These names
of Peers and Richard, they haue successiuely varied for sixe or
seuen descents. Hee beareth for his Armes, Gules on a Bend ermine,
betweene two Cotises, Or. 3. Bores heades coped, arg. armed as the
third; Langued as the field.
A little inward from Mountedgecumb, lieth a safe and commodious Road
for shipping, called Hamose, and compounded of the words Ose, and Ham,
according to the nature of the place. Here those vessels cast anchor,
which are bound to the Eastwards, as those doe in Catwater, who would
fare to the West; because euerie wind that can erue them at Sea,
will from thence carrie them out: which commoditie other roads doe
not so conueniently affoord. It is reported, that in times past,
there was an ordinary passage ouer this water, to a place on Deuon
side, called Horsecoue, but long since discontinued.
At the higher end of a creek, passing vp from hence, Milbrook lurketh
between two hilles, a village of some 80. houses, and borrowing his
name from a mill and little brook, running therethrough.
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