English: Arms of de Owlacombe of Owlacombe in the parish of Roborough (near Great Torrington), Devon: Gules, a bend between two owls argent. As seen on Mural monument to John Davie, 3rd Baronet (1660-1692) of Creedy, Sandford. North wall of chancel, Sandford Church. See File:JohnDavie 3rdBaronet Died1692 SandfordChurch Devon.PNG .

In Roborough church survive two bench ends showing A bend between two owls, which J. Whitmarsh commented on in "The Western Antiquary", Wright, W.H.K., (ed.), Vol.4, June 1884-May 1885, Plymouth, 1885, p.164 [1] as follows: "But what of the bend between two owls found on two bench ends? Not far from the church there is an estate called Owlacombe, occupied by Mr. Wadland. It was once called "Over Woollacombe". [sic, Over-Wollacombe is a separate estate in the parish of Roborough, today known as "Combe", anciently the seat of the Wollocombe family, which originated at Wollocombe in the parish of Mortehoe] For centuries after the Norman Conquest it was owned by the Woollacombes. [sic, Owlacombe was inherited by marriage by the Davie family, formerly of nearby Way in the parish of St Giles-in-the-Wood] Did this name in any way suggest the bend between two owls? Our old church builders were very imaginative in some of their ideas, and fertile in inventive projects by which to commemorate names, deeds, and events".

Also see re: File:JohnDavie Died1611 StMaryArches Exeter.png :

Sir Michael Ferguson-Davie, 8th Baronet (born 1944) wrote on 30 May 2007 as follows to Mike Bodman of Highland, California, U.S.A. (posted on Ancestry.org[2]):

"My cousin, Sir Patrick Ferguson Davie 5th Baronet, asked the College of Heralds to investigate the Bardolph connection in the 1950s or sometime soon thereafter - in particular to assess his chances of establishing a claim to the abeyant barony of Bardolph (see Burke's Extinct Peerages). The Herald he employed (Colin Cole?) advised him that any claim would now belong to the Duke of Norfolk. Robert Davie's son John Davie (1541/2-1612) (subject of this monument in St Mary Arches Church, Exeter) applied for the right to bear the arms of Bardolph (his maternal grandfather’s family – Azure, three cinquefoils or on a chief of the second a lion passant gules) and he was granted this right on 20th April 1594. (He also adopted the halcyon bird crest, which had been granted by Dom Antonio, the pretender to the Portuguese throne [a reference the hospitality that Robert Davie showed The King of Portugal when he was Mayor of Exeter; and "The pretender to the Portuguese throne (who) granted John Davie “the right to clothe his servants in the Braganza livery of blue and gold and to wear the kingfisher or halcyon bird as his crest", next post by 8th Baronet]), but he did not augment his arms with the ensign of Burgundy (his grandfather’s canton). The decision to claim the arms of his mother’s family reflected the noble ancestry of his mother’s family and demonstrated his superior lineage to his older half-brothers. Had he, as a younger son, decided to claim his father’s family’s arms (de la Wey) he would have had to add a mark of cadency; this would have reflected his lowly ranking among his siblings. It is also possible that he might have harboured an idea of trying to claim for himself the ancient, abeyant barony of Bardolph (which my cousin Sir Patrick FD investigated in the 1950s or thereabouts). We still use both de la Wey and Bardolph escutcheons on our coat armour, but the Bardolph coat alone is shown as the main escutcheon on John Davie's memorial in St Mary Arches church in Exeter (and on the memorial in Sandford Church to his daughter-in-law, Juliana Strode). This memorial also includes the arms of Owlacombe and three smaller shields, which impale the arms of de la Wey and those of his two wives, Willmot Peter and Margaret Southcote. It was erected by his son, Sir John, who quartered the arms of de la Wey and Bardolph for the first time, doubtless because he needed to prove his own entitlement to coat armour and this is the way the arms have appeared ever since. John's son (Robert's grandson), Sir John Davie (1589-1654) had to have a pedigree drawn up at the time to be eligible to become a baronet (1641) and this was duly produced and dated 1647, and it states that John Thomas’s descent from “the noble family of Bardolph” was recorded by Sir Gilbert Dethick (Garter King of Arms) “in his own writinge”. This pedigree is now in the West of England Studies Centre in Exeter - sadly it is in very poor condition thanks to the fire at Creedy in 1914. The connection with the noble family of Bardolph is interesting, but unfortunately I don’t know any more about it - although I think we must assume it does exist and that William Bardolph and his daughter, the wife of John Thomas of Tichfield, emanated from a junior branch of the noble Bardolph family. There is only one family called Bardolph that I have found in Hampshire from early days; and they held the manors of Greatham, Emsworth and Warblington, which their ancestors had inherited in 1286. The family owned these properties for only about a century and there is no mention of Tichfield. As you will know, the principal Bardolph family died out in 1408 when the 5th Lord Bardolph was mortally wounded at Braham Moor in the rebellion against Henry IV. Bardolph was declared a traitor, his property was sequestered and his remains were ordered to be quartered. Somewhere along the way something led me to suggest that John Thomas alias Bardolph of Titchfield who died (as you say in 1529) might have been born in 1489. Also that his wife's father was called William and that he may have died in 1508".