Creedy, Sandford

Creedy Park, Sandford, Devon, south front in 2014. This is the present house rebuilt in 1916-21
Creedy Park, Sandford, Devon, south front in 1904. This is the house built in 1846 and destroyed by fire in 1915

Creedy is an historic estate in the parish of Sandford, near Crediton in Devon. It is named from its location on the west side of the River Creedy. It was the seat of the Davie family (created Davie baronets in 1641) from about 1600[1] until the late 20th century. The mansion house on the estate has been called at various times New House, Creedy House, and as presently, Creedy Park. It was first built in about 1600, rebuilt in 1846, burnt down in 1915 and rebuilt 1916-21. It is surrounded by a large park, the boundary of which is enclosed by a stone and brick wall several miles long.

Location

According to the Devon historians Pole (d.1635) and Risdon (d.1640), anciently several different estates named "Creedy" existed within West Budleigh hundred[2] in the general area of the River Creedy near or in the parishes of Sandford, on the west side of the river, and Shobrooke, on the east side of the river. It is not possible to identify today's estate with certainty to one of these ancient estates. They were as follows:

Creedy Hilion

Creedy Hilion, stated by Pole to have been held by the Hilion family of Asheriston[3] (Ashton[4]) until at least the reign of King Edward III (1327-1377). It then passed to the Dowrish family,[3] of Dowrish in the parish of Sandford. By Dowrish it was then sold to George Carew (1497/8–1583), Archdeacon of Exeter,[3] whose daughter Mary Carew (d.1604) (whose monumental brass survives in Sandford Church[5]) married Walter Dowrish of Dowrish, and descended successively to his sons Sir Peter Carew (d.1575), slain in Ireland, of Upton Helion,[6] near Crediton, and George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes (1555-1629), who sold it to Walter Yonge (1579–1649),[3] MP for Honiton, of Upton Hilion[7] and of Colyton.

Creedy Peitevin / Creedy Widger

According to Pole Creedy Peitevin was held by the Peitevin or Peytevin family (Latinized to Pictavensis) until the reign of King Henry III (1216-1272), when it passed by an heiress to Sir John Wiger, whose son Henry Wiger sold it to William Lord Martin, feudal baron of Barnstaple.[3] It followed the descent of that barony and was the inheritance of Margaret Audley (d.1373), from whom it passed to her descendants the Fitzwarins and Bourchiers.[3] By Bourchier it was sold to John Prideaux (1520-1558) of Nutwell, Serjeant at Law[3] and MP for Devon and Plymouth.[8][9] Prideaux sold it to Sir William Peryam (1534-1604), of Little Fulford, on the east side of the River Creedy, in the parish of Shobrooke, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Sir William Pole (d.1635) writes with great authority on this subject, as his first wife was Mary Peryam (d.1606), whom he married in 1583 at Shobrooke, one of the four daughters and co-heiresses of Sir William Peryam. Concerning the estate called in his day Creedy Wiger, he wrote that Peryam "bwilt theire a fayre dwellinge howse & left it to descend unto his fowre daughters, Mary my wife..." etc.[3] It is well established however that the house Peryam built and resided at was Little Fulford, in the parish of Shobrooke, which Pole thus seems to make identical with Creedy Wiger. The four Peryam daughters sold Creedy Wiger to Sir William Peryam's brother John Peryam of Exeter, who left it to his eldest daughter Mary Peryam, the wife of Richard Reynell, younger son of Mr Reynell of Malston. Richard and Mary Reynell made it their home.[3]

Descent

Davie

de la Way or de Via arms: Argent, a chevron sable between three mullets pierced gules[10]

