Heraldry in Scotland : including a recension of 'The law and practice of heraldry in Scotland' by the late George Seton (1914)
Stevenson, J. H. (John Horne), 1855-1939, Seton, George, 1822-1908. Law and practice of heraldry in Scotland · Glasgow, J. Maclehose · leaf 272
I Luat ISn IS a label, a: 1 wit;:>on V REGISTER OF ALL ARMS AND BEARINGS. 1. Sir George Clerk of Penicuik, Baronet, 21st July, 1807. 2. Walter Scott of Abbotsford, Esquire, 7th March, 1820 (afterwards Sir Walter Scott, Baronet). /• »« • 1 i • r - UV.1US of Mane and he -^ n iiivcrr nd wife 1^ .… … IMPALEMENT AND DIMIDIATION 157 was an heiress. So we find that it is laid down in 1680, when Sir GeorgeMackenzie wrote, that a man who married an heiress and was disposed tomarshal her arms with his, impaled the two coats together.^ In modernpractice impalement merely indicates a marriage.…
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