The Noble and Gentle Men of England / or, notes touching the arms and descents of the ancient knightly and gentle houses of England, arranged in their respective counties.

by Evelyn Philip Shirley

From the days of Henry III. if not from an earlier period, this ancient family has resided at the place from whence the name is derived.

See the Visitation of Devon, 1620, Harl. MS. 1080. fo. 4; Lysons, cxlv. and 92.

Arms.—Argent, a chevron azure between three fireballs proper.

Present Representative, George Fursdon, Esq.

Strode of Newenham, in the parish of Plympton St. Mary.

Originally of Strode, in the parish of Ermington, where Adam de Strode, the first recorded ancestor, was seated in the reign of Henry III, In that of Henry IV. by the marriage of the coheiress of Newenham of Newenham, they became possessed of that place, since the seat of the family. "A right ancient and honourable family," says Prince; it may also be called an historical one, William Strode, of this house, being one of the Five Members of the House of Commons demanded by Charles I. in 1641.

See Prince's Worthies, p. 563; Westcote's Pedigrees, p. 542; Lysons, clv.

Arms.—Argent, a chevron between three conies sable.

Present Representative, George Strode, Esq.