LOCAL HERALDRY. 
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LOCAL HEEALDEY. 
Part I. 
BY MR. ARTHUR J. JEWERS, F.S.A. 
(Read October 25th, 1883.) 
The paper which this evening is submitted to your consideration is 
naturally rather a record of existing facts than a disquisition there- 
on, though it is proposed to add some explanatory and biographical 
notes which may throw light on them; and though it will in 
some of the early parts run parallel to the short paper read by 
Mr. Worth on May 1st, 1877, yet any repetition will be avoided 
beyond the mention of some shields whose introduction Mr. 
Worth himself considers advisable for the continuity and com- 
pleteness of this record. 
Should this paper seem rudely to disturb any preconceived ideas, 
or to touch any person's susceptibilities by metaphorically treading 
on their arms, we must ask their forbearance, as its composition 
has been hedged in by two inflexible mentors, "Truth and Eight." 
If it exposes errors, it does so but that they may be corrected ; and 
none can surely wish to go on in ignorance and perpetuate their 
mistakes, hugging the flattering unction to their hearts that because 
they cannot see them others cannot. The main object of this paper 
is to put on record such arms as exist either in or upon any public 
or private buildings in Plymouth, either cut in stone or wood, or 
displayed in stained glass, as part and parcel of the building or its 
permanent decoration. Arms set up over shops for trade purposes 
(chiefly the Eoyal Arms and those of the town) will be excluded 
as being of too temporary and unreliable a character to require 
notice, also the frequent repetitions of the arms of the town on 
boundary stones, &c. 
The arms on monuments and otherwise in the churches will also 
be excluded, as the writer proposes to treat them in a different 
form. At the same time it may be desirable to refer incidentally 
to some of the coats which there appear, and to notice such meagre 
