PEEBLES, Royal Burgh of (Peeblesshire).

PEEBLES, Royal Burgh of (Peeblesshire). Gules, three salmon counter-naiant in pale proper. Motto — " Contra nando incrementum."

[Matriculated in Lyon Register, 1894. The device, in allusion to the spawning of salmon in the river, indicates that for every salmon which goes up the river, two go back to the sea.]

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