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|Name=Savery, or Savory
|Blazon=Quarterly, 1st and 4th, gu. a fess vair betw. three unicorns' heads couped or, for Savery; 2nd, erm. on a chev. sa. three stags' heads couped or, for Servington; 3rd, sa. a chev. engr. betw. three suns in splendour ar., for Waltham.
|Crest=A heron's head and neck erased ar. wings displ. sa. in the beak an olive branch vert.
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|Motto=Aut Vita libera aut mois gloriosa.
|Info=Great Totnes, in the parish of Modbury; Willinge, in the parish of Rattery; Slade, in the parishes of Cornwood and Plympton; Venn, in the parish of Churchstow; and Fowellscombe, in the parish of Ugborough; all in co. Devon. The Saverys, originally from Brittany, have been of considerable note in co. Devon since the year 1500. From that period, the pedigrees in the Visitations exhibit their alliances with the knightly western houses of Carew, Servington, Strode, Eliot, Waltham, Hele, Fowell, Davies, Prideaux, &c. They possessed Totnes Castle until 1591, about which period the head of the family, Sir Christopher Savery, Knt., High Sheriff co. Devon in 1614, purchased and removed to Shilston. His son, Colonel Christopher Savery, of Shilston, was an active officer under the Parliamentary banner, during the Civil War, and signed the round robin of 1643. He was father of Servington Savery, Esq., of Shilston, d. 1649. His descendant and heir, John Savery, Esq., of Shilston. d.s.p. in 1831, leaving two nephews, viz: John Servington Savery, Esq., of Venn, and Servington Savery, Esq., of Fowellscombe, Receiver of Crown Rents for cos. Somerset, Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall
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