Annals of the Family of Floyer.1

BY THE REV. J. KESTELL FLOYER, M.A., F.S.A.,

Minor Canon of Worcester Cathedral.

(Communicated by the Rev. W. Harpley, M.A.)

(Read at Honiton, August, 1898.)
...IT is somewhat remarkable that the records of the Floyer family, never a very distinguished one, and in later generations disturbed by frequent migrations, should have been so fully preserved as they are. Three circumstances will mainly account for this, two of them accidental. By the marriage of Anthony Floyer76 with the daughter of Sir William Pole, the Devonshire historian and antiquary, the family was brought closely into contact with one who transcribed the deeds, charters, and grants of land which had existed in the family deed-box during the long undisturbed residence at Floyer's Hayes. The originals of these are not now discoverable, though they may still be extant. Nor are Sir William Pole's copies accessible.