{{short description|Manor in Devon, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Lead too short|date=October 2021}} [[File:WebberyBarton Alverdiscott Devon Front.PNG|thumb|Webbery [[Barton (demesne)|Barton]] in 2017, dating from about 1700–20, believed to occupy the site of the Domesday Book manor house.<ref name="Listed building text">Listed building text</ref>]] [[File:WebberyBarton Alverdiscott Devon Circa1820.png|thumb|Webbery Barton, watercolour ''circa'' 1820]] [[File:Webbery Manor Alverdiscott Devon.PNG|thumb|Webbery [[manor house]], built 1821–6, situated a few hundred yards east of Webbery Barton]] [[File:WebberyManorHouse Alverdiscott Devon.PNG|thumb|Webbery [[manor house]], entrance front]] '''Webbery''' (anciently '''Wibbery''') is an historic [[Manorialism|manor]] in the parish of [[Alverdiscott]]<ref name=R280>Risdon, p.280</ref> in North [[Devon]], England. At one time, it was the home of the Lippingcott or Lippincott family.
==History== ===Nicholas the Bowman=== 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.<ref>Thorn, Parts 1 & 2, Chapter 48:1</ref> He was also a [[tenant-in-chief]] in Warwickshire.<ref name=T2-48>Thorn, Part 2, Chapter 48</ref> Nicholas was the king's artilleryman, whose role was "the captain or officer in charge of the stone and missile discharging engines used in [[siege]]s".<ref>Thorn, Part 2, Chapter 48, quoting Ellis, A.S., ''Biographical Notes on the Yorkshire Tenants Named in Domesday Book'', published in ''Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal'', Vol. IV, 1877, pp.245-6.</ref> 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]].<ref name=T2-48/>
===Feudal barony of Plympton=== Most of his landholdings later descended to the [[feudal barony of Plympton]].<ref name=T2-48/>
===Poleyne=== During the reign of King Henry III (1216-1272), Webbery was held by Richard Poleyne.<ref name=R280/>
===de Wibbery=== [[File:WibberyArms.png|thumb|150px|Arms of "Wibbery of Wibbery" ([[William Pole (antiquary)|Pole]]): ''Argent, a fess embattled counter-embattled sable between three [[Quatrefoil|caterfoils]] gules''<ref name=P508>Pole, p.508</ref><ref>"Mr Soms. booke", quoted in Carew's Scroll of Arms, 1588, no.62; "Hollinshead, 1223", quoted in Carew's Scroll of Arms, 1588, no.62</ref>]] Webbery then passed to the ''de Wibbery'' family which, as was usual during the reign of King Edward I (1272-1307),{{citation needed|date=August 2017}} adopted its surname from its seat. Simon de Wibbery is recorded as being [[lord of the manor]] in 1314.<ref>Risdon, p.280, [[regnal date]] 8 Edward II</ref> 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.<ref>Vivian, p.531, pedigree of Lippingcott of Wibbery (also pedigree of 6 generations of Wibbery of Wibbery</ref>
The arms of Wibbery are uncertain. [[William Pole (antiquary)|Pole]] (d.1635) gives them as: ''Argent, a fess embattled counter-embattled sable between three caterfoils gules'',<ref name=P508 /> 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,<ref>As seen on the Prouse monument in Chagford Church; for discussion of mermaid arms of Gough/Wibbery see: ''Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries'', Vol.IX, 1916-17, pp.81-97 "[https://archive.org/stream/devoncornwallnot09amer/devoncornwallnot09amer_djvu.txt Prowse Shield of Arms in Chagford Church]" See image [[:File:St Michael's Church, Chagford (6193).jpg]]</ref> which the above sources identify as the arms of Wibbery, yet other sources, including [[George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes|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.<ref>''[[George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes|Sir George Carew's]] Scroll of Arms, 1588, With Additions from Joseph Holland's Collection of Arms, 1579'', published in ''Devon Notes and Queries'', Vol.I, Part II, January 1900-October 1901</ref>
===Lippingcott=== [[File:Luppincott - geograph.org.uk - 666888.jpg|thumb|Luppincott in 2008]] [[File:LippingcottArms.png|thumb|150px|Arms of Lippingcott: ''Per fess embattled gules and sable, three leopards (cats) passant argent''<ref>Vivian, p.531, pedigree of "Lippingcott of Wibbery"</ref>]] 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.<ref name=LEA>''[https://archive.org/details/lippincottsineng00lipp The Lippincotts in England and America, Edited from the Genealogical Papers of the Late James S. Lippincott]'', Philadelphia, 1909, p.8</ref><ref>Lysons & Lysons, ''Magna Britannia'', Vol.6, ''Devon'', London, 1822, p.323, "Luffincott/Luffingcott"</ref>
