CAPE TOWN (Cape of Good Hope).

CAPE TOWN (Cape of Good Hope). Or, an anchor erect sable, stock proper, from the ring a riband flowing azure and suspended therefrom an escutcheon gules, charged with three annulets of the field. Cresi— On a wreath of the colours, upon the battlements of a tower proper, a trident in bend dexter or, surmounted by an anchor and cable, in bend sinister, sable. Supporters — (Dexter) standing on a rock a Female Figure proper, vested argent, mantle and sandals azure, on her head an estoile radiated or, and supporting with her exterior hand an anchor also proper ; (sinister) standing on a like rock a lion rampant guardant gules. Motto — " Spes bona."

[The arms were confirmed and the crest was granted by Sir Albert Woods, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., Garter; G. E. Cokayne, Clarenceux, and W. H. Weldon, Norroy, and the Supporters were granted by Sir Albert Woods, by patents dated 29th December 1899.

On the 12th June 1S04 the Commissioner-General Magister, J. A. de Mist, authorised the City Council to make use of a Town Seal or Arms as follows : — "The arms of Capetown shall be an anchor of sable on a field of gold, the emblem of Good Hope covered by the arms of the Founder of this Colony — van Riebeeck — which, according to the drawings in acknowledged and accredited works, consist of three gold rings on a red field with the circumscription ' Seal of the Cape.'"

This Dutch grant is set out in full in the Patent of Grant and Confirmation of 1899, and this Patent, together with a facsimile of the Dutch Grant, is printed in extenso in the Genealogical Magazine, August 1900, Vol. iv., p. 156.]

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