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Arms of the Seton's
The Seton's were known for their
bold display of armorial devices, which occupied prominent
positions and decorated their places of residence.
So noted in fact, that even Sir Walter Scott wrote in detail
those of Lord Seton's Lodging in the Cannongate, near the
Royal Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.
Written as such:
"...a paved court, decorated with large formal vases of stone,
in which yews, cypresses, and other evergreens, vegetated in sombre sullenness, and gave a
correspondent degree of solemnity to the high and heavy building
in front of which they were placed as ornaments, aspiring towards
a square portion of the blue hemisphere, corresponding exactly in
extent to the quadrangle in which they were stationed, and all
around which rose huge black walls, exhibiting windows in rows of
five stories, with heavy architraves over each, bearing armorial
and religious devices."
"Roland Graeme... too, pulled the
bobbin, and the latch, though heavy and massive, answered to
the summons, and arose. The page entered with the same
precipitation which had marked his whole proceeding, and found
himself in a large hall, or vestibule, dimly enlightened by
latticed casements of painted glass, and rendered yet dimmer
through the exclusion of the sunbeams, owing to the height of
the walls of those buildings by which the court-yard was
enclosed. The walls of the hall were surrounded with
suits of ancient and rusted armour, interchanged with huge
and massive stone escutcheons, bearing double tressures, fleured
and counter-fleured, wheat-sheaves, coronets, and so forth..."
Sir Walter Scott's, "The Abbott". |
