Devon heraldry

The arms of Courtenay on display above Powderham Castle in Devon in 2015, a seat of that family since the 14th century

Fortescue banner of arms in the Fortescue Chapel of St Paul's Church, Filleigh, Devon.

The landed gentry and nobility of Devonshire, like the rest of the English and European gentry, bore heraldic arms from the start of the age of heraldry circa 1200–1215. The fashion for the display of heraldry ceased about the end of the Victorian era (1901) by which time most of the ancient arms-bearing families of Devonshire had died out, moved away or parted with their landed estates.^[1]

In the 21st century, a very few ancient families remain in the county represented by direct male descendants, including Courtenay of Powderham, Fulford of Fulford, Kelly of Kelly, Cruwys of Cruwys Morchard, Clifford of Chudleigh, Acland of Killerton and Broadclyst, Wrey of Tawstock. A few ancient Devon estates are still owned by descendants via female lines, for example Castle Hill, Filleigh, Molland, Incledon, Braunton, Hall, Bishop's Tawton, Newnham Park. In most cases, the laws of English heraldry preclude the transmission of paternal arms via a female heiress (other than in the form of quartering), thus most of these inheritors via female lines bring their own paternal heraldry to the estates inherited.

For example, the Irish arms of Gore (Earl of Arran) are now associated with Castle Hill, Filleigh, until 1958 the seat of the last male representative of the Fortescue family, which originated in Devon in the 12th century. In a few cases, however, male heirs via female lines have been required by the legator to seek royal licence to adopt his own arms and surname, otherwise destined to disappearance, in lieu of the legatees own. This was the case with the families most notably of Rolle, Basset, Stucley, Walrond, etc.^{[citation needed]}

List of Devon arms[]

The following armorials are listed in the Heraldic Visitations of Devon, 1531, 1564 & 1620:^[2]

A[]

Name	Blazon	Seat, parish
Abbott	Sable, a cross voided between four eagles displayed or	Hartland Abbey; Luffincott
Acland	Chequy argent and sable, a fesse gules	Acland Barton, Landkey; Holnicote, Somerset; Killerton, Devon; Fremington House, Fremington; Hawkridge, Chittlehampton; ; Sprydon, Broadclyst
Adams	Or, a lion rampant between six crosses crosslet within a bordure engrailed sable	Townstal, Dartmouth; Bowden, Ashprington(?); (Charlton Adam, Ilchester, Somerset)
Addington	Per pale ermine and ermines, on a chevron between three fleurs-de-lys four lozenges all counterchanged	Leigh
Aleyn	Per bend rompu argent and sable, six martlets counterchanged	Bampton
Amadas	Azure, a chevron ermine between three oaken slips acorned proper	Plymouth
	Gules, a lion rampant regardant or	Pole,^[3] Slapton
Amory	Barry nebulé of six argent and gules, over all a bend azure	Whitechapel, Bishops Nympton
Arscott	Per chevron azure and ermine in chief two buck's heads cabossed or	Arscott, Holsworthy;^[4] Dunsland, Bradford; Tetcott; Annery, Monkleigh
Ashe/Aysshe/Esse	Argent, two chevrons sable	Sowton, alias Clist Fomeson/Somson
Atwill	Argent, a chevron sable over all a pile counterchanged	Mamhead; Walkhampton
Ayre	Gules, on a bend between six crosses formée fitchée argent three mullets sable	Wotton, Atherington
Ayshford	Argent, between two chevrons sable three ashen keys vert	Ayshford, Burlescombe
Babington	Argent, ten torteaux in chief a label of three points azure	Ottery St Mary

B[]

Name	Blazon	Seat, parish
Badcocke	Sable, on a pale argent three cocks gules	Shebbear
Bagg	Lozengy argent and gules, on a chief or three cinquefoils azure	Plymouth; Saltram, Plympton St Mary
Ball	Argent, a chevron gules between three fire balls proper^[5]	Mamhead
Bampfylde/Bampfield	Or, on a bend gules three mullets argent	Poltimore; North Molton; Warleigh, Tamerton Foliot; Bampfield House, Exeter
Barby	Argent, a chevron between three garbs or	Washfield
Barkley	Sable, a fess ermine between three cinquefoils argent^[6]	Okenbury, Ringmore
Barry	Barry of six argent and gules	Winscott, St Giles in the Wood
Bartlett	Ermine, on a pale nebulée azure three sinister gloves pendent tasselated argent the whole between two flaunches of the second each charged with two crescents palewise of the third	Ludbrooke, Ermington
Basset	Barry wavy of six or and gules	Whitechapel, Bishops Nympton; Umberleigh; Heanton Punchardon; Watermouth Castle
Bastard	Or, a chevron azure	Efford, Egg Buckland; Garston, West Alvington; Kitley, Yealmpton; Sharpham, Ashprington; Lyneham, Yealmpton; Buckland Court, Buckland-in-the-Moor
Battishill	Azure, a cross-crosslet in saltire between four owls argent legged and beaked or	South Tawton; Drewsteignton; Spreyton
Beaple	Gules, a bend vairy between six escallops argent	Barnstaple; Knowstone;
Beaumont	Barry vair and gules	Youlston, Shirwell; Gittisham
Bellew	Sable fretty or	Stockleigh English; Ash, Braunton
Bellot	Argent, on a chief sable three cinquefoils of the field	Downton^[7]
Bennett	Sable, a chevron engrailed erminois between three ears of wheat or	Whiteway, Chudleigh
Bere (alias Beare)	Argent, three bear's heads erased sable muzzled or	Huntsham; Morebath
Berry	Or, three bars gules	Berrynarbor
Beryman	Argent, a chevron between three horses trippant sable	Berrie, (Dunsford?)
Bidlake	Gules, a fess between three pigeons argent	Great Bidlake, Bridestowe
Bishop	Gules, three lozenges argent each charged with an eagle displayed of the field	"Coldash/Choldashe"
Blackall^[8]	Paly of six or and sable on a chief gules three bezants	Cowick; Hampsted, Totnes
Blackmore	Or, on a fess sable between three Moor's heads in profile couped of the last as many crescents argent	Bishop's Nympton
Blagdon / Blackdon	Azure, three trefoils slipped argent on a chief indented gules two annulets or	Blackdon, Ashwater (?)
Blewett	Or, a chevron between three eagles displayed vert	Holcombe Rogus; (And in Somerset: Greenham Barton; Cothay Manor; Kittisford)
Bodley	Argent, five martlets saltirewise sable on a chief azure three ducal crowns or	Dunscombe, Crediton; Exeter
Bogan	Sable, a cockatrice (displayed) argent crested membered and jelloped gules	Totnes
Bolitho	Ermine, on a plain chevron between two chevronels engrailed and three fleurs-de-lys sable five bezants	Exeter; Holcombe Burnell
Bonville	Sable, six mullets argent pierced gules	Shute
Bourchier	Argent, a cross engrailed gules between four water bougets sable	Tawstock; Bampton
Bowerman	Ermine, on a bend cotised sable three boar's heads couped or	Culm Davy, Hemyock; Whitehall, Hemyock
Broughton	Argent, on a chevron between three crosses pommée sable as many buck's heads cabossed or on a chief of the second a goat passant of the first	Warbrightley (modern: Waspley), Stoodleigh^[9]
Browne	Gules, a chevron ermine between two chevronells and three escallops or	Brown's Ilash,^[10] Langtree
Bruton	Per pale gules and azure, a fess between two chevrons argent	Heavitree
Budockshed	Sable, three fusils in fess between three buck's faces argent	Budockshed, St Budeaux
Burgoyne	Azure, a hound passant argent	South Tawton
Burnard^[11]	Argent, three escallops in bend between two bendlets azure in chief and in base a leopard's face jessant-de-lys of the last	Chatsworth Lodge, Compton Gifford
Burnby	Argent, two bars counter-embattled ermines	Burnby, Bratton Clovelly
Burrington	Argent, a lion rampant sable flory or	Idford, Chudleigh; Sandford
Bury	Ermine, on a bend engrailed azure three fleurs-de-lys or	Colleton, Chulmleigh
Butler^[12]	Azure, three covered cups or	Parkham; Littleham

C[]

Name	Blazon	Seat, parish
Cabell	Vert fretty argent, over all a fess gules	Brook, Buckfastleigh
Cade	Argent, three piles in point wavy sable	Fremington; Barnstaple
Callard	Gyronny of six or and sable, three Moor's heads sidefaced couped proper wreathed round the temples (argent)^[13]	Callard, Burrington (?);^[14] Southcott, Winkleigh
Calmady	Azure, a chevron between three pears or	Calmady, Penfound, Poundstock, Cornwall;Langdon, Wembury; Stoke Climsland, Cornwall; Leawood, Bridestowe;
Calwoodleigh	Azure, two wings conjoined argent over all on a fess gules three bezants	Calwoodleigh (mod:Calverleigh); Cove, Stoodleigh; Uplowman
Carew	Or, three lions passant sable	Crowcombe; Antony, Cornwall; Tiverton Castle; Haccombe; Bickleigh Castle; Mohuns Ottery
Carswell	Sable, a bend or	Carswell, Holbeton
Carwythan	Argent, a fleur-de-lys gules a bordure engrailed of the second	Panston, Sydenham Damerel; St Petrock, Exeter; Manaton; (Carwythan, Cornwall)
Cary	Argent, on a bend sable three roses of the field	Cary, St Giles on the Heath; Clovelly; Cockington; Torr Abbey
Champernowne	Gules, a saltire vair between twelve billets or	Modbury; Bere Ferrers; Dartington; Ilfracombe
Champneys	Argent, a lion rampant gules a bordure engrailed sable	Cockworthy,^[15] Yarnscombe^[16]
Chanon	Argent, on a chevron gules two couple closes or	Escot, Talaton
Chappell	Or, an anchor in pale sable	Barnstaple; Whitston
Charles	Ermine, on a chief wavy gules an eagle displayed or	Tavistock
Cheney	Gules, four fusils in fess argent on each an escallop sable	Pinhoe
Chichester	Chequy or and gules, a chief vair	Raleigh, Pilton; Eggesford; Hall, Bishop's Tawton; Pill, Bishop's Tawton; Arlington; Youlston, Shirwell; Widworthy; Ruxford, Sandford; Westcott, Marwood^[17] Hearsdon, Swimbridge; Stowford, Swimbridge
Cholmeley	Gules, in chief two close helmets argent in base a garb or	Tiverton
Cholwill	Argent, on a bend sable three arrow shafts of the field heads and feathers or	Lutsford, Hartland
Chudleigh	Ermine, three lions rampant gules	Ashton; Haldon
Clapham^[18]	Argent, on a bend azure six fleurs-de-lys or, two, two and two	Barnstaple; (Beamsley Hall,^[19] Yorkshire)
Clement^[20]	Argent, two bends wavy gules on a chief of the last three estoiles or	Plymouth
Clifford	Chequy or and azure a fess gules	Chudleigh; Kingsteignton.
Clobbery	Argent, a chevron between three bats displayed sable	Bradstone
Clotworthy	Azure, a chevron ermine between three chaplets or	Clotworthy, Wembworthy; Rashleigh, Wembworthy
Cockeram	Argent, on a bend sable three leopard's faces of the field	Hillersdon, Cullompton; Growen, Cullompton
Cockshead	Azure, a cinquefoil argent a chief lozengy of the second and gules	Chulmleigh
Coffin	Azure, three bezants between eight crosses crosslet or	Portledge, Alwington; Monkleigh; Inwardleigh
Cogan	Gules, three (mulbery) leaves argent^[21]	Bampton
Cole	Argent, a bull passant sable armed or a bordure of the second bezantée	; , Cornwood; Bucks, Woolfardisworthy
Collamore	Gules billetée or, three crescents of the second	Saunton, Braunton
Colleton	Or, three stag's heads couped proper^[22]	Exeter
Collins	Azure, three torches or enflamed proper	Ottery St Mary; Offwell
Colman	Per fess argent and sable, a cross flory between four mullets all counterchanged	Gornhay, Tiverton
Cooke	Ermine, on a bend cotised gules three cats-a-mountain passant guardant or	Thorne, Ottery St Mary
Coplestone	Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three leopard's faces azure	Copplestone, Colebrooke; Warleigh, Tamerton Foliot; Eggesford
Coram	Argent, a cross sable between four eagles displayed gules	Ottery St Mary
Cory	Argent, a saltire sable on a chief azure three cinquefoils or	Cory, West Putford
Cottell	Or, a bend gules	Yealmbridge, Yealmpton; Sampford Peverell;^[23] Cottles Barton, North Tawton
Cotton	Argent, a bend sable between three pellets	; Shobrooke; Silverton
Courtenay	Or, three torteaux	Okehampton Castle; Tiverton Castle; Powderham; Molland; Colcombe, Colyton; Upcott, Cheriton Fitzpaine; Moreton Hampstead^[24]
Croker	Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three crows proper	Croker's Hele, Meeth; Lyneham, Yealmpton
Crossing	Or, on a chevron azure between three crosses crosslet fitchée gules as many bezants	Exeter
Cruwys	Azure, a bend per bend indented argent and gules between six escallops or	Cruwys Morchard
Crymes / Grymes	Or, three bars gules each charged with as many martlets of the field on a chief azure two bars nebulée argent	Crapstone,^[25] Buckland Monachorum; Meavy
Cudmore	Argent, a fess nebulee gules between three eagles displayed sable armed of the second	Templeton
Culme	Azure, a chevron ermine between 3 pelicans vulning their breasts or	Molland Champson; Canonsleigh Abbey
Cutcliffe	Gules, three pruning hooks argent	Damage, Mortehoe; Weach, Westleigh; Webbery, Alverdiscott; Coombe, Witheridge^[26]

D[]

Name	Blazon	Seat, parish
Davie (Bardolph arms)	Azure, three cinquefoils or on a chief of the last a lion passant gules	Creedy, Sandford; Canonteign, Christow; Ruxford, Sandford;
Davie (de Way arms) (see also Davy of Ebberly below)	Argent, a chevron sable between three mullets pierced gules	Way, St Giles in the Wood; Creedy, Sandford; Canonteign, Christow; Ruxford, Sandford;
Daviles	Argent, a chevron embattled erminois between three fleurs-de-lys azure	Marland, Petrockstowe^[27]
Davy alias Dewy (de Way arms) (see also Davie of Creedy above)	Argent, two chevronells sable between three mullets gules	Way, St Giles in the Wood; Ebberly, Roborough; "Beauford"^[28] (Beaford); Owlacombe, Roborough;
Delves	Argent, a chevron gules fretty or between three delves sable (a "delve" being a "sod of turf")	Crediton
Dene	Argent, a lion rampant purpure	Newton St Petrock
Denys/Dennis	Ermine, three battle-axes gules	Holcombe Burnell; Bicton
Denys/Dennis	Azure, three Danish battle axes erect or	Orleigh
Diamond	Gules, three fusils conjoined in fess argent over all a fess gules (sic)	Tiverton
Dillon	Argent, a lion rampant between three crescents an estoile issuant from each gules over all a fess azure^[29]	Chymwell, Bratton Fleming; Hart, Heanton Punchardon
Docton	Per fess gules and argent, two crescents in chief or another in base sable	Docton, Hartland
Downe	Gules, a buck's head cabossed ermine attired or	Tushill,^[30] Pilton
Dowrish	Argent, a bend cotised sable a bordure engrailed of the last	Dowrish, Sandford
Drake	Argent, a wyvern wings displayed and tail nowed gules	Ash, Musbury; Mount Drake, Musbury
Drake	Sable, a fess wavy between two estoiles argent	Buckland Abbey, Buckland Monachorum; Nutwell, Woodbury
Drewe	Ermine, a lion passant gules	Sharpham, Ashprington; Killerton, Broadclyst; The Grange, Broadhembury
Duck	Or, on a fess wavy sable three lozenges of the field	Heavitree, Exeter; Mount Radford, Exeter
Duke	Per fesse argent and azure, three chaplets counterchanged	Otterton
Dyer^[31]	Or, a chief indented gules a mullet for difference	Yarde, Malborough
Dynham	Gules, four fusils in fess a bordure ermine	Wortham, Lifton

E[]

Name	Blazon	Seat, parish
Edgcumbe	Gules, on a bend ermines cotised or three boar's heads couped argent	Edgcumbe, Milton Abbot; Tavistock; Ottery, Lamerton (Mount Edgcumbe, Cornwall; Cotehele, Cornwall)
Edmonds	Or, a chevron azure on a canton of the second a boar's head couped between three fleurs-de-lys of the first	Plymouth
Edwards	Per bend sinister ermine and ermines, a lion rampant or	St Mary Major, Exeter
Elford	Per pale argent and azure, a lion rampant gules	Sheepstor, Yelverton
Eliot	Azure, a fess or	Tavistock
Ellacott	Lozengy or and azure, a bordure gules	Milbury;^[32] Exeter, St Petrock's
Ellyot	Argent, a fess gules between two bars gemelles wavy azure	Farringdon
English	Sable, three lioncels rampant argent	Stockleigh English
Eveleigh	Per pale or and sable, two chevronels between three griffins passant counterchanged	Holcombe, Ottery St Mary

F[]

Name	Blazon	Seat, parish
Farringdon	Sable, three unicorns courant in pale argent armed and crined or^[33]	Little Farringdon,^[34] Farringdon
Fenner / Venner	Azure, on a cross argent between four eagles displayed or a cross formée sable	Rose Ash
Fitz	Argent guttée de sang, a cross engrailed gules	Fitz-Ford, Tavistock
Flay^[35]	Ermine, on a pale azure three birds argent	Charlton, Payhembury
Floyer	Sable, a chevron between three arrows points downward argent	Floyer Hayes
Ford	Party per fesse or and sable, in chief a greyhound courant in base an owl within a bordure engrailed all counter-changed	Nutwell; Chagford; Ashburton; Bagtor, Ilsington
Ford	Gules, a castle argent crowned or on the port a cross formée of the third	Ford's Moore (modern: "Fordmore"), Plymtree
Fortescue	Azure, a bend engrailed argent cotised or	Whympston, Modbury; Castle Hill, Filleigh; Weare Giffard; Fallapit, East Allington; Buckland Filleigh; Preston, Devon; Wood, Woodleigh; Spridleston, Brixton;
Fountayne	Argent, three bars gemelles gules on a canton azure a lion passant guardant or	Bawcombe
Fowell	Argent, a chevron sable on a chief gules three mullets pierced of the first	Fowelscombe, Ugborough; Black Hall, North Huish^[36]
Fownes	Azure, two eagles displayed in chief and a mullet in base argent	Plymouth; Whitleigh, St Budeaux; Kittery Court, Kingswear; ; (Dunster Castle, Somerset)
Fry	Gules, three horses courant in pale argent	Yarty, Membury; Fry's Hele,^[37] Meeth; Buckerell
Fulford	Gules, a chevron argent	Great Fulford, Dunsford
Furlong	Argent, two bars between eight martlets sable	Tamerton Foliot; Bawcombe, Ugborough
Fursdon	Argent, a chevron azure between three fireballs sable fired proper	Fursdon, Cadbury;
Furse	Gules, a chevron embattled counter-embattled between six halberds in pairs saltire-wise or	Morshead, (Dean Prior (?)^[38])
Fursland	Or, a lion rampant sable between three crosses pattée gules	Bickington

G[]

Name	Blazon	Seat, parish
Gale	Azure, a fesse argent fretty of the field	Crediton
Garland	Or, three pales gules on a chief per pale gules and sable a chaplet and a demi-lion issuant argent	Whitfield, Marwood^[39]
Gay	Or, a chevron between three escallops azure	; Frithelstock
Geere	Gules, two bars or each charged with three mascles azure on a canton of the second a leopard's face of the third	Heavitree; Holloway,^[40] Kenn
Giffard	Sable, three fusils conjoined in fesse ermine	Brightley, Chittlehampton; Tiverton Castle; Halsbury, Parkham
Gilbert	Argent, on a chevron gules three roses of the field^[41]	Compton, Marldon; Sandridge, Stoke Gabriel; Greenway, Churston Ferrers; Bovey Tracey; (Bodmin Priory, Cornwall)
Giles	Per chevron argent and azure, a lion rampant counterchanged collared or	Bowden, Ashprington; Sharpham, Ashprington; Dean Court, Dean Prior
Glanville	Azure, three saltires or	Holwell; Kilworthy, Tavistock
Godwyn/Goodwyn	Or, on a fess between six lion's heads erased gules an annulet of the field	Clistwill, Plymtree; Torrington
Goodridge	Argent, a fess sable in chief three cross crosslets fitchée of the last	Totnes
Gould	Per saltire azure and or a lion rampant counterchanged	Downes, Crediton; Floyer Hayes; Lew Trenchard
Gourney	Argent, a cross engrailed gules in the first quarter a cinquefoil vert	Townstal; Dartmouth
Gove	Azure, a cross lozengy (argent and sable?) between four eagles displayed sable	Woodbury
Greenwood	Paly of six argent and sable, on a bend gules three escallops or	Torrington
Grylls	Or, three bendlets enhanced gules	Tavistock

H[]

