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Nothing is ever written on a crest, nor is there such a thing as a family crest.

The Hudspeth arms as misrepresented on various fraudulent American websites are entirely false, since they pretend that the heraldry belongs to the entire Hudspeth family and they include writing on scrolls above and below the heraldry which has nothing at all to do with that heraldry (the text simply says "The Ancient Arms of Hudspeth").

The crest is in fact (in this case) the red and white fan of feathers on top of the helmet, which clearly has no writing on it.

Heraldry has never been allocated to an entire family, nor to everyone who happens to have the same family name. Heraldry is issued by means of a legal charter to a specific individual, sometime in a hereditary way (meaning that it passes to his eldest son, then his eldest son, and so on). Nobody else in the family is entitled to use it.

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