ARMOURERS, Worshipful Company of ( London).

ARMOURERS, Worshipful Company of ( London). (Incorporated 8th May 1453. United with the Braziers' Company, 17th June 1708.) Argent, on a chevron sable, a gauntlet of the first, between two pairs of swords in saltire of the last, hilts and pomels or, on a chief of the second, an oval shield of the field charged with a cross gules between two helmets proper, garnished or. Crest — On a wreath of the colours, a demi-man of arms armed argent, open-faced, purfled or, holding in the hand a mace of war. Mantled gules, doubled argent.

[Granted by Hawley, Clarenceux, 15th October 1556. See Catalogue of Heraldic Exhibition.]

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