QUEENS COLLEGE (Oxford).

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QUEENS COLLEGE (Oxford). (Founded in 1340 by Robert Eglesfield, Confessor to Queen Philippa, wife of Edward HI.) Argent three eagles displayed gules, beaked and legged.

[Recorded in the College of Arms, Visitation of Oxford, 1574.] The seal of the College represents an eagle reguardant with wings expanded, resting the dexter claw on a carved shield bearing the arms of the founder, viz., Azure three leopards' faces or, on a chief embattled ermine, round the seal the words, " The Common Seal of Mitchel's Visitors " ; and on the exergue, " Queen's College, Oxon."

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