Name	Blazon	Seat, parish
Hakewill	Or, a bend between six trefoils slipped purpure	Exeter
Hals	Argent, a fess between three griffin's heads erased sable	Kenedon, Sherford; Efford, Egg Buckland
Hamlyn	Gules, a lion rampant ermine crowned or	Widecombe; Buckfastleigh; Woolfardisworthy; Clovelly
Hancock	Gules, on a chief argent three cocks of the field	Combe Martin; Mount Radford, Exeter
Harewood^[42]	Sable, on a chief argent three hart's heads erased of the field	South Molton
Harlewyn	Azure, a fess argent in base three apples of the last	Sidmouth
Harper	Argent, a lion rampant a bordure engrailed sable a crescent for difference	Berry Narbor; (Swarkestone Hall, Derbyshire)
Harris (of Radford)	Sable, three crescents argent	Radford, Plymstock
Harris (of Hayne)	Sable, three crescents argent a bordure of the last	Hayne, Stowford
Harris (of Cornworthy)	Sable, an antelope salient argent armed and crined or	Cornworthy Priory, Cornworthy
Harvey	Gules, on a bend argent three trefoils slipped vert	Aylesbeare
Hatch	Gules, two demi-lions passant guardant in pale or	Hatch/Hacche, South Molton; Aller, South Molton; Woolleigh, Beaford
Haydon	Argent, three bars gemels azure on a chief gules a fess dansettée or	Cadhay, Ottery St Mary; Ebford, Woodbury
Hele	Gules, five fusils in bend argent on each an ermine spot^[43]	Hele, Cornwood; Flete, Holbeton; Wembury
Helman	Vert, a chevron argent guttée de sang between three pheons or	Furland
Hext	Or, a tower triple-turreted between three battle axes sable	Kingston; Kingston, Staverton (?)^[44]
Hill	Argent, a chevron between three water bougets sable	Shilston, Modbury^[45]
Hill	Gules, a chevron ermine between three garbs or	Plymouth; Cotleigh
Hillersdon	Argent, on a chevron sable three bull's heads cabossed of the field	Hillersdon, Cullompton; Membland, Holbeton
Hockmore	Per chevron sable and or, in chief two pairs of reaping hooks endorsed and entwined blades azure handles of the second in base a moorcock of the first combed and wattled gules	Buckland Baron, Combe-in-Teignhead^[46]
Hody	Argent, a fess per fess indented vert and sable between two cotises counterchanged of the fess^[47]	,^[48] Brixham; (Pilsdon, Dorset)^[49]
Holbeame	Argent, a chevron enarched sable	Holbeame, West Ogwell; Bawcombe, Ugborough(?)
Holland^[50]	Azure semée-de-lys argent, a lion rampant of the second	Countess Wear; Upcott, Sheepwash
Holway of Waton^[51]	Sable, two swords in saltire hilts and pommels in chief the dexter surmounted by the sinister	Waton (alias Wadeton, Wayton, etc.), Stoke Gabriel^[52]
Hooker alias Vowell	Or, a fess vair between two lions passant guardant sable	St Mary Major, Exeter
Hore	Sable, an eagle double-headed displayed argent a bordure engrailed of the last	Chagford
Howper/Hooper	Gyronny of eight or and ermine, over all a castle triple-towered sable	Musbury; Fullabrook, Braunton; Raleigh, Pilton
Howpill	Argent, on a pale gules three lion's faces or	Exeter, St Mary Arches (?)
Hunkin	Argent, a mascle sable over all a fess of the last	Gatherleigh, Lifton
Hunt^[53]	Azure, on a bend between two water bougets or three leopard's faces gules	Hams, Chudleigh^[54]

I[]

Name	Blazon	Seat, parish
Incledon	Argent, a chevron engrailed between three tuns sable fire issuing from the bung hole proper	Incledon, Braunton; Buckland, Braunton; Colleton, Chulmleigh; Pilton House, Pilton; Yeotown, Goodleigh
Inglett	Sable, a bend argent between three escallops or	Alwington; Lamerton
Isack	Per pale azure and purpure, a cross flory or between four lambs argent^[55]	Boreat, Atherington

J[]

Name	Escutcheon	Blazon	Seat, parish
Jarvys		Argent, six ostrich feathers sable, three, two and one	Stralling^[56]
Jewell		Or, on a chevron azure between three gillyflowers gules stalked and leaved vert a maiden's head of the first ducally crowned of the third on a chief sable a hawk's lure double stringed between two falcons argent beaked and legged of the first	Bowden, Berry Narbor

K[]

Name	Blazon	Seat, parish
Kellond	Sable, a fess argent in chief three fleurs-de-lys of the last	Painsford, Ashprington
Kelloway	Argent, two grozing irons in saltire sable between four Kelway pears proper^[57]	Stowford/Stafford, Dolton
Kelly	Argent, a chevron between three billets gules	Kelly
Kendall	Argent, a chevron between three dolphins naiant embowed sable	Kingsbridge; Cofton, nr. Dawlish
Kirkham	Argent, three lions rampant gules a bordure engrailed sable	Blagdon, Paignton; Bidwell, Newton St Cyres^[58]
Knapman	Or, on a cross gules between four Cornish choughs proper five blocks of tin marked with the letter W	Wonson,^[59] Throwleigh

L[]

Name	Blazon	Seat, parish
Land	Gyronny of eight or and sable a bend gules	Silverton
Langford	Paly of six argent and gules, on a chief of the first a lion passant sable	Bratton Clovelly
Lante^[60]	Per pale argent and gules, a cross engrailed counterchanged	Exeter
Larder	Argent, three piles sable each charged with as many bezants	Upton Pyne
Leach	Ermine, on a chief engrailed gules three ducal coronets or	Cadeleigh; All Hallows, Goldsmith Street, Exeter
Lee^[61]	Azure, on a fess cotised or three leopard's faces of the field	Pinhoe; Totnes
Leigh	Argent, a lion rampant gules on a sinister canton azure an escallop or	Borough, Northam
Leigh	Argent, two bars azure over all a bend compony or and gules	Rudge,^[62] Morchard Bishop
Lippingcott	Per fess embattled gules and sable, three leopards passant argent	Luffincott/Lippingcott;^[63] Wibbery, Alverdiscott
Longe^[64]	Sable semée of crosses pattée, a lion rampant argent	North Molton
Lowman	Argent, three escutcheons sable each charged with a dexter gauntlet back affrontée or	Whitestone; Netherton, Farway^[65]
Luscombe	Argent, on a pile azure a lion rampant guardant crowned or	Luscombe, Rattery
Lutton	Vert, an eagle displayed with two heads within an orle of trefoils or	Cofford, Kenton
Luttrell	Or, a bend between six martlets sable	Hartland Abbey; Saunton; (Dunster Castle, Somerset)
Lynn	Gules, a demi-lion rampant argent a bordure sable bezantée	Exeter

M[]

Name	Blazon	Seat, parish
Mainwaring	Argent, two bars gules within a bordure gobony or and sable	Exeter
Mallet	Azure, three escallops or^[66]	Ash, Iddesleigh; Curry Mallet; Woolleigh, Beaford; Deandon and St Audries; Widdecombe; Hatch, South Molton; West Quantoxhead;
Mallock	Per chevron engrailed or and sable, on three roundels three fleurs-de-lys all counterchanged	Cockington
Mapowder	Barry gules and argent, on the chief of the second a greyhound courant sable	Holsworthy
Martyn	Argent, two bars gules^[67]	Feudal barony of Barnstaple; Oxton, Kenton; Lindridge; (Athelhampton, Dorset).
Martyn^[68]	Argent, on two bars gules three crosses formée or	Broad Hempston
Marwood	Gules, a chevron between three goat's heads erased ermine attired or	Westcot,^[69] Marwood
Maynard	Argent, three sinister hands couped at the wrist gules	Sherford, Brixton
Menyfie	Vert, on a chevron between three martlets argent as many eagles displayed of the first	Collumpton; Harberton
Milford	Argent, three oak leaves in pale all proper	Wickington, South Tawton
Minshull	Azure, an estoile of six points issuing from a crescent argent	Exeter
Molford	Sable, a fess ermine between three swans argent	South Molton
Mohun	Or, a cross engrailed sable	Tavistock; Mohuns Ottery, Luppitt; Tor Mohun (Dunster Castle, Somerset; Hall, Lanteglos-by-Fowey, Cornwall; Boconnoc, Cornwall)
Monck	Gules, a chevron between three lion's heads erased argent	Potheridge, Merton
Moore	Argent, a chevron between three moorcocks sable crested gules^[70]	Moore, "near Tavistock";^[71] Broadwoodwidger; Upcott, Cheriton Fitzpaine
Moore	Ermine, on a chevron azure three cinquefoils or	Moor Hayes, Cullompton
More	Sable, three garbs argent a bordure gobony or and gules	Broadclyst
Moulton	Per pale argent and ermine three bars gules	Cullompton

N[]

Name	Blazon	Seat, parish
Newcombe	Argent, a fess embattled between two escallops in pale sable	Great Worthy, Drewsteignton; Easton, South Teign, Drewsteignton?;^[72] Exeter, St David's; Starcross, Kenton
Newcourt	Sable, a bend ermine between two eagles with two heads displayed or	Pickwell, Georgeham
Newton^[73]	Vert, two shinbones in saltire the sinister surmounted by the dexter argent	Crabadon, Diptford
Noble	Or, two lions passant guardant in pale azure between as many flaunches of the last on a fess gules three bezants	Bishop's Tawton
Northcote	Argent, three cross-crosslets in bend sable	Northcote, East Down; Newton St Cyres; Pynes, Upton Pyne
Northleigh	Argent, a chevron sable between three roses gules	Northleigh, Inwardleigh; Peamore, Exminster; Matford, Alphington
Northmore	Gules, a lion rampant or armed and langued azure crowned with an eastern crown argent	Cleve, St Thomas, Exeter; Well, South Tawton
Nutcombe	Or, a fess embattled between two escallops gules	Nutcombe, Clayhanger^[74]

O[]

Name	Escutcheon	Blazon	Seat, parish
Osmond		Sable, a fess dancettée ermine in chief an eagle displayed or	Stagmill, Uplowman; Exeter

P[]

Name	Blazon	Seat, parish
Parker	Sable, a stag's head cabossed between two flaunches argent	North Molton; Boringdon; Saltram; Whiteway, Chudleigh
Passmore^[75]	Or, a fess between three escutcheons gules on each a bend vair between two cinquefoils of the first all within a bordure azure bezantée^[76]	Passmore Hayes, Tiverton;^[77] Sutton, Halberton;^[78] Grilstone, Bishop's Nympton; (Withyshaw, Merstham, Surrey^[79])
Pearse	Argent, two bars sable between six estoiles gules 3, 2 and 1	Blackmore, Plympton St Mary
Perry	Quarterly gules and or, on a bend argent three lions passant azure	Water (mod: Waterhouse), Membury
Petre	Gules, on a bend or between two escallops argent a Cornish chough proper between two cinquefoils azure	Bowhay, Dunchideock; Tor Newton, Tor Bryan, (and Ingatestone Hall, Essex).
Phillips	Or, on a chevron engrailed sable three eagle's heads erased argent	Alverdiscott
Pincombe	Per pale gules and azure, three close helmets argent garnished or	South Molton; North Molton; Filleigh; East Buckland
Plumleigh^[80]	(Argent?), a bend fusily gules	Dartmouth
Pointington	Argent, a bend gules between six fleurs-de-lys vert	Penicott, Shobrooke
Pole	Azure semée of fleurs de lis or, a lion rampant argent	Shute; Colcombe Castle
Pollard	Argent, a chevron sable between three escallops gules	Way, St Giles in the Wood; Grilstone, Bishop's Nympton; King's Nympton; Langley, Yarnscombe; Abbots Bickington; Horwood
Pollard (de Way arms)^[81]	Argent, a chevron sable between three mullets pierced gules	Way, St Giles in the Wood; Grilstone, Bishop's Nympton; King's Nympton; Langley, Yarnscombe; Abbots Bickington; Horwood; Ford Abbey, Thorncombe; Knowstone
Pollexfen	Quarterly argent and azure, in the 1 and 4 quarter a lion rampant gules	; Mothecombe, Holbeton; Caleston, Holbeton; Nutwell, Woodbury; Wembury
Pomeroy	Or, a lion rampant gardant gules armed and langued azure within a bordure engrailed sable	Berry Pomeroy Castle; Bowden, Ashprington; Sandridge, Stoke Gabriel; Beenleigh,^[82] Harberton Ford, Harberton
Popham	Argent, on a chief gules two stag's heads cabosed or	Lynton; (Huntworth in Somerset; Popham in Hampshire; Littlecote in Wiltshire)
Pote	Azure, a chevron engrailed cotised argent between three doves of the second	Clawton
Potter^[83]	Sable, a fess ermine between three cinquefoils argent^[84]	Iddesleigh
Preston^[85]	Argent, two bars gules on a canton of the last a cinquefoil or	Upottery
Prestwood	Sable, a lion rampant between two flaunches or	Exeter
Prideaux	Argent, a chevron sable in chief a label of three points gules	Orcheton, Modbury; Adeston, Holbeton; Thuborough, Sutcombe; Soldon, Holsworthy; Netherton, Farway; Ashburton; Nutwell, Woodbury; Ford Abbey, Thorncombe; (also Prideaux Place, Padstow and Prideaux Castle, Luxulyan, Cornwall)
Prouse	Sable, three lions rampant argent	Gidleigh Castle; Chagford; Lustleigh; Barnstaple; Tiverton
Prouse^[86]	Ermine, three lions rampant argent	Exeter
Prust	Gules, on a chief argent two estoiles sable	Thorry, Hartland; Gorven, Hartland; Annery, Monkleigh
Prye	Ermine, a chevron sable a chief azure fretty or^[87]	Horwell, Colebrooke
Pyne^[88]	Gules, a chevron ermine between three pine apples or	East Down; Portledge, Alwington

Q[]

Name	Escutcheon	Blazon	Seat, parish
Quicke		Sable, a chevron vaire or and of the first between three griffin's heads erased of the second	Newton House, Newton St Cyres; Sherwood,^[89] Newton St Cyres

R[]

Name	Blazon	Seat, parish
Radford	Sable, three lampagoes passant coward in pale argent	Upcott, Cheriton Fitzpaine; Okeford; Rockbeare
Raleigh	Gules crusilly or, a bend vair or Gules, a bend vair between six cross-crosslets or	Raleigh, Pilton
Raleigh	Gules, five fusils conjoined in bend argent^[90]	Fardel, Cornwood; Colaton Raleigh;^[91] Smallridge, Axminster;^[92] (Nettlecombe Raleigh, Somerset)
Randall	Sable, three demi-lions rampant erased argent	Kentisbury
Rede	Gules, on a bend nebulée argent three shovelers sable	Wembury
Reynell	Argent, masonry sable a chief indented of the second	Forde, Wolborough; East Ogwell
Rider	Azure, three crescents or	Bere Ferrers
Ridgeway	Sable, a pair of wings conjoined and elevated argent	Tor Mohun; Abbots Carswell
Risdon	Argent, three birdbolts sable	Winscott, St Giles in the Wood; Bableigh, Parkham
Roache	Azure, three roaches naiant in pale argent	Welcombe^[93]
Rolle	Or, on a fesse dancette between three billets azure each charged with a lion rampant of the first three bezants	Stevenstone, St Giles in the Wood; Bicton; Hudscott, Chittlehampton; Beam, Great Torrington; Heanton Satchville, Petrockstowe; Buckfast Place, Cathedral Close, St Martin's, Exeter^[94]
Roope	Argent, a lion rampant per fess gules and vert between seven pheons azure	Horswell, South Milton; East Allington; Bidwell, Newton St Cyres^[95]
Roope^[96]	Argent, a lion rampant gules an orle of nine pheons azure	Townstal
Rowcliffe	Argent, on a chevron between three lion's heads erased gules a chess-rook or	Yarnscombe
Rowe	Gules, three paschal lambs or staff cross and banners argent	Lamerton
Rowe	Argent, on a chevron azure between three trefoils slipped per pale gules and vert three bezants	Kingston, Staverton; Bearton, Broad Hempston^[97]

S[]

Name	Blazon	Seat, parish
Sainthill	Or, on a fess engrailed azure between three leopard's faces gules three bezants each charged with a fleur-de-lys of the second on a pile in chief of the second three demi-fleurs-de-lys attached to the top and sides of the first	Bradninch
Salisbury	Gules, a lion rampant crowned or between three crescents argent	Barnstaple
Sanford	Argent, a chevron between three martlets sable	Exeter
Savery	Gules, a fess vair between three unicorn's heads couped or	; Willing, Rattery; , Cornwood
Searle	Gules, on a chevron between three trefoils argent as many pellets	"Gotford in the parish of Holford in the hundred of Hemiock";^[98] Awliscombe
Seccombe alias Thorne^[99]	Argent, a fess gules between three lions rampant sable a bordure engrailed of the last a crescent for difference	Weston, North Petherwin; Webworthy, North Petherwin
Segar	Azure, a cross moline argent	Highweek, Kingsteignton
Servington	Ermine, on a chief azure three buck's heads cabossed or	Tavistock; (Longford, Wiltshire)
Seward	Gules, on a fess or between two chevrons ermine three leopard's faces azure	Stoke-in-Teignhead
Seymour	Gules, two wings conjoined in lure or	Berry Pomeroy; Stover, Teigngrace;
Shapcott	Sable, (a chevron or^[100] between) three dovecotes argent	Shapcott, Knowstone
Shapleigh^[101]	Vert, a chevron argent betyeen three escallops or	Totnes; Dartmouth
Sharpe^[102]	Argent, three falcon's heads erased sable a bordure engrailed azure	Tiverton
Sherman	Or, a lion rampant sable between three holly leaves vert	Knightstone,^[103] Ottery St Mary
Shorte	Gules, a griffin segreant or a chief ermine	Newton St Cyres
Simonds	Per fess dancetée gules and argent, a pale counterchanged three trefoils one and two slipped of the first	Exeter
Skerrit	Or, a chief indented sable	Whitchurch
Skinner	Argent, a chief azure semée-de-lys of the first	Cowley
Slader	Gules, a chevron ermine between three horse's heads erased argent	Bath, North Tawton
Slanning	Argent, two pales engrailed gules over all on a bend azure three griffin's heads or	Ley, Plympton St Mary;^[104] Bickleigh (South Hams); Maristow, Tamerton Foliot
Slowley	Gules, a chevron between three bats displayed or	Sloley, Shirwell; Fremington
Smith (of Exeter)	Sable, a fess cotised between three martlets or^[105]	Madworthy, nr. Exeter; Madford House, Exeter; , Exeter
Smith (of Dartmouth)	Barry undé of sixteen argent and azure on a chief gules three barnacles or^[106]	Dartmouth; Totnes
Snelling	Argent, three griffin's heads erased gules a chief ermine	Chadlewood, Plympton St Mary
Somaster	Argent, a castle triple-towered within an orle of fleurs-de-lys sable	Painsford, Ashprington; Nether Exe
Southcott	Argent, a chevron gules between three coots sable	Indio, Bovey Tracey; Mohuns Ottery, Luppitt
Southcott	Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three coots sable	Milton Abbot; Calstock, Cornwall; Callington, Cornwall;
Southmeade	Per fess wavy gules and ermine, an eagle displayed in chief or	Wray, Moreton Hampstead^[107]
Sparke	Chequy or and vert, a bend ermine	The Friary (Whitefriar's Priory), St Jude, Plymouth
Speccot	Or, on a bend gules three millrinds argent	Speccot, Merton; Thornbury; (Penheale, Cornwall)
Spicer	Per pale gules and sable, three castles in bend or cotised within a bordure engrailed ermine	Exeter
Spurway	Argent, on a bend azure a spur-rowel or between two garbs of the first	Spurway, Oakford
Stafford (Kelloway)^[108]	Argent, two grozing irons in saltire sable between four Kelway pears proper^[109]	Dowland; Pynes, Upton Pyne
Staplehill	Argent, a chevron sable	Dartmouth; Bremells, Trusham
Staveley	Argent, on a chevron between three lozenges azure as many buck's heads cabossed of the first	East Buckland
Stretchleigh	Or, on a chevron azure three cinquefoils of the field	Stretchleigh (now "Strashleigh"), Ermington^[110]
Strobridge	Or, over water proper on a bridge of three arches gules a tower of the last and a pennon hoisted thereon	Howber Hayne & Street Hayne, Colyton;^[111] Modbury
Strode	Argent, a chevron between three conies courant sable	Old Newnham and Newnham Park, Plympton St Mary
Stucley	Azure, three pears or	Affeton Castle; Hartland Abbey; Daddon/Moreton House
Sture	Argent, a bend sable in chief a pile of three points gules	North Huish

T[]

Name	Blazon	Seat, parish
Tawley	Argent, a chevron azure between three lozenges sable	Marldon; (Guildford, Surrey)
Thorne (see also "Seccombe alias Thorne" above)	Argent, a fess gules between three lions rampant sable	Thorne, Holsworthy;^[112] Thorne, Ottery St Mary; Upcott, Sheepwash
Tilley	Argent, a wyvern wings endorsed sable charged on the breast with an annulet or for difference	Upottery
Tothill	Azure, on a bend argent cotised or a lion passant sable	Peamore, Exminster; City of Exeter
Tremayne	Gules, three dexter arms conjoined at the shoulders and flexed in triangle or the fists clenched proper^[113]	Collacombe, Lamerton; Sydenham, Marystow
Trevelyan	Gules, the base barry wavy argent and azure a demi-horse issuant of the second maned and hoofed or	Yarnscombe; (Nettlecombe, Somerset)
Tristram	Argent, three torteaux a label of three points azure a chief gules	Duvale & Castle Grove, Bampton
Trobridge	Or, over water proper a bridge triple-towered gules^[114]	Trobridge, Crediton
Trosse	Gules, three cutlasses barways in pale argent the handles or	Exwick
Turberville	Argent, a lion rampant gules crowned or	Sampford Peverell; South Molton; (Bere Somerset; Coity Castle, Glamorgan;)
Turner	Sable, a chevron ermine between three fers-de-moline or on a chief argent a lion passant gules	Halberton
Twiggs^[115]	Azure, three bendlets or on a chief argent a bar dancettée gules	Werrington

U[]

Name	Escutcheon	Blazon	Seat, parish
Upton		Sable, a cross moline argent^[116]	Puslinch, Newton Ferrers;^[117] Lupton, Brixham

