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The borough had no arms, but the design of the Common Seal adopted by the Council bears reference to the apocryphal legend of The beggar's daughter of Bednall Greene, a lengthy poem which appeared in Percy's Reliques of ancient English poetry in 1765, and was probably written in Elizabethan times. | The borough had no arms, but the design of the Common Seal adopted by the Council bears reference to the apocryphal legend of The beggar's daughter of Bednall Greene, a lengthy poem which appeared in Percy's Reliques of ancient English poetry in 1765, and was probably written in Elizabethan times. | ||
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