Elizabeth Pollard

• Elizabeth Speke1
• F, #204130
• Last Edited=17 Aug 2009
• Elizabeth Speke was the daughter of Sir George Speke.1
• Children of Elizabeth Speke and John Chudleigh
  • 1.Bridget Chudleigh+1
  • 2.Sir George Chudleigh, 1st Bt.+2 b. c 1578, d. c 1657
• Citations
• 1.[S15] George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume II, page 125. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Baronetage.
• 2.[S15] George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Baronetage, volume I, page 206.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p20413.htm#i204130 _________________
• Elizabeth Speke1
• F, b. circa 1563
• Father George Speke1 b. c 1540
• Elizabeth Speke was born circa 1563 at of White Lackington, Somersetshire, England.1 She married John Chudleigh, son of Christopher Chudleigh and Christian Stretchley, circa 1582 at of White Lackington, Somersetshire, England.1
• Family John Chudleigh b. c 1565
• Child
  • Bridget Chudleigh1 b. c 1583, d. 13 Apr 1612
• Citations
• 1.[S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, SLC Archives.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1945.htm#... ________________

Manor of King's Nympton

• The Manor of King's Nympton was a medieval manor estate in King's Nympton, Devon, England.

Descent of the manor

• .... etc.
• Sir Lewis II Pollard (d.pre-1569), eldest son and heir, was a serjeant-at-law and served as Recorder of Exeter. He married Joan Prust, daughter and heiress of Hugh Prust, Esquire, (d.1559) of Thorry, near Hartland (alias Thorvey, etc.), who married secondly Sir John Perrot (1528-1592), Lord Deputy of Ireland.[16] The Prust family were settled at "Gorven" from at the latest 1199, a deed of which date is recorded in the Heraldic Visitations of Devon as mentioning John Prust of Gorven.[17] Hugh Prust (d.1559) was the second son of John Prust of Thorry by his wife Agnes. Thorry had been held by an unnamed tenant in 1299 from the Abbot of Hartland for the rent of 1 lb of pepper, due annually at Michaelmas.[18] It was still held in 1566 (from overlord unknown) at the same rent, by the "heirs of Hugh Prust", i.e. the Pollards.[19] In 1530 Hugh Prust gave to St Nectan's Church, Hartland, the set of surviving bench-ends showing his initials "H P" each in its own shield.[20] Hugh Prust was one of the largest tenants of the lands of Hartland Abbey as revealed by the Valor Ecclesiasticus made in 1535 preparatory to its dissolution. Amongst his lands were the lease of the manor of Bykyngton (i.e. Abbots Bickington) which he had leased from the Abbey for 40 years paying £12 per annum rent.[21] This manor became the seat of his descendant Sir Amyas Pollard, 3rd Baronet (d.1701). Hugh Prust was described in a contemporary document as "a man of great wealth and of fair land and living"[22] and had a private chapel at Thorry served by the cleric John Horwell (d.1553), the prior of Hartland Abbey before its dissolution in 1539, who also served as mass-priest in St Mary's Guild, at the sole expense of Hugh Prust.[23] Hugh Prust's other lands held from Hartland Abbey in 1566 were:[24] the whole of: Friar's Hill, Holepark, Thorry and Wembsworthy; part of Elmscott, Hardisworthy, Pitt and Higher Velly. In addition the widow Katherine Prust (possibly the widow of Hugh Prust or of his brother Richard Prust (d.1550) of Wollesworthy[25]) held possibly as her dower: part of Fursdon and Natcott. Lewis II Pollard died before 1569 and his infant sons became wards of Sir John Chichester (d.1569) of Raleigh. He left the following progeny:
  • Sir Hugh II Pollard, eldest son and heir (see below).
  • Lewis Pollard, 2nd son, married Cecilia Chichester, 6th daughter of Sir John Chichester and widow of Thomas Hatch.
  • Thomasine Pollard (d.1539), married Admiral Sir George Carew (c.1504-1545), who drowned in the Mary Rose.
  • Frances Pollard, who married Sir John Uggan of Pembroke.
  • Susan Pollard, who married firstly John Copleston and secondly Sir Anthony Rouse.
