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[[File:kingslynn.jpg|center|450 px|Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] | [[File:kingslynn.jpg|center|450 px|Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] | ||
===Official blazon=== | |||
Azure three Dragon's Heads erased and erect Or in the mouth of each a Cross-crosslet fitchy of the last. | Azure three Dragon's Heads erased and erect Or in the mouth of each a Cross-crosslet fitchy of the last. | ||
===Origin/meaning=== | |||
The arms were never granted but were recorded at the Visitation of 1563. | The arms were never granted but were recorded at the Visitation of 1563. | ||
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The arms were sometimes shown with a pelican for a crest, probably adopted as a Christian emblem, for that bird is a symbol of the Eucharist, because it was said by medieval writers to feed its young with blood drawn from its own breast. | The arms were sometimes shown with a pelican for a crest, probably adopted as a Christian emblem, for that bird is a symbol of the Eucharist, because it was said by medieval writers to feed its young with blood drawn from its own breast. | ||
===Image gallery=== | |||
| | <gallery widths=250px heights=200px perrow=0> | ||
File:King's Lynn1845.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of King's Lynn|The arms in 1845 | |||
| | File:kingslynn.wb3.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of King's Lynn|The arms on a [[Wills's - Borough arms III|Wills's]] cigarette card, 1906 | ||
File:kingslynn.fau.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of King's Lynn|The arms as used on a [[UK Town arms (Faulkner)|Faulkner postcard]] +/- 1905 | |||
File:King's Lynn3.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of King's Lynn|The arms in the town (Facebook) | |||
</gallery> | |||
[[Civic Heraldry Literature - United Kingdom|'''Literature''']]: | |||
Image from [[Jaja|Ja-Ja postcard]] (+/- 1906), background from Scott-Giles, C. W. : Civic Heraldry of England and Wales | |||
{{media}} | {{media}} | ||
[[Category:United Kingdom Municipalities K]] | [[Category:United Kingdom Municipalities K]] | ||
[[Category:England]] | [[Category:England]] | ||