Kitley Heritage - Reynell impaling Walrond

38/ Masonry argent a chief indented sable Impaling Argent three bull’s heads cabossed sable armed or – Reynell impaling Walrond

This shield denotes the marriage of Walter Reinell of Malston to Joane, daughter of William Walrond of Bradfield (q.v. shield 39). Walter Reinell was MP for Devon during the reign of King Henry VI. One of the Reynells is said by Prince to have been at Agincourt, although no evidence has been found in support of this suggestion. A century or so later a Richard Reynell is known to have led a Troop of the Horse during the Western Rebellion of 1552. Later again, King Charles II visited Ford House in 1625, seat of the Reynells since the Dissolution, and conferred a knighthood upon another Richard.

The Reynell’s ownership of Ford & Wolborough from the mid sixteenth century onwards also entangles them with the post-Dissolution history of the Manor of Buckland, later purchased by the Bastards, the exact particulars regarding which have yet to be fully resolved. However, what is clear is that for a brief period Buckland became part and parcel of Wolborough Manor, before resuming its independent status, but the exact details remain something of a mystery, for even as late as the early nineteenth century some properties in Buckland were still paying a fealty to the Lord of the Manor of Wolborough, and their occupiers performing suit of service to the Manor Courts held there.