WINDSOR (Berkshire).

WINDSOR (Berkshire). In the collections of Vincent preserved in the College of Arms the following coat-of-arms is quoted : — " Party per fesse argent and vert, issuing from the base a tower of the first, and in the fesse point a stag's head caboshed of the same attired gules, and between the attires an escutcheon of France and England quarterly." The arms as they are used differ little save in matters of drawing, except that the field is per fesse vert and gules. The illustration is of the arms as they are used. Berry frankly says the town " hath not any Armorial Ensign," and Burke quotes none. The following description of the seal is taken from the " General Armory," as efforts to obtain an impression were not successful : —

" Windsor, Town of (Co. Berks)— The Seal represents a castle in base, embattled, and surmounted with three towers, the middle tower surmounted of another, in the centre fess point a stag's head cabossed, betw. the attires an escutcheon, charged with the Arms of France and England quarterly ; on the dexter side of the head the letter W, and on the sinister the letter B ; on the verge betw. the castle in base and the attires of the stag's head the Legend, viz., ' Sigillum majoris burgi de Nova Windsore.' "

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