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A heraldic shield (often erroneously referred to as a coat of arms) has been associated with the historic county of Sussex since the seventeenth century. The device, displaying six martlets or heraldic swallows on a shield, later formed the basis of the flag of Sussex and the armorial bearings granted to the county councils of East and West Sussex. Although often referred to as a coat of arms, the six gold martlets on a blue shield is not an official Coat of Arms and is more of an Emblem, very much the same as the Yorkshire Rose.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sussex Emblem )〕 Under English Heraldic law a Coat of Arms can not be granted to a county, but only the administrative body.〔 As Sussex hasn't had a single administrative body since 1086, the year of the Domesday Book, the device is an emblem.〔 ==History==
The earliest recorded use of the device appears to be in the atlas ''Theatrum Imperii Maganae Britanniae'' produced by John Speed in 1622. The book displays arms for each of the seven kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy, and that shown for the Kingdom of the South Saxons was six golden martlets on both a blue (azure) or red (gules) shield. In both cases the device were ensigned by an ancient crown. It is possible that the device had a much earlier origin, as arms were attributed to other Saxon kingdoms by the heralds in the later Middle Ages. These attributed devices were a prochronism, as heraldry did not develop until some centuries after the existence of the kingdoms. The arms later used by local authorities in Essex, Middlesex, Kent, Northumberland and County Durham all owe their origins to the medieval heralds.〔Charles Wilfrid Scott-Giles, ''The Romance of Heraldry'', London, 1929〕 By the nineteenth century the blue shield bearing gold martlets had become accepted as an emblem of the county of Sussex. The seal of the clerk of the peace of the county bore the arms, as did the badges of the East Sussex Constabulary and the Sussex Yeomanry.〔Francis W Steer, ''The arms of the County Councils of East and West Sussex and the Diocese of Chichester'', jointly issued by the two county councils, 1959〕〔A L King and H L Kipling, ''Head-dress badges of the British Army'', Volume 1, reprinted Uckfield 2006〕
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