INTRODUCTION. 
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The stars and orders which modern sove¬ 
reigns bestow on their princes and nobility, 
are merely emblematical ornaments of their 
monarchs favour. 
His holiness the pope carries a representa¬ 
tion of St. Peter’s key as an emblem of great 
trust. And most of the European cities and 
towns derive their arms from some symbolical 
allusion to the history of their particular spot 
or neighbourhood, as the various incorporated 
companies have some device in their arms em¬ 
blematical of their profession or trade. Thus 
King Edward the Third granted the Company 
of Grocers, a cheveron, gules, between nine 
cloves, sable. Henry the Seventh gave the 
Company of Merchant Taylors, a tent-royal 
between two parliamentary robes. 
The Company of Apothecaries are repre¬ 
sented by glorious Apollo mounted on the ser¬ 
pent Python, with a bow in one hand, and 
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