[Illustration] This is a Devonshire family of good antiquity seated
at Floyers-Hayes, in the parish of St. Thomas in that county, soon
after the Norman Conquest. That estate appears to have remained in
the family till the latter part of the seventeenth century. The
Floyers afterwards removed into Dorsetshire, of which county Anthony
Floyer, Esq. was a justice of the peace in 1701.
See Prince's Worthies of Devonshire, ed. 1701, p. 308; Westcote's
Devonshire Pedigrees, p. 556.
ARMS.--_Sable, a chevron between three broad arrows argent_.
Present Representative, John Floyer, Esq. M. P. for Dorset.