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'''SHOREDITCH'''
'''SHOREDITCH'''

Revision as of 13:14, 7 May 2014

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SHOREDITCH

Borough of London
Incorporated into : 1968 Hackney

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Official blazon

Arms : Gules, a coward lion bi-corporate Or, crowned azure.
Motto : More light, more power.

Origin/meaning

The arms were not officially granted.

The arms are the arms of John de Northampton, Lord Mayor of London from 1381-1382 and Lord of the Manor of Shoreditch.

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The arms on a Wills's cigarette card, 1906

Literature : Scott-Giles, C.W. : Civic heraldry of England and Wales, London, 1932.