of the woollen manufactures, ob- I , 
 serves, " The gentleman, farmer, or husbandman, sends his wool to the 
 market, which is bought either by the comber or spinster ; and they the 
 next week bring it again in yarn, which the weavers buy, and the market 
 following bringe it thither again in cloth, when it is sold either to the 
 clothier, (who sends it to London,) or to the marchant, who (after it hath 
 passed the fuller's mill, and sometimes the dyer's vat) transports it. The 
 large quantity whereof cannot be well judged at, but is best known to the ( 
 custom book, whereunto it yieldeth no small commodity, and this is con- 
 tinued all the year through." 
 
 The market for wool and cloths, which had long been at Crediton, was 
 removed to Exeter in 1538. The great increase of the woollen manufac- 
 ture, spoken of by Westcote, in the early part of the seventeenth century, 
 was occasioned by the revival or extension of the sale of English cloths in 
 Italy, Turkey, and the Levant. Moryson, who was in Turkey in 1596, 
 speaks of kersies. and tin as our chief articles of commerce with Turkey. B 
 The trade experienced a still further increase towards the latter part of 
 the seventeenth century, and was then at its greatest height. 
 
 Brice, who published his " Topographical Dictionary" in 1759, speaks 
 of the clothing trade as then somewhat declined ; but says, that the 
 ordinary weekly sale at Exeter on a Friday was 10,000/. worth ; and that 
 Exeter was esteemed the greatest wool market in England, next to Leeds. 
 I have been assured, that about the year 1768 the exports of woollen 
 cloths were above a million in value annually. The trade suffered con- 
 siderably during the American war, but after the peace in some measure 
 recovered itself; and the extension of exportation to the East Indies, which 
 took place soon afterwards, caused it to equal its former amount. In 1789, 
 the East India trade being then increasing, 121,000 pieces were bought by 
 the Company. These were of the sort of serges" called Sandfords, except 
 
 s Itinerary, part iii. p. 127. 
 
 h The difference between kerseys and serges is, that the chain of the serge is made of 
 worsted, and that of the kersey of the same as the shute or warp, only more twisted. It is a 
 mistaken definition of the kersey given in " Rees's Cyclopaedia," that kerseys are a kind of 
 coarse woollen cloth : they were made of various degrees of fineness, and some of them, accord- 
 ing to Westcote's account, were remarkably fine. The serges are of various descriptions: the 
 sort now chiefly manufactured for the East India Company is called long ells. 
 
 600 
 
cccii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 600 pieces of broads, made at Crediton : the other serges were made 
 mostly at Ashburton, Tavistock, Modbury, North Tawton, and Newton 
 Bushell. From 1795 to 1805, the Company purchased from 250,000 to 
 300,000 pieces annually. After this, their purchases began to decline to 
 about 200,000 pieces. After the renewal of the charter, in 1813, their 
 demand declined still farther ; and their present purchases do not exceed 
 150,000 pieces annually. 
 
 During the last war, the woollen trade sustained a most serious injury in 
 its foreign consumption, from which it has only partially recovered. Not- 
 withstanding the reduced scale of their purchases, more than two-thirds 
 of the woollen cloths now made in the county are for the East India 
 Company. 
 
 The principal manufacturing towns are now Exeter, Crediton, Collump- 
 ton, Ashburton, and South Molton. At Tiverton, which was one of the 
 earliest and the principal seat of the clothing manufacture, and at which 
 town, so lately as the year 1790, it is said, that there were 1000 looms at 
 work, there is now scarcely any woollen trade. At Newton Bushell, Chud- 
 leigh, Bampton, Oakhampton, Hatherleigh, Bideford, Sampford Peverell, 
 Torrington, Moreton Hampstead, Culmstock, Uffculme, and Ottery, they 
 have ceased to manufacture. At Bideford, about 150 serges are made 
 yearly. At Honiton, there is only one serge-maker. 
 
 The Crediton manufactures, which were upon a most extensive scale, 
 declined after the great fire of 1743 : before that period, 1400 or 1500 
 pieces of serge were made there weekly. They now make from 800 to 
 1000 pieces. 
 
 Before the late war, Exeter, and the towns of Crediton, Collumpton, and 
 South Molton, with the populous villages of North Tawton and Bishop's 
 Morchard, were principally employed in manufacturing coarse woollens for 
 Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Germany. The long continuance of war, from 
 time to time, lessened the demand for these foreign markets, which for a 
 while wholly ceased, and these places only shared with others the orders of 
 the East India Company, for long ells, &c. Since the return of peace, 
 they have supplied the diminished demands of the above-mentioned foreign 
 markets. The diminished manufactures of Exeter are chiefly of plushes 
 and estameans ' , for the Spanish market. 
 
 1 The article of this name is kersey wove, not quite so clothy as a kerseymere, nor so much 
 of a stuff as a shalloon : the pieces are 32 yards in length, and three quarters of a yard wide. 
 
 The 
 
DEVONSHIRE. ccciii 
 
 The town of Collumpton, before the commencement of the war, 
 manufactured Dutch serges, plain and twilled druggets, sagatties, duroys, 
 and estameans, which were shipped at Topsham, by the merchants 
 of Exeter, for Holland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, and Italy. At 
 present, some cloths, kerseymeres, and estameans, with flannel and baize 
 of various qualities and descriptions, are made for the markets of Spain 
 and Portugal, as well as home consumption j and occasionally long ells and 
 other woollen goods, for the East India Company. Although the trade is 
 now diverted into a different channel, I am informed, that the quantity of 
 wool manufactured, the value of the goods, and the number of the labourers 
 employed, exceed that of any former period. The chief trade of Ash- 
 burton and South Molton consists in the manufacture of woollen goods for 
 the East India Company. 
 
 The secondary manufacturing towns of the present day, are Totnes, 
 Tavistock, Kingsbridge, Modbury, Brent, Chagford, and Barnstaple ; to 
 which may be added the villages of Buckfastleigh, Bishop's Morchard, and 
 North Tawton. 
 
 The woollen trade of Tavistock, Totnes, Kingsbridge, Modbury, Brent, 
 Chagford, and Buckfastleigh, consists chiefly of long ells for the East 
 India Company. The largest factory of this article is that of Mr. Berry, 
 of Chagford. At the height of the clothing trade, in the reign of Charles II., 
 there was a wool market established at Totnes, and another at Ashburton. 
 The trade of Modbury and Kingsbridge is much declined : some years ago, 
 about 300 pieces of serge were made weekly at Modbury, and about 400 
 (but not at the same time) at Kingsbridge, for the trade of the two towns 
 has fluctuated. About 100 pieces only are now made weekly at Kings- 
 bridge, and about double that quantity at Modbury. Flustrings, army- 
 cloths, and blanketings, are made also at Kingsbridge : the former are 
 chiefly for home consumption and for Newfoundland. 
 
 At Barnstaple, the baize-making, for which it was celebrated in West- 
 cote's time, and which continued so considerable till nearly the end of the 
 last century, that, before the American war, there were 20 baize-makers in 
 the town, is now so reduced, that there is only one, who exports his goods \ 
 to America, Newfoundland, Spain, and Portugal. Coarse serges also are 
 made at Barnstaple for the American trade. 
 
 The general state of the woollen trade, as compared with that of its 
 greatest prosperity, may be judged from the entries at the custom-house 
 
 at 
 
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ccciv DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 at Exeter, from which city the great bulk of woollen goods manufactured 
 in the county is exported. I am informed, that, even from Kings- 
 bridge, a great part of the manufactured goods is sent by waggons to 
 Exeter, and shipped from that port. The years I768 and 1787 are 
 considered to have been the periods of the height of the prosperity of 
 the woollen trade. In I768, 330,414 pieces of cloth were exported from 
 Exeter; in 1787, 295,311 pieces; in the year 1820, the number was 
 
 127,459. k 
 
 The chief trade now for woollens is that of the East India. Company, 
 although, as before mentioned, on a reduced scale; and a partial recovery of 
 the foreign markets, particularly those of Spain and Portugal. The high price 
 of English wool, and the fluctuating state of the market since the peace, 
 have operated to prevent a more extensive revival of the foreign trade ; 
 but some of the most intelligent manufacturers express a hope, that, with 
 the continuance of peace, the foreign markets may be revived to a greater 
 extent, either for the old articles, or others suited to the altered taste and 
 habits of the consumers. Besides the trade of the East India Company, 
 long ells are purchased for the private trade of India, and have been in- 
 troduced into China by American and other foreign vessels. 
 
 At some of the towns in which the clothing trade has been discontinued, 
 the manufacturing labourers are employed in preparing materials for the 
 manufactures of other towns. The poor of Culmstock and UfFculme 
 are employed in a factory lately erected at Culmstock for preparing 
 materials for the long ells manufactured at Wellington. Those of More- 
 ton Hampstead are employed in the manufacture of long ells at Chagford. 
 At Ottery, where a few woollen goods are still woven, is a large factory 
 for spinning the yarn used for manufacturing serges, which yarn is sent to 
 the Exeter market. 
 
 In Westcote's time, fine flax thread was spun at Axminster ; and he 
 observes, that Comb Martin supplied the whole county with shoemakers' 
 thread, made from hemp there grown. Both these have been discontinued ; 
 but there is a considerable manufactory of linen thread at Tukenhayes, in 
 Ashprington. The celebrated carpet-manufacture at Axminster is still 
 flourishing : it was established in the year 1755. ' 
 
 t This information has been obligingly communicated by the Collector of the Customs. 
 1 See the account of Axminster, p. 21. 
 
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DEVONSHIRE. cccv 
 
 The manufacture of bone or thread lace at Honiton, made with fine 
 thread imported from Antwerp m , was introduced probably in the reign of 
 Queen Elizabeth. Westcote does not speak of it as a new thing. " Here," 
 says he, speaking of Honiton, " is made abundance of bone-lace, a pretty 
 toye, now greatly in request." He speaks of it as made also at Brad- 
 ninch. A small quantity is still made there : the manufacture at Honiton, 
 which not many years ago was very flourishing, is now much on the 
 decline. A large manufactory of Nottinghamshire lace was established at 
 Tiverton in 1815, as a means of providing for the numerous labourers whose 
 employment had ceased on the removal of the clothing manufacture. 
 The lace manufacture is still flourishing. A lace manufacture at Raleigh, 
 in the parish of Pilton, near Barnstaple, is about to be immediately esta- 
 blished on an extensive scale, and numerous cottages are now building 
 near the spot for the manufacturers. A manufacture of gloves, upon an 
 extensive scale, has found employment for the labouring classes of Torring- 
 ton since the removal of the woollen manufactures. At Fordton, near 
 Crediton, the extensive buildings formerly occupied by the woollen manu- 
 facture of Messrs. Davy, dowlas, and other coarse linens, are now made. 
 
 At Bradninch are three paper-mills : those of Mr. John Dewdney, at 
 Heale Paine, in this parish, which were destroyed by fire in the summer 
 of 1821, are now rebuilding, on an extensive scale, for the manufacture 
 of all kinds of writing paper. 
 
 A manufacture of porcelain was carried on for a short time at Plymouth, 
 by Mr. William Cookworthy, who settled there in 1733, and first dis- 
 covered the materials requisite for its composition : it was at first unsuc- 
 cessful, and after a little while was removed to Bristol, and afterwards to 
 Worcester, where, in consequence of various subsequent improvements 
 and discoveries, it attained great celebrity, and still flourishes. 
 
 A manufacture of an inferior sort of white ware, for common purposes, 
 was established at Indio, in Bovey Tracey, in 177^ : of late years blue and 
 white ware has been made here ; and within' these ten years another 
 manufactory has been established on Bovey Heathfield, adjoining to the 
 pits, the coal from which is used for the works. There are potteries of 
 brown ware at Bideford and Barnstaple. At Tavistock is an iron-foundery 
 and an edge-tool manufactory. At Plymouth are manufactories of sail- 
 
 m See more particulars under the account of Honiton, p. 281. 
 Vol. VI. q q cloth, 
 
cccvi DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 cloth, soap, and Roman cement. Great quantities of shoes, made at 
 Ashburton, Kingsbridge, and Dartmouth, are sent to Newfoundland. 
 
 The whetstones, already spoken of, are manufactured by being cut 
 into the proper shape on the spot, whilst the soft stone of which they 
 are made is wet. 
 
 Antiquities. 
 British and Roman-British Antiquities. 
 
 Circular Enclosures. — Grimspound, as it is called, is situated in the 
 parish of Manaton, about three miles from that village, among the moors, 
 and under a lofty tract of moorland, called Hamilton, or Hameldown. It 
 consists of a circular enclosure of about three acres, surrounded by a low 
 vallum of loose stones, some of which are very large, being the remains of 
 a wall. There are two entrances opposite to each other, directly north and 
 south ; at these points the wall, which appears to have been about 12 
 feet high, were the thickest. Within the enclosure are numerous small 
 circles of stone, in general about 12 feet in diameter ; the greater part 
 are near the south side of the enclosure. n Various conjectures have 
 been formed respecting this remarkable remnant of antiquity : some have 
 supposed it a place of religious worship, others the remains of a British 
 town, and connected with the ancient tin-works, the vestiges of which 
 are visible near the spot. 
 
 Small circular enclosures are found on the moor between Cawsand hill 
 and Gidleigh, formed by low stone walls ; they occur also on many 
 other parts of Dartmoor, sometimes in considerable groupes. There 
 are some also on Holwell Down, near Widdecombe-in-the-Moor. ° 
 
 At Nightacott, in the parish of Bratton Fleming, are six upright stones, 
 which appear to be the remains of a circle similar to that at Boscawen-un, 
 near the Land's End. p 
 
 u This account is taken from notes made by my brother, who visited it in 1807, and others 
 taken by the Rev. J. P. Jones, which I found, in the chief particulars, to correspond. 
 From the information of Mr. Jones, 
 v From the information of Mr. Jones. 
 
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DEVONSHIRE. cccvii 
 
 Sepulchral Stones. — Risdon speaks of some circular stones on Maddock's 
 Down q , more than the height of a man ; but Westcote, who, in his 
 manuscript, gives a rough sketch of them, describes two great upright stones, 
 147 feet apart, of unequal size ; the larger nine feet and a half, and the 
 smaller five feet and a half in height ; and placed parallel with these, in 
 a row, at the distance of 66 feet, 23 smaller stones of various shapes. 
 The two large stones only remain, and are now in an enclosed field ; the 
 smaller one of these has been thrown down. The larger stone is a block 
 of quartz. It appears, by a letter from Mr. Badcock, quoted by Mr. Pol- 
 whele, that the smaller ones have been long covered over with turf. The 
 stones are doubtless sepulchral, and are supposed by tradition to comme- 
 morate some great battle fought on the down, in which Maddock, or 
 Madoc, one of the contending chiefs, is said to have been slain. There 
 is a sepulchral stone, called Maen Maddock, in South Wales, in the cross 
 road leading over the mountains from Brecknock to Neath. ' 
 
 The cromlech at Drewe's Teignton, of which much has been said and 
 written, has been supposed by some to have been the sepulchre of an 
 arch-druid : that it was sepulchral there is little doubt ; and from the 
 rarity of such monuments, it is most probable that it was for some eminent 
 person ; but there is no more reason for supposing that it had any thing 
 to do with druidism, than that the name of Drewe's Teignton was derived 
 from that source. s This cromlech is on a tenement called Shilston. It is 
 of moor-stone, about 12 feet in length, and about nine feet wide in the 
 widest part. The supporting stones are from six feet to six feet and a half 
 to the under part of the covering stone. 
 
 i On the Northcote estate, in the parish of East Downe. 
 
 r Archaeologia, vol.iv. p. 8. 
 
 s See " Cornwall," General History, p. clxxxii. clxxxiv. and ccxvii., on the subject of 
 Logan stones and rock basins, and p. 493. of this volume, as to the name of Drewe's 
 Teignton ; to which may be added, that there is no authority whatever for the place having 
 been so called before the time of Drewe de Teignton. The natural excavations called Rock 
 basins, occur in numerous places on the granite rocks of Dartmoor, &c. The most cele- 
 brated Logan stone in Devon is that on the banks of the Teign, in the parish of Drewe's 
 Teignton ; but I am informed that the motion is now scarcely perceptible. A natural pile of 
 rocks in the parish of Manaton, called Bowerman's Nose, somewhat resembling the Cheese- 
 wring near Alternon, in Cornwall, has, by some enthusiasts in druidism, been supposed to 
 have been a rock-idol. 
 
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 The sketch beneath is from an accurate drawing, made by my brother, 
 in 1807. 
 
