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| Consideration: 5 shillings.</blockquote>|group="nb"}} Margaret was married aged fifteen to ], eldest son of ] the first prime minister. After her marriage she lived at ], the grander Walpole residence in Norfolk, until, after leaving her husband, she went to live on the Continent. | Consideration: 5 shillings.</blockquote>|group="nb"}} Margaret was married aged fifteen to ], eldest son of ] the first prime minister. After her marriage she lived at ], the grander Walpole residence in Norfolk, until, after leaving her husband, she went to live on the Continent. | ||
| Her only son was ] (d.1791) {{reference necessary|who died without progeny|date=June 2013}} and never visited his Devon seat.<ref |
Her only son was ] (d.1791) {{reference necessary|who died without progeny|date=June 2013}} and never visited his Devon seat.<ref name=L53 /> The manor was then {{reference necessary|inherited by his cousin ] (1764–1797),<!-- <ref>Lauder, p.53</ref> -->|date=June 2013}} who successfully claimed the title 17th Baron Clinton in 1794. {{reference necessary|His inheritance was due to his great-great-grandfather Francis Trefusis|date=June 2013}} of the manor of Trefusis, ], near ], in Cornwall having married in 1672 Bridget Rolle (1648–{{reference necessary|1721|date=June 2013}}), {{reference necessary|Margaret Rolle's aunt|date=June 2013}} and the daughter of Robert Rolle (d.1660) by his wife Lady Arabella Clinton.<ref name=V655>Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitation of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.655, pedigree of Rolle</ref> | ||
| In 1795, the mansion house of Heanton Satchville was destroyed by fire, and in 1797 the 17th Baron died, leaving his son and heir ] (1787–1832) a minor aged ten. Next, ] (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.<ref>Lauder, Rosemary, Devon Families, Tiverton, 2002, p. 69.</ref> The house was never rebuilt, but in 1812 the 18th Baron purchased the contiguous manor of ] to the east together with its capital mansion Innes House, and made it the new family seat, having renamed it Heanton Satchville. | In 1795, the mansion house of Heanton Satchville was destroyed by fire, and in 1797 the 17th Baron died, leaving his son and heir ] (1787–1832) a minor aged ten. Next, ] (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.<ref>Lauder, Rosemary, Devon Families, Tiverton, 2002, p. 69.</ref> The house was never rebuilt, but in 1812 the 18th Baron purchased the contiguous manor of ] to the east together with its capital mansion Innes House, and made it the new family seat, having renamed it Heanton Satchville. | ||
| 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".<ref></ref> 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.<ref>Lauder (2005), p. 53.</ref> 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<ref></ref> | 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".<ref></ref> 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.<ref name=L53>Lauder (2005), p. 53.</ref> 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<ref></ref> | ||
| ==Description by Swete in 1789== | ==Description by Swete in 1789== | ||
| The mansion was described by Rev. ] in 1789:<ref>Swete, |
The mansion was described by Rev. ] in 1789:<ref>Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), ''Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of the Reverend John Swete, 1789-1800. Volume I''. Devon Books, 1997, pp. 25–27. ISBN 0-86114-918-1.</ref> | ||
| <blockquote> | <blockquote> | ||
| "Heanton...a vast pile built at different periods having a date of 1639 engraved in a tablet of moorstone which is certainly from the architecture not the oldest but simply ascertaining the time in which the portal over which it has been placed was erected |
"Heanton ... a vast pile, built at different periods – having a date of 1639 engraved in a tablet of moorstone – which is certainly (from the architecture) not the oldest, but simply ascertaining the time in which the portal (over which it has been placed) was erected – from the figure of the house, which wears the form of the letter E in its front the period of erection may possibly be determined ...<br />... on the southern side of the house is a most noble terrace of considerable width and in length 130 paces which, with the bowling green and the walks around, are kept in most excellent order, and are the finest of the kind that I have ever met with. On the parapet walls, the mullions of the windows, and the flat pavement, all of which are moorstone, I observed that a white moss had so encroached as nearly to hide the superficies ... All that is seen from the terraces, of any note are the adjoining oak trees which are in general of great height and wonderful magnitude – particularly a grand clump of five or six nearest to the house ..."</blockquote> | ||
