Detail from monument to Richard Beaple (1564-1643) in St Peter's Church, Barnstaple, showing arms of Gay ("Or, a chevron between three escallops azure") quartering Beaple ("Gules, a bend vairy between six escallops argent"). Signifying the marriage of Elizabeth Beaple, his sole daughter and heiress, to Anthony Gay of Goldsworthy in the parish of Parkham, North Devon. A pictorial rendering of the failure of the Beaple family in the male line is shown by a barren vine with the arms of Beaple at dexter meeting at sinister a fruitful vine with the arms of Gay.