Sir Lewis Pollard, 1st Baronet of Kings Nympton

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

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• 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]
• Sir Hugh Pollard, 2nd Baronet (c.1610-1666) , eldest son and heir. During the Civil War the Pollards were staunch Royalists but Sir Hugh Pollard was fined £518 for his "delinquency”. It may have been the severity of this fine which caused him to sell the manor to his cousin Sir Arthur Northcote, 2nd Baronet (1628–1688), whose large inscribed slate ledger stone and funeral helm survives in King's Nympton Church, the place of his burial.
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• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor_of_King%27s_Nympton#Sir_Lewis_I_... ______________________________
• Sir Hugh Pollard, 2nd Baronet (1603–27 November 1666) was an English soldier and MP elected for Bere Alston in 1640, Callington in 1660, and Devon in 1661. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.
• Pollard was the eldest son and heir of Sir Lewis Pollard, 1st Baronet (d.1641) of King's Nympton, Devonshire, by his wife Margaret Berkeley, daughter of Sir Henry Berkeley, Knight, of Bruton, Somerset.[2]
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• Pollard married twice:
• Firstly to Lady Bridget de Vere (1584-1631), a daughter of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604) and widow of Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire (1579-1622). By her he left an only daughter, Bridget Pollard.[4]
• Secondly to Mary Stevens (1619-1669), a daughter of William Stevens (d.1648) of Great Torrington, and widow of Henry Rolle (1605-1647) of Beam near Great Torrington who inherited in 1638 the vast estate of Stevenstone near Great Torrington. William Stevens was the founder of the Devon branch of the influential Stevens family of Vielstone in the parish of Buckland Brewer, of Cross in Little Torrington and of Winscott in Peters Marland. The Cornish seat of Callington 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 St Giles in the Wood, the parish church of Stevenstone.[5]
• Pollard died on 27 November 1666 at Whitehall at the age of about 63 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
• On his death without male progeny the baronetcy passed to his younger brother Sir Amyas Pollard, 3rd Baronet (1616-1701), of Abbots Bickington, Devon. Due to the debts built up by Sir Hugh, largely from his lavish entertaining, much apparently on government business,[3] his brother inherited very little of the ancient family estate[6] and almost immediately had to sell the family manor of King's Nympton. Upon the death of Sir Amyas unmarried and without legitimate male heir, the baronetcy became extinct.[3]
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Hugh_Pollard,_2nd_Baronet _____________________
• Sir Amyas Pollard, 3rd Baronet (1616-1701) was an English gentleman of Devon and a baronet. Little is known of his life except that he was a staunch royalist during the Civil War, as evidenced by the inscribed verse on his ledger stone at Abbots Bickington: Who durst the King & royall cause still own, In times when doing it was so dangerous known. He was the last in the male line of the ancient Pollard family of Bishop's Nympton. He inherited the baronetcy from his elder brother Sir Hugh Pollard, 2nd Baronet (1603-1666) who left the Pollard estates much reduced and encumbered with debts. He was forced soon after his inheritance to sell the manor of Bishop's Nympton and moved to Abbots Bickington, a smaller family manor, and made his seat at Court Barton, immediately to the south of the small parish church.
• Pollard was the fourth son of Sir Lewis Pollard, 1st Baronet (d.1641) of King's Nympton, Devonshire, by his wife Margaret Berkeley, daughter of Sir Henry Berkeley, Knight, of Bruton, Somerset.[2]
• Pollard never married but left an illegitimate son by unknown mistress, Thomas Pollard (1681-1710), of Abbots Bickington, who inherited his father's name and estate but not his baronetcy. He married on 25 June 1702 at Sutcombe to Sarah Prideaux, a daughter of Jonathan Prideaux of Theuborough but the marriage was without progeny.[3] A prominent mural monument erected by his wife exists in the church of Abbots Bickington to the memory of Thomas Pollard.
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• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Amyas_Pollard,_3rd_Baronet ______________________
• POLLARD, Sir Hugh, 2nd Bt. (c.1610-66), of Eggesford, Devon.
• b. c.1610, 1st s. of Sir Lewis Pollard, 1st Bt., of King’s Nympton by Margaret, da. of Sir Henry Berkeley† of Bruton, Som. m. (1) Lady Bridget Vere, da. and coh. of Edward, 17th Earl of Oxford, 1da.; (2) c.1650, Mary, da. of William Stevens of Great Torrington, Devon, wid. of Henry Rolle of Beam, Devon, s.p. suc. fa. 1641.1
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/po... ______________________
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Birth: 1578 Kings Nympton Devon, England Death: Nov. 19, 1641 Kings Nympton Devon, England

Eldest son and heir of Sir Hugh Pollard II & Dorothy Chichester. Barrister at law. Education Matriculated at Broadgate Hall, Oxford 12 Dec 1595. Deputy Lieutenant of Devonshire 14 Oct 1623. 1st Baronet of King's Nympton. He was created a baronet on 31 May 1627.

He married Margaret Berkeley, daughter of Sir Henry Berkeley and Margaret Lygon of Bruton, Somersetshire.

CHILDREN: 1. George Pollard

2. Hugh Pollard b. 1610 d. 27 November 1666

3. Amyas Pollard b.1617 d. 1701

4. Elizabeth m. Sir John III Chichester (1598 - 24 September 1669) of Hall was Member of Parliament for Lostwithiel in Cornwall in 1624. This was his 2nd of 3 marriages. 1 daughter Susannah Chichester (1665-1707/8), whose monument exists in Swimbridge Church.

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Parents:

 Hugh Pollard (1552 - ____)

 Dorothy Chichester Pollard (1556 - ____)

Children:

 Elizabeth Pollard Chichester (____ - 1661)*

 Hugh Pollard (1603 - 1666)*

 Amyas Pollard (1616 - 1701)*

Sibling:

 Lewis Pollard (1578 - 1641)

 William Pollard (1583 - ____)*

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Burial: King's Nympton Church Kings Nympton North Devon District Devon, England

Created by: W. Pollard Record added: Oct 30, 2013 Find A Grave Memorial# 119587884