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Grant of Arms

To all and singular to whom these Presents shall come.

Sir Alfred Scott Scott-Gatty; Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Garter Principal King of Arms, William Henry Weldon, Esquire, Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Clarenceux King of Arms, and Henry Farnham Burke, Esquire, Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Norroy King of Arms, SEND GREATING WHEREAS Henry William Spowart, Acting Town Clerk for the Borough of Llanelly in the County of Carmarthen, bath represented unto The Most Noble Henry, Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal of England, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the garter, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order and one of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council that His Majesty has been graciously pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland bearing date the thirteenth day of August last to grant and declare that the Inhabitants of the Town of Llanelly in the County of Carmarthen comprised within a district therein more particularly defined, and their successors should be for every thereafter one Body Politic and Corporate in deed, fact and name and that the said Body Corporate should be called The Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Llanelly, with perpetual succession and that they should have a Common Seal to serve them in transacting their business and should and might assume Armorial Bearings assigned under legal authority and duly entered and enrolled in the Heralds’ College : That the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the said Borough of Llanelly being desirous that the Common Seal to be used by them should contain fit and proper Armorial Bearings assigned under legal authority, the said Henry William Spowart on behalf of the said Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses requested the favour of His Grace’s Warrant for Our granting and assigning such Armorial Ensigns as may be proper to be borne by them and their successors on Seals, Shields, Banners or otherwise according to the Laws of Arms

AND FORASMUCH as the said Earl Marshall did by Warrant under his hand and Seal bearing date the Sixth day of September last authorise and direct Us to grant and assign such Armorial Ensigns accordingly KNOW YE THEREFORE that We

the said Garter Clarenceux and Norroy in pursuance of His Grace’s Warrant and by virtue of the Letters Patent of Our several Offices to each of Us respectively granted do by these Presents grant and assign unto the said Mayor, Aldermen and

Burgesses of the BOROUGH OF LLANELLY the ARMS following that is to say:-

PER CHEVRON ARGENT AND GULES IN CHIEF TWO LYMPHAS SABLE AND IN BASE A FIGURE REPRESENTING SAINT ELLI OF THE FIRST And for the CREST ISSUANT FROM A MURAL CORONET PROPER TWO DRAGONS’ WINGS GULES EACH CHARGED WITH A FESS CHEQUEY OR AND AZURE as the same are in the margin hereof more plainly depicted to be borne and used for ever hereafter by the said Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Llanelly and their successors on Seals, Shields, Banners or otherwise according to the Laws of Arms IN WITNESS whereof We the said Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy King of Arms have to these Presents subscribed Our names and affixed the Seals of Our several Offices this Twenty-first day of October in the

Fourth year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Fifth, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith etc., and in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

A. S. SCOTT-GATTY Garter

WILLIAM H. WELDON Clarenceux

H. FARNHAM BURKE Norroy

RECORDED in the College of Arms, London.

CHARLES H. ATHILL, Richmond Herald, Registrar.