. Lacunar basilicae Sancti Macarii, aberdonensis: the heraldic ceiling of the cathedral church of St. Machar, old Aberdeen. Itnrri^ii e|iilrn| KzFrliinni (piTntpi ECCLESIASTICAL SERIES. 125 VII. The Bishop of Ross. [No. 39. Robert , tliree cocks gules. The arms are those of Cockburn of that Ilk, Berwickshire, andnot those of Cockburn of Skirlinj:^, whose difference was a spearshead. Laing (ii. 183, No. 1068) gives a ;eal of this Bishop, and saysthat the lower part of the seal, usually occupied by the shield,is broken off (1515), and one of the same Robert Cockburn, whenBisho

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. Lacunar basilicae Sancti Macarii, aberdonensis: the heraldic ceiling of the cathedral church of St. Machar, old Aberdeen. Itnrri^ii e|iilrn| KzFrliinni (piTntpi ECCLESIASTICAL SERIES. 125 VII. The Bishop of Ross. [No. 39. Robert , tliree cocks gules. The arms are those of Cockburn of that Ilk, Berwickshire, andnot those of Cockburn of Skirlinj:^, whose difference was a spearshead. Laing (ii. 183, No. 1068) gives a ;eal of this Bishop, and saysthat the lower part of the seal, usually occupied by the shield,is broken off (1515), and one of the same Robert Cockburn, whenBishop of Dunkeld (ii. 172, No. 1023), hanng a shield bearing threecocks (1525). He was third son of Sir William Cockburn ofCessfurd and Skirling. 126 THE HERALDIC CEILING OF ST. MACHAR No. 40.] VIII. The Bishop of Brechin. John Hepburn. Gules, on a chevron argent a rose between two lions combatant of the field. These are the paternal arms of Hepburn. Laing (i. 159, No. gig) describes a seal of this Bishop as havingat the lower part a shield, bearing the arms of Hepburn, IX [41]

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