I don't have a copy at hand, but there is a pretty detailed article about
the arms and motto of the Virginia Company in Virginia Cavalcade - volume
29 - aumn 1979 I THINK - that was done about the time the Senate of
Virginia had a coat of arms made.  I don't recall details but I do
remember that we had pretty authoritative sources from the colleges of
arms for the article, and that there were pictures of its earliest
appaarance.  And I seem to recall an earlier treatment of the arms in an
early-20th-century number of the old Bulletin of the Virginia State
Library as background to a history of the state seal.

jk

> Does anyone on this list know of an earlier usage of the Virginia motto
> "En dat virginia quintam" (or quintum) than 1624 in J Smith?
> It becomes the colony motto in 1662 after the Restoration, and then is
> widely used, inlcuding currency, but I am looking for any use other than
> Smith before 1660.
>
> Background: It translates as "behold, Virginia gives a fifth" (crown or
> dominion) - referring to the  countries of England, Scotland, France,
> Ireland claimed by James I. It is changed to "quartam" (a fourth) once the
> crowns of Scotland and England are combined in 1707. [English kings
> claimed
> the crown of France  through the mother of Edward III until the late 18th
> century].
>
> Thank you, Emily Rose
> Visiting Scholar
> New Hall, Cambridge
>
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