The Bell Family Crest

The Gore Roll of Arms, in giving the devices we publish, is sustained by a tombstone in the Newport, R. I., churchyard (1737), erected to the memory of William Bell. No identical devices, in Burke or Berry, attributed to the English Bells. However, we notice a great similarity between the coat of arms we give here and the armorial bearings of a Bell, Lord Chief of the Exchequer, in 1577. The motto is that inscribed on the bookplate [Lichtenstein Collection] of Charles H. Bell, of New England.

Family

Bell

Motto

Nec quœrere honorem nec spernere.Neither seek nor disdain honors.

Blazon

A Falcon, With Wings Expanded, Ermine.

Source

America Hereldica