c ThnV? Oyal ( -.Exu han Se Avas funded by Sir Ihomas Gresham, and a grasshonpeV was his fpmily crest. ' Forriierlv the Old Royal Ewhange-had a number of prasahoppers decorating it in different * parts It is thought that this creature was selected for a crest as a pun on the namo of Gresham; gres or groes beinf? Anglo-Saxon tor grass, lhe story o f Gresham beinir rescued from ' death by the chirping of ■ griuslißWK v t ie|eiKL * '
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 139, 9 December 1924, Page 9
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