• Sir Hugh II Pollard, eldest son and heir, married twice:
• Firstly, to Dorothy Chichester. Hugh became on the death of his father a ward of Sir John Chichester (d.1569) of Raleigh, who bequeathed his wardship and marriage to his daughter Dorothy Chichester, who duly married him. They had the following progeny:
  • Sir Lewis Pollard, 1st Baronet, eldest son and heir (see below)
  • Francis Pollard, 2nd son
  • William Pollard, 3rd son
  • Arthur Pollard, 4th son
  • Hugh Pollard, 5th son
  • Robert Pollard, baptised 1598 at Ashton
  • Susanna Pollard, who married in 1596 as his second wife John Northcote (1570-1632), of Hayne, Newton St Cyres, near Crediton, whose splendid monument with standing effigy exists in Newton St Cyres Church. She was the mother of Sir John Northcote, 1st Baronet (1599-1676). A panel on the monument to her husband is dedicated to her memory and contains in the centre a sculpted relief of her head circumscribed by the following two lines of verse: .... etc.
  • Anne Pollard, who married on 9 April 1604 at Ashton to James Welsh. A small partially destroyed monumental brass inscription to her survives on the wall of the south chancel St Peter's Church, Barnstaple, with the following text: Here lyeth the body of Anne late the wife of James Welshe Esqr and daughter of Sir Hugh Pollard, Knight. She departed...this world to the kingdome of Heaven...seaventeenth day of March A(nn)o MD...Blessed are the dead w(hi)ch dye in the.... On it within a strapwork surround is a heraldic escutcheon showing the arms of Welshe (six mullets 3,2,1, a crescent for difference impaling Pollard: quarterly 1st & 4th: Pollard of King's Nympton: A chevron between three mullets; 2nd & 3rd: A chevron between (indecipherable), possibly three escallops, a common Pollard quartering, apparentlyn the arms of an allied branch of the Pollard family. Over-all is a crescent for difference, denoting a second son.
  • Gertrude Pollard, who in 1616 married at Newton St Cyres Gilbert Davie (1583-1627) of Cannontene near Crediton[28]
  • Margaret Pollard, married firstly a certain Whiddon and secondly in 1609 at Ashton to Robert Dodson of Haye.
• Secondly Sir Hugh II Pollard married Elizabeth Speke, daughter of Sir George Speke of Whitelackington, Somerset, and of Heywood, Wembworthy, Devon, and widow successively of John Chudleigh and Sir John Clifton. By Elizabeth he had three sons, Arthur, Hugh and Robert.[29]
• Sir Lewis Pollard, 1st Baronet (c. 1578-c. 1645), eldest son and heir. He was created a baronet on 31 May 1627. He married Margaret Berkeley, daughter of Sir Henry Berkeley of Bruton.[30]
• .... etc.
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor_of_King%27s_Nympton#Sir_Lewis_I_... ______________________________
• CHUDLEIGH, John (1564-89), of Ashton, Devon.
• b. 1564, 2nd s. of Christopher Chudleigh (d. by 1571) of Ashton by Christian, da. and h. of William Strechley. m. (1) Elizabeth, da. of Sir George Speake, 3s. inc. George 3da. suc. bro. 1572.
• Chudleigh’s grandfather was a commissioner for church goods in Devon under the 1st Earl of Bedford; his father was a Marian exile; a cousin was recorder of London and a ‘favourer of godly religion’. Chudleigh himself, and his elder brother, whom he eventually succeeded, were wards of the 2nd Earl of Bedford.
• At the age of 19 Chudleigh sailed in the Delight on Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s last expedition, and was thenceforth associated with others of the Gilbert family and with Sir Walter Ralegh, his fellow knight of the shire for Devon in 1586. On 5 Nov. that year Chudleigh introduced a bill concerning cloth making in Devon.1 He was commended for valour at sea during the Armada campaign of 1588, and the next year, having borrowed money from a number of his friends, he set off on an expedition to raid the treasure port of Peru. One of his five ships was wrecked off France, and the others, including the one in which Chudleigh sailed, disappeared and were presumed to have foundered in the Straits of Magellan, Chudleigh’s own date of death being given in his inquisition post mortem as 6 Nov. 1589. His widow was granted the administration of his estate in 1590, but this was later renounced in favour of a creditor.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/ch... __________________________
• Sir George Chudleigh, 1st Baronet (c. 1578 – 15 January 1658) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1601 and 1625. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War after opposing the king initially.
