A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF THE CROSS,
awe, langued gules, cellared with a ducal crown, or; supporters, two griffins pro-
with the motto, Dicu pour nous.
per ;
and one of the Se-
Sir ANDREW FLETCHER of Innerpeffer, an eminent Lawyer,
nators of the College of Justice, purchased the lands of Salton in East Lothian,
from Alexander Lord Abernethy 1638, of whom the present Henry Fletcher of
Salton is descended.
Sir ANDREW FLETCHER of Aberlady, a brother of Salton, carries the foresaid
arms within a bordure ingrailed argent, for his difference ; and for crest, a demi-
lion azure, holding, in his dexter paxv, a cross croslet fitched or ; with the motto,
Yortis in arduis. In the Lyon Register.
FLETCHER of Maugan, in the county of Cornwall in England, carries ermine, a
:ross moline sable, as in Morgan's Heraldry.
When the cross-flory is like to a cross patee, turning broad at the extremities,
which are cut out like a flower, it is termed by the English cross patonce: purpure,
.i cross patonce argent, said by Mr Holmes to be the coat of Boniface, the fortysixth
archbishop of Canterbury.
Fig. 24. plate VI. This is called a cross gringolee or guivree ; which is said of
crosses, saltiers, and other figures whose extremities end with heads of serpents j
guivris signifing a viper or serpent. The arms of Kaer in France gules, a cross
ermine, guivree (or gringolee^) or. Such crosses with the English are called crosses
mtserated by Mr Holmes, who tells us, that when a cross ends with lions; talbots,
eagles, and several sorts of other heads, it may be blazoned a cross patee, adorned
with lions or eagles heads ; and that some blazon them leonced when with lions',
aquilated when with eagles' heads, and pavonated when with peacocks' heads ;
so forth of any other figures that end the cross ; as crosses annulated, crescenfed,
&c. which end with annulets and crescents.
Fig. 25. Cross avellane, crux avellana, is made up of four filbert, or hazle-nuts :
Crosses after this form top the monds of kings and emperors, and are ensigns of
sovereignty and majesty when so placed.
When any natural figures are situate after the position of the cross, they are
said to compose a cross or in cross ; as argent, a cross of four queves ermine, or mouchetures
ermine, being the tips of the tails of the beasts ermine, situate after the
form of a cross, borne by the name of Hurleston of Picton, in Cheshire.
Favin, in his Theatre of Honour, gives arms to the knights and brethren of the
Inquisition and militia, instituted by S. Dominick, in the 1206, to fight against the
Albigenses, which he thus blazons, as fig. 29. Girone de bail
pieces,
d'argent et de
table, et sur celui, une croix de lizee, parti de Vun en Voutre meme, a la bordure compons
de huit
pieces de meme de sable et d'argent, a butt etoiles de run en Yautre, et huit be-
sants torteaux
pariellement parti d? argent et de sable ; which is, parti, coupe, tranche,
faille, (or girony of eight pieces) argent and sable, four fiower-de-luces placed in
cross within a bordure of the same partitions charged with eight stars, and as many
besants torteaux, all counter-charged of the foresaid tinctures.
When figures are situate after the form of a cross, the cross takes its name from
them, and a cross, made up of lozenges so situate, is called a cross lozengee, or we
may say also in cross ; as before of figures after the situation of other ordinaries,
as in
pale,
in fcsse, bend, and bar ; and so much for crosses. Now I proceed to
add the blazons of several families in Britain who carry such crosses as I have de-
scribed.
The surname of LETHEM, with us, gules, a cross ermine* Balfour's Manuscript.
And there also,
The surname of TAYRIE, gules, a cross vert. John Tayrie, burgess in Perth,
mortifies several lands in that town to the church of Perth, the 2oth of August
1511, and amongst the witnesses to that mortification, there is one Robert Tayrie
burgess and bailie of Perth.
MOHUN Lord MOHUN, or, a cross ingrailed sable ; this family was dignified with
the title of Lord, the I5th of April 1628, by King Charles I.
RAYNSFORD of Dallington, argent, a cross sable.
The name of HUSSEY in England, or, a cross vert : and there the name of
ARCHER, ermine, a cross sable.
The honourable name of SINCLAIR, originally from the name of St GLAIR, in
France, has been very eminent in Scotland, and carry for their paternal arms,
and