Legg Coat of Arms / Family Crest

(Rowan-Legg; exemplified to William Rowan, Esq., of Carrickfergus, on his assuming by royal licence, 1864, the additional surname of Legg). Quarterly, 1st and 4th, per pale az. and gu. a stag’s head cabossed ar. in the centre chief point a mullet or, for Legg; 2nd and 3rd, vert a fess chequy or and gu. betw. a trefoil slipped in chief, and in base three cross crosslets fitchée issuant from as many crescents of the second, for Rowan. Crests—1st, Legg: Out of a mural crown ppr. five ostrich feathers, alternately ar. and az. the centre feather charged with a mullet gu., motto over, Cresco percrucem; 2nd, Rowan: A dexter hand and arm couped at the elbow ppr. grasping a dagger also ppr. Motto—Gaudet tentamine virtus.