English: Garter Stall Plate of Sir John Sully (born c.1283 - died c.1388), KG, of Ruxford and Iddesleigh in Devonshire. Arms: Ermine, four barrulets gules. Apparently a modern reproduction (note screw fastenings), as according to Nicolas, Sir Nicholas HarrisThe Controversy between Sir Richard Scrope and Sir Robert Grosvenor in the Court of Chivalry AD MCCCLXXXV - MCCCXC, Volume 2, London, 1832, pp. 240–3, biography of Sir John Sully [1] his Garter stall plate does not survive, but was recorded by the antiquarian Elias Ashmole (d.1692)[1] as showing arms of Ermine, four barrulets gules with crest Two bull's horns.[2] His family's arms are however given differently by the Devon historian Sir William Pole (d.1635) as Ermine, three chevrons gules[3] This image published in Hope, 1901, plate 33
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Hope, Sir William Henry St. John, The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter 1348 – 1485: A Series of Ninety Full-Sized Coloured Facsimiles with Descriptive Notes and Historical Introductions, Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company Ltd, 1901, plate XXXIII[2]
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↑Ashmole MS Collections for the Order of the Garter, Ashmolean Museum. Ashmole incorrectly recorded the name on the plate as John "Sulby" (Nicolas, 1832, p.243)
↑Nicolas, 1832, p.243, footnote 2; Beltz, George Frederick, Memorials of the Order of the Garter from Its Foundation to the Present Time, London: William Pickering, 1841
↑Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.501, also a version with field argent, with various heraldic differences. Nicolas (1832, p.243) stated his arms as Ermine, three chevrons gules
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