?? - Bishops Nympton Devon
A late Perpendicular chest and recess in the north wall of the chancel, was possibly the tomb of John Basset of Whitechapel Bishops Nympton who died in 1485 (Cresswell)
The chest is decorated with 2 tiers of quatrefoils within twisted bead moulding; the recess has a crank-headed arch with twisted ribbon and foliage moulding, carved spandrels and a panelled soffit. The crowning armorial shield, on which no heraldry survives, is flanked by unicorn supporters (Basset) but with a puzzling neck & head of an unrecognisable animal as the crest of Pollard, which appears to have been recreated as a stag's head attired or, placing gilded metal antlers and nose (The armorial crest of the Pollards was a stag)
It was probably used as the Easter Sepulchre
Sir John Basset 1441 - 1485 of Tehidy Cornwall and Whitechapel Bishops Nympton was the son of Sir John Basset & Johanna daughter of Sir Thomas Beaumont by Philippa Dinham
He m Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Budockshyde
Children:
1. Sir John Basset / Bassett of Umberleigh 1462- 1528/9 m1 Elizabeth Dennis ; m2 Honor Grenville 1566 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/53v7j81m6v
His son John as well as being heir to his extensive paternal lands he was also heir to his maternal grandmother Joan Beaumont heiress of her parents Sir Thomas Beaumont 1450 of Shirwell and Philippa daughter of Sir John IV Dynham 1458 of Nutwell , Kingskerswell and Hartland, and of her brother Philip Beaumont dsp 1473 who m Blanche Bourchier www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/s4576a
2. Thomas 1565 / 66
3. Martin
4. Edmund
5. Ralph
1. Agnes m Thomas son of John Hatch & Elizabeth daughter of Sir Walter Gorges of Wroxhall
www.geni.com/people/Sir-John-Bassett-Jr/6000000005965344149
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitechapel,_Bishops_Nympton
(Other scholars have assigned it to Sir Lewis Pollard (c.1465-1526), Justice of Common Pleas of Grilstone in the parish of Bishops Nympton .
Sir Lewis Pollard was the son of Robert Pollard of Roborough & Jane daughter of William Marwood of Westcott by 1st wife Elizabeth Squire
He was the grandson of John Pollard of Way Barton manor St Giles in the Wood & Eleanor flic.kr/p/CVQVWX daughter of John de Coplestone of Colebroke, Devon and Katherine de Graas.
He m Agnes daughter of Thomas Hext, a prominent lawyer of Kingston in the parish of Staverton Devon, by Florence Bonville.
Children; 11 sons & 11 daughters
1. Sir Hugh Pollard Sheriff of Devon b1495 m1 Elizabeth Valletort ; m2 Dorothy daughter of Sir Edmund Carew 1513 of Mohuns Ottery; Widow of John Stowell,
2. Sir Richard Pollard (1505–1542) of Combe Martin & Forde Abbey , Assistant of Thomas Cromwell in administering the surrender of religious houses following the Dissolution of the Monasteries; m Jacquetta daughter of John Bury of Colliton
3. John Pollard, Archdeacon of Wiltshire
4. Robert Pollard d.1576 purchased from the Crown the manor of Knowstone m Anne / Agnes .1541 daughter of Richard Chichester of Hall, Bishop's Tawton by Thomasine 1502 heiress of Hall.
5. Anthony Pollard,
6. Sir George Pollard
1. Phillippa b 1495 m Hugh 1572 flic.kr/p/q6UTHQ of Sampford Peverell son of Amyas Paulet on of Sir Amias Poulet 1538 by his 2nd wife Laura www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/3qf1K7 daughter of William Kellaway of Rockbourne, Hants.
