Heanton Satchville, Petrockstowe
Heanton Satchville was a historic
Description of mansion
The mansion was at one time "one of the most imposing houses ever to exist in Devon".[3] The Hearth Tax return of 1674 recorded 26 hearths for the house, making it the second largest house in Devon after Werrington.[4]
It was described by Rev. John Swete in 1789. Referring to it as a "vast pile built at different times", he noted a carved date of 1639 which he concluded was not the earliest date of the building but only served to date the portal above which it was located. The parapet walls, the mullions of the windows and the pavement were all made of moorstone. The south side of the house had a "most noble terrace" of 130 paces in width, with a bowling green and adjacent walks. The property afforded views of several churches and the house of Sir James Innes in Huish to the east of the property.[5]
Descent of the manor
Normans
The manor of "Hantone" is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as the 35th of the 176 Devonshire holdings of Baldwin the Sheriff,[6] feudal baron of Okehampton.[7] His tenant was Ralph of Bruyère, from Bruyère in Calvados, Normandy,[8] who also held from Baldwin the manors of Dunterton,[9] Broad Nymett,[10] Appledore,[11] Teignrace[12] and Wolborough.[13] Before 1066 the lord of the manor had been Edwin. It was in Shebbear hundred[14]
Sachville
According to
Killigrew
It later passed to the Killigrew family,[15][16][18] a prominent Cornish family.
Yeo
The manor came into the Yeo family at the beginning of the reign of King Edward III (1327-1377) when Nicholas Yeo, son of William Yeo, married Elizabeth Killigrew, daughter and heiress of Henry Killigrew of Heanton Sachville.[20] The descent was as follows:[20]
- Nicholas Yeo, husband of Elizabeth Killigrew, daughter and heiress of Henry Killigrew of Heanton Sachville
- John Yeo (son), who married a certain Alice
- William Yeo (son), Sheriff of Devon in 1359, who married Anne Esse, daughter of John Esse (or Ashe) of Westo in Devon.
- Robert Yeo (fl.1410) (son), who married Jone Pyne, daughter and heiress of William Pyne of Bradwell, Devon
- Robert Yeo (died 1399) (son), husband of Isabell Brightley daughter and heiress of John Brightley of Brightley in Devon.
- John Yeo (born 1380), married Alice Jewe, daughter and part inheratrix of William Jewe of Cotly, Devon
- William Yeo, (son) married Eilin Grenville, a daughter of William Grenville of Stowe in Cornwall and Bideford in Devon.
- Robert Yeo (son), husband of Alice Walrond, daughter of John Walrond of Bradfield, Devon
- William Yeo (son), who married Joane Fulford, daughter of Sir Thomas Fulford of Fulford, Devon
- Robert Yeo (son), who married Mary Fortescue, a daughter of Bartholomew Fortescue of Filleigh
- Margaret Yeo, (daughter and sole heiress), who married Henry Rolle[20] (died circa 1620,[22]) the 3rd or 4th son of George Rolle[20][23] (died 1552) of Stevenstone, Devon[24]
Rolle
Henry Rolle (died c. 1620)
Henry Rolle (died c. 1620,
Rolle and Yeo brasses
On the north wall of Petrockstowe parish church are affixed two monumental brasses of Henry Rolle (left, westernmost) and his wife Margaret Yeo (died 1591), (right, easternmost) the heiress of Heanton Satchville. These are not in their original positions, but are likely originally to have been joined together.[27] The two halves of the shields when joined would show the arms of Rolle impaling Yeo.
Brass of Henry Rolle
Inscribed in Roman capitals below is the following text: "Here lyeth the body of Henry Rolle Esquieer fourth sonne of George Rolle of Stevenston who maryed Margaret Yeo daughter and sole heire unto Robert Yeo Esquir decesed and had issue by hir sonnes & doughters nyneteene". On a speech scroll issuing from Henry Rolle's mouth the words MORS MIHI LUCRUM, from St Paul's
Brass of Margaret Yeo
Affixed in modern times immediately to the right of the brass of Henry Rolle is that of his wife Margaret Yeo, heiress of Petrockstowe
Robert Rolle (died 1633)
Robert Rolle (died 1633) (eldest son), who in 1601 purchased the manor of
- Sir MP for Callington, Cornwall, (1614-1623-4) and for Truro, Cornwall (1625- 1629)
- Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War
- Sir
Sir Samuel Rolle (c. 1588-1647)
Sir
Robert Rolle (died 1660)
Samuel Rolle (died 1717)
Samuel Rolle (died 1717) (eldest son and heir), elected to Parliament 18 times.[33] He married as his second wife Margaret Tuckfield [34] and had surviving issue a daughter and sole heiress Margaret Rolle, 15th Baroness Clinton (1709-1781). The scale of the wealth of Samuel Rolle of Heanton Satchville is indicated by the list of properties comprised in a
"Manor, rectory and hundred of Puddletown, including Druce and Willoughbys farms; manors of
Callington; manors of Fursden, Nethercott, Trethavie; manor and rectory of Moorewinstow; properties in Maker, Millbrook, St John, Anthony, Sheviock, Calstock, St Neot, Garrans, Liskeard, Menheniot, St Cleer, Callington, South Hill, St Dominick, Tintagel, Morwenstow, Week St Mary and St Stephen's, and the manor of Barton and Inswork in Millbrook, Maker, St John and Anthony, all in Cornwall".
