The window of the Great Chamber depicts the arms of families connected to the Phelips by marriage
Key to armorials, pane numbers Stained glass window, overlooking gardens of Montacute House. Source: Bates, Cadwallader John, The Armorial Glass in the Windows of Montacute House, Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1886, Part 2, pp.102-7, [1]; archive.org text:[2] Pane 1 Modern — "probably a glazier's fancy" — being, Gu., a saltire between three cross crosslets in chief and three in base arg., impaling, Ar., two bars gu., in chief three martlets. If, however, there was any authority for this re-construction, the first coat may have been that of Denny — Gu., a saltire between twelve crosslets arg. Pane 2 Modern. Phelipps (roses), impaling Horsey. A reproduction of one of the Corfe Mullen series; but with the horses' heads argent and the bridles, etc., or. Pane 3 Quarterly of 4: 1&4: Per pale dexter paly of six argent and sable sinister azure (Trenchard). 2:Ermine, a maunch gules the hand proper holding a fleur-de-lys or (Mohun of Mohun's Ottery). 3:Azure semée of crosslets a lion rampant or (Jordain) These were borne by the Trenchards of Wolveton, near Dor- chester, in which house they had a splendid collection of heraldic glass, now unhappily destroyed. Pane 4 Modern, 1876. Phelipps (Quarterly) differenced with a label; on an escutcheon of pretence, 1 and 4, Cockburn quartering Vipont, 2 and 3, Peel, a canton of Fane. Pane 5 Quarterly of sixteen: 1:Arg., a maunch sa. (Hastings) 2:Per pale or and sa., a saltire engrailed counter changed (Pole) 3:Quarterly, France (modern) and England, a label or (Clarence). The label should be of three points arg., each charged with a canton gules. Francis, second Earl of Huntingdon, married Katherine, daughter and co-heir of Henry Pole, Lord Montagu, and grand-daughter of Margaret, Countess of Salisbury (which Margaret was daughter and sole-heir of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV. 4:Gu., a saltire arg., a label of three points az., for Neville, Earl of Salisbury. This label should be "componee arg. and az." — See Visitation of Dorset, 1623; Sari. Soc. Pub., p. 52. 5:Arg., three fusils in fesse gu., for Montagu 6:Or, an eagle displayed vert armed gu., Monthermer 7:Gu., a fesse between six cross crosslets or, Beauchamp 8:Chequy or and az., a chevron erm. for Newburgh, Earl of Warwick 9:Quarterly, 1 and 4, Arg., a bend sa. (Despenser) 2 and 3, Gu., a fret or. (Audley). 10:Or, three chevronels gu. (de Clare). 11:Sa., two bars arg., in chief three plates (Hungerford) 12:Az., three garbs or banded gu., a chief of the second (Peverell) 13:Arg., a lion rampant gu. crowned or, within a bordure engrailed sa. bezanty (de Cornwall). 14:Arg., a griffin segreant gu., armed az (Botreaux) 15:Or, three palets wavy gu. (Molins/de Moleyns) 16:Arg., two bars gu., in chief three torteaux (Moels) Notes: (1) . Edward, second Lord Hastings, married Mary, daughter and sole-heir of Thomas. Baron Hungerford, Botreaux, Moulins, and Moels. (2) . Walter, 1st Lord Hungerford, married Catherine, daughter, and at length sole-heir, of Sir Thomas Peverell. — Hoare's Modern Wilts, i, p. 91 n. (3) . James Peverell of Sampford Peverell, co. Devon, married Margaret, daughter and heir of Sir Walter Cornwell. — London MS., No. 901. (4) . Robert, 2nd Lord Hungerford, married Margaret, daughter and heir o£ William, Lord Botreaux (ob. 2nd Ed. IV.) — Hoare's Modern Wilts, i, p. 91 n. (5) . Robert, 3rd Lord Hungerford, married Alianore, daughter and heir of William de Molins, who was slain in the siege of Orleans, 8th May, 7th Henry VI. Stoke Pogeis, co. Buckingham, was the chief