Mount Radford is an historic estate in the parish of St Leonards, adjacent to the east side of the City of Exeter in Devon.
She was a Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth I and has a sumptuous monument to her memory in the Lady chapel of Exeter Cathedral, next to that of Dodderidge.
His mother, Dorothy Bampfield, then remarried, as his 2nd wife, the highly influential Sir John Doddridge (1555–1628), a Justice of the King's Bench, and contemporary of her father, who had purchased as his seat the estate of Bremridge, near Dorothy's father's seat of North Molton.
[5] At or before her 17th birthday she and the 23-year-old William were married and had two children: At the time of her 1st husband's death in 1625 Sir John Dodderidge and his wife Anne Culme were then still living and presumably had some part in the care of the now fatherless infant.
[6] Philipa, The widow of Thomas I Ivatt, of unknown family, was a lunatic, and her wardship was sold by the king in 1629 to the poet Aurelian Townsend (d.1643)[7] They had the following progeny: Judith's second husband Thomas II Ivatt erected a monument with a bust in white marble of his wife in Combe Martin church, positioned on the north wall of the north aisle chapel above the vestry door.
This is similar in design to the contemporary monument to Penelope Noel in Chipping Campden Church, Gloucestershire.
(Sacred to the memory of Love) Here lyeth the body of Judith first the wyfe of William Hancock Lord of this mannor by whome she had issue John & Ann, after the wyfe of Thomas Ivatt Es(q) some tymes His Ma(jes)t's printcipail sercher in the Port of London at whose cost this monument was erected.
[34] In 1832 the horticulturalist James Veitch (1792–1863), who worked for the Aclands of Killerton, purchased 25 acres of land on the estate.
Mount Radford House, as re-built in the Georgian style after 1755 by
John Baring
(1730–1816). 1830/2 engraving, when in use as a school
Dorothy Bampfield (died 1617), wife of Edward Hancock (c. 1560–1603), detail from her effigy in the Lady Chapel of Exeter Cathedral
Heraldic escutcheon showing the arms of Hancock of Combe Martin:
Gules, on a chief argent three cocks of the field
impaling Bampfield of Poltimore:
Or, on a bend gules three mullets argent
(shown here pierced). Detail from the base of the monument of Dorothy Bampfield (d.1617) in the Lady Chapel of Exeter Cathedral
Monuments to the mother and step-father of William Hancock (1602–1625), north wall of Lady Chapel, Exeter Cathedral.
Right
: Dorothy Bampfield (died 1617),
left
: Sir John Dodderidge (1555–1628). Above Dorothy's effigy on a tablet within a
strapwork
surround is the following Latin inscription:
"Hic jacet d(omi)na Dorothea uxor Johannis Dioderidge militis unius justiciarioru(m) d(omi)ni regis as placita coram rege tenenda assignati et filia Amisii Bampfield militis quae obiit primo Martii Anno Dom(ini) 1614"
("Here lies Dorothy the wife of John Doderidge, knight, one of the Justices of the Lord King assigned at the Pleas held before the King, and daughter of Amisus
(Latinised form)
Bampfield, knight, who died on the first of March in the Year of Our Lord 1614")
Monument to Judith Newman (1608–1634)firstly wife of William I Hancock (d.1625), secondly of Thomas II Ivatt, Combe Martin Church. Above are displayed within an
escutcheon
the following arms:
Argent, on a cross gules five fleurs-de-lis or
(Ivatt)
impaling
Azure, a chevron wavy between three griffons segreant or
(Newman)
Monument to Judith Hancock (1650–1676), wife of Henry Stevens (1617-post 1675) of Vielstone in the parish of
Buckland Brewer
, son and heir of William Stevens (d.1648) of
Great Torrington
. Great Torrington Church, east wall of south aisle
Heraldic escutcheon showing arms of Stevens of Veilstone in the parish of Buckland Brewer (
Per chevron azure and argent, in chief two falcons rising or
) impaling Hancock of Combe Martin (
Gules, on a chief argent three cocks of the field
). Detail from mural monument to Judith Hancock (1650–1676), wife of Henry Stevens of Vielstone, east wall of south aisle, Great Torrington Church, Devon
Arms of Duck:
Or, on a fess wavy sable three lozenges of the field
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Canting arms
of Baring:
Azure, a fesse or in chief a bear's head proper muzzled and ringed of the second
