English: Arms of Thomas Horwood (1600-1658) of Barnstaple in Devon, twice Mayor of Barnstaple, in in 1640 and 1653. He founded an almshouse in Church Lane, Barnstaple. detail from his mural monument survives in St Peter's Church, Barnstaple. Arms: Sable, a chevron counter-ermine between three moorcocks or a mullet for difference (Horwood) impaling Or, on a fesse between three martlets gules as many bezants an annulet for difference (wife's paternal arms, unknown family) (Source: Chanter, J.R., Memorials Descriptive and Historical, of the Church of St Peter, Barnstaple, with its other ecclesiastical antiquities, and an account of the conventual church of St Mary Magdalene, recently discovered. Barnstaple, 1882. Includes appendix “Monumental Heraldry” by Rev. Sloane Sloane-Evans, 1882, p.151)