In the Introduction to his volume, Benedicts in America (1870), Henry Marvin Benedict tells of an English con artist who, about 1850, was hawking a beautiful, pretentious, but totally false, Benedict coat of arms, "intended to impose upon the incredulous." He goes on to say, "We will have none of it except the motto Benedictus qui Patitur, which we make our own [ie, we can accept the motto]." Unfortunately, an incorrect interpretation of the motto has been placed into wide circulation; however, it is correctly translated above. Despite how it sounds, it is not taken from the Sermon on the Mount or any other Biblical text. Its true provenance is unknown, but it may have been derived from Benedictus qui tollit crusem (He is blessed who follows the cross) of the Bennet family, and Patitur qui vincit (He who conquers, suffers) of the Kinnaird family.