by any standard the article is as complete as it can be at present like other articles are meant to be 'what we do know is that surely that the article is 'incomplete' since we can only provide information on just two officers' it's an article about islay herald surely not others i am not sure what the shirra has to do with this surely it's documentary graphic archaeological etc evidence that counts not the unreferenced thoughts of the early th century scotland's answer to jeffrey archer though in one respect you are quite right the article is incomplete there is no reference to f j grant's little book islay is on p of gthe edition available as a pdf download online the scottish officers of arms formed an important part of the royal household and were in attendance on the king on all occasions of state besides the duties enumerated above they were employed in accompanying embassies abroad making royal proclamation throughout the country carrying important messages of state between the king and his subjects and a summons for treason could only be served by a herald or pursuivant as early as mention is made of william pittolloch herald and in in the great seal register of john trupour carrick herald probably a mistake for pursuivant lyon herald appears in and ten years later as lyon king of heralds rothesay herald officer of the prince of scotland is first mentioned in marchmont a title derived from marchmont the ancient name of the royal castle of roxburgh in snowdoun derived from a part of stirhng castle in albany from the duke of albany a title of one of the king's sons in he is called pursuivant however in ross from the royal earldom of the same in and tslay from the island of that name in other heralds are also found from time to time such as ireland in and orkney in of the pursuivants carrick pursuivant of the prince who was earl of carrick appears first in the year unicorn in aliszaiin dragancein diligence in dingwall in montrose bute and ormond in falkland in ireland and kintyre in ' march in and ettrick pretendit pursuivant in the number of heralds and pursuivants became fixed at the heraldic executive six of each by the reign of king james vi and continued at this number till by the act of their numbers were gradually reduced to three of each as vacancies occurred the titles now at the time of writing in use are ross rothesay and albany for the heralds and march unicorn and carrick for the pursuivants francis j grant w s rothesay herald the manual of heraldry a concise description of the several terms used and containing a dictionary of every designation in the science new and revised edition edinburgh john grant george iv bridge p perhaps you would like to make the article less incomplete