Escutcheon with 30 quarterings above monument to Sir Amyas Bampfylde, North Molton Church
English: Heraldic escutcheon above effigy and monument to Sir Amyas Bampfield (d.1626), All Saints Church, North Molton, Devon, England. Thirty quarterings. Similar 30 quarterings visible on funeral hatchment in Poltimore Church[1] to Sir Coplestone Bampfylde, 2nd Baronet (d.1691). For identification of arms depicted see: Summers, Peter & Titterton, John, (eds.), Hatchments in Britain, Vol.7: Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Somerset; Phillimore Press, Chichester, Sussex, 1988, pp.29-30, Poltimore. Quarterings, per Summers and Titterton Poltimore Church blazons amended for errors and from observation of North Molton quarterings (Pauncefoot, Galloway and Pole arms apparently not shown at North Molton: 1: Or, on a bend gules three mullets argent (Bampfield) 2: Or, a maunch gules (Hastings) 3: Argent, a lion rampant sable (Huxham) 4: Argent, on a fess sable three cross crosslets or a bordure azure charged with twelve bezants (Faber) 5: Gules, on a chevron or three eagles displayed sable (Cobham, of Blackburgh Bolegh (Pole, pp.195,470)) 6: Gules, a lion passant argent holding in the front paws a baton(?, from the position this would be an heiress of Cobham) 7: Argent, on a chevron sable between three torteaux three bezants (Bolegh of Blackburgh Bolley (Bolley (or Bolhay) of Blackborough), heiress of Cobham (Source: Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.470) 8: Argent, a bend gules between three lion's heads erased and ducally crowned sable (Pederton) 9: Argent fretty gules, over all a fess azure (Cann) 10: Argent, an annulet between three escallops gules (Tourney) 11: Argent, two chevrons gules a label of three points vert (St Maur) 12: Gules, a saltire vairy (Willington) 13: Gules, ten bezants, four, three, two and one (Zouch) 14: Gules, seven mascles or, three, three and one (de Quincy) 15: Gules, a cinquefoil pierced ermine (Beaumont or Bellomont (Earl of Leicester)) 16: Gules, a pale or (Grandmeisnil) 17: Sable, a lion rampant between eight cinquefoils argent (Clifton) 18: Argent, a human heart within a double tressure flory counter-flory gules (David, Prince of Scotland) 19: Argent, a lion rampant gules a chief of the last (?) 20: Azure, three garbs argent (Peverell) 21: Azure, a wolf's head erased argent (Lupus, Earl of Chester) 22: Azure, six lions rampant or (Longespee) 23: Or semée of cross-crosslets fitchée, a lion rampant azure (Lovel of Castle Cary, Somerset). Nicholas St Maur, 2nd Baron St Maur (d.1361) married Muriel Lovel, daughter of James Lovel and grand-daughter and heiress of Richard Lovel, 1st Baron Lovel (d.1350/1) of Castle Cary. (GEC Complete Peerage, vol.XI, p.360) 24: Argent, a bend sable a label of three points gules (St Lo); Richard St Maur, 4th Baron St Maur (d.1401) married Ella de Saint Lo, elder daughter and co-heiress of Sir John de Saint Lo, of Newton St Loe in Somerset, MP,[2] by his first wife Alice de Pavely, daughter and co-heiress of John de Pavely (GEC Complete Peerage, vol.XI, pp.360-1) of Brooke and Westbury in Wiltshire. 25: Azure, a cross flory argent (Paveley) 26: Argent, three lions rampant sable (Cheverell) 27: Gules, three escallops within a bordure engrailed argent (de Erleigh)/ (Erle?) 28: Azure, a chevron between three swans argent (Charlton) 29: Or, three piles azure (Brian) 30: Azure, an eagle with two heads displayed argent charged with a coronet or (Leofric, Earl of Mercia)