VIRGINIAN MERCHANTS.

VIRGINIAN MERCHANTS. Argent, a cross gules, between four escutcheons, each regally crowned proper, the first escutcheon in the dexter chief, the arms of France and England, quarterly ; the second in the sinister chief, the arms of Scotland ; the third the arms of Ireland ; the fourth as the first. Crest — On a wreath of the colours, a maiden queen couped below the shoulders proper, her hair dishevelled of the last, vested and crowned with an Eastern crown or. Supporters — Two men in complete armour, with their beavers open, on their helmets three ostrich feathers argent, each charged on the breast with a cross throughout gules, and each holding in his exterior hand a lance proper. Motto — " En dat Virginia quatram."

[There is no record of any grant of these arms.]

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