A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF THE CROSS,
third Cumin, all \vithin a bordure indented argent ux^lct
; Cfl I
azure : motto, Ex uni'ntc increuientum. Lyon Register.
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fitchcd
JAMES GUTHRIE of Carsbank, quarterly, first and fourth argent, a cross se.ble,
second and third, as before, Cumin, all within a bordure ingrailed gules : motto,
Pietas S3 frugal itas. Lyon Register.
The name of OSBORNE in England, quarterly, ermine nnd /-,
Sir THOMAS OSBORNE, son of Sir Edward Osborne, in right of his mother, OIK
the coheirs ot John Ncvil Lord Latimer, for adhering to the royal interest in order
to the restoration of King Charles II. was erected Viscount of Dumblane in
Scotland, and Baron of Kiveton, and Viscount of Latimer in England, 1673 and
;
in the year following, by the same King, Earl of Danby, and installed Knight
of the Garter. Afterwards, in the year 1689, he came to be Marquis of Carmarthen,
and in the year 1694, Duke of LEEDS. He carries, quarterly, ermine and
azure, a cross or, for his paternal bearing.
The ancient and honourable name of SINCLAIR, argent, a cross j
ingrailed
of which more afterwards. Fig. 27. Plate V.
There is another accidental form, to which the other ordinaries are subject, but
especially the cross, which the English term rnguled or trunked . As in the bearing
of the Lord SANDYS in England ; argent, a cross raguled sable, fig. 28. Plate V.
Guillim, in- his Blazons, uses the word trunked which term ; cannot relate here to
the body of the cross, or the trees which are supposed to compose it ; for trunked
or truncatum is said of a tree cut in two, and of the head of any animal couped,
i. e. cut clean off. But it seems he makes it relate to the slumps or knobs that remain
of the branches cut oft, and so the nodi stint truncati. The word raguled seems
to be more proper, for which Camden, in his Blazons, makes use of the word
nodosa ; and Mr Gibbon blazons such a cross, Crucem nodis truncatis aspersam, mak-
ing the word trunked relate to the stumps of the branches. The French say ecote,
for any ordinary raguled. "Ecote" says Menestrier, " se dit des troncs & branch*, s
" de bois dont les menues branches sont occupees." Sylvester Petra Sancta gives
us such another coat df arms, borne by the family of BERK.AE in Germany, which
he describes thus, Crux arbori simillima, qua; decisis 13 decussis ramalibus undique
asperatjir sabulo expifta, in arvo aurei mettalli, i. e. or, a cross raguled' sable : a St
Andrew's cross, thus knotted hath been the ancient sea standard of the Dukes of
Burgundy.
The cross is subject to be counter-changed, as fig. 29. quarterly, argent and
sable, a cross counter-changed of the same. Which blazon is given us by Gerard
Leigh, and latined by Mr Gibbon thus, Scutum argento S3 nigro quadripartitum,
cruce plana e didis coloribHS commutatis insignitum. The author of the Synopsis of
Heraldry gives us this figure cantoned with four escalops, borne by the name of
HOOK, in England, quarterly, argent and sable, a cross cantoned with four escalops,
all counter-changed.
Sir GEOR.GE MACKENZIE, in his Science of Heraldry, gives us such another bla-
zon of the arms of GLENDINNING of that Ilk, as fig. 30. quarterly, argent and
sable, a cross parted per cross indented, counter-changed of the second and first.
Mr Pont, in his Manuscript of Blazons, says, quarterly, argent and sable, across
indented of the one and the other ; as the French say for counter-changed de run
en Cautre. Of this family there have been several brave men, as our historians tell
vis, and particularly one Sir Simeon Glendinmng, who died fighting valiantly against
the English with the Earl of Douglas at the battle of Otterburn, in the year
1388.
The Cross is also subject to be voided, that is, when its middle part is cut out,
and the field appears through the middle in all its parts
for which ; the Latins say,
Crux evacuata, as fig. 31. Plate V. azure, a cross or, waved and voided of the
field.
If the voiding be of another colour or metal than the field, the cross is then said
for which our English heralds have some need-
to be charged with another cross ;
of no
less terms, as sarcelled. and resarcelled ; which I industriously omit, being
use but to confuse the blazon, and amuse the reader.
When a cross is accompanied with figures, the English, in their blazons, use
the word betu'ixt or between, as frequently we do ; and sometimes we follow tha