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 84 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. on the cartouches are suggestive of having been copied from a reversed stained quarrel. Farther along, suspended on high, is a small model (such as used to be borne in funeral pageants) of an Esquire's helmet, sable, with beaver or, crested with a demi-lion rampant sable, langued gules, issuant from a crest-coronet. Still farther along is a small oaken shield of arms of Prowse of Chagford, with twenty-two quarterings, of which I offer a drawing from a careful tracing, adding indication of tinctures, and which I will now blazon : — No. I. Prouze : Sa. three lions ramp, arg., as blazoned by Sir Wm. Pole and Risdon for Prouz of Gidleigh ; they add a lable for Prouz of Chagford, and Sir George Carew places the lions " between nine cross-crosslets," but Holland comments " In ye Visitation, without crosses." No. 2. Redvers : Or, a lion rampant [azure] :■•- Brought in by the marriage of Peter de Preaux, " Miles peroptimus," in 1200, to Mary, daughter and heir of William Redvers de Vernon, Earl of Devon and Lord of the Isle of Wight, by Mabel, dau. of Robert de Bellomont, Earl of Mellent and Lord of Pontaudemar, by Maud, second dau. and heir of Reginald, Earl of Cornwall. No. 3. Dinham: Gu. four fusils conjoined in fess erm. Brought in by the marriage of Walter, son of William and grandson of Peter de Preaux, to the dau. of Lord Dinham, who bore it thus when Hartland, Holwill, Ylsinton, Madford, Southbrook and other Manors were his.t This coat, with ramp. az. ; but noticing that in my tinted copy of this coat I had left the lion arg., and knowing the Heraldic law that forbids the placing of metal upon metal, I wrote to the then Rector, the late Rev. Gerald Ley, to Dr. Prowse and to the late Hardinge F". Giffard, M.A., F.S.A., enquiring as to the true tincture, and they replied to the effect that so f.ir as could be distinguished at such a height (as it then was) and in shadow, the lion was of a pale tint, probably faded from azure, and as the Redvers lion has always been blazoned azure, I have ventured so to represent it. t Dinham or Denham, formerly Dynant, came over with William the Conqueror. The Dinhams held among other manors, Samford atte Pevercll. Nutwell, Comb and Harpford, in Devon ; Cardynam, Boderell Donugui, in Cornwall ; Dockland, Dipsham and Clifton, in Co. Somerset; Maines, in Hampshire ; Burton, in Nrhants ; and Gaines, in Berks.
 * Carcw, Risdon, Holland and others blazon this coat :—0r, a lion