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owls arg. ; but both the above carvings are too much obliterated to 
distinguish more than that some figure is placed between the arms 
of the cross ; the inscription is unfortunately quite gone, but the 
eagle in the first and fourth quarters is most likely intended for 
the coat of Worth. (See pi. fig. 3.) 
From carved stones we will turn to coloured glass erected prior 
to the present century. Of this nothing now remains but a few 
fragments of a late date, the early part of the seventeenth century; 
they consist of a few pieces in the windows of the Old Guildhall, 
now the Free Library, removed from its Jacobean predecessor. 
Here we have the Royal Arms, temp. James I., the plume of the 
Prince of Wales, the arms of the town, the saltire and castles, with 
the two lions supporting the shield, the arms of the county of 
Cornwall (sa. fifteen bezants 5, 4, 3, 2, 1); or, a cliev. vert betw. 
three goats' heads erased sa. — White, of Truro, Co. Cornwall. 
On a ledger stone in Charles Church are these arms : On a chev. 
betw. three fleurs-de-lis, as many cinque/oil, imp. a chev. betw. three 
goats heads erased, the inscription recording that Elizabeth, wife 
of Nicholas Curie, merchant, and youngest daughter of Captain 
John White, of Plymouth, merchant, died the 8th January, 1671, 
and her husband, Nicholas Curie, died 28th May, 1679. Another 
ledger-stone in the same church has a shield quarterly 1 and 4 a 
cross and chief, 2 and 3 a chev. betw. three goats' heads erased ; it 
records the death of Anne, wife of Pascoe Hovel, on the 26th 
October, 1659, and that of the said Pascoe Hovel on 17th June, 
1674. This bit of glass is most useful in determining the branch 
of the family to which these Whites belonged ; one branch made 
the shield silver, while yet another changed the shield to red, and 
the chevron and goats' heads to silver. Another fragment is gu. a 
chev. arg. betw. three cinquefoil or; for Chambers. These arms 
were borne by a family of Chambers, seated at an early period in 
the counties of Durham and Westmoreland, a younger son of whom 
settled in Essex about 1630. There is one more fragment; viz., 
gu. two bars gemelles betw. three martlets arg., not stars, but only 
a portion of this remains. (See pi. figs. 5, 6, and 7.) The frag- 
ments of glass are patched together without the least attempt at 
correctness ; the arms of White are upside-down, Chambers on the 
side, with various bits of coloured glass to fill in spaces. 