V[]

Name	Blazon	Seat, parish
Velly^[118]	Argent, a chevron between three castles or	Higher Velly, Hartland; Galsham, Hartland;^[119]
Venner	Gules, three bends or a chief per fess ermine and argent^[120]	Hudscott, Chittlehampton
Voysey	Or, a cross sable in the first quarter a crescent of the last a bordure gules	Townstal (Dartmouth)

W[]

Name	Blazon	Seat, parish
Waddon	Argent, a lion rampant gules debruised with a bend sable charged with three cross crosslets fitchée of the field	Plymouth
Wadham	Gules, a chevron between three roses argent	Edge, Branscombe; Wadham, Knowstone; (Merryfield, Ilton; Somerset)
Wakeman^[121]	Argent, on a cross sable a ducal coronet or encircled with clouds proper rayonée or	Bere Ferrers; Charleton
Wakeman	Vert, a saltire wavy ermine	Exeter
Walrond	Argent, three bull's heads cabossed sable armed or	Bradfield, Uffculme; Bovey House, Beer
Walter	Azure, a griffin segreant or a bordure ermine	Ashbury
Waltham^[122]	Sable, a chevron between three suns in glory argent	Trehill, Kenn; Exeter
Waye	Gules, a chevron or between three lucies hauriant argent	Torrington; Marsh,^[123] Newton St Cyres^[124]
Weare/Treawin^[125]	Argent, on a bend vert between six crosses crosslet fitchée gules three crosiers or	Clyst Honiton
Webbe	Or, a plain cross sable in the first quarter an eagle displayed of the second	St Petrock, Exeter; St Mary Major, Exeter
Webber	Gules, on a chevron engrailed argent between three plates three annulets of the first	Incledon, Braunton; Buckland, Braunton
Westcott	Argent, a bend cotised sable a bordure gules bezantée	Raddon, Shobrooke
Weston	Argent, on a chevron sable three leopard's faces or	Heath Hayne,^[126] Colyton
Whiddon	Argent, a chevron between three spearheads gules	Whiddon, Chagford; Sidbury
White	Argent, a chevron between three wolf's heads erased sable	"Diray"
Whitlock	Per fess or and sable, a bend wavy between two padlocks counterchanged	Warkleigh
Wichalse	Per fess argent and sable, six crescents in pale counterchanged	Barnstaple
Willesford	Azure, a chevron ermine between three leopard's faces or	Tavistock
Willoughby	Quarterly 1 & 4: Sable, a cross engrailed or (Ufford); 2 & 3: Gules, a cross moline argent (Bec of Eresby); all within a bordure gobonée of the second and azure	Molland Champson, Molland Bottreaux; Leyhill,^[127] Payhembury
Wise	Sable, three chevronels ermine	Sydenham, Marystow; Mount Wise, Stoke Damerel
Withie^[128]	Per pale ermine and or, a lion salient gules	Berry Narbor
Wolcot	Per pale azure and gules, on a cross fleury or five martlets sable a chief of the third charged with a fleur-de-lys between two annulets of the second	Wolcot, Thrushelton^[129]
Wollocombe (see also Woollcombe)	Argent, three bars gules	Wollocombe, Mortehoe; Combe (alias Over Wollocombe^[130]), Roborough
Wood	Sable semée of cross-crosslets or, three leopard's faces of the last	Orchard,^[131] Lew Trenchard
Woode	Argent, on a mount in base proper an oak tree vert fructed or	Hareston, Brixton
Woodley	Sable, a chevron between three owls argent	Halshanger, Ilsington
Woodrouffe^[132]	Gules, on a chevron argent three buck's heads erased sable a chief per fess nebulée of the third and second	Barnstaple; Uffculme
Woollcombe (see also Wollocombe)	Argent, three bars gules	Pitton, Yealmpton; Ashbury
Worth (Wrothe)	Argent, an eagle with two heads displayed sable beaked and legged or^[133]	Worth, Washfield, near Tiverton; Calstock, Cornwall
Wotton	Argent, a cross engrailed between four mullets sable	Inglebourne,^[134] Harberton
Wyatt^[135]	Per pale gules and azure, a pair of barnacles argent	Braunton
Wykes/Weekes	Ermine, three battle-axes sable	North Wyke, South Tawton; Bindon, Axminster;^[136] Honeychurch
Wyvell	Argent, three mullets between two bars sable a bordure engrailed gules^[137]	Crediton

Y[]

Name	Blazon	Seat, parish
Yard	Argent, a chevron gules between three water bougets sable^[138]	Yarde, Malborough;^[139] Teignwick, Kingsteignton; Bradley, Kingsteignton; Whiteway, Kingsteignton;^[140] Churston Court, Churston Ferrers; Sharpham, Ashprington
Yeo	Argent, a chevron sable between three shovelers azure^[141]	Heanton Satchville, Petrockstowe; Huish; Hatherleigh; Fremington
Yonge	Ermine, on a bend cotised sable three griffin's heads erased or	Great House, Colyton; Escot, Talaton; Mohuns Ottery, Luppitt
Yonge^[142]	Per fess sable and argent, three lions rampant guardant counterchanged	Landsend,^[143]Colebrooke

Blazons by Sir William Pole[]

The following blazons, with spellings corrected and modernised, but listed in original semi-alphabetical order, were recorded by Sir William Pole:^[144]

A[]

Abbot, of Hartland:Sable,^[145] a cross voided between four eaglets displayed or
Adiston, of Adeston: Argent, a fess between three pellets
Affeton, of Affeton: Argent, a chevron engrailed between three fleurs-de-lys sable
Acland, of Acland: Barry argent and sable, two pales counterchanged a fess gules over all
Alabaster, of Bicton: Azure, three cross-bows bent or
Alley, Bishop of Exeter: Azure, a pale engrailed between two lions rampant ermine crowned or
Ameredith, of Pole: Argent, a lion rampant sable collared and chained gules
Aller, of : Argent, three parrots vert 2 and 1 beaked and membered gules
Arundell, of Yewton: Sable, six swallows (martlets) argent 3,2,1
Arundell of Hempston Arundell: Argent, six swallows sable, 3,2,1
Ank of Anke: Gules, two bars three annulets in chief argent
Ayshford of Ayshford, Burlescombe: Argent, three ash crops vert between two chevrons sable
Ashlegh of Ashlegh: ...a pheon...
Ashton of Ashton: Vert, three bends argent
Ashthorp of Sampford Peverell: ...a bend...
Amidas/Amadas of Plymouth: Azure, a chevron argent between three acorn stalks and leaves or^[146]
Appleton: Or a chevron sable between three apples vert
Ashenden of Dartmouth: Argent, a lion rampant gules collared or
Atcomb of Atcombe: Sable, three wings argent
Atwill of Exeter: Argent, a chevron sable a pile in point counterchanged
Appeldor: Gules, a fess undee argent
Atwill: Argent, a fess three piles in chief
Atway: ... on a chief three lion's heads erased over-all a bend
Archdeacon/Archdekne of Haccombe: Argent, three chevrons sable
Audleigh of Tawstock, (feudal) baron of Barnstaple and Dartington: Gules fretty or
Avenell of Shepewas (Sheepwash): Three spread-eaglets (Three eagles displayed)
Avenell of Loxbere: Argent, five fusils in fess sable between two barrulets gules
Auncell: Ermine, a fess sable between a demi-lion in chief and three fusils in base 2 and 1 gules
Arscott of Dunsland: Ermine, on a chief azure two buck's heads cabossed or
Atwill: Argent, three leopard's faces azure
Atwood: Sable semee of acorns or, a lion rampant argent

B[]

Basset of Stevenstone and Beaupire: Argent, a chevron azure between three bugle horns sable
Bathe or Bathon, of Colbrooke: Ermine, a bend gules
Bastard of Efford: Or, a chevron azure
Basset of Umberleigh: Barry undée of six or and gules
Batten of Dunsland: Argent, three battle axes erect azure
Batten of Exeter: Argent, a chevron between three battle axes erect azure
Bawceyn of Washborn Bawceyne: Argent, two bars undée gules a quarter sable
Barry of Winscott: Barry of six argent and gules
Battishull of Westwike: Azure, a saltire crosslet between four owls argent
Bamfild (Bampfield): Or, on a bend gules three mullets argent
Bamfild (Bampfield): Paly of six or and vert on a bend gules three mullets argent
Baker: Argent, on a saltire engrailed sable five escallops argent on a chief of the second a lion passant argent
Barron of Buckland Barron: Argent, a chevron between three men's hearts sable
Barnhous of Kingston: Gules, two wings conjoined in lure argent
Bawcomb of Bawcombe: Argent, three bats displayed sable
Barkley or Bartlet of ...: Sable, a fess ermine between three escallops argent
Balun of ...: Barry dancetty of six argent and gules
Baunton of Combaunton (Combe Baunton): Gules, a bend between three escallops or one in chief two in base
Bale of ...: Argent, two bars gules between three mullets sable
Beandyn of ...: Azure, on a bend or three torteaux
Beaudyn: ... , a chevron between three martlets
Beaumont of Yolston (Youlston): Barry of six vairy and gules
Beaumont of Sebrescot: Barry of six vairy and gules a bezant on the second bar
Beauchamp of Ryme: Vairy, a label of three points gules
Beaupell(Beauple) of Knoweston (Knowstone): Gules, a bend vairy cotised or
Beaupell(Beauple) of Knoweston (Knowstone) (sic, Richard Beaple Mayor of Barnstaple): Gules, a bend vairy between six escallops argent
Bellew of Ashe Rogus (Ash, Braunton): Sable fretty or
Beavill: Ermine/argent, a bull passant gules attired or
Beapre: Vert, a lion rampant or a baton gules overall
Belston of Belston: Or, on a bend gules three cross formées (cross pattées) argent
Beare of Huntsham: Argent, three bear’s heads erased sable muzzled or
Beare of Bynlegh: Argent, a pelican in her nest of young sable her brest guttée gules (pelican in her piety sable)
Beare of Bagtor (no blazon)
Beare of Bromford (no blazon)
Berneville: Argent, on three pellets three bends argent
Bensted of Ermynton (Ermington): Gules, three bars gemelles or
Bicklegh of Bicklegh: Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three crows sable
Bickbiry of Bickbiry: Azure, an eagle displayed or
Bidwell of Bidwell: On a bend between six cross crosslets fitchée three escallops
Bidwell: Quarterly gyronny ermine and masclée gules and or
Biry (Bury) of Byry in Erber (Berry Narbor): Gules, three bars or
Bisshop of Choldash: Gules, on three fusils argent three eaglets sable
Billet of Ash (Musbury): Argent, a chevron purpure between three battle axes erect sable
Billet of Bosumshele (Dittisham) Argent, on a chief gules three cinquefoils argent
Bitlesgate of Knighteston (Bittlesgate of Knightstone, Ottery St Mary) Argent, an annulet sable overall a fess gules
Bonvill (Bonville) of Shute: Sable, six mullets pierced argent 3 2 and 1
Bonvill of Ivebridge (Ivybridge): Sable, six mullets pierced argent 3, 2 and 1 overall a baton sinister gules ( A baston sinister added gules)
Bosum of Churchton (Churston Ferrers): Azure, three bird-bolts in pale argent 2 and 1
Bolter of Bolterscombe: Ermine, on a chief gules three bird-bolts argent
Bosum of Bosumshele (Dittisham): Azure, three bird-bolts 2 and 1 argent
Bolegh (Bolley, Bolhay) of Blackburgh Bolegh: Argent, on a chevron sable three bezants between three torteaux^[147]
Bowdon of Bowdon: Quarterly sable and or, in the first quarter a lion passant argent
Bowdon: Argent, a chevron between three trees vert
Bonifant: Gules, a chevron or between three reaping hooks argent
Bodlegh (Bodleigh) of Dunscomb: Argent, five martlets in saltire sable on a chief azure three ducal crowns or
Boys (Latinized to de Bosco () of Woode: Argent, a chevron sable between three acorns erect or cupped vert
Boys of Heale and Buriton: Argent, a chevron gules between three cockatrices sable
Boys: Argent, a bend sable between three acorns vert
Botreaux of Molland Botreaux: Argent, a griffon segreant gules beaked and legged azure
Boterell: Chequy or and gules, a chevron azure
Borage: Or, a chevron gules between three lioncels rampant sable
Borow of Brodeclist (Broadclyst): Azure, three fleurs-de-lys ermine a bordure engrailed gules
Borowe: Argent, on a fess engrailed between six fleurs-de-lys gules three bezants
Boterford of Boterford: Or, on a bend azure three butterflies argent
Bodrugan: Argent, three bends gules
Boys of Halberton: Argent, a chevron gules between three “okes” (acorns?/Oak trees?) vert
Bole: Azure, a bull passant gules attired or
Bolworthy: Or, on a bend sable three bull’s faces argent
Boureman of Hemyoke: Ermine, on a bend cotised sable three boar’s heads argent
Bowrynge of Bowryngslegh (in Stanbridge hundred): Gules, a chevron between three lioncels rampant or
Botour of Exon (Exeter): Sable, on a chevron argent five “drops” (gouttes) gules between three storks argent
Bouthe, Bishop of Exon (John Booth (d.1478)): Argent, three boar’s heads (erect) erased sable a label of three (points) azure (Booth of Dunham Massey)
Bucket of Bucket: Or, three piles in point gules a bordure azure
Bucket: Chequy argent and azure, a fess vairy argent and gules
Buckerell of Buckerell: Sable, two bucks passant in pale argent a bordure bezantée^[148]
Buckland of Buckland: Argent, a fess sable fretty or between three lioncels rampant gules
Budokeside (Budockshide of Budockshide, St Budeaux^[149]): Sable, three fusils in fess between three buck’s faces argent
Burdon of Kingstington (Kingsteignton): Argent, three pilgrim’s staves in pale gules
Bury of Colaton: Ermine, on a bend engrailed azure three fleurs-de-lys or "(and without the (bend) engrailed)"
Burley of Clanacomb: Argent, (on) a chief sable three lances erect in fess counterchanged
Burneby of Burneby (Bratton Clovelly): Azure, two bars embattled ermine
Burnell of Cocktree (South Tawton): Argent, a chevron ermines between three barnacles (sic, should be "burnells", a type of bird/goose, see "Wike of Bindon", same arms) proper
Burnell: Argent, a chevron between three barnacles (sic, should be "burnells", a type of bird/goose, see "Wike of Bindon", same arms) sable
Burnford: Argent, a chevron between three heath cocks sable combs gules
Burgoigne of (South Tawton): Azure, a talbot passant argent a mullet or
Buller of Exeter: Argent, a cross sable pierced argent between four eagles displayed sable
Burton of Bigbury: Or, on a cross pierced azure four fleurs-de-lys of the field
Bucketon of Bucketon: Sable, a chief vert over all a buck's face argent
Burton of Halberton: Barry argent and gules, a bend sable
Bussell of Bradlegh: Argent, a chevron gules between three water bougets sable^[150]
Bursh: Sable, a fess between three holly leaves argent
Bulkworthy of Bulkworthy: Sable, a bend vairy
Butteler of Sedburow: Azure, three covered cups or
Butteler of Annery: Or, a chief indented azure a crosslet or^[151]
Burell of Woodland: Argent, on a bend sable three stag's faces or
Buriton (or Button) of Buryton: Argent, a chevron gules between three horse heads couped sable bezantée
Buygons of Totnes: Gules, a cockatrice displayed argent beak comb and legs or
Buckthought of Exeter: Ermine, a chevron sable between three leopard's faces gules
Bustard of Netherex: Argent, on a fess gules three bustards rising or between three pellets within a bordure engrailed
Blakford: Or, four bars gules
Blackaller of Exeter: Paly of six or and sable, on a chief gules three bezants
Bloihow: Gules, a saltire engrailed argent
Blanchmonster: Argent fretty gules
Blewet of Holcomb Rogus: Or, a chevron between three eaglets displayed vert
Blakston of Wythye: Gules, two bars and three cocks in chief argent
Blerick: Sable, two bars argent between three bees volant or
Bray: Argent, three barnacles of the smith barwise gules
Brigham (?): Argent, a chevron sable a pile overall counterchanged
Brightlegh of Brightley: Gules, a chief indented argent^[152]
Brit of Stottescombe: Argent, a fess between three escallops sable
Brit of Bachin: Argent, two chevrons azure on them four pales or
Bret of Pilland (Pilton): Or crusily fitchy, a lion rampant gules
Bracy: Gules, a fess argent two mullets or in chief
Braggo of Brags Marsh: Sable, a fess argent between three dolphins naiant or
Bradbridge, Bishop of Exeter: Azure, a pheon argent
Brantingham, Bishop of Exeter: Sable, a fess embattled between three Catherine Wheels or
Brereton of Exeter: ..., two bars a crescent within a crescent
Brent: Gules, a dragon wivern displayed argent
Bryan of Tor Bryan: Or, three piles in point azure
Britricheston of Britricheston: Argent, three boar's heads gules
Broughton of Landkey: Argent, a chevron between three mullets gules
Broughton of Hemioke: Argent, two bars and on a quarter (canton) gules a cross of the field
Broughton: Sable, a chevron or between three stag's faces argent
Brounscombe (Branscombe), Bishop of Exeter: Or, on a chevron sable three quatrefoils or two keys in chief argent a sword in base argent
Brewer of Tingbruer (Teign Brewer, now Teign Grace^[153]): Argent, four (bars) gemelles azure over all a chevron engrailed gules
Brewer (Briwer/Brigwer) of Tor Brewer (Tor Mohun,^[154] now Torquay): Gules, two bends undée or
Browne of (Brown’s Ilash^[155]/Brownishilarshe^[156] Brownlarsh^[157] now East Brown’s, site of old mansion, by Hillash Moor, surrounded by ancient deerpark^[158] built by Sir Thomas Browne^[159] (d.1613), elder brother of Brutus Browne (c.1564-1595),^[156] MP for Bodmin and friend of Admiral Sir Francis Drake), Langtree: Sable, a chevron ermine between two chevronels and three escallops or
Branscombe: Gules, a chevron vairy between three martlets or
Brooke of Wycroft: Gules, on a chevron argent a lion rampant sable crowned or
Brewse/Brause (de Braose) of Totnes (feudal baron of Totnes): Barry of six vairy ermine and gules and azure
Bromlegh of Farway: Gules, a fess embattled below or
Briket: Sable, three garbs within a bordure engrailed argent
Brigge: Argent, on a fess between two chevrons gules three crosslets or
Brugg: Argent, three hunting horns with strings sable
Brioniis (de Moels/Baldwin de Sap, feudal baron of Okehampton^[160]): Chequy or and azure, two bars argent
Bratton: Argent, a fess engrailed between three mullets sable
Brushford of Brushford: Sable, a cross formée florettée argent
Braban: Argent, on a fess gules three leopard’s faces or
Bracy of Wolcomb Bracy: Argent, on a chief gules two mullets and a label of three points argent
Broughton: Argent, two bars gules on a chief of the second a cross argent