seat of the Molins family. — Ibid, i, p. 93 n. See Victoria County History, Stoke Poges[3](6) . This quartering, introduced through Botreaux, should have immedately followed it. William Botreaux (ob. 23rd Edward III) married Isabel, daughter and co-heir of John de Moels. Pane 8 Quarterly gules and or four lions passant guardant counterchanged (Wales, as inscribed below shield) Pane 9 Arms of Rich: Gules, a chevron between three crosses botonée or, with crescent sable for difference, for Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland (1590–1649), 2nd son of Robert Rich, 3rd Baron Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick (1559-1619) Pane 10 Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, father of 2nd Earl, same quarterings Quarterly of 16, circumscribed by the Garter, arms of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, KG 1:Devereux 2:Bourchier 3:Thomas of Woodstock 4:Bohun 5:Or, two bendlets gules (Milo of Gloucester) 6:Mandeville 7:Louvain 8:Woodville 9:Crophule ? 10:Audley ? 11:Le Mareschal 12:Le Mareschal 13:Ferrers, Earl of Derby 14:Earl of Chester 15:De Quincy (Ferrers heiress) 16:Bellomont/Beaumont, Earl of Leicester Pane 11 Digitally corrected image of Blount arms, Pane 11, with top two panes in shield restored to correct positions Arms of Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire, 8th Baron Mountjoy, KG. Pane 11 has been reassembled incorrectly, top two panes transposed, after the 1886 publication of Bates, Cadwallader John, The Armorial Glass in the Windows of Montacute House. The correct ordering is: 1:Blount 2:Ayala (Argent, two wolves passant sable a bordure or fretty gules) 3:Or, a tower azure (Sanchett) 4:Beauchamp of Hatch Vairy 5:Holt de Colbrigg (Azure, three fleurs-de-lys argent) 6:Argent, a fess gules in chief three covered cups of the second (Westcot) 7:Azure, a fret or (Willoughby) 8:Orby 9:Ufford 10:Valoynes 11:Le Blond 12:Glanville 13:Norwich 14:Neville 15:Stafford 16:Maltravers Pane 12 1:Or, on a pile gules between six fleurs-de-lys azure three lions passant guardant or (Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset) 2:Gules, two wings conjoined in lure or (Seymour) 3:Vair (Beauchamp of Hache) 4:Argent, three demi-lions gules (Esturmy) 5:Per bend argent and gules, three roses in bend counter-changed (Macwilliam) 6:Argent, on a bend gules three leopard's faces or (Coker). The whole (within the Garter, and surmounted by an Earl's Coronet) was borne by Edward Seymour, as Earl of Hertford, 1537; K.G., 1541; (Duke of Somerset and Protector, 1547). The coat is supported on the dexter side by a unicorn arg., maned, collared, and chained or. (the collar should be per pale az. and or J, and on the sinister side by a bull sa., ducally collared, chained, and attired or. On a nobleman's helm, is the crest, a phoenix rising out of a ducal coronet; and beneath the shield the motto, "a lamy fidele pour jamais". Pane 13 Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon (d.1566): Or, three torteaux Pane 14 Phelipps impaling Argent, between two cotises gules two (?) fleurs-de-lys in bend or (Hacket (?)) The impaled coat is a piece of glaziers' patchwork ; the two fleurs- de-lys are quite independent of the glass in which they are set, and there is ample room for a third. This may be a reminiscence of an authentic coat ; or, in case of its being pure imagination, it is curious that it so closely approaches, arg., three fleurs-de-lys in bend, between two cotises gu., Hacket, co. Bucks ; and London ; and with, a crescent for difference, Sir Cuthbert Hacket, Lord Mayor of London, 1626. In the panel beneath, the word, " Ierlande."