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The arms were officially granted on March 5, 1964. | The arms were officially granted on March 5, 1964. | ||
he Castle is taken from the Arms of Norwich. The three gold crowns are incorporated as the traditional emblems of East Anglia, being the crowns of St Edmund the first King of the East Angles; representing his sovereignty, martyrdom and innocence. | |||
The lions are the supporters not only because the University has a Royal Charter, but also because a lion appears in the Arms of Norwich. The lions are made peculiar to the University by their supporting by the interior paw a crown as in the arms. Also to commemorate the fact that Lord Mackintosh of Halifax was the University's first Chancellor, about the neck of each lion pendent from tasselled cords, there is a purse. This appeared in Lord Mackintosh's own arms as an indication of the part he played in the National Savings Movement. | |||
The Motto is a shortened version of the old saying of "people in Norfolk dew things different". | |||
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