. Lacunar basilicae Sancti Macarii, aberdonensis: the heraldic ceiling of the cathedral church of St. Machar, old Aberdeen. ^TflfpFn ]IzrTjiF|ii\ w [36]. fe)unlFliiFn 6|iilriij[ii ANDW ttlBI NDWttlBBA CO LlTM<t< ECCLESIASTICAL SERIES. 121 III. The Archbishop of Glasgow. [No. 35. James Bethune or Beaton. Quarterly: first and fourth Azure, a fess between three mascles or, Bethune;second and third Argent, on a chevron sable an otters head erased ofthe field, Balfour. These were the arms of Bethune of Balfour, to which family theArchbishop belonged. The Balfour quartering was added to the co
. Lacunar basilicae Sancti Macarii, aberdonensis: the heraldic ceiling of the cathedral church of St. Machar, old Aberdeen. ^TflfpFn ]IzrTjiF|ii\ w [36]. fe)unlFliiFn 6|iilriij[ii ANDW ttlBI NDWttlBBA CO LlTM<t< ECCLESIASTICAL SERIES. 121 III. The Archbishop of Glasgow. [No. 35. James Bethune or Beaton. Quarterly: first and fourth Azure, a fess between three mascles or, Bethune;second and third Argent, on a chevron sable an otters head erased ofthe field, Balfour. These were the arms of Bethune of Balfour, to which family theArchbishop belonged. The Balfour quartering was added to the coat of Bethune onaccount of the marriage of Robert de Bethune with the daughterand heiress of Sir John Balfour of that Ilk, in the reign of RobertII. Laing (i. 149, Nos. 879, 880) describes a seal of James Beton,when Archbishop of Saint Andrews, to which See he was translatedfrom Glasgow in 1522, as having at the lower part a shieldquarterly, first and fourth, a fess between three lozenges, for Beton ;second and third, a chevron charged with an otters head, forBalfour . 122 THE HERALDIC CEILING OF ST. MACHAR. No. 36.] IV. The Bishop of Dunkeld. Gav
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