Sapcote Motto

Over the old gatehouse of Elton, co. Hunts., built by the family of Sapcote, is their coat of arms, namely, "three dove-cotes;" and upon a scroll, surrounding the lower part of the shield, is carved a motto, evidently French, and as evidently cut by a person ignorant of that language. So far as I can decypher it, the letters appear to be sco toot X vinic [or umic] X poncs. Possibly the first and last letters *s* are only flourishes. I shall be glad of any suggestion as to its meaning. I have not been able to find the Sapcote motto on record; and I believe the Carysfoot family, the possessors o…