Zachary Hamlyn

[7] A ledger stone on the floor of the chancel in Woolfardisworthy Church is inscribed: Here lyeth Gertrude, the wife of William Hamlyn of Marshwell, in this parish, who was buried 8 December 1697.

[10] A fine painting of him by Joseph Highmore (1692-1780) was destroyed in the fire at Clovelly Court in 1789,[11] but an engraving of it (but possibly of his friend the author Samuel Richardson) by James MacArdell (c.1729–1765) exists in the National Portrait Gallery.

The Hamlyn family is believed to have descended from Hamelin,[17] the Domesday Book tenant in 1086 of two manors (Alwington and Broad Hempston) under the Norman magnate Robert, Count of Mortain (d.1090),[18] half-brother of King William the Conqueror.

Zachary recorded his pedigree at the College of Arms but did not carry it further back than the William Hamlyn who was buried at Woolfardisworthy in 1597.

[27] A fine painting of him by Joseph Highmore (1692–1780) was destroyed in the fire at Clovelly Court in 1789,[28] but an engraving of it (but possibly of his friend the author Samuel Richardson) by James MacArdell (c.1729–1765) exists in the National Portrait Gallery.

He designated as his heir to Clovelly and to his other estates, his great-nephew James Hammett (1735–1811), who following the terms of the bequest, in 1760 by Act of Parliament (33 Geo.