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English: Heavily restored mural monument to Sir Peter Carew (d.1575), of Mohuns Ottery, Luppitt, Devon. Exeter Cathedral, south transept. A series of 16 escutcheons are shown above and to the sides of the kneeling effigy of Sir Peter Carew. These all show the arms of Carew (Or, three lions passant guardant in pale sable) impaling arms of various wives, clockwise from lower left:

Left side:

• Gules, four fusils in fess ermine (Dinham)
• Argent, a fess between three boars sable (Huddesfield)
• Courtenay quartering Redvers (Earls of Devon)
• Pollard

Top:

• Berry?
• Party per pale or and azure, overall a lion rampant gules (?) Alternatively (assuming sinister half vert not azure): Party per pale or and vert, overall a lion rampant gules (William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1146/7-1219) into which family the Mohuns married).
• Per pale gules and ermine, a cross saltire counterchanged (?)
• Argent, three eaglets displayed gules (de Courcy)
• Quarterly argent and gules (?) Alternatively, if Quarterly or and gules, de Mandeville, which family held the manor of Ottery (Mohuns Ottery)
• Argent, two bars gules (Martin/FitzMartin)
• Azure, a bend or (Carminow, here shown with a label of three points gules)

Right side:

• Quarterly 1&4: Gules, a manche ermine the hand argent holding a fleur-de-lis or (Mohun of Ottery); 2nd: Vair, a chief chequy or and gules (Fleming, of Bratton Fleming (per Pole) and possibly Fleming of Stoke Fleming and Mohuns Ottery); 3rd: Gules, two bends wavy or (Brewer. Reginald I de Mohun (1185-1213) in 1205 married Alice Brewer, 4th sister and co-heiress of William Brewer, feudal baron of Horsley, Derbyshire and of lord of the manor of Torr Brewer (later Torr Mohun, now Torquay, in Devon))
• Or, a cross engrailled sable (Mohun of Dunster)
• Gules, a lion rampant or (FitzAlan, here shown apparently within a bordure or)
• Sable, six mullets argent pierced gules (Bonville)
• Quarterly of 4: 1&4: Or, three torteaux (Courtenay of Haccombe); 2: Argent, three chevronels sable (Archdekne of Haccombe); 3: Argent, three bendlets sable (?)

The arms Or, a fess vair between two lions passant guardant sable, shown on the two lowest escutcheons, either side at the base of the two flanking columns, are those of the historian John Hooker (d.1601) (alias Vowell), a distinguished citizen of Exeter, who became Sir Peter's confidential adviser and agent, and subsequently his biographer. (Hamilton-Rogers, William Henry, Memorials of the West, Historical and Descriptive, Collected on the Borderland of Somerset, Dorset and Devon, Exeter, 1888, chapter The Nest of Carew (Ottery-Mohun), p.808)