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ALAMODES, RENFORCE AND LUTESTRINGS, Patentees for the Making and Dressing of. Refer to Patentees.

ALBAN HALL, Oxford. Has no arms.

ALBANIA. The arms adopted by the newly-elected Sovereign were a double-headed eagle displayed sable, holding in each claw a thunderbolt and charged upon the breast with an escutcheon argent, thereon a peacock in his pride proper within a bordure compony sable (} gules) and argent. Motto—"Fidelitate et veritate."

ALBANS, ST See St Albans.

ALBERTA, Province of, Dominion of Canada. Azure, in front of a range of snow mountains proper, a range of hills vert, in base a wheatfield surmounted by a prairie both also proper, on a chief argent, a St George's Cross.

[Assigned by Royal Warrant, 30th May 1907.]

ALDEBURGH (Suffolk). Has no armorial bearings; but William Hervey, Clarenceux King of Arms, granted October 20, 1561, to the corporation for a seal the following, namely, A ship of three masts in full sail on the waves of the sea, the mainsail charged with a lion rampant.

ALDERNEY. Refer to Channel Islands. The device published by the Admiralty is vert, a lion rampant or, crowned gules, holding in his dexter paw a sprig of oak proper.

ALDERSHOT (Hampshire). Has no armorial bearings. The arms attributed to it are, azure, an alder-tree eradicated proper, on a chief gules, three heaps of shot. It is a bogus coat, and very bad heraldry, but a very good pun.

ALESSANDRIA (Italy). Argent, a cross gules.

ALGOMA, See of (Canada). Azure, a pastoral staff and key in saltire or, surmounted in the fesse point by an open book between in chief an Imperialcrown and in base a sprig of maple of three leaves proper.

[Of no authority.]