Sir Lewis Pollard, MP

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Sir Lewis Pollard (c. 1465–1526) of King's Nympton, Devon, was Justice of the Common Pleas from 1514 to 1526[2] and served as MP for Totnes in 1491 and was a JP in Devon in 1492. He was knighted after 1509.[3] He was one of several Devonshire men to be "innated with a genius to study law", as identified by Fuller, who became eminent lawyers at a national level.[4] He was a kinsman of the judge and Speaker of the House of Commons Sir John Pollard (c. 1508–1557). He was also a member of the first group of feoffees of Manchester Grammar School.[5]

He was a member of an ancient Devonshire gentry family, a younger son of Robert Pollard, second son of John Pollard of Way in the parish of St Giles in the Wood, Great Torrington, Devon, by his wife, a member of the Lewknor family of Sussex. Robert's father John Pollard (whose wife was Alyanora Copleston (d. 21 September 1430), whose monumental brass exists in the parish church of St Giles in the Wood, daughter of John Copleston of Copleston, Devon) settled on him his lands in Roborough, about 5 miles SE of Great Torrington. Risdon states that Sir Lewis Pollard resided at Grilston, in the parish of Bishop's Nympton,[6] before he purchased the nearby manor of King's Nympton to the south. The following were the principal historic seats of the wider Pollard family: .... etc.

Lewis Pollard entered the Middle Temple to train as a lawyer, and was appointed Reader of that society, the third person to hold that office. He was appointed one of ten Sergeants at Law in 1505, during at a great ceremonial feast in Lambeth Palace with 1,000 guests including King Henry VII himself. In 1507 Pollard was appointed the King's Sergeant-at-Law to Henry VII and three years later the appointment was renewed by Henry VIII, who soon after appointed him a Justice of the Common Pleas. He remained in this office of judge until his death on 21 October 1526. Prince wrote of his career: .... etc.

He purchased the manor of King's Nympton in Devon, where he built a residence and established a deer park. This remained the principal seat of the family for several generations and in the south aisle of the Parish Church of St James exists at the east end the "Pollard Chapel" with 17th-century panelling.[14] He purchased the manor of Oakford in August 1507 for £203 from Sir Charles Brandon (d.1545), later Duke of Suffolk, and from his wife Margaret. The Pollards held Oakford until 1604 when it was sold by Sir Hugh Pollard to Richard Hill alias Spurway, a clothier of Tavistock.[15]

He married Agnes Hext, daughter of Thomas Hext, a prominent lawyer[16] of Kingston (in the parish of Staverton, near Totnes), by his wife Florence Bonville. Westcote stated her to be the heiress of Dunisford (or Donesford).[17] By her he had eleven sons and eleven daughters, including:

The Heralds' Visitations of Devon[18] lists the following sons of Sir Lewis Pollard:

• Sir Hugh Pollard, eldest son and heir, great-grandfather of Sir Lewis Pollard, 1st Baronet of King's Nympton. He was Recorder of Barnstaple in 1545[19] Through the influence of his brother Richard he obtained the wardship of Richard Bury (1516–1543), son and heir of John Bury (d.1533) of Colleton, Chulmleigh, whom he married to his daughter Elizabeth Pollard. Richard Pollard obtained as his own wife John Bury's daughter Elizabeth, as promised him in her father's will.[20]
• Sir Richard Pollard (1505–1542), 2nd son, MP for Taunton (1536) and Devon (1539, 1542), of Putney, Surrey. King's Remembrancer of the Exchequer and a law reporter[21] He was an assistant of Thomas Cromwell in administering the surrender of religious houses following the Dissolution of the monasteries, and was employed particularly as a surveyor who visited the premises and made a detailed valuation of the house's assets and income.[22] In 1537 he was granted by King Henry VIII the manor of Combe Martin in Devon[23] and in 1540 Forde Abbey.
• John Pollard, 3rd son,[24] Archdeacon of Wiltshire, Archdeacon of Cornwall, Archdeacon of Barnstaple (1544–1554),[25] Archdeacon of Totnes and Canon of Exeter Cathedral. His full biography is included in Hooker's Synopsis.
• Robert Pollard (d.1576), 4th son, purchased from the crown the manor of Knowstone,[26] where he was buried on 26 September 1576. He married Anne (or Agnes) Chichester (d.1541), daughter of Richard Chichester of Hall, Bishop's Tawton by his wife Thomasine de Hall (d.1502), heiress of Hall.[27]
• Anthony Pollard, 5th son.
• Sir George Pollard, 6th son, knighted at Boulogne for his role in the defence of that English outpost.[28]

