page_title: Lewis Pollard
section_title: Marriage and children
hierarchical_section_title: Lewis Pollard / Marriage and children
caption_attribution_description: English: Heraldic stained glass panel in King's Nympton Church, Devon, showing arms of Hugh Stucley (d.1559) impaling arms of Sir Lewis Pollard of King's Nympton, father of his wife Jane (or Phillipa) Pollard. South window of south aisle Pollard Chapel. The arms are as follows: baron, quarterly: 1st Azure, three pears pendant or (Stucley); 2nd Argent, a chevron engrailed between three fleurs-de-lis sable (de Affeton); 3rd Argent, a chevron gules between three roses of the second seeded or (Manningford?, heiress of de Affeton); 4th Gules, three lions rampant or (FitzRoger of Chewton Mendip, Somerset). Femme quarterly 1st &amp; 4th Argent, a chevron sable between three mullets gules pierced or (de Via/Way of Way, St Giles in the Wood); 2nd &amp; 3rd Argent, a chevron sable between three escallops gules (Pollard), over-all a crescent as difference of a second son
context_page_description: Sir Lewis Pollard of Grilstone in the parish of Bishop's Nympton, Devon, was Justice of the Common Pleas from 1514 to 1526 and served as MP for Totnes in 1491 and was a JP in Devon in 1492. He was knighted after 1509. He was one of several Devonshire men to be "innated with a genius to study law", as identified by Fuller, who became eminent lawyers at a national level. He was a kinsman of the judge and Speaker of the House of Commons Sir John Pollard.
context_section_description: He married Agnes Hext, a daughter of Thomas Hext, a prominent lawyer of Kingston in the parish of Staverton, near Totnes, Devon, by his wife Florence Bonville. Westcote stated her to be the heiress of Dunisford (or Donesford). By her he had eleven sons and eleven daughters, including:
  The Heralds' Visitations of Devon lists the following sons of Sir Lewis Pollard:
  Sir Hugh Pollard (fl.1535, 1545), eldest son and heir. Sheriff of Devon in 1535/6 and Recorder of Barnstaple in 1545. He was the great-grandfather of Sir Lewis Pollard, 1st Baronet of King's Nympton.
  Sir Richard Pollard (1505–1542), 2nd son, MP for Taunton (1536) and Devon (1539, 1542), of Putney, Surrey. King's Remembrancer of the Exchequer and a law reporter He was an assistant of Thomas Cromwell in administering the surrender of religious houses following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and was employed particularly as a surveyor who visited the premises and made a detailed valuation of the house's assets and income. In 1537 he was granted by King Henry VIII the manor of Combe Martin in Devon and in 1540 Forde Abbey.
  John Pollard, 3rd son, Archdeacon of Wiltshire, Archdeacon of Cornwall, Archdeacon of Barnstaple (1544–1554), Archdeacon of Totnes and Canon of Exeter Cathedral. His full biography is included in Hooker's Synopsis.
  Robert Pollard (d.1576), 4th son, purchased from the crown the manor of Knowstone, where he was buried on 26 September 1576. He married Anne (or Agnes) Chichester (d.1541), daughter of Richard Chichester of Hall, Bishop's Tawton by his wife Thomasine de Hall (d.1502), heiress of Hall. His eldest son was Hugh Pollard, whose daughter Temperance Pollard (d.1637) married William Pincombe (1566-1625) of South Molton and East Buckland in Devon, Coroner of Devon, whose ancestor had come into Devon in about 1485 as a follower of Baron Zouche, lord of the manor of North Molton.
  Anthony Pollard, 5th son.
  Sir George Pollard, 6th son, knighted at Boulogne for his role in the defence of that English outpost.
  Anne Pollard, wife of Humphrey Moore (d.1537) of Moorehays in the parish of Burlescombe, in the church of which exists his monument.
  Jane Pollard, wife of Sir Hugh Stucley (1496-1559) lord of the manor of Affeton in Devon and mother of the mercenary Thomas Stukley. A heraldic stained-glass roundel survives in the south window of the Pollard Chapel in the south aisle of King's Nympton Church showing the arms of Stucley impaling Pollard, with quarterings of each family. The arms are as follows: baron, quarterly 1st Azure, three pears pendant or (Stucley); 2nd Argent a chevron engrailed between three fleurs-de-lis sable (de Affeton); 3rd Argent a chevron gules between three roses of the second seeded or (Manningford?); 4th Gules, three lions rampant or (FitzRoger); femme quarterly 1st & 4th Argent, a chevron sable between three mullets gules pierced or (de Via/Way of Way, St Giles in the Wood); 2nd & 3rd Argent, a chevron sable between three escallops gules (Pollard)
  Philippa Pollard, wife of Sir Hugh Paulet of Sampford Peverell>
  Thomasine Pollard, wife of Admiral Sir George Carew (d.1545)
  Elizabeth, wife firstly (as his second wife) of John Crocker of Lineham, by whom she had issue, and secondly of Sir Hugh Trevanion
  Unnamed daughter, wife of "Hugh" Courtenay of Powderham, whose identity is uncertain.
caption: Heraldic stained-glass roundel representing marriage of Sir Hugh Stucley and Jane Pollard, King's Nympton Church
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