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THE BOOK OF PUBLIC ARMS

ABERDEEN, See of. Azure, in the porch of a church St Nicholas in pontificals, his right band raised over three children in a cauldron surrounded by flames, in the left hand a pastoral staff, all proper (Woodward).

[This coat was never matriculated in Lyon Register.]

ABERDEEN, The Constable of. Argent, a sword and key in saltire gules

[These arms, on an escutcheon of pretence, were matriculated in Lyon Register, c. 1672-7, by Forbes of Waterton.]

ABERDEEN AND ORKNEY, Bishop of. According to Crockford the arms in use are per pale, dexter the supposed arms of the See of Aberdeen, sinister the arms of the See of Orkney, to which refer.

[There is no authority for the foregoing.]

ABERDEEN GRAMMAR SCHOOL (Aberdeen). Has no arms. Those in use are: Per pale gules, a castle triple towered; impaling gules a sword paleways proper between three padlocks argent (these being supposed to be the arms of a chief benefactor of the School, Dr Patrick Dun, Principal of Marischal College), on a chief argent, a saltire azure charged with a book proper. Mottoes-(over crest) " Bon record," (under arms) " Ratio confirmatioque doctrina."

[Of no authority.]

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