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The arms were granted in 1673. | The arms were granted in 1673. | ||
Queensferry was a Burgh dependent on the Abbey of Dunfermline by about 1328, and as South Queensferry was created a Burgh of Regality in favour of Robert Pitcairn, Archdeacon of St. Andrews, as Commendator of Dunfermline, in 1576-77. | |||
The arms, which are sometimes used with a Burghal coronet added to them, are the same as the device on the oldest known seal of the Burgh, of which an impression dated 1529 is on record. | The arms, which are sometimes used with a Burghal coronet added to them, are the same as the device on the oldest known seal of the Burgh, of which an impression dated 1529 is on record. | ||