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English: The coat of arms of the Watkin baronets on a bookplate of British Member of Parliament and railway magnate Sir Edward William Watkin (26 September 1819 – 13 April 1901). It is emblazoned as follows: "Argent gutté de poix a leopard's face jessant-de-lis azure between three harvest flies volant proper. Crest: a cock’s head couped transfixed through the mouth by a tilting spear palewise all proper." The motto is "Saie and doe" (probably "Say and do"): see Bernard Burke (1878) The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, London: Harrison, p. cxxviii OCLC: 752749300. |
| Date | Between 12 May 1880 (when Watkin was created a baronet) and 13 April 1901 (his death). |
| Source | Bookplate from an original copy of Samuel Johnson (1772) A History and Defence of Magna Charta. Shewing the Manner of its being Obtained from King John, with its Preservation and Final Establishment in the Succeeding Reigns; with an Introductory Discourse, Containing a Short Account of the Rise and Progress of National Freedom, from the Invasion of Caesar to the Present Times. Also the Liberties which are Confirmed by the Bill of Rights, &c. To which is Added, an Essay on Parliaments, describing their Origin in England, and the Extraordinary Means by which they have been Lengthened from Half Yearly to Septennial Ones. By Samuel Johnson, A. M. (2nd ed.), London: Printed for J Bell, (successor to Mr. Bathoe) at his Circulating-Library, near Exeter-Exchange, in the Strand; S Bladon, Pater-noster-Row; and C Etherington, at York OCLC: 508864662. |
| Author | Unknown author. |
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