 On the opposite page are representations of three ancient inscribed 
 stones, from drawings made by my brother. Mr. Polwhele mentions 
 another in Yealmton church-yard, of which I have no note, with the word 
 Toreus inscribed on it. 
 
 No. 1. is at Buckland Monachorum, at the corner of a blacksmith's 
 shop ; it is seven feet two inches in height, fourteen inches wide at the 
 top, and one foot six inches in the widest part. 
 
 No. 2. now forms a sill under the door of Lustleigh church. It is four 
 feet in length, and 14 inches wide. 
 
 No. 3. is at Tavistock, on the site of the abbey. It stands seven feet 
 above the ground, is 11 inches thick, and 21 wide. 
 
 Numerous tumuli, or barrows, occur in various parts of the county, on 
 Haldon and other downs, particularly in the north of Devon. Many of 
 them are of stone, which are sometimes called kairns : a few of those on 
 Haldon have been opened ; urns were found in them ', and in one some 
 Roman coins ; fragments of urns were found in one that was opened in 
 the parish of Moreton, and Roman coins, &c. in one in East Worlington. 
 
 • The great tumulus on the highest part of the east side of Haldon, '200 feet in circumfer- 
 ence, and about 10 feet high, which is a conspicuous object from a great distance, was opened 
 in 1780 by Mr. Tripe, and was found to contain, within a stone cell, an inverted urn, contain- 
 ing the burnt bones of a small size and ashes. 
 
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 Copleston, in the parish of Colebrooke. It is a pillar about twelve feet in 
 height, and about two feet square at the base, but declines a little in size 
 as it ascends ; at the top is a square hole, in which a cross is supposed to 
 
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cccx DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 have been mortised. The sides are rudely ornamented with saltier-shaped 
 crosses, &c. ; on one side, near the top, is a niche, from which a figure 
 appears to have been removed. At Lustleigh, in a lane near the church 
 is a block of granite, about five feet in height, called the Bishop's Stone, 
 which appears to have been the base of a cross : the sides have been 
 worked into a regular shape, and on one of them may be traced the form 
 of a coat of arms. In an enclosed field, on a farm called Stone, in the 
 parish of East Worlington, is a square stone, about six feet five inches in 
 height above the ground, into which it is sunk nearly to the same depth. 
 At the top, on each side, is a cross. 
 
 Celts. — Mr. Polwhele makes mention of celts, most of them brass, 
 found singly in the parishes of Chudleigh, Ilsington, and Buckfastleigh, 
 and one north of Barnstaple. The Rev. Mr. Carrington found several in 
 some kairns between Bridford and Christow ; George Drake, Esq., of 
 Ipplepen, has one of copper, found in the year 1820, in a wood belonging 
 to him in that parish. 
 
 Roman Antiquities. 
 
 Considering that there are some undoubted Roman stations in this 
 county, very few antiquities of that nation, and those not of great import- 
 ance, have been discovered in it. It appears, from " Stukely's Itinerary," 
 that a Roman tesselated pavement was found in Exeter, in Pancras-lane, 
 behind the Guildhall, at the depth of eight feet. Some small remains of a 
 tesselated pavement, and a few Roman medals, were found in 1777> hi 
 digging the foundation of Mr. Dennis's house in the High-street : and in 
 1778, some Roman Penates, in bronze, were discovered in digging a cellar 
 under the house of Mr. Upham, in the same street, at the corner of Broad- 
 gate ; two of them evidently meant to represent Mercury. r The female bust 
 and the Roman altars, placed in the front of the house lately the property 
 and residence of Richard Eales, Esq., were not found in Exeter, but were 
 placed there by the learned Dr. Musgrave, who procured them from Bath, 
 as appears by a passage in his Belgium Britannicum, where there is an 
 engraving of the bust. An antique lar of iron was found near Hembury 
 fort, in 1801. u 
 
 Westcote says, that a pot of gold and silver Roman coins was found in 
 
 • See Archaeologia, vol. vi. p. 1., where there is an engraving of the Penates. 
 11 Figured in pi. lv. of vol. xiv. of the Archaeologia, 1. and 2. 
 
 Exeter, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cccxi 
 
 Exeter, near the castle ; and others not far from the same spot, with a fair 
 ring, which had a beautiful stone, representing Cleopatra with the asp. 
 Thirty of the coins came into Westcote's possession : the latest was one of 
 Antoninus Pius. In 1721, a pot of Roman coins was found near St. 
 Martin's church : they were of Balbinus, Philippus, Julia Maesa, &c. w 
 Some Roman coins were found in the camp on Berry-head, about the year 
 1730 ; among others, one of the Emperor Claudius, with the figure of 
 Victory on the reverse. Chappie says, that, in 1774*, some Roman coins 
 were found in an earthen vessel in St. Catherine's lane when some houses 
 were rebuilt ; one of Augustus Caesar was in fine preservation : the same 
 year, a fine medal of Domitian, in silver, was found by the workmen dig- 
 ging the foundation of the new hall, on the site of the castle. Mr. Chappie 
 says, that, in 1774, Mr. George Baker showed him coins of Domitian, 
 Trajan, Vespasian, Probus, and Valentinian, all found in or near Exeter. 
 In 1779, coins of Vespasian, Probus, Carinus, &c, were found in altering 
 a house for the Methodists' meeting. 
 
 Mr. Chappie speaks of a lachrymatory and Roman coins found near 
 Seaton, supposed to have been the Moriodunum of the Iters. Some 
 tumuli having been opened on Haldon, in 1793, three urns were found 
 under a bed of flint, filled with ashes and bones ; several Roman 
 coins were found in these tumuli. In 1816, a labourer, digging for stone 
 in the great barrow on the western side of Haldon, found several Roman 
 coins of the later empire, which are in the possession of the Rev. John 
 Templer. Some silver Roman coins were found about 1 813, by some labourers 
 repairing a hedge in the parish of Bishop's Morchard ; four of these, two of 
 Vespasian, one of Nerva, and one of Trajan, are in the possession of John 
 Sillifant, Esq., of Combe. Roman coins have been found in a barrow, in 
 the parish of East Worlington. 
 
 On excavating the ground, for the purpose of taking down and rebuild- 
 ing Teignbridge, in 1815, the timbers of an ancient wooden bridge were 
 discovered ; and, underneath, the piers of another bridge of white ashler, 
 apparently of Roman work. It appears, from the mention of it in the 
 Domesday survey, that Teignbridge had given name to the hundred from 
 a remote period. The remains of two ancient highways, the lower one of 
 which was paved, were found under the channel of the temporary river. x 
 
 " Mentioned in the collections of Mr. Chappie, who supposes them to have been in the library 
 at Povvderham, in 1773. 
 
 * See a paper giving an account of these discoveries, drawn up by P. J. Taylor, Esq., in the 
 Archa;ologia, vol. xix. p. 308 — 313. 
 
 British 
 
cccxii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 British and Roman Roads and Stations. v 
 
 " As it is allowed by all our writers, that the earliest trade of Britain, in 
 whatever articles it consisted, was seated, from local circumstances, in this 
 western part of the island, we may fairly conclude, that internal roads, 
 the constant attendants on trade, and without which, indeed, it can hardly 
 exist, must have been particularly numerous in Devonshire and Cornwall ; 
 and the fact seems to confirm this idea, for in no counties are we able to 
 trace, especially since the last excellent survey made by the order of 
 government, so many lines of communication between the places supposed 
 to have been British towns. 
 
 " Of these, one principal road, converted afterwards by the Romans to 
 their own use, passed through the whole length of Devonshire, from north- 
 east to south-west, in its way to the great marts of trade on the Cornish 
 coast. It enters the county from Dorsetshire (where it has preserved the 
 British name of the Ikeneld-way) a little east of Axminster, to the right 
 of the present turnpike-road ; then proceeds with it by Kilmington and 
 Shute-hill, to Dalwood-down, where it bears away from it on the left for the 
 sake of keeping the ridge of the hill, which it does till it "gradually de- 
 scends by Honiton church to the house called the Turk's Head, where it 
 crosses it, and runs direct to the large camp at Hembury, which was very 
 probably a British post on it ; from hence it ran by Lay-hill, Colstocks, 
 Tale-water, Tallaton-common, and Larkbeare, near Whimple, to Street- 
 way-head, being still known in this part of its course by the name of the 
 Old Taunton Road. Here the ancient trackway is lost, but it probably 
 continued nearly in the line of the present turnpike-road to Exeter, which 
 was certainly the principal town of the Damnonii, (though we may not 
 perhaps adopt the conjecture of Mr. Polwhele, that it is exactly delineated 
 on a Damnonian coin). It crossed the Exe at a ford a little below the 
 present bridge, which ford was the site of the ancient bridge, and ran 
 through St. Thomas's by the causeway, now a nursery, to the village of 
 Alphington, so over Haldon, leaving Ugbrooke, where there is a strong 
 British camp, on the right. Some way beyond this, it bore off again from 
 the present turnpike-road at Sandygate, and passing by King's Teignton, 
 crossed the Teign below Newton Abbot, by a ford still called Hacknield- 
 rvay ; then leaving another British camp on its left, went over Ford-com- 
 
 y Communicated by the late Bishop of Cloyne. 
 
 mon, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cccxiii 
 
 mon, and again joined the modern road to Totnes, which we may fairly 
 conclude to have been a British town, both from its being celebrated in 
 the tales of our old historians, not only as the spot where Ambrosius and 
 Uter Pendragon, but even where Brute himself landed, (and, whatever we 
 may think of the matter of fact, it proves the idea of these early writers as 
 to the traditionary antiquity of the place,) but also from the evident bend 
 to the east, which the line of the road makes in order to pass through it. 
 From hence it seems to have tended more westerly near Brent, and by an 
 old circular camp near Boringdon park to the first ford upon the Tamar. 
 
 " A second road, which has every appearance of being British, seems 
 to have run from the mouth of the Exe to the great camp at Woodbury, 
 which it enters at the south-west gate, and leaves by the north-east, thence 
 to Streetway-head, where it joins the Ikening-street, and proceeds with it 
 to Hembury, so over Blackdown towards Taunton, in Somersetshire. 
 
 " Another of these trackways seems to have left Exeter on the north- 
 west side of it, to have crossed the Exe at a ford near the Bonhay, below 
 the Weare, and passing through Mr. Buller's fields, where it is still visible, 
 continued in a straight line up Cleve-hill, close to Cleve-house, and so fell 
 into the line of the modern Oakhampton turnpike-road, near which it joins 
 another ancient road, still in good preservation, which ran from Crediton 
 to Exeter and Haldon. This last road is very plain and straight, but 
 keeps the hills as much as possible, seeming to have been once the great 
 communication between Exeter, Crediton, Chulmleigh, and the whole 
 north-west part of the county. 
 
 " A more decided road, which was afterwards used by the Romans, 
 seems to have gone from Exeter to Molland Bottreaux, which there is 
 much reason to conclude was also a British town : it is plain in the parish 
 of Woolfardisworthy, in. a line between the two, where is Berry castle, a 
 circular fortification, and from hence through Witheridge and near Knowe- 
 stone, directly in a line for Molland. 
 
 " From Seaton a road is said to run between Yerbury and the parish of 
 Farway, to the camp at Hembury, before mentioned ; thence by Collump- 
 ton and Bampton, leaving Dulverton a little on its right, and proceeding 
 by the Ansteys to Molland. 
 
 " These roads, and many others, the traces of which have perished, or 
 are too obscure to be spoken of with any certainty, were, probably, in ex- 
 istence long before the Roman invasion ; and the conquerors adopted such 
 of them as were most convenient for their own purposes, raising their crest 
 Vol. VI. f r always, 
 
cccxiv DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 always, and altering their line in some instances, according to their usual 
 practice. There is, however, a local circumstance which renders it more 
 difficult to trace these roads in Devonshire than in any other part of Eng- 
 land, for the country is not only in the lower parts of it deeply enclosed, 
 but the enclosures are formed by banks of such a height and thickness, as 
 is unknown in the more northern districts ; and in order to construct them, 
 the elevated crest of the Roman road, which was near at hand, has almost 
 in every instance fallen a sacrifice. That the principal Roman Way, how- 
 ever, was in the course of the British Ikeneld, we have the most evident 
 proofs. It entered the county with it at Axminster, and, probably, pro- 
 ceeded with it towards Honiton, where the British Way, still bearing the 
 name of Street, seems to have run north towards Hembury, and the Roman 
 one south-west along the banks of the Otter, in the line of the present 
 turnpike-road. Five or six miles west of Honiton, at a place called Fair 
 Mile, the ridge of the Roman road was, in Musgrave's time z , visible for 
 some distance. It bent, according to him, somewhat to the left at Honiton 
 Clist, entered the east gate of Exeter, went up St. David's hill to the old 
 ford below the bridge, and thence straight to the top of Haldon. It is 
 quite plain even at this day in the ascent to Haldon, on the right of the 
 present turnpike-road; but just beyond the road leading from Mamhead to 
 Sir L. Palk's crosses that road and continues on the left, being often seen 
 in this direction at intervals, by Newton Bushell to Totnes, where Mus- 
 grave describes the crest as quite perfect. Totnes was therefore, pro- 
 bably, the Statio ad Diirium Amnem. It is lost for some way to the 
 west of this town; but being again visible near Brent, goes to Ridgway 
 near Plympton, and thence straight for St. Budeaux, where it crossed the 
 ferry into Cornwall at the station of Tamara, mentioned in Richard's 
 sixteenth iter. 
 
 " Soon after the Ikeneld-street enters the east borders of Devonshire, it 
 is crossed or joined by a very distinguished Roman road, the Fosse, in its 
 way from Ischalis to Moridunwn. Which of these terms is most proper to 
 be used is indeed matter of doubt ; for the latter road is so obscure in this 
 part of its course, and the site of Moridunum so difficult to determine, that 
 our best antiquaries have doubts upon the subject ; and according as 
 they are led to fix this station at Hembury, or Seaton, suppose the Fosse 
 to fall into the Ikeneld near the first, or to cross it in its way to the second. 
 
 1 See his Belgium Britannicum, p. 75. 
 
 For 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cccxv 
 
 For reasons which will be detailed more at large when I come to consider 
 the claims of these two places to a Roman origin, I am inclined to prefer 
 the latter, which is countenanced by the bearing of the Fosse when it is 
 'last seen distinctly at the back of Hinton St. George, and by the name of 
 the village of Street, in the direct line between that spot and Seaton. The 
 defenders of the contrary opinion suppose the Fosse to have inclined more 
 west by Chard, and to have descended into the vale of the Otter, perhaps 
 by Yarcombe, where a portion of a road with a high crest is said still to 
 exist, and thence to the camp at Hembury. It is much to be wished, that 
 the bearings of this Yarcombe road had been given us with more accuracy. 
 General Simcoe, whose active and intelligent mind comprehended the 
 whole military system of the Romans more fully than any gentleman of 
 his county, but whose employment in the important duties of the profes- 
 sion of which he was a distinguished ornament left him hardly any leisure 
 for these pursuits, was inclined to think that it was a fragment of a road 
 bearing from Taunton towards Seaton ; but as Roman remains of some 
 consequence have been lately found at Chard, it is not impossible that a 
 branch from the Fosse may have connected Ilchester and Exeter in this 
 direction, by a shorter line than that through Seaton. 
 
 " An undoubted Roman road came from the central parts of Somerset- 
 shire towards Exeter, under the name (which never deceives us) of the 
 Port-way : its high crest is particularly visible at Uffculme-common, about 
 three miles west of Culmstock, and five north-east of Collumpton, and of 
 a great breadth, running for above a mile, from South Appledore to Len- 
 nard-moor. It is still the turnpike-road from Taunton to Exeter, and was 
 undoubtedly the very road from Bath travelled in the tenth iter of Richard. 
 
 " I have little hesitation in supposing another Roman road to have run 
 from Exeter to Holland Bottreaux, in the line of the ancient British one. 
 The greatest part of it can be travelled at present ; and what makes the 
 idea more probable, is, that passing through the British circular camp at 
 Woolfardisworthy, with no apparent notice, it runs five miles farther to a 
 Roman camp of the same name, Berry castle, in the north-east part of 
 Witheridge parish, which is square, well situated on an eminence over the 
 Dart, commanding a view beyond Holland to the borders of Exmoor, and 
 the road from it pointing to HoUand itself, beyond which it continues over 
 Exmoor in the very line seen from Berry castle among the barrows, where 
 Roman coins have been found, to Countesbury, on the coast near Linton, 
 an undoubted Roman camp, and probably a station ; and the communica- 
 
 r r 2 tion 
 
cccxvi DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 tion with the northern channel in this direction must have been a point of 
 considerable importance to Isca, whether as a British or a Roman city. 
 
