The history and antiquities of the city of Bristol; . ber * of years, if any one within that lime (hould leave any additional fum for the fame no one has left any thing fincc towards this grand fchcmc, and the money is nowforfeited to his executors. [ l82 ] The following are the arms of the Society of Merchant-Venturers of thecity ofBriftol, incorporated the 14th December the 6th of Edw. 6. granted byTook Clarenceiux. Barrv onde of 6 pieces arg. and azure, on a bend or. a dragon volant vert,on a chief G. a lion palTant or. between 2 bezants — upon the bcaufmen on awreath
The history and antiquities of the city of Bristol; . ber * of years, if any one within that lime (hould leave any additional fum for the fame no one has left any thing fincc towards this grand fchcmc, and the money is nowforfeited to his executors. [ l82 ] The following are the arms of the Society of Merchant-Venturers of thecity ofBriftol, incorporated the 14th December the 6th of Edw. 6. granted byTook Clarenceiux. Barrv onde of 6 pieces arg. and azure, on a bend or. a dragon volant vert,on a chief G. a lion palTant or. between 2 bezants — upon the bcaufmen on awreath or. and az. the top of a fliip or. in the fame a man in mail proper, in hisright hand a targe, in his left a dart or. fupported with two fupporters, firfl amermaid, the upper part charne, her hair and fins with an anchor in her handor. the nether part in proper colours; the fecond fupporter is the figure ofTime, the upper part charne, his wings and nether part or. in his left hand afcythe, the fliaft fables, fcythe arg. mantled gules, doubled The arms with the fupporters may be feen engraved in the print of theMerchants-Hall, fee chap, on St. Stephens parifli. So intent have the natives of Briftol ever been on merchandife and naviga-tion, that they frequently have not only ventured their lives and fortunes infearch of new countries, and opening new fources of commerce, but theirinduftry has alfo been crowned with fuch fuccefs as to enable them to afTifl thegovernment in time of public danger with money and Ihips, as they did Henry8. againft the French King, and O. Elizabeth againft the Spanifli knowledge of trade and commercial affairs has been equal to theirinduflry, and they have been fent for in times paft to WeflmiiiQer by thegovernment to advife concerning trade, particularly by Hen. 6. a. r. 36,And Mr. J. Guy, the merchant and alderman before-mentioned, was fent fo^to London to confult about the decay of trade and coin in 1622. Briflol being the large
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