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.<ref name=LEA /><ref>Thorn, Chapter 35:17</ref>
An alternative origin of the family is the manor and the present parish of "[[Luffincott]]",<ref>James S. Lippincott</ref><ref>Thorn & Thorn assume today's "Luffincott" to have been part of the DB manor of "Tamerlande" (Thorn, 35:5). See: Pole, p.351, "Luffencot" in the Hundred of Black Torrington. See also: Lysons & Lysons, ''Magna Britannia'', Vol.6, ''Devon'', London, 1822, p.323, ''Luffincott/Luffingcott''</ref> 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 {{frac|1|1|2}} miles north-east of Webbery. The Lippingcott family still held Webbery in the early 17th century, when [[Tristram Risdon|Risdon]] (d.1640) wrote his work the ''Survey of Devon''.<ref name=R280/>
A member of the Lippingcott family, Richard Lippincott, was an early settler in the American Colonies,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fein |first=Melanie L. |title=The Progenitors: Richard and Abigail Lippincott |publisher=Patridge Press |year=2025 |isbn=978-1-963587-28-9 |location=Amazon.com |publication-date=November 2025 |language=English}}</ref> and his descendants are fairly frequent visitors to Webbery today.<ref name="thewebberyestate.com">[http://www.thewebberyestate.com/theestate.asp "Webbery: Upmarket holiday cottage lets in Devon"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170917230550/http://www.thewebberyestate.com/theestate.asp|date=17 September 2017}}. Retrieved on 11 January 2017. </ref>
===Cutcliffe=== [[File:CutcliffeArms.png|thumb|150px|Arms of Cutcliffe: ''Gules, three pruning hooks argent''<ref>Vivian, p.264</ref>]]
====Charles Cutcliffe (1710-1791)==== In the late 18th century Webbery was inherited from Hugh Lippingcott<ref>Drake, Sir W. R., F.S.A., “Notes and Notelets” compiled in 1887, cited in [http://www.westleighparish.org/the-village/family-history/]</ref> by Charles Cutcliffe (1710-1791) of Weach Barton, [[Westleigh, North Devon|Westleigh, Devon]] (1 mile north-west of Webbery), a member of the ancient Cutcliffe family of [[Damage, Mortehoe|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 [[List of Latinized names|Latinized]] to ''de Rupescissa''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cutcliffe.com/ |title=Home |website=cutcliffe.com}}</ref> (literally: "from the cut rock"). Charles Cutcliffe's wife was Elizabeth Dene (d.1804), a daughter of Humphry Dene<ref>Vivian, p.266</ref> of Horwood House (which they occupied from the 17th century to 1920<ref>[[Nikolaus Pevsner|Pevsner, Nikolaus]] & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.497</ref>) 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.<ref>Vivian, pp.265-6</ref>
====Charles Newell Cutcliffe (1747-1813)==== Charles Newell Cutcliffe (1747-1813), eldest son, a solicitor and banker at nearby [[Bideford]], a [[Deputy Lieutenant]] for Devon and Captain of Volunteers<ref name=V267>Vivian, p.267</ref> 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, Devon|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 [[Sir James Hamlyn, 1st Baronet|James Hammet]] (1735–1811), [[lord of the manor|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.<ref>Will of Lord Rolle</ref> 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).
====John Mervin Cutcliffe (1778-1822)==== Lt-Col. John Mervin Cutcliffe (1778-1822), CB, Knight of the [[Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order]],<ref name=V267 /> member of the Imperial Ottoman [[Order of the Crescent]],<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Burke|author2=Bernard Burke|title=A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9NDTAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA89|year=1850|publisher=H. Colburn|page=89}}</ref> (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.<ref name="thewebberyestate.com"/> He was severely wounded early in the battle.<ref>The Waterloo Archive: Volume III: British Sources By Gareth Glover, note 96 [https://books.google.com/books?id=LaWmAwAAQBAJ&dq=John+Mervin+Cutcliffe&pg=PT237]</ref> 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,<ref name=V267/> his son Harry Luppincott Cutcliffe having died as an infant.<ref name=V267 /> 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,<ref name=V267 /> [[Ilfracombe]], situated in the region of the Damage estates of the Cutcliffe family.