 " The Romans had also a road from Exeter to Stratton, by the way 
 probably of Oakhampton and Holsworthy ; for in this line is Oldridge and 
 Bradbury, or Broadbury castle, three miles north of Bratton-Clovelly, of 
 an oblong form, 225 feet by 186, with a single vallum and ditch. 
 
 " There must have been some British or Roman town of great conse- 
 quence towards the centre of Somersetshire, perhaps Alauna, near Taunton, 
 and ZJjrella, supposed Bridgewater ; for besides the other roads which we 
 have marked as traversing Devonshire in that direction, a considerable one 
 is visible on the north-east borders, coming from Taunton, under the name 
 of the Rumansleigh, or Romansleigh ridge. It enters Devon a little north- 
 east of Brampton, at the village of Clayhanger, crosses the road from 
 Exeter to South Molton, a little beyond a house which stands at the junc- 
 tion of the Witheridge road ; thence near a close in East Worlington 
 parish, called Winchester, (in a barrow in which parish Roman coins were 
 found,) near also to the square camp at Berry castle ; so west-south-west 
 to Beacon-moor, in the parish of Chulmleigh, leaving the town about one 
 mile on the left, crosses the road from Chulmleigh to South Molton, near 
 Cadbury, an ancient camp ; thence through Elson, and crosses the Taw by 
 an old ford to a farm-house called Ravington, in Burrington parish ; thence 
 over Burrington-moor, where are many barrows, and cross the Roborough 
 road to Beaford-moor-head, near the direction-post in the crossway, a little 
 east of the house so called ; passing thence near Beaford and Wolley, it 
 crosses the Torridge a little above its junction with the brook that comes 
 from Wolley mill, it goes on to the parish of little Torrington, where it is 
 distinctly visible pointing to Stratton, towards which it has not been farther 
 traced. As in the first part of its course, near Bampton, it may have commu- 
 nicated with Molland, by the road through the Ansteys, or that from Berry 
 castle, so it is probable that, near Torrington, another road from Molland 
 to Stratton must have fallen into it. The beginning of such a road is 
 visible between Molland and South Molton ; but as to any road in Hollo- 
 combe parish, with which the Devon antiquaries have supposed it to be 
 connected, such road, if it exists, must have been part of that which I last 
 mentioned between Stratton and Bradbury castle, in the way from the 
 former station towards Exeter. 
 
 " An old road in this north part of the country is said to have run from 
 Molland towards Barnstaple, near which place, one mile to the north, is 
 
 Roborough, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cccxvii 
 
 Roborough, a large irregular camp ; this road went west of the present turn- 
 pike-road, in the valleys, and fell into the modern road at Landkey : from 
 thence it has been conjectured to proceed towards Hartland, which is by 
 no means unlikely, but the line has never been well examined. Stukely 
 supposes, that a road went from Seaton in a direct line across the country, 
 passing the Otter at Harpford ; but neither has this been followed by any 
 accurate observer. A piece of a road, as I before mentioned, is said to 
 exist at Yarcombe, near Otterford, in the north-east part of the county, 
 leading towards Honiton or Hembury, and another on the Wolborough 
 hills pointing to Dartmouth, but nothing more determined is known of 
 either. 
 
 " Having thus endeavoured to trace the Roman roads in a county, where, 
 from local circumstances, the attempt labours under peculiar difficulties, 
 we come now to fix the sites of the Roman stations ; and here also we find 
 the subject involved in much obscurity. The principal Roman station in 
 Devonshire, Isca Damnoniorum, appears, however, most decidedly, to have 
 been at Exeter. Tesselated pavements, coins, Roman idols, and other an- 
 tiquities dug up within its precincts, stones with Roman inscriptions seen 
 by Leland in its walls, and British as well as Roman roads proceeding from 
 it in every direction, seem to settle this question beyond doubt ; and 
 Exeter has the honour to which but few cities in the island have such clear 
 pretensions, of having been the capital of the British tribe, the Roman 
 province, and the modern county. Indeed, so strong is its claim to be con- 
 sidered as Roman, that Horseley, who denies it the name of Isca, allows it 
 in express words to be some other Roman station. The mistake of that 
 learned antiquary on the subject is one of the few errors in his excellent 
 work, and he was betrayed into this by two unlucky circumstances : first, 
 the imperfect state of English geography in his time, when no roads had 
 been measured, or the situation of towns determined with any accuracy, 
 and, as he himself confesses, no Roman ways known to exist farther west 
 than the limits of Dorsetshire ; and, in the next place, the blunder (as it is 
 now allowed to be) of an early transcriber of Antonine's Itinerary, who 
 has confounded the twelfth iter from Calleva to Isca, with that immediately 
 subsequent from some station in Wales, (probably St. David's,) to Urico- 
 nium. Being therefore without any guide at all in one case, and with a 
 mistaken one in the other, Horseley was led to remove Isca Damnoniorum 
 from Exeter, and to place it first at Ilchester, then at South Petherton, 
 and at last at Chiselborough. In this he has been followed only by Mr. 
 
 Strutt, 
 
cccxviii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Strutt, of Essex, and Mr. Henry, of Edinburgh ; both, like himself, perfect 
 strangers to the county, and the latter, (an author of much merit in 
 another line, but little conversant in these pursuits,) professes himself to 
 have been determined solely by Horseley's reasons, when the only reasons 
 Horseley has produced a are, that he ' sees in the map a place called Chisel- 
 borough, which sounds like antiquity, and not very unlike Isca.' Of the 
 force of this reason every one must judge for himself. In fact, the mistake 
 in Antoninus being now evident, and the towns of Leucarwn, Nidum, and 
 Bomium, which the twelfth iter, in its corrupted state, would fix in the 
 neighbourhood of Isca Damnoniorim, being all agreed to be in Wales, near 
 Isca Silurum, the only reason for removing the former of these stations 
 from Exeter has ceased to exist. 
 
 " It seems indeed to be allowed, that the distances west of Old Sarum, 
 both in Antonine and Richard, (the latter having probably copied from the 
 former,) are very inaccurate. This however by no means affects the 
 situation of Exeter, which answers to the distance of Isca from Durnovaria, 
 viz. 51 miles in Antonine, and 53 measured, and wherever in this interval 
 we may choose to fix Moridunum, (respecting which the numbers are cer- 
 tainly erroneous,) it has nothing to do with the present enquiry. Exeter, 
 therefore, from its antiquities and the roads conducting to it, must be 
 allowed to be a Roman town, and from its near agreement with the 
 itinerary distance, must certainly have been Isca Damnoniorim. 
 
 " The star which misled Horseley in this instance has shed its unlucky 
 rays upon a still greater character, the geographer Ptolemy, in the very 
 same instance ; for by an evident and gross error, the latter has not only 
 confounded Isca Damnoniorim with Isca Silurum, but has made a third 
 town, Legio Secunda Augusta, out of the latter ; nor will Mr. Polwhele's 
 ingenious conjecture, that the second legion may have been stationed at 
 Exeter in Ptolemy's time, excuse the mistake of the Greek writer ; for in 
 stating Isca (and by its situation among the Damnonian towns he must 
 mean Isca Damnonioruni) as in the latitude 52° 45', and Legio Secunda 
 Augusta, in 52° 35', he evidently took them for two different places. 
 
 " But whatever obstacles may have thus impeded our antiquaries in 
 determining till lately the situation of Isca, they are trifles compared to 
 the difficulties which still attend our researches on that of Moridunum. 
 This place has been fixed by different respectable authorities at Eggardon, 
 
 a See Brit. Roro. p. 4-64. 
 
 Hembury, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cccxix 
 
 Hembury, and Seaton. Horseley contends for the first of these, in oppo- 
 sition to the numbers in the itineraries, which in these western parts are 
 supposed to be corrupted ; besides, however, his disagreement with Anto- 
 nine, (who in two different iters asserts Moridunum to be 36 miles from 
 Dorchester, and 15 from Exeter, when Eggardon is only nine from the 
 first of these towns, and 41 from the second,) it is to be observed, that 
 the camp at Eggardon is irregular, with no antiquities of any kind found 
 in or near it, looking more like a British than a Roman fortress, and more 
 likely to be the Dunhtm of Ptolemy, (which that geographer places among 
 the Durotriges,) than the Moridunum of the itineraries, if Maiden castle, 
 near Dorchester, had not still better pretensions to the name of Dunhtm 
 than either. 
 
 " Hembury has a fairer claim to be considered as Moridunum. It is 
 not far (about two miles and a half) from the great western road, about 
 14 miles from Exeter, and 35 from Dorchester. It is evidently connected 
 with this road, and the distances agree with those in the itineraries. Two 
 old roads at least, one from Somersetshire towards Exeter, and another 
 from Seaton, are said to meet under its ramparts. Add to this, that the 
 road from Seaton to it is called the Street, and close under it are Aggerdon 
 fields. It is objected to these plausible arguments, that the form is irre- 
 gular, and that few antiquities exist in its neighbourhood. I should have 
 said none, if my friend, Mr. Harford, had not lately dug up an iron lar, 
 which has every appearance of being Roman, and there is a tradition in 
 the neighbourhood that a coin or two have been found there. 
 
 " Seaton is supposed to have been Moridunum by Camden, Musgrave, 
 and Stukely. The tradition of the inhabitants is, that it was once a 
 great town ; and Leland observes, ( there had been a notable harbour/ of 
 which indeed evident marks appear at present. Stukely even speaks of 
 a square camp called Honeyditches, only half a mile to the west of it, 
 and that much wrought stone had been dug up there ; but of this fort no 
 traces are now to be found. One road, as I observed, called the Street, 
 runs from it towards Hembury, and another is said to have gone in a more 
 direct line to Exeter, crossing the Otter at Harpford. The Fosse road, 
 too, which (wherever Moridunum was) certainly led to it, points evidently 
 towards Seaton in the latter part of its course, though I am far from 
 asserting it may not have thrown off a branch towards Exeter by Chard 
 and Hembury. But a circumstance that weighed much on my mind, 
 when in company with my excellent friend, Mr. Leman, I traced this cele- 
 brated 
 
cccxx D E VO N S H I R E. 
 
 brated road from the coast of Lincoln to that of Devonshire, was, that 
 we seldom descended into any large valley without being able to guess at 
 the line of the Roman way, by a tumulus, or camp, or other conspicuous 
 object on the brow of the opposite hill ; and when we finally lost this road, 
 like all our predecessors, on the Somersetshire side of the hill, called 
 Windwhistle, which is just on the borders of the two counties, we no 
 sooner ascended that eminence, than a small bay of the sea, with the land 
 bending in towards it on both sides, was visible in a line before us, which 
 once formed the entrance of the harbour, and is known by the name of 
 Seaton Gap. The agreement of this object to many of the same kind which 
 we had noted down in our careful examination of the road for near 300 
 miles, could not fail of making an impression in favour of Moridunum 
 being near Seaton. I am therefore, on the whole, inclined, though not with- 
 out some hesitation, to adopt the opinion of Camden on this subject. The 
 want of agreement indeed with the distance on both sides of the itinerary 
 numbers, (being only 31 or 32 from Dorchester, and at least 20 from 
 Exeter,) with the absence of all Roman remains", (however the latter may 
 be in some degree accounted for by the encroachments of the sea,) must 
 always lead a writer to be cautious on so obscure a point. The idea of 
 Dr. Mason, that a road bearing to Seaton from Somersetshire is called 
 Morwood's Causeway, {quasi via ad Moridunum) is too hypothetical for us 
 to adopt. 
 
 " The stations of Isca and Moridunum are known to be in Devonshire, 
 from their position in Antonine's Itinerary ; but we are indebted to that 
 of Richard for the information of two others. These are both mentioned 
 in his 16th iter ; ad Durium, and Tamara ; the first of these, was undoubt- 
 edly on the Dart, and Totnes, from its traditional antiquity and its situa- 
 tion, not only on the same river, but on a certain Roman road, seems to 
 me to have every claim to it. Tamara, from the name only, has been 
 fixed at Tatnerton, but'all we know of it is, that it lies somewhere near 
 the Tamar ; indeed so few Roman remains have been found at most of the 
 places specified in the itineraries under names of this sort, as ad Pontem, 
 ad Trivonam, ad Sturium amnem, &c. (ad Tisam being, I believe, the 
 
 b Mr. Chappie has a note of Roman antiquities found near Seaton, of which the Bishop 
 was not aware, see p. cccxi. This tends to confirm the opinion of his Lordship, that Seaton 
 
 was Moridunum. 
 
 sole 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cccxxi 
 
 sole exception,) that it has been conjectured they may have been only 
 mansions, where persons were placed by the government (as we know to 
 have been the Roman custom) to provide horses for travellers, and more 
 particularly on the sides of rivers, to superintend the ferries for conveying 
 them and their luggage to the opposite bank. Of course, it is more diffi- 
 cult and less important to point out their precise situation. The names 
 indeed of these posts point out, in many cases, a different class of resting- 
 places from the towns or stations, and more nearly approaching to our 
 inns : thus we read in Antonine's Itinerary, ad Aquilam, ad Columnam, 
 ad Septem Fratres, ad Rotam, ad Palmam, and the like. 
 
 " Besides these, we are obliged to Richard for the names of two British 
 towns, which his map places among the Cimbri, in the north of Devon- 
 shire, Termolus and Artavia ; and for these we have the additional autho- 
 rity of the geographer Ravennas, who states, in his corrupt Latin, Termonin 
 and Mostevia as two towns in this part of the country, not far distant from 
 Isca. It will be always useful in consulting Ravennas to remember, that, 
 if not a Greek himself, he composed his work from a Greek map, and 
 that the later Greeks always disfigured names and places of foreigners, 
 with the arrogant carelessness of the modern French. Thus Theophanes 
 calls the Italian cities Verona and Brixia by the names of Beroi and 
 Brincas ; and Leo the Deacon corrupts Marty ropolis into the barbarous 
 word Myctarsim. c Termolus and Artavia therefore were certainly ancient 
 cities in this part of the country ; and I have no hesitation in fixing the 
 first of these at Molland Bottreaux, where the number of roads pointing 
 to it on all sides, and an encampment of an oblong figure, (200 paces by 
 96,) with another perfectly square, (probably a summer-camp,) about two 
 miles distant, still mark the site of the station : near the latter, too, is an 
 evident piece of a raised road. 
 
 " We cannot speak with so much confidence of Artavia : it is supposed, 
 from the resemblance of the name only, to have been near Hartland Point. 
 But besides that the British town in Richard's map seems to be much 
 more inland, no coins have been found, or roads traced, or fortifications 
 known, except Clovelly Dykes, in the neighbourhood of Hartland. I 
 was once of opinion that this camp was constructed by Inguar, and the 
 brother of Halden, when they landed in this part of the country from 
 Wales with 23 ships"; but, as Mr. Swete observes, the Danes had seldom 
 
 c See Gibbon, vol. vii. p. 398., and vol. x. p. 91. Svo. d See Sax. Chron. 
 
 Vol. VI. s s time 
 
cccxxii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 time in their plundering incursions to raise fortifications of this magnitude : 
 it is irregular, surrounded with three deep ditches, and more likely 
 to be Saxon than either Roman or British ; if the latter, it is possible it 
 might have been Artavia, but this possibility is all we have to produce 
 for it. 
 
 " Exactly on the same suspicious ground is the claim of Denbury to be 
 the Devionisso of Ravennas, though it is called Devenesbury in Domesday, 
 and lies near the British road by Newton Bushell ; or Dartmouth Clifton 
 Ardness to have been Ardea ; or Bampton, though it may have had warm 
 springs, to have been a Roman town under the name of Bathrumpton. 
 Stansborough has a little more right to be considered as Stone : it is circu- 
 lar, large, and has a number of barrows about it ; it still gives name to 
 the hundred, (a proof of its ancient consequence,) and the road on Wol- 
 borough hills may probably be connected with it ; but the only places of 
 this description which I look upon to have evident claims to the title of 
 Roman camps or stations are Countesbury, on the northern channel ; the 
 camp in Sir Thomas Acland's park at Killerton, where coins have been 
 found, and which is well situated for a station between Taunton and 
 Exeter ; Bradbury, between Exeter and Stratton ; and Berry castle, in 
 Witheridge, between Exeter and Molland. Perhaps, too, Shorsbury, 10 
 miles north-east of Barnstaple, at a meeting of roads half way on the line 
 between this last place and Countesbury. It is an ingenious observation 
 of Mr. Polwhele's, that the few large Roman camps existing in Devonshire 
 argue the Damnonii to have surrendered without any considerable re- 
 sistance. 
 
