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reign of King Henry V. to Sir John Trelawny for services against 
the French. The family have been for many generations con- 
nected with this town. Next we find a coat but little known, 11, 
az. a chev. erm. betw. three acorns, stems and leaves, arg., that of 
Amadas, an old mercantile family of Plymouth. They married 
with Trelawny, and entered their pedigree at the Heralds' Visi- 
tation. Another old Plymouth family which has disappeared from 
our midst is Fownes, 12, az. three eagles displ. arg. They some- 
times used a mullet in place of the third eagle, as may be seen on 
their monuments in the church of St. Andrew. Next we have the 
undifferenced coat of Pomeroy, of Berry Pomeroy, 13, or, a lion 
ramp. gu. within a bord. eng. sa. A cadet of this name was long 
settled in Plymouth and Stonehouse. It is somewhat difficult to 
ascertain the claim of No. 14, gu. on a /esse az. betw. two chev. 
erm., three leopards' faces or. It is the coat of Seward. No 
record appears of any benefaction from that family, nor is the 
name known in local history; but it also appears on a benefactors' 
tablet in St. Andrew's Church, which is parted per pale of three — 
1st, Lanyon; 2nd, Seward, as here; 3rd, az. three swords arg., 
hilts and pommels or, probably intended for Rawlins, and if so, 
should be, sa. three swords erect in /esse, points in chief arg., 
hilts and pommels or. Under Lanyon the date 1675, under 
Rawlins 1628, but under Seward no date. The chevron ought to 
be or, and the leopards' faces or. This was a Devonshire family ; 
the co-heirs of Seward, of Combinteignhead, mar. Chase and 
Furlong. 
15. It is a well-known family whose arms stand next it — sa. a 
fesse or. The Waddons long held a foremost place in the town. 
This coat is placed on a lozenge within the shield, which is incorrect ; 
it was probably meant to represent some lady. The same applies to 
some others in this panel, but the lozenge should have been used 
instead of, not within, a shield, if it was intended to commemorate 
a lady. 
16. Erm. a fleur-de-lis sa., on a chief of the second a mullet arg., 
is the arms of Gayer, an old Plymouth house, whose most promi- 
nent member was Sir John Gayer, merchant, a descendant of 
which family is still resident here. 
17. Chequey or and vert a bend erm., Sparke. This is another 
of the old mercantile families that nourished in this town in the 
seventeenth century. Their monuments may be seen at Plympton 