• Chudleigh was the son of John Chudleigh, of Ashton, Devon, and his wife Elizabeth Speke, daughter of George Speke, of White Lackington, Somerset.
• He succeeded his father when he was eleven years old. He matriculated at New College, Oxford on 26 November 1596, aged 18. In 1601 he was elected Member of Parliament for St. Michaels. He was elected MP for East Looe in 1614 and for Lostwithiel in 1621. He was created baronet of Ashton on 1 August 1622. In 1624 he was elected MP for Tiverton. He was elected MP for Lostwithiel again in 1625.[1]
• Chudleigh opposed the King at the start of the Civil War, but later, with his son, took up arms for the King and published, in 1643, a declaration of his reasons for doing so. He is said "to have paid dear" for his loyalty.[1]
• In May 1643, the Earl of Stamford, who had just entered Cornwall with an army of seven thousand men, sent a party of twelve hundred horse, under the command of Chudleigh, to Bodmin, in order to surprise the high sheriff and gentlemen of the county. When Chudleigh heard of the defeat of the parliamentarian army, commanded by his son Major-general James Chudleigh, at Stratton Hill, he removed from Bodmin to Plymouth, and thence to Exeter. After Stamford had accused James Chudleigh of treachery, Sir George surrendered his commission, and published a 'Declaration' which is reprinted in Rushworth's Historical Collections, vol. ii. pt. iii. p. 272. Subsequently he espoused the cause of the king.[2]
• Chudleigh died in 1658 and was buried in Ashton church.[2]
• He had married Mary Strode, eldest daughter of Sir William Strode (died 1637), MP, of Newnham, Plympton St Mary, Devon, in or before 1606.[1] They had 9 sons and 9 daughters.
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_George_Chudleigh,_1st_Baronet __________________
• Sir Reginald MOHUN of Hall and Boconnoc
• Born: ABT 1564, Boconnoc, Cornwall, England
• Died: 1639
• Father: William MOHUN of Hall
• Mother: Elizabeth HORSEY
• Married 1: Mary KILLIGREW (dau. of Henry Killigrew and Catherinne Cooke) AFT 7 Sep 1589
• Children:
  • 1. William MOHUN (d. 1613)
• Married 2: Phillippa HELE (dau. of John Hele and Margaret Warwick) BEF 1593
• Children:
  • 2. Elizabeth MOHUN (b. 10 Feb 1592/3, St. Pinncok - d. AFT Jan 1638/9) (m. Sir John Trelawny, 1st Bt.)
  • 3. John MOHUN (1° B. Mohun of Okehampton) (b. ABT 1592 - d. 1641) (m. Cordelia Stanhope)
• Married 3: Dorothy CHUDLEIGH (dau. of John Chudleigh and Elizabeth Speke)
• Children:
  • 4. Reginald MOHUN (Sir) (b. ABT 1603 - d. 1642)
  • 5. Bridget MOHUN (m. John Nichols)
  • 6. Dorothy MOHUN (m. Sir Henry Carew)
  • 7. Margaret MOHUN (d. 1670) (m. Charles Roscarrock)
  • 8. Ferdinand MOHUN
  • 9. George MOHUN
  • 10. Penelope MOHUN (bapt. 29 Jan 1609, Boconnoc) (m. William Drewe of Broad Hembury)
• .... etc.
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/ReginaldMohun1.htm ___________________
• CHUDLEIGH, George (c.1578-1658), of Place Barton, Ashton, nr. Exeter, Devon.
• b. c.1578, 1st s. of John Chudleigh of Ashton by Elizabeth, da. of Sir George Speake of White Lackington, Som. educ. New Coll. Oxf. 1596. m. by 1606, Mary, da. of William Strode II of Newnham, 9s. 9da. suc. fat 1589. cr. Bt. 1622.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/ch... _______________________
• CHUDLEIGH, George (1582-1658), of Ashton, Devon.
