MERCERS' COMPANY

MERCERS' COMPANY (The Wardens and Commonalty of the Mystery of Mercers of the City of London). Gules, issuant from a bank of clouds a figure of the Virgin, couped at the shoulders proper, vested in a crimson robe adorned with gold, the neck encircled by a jewelled necklace, crined or, and wreathed about the temples with a chaplet of roses alternately argent and of the first, and crowned with a celestial crown, the whole within a bordure of clouds also proper. Crest— On a wreath of the colours issuant from a bank of clouds proper, a figure of the Virgin as in the arms. Motto—" Honor Deo."

[Arms granted 1568 ; confirmed at the Visitation of the City of London by Henry St George, Richmond Herald, in 1634. Arms confirmed and crest granted, College of Arms, September 18, 191 1-]

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