The Davie family is stated by the editor of the 1810 edition of Prince's Worthies of Devon to have been a certain William de la Way (alias Dewy), Latinized to de Via[11] (literally: "From the road/way"), who "came over with William the Conqueror". An imaginary illustration of this warrior was drawn in the 16th century Dethick Pedigree of the Davie family (see below). He left three sons, the eldest being Walter de la Way, whose daughter and sole heiress married Walter Pollard, who thereby became possessed of the estate of "Way", in the parish of St Giles in the Wood,[12] near Great Torrington, North Devon, often erroneously stated to be in the parish of Horwood,[13] another Pollard seat. However, it is not clear which Normandy manor called la Way the de la Way (meaning in French "from la Way") knight came from, unless he was in fact, as was more usual, named after his first English manor of Way, St Giles in the Wood.[11] From this union it is said the Pollard family came to use and quarter the arms of de la Way: Argent, a chevron sable between three mullets pierced gules. However, as the age of heraldry did not commence until about 1200-1215, this timing is unlikely. The second son of William I de la Way was William II de la Way, whose descendants were seated at Ebberleigh (modern: Ebberly House) in the parish of Roborough,[14] near Great Torrington and Uppecot, near Great Torrington, until the reign of King Henry VI (1422-1461), when Richard Davy had two sons: William who continued at Ebberleigh and John (sic, should be Robert, according to Vivian, (1895)) who settled at Crediton and was the father of four sons, John of Crediton, Gilbert of Canon Teign, Lawrence of Medland and John of Creedy.[15]

John I Davie

Bardolph arms Davie of Creedy: Azure, three cinquefoils or on a chief of the last a lion passant gules[16] These arms were used by John I Davie (d.1611/12) and by his son the 1st Baronet[17]
Mural monument to John Davie (d.1611), thrice Mayor of Exeter, builder of the first mansion house at Creedy. St Mary Arches Church, Exeter. Top centre are the Bardolph arms of Davie, top sinister are the arms of Davie impaling Southcott, the family of his (second?)[18] wife: Argent, a chevron gules between three coots sable[19]

John I Davie (1541/2-1611/2)[20] of Exeter,[21] Crediton[22] and Creedy, 4th son of Robert Davie (d. circa 1570), a wealthy cloth merchant of Crediton, by his wife, a daughter and co-heiress of a certain Mr Thomas,[23] alias Boddie, by his wife a daughter and heir of the Bardolph family of Harpenden.[24] No definitive evidence exists allowing a connection to be made between this family and the ancient and abeyant Barony of Bardolph.[25] The so-called Dethick Pedigree of the Davie family (much damaged in the fire at Creedy in 1915), now in the West of England Studies Centre in Exeter, commissioned by the Davie family from either Sir Gilbert Dethick (d.1584) or his son Sir William Dethick (c. 1542–1612), both Garter Principal King of Arms, does record in Dethick's own hand-writing a descent from "the noble family of Bardolph".[26] This was however the notorious era of the mendacious pedigree, when the heralds commonly invented bogus noble pedigrees for their paying clients, including as a notable example for John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford.[27]

He was thrice Mayor of Exeter, in 1584, 1594 and 1604,[28] and in about 1600 built the first recorded mansion on the Creedy estate which was called "New House".[29] The Devon historian Sir William Pole (d.1635) wrote concerning Credy: "Mr John Davy of Exceter hath bwilded a newe howse in this place & called it New-Howse unto wch hee added a fair demesnes wch hee hath left unto John Davy Esq his sonne & hath a mannor called Credy which adjoineth unto his demesnes".[21] John's had three elder brothers who all founded families, namely his eldest brother John Davie (d.1575), seated at Ruxford, in the parish of Sandford; his 2nd eldest brother Gilbert Davie, seated at Canonteign[30] in the parish of Christow, and his 3rd eldest brother Robert Davie (d.1602), seated at Medland[31] in the parish of Cheriton Bishop.[23] in 1594 he was granted the right to bear, in lieu of his paternal de Via arms, the ancient arms of Bardolph (his maternal grandfather’s family), but did not augment these arms with a canton showing the ensign of Burgundy, as had done his grandfather. He also adopted the halcyon bird crest, which had apparently been granted[32] in 1584[28] to John Davy, Mayor of Exeter, by Don António, the deposed king of Portugal, who visited Exeter that year and was entertained by him as Mayor. As John Prince (1643–1723) relates, he was:[33]

"Driven out of his country by Philip, king of Spain, came to Plymouth, and from thence to Exeter, where he and his retinue were lodged by this mayor in his own house, and by him very nobly entertained during his abode there which was some considerable time."