 " If Hembury be not regarded as Moridunum, I am inclined to allow 
 it to have been a British camp occupied by the Romans ; it is an irregular 
 figure, but tending to circular. Oval stones, used by the Britons for slings, 
 have been found in it, yet its lofty situation, commanding the Vale 
 of Otter, the ancient roads (one of them with the name of Street) 
 running up to it, the marks of two raised hills (Pretoria they are called) 
 within the area, and some possible marks of occupancy, the Roman lar, 
 and it is said coins dug up near it, with its very convenient distance from 
 both Exeter and Seaton, are strong proofs of its having been possessed by 
 the latter people. 
 
 " It is to be lamented that so extensive a county, inhabited at all times 
 by an active and industrious people, and of late years, in particular, illus- 
 trated by the labours of many ingenious men, should still have such a 
 
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DEVONSHIRE. cccxxiii 
 
 cloud hanging over the period of its early history. A few insulated camps 
 with no remains in them, and detached pieces of roads (the end and begin- 
 ing of which are equally unknown), form the sum of its Roman antiquities ; 
 and of the stations and cities which it once contained. Exeter only, 
 and perhaps Molland Bottreaux, have been fixed with any degree of 
 certainty." 
 
 Ancient Church Architecture. 
 
 Saxon. — The remains of Saxon architecture in the Devonshire churches 
 are neither numerous nor particularly interesting. The most considerable 
 are the two square towers of the cathedral built by Bishop Warlewast, 
 and the churches at Bishop's Teignton and East Teignmouth, both of 
 which appear to have been built about the same time. The tower at 
 Bishop's Teignton, which stands between the nave and the chancel, is 
 square, of very massive construction, with a circular turret at one of the 
 angles. The west door exhibits the richest specimen of Saxon architec- 
 ture in Devonshire, with grotesque heads, chevron, and other mouldings : 
 the south door has a plain circular arch, on the transom stone of which 
 are some kneeling figures, rudely carved, much defaced and obscured 
 by white-wash. c The tower of East Teignmouth church is similar, 
 and in the same situation as that of Bishop's Teignton ; it has round- 
 headed windows, which occur also on the north side of the church. One 
 of the doorways, which has a circular head, is enriched with Saxon 
 mouldings. 
 
 In the churches of Bundleigh, Farway, Holsworthy, and North Pether- 
 win, are some remains of Saxon pillars and capitals. In the chapel at 
 Ford abbey is an arch slightly pointed, with chevron mouldings at each 
 end of a groined stone roof. 
 
 In the churches of Axminster, Buckland Brewer, Tiverton, Loxbeare, 
 Parkham, Paignton, Woolfardisworthy, in the hundred of Hartland, Bea- 
 worthy, Holcombe Burnell, Meeth, Stockleigh Pomeroy, and East Wor- 
 lington, are doorways having circular arched heads, with chevron and 
 
 c Many of the windows at Bishop's Teignton are obviously of a later date, long subsequent 
 to the erection of the church, probably about the fourteenth century, at which time the 
 north aisle appears to have been added. 
 
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cccxxiv DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 other mouldings characteristic of the Saxon style. There are also arched 
 doorways without enrichments, but evidently of this sera, in the churches 
 of Bickleigh (near Tiverton), Bradford, Bradstone, Dunsford, High 
 Hampton, High Bray, Holsworthy, Knowestone, Sutcombe, and Thornbury. 
 At South Milton are two pillars of a Saxon doorway. At Downe St. 
 Mary, over the doorway, are some rude Saxon carvings. 
 
 Thirteenth and fourteenth Centuries. — The chapel of St. Mary in Exeter 
 cathedral is supposed to have been built by Bishop Simon de Apulia, in 
 the early part of the thirteenth century ; and the style of architecture 
 appears to be of that period. The remains of the priory church at 
 Frithelstock, founded in the beginning of the reign of Henry III., 
 has three lancet-shaped windows at the west end. The chancel of 
 Bishop's Teignton church has windows of a similar form ; and there 
 are some remains of the architecture of this date in the church of 
 Aveton Giffard. The remains of the cloisters at Hartland exhibit the 
 arches and columns in use during the reign of Henry III. The choir and 
 nave of Exeter cathedral, designed by Bishop Quivil, who was promoted 
 to the see in 1280, were begun by him, but the greater part was built by 
 Bishop Grandisson, who was promoted to the see in 1327. The lower 
 part of the chapter-house, from the style of its architecture, appears 
 to have been built after Bishop Quivil's design. It is attributed to Bishop 
 Lacy, who was not promoted to the see till 1420. The upper part of the 
 building is of that age. The very rich facade at the west front, adorned 
 with numerous statues of patriarchs, prophets, apostles, kings, bishops, &c. 
 under enriched niches, was built by Bishop Brantingham towards the 
 latter end of the fourteenth century. 
 
 The church of Ottery St. Mary, dedicated by Bishop Bronscombe in 
 the year 1260, is a large structure, built in the form of a cathedral, with 
 nave, choir, and lady's chapel, of a plain, and, for the most part, 
 uniform style of architecture. The roof appears to have been finished by 
 Bishop Grandisson, who made it collegiate. The bosses at the intersection 
 of the groins are ornamented with foliage, and have his arms frequently 
 repeated. The north aisle is of later date. 
 
 Fifteenth Century. — Most of the parish churches in Devonshire appear 
 to have been rebuilt in this century : they are distinguished by clustered 
 columns, more or less ornamented with foliage, and by arches of a pointed 
 form. Among the most handsome of these churches may be reckoned 
 
 Ashburton, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cccxxv 
 
 Ashburton, Broad Clist, Chittlehampton, Colyton, Collumpton, Credi- 
 ton, Heavitree, Kenton, South Molton, Silverton, Swimbridge, and 
 Tiverton. 
 
 The church of Crediton is a handsome structure, and exhibits several 
 rich specimens of the style prevailing during this sera : it appears to have 
 been erected towards the end of the fifteenth century ; for Leland, who 
 was at Crediton in the reign of Henry VIII. , speaks of the parish church 
 as of no antiquity, and William of Worcester, who was there in 1478, 
 does not mention it. Honiton church appears also to have been built 
 about the end of this century. The window of the south transept at 
 Awlescombe is a rich specimen of the florid style prevailing about this 
 period. 
 
 Sixteenth Century. — The principal specimens of the florid Gothic, which 
 was in use in the reign of Henry VIII., are the chapel of Bishop Oldham, 
 and Speke's chapel in Exeter cathedral ; the north aisle of Ottery St. Mary, 
 built when Voysey was Bishop of Exeter, much enriched with tracery and 
 pendant ornaments on the ceiling ; the chapel at Collumpton, built by 
 John Lane, wool merchant, in 1528, richly ornamented in the same style, 
 with figures of angels holding emblems of the crucifixion ; the cloisters 
 and hall at Ford abbey, built by Abbot Thomas Chard, in 1508 ; and 
 Greenwaye's chapel at Tiverton, built in 1517. The latter is separated 
 from the south aisle of the church by a rich stone screen. The roof is 
 coved and enriched with tracery and pendant ornaments. The cornice 
 has angels holding shields, with the founder's mercantile mark, and 
 with anchors and woolpacks ; the arms of the Drapers' company, and 
 those of the Merchant Adventurers. The arms of Greenwaye are on 
 the wainscot of the chapel. f The outside of the chapel is richly orna- 
 mented with tracery in stone, with shields and anchors. The cornice is 
 carved with various subjects from the history of our Saviour. On a wide 
 frieze are waves, with ships and boats ; on another, immediately under the 
 battlements, the arms of Greenwaye, &c, as in the chapel, and a shield 
 with three roses and several quarterings, probably the arms of the founder's 
 wife ; the whole rather coarsely executed. On another frieze is this in- 
 scription : 
 
 Have grace, ye men, and ever pray 
 
 For the souls of John and Jone Greenwaye. 
 
 ' A chevron between three covered cups ; in chief three griffins' heads erased. 
 
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cccxxvi DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 The Umberleigh aisle at Atherington, fitted up in the reign of Queen 
 Elizabeth, has the following inscription : 
 
 " God save the church, our Queen Elizabeth, and realme, 
 And grant us peace and truth in Christ. Amen." 
 
 Ancient painted Glass. — The painted glass of the cathedral was nearly 
 all destroyed during the civil war. Some figures remain in the great east 
 window; among these are the Virgin Mary, St. Catharine, St. Helen, 
 St. Sidwell, King Edmund the Martyr, Edward the Confessor, St. Martin, 
 with some of the prophets and patriarchs. In St. Gabriel's chapel is a figure 
 of that archangel ; in St. Mary Magdalen's is a portrait of Bishop Stafford, 
 in an attitude of devotion before that saint. The great west window, of 
 painted glass, by Peckitt, of York, was fitted up in 1766. 
 
 There are few remains of painted glass in the Devonshire parochial 
 churches, and those, for the most part, much mutilated ; as at Abbot's 
 Bickington, Bampton, Coleridge, Lamerton, and Lustleigh, consisting 
 chiefly of figures of saints. At Clist St. George, the east window appears 
 to have been ornamented with painted glass, at the expence of one of the 
 rectors, whose figure is introduced in a kneeling attitude. On a scroll is 
 
 the following imperfect inscription : " Ora pro Johi A lar rectori 
 
 hujus ecclesie." In the central light is the crucifixion ; on one side the 
 virgin and chdd, on the other St. George, on foot, armed. In the church 
 at Doddescombleigh are some remains of painted glass, representing the 
 seven sacraments, with figures of saints, &c. 
 
 In the east window of the church at Beer Ferrers are some curious 
 remains of painted glass, particularly the figures of the founder and' his 
 lady, as represented in the annexed plate, with an imperfect inscription, 
 which denotes him to have been Sir William Ferrers. There are also the 
 figures of St. Catherine and other saints, much mutilated. The different 
 compartments of the window have borders formed of the arms of Ferrers 
 and plain coloured glass placed alternately. 
 
 Rood-lofts, Screens, §c. — This county abounds in very rich remains of 
 antiquities of the kinds here mentioned. Almost the whole of them 
 appear to have been the work of the fifteenth century. The greater part 
 of them are of wood, but there are also several of stone. At Totnes is a 
 
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DEVONSHIRE. cccxxvii 
 
 very elegant stone screen, represented in the annexed plate, with tabernacle 
 work painted and gilt. It extends to one half of the chancel : the 
 gallery of the rood-loft remains, the staircase to it being on the north 
 side. At Culmstock is a stone screen, between the nave and chancel ; 
 it has a rich doorway, ornamented with foliage, and a tufted finial ; on 
 each side the doorway are three arches, with Gothic tracery : above the 
 arches are scrolls, on which is inscribed, " Whan God woll better may hit 
 be." At Colyton is an elegant open stone screen across the south transept. 
 At Marldon is a rich screen of stone, and another at the end of the north 
 aisle, with the cornices much enriched. At Luppit is a stone screen. 
 At Awlescombe is the stone screen of a rood-loft, in the style of the 
 fifteenth century, with angels holding scrolls in the springings of the 
 arches. At Bideford is a stone screen between the chancel and the south 
 aisle, with several shields of Grenville, connected with the monument of 
 Sir Thomas Grenville (1513). At Paignton, in the south aisle, is a rich 
 stone screen, with shields similar to those in use in the reign of Edward IV., 
 connected with monuments of the Kirkham family. 
 
 The costly stone screen at the east end of the choir of Exeter cathedral, 
 erected by Bishop Stapeldon, is supposed to have been demolished about 
 the beginning of Elizabeth's reign % ; its place was long supplied by a plain 
 freestone wall, for which has been lately substituted a screen of enriched 
 Gothic sculpture by Mr. Kendall ; but it is to be regretted that this in- 
 genious artist had not adopted the lighter style of architecture, which, no 
 doubt, characterized the Bishop's screen, and which is seen in the remark- 
 ably beautiful adjoining stalls. 
 
 Anions: the most rich and curious of the wooden screens which have 
 the rood-loft remaining, are those at Ashton, Berry Pomeroy, Bradninch, 
 (extending across the nave and aisles, with the date 1528,) West Buckland, 
 with heads and arabesque ornaments, the projecting part of it particularly 
 well carved ; Clist St. Lawrence ; Collumpton, with cornice of vine- 
 leaves, &c. ; Dartmouth (uncommonly rich) ; Feniton (very rich and 
 complete) ; Halberton ; Harburton, and Honiton (both very rich and 
 entire) ; Kentisbere ; Kenton, with scrolls, on which is the Belief in 
 Latin ; Marwood (inscribed Sir John Beapul, persone of Merewode) ; 
 King's Nympton ; Peahembury ; Pinhoe, with rich mouldings of vine- 
 leaves, bunches of grapes, &c. ; Plymtree ; Poltimore ; Sampford Peve- 
 
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cccxxviii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 rell, Swimbridge, richly ornamented with vine-leaves, &c. ; Tallaton, very 
 rich and complete ; Tiverton, richly ornamented, and with side screens ; Tor 
 Bryan, Trusham, and Uffculme, with foliage, richly gilt and painted, as are 
 several of those above mentioned. Most of them have figures of saints, &c, 
 painted on the lower compartments. At Tor Mohun is a screen with the 
 joists of the rood-loft remaining over the Ridgway chapel. At Ather- 
 inglon is a very rich screen across the north aisle, with the gallery of the 
 rood-loft remaining : it originally extended across the whole church. At 
 Dawlish part of the rood-loft and screen remain. At Malborough the 
 projection of the rood-loft remains across the north aisle. 
 
 In numerous churches, the screen of the rood-loft only remains ; in the 
 following they are particularly rich, and most of them are painted and 
 gilt: Bridford, Bovey Tracey, Burlescombe, Chivelstone, Clayhanger, 
 Clist St. Lawrence, Dartington, Dowland, Little Hempston, Holne, Lap- 
 ford, Manaton, West Ogwell, Pilton, Plymstock, Portlemouth, Shipstor, 
 and Staverton. Those at South Brent, Christow, Rattery, and Wolborough, 
 extend across the nave and aisles. 
 
 There are screens of a less ornamented description at East Allington, 
 Alphington, Ashcombe, Blackauton, (ornamented with pomegranates,) 
 North Bovey, High Bray, Burrington, Broadwood Wiger, Buckland-in-the- 
 Moor, Chawley, Chulmleigh, Cockington, Coleridge, Churston Ferrers, 
 Comb in Teignhead, Dodbrook, East Downe, Dittisham, Ermington, (with 
 ornaments in the Holbein style,) Broad Hempston, Hennock, Heanton 
 Punchardon, South Huish, Ilsington, Ipplepen, Kenn, Abbot's Kerswell, 
 Littleham, Lustleigh, St. Mary Church, South Milton, North Molton, 
 Monkleigh, Moreton Hampstead, North Petherwin, South Pool, Powder- 
 ham, Sherford, Slapton, Stoke Gabriel, Stoke Rivers, Stoke in Teignhead, 
 Stokenham, East Teignmouth, and Ugborough. 
 
 At Heavitree only the lower part of the screen remains, formed into 
 pews, with paintings of saints. At Romansleigh and Sampford Courtenay 
 are remains of screens. At Throwley is the base of the screen, painted with 
 Scripture subjects (1544). At Ashprington is part of a screen, which has 
 been much cut away. At North Huish, Whimple, and Widdecombe-in-the- 
 Moor, are remains of screens. The screen at Holbeton, which was at the 
 end of the nave, has been cut down, but it remains in the north and south 
 aisles, ornamented with roses, portcullises, pomegranates, and fleurs-de-lis. 
 The screens have been removed, within a few years, from the churches of 
 Coffinswell, Langtree, North Lew, and Uplowman. There was an elegant 
 
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 screen in the old church of St. Sidwell, with rich mouldings of vine-leaves, 
 &c, which was taken down a few years ago, when that church was rebuilt. 
 The screen at Langtree was rich and entire, ornamented with scrolls of 
 vine-leaves, flowers, heads, &c, on the projecting fans, and shields of the 
 age of Edward IV. That at North Lew is said to have been very rich. 
 
 In several of the churches the pews appear to be coeval with the rood- 
 lofts, which they resemble in their ornaments, as at Peahembury, &c. The 
 pews in others are ornamented with grotesque figures carved in wood, as at 
 Lew Trenchard, Pancras Week, &c. &c. The door at St. Saviour's at 
 Dartmouth, or at least its iron ornaments, appear to be coeval with the 
 building of the church in the reign of Edward III. The date of 1639 
 must have referred to some repairs. 
 
