Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Inscriptions From the Shields or Panels of the Incorporated Trade: In the Trinity Hall, Aberdeen, Including Notices of the Antique Carved Oak Chairs, Also, Historical and Traditionary Accounts of Theorigin and Progress of Certain of the Usefl Arts
Nor are the Old oak-carved Chairs, which belong to the different crafts, less Objects of interest to the curious, than the Inscriptions. The Chairs are in excellent preservation and probably a more complete set is not to be met with in Scotland. They vary in date from 1574; and, as noticed in the following pages, are embellished with armorial bearings, initials, and other carvings.
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