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ALL SOULS COLLEGE (The College of the Souls of Faithful People deceased) (Oxford). (Founded, 1437, by Henry Chicheley, Archbishop of Canterbury.) Or, a chevron between three cinquefoils gules.

[Recorded in College of Arms, Visitation of Oxford, 1574.]

ALLOA, Burgh of (Clackmannanshire). Argent, on the waves of the sea, an ancient galley sable, in full sail, the sail charged with the arms of the Earls of Mar and Kellie, pennon gules, flag of the field charged with a pale of the second, on a chief vert, in the dexter a garland, the dexter half hops, the sinister barley all or, and in the sinister a golden fleece. Mantling—Sable, doubled argent. Crest—On a wreath of their liveries, a griffin gules, winged, armed and beaked or, langued azure, and on an escroll over the same this motto—"In the forefront."

[Matriculated in Lyon Register, nth June 1902. The fees were defrayed by the Earl of Mar and Kellie as a commemoration of the coronation of King Edward VII.]

ALMSHOUSES. Refer to Sekford's Almshouses.

ALNWICK (Northumberland). Has no armorial bearings. The seal of the County Council of Northumberland (118) displays as the arms of Alnwick, St Michael overcoming the dragon. The shield of St Michael is charged with a cross clechée instead of the ordinary cross similar to that of St George.

ALSACE. Refer to Strasburg, Bishopric of

ALSACE-LORRAINE (Germany). An eagle displayed sable, beaked and legged gules surmounted by the Imperial crown, on its breast an escutcheon surmounted by a Royal crown and per pale, the dexter side per fesse; in chief gules a bend between six crowns or; in base gules a bend flory, counter-flory argent; the sinister side or, on a bend gules, three alerions argent.

ALTONA (Prussia). Gules, issuant from waves of the sea in base a battlemented gateway, the porte ouverte, surmounted by three towers.