[Illustration] Descended from Galfridus, who was of Northcote, in
the parish of East-Downe, in the twelfth century. Hayne, in the
parish of Newton St. Cyres, was afterwards acquired by marriage with
the heiress of Drew. Pynes was inherited from the heiress of'
Stafford, originally Stowford, early in the last century.
See Lysons, pp. cx. 361, 545, and Wotton's Baronetage; ii. 206.
ARMS.--_Argent, three cross-crosslets botonny in bend sable_. Used
on seals in the reign of Henry VI. The earliest coat, used till the
time of Edward III. was _Or, a chief gules fretty of the first_.
Afterwards, _Argent, a fess between three cross molines sable_. In
1571, Robert Cooke, Clarencieux, is said to have granted, according
to the foolish custom of the day, another coat to Walter Northcote
of Crediton, grandfather or uncle of the 1st Baronet, viz.: _Or, on
a pale argent three bends sable_. Sir William Pole mentions another
coat, _Or, three spread eaglets gules, on a chief sable three
escallops of the first_. But this appears to be a mistake.--From the
information of the present Baronet.
Present Representative, Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, 8th Baronet,
M.P. for Stamford.