The
White Lion Society Badge
TO
ALL AND SINGULAR to whom these Presents shall come Sir Alexander Colin Cole
Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order upon whom has been conferred the
Territorial Decoration Garter Principal King of Arms Sir Anthony Richard Wagner
Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath Knight Commander of
the Royal Victorian Order Clarenceux King of Arms and John Philip Brooke-Little
Esquire Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Norroy and Ulster King of Arms
Send Greetings. Whereas Conrad Marshall John Fisher Swan Esquire
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Doctor of Philosophy of the University of
Cambridge Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London York Herald of Arms in
Ordinary and Registrar of Her Majesty's College of Arms hath
represented unto The Most Noble Miles Francis Stapleton Duke of Norfolk Knight
of the Most Noble Order of the Garter Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian
Order Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath Commander of the Most
Excellent Order of the British Empire upon whom has been conferred the
Decoration of the Military Cross Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal of England
that the Corporation of Her Majesty's Kings Heralds and Pursuivants of
Arms was by Letters Patent under the hands and Seals of Garter Clarenceux
and Norroy and Ulster Kings of Arms bearing date the Eighteenth of July 1971
granted and assigned a certain Device or Badge and being now desirous of having
a further Device or Badge granted and assigned and appointed unto it under
lawful authority and the same duly recorded in Her Majesty's College of Arms he
as Registrar of the said College of Arms and on behalf of the said Corporation
hath requested the favour of His Graces Warrant for Our granting and assigning
such further Device or Badge as We deem suitable to be borne and used by the
Corporation of Her Majesty's Kings Heralds and Pursuivants of Arms on Standards
or otherwise and with the leave and licence of the Kings of Arms first had and
obtained to be used & displayed by such individual persons in law bodies
politic associations companies confraternities guilds institutions or other
groups or organisations recognised by the Kings of Arms as are qualified in such
respect of their connection with or their being well affected to the College of
Arms always provided that such use and display of the said Device or Badge of
the Corporation of the College of Arms is conformable to the practices of
heraldry and in accordance with the Law of Arms And forasmuch as
the said Earl Marshal did by Warrant under his hand and Seal bearing date the
Nineteenth day of November 1986 authorize and direct Us to grant and assign such
Device or Badge accordingly Know Ye therefore that We the said
Garter Clarenceux and Norroy and Ulster in pursuance of His Grace's Warrant and
by virtue of the Letters patent of Our several Offices granted by The Queen's
Most Excellent Majesty to each of Us respectively do by these presents grant and
assign unto the said Corporation of Her Majesty's Kings Heralds and
Pursuivants of Arms the Device or Badge following that is to say:– Standing
erect upon a grassy Mound Or a Lion guardant Argent gorged with a Ducal Coronet
Or and supporting with the forepaw a Spear Gold headed Argent flowing therefrom
to the sinister a Banner of the Corporation of Her Majesty's Kings Heralds and
Pursuivants of Arms as the same is in the margin hereof more plainly
depicted to be borne and used for ever hereafter by the Corporation of Her
Majesty's Kings Heralds and Pursuivants of Arms according to the Laws of Arms
In witness whereof We the said Garter Clarenceux and Norroy and Ulster
have to these Presents subscribed Our names and affixed the Seals of Our several
Offices this Twenty-fifth day of September in the Thirty-sixth year of the Reign
of Our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth the Second by the Grace of God of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and
Territories Queen Head of the Commonwealth Defender of the Faith and in the year
of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight.
(signed)
A. Colin Cole Garter
J.P. Brooke-Little for Clarenceux
J.P. Brooke-Little Norroy and Ulster