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pious fame of the benefactors of the Hospital of the Poor’s Portion, 
and they are not the least interesting of our historical links with 
the past. I have not been able to identify all; but among those 
which are clear are the bend lozengy ermine of Hele, the great 
educational benefactor of Devon; the three hands gules of Recorder 
Maynard, his trustee; the saltire gules and crosses formee sable of 
the once thriving merchant family of Stert; the three oak leaves 
granted to the Trelawnys for their services at Agincourt; the 
three eagles of Fownes; the lion rampant gules of Pomeroy; the 
golden fesse of Waddon; the fleur-de-lis and mullet of Gayer; the 
ermine bend of Sparke; the three horseshoes of Ferrers; the 
talbots of Martin; the azure chevron of Bastard; the counter- 
changed lions of Byng; the stags courant of Rogers; the quartered 
shield and lion of Pollexfen; the rooks of Rooke; the pierced 
cross and lions of Buller; the eagles and bend of Nicholls; the 
castle of Lanyon; the ermined chevron of Amadis; the chequers 
of Chichester of Raleigh; with the coats of Symkin, Palmer and 
Addis, Seward, Tyes, Warren, Cayne and Cross, and others of less 
prominence or more uncertainty. 
A few escutcheons of arms appear on the tokens issued by 
Plymouth traders in the seventeenth century. Apart from craft 
coats and the town arms, we there have: Henry Clarke, a lion 
rampant; John Cooke, a chevron between three pears; Ralph 
Gordge, three gurges (?); Roger Oliver, a chevron between three 
trees, each on a mount; William Tom, three bucks’ heads, couped, 
crest a chough. Some of the issuers used the signs of their houses 
for devices. 
Finally there are several families which heraldically are specially 
connected with Plymouth. Some of these are mentioned in the 
general heraldic records. Others find place in a seventeenth cen- 
tury MS. of doubtful heraldic authority at the Plymouth Public 
Library. Plymouth families of coat armour mentioned therein, are 
Amadas, Ceely, Colvile, Cocke, Bagge, Skelton, Jennings, Martin, 
Opye, Baron, Edgcumbe, Clement, Edmonds, Fownes, Waddon, 
Whitacre, Harford, Treville, and Huxham. 
