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English: Monumental brass in Haccombe Church, Devon, showing arms of Carew (Or, three lions passant in pale sable) impaling Hody of Pilsdon in Dorset (Argent, a fess per fess indented vert and sable between two cotises counterchanged of the fess a bordure engrailed (or?)). Affixed to ledger stone and brass of Mary Hoddy (d.1589), a daughter of William Hoddy of Pilsdon in Dorset (2nd son of Sir William Hody (born before 1441, died 1524) of Pilsdon, Attorney General of England and Chief Baron of the Exchequer under King Henry VII) and wife of Thomas Carew (1518-1586) of Haccombe. The bordure engrailed (tincture unknown), as shown on the brass, of which the lower half is missing, appears to be a difference of the arms of the senior branch of the family, Hody of Stowell, Somerset: Argent, a fess per fess indented vert and sable between two cotises counterchanged of the fess (Source: Burke's General Armory, 1884, p.515[1] Also p.496, Hody). The Haccombe brass shows a mullet in chief, the difference of a 3rd son, although most sources state William Hody, father of Mary Hody, to have been a 2nd son.

Encyclopedia Heraldica, Berry, 2 vols, 1828: Vol. 2, Dict. of Arms-- Hody (Pilston, Dorset) - ar. a fesse indented, point in point, vert and sa. cottised counterchanged. Hody (Dorset) ar. a fesse indented, point in point, vert and sa. Hody, ar. a fesse indented point in point, vert and sa., cottised counterchanged, in chief a mullet pierced sable within a bordure engr...

Hodye or Hudny (Hamon, Dorset) - ar. a fesse, per fesse indented, vert and or, cottised of the 3rd.