This is the Arms of Stotesbury
of Sulgrave, Northampton as recorded in Sir Bernard Burke's General
Armory. Sulgrave Manor was conveyed to John de Stotesbury in 1359
and remained in direct line until 1563.
The motto of the Stotesbury
family is Vires animates virtus = virtue animates strength.
The heraldic description
includes:
Arms - Gules a chief nebulee
or from the chief rays of the last
Crest - On a wreath of
or and gules out of a cloud proper the sun rising in its glory