LOCAL HERALDRY. 
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of local families affixed to a document, in the year 1709 a.d., and 
now in the writer's possession ; viz., 1. A chev. betw. three pears ; 
crest, a pegasus ; Calmady. 2. A chev. eng. betw. three ravens; 
crest, not distinct ; it appeal's to be a flower vase or jug, with two 
flowers from the top ; Crocker. 3. On a bend cotised three boars* 
heads couped, in sinister chief a crescent for difference; crest, a boar 
pass.; Edgcumbe. 4. Quarterly, in the first and fourth a lion 
ramp. ; crest, an arm in armour embowed, holding in the hand a 
)attle-axe ; Pollexfen. 
When the fine Elizabethan house in Notte Street was demolished, 
prior to rebuilding, it was found that painted on the walls of a 
room at the top of the house were several shields; but upon 
examination they proved to be of little or no interest. They were 
indifferently painted ; in all twelve shields, one of which had be- 
come quite obliterated by new plastering that part of the wall. 
They doubtless formed part of the decoration of the room, but 
were chosen apparently without any other object, as there appears 
no method in their selection, having no immediate connection 
with each other or with Plymouth. The date must have been 
after 1721, it being in that year Admiral Sir George Byng was 
created Viscount Torrington, and as such his arms appear. The 
families represented were Viscount Eauconberg, Viscount Tor- 
rington, Lord Ward (created Viscount Dudley and Ward in 
1763), Lord Teynham, Lord Lovelace (extinct in 1736), Lord 
Eitz Walter (of the Mildmay family, advanced to an earldom in 
1730), Lord Dormer, Lord Willoughby de Broke (of the Verney 
family), Lord Middleton (Willoughby), so created in 1711, 
Viscount Harcourt (advanced to an earldom in 1749), Lord 
Hatton (but really Viscount, having been so created in 1682). 
We will now turn to heraldry set up during the present century, 
and we may be pardoned if we take the coloured windows in the 
New Guildhall first. Here we will commence with the west end 
on the north side, and so proceed round the hall. The first, known 
as the "Priory" window, the gift of the widow and family of the 
late Thomas Stevens, Esq., mayor in 1835. In this window we 
have the Boyal Arms ; viz., 1 and 4, Erance (modern) ; 2 and 3, 
England ; also this coat, per chev. az. and arg., in chief two eagles 
displ. or, Stevens. But we have not ascertained the authority for 
