Hampshire East (and Hampshire) both extinct

A rose gules barbed or surmounted by a royal crown. Inscribed beneath on a scroll HAMPSHIRE

The rose is thought to be the red rose of Lancaster grated to the Hampshire militia by either John of Gaunt who was Duke of Lancaster or King Henry V wehn the militia fought at Agincourt in 1415

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