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Descent of the manorDomesday BookIn the Domesday Book of 1086 Noteswille was held in chief by one of King William II's thanes named Donne (or "Dunn"), who also held from the king the manor of Newton St Cyres.[7] DynhamThe manor of Nutwell, together with nearby Harpford, were granted by King Henry I (1100-1135) to Geoffrey I, Sire de Dinan, lord of Dinan,[8] near St Malo in Brittany. In 1122 Geoffrey granted Nutwell and Harpwell to the Abbey of Marmoutier at Tours for the benefit of the dependent priory of St Malo at Dinan. The grant was jointly made with his sons, including his eldest son Oliver I de Dinan (d.1150) and was confirmed by his wife Orieldis.[9] Oliver I's eldest two sons Geoffrey II and Oliver II, co-founded Hartland Abbey[10] in 1168/9.[11] Nutwell descended to Geoffrey I's grandson Rolland de Dinan, lord of Bécherel Castle, (about 20 km SE of Dinan) the son and heir of Geoffrey I's younger son Alan de Dinan (d.1159). Nutwell was described as "land of Rolland de Dinan" in 1168, but had been taken into the king's hands and produced revenue for the royal exchequer of 14s, accounted for by the Sheriff of Devon.[12]
PrideauxJohn Prideaux (1520-1558)Nutwell was purchased by John Prideaux (1520-1558), MP for Devon in 1554 and a Serjeant-at-law.[27] He married (as her 2nd husband) Mary Stucley, a daughter of Sir Hugh Stucley (1496-1559) of Affeton,[28] Devon, Sheriff of Devon in 1545.[29] A monument thought to date from the late 16th century survives in Woodbury Church showing on a tomb chest two recumbent figures said to be of a Prideaux and his wife.[30] Thomas Prideaux (1549-1605)His son and heir was Thomas Prideaux (1549-1605) of Nutwell, buried at Woodbury. He married Margaret Cooper, daughter of Richard Cooper of Winscombe, Somerset.[31] Sir Thomas Prideaux (1575-1641)Sir Thomas Prideaux (1575-1641), son and heir, of Nutwell, also buried at Woodbury. He married Joane Cole (1579-1631), daughter and co-heiress of John Cole (1552-1582) of Buckland Tout Saints, Devon.[32] Amias Prideaux (d.1667)Amias Prideaux (d.1667), son and heir, who married Sarah Ford, whose father's name is not known. He died without issue, having sold Nutwell.[33] FordNutwell was purchased in 1649 for £6,050 by Sir Henry Ford (1617-1684), four times MP for Tiverton between 1664 and 1685 and twice Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1669–70 and 1672-3.[35] His great uncle was the playwright John Ford (1586-c.1639).[36] His great-great-grandfather was John Ford (d.1538) of Ashburton[37] (the son and heir of William Ford of Chagford,[38]) who purchased the estate of Bagtor in the parish of Ilsington, which his male heirs successively made their seat.[39] The Elizabethan mansion of the Fords survives today at Bagtor as the service wing of a later house appended in about 1700.[40] Nutwell was sold by his executors in 1685.[41] PollexfenAfter Sir Henry Ford's death his trustees were directed by his will to raise £1,000 for his daughters' marriage portions and his trustee John Kelland, MP, sold Nutwell for £6,318 to Sir Henry Pollexfen[42] (1632-1691), Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, who was buried at Woodbury.[43] A slab from 1690 in Woodbury Church showing the Pollexfen arms Quarterly argent and azure, in the 1st and 4th quarter a lion rampant gules was drawn by the Devon diarist and antiquarian Orlando Hutchinson.[44] The senior branch of the Pollexfen family, from which Sir Henry was descended, was seated at Kitley,[45] in the parish of Yealmpton,[46] Devon. His son and heir was Henry Pollexfen (d.1732) of Nutwell, who married in 1699 Gertrude Drake, daughter of Sir Francis Drake, 3rd Baronet (1642 - 1718) of Buckland Abbey, by his 1st wife Dorothy Bampfield (d.1679) wife. Sir Francis had married as his third wife Elizabeth Pollexfen, Henry's sister.