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Perfess, Embattled Sable and Ore between three Stafford knots, a lion rampant, all counterchanged.

Sable, a wolf rampant, holding between the forepaws a bottle oar. The label sable on a chief dancity of three

points downwards or. Two pairs bend-wise, slipped and leaved sable. Quarterly, one, gules, a lion rampant to sinister oar.

Two, there, a Serpent erect Argent, Langed Gules.

Three, or a badgerger Regarden proper.

For Azure and Eagle, Wings displayed and elevated ore beaked argent.

And overall an escutcheon ore, charged with the letter H. Sable. The model,

Draco Dormions, Nunkwam Titilandus, to be carried in an escrow

beneath the shield. Did all of you get that? That is the language of heraldry which describes

armorial achievements or the emblems most of you would call coats of arms.

Heraldry encompasses the formal traditions of shield and crest designs that solidified in the Middle

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