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Guildhall glass. In one window there are the royal arms with the 
motto ‘* Beate Pacificr.’’ Elsewhere we have the Prince of Wales’s 
plume, and the town arms. The other fragments are somewhat 
obscure. One coat is—Gules a chevron argent between three cinque-. . 
foils (or fleurs-de-lis) or. Another is—Or a chevron vert between 
three goat’s heads erased sable, which I take to be intended for the 
bearings of White, and which therefore possibly commemorates 
John White, the generous haberdasher who, in 1585, gave the 
Mayor of Plymouth and his brethren the Union cup, ‘to drinke 
crosse one to ye other at their feastes and meetings”—a custom 
which, in spite of all reforms, it is said that they most religiously 
observe. There is a third coat—Gules, two gemelles argent, a star 
in the dexter chief, and another in the base point. The arms of 
Sir John Gayer, alderman of London, appear on the cup which he 
gave to the Corporation in 1648. 
A search for seals among the Corporate documents produced little 
fruit. Lawrence Roylland uses a seal with a dragon to a deed of 
Howe’s Charity ; there is a seal of Drake, quartering his new coat, 
the fesse and pole stars, with the original wyvern; William Weeks, 
1675, uses for device a quiver with three arrows; Robert Berry, 
1696, has—Ermine, a bend, charged with three fleurs-de-lis, Henry 
Wallis, vicar, in 1604, attaches a seal with a variation of the old 
merchants’ mark, used in the county in connection with the 
woollen trade, with the initials B. R. This he had evidently 
borrowed. The mark somewhat resembles a written figure four, 
with the horizontal line crossed by two perpendicular strokes 
instead of one, the inner stroke of the two much longer than 
the slanting one. 
There are still remaining a few armorial shiclds, carven in stone, 
which have survived the beat of the weather, and the neglect and 
ill use of man. The most interesting of these is the Drake coat, 
now built with other fragments of the original Old Town Conduit 
into the wall of the reservoir in the Tavistock Road. It is the 
well-known fesse wavy between the two pole stars, emblematic of 
the famous voyage of circumnavigation; the Drake arms, noé as 
borne by Sir Francis but by his brother, for our great Devonshire 
hero—as the seal already cited testifies—always quartered the arms 
which his sovereign gave him in honourable augmentation, with his 
ancestral bearing of the wyvern or dragon. The fesse and stars are 
to us far more worthy than the augmentation of honour granted to 
