Arms of Merchant Adventurers Company of London: "Barry nebulée of six argent and azure, a chief quarterly gules and or on the first and fourth quarters a lion passant guardant of the fourth on the second and third two roses gules barbed vert".Joseph Edmondson (Mowbray Herald Extraordinary), Robert Glover, Sir Joseph Ayloffe, "A Complete Body of Heraldry", Volume 1, "The Arms of Societies and Bodies Corporate Established in London", London, 1780(no page numbers)