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Councillor
Eoin Flett Scott of
Redland
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Registered: The
International Register
of Arms, 08th March
2012. Registration No.
0225. (Vol.2)
Arms: Or,
on a bend Azure, between
a rose slipped Gules,
leaves barbed and seeded
Vert, in sinister chief
and a mullet Gules in
dexter base, a six
pointed star between two
crescents of the First.
Crest:
An eagle affrontee,
wings endorsed Or,
holding in it's beak a
rose Gules, slipped and
leaved Vert, barbed and
seeded Or.
Supporters:
Dexter,
mermaid, upper part
Proper, maritime portion
Argent, holding in
exterior hand, rose
slipped leaved Vert,
barbed seeded Or,
sinister, collie
sheepdog Proper, gorged
of a collar Azure,
charged with a mullet
six points between two
crescents Or.
Motto:
"CORNUA REPARAVIT"
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Grant:
20th January 1967. The
Court of the Lord Lyon.
folio 87 Volume 48
Public Register of All
Arms Scotland.
It
appears that in the
first quarter of the
sixteenth century one
David Walter Scott had
been a consistent
'Border Reiver,'
carrying out continuous
armed raids into
northern England. About
that time a full time
military presence was
set up in the northern
counties and raids
across the Border almost
became a thing of the
past. Meantime however,
David Walter, feeling
cheated, start to raid
his neighbours in
Scotland.
He
was quickly branded a
criminal and was
captured and taken to
Edinburgh in November
1526. The charges laid
against him were cattle
rustling, sheep stealing
and sundry murders; all
capital crimes. At his
trial he was found
guilty and sentenced to
decapitation or
life-long excile; he
clearly had friends at
court.
Some friends gave him a
small sailing boat, and
leaving from Scotland's
East coast he set sail
for the flat lands of
the Netherlands. He was
told it would take only
three days but after
over two weeks at sea,
cold and starving, one
day just before dawn, he
was ship wrecked and
rescued by farmers
speaking a foreign
language; he thought he
was in the Netherlands.
In
actual fact he had
become ship wrecked in
the Orkney Island of
Sanday with its long
flat sandy beaches.
Instead of sailing east
he had sailed north and
the locals, at that
time, spoke only Old
Norse. It is not
recorded if he ever
discovered his mistake!
The
armiger’s family are
descended from this
David Walter Scott.
When the armiger was
quite young he
discovered, built into
the family’s collapsed
milldam wall, a carved
but very weathered
heraldic stone. He was
told by the artist,
Stanley Cursiter RSA, to
take a rubbing of the
stone which would be
taken to his friend, the
then Lord Lyon, Sir
Thomas Innes of Learney.
It seems that the Lyon
Office had great
difficulty identifying
the heraldry from the
stone. However, the
image was pinned to a
wall in the Office and
left until one day about
two years later one of
the young staff ladies,
on using her mirror
before lunch,
accidentally saw the
rubbing in reflection
and recognised it as
Scott Arms. It appears
the carver was
illiterate and took the
design off the matrix of
a seal, hence the
carving was in reverse!
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