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* United Kingdom [[File:unitedkingdom-flag.gif|60 px|right]] | * United Kingdom [[File:unitedkingdom-flag.gif|60 px|right]] | ||
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Azure semy of millrinds and on a canton Or a lion rampant purpure. | |+Official blazon | ||
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The arms were officially granted on May 10, 1967. | The arms were officially granted on May 10, 1967. | ||
Prior to 1701, in fact as far back as 1518, the Society used the purpure lion taken from the arms of Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, whose home became Lincoln's Inn; though as early as 1615, Sir George Buck wrote: "But | |||
Sir James Lea [Ley] told me there was lately a coat devised for this house, viz., Azure, seme de fers de mouline or, with a purple Lyon in a canton or. | |||
The mill-rinds commemorate Richard Kingsmill, a sixteenth-century Bencher prominent in the purchase in 1580 of the freehold of the Inn; mill-rinds figure in the Arms of the Kingsmill family. | |||
[[Literature]] : | [[Literature]]: Bretton, 1957 | ||
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{{media}} | {{media}} | ||
[[Category:Institutional heraldry of the United Kingdom]] | [[Category:Institutional heraldry of the United Kingdom]] | ||
[[Category:Granted 1967]] | [[Category:Granted 1967]] | ||
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| English | Azure semy of millrinds and on a canton Or a lion rampant purpure. |
Origin/meaning
The arms were officially granted on May 10, 1967.
Prior to 1701, in fact as far back as 1518, the Society used the purpure lion taken from the arms of Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, whose home became Lincoln's Inn; though as early as 1615, Sir George Buck wrote: "But Sir James Lea [Ley] told me there was lately a coat devised for this house, viz., Azure, seme de fers de mouline or, with a purple Lyon in a canton or.
The mill-rinds commemorate Richard Kingsmill, a sixteenth-century Bencher prominent in the purchase in 1580 of the freehold of the Inn; mill-rinds figure in the Arms of the Kingsmill family.
Literature: Bretton, 1957
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