He married twice, by his first wife he left no issue, as his second wife he married Margaret Southcott, daughter of George Southcott of Calverleigh,[34] Devon,[23] second son of John Southcott (d.1556) of Indio in the parish of Bovey Tracey, Devon,[35] by whom he had a son and heir Sir John Davie, 1st Baronet (d.1654) and a daughter Margaret Davie, wife of Gideon Haydon of Cadhay, Epford and Woodbury.[36] The arms of Haydon: Argent, three bars gemels azure on a chief gules a fess dansetée or[36] appear on the monument in St Mary Arches, impaling Davy.[37]

He founded two alms houses, one in the parish of St Mary Arches, Exeter, and another in Crediton, each for relief of two poor men and their wives, and two single persons.[38]

His monument survives in St Mary Arches church in Exeter, showing the Bardolph arms of Davie.[39] His monument survives in St Mary Arches Church, Exeter, inscribed in verse as follows:[40]

To the memory of the religious and charitable Mr. John Davy.
This marble monument this failing brass
Could have been spared for neither needful was
To stand as register of Davy's name
Who livinge did erect a fairer fame
And farre more lastinge whose foundation
Was firmly grounded in the corner stone
Whose base is faithe, whose pillars piety,
And whose ingraving works of charity.
Oh happie Hee who as in Heaven hee lives
So on the earthe life to so many gives.
Who was 3 times Maior of this city
And dyed the xi of January 1611".

Sir John Davie, 1st Baronet (d.1654)

Arms of Sir John Davie, 1st Baronet (1588–1654) of Creedy: Azure, three cinquefoils or on a chief of the last a lion passant gules impaling: Argent, a chevron between three conies courant sable (Strode of Newnham). Detail from mural monument to his wife Juliana Strode (d.1627), Sandford Church

Sir John Davie, 1st Baronet (d.1654), son and heir. He was Member of Parliament for Tiverton in 1621–22 and was created a baronet in 1641. He married twice: firstly to his second cousin[41] Juliana Strode (d.1627), a daughter of Sir William Strode (1562-1637), MP, of Newnham, Plympton St Mary, Devon, by his 1st wife Mary Southcote (d.1617), daughter of Thomas Southcote, of Indio, Bovey Tracey. She was a sister of William Strode (1594-1645), MP,[42] one of the Five Members whose attempted arrest in the House of Commons by King Charles I in 1642 sparked the Civil War. By his first wife he had progeny including Sir John Davie, 2nd Baronet (1612-1678), his son and heir. Secondly he married Isabel Hele (d.1656) of Gnaton, Devon, by whom he had a daughter Isabell Davie (1631-1673), who in 1649 married Sir Walter Yonge, 2nd Baronet (c. 1625-1670), MP, of Colyton, Devon.[43]

Sir John Davie, 2nd Baronet (1612-1678)

Sir John Davie, 2nd Baronet (1612-1678), son and heir by his father's 1st marriage. He was MP for Tavistock, Devon, in 1661 and was Sheriff of Devon from 1670 to 1671. He married four times, but left no surviving male progeny.[44] By his second wife Tryphena Reynell (d.1659), daughter and co-heiress of Richard Reynell, MP, of Lower Creedy, he had progeny one son, John Davie (d.1668), who predeceased his father unmarried, and a daughter Tryphena Davie (d.1668).

Sir John Davie, 3rd Baronet (1660–1692)

Mural monument to John Davie, 3rd Baronet (1660-1692) of Creedy. North wall of chancel, Sandford Church

Sir John Davie, 3rd Baronet (1660–1692) (nephew). he was the eldest son of William Davie (1614-1663) of Dara(?), Barrister-at-Law. He was MP for Saltash 1679–85. He died unmarried and his mural monument survives in Sandford Church,[45] on the north wall of the chancel, inscribed in Latin as follows:

