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WRIGHTS, Incorporated Trade (Edinburgh). Azure, a carpenter's square and compasses conjoined in pale argent. [Not matriculated in Lyon Register. Refer sub Edinburgh.]

WRIGHTS. Refer to Stornoway, Incorporated Trades of.

WRIGHTS AND COOPERS, The Craft and Incorporation of (Aberdeen). Quarterly, 1. gules, a tower triple-towered argent, 2. gules, a compass or, 3. azure, a square or, 4. ... a wright's axe argent, slassed (? shafted) or. Motto—"Our Redeemer liveth for ever." [Matriculated in Lyon Register, 1682.] By Patent, 6th April 1696, the following arms were "restored": —Quarterly: 1. gules, a wright's compass or, 2. azure, a coupar's axe argent, shafted or, 3. azure, a square or, 4. gules, a coupar's compass or; over all on an escutcheon gules, three towers .triple towered two and one within a double tressure flowered and counter-flowered argent. Mantle— Gules, doubled argent. Crest—On a wreath or, gules, argent and azure, an adder in circle, proper. Motto— (Over crest), "Our Redeemer liveth for ever." [Facsimile of Patent in Catalogue of Scottish Heraldic Exhibition.]

WRITERS TO THE SIGNET (Society of Writers to His Majesty's Signet). Azure, a saltire argent, in the flanks two thistles or, and in chief and in base the Royal Signet of the Second with this inscription on the edge, "Signetum Regium." [Matriculated in Lyon Register, 15th August 1789.]