[Illustration] This is the eldest remaining branch of the ancient
family of Prideaux, who trace their descend from Paganus, lord of
Prideaux Castle, in Luxulion, in this county, in the time of William
I.; where the family continued till the latter part of the
fourteenth century, when Prideaux passed by an heiress to the Herles
of West Herle, in Northumberland. The present family, which was
seated at "Place" in the sixteenth century, is sprung from the
Prideauxes of Solden, in Holsworthy, in Devonshire, a branch of
Prideaux of Thuborough in Sutcombe, in the same county, who were
themselves descended from Prideaux of Orcherton in Modbury, also in
Devonshire, where the family was established by marriage with the
heiress of Orcherton in the reign of Henry III.
Younger branch, Prideaux of Netherton, co. Devon, Baronet 1622,
founded by Edmund Prideaux, an eminent lawyer, second son of Roger
Prideaux of Solden.
See Carew, 143 b; Gilbert's Survey of Cornwall, i. 542; Lysons, 252,
cxii.; Wotton's Baronetage, i. 515; Westcote's Devonshire Pedigrees,
p. 470; Prince's Worthies of Devon, ed. 1, p. 307.
ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron sable, a label of three points gules_.
This was the coat of Orcherton.
Present Representative, Charles Prideaux-Brune, Esq.