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The arms were granted on January 23, 1953. | The arms were granted on January 23, 1953. | ||
Newburgh was granted as a Burgh to the Abbot of Lindores by King Alexander III in 1266 and was, in 1600, raised to a Burgh of Regality in favour of Patrick Leslie, later Lord Lindores, son of the 5th Earl of Rothes. In 1631, King Charles I created the town a Royal Burgh. | |||
The arms repeat several of the features on the old Burgh seal. They use the red and gold colours of Macduff, Earl of Fife. The couped cross quadrate with its lion rampant represents the famous and ancient Cross Macduff, situated near to the Burgh, and of which the base still remains; the Cross formed the sanctuary of the Clan Macduff. | |||
The blue colour of the thistles and the buckle in the chief recall the Leslie connection, the thistle being part of an augmentation granted by King Charles I to Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, the noted Covenanting General. The battlements refer to the castle in the arms of the Lordship of Lindores. | |||
The Latin motto "By the Cross of St. Andrew were the people taught" is intended to be a shortened version of the motto of Lindores Abbey which was "Biduo Pendens in Cruce Beatus Andreas Docebat Populum". Unfortunately something went wrong with the Latin in the process and the motto granted contains two grammatical errors, "Andreas" should be "Andreae" and "Populum" should be "Populus". | |||
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