WRIGHTS AND COOPERS, The Craft and Incorporation of (Aberdeen).

WRIGHTS AND COOPERS, The Craft and Incorporation of (Aberdeen). Quarterly, i. gules, a tower triple-towered argent, 2. gules, a compass or, 3. azure, a square or, 4. ... a wright's axe argent, slassed (? shafted) or. Motto — " Our Redeemer liveth for ever." [Matriculated in Lyon Register, 1682.] By Patent, 6th April 1696, the following arms were "restored": — Quarterly: i. gules, a Wright's compass or, 2. azure, a coupar's axe argent, shafted or, 3. azure, a square or, 4. gules, a coupar's compass or; over all on an escutcheon gules, three towers .triple towered two and one within a double tressure flowered and counter-flowered argent. Mantle— Gules, doubled argent. Crest — On a wreath or, gules, argent and azure, an adder in circle, proper. Motto — (Over crest), " Our Redeemer liveth for ever."

[Facsimile of Patent in Catalogue of Scottish Heraldic Exhibition.]

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