B53185-Symonds

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Name of the family:

Symonds

Blason:

Per fess sa. and ar. a pale and six trefoils slipped and counterchanged.

Crest(s):

A demi swan, wings expanded ar. holding in the beak a trefoil slipped az.

Motto:

Over the crest: Rectus in curvo ; under the arms: Dum Spiro spero.

Info about the family:

Coleby, Suffield, Cley, and Great Ormesby, co. Norfolk

Comment (Additional info):

Early in the reign of Henry VIII. the younger branch of Symonds, of Cley, changed their coat to az. three trefoils slipped or. - Towards the close of the same reign, the Suffield branch bore for arms, Sa. a dolphin naiant embowed, devouring a fish, both ppr. The various descendants of this line sometimes used the dolphin without the fish, but generally quartered with the old coat; the Ormesby branch almost uniformly so; sometimes the old coat was in the first quarter, and sometimes the dolphin, as may be seen in many ancient pedigrees, carvings on monuments, and about the mansion, and on the hatchments in Great Ormesby and Yarmouth Churches. crest of the Ormesby branch-A dolphin naiant embowed, devouring a fish, both ppr.

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993

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