Inscribed. Dated., Inscription: Inscribed recto: top to bottom "To All Singular to whom these Presents shall come Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, / Knight commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Garter Principal King of Arms, Arthur William Stuart / Cochrane, Esquire, commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Clarenceux King of Arms and Algar Henry Stafford Howard, Esquire, Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, upon whom has been conferred the Decoration of / the Military Cross, Norroy King of Arms, Send Greeting. «Whereas Arthur Stephen Pearson» of Victoria Boulevard, / South Windsor in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, Esquire, Barrister of Law, Solicitor of the Supreme / Court of Ontario and Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding the Essex Scottish Regiment hath represented unto the Most Noble / Bernard Marmaduke, Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal of England and One of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council / that being desirous of having Amorial Bearings duly established and recorded to him under legal authority he hath requested the favour of His Grace's / Warrant for Our granting and assigning such Arms and Crest as May be proper to be borne and used by him and his descendants according to the / Laws of Arms., Inscription: «And forasmuch» as the said Earl Marshal did by Warrant under his hand and Seal bearing date the Second day of April last authorize / and direct Us to grant and assign such Armorial Ensigns accordingly. «Know ye therefore» that Grace's Warrant and by virtue of the Letters Patent of Our several Offices to each of Us respectively granted do by these Presents grant / and assign unto the said «Arthur Stephen Pearson» the Arms following that is to say: Or, between two Bars gemels three Leopards faces Sable / on a Chief of the last two Suns in splendour of the first And for the crest On a Wreath of the Colours In front of a Sunrising / or a Boar's head couped Sable as the same are in the margin hereof more plainly depicted to be borne and used for ever hereafter by him / the said Arthur Stephen Pearson and by his descendants with due and proper differences according to the Laws of Arms., Inscription: «In Witness» whereof / We the said Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy Kings of Arms have to these Presents subscribed Our names and affixed the Seals of Our several Offices / this Twenty third day of September in the First year of Reign of Our Sovereign Lord Edward the Eighth by the Grace of God of Great Britain / Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith & C and in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine / hundred and thirty six. // Gerald W. Wollaston Garter / Arthur Cochrane Clarenceux / Algar Howard Norray" in pen and ink, the last three lines are the signatures of the granters of the arms. Verso: u.l. "Presented in the College of Arms, London / G.R. Belland [?] / Somerset Herald and Registrar" in pen and ink, the second line is a signature.