Quote Originally Posted by Chas View Post
That Lord Lyon - what a fool, eh! He'll post any old rubbish on his website. How are we to respect him as the authority, when he can't get that right.
Well, Chas, two observations:

1. Lyon says in the passages quoted what various people may do. He does not say that others may not do those things. I've looked through Lyon's enabling statutes over and over and can't find the word "feather." In other words, he can regulate the display of crests; he can't regulate the display of feathers.

2. Lyon's writ runs only as far as the outermost of the Hebrides.