t Devon Notes and Queries. 121 85. The Rowe Brass and Inscriptions, Staverton Church, Devon. — The most ancient of these memorials is a small brass inserted in the wall outside the south aisle at its east end ; on it is a half-length figure of a man in the costume of the period ; below, this inscription : — Sub hoc tumido fepelitur cor pus Johis Rowe armigeri filij et heredis Johis Rowe feruientis ad legem, qui ohijt x^ die Au gusti; Anno Dni. 1592. et A' etatis fua 82. et amplius. Arms — Quarterly, 1 and 4, Argent, on a chevron azure, between three trefoils slipped per pale gules and vert, three annulets or. (Rowe, of Staverton) 2 and 3, Gules, a chevron between three paschal lambs or, staff cross and banners argent. (Rowe, of Lamerton ?) He married first Philippa, daughter of Richard Blewett, of Holcombe Rogus, and secondly Maria, daughter of John Chichester, of Youlston, by whom he had a son, John. He was the son of John Rowe, of Totnes, Sergeant at Lpaw, by Agnes, daughter of William Barnhouse, of Kingston, Staverton. Prince gives his biography and says : — " This gentleman was from his tender years bred to learning, and his ingeny at length inclining that way, he applied himself to the study of the laws of the land, which afterwards he made his practise, and was called to be a Serjeant at Law, t8 Nov., 2 Henry VIII., 1511. His wife's father, having no male issue by his first wife, married a gentlewoman of good family of this county (whose name I list not to mention) that brought him a son, but he suspecting that he was not of his own begetting, disinherited him, and settled his lands upon his daughter Agnes, married as aforesaid unto Serjeant Rowe." Within the church, at the east end of the south aisle, on a marble gravestone is : — M^es Dorothe Rowe died ye 2gth daye of Gvlye 1655, and was bvried ye first of Avg^ 1655- Arms — Rowe of Staverton, impaling. Argent, on a chief or, a raven sable (Horde). She was the daughter of Alan Horde, of " Horde's Home," CO. Salop, and her husband was George Rowe, grandson and heir of John Rowe of the brass ; he was buried 18 Jany.,
