Detail from 16th century Bellew mural monument on south aisle wall of St Branock's Church, Braunton, Devon, to Richard Bellew and his wife Margaret St Leger. Compartment 1. It is a diptych divided by Ionic columns into 3 rows forming 7 compartments . In the top compartment (number 1) is an escutcheon of his father William Bellew (d.1578) of Ash, Braunton, impaling the arms of his wife Anne Stucley (d.1567). In compartment 6 (middle of bottom row) is an escutcheon showing the arms of Richard Bellew impaling the arms of his wife Margaret St Leger. In compartment 7 is an escutcheon showing the arms of Richard's father William Bellew impaling Stucley, without quarterings. In compartment 4 is an escutcheon showing the arms of Richard's grandfather Henry Bellew impaling the arms of his wife Alice Colebrooke and of her mother Joan Calley. In compartment 5 is an escutcheon showing the arms of Richard's great-grandfather Patrick Bellew impaling the arms of his wife Anne Dennis. In compartment 2 is an escutcheon showing the arms of Richard's great-great-grandfather John Bellew impaling the arms of his wife Anne Fleming and the arms of Ferrers, her paternal grandmother Leva Fleming a daughter and co-heiress of Martin Ferrers. The arms shown on the monument are as follows:

• Compartment 1: Arms of William Bellew (d.1578)(father of Richard) impaling paternal arms of his wife Anne Stucley (d.1567), daughter of Sir Hugh Stucley (1496-1559) of Affeton.^[1] Above are the crests of Bellew (dexter): An arm embowed habited the hand proper grasping a chalice pouring water into a basin (canting crest from French belle-eau, "beautiful water") and Stucley (dexter): A lion rampant or the sinister paw holding a battle-axe resting on the shoulder proper.
  • Bellew, quarterly of 6:
    • 1st:Bellew: Sable fretty or;
    • 2nd:Fleming, for John Fleming of Bratton Fleming and Ash, one of whose two daughters and co-heiresses, Anne Fleming, married John Bellew (descended from the Bellews of Bellewstown, County Meath, Ireland,^[2]) father of Patrick Bellew.^[3] Vair, a chief chequy or and gules
    • 3rd:Ferrers, for Martin Ferrers of Bere Ferrers one of whose three daughters and co-heiresses,^[4] Leva Ferrers, married Sir Christopher Fleming, 3rd Baron of Slane:^[5]Or, on a bend sable three horseshoes argent^[6]
    • 4th Colebrooke (alias Kilrington) of Colebrooke^[7] in the parish of Bradninch,^[8] for William Colebrooke of Lorywell, Devon, whose daughter and heiress, Alice Colebrooke, married Henry Bellew of Alverdiscott and Ash: Argent, a lion rampant gules over all on a fess sable three crosslets fitchy argent (Pole, p.476; Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.214 "Colebrooke, see Killington" (sic); p.564 Argent, a lion rampant gules depressed by a fess or charged with three crosses pattée fitchée sable ("Kilrington");
    • 5th: Calley (alias Cayley) of Chimlegh, Devon, for Robert Cayley whose daughter and heiress Joane Cayley married William Colebrooke father of Alice:^[9] Quarterly argent and sable on a bend gules three mullets of the first (Pole, p.474; Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.179 "Cayley of Brompton, Yorkshire, baronets")
    • 6th: Bellew
  • Stucley, quarterly of 8:
    • 1st: Azure, three pears pendant or (Stucley)
    • 2nd: Three fleurs-de-lys
    • 3rd: A chevron...
    • 4th: A chevron engrailed between three roses
    • 5th: Gules, three lions rampant guardant or (FitzRoger)^[10][11])
    • 6th: Argent, a chevron engrailed between three fleurs-de-lys sable (de Affeton)^[12]
    • 7th: Gules crusily fitchée or, three demi-woodmen men holding clubs or (Wood); Sir Thomas Stucley (1473-1542) of Affeton, Devon (Sheriff of Devon in 1521), had been in his childhood a ward (www.berkshirehistory.com [1]) of Sir Thomas Wood, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, who married him off to Anne Wood, his daughter and sole heiress. ^[13] (See pedigree of Wood of Nether Colewick, Nottinghamshire; of Woodborough, Nottinghamshire; of Enfield, Middlesex: Marshall, G. W., ed. (1871). The Visitations of the County of Nottingham in the years 1569 and 1614, with many other descents of the same county. Harleian Society, 1st ser. Vol. 4. London, pp.86-7 [2]) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, pp.1129 "Thomas Wood, Chief Justice", with woodmen "proper"; p.1130 "Wood of w:Woodborough, Nottinghamshire and Nether Colwick, Visit Notts, 1614", no tincture given for woodmen; Visit of Notts, p.86 gives woodmen as "argent"[3]. & see Burke, p.1130 "Wood of London and Enfield, descended from Woodborough", with woodmen "proper")
    • 8th: Argent, a pelican in her piety with nest or vulning herself sable (Chantrell, an heiress of Wood (see Visit Notts, 1614, p.86[4]) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.184 "Chantrell of Ockingham" (Cantrel of Wokingham, Berkshire; see monument in All Saints' Church, Wokingham, to Humphry Cantrel, senior and Humphry Cantrel, junior ('Parishes: Wokingham', in A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3, ed. P H Ditchfield and William Page (London, 1923), pp. 225-236 [5]))