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 220 Devon Notes and Queries. 174. WiLLOUGHBY Arms. — In the main entrance porch at Nettlecombe Court, Somerset, on the west side is a shield of the Willoughby arms, bearing twenty quarters. It is surmounted by an esquire's helmet with mantling, with a wreath upon it bearing the Willoughby crest, " A Saracen's head affronte, couped at the shoulders, ducally crowned." The shield, etc., and crest are all carved out of stone, and the ducal coronet referred to is much mutilated. The whole is covered with thick paint, uniform in colour with the walls of the porch. These arms were in all probability removed from Ley Hill, in the parish of Peyhembury, when that property was sold by Sir John Trevelyan (4th baronet) to Mr. Francis Rose Drew, of Grange, Sir John's great grandfather, Sir George (ist baronet) having married Mary, the daughter and heiress of John Willoughby, of Ley Hill. The old spelling of this place, I might mention in passing, seems to have been in the i6th century La Hill, possibly meaning Low Hill. The shield of arms, although thickly coated with paint, and in a few places slightly defaced, is still decipherable, but as no tinctures are shown it is difficult to say to what families many of the quarters belong ; perhaps some of your readers could kindly help me, and give me a clue to them. The quarters are as follows: — i. Fretty (Willoughby). 2. A cross moline (Bee), 3 A fret; on a canton a (illegible, as damaged; perhaps an ink moline). 4. A cross engrailed (UfFord, Earl of Suffolk). 5. A cross. 6. A chief indented. 7. Party per fess indented, 8. Lozengy. 9. A lion rampant. 10. Four fusUs in fess (Cheney). 11. A cross patonee fleury ( ? Paveley)- 12. Three escallops within a hordure engrailed (Erie). 13. Three piles, 14. An imperial eagle displayed. IS' A chevron within a hordure engrailed (Stafford). 16. An inescutcJieon between 8 birds, ly, A bend with a label of ^points. 18. Three lions rampant, 2 and i. 19. ^ cross patonee fleury, 20. On a bend three (illegible from paint, may be billets). Alice Bee, who married Sir William de Willoughby, may have brought in the arms of Hugh Pinco, Lord of Tatershall, so that No. 3 may possibly be his arms. I cannot, however, find out what they were, as Burke does not mention them in