Plaque of the town seal, former borough council offices, Berwick
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Plaque of the town seal, former borough council offices, Berwick
Image: © Bill Harrison Taken: 24 Jul 2017
A. C. Fox-Davies in "The Book of Public Arms" (p. 80; downloadable from archive.org) has a bit of a rant about this... "Has no armorial bearings. The seal represents a bear standing upon a mount and against a tree all between two escutcheons each charged with France and England quarterly, above is placed under a Gothic canopy the figure of a king seated ... In Burke's "General Armory" this is blazoned as a coat-of-arms in the following words: Argent on a mount a bear standing against a tree, all proper, the bear collared and chained or, in fesse two escutcheons, on each the Arms of France and England quarterly, on a chief of the first (sic) a king crowned and habited of the second, holding in his dexter paw (sic) a mount and in the sinister a sceptre, both gold."
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