2. Anne Pollard bc 1496 m Humphrey Moore / More 1537 of Moorehays in the parish of Burlescombe / Cullompton
3. Jane 1500 - 1559 m Hugh 1559 of Afreton son of Thomas Stukeley and Anne Wood
4. Thomasine Pollard m (1st wife) Admiral Sir George Carew 1545 son of William Carew and Joan Courtenay; who m2 Mary daughter of Henry Norreys / Norris and Mary Fiennes; (Mary m2 Arthur son of Philip Champernowne and Catherine Carew & grandson of Sir John Champernowne 1457-1503 of Dartington flic.kr/p/qxdgf7 )
5. Elizabeth 1503 - 1531 m1 (2nd wife) John Crocker dc 1520 ; m2 Sir Hugh son of William Trevanion and Anne Edgecumbe
6. .......... m "Hugh" Courtenay of Powderham
7. Margaret (a nun)
He bought the manor of King's Nympton where he built a residence and established a deer park. This remained the principal seat of the family for several generations and in the south aisle of the Parish Church of St James exists at the east end the "Pollard Chapel" with 17c panelling. He also purchased the manor of Oakford in August 1507 for £203 from Sir Charles Brandon, later Duke of Suffolk. The Pollards held Oakford until 1604 when it was sold by Sir Hugh Pollard to Richard Hill alias Spurway, a clothier of Tavistock
He died on 21 October 1526 aged about 61 and was buried in the church at King's Nympton, as Risdon stated "In Nymet Church Judge Pollard lieth honourably interred, having a monument erected to his memory" , as well as a stained-glass memorial window nearby, now lost .( His reference to "Nymet" is clearly intended as Bishop's Nympton, as the passage occurs within his section on that parish, which is followed by a separate section on King's Nympton)
His will dated 4 November 1525 and bequeathed the profits of his manor of Oakford to a chantry "to pray for my soule my father my mother my uncle Maister Lewis Pollard..." He mentioned "My Lady of Canon Lege", possibly a reference to Canonsleigh Abbey. He mentioned his brother Thomas Pollard, his sons John, Richard, Antonye, his godson Lewes Stucley and "Annes my wife", whom he requested should not remarry, in which case she should inherit together with his son John the residue of all his goods. He left £6 13s 4d towards the building of a church tower at either Bishop's Nympton or King's Nympton. The will was witnessed by Antony Pollard, Squire, and Thomas Hext, gent.
In 1630 when Risdon was writing his Survey of Devon, the
now lost stained-glass window existed with the inscription:
"Orate pro bono statu Ludovici Pollard militis unius Justiciar(iorum) Domini Regis de Banco et Eliz(abetha) uxor(is) eius qui istam fenestram fieri fecerunt"
(Pray for the good of Lewis Pollard, knight, one of the Justices of the Bench of the Lord King, and Elizabeth his wife who brought this window into being)
Sir Lewis Pollard was shown, probably kneeling, with ten or eleven sons behind him on one side, and on the other side his wife facing him, probably also kneeling, with 10 or 11 daughters behind her. - Prince relates: There was a tradition of long standing in this family. That his lady, glassing this window in her husband's absence at the Term in London, caused one child more than she then had to be set up there; presuming, having had one and twenty already, and usually conceiving at her husband's coming home, that she should have another - . Which, inserted in expectation, came to pass in reality.
www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pollard-83
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Pollard
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?? - Bishops Nympton Devon
A late Perpendicular chest and recess in the north wall of the chancel, was possibly the tomb of John Basset of Whitechapel Bishops Nympton who died in 1485 (Cresswell)
The chest is decorated with 2 tiers of quatrefoils within twisted bead moulding; the recess has a crank-headed arch with twisted ribbon and foliage moulding, carved spandrels and a panelled soffit. The crowning armorial shield, on which no heraldry survives, is flanked by unicorn supporters (Basset) but with a puzzling neck & head of an unrecognisable animal as the crest of Pollard, which appears to have been recreated as a stag's head attired or, placing gilded metal antlers and nose (The armorial crest of the Pollards was a stag)
It was probably used as the Easter Sepulchre
Sir John Basset 1441 - 1485 of Tehidy Cornwall and Whitechapel Bishops Nympton was the son of Sir John Basset & Johanna daughter of Sir Thomas Beaumont by Philippa Dinham
He m Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Budockshyde
Children:
1. Sir John Basset / Bassett of Umberleigh 1462- 1528/9 m1 Elizabeth Dennis ; m2 Honor Grenville 1566 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/53v7j81m6v
His son John as well as being heir to his extensive paternal lands he was also heir to his maternal grandmother Joan Beaumont heiress of her parents Sir Thomas Beaumont 1450 of Shirwell and Philippa daughter of Sir John IV Dynham 1458 of Nutwell , Kingskerswell and Hartland, and of her brother Philip Beaumont dsp 1473 who m Blanche Bourchier www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/s4576a
2. Thomas 1565 / 66
3. Martin
4. Edmund
5. Ralph
1. Agnes m Thomas son of John Hatch & Elizabeth daughter of Sir Walter Gorges of Wroxhall
www.geni.com/people/Sir-John-Bassett-Jr/6000000005965344149
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitechapel,_Bishops_Nympton
(Other scholars have assigned it to Sir Lewis Pollard (c.1465-1526), Justice of Common Pleas of Grilstone in the parish of Bishops Nympton .
Sir Lewis Pollard was the son of Robert Pollard of Roborough & Jane daughter of William Marwood of Westcott by 1st wife Elizabeth Squire
He was the grandson of John Pollard of Way Barton manor St Giles in the Wood & Eleanor flic.kr/p/CVQVWX daughter of John de Coplestone of Colebroke, Devon and Katherine de Graas.
