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Arms for their devising, granting and assigning such Arms, 
Crest, and Supporters, as may be proper to be borne by the 
said Linnean Society of London, on a Common Seal, Shields, 
Banners, or otherwise, according to the Laws of Anns : And 
forasmuch as the said Earl Marshal did by Warrant mulct- his 
Hand and Seal, bearing Date the Seventh Day of December 
instant, authorize and direct us to devise, grant and assign such 
Arms and Crest, and that Garter Principal King of Anns do 
devise, grant and assign such Supporters accordingly ; Know 
ye therefore that We the said Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy, in 
pursuance of His Grace's Warrant, and by virtue of the Letters 
Patent of our several Offices, to each of us respectively granted 
under the Great Seal of Great Britain, have devised, and do by 
these Presents grant and assign to the said Linnean Society of 
London the Arms following, that is to say, Per Fess, the Chief 
per Pale Gules and Vert, the Base Sable ; On a Fess Argent 9 
a Hurt, charged with an Egg erect proper : And for the Crest, 
On a Wreath of the Colours, behind a Mount on which vegetates 
the Linnaea borealis, the Sun rising in Splendour, all proper ; 
as the same are in the Margin hereof more plainly depicted*. 
And I the said Garter do hereby grant and assign the Sup- 
porters following, that is to say, on the Dexter, a Lion Or, gorged 
with the Linnaea borealis proper ; therefrom a Shield pendant, 
per Pale Wavy Argent and Ermine, charged with a Rose slipp'd 
Gules, and a Thistle Fessways proper : And on the Sinister, an 
Eagle, rising proper, gorged as the Dexter, therefrom a Shield pen- 
dant Argent, charged with a Trefoil slipp'd Vert ; as also depicted 
in the Margin hereof: The said Arms, Crest and Supporters, with 
the Motto " Naturce disccrc Mores" to be borne and used for 
ever hereafter by the said Linnean Society of London, on a 
* Vide Tillc-page. 
Common 
