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English: Two 16th (?) century carved wooden escutcheons above the door to the Annery Chapel in the south wall of Monkleigh Church, Devon. The dexter (male) side of the shields show the arms either of Dennis of Holcombe Burnell (Ermine, three Danish battle axes gules) or possibly the arms of the less prominent family of Wykes of North Wyke in the parish of South Tawton, Devon, and Weeks of Honichurch, Devon (Ermine, three battleaxes sable). The obvious connection of either family to the parish of Monkleigh or to the manor of Monkleigh or Annery is not apparently recorded in surviving records.

The female (sinister) side of the shields is: A chevron between three (long- & wide-beaked) birds (shoveller ducks?), a crescent for difference. Possibly Yeo; possibly Burnell, an heiress of Wykes. Sable, a chevron ermine between three barnacle birds argent (i.e. barnacle geese) (Burnell) (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[1]); 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); 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.

Three lions rampant (possibly Prouse). William Weekes of Honichurch (fl.1620) married Arminell Yeo, a daughter of John Yeo of Hatherleigh. (Vivian, pp.776, 835). No other marriages of a Dennis or Weeks male to any of these families is recorded in surviving sources. (Source: Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitation of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp.279, 776, etc). The only obvious connection between the Prouse family and Annery is that Humphry Prouse (d.1648) of Chagford married as his first wife Catherine Arscott, a daughter of Tristram Arscott of Annery, whose eldest two sons were baptised at Monkleigh, in 1607 and 1608. (Vivian, p.626)