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Arms of the Scottish Bishoprics (1917)

Lyon, William Towers · Selkirk : Scottish Chronicle · leaf 67

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ldry, however, there is a traditionalmanner of representing a Bishop, to which it is best toadhere, and all the more so as the rohes of a fourth centuryEastern Bishop must be more or less a matter of conjecture. The aims of the diocese may be blazoned thus : —^^ Azure, in the porch of a Temple… … CHAPTER IX. Orkney. The arms of the diocese of Orkney bear the figure ofSt. Magnus, the patron of the see and of the cathedral atKirkwall. Orkney and Zetland were early colonized by Scandi-navians, whose influence gradually spread throughout theHebrides also. These colonists were in the habit…

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