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 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 121 104. Prouse Memorlls in Chagford Church (IX., p. 81, par. 77.) — (i) Prouz, as in Colby's Visitation^ Vivian and here, with the addition that the lions are 2 and i. (2) Redvers as here. (3) Dinham as on shield. [She is not given as an heiress, and Lord Dinham died without sur- viving issue ; Pole certainly connects the families more with Sir Robert' Dinham, Knt. ; therefore I should think this coat ought to bear a cadency mark. Sir Robert seems to have lived in the 13th century.] (4) Then should follow if Dinham is correct, as brought in by him, Emma Wid- worthy. Azure, six eaglets displ. 3, 2, i, or, d. and h. of Sir Hugh Widworthy ; secondly, wife of Sir Robert Dinham. (5) Sir Hugh Widworthy = Emma, d. and h. of Walter GiFFARD, Sable, three lozenges conjoined in fess ermine (with a crescent for cadency). (6) De Gidlegh, sahle, semee of twenty- one bezants, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3. [This is practically Cornwall, and one doubts whether it is correct ; and as it is Humphry Prouse's coat, who lived in the beginning of the 17th century, ought he to have painted the early quartering of De Gidlegh as Cornwall ? This quartering does not come into Colby's Visitation.] (7) Ferrers. Vivian says he was a knight of Throwleigh, but Pole does not knight him, and gives another descent in Sir William Prous' pedigree in that Alls, daughter of Alice that = Sir Roger Mules, married Sir John Damerell, instead of Alice, her mother, marrying secondly Sir John Damarell. (8) Widworthy again, as Sir William Prouse = Alice, d. and h. of Sir Hugh Widworthy, which of course brings in again (9) Giffard. It seems as if William of Eastervale (? Easton in Chagford), fourth son of Sir William Prouse and Alice Ferrers, ignored his three elder brothers, one of whom married a Widworthy heiress, the quarterings (8) and (9), and another was of Widworthy ; as WiUiam was the only one that carried on the male line, in Colby's Devon Visitation, the jump is from Ferrers to Wadecote, and does not include the coat of Ponte, which is the next on the shield. ? (10) Ponte. I suppose Mrs. Lega-Weekes is to be congratulated on finding a new foreign armorial, but I think she has been misled, as I take it the Jordan almond is really the two arches of a bridge with a flag-post in the centre and a little ' barry wavy ' for water underneath, this being a canting charge upon the name ;