English: Mural monument to Balthazar Beare (1616-1682) of Ash, Braunton. St Brannock's Church, Braunton, North Devon. Inscribed as follows:

"Neare this place lyeth buried Balthazar Beare of Ashe in Brannton, Esquire, who dyed on the 10th of December in the yeare of our Lord 1682; the sonne of George Beare of Ashe, Esquire, whom he succeeded. And nigh him his wife Elizabeth, who dyed on the 5th of May 1661, daughter of Sir Walter Leach of Cadeleigh in this county, knight. Beare and Forebeare"

Above within a chaplet is an escutcheon showing the arms of Beare: Argent, three bear's heads and necks erased sable muzzled or^[1] impaling Leach, lords of the manor of Cadeleigh: Ermine, on a chief indented gules three ducal coronets or.^[2] George Beare was also seated at the estate of Frankmarsh,^[3] near Barnstaple^[4] and was a barrister of the Middle Temple and a judge of oyer and terminer during the reign of King Charles I.^[5]