58 Early History of the Company. 



" Item, we the saide auditors have receavid and 

 brought in for certayne of our yeomandrie, w^^ were 

 assigned to holde certayne torche lights at hir Ma*^^ 

 comyng by the Parke Corner to St. James, w'^^ they 

 p'digally and laciviously burned homeward, being whole 

 and vnoccupied viij' iiij*^ (Fine)." 



The Company received their first grant of 



arms, with supporters, on the 20th 



A.D. 1585. October, i^Ss- The oriQ^Inal Qfrant 



Grant of Arms. ' o u & t> 



has unfortunately not been preserved. 

 The arms are: — Azttre : a chevron between three 

 manage saddles complete, 07\ Crest: on a wreath 

 a horse passant, argent, crined, bridled, saddled, 

 and trappings, or ; on his head a plume of three 

 feathers, argent. Stippoi4ers : two horses argent, 

 maned, hoofed, and bridled, or ; on each head a 

 plume of three feathers, aigent. 



Two mottoes were recorded to the Company 

 in the original grant : " Hold fast, Sit sure " over 

 the crest, and '' Our trust is in God " under the 

 arms. Both mottoes are recorded to the Com- 

 pany at the Visitation of London in 1633. The 

 first motto has subsequently been dropped, but 

 the reason cannot be ascertained. In a collection 

 of the arms of the City Companies in the Library 

 at Guildhall, entitled " London's Armoury," and 

 engraved in 1677, the first motto only is recorded. 

 But in MS. No. 6,860, of the Harleian Collec- 

 tion, which appears by the handwriting to belong 

 to a somewhat earlier period, the second motto 

 only occurs, and this Is likewise the case in the 

 Had. MS. No. 472. 



