. on a chevron between leopard's heads , each having in the mouth a shuttle of the last, as many roses seeded of the , barbed . A leopard's head or, ducally crowned in his mouth a shuttle of the . . wyverns with wings, indorsed , purfled , on each wing a rose seeded , barbed .

Weave

truth with trust.

This fraternity is very ancient, and were originally called ; and, in the reign of king Henry I. they paid annually to the crown, for their immunities. It is supposed they were the incorporated of all the city companies; and this conjecture is corroborated by a passage in Cotton's Records of Parliament, which states, that in the of Henry the , the weavers of London prayed the king that

their charter granted by Henry, son of Maud the empress, for

twenty marks

two shillings

of fee farm,

no person either in the city, or in

Southwark

, or any other place appertaining to London, should exercise the weavers' craft, unless he belonged to their guild; and that no man should injure them under a penalty of

10l.

: by the same instrument the weavers were ordered to pay to the king

two marks

of gold, annually, at Michaelmas.

if any man made cloth of Spanish wool, mixed with English wool, the port-grave ought to burn it.

The tenacity with which the weavers maintained their chartered

[] Arms and crest granted 1487; supporters granted and the whole confirmed 1616.

[] Survey of London, p. 266. ed. 1598.

[] Ibid.