A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF THE BEND:
Jerusalem, to Gavin Dundas of Brestmill, of all and haill the lands of Brcstmill
und the haul thidagc of the barony of Auldliston, in the sherifl'dom of Linlithgow,
dated at Edinburgh, the last of February 1538. The seal thereto appended had
the impression
of a man in complete, armour, holding in his left hand a cr
standing on a pedestal, whereon was a shield of arms, quarterly first and fourth
bend for Sandilands, second and third Douglas. This Sir James Lord St John, in
the year 1559, was sent ambassador by the Parliament of Scotland to the Kins:
of Vienne This Sir
France, and to Francis and Mary of Scotland, Dauphins :
James became protestant, was created Lord Torphichen by Queen Mary 1563,
und allowed to have alTthe dignities and privileges belonging to the Lord St John .
and, after that, he quartered another coat, which some call the arm.-> of the Lord
St John, which, as 1 have shown, was not on the seal of arms of James Lord S:
John, so th..t I take it for a coat of concession, by way of augmentation, being the
imperial crown and thistle, quartered in the first and fourth places,
as above. Sir
James Lord Torphichen, for want of heirs-male of his body, his fortune and
honours came to his chief the Baron of Calder, his cousin, whose successors enjoy
the same with the above achievement, sometimes supported with lions.
Sir JAMES SANDILANDS of St Monans, descended of the family of Torphichen,
was created by King Charles I. in consideration of his good services, Lord ABER-
CR.OMBY, by letters patent, bearing date the i2th of December 1647. He had a
son by his lady, Anne Carnegie, daughter of David Earl of Southesk ; which son,
James, dying without succession, that dignity became extinct : They carried two
coats quarterly, first and fourth urgent, a bend azure for Sandilands, second and
third, the arms of Douglas, as before.
WILLIAM SANDILANDS of Comiston, as second son of the Lord Torphichen, car-
ried as the Lord Torphichen (except the supporters) with a crescent for a brother-
ly difference, as in the Lyon Register. And there also are these three following
blazons :
Mr JAMES SANDILANDS of Craibston, quarterly, first and fourth argent, a bend
counter-embattled azure, the paternal coat of Sandilands, differenced from the
chief bearing ; second and third argent, a man's heart gules, and, on a chief azure,
three mullets of the field for Douglas ; crest, a star issuing out of a crescent argent ;
with the motto, Jitsti ut sidera fulgent.
WALTER SANDILANDS of Hilderston, a second son of Torphichen, quarterly,
first argent, on a chief azure, an imperial crown or, crowning a thistle in base vert,
rlowered gules; second, quarterly, first and fourth argent, a bend azure, second and
third argent, a heart gules, crowned or, and, on a chief azure, three mullets of the
field ; third quarter, argen-:, a shake-fork sable, for Cunningham, and the fourth
quarter as the first ; crest, an eagle volant, proper : motto, Victoria non prada.
JAMES SANDILANDS, Merchant in Rotterdam, quarterly, first and fourth argent,
u bend azune for Sandilands ; second and third argent, a man's heart crowned,
proper, on a chief azure, three mullets of the field for Douglas, all within a bordure
waved gules, for his difference ; crest, a palm tree, proper.
ALEXANDER SAXDILANDS, one of the Magistrates of Edinburgh, in the year 1660,
whose father and grandfather were eminent merchants in that city, descended of
the Sandilands in Clydesdale, carried the arms of Sandilands and Douglas quarterly,
with a suitable difference ; for crest, an eagle displayed. He married Agnes,
daughter to Robert Sandilands, dean of guild of Edinburgh, who bore to him several
children ; William, who died unmarried ; Mr Robert Sandilands present minister
of the gospel in Edinburgh, who has issue by his wife, a daughter of Carse of
Cockpen ; and Alexander Sandilands, who left issue. Their grandfather, by the
mother's side, the above Robert, dean of guild, was a younger son of Gavin Saudilands
of Lumford in West-Lothian, and his lady, Mary, daughter of Robert
Wauchope of Niddry, descended of Sandilands of Middleridge, descended of Sandilands
of that Ilk, and of Wiston in Upper-Clydesdale, as by a Genealogical Account
of the Family which I have seen.
The surname of DAMILSTON, argent, a bend sable, as in Sir James Balfour's
Blazons : Robert Damilston obtains a charter from King David II. of the lands of
Crapwood in Lennoxshire, which had fallen into the king's hands by the forfeiture
of one of the name of Horsley.
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