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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 211 Smith's Genevan Historie of Virginia, New England and the Summer lies, London, 1624. The best example is found in the perfect copies of Capt. John Smith's Advertisements for the Unexperienced Planters of New England, or Anywhere, London, 1 63 1. The title page of the Advertisements further reads : — " With the Countrie's Armes, a description of the Coast Harbours . . . ; with the Map allowed by our Royall King Charles." On the reverse of the title page is a rough woodcut, an unbalanced sketch of the generally accepted arms of the Council aforesaid, with supporters and motto. The Advertisements rarely shows the contemporaneous map, but when found the issue of 1631 gives for the first time on the copperplate a reproduction of the same coat as the woodcut. The design on the map shows some slight modification of the details of the mantling and the handling of the motto-scroll, but is much better balanced and better adapted to the circular face of a Great Seal. Arms : In base, argent three bars wavy azure ; in chief, quarterly, France and England quarterly, i and 4 ; (2) Scotland ; (3) Ireland. Crest : On a helmet of its degree, on a bridled sea horse (?) Neptune holding a trident. Supporters : Dexter, a woman clothed, right arm and breast hare, holding in her right hand a large book clasped, on the right shoulder a (?) dove ; sinister, a woman clothed, both fore arms hare, holding in her left hand a square and dividers. Motto (below) : " Gens Incognita Mihi Serviet." No border or additional legend is given either on the map or the title-page. So much for the only known design of the arms of the Planters of New England. For the "other side " (I hesitate to say definitely obverse or reverse) we have a few fragments of red sealing wax preserved with the 1631 Trelawney Patent at Portland, Maine, and some larger fragments in worse condition at (New) Plymouth in Massachusetts. These latter fragments were found attached to the second Patent issued to the settlers at Plymouth Colony, 13th January, 1629, in enlargement of their earlier powers. As stated before, not all the issues of the Council bore the Great Seal. The Pierce Patent, issued ist June, 1621, under which the Plymouth Colony lived at first, did not have it. The