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Subject: Whitney Crest
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 04:40:05 -0500 (EST)


Hello Steve;

I attached a BMP file of the Whitney Crest as it appears in the Frontispi=
ece
of Henry Melville's "The Ancestry of John Whitney". I imported it into
Microsoft Word and was able to see it fine.=20

The following is also from Melvilles book:

WHITNEY HERDALDRY
Thomas Fuller, in his famous " History of the Worthies of England" states
that the arms of Sir Robert Whitney , of Whitney, Knight, who was sheriff=
of,
Herefordshire in the first year of Richard 11. (1377), were "Az. a cross
checky or and Gules.=94
How long these were borne by the family before that date, is not known, =
but,
from their nature, it is supposed that they originated during the early
crusades. The records of the various Herald=92s Visitations, found in the
College of Arms and among the Harleian Mauuscripts in the British Museum
show that they remained unchanged till the emigration of John Whitney in
1635.

'The same authorities describe the crest that went with the arms as " A
bull's head, couped sa. armed arg. the points gu.=94
Fairbairn=92s " Book of Crests of the Families of Grreat Britain and Irel=
and,"
revised by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Edinburgh, 1892, gives the motto of=
the
Wliitijoys of Herefordshire as "Magnanimiter crucem sustino (gallantly up=
hold
the cross). It also indicates that all the Whitney families in Great Bri=
tain
have retained the original crest substantially unaltered; for example:
"'WHITNEY, Of Merton, Wexford, a bull's couped sa., the horns arg., the
points gu.
=93Whitney of Cheshire, in Gloucester, same crest.
"Whitney, of Hertfordshire, same crest.
"Whitney of Shropshire a bull's head sa. attired per fesse gu. and arg.

"Whitney, Benjamin, Esquire, of Upper Fitzwilliam street, Dubliti, Irela=
nd,
a bull's head couped sa. armed arg., tipped gu. gorged with a collar cheq=
uy
or. and sa., and charged upon the neck below the collar with a cross cros=
slet
arg.

"FETHERSTON-WHITNEY, Edmund Whitney, Esquire, of Neopass, County Westmea=
th,
Ireland - 1, a
bull's head couped sa., horned arg., tipped gu., gorged with a collar che=
quy
arg. and gu. (for Whitney); 2, ail antelope statant arg., attired or. (fo=
r
Fetherston).=94

The originals of the two colored plates, showing respectively the Whitney
arms and crest alone and a shield with sixteen quarterings, were prepared=
by
Charles H. Athill, Esquire, Richmond Hearld, at the Colleege of Arms, Lon=
don.
The third plate, sixty.four quarterlings, showing, the impalement to whic=
h.
the great-grandparents of the emigrant were entitled, is the work of Mr.
Gildersome-Dickinson, of London and should be compared with a chart,
arranged by him, which appears as an appendix.

Keep in touch

Jon Aston

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