Note 256 — Chapter V

The engraver was William Hole, engraver of Smith’s map of Virginia. The arms adopted were an escutcheon quartered with the arms of England and France, Scotland and Ireland, crested by a maiden queen with flowing hair and an eastern crown. Supporters: Two men in armor having open helmets ornamented with three ostrich feathers, each holding a lance. Motto: En dat Virginia quintum,—a complimentary acknowledgment of Virginia as the fifth kingdom. After the union of England and Scotland in 1707, the motto, to correspond with the altered number of kingdoms, was En dat Virginia quartam, the adjective agreeing with coronam understood, and it appeared on the titlepage of all legislative publications of the colony until the Revolution. Neill’s London Company, pp. 155-56.