RUSSIA MERCHANTS' COMPANY.

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RUSSIA MERCHANTS' COMPANY. (Incorporated 1555.) Barry wavy of six argent and azure, over all a ship of three masts in full sail proper, sails, pennants, and ensigns of the first, each charged with a cross gules all between three bezants, a chief or, on a pale between two roses gules seeded or, barbed vert, a lion passant guardant of the fifth. Crest— h lizard's head guardant and erased proper, ducally gorged or. Siipporters—{Ji&ii.te:x) a lizard rampant guardant proper ducally gorged or ; (sinister) an apre (an heraldic figure drawn like an ox — the tail short) rampant guardant proper ducally gorged or. Motto — " God be our guide."

[Granted, College of Arms, ist February 1555.]

The lizards in this achievement are not the animal bearing the name which we know at the present day, but a (real or mythical) creature also known as the short-tailed wild cat of Norway — refer to the arms of the Skinners' Company.

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