ARBROATH, Royal Burgh of (Forfarshire).

ARBROATH, Royal Burgh of (Forfarshire). (Anciently called Aberbrotheck or Aberbrothock.) Gules, a portcullis with chains pendent or, and in an escroU over the same this motto — "Propter Libertatem." Supporters — (Dexter) St Thomas a 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 iti extcnso in the Genealogical Magazine, July 1900, Vol. iv., p. 107.]

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