Arise, Sir Jimmy of Glesga!

Well, look at this! ...

http://www.galway-ireland.ie/blake.htm 

It seems my ancestor on the little Memsahib's side, Sir Richard Caddell, was of British stock and in fact descended from Ap Lake - Son of the Lake - a Knight of the Round Table.  So not a second generation Viking / Froggie mongrel who bussed in after the battle of Hastings in search of a ripped off manor in the British Isles!

That's more like it!  The first history didn't exactly have me pining for the fjords, I must say.

But, but, but, look at the old family coat of arms in that link!  Do you see something?  Well two things, actually:

1. The shape of the emblem?  

Argent, a fret, gules.

Remind you of anything?  Remind you of this by any chance? ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Chart 

It's Nolan's chart!  And ...

2.  What's perched on the top pointy corner of the arms, purring down at you, as if through a window as you stagger off to wage slavery every morning? ...

A cat passant, gardant, proper.

The very creature of Liberty: the cat!  Abhors packing, anthillation, and beehivery!

It's a sign, I tell you, a sign!!! ...

 

... That I was instructed by God to lead you all, dwellers of the shores of the great Lake Atlantic, as my Knights of the Round Table, in search of the Holy Grail - the restoration of Liberty for all the peoples of the once Free World.

Son of Duff, Descendant of Ap-Lake, Son of the Lake, Knight of the Round Table

Comments

[Whitewall]

Hang in there Jimmy, you'll be a Gentleman yet!

[Loz]

No worries, Jimmy, you're in! ...

Virtus sola Nobilitat

Translates to "Virtue alone confers Nobility".

That must have been quite "out there" in feudal times, don't you think? I mean, a few raised eyebrows and mutterings amongst the the nobs when Sir Richard Caddell stood up and announced that one at his knighthood ceremonial knees up, "Errr, has Richie dahling lost his marbles? I thought it was all supposed to be about breeding and birthright?"

Could you get a more Libertarian motto than that?

This is getting spookier by the minute.

SoD

[Whitewall]

SoD, if he reads about this, well, there will be no living with him at home!

[Bob]

The Nolan chart has an "X" through it. Over here that signifies "no" or "don't". You might have some trouble on this side of the Atlantic.

[JK]

https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2020/08/saturday-snippet-atomic-bomb-hiroshima.html

[Glesga]

Whitewall, Sua Tela Tonanti. To a Warrior his Arms. Royal Army Ordnance Corps. The NRA should adopt it!

[Loz]

The Nolan chart has an "X" through it.

Nope, that's a fret, Bob.

SoD

[Bob]

"Bend sinister mascle Harrington knot fretty field Sable fret Or Sable fretty Or." Is that a spell from a Harry Potter book? Take my word for it, Americans will think it's an "X".

[AussieD]

Thanks for the reference JK. Fraser is one of my favourite authors. I'll have to seek out the book.

[JK]

And thank you AussieD for the Jutland piece, learned some valuable stuff. Changed my perspective.

[David Duff]

What are you lot on?????!