“Verbum non amplius Fisher!”)
My uncle explained that his ancestor only meant just to put his name, and that’s all.
But the College Authorities put it all on:
“Fisher! Not another blessed word is wanted.”
One of my ancestors changed his motto and took these words (I have them on a watch!):—
“Ubi voluntas—ibi piscatur.”
(We fish where we like).
A Poacher, I suppose! or was there a “double entendre”?
I’m told in the old days you could change your motto and your crest as often as you liked, but not your coat of arms!
A succession of ancestors went and dwelt at Bodmin, in Cornwall—all clergymen down to my grandfather, who was Rector of Wavendon, in Bucks, where is a tablet to his brother, who was killed close to the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo, and who ordered his watch to be sent to my uncle’s relatives with the dent of the bullet that killed him, and that watch I now have.