. The ancient sepulchral effigies and monumental and memorial sculpture of Devon . Skrccn, Seaton Cliurcli. in till- old mansion. TIm arms nf tlie llolinain IaniiK are also mitill- pillar^ Ivist-I >gwill (liuivli. IAiasii riiLj;cui:s ov xowni ukvon. 203 The peculiar device acloptrd I)y tliem is evidently allusive, and intendedto display the ih(>Jc-Itr((iii. or one of the piincip;il tinilicrs of ;i, niut,hiialdicallv descrilied as (t chcnvii Old lliiililings, TrillAxniiii-ster, Drake. , itc -This antient family, llir <<{ whichwere of Trill,
. The ancient sepulchral effigies and monumental and memorial sculpture of Devon . Skrccn, Seaton Cliurcli. in till- old mansion. TIm arms nf tlie llolinain IaniiK are also mitill- pillar^ Ivist-I >gwill (liuivli. IAiasii riiLj;cui:s ov xowni ukvon. 203 The peculiar device acloptrd I)y tliem is evidently allusive, and intendedto display the ih(>Jc-Itr((iii. or one of the piincip;il tinilicrs of ;i, niut,hiialdicallv descrilied as (t chcnvii Old lliiililings, TrillAxniiii-ster, Drake. , itc -This antient family, llir <<{ whichwere of Trill, Axniiiister, and Ashe, Mu&huiy, had tlioii- huiial places hiboth parishes. At Axminster the sontli transe])t was their chantryor burial place, and was called Trill or DrakesAisle, and which they probably built. The in-terior, .says Mr. Davidson, was divided from thebase of the tower by au open screen of carved oa,lv,and was occupied as a pew by the Drake family, anda vault beneath it as their Ijuiial place, while thewalls exhibited many proud and vain memorials of their chivalry andlineage. Here were displayed among antient armour and banners, severalshields of oak, charged ^vith the armorial bearings of Drake in alliancewith the families of (Trenville, Eoteler, Cruwys, Yonge, Eveleigh, Bitton,Strode, and Keloway. The Ioof was similarly ornamented; one of thej)illars w;is carved with the arms of Poidett, and the skreen with tlioseof Trill. Against t
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