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ANNAN (County of Dumfries). Has not matriculated any armorial bearings. The seal shows an escutcheon charged with a saltire within a bordure. These arms are described in the catalogue of the Heraldic Exhibition in Edinburgh as. the arms of Annandale. The arms of Annand, Lord of Annandale, are quoted in Burke's "General Armory," "Ar. a saltire and a chief gu.," but the arms of Johnstone, Marquess of Annandale, a title dormant since 1792, and now claimed by Johnstone of Westerhall, are quoted, "ar. a saltire sa. on a chief gu. three cushions or." The seal shows no tinctures, so it appears to be doubtful what they actually are.

ANSTRUTHER-EASTER (Fifeshire). Has not matriculated any armorial bearings. The seal represents an anchor with the legend "Virtute resparve crescunt Anstruther Easter."

ANSTRUTHER-WESTER (Fifeshire). Has not marticulated any armorial bearings. The seal represents three fishes interlaced in a triangle with the legend “Anstruther Vaster."

ANTIGUA. Refer to Leeward Islands.

ANTIGUA, See of. Argent, a passion cross gules, on the dexter side a serpent erect and wavy vert, looking towards the sinister; and on the sinister side a dove holding in the beak an olive branch all proper; on a chief of the second a crosier in bend dexter surmounting a key in bend sinister, the ward upwards or, and in the centre chief point an imperial crown, also proper.

[Granted College of Arms, 21st Sept. 1842.]

ANTIQUARIES, Society of (London). Has no armorial bearings, and most im- properly makes use of the following-" Argent, on a cross gules, the Royal crown or." Crest—An Antique Roman lamp or. Motto—"Non extinguetur."

[These arms were granted as a quartering of augmentation in 1649 by King Charles H. to his secretary, Sir Edward Nicholas, and one would have imagined a supposedly antiquarian society would have kept its hands off such an honourable coat.]

ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND, Society of. Azure, the cross of St Andrew argent, between an imperial crown in chief and a thistle in base both proper, all within a double tressure flory counterflory or.

[Matriculated in Lyon Register, 17th Nov. 1827.]

ANTRIM, County of. Has no arms.

ANTWERP (Belgium). Gules, a castle of three towers domed in perspective, in chief a dexter and a sinister hand couped at the wrist proper.