 Ancient Pulpits. — There are several richly ornamented ancient pulpits, 
 both of stone and wood, in the Devonshire churches. At Bovey 
 Tracey the pulpit is ornamented with foliage and tabernacle work, gilt ; 
 at Chittlehampton it is ornamented with scrolls of vine-leaves and figures 
 of saints ; at Dartmouth several enrichments, carved in wood, have been 
 added to the stone pulpit, and are evidently of later date. The pulpit at 
 Dittisham has figures under niches, rudely executed, with alternate scrolls 
 of vine-leaves and other foliage ; that at Harberton is richly ornamented 
 with scrolls of vine-leaves and grapes, and the figures of the evangelists 
 and other apostles, in niches ; the pulpit at North Molton is enriched 
 with tabernacle work and tracery ; that of South Molton, of the same de- 
 scription, which is particularly rich, is represented in the annexed plate. 
 The stone pulpit at Paignton is ornamented with vine-leaves and other foli- 
 age ; that at Pilton with Gothic tracery ; that at Swimbridge with figures 
 of saints ; that at Witheridge with sculpture of saints, crucifixes, &c. The 
 stone pulpit at Totnes is on a pedestal, with Gothic tracery and shields. 
 
 Among ancient enriched wooden pulpits, those of East Allington, Brid- 
 fbrd, Halberton, Holne, Ipplepen, Kenton, Malborough, Pinhoe, and Tor 
 Bryan, may be particularized. Some of these are painted and gilt, and 
 are evidently of the same date as the rood-lofts, by the resemblance in 
 their enrichments. 
 
 Stone Stalls. — In Axminster church are three stone stalls of unequal 
 height, with trefoil arched heads, and an elegant piscina ; at Bigbury, three 
 with plain pointed arches, and a piscina ; at Broad Clist, three of equal 
 
 Vol. VI. t t height, 
 
cccxxx DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 height, connected with a monument 6 ; at Cornwood, three of unequal 
 height, with plain trefoil-arched heads and a piscina ; at Crediton, the re- 
 mains of three, with arched heads of remarkably rich tracery. 
 
 In the Lady's chapel in Exeter cathedral, are three stone stalls, with 
 highly pointed arches and a double piscina. On the south side of the choir, 
 are three of great beauty. The seats are of unequal height ; the backs, 
 which are semi-octagon, are richly ornamented with mosaic work ; the 
 canopies, which are octagonal, are surmounted by lofty pinnacles, with 
 finials ; the whole richly ornamented with foliage. 
 
 At Harberton, are three stone stalls, very much enriched, and a piscina; 
 at Lustleigh, three of equal height, with plain trefoil-arched heads and a 
 double piscina ; at Maristow, two similar ones of equal height ; at Newton 
 Ferrers, three with very pointed arches and a double piscina ; at West 
 Ogwell, three of equal height, with trefoil arches upon detached columns ; 
 at Plympton St. Mary, three and a piscina ; and at Yealmton, two with 
 plain pointed arches upon detached pillars. 
 
 At Dartmouth, the communion-table is surrounded with seats, the upper 
 parts of which are enriched with arabesque ornaments and arms. The 
 table is supported by grotesque figures, and the four Evangelists with their 
 symbols. 
 
 Fonts. — Few of the fonts in this county claim particular notice. Among 
 many of circular form and an early age, enriched with various carved 
 mouldings, wreaths, scrolls, or foliage, may be enumerated those of Ash- 
 combe, Bideford, Blackauton, South Brent, Dean Prior, Dittisham, St. 
 Petrock in Dartmouth, St. Mary Steps in Exeter, Farrington, Harberton, 
 Huxham, Loddiswell, Nymet Rowland, South Pool, Rattery, Stoke Flem- 
 ing, Bishop's Teignton, Drew's Teignton, Twitchen, and Ugborough. At 
 South Milton and Topsham, the fonts are also circular, with figures of 
 animals rudely carved ; that at Alphington is surrounded with pillars and 
 interlaced arches in low relief, with an ornament of grotesque figures over 
 them. The font at Stoke Canon has figures and animals of very coarse 
 workmanship. 
 
 There are ancient square fonts, for the most part supported by four pil- 
 lars and a large pedestal in the centre, at Bundleigh, Dodbrook, Holne, 
 Honeychurch, Honiton Clist, Kenne, North Lew, Lifton, Mariansleigh, 
 
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 Maristow, Petrockstow, Sherwell, Washfield, Wembury, Woodleigh, and 
 Woolf'ai'disworthy. '' At Ashwater, Holbeton, and Luppit, are square 
 fonts with rude figures of animals ; that at Ashwater has grotesque heads 
 at the angles. The fonts at Christow, Hittesleigh, Loxbeare, Newton 
 Tracey, Roseash, Bishop's Tawton, and Thelbridge, have square Saxon 
 fonts on circular pillars, or pedestals. Those at Bishop's Nyrapton, Wool- 
 fardisworthy ', and Dolton, are square, on a square base; the latter is 
 highly enriched, but the ornaments are much worn. 
 
 The fonts at Broad Hembury and North Molton are octagonal, very 
 richly ornamented with quatrefoils, foliage, and the figures of saints under 
 niches. The fonts at Cockington and Dunsford are octagonal, orna- 
 mented with coats of arms ; at Plymtree, with quatrefoils and tracery ; at 
 Tor Mohun, with foliage, and winged figures at the angles as supporters. 
 The fonts at Challocombe, Linton, and East Teignmouth, are octagonal, 
 on pillars ; the latter enriched with quatrefoils, &c. in pannels, and foliage. 
 At Bigbury, the font is octagonal, with carved pannels and shields on the 
 sides, and supported upon a base fancifully ornamented with tracery and 
 small pillars. At Shipwash, the font is square upon the top, curved below, 
 and connected with a plain octagonal base, upon which it stands. Three 
 sides of the font are plain ; the fourth, enriched with foliage slightly carved 
 upon its surface. The font at Beer Ferrers consists of a truncated polygonal 
 shaft, resting upon four foliated ornaments, encircled by a band of rather 
 coarse execution. 
 
 Ancient Sepulchral Monuments. — Few instances occur in this county of 
 ancient monuments of ecclesiastics without inscriptions, distinguished by 
 crosses flory, &c. There are such in the ruins of Canonleigh priory, at 
 Coleridge, Hittesleigh, and Offwell. At Chittlehampton is a slab with a 
 cross flory fitchee, having a tall shaft resting on a base, on which are the 
 following arms : — A bend engrailed, cottised ; on the slab is inscribed in 
 text characters, the letters being on each side of the shaft, " Orate pro 
 aia Joh. Doble." 
 
 In Axminster church is a mutilated effigies of an ecclesiastic, with a 
 maniple suspended from the left wrist. Under the south tower of the 
 cathedral is an altar-tomb, ornamented with quatrefoils, supposed to be 
 that of John, Bishop of Exeter, who died in 1191 : that of Bishop Leofric, 
 under the same tower, was constructed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 h In the hundred of Hartland. ' In the hundred of Witheridge. 
 
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cccxxxii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Two ancient monuments, supposed to be those of Bartholomew Iscanus 
 and Simon de Apulia, Bishops of Exeter, have been lately discovered on 
 removing the library in the Lady's chapel. The latter, which belongs to the 
 thirteenth century k , is represented in the annexed plate ; the former is of 
 ruder sculpture, and not so much raised. 
 
 Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. — At Atherington is the effigies of 
 a crusader, brought from Umberleigh chapel in 1818. At Beer Ferrers, 
 on the north side of the chancel, is the monument of a crusader and his 
 lady. He is habited in mail and surcoat ; she in a veil and whimple. In the 
 north transept is the mutilated effigies of a crusader in the act of drawing 
 his sword, the shield angular ; both doubtless of the Ferrers family, who 
 possessed Beer Ferrers from a very early period. At Georgeham is the 
 effigies of a crusader, rudely executed ; with a plain shield, two angels at 
 his head, and a lion at his feet (said to be Sir Manger St. Albyn, who died 
 22 Edw. I.). At Haccombe is the effigies of a crusader in armour, richly 
 inlaid with ornament, as shown in the annexed plate ; on his shield the 
 arms of Haccombe (either Sir Stephen or Sir Jordan de Haccombe). 
 
 In Exeter cathedral, in the south aisle of the choir, are the effigies of 
 two crusaders. One of these, which is under an ogee arch, is in mail 
 and surcoat, with a helmet under his head, and a dog at his feet ; he has 
 a long sword, which he is in the act of drawing : the other, which is 
 under a plain arch, and has a round helmet, is in the act also of drawing 
 his sword ; at his feet is a lion. These monuments are said to be for one 
 of the Chichester family, and Humphrey Bohun, Earl of Hereford. ' 
 At Iddesleigh, under a flat arch, is the effigies of a crusader, with a plain 
 shield, said to have been intended for Sir John Sully. At ; Little Hemp- 
 ston is the effigies of a crusader, much mutilated and defaced ; a lion at 
 his feet ; probably Sir John Arundell. At Weare Giffard, under a plain 
 arch, is the effigies of a crusader, with that of his lady, in stone, much 
 obscured by white-wash ; he is represented in mail and surcoat, in the act 
 of drawing his sword ; she in a veil and whimple, with a coronet on her 
 head, her hands joined in prayer. A mutilated effigies of a crusader, 
 
 fc Bishop Simon de Apulia, died in I19.i. 
 
 1 Leland mentions only a knight of the Chichester family. The other appears to have 
 been attributed to Humphrey Bohun so early as the reign of Queen Elizabeth, when John 
 Hoker wrote an epitaph for it, which has been long illegible : it is printed in Mr. Polwhele's 
 History. 
 
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 doubtless one of the Peverell family, has recently been discovered in the 
 church of Sampford Peverell. 
 
 At Arlington, in a little chapel on the south side of the church, is 
 the effigies of a lady, in a very good style, with a coronet, which may pro- 
 bably be attributed to the latter part of this period. At Atherington, under 
 a plain arch, on the north side of the chancel, is an altar-tomb, orna- 
 mented with shields : on the slab are the effigies of a knight and his lady ; 
 the former in armour, with a pointed helmet, a lion at his feet, and on his 
 breast the arms of Champernowne m ; the lady is in a long loose gown, 
 with a mantle, and has a dog at her feet. At Broad Clist is a monument 
 connected with three stone stalls, as is shown in the annexed plate. 
 Behind the columns which support the arches, is the effigies of a knight, 
 in plate armour, with mail gorget, and a pointed helmet ; under which 
 is the crest ; a hand, with the fist clenched, rising out of a ducal coronet. 
 On the surcoat are lions rampant. At Dartington, under a trefoil-headed 
 arch, is an effigy, two feet in length, with curled hair and a long gown. 
 At West Downe, in the north transept, under an arch, is the effigies of 
 a female, in a loose dress with large collar ; the whole much defaced. In 
 Exeter cathedral are monuments of Bishop Marshall, who died in 1206 ; 
 Simon de Apulia, before mentioned, who died in 1223, Walter Brons- 
 combe, who died in 1280 ; and Walter Stapeldon, who was murdered by 
 the mob in 1326. That of Bishop Marshall is an altar-tomb of purbeck 
 marble, enriched with foliage on both sides. The effigies of the Bishop 
 is under a canopy, with a trefoil-shaped head ; a dragon at his feet ; his 
 right hand raised in the attitude of benediction, his crosier on the left. 
 The monument of Bishop Bronscombe, on the south side of the Lady's 
 chapel, consists of an altar-tomb, under a rich canopy, the cornice of 
 which is ornamented with angels playing on musical instruments ; the two 
 in the centre holding shields, with the arms of Bronscombe. The monu- 
 ment is much enriched with quatrefoils, trefoils, &c, painted and gilt. 
 It has the following inscription : 
 
 " Olim sincerus pater omni digitus amore 
 Primus Walterus magno jacet hie in honore 
 Edidit hie plura dignissima laude statuta 
 Quce tanquam jura servant hie omnia tuta 
 Atque collegium quod Glasney plebs vocat ots 
 Condidit egregium pro voce data sibi somnis 
 
 m Probably the last of this branch of the family, whose heiress married Willington in the 
 reign of Henry III. 
 
 Quo* 
 
cccxxxiv DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Quot loca construxit, pietalis quot bona fecit, 
 Quam sanctum duxit vitam, vox dicere quce scit ? 
 Landibus immensis jubilet gens Exoniensis 
 Et chorus et turbce, quia natus in hac_fu.it urbe. 
 Plus si scire velis, festum statuit Gabrielis. 
 Gaudeat in coelis igitur pater iste jidelis. 
 
 The monument of Bishop Stapeldon, on the north side of the choir, has 
 the effigies of the Bishop in his pontificals, lying on an altar-tomb, under 
 a depressed arch. It appears by the inscription that this monument was 
 repaired at the expense of the rector and fellows of Exeter college, in 1733. 
 Underneath is a long Latin epitaph, written in 1554, by John Hoker. " 
 
 Opposite to the monument of Bishop Stapeldon, is the effigies of a 
 crusader in armour, said to be that of Sir Richard Stapeldon, the Bishop's 
 brother, who lost his life at the same time ; but there seems to be no par- 
 ticular reason for the supposition, nor any evidence to show for whom it 
 was intended. 
 
 Under an arch, on the south side of the nave, is a lofty altar-tomb, en- 
 riched at the ends and sides with niches, shields, and quatrefoils, in 
 memory of Hugh, Earl of Devon, who died in 1377. and Margaret, 
 daughter of Humphrey Bohun, Earl of Hereford. On a slab of black 
 marble are the effigies of the Earl and his Countess, much mutUated j at 
 the feet of the former is a lion, at the lady's feet the remains of two birds. 
 
 At Little Hempston, in the south aisle, is the effigies of a knight in 
 plate armour, with an oval helmet ; a lion at his feet, the hands joined 
 in prayer: on another tomb is the effigies of his lady, both much ob- 
 scured by white-wash. At Haccombe, in the north aisle, under an obtuse 
 arch, is the effigies, in free-stone, of a lady of the Haccombe family, as 
 appears by the arms ; probably the heiress, who married L'Ercedekne. 
 She is habited in a veil and whimple, has angels at her pillow, and a dog at 
 her feet ; with her left hand she holds up her loose robe, which is tucked 
 under her right. Under another arch is the effigies of a lady in a veil and 
 whimple, her right hand holding the string of her mantle, her left a 
 book ; a dog at her feet. At Clay Hidon, under a trefoil-shaped arch, is 
 the effigies of a knight, much mutilated. 
 
 At Lustleigh, in the north aisle, under two obtuse arches, are the 
 effigies of a knight in armour, and his lady ; he has his right hand on his 
 shield ; she is habited in a long gown. At the south end of the transept 
 is the effigies, in stone, of a knight in a surcoat, with his right hand on his 
 
 » Printed in Mr. Polwhele's History. 
 
 shield, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cccxxxv 
 
 shield, the left on his sword ; this figure is much mutilated. At Modbury is 
 the monument of a knight and his lady, of the Champernowne family, much 
 mutilated, under an open trefoil-shaped arch, with crockets and finials, 
 
 At Morthoe is an altar-tomb, the sides of which are rudely ornamented with 
 tracery ; the arms of Tracey, the crucifixion, &c. On the slab are cut the 
 lines of the figure of an ecclesiastic in his robes, holding a chalice with both 
 
 hands. It has the following mutilated inscription: ame cle Traei 
 
 ...Fame eutmerci. This monument commemorates William de Tracey, rector 
 of Morthoe, who in 1308 founded a chantry in that church, and died in 
 1322. It has been erroneously ascribed to Sir William Tracey, one of the 
 assassins of Thomas a Becket. 
 
 At Poltimore is a slab for John Bampfylde, at whose expense the church 
 was erected, with the following inscription : MCCCXC. John Baunfeld et 
 Agnes uxor ejus paf. et mat'. Willi Baunfeld qui heme ecclesid et magna 
 campand fieri fecerunt." At Stoke Fleming is a slab with the effigies (cut on 
 a brass plate) of a man with flowing hair, forked beard, a large dagger on his 
 left side, long pointed shoes, his hands joined in prayer ; his lady standing 
 on a pedestal, with reticulated head-dress and a veil flowing on one side. 
 Underneath is the following inscription : " Amys q passes ycy p Joh Corp 
 
 et Elyenour ancy pies diffuse pur charite q di lo almes die merce. Amen. 
 
 Obiit in die S ci Georg. Obiit in die S ci Joh. 
 
