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Webbery (anciently Wibbery) is an historic manor in the parish of Alverdiscott [2] in North Devon, England.
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Webbery (anciently Wibbery) is an historic manor in the parish of Alverdiscott [2] in North Devon, England.
The manor of WIBERIE is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as the first of the twelve Devonshire holdings that belonged to "Nicholas the Bowman" (Nicolaus Balistarius or Archibalistarius), a servant of King William the Conqueror and one of the Devon Domesday Book tenants-in-chief. His tenant was Roger Goad. [3] He was also a tenant-in-chief in Warwickshire. [4] Nicholas was the king's artilleryman, whose role was "the captain or officer in charge of the stone and missile discharging engines used in sieges". [5] He was also known as Nicholas de la Pole. At some time between 1095 and 1100 he exchanged his manor of Ailstone in Warwickshire for the manor of Plymtree in Devon, held by St Peter's Abbey, Gloucester. [4]
Most of his landholdings later descended to the feudal barony of Plympton. [4]
During the reign of King Henry III (1216-1272), Webbery was held by Richard Poleyne. [2]
Webbery then passed to the de Wibbery family which, as was usual during the reign of King Edward I (1272-1307),[ citation needed ] adopted its surname from its seat. Simon de Wibbery is recorded as being lord of the manor in 1314. [8] It remained the seat of this family for several generations until the male line failed and it passed to the Lippingcott family, by marriage to the heiress Jane Wibbery, daughter of John Wibbery and sister and co-heiress of William Wibbery. [9]
The arms of Wibbery are uncertain. Pole (d.1635) gives them as: Argent, a fess embattled counter-embattled sable between three caterfoils gules, [6] yet many 19th century sources give them as: A chevron between three mermaids, but without the provision of any evidence to ancient sources, and curiously without mention or discussion of Pole's contradictory blazon. The Wibbery family had become extinct in the male line before the production of the Heraldic Visitations of Devon, and thus the arms are not recorded in that source. The Lippingcott family quartered these mermaid arms, [10] which the above sources identify as the arms of Wibbery, yet other sources, including Carew in his Scroll of Arms (1588), state the mermaid arms quartered by Lippingcott to be the arms of Gough of Cornwall (alias Goff, Goffe, etc.), an heiress of which family the Lippincotts married and whose arms they were thus entitled to quarter. (Phillip Lippingcott (d.1567) great-grandson of the heiress Jane Wibbery, married Alice Gough, a daughter and co-heiress of Richard Gough of "Kilkham in Cornwall" (Vivian, p. 531)) (Gough of "Kilkeham" (Kilkhampton?) in Cornwall, per Joseph Hollands Collection of Arms, 1579, quoted in Carew's Scroll of Arms, 1588, no.62. [11]
John Lippingcott of Lippingcott (now "Luppincott"), in the parish of Alverdiscott, married Jane Wibbery, the heiress of Webbery, and the Lippingcott family moved its residence to Webbery from Lippingcott. [13] [14]
The Lippingcott family is believed to have originated either at a manor named "Lovacott" or "Luffincott", of which a range of possible locations exists, and of which their surname is a corruption. A possibility is "Lovacott" in the parish of Shebbear in the hundred of Shebbear, listed in the Domesday Book as LOVECOTE, the 17th of the 31 Devonshire manors of Roald Dubbed held in chief from King William the Conqueror. [13] [15]
An alternative origin of the family is the manor and the present parish of "Luffincott", [16] [17] not mentioned in the Domesday Book, which has its own church of St James. This is situated in the Hundred of Black Torrington, and is not identical to the DB LOVECOTE in Shebbear. A further estate named "Lovacott", is situated in the parish of Alverdiscott only 1+1⁄2 miles north-east of Webbery. The Lippingcott family still held Webbery in the early 17th century, when Risdon (d.1640) wrote his work the Survey of Devon. [2]
A member of the Lippingcott family was an early settler in the American Colonies, and his descendants are fairly frequent visitors to Webbery today. [18]
