Keywords: TawstockCourtGatehouseAedicule.JPG heraldic achievement of William Bourchier 3rd Earl of Bath d 1623 The ten quarterings shown on the escutcheon are as follows with tinctures added <ref>The same quarterings are shown on the monument of Lady Frances Bourchier d 1612 in the Bedford Chapel Chenies Buckinghamshire daughter of the 3rd Earl of Bath http //www middlesex-heraldry org uk/publications/monographs/chenies/cheniesBKM-monuments htm</ref> 1 Argent a cross engrailed gules between four water bougets sable Bourchier 2 Gules a fess argent between 15 billets or 5 4 3 2 1 Louvaine across the first two quarters is a label of three points for difference 3 Quarterly per fess indented argent and gules FitzWarin 4 Gules a fret or Audley 5 Argent three aspen leaves erect gules Cogan 6 Sable a chevron barry nebuly argent and gules Hankford 7 Argent two bars wavy sable Stapledon 8 Argent two bars gules each charged with three bezants Martin 9 Gules four fusils in fess ermine Dinham 10 Gules three pairs of arches argent Arches The dexter supporter of a horse or possibly heraldic antelope stands on a pedestal showing a peacock in its pride the crest of George Manners 11th Baron de Ros c 1470-1513 <ref>Debrett's Peerage 1968 p 968</ref> whose daughter Eleanor Manners married after 1524 as his 2nd wife John Bourchier 2nd Earl of Bath 1499-1560/61 The sinister supporter of a dove or falcon stands on a pedestal showing the Bourchier knot <ref>The Manners peacock and Bourchier knot are also shown sculpted with the arms of Bourchier impaling Manners above the south-east door to Tawstock Church</ref> Above the shield is the Bourchier crest A man's head in profile proper ducally crowned or with a pointed cap gules<ref>Visitation of Devon 1895 p 106</ref> References <references/> own photo Lobsterthermidor <span class signature-talk >talk</span> 22 59 19 March 2013 UTC 2013 Tawstock Court Hankford arms Stapledon arms FitzWarin arms Bourchier arms Dinham arms Arches arms Cogan arms Bourchier knot Earls of Bath |