. The arms of the Scottish bishoprics. al the figure of aBishop holding a crosier in his right hand, and asaltire in the left. (3) The same de\ ice was used by Arthur Ross, the lastArchbishop before the disestablishment, and, usedas it is apart from the figure of the Apostle, it showsthat the saltire of St. Andrew had definitely come tobe regarded as the official badge of the see whichbore his name. The arms were in fact recorded by .Archbishop Sharp inthe Lyon Register, .Azure, a St. Andrews Cross argent,impaled with the paternal arms of This wouldappear to be conclusi\e, but apparent
. The arms of the Scottish bishoprics. al the figure of aBishop holding a crosier in his right hand, and asaltire in the left. (3) The same de\ ice was used by Arthur Ross, the lastArchbishop before the disestablishment, and, usedas it is apart from the figure of the Apostle, it showsthat the saltire of St. Andrew had definitely come tobe regarded as the official badge of the see whichbore his name. The arms were in fact recorded by .Archbishop Sharp inthe Lyon Register, .Azure, a St. Andrews Cross argent,impaled with the paternal arms of This wouldappear to be conclusi\e, but apparently there seems to haveexisted some doubt as to the j^ropriety of the national armsbeing appropriated as tlie arms of one particular diocese,because there is a note in the Register as follows :— Albeitfor the scale of the sec, he (Sharp) constantly gives, In afield azure, the Image of .St. .Andrew, the Patron of Scot-land, vested and placed within the porch of a church proper,having his crossc of martyrdome on his breast argent, with. these words in Hying escrolls on each side, regi, ecclesiae,SACRis, on the right, and auspice summo nlmine on theleft, and round the seal sigillum rotundum akchiepiscopi SAXCTI ANDREAE. This seems to indicate that, though adopted as a badgeby the Bishops of the see, the saltire, or national arms ofScotland, could not legitimately he regarded as the officialarms of the diocese of St. Andrews. And if such a strongsupporter of the Episcopate and of the nexus between churchand state as James Sharp, constantly gave the old device ofthe Bishops seals as the official diocesan seal—and by givingthe tinctures he would seem to wish to extend the use of thedevice to purposes apart from the seal—there are stronggrounds for belief that the diocese of St. Andrews cannotrightly lay claim to the arms at present in use. But, on the other hand, since from the time of Bishopde Landallis in 1371, the saltire of St. Andrew has beenused constantly, practically uni
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