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English: Arms of Virginia Company, as depicted in John Stow's Survey of London (1632): Argent, a cross gules, between four escutcheons, each regally crowned proper, the first escutcheon in the dexter chief, the arms of France and England, quarterly; the second in the sinister chief, the arms of Scotland; the third the arms of Ireland; the fourth as the first. The crest was: On a wreath of the colours, a maiden queen couped below the shoulders proper, her hair dishevelled of the last, vested and crowned with an Eastern crown or. The supporters were: Two men in complete armour, with their beavers open, on their helmets three ostrich feathers argent, each charged on the breast with a cross throughout gules, and each holding in his exterior hand a lance proper. The Latin motto was: En dat Virginia quartam (quintam) ("Behold, Virginia gives a fourth (fifth) (dominion)"), recognizing the colony's status alongside the queen's/ king's other three (four) dominions of England, Ireland, France (a heraldic fiction), and after the 1707 Act of Union, Scotland
Date before 1632
date QS:P,+1632-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1632-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Old_Dominion
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