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FOURTH PERIOD 168 PEFFERMILL HOUSE the collar point). A mullet is here represented instead of a cinquefoil., while the motto adopted, " Dum Spiro Spero," is from the Pearsons of Balmadies the motto of the Kippenross Pearsons being " Rather die than disloyal." The full motto on the doorway here is " Cui Vult dat Deus. Dum Spiro Spero/' "To whom he wishes God gives. While I live I hope." Above the pediment of the doorway is a monogram com- FIG. 627. Peffermill House. View from the South-East. posed of the letters E. P. and M., the single E. standing for Edward Edgar, P. for Pearson, and M. for Margaret, probably Margaret Pearson. The whole is surrounded with a scroll bearing the inscription, " Provyd God will." The plan of this house is an advance on that of most of the earlier