Descriptive Catalogue of Impressions from Ancient Scotish Seals, Royal, Baronial, Ecclesiastical, and Municipal, Embracing a Period from A.D. 1094 to the Commonwealth: Taken from Original Charters and Other Deeds Preserved in Public and Private Archives

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Pagina 29 - IV] one of them measured exactly one inch, one quarter, and one eighth in diameter; the representation on one side is a man in armour, in a ship, holding a sword in his right hand, and on his left arm a shield, with four compartments of three lions and three fleur-de-lis. On the other side a large cross equally divided, the legend hardly to be made out. They are of pure gold, of seventeen shillings value.
Pagina x - JAMES SMITH, ESQ. JOHN SMITH, ESQ., LL.D., [SECRETARY.] WILLIAM SMITH, ESQ. WILLIAM SMYTHE, ESQ. MOSES STEVEN, ESQ. DUNCAN STEWART, ESQ.
Pagina ix - OF THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW. JAMES CAMPBELL REDDIE, ESQ. JOHN RICHARDSON, ESQ. LL.B. THOMAS RISK, ESQ. JOSEPH ROBERTSON, ESQ.
Pagina 118 - On a chief, the cross of the Order of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. " 8 ' JACOBI SANDELANDIS DDI ET S1ILITI8 DE TORPHICH1N.
Pagina 193 - Virgin with a royal crown and nimbus, sitting with the infant Jesus in her arms. In the lower part of the seal is a shield bearing a fess cheque, and in base a mascle.
Pagina 174 - Scotland, and the stone itself is now in the museum of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Pagina 177 - Jesus standing on a seat beside her ; in the lower part of the seal, within an arched niche, an Abbot in front, with a crozier, kneeling at prayer ; at the sides of the niche are two shields, the dexter one bearing the arms of Scotland, and the sinister three escutcheons, being the bearing of Hay," with the legend, "S'COMUNE CAPITU Li MON DE CUPRO.
Pagina viii - ESQ. JAMES HUNTER, ESQ. THE HONOURABLE JAMES IVORY, LORD IVORY. JOHN CLARK KENNEDY, ESQ. JOHN KERR, ESQ.
Pagina viii - WILLIAM LOCKHART, ESQ., MP JAMES LUCAS, ESQ. ALEXANDER MACDONALD, ESQ. < THE VERY REVEREND DUNCAN MACFARLAN, DD, PRINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW, [VICE-PRESIDENT.] ANDREW MACGEORGE, ESQ. ALEXANDER MACGRIGOR, ESQ.

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