Memorial of Henry Wolcott, one of the first settlers of Windsor, Connecticut, and of some of his descendants . g of Englande, he gave hym yechecke matte with ye rouke, whereupone ye kinge changed his coate of armes whichwas ye crosse with flower de lures, and gave him ye rouke for a remembrance. It seemes these Chess Rooks were at first called Rooks for being in defence ofall ye rest: and therefore they stande in ye uttermost corners of ye Chesseboard asFrontier Castles. Kinge William ye Conquerour lost greate Lordships at this it might well become a Kinge, for therein are comprised
Memorial of Henry Wolcott, one of the first settlers of Windsor, Connecticut, and of some of his descendants . g of Englande, he gave hym yechecke matte with ye rouke, whereupone ye kinge changed his coate of armes whichwas ye crosse with flower de lures, and gave him ye rouke for a remembrance. It seemes these Chess Rooks were at first called Rooks for being in defence ofall ye rest: and therefore they stande in ye uttermost corners of ye Chesseboard asFrontier Castles. Kinge William ye Conquerour lost greate Lordships at this it might well become a Kinge, for therein are comprised all ye Stratagems ofWarr or plotts of Civill State. ( Heralds Visitation.) The motto is a line of the Latin poet, Horace, and a literal renderingis, Acctistomed to swear in the words of no master. The allusion is tothe schoolboy practice of repeating a form of words after the teacher; andthe idea, of course, is to rest ones faith on no mans assertion, to think anddecide for ones self; in a word, to take nothing on trust. We give an excellent picture of the arms, drawn by Somerby andengraved by
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