Manor of Poltimore

According to Worthy (1896), neither corresponds to the Bampfylde's manor of Poltimore, which he suggests was not listed separately in the Domesday Book, but rather was parcel of one of the two Domesday Book royal manors named CLISTE, namely the one later known as "Clist Moins", now "West Clyst", in the parish of Broadclyst, in the historic Cliston hundred.

She survived her husband and remarried to Sir John de la Pomeray (1347–1416), feudal baron of Berry Pomeroy, Devon.

He married twice: Sir Edward Bampfield (died 1528), eldest son and heir by his father's first wife Margaret St Maur.

One of their four daughters, Elizabeth Bampfield,[26] was the wife of George Perceval (1561–1601) of Sydenham, near Bridgwater, Somerset, and mother of Richard Percival (1550–1620) an administrator and politician, who wrote a Spanish grammar for English readers and was the ancestor of the Earl of Egmont.

[29] The couple's monument, dated 1604, survives in Poltimore Church,[30] showing the sculpted stone effigies of Richard and his wife, with the "hound at his feet" mentioned by Worthy.

She was a co-heiress to her brother John Coplestone (1609–1632), and inherited amongst other properties the manor of Tamerton Foliot, which thus passed into the Bampfylde family.

[35] "How well he answered that title appeared from his very splendid way of living there, and that large and noble plate he left to his College when he went thence, which remained a long while after a monument of his munificence, until at length, with fome other pieces, it was solen away".

[35] He returned to Devon during the Commonwealth government of Oliver Cromwell, "But, having a vigorous soul, actuated, even then, with principles of loyalty to his sovereign, though in exile, and of duty to the church, then under a cloud, he became very industrious, with several other persns of honour and quality in these parts, for the happy restoration of both".

[35] His arrest was ordered by Cromwell's government, but he hid himself away successfully at Trill, a residence of his friend, Sir John Drake, Baronet.

"Notwithstanding any theatening danger that might happen, his generous mind could not be affrighted from following his duty and honour", he joined in the signing of a Remonstrance drawn up at the quarter-sessions in Exeter which demanded a free Parliament, which was supported by much of that city's population.

The Remonstrance was presented to Parliament by his uncle Thomas Bampfylde, Recorder of Exeter, and encouraged other towns and cities in England to do likewise.

the like, "Whereby the army in and about London, consisting of fourteen thousand odd foot foldiers, were disperfed throughout the kingdom (of which fifteen hundred were sent to Exeter) to prevent the like insurrection as had happened there, elfewhere.

Which disperfion, how much it facilitated General Monk's march into London but with seven thousand odd soldiers, and consequently, how greatly this bold and brisk address of our Country Gentlemen, promoted the happy Restoration of Church and State, which soon happened hereupon, is very obvious to observe, if not so easy for envy to acknowledge".

He was colonel of the Devon Militia until the time of Monmouth's invasion, when he retired due to ill health to be succeeded in the colonelcy by his son.

He was at first a supporter of King William of Orange, but later opposed his rule, considering that "matters were carried beyond all imaginations, fearing a change would be made in the fundamental conftitution of the Government" and refused to pay the newly declared rates and taxes, which were therefore enforced on him by a levy of distress upon his goods.

Before his death he charged his family strictly always to continue faithful to the religion of the established Church of England and to pay allegiance to the right heirs of the Crown.

[40] Sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde, 5th Baronet (1753–1823), 2nd and eldest surviving son and heir, who served twice as Member of Parliament for Exeter, in 1774–1790 and 1796–1812.

In 1940 the boys from Dover College were evacuated to Poltimore House, which became a private hospital in 1945 which was taken over by the National Health Service when it came into existence in 1948.

Soon after the accidental death in 1936 of his only son and heir apparent, he also sold most of the North Molton estate and moved to Rhodesia in Africa.

Sheila Margaret Warwick Bampfylde, the wife of Sir Dennis Stucley, 5th Baronet of Affeton Castle and Hartland Abbey in Devon.