Title:

Knight

Military Rank:

Colonel

First Name:

Amyas/Ames

Last Name:

Pollard

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

c.1701

Inscription:

"To the memory of Sr. Ames Pollard, Barron(e)t, who departed this life June the 5th 1701 and was here interr'd the 7th of the same in ye 85th year of his age".
Below is an heraldic achievement of Pollard showing an escutcheon of the Pollard arms: Quarterly 1st & 4th, a chevron between three escallops; 2nd & 3rd: a chevron between three mullets; overall the Red Hand of Ulster.
Above the escutcheon is the crest of Pollard: A leopard's head and neck erased.
Beneath is the following verse:
"If birth & parentage be an ornament,
His may be rank'd w(i)th those of best descent,
If constant stedfast loyallty be a praise,
His was unshaken in the worst of dayes,
Who durst the King & royall cause still own,
In times when doing it was so dangerous known,
If love to friends to neighb(ou)rs & to peace,
When constituted justice may increase,
And raise his charact(e)r all this lets us see,
How much we lost in being depriv'd of thee.

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Average

Condition Description:

Cracked and worn according to photographic evidence

Memorial Notes:

See: Reid, Stuart 2013 The Cavalier Army List, Vol.2, p.65
Victor Judge post 26.2.2025 on FB page, The Cavalier Army – Royalist Officers & Regiments of the English Civil War, https://www.facebook.com/groups/589627513663316

Also mentioned on the memorial to his son:
Painted mural monument to Thomas Pollard (1681–1710), Abbots Bickington Church, Devon. On a rectangular panel with arched top between two Corinthian columns and below a broken classical pediment is the following inscription: Here under lyes ye body of Tho: Pollard ye son of Sr. Ames Pollard Bart. who departed this life Decem(be)r ye 9th 1710 ye 29th year of his age. He had to wife Sarah ye daughter of Jonathan Prideaux of Thu(borough) Esqr. who by ye order of her dear deceas'd husband hath set up this monument in remembrance of him & doth desire to be laid here her selfe when it doth please God to take her hence. Above on either side is an angel holding an escutcheon, on the dexter one of which has recently been re-painted the escallop arms of Pollard. On top between the two angels was formerly a shield showing the quarterings as sculpted in relief on the ledger stone of his father before the altar in the same church. Below the base in the centre is the head and shoulders of a winged putto on a garland of flowers with a skull on each side beneath the columns.