Escroll

Escroll

Escroll, or Scroll: a long strip of parchment bearing the motto. It is for the most part placed below the arms, but sometimes, especially in Scotland, above the crest. Scrolls are occasionally found in both these positions.

Escroll occur rarely as charges.

Or, on a bend sable, three ostrich feathers argent, the quills transfixed through as many escrolls gold--Sir Roger de CLARENDON, [natural son of Edward the Black Prince].

Azure, a lion rampant or between three escrolls argent--GOULD.

Gules, a coronet or, ensigned by a demi swan without wings argent; from the mouth a scroll compassing the neck in form of a rein sable--BUCKHILL.

Argent, a lion rampant azure, holding in his dexter paw a chaplet of laurel vert in chief a scroll sable, thereon the word Emmanuel or--EMMANUEL COLLEGE, Cambridge.