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Calmadye: Azure, a chevron between three pears pendant or
Cabell of Buckfastleigh: sable, a horse upright (forcené) argent bridled or
Cabell: Vert, a fess argent fretty gules
Carew of Mohuns Ottery: Or, three lions passant in pale sable
Carey of Cockington: Argent, on a bend sable three roses of the field
Carmyno of Ashwater: Azure, on a bend or a label of three points gules
Cantilupe, feudal baron of Totnes: Azure, three leopard’s faces jessant-de-lys or
Cadiho of Dunsland: Argent, three piles in point undée sable
Camvill of Tawstock: Azure, three lions passant in pale argent
Carswell of Carswell: Sable, a bend or a label of five points argent
Carswell: Argent, three bars gemelle sable
Carslake of Hareston, Brixton:^[161] Argent, a mullet sable between three trefoils vert
Carwithan of Panston: Argent, a fleur-de-lys within a bordure engrailed gules
Calley of Chimlegh: Quarterly argent and sable, on a bend gules three mullets argent
Cahurta: Sable, two bars and a demi-griffin in chief argent
Callard of Callard: Gyronny of six sable and argent, three man’s heads in profile couped with wreaths about their temples argent
Carslake: Argent, three bull’s heads and necks erased sable
Cary: Argent, on a bend sable three bugle horns argent within a bordure engrailed gules
Cariset: Gules, a bend argent between six bezants
Carbonell of Woodbiry: Gules, a cross argent within a bordure or
Cervington of Tavistock: Ermine, on a chevron azure three stag’s faces cabossed or
Cirencester of St Mary Church: Argent, a chevron azure a label of three points gules
Circester: Argent, on a canton sable a cup argent
Courtenay, Marquess of Exeter: Or, three torteaux
Courtenay, Earl of Devon: Or, three torteaux a label of three points (azure)
Courtenay of Coleton Prall: Or, three torteaux a baston gobony argent and azure
Courtenay of Haccombe: Or, three torteaux a label (of three points) ermine
Courtenay of Powderham: Or, three torteaux a label (of three points azure) charged with a mullet ….
Courtenay of Godlington: Or, three torteaux a bend argent
Courtenay of Molland: Or, three torteaux a label (of three points azure) charged with a plate (should be nine plates)
Cogan, feudal baron of Bampton: Gules, three (mulberry) leaves argent 2 & 1
Cokayn: Bendy of six ermine and gules
Colshull: Chequy or and sable a chief argent gutée de sang
Copleston of Copleston: Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three leopard’s faces azure
Coriton of Coryton: Argent, a saltire sable
Cottell of Sampford Peverell: Or, a bend gules
Coffin of Portledge, Alwington (modern): Argent, a chevron between three mullets sable
Coffin (ancient): Azure crusily (or) three bezants
Cokinton of Cokinton: Argent, a chevron azure between three cocks gules
Cockworthy of Yarnscombe: Argent, a chevron (sable?^[162]) between three cocks gules
Coktree: Argent, a chevron gules between three cocks sable
Coleton of Coleton: Argent, three ravens sable 2 & 1
Colaton of Colaton: Or, three stag’s faces gules
Cole of Tamer & Slade: Argent, a bull passant within a bordure sable bezantée
Cole of Nitheway: Argent, a bull passant (sable) within a bordure gules
Cole of Hill: Argent, a chevron between three scorpions sable
Corbet of Silferton: Or, two ravens palewise sable
Coblegh of Brightley, Chittlehampton: Gyronny of six gules and sable, on a bend engrailed argent three hurts between two swans argent
Colles of St Mary Downe: Gules, a chevron argent charged with bars gemelles sable between three leopard’s faces argent
Compton of Compton: Sable, a chevron ermine between three shovellers^[163] argent
Colebrooke of Colebrooke: Argent, a lion rampant gules overall on a fess sable three cross-crosslets fitchée argent
Culme (Columbe) of Molland: Azure, a chevron ermine between three pelicans open-winged or
Cooke of Thorn: Ermine, on a bend cotised gules three cats-of-the-mountain argent
Cooke of Exeter: Argent, a chevron between three raven’s heads erased within a bordure engrailed sable
Coterell of Washborn: Argent, a bend undée sable
Cornu of Horwood & of Thornbiry: Argent, a chevron between three hunting horns sable
Cockerham of Collumpton: Argent, on a bend sable three leopard’s faces or between three fleurs-de-lys azure
Cobham of Blackburgh Bolhay: Gules, on a chevron or three eagles displayed sable
Corbin of Milston: Argent, a chevron between three ravens sable
Code of Gidleigh Castle: Argent, a chevron gulesbetween three Cornish daws (choughs) sable beak and legs gules (i.e. proper)
Coliford of Coliford: Sable, a fess gules (or or) between three asses passant argent
Colin of Colinstoke: Vert, on a chevron or three martlets sable
Cornwall of King’s Nympton: Ermine, a lion rampant gules crowned or within a bordure sable bezantée
Culley of Culley: Azure, a fess between three bucks trippant or
Curtman: Argent, three close helmets sable
Culme of Culme: Or, three doves azure
Cushe: Argent, on a bend sable three crescents barry wavy argent and azure
Cutt: Sable, three fleurs-de-lys in bend between two cotises argent
Chambernon (Champernowne) of Umberleigh: Gules, a saltire vairy
Chambernon (Champernowne) of Clist Champernowne: Gules, a saltire vairy between twelve cross-crosslets or ^[164]
Chambernon (Champernowne) of North Tawton: Gules, a saltire vairy between twelve crosses patée or
Chambernon (Champernowne) of Bere Ferrers: Gules, a saltire vairy between twelve billets or
Chambernon (Champernowne) of Modbury: Gules, a saltire vairy between twelve billets or a crescent or for difference'
Chambernon (Champernowne) of Inswerk: Gules, a saltire vairy between twelve billets or a mullet or for difference'
Chambers: Azure, a chevron between three leopard’s faces or
Champ: Gules, a saltire (or?) between twelve bezants
Chagford of Chagford: Sable semée of cross-crosslets fitchée three lions rampant argent
Champney of Yarnscombe: Argent, a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed gules ^[165]
Charles of Tavistock: Ermine, on a chief undée gules an eagle displayed or
Chanterell: Argent, three talbots passant sable
Chanceaux of Lifton: Argent, a chevron azure between three mullets sable
Chantarell: Sable, a chevron between three talbots passant argent
Charteray of Bere Charteray: Argent, a chevron between three conquefoils gules
Chappell: Or, an anchor azure stem therof sable
Challons of Legh Challons: Gules, two bars and an orle of martlets argent
Champeaux (or de Campell/Champson) of Molland Champson: Gules, a boar passant or tusked argent
Chamberlayn: Sable, a chevron ermine between three mullets argent
Chiverston of Ithelton: Or, on a bend gules three goats passant argent ^[166]
Chichester of Raleigh: Chequy or and gules, a chief vair
Chidlegh of Chidlegh: Argent, a tree vert overall a bear passant sable
Chudleigh of Ashton: Ermine, three lions rampant gules
Chiderlegh of Chiderlegh: Argent, on a chevron sable three acorns or between three raven’s heads erased proper
Chelsam of Chelsam: Gules, a bull passant or
Cheney of Pinhoe: Gules, four fusils conjoined in fess argent each charged with an escallop sable
Cheriton: Argent, a chevron between three ram’s heads erased gules
Chuselden (Chiseldon) of Holcombe Rogus: Or, on a chevron gules three martlets or
Churchill of Littleham: Sable, a lion rampant argent debruised by a baston gules ^[167]
Churche of Bathe: Gules, a griffin segreant or within a bordure ermine
Chedeldon of Chedeldon: Argent, on a chevron gules five bezants
Channon of Estcote: Argent, a chevron embattled counter embattled between three bird’s heads erased sable
Clavill of Burlescombe: Or, three keys (erect) gules
Clavill of Lifton: Sable, three keys (erect) argent
Clatworthy of Clatworthy: Azure, a chevron ermine between three garlands or leaves vert
Clifford of Culm John: Chequy or and azure, a bend gules
Clifford of King’s Teignton: Chequy or and azure, on a bend gules three lions passant argent
Clist of Clist: Argent, three piles undée in point azure
Clopton of Kentisbere: Argent, a chevron between three eagles displayed azure
Clobery of Bradston: Argent, a chevron between three bats (reremices) sable
Crawthorn: Argent, three crows sable a label of three points gules
Crawthorn: Argent, a chevron sable between three crows proper
Croft of Exeter: Argent, two chevrons sable a bordure gules
Crocker of Lineham: Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three crows proper
Crewse (Cruwys/Cruse) of Cruwys Morchard: Azure, a bend indented argent and gules between six escallops argent
Crewse (Cruwys/Cruse) of Anstey Cruwys: Azure, a bend between six escallops argent
Crewse (Cruwys/Cruse) of Netherex: Azure, two bends between twelve escallops argent
Crewse (Cruwys/Cruse) of Duvale, Bampton: Or, a chevron between three mullets gules
Crispyn of Stancomb: Gules, ten lozenges argent 4,3,2,1
Crispin of Wolston: Gules, ten lozenges ermine 4,3,2,1
Cristenstow of Weycroft, Axminster: Azure, a bend (per party) indented or and ermine two cotises ermine
Crichester: Sable, a fess between three estoiles or
Crofton of Exeter: Per pale indented azure and or, a leopard passant counterchanged on a chief argent a fleur-de-lys between two roses gules
Crese of Launson: Argent, three leaves of ye water (water-cress ?) vert
Crudge: Argent, on a bend azure three birds or between two greyhounds sable
Creulegh of Creulegh: Chequy or and vert a bend gules
Crimes (Grimes) of (Crapstone) Buckland Monachorum: Or, on a fess gules three martlets argent a chief nebulée azure and argent

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Dauney of Norton Dawney: Argent, on a bend cotised azure three cinquefoils or
Dauney of Woodbere: Argent, on a bend cotised sable three cinquefoils argent
Damarell of Milton Damarell: Azure, on a chief gules three crescents argent
Damarell of Woodbiry: Per fess gules and azure, three crescents argent
Damarell of Gidley: Per fess gules and azure, three crescents or
Dabernon of Bradford: Azure, a chevron or
Dabernon of Dunsland: Azure, a chevron or in chief three escallops of the second
Davils of Marland: Argent, a chevron embattled (“above”) ermines between three fleurs-de-lys sable
Davy: Azure, three cinquefoils and on a chief or (a) lion passant gules'
Dennys of Blagdon: Azure, three Danish axes erect or
Dennys of Orleigh, as Dennys of Blagdon but with crest: Azure, a hand and arm argent holding an axe or
Dennys of Holsworthy: Ermine, three Danish axes erect gules
Dennys of Gidecot: Argent, a chevron between three axes gules
Dennys of Bradford: Argent, a chevron engrailed between three axes gules
Dennys of Holcombe Burnel: Ermine, a chevron between three Danish axes gules
Dennys of Combe Raleigh: Gules, three leopard’s faces jessant-de-lys or over all a bend engrailed azure
Densill of Filleigh: Sable, a mullet between the horns of a crescent argent
Dernford of Stonehouse: Sable, a ram’s head cabossed argent horned or
Derriford: A pillar with a crown on the top a serpent enfolded about the pillar
Deane of Newton Petrock: Argent, a lion rampant purpure
Detlinge: Argent, a chevron between three cups sable
Dinham of Nutwell: Gules, four fusils in fess ermine
Dinham of Wear Gifford: Gules, four fusils in fess between six roundels ermine
Dinham of Wortham: Gules, four fusils in fess within a bordure ermine
Dillon of Chymwell (Bratton Fleming): Argent, a lion rampant gules debruised by a fess azure thereon three crescents gules with as many estoiles between their points azure
Dirwyn of Fulford: Gules, a pale engrailed ermine debruised by a fess ermines
Dimock of Ivybridge: Argent, on a chief sable three estoiles or
Digbye of Raddon Court: Azure, a fleur-de-lys argent
Docton of Hartland: Argent, a crescent sable on a chief gules two crescents or
Doddescombe of Doddescombe: Argent, three eaglets displayed gules
Dodenhaye of Doddescombleigh: Sable, a bend ermine cotised or
Dourish of Dourish: Argent, a bend cotised within a bordure sable
Doune of Doune Raph: Paly of six argent and azure, on a fess gules three mullets or
Downe of East Downe: Gules, a buck’s face ermine horned or
Duport of Exeter: Barry of six or and azure, a saltire within a bordure engrailed gules
Dun of Batishorn: Argent, three mullets gules
Dunscomb of Dunscomb: Two bars and a demi-griffin in chief
Dunscomb of London and Dunscomb: Per chevron azure and gules, three bucks trippant argent
Duke of Otterton: Per fess argent and azure, three garlands counter-changed
Duck (Recorder of Exeter): Or, on a fess undée sable three fusils or
Dodderidge of Haywood (a judge): Argent crusily gules, three pallets undée azure
Drake of Ash: Argent a dragon-wyvern gules
Drake of Buckland Monachorum: Sable, a fess wavy between two estoiles in pale argent
Drewe of Broadhembury: Ermine, a lion passant gules
Drewell of Exeter: Sable, a chevron argent between three bunches of daisies

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Edgcomb of Mount Edgcomb: Gules, on a bend sable (should be ermines) cotised or three boar’s heads couped close argent
Edmonds of Plymouth: Or, a chevron azure on a canton sable a boar’s head couped close or
Ellicot of Exeter: Lozengy or and azure a bordure gules
Elliot: Barry undée argent and azure, a chevron gules
Elliot: Barry undée argent and azure, a chevron sable between three castles of the third
Engleis of Stockleigh English: Sable, three lioncels rampant argent
Engleis of Engleis Hays: Azure, three garbs and a chief argent
Ellis of Holsworthy: Or, a saltire azure whose upper ends terminate in mascles and its lower ones in plain crosses (“crosslettée below and perced above”)
Englefild: Barry argent and gules on a chief or a lion passant sable
Englishvill of Bradlegh: Gules, on a bend argent three bendlets sable
Esse of Sowton: Argent, two chevrons sable
Esse of Greenslinch: Argent, a tree vert debruised by two chevrons sable
Estchurch: Azure, a cross vairy argent and gules counter-vairy a sun or in the first quarter
Eston of Eston: Per chevron or and gules three sea-dragons naiant counter-changed in pale crowned
Erle of Bindon, Axmouth: Gules, three escallops within a bordure engrailed argent
Eveleigh of Holcomb: Per pale or and sable two chevrons between three griffins passant counter-changed
Estmond of Exeter: Sable, a chevron argent between three mullets of six points or pierced

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Farway: Sable, a chevron between three escallops argent
Farindon of Faringdon: Sable, three unicorns courant in pale argent
Falwell of Falwell: Gules, on a bend undée argent three water bougets sable
Falwell: Gules, on a bend argent three water bougets sable
Ferrers of Bere Ferrers: Or (s/b argent), on a bend sable three horseshoes argent (s/b or)
Ferrers of Churston Ferrers: Or (s/b argent), on a bend sable three horseshoes argent (s/b or) a mullet gules in the sinister quarter
Ferrers of Fenyton: Argent, on a bend sable three horseshoes or
Ferrers of Trowlegh: Argent, a bend gules on a chief vert two cinquefoils argent
Fesard: Or, on a bend sable three bear’s heads erased argent muzzled or
Filleigh of Filleigh: Gules, a fess vairy between six cross-formées or
Finamore: Gules, two chevrons ermine
Fichet: Gules, a lion rampant or over all a bend argent
Fissacre of Combe Fishacre: Six fishes haurient or 3,2,1
Fissacre of Morlegh: Argent, on a chevron azure three fishes haurient or
Fissacre: Gules, a chevron between three dolphins haurient or
FitzStephan of Norton: Gules, an eagle with two heads displayed or
FitzPayne: Gules, three lions passant in pale argent over all a bend azure
FitzPayne of Cheriton FitzPayne: Argent, two wings joined in lure gules
FitzWarren (FitzWarin) of Tawstock: Quarterly per fess indented argent and gules
FitzWarren of Brightley, Chittlehampton: Argent, a chief indented gules
FitzWarren of Toteley: Gules, ten bezants and a quarter argent
FitzWarren of Brightlegh (per seal, 1359): A bend vairy between six crosslets a bordure engrailed
FitzBernard of Holcombe Burnell: Vairy, on a chief gules two mullets or
FitzHenry of Exeter: Argent, a cross engrailed sable
Fitz of Fitzforde: Argent, a cross engrailed between twelve guttes-de-sang
Fortescue of Whympston, Modbury: Azure, a bend engrailed argent cotised or
Fortescue of Norreys: Azure, a bend engrailed argent cotised or a crescent sable for difference
Fortescue of Weare Gifford: Azure, a bend engrailed argent cotised or a bordure argent
Fortescue of Fallapit: Azure, a bend engrailed argent cotised or a crescent within a crescent for difference
Fortescue of Pruteston: Azure, a bend engrailed argent cotised or a crescent argent in the sinister part for difference
Fortescue of Buckland Filleigh: Azure, a bend engrailed argent cotised or a bordure argent a crescent gules for difference
Fowell: Argent, a chevron sable on a chief gules three mullets argent
Fowntayne of Bawcombe: Argent, three bars-gemelle gules on a canton azure a lion passant ...
Fowntayne of Exeter: Argent, a cross between four fleurs-de-lys sable
Folliot of Warleigh, Tamerton Foliot: Barry argent and gules, a bend sable
Forde of Forde: Azure, six lioncels rampant argent crowned gules
Forde of la Forde: Sable, a poppy with roots and fruit or
Forde of Fordemore: …, a castle argent a cross-formée in the port over all a ducal crown or
Forde of Bagtor: Party per fess argent and sable, in chief a greyhound courant sable in base an owl within a bordure engrailed all counter-changed
Fowke of Pill, Bishops Tawton: Ermine, a bend cotised gules charged with three escallops argent
Fulford of Great Fulford: Gules a chevron argent and ‘’Argent, a chevron between three bear’s heads erased sable’’
Fulford of Newton Abbot: …, a lion crowned over all a bend
Furneaux of Hughton, Ilsington:^[168] Sable, a chief or
Furneaux: Gules, a bend between six crosslets or
Furneaux of Venn Ottery: Argent, a bend between six crosslets gules
Furneaux of Lapford: Azure, a bend between six crosslets or
Fulkeray of Buckland Baron, Combe-in-Teignhead:^[169] Chequy argent and sable, a fess vairy argent and gules
Fursland of “Buketon” (Bickington^[170]): Argent, a lion rampant azure between three cross-formée fitchées gules
Fursdon of Fursdon: Argent, a chevron sable between three bundles of furze vert (Vivian, p. 383: ‘’Argent, a chevron azure between three fireballs sable fired proper’’^[171])
Floyer of Floyer’s Hays: Sable, a chevron between three arrows argent; and: ‘’Sable, three arrows a bordure engrailed argent’’
Fleming of Bratton Fleming: Vairy, a chief chequy or and gules
Fry of Yarty: Gules, three horses courant in pale argent
Fry of Fry’s Hele, Meeth/Hatherleigh:^[172] Vert, three horses courant in pale argent ^[173]
Fraunceis of Fraunceis Court, Killerton, Broad Clyst:^[174] Argent, a chevron engrailed between three mullets gules
Fraunceis of Ivedon, Awliscombe:^[175] Argent, a chevron engrailed between three mullets gules a label of three points azure for difference
Frankcheyney of Clist Gerard, Broad Clyst:^[176] Ermine, on a chief gules three lions rampant argent
French of Sharpham, Ashprington: Sable, a bend between two dolphins hauriant argent

G[]

Grimston of Grimston: Argent, a chevron between three boar’s heads couped close sable
Gambon of Moorstone, Halberton: Argent, a fess between three man’s legs couped sable
Garland of Whitfield, Marwood:^[177] Gules, two pales or a chief party per pale or and azure on the first a chaplet vert on the second a demi-lion or
Gay of Goldsworthy: Or, on a fess between three escallops azure five fusils argent
Gale of Credition: Azure, a fess argent fretty azure
Gay: Ermine, on a chief sable three escallops argent
Geere of Heavitree: Gules, on two bars argent six mascles azure on a canton or a leopard’s face azure
Giles of Dean Court, Dean Prior: Per chevron argent and azure a lion rampant counter-changed
Gilbert of Compton: Argent, on a chevron sable three roses of the field
Gilbert of Bowringslegh: Argent, on a chevron sable three roses of the field within a bordure engrailed gules
Giffard of Weare Giffard: Sable, three fusils in fess ermine
Giffard of Halsbury, Parkham: Sable, three fusils in fess ermine a label of three points gules
Giffard of Brightley, Chittlehampton: Sable, three fusils in fess ermine a label of three points gules a mullet argent for difference
Gille: Masculy or and vert, a leopard rampant argent
Gille: Masculy argent and vert, a lion rampant or
Gibbe of Fenton: Argent, three battle-axes erect sable
Giffard of Hellond: Azure, three fleurs-de-lys argent each charged with a pellet
Godwyn of Clist William: Argent, on a bend gules three mascles argent between two demi-lions sable
Goove of Gooveshays: Argent(azure), a cross lozengy between four eagles displayed sable
Gorges of Warleigh, Bickleigh: Argent, three gorgets azure one within the other (Argent, a gurges azure)
Gorges (modern): Lozengy or and azure, a chevron gules
Glanvill of Tavistock: Azure, three saltires or
Grenville of Bideford: Gules, three clarions or
Grass of Teign Grass: Ermine, a fess between three cinquefoils gules
Grey, Marquess of Dorset: Barry of six argent and azure, in chief three torteaux a label ermine
Gray of Exeter: Or, on a bend azure three martlets argent
Gatpath of Gatpath: Argent, a chevron between three goat’s heads erased gules
Grane of Monk Okehampton: On a bend cotised three mascles (tinctures unknown)
Grenham of Woborneford: Vert, a chief or
Gervais of Exeter:^[178] Quarterly argent and gules, a bordure vert bezantée
Gervays/Jarvys of Exeter:^[178] Argent, six feathers sable 3,2,1

H[]

