Mottos on Warming-Pans and Garters

It seems to have been much the custom, about two centuries ago, to engrave more or less elaborately the brass lids of warming-pans with different devices, such as armorial bearings, &c., in the centre, and with an inscription or a motto surrounding the device. A friend of the writer has in his possession three such lids of warming-pans, one of which has engraven on the centre a hart passant, and above his back a shield, bearing the arms of Devereux, the whole surrounded by this inscription:— "THE . EARLE . OF . ESSEX . HIS . ARMES." Another bears the arms of the commonwealth, (as seen on the c…