[47] DrakeNutwell descended into the Drake family of Buckland. The last in the male line Sir Francis Drake, 5th Baronet (1723-1794) is said by Hoskins (1954) "to have wrecked the fine medieval house with his improvements demolishing the two-storied gatehouse with great difficulty in 1755-6 and cutting through the timbered roof of the 14th century chapel to make a plaster ceiling".[48] The Devon topographer Rev. John Swete visited Nutwell while the Drake era house was still standing and made at least four watercolour paintings of it and one of the gothic chapel.[49] He described the 5th Baronet thus: "Though refined in his manners and from his appointment at court versed in the fashionable world, he was yet one of the shyest men; very few of the principal gentlemen of the county had any acquaintance with him and not many knew him personally". The 5th and last Drake baronet bequeathed almost his whole fortune, including his lands, to his nephew Francis Augustus Eliott, 2nd Baron Heathfield (1750-1813), the son of his sister Anne Pollexfen Drake (1726-1772) and her husband the hero of Gibraltar George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield (1717-1790).[50] EliottThe 2nd Baron Heathfield largely pulled down the old house and built in its place a neo-classical house faced with tiles imitating Portland stone.[51] In May 1799 Swete again visited Nutwell, made a painting of the new house, and recorded in his journal "the new mansion erected by the present proprietor Lord Heathfield, tho' yet unfinished exhibits itself most charmingly to the view"[52] He described him as equally defensive of his privacy as his uncle Sir Francis Drake, denying access to Nutwell and its grounds to neighbours and strangers alike. Lord Heathfield's visits to Nutwell were said to be "seldom and of short duration"[53] Heathfield died unmarried and without progeny.[54] Fuller-Eliott-DrakeThe 2nd baron's sister was Anne Eliott (1754-1835), who married John Trayton Fuller of Ashdown House.[55] Their son and heir was the soldier Sir Thomas Fuller-Eliott-Drake, 1st Baronet(1785-1870), who assumed the additional names of Eliott and Drake and was created a baronet, with special remainder, in 1821.[56] He was succeeded according to the special remainder by his nephew, Sir Francis George Augustus Fuller-Eliott-Drake, 2nd Baronet (1837-1916), a son of the younger of his two brothers, who had also adopted the additional surnames. The title became extinct upon his death without a male heir in 1916. The second Baronet's only child Elizabeth Fuller-Eliott-Drake married John Eliott-Drake-Colborne, 3rd Baron Seaton (1854–1933), who also adopted the surnames Eliott and Drake. Nutwell ChapelIn 1371[57] a licence for a chapel at Nutwell was obtained from the Bishop of Exeter by John Dynham (1318–1383). It was converted into a library by Sir Francis Drake, 5th Baronet (1723-1794) which involved "cutting through the timbered roof...to make a plaster ceiling".[58] Polwhele considered that this was one of his "improvement" which resulted in the creation of a "handsome library",[59] but to Swete it was "an unwarrantable desecration".[60] The chapel survives attached to the present neo-classical building, in a position slightly recessed from the south front and extending eastward.[61] It has undergone considerable restorations. The south side contains four bays, the most westerly being for a first floor arched entrance door reached via an external staircase. The crypt underneath has square headed windows whilst the walls of the chapel above were given in the 19th century three gothic style pointed windows. The parapet above is crenellated and on the merlons survive weathered sculpted reliefs of the Dinham arms. Swete's watercolour of the east end shows the surviving arrangement of crocketed finials projecting outward on corbels over the string course with canopied niches containing much weathered statues of St George and the Archangel Michael.