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 moll••ts 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.