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<p>The Devonshire country gentlemen were accustomed to return the heads of three Tory families, the Courtenays, Bampfyldes, and Rolles, who were ‘chose in their turn’<a class='fnlink' id='t1' href='#fn1'>1<span>Thos. Care to the Pretender, July 1739, Stuart mss 216/111.</span></a> till 1741, when the Rolles dropped out on going over to the Court.</p>