. Lacunar basilicae Sancti Macarii, aberdonensis: the heraldic ceiling of the cathedral church of St. Machar, old Aberdeen. QailiF QmM. XIV [30]. :®j:i5rHl[i Qninilil* SERIES OF SCOTTISH NOBLES. II 5 XIII. The Earl of Errol. [No. 29. Argent, three escutcheons gules. These are the paternal arms of Hay, borne by the Earls of Errolas heads of the house. Little credence is now f^^iven to the le^^^endary orif;^in of these arms. Nisbet (i. 182) says that the king gave them to the peasant ofLuncarty to intimate that the father and the two sons had beenluckily the three shields of Scotland . It is mor
. Lacunar basilicae Sancti Macarii, aberdonensis: the heraldic ceiling of the cathedral church of St. Machar, old Aberdeen. QailiF QmM. XIV [30]. :®j:i5rHl[i Qninilil* SERIES OF SCOTTISH NOBLES. II 5 XIII. The Earl of Errol. [No. 29. Argent, three escutcheons gules. These are the paternal arms of Hay, borne by the Earls of Errolas heads of the house. Little credence is now f^^iven to the le^^^endary orif;^in of these arms. Nisbet (i. 182) says that the king gave them to the peasant ofLuncarty to intimate that the father and the two sons had beenluckily the three shields of Scotland . It is more likely that thelegend was suggested by the arms than that the arms were foundedon the legend. The legend, however, has in its turn furnished thecrest and supporters of more than one branch of the family. Laing describes the seal of Nicholas Hay (1292) (i. 74, No. 417),and also that of William, the fourth Earl, who was killed at Flodden,as three escutcheons (i. 75, No. 425). Sir David Lindsay gives the three escutcheons for Haye, Erieof Errell (41). The Hays were most probably a branch of the Norman De laHayes. When, says Mr Planche, we
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