MacDuff | Deus Juvat; "God assists". Virtute et opera; "By virtue and by industry". |
Duff | Deus Juvat; "God Assists". Virtute et opera; "By virtue and by industry". Deo Juvante; "By God’s assistance". Omnia fortunae committo; "I commit all things to fortune". Deus Juvavit; "God has assisted". |
Earl of Fiffe | Virtute et opera; "By virtue and by industry". Deo Juvante; "By God’s Assistance". |
Abernathy | Salus per Christum; "Salvation through Christ". |
Fyffe (of Dron) | Decens et honestum; "Becoming and honourable". |
Kilgour | Gradatim; "By degrees". |
Fernie | Quieacens et vigilans; "Resting and waking". |
Spens (of Lathallan) | Si Deus, quis contra?; "God with us who against?". |
Spence | Si Deus, quis contra?; "God with us, who against?". (Spence or Kerbuster); "Do good". Constantia et diligentia; "By perseverence and diligence". Virtus acquirt honorem; "Virtue procures honor". Virtute aciquiritur honos; "Honor is acquired by virtue". "Bold". Visa per invisafirma; "Things seen are established by things unseen". Erectus non elatus; "Exalted but not elated". |
Spense | Courage et L’Ecosse; "Courage and Scotland". (He was a General serving the Queen of Bohemia) |
Wemyss | Je pense; "I think". |
Earl of Wemyss & March | Je pense; "I think". "Onward". |
Randall | Nil Extra nemerum; "Nothing out of time". |
Kinnimond, Kininmonth | Stabo’; "I shall stand". |
Whitelaw | Solertia ditat; "Prudence enriches". |
Trail | Discrimine Salus; "Safety in danger". (a victim of a shipwreck in 1418, he escaped death by clinging to a rock out in the sea). |