 Aim Dm Mill" CCCLXXX primo. Evangeliste A" Dm. 
 
 Milt CCCLXI-". 
 
 At Widworthy, in the transept, under a flat arch, ornamented with 
 quatrefoils, is the effigies of a knight in armour, with whiskers, habited 
 in mail gorget, and pointed helmet; on his shield are the arms of Wootton. 
 It must have been intended for William Wootton, who purchased Widwor- 
 thy in the reign of Edward III. 
 
 I am not certain whether to refer the following to the fourteenth, or 
 the early part of the fifteenth century. 
 
 At Broadwood Wiger, an altar-tomb, ornamented with niches, on 
 which is the effigies of a knight, much mutilated and covered with white- 
 wash ; — at Bundleigh, an elegant monument, ornamented with quatrefoils, 
 &c, with the effigies of a female in a loose robe ; — at Feniton, on the 
 south side of the chancel, an altar-tomb, ornamented with quatrefoils, on 
 which is an emaciated figure in a winding sheet, larger than life ; — at 
 Horwood, in a window on the left of the altar, the effigies, in marble, of 
 a lady, about four feet in length, habited in a loose dress, with a mantle ; 
 the head-dress reticulated in the form of a mitre ; at the feet a plain shield ; 
 
 — at 
 
cccxxxvi DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 — at Haccombe between the nave and aisle, on a tomb, three sides of 
 which are embattled, an effigy two feet two inches in length, of a person 
 in armour, without a helmet ; angels supporting the pillow ; a dog at the 
 feet; — at King's Carswell, a rich monument, much mutilated, having on an 
 altar-tomb the effigies of a man with a pointed helmet, mail gorget, and sur- 
 coat, on which are the arms of Dynham °, and that of a lady with a coronet, 
 habited in a gown with a rich stomacher. In the north aisle of the same 
 church, on an altar-tomb, the effigies of a lady, with a reticulated head-dress ; 
 two angels at her head, a wyvern at her feet ; — at Luppit, an altar-tomb 
 under an open arch of trefoils, much enriched with foliage, and having angels 
 holding shields ; the tomb ornamented with tabernacle work ; the brass 
 plates removed from the slab, except the arms of Carew, impaling three 
 crescents ; — at Membury, under a low circular arch, the effigies of a lady, 
 habited in a long gown, with a veil and whimple ; — at Plympton St. Mary, 
 in the south aisle, under a rich canopy with an obtuse arch, an altar-tomb 
 much enriched with tabernacle work, on which is the effigies of a knight in 
 plate armour, much mutilated and obscured by white-wash ; — in the north 
 aisle of the same church, the remains of a rich monument, much mutilated, 
 under a rich canopy of three arches, highly ornamented with crockets and 
 pendents ; the soffit enriched with tracery, as well as the back part of the 
 arch : on the altar-tomb the effigies of a knight in plate armour, with a 
 helmet under his head, and a wyvern at his feet ; — at Shebbeare the effigies 
 of a lady in a loose robe and veil, in the attitude of prayer ; an angel at 
 her head ; — at Sherwell, on an altar-tomb with quatrefoils, that of a lady 
 in a similar habit ; a dog at her feet ; — at Stoke Fleming, on an altar-tomb, 
 the effigies of a lady with a turban head-dress, a book in her left hand, a 
 dog at her feet ; — and atTamerton Foliot, in the chancel, an altar-tomb, 
 bearing the effigies of a knight in plate armour ; a lion at his feet : and that 
 of his lady, with a dog at her feet, much covered with white-wash. 
 
 Fifteenth Century. — At Alwington, in the north transept, is a very 
 small effigies of a lady, in a veiled head-dress, similar to those worn in the 
 reign of Edward IV. In the south aisle at Ashwater, is the monument of 
 Sir Thomas Carew, who married the heiress of Carminow. Under a 
 Gothic arch, richly ornamented, are the effigies of Sir Thomas and his 
 lady, recumbent ; their hands joined in prayer. At Atherington is an altar- 
 tomb, ornamented with quatrefoils, on the slab of which are the figures 
 of a knight and his two ladies, on brass plates, with the arms of Basset 
 
 Probably Sir John Dynham, who lived at King's Carswell in the reign of Richard II., and 
 married a daughter of Sir Thomas Courtenay by one of the co-heiresses of Lord Moels. 
 
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 -impaling Grenville and Dennis : the ladies have angular head-dresses ; the 
 knight is in plate armour, with a long sword. 
 
 At Berry Pomeroy, is an altar-tomb ornamented with quatrefoils, under 
 an obtuse arch, much enriched ; the brass plates have been removed, but 
 the arms of Pomeroy remain impaling Ashton. At Bigbury, is a monu- 
 ment to the memory of William Bigbury, the last of the family of that 
 name, and his wife Elizabeth, who afterwards married Sir Thomas Arun- 
 dell. The figure (on a brass plate) of William Bigbury, has been removed : 
 that of his wife is represented in a veiled head-dress, gown, and mantle ; 
 two little dogs at her feet. There is only this fragment of an inscription : 
 
 « et domina Elizabeth uxor ejus, nuper uxor Thonuv Arundell de 
 
 Com " At Burlescombe is an altar-tomb, on the sides of which are 
 
 angels under canopies, holding shields, in memory of Nicholas Ayshford, 
 and Margaret and Isabella, his wives (the date obliterated). At Chittle- 
 hampton, on a grave-stone are the figures, on brass plates, of a man between 
 his two wives, who are in veiled head-dresses, such as were worn in the 
 reign of Edward IV. Underneath is the following inscription : — " Hie 
 jacent Joke's Coblegh et Isabella uxor ejus que quidem Isabella obiit XXI. 
 die Octob. A°. Dom'.MCCCCLXVI. nuper uxor Robert Cornew armigeri et 
 Johanne uxor pdJ. Jolus Coblegh que quidem Johanne obiit tilt, die Septemb. 
 
 A°. Dm. MCCCCLXXX°." 
 
 At Colyton, is a monument much enriched with tabernacle work and 
 tracery ; with an altar-tomb, bearing the effigies of a young lady in a gown, 
 with a coronet on her head, her pillow supported by angels, a dog at her 
 feet. This monument, which has the royal arms and those of Courtenay, was 
 put up in memory of a daughter of William Courtenay, Earl of Devon- 
 shire, by his wife Catherine, daughter of King Edward IV. A vague tra- 
 dition, that this young lady was choaked with a fish-bone, has occasioned 
 it to be called the monument of " little choak a bone." 
 
 At Dartmouth, on a slab, are the figures, on brass plates under rich 
 Gothic canopies, of a knight in plate armour, with mail gorget, between his 
 two wives, taking hold of the hand of one with his right hand, and having the 
 left on his belt ; a lion at his feet, and two dogs at the feet of each of the 
 ladies. Underneath is the following inscription : — " Hie jacet venerabilis 
 
 vir Johannes Hartley istius cancelle fundator qui ob'. XXI. Octob. M. ... 
 
 dicta jacet uxor ejus noie Johna que obiit XII. die Julii a°. dni 
 
 MCCC. nonagento 'qrio. In par que obiit VII. die Januarii anno 
 
 ~dni CCCC" tercio quor animar. propicietur Deus." 
 
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cccxxxviii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 In the nave of Exeter* Cathedral, near the monument of his father, foe- 
 fore mentioned), is the tomb of Peter Courtenay, Earl of Devon, a dis- 
 tinguished military character, in the reign of Henry IV., who died in 1409. 
 On a marble slab is his figure, under a Gothic canopy, on a brass plate, in 
 plate armour, with pointed helmet, a long sword, and dagger ; a helmet, 
 lamberquin, and the crest of Courtenay, (a plume of feathers issuing out 
 of a ducal coronet), a dog at his feet. Underneath is the following in- 
 scription : — 
 
 " Devonicc natus comes Petrusque vocatus 
 Regis cognatus, camerarius intitulatus, 
 Calesie gratus, capitaneus ense probatus, 
 
 Ccelo firmatus maneat sine fine beatus." 
 
 The monument of Edmund Stafford, Bishop of Exeter, and some time 
 Lord Chancellor, who died in 1419, is in the chapel of St. Gabriel, on the 
 south side of the Lady's chapel. It is a very handsome monument of ala- 
 baster, with the effigies of the bishop in pontificalibus under a canopy, with 
 his arms : (Or, a chevron, G. a border Az., charged with mitres of the 
 field). Round the tomb is the following epitaph : — 
 
 " Hie jacet Edmundus de Stafford intumulatus, 
 Quondam profundus Legam Doctor reputatus, 
 Verbis facundus, Comitum de stirpe creatus ; 
 Fcelix et mundus, Pater hujus pontificatus." 
 
 In the chapel is a grave-stone, with the effigies, engraved on a brass plate, 
 of Walter Langton, cousin of Bishop Stafford, who was Canon of Exeter 
 cathedral, and died in 1413. In the vestry chapel, under the north tower, 
 is the tomb of William Pylton, secretary to King Henry IV. On the 
 north side of the choir, is the monument of Edmund Lacy, Bishop of 
 Exeter, who died in 1475 ; it consists of a plain altar-tomb ; on the screen 
 above are the arms of Lacy ; 3 swans' heads erased. m 
 
 In St. Giles's church, near Torrington, is a slab, with the figure on a 
 
 1 Two lines are obliterated, which are thus printed in Mr. Polwhele's history: — 
 " Vitce privatus, Juit hinc super astra relatus, 
 Et qua sublatus, de mundo transit amatus," 
 
 >•> A few inscribed grave-stones, of this and the following century, are noticed in the account 
 of the cathedral, p. 209, &c. 
 
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 brass plate, of a lady in a veiled head-dress and long gown ; with the fol- 
 lowing inscription : — " Hie jacet Alyanora Pollard que fult uxor Jo/iis 
 Pollard efjilia Joliis Copleston qui obiit xxi die mends Septembris Anno 
 IJiii MiW°°. CCCCXXX . cujus anime propicietur 2F Amen.'" 
 
 At Haccombe, between the chancel and north aisle, is the monument of 
 Sir Hugh Courtenay, who married the heiress of L'Ercedekne ; consisting 
 of a large altar-tomb, which bears the effigies of the deceased and his lady, 
 in freestone. He is represented in plate armour, with a pointed helmet ; 
 under his head the crest of Courtenay ; a lion at his feet. The lady has 
 a reticulated head-dress covered with a veil, a dog at her feet. At Marl- 
 don, is a monument of one of the Gilbert family, with his effigies, smaller 
 than life, much mutilated ; the shield of the form which was in use in 
 the reign of Edward IV. At Monkleigh, is an altar-tomb, with taber- 
 nacle work, under a flat Gothic arch, much enriched, said to be the monu- 
 ment of Sir William Hankford, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, who 
 died in or about 1424. At Bishop's Nympton, is a monument consisting 
 of an altar-tomb, enriched with a double row of quatrefoils under a flat 
 Gothic arch, without inscription, said to be one of the Pollard family. 
 
 At Paignton, in the south aisle, is a very rich monumental screen of 
 three open arches, with the figure of a knight and his lady, supposed to 
 be of the Kirkham family, lying under the two side arches, upon bases 
 ornamented with small statues in canopied niches. A similar enrichment 
 is introduced on the piers of the arches, and the whole is surmounted 
 with figures of angels, holding shields of a form similar to those used in 
 the reign of Edward IV. 
 
 At Powderham, in the window of the north aisle, is the effigies of a 
 female in freestone, in a close-bodied gown and mantle, with a square 
 head-dress, the hands in the attitude of prayer, a dog at her feet : supposed 
 to be one of the Courtenay family. At Thornbury, on a slab, are the figures 
 on brass plates, of Sir Thomas Brooke and his lady. He is represented in 
 a gown with short hair ; she is in a gown with a mantle, her head-dress re- 
 ticulated, with a veil; at his feet is a greyhound, at her's a lap-dog. The 
 
 inscription is imperfect and wants the date : — " Thomas Brooke, 
 
 Knyght, the which dyed " 
 
 At Upton Pyne, in the south aisle, are two flat arches, under one of 
 which is the effigies of a man in plate armour, a helmet under his head ; 
 on his shield are the arms of Larder. n 
 
 On three piles issuing from the chief, as many bezants. 
 
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cccxl DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 At Shillingford, is an altar-tomb under an obtuse arch, with the figure 
 on a brass plate, of a knight in armour, with surcoat, and his lady in a 
 mantle, with the arms of Courtenay. It has the following inscription : — 
 
 " Conditor et redemptor corporis et animce, 
 Sit mihi medians et custos utriusque." 
 
 " Dame Kateryn y e wife of Sir William H... field, and daughter of Sir W. 
 Courtenay, Knight." Sir William Huddesfield, was Attorney-General to 
 King Henry VII. This monument belongs, probably, to the beginning of 
 the following century. 
 
 At Yarnscombe is a flat arch, ornamented with quatrefoils and tracery, 
 under which is a stone inscribed to the memory of John Cockworthy, Esq., 
 who died in 14. . . 
 
 The emaciated figure, in a winding sheet, under an obtuse arch in the 
 north aisle of Exeter cathedral, which has been erroneously called the tomb 
 of one of the bishops, is probably to be referred to this century ; and a 
 similar figure in the north aisle of Paignton church. 
 
 Sixteenth Century. — At Berry Pomeroy, is a handsome monument for 
 Lord Edward Seymour, (son of Edward Duke of Somerset), who died in 
 1593, Sir Edward Seymour, Bart., his son, and others of the family, with 
 their effigies. At Bideford, on the south side of the chancel, under a 
 screen of stone-work, is an altar-tomb, ornamented with quatrefoils and 
 tracery : on the tomb is the effigies of a knight in plate armour, with 
 straight hair, having his helmet, with the crest and lamberquin, under his 
 head. Over the arch, on both sides, is this inscription : " Hie jacet Thomas 
 Graiuifyld miles patron isti eccle q. obiit viii die mensis Marcii A.D. 
 
 MCCCCCXIII. cuju (the latter part of the inscription hidden by a 
 
 pew). 
 
 In Branscombe church is the monument of the father and mother of 
 Nicholas Wadham, the founder of Wadham College in Oxford. She was 
 widow of John Kelloway, and the monument has the arms of Kelloway 
 and Wadham. There are kneeling figures in alto relievo, of the two 
 husbands and their children. At Broad Clist is the monument of Sergeant 
 Drewe, who died about the year lGOO, with recumbent effigies of himself 
 and his lady. This monument may probably belong to the following 
 century. At Cadleigh is the monument of Sir Simon Leach, who died in 
 the reign of Queen Elizabeth, with kneeling figures under a handsome 
 canopy, and the following inscription : " Here lye the bodies of Sir Symon 
 
 Leach, 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cccxli 
 
 Leach, Knight, son of Symon Leach, of Crediton, blackesmith ; and of 
 Lady Katherine Leach, his wife, daughter of Nicholas Turberville, of Cre- 
 diton, Esq., whose true affection in religious wedlock caused their desire to 
 make there bed together in the dust." 
 
 In the chancel at Chagford is a very rich monument with an altar-tomb, 
 and two arches, all much enriched with arabesque ornaments in bas relief, 
 for Sir John Whiddon, Knight, one of the justices of the King's Bench, 
 who died in 1575. At Dartington is a monument of the Champernowne 
 family, with kneeling figures of a man in armour (a helmet before him) 
 with four sons and five daughters. At Dunsford are slabs in memory of 
 Sir John Fulford, the builder of Fulford House, who died in 1580 : and 
 another of the family about the same period. At Ermington is a monument 
 of purbeck marble, with the figures on brass plates of an old man in a 
 gown kneeling, with his wife and daughter, with this inscription : " Here 
 lyeth buried the body of Willia Strachleigh, of Strachleigh, Esquire, who 
 dyed the xxi day of July in the yeare of our Lorde God 15S3, and Anne his 
 wife, the daughter and heyre of John Gould, of Dore, Esq., and Christian, 
 their only daughter and heyre, who married with Christopher Chudleigh, 
 Knight, by whom she had issue, John Strachleigh, John, Robert, Eliza- 
 beth, Marye, and Anne." Against the north wall is a monument of the 
 Chudleigh family ; an altar-tomb under an arch j the canopy is much 
 enriched by arabesque ornaments. 
 
