page_title: Manor of King's Nympton
section_title: Sir Hugh Pollard
hierarchical_section_title: Manor of King's Nympton / Descent of the manor / Pollard / Sir Hugh Pollard
caption_attribution_description: English: Panel in memory of Susanna Pollard (d.1634), detail from monument to her husband John Northcote (1570-1632), Newton St Cyres Church, Devon
context_page_description: The Manor of King's Nympton was a manor largely co-terminous with the parish of King's Nympton in Devon, England.
context_section_description: Sir Hugh Pollard, eldest son and heir, married twice:
  Firstly, to Dorothy Chichester. Hugh became on the death of his father a ward of Sir John Chichester (died 1569) of Raleigh, who bequeathed his wardship and marriage to his daughter Dorothy Chichester, who duly married him. They had the following children:
  Sir Lewis Pollard, 1st Baronet, eldest son and heir (see below)
  Francis Pollard, second son
  William Pollard, third son
  Arthur Pollard, fourth son
  Hugh Pollard, fifth son
  Robert Pollard, baptised 1598 at Ashton
  Susanna Pollard, who married in 1596 as his second wife John Northcote (1570–1632), of Hayne, Newton St Cyres, near Crediton, whose splendid monument with standing effigy exists in Newton St Cyres Church. She was the mother of Sir John Northcote, 1st Baronet (1599–1676). A panel on the monument to her husband is dedicated to her memory and contains in the centre a sculpted relief of her head circumscribed by the following two lines of verse:
  "My Jacob had by mee
   As many sonnes as hee,
   
  Daughters twice three"
  
  Above her portrait is a chronogram in verse:
  "See heer In ChrIst sLeeps shee,
  FroM paInefVLL Labors free,
  Her VVorks henCe foLLoVV on,
  To resVrreCtIon"
  
  If the capital letters in red are added together as Roman numerals ("VV" being treated as V + V, and the first letters of each line excluded) the sum of 1634 results, Susanna's date of death. The remaining unused letters are SFHT, the initial letters of each line, of uncertain cryptic meaning.
  Below the chronogram is a heraldic escutcheon showing the arms of Northcote impaling Pollard: Argent, a chevron sable between three escallops gules. Below her portrait inscribed on a black stone tablet is the following verse:
  "Jehovah first compos'd us two in one, 
  Then made one two, till strong affection
  Did reunite us one; Death tried his skill
  To part's us againe, but could not worke his will
  One was our hope, faith, comfort, one's o(u)r tombe
  One place our soule hath, till the day of Dome
  Regia pacifisae commisit chartula libram
  Justitiae lustris aetatis quinque peractis
  Libravit rectum pura cum mente probatus
  Stellata camera spectatur ut ignibus aurum"
  Anne Pollard, who married on 9 April 1604 at Ashton (as his 2nd wife) to James Welshe (alias Walshe), counsellor-at-law, lord of the manor of Alverdiscott. A small partially destroyed monumental brass inscription to her survives on the wall of the south chancel St Peter's Church, Barnstaple, with the following text: Here lyeth the body of Anne late the wife of James Welshe Esqr and daughter of Sir Hugh Pollard, Knight. She departed...this world to the kingdome of Heaven...seaventeenth day of March A(nn)o MD...Blessed are the dead w(hi)ch dye in the.... On it within a strapwork surround is a heraldic escutcheon showing the arms of Welshe/Walshe (Azure, six mullets or a crescent for difference) impaling Pollard: quarterly 1st & 4th: A chevron between three escallops (Pollard); 2nd & 3rd: A chevron between three mullets (de Via/de Way arms, a common Pollard quartering). Over-all is a crescent for difference, denoting a second son.
  Gertrude Pollard, who in 1616 married at Newton St Cyres  Gilbert Davie (1583–1627) of Canonteign in the parish of Christow, Devon.
  Margaret Pollard, married firstly a certain Whiddon and secondly in 1609 at Ashton to Robert Dodson of Haye.
  Secondly Sir Hugh Pollard married Elizabeth Speke, a daughter of Sir George Speke (c.1530-1584) of Whitelackington, Somerset, and of Heywood, Wembworthy, Devon, Sheriff of Somerset in 1562–63 and a Member of Parliament for Somerset 1572-83, and widow successively of John Chudleigh and Sir John Clifton. By Elizabeth he had three sons, Arthur, Hugh and Robert.
caption: Panel in memory of Susanna Pollard (died 1634), detail from monument to her husband John Northcote (1570–1632), Newton St Cyres Church
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