"Sepultus hic infra jacet Johannes Davie Baronett(us) Gulielmi Davie Armigeri et Margaritae uxoris filius natu maximus & Johannis Davie Baronetti nepos. Vir vere pius, pacificus, humilis, castus, sobrius, parentum observantissimus, amicis sincerus, inimicis benevolus, omnibus aequus nec non omnimodo virtutum genere nullis secundus qui obiit xxxo die mensis Septembs an(n)o Domini MDCXCII aetatis suae XXXIIo" ("Buried here below lies John Davie, Baronet, the eldest-born son of William Davie, Esquire, and of Margaret his wife and nephew of John Davie, Baronet. A man truly pious, peaceable, humble, chaste, sober, a most watchful parent, sincere to his friends, well-wishing to his enemies, equal to all, but second to none in any form of virtue, who died on the 30th day of the month of September in the year of our Lord 1692 and (in the year) of his age 32")

Above on an escutcheon are shown the Davie arms of de Via quartering Bardolph, impaling: Gules, a bend between two owls argent (possibly Owlacombe of Owlacombe, Roborough[46]). Above is the Davie crest: A paschal lamb regardant[47]

Sir William Davie, 4th Baronet (1662–1707)

Sir William Davie, 4th Baronet (1662–1707) (younger brother). He married twice: firstly to Mary Steadman, heiress of Downside, Midsomer Norton, Somerset, by whom he had a daughter Mary Davie (born 1688), who married Nicholas Hooper of Raleigh, Pilton, in North Devon. Her mural monument survives in Sandford Church, erected by John Hippisley Coxe (1715-1769), builder of the grand mansion Ston Easton Park in Somerset. Her heirs to Downside were her half-nephews descended from her half-sister Margaret Davie, wife of Stephen Northleigh (c.1692-?1731) of Peamore, Exminster, MP for Totnes (1713-1722),[48] whose daughter and heiress was Mary Northleigh, wife of John Hippisley Coxe (1715-1769).[49] The 4th Baronet married secondly to Abigail Pollexfen (d.1725), by whom he had four daughters and co-heiresses, including Margaret Northleigh and Frances (d.1748),[50] married to Sir George Chudleigh, 4th Baronet (d.1738).[51] The 4th Baronet died withou male progeny, when the heir to Creedy and the baronetcy was his first cousin Sir John Davie, 5th Baronet (died 1727).

Sir John Davie, 5th Baronet (died 1727)

Sir John Davie, 5th Baronet (died 1727) (first cousin). He was the eldest son of Humphry Davie (born 1625) (a younger son of the 1st Baronet), a merchant of London, by his wife Mary White. Humphrey Davie was a puritan, and a member of the Drapers’ and Merchant Adventurers’ Companies who went to America in 1662.[52] Sir John married a certain Elizabeth (d.1713), by whom he had progeny 2 daughters and 6 sons, including his eldest son and heir Sir John Davie, 6th Baronet (1700–1737).

Sir John Davie, 6th Baronet (1700–1737)

Sir John Davie, 6th Baronet (1700–1737) (eldest son). He married Elizabeth Acland (d.1738), daughter of John Acland (d.1703) of Wooleigh, Devon,[53] heir apparent to his father Sir Hugh Acland, 5th Baronet (d.1714), MP for Tiverton, of Killerton House, Devon, and sister of Sir Hugh Acland, 6th Baronet (1697-1728) of Killerton, MP.[53] The Aclands were one of the most ancient and most prominent of Devon families. A portrait of Elizabeth Acland (d.1738) (Lady Davie) survives at Killerton House, now the property of the National Trust, which shows the new mullet armorials of Davie impaling Acland.[54] By his wife Elizabeth Acland he had 3 sons, including Sir John Davie, 7th Baronet (1734–1792), eldest son and heir.[55]

Sir John Davie, 7th Baronet (1734–1792)

Sir John Davie, 7th Baronet (1734–1792), (eldest son). He married a certain Catherine (d.1776),[55] by whom he had progeny 6 daughters and 4 sons, including Sir John Davie, 8th Baronet (1772–1803), his 2nd surviving son and heir.[55]

Sir John Davie, 8th Baronet (1772–1803),

Sir John Davie, 8th Baronet (1772–1803) (2nd surviving son). In 1796 he married Anne Lemon (1766-1812), daughter of Sir William Lemon, 1st Baronet (1748–1824), of Carclew House, near Mylor, Cornwall. His hunting seat was Fernworthy, near Chagford, Dartmoor, Devon.[56] He left progeny 2 daughters and 2 twin[57] sons including Sir John Davie, 9th Baronet (1798–1824), his eldest son and heir.

