HAMILTON (Lanarkshire).

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HAMILTON (Lanarkshire). Gules, three cinquefoils pierced argent. Above the shield is placed a suitable helmet, with a mantling gules doubled argent, and on a wreath of the proper liveries is set for Crest, A cinquefoil pierced as in the arms, and in an escroll over the same this Motto, " Sola nobilitat virtus." Matriculated in Lyon Office, 20th July 1886.

The entry in the Lyon Register recites, " That the Burgh of Hamilton was Erected into a Burgh of Regality on the first day of June in the year One Thousand Six hundred and Seventy by Charter of Ann Duchess of Hamilton and Lady of the Dutchy and Regality of the same, with consent of her husband William, Duke of Hamilton."

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