Lower's Curiosities of Heraldry, the date being 1376; and another, dated 1542, is printed at p. 171 of Dallaway's Heraldic Enquiries. Several curious examples of Gifts and Bequests of Armorial Bearings are given by Edmondson in his Complete Body of Heraldry, vol. i. pp. 154-158.

1. GRANT OF ARMS to the ROYAL BURGH of ABERDEEN by Sir CHARLES ERSKINE of Cambo, Baronet, Lyon King-of-Arms.

To all and sundrie whom it effeirs. I Sir Charles Areskine of Cambo, Knight and Baronet, Lyon, King of Arms; Considering, that by several Acts of Parliament, as well of Our dread Soveraign Lord, Charles the Second, By the Grace of God, King of Scotland, England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith; as of His Majestie's Royal Predecessors especially, by the twenty one Act of the third Session of this Current Parliament, I am impowered to visit the whole Arms and Bearings within this Kingdom, and to distinguish them, and marticulate the same in my Books and Registers, and to give Extracts of all Arms, expressing the Blazoning thereof, under my hand and seal of Office And which Register, is by the fore-cited Act, ordained to be respected, as the true and unrepealable Rule of all Arms and Bearings in Scotland, to remain with the Lyon's Office, as a publick Register of the Kingdom. Therefore, conform to the power given to me by His Sacred Majesty, and according to the tenors of the said Acts of Parliament; I testifie and make known, that the arms of old belonging to the Royal Burgh of Aberdeen, and now confirm'd by me, are marticulate in my said publick Register, upon the day and date of thir presents: And are thus blazoned, viz. The said Royal Burgh of Aberdeen Gives for Ensigns Armorial, Gules, three Towers triple towered, within a double Tressure Counterflowred Argent: Supported by two Leopards propper: The Motto, in an escrol above, Bon-Accord (the Word Bon-Accord was given them by King Robert Bruce, for killing all the English in one night in their Town, their word being that night Bon-Accord). upon the Reverse of the Seal of the said Burgh is insculped, in a Field Azure, a Temple Argent, Saint Michael standing in the porch mitered and vested propper, with his Dexter hand lifted up to Heaven, praying over three children in a boyling Caldron of the first, and holding in the Sinister a Crosier, Or. Which Arms above-blazoned, I hereby declare to have been, and to be, the true and unrepealable Signs Armorial of

And

the Burgh Royal above-named. In testimony whereof, I have subscrib'd this Extract with my hand; and have caus'd append my Seal of Office thereto.

Given at Edinburgh, the twenty fifth day of February, and of Our said Soveraign Lord's Reign, the twenty sixth Year, 1674. CHARLES ARESKINE, Lyon.

2. PATENT of ARMS by THOMAS-ROBERT, Earl of Kinnoull, LordLyon King of Arms, in favour of Sir JAMES CAMPBELL of Strathcathro, Knight.

To All and Sundry whom these presents do or may concern, We Thomas Robert, Earl of Kinnoull, etc., Lord Lyon King of Arms, send Greeting: Whereas Sir James Campbell of Stracathro, in the county of Forfar, Knight, hath by a Petition, of date the twenty-third day of August last; Represented unto us, That the Petitioner was the second son of James Campbell by Helen his Wife, daughter of John Forrester, That the Petitioner was desirous of bearing and using such Arms as might be indicative of his Name and station in life, And prayed for Our licence and authority accordingly. Know ye therefore that We have devised and do by these presents Assign, Ratify, and Confirm unto the said Sir James Campbell, Knight, and his Descendants, to bear and use in all time coming, with due and proper differences, according to the Laws of Arms, the following Ensigns-Armorial, as depicted upon the margin hereof, and Matriculated of even date with these presents in Our Public Register of all Arms and Bearings in Scotland, viz.: Gyronny of eight Or and Sable, within a Bordure ingrailed Azure; On a Canton Argent a Galley with her sail furled up, flagged, and her oars in action of the second, and upon a Chief of the fourth, three Hunting horns also of the second, viroled of the first and stringed Gules, for maternal difference. Above the shield is placed a Helmet befitting his Degree with a Mantling Gules, doubled Argent, and upon a Wreath of his Liveries is set for Crest a Boar's head, erased, proper, and in an Escroll over the same this Motto "Ne obliviscaris." In testimony whereof these presents are subscribed by James Tytler of Woodhouselee, Esquire, our Depute, and the Seal of Our Office is appended hereunto, at Edinburgh, the second day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and and fifty-nine.

ACTS OF THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT AUTHORIZING CHANGE OF SURNAME.

1. 1527, May 10. (Jac. v.)

PROTESTATION anent the creatioun of ROBERT BERTOUN sone to
Robert Bertoun of Ovirberntoun to be of the surname of Mow-
BRAYIS.

Jhone logane of lestalrig, gilbert Wauchop of nudry, and askit documentis that our souerane lord, be the auise and auctoritie of parliament, creatit and Namyt Robert bertoun, sone to Robert bertoun of ovirberntoun, to be of the surname of mowbrayis, and will that he bruke the said surname in tyme to cum, and he to be callit mowbray commonly amangis all his liegis, efter the forme and tenor of the appunctuament maid betuix vmquhile . . mowbray of bernbowgall and the said Robert bertoun eldar. becaus the samyn hes bene ane auld honorable hous and done our souerane lordis predecessoris gud seruice in ther weris and vtherwais. And the said robert bertoun zongar Is to mary . . . mowbray, the dochtir and air of the said mowbray, and will not that the said hous pas fra the surname.

