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These
are newly assumed arms,
unique to the armiger,
designed in deliberate
allusion to (but
carefully differenced
from) the historic arms
of the
d'Amory/Damory/Damerie
family, with which the
armiger's family carries
a long tradition of
connection but to which
he makes no proven claim
of descent.
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The
historic coat,
Barry nebuly of
six Argent and
Gules, was borne
by the medieval
barons d'Amory,
with a bend Azure
for a younger son,
Roger, and by
later families of
the name in Devon
and
Gloucestershire.
In 1592 Robert
Cooke, Clarenceux
King of Arms,
confirmed the coat
to Gyles D'Amorie
of Cotherington,
Gloucestershire,
together with the
crest of a
talbot's head
Azure issuing from
a mural coronet Or
and the motto Tu
ne cede malis; the
same coat and
motto were
afterwards granted
to the Damery
families of
Devonshire, and
carried by the
Damer Earls of
Dorchester and by
the Amory families
of Dublin and
Boston. In more
recent times the
College of Arms
granted arms in
the same tradition
to the armiger's
fifth cousin once
removed, Edward
Dammery of
Melbourne, the two
lines converging
at Richard Damery
of Ballymodan,
Bandon (b.
c.1720). The
armiger's own
family is
documented at
Bandon and in West
Cork from the
early eighteenth
century. |
In accordance with the
accepted custom for
assumed arms, the new
coat retains the ancient
barry nebuly field but
is twice differenced:
the bend Azure is
replaced by a pale
Azure, and the pale is
charged with a lion
rampant between an
escallop and a mullet,
all Argent. The three
charges honour
documented families of
the armiger's direct
ancestry: the lion
rampant for Beamishes of
Palace Anne &
Kilmalooda, and
Pennefather of Marlow;
the escallop for
Townsend of
Castletownshend, Travers
of Nateby, and Bernard
of Castle Mahon; and the
mullet for Freke of
Thorncombe, and Lane of
Lanespark (and of
Bentley Hill per
Burke's). The crest
likewise recalls, with
difference, the talbot's
head of the 1592 grant:
here erased, and eared
Argent, without the
mural coronet.
The motto, Tu ne cede
malis ("yield not to
misfortunes" (Virgil,
Aeneid VI)), is carried
in the family's papers
for generations. The
family's history and
ancestry are set out at
https://damery.family.
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