LOCAL HERALDRY. 
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in chief a label gu. ; Prideaux. This Edmund Pollexfen was the 
last of this very ancient family, who held for a long period a good 
position in Plymouth and its immediate neighbourhood. The 
most distinguished member was Sir Henry Pollexfen, Attorney- 
General and Chief Justice of the King's Bench, who was knighted 
5th March, 1688; while Mr. Pollexfen himself held no mean 
place in the legal profession which he practised in Plymouth, of 
which he was for some time Town Clerk. His will, proved in 
1700 (P.P.C. Smith, 190), is a long and interesting document. It 
mentions his estates of Kitley, &c, and tin mines in Cornwall, 
an estate he had as his wife's dower, her mother Prideaux, assigns 
certain rooms at Kitley for the use of his wife, if she survives, 
with free access to and from them, use of gardens and orchard, 
with other matters. In many a South Devon church the arms of 
Pollexfen appear, while the parish registers record the names as 
gentlemen and esquires, and show their alliances with such families 
as Buller, Drake, Harris of Radford, Bastard, Treville, Hele, 
Crocker, Polwhele, and others. Ann, daughter and heiress of the 
above Edmund Pollexfen, married William Bastard, of Gerston, 
son of Sir William Bastard, and carried Kitley to that family. 
She erected a monument in Yealmpton Church to the memory of 
her father, who died in 1710. 
The following entries from the Registers of St. Andrew relate 
to the above Edmund Pollexfen ; viz. : 
BAPTISMS. 
1666. 
Dec. 
6. 
Ann, daughter of Edmund Pollexfen, Esq., and 
Ann, his wife. 
1668. 
April 17. 
Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Edmund and Mrs. 
Ann Pollexfen. 
1669. 
Dec. 
13. 
Petronell, daughter of Mr. Edmund and Mrs. 
Ann Pollexfen. 
1671. 
Dec. 
5. 
Edmund, son of Edmund Pollexfen, Esq., and 
Mrs. Ann, his wife. 
1672. 
Feb. 
4. 
John, son of Edmund Pollexfen and Mrs. Ann, 
his wife. 
1674. 
Feb. 
24. 
Nicholas, son of Edmund Pollexfen, Esq., and 
Mrs. Ann, his wife. 
WEDDING. 
1665. 
Feb. 
21. 
Edmund Pollexfen and Ann Harris.' 
BURIALS. 
1668. May 26. Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Edmund Pollexfen. 
1670. Jan. 8. Petronell, of Mr. Edmund Pollexfen. 
1677. Jan. 4. John, son of Mr. Edmund Pollexfen. 
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