===Deane=== The Deane family purchased the estate following the death of Lt.Col. Cutcliffe in 1822. *Anthony William Johnson Deane, of Webbery, was the son of Rev. William Deane (d.1818), a Fellow of [[All Souls College, Oxford]], by his wife Elizabeth Johnson (d.1841), a daughter and co-heiress of William Johnson, [[Mayor of Great Torrington]] in 1757, 1764 and 1771, by his wife Elizabeth Reynolds, a daughter and co-heiress of Samuel Reynolds of Plympton and a sister of the painter Sir [[Joshua Reynolds]] (1723-1792).<ref>Colby, Frederic Thomas (1827-1899), ''Pedigrees of five Devonshire families, Colby, Coplestone, Reynolds, Palmer and Johnson'', 1884, p.12 [https://archive.org/details/pedigreesfivede02colbgoog]</ref> The painter's other sister Mary Reynolds, married John Palmer of [[Palmer House, Great Torrington]], and was a frequent visitor to that town, south of Webbery. *William Anthony Deane (d.1886),<ref>Western Times, Devon, 13 Aug 1886: "W. A. DEANE, Esq., DECEASED. ALL Persons having CLAIMS on the Estate of WILLIAM ANTHONY DEANE, late of Webbery, Devon..."[http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=anthony%20potter&county=devon%2C%20england]</ref> He married Sarah Stable, daughter of George Stable of Stanmore.<ref name="auto3">Colby, p.29</ref> *William Anthony Deane, JP, DL, (son), of Webbery, son, [[lord of the manor]] of Monksoham, Bentley, Woodcroft, Copdock and Stratford St Mary, in Suffolk and Essex.<ref name="auto3"/> He married Lucy Elizabeth Bencraft, daughter of Stephen Bencraft of Barnstaple.<ref name="auto3"/>
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:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dswebhosting.info/Suffolk/SRODServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Site31&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo==%27HE402/1/1912/47%27)|title=Catalogue View | Suffolk Heritage Direct|website=www.dswebhosting.info}}</ref> *Weach Barton, Westleigh (the former Cutcliffe seat), comprising farmhouse, agricultural buildings, 239 acres. *West Webbery Farm, Alverdiscott, comprising farmhouse, farm buildings and 84 acres *Webbery Barton, Alverdiscott, an agricultural occupation, with farm residence, annexe, farm buildings, two cottages and 345 acres. *Bulworthy Farm, Alverdiscott, comprising farmhouse, agricultural buildings, a range of three cottages, a detached cottage, 255 acres. *Marsh Farm, Fremington, comprising set of farm buildings, 106 acres; *Stony Cross, in the parish of Alverdiscott: a smallholding, comprising a house, barn, stable etc., 35 acres *Stony Cross, a cottage and garden, two detached cottages with gardens, and a meadow at Stony Cross, Fremington.
===2017=== ====Webbery Barton==== Webbery Barton, a [[Listed building|grade II listed]] building dating from about 1700–20, with later alterations,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101305951-webbery-barton-alverdiscott|title=Webbery Barton, Alverdiscott, Devon|first=Good|last=Stuff|website=britishlistedbuildings.co.uk}}</ref> is owned by Mr R. Ford, who owns the surrounding farmland and operates it as a mixed farm.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ukplaces.com/Mixed+Farming/countrywide?lat=50.98413&lng=-4.11714|title=ukplaces.com - ukplaces Resources and Information.|website=ukplaces.com}}</ref> It is believed to occupy the site of the Domesday Book manor house.<ref name="Listed building text"/>
====Webbery Manor House==== The owners in 2017 of the manor house, a [[Listed building|grade II listed]] building constructed in 1821–6,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101333143-webbery-manor-alverdiscott|title=Webbery Manor, Alverdiscott, Devon|first=Good|last=Stuff|website=britishlistedbuildings.co.uk}}</ref> 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|Manor House]]", and 8 cottages.<ref name="thewebberyestate.com"/>
==References== {{Reflist|30em}}
;Sources *[[William Pole (antiquary)|Pole, Sir William]] (died 1635), ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=WF4OAAAAQAAJ Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon]'', Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791. *[[Tristram Risdon|Risdon, Tristram]] (died 1640), ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=w_0GAAAAQAAJ Survey of Devon]''. With considerable additions. London, 1811. *Thorn, Caroline & Frank, (eds.) ''Domesday Book Vol. 9: Devon'', Parts 1 & 2, Phillimore Press, Chichester, 1985. *[[John Lambrick Vivian|Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L.]], (Ed.) ''The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620''. Exeter, 1895.
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