| He also states that from the park there are "several pleasing views ... where through the trunks of an old grove, several churches and the house of Sir James Innes" could be seen. The house he refers to was Innes House in the parish of ] to the east, renamed "Heanton Satchville" and rebuilt in 1935 by Baron Clinton after a fire. | |||
| ===Rubens painting rescued=== | ===Rubens painting rescued=== | ||
| Historical descriptions of Heanton Satchville are rare, and Swete's account includes an account of the fate of a Rubens painting in the house. He reported in his journal of 1797 that a painting by ] had been purchased "abroad" by Mr Trefusis, (i.e. Robert Cotton Trefusis (1742–1778), father of ] (1764–1797)), and that his son Baron Clinton, who had inherited Heanton Satchville from his cousin the Earl of Orford in 1791 and brought the painting there from Trefusis Manor near Falmouth, had himself rescued it from a devastating fire at his residence of Heanton Satchville. He had at some time been offered the huge sum of 1,500 guineas to sell it but had refused. Whilst still homeless he had loaned it for safekeeping to his neighbour John Inglett Fortescue Esq., at ], and it was displayed in the guest bedroom when Rev. Swete stayed the night. Swete wrote of it as follows: "At night as he introduced me to my bedchamber I observed what I thought a remarkable fine painting standing against the wall, and the next morning about six, the sun shining in at the windows, I drew back the curtains of the bed and contemplated it with admiration for at least an hour. The subject was taken from the New Testament, and was the compulsion of Simon to bear the Cross. The figures were five and the expression of the several countenances, the accuracy of the drawing and in particular the stile of colouring gave conviction to my mind that the master was Rubens. When I met Mr Fortescue at Breakfast I found that I was right in my conjecture...<ref>Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of the Reverend John Swete, 1789-1800 |
Historical descriptions of Heanton Satchville are rare, and Swete's account includes an account of the fate of a Rubens painting in the house. He reported in his journal of 1797 that a painting by ] had been purchased "abroad" by Mr Trefusis, (i.e. Robert Cotton Trefusis (1742–1778), father of ] (1764–1797)), and that his son Baron Clinton, who had inherited Heanton Satchville from his cousin the Earl of Orford in 1791 and brought the painting there from Trefusis Manor near Falmouth, had himself rescued it from a devastating fire at his residence of Heanton Satchville. He had at some time been offered the huge sum of 1,500 guineas to sell it but had refused. Whilst still homeless he had loaned it for safekeeping to his neighbour John Inglett Fortescue Esq., at ], and it was displayed in the guest bedroom when Rev. Swete stayed the night. Swete wrote of it as follows: "At night as he introduced me to my bedchamber I observed what I thought a remarkable fine painting standing against the wall, and the next morning about six, the sun shining in at the windows, I drew back the curtains of the bed and contemplated it with admiration for at least an hour. The subject was taken from the New Testament, and was the compulsion of Simon to bear the Cross. The figures were five and the expression of the several countenances, the accuracy of the drawing and in particular the stile of colouring gave conviction to my mind that the master was Rubens. When I met Mr Fortescue at Breakfast I found that I was right in my conjecture...<ref>Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), ''Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of the Reverend John Swete, 1789-1800. Volume III''. Devon Books, 1999, p. 113. ISBN 1-85522-684-7.</ref> Swete also reported that in the same fire Mr Fortescue had lost a much valued family portrait of his ancestor ] (c. 1531-1607), Lord Chancellor, which he had sent to Heanton Satchville to be restored by Lord Clinton's picture restorer. | ||
| ==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
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- Not to be confused with Heanton Satchville, Huish
The mansion of Heanton Satchville in the parish of Petrockstowe, Devon, has today been obliterated almost without a trace, but was at one time "one of the most imposing houses ever to exist in Devon" The research of the Devon historian Rosemary Lauder brought this house "almost completely erased from memory" which has "for long years remained unknown" back into prominence in the 2005 second edition of her book "Vanished Houses of North Devon". The Hearth Tax return of 1674 recorded 26 hearths for the house, making it the second largest house in Devon after Werrington. The house is not to be confused with the 18th-century house named after it in the nearby parish of Huish, the seat of Lord Clinton.
