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==Armorials== {{multiple image | align = right | image1 = StringerLawrence ArmsOnVestryScreen DunchideockChurch Devon.PNG | width1 = 150 | alt1 = | caption1 = | image2 = StringerLawrence ArmsOnMonument DunchideockChurch Devon.PNG | width2 = 110 | alt2 = | caption2 = | footer = Arms of General Stringer Lawrence: ''Ermine, a cross raguly gules''; '''left''': painted on vestry screen, '''right''': with [[Crest (heraldry)|crest]] of a victor's laurel crown, detail from his mural monument, both in Dunchideock Church }} His arms were: ''Ermine, a cross raguly gules'', as is visible without tinctures on his monuments in Westminster Abbey and Dunchideock, and with tinctures on the vestry screen of Dunchideock Church. These are the arms of Sir [[John Lawrence (Lord Mayor)|John Lawrence]] (d.1692)<ref>Prestwich, John, ''Prestwich's Respublica, Or, A Display of the Honors, Ceremonies ...'', Volume 1, 1787, p.158 [https://books.google.com/books?id=104OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA158]</ref> [[Lord Mayor of London]] in 1665, which in 1839 were visible on the monument to Sir [[Thomas Gresham]] in [[St Helen Bishopsgate|St Helen's Church, Bishopsgate]], [[City of London]],<ref>Allen, Thomas, ''The History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and ...'', Volume 3, 1839, p.133 [https://books.google.com/books?id=RawVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA133]</ref> apparently a [[Difference (heraldry)|difference]] of the ancient arms of Lawrence of Ashton Hall, Lancashire. They also feature in the arms of [[John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence]] (1811-1879), [[Viceroy of India]].<ref>Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.667: cross charged with an ''Eastern crown or'', also with a chief</ref>
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