MARYBOROUGH (Queen's County).

MARYBOROUGH (Queen's County). (Incorporated by Queen Mary I. in the year 1551.) Party perfesse gules and azure, in chief two lions passant guardant in pale, and in base two fleurs-de-lis in fesse or. Ratified and confirmed as the

"anciente coate-Armour"of the Borough of Maryborough, 24th November 1656, by Carney, Ulster King of Arms. A certificate of these arms, worded as under, is preserved in Ulster's Office : —

" The Atcheiuement aboue depicted is the ancient coate Armour properly belonging to y'= Borough and Towne of Maryborough in the Queene's County which said borough or Towne continued an ancient Corporation for a long time. It was incorporated by Queene Mary. Whence it hath the denomination of Mary Borough about the third yeare of her raigne Anno 1557. By the name of Burgomaster three Burgesses and Commons and hath as ample and large priviledges as either the Towne of Drogheda or Dundalk. All which said coate Armour and Atcheivement I Richard Carney Esq. principall herald of Armes for y<^ whole Dominion of Ireland doe at the request of Capt. Henry Gilbert now Burgomaster of the same hereby Ratify and confirme to the said Burgomaster three Burgesses and Commons and theire Successours ffor ever. All which I have both Recorded in my oflSce and given this Certificate.

" In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seale of myne office and subscribed my name this 24 day of November 1656."

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