OAKHAM (Rutland)

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OAKHAM (Rutland). Has no armorial bearings. But the following are regularly used and quoted, " Or, a horse-shoe sable, nailed argent." The old legend is that when passing through the town Queen Elizabeth's horse lost a shoe, and the town thereupon acquired the privilege of claiming a horse-shoe from an\- royal personage or nobleman entering its precincts.

Original Source bookofpublicarms00foxd_djvu.txt near line 19172.