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| Keywords: VirginiaCompanyArms JohnStow SurveyOfLondon 1632.PNG en Arms of Virginia Company as depicted in John Stow's Survey of London 1632 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 The crest was 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 The supporters were 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 The Latin motto was En dat Virginia quartam quintam Behold Virginia gives a fourth fifth dominion recognizing the colony's status alongside the queen's/ king's other three four dominions of England Ireland France a heraldic fiction and after the 1707 Act of Union Scotland http //www encyclopediavirginia org/Old_Dominion author before 1632 Virginia Company arms PD-old-100 | ||||
