WAX-CHANDLERS, The Worshipful Company of, London.
WAX-CHANDLERS, The Worshipful Company of, London. (Incorporated i6th February 1483.) Azure, on a chevron argent, between three mortcours {i.e. lamps) or, as many roses gules, seeded gold, barbed vert. Crest — On a wreath of the colours, a demi-maiden crined and habited or, turned up ermine, issuant from a wreath of gilly-flowers and holding in her hand a garland or chaplet of flowers also of the first. Supporters — Two unicorns gules, gutte-d'eau, armed, crined, and unguled or, gorged with a chaplet of roses gules, thereto a chain terminating in three rings gold. J^Fotto — "Truth is the light."
[Granted by Thomas Holmes, Clarenceux, 3rd February 1485 ; confirmed 1487. Supporters granted by Hawley, nth October 1536.]
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