Margaret Rolle, 15th Baroness Clinton (1709-1781)
Margaret Rolle, suo jure 15th Baroness Clinton (1709-1781) (daughter and sole heiress). She inherited the title Baroness Clinton from her childless cousin Hugh Fortescue, 14th Baron Clinton, 1st Baron Fortescue and 1st Earl Clinton (died 1751), of Filleigh, Devon.
Walpole
- Prime Minister.[38][39] She lived briefly at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, built by Robert Walpole in 1722,[40]but on the failure of her marriage she moved abroad to Italy.
- George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford (died 1791) (only son). He died without progeny[41][42] and was said never to have visited his Devon seat of Heanton Satchville.[43]
Trefusis
The manor was then inherited by the Trefusis family[43] together with the barony of Clinton and Say, in the person of George William Trefusis, according to Lysons.[16] Robert George William Trefusis (1764–1797) successfully claimed the title 17th Baron Clinton in 1794.[44]
In 1795, the house was destroyed by fire
In 1797, the 17th Baron died, leaving his son and heir Robert Cotton St John Trefusis, 18th Baron Clinton (1787–1832) a minor aged ten. Next, George Cholmondeley, 4th Earl of Cholmondeley (1749–1827), later 1st Marquess, who was heir to the Walpole estates, launched a legal suit against the young Robert Trefusis for possession of the former Rolle estates. Although the legal case took nine years to resolve, it was decided in favour of Baron Clinton.[45] The house at Petrockstowe was never rebuilt, but in 1812 the 18th Baron purchased the contiguous manor of Huish to the east together with its capital mansion Innes House,[citation needed] made it the new family seat, and renamed it Heanton Satchville.[43]
Samuel Lysons wrote in 1822: "Heanton Sachville, which was some time a seat of the Rolles, and afterwards of the Earls of Orford, was burnt down several years ago. A farm-house has been fitted up out of the ruins. The deer-park is still kept up".[16] The only remnant of the original mansion is the stable block, now the site of a modern farmhouse called Heanton Barton. A large modern tractor shed occupies the flat site of the former mansion house.[43][c]
Notes
- ^ Per research conducted by Sheila Yeo of the Yeo Society,[19] based on stained glass depictions of Yeo arms in churches of Petrockstowe (Yeo of Heanton Satchville) and Hatherleigh (Yeo of Hatherleigh) both in Devon. The ducks are described as of various breeds by different sources. Heraldic sources give contradictory tinctures: Argent, a chevron between three shovelers sable (Vivian),[20] and Argent, a chevron between three mallards azure (Pole).[21]
- ^ Vivian indicates that this is Rolle's son Samuel's father-in-law.[29]
- ^ Plans of Old Heanton Satchville, house, gardens and park exist within the Cholmondeley Archives at Houghton Hall, under ref. J/7-8 and J/9-10[47]
References
- ^ Lauder (2005), pp. 3, 49–50.
- ^ a b c Hunneyball (2010)
- ^ Lauder (2005), p. 49.
- ^ Lauder (2005), pp. 49–50.
- ^ Gray (1997), pp. 25-27.
- ^ Thorn, Caroline & Frank, part 1, 16,35
- ^ Sanders, p. 69
- ^ Thorn, Caroline & Frank, part 2, 16,12
- ^ Thorn, Caroline & Frank, part 1, 16,12
- ^ Thorn, Caroline & Frank, part 1, 16,48
- ^ Thorn, Caroline & Frank, part 1, 16,49
- ^ Thorn, Caroline & Frank, part 1, 16,153
- ^ Thorn, Caroline & Frank, part 1, 16,163
- ^ a b Thorn, Caroline & Frank, part 2, 16,35
- ^ a b c Powlett, p. 398.
- ^ a b c d e Lysons, p. 387.
- ^ Sanders, p. 70
- ^ Gomme, p. 298.
- ^ a b Yeo, Sheila (2006). "Evidence of the correct Yeo Coat of Arms". The Yeo Family History and One Name Study. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f Vivian, p. 834
- ^ Pole, Sir William (died 1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 510
- ^ a b Lysons, p. ccxxv
- ^ Lysons, p. xciii.
- ^ Vivian, p. 834, pedigree of Yeo of Huish; p. 652, pedigree of Rolle
- ^ Vivian, p. 652, pedigree of Rolle
- ^ See: Loosemore of Bishops Nympton and Barnstaple
- ^ Lauder, 2002, p. 68
- ^ Quote from King James Bible
- ^ Vivian, pp. 654, 791
- ^ Vivian, p. 654, pedigree of Rolle
- ^ Vivian, p. 654
- ^ Vivian, pp. 654-5
- ^ Alexander, p. 371.
- ^ thepeerage.com
- ^ Dorset Archives D/PUD/A3/1
- ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, Baron Walpole, p. 1128
- ^ Broome, p. 8.
- ^ Leadam, Biography of Robert Walpole.
- ^ Broome, p. 9.
- ^ Broome, p. 7-8.
- ^ Vivian, p. 655.
- ^ Lysons, p. xciii-xciv, xcix.
- ^ a b c d Lauder (2005), p. 53.
- ^ P. W. Montague-Smith, Debrett's Peerage (1968), p. 265 & see Baron Clinton
- ^ a b Lauder (2002), p. 69.
- ^ Gray (1999), p. 113.
- ^ National Archive, Cholmondeley family.
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