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Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp. 597–599, Pollard pedigree, p. 598 Sir Hugh Pollard, 2nd
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was controlled by the Rolle family and it must have been due to the influence of his second wife Mary
Stevens that Pollard was elected to that seat in 1660. Mary Stevens was buried at
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He joined the army and by 1639 was a captain engaged in raising troops in Devon for the
Scottish wars. The following year he was ordered to Scotland and was probably present at the
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Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.598, Pollard pedigree
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Helms, M. W., & Ferris, John. P., biography of Sir Hugh
Pollard published in History of Parliament: House of Commons 1660-1690, ed. B.D. Henning, 1983
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25:Arms of Pollard of King's Nympton:
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640:English MPs 1661–1679
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511:Member of Parliament
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270:Little Torrington
191:Deputy Lieutenant
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278:Callington
207:John Rolle
179:Callington
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113:misprision
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625:Cavaliers
295:Whitehall
143:Grilstone
124:Dartmouth
117:baronetcy
95:Civil War
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