between nine martlets argent, 3,3,2,1 (shown here as Azure, two bars between eight martlets or, 3,2,3) Tantifer (alias Tatifer, Tantifer, Taundifer, Fattifer) of Anke, (modern "Aunk") Clyst Hydon, an heiress of Chesilden 9th: Barry of six argent and gules, on a canton of the second a lion passant or (Lancaster of Milverton), the family of Bluett's mother) Career Bluett's father died in 1612, leaving him at the age of nine in the care of his grandfather Richard Bluett (d.1614), who died two years later. He then became heir to the family's 16 manors in Somerset, Devon and Dorset. As a tenant-in-chief he became a ward of the king, who sold his wardship to his great-uncle Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester (1563-1625), Lord Deputy of Ireland. On 16 April 1619 aged 15, he matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford, founded (posthumously) only nine years before in 1610 by his distant cousin Nicholas Wadham (died 1609) of Merryfield, Somerset and Edge, Branscombe, Devon. Nicholas's ancestor Sir William Wadham (died 1452) had married the other Chiselden co-heiress, Margaret Chiseldon, whose sister Maude Chiseldon had brought Holcombe Rogus to the Bluetts. He presented a gold flagon to Wadham College which was melted down for coin tempore Charles I. In 1628 he was elected Member of Parliament for Tiverton, Devon. Marriage and children Bluett married Elizabeth Portman (1602-1636), whose effigy exists beside that of her husband under their canopied monument in the Bluett Chapel, Holcombe Rogus Church. She was a daughter of Sir John Portman, 1st Baronet (d.1612), of Orchard Portman in Somerset. They had no son and heir but four daughters, none of whom were able to inherit the Manor of Holcombe Rogus due to tail-male, but did inherit shares in the Rectories & Advowsons of Hockworthy, Burlescombe, Sampford Arundel and Holcombe Rogus. As well as the Hundred of Milverton, Manors such as North Petherton, Greenham, Somerset Shippen, Chipstable in Somerset, The Manor of Sturminster Marshall, Dorset and The Manor of Holcombe Buhill with property and land in the Parish of Holcombe Rogus and Sampford Peverell (lands acquired by Sir Roger Bluett following the dissolution of the monasteries). Their kneeling effigies exist along the base of the monument to their parents at Holcombe Rogus. Of the eight daughters depicted, the eldest, 4th, 5th & 6th all carry skulls indicating they were dead by 1636. The four survivors married into the families of Jones, Wallop, Lenthall