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Supporters, two lions guardant, ruby. Motto "Ne Obliviscaris." Behind the arms there are two honourable badges in saltire, which his Grace's ancestors have borne a long time, as Great Masters of the King's Household and Justiciaries of Scotland.
Here, it is true, were no flowers to weave a pattern upon its carpet of green; true also, here were no beautiful angels, in green wings and green garments, poised in the sweet night-air, watchful with their short, pointless, flaming swords against the creeping enemy; but it was, nevertheless, the loveliest carpet of grass and moss, and as to the angels, I find it impossible to imagine, even in the heavenly host, one heart more guardant than that of Kirsty, one truer, or more devoted to its charge.
In the British Museum a silver piece like a florin bears on the obverse 'Sierra Leone Company, Africa, surrounding a lion guardant standing on a mountain; the reverse shows between the two numbers 50 and 50 two joined hands, representing the union of England and Africa, and the rim bears 'half-dollar piece, 1791, the year of the creation of the colony.
A bend, a border charged with mitres; over all a label Archbishop Scrope. 11. Three water bougets Roos. 12. A saltire Neville. 13. On a cross five lions passant guardant City of York. 14. Three fusils in fess Montague. 15. A fess between six cross crosslets Beauchamp. 16. A lion rampant Percy. 17.
Bearings that may be seen in divers places at Westminster Hall, rebuilt by that monarch. Vide MIRROR, p. 98, Vol. iii. I have subjoined the proper blazon of the arms, which is azure, a cross patonce between five martlets or, impaling France and England quarterly, 1st. and 4th. azure three fleurs de lis. 2nd. or, 2nd and 3rd Gules, 3 lions passant guardant in pale, or.
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