. Lacunar basilicae Sancti Macarii, aberdonensis: the heraldic ceiling of the cathedral church of St. Machar, old Aberdeen. ^. Sir David Lindsay shows the lion of Gueldres crownedin the impalement of Mary of Gueldres, Queen of James II. (29),and Laing (vol. i., p. 12, No. 48, PI. II., fig. 2) gives an engravingof her beautiful seal, showing Scotland, with the tressure complete,impaling the impaled coat of Gueldres, in which the lion of Gueldresis crowned. 102 THE HERALDIC CEILING OF ST. MACHAR. No. i6.] XVI. The City of Old Aberdeen. Azure, a bough-pot or charged with three salmon fishes in fr
. Lacunar basilicae Sancti Macarii, aberdonensis: the heraldic ceiling of the cathedral church of St. Machar, old Aberdeen. ^. Sir David Lindsay shows the lion of Gueldres crownedin the impalement of Mary of Gueldres, Queen of James II. (29),and Laing (vol. i., p. 12, No. 48, PI. II., fig. 2) gives an engravingof her beautiful seal, showing Scotland, with the tressure complete,impaling the impaled coat of Gueldres, in which the lion of Gueldresis crowned. 102 THE HERALDIC CEILING OF ST. MACHAR. No. i6.] XVI. The City of Old Aberdeen. Azure, a bough-pot or charged with three salmon fishes in fret proper, andholding as many lilies of the garden, the dexter in bud, the middle fullblown, the sinister half blown, stalked and leaved proper, flowered argent. The pot of lilies is the emblem of the Blessed Virgin, the PatronSaint of the City, and the salmon fishes, disposed in the form suggestedby the meshes of a net, are significant of the resources of the adjacentriver. - - I [17]. Igigii Qpirifutiiiiif. II
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