RATIFICATION of ane appoinctment betuix umquhile Jon MowBRAY of Bernbougall and ROBERT BERTOUN of Utherberntoun. Our Souerane lord, with auise and consent of the thre estatis of parliament, vnderstanding that, be the appoinctment maid betwix vmquhile Jon mowbray of bernbougall and Robert bertoun of vtherberntoun for marage betuix Robert his sone and . . . moubray, dochtir and air to the said Jone, that the said Robert suld be callit mowbray and haue and beir that surnem. Herfor ordanis, Ratifiis, and apprevit the said.

2. 1581, c. 46. (Jac. vI.)

ANENT the changeing of the surename of WILLIAME MAXWELL apperand of lammingtoun In the surename of BAILLIE.

FORSAMEKILL as anent the supplicatioun gewin in be Johnne lord hereis, williame baillie of lammingtoun, and Eduard maxwell sone to the said lord, Makand mentioun That quhare for fulfilling of an pairt of the contract of mariage maid betuix the said lord and his said sone one that

ane pairt, and the said laird of lammingtoun and margaret baillie his lauchfull dochter one the vther pairt, for mariage contractit and schortlie thairefter solempnizat betuix the said Eduard and the said margaret : It being convenit that the saidis Edwarde sould ressaue the surename of baillie and armes of the hous of lammingtoun, In respect of the gude dedis and benefeitis he was to ressaue of the said mariage: Newirtheles wpoun considerationes mowing the said parteis, It is condiscendit and aggreit, with aduise of freindis one ather pairt, That it salbe dispensit with the said Edwardis ressawing of the said Surename of baillie for ane certane space to cum, Prowyding that williame maxwell, eldest lauchfull sone gottin betuix the said Eduarde and the said margaret, Sall instantlie ressaue the said surnename of baillie and armes of the said hous of lammingtoun, and ane act and statute to be maid in this present parliament thairwpoun. THAIRFORE, Oure said souerane lord, with aduise and consent of the thrie estatis of this present parliament, and of consent of the saidis Johnne lord hereis, williame baillie of lammingtoun, and the said Eduard maxwell, HES STATUTE AND ORDANIT that the said williame baillie, eldest lauchfull sone and apperand air gottin betuix the saidis Eduarde and margaret, hes willinglie past fra his surnename of maxwell, Ressauit and acceptit in place thairof the said surename of baillie, And armes of the said hous of lammingtoun. And thairfore decernis and Ordanis him now to be callit in all tymes cumming williame baillie, And all his posteritie thaireftir to be callit baillies of thair surename, And newir to revoke the samyn nor to ressaue ony vther surename heireftir: And Ordanes lettres of publicatioun to be direct heirvpon, gif neid beis, in forme as efferis.

3. ACT in favours of WILLIAM PYET his KINSMEN and RELA

TIONS.

Unto his Grace Her Majesty's high Commissioner, and Right Honourable the Estates of Parliament.

The Petition of William Pyet for himself, and in name and behalf of his other Kinsmen and Relations of the Nickname of Pyet,

Humbly sheweth,

That your Petitioners Predicessors were of the Sirname of Graham, and through the unhappy Difference that in the last Age did frequently fall out betwixt Clanns; They, by their Neighbours, were forced from their Native Residence and obliged to cover themselves under the Sir

name of Pyet. And We having by certain Tradition the True Account of Our Origine and Sirname of Graham And We being Earnestly Desirous to be Restored, and make Use of the same in all Time Coming; which We cannot do, having Trade both at Home and Abroad, without a Publick Act, whereby the Traders with Us may be Certiorat.

May it therefore please Your Grace and Lordships to allow Us to Assume and Use Our Ancient Sirname of Graham; and to Discharge the Ignominious Nick-name of Pyet, in all time coming. And Your Petitioners shall ever pray.

Edinb. 7 March 1707.

Her Majesties high Commissioner and the Estates of Parliament haveing heard this petitione, They grant the desire thereof and alloues the petitioners to assume and use their antient surname of Graham, and discharges the nickname of Pyet in all tyme comeing.

SEAFIELD Cancellar. IP.D.P.

No. IX.

SPECIMENS OF ROYAL LICENCES FOR ASSUMPTION OR CHANGE OF SURNAME AND ARMS.

1. ORDINARY FORM of ANNOUNCEMENT relative to Assumption of Additional Surname and Arms, involving Registration at the English College of Arms.

WHITEHALL, January 5, 1852.

The Queen has been pleased to grant unto William Heriot-MaitlandDougall (heretofore William Heriot-Maitland), of Scotscraig, in the County of Fife, Esquire, a Commander in the Royal Navy, and to Elizabeth Kinnear, his Wife, eldest of the three daughters and co-heirs of William Stark Dougall, late of Scotscraig aforesaid, Esquire, deceased, Her Royal licence and authority that they may, in compliance with an obligation contained in a certain deed of agreement, bearing date the 1st day of November 1851, continue to use the Surname of Dougall, in addition to and after that of Maitland, that he, the said William HeriotMaitland-Dougall, may bear the arms of Dougall of Scotscraig, quarterly