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 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 107 Early Alliance of the Chudleighs. — If the second shield on the memorial tablet thus shows the connection by marriage between John Chudleigh of Chudleigh and the family of de Cockington, the first shield may reasonably be expected to represent an earlier alliance, perhaps the grandfather of the first Chudleigh of Ashton. The memorial tablet, as also the fourth light in the third window, show Chudleigh impaling — Or, 3 negroes^ heads sable, and in the second instance, Arg. 3 moors' heads couped sa. These arms, thus read by Mr. Maxwell Adams, are, on the evidence of the word Canens painted under the half shield in the window, thought to signify the family Canynges. Historians of Devon do not mention this name. Of those families who bore the moors' heads on their escutcheon, namely, Callard, Holcombe, Tanner, Trethek, Trevernves, perhaps Callard, a family which settled at Burrington, Ply- mouth, may be intended, but the subordinary gyronny of six (unless represented by the two irregular lines in the glass separating the larger head) is omitted. The name Canens, as shown by other instances on the glass, is not reliable. Perhaps some reader of D. &= C. N. &> Q. can explain. Font of Ashton Church. — The Norman font of the de Helions was doubtless thrown out by Sir James Chudleigh, who, according to the escutcheons, placed the present octagonal substitute in the church on the occasion of his first marriage, circa 1476, with Margaret, daughter of William Stourton. The font records his second marriage with Margaret, daughter of John Tremayne, widow of Oliver Wise, but there was no room on the four sides with shields for the record of his third marriage with Christian, daughter of Sir Nicholas (not John) Powlet, nor of his fourth marriage with Jane, daughter and heiress of Sir James Nonant. It is noteworthy that this font marks another fashion of the period in which it was erected, as the more elaborately worked bowl at Cockington was made for Robert Cary on the occasion of his first marriage on the 2nd March (as I believe the date on the font represents) ; the missing figures of the year should read 1485 or soon after. Cannot the discarded Norman font at Ashton be found ? I Hugh R. Watkin. i^ ^'i- >D.