Haccombe of Haccombe: Argent, three bends sable
Hach of Woolleigh, Beaford & of : Gules, two demi-lions guardant or
Halse of Kenedon: Sable, a fess between three griffin’s heads erased argent
Hall of Hall, Bishop's Tawton: Azure, a chevron ermine between three chaplets of roses argent
Halgewell/Halwell (Halliwell) of Halwell, Harberton:^[179] Or, on a bend gules three goats passant argent^[180] and Argent, on a chevron gules three annulets or
Hamley: Argent, three hounds passant azure
Hakworthy of Hakworthy: Sable, two bends undée argent
Hawkridge of Hawkridge, Chittlehampton: Gules, a bend undée argent in sinister point a hawk on a perch or
Hancock of Combe Martin: Gules, a hand erect and on a chief argent three cocks gules
Hankford of Annery, Monkleigh: Sable, a chevron barry undée argent and gules
Harlewyn: Azure semée of fleur-de-lys argent
Harlewyn of Sidmouth: Azure, three apples argent a file in chief gules
Harvey of Culm John: Gules, on a bend argent three trefoils vert
Harrys of Radford: Sable, three crescents within a bordure argent
Harrys of Hayne: Sable, three crescents within a bordure argent , with a difference (unspecified)
Hart of Modbury: Gules, a bend between three fleurs-de-lys argent
Hayne of Hayne: Argent, a chevron gules between three martlets sable
Hathey: Sable, a chevron ermine between three birds argent beaks and legs gules
Haydon of Cadhay: Argent, three bars gemelles azure on a chief gules a fess dancetée or
Hawley (Hauley, Hanley (sic)) of Dartmouth: Argent, three hunting horns and a broad arrow sable in pale feathers and head or^[181]
Hawkins of Plymouth: Sable, a lion passant (or?) and three bezants in chief the base wavy argent and azure
Hays of Bindon, Axmouth: Argent, a blazing star gules
Hamton of Rockbeare: Gules, on a fess argent two mullets sable
Hays of Exeter: Azure, on a pale or three bull’s faces azure
Halberton: Azure, a lyme hound or two collars about the neck gules
Hathey: Sable, three birds argent beaks and legs or
Hallap: Or, two bends sable
Harford of Plymouth: Argent, five fusils in fess gules a lion passant in chief sable
Hannynfild: Ermine, a chevron sable
Hardeshull: Argent, a chevron sable between eight martlets gules
Harwell: Argent, on a fess undée sable three hare’s heads erased argent
Hake of Columpton: Sable, three hake fishes hauriant argent
Hake of Otterton: A chevron between three stag’s heads within a bordure engrailed (no tinctures given)
Halbene: Argent, on a chevron sable two voyders or
Hackwell of Exeter: Argent, a bend between six trefoils purpure
Herle of Ilfracombe: Gules, a fess or between three herles (cranes) proper
Hele of Hele: Gules, five fusils in bend argent each charged with a spot ermine
Hengescot: Argent, on a chevron between three leopard’s faces azure three pallets argent each charged with a pellet
Hengescot of Hengescot: Ermine, on a chevron between three leopard’s faces azure three pallets argent
Hereward: Gules, a cross crosslet argent
Hext of Kingston: Or, a castle between three halberds erect sable
Heaton: Argent, on a bend sable three bull’s faces (of the first?)
Henton of Oldport: Vert, a bend or
Hengescot: Argent, on a chevron between three leopard’s faces azure three annulets or
Hill of Hill’s Court, Exeter: Gules, a saltire vairy between four mullets argent ^[182]
Hill of Shilston, Modbury: Argent, a chevron between three water bougets sable
Hingeston of Wonwell: Gules, an arm and hand holding a battle axe argent
Hinxson/Hingson? of Tawstock: Azure, a chevron argent between three suns or
Hiwis: Gules fretty and a canton argent^[183]
Hiwis of Sand: Argent, on a bend sable three fishes of the field
Hillersdon of Membland: Argent, on a chevron sable three bull’s faces of the field
Helion of Ashton/Asseriston: Argent, on a bend sable three martlets or ^[184]
Hidon of Hemyock: Gules, three bezants a label of three points argent
Hidon of Clyst Hydon: Gules, three bezants a label of five points argent
Holbroke of Holbroke: Or, a chevron gules on the point of which a buckle sable
Hoxham of Hoxham: Argent, a lion rampant sable
Hoxham: Paly of six a chevron (no tinctures given)
Humfravill of Lapford: Gules crusilly, a cinquefoil or
Humfravill of Down Umfraville, Rousdon :^[185] Gules, three cinquefoils and a chief or
Holland, Duke of Exeter: Royal arms of England within a bordure of France
Holland of Weare: Azure florettée, a lion rampant guardant argent
Holland: Azure florettée, a lion rampant guardant argent a bordure engrailed gules
Holland: Azure florettée, a lion rampant guardant argent a bordure engrailed argent
Hody of Combe: Argent, a fess per fess indented vert and sable ^[186]
Hody of : Argent, a fess per fess indented vert and sable within two barrulets sable and vert
Holway of Holway, North Lew:^[187] Gules, a fess between three crescents argent
Holway (1343): On a fess three annulets within a bordure engrailed (no tinctures given)
Holcomb of Holcomb: Barry undée of six azure and ermine
Holcomb of Hole: Azure, a chevron argent between three men’s heads argent wreathed or
Holbeame of Holbeame/Hobeme: Argent, a chevron enarched sable
Horton of Horton: Argent, a fess gules between three lions rampant sable
Horton of Horton: Vert, three escallops or a file argent
Houndesmore of Northcot: Argent, three hound’s heads erased sable a bordure engrailed gules
Houndesmore: Argent, a chevron sable between three eagle’s legs erased gules
Hone of Ottery St Mary: Argent, two bars wavy between three hone stones azure
Hone: A fess engrailed between three mullets (no tinctures given)
Honeychurch: Argent, a dragon’s head erased between two mullets gules in bend sinister
Hooker of Exeter: Or, a fess vairy argent and gules between two leopards passant sable
Hooker: Gules, on a fess engrailed between three cinquefoils argent two fleurs-de-lys azure
Howchurch: Sable, three crescents gules each charged with an annulet argent
Hore: Argent, an eagle displayed with two heads azure
Hull of Larkbeare: Gules, a chevron between three talbot’s heads erased sable
Hurst of Oxton, Kenton: Or, a sun gules
Huckmore of Buckland Baron: Per chevron sable and or, two reaping hooks in chief or a moorcock in base sable
Hunt of Chudleigh: Azure, on a bend between two water bougets or three leopard’s faces gules
Hunt of Ashwater: Vert, a fleur-de-lys or

I & J[]

Jay: Argent, a chevron between three jays azure
Jay: Argent, two chevrons gules between three jays azure
Jewe of Botlegh: Vert, a lion rampant guardant ermine a fess gules
Jewe: Argent, a chevron between three Moor’s heads and necks couped in profile proper bands about the head argent
Jewell: Argent, on a chevron azure a woman’s head crowned or between three gilliflowers gules stems or on a chief sable a lure between two hawks azure belled argent
Jermyn of Exeter: Gules, three piles in point ermine
Jude (or Inde): Argent, on a chevron between three fleurs-de-lys gules three mullets argent
Inkpen/Ingpen of Dittisham: Gules, two bars gemelles or a chief indented ermine
Incledon: Gules, three tuns argent hooped or
Incledon: Argent, a chevron engrailed between three tuns sable
Ippocras: Sable, three branches of ippocras between two bendlets argent

K[]

Kimbeare: Argent, two chevrons within a bordure engrailed gules
Kelloway/Kaleway of Mokisbeare/Mokesbeare/Muxbeare,^[188] Halberton: Argent, two glazier’s irons in saltire sable between four pears pendant or
Kelloway/Kaleway: Argent, two glazier’s irons in saltire sable between four pears pendant or a bordure engrailed of the second
Kawoodley (Calwoodleigh^[189]) of Kawoodley (now Calverleigh): Gules, two wings conjoined argent over-all a fess azure
Kawoodley (Calwoodleigh^[189]) of Exeter: Gules, two wings conjoined argent over-all a fess azure charged with a crescent argent for difference
Kaull of Holcombe Burnell: Quarterly embattled argent and sable
Kaignes (Keynes) of Winkleigh: Azure, a bend undée cotised argent
Kelly of Kelly: Argent, a chevron between three billets gules
Kemthorn of Kemthorn/Kempthorn, Clawton:^[190] Argent, three cherry trees roots vert cherries or
Keys of Exeter: Per chevron gules and sable, three keys erect or
Kirkham of Blagdon, Paignton: Argent, three lions rampant gules a bordure engrailed sable
Kirkhill: Or, an eagle displayed sable
Kingdon: Argent, a chevron sable between three magpies proper
Kirton: Argent, a fess and two chevrons embraced (interlaced?) gules in chief
Knovill of Batishorn/Batteshorn, Honiton:^[191] Argent, three mullets gules
Knolle of Knolle, Farway:^[192] Argent, a man on horseback armed sable
Knolles of Little Hempston (anciently Hempston Arundel): Argent, a hawk seizing a bird sable belled or on a chief of the field three bird bolts erect azure
Kitson of Ipplepen: Sable, three fishes haurient argent a chief or ^[193]

L[]

Langford of Langford, Cullompton:^[194] Paly of six argent and gules, a chief azure
Langford of Axworthy, Thrushelton:^[195] Paly of six argent and sable, on a chief vert a lion passant or
Larder of Upton Pyne: Argent, on three piles sable as many bezants or ^[196]
Lapflode^[197] of Sidbury: Gules, a chevron between three goat’s heads erased argent horned or
Langdon of Langdon: Argent, a chevron between three ravens sable
Langdon: Argent, a chevron between three bear’s heads erased sable
Lawrence of Ottery St Mary: Chequy or and sable, on a bend gules three escallops argent
Langham: Argent, a chevron embattled counter-embattled gules between three trefoils vert
Lacy, Bishop of Exeter: Azure, three shoveller duck’s heads erased argent
Lamprey of Horwood: Sable, a chevron between three lampreys argent
Lamprey: Sable, three lampreys barwise argent chained or within a bordure engrailed argent
Lante of Exeter: Per pale argent and gules, a cross engrailed counterchanged
Langley of Bawley: Ermine, a bend vert
Legh of Legh: Or, an eagle rising sable
Legh of Legh near Tiverton: Vert, a saltire between four eagles displayed or
Legh of Southlegh: Or, three fusils in fess azure
Legh of Ley or Legh in Beere Ferrers: Argent, a chevron between three bear’s heads couped close heads bendwise sable
Leyton: Argent, a ram trippant sable horned or
Lewes: Argent, three bear’s passant sable muzzled or
Leuer: Sable, three lewers argent
Levermore of Exeter: Argent, a fess sable between three bunches of leaves vert
Lippincot of Webbery, Alverdiscott:^[198] Party per fess embattled gules and argent three cats passant counter-changed
Lympenny of Netherks: Party per pale gules and sable a cat passant between three roses argent
Loring of Knowstone Beapell (Beaple's Barton ): Quarterly argent and gules, a bendlet sable^[199]
Lowman of Netherton: Argent, on three escutcheons sable three gauntlets or
Lomen of Gittisham: Sable, a sun or
Loriwell of Lorywell: A lion rampant guardant (no tinctures given)
Lowman: Argent, three escutcheons gules each charged with a bend undee between three quatrefoils argent within a bordure sable bezantee
Lovis of Ugbeare, Tavistock: Or, a chevron engrailed sable between three birds proper
Lucy: Gules, three lucies hauriant or
Luscot of Luscot: Azure, a stag’s head cabossed argent within a bordure engrailed or
Luccomb of Stockley Luccomb: Sable, a chevron between three lion’s heads erased argent

M[]

Mallet of Deandon, Widecombe:^[200] Azure, three escallops or
Mallet of Woolleigh, Beaford: Azure, three escallops or a crescent for difference
Mallock of Axmouth: Per chevron engrailed or and sable, on three roundels three fleurs-de-lys all counterchanged
Malston of Malston: Argent, a wolf passant (rampant) sable langued and armed gules^[201]
Malherbe: Or a chevron gules between three nettle leaves erect vert ^[202]
Malherb: Argent, a bunch of nettles vert
Maynard of Sherforde, Brixton:^[203] Argent, a chevron azure between three sinister hands couped erect gules
Mayne: Gules, a fess argent between four hands or
Maihew: Gules, a chevron vairy between three ducal crowns or
Marchant of Stoodleigh: Azure, seven mascles argent, 3,3,1
Marshall of Sidmouth: ….. A fess between three chess rooks or (no tincture given for field)
Marshall of Exeter: Or, on a chief gules a mill-rind sable^[204]
Marshall of Teign Grace: Or a mill-rind sable
Martyn of Dartington: Argent, two bars gules
Martyn of Exeter: Argent, two bars gules , with cadency marks
Mathew of Dodbrooke: Sable a stork close argent
Matesford of Dalditch, Luppitt:^[205] Argent, a chevron gules between three quatrefoils or stems gules ^[206]
Marney: Gules, a lion rampant guardant argent
Mapowder of Simpson, Holsworthy:^[207] Barry gules and argent, on a chief argent a greyhound courant sable
Merifilde of Merifild: Argent, a chevron sable between five Cornish choughs^[208]
Mewy of Mewy (Meavy): Gules, three mews argent beaked and legged or ^[209]
Mewy: Sable, a chevron between three mewes argent
Mewy: Argent, a fess between three mews sable
Mewy of Burrington: Ermine, a chevron between three wings sable
Metsted of Sheepwash: Quarterly or and gules four escallops counter-changed
Merton of Merton: Azure, three bends argent
Merle: Gules, a fess paly of six argent and azure between three spur rowels argent
Medvill: Sable, a chevron or between three fishing hooks argent
Militon of Meavy: Gules, a chevron or between three millets (mullets) hauriant argent
Mille of Mille: Ermine, a mill-rind sable
Michell of Talaton: Per fess gules and sable, a chevron between three swans argent
Mohun of Mohuns Ottery, Luppitt: Gules, a maunch ermine the hand argent holding a fleur-de-lys or
Molton of Pinhoe: Chequy or and sable
Molford of Cadley (Cadeleigh): Sable, a fess ermine between three swans argent
Molford: Sable, a fess between three swans argent
Monthermer of Stokenham: Or, an eagle displayed vert beaked and membered gules
Montacut of Wonford: Argent, three fusils in fess gules
Montacute of Stokenham: Argent, three fusils in fess gules a bordure sable

Notes[]

