 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1857 - 612 pages
...great-great-grandfather, Lawrence, lies buried in the church of Brington, and on the tombslab are the arms (argent, two bars gules ; in chief three mullets of the second) which may have suggested the stars and stripes of the American ensign. Lawrence's son emigrated to... | |
 | English essays - 1861 - 748 pages
...grandfather, Lawrence Washington, lies buried in the church of Brington, and on t'.*e tomb-dab are his arms, - Argent, two bars, gules : in chief three mullets of the second." The suggestion in the " Qunrterly Review" that these arms were the origin of the " Stars and Stripes"... | |
 | Worthington Chauncey Ford - Presidents - 1900 - 380 pages
...let into it, has long been an object of interest. The first plate contained the Washington coat of arms, argent, two bars gules, in chief three mullets of the second. On either side, in brass, were effigies of Washington and his wife, and below were representations... | |
 | Martha Helen Haywood, Mrs. Hubert Haywood, Mary Hilliard Hinton - Local history - 1914 - 270 pages
...WASHINGTON. (Northampton, England.) Argent, two bars gules, in chief three mullets of the second. Crest — (1) Out of a ducal coronet or, a raven wings endorsed...a ducal coronet or an eagle, wings endorsed sable. Motto — Exitus acta probat. WHITFIELD. Argent, a bend plain between two cottises engrailed, sable.... | |
 | William Armstrong Crozier - Heraldry - 1904 - 170 pages
...Persevera Deoque confide. WASHINGTON. Virginia. John Washington, Bridges Creek, 1657. (Northampton.) Argent, two bars gules, in chief three mullets of...second. CRESTS — (1) Out of a ducal coronet or, a raven's wings endorsed ppr. (2) Out of a ducal coronet or, an eagle's wings endorsed sable. MOTTO—... | |
 | William Armstrong Crozier - Heraldry - 1904 - 110 pages
...MOTTO— Pro patria mori. WASHINGTON Virginia. John Washington, Bridges Creek, 1657. (Northampton.) Argent, two bars gules, in chief three mullets of...second. CRESTS— (1) Out of a ducal coronet or, a raven's wings endorsed ppr. (2) Out of a ducal coronet or, an eagle's wings endorsed sable. WATERS... | |
 | William Armstrong Crozier - Heraldry - 1904 - 164 pages
...Persevera Deoque confide. WASHINGTON. Virginia. John Washington, Bridges Creek, 1657. (Northampton.) Argent, two bars gules, in chief three mullets of the second. CRESTS — (l) Out of a ducal coronet or, a raven's wings endorsed ppr. (2) Out of a ducal coronet or, an... | |
 | Alfred Thomas Story - British - 1908 - 400 pages
...away the brasses of the " weepers." Time has told, too, on the brass representing the family coat of arms — argent, two bars gules, in chief three mullets of the second. The plate recording the interment is thus inscribed : Here lyeth y' bodys of Laurence Wasshingt5, Gent,... | |
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ARMS — Argent two bars gules, in chief three mullets of the second. CREST — Out of a ducal coronet or, an eagle issuant, wings endorsed sable. MOTTO — Virtus sola nobilitas. 
