The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club-- Vol1-35 (1908-1985) ; (1991)- . Margarets, N. Queensferrj. the Napier star. The shield, containing Napier impaled withPark, is of the ordinary form, and is supported on eitherside by an arm issuing from clouds. The initials, W Nand E P (the lower portion of the P has disappeared),stand for William Napier and Elizabeth Park. Underneathis the motto, Ditat Servata Fides —it has been adopted bythe Commercial Bank of Scotland, and may be freely rendered, Honesty is the best policy —and the date * 1570. The companion stone (Fig. 11) is that which Cadmon W
The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club-- Vol1-35 (1908-1985) ; (1991)- . Margarets, N. Queensferrj. the Napier star. The shield, containing Napier impaled withPark, is of the ordinary form, and is supported on eitherside by an arm issuing from clouds. The initials, W Nand E P (the lower portion of the P has disappeared),stand for William Napier and Elizabeth Park. Underneathis the motto, Ditat Servata Fides —it has been adopted bythe Commercial Bank of Scotland, and may be freely rendered, Honesty is the best policy —and the date * 1570. The companion stone (Fig. 11) is that which Cadmon WRYCHTIS-HOUSIS 69 refers to as placed above one of the windows of Wrychtis-housis, and as bearing the oldest date, 1376, with the motto Sicut Oliva Fructifera. It is segmental in shape, withmoulded border, and bears an oval shield, with the impaledarms of Napier and Forrester, placed on an ornamentalcartouche, flanked on either side by an olive branch and bythe initials, as on the other stone, in high relief, W Nand I F —William Napier and Janet Forrester. Sir Adam. Fig. 11.—Heraldic Pedimeut at St. Margarets, N. Qiieensferry Forrester of Corstorphine acquired Wrychtis-housis fromHenry de Winton and Amy Brown in June 1382. Possiblythe stone, now removed so far from its original place, affordsa cue to the Napier succession to the lands and house. A panel, which has found lodgment in the arch atWoodhouselee—to return to that group of sculptured stones—is obviously associated with a different group and family,the Tytlers, who still own the Pentland retreat that hassheltered three generations of men of letters and learning. 70 SCULPTURED STONES OF EDINBURGH and that holds memories of Robert Burns, Walter Scott,John Leyden, and Sydney Smith. The stone (Fig. 12), withits bearings and mottoes, illustrates the family legend,which is to the effect that a Seton, who had committed ahomicide, and had thus fallen under a cloud, and beenforced to take refuge abroad, recovered in
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