414:
66:
57:
22:
33:
208:
364:, by whom he had issue 6 sons and 7 daughters. It is possibly he (or his father) who erected the surviving heraldic panel above the front door of Langley Barton showing the arms of Pollard in four quarters and the initials "RP". He may have been the Richard Pollard who between 1640 and 1651 was the "Gentleman Steward" to the princely household of
448:("sacred to the memory of John Pollard of Langley, Esquire, a man as much undiminished in virtue as famous for martial prowess (who died) on the 12th day of November in the year of his age ... in the year of the birth of our Lord Christ .... His wife .... Pollard about to follow him, meanwhile placed this monument".)
187:, Devon. Sir John Doddescombe's father was possibly Walter Doddescombe, whose wife was Susan Langley, daughter of Richard Langley of Bawley, Braunton. Langley eventually passed to the descendants of John I Pollard's third son Roger Pollard, but initially descended to his second son Richard Pollard.
392:
Here under lieth the remains of Sara the wife of
Richard Pollard Gent. Educated in the French and English courts, and thought worthy to attend on the Right Hon: the Countisse of Westmoreland, and by her, recommended to wait on her most dear daughter Lady Rachel Countisse of Bathe. This Sara was
228:
in 1485, who knighted him on that battlefield, and who after his accession as King Henry VII visited Sir Robert at Iron Acton in 1486. Humphry Poyntz does not appear to have left male progeny by his wife
Elizabeth Pollard, only a daughter Katherine Poyntz, wife of Fulke Prideaux (1472-1531) of
601:
Maclean, Sir John; Heane, W.C., eds. (1885). The
Visitation of the County of Gloucester, taken in the year 1623, by Henry Chitty and John Phillipot as deputies to William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms; with pedigrees from the heralds’ visitation of 1569 and 1582-3, and sundry miscellaneous
167:(d. 1640), the family of Britton held Langley at time unspecified. On the failure of the male line, a daughter of the family brought Langley to her husband Roger Pollard "who planted himself so firmly in this place that his posterity have hitherto possessed the same".
434:. He died without progeny. His mural monument survives in Yarnscombe Church, much worn. It displays two busts in roundels, to the left John Pollard and to the right his wife. On a black tablet underneath, with damage, is inscribed the following Latin text:
445:
Johannis
Pollard de Langley, Armigeri, viri integerrimi (virtut)e quam Marte praeclari (qui obiit) Novemb(rensis) die 12, sua aetatis ...., Domini Nostri nativitatis Christi .... Et conjux ..... Pollard relicta secutura interim hoc p(osui)t
295:
William
Pollard (son by marriage to Eline Hansford), who married Elizabeth Hatch, daughter of John Hatch (1394-1477) of Wooleigh, in the parish of Upcott (or Beaford,) and widow of John III Bury (d. 1479) lord of the manor of
233:. Following the death of Humphry Poyntz in 1487, apparently without male progeny to inherit, Langley reverted to the Pollard family. It is not known whether the 17th century "Pointz" family of Northcote in the parish of
223:
in
Gloucestershire, by his first wife Elizabeth Mills, daughter of Sir Edward Mills of Horscomb, Gloucestershire. Humphry's nephew was Sir Robert Poyntz (d. 1520), a supporter of Henry Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond at the
380:, Switzerland, a "gentlewoman of impeccable antecedents in Continental Protestantism", who was an attendant of the Earl's wife, and whose surviving mural monument in Tawstock Church is inscribed as follows:
81:
arms of
Pollard of Langley. Above front door of Langley Barton. With initials "R" and "P", possibly for Richard II Pollard of Langley (d. 1660), or possibly of his father Richard I Pollard (d. 1626).
237:
in North Devon was related to
Humphrey Poyntz of Langley. The mural monument of Edward Pointz (f. 1691) survives in Bittadon Church and shows the arms of Poyntz of Iron Acton, and the Poyntz
479:(?). At the left top (and at bottom) is shown a human skull, at right top an open Bible with wings attached at top. Between the two portrait busts is an escutcheon of Pollard impaling
219:
Humphry Poyntz (d. 1487), "of
Langley", who married Elizabeth Pollard, daughter of Richard Pollard by his wife Thomasine Cruwys. He was the younger son of Nicholas Poyntz (d. 1461) of
804:, Devon Household Accounts, 1627–59, Part II, Henry, Fifth Earl of Bath and Rachel, Countess of Bath, 1637-1655, Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Exeter, 1996, p. xxx.
483:(?), which should be the arms of his wife, whose family is not known. These are not the arms of Addington, which family she is stated in certain sources to be from.
