The Hothams : being the chronicles of the Hothams of Scorborough and South Dalton from their hitherto unpublished family papers . 1592- From a Drawing in the MS. History. but naked, stripped or despoiled of his estates. Still onhis shield he bore the arms of his inheritance asserting hishereditary right and legal claim to it, and bearing in his righthand a flaming sword, the emblem of the zeal with which he ^ It is unnecessary to point out how singularly appropriate this ocean-warrior is to the distinguished naval record of the family during the last twocenturies. no THE SECOND BARONET 16
The Hothams : being the chronicles of the Hothams of Scorborough and South Dalton from their hitherto unpublished family papers . 1592- From a Drawing in the MS. History. but naked, stripped or despoiled of his estates. Still onhis shield he bore the arms of his inheritance asserting hishereditary right and legal claim to it, and bearing in his righthand a flaming sword, the emblem of the zeal with which he ^ It is unnecessary to point out how singularly appropriate this ocean-warrior is to the distinguished naval record of the family during the last twocenturies. no THE SECOND BARONET 1632-1689 would defend the Protestant Religion, and the determinedresolution with which he would assert his rights. The motto Ccrtum pete fincm refers to the Crest and to thevicissitudes of fortune in the heads of the family, who hadthree times within half a century been the victims of arbitrarypower, Republican and Monarchical. It bespeaks the deter-mination of the naked warrior. Sir John Hotham, to seek afirm and final settlement of the laws and constitution of the. 1665 AND AFTERWARDS. FrOM A DRAWING IN THE MS. HISTORY, Country, by which these illegal and arbitrary acts should be forever prevented, and the Civil and Religious rights, and theproperties of the subject, be permanently secured from theoppression of the Commons and the Crown.^ Although this is a fairy-tale, in that the crest has beendiscovered to have been in use before the days of the ^ Manuscript History of the Hotham Family. THE THIRD BARONET 1655-1691 iii Revolution Sir John,^ the curious fashion in which it servesto illustrate both his fortunes and his aims at the date of hisreturn from Holland is certainly remarkable, all the morethat this rendering was read into it by those of his successorswho formed likewise a very just estimate of his character andhis worth. It is to be regretted, however, that such a mandid not leave behind him an heir more after his own patternthan the son who succeeded him ; but intell
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