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English: Heraldic shields of Parker family of North Molton, Devon, as sculpted on oak panelling dated 1609 now in chancel of North Molton Church, removed from Court House, North Molton, in 1844. They represent various marriages of men of the Parker family (for more details see w:Manor of North Molton):
- Parker impaling Mayhew (Gules, a chevron vairy between three ducal crowns or) (Pole, p.492). John Parker (d.1610), who predeceased his father, was Sheriff of Devon. In 1582 he married Frances Mayhew, only child and heiress of Jerome/Jeronimy Mayhew of Boringdon Hall, in the parish of Plympton St Mary, near Plymouth. Today Boringdon Hall is a hotel, displaying the arms of Parker sculpted on the granite chimneypiece in the great hall.
- Parker impaling Fry of Fry's Hele Manor (today corrupted to "Friar's Hele"), Meeth, Devon, 16th.c.: Vert, three horses courant (in pale) argent (Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.484). These are a difference of the arms of the senior line of Fry of Yarty, whose arms have a field gules.(Pole, p.484). Thomas Parker (d.1545), buried in his family vault under the chancel of North Molton Church, married Elizabeth Fry, a daughter and co-heiress of John Fry of "Fry's Hele" in the parish of Meeth, near Hatherleigh, which was still owned by the Earl of Morley in 1822 according to Lysons, Magna Britannia.
- Parker impaling Ellicott of Bratton Clovelly: (Lozengy or and azure, a bordure gules) (Arms of Ellacott of Milbury and of the parish of St Petrock, Exeter, both in Devon, per Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.333; Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.481: "Ellicot of Exon", same blazon). John Parker (son of Thomas Parker (d.1545) and Elizabeth Fry), married the heiress of Thomas Ellicott of Bratton Clovelly, Devon, 8 miles west of Okehampton.
- Parker impaling Smith (alias Carrington) (Argent, a cross gules between four peacocks close proper). Edmund Parker (d.1635) married Dorothy Smith, daughter of Clement Smith (c.1515-1552) of Great Baddow in Essex, Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer in the Exchequer (often erroneously called "Chief Baron of the Exchequer"), MP for Maldon 1545 and 1547, by his wife Dorothy Seymour, youngest daughter of Sir John Seymour (d.1536) of Wulfhall, Wiltshire, and sister of Queen Jane Seymour (d.1537), wife of King Henry VIII. Edmund Parker's wife was thus the first cousin of King Edward VI (1547–1553). Dorothy Seymour's eldest brother was Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (d.1552), Lord Protector of England from 1547 until 1549 during the minority of his nephew, King Edward VI.
- Parker impaling (?) (A cross flory between four ... heads erased)
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