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Not a single one of the 116 football teams in the top five English leagues which the Government envisage this Bill will cover has been officially granted an arms or a crest, but I was delighted to learn, in considering this important aspect of the Bill, that a number have officially been granted the use of a badge. This is a further element of heraldry, consisting of an emblem or device which denotes allegiance to a particular person, family or corporate body. If noble Lords’ necks allow, they will see that we sit underneath some splendid examples of these: the white hart of King Richard II and the Tudor rose adopted by Henry VII. Another famous example might be the three ostrich feathers of the Prince of Wales, used by the Welsh Rugby Union and by the Welsh national team.