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Moray (or Elginshire) (pronounced "Murray" and spelled ''Moireibh'' in Gaelic) is one of the registration counties of Scotland, bordering Nairnshire to the west, Inverness-shire to the south, and Banffshire to the east.〔(Registers of Scotland. Publications, leaflets, Land Register Counties )〕〔http://www.scotlandsfamily.com/parish-map-aberdeen.htm〕 It was formerly in use as a local government county until 1975, when Elgin was the county town. Prior to 1889 there were two large detached portions of Moray situated locally in Inverness-shire, and a corresponding part of Inverness-shire situated locally in Moray. With the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889 these parts were merged into the areas in which they locally lay. The county was officially called ''Elginshire'',sharing the name of the Elginshire parliamentary constituency, so named since 1708.〔L.Shaw, 1882〕 The area became officially known as ''Moray'' after 1930 in all official contracts however the term "Morayshire" was introduced as hand-written ledgers found there were issues with, at that time, distinguishing ''Moray'' with ''Norway'' and ''Morar''.〔http://www.moray.gov.uk/moray_standard/page_1537.html〕〔http://libindx.moray.gov.uk/mainmenu.asp〕 In 1975, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, most of the county was combined with Aberlour, Buckie, Cullen, Dufftown, Findochty, Keith and Portknockie areas of the county of Banffshire to form the Moray district of the Grampian region. Grantown-on-Spey and Cromdale areas were combined with Kingussie and Badenoch areas of the county of Inverness-shire to form the Badenoch and Strathspey district of the Highland region. In 1996 this district was superseded by the council area of Moray 1996, under the provisions of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994. The registration county, for property, is 'County of Moray', and a slightly smaller area, also based on the former county, is a lieutenancy area named 'Moray'. == Coat of arms == Granted in 1927 by the Lord Lyon, Moray's coat-of-arms was: ''Quarterly: 1st and 4th Azure, three mullets argent; 2nd and 3rd Argent, three cushions gules within a tressure flory-counter-flory of the last.'' The motto was ''SUB SPE'', Latin for "In Hope", a pun on the River Spey, which flows through the county. The coat of arms, described by Thomas Innes of Learney, a future Lord Lyon, in the ''Elgin Courant'' of 6 May 1927 as "the most beautiful county arms in Scotland", represented the clan Murray and Randolph, Earl of Moray, the two main landowners.〔 consulted 20 December 2013.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「County of Moray」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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