A George IV polychrome and ebonised wood truncheon, circa 1830, decorated with GR above a Crown and differenced Royal Coat of Arms, / TB / and the arms of Birmingham (Quarterly, the first and fourth quarters azure with gold lozenges joined bendwise, the second and third parted palewise indented gold and gules; over all a fess ermine charged with a gold mural crown), with a ribbed handle and leather martingale, 42cm longThe arms in the quarters in the shield are two distinct coats ed by the family De Bermingham, who held the manor in the thirteenth century (and perhaps from the time of the conquest) until 1527, when Edward de Bermingham was deprived of his property by John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, by means of a false charge of riot. The bendwise lozenges appear on the shield of an effigy in St Martin's Church, believed to be William de Bermingham, in the time of Edward I.