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-{{uk}}
+{| class="wikitable"
+|- style="vertical-align:top;"
+|[[File:musselburgh.jpg|350 px|center|alt=Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]]
+|
+<center>''' {{uc:{{PAGENAME}}}} '''</center><br>
+'''Country''' :
+* United Kingdom [[File:unitedkingdom-flag.gif|60 px|right]]
+** Scotland<br><br>
+'''Incorporated into''':
+* 1975 [[East Lothian]] (District Council)
+'''Status''':<br>
+* Burgh
+<br>
+{{#display_map:55.9413,-3.0553|width=250|height=250|zoom=7}}
+|}
-'''MUSSELBURGH (Burgh/Community Council)'''
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+Official blazon
-Incorporated into : 1975 [[East Lothian]] (District Council)
+|-
+|'''English'''
-[[File:Musselburgh.jpg|center|Coat of arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]]
+| Azure, three anchors in pale, one in chief and two in the flanks, Or, accompanied with as many mussels, two in the dexter and sinister chief points and the third in base Proper. In an Escrol above the Shield this Motto "Honesty".
+|}
-===Official blazon===
-Azure, three anchors in pale, one in chief and two in the flanks, Or, accompanied with as many mussels, two in the dexter and sinister chief points and the third in base Proper. In an Escrol above the Shield this Motto "Honesty".
 ===Origin/meaning===
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 The motto is, according to one tradition, derived from the tribute -Sure you are honest men- paid to the citizens by Donald, Earl of Mar, Regent of Scotland (1332), for their care of his famous predecessor in the Regency, Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, who died at Musselburgh on 20 July 1332.
-The arms are now sed by the Community Council.
+The arms are now used by the Community Council of [[Musselburgh and Inveresk]].
-[[File:Musselburghcc.jpg|center|Coat of arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]]
+===Image gallery===
+<gallery widths=250px heights=200px perrow=0>
+File:musselburgh2.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of Musselburgh|The official grant ([http://www.johngraycentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Musselburgh-patent-of-arms_.jpg source])
+File:musselburgh.jj.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of Musselburgh|The arms as used on a [[Jaja|JaJa postcard]] +/- 1905
+</gallery>
+[[Civic Heraldry Literature - United Kingdom|'''Literature''']]: Urquhart, 1974
-{|align="center"
+{{uk}}
-|align="center"|[[File:musselburgh2.jpg|350 px|center]] <br/>The official grant ([http://www.johngraycentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Musselburgh-patent-of-arms_.jpg source])
-|align="center"|[[File:musselburgh.jj.jpg|350 px|center|Coat of arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] <br/>The arms as used on a [[Jaja|JaJa postcard]] +/- 1905
-|}
 {{media}}
-[[Civic Heraldry Literature - United Kingdom|'''Literature''']]:
-Urquhart, 1974
 [[Category:United Kingdom Municipalities M]]
 [[Category:Scotland]]
 [[Category:Granted 1771]]