A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF THE BEND.
upon account of a maternal descent, by Halyburton Lord Dirleton, and after that
by Hepburn Earl of Bothwell.
VANS of Barnbaroch, argent, on a bend gules, a star or. This family lived in
the shire of Wigton. P. MS.
FENTON of that Hk, gules, a bend ingrailed argent. In the reign of Alexander
III. lived Sir William Fenton Lord Beaufort, who was one of the auditors,
at Berwick, of the claims of the Bruce and Baliol ; and on his seal of arms, used
on that occasion, there was a shield charged 'with a bend ingrailed, and a mullet
in chief. It was he, or his son Sir William, that married Cecilia Bisset, one of
the co-heiresses of Sir William Bisset of Lovat, whose successors were known by
the title of Lord FENTON ; in tbe registers, there is a contract betwixt two mighty
lords, William Fenton, Lord of Fenton, and Hutcheon Fraser, Lord Lovat, and his
wife Janet Fenton, daughter to the said Lord William, the i6th September 1430.
This family ended in an heiress, who was married to WHITELAW of that Ilk.
FENTON of Baiky, argent, three crescents gules. William Fenton Lord Baiky
is so designed in a perambulation with Alexander Ogilvie, sheriff of Angus 1410 :
And in a contract betwixt Thomas Dunbar Earl of Murray, and Henry Fraser
Lord Lovat, the Earl gives to the Lord Lovat the barony of Abertauch, with the
ward and relief of William Fenton Lord Baiky. Haddington's Collections from
the Registers.
FENTON of Ogile, FENTON of Garden, and FENTON of Kelly, were cadets of
Fenton of Baiky, as by their arms in our old registers, being argent, three crescents
SANDILANDS Lord TORPHICHEN, quarterly, i and 4, parted perfesse, azure and or;
on the first, an imperial crown, proper ; and on the second, a thistle vert, as a
coat of augmentation ; 2 and 3, grand quarter, quarterly i and 4, argent, a bend
azure, the paternal bearing of the name of Sandilands ; 2 and 3, the arms of
Douglas as arms of patronage, as some will, viz. argent, a man's heart ensigned
with an imperial crown, proper ; and, on a chief azure, three stars of the first.
Which shield of arms is supported by two savages, wreathed about the head and
middle with laurel, holding in their hands battons, all proper ; and for crest, an
eagle displayed or ; with the motto, Spero meliora; as in the Plate of Achievements
of the Nobility.
The name of SANDILANDS is very ancient with us, being barons of Sandilands
and of Wiston in the Upper Ward of Clydesdale. Sir James Sandilands, Baron of
Sandilands and Wiston, in the reign of King DAVID BRUCE, married Eleanora
Bruce, the only daughter of Alexander Bruce Earl of Carrick, son to Edwaid
Bruce King of Ireland, brother-german to Robert Bruce King of Scotland ; and
uterine sister to William Earl of Douglas, who, upon account of that marriage,
gave to the said Sir James Sandilands the barony of West-Calder, called Calder
Comitis. Sir James Sandilands of Calder married Jean, second daughter to King
of Glammis
Robert II. and his first wife Elizabeth Mure, relict of Sir John Lyon
and Kinghorn, Chancellor of Scotland, for which there is a charter (in Rotulis Roberti
II. J of the lands of Slamannan, and others, " Jacobo Sandilands militi & haere-
"
dibus inter ipsum &- Joannam filiam nostram procreandis quam Deo duce duxit
"
in uxorem." Sir Alexander Sandilands of Calder, gave a charter of the lands of
to his eldest son
Meikle-Harwood, and Little-Harwood, in the barony of Calder,
and apparent heir Sir James Sandilands, and to his wife Margaret in liferent, in
the ; year 1466 to which Sir Alexander's seal of arms was appended, having a
shield coiiche, with two coats quarterly first and fourth, a bend for Sandilands
second and third, a man's heart, and on chief three stars for : Douglas Which
shield is timbrcd with a helmet, and thereupon for crest, the head and neck of
a horse, and having only one supporter on the left, viz. a lady holding the helmet
and crest, which I did see in the custody of Mr Crawfurd, Author of the Peerage,
where there is a more particular account of this noble family, whose successors
have been barons of very great respect in the kingdom, and many goo'd families
of that name have been descended of them, as Sir James Sandilands Lord of St
John, Great Prior of the Knights of Rhodes in the Kingdom of Scotland, and
others. I have seen a charter amongst our archives in the Parliament House,
granted by James Lord St John, Preceptor of Torphichen, Knight of the Order of