Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

1G04.] AUMOKlAl- COAT OV I'AKL Ul' ANXANLiAM". O'J
royall I'l-eileccssovs formerly eu Elskixl of Cambo, Lyou King of Anns.
2 2d XovcmUr IGdi.
To all ami sc.vdkv whom these presents do or may concenie, I, Sir Alexander
Arcskine of Cambo, knight and baronet, lyon king of armes, considering that by the
twenty-cue act of the thrid session of the second parliament of King Charles the
Second of ever blessed memory, I am impowercd to visit the whole amies of noblemen,
prelates, barons and gentlemen within this kingdom, and to distinguish them with
congruent differences, and to matriculate the same in my books and registers, and to
give amies to vertnous and well-deserving persons, and extracts of all armes expressjing
the hlason thereof under my hand and .scall of otEce : Which register is by the said
act appoyutcd to be respected as the true and unrepcalable rule of all armes and
bearings in Scotland, to remain with the lyon office as the publiet register of the
kingdom. Therefore, conforme to the tenor of the .said act of parliament, I tcstifie
and make known that the coat armour appertaining and belonging to the right honor-
able William, Earle of Annandale and Ilarti'ell, A'iscount of Annand, Lord Johnston
of Lochwod, Lochmaben. Mofletdaill and Evendaill, etc., and approven of and conDinicd
by me to liim, is matrieuUit in my said publiet register upon the day and date of tliese
presents, and is thus blasoneil, videlicet, The said William, Earle of Annandale,
etc., for his atclieivement and ensignes armoriall, bears quarterly, first, argent, the cross
of Saint Andrew sable, on a cheife, gules, three cusheons, or, as his lordships own
patcrnall Cuat by the name of Johnston ; second, or, an anchor gules, by the name of
Fairliohivi, his lordship haveing mariod Lady Sophia Fairholme, heires of Craigyhall ;