The Herald and genealogist (1874) (14804885423)

Identifier: heraldgenealogis08nich_0 (find matches)
Title: The Herald and genealogist
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Nichols, John Gough, 1806-1873
Subjects: Heraldry
Publisher: London : John Bowyer Nichols and Sons
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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saltire vert between four castles sable; over the arms a coronetcomposed of eight fleur de lis or ; Supporters—two lions rampant guardant or.Taken from a painting sent to the author by order of the Corporation, All this may be traced on the seal before us ; but the fire-beaconon the round top is repeated behind the tail of each lion; andagain, it seems, by way of forming a crest. The seal of the borough of Leeds is dated 1836, but the arms arenot of such recent date. They are blasoned by Edmondson in 1780as Azure, a fleece or, on a chief sa. three mullets argent. Crest, anowl; and supporters, two owls. The town of Bolton in Lancashire was incorporated in 1838, andits armorial coat, in its simplicity, is worthy of former times. On afield azure, an elephant and castle. An elephant and castle is also the arms of the city of Coventry, ona field party per pale gules and vert. The origin of the latter we neverlearned, and we are as much at a loss with regard to Bolton. We To face page 416
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LEEDS. BOLTON. I ARMS OF CITIES AND TOWNS. 417 append one of the halfpenny tokens of Coyentry, upon which theelephant and castle appears on one side, and a cat, which is nowadopted for a crest, on the other. Blackburn was constituted a parliamentary borough by the BurnleyReform Act of 1832 ; and it received a royal charter of incorporationin 1851. Its arms are emblematic at once of its name, its industrialeminence, and its early senatorial representatives. On the field thewavy fess represents the Black-bourn ^ between three busy bees ; on achief vert is a stringed hom between two fusils, the former derivedfrom the arms of Hornby, and the latter from those of Feilden. Wil-liam Henry Hornby, esq. was the first Mayor of Blackburn, and formany years one of its representatives in parliament. His colleaguewas the late Joseph Feilden, esq. Their sons are in the same positionat the present time. The arms which have been designed for the City of Manchesterare not deficient either in propriety