The science of herauldry, treated as a part of the civil law, and law of nations wherein reasons are given for its principles, and etymologies for its harder terms.

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The science of herauldry, treated as a part of the civil law, and law of nations wherein reasons are given for its principles, and etymologies for its harder terms.
Author
Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
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Edinburgh :: Printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson ...,
1680.
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Heraldry -- Scotland.
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The description of the Plate belonging to the tenth Chapter.

I.

* 1.1ARgent, a chief gules.

Gules a chief Or.

Or, a chief azure.

Argent, a chief sable.

II.

Gules, a chief Or, surmounted of another argent: Such a chief, says Guil. denotes a double reward given by the Soveraign.* 1.2

III.

Or, on a chief sable, three Escallops of the first: This is quartered with, argent, three roses gules, by the title of Montrose.

Argent, on a chief vert, three crescents of the first.

Or, on a chief sable, two mollets argent.

IV.

* 1.3Azur, in chief three spur-revells argent.

V.

* 1.4Argent, three Hollin leaves in chief vert, and a hunting horn in base sable garnished gules.

VI.

* 1.5Argent, on a chief gules, three Pallets (or Pales) Or: Some Painters have of late done this chief, Pallie of 6; but that is an errour.

* 1.6Azur, three mollts argent, on a chief Or als many pallets gules: Thus he bears the Keiths chief counterchanged, as deriving his origin from that noble Familie, the Dicksons having been Keiths.

VII.

This is a French Coat, and by them blazoned, de vert, au chef d'argent, couvert d'azur. Couvert, i. e. shadowed by the foot of hangings or tapestry, for that is the reason of that Bearing.

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VIII.

The French blazon this, de sable, au chef d'hermines chapperonné d'or: In our language, Sable, a chief rmine hooded or.

IX.

According to the French, d'argent au-chef mantellé de sable; but according to us, parted per chief cheveron wayes sable and argent.

X.

D'azur au chef cousu de gueules, bordé d'or, i. e. Azur, a chief gules embordured or.

XI.

D'or au chef d'azur chappé a dixtre d'argent: Or a chief azur par∣ted per bend sinister in the dexter canton argent.

XII.

D'azur au chef d'or à dextre de gueules: Azur, a chief or, and dex∣ter canton gules.

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