ARMS.--_Checky argent and sable, a fess gules_. This coat was borne by M. John Acland, as appears by the Roll of Arms of the reign of Richard II. According to Prince, _three oak-leaves on a bend between two lions rampant_, was also borne at this time by this family. Present Representative, Sir Thomas Dyke-Acland, 10th Baronet. BAMFYLDE OF POLTIMORE, BARON POLTIMORE 1831, BARONET 1641. [Illustration] John Baumfield, the ancestor of this family, became possessed of Poltimore in the reign of Edward I.; but the pedigree can be traced three generations before that period. A younger branch was of Hardington in Somersetshire, extinct about the beginning of the eighteenth century. For the story of the heir of the Bamfyldes taken away and recovered, see Prince's Worthies of Devon, p. 121; see also Westcote's Devonshire Pedigrees, p. 492; Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 188; and Lysons, cx. ARMS.--_Or, on a bend gules three mullets argent_. Present Representative, Augustus Frederick George Warwick Bampfylde, 2nd Baron Poltimore. NORTHCOTE OF PYNES, BARONET 1641. [Illustration] Descended from Galfridus, who was of Northcote, in the parish of East-Downe, in the twelfth century. Hayne, in the parish of Newton St. Cyres, was afterwards acquired by marriage with the heiress of Drew. Pynes was inherited from the heiress of' Stafford, originally Stowford, early in the last century. See Lysons, pp. cx. 361, 545, and Wotton's Baronetage; ii. 206. ARMS.--_Argent, three cross-crosslets botonny in bend sable_. Used on seals in the reign of Henry VI. The earliest coat, used till the time of Edward III. was _Or, a chief gules fretty of the first_. Afterwards, _Argent, a fess between three cross molines sable_. In 1571, Robert Cooke, Clarencieux, is said to have granted, according to the foolish custom of the day, another coat to Walter Northcote of Crediton, grandfather or uncle of the 1st Baronet, viz.: _Or, on a pale argent three bends sable_. Sir William Pole mentions another coat, _Or, three spread eaglets gules, on a chief sable three escallops of the first_. But this appears to be a mistake.--From the information of the present Baronet. Present Representative, Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, 8th Baronet, M.P. for Stamford. FURSDON OF FURSDON, IN THE PARISH OF CADBURY. [Illustration] From the days of Henry III. if not from an earlier period, this ancient family has resided at the place from whence the name is derived. See the Visitation of Devon, 1620, Harl. MS. 1080. fo. 4; Lysons, cxlv. and 92. ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron azure between three fireballs proper_. Present Representative, George Fursdon, Esq. STRODE OF NEWENHAM, IN THE PARISH OF PLYMPTON ST. MARY.