Arms of Drake Baronets of Buckland Abbey and Nutwell: Sable, a fess wavy between two pole-stars Arctic and Antarctic argent. These were the arms granted to the 1st Baronet's uncle, Admiral Sir Francis Drake (d.1596).[1] As visible at Nutwell Court and in its parish church of WoodburyArms of Drake of Ash: Argent, a wyvern wings displayed and tail nowed gules.[2][3]1577 engraving of Admiral Sir Francis Drake showing both Drake of Buckland and Drake of Ash Coat of arms quartered together
There have been four baronetcies created for people with the surname Drake, three in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of Great Britain.
^Vivian, p.299: "An augmentation coat was granted in 1581 by the Queen's command to Sir Francis Drake"
^Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.292, pedigree of Drake of Ash
^Vivian, p.299, pedigree of Drake of Crowndale and Buckland Abbey, states erroneously "The Drake family of Crowndale and Buckland Abbey used the same arms but the tail of the wyvern is not nowed" (knotted)
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