A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF THE CROSS, tfc.
lets fitched gules. As in Mr Font's Manuscript. Other books make the cross
croslets sable.
BALDERSTON of that Ilk, in the shire of Linlithgow, argent, a cross sable, with
two cross croslets fitched of the last, in the two upper cantons. Balderston and
Bauderston are to be found in the Ragman Roll : Prynne's Collections.
GEORGE BALDERSTON, Apothecary and Chirurgeon in Edinburgh, as descended of
the same family, carries the foresaid arms, and, for'diiference, charges the cross in
the centre with a mascle or. As in the new Register.
KEIR of the Carse, argent, a cross ingrailed sable, between four roses gules.
Font's manuscript.
The name of RIND, ermine, on a cross gules, a cross croslet fitched or, and in
the sinister quarter argent, two mullets azure : as in Sir George Mackenzie's
Science of Heraldry.
DUDDINGSTON of that Ilk, argent on a cross ingrailed sable, between two cross
croslets fitched gules, in chief of the last, a star or. Workman's MS.
DUDDINGSTON of Sandford, gules, a cheveron argent,
between three cross croslets
fitched or ; crest, a grey-hound's head couped, proper : motto, Recreat & Atit.
Lyon Register.
The EPISCOPAL SEE of DURHAM has for its ensign, azure, a cross or, cantoned
with four lions rampant, argent.
The name of BUTTER of old with us carried argent, a cross potent (or bottony,
as some call it) azure, betwixt four men's hearts gules ; but Butter of Gormach
carries now argent, a plain cross sable, between four men's hearts gules ; crest, two
hands issuing out of a cloud, drawing an arrow in a bow ; with the motto, Diligit
Deus. In the Lyon Register.
Having spoke before of the surname of Barclay, which carries cross patees, I
shall here add some more blazons of families of that name, from our old and modern
books, in which they have reduced the number of the ten crosses patee, to
three, as more agreeable to arms in accompanying a cheveron, according
to the-
opinion of some heralds, and, for their difference, have altered the tinctures of the
field.
BARCLAY of Cullerny or Colairnie, an ancient family in 'the shire of Fife;
David Barclay of Colairnie is one of the assessors in a perambulation between
Easter and Wester- Knghorn, 1457, azure, a cheveron or, between three crosses
patee argent : as in Workman and Font's Manuscripts.
BARCLAY of Garthie in the year 1421, says Sir James Balfour, carried gules, on
;i cheveron between three crosses patee argent, as many hearts of the first.
BARCLAY of Towie, in the shire of Aberdeen, azure, a cheveron or, between two
cross patees in chief, and a lozenge voided in base argent. Balfour's Manuscript.
A.nd there also,
BARCLAY of Mathers or Madders, azure, a cheveron, and in chief three cross
patees argent.
BARCLAY of Kippo, azure, a cheveron argent, betwixt two cross patees in chief,
and a mullet in base or. Font's Manuscript.
BARCLAY of Touch, descended of the family of Colairnie, azure, a cheveron or,
between three cross patees argent, within a bordure cheque of the last and first ;
crest, a cross patee : motto, Crux salutem confert. Lyon Register. And there,
Sir ROBERT BARCLAY of Pearston, Baronet, azure, a cheveron betwixt three
cross patees or ; crest, a sword pale-ways, proper ; hiked and pommelled or : motto,
Crux Cbristi nostra corona.
BARCLAY of Johnston, decended of Barclay of Madders, azure, a cheveron between
three cross patees, argent, within a bordure indented of the last ; crest, the
^un issuing out of a: cloud, proper : motto, Servabit me semper Jehova.
WILLIAM BARCLAY of Balmakeuan, second lawful son to David Barclay of
Johnston, azure, a cheveron ingrailed between three cross patees argent, all within
a bordure indented of the last ; crest, a cross patee : motto, Sola cruce salus*
Both matriculated in the Lyon Register.
DAWSON, gules, three cross patees argent. Mackenzie's Heraldry.
DUGUID of Auchenheuf, azure, three cross patees argent ; crest, a dove hold-