Sir John Davie, 9th Baronet (1798–1824)

Sir John Davie, 9th Baronet (1798–1824) (eldest son). He died unmarried, having outlived his twin younger brother William Davie, who died without progeny.[47] His heir was his uncle Sir Humphrey Phineas Davie, 10th Baronet (1775–1846), 4th son of the 7th Baronet.

Sir Humphrey Phineas Davie, 10th Baronet (1775–1846)

Sir Humphrey Phineas Davie, 10th Baronet (1775–1846) (uncle). He was the 4th son of the 7th Baronet. In 1825 he built Sandford School, which survives in use today, a "surprisingly grand"[58] building in the form of an ancient Greek temple with Doric columns and a large pediment on which was originally sculpted the Davie crest. He died unmarried and was the last in the male line of the Davie family descended from the 1st Baronet, and on his death the baronetcy became extinct. His mural monument, showing a relief sculpture by Edward Bowring Stephens of The Good Samaritan survives in Sandford Church, together with the east stained-glass window of that church, erected in his memory by his neighbours, tenants and friends.

Ferguson (Davie)

Sir Henry Ferguson Davie, 1st Baronet (1797–1885)

Sir Henry Robert Ferguson Davie, 1st Baronet (1797–1885) (husband of niece). On the death of the 10th Baronet in 1846, the heir to Creedy and his other estates was his niece Frances Juliana Davie (1802-1882), 2nd daughter of the 8th Baronet and wife of General Henry Robert Ferguson (1797-1885), MP for Haddington, Scotland, from 1847 to 1878. He was the son of Robert Ferguson (1767-1840) of Raith, Whig Member of Parliament for Fifeshire, Haddingtonshire and Kirkcaldy Burghs, and Lord Lieutenant of the county of Fife. In 1846, in accordance with the terms of the 10th Baronet's will, he adopted by royal licence the surname and arms of Davie in addition to his patronymic, and was created a baronet on 9 January 1847. He rebuilt Creedy House in 1846. His eldest son Henry Davie Ferguson-Davie (1825-1850), a lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade, predeceased him,[47] and is the subject of a monument on the south chancel wall in Sandford Church inscribed as follows:

"Sacred to the memory of Henry Davie Ferguson Davie, Lieutenant Rifle Brigade; eldest and beloved son of Sir Henry Robert Ferguson Davie Bart., and of Frances Juliana his wife. Born May 26th 1825, died November 29th 1850. During his short military career he served his country in various quarters of the globe, and was cut off in the prime of life to the inexpressible grief of his sorrowing family; honoured and lamented by his brother officers, and affectionately remembered by a numerous circle of relations and friends".

Sir John Ferguson Davie, 2nd Baronet (1830–1907)

Sir John Davie Ferguson Davie, 2nd Baronet (1830–1907) (2nd surviving son), also seated at Derllys Court, Carmarthenshire, Wales, and Bittescombe Manor,[59] Upton, Somerset. He was a Captain, Grenadier Guards, Liberal MP for Barnstaple, Devon, 1859–65 and High Sheriff of Carmarthenshire in 1873. In 1857 he married Edwina Augusta Williams (d.1889), 3rd daughter of Sir James Williams-Drummond, Baronet,[60] of Derllys Court and Edwinsford, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales, and of Clovelly Court, Devon, MP for Carmarthenshire in 1831,[61] by his wife Lady Mary Fortescue (d.1874), whom he married in 1823, 4th daughter of Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl Fortescue (1753–1841), of Castle Hill, Filleigh, Devon.[62] he had only one daughter Mary Fanny ferguson Davie (1857-1857) who died an infant. Memorials exist in sandford Church to Lady Davie (a stained glass window) and to her husband the 2nd Baronet, a brass tablet erected by his brother and heir Sir William Augustus Ferguson Davie, 3rd Baronet (1833–1915).