He m Agnes daughter of Thomas Hext, a prominent lawyer of Kingston in the parish of Staverton Devon, by Florence Bonville.
Children; 11 sons & 11 daughters
1. Sir Hugh Pollard Sheriff of Devon b1495 m1 Elizabeth Valletort ; m2 Dorothy daughter of Sir Edmund Carew 1513 of Mohuns Ottery; Widow of John Stowell,
2. Sir Richard Pollard (1505–1542) of Combe Martin & Forde Abbey , Assistant of Thomas Cromwell in administering the surrender of religious houses following the Dissolution of the Monasteries; m Jacquetta daughter of John Bury of Colliton
3. John Pollard, Archdeacon of Wiltshire
4. Robert Pollard d.1576 purchased from the Crown the manor of Knowstone m Anne / Agnes .1541 daughter of Richard Chichester of Hall, Bishop's Tawton by Thomasine 1502 heiress of Hall.
5. Anthony Pollard,
6. Sir George Pollard
1. Phillippa b 1495 m Hugh 1572 flic.kr/p/q6UTHQ of Sampford Peverell son of Amyas Paulet on of Sir Amias Poulet 1538 by his 2nd wife Laura www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/3qf1K7 daughter of William Kellaway of Rockbourne, Hants.
2. Anne Pollard bc 1496 m Humphrey Moore / More 1537 of Moorehays in the parish of Burlescombe / Cullompton
3. Jane 1500 - 1559 m Hugh 1559 of Afreton son of Thomas Stukeley and Anne Wood
4. Thomasine Pollard m (1st wife) Admiral Sir George Carew 1545 son of William Carew and Joan Courtenay; who m2 Mary daughter of Henry Norreys / Norris and Mary Fiennes; (Mary m2 Arthur son of Philip Champernowne and Catherine Carew & grandson of Sir John Champernowne 1457-1503 of Dartington flic.kr/p/qxdgf7 )
5. Elizabeth 1503 - 1531 m1 (2nd wife) John Crocker dc 1520 ; m2 Sir Hugh son of William Trevanion and Anne Edgecumbe
6. .......... m "Hugh" Courtenay of Powderham
7. Margaret (a nun)
He bought the manor of King's Nympton where he built a residence and established a deer park. This remained the principal seat of the family for several generations and in the south aisle of the Parish Church of St James exists at the east end the "Pollard Chapel" with 17c panelling. He also purchased the manor of Oakford in August 1507 for £203 from Sir Charles Brandon, later Duke of Suffolk. The Pollards held Oakford until 1604 when it was sold by Sir Hugh Pollard to Richard Hill alias Spurway, a clothier of Tavistock
He died on 21 October 1526 aged about 61 and was buried in the church at King's Nympton, as Risdon stated "In Nymet Church Judge Pollard lieth honourably interred, having a monument erected to his memory" , as well as a stained-glass memorial window nearby, now lost .( His reference to "Nymet" is clearly intended as Bishop's Nympton, as the passage occurs within his section on that parish, which is followed by a separate section on King's Nympton)
His will dated 4 November 1525 and bequeathed the profits of his manor of Oakford to a chantry "to pray for my soule my father my mother my uncle Maister Lewis Pollard..." He mentioned "My Lady of Canon Lege", possibly a reference to Canonsleigh Abbey. He mentioned his brother Thomas Pollard, his sons John, Richard, Antonye, his godson Lewes Stucley and "Annes my wife", whom he requested should not remarry, in which case she should inherit together with his son John the residue of all his goods. He left £6 13s 4d towards the building of a church tower at either Bishop's Nympton or King's Nympton. The will was witnessed by Antony Pollard, Squire, and Thomas Hext, gent.
In 1630 when Risdon was writing his Survey of Devon, the
now lost stained-glass window existed with the inscription:
"Orate pro bono statu Ludovici Pollard militis unius Justiciar(iorum) Domini Regis de Banco et Eliz(abetha) uxor(is) eius qui istam fenestram fieri fecerunt"
(Pray for the good of Lewis Pollard, knight, one of the Justices of the Bench of the Lord King, and Elizabeth his wife who brought this window into being)
Sir Lewis Pollard was shown, probably kneeling, with ten or eleven sons behind him on one side, and on the other side his wife facing him, probably also kneeling, with 10 or 11 daughters behind her. - Prince relates: There was a tradition of long standing in this family. That his lady, glassing this window in her husband's absence at the Term in London, caused one child more than she then had to be set up there; presuming, having had one and twenty already, and usually conceiving at her husband's coming home, that she should have another - . Which, inserted in expectation, came to pass in reality.
www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pollard-83
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Pollard
Pictures with thanks - copyright Lobsterthermidor CCL commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ArmsPollardTombBishopsNym... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EasterSepulchreBishopsNym...