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 Devon Notes and Queries. loi vith two standing figures with the hands closed in prayer. The man wears a long cloak with pendulous sleeves and a ruff; the woman, a gown elaborately embroidered down the front of the body and skirt, a hood and a ruff. Below is this inscription : — '' Here lyeth buried the Bodies of John Fortescue Esquier and Owner his wife which John Deceased xxvth daie of December Ano 1595 beinge the age of Ixx yeres And the saide Owner Deceased the * daie of * Anno Dominj * Beinge of the age of * yeres." These represent John Fortescue and Honor, daughter of Edmund Speccott. She was buried at East Allington 8 Sept., 1606 [P.H*] but the blank spaces in the inscription above were never filled up. II. The second brass represents a kneeling woman with hands clasped in prayer and wearing a whimple. There is no inscription on this brass, but above is a stone tablet sur- mounted with a shield of the Arms of Fortescue supported by two scrolls and inscribed : — Non rex, non Caesar, non haeros pennanet uUus Quseq* suis aderat Elysabetha jacet. Obi it Martii Anno Domini 1572 ^tatis suae 63. This Elizabeth was probably the daughter and heiress of John Fortescue of Fallapit, by his wife Margaret, daughter of William Hingeston, and wife of Lewis Fortescue of Spriddle- ston, Baron of the Exchequer in Henry VIIFs reign. III. A stone monument consisting of a pediment supported on two columns, beneath which are two figures kneeling on cushions on either side of a low pedestal, which supports a shield surmounted by a helm, and on the floor a book in front of each figure. The male figure is in armour but bare-headed, the woman in a loose gown falling in folds about her body and wearing a coif. There were inscriptions formerly both on the panel below the figures and on the front of the pedestal, but they are obliterated. The back of the monument was once decorated with seven shields of arms interspersed with labels bearing inscriptions, but these last are quite illegible now, and of the shields the following only are decipherable, viz. :— (i) Fortescue impaling On a fess betw, 3 griffins heads' erased 3 . . ; (2) Fortescue impaling Gu. a lion ratnpt. regardent ; (3) Fortescue impaling Champernoun ; and (4) Fortescue impaling ReyneU. The shield resting on the pedestal is quarterly: