[Illustration] Descended from the Glanvilles of Halwell, in the
parish of Whitchurch, in Devonshire, where they were settled about
the year 1400. This branch is derived from a younger son of Serjeant
Glanville, the son of Sir John Glanville, one of the Justices of the
Common Pleas in the reign of Elizabeth. Catchfrench became the seat
of the family in 1728.
See Prince's Worthies of Devon, pp. 326 and 339; Gilbert's Survey,
ii. 121; Lysons, pp. civ. 116.
ARMS.--_Azure, three saltiers or_. Present Representative, Francis
Glanville, Esq.