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English: Seal of the Muscovy Company (alias Russia Company, Russia Trading Company). An English Chartered Company founded in 1555, defunct in 1917. Seal in collection of University Library of Tromsø. Arms: Barry wavy of six argent and azure, over all a ship of three masts in full sail proper, sails, pennants, and ensigns of the first, each charged with a cross gules all between three bezants, a chief or, on a pale between two roses gules seeded or, barbed vert, a lion passant guardant of the fifth (Per Fox-Davies, The Book of Public Arms)[1]. Motto: Refugium Nostrum in Deo Est (Our Refuge is in God)
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