Arms of Petre/Peter of Bowhay in the parish of Dunchideock, Devon: "Gules, on a bend or between two escallops argent a Cornish chough proper between two cinquefoils azure". (Source: Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitation of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.592; Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.496) Also sometimes shown with a chief, as in arms of Sir William Petre (d.1571/2)