The Pollard Baronetcy, of King's Nympton in the County of Devon, was a title in the Baronetage of England.
The Pollard family was earlier established at the manor of Way, two miles SE of St Giles in the Wood, in which parish it is situated.
[6] A monumental brass exists in St Giles Church of Eleanor Pollard (died 1430), of which only the lower half of a female figure has survived, with the inscription: Hic jacet Alyanora Pollard qui fuit uxor Johannis Pollard et fila Johannis Coplestone qui obiit 21.o (unus et vicensimo) die mensis Septembris Anno domini Millensimo MMMMXXX cuius animae propitietur Deus Amen.
[7] ("Here lies Eleanor / Alianore Pollard who was the wife of John Pollard and daughter of John Copleston who died on the 21st day of the month of September in the One thousandth four hundredth and thirtieth year of Our Lord of whose soul may God look upon with favour Amen".)
In the Church of St Michael in Horwood is an alabaster effigy of a lady, c. 1450, believed to represent Elizabeth Pollard (died 1430).
Arms of Pollard of King's Nympton:
Argent, a chevron sable between three escallops gules
[
1
]
Arms of
de Way
and Davie of Creedy in the parish of Sandford, Devon, frequently quartered by the Pollard family:
Argent, a chevron sable between three mullets gules
. The family of Davie is said by
Swete
[
2
]
to have derived from the family of
de Way
(
Latinised
to
de Via
, of which "Davie" is said to be a corrupted form) of the manor of
Way
in the parish of
St Giles in the Wood
,
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3
]
near
Great Torrington
, Devon. The family of Pollard inherited (or purchased) the manor of Way, which became their
fons et origo
,
[
4
]
and according to
Prince
, (died 1723) adopted these "de Way"/Davie arms which thenceforth they used either alone or quartered by their own arms of
Argent, a chevron sable between three escallops gules
.
[
5
]
The Pollard family inherited the manor of Horwood from the Cornu family and these de Way/Pollard mullet arms are visible on their own on several 17th-century Pollard monuments in Horwood Church. These arms are also shown pierced
