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Drawing by Roscoe Gibbs of Oak bench ends, late 15th.c., St. Andrew's Church, Bere Ferrers, Devon, carved with heraldic escutcheons of Ferrers and Willoughby families. Published in Rogers, W.H. Hamilton, The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West, Exeter, 1890, p.32. Each is at the outer end of the central row of pews closest to the chancel. That on the north side shows a bend charged with 4 horse-shoes (fer-de-cheval), being the arms of Ferrers, overlaid by 3 rudders in bend sinister, the badge of the Willoughby family, inherited from Cheyne, as evidenced by an appearance on the earlier Cheyne tomb at Edington Priory, Wilts. Further rudders are shown in the field, one in base, 1 in sinister. That on the south side shows the arms of Willoughby de Broke, quartered as on the tomb of Robert Willoughby, 1st Baron Willoughby de Broke(d.1502) at Callington, Devon, with some details omitted in the wood-carving. The full blazon is: Quarterly, 1st grand quarter quarterly, 1st and 4th a cross engrailled 2nd and 3rd a cross moline;(Willoughby) 2nd grand quarter, a cross fleurie (Latimer) 3rd grand quarter, 4 fusils in fess each charged with an escallop (Cheyne) 4th grand quarter, a chevron within a bordure engrailled (Stafford)

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