A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . e :— The robes and cap of the hereditary armour-bearer—crimson velvetwith gold braid border. Horse housings, including pistol holsters of green and gold. Ouaigh, snuff-box, and silver shoulder-knot of Prince Charles-EdwardStuart. (See p. 351.) The following description of the Seton Family Tree, in the possessionof Sir Alan H. Seton-Steuart, is from the Catalogue of the HeraldicExhibition, held at Edinburgh in 1891 :— Executed on parchme
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . e :— The robes and cap of the hereditary armour-bearer—crimson velvetwith gold braid border. Horse housings, including pistol holsters of green and gold. Ouaigh, snuff-box, and silver shoulder-knot of Prince Charles-EdwardStuart. (See p. 351.) The following description of the Seton Family Tree, in the possessionof Sir Alan H. Seton-Steuart, is from the Catalogue of the HeraldicExhibition, held at Edinburgh in 1891 :— Executed on parchment, the background being black, and the leafageof a definite green. Over seventy shields, generally baron and femme,appear illuminated in gold and tinctures, argent being represented by thewhite parchment. The flowers (carnations, lilies, roses, etc.) introduced atfoot, and the figures of an ape and various birds that appear above, areexecuted with great minuteness and beauty of colouring: while the portraitsof Robert Lord Seton (afterwards first Earl of Winton), and his fatherGeorge, and their respective wives, have the finish of fine
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