Sir Amyas Pollard, 3rd Baronet [SEP] noble title
Sir Amyas Pollard, 3rd Baronet
Sir Amyas Pollard, 3rd Baronet (1616–1701) was an English gentleman of Devon and a baronet. Little is known of his life except that he was a staunch royalist during the Civil War, as evidenced by the inscribed verse on his ledger stone at Abbots Bickington: "Who durst the King & royall cause still own, In times when doing it was so dangerous known". He was the last in the male line of the ancient Pollard family of Bishop's Nympton. He inherited
" or "come!" The title is also a nod towards the play "Westward Ho!", written by John Webster and Thomas Dekker in 1604, which satirised the perils of the westward expansion of London. The full title of Kingsley's novel is Westward Ho! Or The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight of Burrough, in the County of Devon, in the reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, Rendered into Modern English by Charles Kingsley. This elaborate title is intended to reflect