Sir William Augustus Ferguson Davie, 3rd Baronet (1833–1915)

Sir William Augustus Ferguson Davie, 3rd Baronet (1833–1915), CB, (younger brother). He was Senior Clerk of the House of Commons. Before his inheritance he resided at Stokeleigh, Weybridge. He married Frances Harriet Miles, 5th daughter of Sir William Miles, 1st Baronet (1797-1878), of Leigh Court, near Bristol, Somerset, by whom he had progeny 2 daughters and 6 sons, two of whom were killed in action during World War I, as their monuments in Sandford Church record, namely his 3rd son Lt.Col. Arthur Francis Ferguson Davie (1867-1916), killed in Mesopotamia and his 5th son Herbert George Ferguson Davie (1873-1915), killed in the Dardanelles. His own brass memorial tablet survives in Sandford Church.

Sir William John Ferguson Davie, 4th Baronet (1863–1947)

Sir William John Ferguson Davie, 4th Baronet (1863–1947) (eldest son). Creedy House burnt down in November 1915,[63] at about the time of his father's death, and he quickly set about rebuilding it between 1916 and 1921, in a "conservative Jacobean" style, in dark stone which made it "rather forbidding".[64]

Sir (Arthur) Patrick Ferguson Davie, 5th Baronet (1909–1988)

Rev. Sir (Arthur) Patrick Ferguson Davie, 5th Baronet (1909–1988) (nephew), son of Lt.Col. Arthur Francis Ferguson Davie (1867-1916), CIE, DSO, 3rd son of the 3rd baronet. He was an honorary chaplain to the Bishop of Exeter, and Rural Dean of Cadbury, Devon. He commissioned the College of Arms to investigate whether he might be able to claim the abeyant Barony of Bardolph, but was advised that the Duke of Norfolk would have a stronger claim.[65] In 1949 he married Iris Dawn Cable-Buller, daughter of Captain Michael Francis Buller.[66] In 1960 a banquet was held in the great hall for Princess Margaret, who stayed the night at Creedy Park as a guest of the 5th Baronet, after having unveiled a statue to St Boniface in Holy Cross Church, Crediton,[67] on Sunday 24 July 1960.[68] In 1982 Creedy House, having been sold, was converted into 13 residential units, and continues today in ownership of ten residents, with 15 acres of communal woodland.[63]

Sir Antony Francis Ferguson Davie, 6th Baronet (1952–1997)

Sir Antony Francis Ferguson Davie, 6th Baronet (1952–1997) (son),[66] who died without progeny.

The present representative of the Ferguson-Davie family is Sir Michael Ferguson Davie, 8th Baronet (born 1944), who resided in 2014 at Evercreech, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, son and heir of Sir John Ferguson Davie, 7th Baronet (1906–2000),[69] son of Edward Cruger Ferguson-Davie (1868-1948), 4th son of the 3rd Baronet.[70]

