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travel, and the Earl of Devon in the manor-house belonging to 
him at Tiverton. The result is well known — the decision being 
that Scrope had proved his right, and this was confirmed on appeal 
to the king, and an alteration made which was less favourable to 
Sir Robert Grosvenor. An example of a contest as to the right to 
certain coat armour of more local interest is that of Gorges. Sir 
Theobald Russell married, first, Eleanor, daughter of Ralph de 
Gorges, and heir to her brother Ralph. Sir Theobald married, 
secondly, Eleanor, daughter and heir of John de la Tour of 
Berwick, Co. Dorset, from which marriage descends the present 
Duke of Bedford. Sir Theobald by his first wife Eleanor de 
Gorges had a son— Sir Theobald Russell — who assumed his mother's 
surname and the arms of Gorges, Lozengy, or, and az. This 
occasioned a dispute (21 Edward III.) between him and War- 
burton of Cheshire for bearing these arms, when the latter having 
established his antient right to the arms in the Court of the Earl 
Marshall (Henry Earl of Lancaster) Gorges had assigned to him 
a chevron gules. The latter may be seen now on the Gorges 
monument in St. Budeaux Church. 
Illustrating differencing, the label was referred to, which is 
considered originally the difference of the heir apparent ; but it 
was frequently retained as the ground for minor differences 
placed upon it, as in the Courtenay family, examples of which may 
be seen in Exeter Cathedral ; and it has become an integral part of 
some coats, as that of Carminow of Cornwall. The label extending 
to the edges of the shield, with various distinctive charges upon it, 
is now used as the exclusive difference for younger sons of the 
sovereign. 
Speaking of marshalling, the lecturer drew attention to the dis- 
puted point in the case of a lady who is heiress to her mother, also 
an heiress j but not her father, he having male issue by another 
marriage. Some have held that she should use her mother's arms 
with those of her father on a chief, and so transmit them to her 
children ; others, that the lady's paternal coat should be borne on a 
canton ; others again, that the father's should be omitted altogether, 
while sometimes the two have been quartered, as on the monument 
of the Carew family in the church of East Antony, where among 
the quarterings of one of the Carew shields we have Courtenay and 
Erchdekne quarterly — the lady being heiress to her mother Erch- 
dekne only \ and Arundell quarterly with Cosworth, the lady not 
