to Nisbet, are to be found on old paintings and in illuminated books of arms. He refers to an instance of this arrangement at Redhouse, in East Lothian, the bearings in the relative escutcheon being those of the surname of Laing Another example occurs on the sculptured tablet, exhibiting the arms of Mary of Lorraine (1560), which formerly occupied the front of her residence at the corner of Quality Wynd, Leith."

Two instances of the cordelière are furnished by Mr. Laing's Catalogue. The one appears upon the seal of Margaret, Duchess of Chatelherault (1560), in the lifetime of her husband, "where a cordelière of four knots," issuing from behind the shield, surrounds its base; while the other is on the pretty signet of Henrietta Maria, widow of Charles I. (1651), whose escutcheon is surrounded by a "border of love knots." "border of love knots."3 A third ex ample occurs in connexion with the lozenge exhibiting the arms of Anne, Duchess of Buccleuch, widow of the Duke of Monmouth, on one of the cards (1691) already referred to.* recent volume of the Lyon Register, the arms of Mrs. Mary Chisholm, spouse of James Gooden, Esquire, and "the only issue of the late Alexander Chisholm of Chisholm, in the shires of Inverness and Ross," consisting of a boar's head "couped," are illuminated on a fusil or lozenge, which is suspended from a sort of cordelière.

1 System of Heraldry, vol. ii. part iv. p. 130.

2 Robertson's Antiquities of Leith, p. 31, and plate i. See also Plate XIV. fig. 7, in this volume.

curious set of playing In like manner, in a

3 Plate XIII. figs. 5, 6. Laing's Catalogue, Nos. 406 and 76.

4 Plate XIV. fig. 8.

5 Vol. iii. p. 54; 1827.