References

  1. ↑ Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of The Reverend John Swete, 1789-1800, 4 vols., Tiverton, 1999, vol.3, p.121
  2. ↑ Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, pp.218,221
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Pole, p.221
  4. ↑ Pole, p.255
  5. ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.718
  6. ↑ Pole distinguishes between the two estates of Upton Hilion and Credy Hilion, which he lists successively in his work (p.221)
  7. ↑ "of Upton Hylyons", per Vivian, p.840, pedigree of Yonge of Colyton
  8. ↑ Vivian, p.624, pedigree of Prideaux
  9. ↑ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/prideaux-john-1520-58
  10. ↑ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, Baronets, p. 232
  11. 1 2 Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of The Reverend John Swete, 1789-1800, 4 vols., Tiverton, 1999, vol.3, p.98
  12. ↑ Hoskins, p.470
  13. ↑ i.e. Pole, p.391; Swete, vol.3, p.98
  14. ↑ Pevsner, p.351
  15. ↑ Prince, 1810 edition, footnote, p.284
  16. ↑ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pedigree of Davie, p.269
  17. ↑ As evidenced by monument to John I Davie in St Mary Arches Church in Exeter and by monument to wife of 1st Baronet in Sandford Church
  18. ↑ The existence of another escutcheon of Davie impaling another coat at dexter top suggests a first wife, displayed in the position of greatest honour, the dexter. A marriage licence was granted on 21 January 1548/9 to "John Davie and Marion Best of St. Mary Major, Exeter, after banns twice called".(The marriage licenses of the diocese of Exeter from the bishop's registers )
  19. ↑ Pole, p.501, Southcott of Mohuns Ottery. Vivian, p.697, pedigree of Southcott of Southcott gives the charges as martlets with a chevron engrailed, neither of which correspond with the St Mary Arches monument, or with the Southcott arms on the 17th century Strode monument in Plympton St Mary Church
  20. ↑ Dates as given by Ferguson-Davie, Sir Michael, 8th Baronet, author of The Davies of Devon in posting
  21. 1 2 Pole, p.226
  22. ↑ Vivian, p.269 "Kirton", ancient name for Crediton
  23. 1 2 3 Vivian, p.269
  24. ↑ Ancestry of Robert Davie's family per research by Thomas Woodcock, Norroy & Ulster King of Arms
  25. ↑ As reported by Thomas Woodcock, Norroy & Ulster King of Arms, from his review of pedigrees held by the College of Arms; he later suggested that Bardolph of Harpenden’s ancestor was "a brother of William 4th Lord Bardolph who married Agnes Poynings"
  26. ↑ Information on armorials as given by Ferguson-Davie, Sir Michael, 8th Baronet, author of The Davies of Devon in posting
  27. ↑ See Gladys Scott Thomson, Two Centuries of Family History, London: Longmans Green and Co., 1930, (a pedigree of the early Russell family) for a full discussion of bogus pedigrees produced in the 16th century by heralds
  28. 1 2 http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/em/exetersmayors.php
  29. ↑ Swete, vol.3, p.121
  30. ↑ Pevsner, p.243
  31. ↑ Risdon, pp.97, 372
  32. ↑ Information provided by Mike Bodman in exchanges with Ferguson-Davie, Sir Michael, 8th Baronet, author of The Davies of Devon Information on armorials as given by Ferguson-Davie, Sir Michael, 8th Baronet, author of The Davies of Devon in posting . However Ferguson-Davie, Sir Michael, 8th Baronet added: "The legend about the kingfisher crest being granted to us by Dom António is dubious, as the kingfisher has no known connection with the Portuguese royal arms; although there is an established tradition in Portugal of using heraldic birds allegorically. So it could be that the kingfisher reflects a halcyon period in António’s stormy life. On the other hand it is even more likely that the kingfisher merely represents John Davie’s seafaring exploits – after all it is described as "the happie halcyon bird of the sea" in his grant of arms, which contains no reference to either Portugal or Dom António"
  33. ↑ Prince, John, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, London, pp.281-284, biography of Davie, Edmund, Doctor of Physick, p.281
  34. ↑ Anciently Calwoodley, Callverley, etc.
  35. ↑ Vivian, p.697, pedigree of Southcott of Southcott; Pevsner, p.193, "Indio House"
  36. 1 2 Vivian, p.459, pedigree of Haydon of Cadhay
  37. ↑ Cresswell
  38. ↑ Prince, p.281
  39. ↑ Information as given by Ferguson-Davie, Sir Michael, 8th Baronet, author of The Davies of Devon in posting "This memorial also includes the arms of Owlacombe and three smaller shields, which impale the arms of de la Wey and those of his two wives, Willmot Peter and Margaret Southcote. It was erected by his son, Sir John, who quartered the arms of de la Wey and Bardolph for the first time, doubtless because he needed to prove his own entitlement to coat armour and this is the way the arms have appeared ever since"
