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===Official blazon=== | ===Official blazon=== | ||
Or, a Lyon rampant gules armed and langued azure within a double tressur flowered and counter-flowered with flowers de lis of the second, Encircled with the order of Scotland the same being composed of Rue and thistles having the Image of St. Andrew with his crosse on his brest y unto pendent. Above the shield ane Helment answerable to his Majesties high qualitie and jurisdiction with a mantle or doubled ermine adorned with ane Imperiall Crowne beautified with crosses pattee and flowers de lis surmounted on the top for his Majesties Crest of a Lyon sejant full faced gules crowned or holding in his dexter paw a naked sword proper and in the sinister a Scepter both erected paleways supported be two Unicornes Argent crowned with Imperiall and goarged with open Crownes, to the last chains affixed passing betwixt their fore leggs and reflexed over their backs or, he on the dexter imbracing and bearing up a banner of cloath of gold charged with the Royall Armes of Scotland and he on the sinister another Banner azure charged with a St Andrews Crosse argent, both standing on ane compartment placed underneath from which issue thistles one towards each side of the escutcheon, and for his Majisties Royall Motto's in ane escroll over all In defence, and under on the table of the compartment Nemo me impune Lacessit. | |||
===Origin/meaning=== | ===Origin/meaning=== | ||
Scotland, surprisingly, does not have official arms. The arms with the red lion in a tressure is, however, seen as the arms of Scotland and used as such all over the country. | Scotland, surprisingly, does not have official arms. The arms above are officially the (historical) arms of the Kings of Scotland and granted as such in 1672. The arms with the red lion in a tressure is, however, seen as the arms of Scotland and used as such all over the country. | ||
The arms with the lion and the tressure were used as the arms of Scotland for the first time during the interregnum of 1290-’92 when the deputies from the kingdom charged their seal with the arms. | The arms with the lion and the tressure were used as the arms of Scotland for the first time during the interregnum of 1290-’92 when the deputies from the kingdom charged their seal with the arms. | ||
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[[Literature]] : Fox-Davies, A.C. : The Art of Heraldry, London 1904; http://hubert-herald.nl; own images; collections of National Museum of Scotland | [[Literature]] : Fox-Davies, A.C. : The Art of Heraldry, London 1904; http://hubert-herald.nl; own images; collections of National Museum of Scotland | ||
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