A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF THE CROSS, &c. 125
ing a laurel-branch in her beak, proper : motto, Patientia U1
Register.
BENNET, gules, a cross patce or, between three mullets argent. Mackem.i-
Heraldry.
Sir GEORGE BENNET, Baronet, living in Poland, gules,
spe.
Lyon
on a chcvcron betwixt
three stars argent, as many cioss patees of the lirst ; crest, a demi-lion issuing out
of the wreath, and holding, in ins dexter paw, a cross patee gules. Lyon
Register.
Sir WILLIAM BENNET of Grubbet, Baronet, gules, on a chevcron, between three
stars argent, a cross patee gules ; crest, a hand issuing out ot a (.loud, holding
f(>,;h a cross patee fitched : motto, Beneaifhu to/lit
tjui crucem. Lyon Register.
SIBBALD of Balgome, in the shire of Fife, argent, a cross moline, square pierced
gutes ; some books give the ITOSS azure. As for the antiquity of the name, 1 have
met with it in several charters in the reigns of King William and Alexander II. as
in that charter of Rogerus .^uincie Comes dc IVit/ion, to St-rus de Seaton, Duneanus
Sibbauld is a witness. And in anno 1246, Donatus Sibbauld is a witness to a charter
by the same Rogerus ^iiincie Earl of W niton, or Winchester in England, to Adam
de Si'aton, tie Maritagio ha-rcdis Alam ac lasiae. For more documents of the antiquity
of the name, see Sir Robert Sibbald's Histoiy of the Shire of Fife and Kinross,
p. 142. Robert Duke of Albany and Earl of Fife grants a charter of the
lands of Kossie, and others, to Sir John Sibbald of Balgonie, which appears to
have been the principal family of the name. George Douglas Earl of Angus
married Elizabeth, daughter to Sir Andrew Sibbald ot : Balgonie and of this mar-
riage was born Archibald Earl of Angus, father of the learned Gavin Douglas
Bishop of Dunkeld. Sir Thomas Sibbald of Balgonie was principal Treasurer to
King James II. And, in the reign of King James IV. Sir Andrew Sibbald of Balgome
was Sheriff of Fite, having no issue but a daughter, Flelena Sibbald, his
heiress, was married to Robert Ac Lunden, a younger son of the Laird of Lunden
D| that Ilk, who got with her the estate, and kept the surname of Lunden, of
whom came the Lundens of Balgonie, who quartered the arms of Sibbald with
their own. SIBBALD of Rankeilor, the next family to Balgonie, carried the fore-
said arms within a bordure azure. Andrew Sibbald of Rankeilor-Over, had, by
his lady Margaret, daughter to George Learmonth of Balcomie, three sons : The
first, James, the lather of Sir David Sibbald of Rankeilor, in whom this family
ended ; the second son, George, Doctor of Medicine, and Professor of Philosophy
abroad, he carried for arms, at gent, a cross moline gules, within a bordure compone
sable and or, the last charged with mascles of the second, which were the
figures of his mother Leannonth's bearing ; the third son, Mr David Sibbald, was
Keeper of the Great Seal under Chancellor Hay,
father to Sir Robert Sibbald of
Kips, Doctor of Medicine, a learned antiquary, who carried for arms, argent, a
cross molme, within a bordure azure, and a star of the last for his difference;
crest, a mort-head proper : motto, Me certum mots crrtafacit. L. R.
Mr PATRICK SIBBALD, Parson of St Nicholas Church at Aberdeen, and Rector of
the Marischal College there, descended of a lawful brother of Sibbald of Kair, who
was a cadet of the ancient family of Balgonie, argent, a cross moline azure, pierced
in the centre within a bordure cheque of the second and first ; crest, a hand erect-
ed, proper : motto, Ora y Inborn. Lyon Register.
The cross moline, as I said before, must be pierced round or square, to distin-
guish it from the cross anchorie ; and it is carried by some representing the Ink of
tlie Mill, as relative to the name. As by the name of Mill and Miller.
ROBERT MYLNE of Balfargie, (his arms and descent are thus in the Lyon Register),
his Majesty's Master Mason, nephew and representer of the deceast John My hie,
which John was lawful son to the deceast John
was lawful son to the
late Master Mason to his Majesty ;
Mylne, also his Majesty's Master Mason ; and \\hich John
deceast John Mylne, likewise his Majesty's Master Mason and which ; John
lawful son to the deceast Thomas Mylne, likewise his Majesty's Master Mason ;
and which Thomas was son to the deceast Alexander Mylne, also his Majesty's
Master Mason ; and which Alexander was son of the deccabt John Mylne, also his
Majesty's Master Mason ; by virtue of a gift granted to him thereof by King
James III. carries for arms, or, a cross moline azure, square pierced
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of the field