Can any of your readers inform me when Mr. Thomas Crawfurd was the
Professor of Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh? In a _Scotch
Peerage_, by Mr. George Crawfurd, published in 1716, there is a Latin
epigram by him on the armorial bearings of the Crawfurds of Kilbirny in
Ayrshire, one of whom was created Viscount Garnock by Queen Anne, in the
second year of her reign. The description of the armorial bearings is as
follows in the same peerage, under the head Crawfurd, Viscount of
Garnock--
"Quarterly 1st and 4th gules, a fess ermine. 2nd and 3rd azure, a
Cheveron betwixt three Cross Patées Or, supported by two
Grayhounds. Crest, an ermine Argent. Motto, 'Sine labe nota.'"