File:CaryQuarterlyOfFour Impaling GiffardQuarterlyOfSix Brass WilmotaGiffard Died1581 TorMohunChurch Devon.xcf

English: One of 5 brass heraldic shields surrounding the monumental brass effigy of Wilmota Giffard (c.1540/1-1581) in St Savoiur's Church, Tor Mohun (now Torquay), Devon. She was the only child and heiress of John Giffard of Yeo Vale, Alwington, Devon, by his wife Margaret Milliton, daughter of John Milliton of Meavy. She married firstly John Bury of Colleton, Chulmleigh, from whom she was divorced, and secondly Sir George Cary (1541-1616) of Cockington, near Tor Mohun, Lord Deputy of Ireland. (Source: Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.151 (Cary), p.279 (Dennis), p.404 (Giffard)) Arms:

Quarterly of four:

• 1st: Argent, on a bend sable three roses of the field (Cary, with a crescent for the difference of a second son);
• 2nd: Or, three piles in point azure (Bryan of Tor Bryan, Devon, for Jane de Bryan, a daughter and co-heiress of Sir Guy de Bryan (d.1396) of Tor Bryan, Devon, wife of Sir John Cary;^[1]
• 3rd: Gules, a fess between three crescents argent (Holleway of Holway in North Lew, for Margaret Holleway, daughter and heiress of Robert Holleway, wife of Sir John Cary (d.1395) (son of Margaret de Bryan), Chief Baron of the Exchequer);^[2]
• 4th: Azure, a chevron argent between three pears pendant or (de Orchard), Sir Philip Cary (d.1437) of Cockington (great-grandfather of Thomas Cary (d.1567) married Christiana Orchard, daughter and heiress of William Orchard of Orchard in Somerset (today either Orchard Wyndham or Orchard Portman).

• 1: Giffard of Halsbury, and of Yeo Vale, Alwington, Devon: Sable, three fusils conjoined in fesse ermine with a crescent for difference;
• 2: Dabernon of Bradford, Devon (a Dennis heiress): Argent, a cross moline and on a chief azure three estoiles or (Colby, Rev. Frederick T., The Heraldry of Exeter, Archaeological Journal, Volume 30, 1873, p.236[1]). However Pole gives the arms very differently as Azure, a chevron or (Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.479)
• 3: (Blank? Should be Dennis of Giddicott, Bradford, Devon, which brought in quarters 5 (Buckerell) and 6 (Cristenstow). The Dennis arms should appear in the 4th quarter, with Brewer (an earlier marriage) in the 3rd)
• 4: Brewer of Buckland Brewer & Tor Brewer (Tor Mohun): Gules, two bends undée or (Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.473;
• 5: Buckerell (a Dennis heiress) of Buckerell, near Honiton (Pole, p.200) (or Bokerell in Heavitree, Pole, p.235) and "lord of Allertrewe" (Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.279, unidentified location, ???Aller Tree Farm, Beaford, Winkleigh) (a Dennis heiress): Sable, two bucks passant in pale argent a bordure of bezants (Pole, p.471);
• 6: Cristenstow of Weycroft, Axminster, Devon (a Dennis heiress): Azure, a bend indented or and ermine two cotises ermine (Pole, p.479),