The Heralds' Visitations of Devon[29] names five daughters of Sir Lewis Pollard:

• Anne Pollard, wife of Humphrey Moore (d.1537) of Moorehays in the parish of Burlescombe, in the church of which exists his monument.[30]
• Jane Pollard,[31] wife of Sir Hugh Stukley (d.1559) of Affeton Castle and mother of the mercenary Thomas Stukley. A heraldic stained-glass roundel survives in the south window of the Pollard Chapel in the south aisle of King's Nympton Church showing the arms of Stucley impaling Pollard, with quarterings of each family. The arms are as follows: baron, quarterly 1st azure, three pears pendant or (Stucley); 2nd Argent a chevron engrailed between three fleurs-de-lis sable (de Affeton[32]); 3rd Argent a chevron gules between three roses of the second seeded or (Wood?); 4th Gules, three lions rampant or; femme quarterly 1st & 4th Argent, a chevron sable between three mullets gules pierced or (Pollard of Horwood); 2nd & 3rd Argent, a chevron sable between three escallops gules (Pollard of King's Nympton)
• Philippa Pollard, wife of Sir Hugh Paulet of Sampford Peverell[33]
• Thomasine Pollard, wife of Admiral Sir George Carew (d.1545)
• Elizabeth, wife firstly (as his second wife) of John Crocker of Lineham, by whom she had issue,[34] and secondly of Sir Hugh Trevanion
• Unnamed daughter, wife of "Hugh" Courtenay of Powderham, whose identity is uncertain.[35]

He died on d. 21 October 1526 aged about 61[36] and was buried in the church at King's Nympton, as Risdon stated "In Nymet Church Judge Pollard lieth honourably interred, having a monument erected to his memory" (see below), as well as a stained-glass memorial window nearby, now lost (see below). His reference to "Nymet" is clearly intended as Bishop's Nympton, as the passage occurs within his section on that parish, which is followed by a separate section on King's Nympton.

His will was dated 4 November 1525 and bequeathed the profits of his manor of Oakford to a chantry "to pray for my soule my father my mother my uncle Maister Lewis Pollard..." He mentioned "My Lady of Canon Lege", possibly a reference to Canonsleigh Abbey. He mentioned his brother Thomas Pollard, his sons John, Richard, Antonye, his godson Lewes Stucley and "Annes my wife", whom he requested should not re-marry, in which case she should inherit together with his son John the residue of all his goods. He left £6 13s 4d towards the building of a church tower at either Bishop's Nympton or King's Nympton.[37] The will was witnessed by Antony Pollard, Squire, and Thomas Hext, gent.[38]

The monument generally assumed to be to Sir Lewis Pollard in Bishop's Nympton Church is an ornately sculpted late Perpendicular Gothic stone Easter Sepulchre, which shows no effigy, set into the north wall of the chancel, near the altar. It shows several heraldic escutcheons from which any painted armorials have been completely worn away. Only a heraldic crest remains on top of the structure, apparently a leopard's head and neck issuing from a helm. This is not however reconcilable with the often quoted crest of the Pollards, namely a stag passant argent attired or. Possibly for this reason the monument is generally attributed with some doubt to Sir Lewis Pollard in modern publications.[39]

In 1630 when Risdon was writing his "Survey of Devon", a now lost stained-glass window existed in Bishop's Nympton Church[40] which depicted Sir Lewis Pollard, probably kneeling, with ten or eleven sons behind him on one side, and on the other side his wife facing him, probably also kneeling, with 10 or 11 daughters behind her. The following story is related by Prince: .... etc.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Pollard

