Lyon, W. T · Selkirk : The Scottish Chronicle Offices · leaf 47
n hardly be regarded as a very heinousoffence. If, however, at any time it should be decided to regu-larize, so to speak, the heraldry of the Church, it might bewell to revert to the device used by at least nineteen pre-revolution Bishops on their seals, namely, St. Andrew onhis cross. The shield… … CHAPTER V. Dunkeld. The arms of the diocese of Dunkeld—a Passion crossbetween two nails—are of comparatively modern origin. Abernethy and Dunkeld were probably early Columbansettlements from the parent house of lona. About themiddle of the ninth century, when the kingdoms of theScots and the Picts…
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