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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Within a large quatrefoil, its spandrils carved trefoil-wise, a one-masted ship, clinker-built with bolt-heads; its main-sail furled, above which a crow’s nest embattled. The fore-castle and stern-castle built into the ends of the hull also embattled, with a course of roses or quatrefoils below. An anchor is flung out below the stern-castle. In field, between the mast and stern-castle, a shield: a sword, point uppermost, LONGSPEE (for the Longspees lords of the manor of Canford until 1256, of which Poole formed part); arms derived from the long sword carried by William Longspee, illegitimate son of King Henry II. Beaded border