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• POLLARD, Sir Lewis (1465?-1540), judge, born about 1465, was son of Robert Pollard of Roborough, near Torrington, Devon, and a kinsman of Sir John Pollard [q. v.], speaker of the House of Commons. Lewis was called to the bar from the Middle Temple, where he was reader in 1502; in 1505, he was made serjeant-at-law, and on 9 July 1509 king's serjeant, an apointment which was confirmed on the accession of Henry VIII. From this time he fequently served on the commission for the peace in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, and Wiltshire, was justice of assize for the Oxford circuit from 1511 to 1514, when he was appointed justice of common pleas and knighted. He retired from the bench after February 1526, and died in 1540. 'His knowledge in the laws and other commendable virtues, together with a numerous issue, rendered him famous above most of his age and rank' (PRINCE, Worthies of Devon, p. 493). He married Agnes, daughter of Thomas Hext of Kingston, near Totnes, Devon, and had eleven sons and eleven daughters. Of the sons no less than four were knighted, Sir Hugh, Sir John, Sir Richard, and Sir George. Sir Hugh was great-great-grandfather of Sir Hugh Pollard [q. v.]; Sir Richard was father of Sir John Pollard (1528-1575), who must be distinguished from Sir John, speaker of the House of Commons; the former was knighted by the Earl of Warwick on 10 Nov. 1549, sat in parliament as member for Barnstaple, 1553-4, Exeter in 1555, and Grampound, 1562, and died in 1575, leaving no issue. Sir Lewis's son George owed his knighthood to his services in defence of Boulogne in 1548-9.
• [Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, passim; Dugdale's Chron. Ser. pp. 77, 79; Foss's Lives of the Judges, v. 227-8; Visitation of Devon (Harl. Soc.); Prince's Worthies of Devon, pp. 492-495; Pole's Description of Devon, and Moore's Hist. of Devon, passim; Burke's Extinct Baronetage; Strype's Works, Index.] A. F. P. ________________
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• POLLARD, of King's-Nymet in Devon. — Arms. — Argent a chevron azure between three mullets gules.
• Sir Lewis Pollard, knight, sergeant-at-law, married the daughter and heir of Dunisford, or Donesford, and had issue Sir Hugh, Sir John of Ford and Combe-Martin ; Sir Richard, knight of St. Johns ; John, archdeacon of Barnstaple ; and seven others and eleven daughters : ___ , (married to Sir Hugh Stukely, of Affeton, knight ;) Elizabeth, (to Sir Hugh Courtenay, of Powderham, knight ;) ___ , (to Sir Hugh Pawlet, of Sampford-Peverel, knight ;) ___ , (to Sir John Crocker, of Lineham, Devon, knight ; secondly to Sir Hugh Trevanion, of Comwall, knight ;) ___ , (to More, of Morehays, Devon, esq.)
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• POLLARD, of Knowston-Beauple, gent. — Arms. — Argent, a chevron sable, between three escalops gules.
• Robert Pollard, second son of John, son of Walter, son of John of Way and Horewood, esq., married Agnes, daughter of Lewknor, of Sussex, esq., and had issue Lewis ; who married Agnes, daughter of Thomas Hext, of Kingston in Staverton, and had issue Hugh, Richard, John, Robert, Anthony, George, Elizabeth, Jane, Agnes, Thomasin, and Philippa. _________________
• Lewis Pollard
• M, b. circa 1492
• Father Robert Pollard b. c 1470
• Mother (Miss) Lewknor b. c 1472
• Lewis Pollard was born circa 1492 at of Kingston, Devonshire, England. He married Agnes Hext, daughter of Thomas Hext and Joan Fortescue, circa 1518. His estate was probated in 1526 at Hinton St. George, Somersetshire, England; Will proved.
• Family 1 Agnes Hext b. c 1494
• Child
  • Phillipa Pollard+ b. c 1520
• Family 2
• Child
  • Jane Pollard+1 b. c 1540
• Citations
• 1.[S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, SLC Archives.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2406.htm#... ______________
• Sir Lewis Pollard1
• M, #208105, b. 1485, d. 1525
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• Sir Lewis Pollard was born in 1485.1 He died in 1525.1