In the late 18th century Webbery was inherited from Hugh Lippingcott [20] by Charles Cutcliffe (1710-1791) of Weach Barton, Westleigh, Devon (1 mile north-west of Webbery), a member of the ancient Cutcliffe family of Damage in the parish of Ilfracombe (or Mortehoe) in North Devon, said to have descended from the French family named Roquetaillard (translated literally into English as "Rock-Cutter", hence "Cut-Cliffe") of Chateau Roquetaillard in Gironde. The name Cutcliffe was Latinized to de Rupescissa [21] (literally: "from the cut rock"). Charles Cutcliffe's wife was Elizabeth Dene (d.1804), a daughter of Humphry Dene [22] of Horwood House (which they occupied from the 17th century to 1920 [23] ) in the parish of Horwood, Devon. Memorials to the Dene family survive in St Michael's Church, Horwood. Charles Cutcliffe's father Charles Cutcliffe (1684-1745) of Bideford, had inherited the extensive Ilfracombe estates of his nephew of the senior line, Robert Cutcliffe (d.1745) of Damage, who died without progeny. [24]
Charles Newell Cutcliffe (1747-1813), eldest son, a solicitor and banker at nearby Bideford, a Deputy Lieutenant for Devon and Captain of Volunteers [25] at a time of great anxiety in England of a French Invasion following the French Revolution of 1789. He married Maragaret Mervyn (d.1792), a daughter and co-heiress of John Mervyn of Marwood Hill in the parish of Marwood. Two of his daughters were Ann Cutcliffe (1781-1859) and Harriet Cutcliffe (1786-1867), who both died unmarried, described in the census of 1851 as "resident gentlewomen" living at Hudscott, Chittlehampton as companions to Lucilla Rolle, the elderly and lunatic sister of John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (d.1842), whom Rolle made provision for in his will. Their monument survives in Marwood Church. His other daughter was Frances Cutcliffe (1780-1867), the wife of Zachary Hammett Drake I (1777-1847) and mother of Zachary Hammett Drake II (died 1856), Rector of Clovelly, a relative of James Hammet (1735–1811), lord of the Manor of Clovelly, who changed his surname and became Sir James Hamlyn, 1st Baronet, having been bequeathed that manor by his great-uncle the lawyer Zachary Hamlyn (1677-1759). Zachary Hammett Drake I was Lord Rolle's trustee relating to his sister Lucilla Rolle. [26] A member of this family was William Richard Drake, FSA, historian of the Cutcliffe family and author of Account of the Family of Cutcliffe of Damage in Devonshire (1876).
Lt-Col. John Mervin Cutcliffe (1778-1822), CB, Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, [25] member of the Imperial Ottoman Order of the Crescent, [27] (son and heir) who served with distinction at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, and who on his return built the surviving mansion house. He was the senior Major of the 26th Light Dragoons Regiment on the eve of the battle and in the absence of John Dawson, 2nd Earl of Portarlington, the commanding officer, Major Cutcliffe was promoted to lieutenant colonel by the Duke of Wellington and placed in command of the regiment. [18] He was severely wounded early in the battle. [28] He married Hon. Charlotte Talbot, the youngest daughter of Richard Talbot by his wife Margaret Talbot, 1st Baroness Talbot of Malahide (died 1834). He died in 1822 without surviving male progeny, [25] his son Harry Luppincott Cutcliffe having died as an infant. [25] His daughter and heiress was Frances Cutcliffe (1780-1867), wife of Zachary Hammett Drake I (1777-1847) of Springfield, near Barnstaple, a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant for Devon, whose monument survives in Lee Chapel, [25] Ilfracombe, situated in the region of the Damage estates of the Cutcliffe family.
The Deane family purchased the estate following the death of Lt.Col. Cutcliffe in 1822.
The Deane family remained at Webbery until 1912 when the "Agricultural portion of the Webbery Estate in Alverdiscott, Fremington and Westleigh" comprising five farms, a smallholding and cottages, 1,068 acres in total, was put up for sale by Lt-Col. C.A. Clare Deane, comprising the following lands: [32]
Webbery Barton, a grade II listed building dating from about 1700–20, with later alterations, [33] is owned by Mr R. Ford, who owns the surrounding farmland and operates it as a mixed farm. [34] It is believed to occupy the site of the Domesday Book manor house. [1]
The owners in 2017 of the manor house, a grade II listed building constructed in 1821–6, [35] situated a few hundred yards east of Webbery Barton, acquired it in the early 1990s. The present estate consists of a Regency manor house known as "Webbery Manor House", and 8 cottages. [18]
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