270 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
Yet another records that ‘“‘ Here Lyeth the body of Elizabeth, 
the Daughter of Stephen Trevill, of this parish, merchant, who 
departed this life the 27th Day of December, 1650.” The arms 
on it are Trevill—A cross eng., surmounted by a bendlet, and in 
chief a crescent for difference of a second son: imp. On a chev. 
betw. three garbs, as many roundels ; Opie. Beneath this shield 
is the following inscription : 
Vite quid ad mortem, 
Quid mors nisi Janua vite, 
Que vitam crepuit mors, 
Mihi vita fuit. 
Thus our ancestors philosophized over their departed relations 
and friends ; for in various forms we often find the same senti- 
ment as that expressed in the above lines, which may be thus 
translated : 
What is life to death ? 
What is death but the gate of life ? 
Death, which snatched away life, 
Was life to me. 
Nor has this practice of moralizing over the resting-places of our 
dead yet died out. It must be observed here that the arms are 
not, strictly speaking, used correctly ; they are those of the parents — 
of this Elizabeth Trevill. The arms of Trevill alone in a lozenge 
should have been at the top, and the impaled coat might have 
been added to show her parentage. There are several entries in 
the registers relating to the Trevill family; but as they have 
already been printed in the paper on ‘‘ Local Heraldry,” it is need- 
less to repeat them here. The father and mother of Elizabeth— 
Mr. Stephen Trevill and Mrs. Jane Opie—were married at St. 
Andrew’s, Plymouth, 30th December, 1647. It may be well to 
mention here that in the paper above referred to the word “ wife” 
has, by oversight, been printed instead of “daughter.” 
Another floor-slab has a large well-cut shield of the arms of 
Warren of Hedbury, in Ashburton, granted 14th March, 1623, or 
rather confirmed ; for the arms were allowed at the Visitation of 
1620. The arms on the stone are Betw. two bars componee three 
mascles, on a canton as many coronets within a bord. charged with 
eight roundels. The inscription, which runs round the edge of the 
stone, reads, ‘‘ Here Lyeth the Bodie of Robert Warren, Rector of 
Rame, who Died the 7th Day of February 1658.” He was the 
