A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF THE SALTIER OR ,
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Sir John Haldane of Gleneagles, and Margaret to Sir John Napier of Merchiston.
All these families, upon the account of their alliance with the family of Lennox,
carried the arms of that family as above bla/.oned, either marshalled with their
own, or in place of their own; of whom in their proper places.
MACKARLANE of Arroquhar, commonly designed of that Ilk, in the shire of Dun-
burton, the principal family of the name, Plate VI. fig. 30. carries argent, a saltier
waved and cantoned with four roses gules ; crest, a naked man holding a sheaf of
arrows, proper, with an Imperial Crown standing by him : and for motto, This
Fll defend. L. R. The first of this family is said to be one Pharline Lennox, a
son of the old Earls of Lennox, who, for slaughter, fled to the North ; and his ;.
ferity, after the Scot's way of patronimicks, were called Maciarlane, i. e. PharlintA
son for ; this, they have a charter of Duncan, Earl of Lennox, to Duncan Mac-
iarlane, in the year 1308; to which Umfredus of Colquhoun Dwninus de Luss, is
a witness: and -they carry the arms of Lennox, with this difference, having the
saltier waved instead of ingrailed.
Plate VI. COLOJJHOUN, argent a saltier ingrailed, sable. Some will have the
the account of the ar-
first of this name to be of the old house of Lennox, upon
morial figure ; but others say the first of this family came from Ireland, and was a
son of the King of Conach there, in the reign of King Gregory ; and the lands
which he got in Scotland, he called them Conach, now by corruption, Colquhoun ;
and when surnames came in fashion, they took the name of Colquhoun from the
lands. The family continued in a male descent to the reign of Robert II. that
Colquhoun of Luss, a branch of the family, married the heiress of Colquhoun of
that Ilk, since which time that family has been designed, promiscuously, some-
times of that Ilk, and sometimes of Luss. In the beginning of the reign of King
was slain
James II. say our historians, John Colquhoun of Luss, a noble person,
by the rebel Highlanders.
Sir JOHN COLQUHOUN of that Ilk was Treasurer to King James III. and is so de-
signed in a charter of the baillery of Coldinghame, with the consent of the prior,
to Alexander Lord Home, 1465. From him is lineally descended the present
Sir John Colquhoun of Luss, whose family was honoured with the title of Knight
Baronet, the 3oth of July 1628 ; and, being chief of the name, carries the foresaid
blazon, supported by two ratch-hounds argent, collared sable ; crest, a hart's head
conped gides, attired : argent with the motto, Si je puts,
as in the Plate of
Achievements.
Having given examples of a saltier under accidental forms, and cantoned with
figures, I shall here give an example of a saltier charged with fgures, and carried
\fi!b a chief.
POWRIE of Woodcocksholm, in the Shire of Linlithgow, argent, a saltier ingrailed
gules, charged with another or, and cantoned with four bugles sable ; crest, a
hunting-horn azure, garnished gules : motto, Vesbere fc? mane. Lyon Register
Plate VI. fig. 32.
The ancient Lords of ANNANDALE gave for arms, argent,
a saltier and chief
^ules. Plate VI. fig. 33. The field is or in several blazons.
ANNAN of Auchterallan, argent, a chief and saltier gules, cantoned with two
mascles, in the collar and base points azure, and in the flanks a spot qf ermine, or
moucheture sable. As in our old books of blazons.
Not only those of the surname of ANNAN carried a saltier and chief for their
paternal figures ; but even other great families carried these arms for their own,
when they came to get possessions in that country and their ; vassals carried the
like, as arms of patronage. Robert BRUIS, or BRUCE, son of Adilind, of a Norman
extract, having married Agnes de Annandia, heiress of that country, laid
aside his paternal arms, viz. argent, a lion rampant azure, and carried those of
Annan Lords of Annandale, argent, a saltier and chief : gules as the custom uas
of old upon marrying of heiresses, before the use of marshalling many coats in one
shield ; of which afterwards. All the descendants of this Robert carried the arms
of Annan, making the field sometimes or, sometimes argent. Robert the Bruce,
when he came to be King, carried the Imperial Ensign of Scotland ; but his bro-
thers and others, descended of him, carried those of Annan, whose blazons I shall
add with others, after I have given some various blazons of the saltier.
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