A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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motto, In tencbiis lux. SCOTT of Letham, a younger son of that family, carries the:
same, with a mullet for difference ; and Mr GEORGE SCOTT, sometime Stewart of
Orkney, another cadet of Scotstarvet, carries the arms of that* family, quartered
with azure, three boars heads couped, within a bordure indented or, for Gordon of
Cluny ; crest, a boar's head couped or, holding in his mouth four arrows gules,
feathered and headed argent : motto, Do well and let them say.
WALTER SCOTT of Harwood, or, an oak tree vert, surmounted of a bend azure,
head erased
charged with a star betwixt two crescents of the field ; crest, a stag's
proper : motto, Ardenter amo. Here the tree is assumed as relative to the designation
of the family of Harwood, of which were several
t^here brothers, as Francis
Scott of Greenhill, whose eldest son Robert is a Lieutenant in the Gray Regiment
of Dragoons ; and Gideon Scott of Falnash, another brother of Harvvood, who
carries as Harwood, with their suitable differences. See Harwood's arms in the
Plate of Achievements.
JOHN SCOTT of Malleny, son and representative of Sir William Scott of Clerkington,
sometime one of the Senators of the College of Justice, the arms of Buccleugh ;
and for difference, in base, an arrow bend-ways proper, feathered and barbed
argent ; crest, a stag lodged proper : motto, Amo prohos.
WILLIAM SCOTT of Balmouth or, a bend azure between three crescents of the
last, within a bordure ingrailed, and quartered gules and argent, crest, a star or :
motto, Lucet.
ADAM SCOTT of Hassenden, or, on a bend azure, a star of six points between
two crescents argent ; and in base, a bow and arrow of the second ; crest, a hand
erect, holding a pole-axe proper : motto, Trusty
and true.
FRANCIS SCOTT of Gorrenberry, the same with Buccleugh, within a bordure
gobonatedi gules and argent ; crest, an anchor in pale, inwrapt with a cable proper
: motto, Speranditm.
Mr LAURENCE SCOTT of Bevelaw, or, on a fess azure, instead of a bend, a star
of six points between two crescents of the field ; crest, a dexter hand holding u
scroll of paper.
JAMES SCOTT of Vogrie, son of Mr Robert Scott, one of the clerks of tlie chancery,
a younger son of Scotstarvet, or, on a bend azure, a star between two crescents
of the field, all within a bordure parted per pale, gules and azure, the dex-
ter side ingrailed, and the sinister indented ; crest, a dexter hand holding a ring
proper: motto, Nescit amor fine s.
THOMAS SCOTT of Todrick, a second brother of Whiteslide or, on a bend azure,
a star between two crescents of the field, and in chief, a broken lance gules, with
a crescent for difference ; crest, the head of a lance proper : motto, Pro aris
'^ focis.
Mr GEORGE SCOTT of Bunraw, representative of the fairjily of Sinton, or, two
mullets in chief, and a crescent in base azure ; crest, a nymph, in her dexter
hand the sun, and in her sinister the moon, all proper : motto, Reparabit cornua
Pbcebe.
WILLIAM SCOTT, a second son to the deceast Mr Laurence Scott of Bevelaw, or,
on a fesse azure, a star of six rays between two crescents of the field, all within a
bordure componed of the second and first ; crest, a star of six points proper :
motto, Potior origine virtus.
GEORGE SCOTT of
Pitlochie^ or, on a bend azure,
a st.rr between two crescents
of the field, within a bordure ingrailed gulss-, and a mullet for difference ; crest,
;i dexter hand erected, holding an annulet, and therein a carbuncle, proper :
motto, In tenebris lux. He was a second son of Scott of Tarvet.
Mr JAMES SCOTT, SherifF-Clerk of the shire of Edinburgh^ descended of the
liunily of Scott of Knightspottie, or, on a bend azure, a star betwixt two crescuts
of the first, all within a bordure ingrailed gules, charged with eight besants ;
(rest, an arm and hand holding a book half opened, proper : motto, Fidelitas.
Having given the blazons of such families of the name of Scott, descended of
Buccleugh, as are recorded in the Lyon Register, I shall here add another recorded
there, of a family of that name in Holland, also descended of Buccleugh, viz.
Mr JAMES SCOTT, eldest son to Apollonius Scott, Judge, and afterwards President
of the High Court of Justice at the Hague, lawful son of James Scott, who hav-