. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. uchess of Gordon. On /the floor at the east end is a sarcophagus tomb with recumbenteffigy of the first Earl of Huntly, in a plain dress with hanging sleeves, a 88 ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT narrow waist-girdle knotted at the centre, and a poniard at his rightside ; the feet have rested upon two animals. The inscription, whichis in Gothic letters and seems to have been at one time retouched,reads :—** ffic jam itobtltB rt potn\& Sits allocator gotfcon prtmttsCOVneQ tJC imntlte 5tt0 (on the front and continued on the back) Xt
. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. uchess of Gordon. On /the floor at the east end is a sarcophagus tomb with recumbenteffigy of the first Earl of Huntly, in a plain dress with hanging sleeves, a 88 ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT narrow waist-girdle knotted at the centre, and a poniard at his rightside ; the feet have rested upon two animals. The inscription, whichis in Gothic letters and seems to have been at one time retouched,reads :—** ffic jam itobtltB rt potn\& Sits allocator gotfcon prtmttsCOVneQ tJC imntlte 5tt0 (on the front and continued on the back) Xtegorbotte rt oatrjenocfi qui obiit aptttr ftttntlte 15 fulti anno imf date it will be observed is in Arabic numerals (Fig. 30), an earlyexample of their use in such inscriptions. It was a high honour and apeculiar favour from the Church, for laymen to be permitted to havesepulture within the precincts of a Cathedral Church, and it was aprivilege only accorded to the noblest of the land. Sir Alexander Seton has been designated by some writers Lord Gordon,. Fig. 30.—Date on the Tomb of the First Earl of Huntly and carried for his arms, 1st and 4th, Seton; 2nd and 3rd,Gordon, still keeping the surname of Seton. His son George havingassumed the surname of Gordon, placed the arms of that name onthe first quarter, and Seton on the third. The arms on the front of thetomb correspond exactly with those on the seal of Alexander, thirdEarl of Huntly, who followed his King to Flodden, and are :—Quarterly,1st, Three boar heads couped (Gordon) ; 2nd, Three lion heads erased(Badenoch) ; 3rd, Three crescents within a royal tressure (Seton) ; 4th,Three fraises (Fraser). The four quarters within a royal the shield a coronet, over that a helmet, with mantling andwreath, and thereon for crest a stag head. Supporters, two houndscollared and leashed. Underneath is his title, now nearly the circumstances that the arms are not placed in the centre,and the
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