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his kinsman Hawkins, who to his lion passant, his bezants, escal- 
lops, and pilgrims’ staves, added ‘‘a demi moor proper, bound and 
captyve.” 
Built into the wall in Saltash Street is a much injured carving 
of the town arms; and on the old key-stone of the Friary gate— 
now removed, and the property of this Society—we have Sparke— 
Chequy or and vert, a bend ermine, impaling Rashleigh, which 
also occurs in the Old Church. And, by the way, it was in the 
Church of the White Friars that some of the evidence was taken by 
the Commissioners who sat to inquire whether Scrope or Grosvenor 
had a right to the famous coat—Azure, a bend or. 
Over the main entrance to the Citadel are the three rests or 
clarions, the arms of the Grenvilles. They owe that position to 
the fact that John Grenville, Earl of Bath, was governor while the 
work was in hand. 
William Cocke, of Plymouth, who commanded his own ship at 
the defeat of the Armada, was the only man of note who was 
killed in that fight. The arms of this family, once of great worth 
in Plymouth, were, it is stated, lately to be seen on an inner door- 
way of a house in Southside Street. I have, however, searched 
for them in vain, The bearings are—Argent a chevron engrailed 
between three griffins’ heads erased gules, on a canton azure an 
anchor or. 
Nothing in this connection has puzzled me so much as a shield 
fixed to the wall of a house in the opening leading to the Old 
Tabernacle in Briton Side, or, as we are now made to call it, Exeter 
Street. The arms are Spanish; but I cannot ascertain the date or 
the occasion. They are a lion and castle quarterly, for Castile and 
Leon, and an escutcheon of pretence charged with flewrs-de-lis for 
France, the whole enclosed by the collar of the Golden Fleece. 
There is an exceedingly interesting panel of arms painted on 
plaster at the Workhouse, containing in all forty-four shields. 
Originally they were in the court-room of the Old Workhouse (the 
memory of which, and of its piously mottoed gateway, ‘‘ By God’s 
help throvgh Christ,” is so rapidly passing away), and were re- 
moved to their present position with loving care by Mr. Peter 
Bellamy. They are abominably drawn, the tinctures faded and in 
some cases incorrect, and, as the paint is peeling from the plaster, 
they are rapidly hastening to decay. It is well therefore that they 
should be put upon record; for they were intended to preserve the 
