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1605-6, 1617-18, 1632-33, John Gennys was mayor) and Catherine 
his wife, in Launceston Church, date 1640, and also on the 
monument (imp. Per fesse arg. & gu. three crescents counter- 
changed) in Charles Church for John Gennys and Christiana his 
wife, daughter of John Docton, of Whitleigh, through which 
marriage Whitleigh passed to Gennys, and by the marriage of 
Edmund Henn with Mary, only daughter and heir of John Gennys, 
Esq., to the present Mr. Henn-Gennys, of Whitleigh Hall. Mr. 
Henn, on taking the name of Gennys in 1802, had a grant of 
the following coat, founded on the old coat of Gennys ; viz., Arg. a 
falcon close sa. bezantee, in its beak a branch of myrtle. Mr. Nicholas 
Ginnis, buried 3rd Jan., 1717. Mr. Nicholas Gennys, buried 29th 
June, 1720.— Vide Par. Reg. St. Andrew. 
Gubbs, Robert, 1681 ; Margaret Gubbs, 1688. (Arg.) a pascal lamb 
pass, (ppr.) Crest, a demi-lion. Robert Gubbs was mayor in 
1639-40 and 1650-1. There does not appear to be any authority 
for the use of this coat, which is that used by the baronet family 
of Duntze, of Rockbere House, near Exeter, with the exception of 
the crest, the latter bearing a mullet betvo. two eagles' wings. This 
crest might have been derived from that of the Baring family. 
This seems an earlier use of the coat than is recorded for Duntze. 
Hall, Joseph, Bishop of Exeter, 1637. Two keys in saltire, over them a 
sword erect; imp. a chev. betw. three talbots heads erased. Also the 
latter coat alone with a demi talbot, for crest. 
Hawkins, Sir Richard, 1604. (Sa.) in base barry wavy of four (arg. & 
az.) thereon a lion pass, (or,) in chief three roundels (bezants) on a 
canton (of the fourth) an escallop shell betw. two palmers' staves (of the 
first). Crest, a demi moor in chains (ppr.). This is the only 
impression of the seal of Sir Richard Hawkins known to exist. 
Hele, Sir John, Serjeant-at-law, 36 Elizabeth. A bend lozengy erm. 
Crest, on a cap of maintenance a falcon rising. 
Hele, Sampson, 1632. The same arms, with a crescent in chief for the 
difference of a second son. This coat was used with the same 
difference by Nicholas Hele as his seal in 1652. This Sampson 
was doubtless Sampson Hele, of Gnaton (son of Walter, son of 
John, second son of Nicholas Hele, of South Hele), High Sheriff 
of Devon 19 James I. He married Joan, eldest daughter of Sir 
John Glanville, Knight. (Joan, a sister of this Sampson, married 
Thomas Fownes, of Plymouth.) His grandson Sampson married 
Dorothy, daughter of Sir Francis Drake, Bart. There was also 
about this time a John Hele, of Blachford, in Cornwood, who 
married Prudence, daughter of John Drake, of Ivybridge (she 
remarried William Savery, of Slade), who probably lived first at 
Great Stert, in Cornwood ; and his arms (the bend lozengy erm. : imp. 
the fesse. wavy betw. two estoils of Drake : the crest, a falcon rising 
