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Heraldry is the designing, use, regulation, and recording of coats of arms and related emblems. Originally, coats of arms were simply "assumed", that is, designed and adopted by the person using them. | Heraldry is the designing, use, regulation, and recording of coats of arms and related emblems. Originally, coats of arms were simply "assumed", that is, designed and adopted by the person using them. Eventually, the crown reserved to itself the right to grant coats of arms to individuals—not families or surnames—and strictly limited the use of assumed arms in Scotland. A person entitled to bear arms is called an "Armiger." | ||
Scottish heraldry is administered by the [[Lord Lyon]], King of Arms. It has a few idiosyncratic features. Researchers into Scottish heraldry will also come across various clan memorabilia, badges etc. | Scottish heraldry is administered by the [[Lord Lyon]], King of Arms. It has a few idiosyncratic features. Researchers into Scottish heraldry will also come across various clan memorabilia, badges etc. | ||
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'''Court of the Lord Lyon King of Arms'''<br>New Register House<br>Edinburgh<br>EH1 3YT<br>Scotland | '''Court of the Lord Lyon King of Arms'''<br>New Register House<br>Edinburgh<br>EH1 3YT<br>Scotland | ||
Unlike England, where beginning in the sixteenth century heralds visited all parts of England to discover who was using coats of arms, in Scotland by an Act of the Scottish Parliament, the Lord Lyon King of Arms was | Unlike England, where beginning in the sixteenth century heralds visited all parts of England to discover who was using coats of arms, in Scotland by an Act of the Scottish Parliament, the Lord Lyon King of Arms was authorized to keep a Public Register of all Arms and Bearings, beginning in 1672, in which all coats of arms lawfully borne in Scotland were recorded, and which continues to be expanded and is available at the above address. | ||
Heralds developed terms to describe the records they kept: | Heralds developed terms to describe the records they kept: | ||
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