HARROW (Middlesex).

HARROW (Middlesex). Has no armorial bearings. The following are used : —

" Azure, a lion rampant argent." Above the shield is placed a badge, two arrows in saltire argent, tied with a ribbon gules, and interlaced with a wreath of laurel or. Motto, " Stet fortuna domus." The Vestry Clerk, Mr William Winckley, F.S.A., in reply to a request for a copy of the seal, wrote me : —

" In reply to your letter of the i ith inst., I beg to inform you that Harrow is not a corporate town, and therefore has no corporate Seal. The device of Harrow School is very commonly used by the inhabitants and school tradesmen. The oval-shaped impression [simply showing a lion rampant within the legend " Donorum Dei dispensatio fidelis "■ — Ed.] is a copy of the seal of the Governors of the School, and the one with crossed arrows over the lion [as the illustration — Ed.] is what is now most commonly used. You will observe the arrows are not a crest, but are merely put over the shield in allusion to the ancient practice of archery at the School, which has long since been abolished. [Has the palpable pun nothing to do with it? — Ed.] The assumed colour of the shield is blue, and of the lion white."

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