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’Thos. Care to the Pretender, July 1739, Stuart mss 216/111. till 1741, when the Rolles dropped out on going over to the Court.

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