page_title: Manor of King's Nympton
section_title: Sir Lewis Pollard (died before 1569)
hierarchical_section_title: Manor of King's Nympton / Descent of the manor / Pollard / Sir Lewis Pollard (died before 1569)
caption_attribution_description: English: Arms of Prust of Thorry, Hartland, Devon: Gules, on a chief argent two estoiles sable (Vivian, Heralds' Visitations of Devon, 1895, p.629)
context_page_description: The Manor of King's Nympton was a manor largely co-terminous with the parish of King's Nympton in Devon, England.
context_section_description: Sir Lewis Pollard (died before 1569), eldest son and heir, was a serjeant-at-law and served as Recorder of Exeter from 1548.  He married Joan Prust, daughter and heiress of Hugh Prust, Esquire, (died 1559) of Thorry, near Hartland (alias Thorvey, etc.),  who  married secondly Sir John Perrot (1528–1592), Lord Deputy of Ireland. The Prust family were settled at "Gorven" from at the latest 1199, a deed of which date is recorded in the Heraldic Visitations of Devon as mentioning John Prust of Gorven. Hugh Prust (died 1559) was the second son of John Prust of Thorry by his wife Agnes. Thorry had been held by an unnamed tenant in 1299 from the Abbot of Hartland for the rent of 1 lb of pepper, due annually at Michaelmas. It was still held in 1566 (from overlord unknown) at the same rent, by the "heirs of Hugh Prust", i.e. the Pollards. In 1530 Hugh Prust gave to St Nectan's Church, Hartland, the  set of surviving bench-ends showing his initials "H P" each in its own shield. Hugh Prust was one of the largest tenants of the lands of Hartland Abbey as revealed by the Valor Ecclesiasticus made in 1535 preparatory to its dissolution. Amongst his lands were the lease of the manor of Bykyngton (i.e. Abbots Bickington) which he had leased from the Abbey for 40 years paying £12 per annum rent. This manor became the seat of his descendant Sir Amyas Pollard, 3rd Baronet (died 1701). Hugh Prust was described in a contemporary document as "a man of great wealth and of fair land and living"  and had a private chapel at Thorry served by the cleric John Horwell (died 1553), the prior of Hartland Abbey before its dissolution in 1539, who also served as mass-priest in St Mary's Guild, at the sole expense of Hugh Prust. Hugh Prust's other lands held from Hartland Abbey in 1566 were: the whole of: Friar's Hill, Holepark, Thorry and Wembsworthy; part of Elmscott, Hardisworthy, Pitt and Higher Velly. In addition the widow Katherine Prust (possibly the widow of Hugh Prust or of his brother Richard Prust (died 1550) of Wollesworthy) held possibly as her dower: part of Fursdon and Natcott. Lewis Pollard died before 1569 and his infant sons became wards of Sir John Chichester (died 1569) of Raleigh. He left the following children:
  Sir Hugh Pollard, eldest son and heir (see below).
  Lewis Pollard, second son, married Cecilia Chichester, sixth daughter of Sir John Chichester and widow of Thomas Hatch.
  Thomasine Pollard (died 1539), married Admiral Sir George Carew (c. 1504 – 1545), who drowned in the Mary Rose.
  Frances Pollard, who married Sir John Uggan of Pembroke.
  Susan Pollard, who married firstly John Copleston and secondly Sir Anthony Rouse.
caption: Arms of Prust of Thorry, Hartland: Gules, on a chief argent two estoiles sable[17]
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