A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF THE SALTIER OR SAUTOIR..
Pout's Manuscript. And there others of that name carry argent, three roebucks'
heads couped azure, collared or t and a bell pendent thereat gules.
Before I end with the cross croslets fitche, so frequent in arms, I shall adJ some
examples of foreign bearings.
The country of GALLJCIA in Spain, azure, seme of cross croslets fitched ut the
foot, and a cup covered or. The French, blazon them thus, efazur semt de croix
recroisees, au pied fitch e, au calice couverte cCor. They tell us, as especially in that
little book Jen tfArmories, that this country was erected into a kingdom by Ferdinand
the Great, 1060, in favours of his younger son : which country was afterwards
annexed to the kingdom of Castile. The reason given for carrying, seme of
crosses, is upon account of the frequent devotions of Pilgrims to St James of Compostella
in that : country and because the crosses there have not been so defaced
and beat down as in other countries, by the incursions of the Moors. The Chalice
or Cup is speaking and relative to the name of that country, Calice or Gallicia; as
many armorial figures do in the arms of several countries in Spain : thus the kingdom
of Leon carries a lion, and Castile a castle, &c. Many honourable families
in England carry cross croslets, as the honourable families of the name of Howard,
gules, a bend betwixt six cross croslets fitched argent, with suitable differences of
their descent from the principle house.
CAPEL Earl of ESSEX, gules, a lion rampant between three cross croslets fitcbe
or.
Arthur Lord CAPEL, by the special favour of King Charles II. in respect of his
father's loyalty, was advanced to the title and dignity of Viscount Maiden and
Earl of Essex, in the I3th of his reign, anno 1661.
CRAVEN Lord CRAVEN, argent, a fesse betwixt six cross croslets fitcbe gules. This
family was dignified with the title of Baron by King Charles I.
CLINTON Earl of LINCOLN, argent, six cross croslets fitched sable, 3, 2, and i, on
a chief azure, two mullets pierced gules..
WINDSOR Earl of PLYMOUTH, gules, a saltier argent between twelve cross croslets
or, which properly is the bearing of Windsor. Thomas Lord Windsor was created
Earl of Plymouth by King Charles II. 1682.
WINDSOR Lord MOUNTJOY, the same as the Earl of Plymouth, with a crescent for
difference, being a younger son of Thomas Lord Windsor, and Earl of Plymouth.
RICHARD, Earl of WARWICK and HOLLAND, by King James I. cf Great Britain,
gules, a cheveron between three crosses bottony or.
CAIRLYLE or CARLYLE, argent, a cross flory gules^ Sir William Carlyle in An^
nandale married Margaret Bruce, a sister of King Robert I., as by a charter of
that King to them of the lands of Crumanston, (Haddington's Collections.) Afterwards
the family was designed of Torthorald, and King James III. raised the fa-
mily to the dignity of a Peer, by the title of Lord Carlyle of Torthorald, in the
person of Sir James Carlyle, in the year 1473. Which dignity continued ia the
family till it ended in an heiress, Elizabeth Carlyle, in the year 1580, who married
Sir James Douglas of Parkhead, of whom came the Douglas Lord Carlyle, of whom
before: The achievement of the Lords Carlyle of Torthorald, quarterly,
first and
fourth, argent,, a cross flory gules, for Carlyle ; second and third, or, a cross gules,
for the name of Crosbie, and by way of surto.ut argent, a saltier azure; crest, two.
dragons' necks and heads adosse vert ; supporters, two peacocks, proper : motto,
Humilitate. So, illuminated in old books.
CHAP. XVI,
OF THE SALTIER OR SAUTOIB-.
IT is formed by the bend-dexter and sinister, not lying the one upon- the other,
but as if they were
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incorporate, ia the centre. In our old books of blazons,
I find the arms of NEWTON, being sable, a. saltier argent, thus described ; sable,
two bends in saltier : argent The French say, sautoir est
dispose comme la bandt et>
la barre ; the saltier is as it were composed of the bend and bar. The bend-sinister,
by the French, is called a bar, as I have told before.