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English: Arms of Weare of Halberton and of Clist Honiton, Devon: Argent, on a bend vert between six crosses crosslet fitchée gules three crosiers or (Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.774); Arms of Treawin of Weare Giffard (as quartered by Fortescue) (Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.505).

Henry Copleston of Bowden, Yealmpton, married Mary Were (d.1630), a daughter of Humfry Were (or Weare) of Halberton, Devon, Counsellor-at-Law.^[1][2] Humfry Were was Feodary of Devon, and his widow obtained the lease of the residence in Halberton of the Powlet (or Poulett) family, formerly of Legh Powlet in Devon, later of Hinton St George in Somerset, Barons Poulett from 1627^[3] and Earls Poulett from 1706. The chest tomb monument of Mary Were survives in St Bartholomew's Church, Yealmpton,^[4] displaying the arms of Copleston and Were (Argent, on a bend vert between six cross-crosslets fitchée gules three crosiers or^[5]) inscribed as follows:

Here lieth the body of Mary the wife of Henry Coplestone of Boudon, Esquire, and eldest daughter of Humfry Were of Halberton in Devon, Esq^r, Counsel^r at Law, who died the last of June An(n)o Domini 1630. Christus Nobis Vita. ("Christ is life to us").^[6]