. Lacunar basilicae Sancti Macarii, aberdonensis: the heraldic ceiling of the cathedral church of St. Machar, old Aberdeen. on the piers and buttresses ofthe Bridge of Dee. In these carvings, as well as on the ceiling, the cushions re-semble lozenges, and have no tassels. In Sir David Lindsays are tasseled and pendent from the corners (39). Laing gives two seals of the Bishop, each having at the lowerpart a shield bearing three cushions within the royal tressure (i. 154,No. 899 ; ii. 174, No. 1033). 124 THE HERALDIC CEILING OF ST. MACHAR. No. 38.] VI. The Bishop of Moray. James Hepburn
. Lacunar basilicae Sancti Macarii, aberdonensis: the heraldic ceiling of the cathedral church of St. Machar, old Aberdeen. on the piers and buttresses ofthe Bridge of Dee. In these carvings, as well as on the ceiling, the cushions re-semble lozenges, and have no tassels. In Sir David Lindsays are tasseled and pendent from the corners (39). Laing gives two seals of the Bishop, each having at the lowerpart a shield bearing three cushions within the royal tressure (i. 154,No. 899 ; ii. 174, No. 1033). 124 THE HERALDIC CEILING OF ST. MACHAR. No. 38.] VI. The Bishop of Moray. James Hepburn. Gules, on a chevron argent a rose between two lions combatant of the field,in base a heart-shaped buckle of the second. These are the arms of Hepburn of Blackcastle, the buckle of thistincture and sliape being the difference of that family. They weredescended of Riccarton, whose difference was a buckle in base or(Nisbet, i. 163). Laing (i. 157, No. 912) describes a seal of this Bishop, and givesan engraving of it (Plate XIX., fig. 5), having, in the lower part,the arms with the heart-shaped buckle in base. VII [39]. Itnrri^ii e|iilrn|ir.
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