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 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 123 such a mistake. Next comes the difficulty of solving what family is represented by the 2nd quartering, whether it is Wibbery or Gogh. I am inclined to think it is Wibbery, as it proves Lippincott's right to be ' of Wybbery,' and would come in order before the Laploi5e, the 3rd quartering, viz., John, grandson of the Wibbery marriage. Then would come the 4th quartering, Goff, as in the text, proving Philip Lippincot's marriage with Alice, d. and co-h. of Richard Gough of Kilkeham in Cornwall. And the last and 5th quartering, Scudamore, properly 6?h quartering, since Elford should be the 5th, as John Lippincott = Anne, d. and co-h. of Roger Elford of co. Devon, who bore Per pale argent and sable a lion rampant gules. The whole of these six quarterings represent the coat of Humpfry Prous' second marriage on his shield, whether she was a Lippincott or a Bellew. ^ f- irO ■ F. Were. 105. Wyke Arms. — Miss Edith K. Prideaux, in her admirable account of Sutcombe Church and its Builders (Appendix to D. S' C. N. & Q., Jan. and Apr., 1914), having set forth in her "Appendix I." the second marriage of Alice, daughter of Stephen GifFord, of Theuborough, by Joan, daughter and heiress of John Spencer, of Spencerscombe, to William Prideaux, of Adeston, remarks in a footnote that their daughter Jane married William Wyke, of North Wyke and Cocktree, " hence the Wyke arms in Sutcombe Church: Ermine, 3 battle axes erect in pale " [sic] In another " Appendix " the back of the bench numbered 46 in the plan of the church is stated to be carved with " Wyke of Cocktree Arms," and and on p. 27 the illustration (No. 22) of this carving is referred to by Miss Prideaux as the three battle axes erect in pale [sic] of the Wyke family. The photograph clearly shews on a field without ermine spots three battle axes in fess, not in pale, which would have been the correct description had they been disposed one above the other in a vertical row. Curiously the blades are turned towards the sinister instead of the dexter side, while a capital E in the adjoining compartment is also reversed, as if the carver had used a tracing turned wrong side out. Thus neither the blazon given by Miss Prideaux nor the design on the bench back represents truly the arms of Wyke,