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English: Detail from Fortescue mural monument, Weare Giffard Church, Devon, showing kneeling effigies of Hugh Fortescue (1545-1600) of Weare Giffard Hall and of Filleigh, both in Devon, Sheriff of Devon in 1583, and of his wife Elizabeth Chichester (d.1630), a daughter of Sir John Chichester (c. 1516/22-1569) of Raleigh in the parish of Pilton and of Youlston both in North Devon, a Member of Parliament, Sheriff of Devon in 1552 and 1557, by his wife Gertrude Courtenay, a daughter of Sir William Courtenay (1477–1535) of Powderham in Devon. (Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.354). Top tier of Fortescue mural monument, Weare Giffard Church, Devon
Date Monument 1639; photo Apr 2012
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