A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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the present James Earl of Berkeley, who carries gules, a cheveron between ten
crosses patee (six above and four below) argent ; this family was honoured with
the title of Baron Berkeley, the 23d of June 1295, by Edward I. and with the title
of viscount and earl by King Charles II. the nth of September 1679.
There is another branch of this family in England, which was dignified by King
Charles II. the sgth of May, with the title of Baron Berkeley of Straton.
As for the branch of the old stem of Barclays that came to Scotland, in the
reign of King William, we have it mentioned by several English historions, as by
Julmond Howes, in his History of England page 153. where he says, that. amongst
the younger sons of the noblemen of England, that came to Scotland with King
William, after he had given security for his ransom, was one Barclay. We find
in King William's charters to the abbacy of Dunfermline, amongst the witnesses
are Walter de Barclay, and Robert de Barclay ; and in the reign of Alexander II.
Malcolm Earl of Angus, married the daughter of Sir Humphry Barclay, as in the
Register of Arbroath, in a charter granted by Malcolm Earl of Fife, (who lived in
the reign of Alexander III.) to Andrew de Swinton, Roger de Barclay is a witness ;
Hugh Barclay obtains a charter from King Robert the Bruce, the i8th year of his
reign, of the lands of Upper and Nether-Westerton, to himself and his wife
Helen, as in the Registers of Melrose, page 48. And, in the same Register, page
62. Walter Barclay Miles, sheriff of Aberdeen, is so designed in a charter of King
Robert the Bruce to that town : I have seen his seal of arms affixed to evidences,
too long here to insert, which was the same with the Lord Berkeley's arms in
England, having a cheveron accompanied with ten cross patees. And Sir James
Balfour, in his Manuscript of Blazons, says, the surname of Barclay with us, in the
year 1247, carried gules, a cheveron between ten crosses patees argent, six in chief,
and four in base.
I am not to give a deduction of the descents of the families of the name of
BARCLAY with us, which I leave to our genealogists, and shall only mention some
of the families of this name, with their blazons at the end of this chapter, as 1
but to proceed to the crosses.
find them in our old and modern books of blazons ;
The cross patee is sometimes carried fitched at the foot, and sometimes fitched
from the middle ; for an example of the first, I give here thut as given us by the
English, fig. 6. Plate VI. The arms of EDMOND IRONSIDE, King of England, or,
a cross patee fitched at the foot azure ; thus latined by Mr Gibbon, in parmula
aurea crucem cceruleam ad quatuor ejus extremitates patulam, \3 ejusdem ima pars est
ad pedem cuspidata ; the same arms are given by the English to CADWALLADER,
last King of the Britons ; but Mr Holmes, in his Academy of Armories, gives tin
following blazon to him, as fig. 4. Plate VI. azure, a cross patee fitched argent,
This cross, as others, may be used sometimes of two tinctures ; the Canons re-
gular of the holy cross, the chief of whom is at Huy in the country of Liege,
carries, in a round shield, a cross patee, whereof the stem (or paler part) is gules,
and the traverse argent ; they use it on a black scapular.
The Trinitarians of the Redemption of Captives, carry argent, a cross patee,
whereof the stem is gules, and the traverse argent ; the reformed of that Order in
France carries the same, but surround it with a bordure of France, and those of
Spain with a bordure of Castile, as Menestrier observes.
Fig. 5. Plate VI. Or, a cross patee azure, fimbriated (or bordured) gules, borne
by the name of Fombrial, says Holmes. This cannot be said to be voided, because
the field does not appear in voiding, nor to be a cross charged with another, be-
cause of colour upon colour ; therefore it is called by the English, a cross fimbriated,
that is, edged with another colour. Bara and Sir John Feme call it a cross
if a voidure of the field appear between
resarcelce, which signifies to edge or hem ;
the cross and the edging, it may be then called a cross cottised ; the Knights of
St Mary the Glorious, in Italy, carried for their badge, a cross patee purpure, fim-
briated or.
Fig. 7. The cross Tau, or cross of St Anthony, because that saint is always represented
in paintings with this cross on his shoulder ; and the Emperor Maximilian
permitted those of the Order of St Anthony, to place on the breast of the
Imperial eagle, which he granted to them as their arms, being an escutcheon or.