^ For a discussion of the disappearance of the old gentry families of Devon, see Sabine Baring-Gould, Old Country Life, first published 1889, 5th ed., 1894, pp. 7-22, Old County Families
^ Vivian 1895.
^ Pole, p. 287; Polwhele, Richard, History of Devonshire, 3 Vols., Vol.3, London, 1793, p. 478
^ Hoskins, p. 411
^ As seen in 19th c. stained glass window in Mamhead Church. Blazoned with chevron sable and with difference of a martlet, per Vivian, p. 35
^ Barkley arms identical to Potter arms, see Vivian pp. 43, 612. Escallops in place of cinqufoils per Pole, p. 469
^ Location of this estate unknown
^ The mural monument survives in St Mary's Church, Totnes, Devon, to Christopher Blackall (1581-1633) of Hampsted in the parish of Totnes, and his four wives, see File:ChristopherBlackall Died1633 TotnesChurch Devon.jpg. Christopher Blackall (1581-1633) donated 50 books to Totnes Church, many of which were used by John Prince (1643–1723) in writing his Worthies of Devon
^ Vivian, p. 111: "Warbrightley"; Risdon, p. 66: "Warbrighsleigh", Warbrighsleigh Beacon (formerly known as "Warpsley" Beacon), today Stoodleigh Beacon, 1/2 mile N-E of which is "Waspley" Farm (Ordnance Survey map), 2 miles west of Stoodleigh Church; See: Vivian, p. 400, mentioning Broughton of "Warpsley"
^ Vivian, p. 112: Brown, Brownishilarshe; Risdon, p. 271: Ilash; today apparently represented by West Browns and East Browns, about 1 mile S-W of Langtree village
^ Charles Frederick Burnard (1816-post 1894) of Chatsworth Lodge in the parish of Compton Gifford, near Plymouth, Devon, was Mayor of Plymouth in 1882 (Vivian, p. 849)
^ Although Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormonde (d.1515) (whose wife was Anne Hankford the heiress of Annery, Monkleigh, Devon, and whose heraldry survives on a bench-end in Monkleigh Church) is known to have died without male progeny (the earldom descended to his distant male cousin), the family of Butler of Parkham submitted a pedigree to the heralds at the Heraldic Visitation of Devon of 1620 which claimed descent from a certain Humfridus Boteler de Annery (Vivian, p. 104), whose identity is therefore uncertain. The arms however of Butler of Parkham are the arms of Butler, Earl of Ormond (Gules, three covered cups or) differenced with a field azure.
^ Wreath, per Pole, p. 475: argent, per Vivian, p. 127, of the first and second, i.e. or and sable
^ Location of Callard uncertain, however an ancient farmhouse of than name survives in the parish of Burrington (see listed building text [1])
^ Former seat of the Cockworthy family, today "Cogworthy" Farm
^ "Little Yarnscombe" per Pole, p. 373
^ Pevsner, p. 563
^ The inscribed mural monument of Raleigh Clapham (1587-1636), Apothecary, survives in St Peter's Church, Barnstaple. Image see [2]
^ The home from 1980-2005 of the son and heir of the 11th Duke of Devonshire, and today part of the Bolton Hall estate of the Duke of Devonshire
^ John Clement was a member of the Corporation of Plymouth in 1620 and married Judith Sparke, a sister of John Sparke (c. 1574–1640), MP, of The Friary, in the parish of St Jude, Plymouth, Devon (Vivian, pp. 193, 856)
^ As blazoned by Sir William Pole (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 447 and as depicted quartered on monument of Lady Frances Bourchier (1587-1612), daughter of William Bourchier, 3rd Earl of Bath (d.1623), in the Bedford Chapel at Chenies, Buckinghamshire.[3] The arms of Cogan (a branch of which later became known as Goggin) are variously blazoned elsewhere as oak leaves, aspen leaves, etc.
^ Wotton, Thomas, Baronetage of England, 1771, Volume 2, Arms of Colleton Baronets; given by Vivian as roebuck's heads, frequently interchangeable
^ Pole, p. 475
^ Pole, p. 263
^ Pevsner, pp. 233-4
^ "Witheridge Memories of Coombe and the Cutcliffe Family".
^ Location of Marland in parish of Petrockstowe per Vivian, p. 497
^ Vivian, pp. 274-5
^ Vivian, p. 284, with obvious printer's error ("Az" in place of "Ar") in that the field is given erroneously as azure, with a fess also azure, in contravention of the "", and would not show fully against the same background. Pole (p. 480) gives the field as argent, but gives the location of the crescents incorrectly as on the fess. A relief-sculpted image of these arms survives on the large monument of John Chichester (died 1569) of Raleigh, Pilton, Devon, see image:File:HeraldicPanelChichesterMonumentPiltonDevon1569.JPG, which shows the correct arrangement of the crescents and estoiles, although the tincture of the field has been wrongly re-painted as or
^ Reed, Margaret A., Pilton, its Past and its People, Barnstaple, 1985, p. 243
^ Richard Dyer c.1545/54 purchased Yarde from the Yarde family, whose longtime seat it had been, following their removal to Bradley (Risdon, p. 176; Allan et al., p. 244). His great-great-great-grandson was the botanist Richard Dyer (born 1651), a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, who inherited Yarde from his elder brother William Dyer (d.1714) and rebuilt it in 1718 (John Allan, Nat Alcock, David Dawson, West Country Households, 1500-1700, p. 244 The Stained Hangings at Yarde Farm[4])
^ Location of Milbury unknown. Several streets in Exminster are named "Milbury"
^ Courant, per Pole, p. 482
^ Pole, pp. 158-9
^ Thomas Flay (d.1634) of Exeter, 2nd son of John Flay of Charlton, was Mayor of Exeter. A portrait of his wife Elizabeth Spicer was hanging in the Guildhall, Exeter, in 1895 (Vivian, p. 343, note 3)
^ Polwhele, Richard, History of Devonshire, 3 Vols., London, 1793, Vol.3, p. 460
^ Today "Friars Hele Farm"; the arms of Fry of Fry's Hele are differenced by a field vert (Pole, p. 484) see image File:Fry (of Fry's Hele) arms.svg
^ Vivian's pedigree, p. 385, shows a long history of baptisms, marriages and burials at Dean Prior of members of this family
^ Lysons, Daniel & Lysons, Samuel, Magna Britannia, Vol.6, Devonshire, London, 1822, p. 333
^ Polwhele, Richard, History of Devonshire, 3 Vols., Vol.2, London, 1793, Vol.2, p. 183
^ Gilbert: Argent, on a chevron gules three roses of the field. These are the ancient arms of the family, as evidenced on monuments in Marldon Church 1496 and 1530 and in Churston Ferrers Church c.1575 (Source: Burke's Landed Gentry, 1937, p. 886). In the 1620 Heraldic Visitation of Devon by William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms, the following arms were allowed to Raleigh Gilbert (1584-1634) of Compton: Ermine, on a chevron sable three roses argent. (Source: Burke's Landed Gentry, 1937, p. 886). The family's arms are very confused, for example as given in Vivian, p.405: Or, on a chevron sable three roses of the field leaved proper a bordure gules. Pole, p. 484, gives: Argent, on a chevron sable three roses of the field
^ Henry Harewood (d.1631) by his will donated £100 as the "Harewood Gift", a charity for the poor of South Molton (Report of the Commissioners Appointed ...: To Inquire Concerning Charities ..., 1825, pp. 125-6 [5])
^ Pole, p. 487; as seen on monument of Elize Hele (1560–1635) in Bovey Tracey Church
^ The family of Hext resided at a place named "Kingston", which although Pole (d.1635) suggests (almost as a post scriptum) is Kingston in the parish of Staverton ("At Kingston their also dwelled Thomas Hext in King Edw 4 tyme" (Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 277), cannot be reconciled with the well documented contemporaneous tenure of Kingston, Staverton, by the Barnhous family, whose heiress is known to have married John Rowe of Totnes. (During the reign of King Edward IV (1461-1483) "Kingston" was the seat of Thomas Hext, (Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 277; Vivian, p. 484, pedigree of Hext of Kingston) one of whose daughters, Agnes Hext, married Sir Lewis Pollard (Vivian, p. 598, pedigree of Pollard) (c.1465-1526) of Grilstone in the parish of Bishop's Nympton, Devon, Justice of the Common Pleas from 1514 to 1526 (Hoskins, W.G., A New Survey of England: Devon, London, 1959 (first published 1954), p. 338) and a MP for Totnes in 1491) There is however a parish and village named Kingston in South Devon, about 14 miles south-west of Kingston, Staverton, and Thomas Hext "of Kingston", the first member of the family recorded in the Heraldic Visitations of Devon, married a member of the Fortescue family of Whympston, Modbury, about 2 1/2 miles north-west of the village of Kingston.
^ Today, see Shilston Barton or Shilstone near Modbury. Sir Robert Hill jCP of Shilston and Houndstone, the father of Robert Hill Sheriff of Devon was kinsman to Sir John Hill jKB of Hill's Court, Exeter and Houndstone, the father of Robert Hill of Spaxton MP
^ In the parish of Combe-in-Teignhead per Lysons, Magna Britannia, Vol.6, p. 135
^ Burke's General Armory, 1884, p. 515; Pole, p. 488; the blazon in Vivian, p. 490, appears confused, producing an image thusFile:HodyArms.png
^ Pole, pp. 282-3; Risdon, p. 160
^ Sir John Hody (d.1441) of Pilsdon in Dorset and Stowell, Wiveliscombe, Somerset, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, married Margaret Cole, heiress of Nethway (Pole, pp. 282-3)
^ This family was descended from Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand (c. 1283 – 1328), son of Sir Robert de Holland of Upholland, Lancashire (See Vivian, p. 475)
^ Not to be confused with arms of Holway of Holway, Tor Bryan, Devon (see Pole, p. 488)
^ Risdon, pp. 157-8; Pole, p. 284
^ Thomas Hunt (d.1548) was thrice Mayor of Exeter (Vivian, p. 494)
^ For Hams as the seat of Hunt see: Jones, Mary, History of Chudleigh, 1852
^ Vivian, p. 502, p. 502, footnote, as appears on the Risdon monument in Westdown Church, Devon also in St Giles-in-the-Wood Church, Devon
^ "Stralling" (Vivian, p. 504), location unknown; ? Stalling Thorne in the parish of Huntsham ?
^ Vivian, p. 510 adds a bordure engrailed of the second. No such border is visible in any of the many depictions of the Kelloway arms surviving in the churches of Dolton, Iddisleigh, and Dowland; However, the bordure does appear in the Kelloway arms shown in Branscombe Church, Devon, on the Mural monument to Joan Tregarthin (d.1583) widow successively of John Kelloway of Cornwall and John Wadham (d.1578) of Merifield, Ilton, Somerset and Edge, Branscombe. See File:JoanTregarthinMonument BranscombeChurch Devon.PNG
^ Vivian, p. 517
^ Residence at Wonson per Baring-Gould, Sabine, An English Home, p. 277, Scapegraces
^ John Lante (d.1614) was Mayor of Exeter and has a monument in Exeter Cathedral (Vivian, p. 523)
^ Richard Lee (d.1620) of Totnes was Mayor of Totnes in 1620 (Vivian, p. 527)
^ Pevsner, p. 575, anciently "Ridge", per Vivian, p. 529
^ The Lippincotts in England and America, Edited from the Genealogical Papers of the Late James S. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1909, p. 8 [6]
^ In 1620 Anthonie Longe (born 1597) was a servant of the Earl of Bath (Vivian, p. 532) at Tawstock in North Devon. A junior branch of the prominent Long family (Vivian, p. 532) of South Wraxall and Draycot Cerne in Wiltshire, descended from Robert Long (d.1447), MP
^ Pole, p. 492
^ Mallet of Idsleigh (Vivian 1895, p. 545); as visible on monument to Sir in Landkey Church
^ As generally blazoned; Vivian 1895, p. 552, Martyn of Oxton, gives three bars
^ The first member of this family (whose arms are a differenced version of FitzMartin, feudal barons of Barnstaple in Devon and Lords of Cemais in Wales) was Thomas Martin (d.1588) of Salisbury, Wiltshire, Mayor of Totnes, who married Christiana Savery of Totnes (Vivian, p. 558)
^ Westcot in parish of Marwood per Pole, p. 398
^ Pole, p. 493, field argent; Vivian, p. 574 azure
^ Pole, p. 220
^ The Newcombe family of Chagford & Exeter, Peter R. Newcombe, 2005-17 [7]
^ Col.John Newton (d.1655) of Crabaton (mod: Crabadon) was a Royalist in the Civil War (Burke's General Armory). Difference of arms of Newton baronets of Barrs Court, Gloucestershire (1660), of which family Sir Isaac Newton claimed to be a member
^ In Clayhanger parish (not Combe Martin), see: Extract of 1785 will of Buckland Nutcombe Bluett of Nutcombe, Clayhanger and Holcombe Court, Holcombe Rogus, archives of North Devon Record Office, Reference: 1777 B/FW8 [8]
^ See: Passmore, Alfred E., The Pedigree of the Passmores of Passmore Hayes, Devon, 1929. Commissioned by Alfred E. Passmore from researcher Charles E. Bernau. West Country Studies Library (ref S929.2PAS) and Tiverton Museum (ref TM/89/1375/1)[9]
^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p. 1761, pedigree of Passmore of Withyshaw, with drawing of arms confirming this blazon; The arms of Passmore are blazoned incorrrectly in Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 589, pedigree of Passmore of Passmore Hayes as: Or, on a fess between three escutcheons gules each charged with a bend vair two cinquefoils of the first all within a bordure azure bezantée, which gives File:PassmoreArms.png
^ Passmore Hayes, now a small cottage 3.75 miles N-NE of Tiverton, at the end of the farm track to Longhayne Farm, approaching the Town Leat in an eastward direction. Passmore Hayes was in the parish of Tiverton, per: The topographer: containing a variety of original articles ..., Volume 1 edited by Sir Egerton Brydges, p. 142 [10]
^ Westcote, Thomas, A View of Devonshire in 1630 with a Pedigree of most of its Gentry, Exeter, 1845, p. 525; "Swotton/Swetton" per Vivian, p. 589
^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p. 1761, pedigree of Passmore of Withyshaw
^ Several members of the Plumleigh family served as Mayor of Dartmouth
^ de Via arms, as also used by the Davie family of Creedy, Sandford, who claimed common origin with the Pollards from the de Way family, were quartered by Pollard with their escallop arms, (Prince, pp. 284 (footnote), 783) but were sometimes used alone, as evidenced most notably by all the surviving Pollard monuments and ledger stones in Horwood Church
^ "Bingley" or "Bindley" (Vivian, p. 609)
^ Hugh Potter (1596-1661/2) (eldest son and heir of Tobias Potter of Iddesleigh) was a lawyer of Lincoln's Inn and a member of the household of the Earl of Northumberland (Vivian, p. 612)
^ Potter arms identical to Barkley arms, see Vivian pp. 43, 612
^ The Preston family of Devon was a junior branch of the de Preston family which during the reign of King Henry II (1154-1189) was seated at Preston Richard and Preston Patrick in Westmorland. On 1 April 1644, George Preston (of same ancient descent, same arms) was created a baronet "of Furness in the County of Lancaster". (Burke, Bernard, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies ..., 2nd ed, 1844, pp. 424 et seq [11])
^ Members of this family include Richard Prouse (d.1608), Mayor of Exeter, and his son John Prouse (d.1624/5), Mayor of Exeter in 1620, whose memorial exists in Exeter Cathedral (Vivian, p. 628, "MI")
^ per Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 498. Alternatively: Ermine, a chevron gules a chief azure fretty or (per Vivian, p. 631, pedigree of Prye of Horwell). These arms are visible on the monument to John Wrey (d.1597) in Tawstock Church, Devon. John Wrey's son Edmond Wrey married Katherine Prye, daughter of Roger Prye of Horwell (Vivian, p. 631)
^ This family was the heir of Coffin of Portledge, Alwington, Devon, and in 1796 assumed the additional surname and arms of Coffin, resulting in the name Pine-Coffin (Vivian, p. 211)
^ Lauder, Rosemary, Devon Families, Tiverton, 2002, p. 129, sold by Savilles estate agent February 2017, £1.5M [12]
^ Raleigh of Fardel arms per Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 499; Pedigree given in Vivian (pp. 638-9) with same descent as Raleigh of Pilton, but with wrong arms
^ Vivian, p. 638
^ Pole, p. 321
^ Welcombe is a parish near Hartland in North Devon, near the Cornish border. Other estates named "Welcombe" are listed in Pole, which may have been the residence of this family, with a very brief pedigree in Vivian, p. 651 with no mention of parish. However, mention is made of Week St Mary (in Cornwall), 13 miles south of Welcombe near Hartland, and the Roache family originated in "Lesawnte" (Lezant?, Cornwall. Lysons, Magna Britannia, Cornwall, Extinct Gentry, states: "Roche or De la Rupe of Roche — traced to the reign of Richard I. Hals says, that this family became extinct, in the male line, in 1357; that Sir William Blundell, husband of the heiress, took the name of Roche, which continued till the reign of Henry VIII., when the last of the family left four daughters, three of whom married Fortescue, Penkevil, and Boscawen. The Roches had married heiresses of Trevelyan and Page, and a coheiress of Durant. Arms of Roche: — Sab. three roaches, two, one, nayant, Argent." The Devon family used a crescent as the difference of a second son. The name was thus Latinized to de (la) Rupe (Lat: rupes-is, "rock") "from the rock", inspired by the French word la roche, le rocher, "rock", from degraded Latin rocca, recorded in use 980 AD (Larousse Lexis, Paris, 1979, p. 1654) from which the English word "rock" (Collins Dict)
^ townhouse of George Rolle (d.1552), where he died, comprising "messuage, garden and curtilage". It was held from the crown in burgage, worth 30 shillings. Details of Buckfast Place from his inquisition post mortem quoted in Byrne, Muriel St. Clare, (ed.) The Lisle Letters, 6 vols, University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 1981, vol.1, Appendix 25, p. 414. This house, later known as the "Abbot's Lodge", was destroyed in 1942 during World War II bombing. It had been the townhouse of the Abbot of Buckfast Abbey, which Abbey and much of its lands, apparently excluding the Abbot's Lodge, had been acquired following the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Sir Thomas Denys (c.1477-1561) of Holcombe Burnell, whose eventual heir (by coincidence) was the Rolle family. It was at the Abbot's Lodge that the Grand Duke of Tuscany was entertained by Sir John Rolle in 1669 and it remained in the Rolle family until 1737 when it was sold to the Rev. John Heskett.(Source:[13]) A photograph of the arms of Sir Henry Rolle (1545-1625) in this building taken shortly before its destruction survives in: Devon Notes & Queries, Vol.9, 1916-17, pp. 97-9: "Armorial Bearings at the Abbot's Lodge", The Close, Exeter. Image see: File:SirHenryRolle (1545-1625) 1602Arms AbbotsLodge CathedralClose Exeter.jpg
^ Vivian, p. 517, inherited from Roope by Kirkham
^ Monuments to the Roope family of Townstal exist in St Clement's Church, Dartmouth and in St Petrox's Church, Dartmouth (Pevsner, pp. 324, 322)
^ Lysons, Daniel & Lysons, Samuel, Magna Britannia, Vol.6, Devonshire, London, 1822 [14]
^ No such parish as "Holford" appears to exist. This seat (called Goddeford by Pole, p. 201 and Godeford by Risdon, p. 41) is possibly one of two places: Gosford (today Gosford Farm) near the hamlet of Taleford, about 2 miles SE of Awliscombe; Godford, about 1/4 mile NW of Awliscombe. Awliscombe was in the
^ These are the arms of Thorne of Thorne in the parish of Holsworthy, Devon, with difference of a bordure engrailed, with additional difference of a crescent for a second son. The family was descended from Degorie Thorne (second son of John Thorne of Thorne) who (circa 15th c.) married Margaret Seccombe, daughter and heiress of Thomas Seccombe of Seccombe, Devon
^ As depicted in stained glass in east window of Shute Church, Devon, impaled by arms of Pole of Shute, representing the marriage of Sir Courtenay Pole, 2nd Baronet (1619-1695) and Urith Shapcott, daughter of Thomas Shapcott of Shapcott in the parish of Knowstone, Devon. Elsewhere the arms are shown with a chevron or (Barnstaple Church on Tucker monument), or without chevron (in Knowstone Church and in Molland Church). (Pole (Vivian 1895, p. 603), Shapcott (Vivian 1895, p. 677), blazoned with chevron or)
^ John Shapleigh (d.1628) of Totnes was Mayor of Dartmouth and twice Mayor of Totnes. His monument is in St Saviour's Church, Dartmouth (Vivian, p. 678, "MI"). No connection is known to John Shapleigh (died 1414) of Exeter, MP, father of John Shapleigh (fl. 1414–1427), of Exeter, MP
^ William Sharpe (fl.1620) of Tiverton (3rd son of Robert Sharpe, a merchant in the City of London, by his wife Jeliane Mallory, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir Richard Mallory, Lord Mayor of London in 1564) married Alice Woolton, a daughter of John Woolton, Bishop of Exeter. (Vivian, p. 679)
^ Risdon, p. 46; Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p. 529; Vivian, p. 680; Rogers, William Henry Hamilton, The Dorset chapel and Knightstone; Bonville and Sherman; Ottery St. Mary, Notes and Queries for Somerset anmd Dorset, Vol.7, 1901, pp. 187-91, 235-43, 322. Reprinted in his Archaeological Papers Relating to the Counties of Somerset, Wilts, Hants and Devon, 1902
^ Ley in the parish of Plympton St Mary, per Prince, John, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, London, pp. 713, 715-6 (note 1)
^ Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 502. As seen on 1714 mural monument to Sir Bevil Grenville (d.1643), husband of Grace Smith (a daughter of Sir George Smith (died 1619) of Madworthy-juxta-Exeter and Madford House, Exeter, Devon, MP for Exeter in 1604, three times Mayor of Exeter), in Kilkhampton Church, Cornwall; Vivian, p. 691, appears to have ascribed to this family the wrong arms, namely those of Smith of Dartmouth (Vivian, p. 693) and Smith of Totnes
^ As seen impaled by Wrey on monument to John I Wrey (d.1597) in Tawstock Church, Devon. Wrey's son John II Wrey was the 3rd husband of Eleanor Smith, daughter of Bernard Smith (d.1591) of Totnes. Arms of Smith of Totnes given by Pole, p. 502, as: Barry undé of six argent and azure on a chief gules three barnacles or(Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 502) Given incorrectly by Vivian, p.691 as arms of Smyth of Exeter, whose arms were: Sable, a fess cotised between three martlets or (Pole, p. 502 and as visible on mural monument to Sir Bevil Grenville (d.1645) in Kilkhampton Church)
^ Pole, p. 263; Vivian, p. 704
^ The junior branch of the Kelloway family of Stafford/Stowford, Dolton, which settled at nearby Dowland changed its surname to Stafford but retained the paternal arms of Kelloway. See Vivian, p. 510, footnote
^ Vivian, p. 510 adds a bordure engrailed of the second. No such border is visible in any of the many depictions of the Stafford/Stoford/Stowford/Kelloway arms surviving in the churches of Dolton, Iddisleigh, and Dowland; However, the bordure does appear in the Kelloway arms shown in Branscombe Church, Devon, on the Mural monument to Joan Tregarthin (d.1583) widow successively of John Kelloway of Cornwall and John Wadham (d.1578) of Merifield, Ilton, Somerset and Edge, Branscombe. See File:JoanTregarthinMonument BranscombeChurch Devon.PNG
^ For "Strashleigh" see: Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p. 356. For its location in the parish of Ermington see: Vivian, p. 157
^ Rogers, William Henry Hamilton, Memorials of the West, Historical and Descriptive, Collected on the Borderland of Somerset, Dorset and Devon, Exeter, 1888, pp. 229-31 [15]
^ Pole, p. 360, pedigree agrees in part to Vivian, p. 727, pedigree of Thorne of Thorne
^ Pole, p. 505, fists argent; Vivian, p. 730, fists proper
^ Per Vivian, p. 738; Pole gives the blazon as: Argent, a bridge gules arched with a flag on the top (Pole, p. 505)
^ The "steward of the court of the Earl of Bedford" at Werrington (then in Devon, now in Cornwall) in about 1600 was John Twiggs, whose family pedigree is included in the 1620 Heraldic Visitation of Devon. (Vivian, p. 742, pedigree of "Twiggs of Werrington"). John Twiggs's grandson was Richard Twiggs "of Werrington", whose son was Benjamin Twiggs (1616-c.1678/9) "of Werrington", who both described themselves as "of Werrington" in their wills.(Richard Twiggs (will dated 1625/6, CRO AP/T/449 Benjamin Twiggs (born 1616 (aged 4 in 1620), will dated 1678/9, CRO AP/T/1221)[16]
^ As seen on monument in Brixham Church, blazoned incorrectly as a cross flory in Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 743. Blazoned as cross sarcelly (cercelée) (similar to cross moline) by Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 506
^ Pole, p. 306
^ Arms as visible on monument (transcript Chope, R. Pearse, The Book of Hartland, Torquay, 1940, p. 144) in Hartland Church to John Velly (1617-1694), during the Civil War a Captain-Lieutenant to Sir Robert Cary (1610–1675), lord of the nearby manor of Clovelly, a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to King Charles II, whose mural monument survives in Clovelly Church
^ Seats per Chope, R.Pearse, The Book of Hartland, Torquay, 1940, pp. 144, 198
^ Vivian, p. 746
^ Arms granted in 1616 to Rev. Robert Wakeman (1576-1629), Doctor of Divinity, Parson of Beer Ferrers and Charleton in Devon, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford in 1596, Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral 1616 (Wakeman, Robert, P., Wakeman Genealogy 1630-1899, Meriden, Connecticut, 1900, p. 35 [17])
^ Richard Waltham (1560-1632) of Trehill, was Recorder of Exeter 1628-32. His elder brother Jeffrie Waltham (1558-1626) of Exeter, was Mayor of Exeter in 1613 and 1626 and was married to Katherin Duck, a sister of Nicholas Duck (1570-1628), Recorder of Exeter (Vivian, pp. 772, 309); Their aunt Katherin Waltham was the mother of the Devon historian Thomas Westcote (c.1567-c.1637). (Vivian, pp. 772, 778)
^ Pole, p. 506, who blazons the arms as Gules, a chevron between three fishes naiant argent, thus with chevron argent not or and with the unnamed fish naiant not hauriant. These arms of Waye of Marsh are however sculpted (without tinctures) quartered by Kirkham of Blagdon in the 16th century Kirkham Chantry of Paignton Church, and show a chevron with fish hauriant, as per Vivian's blazon. Nicholas Kirkham (d.1516) of Blagdon married Jane Waye, daughter and heiress of Robert Waye of Marsh (Vivian, p. 516, pedigree of Kirkham). These are similar to the arms displayed in Exeter Guildhall, Devon, of "John Waye, Sheriff (of Exeter) 1541", shown as Gules, three lucies hauriant in fess argent. They should be distinguished from the completely different arms of Way of St Giles-in-the-Wood, near Great Torrington in Devon, often called "de Via" (i.e. literally "from the way") arms, apparently later adopted by the Pollard family of Way and also by the Davie family (Davy baronets) of Creedy, Devon, which claim their original surname as de Via.
^ Marsh in parish of Newton St Cyres per Prince, John, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, London, p. 554
^ Arms of "Treawin of Weare Giffard" per Pole, p. 505; Arms of "Weare of Clyst Honiton" per Vivian, p. 774. Quartered by Fortescue of Weare Giffard and Filleigh, see monumental brass in Filleigh Church of Richard Fortescue (c. 1517–1570)
^ William Henry Hamilton Rogers, Memorials of the West, Historical and Descriptive, Collected on the Borderland of Somerset, Dorset and Devon, Exeter, 1888, pp. 226-7
^ Gray, Todd, (ed.), Devon Household Accounts, 1627–59, Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Part I, 1995, p. xxxvii The Willougby Family and the Accounts of Leyhill
^ John Withie of Berry Narbor married Joane Jewel, a sister of John Jewel (1522-1571), Bishop of Salisbury, born at Bowden in the parish of Berry Narbor (Vivian, pp. 814, 505)
^ Vivian, p. 793: Wolecot in parochia de Thrustelton
^ Pole, p. 394
^ Re Orchard, see: Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, pp. 535, 613, who places it in parish of Thrushelton (near Lew Trenchard). The Visitations are clear this family resided in the parish of Lew Trenchard, and various monuments of the family exist in that parish church ("MI" per Vivian, p. 799).
^ James Woodrouffe (d.1609) of Barnstaple was Mayor of Barnstaple in 1605 (Vivian, p. 802; Lamplugh, Lois, Barnstaple: Town on the Taw, South Molton, 2002, p. 156). His first wife was Jone Worth, a daughter of Pawle Worth, thrice Mayor of Barnstaple in 1577, 1592 and 1603, who signed a letted dated 8 April 1588 concerning the town's objection to having been ordered by the Privy Council to provide an excessive number of ships to meet the Spanish Armada. (Lamplugh, pp. 50, 156)
^ Blazon per Pole, p. 509; These arms are visible on several escutcheons in Washfield Church. The arms are blazoned incorrectly as beaked and legged gules in Vivian, p. 805, pedigree of Worth
^ Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries during the reign of King Henry VIII (1509-1547) John Wotton purchased the estate of Inglebourne from the crown, previously a possession of Buckfastleigh Abbey (Risdon, p. 165)
^ Phillip Wyatt (d.1592) was steward and Town Clerk of Barnstaple, near Braunton. He had several sons, of whom Adam Wyatt (d.1611) was Town Clerk of Barnstaple from 1586 and left a detailed diary which provides valuable information on the town at this period. The identity of the diarist as Adam Wyatt was made by the Devon historian Todd Gray, although traditionally the diarist was thought to have been his brother Philip Wyatt (d.1608) (Lamplugh, Lois, Barnstaple: Town on the Taw, South Molton, 2002, p. 45). Their elder brother Hugh Wyatt of Shillingford, married Lady Mary Bourchier, a daughter of John Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Bath (1499-1561), of nearby Tawstock Court, a highly influential figure in Barnstaple. Another brother, Thomas Wyatt, married Margaret Risdon, an aunt of Tristram Risdon (d.1640) the Devon historian. (Vivian, pp. 823, 107, 648). Pole, p. 508, gives the arms of "Wiatt of Shillingford" slightly differently as: Azure, a chief gules over-all a horse-brake (barnacle) argent
^ The Bindon branch of Wyke used their maternal arms of Burnell, having inherited that estate from an heiress of that family (Pole, p. 243; Woodger, L.S., biography of Wyke, Roger (d.c.1467), of Bindon in Axmouth, Devon, published in History of Parliament: House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993 [18])
^ Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 507
^ Arms inherited from the Bushel family of Bradley/Teignwick (Pole, p. 472)
^ Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of The Reverend John Swete, 1789-1800, 4 vols., Tiverton, 1999, Vol 2, p. 164; Pevsner, p. 556
^ Swete, Vol.2, p. 164
^ Per research conducted by Sheila Yeo of the Yeo Society [19], based on stained glass depictions of Yeo arms in churches of Petrockstowe (Yeo of Heanton Satchville) and Hatherleigh (Yeo of Hatherleigh) both in Devon. The ducks are described as of various breeds by different sources. Heraldic sources give contradictory tinctures: Argent, a chevron between three shovelers sable (Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 834) and Argent, a chevron between three mallards azure (Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 510)
^ The return made in 1620 to the heralds was signed by Robert Yonge (d.1636) of Colebrooke, 4th son of Thomas Younge of Sturminster Newton in Dorset. Robert's nephew was Thomas Yonge (of Child, Ockford) who married Bridget Seymer, a sister of Sir Robert Seymer (d.1624) of Hanford in Dorset, a Teller in the King's Exchequer, knighted at Greenwich Palace on 19 February 1619 (Burke, John, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 2 (M-Z), London, 1846, p. 1216 [20])
^ Kelly's Directory of Devon, 1902
^ Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, pp. 467-510
^ Field or per Pole, but sable per Vivian, p. 1 and as seen in a stained glass window in Hartland Church, see File:AbbottArms HartlandChurch Devon.xcf
^ three oaken slips acorned proper , Vivian, p. 12
^ Quartered by Bampfield, as visible on North Molton Church
^ See Yeo brass Tor Mohun Church
^ Vivian, 1895, p. 114
^ Bussell arms see also Yard arms
^ Arms of Walter/Butler/Boleyn modern
^ Brightley, Chittlehampton; these are the arms of Fitzwarren/FitzWarin, corrupted or differenced
^ Pole, p. 261; Pevsner, p. 793
^ Pole, p. 272
^ Risdon, p. 271
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Vivian, p. 112
^ Westcote, Thomas, View of Devonshire
^ Old Map of , Langtree, Devon Detailed Old Victorian Ordnance Survey 6 inch to 1 mile Old Map (1888-1913) [21]
^ Risdon, p. 272
^ Pole, pp. 153, 444
^ The heir of Carslake was Woode (Vivian, p. 801)
^ Per ancient stained glass in Yarnscombe Church showing Affeton impaling Cockworthy
^ shoveller ducks
^ As visible in Churston ferrers Church
^ Bordure engrailed sable, per Vivian, p. 166
^ Also arms of Halgewell (Pole, p. 486)
^ Also seated at Ash, Musbury
^ Risdon, p. 135
^ Pole, p. 249; Pevsner, p. 283; Risdon, p. 142
^ Vivian, p. 387
^ Furze was commonly used as kindling due to its inflammable nature
^ Risdon, p. 261; Pole, p. 357, now “Friar’s Hele”
^ As seen (without tinctures) impaled by Parker carved on the 17th.c. chancel panelling in North Molton Church; the Parker family married the heiress of Fry of Fry’s Hele; Pole however states the blazon as ‘’Vert, three horses courant argent, 2 & 1’’
^ Pole, p. 173
^ Pole, p. 216; Pevsner, p. 141
^ Pole, p. 175
^ Lysons, p. 333
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Walter Gervais, Mayor of Exeter and founder of the Exe Bridge, Prince, John, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, London [22]
^ Halwell, Harberton, per Risdon, p. 166
^ Same arms as Chiverston, Pole, p. 477
^ See magnificent monumental brass in St Saviour's Church, Dartmouth, to John Hawley (d.1408), a shipowner and three times Mayor of Dartmouth, shown as a knight with his two wives. He was a major donor towards the building of the church. See image [23]
^ See heraldry at Dunster Castle and Church
^ Hiwis: See in Ashton Church (Copleston impaling Hanley/Hawley), heiress of Hiwis married Hanley who assuned these arms (Lysons, p. 166)
^ Helion arms quartered by Chudleigh of Ashton, see Vivian
^ Down Umfraville, Rousdon, per Risdon, p. 27
^ Pole’s blazon: a fesse indented within point in point
^ Holway, North Lew, per Prince, p. 178; Pole, p. 355
^ Now Muxbeare, north of Willand
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Vivian, p. 132
^ Pole, p. 353
^ Pole, p. 133
^ Pole, p. 144
^ Kitson of Hengrave Hall, Suffolk
^ Risdon, p. 87; Pole, p. 186
^ Historic England. "Axworthy Cottage (1105506)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
^ Pole blazon of Larder confused. Blazon per Vivian: ‘’Argent, three piles sable each charged with as many bezants’’ ; Carew, Sir George (1555-1629) (created in 1626 Earl of Totnes),Carew's Scroll of Arms 1588, Collected from Churches in Devonshire etc., with Additions from Joseph Holland's Collection of Arms 1579, Exeter, 1901, no 412: Argent, three piles in point sable on each pile six bezants ; see effigy of Edmond Larder (d.1521) in Upton Pyne Church
^ ”The name of Lapflode occurs more than once as a witness in the transcripts of several ancient deeds now before me, relating to lands in Sidbury during the 13th, ... ” (Gentleman's Magazine, Or Monthly Intelligencer, Volume 33 By Sylvanus Urban )
^ Risdon, p. 280
^ bendlet gules, per Pole, clearly error. Arms of Sir Neil Loring, KG, per Bruges garter Book shows bend engrailed sableFile:Lorying 1430.jpg
^ Pole, p. 275; Mary Hall Jordan, Manor of Deandon, Devon & Cornwall Notes and Queries vol. VI, (January 1910 to October 1911), pp. 47-848 [24]
^ Wolf rampant, as seen in East Ogwell Church impaled by Reynell
^ As seen in the Kirkham Chantry, Paignton Church
^ Risdon, 1810 Adds, p. 392
^ Order transposed in text, heraldically impossible
^ Dalditch, Luppitt, per Risdon, p. 38
^ Trefoils slipped, as seen in a window in Churston ferrers Church
^ Now Simpson Barton. Mapowder of Holsworthy per Vivian, p. 551
^ Assume choughs proper/sable, as usually shown
^ Mews: seagulls?