 In the north transept of Exeter cathedral, in the chapel of Dr. William 
 Sylke, precentor of the church, who died in 1508 °, is an obtuse arch, 
 under which is the figure of a skeleton. In the north aisle, in the chapel 
 founded by Sir John Speke, in 1518, is the recumbent effigies of the 
 founder in armour. At the end of the south aisle is the enriched chapel 
 of Bishop Oldam, in which, under a flat ogee arch, is an altar-tomb orna- 
 mented with tracery and shields bearing the effigies of the Bishop. It has 
 the following inscription : " Hie jacet Hugo Oldam Eps q. obiit xxv die 
 
 Junii An Dm Mill CCCCC XIX cuf a In St. Gabriel's chapel, 
 
 on the south side the library, is the monument of Sir John Gilbert, who 
 was sheriff of the county in 157*, and his lady, with their effigies ; in 
 the north aisle is an altar-tomb in memory of Anthony Harvey, Esq., who 
 died in 1564- : on the north side of the choir is a plain altar-tomb for 
 Bishop Bradbridge, who died in 1578 : under the south tower is the moiv 
 
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 ment 
 
cccxlii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 merit of Sir Peter Carew, with his effigies in a kneeling attitude, 1574, 
 removed from the north aisle ; the monument of Sir Gawen Carew and his 
 lady, with their effigies, the dates (which were 1581 and 1589) gone; the 
 altar-tomb of Bishop Wolton, who died in 1594-, remains on the south side 
 of the choir, but his monument, with the following inscription, has been 
 removed to the south tower : 
 
 " Hicjncet, haudjacet hie tumulo quern credis in esse 
 Terra nequit tantum contumulare virum : 
 Ingenium, genium, mores, pietatis honores 
 Eloquimur que pium busta perusta iegent 
 Falleris Ultonus tonus est, sic spiritus undc 
 Hoc nostri? tonus est calicus orbe tonans." 
 
 At Filleigh is a brass plate having the figure of a knight in armour kneel- 
 ing, with a helmet and gauntlet at his feet, and the following inscription : 
 
 " Forget who can yf that he lyst to see 
 
 Fortescue of Fyllegh, the seventh of that degree, 
 Remembrance of a frynde, his brother Drake doth showe 
 Presenting this unto the eyes of moo 
 Hurtfull to none and fryndlye to the moste, 
 The earthe his bones, the heavens possess his goste. 
 Richard Fortescue died at Fyllegh y? last day of June, 1570." 
 
 At Harford, under an obtuse arch, ornamented with foliage, is an altar- 
 tomb with quatrefoils, on which is the figure, on a brass plate, of a knight 
 in plate armour, with long sword, his helmet under his head : it has the 
 following inscription : 
 
 " Here lyeth the corps of Thomas Williams, Esquire. 
 Twice reader he in court appointed was, 
 Whose sacred mind to virtue did aspire ; 
 Of parlement he speaker hence did passe ; 
 The common peace he studied to preserve, 
 And trew religion ever to mayntayne, 
 In place of justice whereas he did serve, 
 And now in heaven with mighty Jove doth reigne. 
 Obiit primo die mensis Julii An° Dno, M°. CCCCCLXVI. aetatis suae anno quinquagesimo 
 secundo." 
 
 At Heanton Punchardon, in the chancel, is an altar-tomb in the style 
 of Henry VIIL's reign, with the initials R. C. on the spandrils ; the 
 upper part is richly ornamented with vine-leaves and grapes ; in the middle 
 are angels with shields bearing the arms of Coffin. The altar part has 
 shields and roses, with a double row of quatrefoils. At Holcombe Burnell 
 
 is 
 
DEVONSHIRE. cccxliii 
 
 is an altar-tomb with shields under a flat arch, apparently of the time of 
 Henry VIII., the spandrils and cornice enriched ; at the back, in rude 
 sculpture, is a bas relief of the resurrection. p 
 
 At Kentisbeare is an altar-tomb in memory of John Whiting, who 
 died in 1529, and Anne his wife ; and in the same church, on the east 
 wall, the figure, on a brass plate, of Mary, daughter of Sir Robert Wotton, 
 wife, first of Sir Henry Guldeford, and afterwards of Sir Gawen Carew ; 
 she died in 1558. 
 
 At Monkleigh is an altar-tomb, under a low flat arch, with ornaments 
 in the mixed style which prevailed at this period, in memory of John 
 Coffin, Esq., who died in 1566. At Pilton is a large handsome monument 
 of stone for Sir John Chichester, who died in 1569. In the chancel at 
 South Pool is the monument of Thomas Briant, rector ; an altar-tomb 
 under an obtuse arch, with the figure of an ecclesiastic under a Gothic 
 canopy. The arch is much enriched with Gothic tracery, and at the back 
 of it, in rude sculpture highly relieved, is a representation of the resur- 
 rection. p 
 
 At Tavistock is the monument of Sir John Glanville, one of the justices 
 of the Common Pleas, who died in 1600, with his effigies in his judge's 
 robes. In the south aisle of the chancel is a large monument of stone, 
 with the effigies of a knight in armour and his lady, in memory of Sir 
 John Fitz, of Fitzford (about the latter end of Elizabeth's reign : no 
 inscription). In the burial-place of the Bourchiers, on the south of 
 the chancel, among other monuments of later date, is that of Frances, 
 Lady Fitzwarren, daughter of Sir Thomas Kitson, who died in 15S6 ; it is 
 under a rich canopy, of several arches. 
 
 At Thornbury is a monument of the Edgecumbe family, apparently of 
 this century, with the effigies of a knight and his lady : he is in armour, 
 with his left hand on his breast, his right on his sword : she is in a long 
 robe, with ruff and collar. There are also three small figures, kneeling ; 
 two in armour, the other a female. At Woodleigh, in the chancel, is the 
 monument of Thomas Smyth, rector, resembling that of Thomas Briant, 
 at South Pool. At Yealmton is a slab with the figure, on a brass plate, 
 of a knight in plate armour, with a long sword. It has the following- 
 inscription : " Hie jacet. Johan Crokker quonda ciphorarhis ac signifer 
 
 p Tombs of this sort were used before the Reformation for the purpose of celebrating the 
 resurrection of Christ at the festival of Easter. See note 1, p. 420. 
 
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cccxliv DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 illustrissimi viri regis Edwardi quarti qui obiit ociii die Marcii Anno DnT 
 Milks", quingentesimo octavo." 
 
 There are many handsome monuments of the seventeenth century, 
 which are more particularly spoken of under the several parishes in which 
 they occur ; as of the Rolles at Bicton ; the Leaches at Cadleigh ; the 
 Giffards at Chittlehampton ; the Fulfords at Dunsford ; the Chichesters at 
 Eggesford ; Sir John Doderidge, &c. in Exeter cathedral ; Otho Peter at 
 Exminster ; the Bluetts at Holcombe Rogus ; the Aclands at Broad 
 Clist, and Landkey ; the Tremaynes at Lamerton ; the Harrises atLifton ; 
 Sir Thomas Wise at Maristow ; the Bampfyldes at North Molton, Polti- 
 more, and Tamerton Foliot ; the Drakes at Musbury ; the Strodes at 
 Plympton ; the Northcotes at Newton St. Cyres ; Sir R. Reynell at Wool- 
 borough, &c. &c. &c. 
 
 Monastic Remains. 
 
 The remains of monastic buildings in this county are inconsiderable. 
 There is a wall of Canonleigh priory, about 45 paces in length, and the 
 remains of an entrance-porch, which has been converted into a coach- 
 house. There are some remains of the priory church at Frithelstock, the 
 west end of which has three lancet-shaped windows. The chapel of Ford 
 abbey, built apparently in the early part of the twelfth century, has its 
 groined stone roof remaining, with an arch at each end slightly pointed, 
 and having chevron mouldings. The hall, cloisters, and entrance-tower, 
 are of the reign of Henry VIII., built by Thomas Chard, the last abbot. 
 Below the battlement of the tower is the following inscription : " An" 
 Dni millesimo quingesimo vic.m°. octa". A. D?io factum est Thoma Chard 
 Abb." Over the hall, below the battlements, are the unicorn, rose, and 
 crown, within the garter, with the dragon and dog as supporters. The 
 bay window over the door is much enriched with the arms of the abbey, 
 the initials T. C, and a mitre frequently repeated. Over the cloisters in 
 the quatrefoils are shields with a stag's head and crosier, the initials 
 T.C., &c. 
 
 The refectory and abbot's hall of Tavistock abbey remain, but in an 
 altered state, as mentioned in p. 474. The gate-house also remains, and 
 a building with turrets and pinnacles, now converted into a mill. In the 
 court, before the present abbey-house, is an arch, about nine feet high, 
 
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DEVONSHIRE. cccxlv 
 
 and nearly 13 in width, supported by short slender pillars with rich foliated 
 capitals, and within it several small trefoil-headed arches, in the style of 
 the early Gothic of the thirteenth century. 
 
 The only remains of Hartland abbey are some parts of the cloisters 
 with trefoil-shaped arches, now placed in the front of Mrs. Orchard's 
 house, and the following inscription in Lombardic capitals : " Istud : 
 
 qicadratum : claustrum : ci : edificatum : marmoreo : lapide : perfect: 
 
 sumptibus : ac : annis A... Abbatis : et : arte: Jo his : Exoyxie* : sit: ei : 
 gr: 
 
 There are some small remains of Polsloe nunnery in a farm-house built 
 on the site. The crypt of St. Nicholas's priory at Exeter, with massive 
 Saxon arches, remains in Mint lane, having been converted into a kitchen. 
 The walls of the priory may be traced to a considerable extent. The 
 steeple of the college at Slapton remains near the parish church. There 
 are considerable remains of the conventual church of Tor abbey, in the 
 garden of George Cary, Esq., particularly a fallen tower, in which is a 
 doorway with a semicircular arch ; there are fragments also of foliated 
 capitals. The refectory has been fitted up as a chapel. A large gateway, 
 not far from the dwelling-house, has two groined entrances. The four 
 great arches of the tower of the conventual church at Buckland, are 
 preserved in an upper room of the old mansion built on the abbey site. 
 
 Ancient Castles, and Sites of Castles, and Castellated Mansions. 
 
 The remains of Lidford castle, in which was formerly the prison of 
 the stannaries, are near the church. The castle, of which the walls are 
 standing, was a plain embattled building, about 48 feet square, with an 
 outwork on the north side of it, projecting forwards to the edge of a steep 
 precipice : there are no remains of the walls upon this outwork. 
 
 At Dartmouth are the remains of an ancient castle, and of a circular 
 tower called Paradise Fort. The walls of King's Weare castle are standing ; 
 and there are the ruins of a fort opposite Dartmouth castle. 
 
 What remains of Afton castle, some time the seat of the Aftons, 
 afterwards of the Stucleys, is a square embattled building with a small 
 tower at one corner ; the windows are of the later Gothic. Berry Pome- 
 
 i It is probable, that this was John of Exeter, who was treasurer of the cathedral at the end 
 of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth century. 
 
 Vol. VI. x x roy 
 
cccxlvi DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 roy castle, the seat of the Pomeroys, appears to have been a very large 
 mansion. It has an ancient gateway, with a round tower at one corner : 
 the arms of Pomeroy were, not many years ago, to be seen over the gate- 
 way. The greater part of the mansion, which stands on the brow of a 
 steep hill, among woody scenery, was probably built or altered by the 
 Seymours : it has large transom windows, in the style of the sixteenth 
 century. This mansion is in ruins and much overgrown with ivy. 
 
 Compton castle, the seat of the Comptons, and afterwards of the 
 Gilberts, is still standing, converted into a farm-house. There are small 
 remains of Gidley castle, the old seat of the Prous family : an apartment, 
 22 feet by 13, with remarkably thick walls, has a vaulted chamber under 
 it, with pointed arches. At Hemiock are considerable remains of the 
 castle, which was a seat of the Dynhams. The east entrance has a pointed 
 doorway, and there are remains of five of the towe/s, some of them covered 
 with ivy ; one of them is about 20 feet in height. An old moorstone 
 doorway, made use of in building the farm-house, was not part of the 
 castle, but brought from a distance. 
 
 At Exeter, Plympton, Oakhampton, and Tiverton, were castles, all 
 of which had belonged to the earls of Devonshire. Exeter and Tiverton 
 castles were dismantled as fortresses after the civil war. Plympton had 
 been destroyed at a much earlier period. The whole that remained 
 of Exeter castle was taken down about the year 1774, except a lofty 
 gateway, with circular and segment arches, rudely constructed, still to be 
 seen in the garden of Edmund Granger, Esq. At Plympton there 
 remains only some of the walls of the keep, the internal diameter of 
 which was 40 feet ; the walls were about eight feet and a half thick, 
 and, in some parts, they are now about 12 feet high. The vallum on the 
 west side of the castle is 100 paces from east to west, and about 67 from 
 north to south ; very high and deep. On the north side is a deep moat : 
 the vallum on the south side also is very deep. There are but small 
 remains of Oakhampton castle, which is about half a mile from the town 
 of that name. Part of the site of Tiverton castle is occupied by 
 a modern mansion. Within the site, at the south-west angle, is a 
 square tower, with Gothic windows. It is commonly called the chapel, 
 but has a fire-place. At the south-east angle is a small round tower, quite 
 perfect : on the east side a gateway, groined, in the style of the fourteenth 
 century, the outer arch pointed, and ornamented with roses. On the 
 other sides, the lower parts of the walls only are remaining. 
 
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 Bradfield Hall, in the parish of Uffculme, the seat of the Walronds, 
 is a perfect ancient mansion, probably of the early part of the sixteenth 
 century. It consists of an irregular building in the centre, with two 
 wings very much projecting. The hall has a roof of five obtuse arches 
 of timber, with angels at the springings ; and a cornice enriched with 
 quatrefoils and other ornaments. The drawing-room which adjoins the 
 hall, has a pannelled ceiling, richly ornamented with pendents : it is 
 vvainscotted, and has pilasters, much enriched with carving : the dining 
 room has a similar pannelled ceiling. In the drawing-room, are the arms 
 of Walrond, and the alliances of that ancient family, with which the out- 
 side of the house also is decorated. 
 
 The hall at Buckland abbey-house was fitted up in 1576, with wains- 
 cotting, in the style which prevailed at that time. The drawing-room is 
 fitted up also with wainscotting in small pannels, and Corinthian pilasters. 
 The frieze, which enriched an ancient outside window, with three mullions 
 and tracery, is at one end of this room, and a similar one in an adjoining 
 passage. 
 
 At Chudleigh are several walls and arches which belonged to the 
 Bishop of Exeter's palace at that place. There are remains also of the 
 Bishop's palaces at Bishop's Tawton and Paignton. 
 
 Bradley, the seat of the Yardes, near Newton Bushell, is an ancient 
 mansion of the fifteenth century. u It originally formed a quadrangle, 
 but two of the sides have been taken down : the chapel and hall remain, 
 and the gateway. Collacombe, the old seat of the Tremaynes, is of the 
 Elizabethan age, with transom windows, one of which is 20 feet in height, 
 and contains 3200 panes of glass. One of the chimney-pieces bears the 
 date of 1574. The vicarage-house at Colyton was built by Thomas Brere- 
 wood, vicar, in 1529, as appears by an inscription over the door, with the 
 device of the vicar, a bundle of briers bound together, and the arms of 
 Bishop Voysey, who probably was a benefactor to the work. Over the 
 window of a sitting-room is this inscription : " Peditatis Mum, Mcditath 
 totum." 
 
 ° Some parts of an older mansion appear to have been retained when this was built. 
 
 x x 2 Dartington 
 
cccxlviii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Dartington hall, formerly the seat of the noble family of Holland, 
 appears to have been built in the reign of Richard II., whose cognizance 
 occurs in the porch. It consisted of two quadrangles : the outer quad- 
 rangle, 245 feet by 157, is nearly complete ; the north side is now occupied 
 by a barn and stables. The great hall, which, with its appendages, 
 separated the two quadrangles, is about 69 feet by 38 ; the height of the 
 side-walls 30 feet, of the roof 50 feet. The principal apartments, which 
 lay to the west of the hall, and formed the inner quadrangle, have been 
 taken down, except the western wall, with arched windows, which formed 
 part of a gallery, 100 feet in length. 
 
 The palace at Exeter is a very ancient structure ; the chapel appears to 
 have been built in the reign of Henry III. It is probable that the palace 
 was finished by Bishop Quivil, who had a licence for embattling it in 1290. 
 The spacious hall, which has been divided into several rooms, was probably 
 roofed by Bishop Grandisson, whose arms, with those of his brother-in- 
 law, William, Earl of Salisbury, were lately discovered painted on the 
 beams. The rich chimney-piece, erected by Bishop Courtenay, in the 
 reign of Edward IV., has been engraved for the Vetusta Monumenta, 
 published by the society of Antiquaries. 
 
