Curialia Miscellanea, or Anecdotes of Old Times / Regal, Noble, Gentilitial, and Miscellaneous: Including Authentic Anecdotes of the Royal Household, and the Manners and Customs of the Court, at an Early Period of the English History

by Samuel Pegge

[295] Nisbet, Cadencies, p. 196.

[296] See Nisbet's Armories.

[297] Nisbet, Cadencies, p. 195.

[298] Marks of Cadency, p. 199.

[299] Nisbet's Cadencies, pp. 91, 92.

[300] This Bearing is of late introduction, as alluding to the Name; for those of the Name anciently gave for Arms "Gules, a Fess Ermine;" and another Branch gave "Argent, Three Stags' Heads erased Gules." [Nisbet]. Crawfurd of Cloverhill has a still stronger relation both to the Name and to his Seat; for to the original Bearing he adds Three Crows; for Crest has a Garb (or Wheatsheaf); and for Motto, "God feeds the Crows." Id. p. 57.—Like the Motto of our Corbet, "Deus pascit Corvos."

[301] Buchanan.

[302] See Nisbet's Heraldry, p. 138.

[303] Nisbet's Heraldry, p. 414, 415.

[304] See Memoirs of Ker of Kersland.