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This coat-of-arms was a personal one of the musician John Ella born Leicester 1802 who had Yorkshire roots. It is a black and white print of a coloured original. The blazon (heraldic description) is: "Per Saltire Or (gold) and Gu.(red) 4 crescents counterchanged". His cousins of Wymeswold in Leicestershire used it, e.g., Lord James Ella, died 1834. It is on his monumental-stone, in the tower of St.Mary's church in Wymeswold, but that has a crest of a crown on top of the shield.
It was earlier "attributed" to the South-Saxon (Sussex) King and first Bretwalda named Ella (Aelle, Aella, etc.), but the crest of a lion was not used.