COKE OF TRUSLEY. [Illustration] This is a younger branch of the old house of the Cokes of Trusley, a family of considerable antiquity. The elder line became extinct in 1718. The present family are descended from the Cokes of Suckley in Worcestershire. The Cokes were originally of Staffordshire, but settled in Derbyshire in consequence of a match with one of the coheiresses of Odingsells of Trusley, in the middle of the fifteenth century. There is a younger branch of this family at Lower Moor, in Herefordshire. The Cokes of Melbourn were also a younger branch, from whom the Lambs, Viscounts Melbourne, were descended. See Lysons, lxxxi. ARMS.--_Gules, three crescents and a canton or_. Present Representative, Edward Thomas Coke, Esq. THORNHILL OF STANTON, IN THE PARISH OF YOULGRAVE. [Illustration] Descended from the Thornhills of Thornhill in the Peak, where they were seated as early as the seventh of Edward I. Stanton was inherited from an heiress of Bache in 1697. See Lysons, xcvii. ARMS, confirmed in 1734.--_Gules, two bars gemelles_ _and a chief argent, thereon a mascle sable_. This coat, without the mascle, was borne by M. Bryan de Thornhill in the reign of Edward III. (Roll.) Present Representative, William Pole Thornhill, Esq. late M.P. for North Derbyshire. ABNEY OF MEASHAM. [Illustration] This is a younger branch of a family who were seated at Willersley, by a match with the heiress of Ingwardby at the beginning of the fifteenth century. Willersley was the property of the late Sir Charles Abney Hastings by female descent. Measham is a purchase of about a century. See Lysons, cxii. ARMS.--_Or, on a chief gules a lion passant argent_. Lysons however gives, _Argent, on a cross sable five bezants._ Present Representative, William Wotton-Abney, Esq. DEVONSHIRE. +Knightly.+ FULFORD OF FULFORD, IN THE PARISH OF DUNSFORD. [Illustration] There is every reason to believe that the ancestors of this venerable family have resided at Fulford from the time of the Conquest. Three knights of the house distinguished themselves in the wars of the Holy Land. William de Fulford, who held Fulford in the reign of Richard I., is the first ascertained ancestor. Sir Baldwin Fulford, a leading Lancastrian, was beheaded at Bristol in 1461. See Prince's Worthies of Devon, ed. 1701, p. 298, for description of Fulford; Westcote's Devonshire Pedigrees, p. 612; Lysons, cxlv. 171. ARMS.--_Gules, a chevron argent_. Present Representative, Baldwin Fulford, Esq. COURTENAY OF POWDERHAM CASTLE, EARL OF DEVON 1553, RESTORED 1831.