Dr. Bond suggests in his book, that the use of the Pegasus by this family started after Drake had captured San Domingo in 1585. At the head of the staircase in the captured Governor's house there was painted in a very large Scutcheon the arms of the King of Spain, and in the lower part of the said scutcheon there is likewise described a Globe, containing in it the whole circuit of the sea and earth, whereupon is a horse, standing on his hinder part within the globe, and the other forepart without the globe, lifted up as it were to leap, with a scroll painted in his mouth whereon was written these words in Latin, NON SUFFICIT ORBIS, which is as much as to say, the world sufficeth not. Whereoff the meaning was required to be known of those (Spaniards) of the better sort, that came in commission to treat upon the ransoming of their town; who would shake their heads and turne aside their countenance in some smiling sort, they without answering anything, suggest that if Queen Elizabeth would prosecute the war with vigour, she could put a stop to Philip of Spain's vain ways.

It is not known why the winged horse appeared in the painting, but it was certainly there, and soon after it appeared as the crest of the Bonds of Earth, Just the front half, with the motto, and a cloud of stars surrounding it, thus giving it a high spiritual meaning as opposed to its previous worldly one. It appears nowhere else in heraldry. Dr. Bond suggests that a member of the Bond family was at San Domingo with Drake, and adopted the Pegasus and the Bond crest. Its first appearance is on the tablet to Thomas Bond at Fulham, 1600, and it appears on the floor slab to Joan Bond at St. Stephens Church, Saltash. 1641.

It is one of the most beautiful and inspiring crests in the whole field of heraldry. (Taken from Dr. Bond's Book. "The Bonds of Earth".

Dr. Bond seems to take it for granted that the Spanish horse was winged!)

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