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ARBROATH, Royal Burgh of (Forfarshire). (Anciently called Aberbrotheck or Aberbrothock.) Gules, a portcullis with chains pendent or, and in an escroll over the same this motto—"Propter Libertatem." Supporters—(Dexter) St Thomas à Becket in his archiepiscopal robes all proper, (sinister) a Baron of Scotland armed cap-a-pie holding in his exterior hand the letter from the Convention of the Scottish Estates, held at Arbroath in the year 1320, addressed to Pope John XXII., all proper.

[Arms matriculated in Lyon Register, and supporters granted 12th January 1900. Patent printed in extenso in the Genealogical Magazine, July 1900, Vol. iv., p. 107.]

ARCH-TREASURER OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE. The Kings of England from George I. to William IV. bore upon an inescutcheon over the arms of Hanover, "Gules, a representation of the Crown of Charlemagne," as indicative of their Office.

ARCHERS, The Royal Company of, The King's Body-Guard for Scotland. Vert, three arrows proper, barbed and feathered argent, one in pale and two in saltire, surmounted of an escutcheon or, charged with a lion rampant within a double tressure flory, counterflory of fleurs-de-lys gules, and ensigned with an Imperial crown proper. Supporters—Two archers with bows in their exterior hands, that on the dexter in the uniform of the Company the year 1716, that on the sinister in that of the year 1816, and in an escrol over the shield this

motto, "Arcŭ atque animo."

[Matriculated in Lyon Register.]