13 OCTOBER 1923, Page 16

AN OLD MOTTO.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Could any of your readers kindly help me in piecing up the following remains of a motto which occurs upon an heraldic seal to a document of the Parker family in 1022? E MELIOR

RA VIS PRO.'

It is a circular seal with the motto around it. The matrix appears to have shifted in the sealing, though the heraldry