[Illustration] This is a younger branch of the great Anglo-Irish
family of Bellew of Bar-meath, in the county of Meath, settled in
Devonshire in the reign of Edward IV., in consequence of a marriage
with one of the coheiresses of Fleming of Bratton-Fleming.
See the Visitations of Devon in 1564 and 1620: Lysons, cxxxiv. and
455.
ARMS.--_Sable, fretty or, a crescent for difference_.
Present Representative, John Prestwood Bellew, Esq.