The Motto of MURRAY, now Duke of ATHOL, is, "Furth, Fortune, and fill the Fetters;" but it was originally given to John _Stewart, Earl_ of Athol, and came to the Family of Murray by an intermarriage with the Heiress of Stewart. The first _Earl_ of Athol of the name of _Stewart_ was constituted Lieutenant to King James III. (1457); and for his defeating, and bringing to submission, Mac-Donald, Lord of the Isles, who had rebelled, he had a special grant of several lands, and the above Motto added to his Arms[309], which seems to mean, _Go forth, be successful, and fill the Fetters with the Feet of all other rebellious Subjects_; for I understand "_Fortune_" to be a verb, and chosen probably for the sake of the alliteration. One appendage to the Arms of _Murray_, probably received from Stewart, has an allusion to the Motto; for the Supporter, on the Sinister side, is a Savage, with his Feet in Fetters. [309] Crawfurd's Peerage. * * * * * SETON, Earl of WINTON (attainted). The original Motto of _Lord_ Seton was "Invia Virtuti Via nulla;" but another was assumed by the first _Earl_, alluding to an additional charge which he took, by grant I presume, when he was created into that dignity with great pomp (1601) at Holy-Rood House. To the original _Sword_ and Imperial _Crown_ which he bore in an Inescocheon with a Tressure, was added a Blazing Star of Twelve Points, with this new Motto, "Intaminatis fulget honoribus[310]," expressive of the unshaken Loyalty of the Family, which the last Peer unhappily forgot, and forfeited in the Rebellion 1715. [310] Nisbet's Cadencies, p. 192. See also Douglas's Peerage. The Slughorn of the Family is _Set on_[311], which, by amplification, I apprehend, means _Set upon your Enemy_, as an incitement to ardour; and is rather analogous to the Motto _Think on_, of the Lord _Kirkcudbright_, before-mentioned. [311] Douglas's Peerage, in the Arms. * * * * * BRUCE, Earl of ELGIN. This, and other Branches of that ancient and once Kingly Family, has, for its Motto, "_Fuimus_," alluding strongly to their having been formerly in possession of the Crown of Scotland. The Crest is likewise denotative of Royal pretensions, _viz._ "A Hand holding a Sceptre." Something, however, is worth observing in several of the subordinate Branches, more distant from the original Stock, where one may discern the gradual dispirited declension of the Family, in point of Regal claims. One private House, indeed, bears the Lion Rampant in the Arms, and likewise the Crest, and the Motto of the Peer. Another descendant drops the Lion in the Arms, and only bears for Crest, "_A Hand holding a Sword_," with this modest Motto, "_Venture forward_." A third seems to give up all for lost, by the Crest, _viz._ "_A Setting Sun_," with this Motto, "_Irrevocable_;" while a fourth appears to relinquish a Temporal for the hope of an Eternal Crown, by this Motto, "_Spes mea supernè_."[312]