The Company of Merchants, called Merchants of Virginia, Bermudas, or Summer-Ilands, for (as I heare) all these additions are given them. I know not the time of their incorporating neither by whom their Armes, Supporters, and Crest were granted, and therefore am compelled to leaue them abruptly.
From John Stow, Survey of London, 1632
Photo by Virginia State Library.
Virginia Seal
Courtesy Mrs. L. T. Jester and Mrs. P. W. Hiden
