THE Arms OF WILLIAM SEVENOKE
In the seventeenth century, the original Arms of William
Sevenoke hung in the Grocers’ Hall before it was destroyed in
1666 by the Great Fire of London.
A sketch made in the 1650s shows the seven acorns arranged
2, 3, 2. The escutcheon (or shield) is annotated with the letters Az,
standing for azure (or blue). As this is the oldest extant record of
the Arms, it has become the official version, sketch though it is.
As the rules of heraldry state that ‘no colour may stand against
another, but against a metal or a fur’, the Arms of William Sevenoke
usually feature silver acorns against a blue shield.
Read more about William Sevenoke.