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English: Arms of Bowchier of Westaway in the parish of Pilton, North Devon: Ermine, a cross chequy gules and or between four water bougets gules. As shown on the mural monument to Christopher Lethbridge (d.1713) of Westaway in the parish of Pilton, Devon. At the bottom of the monument are shown impaled by Lethbridge the arms of his wife, a daughter of Philip Bowchier of Westaway, which appear as: Argent, a cross chequy gules and or between four water bougets gules each between four ermine spots. These are a differenced version of the arms of Bourchier, Earls of Bath, of nearby Tawstock Court: Argent, a cross engrailed gules between four water bougets sable. The Bourchier Earls of Bath (which name was spelled historically in various ways) died out in the male line in 1654 on the death of the 5th Earl. It is not known what relationship if any the Bowchiers of Westaway (see: Reed, Margaret A., Pilton, its Past and its People, Barnstaple, 1985, p.243) were to the Bourchiers of Tawstock. They were clearly not in the line of succession to the titles Earl of Bath (extinct post 1654), Baron FitzWarin and Baron Daubeney (post 1654 abeyant between daughters of 4th Earl, one line of which is today represented by the Wrey Baronets of Tawstock)