[Illustration] Originally of Strode, in the parish of Ermington, where Adam de Strode, the first recorded ancestor, was seated in the reign of Henry III, In that of Henry IV. by the marriage of the coheiress of Newenham of Newenham, they became possessed of that place, since the seat of the family. "A right ancient and honourable family," says Prince; it may also be called an historical one, William Strode, of this house, being one of the Five Members of the House of Commons demanded by Charles I. in 1641. See Prince's Worthies, p. 563; Westcote's Pedigrees, p. 542; Lysons, clv. ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three conies sable_. Present Representative, George Strode, Esq. WALROND OF DULFORD IN THE PARISH OF BROAD HEMBURY. [Illustration] This is a younger branch of an ancient family seated at Bradfield, in Uffculm, as early as the reign of Henry III, For many years the Walronds, living at their venerable mansion of Bradfield, were a powerful family in Devonshire. The male line of this the principal branch has become extinct since the time of Lysons, and the representation devolved on the present family, descended from Colonel Humphry Walrond, a distinguished Loyalist during the Civil Wars of the seventeenth century. On the fall of the Royal Cause he emigrated to Barbadoes, of which island with the aid of other Royalists he made himself Governor. Philip IV. of Spain conferred upon him the title of Marques de Vallado, and other Spanish honours, for, as the still existing patent states, "services rendered to the Spanish Marine." See Lysons, clviii. and 540; Westcote's Devonshire Pedigrees, p. 484. ARMS.--_Argent, three bull's heads cabossed sable_. Present Representative, Bethell Walrond, Esq. BELLEW OF COURT, IN THE PARISH OF STOCKLEIGH-ENGLISH. [Illustration] This is a younger branch of the great Anglo-Irish family of Bellew of Bar-meath, in the county of Meath, settled in Devonshire in the reign of Edward IV., in consequence of a marriage with one of the coheiresses of Fleming of Bratton-Fleming. See the Visitations of Devon in 1564 and 1620: Lysons, cxxxiv. and 455. ARMS.--_Sable, fretty or, a crescent for difference_. Present Representative, John Prestwood Bellew, Esq. DREWE OF GRANGE, IN THE PARISH OF BROAD HEMBURY. [Illustration] The name is derived from Drogo or Dru, and is supposed to be Norman. The first proved ancestor of the family however is William Drewe, who married an heiress of Prideaux of Orcheston in this county, and appears to have lived about the beginning of the fourteenth century. His son was of Sharpham, also in Devonshire. The present seat was erected by Sir Thomas Drewe in 1610. Younger branches of this family were of Drew's Cliffe and High Hayne in Newton St. Cyres.