• Child of Sir Lewis Pollard and Agnes Hext
  • 1.Phillipa Pollard+1
• Citations
• 1.[S1916] Tim Boyle, "re: Boyle Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 16 September 2006. Hereinafter cited as "re: Boyle Family."
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p20811.htm#i208105 ____________________
• Joan FORTESCUE
• Born: ABT 1444, Wymston, Minston, Devon, England
• Father: John FORTESCUE of Wymston
• Mother: Jane PRESTON
• Married: John HEXT (b. ABT 1434 - d. 1497) (son of Thomas Hext)
• Children:
  • 1. Thomas HEXT of Pickwell (Esq.) (b. ABT 1474 - d. 1555) (m. Wilmot Poyntz)
  • 2. Agnes HEXT (b. 1468) (m. Lewis Pollard)
  • 3. Elizabeth HEXT (m. John Ackeland)
  • 4. Anne HEXT
  • 5. John HEXT
  • 6. Jane HEXT
  • 7. Catherine HEXT
  • 8. William HEXT
  • 9. Henry HEXT
  • 10. Eleanor HEXT
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/FORTESCUE3.htm#Joan FORTESCUE1 ____________________________
• Hugh PAULET (Sir Knight)
• Born: 1500, Hinton, St. George, Somerset, England
• Died: Dec 1572
• Notes: See his Biography.
• Father: Amyas PAULET (Knight)
• Mother: Lora KELLAWAY
• Married 1: Phillipa POLLARD (dau. of Lewis Pollard and Agnes Hext) 1528, Hinton St. George, Somersetshire, England
• Children:
  • 1. Nicholas PAULET
  • 2. George PAULET
  • 3. Jane PAULET
  • 4. Amyas PAULET (Sir)
• Married 2: Elizabeth BLOUNT ABT 1559 / 12 Nov 1560
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/PAULET.htm#Hugh PAULET1 _______________
• POLLARD, Richard (by 1505-42), of Putney, Surr., London and Forde Abbey, Dorset.
• b. by 1505, 2nd s. of Sir Lewis Pollard of Kings Nympton, Devon by Agnes, da. of Thomas Hext of Kingston, nr. Totnes, Devon. educ. M. Temple, adm. 4 July 1519. m. by 1528, Jacquetta, 1da. of John Bury of Colliton, Devon, 3s. inc. Sir John 1da. Kntd. 16 Jan. 1542.4
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/po... _________________
• John Pollard was Archdeacon of Wiltshire, Archdeacon of Cornwall, Archdeacon of Barnstaple[1] and Archdeacon of Totnes.
• He was one of eleven sons of Sir Lewis Pollard (c.1465-1526) of King's Nympton, Devon, MP for Totnes and Justice of the Common Pleas, by his wife Agnes Hext. He was educated at Oxford University and graduated B.A.in 1522/3 and M.A. in 1526. He was vicar of Minety and archdeacon of Wiltshire in 1539, until deprived under Queen Mary in 1544. He was prebendary of Brecon 1542-51, archdeacon of Cornwall from 1543 to 1545, rector of Portishead, Somerset (1543-1550) and archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1544, (until deprived under Mary I in 1554). He was rector of Ermington mediety 1545-1554, of Widdicombe (or Withycombe) 1549-1560 and of Newton Ferrers in 1553-1556, rector of Wheatfield, Oxforrdshire, 1553-1577, canon of Sarum 1556-1559 and archdeacon of Totnes in 1558. [2]
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pollard_(priest) _____________________
• Sir Richard Pollard (by 1505 - 10 November 1542), was Member of Parliament for Taunton in 1536, and for Devon in 1540 and 1542.[2] He played a major role in assisting Thomas Cromwell in administering the Dissolution of the monasteries.
• He was the second son of Sir Lewis Pollard (c. 1465-1526) of King's Nympton, in North Devon, Justice of the Common Pleas from 1514 to 1526[3] and MP for Totnes in 1491, by his wife Agnes Hext, daughter of Thomas Hext, a prominent lawyer[4] of Kingston in the parish of Staverton, near Totnes.
• In 1519 Richard Pollard entered on his legal training in the Middle Temple, where his father had also trained.[5] He was a JP for Devon in 1532,[6] and was elected MP for Taunton in 1536 and twice for Devon in 1539 and 1542 and was Sheriff of Devon in 1537-8.[7] .... etc.
• He married Jacquetta Bury (d.1545, buried at Berrynarbor[17]), as promised him in the will of her father John Bury (d.1533) of Colleton, Chulmleigh, Devon. By his influence Richard had helped his elder brother Sir Hugh Pollard to obtain the wardship of John Bury's 17 year old son and heir Richard Bury, whom Sir Hugh married to his daughter Elizabeth Pollard.[18]
