ABERDEEN, The City of.

ABERDEEN, The City of. The entry in Lyon Register is as follows :—" The Royall Burgh of Aberdein gives for his Ensigncs 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. 511.

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