Arms.—Or, on a bend gules three mullets argent.
Present Representative, Augustus Frederick George Warwick Bampfylde, 2nd Baron Poltimore.
Northcote of Pynes, Baronet 1641.
Descended from Galfridus, who was of Northcote, in the parish of East-Downe, in the twelfth century. Hayne, in the parish of Newton St. Cyres, was afterwards acquired by marriage with the heiress of Drew. Pynes was inherited from the heiress of' Stafford, originally Stowford, early in the last century.
See Lysons, pp. cx. 361, 545, and Wotton's Baronetage; ii. 206.
Arms.—Argent, three cross-crosslets botonny in bend sable. Used on seals in the reign of Henry VI. The earliest coat, used till the time of Edward III. was Or, a chief gules fretty of the first. Afterwards, Argent, a fess between three cross molines sable. In 1571, Robert Cooke, Clarencieux, is said to have granted, according to the foolish custom of the day, another coat to Walter Northcote of Crediton, grandfather or uncle of the 1st Baronet, viz.: Or, on a pale argent three bends sable. Sir William Pole mentions another coat, Or, three spread eaglets gules, on a chief sable three escallops of the first. But this appears to be a mistake.—From the information of the present Baronet.
Present Representative, Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, 8th Baronet, M.P. for Stamford.
Fursdon of Fursdon, in the parish of Cadbury.
