Such is the history, shortly, of the arms now used by the City of London to decorate its buildings and seal its documents, and which Wallis, their inventor, in the true meaning of that word, pronounces correct, "having by just examinations and curious disquisitions now cleared them from many gross absurdities contracted by ignorance and continued along by implicit tradition committed contrary to Art, Nature and Order, and repugnant to the very principles of Heraldry."
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] The Saxon Chronicle (Thorpe), vol. i., pp. 156, 157. (Subsequently cited as "Sax. Chron.").
[2] Ibid., vol. i., pp. 240, 241, 262, 263, 280, 281.
[3] Archæologia, vol. lii., p. 615.
[4] See dotted line on plan.