. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. ochet (the Convocation robes of anAnglican prelate), and the mitre on his head, are very like a fancy ofthe reign of Charles EL After the Coat of Arms had been duly registered in 1888 severalcopies were lithographed, one copy each being presented to CaptainE. Dunbar Dunbar and my father—whose copy is inscribed :— Presented to L. Mackintosh, Esq., Old Lodge, Elgin, by the LordProvost, Magistrates, and Town Council of the City and Royal Burgh ofElgin. (Signed) James Black, Lord Provost. Elgin, 25th Feby. 1889. The Seal of
. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. ochet (the Convocation robes of anAnglican prelate), and the mitre on his head, are very like a fancy ofthe reign of Charles EL After the Coat of Arms had been duly registered in 1888 severalcopies were lithographed, one copy each being presented to CaptainE. Dunbar Dunbar and my father—whose copy is inscribed :— Presented to L. Mackintosh, Esq., Old Lodge, Elgin, by the LordProvost, Magistrates, and Town Council of the City and Royal Burgh ofElgin. (Signed) James Black, Lord Provost. Elgin, 25th Feby. 1889. The Seal of Elgin The ancient Seal of the Burgh—an antiquity, by the way, which isworth very careful study—bears a figure of St Giles holding an openbook in his right hand, and a crozier in his left, encircled with theinscription, s commvne civitatis hblgyn : Over the figure ofSt Giles is inscribed, apparently by a later hand, scs (Scantus)egidius. On the Seal, St Giles has no mitre ; his vestments are thealb and chasuble proper to a priest; the chasuble being of Gothic or. c.«.^ /At A*? t/af• failvv/. it The Anns of the City and Royal Burgh of Elgin.
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