The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club-- Vol1-35 (1908-1985) ; (1991)- . Fig. 2.âHeraldic Pediment at Gillespies School â ^^.±i-^^^- vijs<_%:^. Fig. 3.âHeraldic Pediment at Gillespies School. on the other stone (Fig. 3) impales with the Napier armsâon a bend, a crescent between two mullets or spur-rowels 62 SCULPTURED STONES OF EDINBURGH âanother coat bearing, on a bend, what look like threebuckles, with a unicorns head in chief. The shield, theinitials AN and I S, the motto Constantia et Labore,and the date 1399 âobviously, as has been said, muchearlier than the period of the stone an
The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club-- Vol1-35 (1908-1985) ; (1991)- . Fig. 2.âHeraldic Pediment at Gillespies School â ^^.±i-^^^- vijs<_%:^. Fig. 3.âHeraldic Pediment at Gillespies School. on the other stone (Fig. 3) impales with the Napier armsâon a bend, a crescent between two mullets or spur-rowels 62 SCULPTURED STONES OF EDINBURGH âanother coat bearing, on a bend, what look like threebuckles, with a unicorns head in chief. The shield, theinitials AN and I S, the motto Constantia et Labore,and the date 1399 âobviously, as has been said, muchearlier than the period of the stone and of the building towhich it belongedâmay perhaps refer to an early alliance ofthe family, which the impaled arms and the accompanying initials suggest may havebeen with a member of abranch of the Stirlings thatbore a unicorns head fordifference, in addition totheir device of the buckleson a bend. In 1390, ac-cording to the ChamberlainRolls, WiUiam Napier ofWrychtis-housis was Con-stable of the Castle of Edin-burgh ; and he is thoughtto be the same WilliamNapier who held the officein 1402âthree years laterthan the date on the stoneâ
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