DEVONSHIRE.

DEVONSHIRE. Has no armorial bearings. Those of the city of Exeter have been usually pressed into the service. The seal of the County Council of Devon shows three escutcheons : I. of Exeter, namely, Party per pale gules and sable, a triangular castle or; II. of Lord Clinton, Lord Lieutenant of the County and Chairman of the County Council, namely, quarterly i and 4 argent a chevron between three spindles sable (for Trefusis) ; 2 azure, three bears' heads couped close argent, muzzled gules, and in chief a cross pattee (for Forbes) ; 3 or, a bend gules, surmounted of a fesse chequy azure and argent, in chief a crescent of the third, a canton ermine (for Stuart); III. of the Earl of Morley, Vice-Chairman of the County Council, namely, sable, a stag's head caboshed within two flaunches argent. The legend is " The Common Seal of the County Council of Devon,

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