BLAZONING OF THE MOREHOUSE COAT OF ARMS
ARMS (Shield):
Or a cross in saltire gobony sable and argent
CREST (Helmet):
On a torse of the colors a pelican vulning
MANTLE:
Not deScribed (Mantling is seldom deScribed unless other than the Primary Tinctures are used)
MOTTO:
None recorded
REFERENCE SOURCE:
ARMS (Shield) INTERPRETATION:
Or - (Means the Shield is Gold (Yellow))
a Cross in Saltire Gobony Sable and Argent - (Means an "X" Cross (Saltire)
with alternating Black (Sable) & White (Argent) Squares (Argent=Silver - depicted as White))
CREST (Helmet) INTERPRETATION:
On a Torse of the colors - (Means the next thing deScribed will go upon a cloth
wreath (Torse) of 6 twists, alternating between the primary tinctures)
A Pelican Vulning (itself) - (Means a Pelican wounding itself with its beak so as to feed her young
with drops of her own blood is affixed by the Torse (together with the Mantling) to the Helmet, which is drawn in Profile with the
Visor closed, or with no Visor nor Grilles - the kind used by an "Esquire/Commoner/Citizen")
SYMBOLISM:
Cross - (Symbolic of some Christian experience or sentiment, or the Crusades)
Gobony or Gobbony - (Constancy)
Peilican (Vulning) - (Self-sacrifice and charitable nature)
Colors:
Argent (Silver) - (Peace and sincerity)
Or (Gold) - (Generosity)
Sable (Black) - (Constancy, sometimes grief)
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