  40. ↑ transcribed in Cresswell, Beatrix F., Exeter churches; notes on the history, fabrics and features of interest in the churches of the Deanery of Christianity, Devon, pp.95-6 ; Transcribed with significant differences by Prince, pp.281-2. The inscription transcribed by Cresswell had recently been restored as she states
  41. ↑ Both were great-grand-children of John Southcott (d.1556) of Indio (See Vivian, p.719, pedigree of Strode)
  42. ↑ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.719, pedigree of Strode
  43. ↑ Vivian, p.840, pedigree of Yonge
  44. ↑ Crossette, J.S., biography of Davie, Sir John, 2nd Bt. (1612-78), of Creedy, Devon, published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690, ed. B.D. Henning, 1983
  45. ↑ Vivian, p.270, "MI"
  46. ↑ Robert de Via married the heiress of the de Owlacombe family of Owlacombe (alias Oldacombe, even "Over-Woollacombe"(Pole, p.394)), in the parish of Roborough, Devon, 9 miles south of Way; see Lysons, Daniel & Lysons, Samuel, Magna Britannia, Vol.6, Devonshire, London, 1822, pp.cxii-cxiii ; Information as given by Ferguson-Davie, Sir Michael, 8th Baronet, author of The Davies of Devon in posting : "I do not have the arms of Owlacombe, but I do remember seeing them at Creedy, where several coats of arms were depicted in stained glass in the great hall. (They were still there a few years ago!) I do however seem to remember that there were three owls. Boutell's Armoury would probably tell you? Presumably you already have details of the other arms that we could have added by marriage to the several heiresses before and after we married the Owlacombe heiress"; Also, in Roborough church survive two bench ends showing A bend between two owls, which J. Whitmarsh commented on in "The Western Antiquary", Wright, W.H.K., (ed.), Vol.4, June 1884-May 1885, Plymouth, 1885, p.164 as follows: "But what of the bend between two owls found on two bench ends? Not far from the church there is an estate called Owlacombe, occupied by Mr. Wadland. It was once called "Over Woollacombe". For centuries after the Norman Conquest it was owned by the Woollacombes. Did this name in any way suggest the bend between two owls? Our old church builders were very imaginative in some of their ideas, and fertile in inventive projects by which to commemorate names, deeds, and events". (The arms of Woollacombe of Woollacombe are however well known to be: Argent, three bars gules (Pole, p.509)). "Combe Barton" is a surviving Tudor manor house 1 1/2 miles north-west of Roborough village, and has in its great hall "a large heraldic late Tudor plaster overmantel" (Pevsner, pp.287-288). This was apparently the seat of the Woollacombe family of "Combe"(Vivian, pp.795-7), whose members were mostly baptised, married and buried at Roborough. The present "Owlacombe" house, in contrast, is situated 1/2 mile south-west of Roborough village
  47. 1 2 3 Vivian, p.271
  48. ↑ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/northleigh-stephen-1692-1731
  49. ↑ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.1119, pedigree of Hippisley of Ston Easton
  50. ↑ Risdon, p.397
  51. ↑ Vivian, p.190, pedigree of Chudleigh of Ashton
  52. ↑ Ferguson-Davie, Sir Michael, information provided at
  53. 1 2 Vivian, p.5, pedigree of Acland
  54. ↑ See image at , erroneously identified in the catalogue as "Cecily Wroth, Lady Acland", but clearly correctly identifiable by the inclusion of the arms of Davie impaling Acland with Davie crest above
  55. 1 2 3 Vivian, p.270
  56. ↑ Swete, vol.4, p.37
  57. ↑ Risdon, p.372
  58. ↑ Pevsner, p.718
  59. ↑ Nicholas, Thomas, Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales, p.307
  60. ↑ Sources are unclear and contradictory on the identity of this baronet
  61. ↑ Nicholas, Thomas, Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales, p.307
  62. ↑ Vivian, p.356, pedigree of Fortescue
  63. 1 2
  64. ↑ Pevsner, p.301, which erroneously states it was rebuilt by "Arthur Ferguson-Davie"
  65. ↑ Information as given by Ferguson-Davie, Sir Michael, 8th Baronet, author of The Davies of Devon in posting
  66. 1 2 Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.232
  67. ↑ ; Images of great hall before the banquet published in Webb, Andrew
  68. ↑ Date of unveiling recorded on inscription on statue ("TO THE GLORY OF ALMIGHTY GOD THIS STATUE WAS UNVEILED BY HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS MARGARET AND DEDICATED BY WILFRID + BISHOP OF CREDITON SUNDAY 24 JULY A.D.1960")
  69. ↑ Debrett's Peerage, 2015, p.B234
  70. ↑ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.233

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