References[]

Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., ed. (1895). The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620. Exeter.

[1] For a discussion of the disappearance of the old gentry families of Devon, see Sabine Baring-Gould, Old Country Life, first published 1889, 5th ed., 1894, pp. 7-22, Old County Families

[FOOTNOTEVivian1895-2] Vivian 1895.

[3] Pole, p. 287; Polwhele, Richard, History of Devonshire, 3 Vols., Vol.3, London, 1793, p. 478

[4] Hoskins, p. 411

[5] As seen in 19th c. stained glass window in Mamhead Church. Blazoned with chevron sable and with difference of a martlet, per Vivian, p. 35

[6] Barkley arms identical to Potter arms, see Vivian pp. 43, 612. Escallops in place of cinqufoils per Pole, p. 469

[7] Location of this estate unknown

[8] The mural monument survives in St Mary's Church, Totnes, Devon, to Christopher Blackall (1581-1633) of Hampsted in the parish of Totnes, and his four wives, see File:ChristopherBlackall Died1633 TotnesChurch Devon.jpg. Christopher Blackall (1581-1633) donated 50 books to Totnes Church, many of which were used by John Prince (1643–1723) in writing his Worthies of Devon

[9] Vivian, p. 111: "Warbrightley"; Risdon, p. 66: "Warbrighsleigh", Warbrighsleigh Beacon (formerly known as "Warpsley" Beacon), today Stoodleigh Beacon, 1/2 mile N-E of which is "Waspley" Farm (Ordnance Survey map), 2 miles west of Stoodleigh Church; See: Vivian, p. 400, mentioning Broughton of "Warpsley"

[10] Vivian, p. 112: Brown, Brownishilarshe; Risdon, p. 271: Ilash; today apparently represented by West Browns and East Browns, about 1 mile S-W of Langtree village

[11] Charles Frederick Burnard (1816-post 1894) of Chatsworth Lodge in the parish of Compton Gifford, near Plymouth, Devon, was Mayor of Plymouth in 1882 (Vivian, p. 849)

[12] Although Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormonde (d.1515) (whose wife was Anne Hankford the heiress of Annery, Monkleigh, Devon, and whose heraldry survives on a bench-end in Monkleigh Church) is known to have died without male progeny (the earldom descended to his distant male cousin), the family of Butler of Parkham submitted a pedigree to the heralds at the Heraldic Visitation of Devon of 1620 which claimed descent from a certain Humfridus Boteler de Annery (Vivian, p. 104), whose identity is therefore uncertain. The arms however of Butler of Parkham are the arms of Butler, Earl of Ormond (Gules, three covered cups or) differenced with a field azure.

[13] Wreath, per Pole, p. 475: argent, per Vivian, p. 127, of the first and second, i.e. or and sable

[14] Location of Callard uncertain, however an ancient farmhouse of than name survives in the parish of Burrington (see listed building text [1])

[15] Former seat of the Cockworthy family, today "Cogworthy" Farm

[16] "Little Yarnscombe" per Pole, p. 373

[17] Pevsner, p. 563

[18] The inscribed mural monument of Raleigh Clapham (1587-1636), Apothecary, survives in St Peter's Church, Barnstaple. Image see [2]

[19] The home from 1980-2005 of the son and heir of the 11th Duke of Devonshire, and today part of the Bolton Hall estate of the Duke of Devonshire

[20] John Clement was a member of the Corporation of Plymouth in 1620 and married Judith Sparke, a sister of John Sparke (c. 1574–1640), MP, of The Friary, in the parish of St Jude, Plymouth, Devon (Vivian, pp. 193, 856)

[21] As blazoned by Sir William Pole (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 447 and as depicted quartered on monument of Lady Frances Bourchier (1587-1612), daughter of William Bourchier, 3rd Earl of Bath (d.1623), in the Bedford Chapel at Chenies, Buckinghamshire.[3] The arms of Cogan (a branch of which later became known as Goggin) are variously blazoned elsewhere as oak leaves, aspen leaves, etc.

[22] Wotton, Thomas, Baronetage of England, 1771, Volume 2, Arms of Colleton Baronets; given by Vivian as roebuck's heads, frequently interchangeable

[23] Pole, p. 475

[24] Pole, p. 263

[25] Pevsner, pp. 233-4

[26] "Witheridge Memories of Coombe and the Cutcliffe Family".

[27] Location of Marland in parish of Petrockstowe per Vivian, p. 497

[28] Vivian, pp. 274-5

[29] Vivian, p. 284, with obvious printer's error ("Az" in place of "Ar") in that the field is given erroneously as azure, with a fess also azure, in contravention of the "", and would not show fully against the same background. Pole (p. 480) gives the field as argent, but gives the location of the crescents incorrectly as on the fess. A relief-sculpted image of these arms survives on the large monument of John Chichester (died 1569) of Raleigh, Pilton, Devon, see image:File:HeraldicPanelChichesterMonumentPiltonDevon1569.JPG, which shows the correct arrangement of the crescents and estoiles, although the tincture of the field has been wrongly re-painted as or

[30] Reed, Margaret A., Pilton, its Past and its People, Barnstaple, 1985, p. 243

[31] Richard Dyer c.1545/54 purchased Yarde from the Yarde family, whose longtime seat it had been, following their removal to Bradley (Risdon, p. 176; Allan et al., p. 244). His great-great-great-grandson was the botanist Richard Dyer (born 1651), a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, who inherited Yarde from his elder brother William Dyer (d.1714) and rebuilt it in 1718 (John Allan, Nat Alcock, David Dawson, West Country Households, 1500-1700, p. 244 The Stained Hangings at Yarde Farm[4])

[32] Location of Milbury unknown. Several streets in Exminster are named "Milbury"

[33] Courant, per Pole, p. 482

[34] Pole, pp. 158-9

[35] Thomas Flay (d.1634) of Exeter, 2nd son of John Flay of Charlton, was Mayor of Exeter. A portrait of his wife Elizabeth Spicer was hanging in the Guildhall, Exeter, in 1895 (Vivian, p. 343, note 3)

[36] Polwhele, Richard, History of Devonshire, 3 Vols., London, 1793, Vol.3, p. 460

[37] Today "Friars Hele Farm"; the arms of Fry of Fry's Hele are differenced by a field vert (Pole, p. 484) see image File:Fry (of Fry's Hele) arms.svg

[38] Vivian's pedigree, p. 385, shows a long history of baptisms, marriages and burials at Dean Prior of members of this family

[39] Lysons, Daniel & Lysons, Samuel, Magna Britannia, Vol.6, Devonshire, London, 1822, p. 333

[40] Polwhele, Richard, History of Devonshire, 3 Vols., Vol.2, London, 1793, Vol.2, p. 183

[41] Gilbert: Argent, on a chevron gules three roses of the field. These are the ancient arms of the family, as evidenced on monuments in Marldon Church 1496 and 1530 and in Churston Ferrers Church c.1575 (Source: Burke's Landed Gentry, 1937, p. 886). In the 1620 Heraldic Visitation of Devon by William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms, the following arms were allowed to Raleigh Gilbert (1584-1634) of Compton: Ermine, on a chevron sable three roses argent. (Source: Burke's Landed Gentry, 1937, p. 886). The family's arms are very confused, for example as given in Vivian, p.405: Or, on a chevron sable three roses of the field leaved proper a bordure gules. Pole, p. 484, gives: Argent, on a chevron sable three roses of the field

[42] Henry Harewood (d.1631) by his will donated £100 as the "Harewood Gift", a charity for the poor of South Molton (Report of the Commissioners Appointed ...: To Inquire Concerning Charities ..., 1825, pp. 125-6 [5])

[43] Pole, p. 487; as seen on monument of Elize Hele (1560–1635) in Bovey Tracey Church

[44] The family of Hext resided at a place named "Kingston", which although Pole (d.1635) suggests (almost as a post scriptum) is Kingston in the parish of Staverton ("At Kingston their also dwelled Thomas Hext in King Edw 4 tyme" (Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 277), cannot be reconciled with the well documented contemporaneous tenure of Kingston, Staverton, by the Barnhous family, whose heiress is known to have married John Rowe of Totnes. (During the reign of King Edward IV (1461-1483) "Kingston" was the seat of Thomas Hext, (Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 277; Vivian, p. 484, pedigree of Hext of Kingston) one of whose daughters, Agnes Hext, married Sir Lewis Pollard (Vivian, p. 598, pedigree of Pollard) (c.1465-1526) of Grilstone in the parish of Bishop's Nympton, Devon, Justice of the Common Pleas from 1514 to 1526 (Hoskins, W.G., A New Survey of England: Devon, London, 1959 (first published 1954), p. 338) and a MP for Totnes in 1491) There is however a parish and village named Kingston in South Devon, about 14 miles south-west of Kingston, Staverton, and Thomas Hext "of Kingston", the first member of the family recorded in the Heraldic Visitations of Devon, married a member of the Fortescue family of Whympston, Modbury, about 2 1/2 miles north-west of the village of Kingston.

[45] Today, see Shilston Barton or Shilstone near Modbury. Sir Robert Hill jCP of Shilston and Houndstone, the father of Robert Hill Sheriff of Devon was kinsman to Sir John Hill jKB of Hill's Court, Exeter and Houndstone, the father of Robert Hill of Spaxton MP

[46] In the parish of Combe-in-Teignhead per Lysons, Magna Britannia, Vol.6, p. 135

[47] Burke's General Armory, 1884, p. 515; Pole, p. 488; the blazon in Vivian, p. 490, appears confused, producing an image thusFile:HodyArms.png

[48] Pole, pp. 282-3; Risdon, p. 160

[49] Sir John Hody (d.1441) of Pilsdon in Dorset and Stowell, Wiveliscombe, Somerset, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, married Margaret Cole, heiress of Nethway (Pole, pp. 282-3)

[50] This family was descended from Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand (c. 1283 – 1328), son of Sir Robert de Holland of Upholland, Lancashire (See Vivian, p. 475)

[51] Not to be confused with arms of Holway of Holway, Tor Bryan, Devon (see Pole, p. 488)

[52] Risdon, pp. 157-8; Pole, p. 284

[53] Thomas Hunt (d.1548) was thrice Mayor of Exeter (Vivian, p. 494)

[54] For Hams as the seat of Hunt see: Jones, Mary, History of Chudleigh, 1852

[55] Vivian, p. 502, p. 502, footnote, as appears on the Risdon monument in Westdown Church, Devon also in St Giles-in-the-Wood Church, Devon

[56] "Stralling" (Vivian, p. 504), location unknown; ? Stalling Thorne in the parish of Huntsham ?

[57] Vivian, p. 510 adds a bordure engrailed of the second. No such border is visible in any of the many depictions of the Kelloway arms surviving in the churches of Dolton, Iddisleigh, and Dowland; However, the bordure does appear in the Kelloway arms shown in Branscombe Church, Devon, on the Mural monument to Joan Tregarthin (d.1583) widow successively of John Kelloway of Cornwall and John Wadham (d.1578) of Merifield, Ilton, Somerset and Edge, Branscombe. See File:JoanTregarthinMonument BranscombeChurch Devon.PNG

[58] Vivian, p. 517

[59] Residence at Wonson per Baring-Gould, Sabine, An English Home, p. 277, Scapegraces

[60] John Lante (d.1614) was Mayor of Exeter and has a monument in Exeter Cathedral (Vivian, p. 523)

[61] Richard Lee (d.1620) of Totnes was Mayor of Totnes in 1620 (Vivian, p. 527)

[62] Pevsner, p. 575, anciently "Ridge", per Vivian, p. 529

[63] The Lippincotts in England and America, Edited from the Genealogical Papers of the Late James S. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1909, p. 8 [6]

[64] In 1620 Anthonie Longe (born 1597) was a servant of the Earl of Bath (Vivian, p. 532) at Tawstock in North Devon. A junior branch of the prominent Long family (Vivian, p. 532) of South Wraxall and Draycot Cerne in Wiltshire, descended from Robert Long (d.1447), MP

[65] Pole, p. 492

[66] Mallet of Idsleigh (Vivian 1895, p. 545); as visible on monument to Sir in Landkey Church

[67] As generally blazoned; Vivian 1895, p. 552, Martyn of Oxton, gives three bars

[68] The first member of this family (whose arms are a differenced version of FitzMartin, feudal barons of Barnstaple in Devon and Lords of Cemais in Wales) was Thomas Martin (d.1588) of Salisbury, Wiltshire, Mayor of Totnes, who married Christiana Savery of Totnes (Vivian, p. 558)

[69] Westcot in parish of Marwood per Pole, p. 398

[70] Pole, p. 493, field argent; Vivian, p. 574 azure

[71] Pole, p. 220

[72] The Newcombe family of Chagford & Exeter, Peter R. Newcombe, 2005-17 [7]

[73] Col.John Newton (d.1655) of Crabaton (mod: Crabadon) was a Royalist in the Civil War (Burke's General Armory). Difference of arms of Newton baronets of Barrs Court, Gloucestershire (1660), of which family Sir Isaac Newton claimed to be a member

[74] In Clayhanger parish (not Combe Martin), see: Extract of 1785 will of Buckland Nutcombe Bluett of Nutcombe, Clayhanger and Holcombe Court, Holcombe Rogus, archives of North Devon Record Office, Reference: 1777 B/FW8 [8]

[75] See: Passmore, Alfred E., The Pedigree of the Passmores of Passmore Hayes, Devon, 1929. Commissioned by Alfred E. Passmore from researcher Charles E. Bernau. West Country Studies Library (ref S929.2PAS) and Tiverton Museum (ref TM/89/1375/1)[9]

[76] Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p. 1761, pedigree of Passmore of Withyshaw, with drawing of arms confirming this blazon; The arms of Passmore are blazoned incorrrectly in Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 589, pedigree of Passmore of Passmore Hayes as: Or, on a fess between three escutcheons gules each charged with a bend vair two cinquefoils of the first all within a bordure azure bezantée, which gives File:PassmoreArms.png

[77] Passmore Hayes, now a small cottage 3.75 miles N-NE of Tiverton, at the end of the farm track to Longhayne Farm, approaching the Town Leat in an eastward direction. Passmore Hayes was in the parish of Tiverton, per: The topographer: containing a variety of original articles ..., Volume 1 edited by Sir Egerton Brydges, p. 142 [10]

[78] Westcote, Thomas, A View of Devonshire in 1630 with a Pedigree of most of its Gentry, Exeter, 1845, p. 525; "Swotton/Swetton" per Vivian, p. 589

[79] Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p. 1761, pedigree of Passmore of Withyshaw

[80] Several members of the Plumleigh family served as Mayor of Dartmouth

[81] Via arms, as also used by the Davie family of Creedy, Sandford, who claimed common origin with the Pollards from the de Way family, were quartered by Pollard with their escallop arms, (Prince, pp. 284 (footnote), 783) but were sometimes used alone, as evidenced most notably by all the surviving Pollard monuments and ledger stones in Horwood Church

[82] "Bingley" or "Bindley" (Vivian, p. 609)

[83] Hugh Potter (1596-1661/2) (eldest son and heir of Tobias Potter of Iddesleigh) was a lawyer of Lincoln's Inn and a member of the household of the Earl of Northumberland (Vivian, p. 612)

[84] Potter arms identical to Barkley arms, see Vivian pp. 43, 612

[85] The Preston family of Devon was a junior branch of the de Preston family which during the reign of King Henry II (1154-1189) was seated at Preston Richard and Preston Patrick in Westmorland. On 1 April 1644, George Preston (of same ancient descent, same arms) was created a baronet "of Furness in the County of Lancaster". (Burke, Bernard, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies ..., 2nd ed, 1844, pp. 424 et seq [11])

[86] Members of this family include Richard Prouse (d.1608), Mayor of Exeter, and his son John Prouse (d.1624/5), Mayor of Exeter in 1620, whose memorial exists in Exeter Cathedral (Vivian, p. 628, "MI")

[87] r Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 498. Alternatively: Ermine, a chevron gules a chief azure fretty or (per Vivian, p. 631, pedigree of Prye of Horwell). These arms are visible on the monument to John Wrey (d.1597) in Tawstock Church, Devon. John Wrey's son Edmond Wrey married Katherine Prye, daughter of Roger Prye of Horwell (Vivian, p. 631)