540:, (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 597, pedigree of Pollard
312:
Patrick
Pollard (son), who married Margerie Bury, a daughter of his uterine half-brother William Bury of Colleton, son of John III Bury (d. 1479)
393:
daughter to Monsr: Voysin, a Syndique of Gineva, who most honorably lost his life in defence of that free City, her grandfather was the learned
195:
Richard Pollard, second son, who married Thomasine Cruwys, a daughter and co-heiress of William Cruwys, a junior member of the Cruwys family of
426:
John Pollard (d. 1668) (brother), who married Sara (Addington?), possibly a member of the Addington family of Leigh, Devon, originally from
866:: "Yonder, beneath the high rock, the pruner shall sing to the breezes, Nor meanwhile shall thy heart’s delight, the hoarse wood-pigeons,
277:
Hanksford, from whom the Pollards inherited also the estate of Northcott in the parish of Burrington (Elinor, co-heiress of "Hansford
263:
Roger Pollard, third son of John I Pollard of Way by his wife Emma Doddiscombe. He appears to have married twice, in order unknown:
130:, Devon, situated one mile north-east of the village of Yarnscombe. It was long the seat of a junior branch of the Pollard family of
372:, 3 miles north of Langley. However it is known that the wife of the steward Richard Pollard was Sara Voysin (d. 1652) (marriage at
320:
George Pollard (2nd son), who married Thomazine Coplestone, a daughter of John III Copleston (1475-1550) "The Great Copleston" of
417:
Mural monument to John Pollard (d. 1667) of Langley, and his wife, name uncertain, possibly Sarah Addington. Yarnscombe Church
552:(d. 1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 256.
863:
Virgil, First Eclogue, translated from the Latin by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), Complete Poetical Works, 1893
183:
John I Pollard of Way, who married Emma Doddiscombe, one of the five daughters and co-heiress of Sir John Doddescombe of
920:
365:
324:, Devon, by his second wife Katherine Bridges, daughter of Raphe Bridges. His second son, of unknown name, was
151:
A family of this name is not recorded in surviving records, however Richard Langley of Bawley in the parish of
360:
Richard II Pollard (d. 1660) (son), who married Joane Philipp, a daughter and co-heiress of John Philipp of
455:
Above at the centre top of the monument is shown an escutcheon showing arms quarterly of four, 1 & 4:
352:
Richard I Pollard (d. 1626) (eldest son), who married Mary Molford, daughter of Roger Molford of Cadbury.
801:
131:
37:
817:
735:
549:
281:
Passburye" in Colby's edition of the 1620 Heraldic Visitation of Devon and Pollard's manuscript. )
155:, Devon, may have been an ancestor of Emma Doddiscombe, wife of John I Pollard of Way (see below).
329:
269:
to Eline Hansford, a daughter and co-heiress of "Hansford of Passburye" (according to the 1620
413:
96:
78:
65:
537:
297:
270:
135:
41:
8:
650:
Colby, Visitation of the County of Devon in the year 1620, Harleian Society, 1872, p. 215
394:
333:
225:
475:(Lovering? of Weare Giffard and Hudscott). Above atop a helm is the crest of Pollard,
246:
230:
184:
510:(d. 1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p. 314.
705:
620:
337:
26:
56:
507:
387:
325:
196:
164:
21:
229:
Adeston, Holbeton and Theuborough, Sutcombe, both in Devon, and ancestor of the
398:
341:
914:
708:& Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p. 161.
623:& Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p. 186.
238:
580:
340:(c. 1527-1608) ("Bess of Hardwick"). His daughters by this marriage were
321:
864:
427:
373:
301:
284:
to the daughter and heiress of Britton of Langley (according to Risdon)
220:
127:
95:
Argent, a chevron sable between three escallops gules (a crescent for
32:
86:
369:
361:
234:
152:
410:
George Pollard (1606-pre1659) (eldest son), died without progeny.
868:
Nor the turtle-dove cease to mourn (lament) from aerial elm trees
85:: The same quarterings on a fragment of ancient stained glass in
36:
Arms of Pollard of Langley (being the ancient arms of Pollard of
602:
pedigrees. Harleian Society, 1st ser. 21. London, pp. 129, 133.
377:
431:
207:
101:(Pollard of Way in the parish of St Giles in the Wood, Devon)
175:
The descent of the Pollard family of Langley is as follows:
77:: 17th century sculpted stone panel with escutcheon showing
836:
Risdon, p. 314; Vivian, p. 599 leaves surname of wife blank
461:
Argent, a chevron sable between three mullets pierced gules
738:, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, p. 235.
