Dimensions:
32mm x 26mm Arms Azure Three crescents between in chief two horses and in base a unicorn's head
Crest A demi lion, a sword blade issuant from his forehead between two laurel branches holding a crescent
Motto FRAENA VEL AUREA NOLO
Dimensions:
53mm x 53mm Arms Quarterly 1 & 4 argent three crescents 2. On a fess cotised two roundels [fountains] 3. A bend engrailed sable in sinister chief an escallop Crest An arm in armour embowed holding a sword Helmet of an esquire Motto quantum in rebus inane
Possibilities for Identification:
Fairbairn’s Crests: Odell, Herbert Francis Edward, of Carriglea, co Waterford (A dexter arm in armour embowed the hand grasping a sword, the blade passing through a chaplet of red roses and trefoils). Motto: Quantum in rebus inane.
The motto is taken from Aulus Persius Flaccus.
Dimensions:
32mm x 26mm Arms Three crescents between in chief two horses and in base a unicorn's head erased Crest A demi lion, a sword blade issuant from his forehead between two laurel branches holding a crescent Motto FRAENA VEL AUREA NOLO
Dimensions:
73mm x 38mm Arms Three crescents (Wodhull) impaling Ermine on a fess three escallops (Ingram) Crest Out of a ducal coronet two wings addorsed
Dimensions:
64mm x 43mm Arms Quarterly 1 & 4. Per pale azure and argent three lions gambs erased barways counterchanged (Wilson) 2. Argent a chevron engrailed gules between three griffins segreant (Forsythe) 3. Or a fess checky argent and azure between three crescents (Stewart) Crest A hand issuing from the clouds pouring out a shower of gold
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