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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
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to the ancient use of the hill as abeacon station, and to the Rodney fires of this form still usedby the colliers of the South Staffordshire coalfield ; the inescucheonalludes to the Mercian prince Wulfere converted by St. Chad in theseventh centmy; the canton to the royal college of Windsor, to whichWolverhampton was annexed from the reign of Edward lY. until1845; the key of St. Peter to the re-dedication of the church temp.Henry III. The shield placed on the dexter side is that attributed to St. Wulf-runa, a princess of Wessex, who founded the monastery of Wolver-hampton in 994 ; that on the sinister the quartered coat of Gowerand Leveson, because the Duke of Sutherland is lord of the manor ofStowheath, between which and the deanery manor the town is divided. • We have been favoured by the town clerk of Wolverhampton with a copyof the memoir written by the designer of the seal, Alfred Hall Brown, gentleman;which we should insert entire were it not for its length. ^0 face page 418.
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WOLVEUH AMProTM. 8HKFKIKLI). f I i I • \ ARMS OF CITIES AND TOWNS. 419 The latter is ensigned with a ducal coronet; the former with one thatis doubtless meant for a saintly one, but the pattern of which is toofaithfully copied from an undertakers shop-window. The centralshield has a coronet also—of the 7nural type, and which we areinformed was intended to have more than a municipal import, beingborrowed from the crest of the first mayor, George BenjaminThorneycroft, esquire,^ of Chapel House, Wolverhampton, and HadleyPark, CO. Salop. Behind are the mace and sword of the town, andabove them the Stafford Knot, adopted as the device of the county,whilst the keys (interlaced, as on an antique pontifical ring) areintended to represent the staple manufacture of the town. Here is quite a picture-gallery of devices, showing considerableresearch and ingenuity in their designer, but somewhat over-crowded,particularly in the shield of arms, where the charges are piled uponone another in very

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