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HISTORY OF THE

Register, as it is formed of Thistles and Knots alternately, and the Crosssuspended seems to be without the figure of Saint Andrew:

There is, however, another representation of the Collar on Queen Mary’sGreat Seal , 1 which is unlike any of the former, the Thistles having leaves, andthe Knots or Laces are of a different shape, and seem to have been copied fromthe Collar of Saint Michael : 1

After the Accession of King James the Sixth to the Throne of England,the Collar round the Arms on the Great Seal appears to have been againaltered, as the Knots, though not exactly like those in the first Collar of QueenMary, are of the same pattern . 1

But this also differs slightly from the drawing of the Collar in the “ Original

1 Engraved in Anderson’s “ Selectus Diplomatum et Numismatum Scotiae Thesaurus.” But theBadge on one impression of the Great Seal of Queen Mary, seems to have been a Roundel chargedonly with the Cross of Saint Andrew. On the Great Seal of King James, before he became King ofEngland, the Collar is of Thistles (none of which are inverted) and Knots, like those in the aboveengraving, linked together with four small Chains; and the Badge represents Saint Andrew on hisCross, as on Queen Mary’s Great Seal in the text, and not placed within a Roundel.