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| | Archdales, Combs, &c. of the City of London |
 | | The City of London is also the centre of Greater London, with the vast majority of parishes lying outside the City, in the ancient counties of Middlesex, Essex, Herts, Kent and Surry, and the incorporated cities of Westminster and Southwark as well as a number of small "liberties." |
 | | The records show that no other COMBS of London was ever an armiger that early
The arms and crest of the armigerous John COMBS, of London, are as follows: Arms: argent on a band raguly gules, a lion pasant sable; Crest: out of a ducal coronet a lion's gamb argent holding a staff raguly gules. |
 | | Richard STONEHILL of London, notary public, age 28, deposes at the request of John WRIGHT, Esq., of Wrightsbridge, Essex, that John GIFFORD of New England, merchant, signed a deed 4 June 1673 to the use of the requestant. |
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