As we are there told that only one John Roo, or Roe, was called Serjeant in Henry VIII's reign, I conclude also that it was he who married Agnes, daughter and coheir of William Barnhouse, of Kingston, ??. Devon (see Harl. MS. 1080, p. 166 b. ; 1163, p. 75 b. ; and Lysons's Magna Britannia, vol. vi. pt. i. pp. ccxiii. clxi.) Prince, it is true, tells us that John Row, serjeant-at-law, was born at Totnes, and that he was the son of Sir William Row, of the same place ? "a man of very good rank." Jealous of the honour of his county, he adds, " so that none of the descendants hence need not to go out of this town to Kent, or elsewhere, to claim kindred of any of the name, tient and honourable standing than they" (Prince's Worthies of Devon, 518-9.).
But the worthy Prince notwithstanding, there certainly was a connexion between the Kentish and the Devonshire Rowes, which, though the above-mentioned authorities testify, they do not agree in pointing out. In Harl. MS. 1080 (166 b), the arms of Rowe, viz. a chevron between 3 trefoils party per pale (though without tinctures), quarters a coat azure a chevron or between 3 paschal lambs couchant regardant argent : which latter coat, though it originally came into the family with the heiress of Rurd, was chiefly used by the Devonshire Rowes.
(Notes and Queries. 2nd S VIII June 25 1859. p519.)
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Had writ to take upon himself the coif in 1511.

• Married:

1. Bridget Roe b: in Staverton, Devon

1. Title: Visitations of the County of Devon, 1620
   Author: Vivian, John Lambrick
   Publication: Comprising the Heraldsí Visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620. With additions by Lieutenant-Colonel J.L. Vivian. Henry S. Eland, Exeter, 1895.
   Repository: Book
   Text: cont. by John Young
2. Type: Book
   Periodical: Lives of Eminent Serjeants-at-Law of the English Bar
   Author: Humphry W. Woolrych
   Date: 1869
3. Type: Book
   Periodical: Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries
   Author: 1967
   Page: 315
   Page: Date only