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pollard_(MP) _______________
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• CAPTAIN THOMAS STUCLEY was the third son of Sir Hugh Stucley (died Jan. 6, 1560), of Affton, on the river Taw, near Ilfracomb, Devonshire, by his wife Jane, daughter of Sir Lewis Pollard on of the Judges of the Common Pleas. Prince, in his Worthies of Devon, tells us that the Judge was born about 1465 and died about 1540, and had by his wife, Elizabeth Hext, two-and-twenty children, eleven sons and eleven daughters; and that the daughters were all married 'to the most potent families in the county, most of them knights, as the first to Sir Hugh Stucley, the second to Sir Hugh Courtenay of powderham, the third to Sir Hugh Pawlet of Stamford Peverel, the fourth to Sir John Crocker of Lineham, &c. .... etc.
• It appears that Sir Lewis Pollard died, not in 1540, but on the 21st of October, 1526. That his children, who lived to be recorded in the Visitations, were eleven in all; five sons-- Hugh, Richard, John, Robert, and Anthony; and six daughters-- Grace, Elizabeth, Jane, Agnes, Thomasin, and Philippa. I cannot discover any Hugh
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• Courtenay of Powderham, or any intermarriage of the Courtenays and Pollards in the generation in question. But Elizabeth, the second daughter, was married in succession to Sir John Croker and Sir Hugh Trevanion, of Carey-hayes, in Cornwall. Grace, the eldest daughter, does not appear to have been married at all. Possibly she was the nun of Canon Leigh, called in religion Margaret, to whom her father, alone of his daughter, left a legacy in his will.
• The father of Sir Hugh Stucley was Sir Thomas Stucley (died Jn. 30, 1543), a Knight of the body to King Henry VIII., in 1516, and whose name is found on the sheriff roll for Somerset and Dorset .... etc. His wife was Anne, the daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Wood of Bingley. .... etc.
• In Benolt's Visitation of Devon, Ao 22 of Henry VIII., the family name of the Stucleys of Affton is spelt Steretchley, and that of the Stucleys of Trent, Somerset (who were identically the same persons), Strevokley. There is also another family name, Stratcheley of Stratchley, which seems to have been originally the same. .... etc.
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• By his wife, Jane Pollard, Sir Hugh Stucley was father of four sons and four daughters: Lewis, Anne, Mary, Elizabeth, George, Thomas, Hugh, Agnes. Lewis was married when his grandfather, Sir Thomas, settled his estates in 1535, and though he does not then seem to have had a male heir, he must have had daughters. One of them, Mary, was married successively to Tristram Larder, and to Sargeant Prideaux. The latter died in 1558, leaving three children; the woman who had time to be twice married, and to have this family by her second husband, in 1558, was probably born some years before 1535. If, then her father Lewis was born about 1510 (which would make him 25 years old in 1636), it is presumable that his brother Thomas, the subject of the present sketch, was born sometime before 1520. ___________________
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  • "Lusty" Stucley
• .... etc. Captain Thomas Stucley was the third son of Sir Hugh Stucley, of Affeton in the parish of West Worlington, near Chumleigh. Hugh Stucley, the father of our Thomas, was Sheriff of Devon in 1544; his wife was Jane, daughter of Sir Lewis Pollard. Sir Hugh died in 1560.
• The eldest son, Lewis Stucley, was aged thirty at the death of his father. He became standard-bearer to Queen Elizabeth.
• It was rumoured during the life of Thomas that he was an illegitimate son of Henry VIII, like Sir John Perrot. "Stucley's birth," says Mr. Simson, "must have occurred at the time when the King, tired of his .... etc. ______________________________
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