ROSAS

ASPERA SPINA ROSAS. His kinsmen, Robert and Nicholas, benefactors to Bristol, were painted by Holbein, and the corporation, in gratitude, placed over the picture of the latter the viscrij}tural legend: Ex SPIKIS UVAS collegiJius — "We have gathered grapes from Thorns " The motto over Sir Robert, the father, is — " Spina vocor, superest tribuatur gloria ilanti Qua; bona paupenbus Spina dat esse Deo."

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