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| CONFIRMATION AND MATRICULATION OF THE ARMS OF THE
ROYAL BURGH OF CULLEN |
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all and Sundry whom these presents do or may concern, WE, Sir
Thomas Innes of Learney, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian
Order, Baron of Learney, Kinnairdy and Yeochrie, Doctor of Laws,
Advocate, Lord Lyon King of Arms, Send Greeting: WHEREAS The
Provost, Magistrates and Councillors of the Royal Burgh of Cullen,
having by Petition unto Us of date 9 May 1955 Shewn: THAT
the Royal Burgh of Cullen has used certain Ensigns Armorial from a
period long anterior to the year 1672, but that the same was not
matriculated in the Public Register of All Arms & Bearings in
Scotland pursuant to
Statute 1672, cap 47: AND that the petitioners having prayed
that the Arms proper to the said Burgh might now be ascertained
and matriculated in the said Public Register conform to the said
Act of Parliament, and further that We might be pleased to Grant
unto the said Royal Burgh a Compartment appropriate to its status
as a Burgh Royal, and in respect of its antiquity suitable
Supporters; We Do Therefore Certify and Make Known that the
Ensigns Armorial appertaining and belonging to the Royal Burgh of
Cullen, and matriculated on the 37th page of the Forty-First
Volume of our Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in
Scotland, of even date with These Presents, conform to Our
Interlocutor and Warrant to the Lyon Clerk of date 23 February
last for that effect are thus blazoned Videticet:- per fess, Sable
and Argent, in chief on a sedilla Or, cushioned Gates diapered Or,
the Blessed Virgin enthroned proper, habited Gales, mantled Azure,
crowned Or, and holding in her dexter hand a sceptre surmounted of
a fleur-de-lys Or, and in her sinister arm the Holy Child
enhaloed, also proper: in base a talbot passant of the
First: Below the Shield, which is ensigned with a burghal
coronet, is placed a Compartment suitable to a Burgh Royal,
bearing this Motto "In Secula Seculorum" upon which are
set for Supporters two talbots Sable; which said Supporters
and Compartment We have Devised and Do by These Presents Assign,
Ratify and Confirm unto the said Royal Burgh of Cullen: IN
TESTIMONY WHEREOF We have Subscribed
These Presents and the Seal of Our Office is affixed hereto at
Edinburgh this Twenty-fifth day of July in the Fifth Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of
God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond
the Seas, QUEEN, Defender of the Faith, etc., & in the Year of
Our Lord 1956
Thomas Innes of Learney
Lyon
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