 Eord House, near Newton Abbot, was built by Sir Richard Reynell, in 
 the reign of James I. Fulford House is a fine old mansion, built by Sir 
 John Fulford, about the middle of the sixteenth century. The great hall 
 is ornamented with carved work. At Mohun's Ottery, are some remains 
 of the mansion built in the reign of Henry VI., but the chapel and hall were 
 pulled down a few years ago. The door-way and some ancient windows still 
 remain. Morwell House, said to have been a country seat of the Abbots 
 of Tavistock, exhibits considerable remains of its original state. It is built 
 in a quadrangular form. Opposite to the porter's lodge, are the hall and 
 parlour ; from these projected the kitchen and offices, which have been 
 destroyed : on the east side is the chapel. At Pinhoe are some remains of 
 an ancient mansion, on an estate which belonged successively to the fami- 
 lies of Street and Cheney. Sydenham House, in Maristow, formerly a 
 seat of the Wise's, now occasionally the residence of J. H. Tremayne, 
 Esq., is an ancient structure of the early part of the seventeenth century, 
 occupying three sides of a quadrangle. Whiddon, in Chagford, formerly 
 the seat of the Whiddons, appears to be about the same age. 
 
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 Camps and Earthworks. 
 
 The numerous ancient encampments in this county have been by some 
 attributed wholly to the Romans ; whilst others have supposed, that they 
 were all of Saxon or of Danish origin. Both opinions are, perhaps, in 
 some degree erroneous, and it may be fairly supposed, that many of the 
 encampments were constructed by the Britons at that early period when 
 this island was divided into several petty kingdoms, inhabited by people 
 who were engaged in perpetual warfare with each other. Indeed, it has 
 been the avowed opinion of some antiquaries, that the chain of strong 
 posts on the eastern side of the county were constructed by the Damnonii 
 as a frontier defence against the Morini. The opinion which attributes 
 them all to the Danes is the least probable of any. Their invasions were 
 of a temporary and predatory nature ; they did not establish themselves 
 for any time in the county ; nor is there the least probability of their hav- 
 ing fortified the coast on the frontiers from the invasion of others. The 
 camp on Stoke-hill, near Exeter, which is semicircular, and 256 paces in 
 diameter, was, probably, the fortress of the Danes, spoken of in the Saxon 
 chronicle. 
 
 That some of the encampments were constructed by the Romans, can 
 scarcely be doubted ; that others were occupied by them is certain, from 
 the coins of that nation found in them ; particularly at Hembury-fort, and 
 Berry-head. We are not to conclude, indeed, that any of these fortresses 
 were not constructed by the Romans because they are not- of that form 
 which, when they had the choice of site, they are known to have adopted ; 
 when occupying a commanding height, they were obliged to adapt the 
 form of their encampment to that of the ground. There is no reason, 
 however, to suppose that this county was so much the scene of military 
 transactions during the Roman period, as to induce a belief, that many 
 of the camps and fortresses, of which vestiges now remain, are to 
 be assigned to that people. It is very probable, that they constructed 
 or occupied fortresses on or near the coast, as a defence against foreign 
 invasion. The most decided Roman camps, are those of Countesbury, on 
 the British channel; Bradbury castle, near Bratton Clovelly ; Berry castle, 
 in the parish of Witheridge ; and perhaps Shrewsbury, in the parish of 
 High Bray. 
 
 The principal fortresses in the eastern part of the county, are Membury, 
 
 Musbury, 
 
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 Musbuiy, and Oxendown-hill, near Axmouth. These are within sight of 
 each other, and about three miles apart. Membury consists of a single 
 vallum, containing about two acres of ground. The camp at Musbury is 
 said to be of great extent, containing an area of about twenty acres, with 
 a double entrenchment nearly elliptical, following the form of the ground, 
 the vallum being a good deal levelled by frequent ploughing : it is at the 
 extremity of a ridge of hill, and was accessible only on the north. 
 
 At Widworthy, is an ancient entrenchment on the north-east side of 
 the highest hill in the parish : there is an ancient earthwork also near 
 the church, in a field called Castlewood. 
 
 Proceeding westward, we have Dumpton and Hembury forts ; Belbury 
 castle, commanding the vale of the Otter ; Blackbury near Southleigh ; 
 a camp near Seaton, called Honeyditches, an oblong square of about 
 three acres x ; and another on the hill above Sidbury. Dumpton fort, in 
 the parish of Luppit, is an irregular oval on the tongue of a ridge of 
 hill stretching out from Black-down : it has a double entrenchment on the 
 only accessible side ; the extreme length of the inner area is about 1000 
 feet ; the greatest breadth about 350. Hembury fort, which is nearly 
 similar in form to that of Dumpton, is entirely surrounded by a double 
 entrenchment ; the inner area is about 1150 feet in length, and about 400 
 wide in the widest part. 
 
 The fort at Sidbury has only a single entrenchment ; it is formed on the 
 narrow tongue of a ridge of hill, and is about 1400 feet in length, and not 
 quite 300 wide at its broadest end. Belbury is a small oval fort, with a 
 single trench, about 400 feet in length, and a little more than 200 wide, 
 and preserving the same width nearly through the whole of its length. 
 
 West of the Otter, are Woodbury castle ; the camps on Haldon and at 
 Ugbrook, on Milbourne-down ; a small camp near Newton ; that at Den- 
 bury ; another fort called Hembury, in the parish of Buckfastleigh ; a con- 
 siderable camp at Berry-head commanding Torbay ; the ancient fortress of 
 Stanborough castle, in the parish of Morleigh ; and a large camp at Black- 
 adon, in the parish of Loddiswell. 
 
 Woodbury castle, on the high down between the Otter and the Exe, is 
 a pretty regular oval, with a single vallum about 500 feet in length within 
 the rampart, and about 250 feet wide. There are some outworks con- 
 nected with this camp, and some tumuli near it. This ancient fortress was 
 occupied during the war with France by the park of artillery. The 
 
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DEVONSHIRE. cccli 
 
 camp on Little Haldon, in the parish of Ashcombe, is circular, and has a 
 single vallum, containing about an acre and a half of ground. The camp 
 near Oxton is nearly circular; about 160 yards by 120. There is another 
 on Sir Lawrence Palk's estate. The camp at Ugbrook, called Castle 
 Dyke, is an irregular oval ; its greatest length about 780 feet, its greatest 
 breadth about 5S0 : the camp on the hill above Newton is an oblong 
 square, with a triple ditch about 112 paces by 90. The camp on Milber- 
 down y , near Newton Abbot, is elliptical, with a triple ditch, containing 
 about six acres. The Prince of Orange stationed his park of artillery 
 within this camp after his landing at Torbay. z Denbury camp, about half 
 a mile from the church, is near oval, and is said to contain about eight 
 acres ; another account describes it as 200 paces from east to west, and ISO 
 from north to south : on the south and east is a double fosse of considerable 
 depth ; on the west and north little vestiges of any fosse. Hembury fort, 
 on the brow of Hembury hill, in the parish of Buckfastleigh, is somewhat 
 of a circular form, comprising nearly seven acres. At the north end is a 
 prcetorium 4>4> feet by 17. The ancient encampment at Berry-head was 
 constructed on a promontory projecting into Torbay : this fortress was 
 walled. It was probably constructed by the Romans soon after their con- 
 quest of this part of Britain. Roman coins were found there about the 
 year 1730. 
 
 Blackadon camp, in the parish of Loddiswell, is an irregular oval, the 
 extreme length being about 1000 feet; in the broadest part about 500: 
 the whole is said to contain about 11 acres. The keep at the north-west 
 corner is about ten feet higher than the vallum ; on the south and east of 
 it, the vallum is double and irregular. The ancient fortress at Stanborough, 
 which gives name to the hundred, is similar, but of smaller dimensions : 
 within the area is a large barrow, constructed of stones, some of which are 
 of large dimensions : near the fortress are three smaller barrows or kairns. 
 
 It may, perhaps, be considered as a confirmation of the conjecture before 
 noticed with respect to the frontiers of Dorsetshire, that there are no re- 
 mains whatever of such fortresses on the western side of the county on the 
 frontiers of Cornwall, which is known to have been inhabited by the same 
 tribe of Britons. The most remarkable fortress on the western coast, is 
 that of Dichenhills, or Clovelly dykes, about two miles from the British 
 
 i There is a small square earthwork at Haccombe in this neighbourhood 
 ' Paper by P. J. Taylor, Esq. Archaeologia, vol. xix. 
 
 channel, 
 
ccclii DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 channel, situated on very high ground, and commanding the only practic- 
 able coast road in the north-west of Devon. It has three great trenches 
 about 18 feet deep : the inner trench forms a regular parallelogram of 
 about 360 feet by 300. The second and third are of very irregular form, 
 the trenches being sometimes straight and sometimes curvilinear: the outer 
 one is about 12G0 feet in diameter. There are also some outworks. At what- 
 ever period this was originally constructed, there can be little doubt that it 
 was occupied and improved by the Romans, and that it was intended as 
 a defence against invaders from Ireland. 
 
 Near Appledore, are two fortresses call Hennaborough and Godborough, 
 about two furlongs apart, the latter being of small dimensions. Near Dad- 
 don also, are the remains of an encampment. About a mile and a half 
 north of Barnstaple, is a camp called Roborough. Half a mile from 
 Braunton, on a hill, is a camp called the Castle, containing about four 
 acres : on the north, which is the only accessible side, is a large vallum 
 with a fosse. In Berry Narber, about half a mile from the coast, on Mr. 
 Basset's estate, is a small circular work called the Castle. On Bratton- 
 down, in the parish of Bratton Fleming, is an ancient camp ; another, of 
 a square form, two miles to the east, in the parish of High Bray, called 
 Shorsberry, or Shrewsbury : in the parish of Paracombe, one called South 
 Stock ; Holwell castle, with a long entrenchment ; and another in the 
 parish of Linton, about a mile from the last mentioned, called Stock 
 castle. Dean Mills mentions a circular camp in the parish of Charles. 
 
 Among the principal inland camps and fortresses, may be mentioned 
 Cadbury, in the parish of that name ; Broadbury or Bradbury, between 
 Ashbury and Bratton Clovelly; and Romsdon, near Kelly. Cadbury 
 castle, as it is called, is of an oblong form of about .560 paces circumference ; 
 the vallum being from 25 to 30 feet high. The area, which is elevated 
 above the fosse by a slope of 20 feet, is about 100 paces from north to 
 south. Towards the south-east is a pit six feet deep and 12 feet wide. " 
 Bradbury lies about three miles from Bratton Clovelly church : it is a rec- 
 tangular oblong square, with a single vallum, and a fosse 25 feet wide, 
 measuring from north to south, within the vallum, 225 feet; and east to 
 west, 186 feet. Romsdon castle, which has a single vallum, is of an oval 
 form, 400 feet in length, and about 234 in width. 
 
 In a line from Exeter to Dartmoor, are the following strong posts. A 
 
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DEVONSHIRE. ccdiii 
 
 small camp in the parish of Holcomb Burnell ; Cranbrook castle, near 
 Moreton Hampstead, an irregular encampment, containing about six or 
 seven acres, with a double ditch on the south, a single ditch on the west, 
 and none on the north and east ; and Prestonbury castle, on the brow of 
 a precipice over the Teign, with a vallum and a broad and deep fosse, on 
 the east side. 
 
 Nearly in a line from Exeter, through Crediton to Molton and Holland, 
 are several camps and posts — at Posbury hill, in Tedburn St. Mary, a 
 camp called Leathern Castle, in Colebrooke parish ; Berry castle, in "Wool- 
 fardisworthy, on the borders of Washford parish, a circular work containing 
 about two acres; another small post of the same name, of a square form, in 
 the parish of Witheridge, containing about two thirds of an acre; Wemwor- 
 thy and Winkleigh ; Burridge wood, in Chawleigh, a small post with a double 
 vallum, both together about 30 feet wide, circular, enclosing not more than 
 a quarter of an acre ; a camp on Beacon-down, at Chulmleigh, with several 
 barrows ; a post at Castle-down, near South Molton ; and another on the 
 summit of a high hill near North Molton. The Bishop of Cloyne mentions 
 two encampments near Holland Bottreaux. a 
 
 At Stoodley-beacon is a circular entrenchment containing about half an 
 acre: in the parish of Shebbeare is an ancient earth-work called Durpleigh 
 castle. b 
 
 On Uffculme-downe is a singular small earthwork, about 20 paces square, 
 called the Pixy-garden, formed with banks about two feet high, divided into 
 four compartments like a parterre, and in the middle of each of the di- 
 visions an oval raised bank : the square is open at the corners. There is 
 a large kairn, called Simonsborough, at the northern extremity of the 
 parish of Hemiock. There are many barrows on Haldon, and in other 
 parts of the county : those near some of the principal camps have been 
 already spoken of. 
 
 Mr. Chappie mentions numerous pits on the summit of Blackdown, 
 about three feet deep, commonly called iron pits, which he supposes to 
 have been as ancient as Hembury fort, and to have been made by the 
 soldiers. These pits have been supposed by some antiquaries to have been 
 a British town. 
 
 a See p. ccexxi. b Risdon. 
 
 Vol. VI. y y Local 
 
cccliv DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Local Customs. 
 
 In most parts of the cyder-district a custom still prevails, of what was 
 called in ancient times "wassailing 1 the apple-trees." This custom was 
 accompanied by the superstitious belief; in the words of an old poet, 
 
 " That more or less fruit they will bring, 
 As you do give them wassailing." c 
 
 This ceremony at some places is performed on Christmas-eve; in others, on 
 Twelfth-day eve. It consists in drinking a health to one of the apple-trees, 
 with wishes for its good bearing, which generally turns out successful, as 
 the best bearing tree in the orchard is selected for the purpose. It is at- 
 tended with singing some verses applicable to the occasion ; beginning, 
 " Health to thee, good apple-tree." The potation consists of cyder, in 
 which is put roasted apples or toast : when all have drank, the remainder 
 of the contents of the bowl are sprinkled over the apple-tree. The old 
 Saxon term "wassail,"" which is well known to imply drinking of health, is 
 thus defined in the glossary to the Exmoor dialect : " A drinking-song 
 sung on Twelfth-day eve, throwing toast to the apple-trees in order to have 
 a fruitful year, which seems to be a relic of the heathen sacrifice to 
 Pomona." 
 
 The circumstances attending the reaping of wheat in Devonshire, and the 
 harvest-home, are I believe peculiar to the western counties. The custom 
 of almost the whole population of a village flocking voluntarily and gra- 
 tuitously to the reaping of the farmer's wheat was almost universal in this 
 county, although the practice of hiring reapers for the purpose has been 
 gaining ground of late years, being a much less expensive mode ; for though 
 not paid, these volunteer-reapers are entertained at a much greater 
 expense than their hire would cost ; and the whole of the wheat-harvest 
 appeal's, by Vancouver's description, to be a scene of noisy mirth, and 
 intemperance. He says, that " when all the wheat in a field has been 
 reaped and bound, a small sheaf is put at the top of one of the ridges, 
 when the reapers, retiring to a certain distance, eacli throws his reap- 
 hook at it, until one more fortunate, or less inebriated than the rest, 
 
 ' Herrick's Hesperides. 
 
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 strikes it down, when the whole company join for a length of time in 
 shouts of " We ha un, we ha un !" 
 
 It has been mentioned in the History of Cornwall, that at the conclusion 
 of the harvest in the neighbourhood of Truro, the last handful of corn is 
 tied up, adorned with flowers, and carried about by the reapers, &c, shout- 
 ing, " A neck, a neck !" Mr. Brand relates, on the authority of the clergy- 
 man of Werrington, in Devon, (being on the borders of the north of 
 Cornwall,) that the last ears of corn are tied up into a curious figure, 
 which they call " a knack :" this is brought home with great acclama- 
 tions, the labourers shouting, " A knack, a knack, well cut, well bound, well 
 shock'd !" &c. ; it is then hung over the table in the farmer's house, and 
 kept till the next year ; its owner preserving it with the greatest care, and 
 refusing on any account to part with it. 
 
 The yule or Christmas-log, is still burnt on Christmas-eve in some parts 
 of the county ; in others, they have a custom of burning, on Christmas- 
 eve, a large fagot of green ash. Mummers go about at the Christmas-season, 
 in some parts of the county, acting a kind of rude drama, on the subject of 
 the exploits of St. George. 
 
 Wrestling, is still a favourite gymnastic diversion in the north of Devon, 
 in the neighbourhood of Plymouth, and on the borders of Cornwall. 
 
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