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Devon Notes and Queries, 75 the Hudson (the present owner of the Knapman shield of arms), and my own daughters. With the signification of the mark W in an annulet I am unacquainted. The only other instance I have met with in heraldry of a mark stamped upon tin is on the coat of Paynter, of Antron, co Cornwall, ^' Az. three blocks of tin ppr, each charged with an annulet sa" but no letter is within the annulet. I find in an extract from pro- ceedings in the Court of Requests, Bund. 32, No. 86 — " and John Wekes did in consideration of the said £20, stand bound by obligacion of £i.o unto W" Dudeney with condition endorsed for the delivery unto the said W™. at Chagford, of tenne hundrethes of good, sufficient, and lawful whyte tynne coyned, and marchantable without the letter H, every hundred contayning the weight of sixe score pounds of tynne according to the weight of the Quen's M^ti6s beame at Chagford." The Knapman coat is followed by eight impalements: (i) Sa. an eagle displayed with two heads within a bordure ar. The coat of Hore. This seems to be for William Hore of Rushford in Chagford, whose daughter Alicia married William, second son of the first William Knapman. (2) Or. a chev. betw, three spear-heads gu. The coat of Whyddon. This seems to be for Sir John Whyddon, the celebrated judge, whose daughter Anna, as before mentioned, married Alexander, son of WiUiam Knapman. (3) Vert (or possibly azj for the tincture has faded to a greenish turquoise) a buck springing, aitired or. Possibly the coat of Richard Powell of Tiverton, whose daughter Maude was wife of William^ third son of the first Alexander Knapman. I came across, without noting the authority, **a Powell, from Brecknockshire, who bore az, a stag passant arg, attired orj between the attires a regal crown " : though the only Powell bearing a stag that I find in Burke is Richard Jones Powell, of Hinton, near Hereford, Esq., this coat is blazoned, "i4r. a chev, betw, thru roses gu. seeded or, barbed vert, on afi escutcheon of pretence, az, a stag lodged ar. upon a mount vertj charged on the shoulder with a mullet sa. for diff, for Downes. Crest — Out of a ducal coronet a demi griffin beaked and legged or.^' But, if not for Powell, it may be for the fiamily of one of the third William Knapman's sons, who at the Visitation of 1620, with which the pedigree ends, were too