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AACHEN. Refer to Aix-la-Chapelle.

AARGAU (Switzerland). Per pale dexter, argent, a fess wavy sable; sinister, azure, three mullets of five points argent.

ABERAVON (Glamorganshire). Has no arms. “. . . four lions rampant two and two . . .” have been attributed to the town, but the editor is not aware of the least authority for them, and does not know from what source they have been derived.

ABERCHIRDER (Banffshire). Has no arms. The seal shows a cross patée which is said to be azure upon an argent field.

ABERDEEN, The Council of the County of. Has for ensigns armorial the following, viz., Quarterly first azure, three garbs or, for Buchan; second azure, a bend between six cross crosslets fitchée or, for Mar; third or, a fesse chequy azure and argent between three open crowns gules, for Garioch; fourth azure three boars’ heads couped or, for Gordon.

[Matriculated in Lyon Office the 11th day of July 1890.]

ABERDEEN, The City of. The entry in Lyon Register is as follows:—“The Royall Burgh of Aberdein gives for his Eisgnes Armoriall Gules, three towers, triple-towered within a double tressure counter-flowered argent supported by two leopards proper. The Motto in ane escroll ‘Bon-Accord.’ And upon the reverse of ye Seall of ye said Burgh is insculped In a field azur a Temple argent St Nicholas standing in ye porch mytred & Vested proper with his dexter hand lifted up to heaven praying over three Children in a boiyling caldron of the first and holding in ye sinister a Crosier Or.”

(A pencil note in the margin says, “St. Nicholas: v. original patent by Sir C. Erskine, Lyon, in possession of the Corporation of A.”) Burke in his “General Armory” adds, “The honourable augmentation of the double tressure was granted as a recompense for the loyalty of the citizens of Aberdeen, in their services against the English.” This Grant, dated 25th Feb. 1674, is printed in Seton’s “ Law and Practice of Heraldry in Scotland,” p. 513.

ABERDEEN, University of. See University of Aberdeen.