ding totradition, had so close a connection with the diocese. Butthe evidence, it must be admitted, is so meagre, that it ismuch more probable, when we remember that in 1675 thepalmy days of the science of heraldry were past, that thearms assumed for the see are merely of a conventional… … CHAPTER XYU. The Isles. In the nineteenth century the Lyon King of Armsgranted armorial bearings to the newly-founded college ofCumbrae. And this shield bore as its first and fourthquarterings the arms which had been previously assumedfor the diocese of the Isles. The shield of the see repre-sents…
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