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A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF THE CHIEF OR CHEF.<br />

daughter to King Robert III. and had issue William Earl <strong>of</strong> Angus, father <strong>of</strong> James<br />

and George, successively Earls <strong>of</strong> Angus. I have seen the seal <strong>of</strong> arms <strong>of</strong> this James<br />

Douglas Earl <strong>of</strong> Angus, Lord Abernethy, appended to a charter <strong>of</strong> his to one Robert<br />

Imrie, <strong>of</strong> the lands <strong>of</strong> Stukerland, in the shire <strong>of</strong> Perth, dated at Tamtallan.<br />

the 8th <strong>of</strong> May 1434 : On which seal was a quartered shield, first, a lion rampant;<br />

second, a man's heart, and on a chief three stars ; third, a fesse cheque, surmounted<br />

<strong>of</strong> a bend, charged with three buckles ; fourth, a lion rampant, bruised with a<br />

ribbon : Which shield was ensigned with an old fashioned helmet ; and, upon the<br />

top <strong>of</strong> it, for crest, a plume <strong>of</strong> feathers, supported, on the dexter, by<br />

deer, and, on the sinister, by a woman in a genteel<br />

a hart or<br />

habit. The whole achieve-<br />

ment was surrounded with the impalement <strong>of</strong> a wood or forest, such, as that now<br />

used as a compartment under the present achievement <strong>of</strong> the family, as in Sir<br />

and the legend round the seal was, S. Jacobi Comi-<br />

George Mackenzie's <strong>Heraldry</strong> ;<br />

tis Anguisi

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