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The arms there given are— Two bars wavy, thereon a boat (or ship 
without masts), and on a chief three roundels. (See pi. fig. 8.) It 
impales for his wife, Sparke, of Plymouth. The colours unfor- 
tunately are not given, but it leaves no doubt as to the arms. He 
married at St. Andrew's, 13th April, 1623, Elizabeth Sparke, (prob- 
ably the Elizabeth, daughter of William Sparke, baptized 8th 
January, 1598, and recorded in the same register). 13. Erm. on a 
cross gu. five bezants, St. Aubyn, of Clowance and St. Michael's 
Mount. 14. Quarterly, 1 and 4, V er fesse indent gu. and arg. a 
pale counter changed, three trefoil, one and two of the first. 2 and 3, 
per bend sinister az. and arg., on the dexter three ears of wheat or, 
on the sinister three fleurs-de-lis or, for Soltau-Symons, of Chaddle- 
wood. The coat in the second and third quarters is quite correct 
for Soltau ; but where in the world the first and fourth quarters 
came from is a mystery. It appears in Burke's Landed Gentry, 
but apparently without the least authority. Mr. Soltau-Symons 
himself does not claim it to be his ; while a search in the library 
at Chaddlewood brings to light nothing to support it. Most of 
the books have the book-plate of William Hales Symons, of 
Chaddlewood (great uncle of the present George William Culme 
Soltau-Symons, Esq.); viz., per fesse sa. and arg. a pale and three 
trefoils slipped of the second, within a bordure, all counterchanged. 
Two or three copies of the book-plate of William Symons, of Hatt, 
in Botus Fleming, High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1766, occur in the 
library. It has the same arms as the last named, without the 
bordure, which is also omitted in the book-plate of " Milly Symons," 
widow of William Hales Symons. Leaving the library at Chaddle- 
wood we will proceed to the church of St. Mary, Plympton. Here 
we find, in the window erected by the late George Sydney Strode, 
Esq., of Newnham, in memory of his parents, George Strode, Esq., 
and his wife, Dorothy, sister of the above-named William Hales 
Symons, Esq. The arms are Strode (arg. a chev. betw. three 
rabbits sa.), impaling the same coat as on the book-plate of W. H. 
Symons given above; and the same arms are still (1883) on the 
carriage used by this lady when a widow. The monument of 
William Symons, father of W. Hales Symons, has the arms of 
Symons, of Hatt, above, as has also the monument erected in 
memory of W. H. Symons and Milly, his wife. 15. Or. two 
wolves pass, in pale sa. mouths embrued gu., Peard, of Devonshire. 
16. Az. three eagles displ. in bend betw. two cotises, all betw. six 
