Drawn from the blazon
Approximate rendering
blazon partially parsed (method lenient_en)
Worcester, City of
commune·lenient_en·Burke (General Armory)
Blazon
Quarterly, sable and gules a castle triple-towered argent These arms appear in the Visitation of 1569. A second coat was subsequently adopted by the city, and there is a local tradition that it was granted by Queen Elizabeth in allusion to a pear tree in full fruit having been brought into the centre of the city (called ''The Cross"), and there replanted, at the time of Her Majesty's visit to Worcester. No grant has been found to confirm this tradition, but the second svat, which is, argent a fess between three pears sable, may nevertheless have been adopted in commemoration of the Queen's visit. It is engraved on Speed's map of the county, dated 1610, and it appears in the Visitations of 1634 and 1682-3, where it is called the ''modern arms" of the city, the first-named coat being described as the ''ancient arms." The city Mottoes are—Floreat semper fidelis civitas; Civitas in bello in pace fidelis; and, Semper fidelis, mutare sperno
Tinctures
Charges
Parsed structure (AST)
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},
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},
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}
}
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}