98 Devon Notes and Queries, Fortescues, viz. : — (i) Az. a bend engrailed arg, cotised or (Fortescue) impaling arg. a chev. gu, hetw, 3 coots sa, (South- cote of Mohuns Ottery) ; (2) Fortescue impaling arg. a chev. sa, and a label of 3 points gu. (Prideaux of Netherton) ; (3) Fortescue impaling masonry, org. and sa, a chief indented sa^ (Reynell of Ogwell) ; (4) Fortescue of Spriddleston impaling Fortescue of Fallapit, differenced with a mullet and crescent respectively ; (5) Fortescue impaling arg. on a bend gu., 3 mill- rinds or. (Speccott of Thombury) ; (6) Fortescue impaling gu. a saltire vaird (Champemoun of Modbury) ; (7) Sa. 3 pheons (Nicholls of Trewane in St. Kea, Cornwall) impaling For- tescue ; (8) Fortescue impaling, arg. a chev, gu. betw. 3 talbots passant sa., a crescent for difference* (Talbot). The following genealogical notes on those members of the Fortescue family and their descendants who were connected with East Allington will explain these shields f : — The family derives its origin from Sir Richard le Fort, who acquired the name of Fort Esou or strong shield, through having protected the Conqueror with his shield at the battle of Hastings. Hence the motto of the family, Forte Scutum Solus Ducum. After eleven generations, William Fortescue, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John and sister and co-heir of Thomas Beauchamp of Ryme (18 Rich. II.) had two sons : (i) Sir John, who was Captain of Meaux (temp. Hen. V.) and married Elinor, daughter and heir of William Norries, and (2) William of Wimston, who married Isabel, daughter and heiress of John Falwell. Sir John's eldest son. Sir Henry, who was Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland, married the daughter and heiress of Nicholas Fallapit of Fallapit as his second wife, and thus Fallapit passed into the Fortescue family. Their son Richard of Fallapit married Margaret, daughter of Robert Hill of Shilston, whose son
- These are the arms of Talbot^ but I cannot trace in the published
pedigrees any marriage with a Talbot. In the Carew Scroll of Arms {Devon Notes and Queries^ Vol. I, Part II), No. 353, p. 53, it is stated that Fortescue quartered the Sirms o( Sackbye — viz., ^^Arg. betw, a chev. sa. 3 greyhotmdes cur. sa, coler. or" but I cannot find this marriage recorded anywhere. fTo avoid repetition the following abbreviations arc used, viz. : — B. denotes Brass ; M., Monument ; S., Floor Slab ; P., Arms on the Pulpit (all in East Allington Church) ; P.R., East Allington Parish Register ; and F., Shields of Arms in Fallapit House.
