EAST INDIA COMPANY.

EAST INDIA COMPANY. (Incorporated by Queen Elizabeth in 1600.) Azure, three ships of three masts, rigged, and under full sail, the sails, pennants, and ensigns argent, each charged with a cross gules, on a chief of the second a pale, quarterly, azure and gules in the ist and 4th, a fleur-de-lis ; in the 2nd and 3rd, a lion passant guardant all of the second, between two roses gules seeded or, barbed vert. Crest — On a wreath of the colours, a sphere without a frame, bound with the zodiac in bend or, between two split pennons flotant argent, each charged in chief with a cross gules ; over the sphere these words, " Deus indicat." Supporters — Two sea-lions or, the tails proper. Motto—'' Deo ducente nil nocet."

[The shield in the foregoing arms was granted by William Camden, Clarenceux, 4th February 1600.]

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