. Lacunar basilicae Sancti Macarii, aberdonensis: the heraldic ceiling of the cathedral church of St. Machar, old Aberdeen. ^i:Hiiiii(Jiniftifofllili1|ilr. VI [22]. G)inialiirir CniiiiM. SERIES OF SCOTTISH NOBLES. IO7 V. The Earl of Moray. [No. 21. Argent, three cushions gules within the royal tressure. The tressure is not shown double. The cushions are lozenge-shaped, with corners resembling tassels. Three cushions or pillows were the paternal arms of Ranulph orRandolph, which became the feudal arms of the Earldom of Moray. On the seal of Thomas Randolph (1280) (Laing, i. 114, No. 688)there a

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. Lacunar basilicae Sancti Macarii, aberdonensis: the heraldic ceiling of the cathedral church of St. Machar, old Aberdeen. ^i:Hiiiii(Jiniftifofllili1|ilr. VI [22]. G)inialiirir CniiiiM. SERIES OF SCOTTISH NOBLES. IO7 V. The Earl of Moray. [No. 21. Argent, three cushions gules within the royal tressure. The tressure is not shown double. The cushions are lozenge-shaped, with corners resembling tassels. Three cushions or pillows were the paternal arms of Ranulph orRandolph, which became the feudal arms of the Earldom of Moray. On the seal of Thomas Randolph (1280) (Laing, i. 114, No. 688)there are three pillows without a tressure. Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, Lord of Annandale and Man,nephew of Robert Bruce, was the first of his family who was allowedto place the double tressure round his paternal figures (Nisbet, ii. 6g). In 1292 the seal of Thomas Ranulph, afterwards first Earl ofMoray, was: On a shield three pillows, and Froissart statesthat he bore: Argent a trois oreilles de guelles (Stodart, ii. 18), The Regent changed the pillows to cushions by adding tasselsin or about 1330. In the Armorial dc Gelre Count de Morref bears: Argent,three cu

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