File:Chudleigh Impaling A Chevron Between Three Cocks, Church of St John the Baptist, Higher Ashton, Devon.png

15th century stained glass in Church of St John the Baptist, Higher Ashton, Devon. Arms of Chudleigh impaling quarterly of 4:

• 1&4: Argent, a chevron sable between three cocks (tincture faded) possibly Cockworthy of Cockworthy, Devon (per Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Vol.31, 1st Series (Vol 1, 2nd Series), Plymouth, 1899, Maxwell Adams, A Brief Account of Ashton Church and of Some of the Chudleighs of Ashton, p.187[1]) (For alternatives see: Papworth, John Woody, Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.I, London, 1874, p.393), but inscription below seems to state "T..kytt"). Maxwell Adams, p.187: Some of the arms in the first three windows of the north wall have the names of the bearers written in black-letter characters under them, but owing to plaster and whitewash it is exceedingly difficult to decipher them. Under the arms of Talbot (III a) the name Copleston is given; and under those of Cockworthy quartered with Wyke (IV 6), the name "Topkylf" or "Wykylf" appears. The arms of Topcliffe however, are: Or, a fess ... three mullets sable. (See Baring-Gould's and Twigge's Armory of the Western Counties, 1898, p. 45)
• 2&3: Sable, a chevron ermine between three barnacle birds argent (i.e. barnacle geese) (Wyke, originally arms of Burnell, per Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Vol.31, 1st Series (Vol 1, 2nd Series), Plymouth, 1899, Maxwell Adams, A Brief Account of Ashton Church and of Some of the Chudleighs of Ashton, p.187[2]); See pedigree of "Wykes of North Wyke" in parish of South Tawton in Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.825; see Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, pp.472,243, 508: Arms of "Burnell of Cocktree, South Tawton (heiress of Wykes): Argent, two chevrons ermine between three barnacles proper (p.472); Arms of "Wike of Bindon" in parish of Axminster, Devon: Argent, a chevron ermines between three barnacle birds proper (p.508); n.b. Arms of de Cocktree family of Cocktree: Argent, a chevron gules between three cocks sable (Pole, p.475). The arms of Burnell were later adopted by Wykes of Cocktree and North Wyke (Pole, p.243), in lieu of the paternal arms of Wykes Ermine, three battle axes sable. No marriage of a male Chudleigh to a member of any of these families is recorded in the Visitations of the County of Devon (Vivian, p.189)