• b. 14 Nov. 1582,1 1st s. of John Chudleigh† of Ashton and Elizabeth, da. of Sir George Speake† of White Lackington, Som.; bro. of Sir John*.2 educ. New Coll. Oxf. 1596.3 m. by 1606, Mary, da. of Sir William Strode* of Newnham, Plympton St. Mary, Devon, 9s. (4 d.v.p.) 9da. (5 d.v.p.). suc. fa. 1589;4 cr. bt. 1 Aug. 1622.5 d. 15 Jan. 1658.6 sig. Geo[rge] Chudleigh.
• Offices Held
  • J.p. Devon by 1614-42,7 commr. piracy 1615, 1619-20, 1630, 1637-9,8 dep. lt. by 1625-at least 1642,9 commr. impressment 1625,10 Privy Seal loan 1625-6,11 billeting, Devon and Cornw. 1625-6, 1627-8,12 martial law 1625, 1627-8,13 treas. and paymaster for billeting 1626-8,14 commr. Forced Loan, Devon 1626-7,15 treas. of Loan 1627-8, Cornw. 1627,16 commr. to investigate Sir John Eliot*, Devon 1627,17 knighthood fines from 1630,18 sewers 1634,19 sjt.-maj.-gen. militia from 1635,20 commr. incorporation of maltsters 1636,21 hard soap, W. Country,22 exacted fees, Devon and Exeter 1638,23 charitable uses, Bampton, Devon 1641,24 assessment, Devon 1641-2.25
  • Member, Council for New Eng. 1620.26
  • Gov. St. Nicholas Is. Plymouth, Devon 1642-3,27 Exeter 1642-3;28 lt.-gen. (parl.), Devon 1643.29
• Chudleigh’s forebears were prominent members of the Devon gentry from the fourteenth century, when they acquired substantial lands near Exeter, including their main seat at Ashton. His grandfather was a Marian exile, and his father John, who represented Devon in the 1586 Parliament, distinguished himself in the Armada campaign.30 John inherited seven or more manors, reportedly worth at least £1,000 a year, but in 1589 he ‘hazarded all his great estate unto ruin’ in a disastrous privateering voyage. Having sold or mortgaged almost all his property to cover his expenses, John died at sea in November that year, leaving his widow Elizabeth to salvage what she could from the financial wreckage.31 In July 1591, with the help of her brother-in-law Sir Edward Gorges, Elizabeth purchased Chudleigh’s wardship, which had fallen to the Crown, and in the following year money was found to redeem the mortgages on the key Ashton properties. Chudleigh’s prospects were enhanced by the inheritance from his grandmother of several valuable manors in Devon and Cornwall, including Stretchleigh near Plymouth, but in the final reckoning the bulk of the family’s ancestral lands were lost for good.32
• .... etc.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/ch... ____________________
• CHUDLEIGH, Sir John (c.1584-?1634), of Stretchleigh/Strashleigh, Ermington, Devon.
• b. c.1584, 2nd s. of John Chudleigh† (d.1589) and Elizabeth, da. of Sir George Speake† of White Lackington, Som.; bro. of George*. m. (1) aft. 15 Jan. 1626, Margaret, da. of Sir William Courtenay† of Powderham, Devon, wid. of Sir Warwick Hele*,? s.p.; (2) 1st or 5th Jan. 1634, Dorothy, da. of Richard Norris, wid. of Christopher Blackhall and one Brooking, ? s.p.1 kntd. 28 Sept. 1625.2 d. aft. 1 Jan. 1634. sig. Jo[hn] Chudleigh.
• Offices Held
  • Capt. privateer, 1617-18,3 RN 1620-1, 1623-8, v.-adm. 1628;4 member, Council of War 1628.5
  • Member, Guiana Co. by 1618,6 New Eng. Co. by 1622.7
  • Commr. to arrest Esperance of Newhaven and make an inventory of its goods, 1624.8
• Chudleigh’s father, whose surname is often spelt ‘Chidley’, gained a taste for privateering at the age of 19 when he sailed on Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s last voyage. His activities brought him into contact with Sir Walter Ralegh†, to whom he was related through an aunt, both men serving together in 1586 as knights of the shire for Devon. In 1589, inspired by the success of Thomas Cavendish† in raiding Chile and Peru, the elder Chudleigh sold up his estates, equipped a squadron of five ships and, with Ralegh’s support at Court, embarked upon a disastrous voyage, which culminated in his death from disease.9
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• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/ch... _________________________