Descent of the manor
The manor of "Hantone" is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086, which records the tenant in 1066 as having been Edwin, and in 1086 Ralph of Byuyere, who held it from Baldwin the Sheriff. The manor of Heanton Satchville had been held by the Yeo family from at least 1359 when William Yeo was recorded as Sheriff of Devon. The family of Yeo held the manor by subinfeudation under the Courtenays, Earls of Devon. Robert Yeo (d.1530) died seized of Heanton Satchville which he held from Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter (d.1539) as of his honour of Okehampton. In 1570 Margaret Yeo, the sole heiress of Robert Yeo by his wife Mary Fortescue (daughter of Bartholomew Fortescue of Filleigh) married Henry Rolle (d.1625), the 3rd or 4th son of George Rolle (d.1552) of Stevenstone manor in the parish of St Giles in the Wood, MP for Barnstaple. Thus the manor passed to the Rolles, which family became the largest landholder in Devon, and is now represented by Baron Clinton.
The senior family line descended through five generations from Henry Rolle of Heanton Satchville and ended with the heiress Margaret Rolle, suo jure 15th Baroness Clinton (1709-1781), the daughter and sole heiress of Samuel Rolle (1646–1719). Margaret was married aged fifteen to Robert Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford, eldest son of Robert Walpole the first prime minister. After her marriage she lived at Houghton Hall, the grander Walpole residence in Norfolk, until, after leaving her husband, she went to live on the Continent.
Her only son was George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford (d.1791) and never visited his Devon seat. The manor was then who successfully claimed the title 17th Baron Clinton in 1794. of the manor of Trefusis, Mylor, near Falmouth, in Cornwall having married in 1672 Bridget Rolle (1648–), and the daughter of Robert Rolle (d.1660) by his wife Lady Arabella Clinton.
In 1795, the mansion house of Heanton Satchville was destroyed by fire, and 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. The house 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, and made it the new family seat, having renamed it Heanton Satchville.
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". 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. 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
Description by Swete in 1789
The mansion was described by Rev. John Swete in 1789:
"Heanton ... a vast pile, built at different periods – having a date of 1639 engraved in a tablet of moorstone – which is certainly (from the architecture) not the oldest, but simply ascertaining the time in which the portal (over which it has been placed) was erected – from the figure of the house, which wears the form of the letter E in its front the period of erection may possibly be determined ...
... on the southern side of the house is a most noble terrace of considerable width and in length 130 paces which, with the bowling green and the walks around, are kept in most excellent order, and are the finest of the kind that I have ever met with. On the parapet walls, the mullions of the windows, and the flat pavement, all of which are moorstone, I observed that a white moss had so encroached as nearly to hide the superficies ... All that is seen from the terraces, of any note are the adjoining oak trees which are in general of great height and wonderful magnitude – particularly a grand clump of five or six nearest to the house ..."
He also states that from the park there are "several pleasing views ... where through the trunks of an old grove, several churches and the house of Sir James Innes" could be seen. The house he refers to was Innes House in the parish of Huish to the east, renamed "Heanton Satchville" and rebuilt in 1935 by Baron Clinton after a fire.
