. The arms of the Scottish bishoprics. ionrampant. On one of these seals, which was hisofficial seal as Bishop of Dunblane, above the shieldis a mitre and mantling, surmounted by a crest,viz., a lions head erased, the use of which, as wehave already noted, is incorrect in the armorialbearings of a Bishop. Tlie second seal, which is asignet, is on a letter to the Duke of Lauderdale : itshows the shield with a helmet instead of a mitre,together with mantling and crest. The signatureof the Bishop on the letter is interesting : he merely 29 signs R. Leighton, and does not use an officialsignature
. The arms of the Scottish bishoprics. ionrampant. On one of these seals, which was hisofficial seal as Bishop of Dunblane, above the shieldis a mitre and mantling, surmounted by a crest,viz., a lions head erased, the use of which, as wehave already noted, is incorrect in the armorialbearings of a Bishop. Tlie second seal, which is asignet, is on a letter to the Duke of Lauderdale : itshows the shield with a helmet instead of a mitre,together with mantling and crest. The signatureof the Bishop on the letter is interesting : he merely 29 signs R. Leighton, and does not use an officialsignature derived from his diocese.(2) Two seals of Bishop Robert Douglas, alreadyreferred to, both of which show the arms at presentin use in the diocese, in one case quartered, and inthe other, as is more usual, impaled with hispaternal arms, which are borne with differences onthe two seals. This was the first Bishop of Dun-blane to use the official armorial bearings of the arms are blazoned thus :— Argent, a Saltireengrailed CHAPTKR VII. Edinburgh. The arms of the diocese of lidinburf^^h are derived fromthose of St. Andrews, as the diocese was formed out ofthe Archdeaconry of Lothian, hitherto included in the oldprimatial see of Scotland. Their origin need not bereferred to here, as it has already been explained in thechapter dealing with St. Andrews. The dio<:ese cf Edinburgh was founded by King Charles 1663. William Fortes was appointed the first Bishop,and the old Collegiate Church of St. Giles became thecathedral. The diocese still retained some small connectionwith the parent see, as the Bishop of Edinburgh held theoffice of Vicar General of the Province of St. Andrews. The arms—which are unique among those of Scottishdioceses, in that probably they were officially granted bythe Lord Lyon—are the same as those of St. Andrewsdifferenced with a mitre in chief. Whether they wereactually granted or not to the see, we find them recordedin the Lyon Registe
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