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Kilts
Traditional, eight-yard knife-pleated kilt, the feileadh beag (or 'phi..
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Dress Sporrans are the most formal and eye-catching type of civilian sporra..
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Crest Meaning: Eliott
The Elliot crest is a hand holding a cutlass. The modern version has an armoured arm, although the hand is left bare. The motto is Fortiter et Recte, meaning something like strongly/bravely/boldly and correctly/rightly/properly.
This crest was registered by Sir Gilbert Elliot of Stobbs in 1673, although at that time there is no mention of armour on the arm. However, an earlier crest seems to have been a basket full of fruits or ‘eiles’ (R.R. Stoddart, Scottish Arms being a Collection of Armorial Bearings 1370-1678, p.274). By the time of Nisbet’s 1722 System of Heraldry, the motto was ‘Peradventure’.
A cutlass was a short and thick sword, favoured especially by mariners. Exactly why the Eliotts were keen on this particular sword is unclear. Given we know it was in use by the 1670s, it might be a reference to the ‘hanger’ style of sword that was becoming popular at that time, as the general curved sword in use by gentlemen.
The motto Fortiter et Recte seems to have been adopted by Francis August Eliott, Lord Heathfield and Baron of Gibraltar, probably from when he was made a lord in 1789. (Collins’s _Peerage of England_, vol.viii, 1812, pp.125-6).
MKP 27 September 2023