[Illustration] Originally of Doniford, in Somersetshire, where John
de Hywish is said to have been seated in the early part of the
thirteenth century. Sand, in the parish of Sidbury, came by purchase
to an ancestor of the family in the reign of Elizabeth; and,
although we find it in Lysons's List of the Decayed Mansions of the
County of Devon, it still remains the inheritance of this ancient
family.
See Lysons, cxlix. v. 144, and Burke's History of the Commoners, 1st
ed. vol. iv. p. 409.
ARMS.--_Argent, on a bend sable three lutes naiant of the first_.
Present Representative, the Rev. John Huyshe.