File:VirginiaCompanyArms JohnStow SurveyOfLondon 1632.PNG
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Arms of Virginia Company, as depicted in John Stow's Survey of London (1632): Argent, a cross gules, between four escutcheons, each regally crowned proper, the first escutcheon in the dexter chief, the arms of France and England, quarterly; the second in the sinister chief, the arms of Scotland; the third the arms of Ireland; the fourth as the first. The crest was: On a wreath of the colours, a maiden queen couped below the shoulders proper, her hair dishevelled of the last, vested and crowned with an Eastern crown or. The supporters were: Two men in complete armour, with their beavers open, on their helmets three ostrich feathers argent, each charged on the breast with a cross throughout gules, and each holding in his exterior hand a lance proper. The Latin motto was: En dat Virginia quartam (quintam) ("Behold, Virginia gives a fourth (fifth) (dominion)"), recognizing the colony's status alongside the queen's/ king's other three (four) dominions of England, Ireland, France (a heraldic fiction), and after the 1707 Act of Union, Scotland
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| current | 10:16, 3 January 2017 | | 457 × 447 (308 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | Arms of Virginia Company, as depicted in John Stow's <i>Survey of London</i> (1632): <i>Argent, a cross gules, between four escutcheons, each regally crowned proper, the first escutcheon in the dexter chief, the arms of France and England, quarterly; the second in the sinister chief, the arms of Scotland; the third the arms of Ireland; the fourth as the first</i>. The crest was: <i>On a wreath of the colours, a maiden queen couped below the shoulders proper, her hair dishevelled of the last, vested and crowned with an Eastern crown or</i>. The supporters were: <i>Two men in complete armour, with their beavers open, on their helmets three ostrich feathers argent, each charged on the breast with a cross throughout gules, and each holding in his exterior hand a lance proper</i>. The Latin motto was: <i>En dat Virginia quartam (quintam)</i> ("Behold, Virginia gives a fourth (fifth) (dominion)"), recognizing the colony's status alongside the queen's/ king's other three (four) dominions of England, Ireland, France (a heraldic fiction), and after the 1707 Act of Union, Scotland |
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