A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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charter \vas afterwards confirmed by Adam of Killconhaugh, Earl of Carrick; and
after that, King Robert the Bruce gives the lands of Dummany, which formerly be-
longed to Roger Moubray, to Sir Reginald Cheyne, as that king's
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charter bears in
the Earl of Haddington's Collections.
CHEYNE of Esselmont, another old family of this surname, carried, quarterly, first
and fourth azure, a bend between six cross croslets y^7.) ardent, for Chevne ; second
and third argent, three laurel leaves slipped vert, for the surname of Marshall :
which bearings, finely illuminated, are to be seen in an old genealogical tree of the
family of Seaton, since Earls of Winton, impaled on the left side, for Christian
Cheyne, a daughter of Esselmont, Lady of Sir Alexander Seaton of that Ilk, her
husband, Captain and Governor of Berwick : who both, for their singular courage
and love to their country (as all our histories testify) stood and saw their two sons
hanged before their eyes, by the cruel and perfidious Edward III. of England; because
Sir Alexander would not deliver up the town of Berwick to him before the
time agreed upon; for which one of his sons was a hostage, and the other a captive.
GEORGE CHEYNE of Esselmont matriculates his arms in our New Register thus;
quarterly, first and fourth azure, a bend between six crosses patee fitched argent
for Cheyne ; second and third argent, three leaves slipped vert, for the name of
Marshall of Esselmont; and for crest, a cross patee fitched argent; with the motto,
Patic-ntia vincit.
CHEYNE of DufFus, another family which carried the like arms, but long since ended
in an heiress, who ivas married to Nicol Sutherland, a younger son of Kenneth,
Earl of Sutherland, who with her got the barony of Duffus. Of them is descended
the Lords of Duffus, who have been in use to compose with their own figures
the three stars, and accompanied them with as many cross crodctsjitcbe, (of which,
in another place)
to perpetuate the memory of Cheyne of Duffus.
The name of ADAMSON, argent, a- star gules, betwixt three cross croslets fitched
azure. Workman's Manuscript.
ADAMSON of Graycrook, argent, a crescent gules, betwixt three cross croslets fitch-
ed azure, as in Font's Manuscript. I take the surname of ADAM to be the same
with Adamson, for they carry the like figures, and the surname of EWE to be the
contraction of Adam.
DAVID EDIE of Moneaght, so recorded in the Lyon Register, argent, three cross
croslets fitched gules ; and for crest, a cross croslet, and a skein saltier-ways; with
the motto, Crux mihi grata quies.
In the Chatulary of Dunfermline, and in the Earl of Haddington's Collections, Fol.
577, there is a writ of King Robert the Bruce, the 14th year of his reign, declaring
Adam the son of Adam, and his four sons, to be freemen, tituled Libertas Adami
filii Adami coram justitiario nostro ; which bears these words, " Compertum &- de-
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claratum est quod Adamus, filius Adami, non est homo noster, ligius seu nati-
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vus, quin pro voluntate sua, &-c. propter quod prsefatum Adamum &- liberos
suos Robertum, Johannem, Reginaldum, &- Duncanum liberos nostros fore decla-
ramus, &- ipsos ab omni jugo & onere servitutis quietos reddimus, per praesentes
in perpetuum. In cujus rei testimonium &c. has literas nostras perpetuo dura-
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turas, sibi fieri fecimus patentes, apud Aberdeen, loth September, regni nostri
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I4th." These letters patent of King Robert the Bruce are the oldest documents
I have met with for the surname of Adam or Adamson : and I take them to be the
first of that surname with us.
The surname of TULLOCH, or, on a fesse between three cross croslets fitched gules,
as many stars argent. Balfour's Manuscript.
I have seen a transumpt of an old charter (penes Comitem de Kinaird} taken be-
fore William Tulloch, Bishop of Murray, to which his'seal of office was appended,
having the image of a church-man in his proper habit, holding, with both his hands
before his breast, a crucifix, and below his feet was the shield of arms of Bishop
Tulloch, a fesse charged with s\vo stars, between three cross croslets fitched. The
date of this transumpt was in the year 1481; the witnesses were Sir Thomas
Moodie, and Sir Martin Tulloch.
ACHANY of Sorbie, argent, a. cross croslet fitched, issuing
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out of a crescent sable.