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488 to connect her with the Sir John MacNeill family, and it was supposed she had a right to use the MacNeill coat-of-arms. She notified genealogical writers not to do so thereafter. Mrs. Eddy, however, continues to use the MacNeill coat-of-arms, which is engraved upon her stationery and impressed upon her seal. She defended her continued use of the coat-of-arms in a widely-published statement, issued in January, 1907, as follows:

The facts regarding the McNeill coat-of-arms are as follows: Fannie McNeill, President Pierce's niece, afterward Mrs. Judge Potter, presented to me my coat-of-arms, saying that it was taken in connection with her own family coat-of-arms. I never doubted the veracity of the gift.

Mrs. Macalister, in a recent letter, writes: “I have been amused to find that Mrs. Eddy still uses my grandfather's coat-of-arms on her notepaper, including the motto of the Bath, which even his son, had he left one, would have had no right to use, as the G.C.B. was for life only.”