[62] The north wall is topped for only part of its length with a crenellated parapet.[63] Fragments of 14th century stained glass, showing three figures, survive in the present chapel anteroom.[64] References1. ^Pevsner, p.552 2. ^http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-88639-nutwell-court-woodbury-devon 3. ^Swete, vol.3, p.96 4. ^Swete, vol.4, p.147 5. ^Risdon, p.55, who states that Lympstone was inherited by the Dinhams from the Albemarle family 6. ^Risdon, p.56 7. ^Thorn, Caroline & Frank, (eds.) Domesday Book, (Morris, John, gen.ed.) Vol. 9, Devon, Parts 1 & 2, Phillimore Press, Chichester, 1985, part 1, 52:34 & 35 8. ^Chope, R.Pearse, The Book of Hartland, Torquay, 1940, p.26; Title altered to French form to conform with GEC Peerage, Vol IV, p.369 9. ^Chope, p.26, quoting: Round, J Horace, Calendar of Documents in France, 427-8 (nos 1181, 1185) 10. ^Chope, p.26 11. ^Chope, p.55 12. ^Chope, p.27 13. ^Chope, p.28; p.40, note 6, quoting Les Dinan, p.175 14. ^Chope, p.40 15. ^In the Hundred Rolls, Vol.1, pp.56-7, per Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327, Oxford, 1960 , p.110, note 7 16. ^Chope, p.42 17. ^Chope, p.29 18. ^Pevsner, p.552 19. ^Chope, p.32,3 20. ^Risdon, p.56 21. ^Chope, p.31 22. ^Chope, p.36 23. ^GEC Peerage, Vol XII, p.948 24. ^Risdon, p.55 25. ^Prince, p.300, who does not provide the first name of Prideaux; Vivian, p.264 states purchased by John Prideaux (d.1558). 26. ^Vivian, Heraldic Visitations of Devon, p.616 27. ^Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.624, pedigree of Prideaux 28. ^Vivian, p.721, pedigree of Stucley 29. ^Stucley, Sir Dennis, 5th Baronet, "A Devon Parish Lost, A new Home Discovered", Presidential Address published in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, no. 108, 1976, pp.1-11 30. ^Pevsner, p.918 31. ^Vivian, p.624 32. ^Vivian, p.214, pedigree of Cole, p.624 33. ^Vivian, p.625 34. ^Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp.349-351, pedigree of Ford of Nutwell 35. ^History of Parliament biography of Sir Henry Ford 36. ^Vivian, p.350; Hoskins, p.282 37. ^Vivian, p.652 38. ^Vivian, p.349, pedigree of Ford 39. ^Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1810 edition, London, 1810, p.135 40. ^Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.507; Hoskins, W.G., A New Survey of England: Devon, London, 1959 (first published 1954), p.415 41. ^HoP biog 42. ^History of Parliament biography of Sir Henry Ford 43. ^Vivian, p.601, pedigree of Pollexfen of Woodbury 44. ^Butler, Jeremy, (ed.), Diary of a Devon Antiquary: The Illustrated Journals and Sketchbooks of Peter Orlando Hutchinson 1871-1894, Halsgrove Publishing, Wellington, 2010, p.80; Arms blazoned in Vivian, p.600 45. ^Vivian, p.600, pedigree of Pollexfen of Kitley 46. ^Pevsner, p.525 47. ^Vivian, pp. 301,601 48. ^Hoskins, p.518, re Woodbury parish 49. ^Swete, vol.4, pp.144-148 50. ^Swete, vol.4, p.149 51. ^Swete, p.149 52. ^Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of The Reverend John Swete, 1789-1800, 4 vols., Tiverton, 1999, vol.4, p.143 53. ^Swete, vol.4, p.149 54. ^Vivian, p.302 55. ^Vivian, p.302, pedigree of Drake 56. ^Vivian, p.302 57. ^Pevsner, p.552 58. ^Hoskins, p.518, re Woodbury parish 59. ^Polwhele, History of Devon (1797), quoted by Swete, p.145 60. ^Swete, vol.4, p.145 61. ^Listed building text 62. ^Listed building text 63. ^Listed building text 64. ^Pevsner, p.552, note Sources
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