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to imagine any one committing such a blunder ; it is the arms of 
Plymouth and Devonport quartered. Had the two corporations 
been merged into one there might be some cause for this mode of 
displaying the arms of the two towns. As it is, it appears to be 
only a childish fancy, which viewed the arms of towns simply as 
ornaments that might be altered and arranged to suit a prettiness 
of design. Furthermore there is no authority but self-assumption 
for the fanciful device displayed generally as the "arms of Devon- 
port." There are two other shields in this window — first, az. betw. 
three lumps of tin ore (?) a chev. arg. charged with another gu., 
imp. quarter az. and or, over all a cross gu., cantoned, in the first 
a lion ramp, or, in the second a horse pass, sa., in the third on 
ground in base a pyramid ppr., in the fourth an eagle disjyl. gold. 
Inquiries have failed to show for whom this coat is put up ; it is 
not the coat of Mr. Metham, the Deputy Provincial Grand Master 
of Devon, nor that of the Provincial Grand Master of Cornwall. 
Both coats appear to be either recent grants or fanciful com- 
positions. The small charges are not very clear; therefore the 
blazon of them may not be quite correct. The remaining shield 
in this window is, quarterly, 1. arg. on a bend sa. three roaches 
ppr., Huyshe; 2. arg. five fusils sa. betw. two cotises gu., Avenell; 
3. arg. a cross eng. gu. betw. four water bouget sa., Bourchier; 4. 
arg. masonry sa., a chief indented of the second, Reynell, of 
Ogwell — for Eev. John Huyshe, Provincial Grand Master of 
Devon. 
Turning to the south side of the hall, and proceeding from east 
to west, we have in the first window quarterly 1 and 4 France 
ancient (semee of fleurs-de-lis), 2 and 3 England ; and quarterly in- 
dented sa. and az. a hawk close erm. beaked and belled or, standing 
on a perch of the last, Hawker, of Plymouth ; the window being 
the gift of members of the family of the late W. H. Hawker, Esq. 
After this we come to the window presented by the Eev. Thomas 
Archer Bewes, of Beaumont, Plymouth. In this we have the 
ordinary town arms, and those of the Bewes family ; viz., arg. a lion 
ramp. gu. tail nowed, gorged by an eastern coronet or, in chief three 
falcons close, belled ppr. The next window is the gift of Charles 
C. Whiteford, Esq., and other members of his family. There are 
four shields in it : first, arg. a bend sa. cotised az., betw. two garbs 
of the third, Whiteford, imp. arg. a chev. sa. betw. three wolves 1 
heads erased gu., Lovell ; second, Whiteford as before, imp. gu. 
