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 122 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. Riestap is quite silent about the Jordan almond, though he gives many Pontes. Again, Elena, daughter of Jeffery de Ponte (Pole, 246), the wife of William Prous, is not stated to be an heiress, but Humpfrey Prouse, who was living at the commencement of the 17th century, may have recorded a fact ; therefore I suppose it may remain with a query before it. (11) Wadecote as given in the text. (12) Cruwys as given in the text. (13) Norton as given in the text. (14) Orchard as given in the text. (15) Cole. In Colby's Devon Visitation this quartering is given as the usual Cole prevalent in many counties ; the one here is quite a variation, and might have been granted to Cole of Colehays (see Pole, 200) when Pomeray gave it to Cole, his cook ; one would have expected the charge to be a calf not an ass. (i6) Cobb as in text ; Norfolk Visitations says. Swans in chief and a herring in base; Colby's Devon Visitation, p. 223, Shovellers, i.e. ducks, and a fish naiant in base. I must now protest against coats of arms being distinguished by the alphabet in brackets like notes in the text of a book ; they have a style of their own, and would be blazoned thus : Prouse impaling, Per f ess in chief, quarterly, i and 4. Arscott, 2nd quarter. Argent a cross flory between four crescents gules. Tilley, brought in by the marriage of Robert Arscott with Joane, d. and h. of Nicholas Tilley. 3rd quarter, Renston, really Argent a chevron between three roses sable. Vivian says, John Arscott =. . ., d. of Renston, who heads the list of the Arscott line. First wife, Prouse impaling. Per fess in base, quarterly of six, 1 and 6. Per fess embattled gules and sable, three cats passant argent, is the coat of Lippingcott in Colby's Devon Visitation, which is strengthened by the 2nd quartering, Wibbery, Sable a chevron between three mermaids argent, John Lippingcott of Lippincott having married Jane, co-h. of William and d. of John Wybbery ; but Vivian contests this second marriage, as he says Humpfry Prous married secondly Honor Bellew, and owing to the fact that the second marriage was not entered in the Devon Visitation, he must have thought that this Bellew marriage was with the Humphry Prous that certainly married Catherine Arscott, whereas this license might have been for the other Humphry Prous who died in 1622. If the shield is as old as the early part of the 17th century, they are not likely to have made