TALLOW-CHANDLERS, The Worshipful Company of, London.

TALLOW-CHANDLERS, The Worshipful Company of, London. (Incorporated 8th March 1462.) Per fesse azure and argent, a pale counterchanged, three doves of the last, each holding in the beak an olive branch vert, fructed or, beaked and membered gules. Crests — i. On a wreath of the colours, a demiangel affrontee issuing from clouds proper, vested azure, cuffed, collared and wings expanded or, crined of the last, holding in the sinister hand a dish or, therein the head of St John the Baptist proper, couped gules ; 2, on a wreath of the colours, a dish argent, glorified or, therein the head of St John the Baptist decollated proper. Supporters — Two angels proper, vested gold, crined and ducally crowned or, the coronet surmounted with an etoile of the last, each standing on a mound vert. Motto — " Ecce agnus Dei, qui tollit peccata Mundi," or " Quae arguunter a Lumine manifestaiitur."

[Granted by John Smert, Garter, 24th September 1456; grant printed

"Memorial Catalogue Edinburgh Heraldic Exhibition"; arms confirmed, and supporters and second crest granted, 29th January 1602. The second crest was intended to supersede the first.]

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