HOOD COAT OF ARMS

CREATION Baronet, 19 May, 1778. Baron in the Peerage

of Ireland 2 Sept., 1782. Baron, 27 March, 1795, and Viscount, 1 June 1796; both in the Peerage of Great Britain.

ARMS—Az., a fret. arg., on a chief, or. three crescents, sa. for Hood.

CREST-A Cornish chough. ppr., in front of an anchor, in bend, sinister, or.

SUPPORTERS Dexter, a merman, in his exterior hand a trident; sinister, a mermaid, in her exterior hand a mirror, all ppr.

MOTTO-Ventis secundis.

THE ABOVE COAT OF ARMS WAS GRANTED TO THE FOLLOWING:

The Viscount Hood (Sir Grosvenor Arthur Alexander Hood), of Whitley, Co. Warwick;

Baron Hood, of Catherington, Hants, in Great Britain;
Baron Hood, of Catherington, in Ireland, and Baronet of
England, late major Grenadier Guards; served in
Ashanti 1895-6, and in S. Africa 1900-2; b. 13 Nov.,
1868; s. his father as 5th Viscount, 1907.

(Burke's Peerage.)

EARLY DAYS.

Most of the families herein spoken of claim Scotch-Irish origin. The title originated about the time of James II of England when some of the Irish Earls conspired against the Government and became outlaws. Their lands consisting of thousands of acres were seized by the Crown and offered to Scotch peasants if they would go to Ireland and reside on these lands permanently. A second similar insurrection caused another large forfeiture and resulted in the seizure of nearly six counties in the province of Ulster. The King had primarily in mind by this procedure the voting out of the Latin Irish who were Catholics and hostile to his Government and replacing them with loyal subjects. Being protected by the Government and naturally frugal and industrious they prospered and soon gained the ascendency over their less thrifty neighbors and have maintained it up to the present time for they never intermarried with the native Irish but remained Saxon in blood and Protestant in religion.

Scotch Irish is purely an American term applying to these Protestant emigrants whose ancestors had come over from Scotland as above described and made their home in Ireland and then moved by a desire to better their condition, emigrated to the New World. We find their descendants in every state in the Union. Many of them came just prior to the breaking out of the Revolution and they almost to a man espoused the cause of the Colonists. Many of them were military leaders and prominent law-makers during and after that long struggle for human rights. They have furnished Presidents, Senators, Congressmen, Judges and patriots in many and various walks of life.

With such a heritage as theirs it might be expected that