Hello All, I recently received an email from a woman asking me about our Coat of Arms. She is from Australia and has the same Arms and has traced her family back to Sir Ralph of Sherborne who has > statue in Sherborne Chapel from what I'm currently reading...and he died in 1742/3. > This has much raised my curiosity about armor and I have been reading about it on the website below and in the MEMORIALS book. It also makes me wonder if she has any information which might relate to the MA Duttons. Now, I am beginning to think that Dick Dutton is descended from the Sherborne branch of the family. This is based on the fact that he says that the shield he made available to us was handed down through generations and that the motto is Latin. In the pictures that Collin sent to us of the stained glass windows in Dutton Hall, there is a shield which used "impaling" with the Dutton Arms on the right and the Hatton arms on the left as Sir Piers was a Dutton of Hatton and was descended from Hugh Dutton who married Petronel d/h of Ralph Vernon of Hatton. Also, the Sherborne Duttons used Latin Mottos and the other Duttons used French mottoes. Thus, if Dick inherited this shield from long ago, the evidence suggests that he is descended from the Sherborne branch. Is this "old information" to everyone else and just "new" to me? In a book "Memorials of the Duttons," pg viii, "The Cloughton Duttons [co York], who were descended from the younger brother of William Dutton of Chester, father of Thomas Dutton of Sherborne,used the present family motto of the Sherborne branch of "Servabo fidem;" while the Duttons of Dutton and of Warburton appear to have used French mottoes." http://www.digiserve.com/heraldry/lecture1.htm Carole