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OF THE BEND.
them collared with a ducal coronet. He was created Lord Colepeper by letters patent,
the 2 ist of October 1644, from whom is John, now Lord Colepeper. For
other examples of carrying a bend, by honourable families in Britain, they are to
I shall add
be found in the end of this chapter ; and, to follow my former method,
here an example or two of a bend charged with figures, for which we say on a bend ;
and I observe it has been a custom anciently to charge the bend, rather than to
accompany it with figures.
Fig. 4. Plate V. the ancient surname of LESLIE gives argent, on a bend azure,
three buckles or.
The first of this name is said to be one Bartholomew, son of Walter de Leshlin,
from a castle so called in Hungary where he was born, and a near friend to Margaret,
Queen to Malcolm Canmore, who came to Scotland with her, and got several
lands there, as in a fragment of history, of a Norwegian, in the Lawyers' Library.
In Sir Robert Sibbald's History of Fife, Andrew Leslie, the sixth in descent trom
the above Bartholomew, married one of the co-heiresses of Abernethy about the
year 1317, on which account they have since quartered the coat of Abernethy with
their own ; and the fourth in descent from the above Andrew, was Normand Leslie,
first of ROTHES, great-grandfather of George Leslie, son of Normand Leslie, and
Christian Seaton, daughter to William Lord Seaton, which George was served heir
to his father Normand, 1439, anc^ married Christian Halyburton. In a perambulation,
anno 1457, of Easter and Wester Kinghorns, he is designed Lord Leslie, and
was created Earl of Rothes by King James II. anno 1457. Jonn the seventh Earl,
lineally descended from George the first Earl, was created Dake of Rothes, for his
lifetime, by King Charles II. in the year 1680 : He died 1681, and left issue by
his lady, Anne Lindsay, daughter to the Earl of Crawford, two daughters Mar-
;
garet Countess of Rothes, married to Charles Earl of Haddington, whose eldest son,
John, takes upon him the name and arms of Leslie, and is the eighth Earl of Rothes,
and married Lady Jean Hay, daughter to the Marquis of Tweeddale. His Lordship's
achievement, as in the Copperplate, with others of the nobility, is quarterly,
first and fourth argent, on a bend azure, three buckles or, for Leslie second
;
and third or, a lion rampant gules, bruised with a ribbon sable, for ;
Abernethy
which are adorned with crown, helmet, and volets, befitting his quality ; and, isiiiing
out of a wreath of the tinctures, for crest, a demi-griffin ; supporters, two
griffins, proper : motto, Grip fast.
[The blazons of other families of the name of LESLIE, 'with those of other surnames who
carry bends, are to be found at the end of this chapter, and, therefore, I proceed here
to treat of the bend under its various forms. ~[
Fig. 5. or, on a bend azure, a star betwixt two crescents of the first, by the surname
of SCOT. As for its antiquity, amongst the .witnesses in a charter of King
David I. to the abbacy of Selkirk, there are Uchtred Jilius Scott, and Ranulphus An-
glus, who may have been the first of the surname of Scott and Inglis.
see Sir
James Dalrymple's Collections.
The eldest family of the name of Scott was that of Balwyrie, as Sir George Mackenzie,
in his Science of Heraldry, and MS. of Genealogies, tells us ; and that one
Walter Scott, a son of that family, married the only daughter and heiress of Murdiston
of that Ilk, in the reign of Robert the Bruce ; who, though he retained
the surname of Scott, yet he laid aside his paternal arms, vix. argent, three lions'
heads erased gules, and carried those of Murdiston, or, on a bend azure, a star
betwixt two crescents of the first.
WALTER SCOTT, his grand or great-grandson, designed of Murdiston, excam-
bed these lands, with Thomas Inglis of Manor, for other lands,
as I mentioned
before. Sir Walter Scott got several lands from King James II. for killing Archibald
Douglas Earl of Murray, and apprehending Hugh Douglas Earl of Ormond,
the King's enemies ; his son and successor Walter Scott, designed of Kirkurd, for
his
special services against the Douglases, the King's enemies, got from King James
III. at Edinburgh, the 7th of December 1463, a new charter to himself and to
David Scott, his son and apparent heir, erecting the lands of Branksholm into a
tree barony, with several other lands
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