History of Scottish Seals from the Eleventh to the Seventeenth Century: The royal seals of ScotlandMackay, 1905 |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
annulets armorial Arms of Scotland attached background bears a shield British Museum caparisons carved Castle crocketted cross crown daughter David deed dated diameter document Duke of Albany Duncan Earl Earl of Carrick Edinburgh Edward Balliol eldest engravers ensigned fleurs-de-lis foliage footboard France Governor of Scotland GRACIA hand he holds hauberk helmet Henry heraldic horse imperfect inches indistinct James II John Balliol Kenneth II King Alexander King James King of England King of Scots kingdom left hand legend lion rampant Malcolm Malcolm II mantle Mary obverse ornamented plate armour Queen of Scots reverse right hand Robert Bruce Robert Stuart Royal Arms Royal Seals saltire sceptre Scone SCOTS Second Seal Scottish SCOTTORVM Seal for Scotland Seal of James Seal of King shield of arms signet sinister slipped trefoils sovereigns Stirling style succeeded surcoat sword tail third seal Thistle three fleurs-de-lis throne tunic wears wife William the Lion Wyon
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 50 - Carrick, by his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Adam Mure of Rowallan, whose age was about fifty-three years at the time of his accession.
الصفحة 33 - Baliol, he calls attention to the ' well-designed lion rampant, the principal charge, with,' he continues, 'the tail incurved or bent inwards towards the neck of the animal, — a detail which belongs rightly to the Scottish lion, and is found constantly recurrent from the day of the making of this seal until the present time, with exceptions arising from ignorance, carelessness, or indifference, on the part of those who have taken upon themselves the task of reproducing the arms.
الصفحة 55 - Robert, Duke of Albany, had been appointed Governor of the kingdom by ordinance of the Council assembled at Perth in June, 1406 ; after his death Murdach assumed the position of Governor of the realm, in September, 1420. His period of power was but brief. His eldest surviving son, Sir Walter Stewart, was beheaded, for treason, in front of Stirling Castle on the 24th May, 1425...
الصفحة 78 - Arms of Scotland. Round the lower half of the shield passes the collar of the Order of the Thistle, with its proper pendant. The legend is that already used by Mary, to which attention has been drawn — SALVVM . FAC . POPVLVM . TVVM . DOMINE. After accession to the throne of England, on the death of Queen Elizabeth, 24th March, 1602-3, at Richmond, James VI. was, on the same day, proclaimed as "James I., King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland," at Whitehall and at the Cross of London, and...
الصفحة 12 - Ingibjorg, daughter of Earl Finn Arnason, and widow of Thorfmn Sigurdson, earl of Orkney.
الصفحة 57 - The scene of their execution was an eminence to the north of the Castle, called the Gowlinghill, or Heading-hill, as it was afterwards called from this sanguinary scene. The event itself was one which drew from those who witnessed it expressions of deep regret and compassion. Duke Murdach and his two sons were men of gigantic stature. Fraser, in the work already mentioned, discusses at length the probable reasons for these executions ; Sir Walter's crime being probably that de roborea or spoliation...
الصفحة 59 - ... arms, and effigy of the regent. We see in this a determined attempt to supersede the king, and pave the way for the regent's assumption of full regal power and dignity, and do not wonder that throughout the whole of this period the kingdom was full of strife and conflict.
الصفحة 95 - ... that the history of a nation is reflected on its seals and its coins. He sees in them, in their turns, the archaic period of simplicity and severity of manners, then the gradual awakening of the sense of beauty which he has found in so many wonderful examples of architecture throughout the kingdom ; ' the culminating era of so-called Gothic styles found a ready response in the seal to the challenge which the ecclesiastical or monastic edifice offered to it ; then came the rejection of the Gothic,...
الصفحة 13 - On it are observed the king riding on a warhorse turned to the right. He is attired in a kind of trellised or fretty hauberk or shirt of mail ; the helmet is of the conical shape in use generally at the time, and is furnished with a nasale, or projecting piece for protection of the nose. In his right...