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the twelfth century, had a contest with the monks of the same 
priory concerning the presentation to the benefice of Sutton. The 
family became extinct about 1290, the heirs being Hen. de Pomerai 
and Roger Corbet. 
8. Edgcumbe, 1 Gu. on a bend erms. cotised or, three hoars' 
heads couped arg. ; Edgcumbe : 2 Sa. a ram's head caboshed arg. 
horns or ; Durnf orcl, originally Rame : S Az. an eagle displ. or ; 
Bigbury : 4 Arg. a chev. sa. betw. three round buckles gu.; Fitz- 
Waiter. The family of Dernford, or Durnford, was of some 
importance in Plymouth at the close of the fourteenth and early 
part of the fifteenth centuries. There is in the possession of the 
Earl of Mount Edgcumbe a letter addressed to Stephen Dernford, 
of Plymouth, from the King of Portugal, dated 1399. His son, 
Stephen Dernford, was of East Stonehouse and Rame, which came 
through the heiress of Rame. This son, James, married the co- 
heir of Bigbury, by whom he had a son, James, whose daughter 
and heir, Johanna, married Sir Piers Edgcumbe, of Mount Edg- 
cumbe, ancestor of the present Earl of Mount Edgcumbe. 
9. Bishop Stafford, Or a chev. gu. within a bordure sa. charged 
with eight bishops' mitres ppr. Edmund Stafford, brother to 
Ralph, Lord Stafford, consecrated Bishop of Exeter at Lambeth by 
William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury (1395). He was a 
man of considerable talent, and some time Lord of the Privy Seal. 
He greatly encouraged the inhabitants of Plymouth to build a castle 
to defend their town, in which work he rendered them assistance, 
and, according to Risdon, his arms were sculptured on it. The Bishop 
died 4th September, 1419, after having presided over the See of 
Exeter twenty-three years, and was buried on the north side of the 
Lady Chapel in his cathedral under an elegant tomb, on which is his 
effigy in alabaster. 
10. Sir William Ferrers, Or on a bend sa. three horse-shoes of the 
field ; Ferrers : imp. Az. a bend or, over all a label gu. ; Carmi- 
nowe. Sir William Ferrers married Matilda, daughter of Roger 
de Carmynowe. From this family Beer Ferrers and Newton 
Ferrers obtained their second appellation, and in the church of the 
former their arms may still be seen. Of a younger branch of this 
family was George Ferrers, Esq., M.P. for Plymouth in 1542. 
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