792:
In 1638 containing 36 household servants, per Gray, xxxi
883:
Possibly Mules (de Moels) of Ernsborough, Swimbridge:
659:
Pollard, ms. 3532 in Exeter Cathedral Library, p. 223.
471:) of Way in the parish of St Giles in the Wood); 3rd:
457:
Argent, a chevron sable between three escallops gules
46:
Argent, a chevron sable between three escallops gules
498:
Vivian, Heraldic Visitations of Devon, 1895, p. 597.
245:). the heir of this family was the Barbor family of
814:St Peter's, Tawstock: Effigies and Mural Monuments
405:
912:
355:
885:Argent, two bars gules in chief three torteaux
845:Vivian, p. 10, pedigree of Addington of Leigh.
347:
106:Gules, a crescent between three mullets argent
726:Vivian, p. 123, pedigree of Bury of Colleton.
717:Vivian, p. 123, pedigree of Bury of Colleton.
686:Vivian, p. 455, pedigree of Hatch of Wooleigh
816:, transcribed by www.rootsweb.ancestry.com
440:
385:
401:was her uncle. She died 30th Jan. MDCLII".
579:Date of death per Maclean, 1885, p. 133,
421:
113:Argent, on a fess azure a lion passant or
872:nec gemere aeria cessabit turtur ab ulmo
412:
338:Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury
206:
178:
31:
20:
126:was a historic estate in the parish of
913:
332:(1558-1603) and to her successor King
253:
896:Vivian, p. 10, pedigree of Addington.
376:, near Tawstock, on 14 Apr 1646) of
336:(1603-1625) and married a sister of
13:
307:
290:
190:
14:
932:
366:Henry Bourchier, 5th Earl of Bath
315:
16:Historic estate in Devon, England
481:two bars in chief three roundels
258:
64:
55:
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138:, Devon, 3 miles to the south.
573:
564:
555:
543:
531:
522:
513:
501:
492:
406:George Pollard (1606-pre 1659)
1:
486:
473:On a fess wavy a lion passant
146:
356:Richard II Pollard (d. 1660)
241:of a clenched fist (French:
7:
348:Richard I Pollard (d. 1626)
213:Barry of eight or and gules
10:
937:
170:
158:
141:
921:Historic estates in Devon
202:
611:Maclean, 1885, p. 133.
441:
422:John Pollard (d. 1668)
418:
386:
344:to Queen Elizabeth I.
215:
48:
29:
570:Vivian, pp. 597, 256.
528:Vivian, pp. 597, 599.
416:
210:
179:John I Pollard of Way
35:
24:
641:Risdon, pp. 313-314.
538:Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L.
136:St Giles in the Wood
42:St Giles in the Wood
442:M(emoriae) S(acrum)
388:M(emoriae) S(acrum)
271:Heraldic Visitation
254:Pollard (reversion)
419:
395:Henricus Stephanus
226:Battle of Bosworth
216:
49:
30:
706:Pevsner, Nikolaus
621:Pevsner, Nikolaus
550:Pole, Sir William
300:in the parish of
231:Prideaux Baronets
185:Doddescombe Leigh
134:in the parish of
40:in the parish of
928:
906:
903:
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68:
59:
936:
935:
931:
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927:
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887:(Pole, p. 494).
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782:
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774:Risdon, p. 314.
773:
769:
765:Prince, p. 644.
764:
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756:Risdon, p. 314.
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747:Vivian, p. 224.
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703:
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695:Risdon, p. 269.
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677:Vivian, p. 599.
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668:Risdon, p. 314.
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368:(1593–1654) at
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342:Maids of Honour
326:Gentleman Usher
318:
310:
308:Patrick Pollard
293:
291:William Pollard
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197:Cruwys Morchard
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90:
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17:
12:
11:
5:
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829:
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719:
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697:
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453:
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370:Tawstock Court
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316:George Pollard
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581:regnal date
330:Elizabeth I
802:Gray, Todd
487:References
446:monumentum
428:Harlowbury
374:Swimbridge
302:Chulmleigh
273:of Devon)
247:Fremington
221:Iron Acton
147:de Langley
128:Yarnscombe
115:(Passbury)
108:(Hansford)
97:difference
328:to Queen
322:Copleston
304:, Devon.
93:1&4:
87:Alwington
79:quartered
915:Category
362:Plymouth
298:Colleton
235:Bittadon
199:, Devon
153:Braunton
25:Langley
467:(alias
334:James I
171:Pollard
159:Britton
142:Descent
124:Langley
469:de Way
465:de Via
397:, And
378:Geneva
203:Poyntz
165:Risdon
27:Barton
432:Essex
279:&
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243:poing
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75:Left
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