[full size] Probable 15th or 16th century seal.
Creature on left appears to be a wyvern. Found by the Weekend
Wanderers
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Carlisle
City Council
The number of roses on the wyvern's wings is not specified,
and official and equally correct reproductions may be seen with
either four or six roses on each wing. The motto beneath the
arms comes from Wolsey's speech to Cromwell in Shakespeare's
Henry VIII and was adopted by the city about 1850.
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[full size]
A coloured red version is the Mascot of St. Francis High School,
Louisville, Kentucky.
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Cumbria
County Council
The red dragon refers to those that support the device of Appleby
- the ancient county town of Westmorland; also it is heraldically
related to the red wyverns of Carlisle and symbolises the connection,
going back to Celtic times, between Cumbria and Cambria (Wales).
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West
Dorset District
The sea wyverns are appropriate to a district which was once
the centre of the Kingdom of Wessex (whose kings used a golden
wyvern as their emblem) and with traditional maritime associations.
They are gorged with Saxon Crowns as are the dragon supporters
in the arms of the Dorset County Council.
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