. Devon notes and queries. the wifeof the builder of FordHouse. Twelve largepanels, each containing amythic animal or bird inrelief, decorate the ceiling,and three boldly designedpendants for suspendingthe chandeliers hangequidistant down thecentre. The arch above the northern window is filledwith a rectangular ornamental panel enclosing a mask,and the corresponding span at the opposite end of theapartment contains the sculptured arms of Reynell impalingBrandon with crests and mantlings. The adoption of thetwo crests over these arms presents a singular divergencefrom customary usage, the true
. Devon notes and queries. the wifeof the builder of FordHouse. Twelve largepanels, each containing amythic animal or bird inrelief, decorate the ceiling,and three boldly designedpendants for suspendingthe chandeliers hangequidistant down thecentre. The arch above the northern window is filledwith a rectangular ornamental panel enclosing a mask,and the corresponding span at the opposite end of theapartment contains the sculptured arms of Reynell impalingBrandon with crests and mantlings. The adoption of thetwo crests over these arms presents a singular divergencefrom customary usage, the true significance of which is not,at first sight, apparent, and which one authority has unhesi-tatingly pronounced to be heraldically incorrect but wemay be quite sure that the large-hearted squire of Ford hadsome very special reason for here introducing the Brandoncrest in addition to his own. Lady Reynell, as is wellknown, rivalled her husband on the score of benevolence—acharacteristic which, by the way, has been admirably. In the Drawing Room. 3§ Devon Notes and Queries. rendered and expressed on her effigial portrait at Wol-borough—and he would probably have determined, as a graceful compliment to his wife,that this adornment of their newly-erected home should not only dis-play their conjugal relationship,but at the same time give equalhonour to both their families—anensign, therefore, of their perfectdomestic harmony and devotion—rather than any personal glorifica-tion of himself. The supportersof the Reynell arms were twofoxes, as carved upon his fathersmonument, 1585, in EastOgwell church, but with like in- „ „ tention these have been here Sir Richard Reynell. {Front his monument at Wolborough.) Omitted. The legend OCCUpying the usual positionxof the family motto under the shield, and em-bodying a sentiment strikingly exemplified in this knight andhis lady, may also still be read above his fathers tomb, deeplygraven on the stonework in the quaint lettering
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