The Noble and Gentle Men of England: or, notes touching the arms and descents of the ancient knightly and gentle houses of England, arranged in their respective counties. — John Shaqi
The Noble and Gentle Men of England: or, notes touching the arms and descents of the ancient knightly and gentle houses of England, arranged in their respective counties.Shirley, Evelyn Philip
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The Noble and Gentle Men of England: or, notes touching the arms and descents of the ancient knightly and gentle houses of England, arranged in their respective counties.
Shirley, Evelyn Philip
Great Britain -- Genealogy; Heraldry -- Great Britain; Nobility -- Great Britain
A younger branch of the Haringtons was fixed at Ridlington by
purchase in the first year of Philip and Mary; but had been seated
at Exton in the same county from the reign of Henry VII. Sir James
Harington, third Baronet, was attainted in the 13th of Charles II.,
having been named as one of the Judges of his sovereign Charles I.
He sat however only one day, and refused to sign the fatal warrant.
Dartington, the ancient seat of the Champernowne family, was carried
by an heiress, Jane, only daughter of Arthur Champernowne, Esq., the
last heir male of the family, to the Rev. Richard Harington, second
son of Sir James Harington, Baronet, grandfather of the present
representative, and who assumed her name.
See Wright's History of the County of Rutland, pp. 48, 108; Blore's
Rutlandshire; and Courthope's Debrett's Baronetage, p. 10.
ARMS.--_Sable, fretty argent_.
Present Representative, Arthur Champernowne, Esq.
+Gentle.+
BASTARD OF KITLEY, IN THE PARISH OF YEALMTON, OR YALMETON.
[Illustration] Descended from Robert Bastard, who held several
manors in this county in the reign of William I. For several
generations Efford, in the parish of Egg-Buckland, was the seat of
this family, but in the early part of the seventeenth century the
hereditary estates were sold, and they were of Wolston and Garston,
in West Allington. About the beginning of the eighteenth century
Kitley, the present seat, was inherited from the heiress of
Pollexfen.
In 1779, William Bastard, Esq., the representative of this family,
was gazetted a Baronet: the honour, which was declined by Mr.
Bastard, was intended as an acknowledgment of his services in
raising men to defend Plymouth in 1779.
See Lysons, cxxxi, and 577.
ARMS.--_Or, a chevron azure_.
Present Representative, Baldwin John Pollexfen Bastard, Esq.
ACLAND OF ACLAND, BARONET 1644.
[Illustration] Acland, which gave name to this ancient family, is
now a farm in the parish of Landkey; it is thus described in
Westcote's Devonshire, (p. 290:) "Then Landkey, or Londkey; and
therein Acland, or rather Aukeland, as taking name from a grove of
oaks, for by such an one the house is seated, and hath given name
and long habitation to the _clarous_ family of the Aclands, which
have many ages here flourished in a worshipful degree." Hugh de
Accalen is the first recorded ancestor; he was living in 1155; from
whom the present Sir Thomas Dyke Acland is twenty-second in lineal
descent. Killerton, in the parish of Broad-Clist, purchased at the
beginning of the seventeenth century, is the present seat of the
family. Columb-John, an ancient Elizabethan mansion in the same
parish, now pulled down, was the earlier residence of the Aclands,
who were remarkable for their royalty during the Civil Wars.
Younger branch. Acland of Fairfield, Baronet 1818.
See Gilbert's Survey of Cornwall, i. 559; Prince's Worthies of
Devon, p. 18; Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 407; and Lysons, cxiii.
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