Samuel Rolle (1669–1735)

; Richard Parmynter, Barnstaple, merchant; and Thomas Nott, of Mariansleigh, gent, 3rd part.

Manor of St. Peter Hays, in parish of St. Thomas, lands granted to Elizabeth Bailer (sic, should be "Venner"),[3] mother of said Dorothy, for jointure, Higher Hudscott, Lower Hudscott, East Dennington, West Dennington, Lerwill, Row Park, Chappels Tenement, Whetstone, all in Chittlehampton; Chuggaton, Brealey's Tenement and Smallridge's in Swymbridge; messuages and closes in S. Molton, messuages in occupation of Richard Salisbury at Barnstaple; moiety of Huxhill Barton, Wear Giffard; moiety of Manor of Countisbury, in parishes of Countisbury and Linton, with all its royalties, rights, members, and appurtenances; moiety of N. Furshill, Lynton; moiety Radspry, Linton; one quarter of Spiranger, Linton; moiety of tenement in East Ilkerton, in possession of Alexander Reed, Lynton; moiety of Manor of Curry Revel; moiety of manor of Fivehead, and all other manors, lands, of Dorothy Lovering in Devon and Somerset in trust, etc., etc., etc.

[7] He also purchased in 1645 from Adam Lugg of Barnstaple the manor of East Ilkerton and a moiety of Sparhanger, Radispray and North Fursehill.

The large and grand red brick mansion of Fremington House displays two escutcheons showing the arms of Acland impaling Lovering.

He is mentioned in the historical romance Lorna Doone (1869) by Richard Doddridge Blackmore as follows: "And it is a very grievous thing, which touches small landowners, to see an ancient family day by day decaying: and when we heard that Ley Barton itself, and all the Manor of Lynton were under a heavy mortgage debt to John Lovering of Weare-Gifford, there was not much, in our little way, that we would not gladly do or suffer for the benefit of De Whichehalse".Chanter (1906) states the account in Lorna Doone to be confused.

Samuel Rolle (1704-1747), his only surviving son who died childless, bequeathed his estates including Hudscott and the Lovering moiety in Countisbury to his much wealthier cousin, Denys Rolle (1725-1797), MP, of Stevenstone, who sold all his Countisbury lands in parts and parcels chiefly to the occupying tenants, East Lynmouth being sold in 1759 to Peter Hooper, and the rest at various dates up to 1782.

[10] He died on 28 February 1735 and was buried at Chittlehampton, in which church exists a mural monument, on the west wall of the south transept, inscribed as follows:

And whose lives have left to posterity a more expressive memorial than can be perpetuated on the most durable marble".On the monument is shown an escutcheon with the arms of Rolle in the centre of which is an escutcheon of pretence with the arms of Lovering: Argent, on a fesse wavy azure a lion passant or, which signifies that Dorothy Lovering was an heiress.