The Hancock Coat of Arms
Shield: Quarterly, 1 and 4 ermine, a cock gules, on a chief engrailed sable, three dexter hands appaumee couped at the wrist proper (Hancock); 2 and 3, per bend sable and argent, a bend embattled counter-embattled between two trefoils slipped, all countercharged. 

Mantling: Gules and argent. 

Crest: On a wreath of the colours, a demi-lion rampant argent, charged on the shoulder with a fusil azure, and holding between the paws an ogress, charged with a cock of the first. 

Motto: "Vigilate et orate." Vigilance in speech.
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