Floyer Hayes

Arms of Floyer of Floyer Hayes: Sable, a chevron between three arrows points downward argent
Arms of Floyer of Floyer Hayes: Sable, a chevron between three arrows points downward argent; crest: A stag's head erased or holding in the mouth an arrow argent.[1] Motto: Floret Virtus Vulnerata ("Virtue flourishes wounded")

Floyer Hayes was an historic manor in the parish of St Thomas[2] on the western side of the City of Exeter in Devon, England, from which city it is separated by the River Exe.[3] It took its name from the ancient family of Floyer. Floyer Hayes, according to Sir William Pole (d.1635), the Devon historian and father-in-law of Anthony Floyer,[4] was "the contynewinge dwelling place of the name of Floier from the Conquest unto these tymes".[5]

Location

No remains of the manor house survived beyond about 1830 or 1840. It stood set back a little way on the east side of the road from Exeter to Alphington, between the Haven Road and the railway viaduct, rather beyond what was known in 1898 as Sydney Place.[6] The name "Flower Pot Buildings" may have been originally "Floyer's Plot." The land lies very low, and was intersected by streams by which mills are worked. A mill is mentioned as being on the manor of Floyer's Hayes in the time of Henry III (1216-1272). The manor house is shown on a 1573 map of Exeter[7] as a building of large size, surrounded by a stone wall and entered beneath a large arched gateway.[8] According to Worthy (1892): "It stood nearly in a line with "Snayle Tower", and on the west side of the river, and must have been very near the ancient priory of Cowick, but a little to the south-west of it".

Feudal tenure

Floyer Hayes is referred to in a Latin note to the Heralds' Visitation of Devon of 1564, preserved at the College of Arms. This indicates that before the 14th century the manor was a member of one of the feudal baronies of the Courtenay family, Earls of Devon, thus either of the feudal barony of Okehampton or the feudal barony of Plympton. It was held from the Courtenays by the feudal tenure of grand sergeanty described as:[9]

"Whenever the Earl may come to Exe Island to fish, or otherwise enjoy himself, then the lord, or proprietor, of this manor, in decent habit or apparel, should attend him with a mantle upon his shoulders and a silver cup filled with wine in his hands, and should offer the same to the said Earl to drink".

Descent

Floyer

The manor remained in the possession of the Floyer family until it was sold by Anthony Floyer (born 1596) to Henry Gould (d.1636). This Anthony Floyer married Elinor Pole, a daughter of the Devon historian Sir William Pole (d.1635), who wrote concerning "Floyerhays": Antony Floier, nowe livinge, hath by Elinor, daughter of mee Sr Willam Pole, of Colcombe, Kt, issue: William, John, and others. The said Antony hath alsoe diverse tenements in the parish of St Thomas.[10] Pole's contemporary and fellow Devon historian Tristram Risdon (d.1640) also referred to Anthony Floyer of "Floyers Heyes" thus: The now inheritor thereof married Pole, his father Martin.[11] This refers to Anthony Floyer's mother Anna Martin, 4th daughter[12] and co-heiress of Nicholas Martin of Athelhampton, Dorset, descended from the ancient Martin family, feudal barons of Barnstaple in Devon. The Tudor manor house of the Martins survives at Athelhampton.

Gould

Arms of Gould: Per saltire azure and or a lion rampant counterchanged[13]

The Gould family was descended from a certain John Gold, a crusader present at the siege of Damietta in 1217 who for his valour was granted in 1220 by Ralph de Vallibus an estate at Seaborough in Somerset.[14] The descent of Floyer Hayes in the Gould family was as follows:

Templar

The Goulds sold this property to the Templar family which "divided it, and destroyed the ancient house".[39] In 1811 Floyer Hayes was the property of Thomas Templar, Esq.[40]

Sources

References

  1. Vivian, p.344
  2. Risdon, p.116
  3. Risdon, 1811 Additions, p.374
  4. Pole, p.239
  5. Pole, p.238
  6. Floyer, Rev. J. Kestell, 1898
  7. Apparently reproduced in Lysons' Magna Britannia, Vol. 6, p. 178 (per Worthy, p.161). Not visible here
  8. Floyer, Rev. J. Kestell, 1898
  9. Worthy, p.161
  10. Pole, p.239
  11. Risdon, p.117
  12. Vivian, p.553, pedigree of Martyn of Oxton
  13. Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitation of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.418
  14. Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitation of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pedigree of Gould, pp.418-432, p.418
  15. Vivian, pp.345, 421
  16. Vivian, p.421, pedigree of Gould
  17. Vivian, p.426, pedigree of Gould
  18. Vivian, p.421
  19. Vivian, p.421
  20. Worthy, pp.160-3
  21. Vivian, p.421
  22. Vivian, p.422
  23. "Sheriff of Devon" per Vivian, p.421, but not listed in Risdon, pp.13-14
  24. Poulton-Smith, Anthony, South Devon Place Names
  25. Brian Chapman
  26. Vivian, p.421
  27. Worthy, p.160
  28. Vivian, p.422
  29. Vivian, p.422
  30. Vivian, p.422
  31. Vivian, p.422
  32. Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.339
  33. Vivian, p.422
  34. Burke's, p.277
  35. Vivian, p.422
  36. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/tuckfield-john-1719-67
  37. Worthy, p.160
  38. Worthy, Charles, The History of the Suburbs of Exeter, Exeter, 1892, p.163
  39. Risdon, 1811 Additions, p.374
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