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For #MementoMoriMonday this week here's a wee look inside the late 16th century burial aisle of the Charteris family that is attached to the now ruinous medieval kirk at Kilfauns, Perthshire. (1/3) 🧵
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Day 213 of a year of #RandomScottishGravestones🪦
"The Body of the Gentleman Beggar"
My good friend @SHeraldry sent me this remarkable tombstone to share on #TombTuesday. It commemorates Andrew Gemmels, the inspiration for Scott's 'Edie Ochiltree.'
Roxburgh Kirkyard, Borders.
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The Lord Lyon and the Officers at Arms attended a training drill session on the 30th March under the instruction of GSM Anthony Gibson MVO at Redford Barracks.
The training was designed to improve the Officers marching abilities and was a successful evening .
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Those with an interest in legal history are invited to attend. The moot will take place at Parliament House, Edinburgh from 9.30 am (for a 10 am start).
Please email [email protected] to book a place (subject to availability).
@royalcelticsoc – at Scotland, United Kingdom
Care to see a Scottish legal history moot?? On Sat 18 March, law students from Aberdeen and Edinburgh will go head to head to determine who is the rightful heir to clan chiefship - using the law of 1820 - as part of the 200th anniversary celebrations of @royalcelticsoc
One day when I have time (some unspecified point in the future...) I'd love to do some research and find out more about Grace Graden. If anyone knows anything about her (and her litigation in the Court of Session) please do share 🦦
On International Women's Day, we salute two ladies whose arms are recorded in Volume One of the Lyon Register (1672-7): Grizel Durham, Countess of Middleton, sister of a Lord Lyon and ancestress of HM the King, and Grace Graden, Heiress of Earnshaw. #internationalwomensday2023
Here's an earlier Crail thread I did from the graveyard, but it doesn't seem to have any Leslies or Lindsays - or at least, none that has survived the weathering effect of wind and water:
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On a recent break in Newcastleton we found lots of armigerous Armstrongs in the local graveyards, all bearing the lovely canting charge of 2 or 3 strong arms in fess! 💪 A selection follows:
As well as these fanciful arms on a fantastically carved stone to Isabel Veitch (1809) and William Scott her husband:
A little thread from the beautiful East Neuk town of Crail - not on the town arms, but on these arms surmounting the doorway of Leslie House, with the date 1710 and the initials HL. In fact, both coats are Ls: Lindsay on the left and Leslie on the right...
The arms of Lindsay of Wormiston are Gules a fess chequy argent and azure between 3 mullets in chief of the first and an annulet in base Or. Here the charge in base is a mascle - a subtle difference for a cadet branch of the Lindsays of Wormiston?
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Could everyone in Edinburgh please RT this to maximise the chance of finding a witness of the incident? I suffered a head injury and broke a few teeth because of it and so far there has been no luck with any CCTV footage. The exact timing was more like 8:15am on that day
We are appealing following a crash on Ratcliffe Ter, 8.45am Thurs 26 Jan, involving a blue Vauxhall Corsa and a cyclist. A man aged 27, the cyclist, was taken to ERI for treatment. If you saw what happened or have dash-cam please call us on 101 - Inc 0654 of 26/1/23
ALT graphic with blue background and red box with the words witness appeal
Some heraldry, some memento mori, and some ladybirds all to be found in Newbattle Old Cemetery this weekend... Starting with these impaled arms, which I've not yet had a chance to track down. @Rothesay2021 ?
There was another coat of arms, but deteriorated and somewhat obliterated by lichen, and the text was illegible. I think the Dexter shield has a fetlock and the sinister the Stewart fess chequy. But otherwise no idea.
And to finish, this lovely stone showing that sometimes simplicity is the best option - still clear and legible after very nearly 400 years. It's also a good example of non-heraldic shields/quasi-heraldry, which I've been discussing with @HuwSherrard recently! Fin.
