ARMORIAL BEARINGS (Arms)& CREST

1673 - Peter Young of Auldbar. Grandson of Sir Peter Young of Easter Seaton. When he registered the arms, he changed the motto and the crest, and added a chief to the design. Bears argent three pile sables on a chief of ye second also as many annulets or. Above ye shield ane helmet befitting his degree mantled gules doubled argent. Next is placed on ane torse for his crest a lion rampant issuing gules holding a sword in its paw proper. The motto in ane escroll ROBORE PRUDENTIA PRAESTAT {Prudence Excels Strength}.

Which coat is declared to be ye paternal of ye name of Young.

The Crest of the Chief is worn by all members of the Clan and of approved Septs and followers of the Clan, within a strap and buckle surrounds bearing the Chief's motto. This is for personal wear only, to indicate that the wearer is a member of the Clan whose Chief's crest-badge is being worn.

DEFINITION

Armorial bearings, being for distinguishing persons of, and within, a family, cannot descend to, or be used by, persons who are not members of the family. The surname indicates the family to which a family belongs. A person named Macdonald cannot bear a Campbell coat of arms, or any part of it.

The Chief's coat of arms fulfils within the clan or family the same purpose as the Royal Arms do in a Kingdom. There is no such thing as a "family crest" or "family coat of arms" which anyone can assume, or a whole family can use.

Armorial bearings, of which the Crest is a subsidiary part, are a form of individual heritage property, devolving upon one person at a time by succession from the grantee or confirmee, and thus descend like a Peerage. They indicate the Chief of the Family or Clan, or the Head of each subsidiary line or household descending from members who have them selves established in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland a right to a subsidiary version of the arms and crest, containing a mark of difference indicating their position in the Family or Clan. This is not a "new" coat of arms; it is the ancient ancestral arms with a mark of cadency, usefully showing the cadet's place within the family. It identifies where you, and your own heirs, belong within the family. It is, as well as being beautiful, a valuable system of identification.

The parts of the armorial bearings consist of:

The Shield, bearing the basic device
The Helmet, with its Crest, which sits on top of the helmet
The Motto in a scroll
The Mantling or cape, which kept the sun off the wearer's armour in hot weather
Very rarely, two Supporters on either side of the shield, which are external attributes of the arms of Peers, Chiefs and a very few other persons of special importance, including Knights Grand Cross of Orders.

It is illegal to assume and purport to use your Chief's arms without a due and congruent recorded difference. Anyone who does so merely publishes their own ignorance.

There is no such thing as a "Clan coat of arms". The arms are those of the Chief, and theclansmen have only the privilege of wearing the strap-and-buckle crested badge to show they are such Chief's clansmen.

The Clan Young Floral Emblem

{I am led to believe is as below}

"THE YEW"