[88] This family was the heir of Coffin of Portledge, Alwington, Devon, and in 1796 assumed the additional surname and arms of Coffin, resulting in the name Pine-Coffin (Vivian, p. 211)

[89] Lauder, Rosemary, Devon Families, Tiverton, 2002, p. 129, sold by Savilles estate agent February 2017, £1.5M [12]

[90] Raleigh of Fardel arms per Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 499; Pedigree given in Vivian (pp. 638-9) with same descent as Raleigh of Pilton, but with wrong arms

[91] Vivian, p. 638

[92] Pole, p. 321

[93] Welcombe is a parish near Hartland in North Devon, near the Cornish border. Other estates named "Welcombe" are listed in Pole, which may have been the residence of this family, with a very brief pedigree in Vivian, p. 651 with no mention of parish. However, mention is made of Week St Mary (in Cornwall), 13 miles south of Welcombe near Hartland, and the Roache family originated in "Lesawnte" (Lezant?, Cornwall. Lysons, Magna Britannia, Cornwall, Extinct Gentry, states: "Roche or De la Rupe of Roche — traced to the reign of Richard I. Hals says, that this family became extinct, in the male line, in 1357; that Sir William Blundell, husband of the heiress, took the name of Roche, which continued till the reign of Henry VIII., when the last of the family left four daughters, three of whom married Fortescue, Penkevil, and Boscawen. The Roches had married heiresses of Trevelyan and Page, and a coheiress of Durant. Arms of Roche: — Sab. three roaches, two, one, nayant, Argent." The Devon family used a crescent as the difference of a second son. The name was thus Latinized to de (la) Rupe (Lat: rupes-is, "rock") "from the rock", inspired by the French word la roche, le rocher, "rock", from degraded Latin rocca, recorded in use 980 AD (Larousse Lexis, Paris, 1979, p. 1654) from which the English word "rock" (Collins Dict)

[94] townhouse of George Rolle (d.1552), where he died, comprising "messuage, garden and curtilage". It was held from the crown in burgage, worth 30 shillings. Details of Buckfast Place from his inquisition post mortem quoted in Byrne, Muriel St. Clare, (ed.) The Lisle Letters, 6 vols, University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 1981, vol.1, Appendix 25, p. 414. This house, later known as the "Abbot's Lodge", was destroyed in 1942 during World War II bombing. It had been the townhouse of the Abbot of Buckfast Abbey, which Abbey and much of its lands, apparently excluding the Abbot's Lodge, had been acquired following the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Sir Thomas Denys (c.1477-1561) of Holcombe Burnell, whose eventual heir (by coincidence) was the Rolle family. It was at the Abbot's Lodge that the Grand Duke of Tuscany was entertained by Sir John Rolle in 1669 and it remained in the Rolle family until 1737 when it was sold to the Rev. John Heskett.(Source:[13]) A photograph of the arms of Sir Henry Rolle (1545-1625) in this building taken shortly before its destruction survives in: Devon Notes & Queries, Vol.9, 1916-17, pp. 97-9: "Armorial Bearings at the Abbot's Lodge", The Close, Exeter. Image see: File:SirHenryRolle (1545-1625) 1602Arms AbbotsLodge CathedralClose Exeter.jpg

[95] Vivian, p. 517, inherited from Roope by Kirkham

[96] Monuments to the Roope family of Townstal exist in St Clement's Church, Dartmouth and in St Petrox's Church, Dartmouth (Pevsner, pp. 324, 322)

[97] Lysons, Daniel & Lysons, Samuel, Magna Britannia, Vol.6, Devonshire, London, 1822 [14]

[98] No such parish as "Holford" appears to exist. This seat (called Goddeford by Pole, p. 201 and Godeford by Risdon, p. 41) is possibly one of two places: Gosford (today Gosford Farm) near the hamlet of Taleford, about 2 miles SE of Awliscombe; Godford, about 1/4 mile NW of Awliscombe. Awliscombe was in the

[99] These are the arms of Thorne of Thorne in the parish of Holsworthy, Devon, with difference of a bordure engrailed, with additional difference of a crescent for a second son. The family was descended from Degorie Thorne (second son of John Thorne of Thorne) who (circa 15th c.) married Margaret Seccombe, daughter and heiress of Thomas Seccombe of Seccombe, Devon

[100] As depicted in stained glass in east window of Shute Church, Devon, impaled by arms of Pole of Shute, representing the marriage of Sir Courtenay Pole, 2nd Baronet (1619-1695) and Urith Shapcott, daughter of Thomas Shapcott of Shapcott in the parish of Knowstone, Devon. Elsewhere the arms are shown with a chevron or (Barnstaple Church on Tucker monument), or without chevron (in Knowstone Church and in Molland Church). (Pole (Vivian 1895, p. 603), Shapcott (Vivian 1895, p. 677), blazoned with chevron or)

[101] John Shapleigh (d.1628) of Totnes was Mayor of Dartmouth and twice Mayor of Totnes. His monument is in St Saviour's Church, Dartmouth (Vivian, p. 678, "MI"). No connection is known to John Shapleigh (died 1414) of Exeter, MP, father of John Shapleigh (fl. 1414–1427), of Exeter, MP

[102] William Sharpe (fl.1620) of Tiverton (3rd son of Robert Sharpe, a merchant in the City of London, by his wife Jeliane Mallory, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir Richard Mallory, Lord Mayor of London in 1564) married Alice Woolton, a daughter of John Woolton, Bishop of Exeter. (Vivian, p. 679)

[103] Risdon, p. 46; Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p. 529; Vivian, p. 680; Rogers, William Henry Hamilton, The Dorset chapel and Knightstone; Bonville and Sherman; Ottery St. Mary, Notes and Queries for Somerset anmd Dorset, Vol.7, 1901, pp. 187-91, 235-43, 322. Reprinted in his Archaeological Papers Relating to the Counties of Somerset, Wilts, Hants and Devon, 1902

[104] Ley in the parish of Plympton St Mary, per Prince, John, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, London, pp. 713, 715-6 (note 1)

[105] Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 502. As seen on 1714 mural monument to Sir Bevil Grenville (d.1643), husband of Grace Smith (a daughter of Sir George Smith (died 1619) of Madworthy-juxta-Exeter and Madford House, Exeter, Devon, MP for Exeter in 1604, three times Mayor of Exeter), in Kilkhampton Church, Cornwall; Vivian, p. 691, appears to have ascribed to this family the wrong arms, namely those of Smith of Dartmouth (Vivian, p. 693) and Smith of Totnes

[106] As seen impaled by Wrey on monument to John I Wrey (d.1597) in Tawstock Church, Devon. Wrey's son John II Wrey was the 3rd husband of Eleanor Smith, daughter of Bernard Smith (d.1591) of Totnes. Arms of Smith of Totnes given by Pole, p. 502, as: Barry undé of six argent and azure on a chief gules three barnacles or(Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 502) Given incorrectly by Vivian, p.691 as arms of Smyth of Exeter, whose arms were: Sable, a fess cotised between three martlets or (Pole, p. 502 and as visible on mural monument to Sir Bevil Grenville (d.1645) in Kilkhampton Church)

[107] Pole, p. 263; Vivian, p. 704

[108] The junior branch of the Kelloway family of Stafford/Stowford, Dolton, which settled at nearby Dowland changed its surname to Stafford but retained the paternal arms of Kelloway. See Vivian, p. 510, footnote

[109] Vivian, p. 510 adds a bordure engrailed of the second. No such border is visible in any of the many depictions of the Stafford/Stoford/Stowford/Kelloway arms surviving in the churches of Dolton, Iddisleigh, and Dowland; However, the bordure does appear in the Kelloway arms shown in Branscombe Church, Devon, on the Mural monument to Joan Tregarthin (d.1583) widow successively of John Kelloway of Cornwall and John Wadham (d.1578) of Merifield, Ilton, Somerset and Edge, Branscombe. See File:JoanTregarthinMonument BranscombeChurch Devon.PNG

[110] For "Strashleigh" see: Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p. 356. For its location in the parish of Ermington see: Vivian, p. 157

[111] Rogers, William Henry Hamilton, Memorials of the West, Historical and Descriptive, Collected on the Borderland of Somerset, Dorset and Devon, Exeter, 1888, pp. 229-31 [15]

[112] Pole, p. 360, pedigree agrees in part to Vivian, p. 727, pedigree of Thorne of Thorne

[113] Pole, p. 505, fists argent; Vivian, p. 730, fists proper

[114] Per Vivian, p. 738; Pole gives the blazon as: Argent, a bridge gules arched with a flag on the top (Pole, p. 505)

[115] The "steward of the court of the Earl of Bedford" at Werrington (then in Devon, now in Cornwall) in about 1600 was John Twiggs, whose family pedigree is included in the 1620 Heraldic Visitation of Devon. (Vivian, p. 742, pedigree of "Twiggs of Werrington"). John Twiggs's grandson was Richard Twiggs "of Werrington", whose son was Benjamin Twiggs (1616-c.1678/9) "of Werrington", who both described themselves as "of Werrington" in their wills.(Richard Twiggs (will dated 1625/6, CRO AP/T/449 Benjamin Twiggs (born 1616 (aged 4 in 1620), will dated 1678/9, CRO AP/T/1221)[16]

[116] As seen on monument in Brixham Church, blazoned incorrectly as a cross flory in Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 743. Blazoned as cross sarcelly (cercelée) (similar to cross moline) by Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 506

[117] Pole, p. 306

[118] Arms as visible on monument (transcript Chope, R. Pearse, The Book of Hartland, Torquay, 1940, p. 144) in Hartland Church to John Velly (1617-1694), during the Civil War a Captain-Lieutenant to Sir Robert Cary (1610–1675), lord of the nearby manor of Clovelly, a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to King Charles II, whose mural monument survives in Clovelly Church

[119] Seats per Chope, R.Pearse, The Book of Hartland, Torquay, 1940, pp. 144, 198

[120] Vivian, p. 746

[121] Arms granted in 1616 to Rev. Robert Wakeman (1576-1629), Doctor of Divinity, Parson of Beer Ferrers and Charleton in Devon, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford in 1596, Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral 1616 (Wakeman, Robert, P., Wakeman Genealogy 1630-1899, Meriden, Connecticut, 1900, p. 35 [17])

[122] Richard Waltham (1560-1632) of Trehill, was Recorder of Exeter 1628-32. His elder brother Jeffrie Waltham (1558-1626) of Exeter, was Mayor of Exeter in 1613 and 1626 and was married to Katherin Duck, a sister of Nicholas Duck (1570-1628), Recorder of Exeter (Vivian, pp. 772, 309); Their aunt Katherin Waltham was the mother of the Devon historian Thomas Westcote (c.1567-c.1637). (Vivian, pp. 772, 778)

[123] Pole, p. 506, who blazons the arms as Gules, a chevron between three fishes naiant argent, thus with chevron argent not or and with the unnamed fish naiant not hauriant. These arms of Waye of Marsh are however sculpted (without tinctures) quartered by Kirkham of Blagdon in the 16th century Kirkham Chantry of Paignton Church, and show a chevron with fish hauriant, as per Vivian's blazon. Nicholas Kirkham (d.1516) of Blagdon married Jane Waye, daughter and heiress of Robert Waye of Marsh (Vivian, p. 516, pedigree of Kirkham). These are similar to the arms displayed in Exeter Guildhall, Devon, of "John Waye, Sheriff (of Exeter) 1541", shown as Gules, three lucies hauriant in fess argent. They should be distinguished from the completely different arms of Way of St Giles-in-the-Wood, near Great Torrington in Devon, often called "de Via" (i.e. literally "from the way") arms, apparently later adopted by the Pollard family of Way and also by the Davie family (Davy baronets) of Creedy, Devon, which claim their original surname as de Via.

[124] Marsh in parish of Newton St Cyres per Prince, John, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, London, p. 554

[125] Arms of "Treawin of Weare Giffard" per Pole, p. 505; Arms of "Weare of Clyst Honiton" per Vivian, p. 774. Quartered by Fortescue of Weare Giffard and Filleigh, see monumental brass in Filleigh Church of Richard Fortescue (c. 1517–1570)

[126] William Henry Hamilton Rogers, Memorials of the West, Historical and Descriptive, Collected on the Borderland of Somerset, Dorset and Devon, Exeter, 1888, pp. 226-7

[127] Gray, Todd, (ed.), Devon Household Accounts, 1627–59, Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Part I, 1995, p. xxxvii The Willougby Family and the Accounts of Leyhill

[128] John Withie of Berry Narbor married Joane Jewel, a sister of John Jewel (1522-1571), Bishop of Salisbury, born at Bowden in the parish of Berry Narbor (Vivian, pp. 814, 505)

[129] Vivian, p. 793: Wolecot in parochia de Thrustelton

[130] Pole, p. 394

[131] Re Orchard, see: Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, pp. 535, 613, who places it in parish of Thrushelton (near Lew Trenchard). The Visitations are clear this family resided in the parish of Lew Trenchard, and various monuments of the family exist in that parish church ("MI" per Vivian, p. 799).

[132] James Woodrouffe (d.1609) of Barnstaple was Mayor of Barnstaple in 1605 (Vivian, p. 802; Lamplugh, Lois, Barnstaple: Town on the Taw, South Molton, 2002, p. 156). His first wife was Jone Worth, a daughter of Pawle Worth, thrice Mayor of Barnstaple in 1577, 1592 and 1603, who signed a letted dated 8 April 1588 concerning the town's objection to having been ordered by the Privy Council to provide an excessive number of ships to meet the Spanish Armada. (Lamplugh, pp. 50, 156)

[133] Blazon per Pole, p. 509; These arms are visible on several escutcheons in Washfield Church. The arms are blazoned incorrectly as beaked and legged gules in Vivian, p. 805, pedigree of Worth

[134] Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries during the reign of King Henry VIII (1509-1547) John Wotton purchased the estate of Inglebourne from the crown, previously a possession of Buckfastleigh Abbey (Risdon, p. 165)

[135] Phillip Wyatt (d.1592) was steward and Town Clerk of Barnstaple, near Braunton. He had several sons, of whom Adam Wyatt (d.1611) was Town Clerk of Barnstaple from 1586 and left a detailed diary which provides valuable information on the town at this period. The identity of the diarist as Adam Wyatt was made by the Devon historian Todd Gray, although traditionally the diarist was thought to have been his brother Philip Wyatt (d.1608) (Lamplugh, Lois, Barnstaple: Town on the Taw, South Molton, 2002, p. 45). Their elder brother Hugh Wyatt of Shillingford, married Lady Mary Bourchier, a daughter of John Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Bath (1499-1561), of nearby Tawstock Court, a highly influential figure in Barnstaple. Another brother, Thomas Wyatt, married Margaret Risdon, an aunt of Tristram Risdon (d.1640) the Devon historian. (Vivian, pp. 823, 107, 648). Pole, p. 508, gives the arms of "Wiatt of Shillingford" slightly differently as: Azure, a chief gules over-all a horse-brake (barnacle) argent

[136] The Bindon branch of Wyke used their maternal arms of Burnell, having inherited that estate from an heiress of that family (Pole, p. 243; Woodger, L.S., biography of Wyke, Roger (d.c.1467), of Bindon in Axmouth, Devon, published in History of Parliament: House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993 [18])

[137] Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 507

[138] Arms inherited from the Bushel family of Bradley/Teignwick (Pole, p. 472)

[139] Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of The Reverend John Swete, 1789-1800, 4 vols., Tiverton, 1999, Vol 2, p. 164; Pevsner, p. 556

[140] Swete, Vol.2, p. 164

[141] Per research conducted by Sheila Yeo of the Yeo Society [19], based on stained glass depictions of Yeo arms in churches of Petrockstowe (Yeo of Heanton Satchville) and Hatherleigh (Yeo of Hatherleigh) both in Devon. The ducks are described as of various breeds by different sources. Heraldic sources give contradictory tinctures: Argent, a chevron between three shovelers sable (Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 834) and Argent, a chevron between three mallards azure (Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 510)

[142] The return made in 1620 to the heralds was signed by Robert Yonge (d.1636) of Colebrooke, 4th son of Thomas Younge of Sturminster Newton in Dorset. Robert's nephew was Thomas Yonge (of Child, Ockford) who married Bridget Seymer, a sister of Sir Robert Seymer (d.1624) of Hanford in Dorset, a Teller in the King's Exchequer, knighted at Greenwich Palace on 19 February 1619 (Burke, John, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 2 (M-Z), London, 1846, p. 1216 [20])

[143] Kelly's Directory of Devon, 1902

[144] Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, pp. 467-510

[145] Field or per Pole, but sable per Vivian, p. 1 and as seen in a stained glass window in Hartland Church, see File:AbbottArms HartlandChurch Devon.xcf

[146] three oaken slips acorned proper , Vivian, p. 12

[147] Quartered by Bampfield, as visible on North Molton Church

[148] See Yeo brass Tor Mohun Church

[149] Vivian, 1895, p. 114

[150] Bussell arms see also Yard arms

[151] Arms of Walter/Butler/Boleyn modern

[152] Brightley, Chittlehampton; these are the arms of Fitzwarren/FitzWarin, corrupted or differenced

[153] Pole, p. 261; Pevsner, p. 793

[154] Pole, p. 272

[155] Risdon, p. 271

[:0-156] Jump up to: ^a ^b Vivian, p. 112

[157] Westcote, Thomas, View of Devonshire

[158] Old Map of , Langtree, Devon Detailed Old Victorian Ordnance Survey 6 inch to 1 mile Old Map (1888-1913) [21]

[159] Risdon, p. 272

[160] Pole, pp. 153, 444

[161] The heir of Carslake was Woode (Vivian, p. 801)

[162] Per ancient stained glass in Yarnscombe Church showing Affeton impaling Cockworthy

[163] shoveller ducks

[164] As visible in Churston ferrers Church

[165] Bordure engrailed sable, per Vivian, p. 166

[166] Also arms of Halgewell (Pole, p. 486)

[167] Also seated at Ash, Musbury

[168] Risdon, p. 135

[169] Pole, p. 249; Pevsner, p. 283; Risdon, p. 142

[170] Vivian, p. 387

[171] Furze was commonly used as kindling due to its inflammable nature

[172] Risdon, p. 261; Pole, p. 357, now “Friar’s Hele”

[173] As seen (without tinctures) impaled by Parker carved on the 17th.c. chancel panelling in North Molton Church; the Parker family married the heiress of Fry of Fry’s Hele; Pole however states the blazon as ‘’Vert, three horses courant argent, 2 & 1’’

[174] Pole, p. 173

[175] Pole, p. 216; Pevsner, p. 141

[176] Pole, p. 175

[177] Lysons, p. 333

[:2-178] Jump up to: ^a ^b Walter Gervais, Mayor of Exeter and founder of the Exe Bridge, Prince, John, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, London [22]

[179] Halwell, Harberton, per Risdon, p. 166

[180] Same arms as Chiverston, Pole, p. 477

[181] See magnificent monumental brass in St Saviour's Church, Dartmouth, to John Hawley (d.1408), a shipowner and three times Mayor of Dartmouth, shown as a knight with his two wives. He was a major donor towards the building of the church. See image [23]

[182] See heraldry at Dunster Castle and Church

[183] Hiwis: See in Ashton Church (Copleston impaling Hanley/Hawley), heiress of Hiwis married Hanley who assuned these arms (Lysons, p. 166)

[184] Helion arms quartered by Chudleigh of Ashton, see Vivian

[185] Down Umfraville, Rousdon, per Risdon, p. 27

[186] Pole’s blazon: a fesse indented within point in point

[187] Holway, North Lew, per Prince, p. 178; Pole, p. 355

[188] Now Muxbeare, north of Willand

[:1-189] Jump up to: ^a ^b Vivian, p. 132

[190] Pole, p. 353

[191] Pole, p. 133

[192] Pole, p. 144

[193] Kitson of Hengrave Hall, Suffolk

[194] Risdon, p. 87; Pole, p. 186

[195] Historic England. "Axworthy Cottage (1105506)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 April 2020.

[196] Pole blazon of Larder confused. Blazon per Vivian: ‘’Argent, three piles sable each charged with as many bezants’’ ; Carew, Sir George (1555-1629) (created in 1626 Earl of Totnes),Carew's Scroll of Arms 1588, Collected from Churches in Devonshire etc., with Additions from Joseph Holland's Collection of Arms 1579, Exeter, 1901, no 412: Argent, three piles in point sable on each pile six bezants ; see effigy of Edmond Larder (d.1521) in Upton Pyne Church

[197] ”The name of Lapflode occurs more than once as a witness in the transcripts of several ancient deeds now before me, relating to lands in Sidbury during the 13th, ... ” (Gentleman's Magazine, Or Monthly Intelligencer, Volume 33 By Sylvanus Urban )

[198] Risdon, p. 280

[199] t gules, per Pole, clearly error. Arms of Sir Neil Loring, KG, per Bruges garter Book shows bend engrailed sableFile:Lorying 1430.jpg

[200] Pole, p. 275; Mary Hall Jordan, Manor of Deandon, Devon & Cornwall Notes and Queries vol. VI, (January 1910 to October 1911), pp. 47-848 [24]

[201] Wolf rampant, as seen in East Ogwell Church impaled by Reynell

[202] As seen in the Kirkham Chantry, Paignton Church

[203] Risdon, 1810 Adds, p. 392

[204] Order transposed in text, heraldically impossible

[205] Dalditch, Luppitt, per Risdon, p. 38

[206] Trefoils slipped, as seen in a window in Churston ferrers Church

[207] Now Simpson Barton. Mapowder of Holsworthy per Vivian, p. 551

[208] Assume choughs proper/sable, as usually shown

[209] Mews: seagulls?

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