To All and Sundry whom These Presents Do or May Concern, WE, Robin Orr Blair, Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order, Writer to Her Majesty's Signet, Lord Lyon King of Arms, send Greeting, Whereas, ROBERT ALLEN CROMARTIE OF URQUHART-ON-SPEY, Baron of Urquhart in the County of Moray, Holder of the Degree of Bachelor of Arts of Lenoir Rhyne College, Hickory, North Carolina, Thoroughbred Horse Breeder, residing at Ardmore Stud, Orange Lake, Florida, United States of America, having by Petitions unto Us of dates 29 September 2004 and 23 October 2007; Shewn; THAT he, the Petitioner, born Tampa, Florida 24 January 1952, married Live Oak, Florida 2 September 1974 Lillian Eugenia Baird and has by her an only son and heir apparent Alexander Ian Cromartie (born St Petersburg, Florida 17 September 1976). And a daughter Bevin Sterling Cromartie (born Ocala, Florida 3 February 1979); THAT by Disposition of date 25 June 2004 the Petitioner recorded in the General Register of Sasines for the County of Moray of date 21 July 2004 the Petitioner was at 17 November 2004 infelt in All and Whole the Lands and Barony of Urquhart in the County of Moray; THAT by Certificate recorded in the land Register of Scotland of date 17 April 2007 the Petitioner is infelt in the lands of Urquhart-on-Spey; AND the Petitioner having prayed that he might be granted such Ensigns Armorial as might be found suitable according to the Laws of Arms, together with additaments, badge and standard appropriate to a feudal baron in the baronage of Scotland, Know Ye Therefore that We have Devised, and Do by These Presents Assign, Ratify and Confirm unto the Petitioner and his descendents with such due and congruent differences as may hereafter be severally matriculated for them the following Ensigns Amorial as depicted upon the margin hereof, and matriculated of even date and with theses Presents upon the 126th page of the 86th Volume of Our Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland, videlicet:- Or, on a chevron Azure between three boars' heads couped Gules three mullets of the First pierced of the Second. Above the Shield, behind which is placed his feudo-baronial mantle Gules doubled of silk Argent, fur-edged of miniver and collar Ermine and fastened on the right shoulder by five spherical buttons Or, is placed a chapeau gules furred Ermine (in respect of his feudal barony of Urquhart) thereon an Helm befitting his degree with a Mantling Azure doubled Or, and on a Wreath of the Liveries is set for Crest a horse's head Or having pendant from a chain around its neck a crescent Gules, and in the Escrol over the same this Motto "PER ACTUM INTENTIO"; and for his Badge (as feudal baron of Urquhart) a seahorse Argent crined and unglued Or langued Gules garlanded with ragged robin (lychnis flos-cuculi) Proper, which Badge is depicted in the first and third compartments and the said Crest in the center compartment upon a Standard three and a half metres in length of four tracts Or and Azure, split at the end, having Azure a St Andrew's cross Argent in the hoist, with the Motto "PER ACTUM INTENTIO" inn letters Gules upon two transverse bands Argent; which chapeau, mantle, Badge and Standard are destined to the Petitioner and his heir in the said barony of Urquhart; by demonstration of which Ensigns Armorial he and his successors in the same are, amongst all Nobles and in all Places of Honour, to be taken, numbered, accounted and received as Nobles in the Noblesse of Scotland: In Testimony Whereof We have Subscribed These Presents and the Seal of Our Office is affixed hereto at Edinburgh, the 14th day of December in the 56th Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and of Her Other Realms and Territories, Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, and in the Year of our Lord Two Thousand and Seven.

Robin O. Blair (signed)
Lord Lyon King of Arms





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