CHELSEA, Borough of.

CHELSEA, Borough of. Gules, within a cross voided or, a crozier in pale of the last, in the first quarter a winged bull statant, in the second a lion rampant regardant, both argent ; in the third a sword point downwards proper, pommel and hilt gold between two boars' heads couped at the neck of the third ; and in the fourth a stag's head caboshed of the second. Motto — " Nisi Dominus frustra."

[Recorded in the College of Arms.]

The crozier indicates the time when the Abbot of Westminster was Lord of the Manor of Chelsea; the winged bull stands for the patron saint of the parish, St Luke ; the lion rampant is for Cadogan : the sword and the boars' heads for Sir Hans Sloane, and the stag's head for Stanley. Sir Hans Sloane, whose collections originated the British Museum, was Lord of the Manor, which he bequeathed to his daughter.s, one becoming Lady Cadogan and the other marrying into the Stanley family.

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