Rubens painting rescued
Historical descriptions of Heanton Satchville are rare, and Swete's account includes an account of the fate of a Rubens painting in the house. He reported in his journal of 1797 that a painting by Rubens had been purchased "abroad" by Mr Trefusis, (i.e. Robert Cotton Trefusis (1742–1778), father of Robert George William Trefusis, 17th Baron Clinton (1764–1797)), and that his son Baron Clinton, who had inherited Heanton Satchville from his cousin the Earl of Orford in 1791 and brought the painting there from Trefusis Manor near Falmouth, had himself rescued it from a devastating fire at his residence of Heanton Satchville. He had at some time been offered the huge sum of 1,500 guineas to sell it but had refused. Whilst still homeless he had loaned it for safekeeping to his neighbour John Inglett Fortescue Esq., at Buckland Filleigh, and it was displayed in the guest bedroom when Rev. Swete stayed the night. Swete wrote of it as follows: "At night as he introduced me to my bedchamber I observed what I thought a remarkable fine painting standing against the wall, and the next morning about six, the sun shining in at the windows, I drew back the curtains of the bed and contemplated it with admiration for at least an hour. The subject was taken from the New Testament, and was the compulsion of Simon to bear the Cross. The figures were five and the expression of the several countenances, the accuracy of the drawing and in particular the stile of colouring gave conviction to my mind that the master was Rubens. When I met Mr Fortescue at Breakfast I found that I was right in my conjecture... Swete also reported that in the same fire Mr Fortescue had lost a much valued family portrait of his ancestor Sir John Fortescue (c. 1531-1607), Lord Chancellor, which he had sent to Heanton Satchville to be restored by Lord Clinton's picture restorer.
Notes
- Some of the landholdings of Samuel Rolle are listed in the following lease dated 1704 to members of the Tuckfield family, relatives of his second wife Margaret Tuckfield, daughter of Roger Tuckfield of Raddon Court, near Crediton:
Lease for a year:
1 Samuel Rolle of Heanton Satchville, Devon
2 William Davie of Creedy, Devon, Margaret Tuckfield of Raddon Court, Devon, Roger Tuckfield of Raddon Court, Devon and John Tuckfield of Exeter, Devon
Property (1 to 2): manor, rectory and hundred of Puddletown, including Druce and Willoughbys farms; manors of West Anstey and Town, Irnall, Cotleigh, Culbeer in Offwell, Bradwell in West Down and Ilfracombe, Heanton Satchville with the Barton farm and Hall Moor, Hele Territt alias Flemings Hele, and a tenement called Cuddimors, manor and advowson of Petrockstow, manor of Broom Park Yeate , manor and advowson of West Putford, manor of Buckish, manor of Nuton , manor of Hartleigh , manor of Sheepwash, manor of Newcourt , manor of Gortleigh , manor of Merton, manor of Shebbear with property in Langtree, manor of Welcombe, and properties in Ashwater, Ringsash , Great Torrington, Sheepwash, Shebbear, Langtree, Buckland Filleigh, Petrockstow, Peters Marland, West Putford, East Putford, Hartland, Woolfardisworthy, Highhampton, Hatherleigh, Jacobstowe, West Down, Ilfracombe, West Anstey, Cotleigh, Culbeer , Monkton, Offwell, Combe Raleigh, Bere Alston, Damierton , and Merton, all in Devon; manors of Norton Rolle, Marhamchurch, manor and borough 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.
Consideration: 5 shillings.
References
- ^ Lauder (2005), p. 49.
- Lauder (2005), p. 3.
- Lauder (2005), pp. 49–50.
- http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SS5311/heanton-satchville/
- ^ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitation of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.655, pedigree of Rolle
- Dorset Archives D/PUD/A3/1
- ^ Lauder (2005), p. 53.
- Lauder, Rosemary, Devon Families, Tiverton, 2002, p. 69.
- Lysons, Magna Britannia
- Cholmondeley Archives
- Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of the Reverend John Swete, 1789-1800. Volume I. Devon Books, 1997, pp. 25–27. ISBN 0-86114-918-1.
- Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of the Reverend John Swete, 1789-1800. Volume III. Devon Books, 1999, p. 113. ISBN 1-85522-684-7.
Sources
- Lauder, Rosemary (2005). Vanished Houses of North Devon (Revised ed.). North Devon Books. ISBN 0-95286-452-5.
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