A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF THE SALTIER OR SAUTOIR.
The EPISCOPAL SEE of BATH and WELLS in England, azure, a saltier, quarterly
quartered, or and argent.
The family of ROSE, in France, by Monsieur 1
Baron, d argent au sautoir alaisc
de i. gueules, e. a saltier couped gules. And again, gules t a saltier ingrailed and
couped argent. Sometimes three of these saltiers are borne in a coat, and then
the word couped may be omitted, being understood to be so when they are removed
from the centre of the escutcheon ; but when one, and in the centre of the
escutcheon, couped must be added : argent, a sword gules, hiked and pommelled
or, point upwards, ensigned with a mullet of the second, and surmounted of a sal-
tier couped fable. Plate VI. fig. 34.
Gules, a saltier engoulee of five leopards' mouths or. Engoulee is said, when the
extremities of the bend, cross, saltier, and other such pieces enter the mouths of
lions, leopards, dragons, &-c. as the arms of GUICHENON, Plate VI. fig. 35. And
the arms of TOUAR in Spain ; ffazur a la bande d y
or engoulee de deux tetes de lion
de meme.
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Argent, a saltier crossed, having little crosses at the ends. Some say it may be
called a saltier saltiered, as we say a cross croslet, when its extremities are crossed.
Gerard Leigh calls this St Cross.
Juliarf-s
When the extremities of the saltier end like the extremities of the crosses abovetreated
of, these denominations given to such a cross, may likewise be given to the
saltier ; as to be anehorie, trejiee, jtower-de-lucy, patee, &-c.
When other figures are situate after the position of the saltier, if they
be small
ones, as besants, torteaux, &c. they are said then to be in saltier ; as azure, five
besants in saltier ; that is two, one and two, for which the French say, rangee en
sautoir. If oblong things, we say saltier-ways, the French, posee en sautoir ; the
Latins, in decussini trajecta.
ECCLES of Kildonan, an ancient family of that name, nov/ possessed and represented
by Mr William Eccles, Doctor of Medicine, as in Plate of Achievements,
argent, two halberts crossing other saltier-ways azure ; crest, a broken halbert :
with the motto, Se defendendo ; so matriculated in the Lyon Register. And there
ECCLES' of Shanock, decended of Kildonan, the same, within a bordure gules, for
his difference.
The EPISCOPAL SEE of PETERBOROUGH, gules, two keys saltier-ways, adossee, and
cantoned with four cross croslets bottony, and fitched or.
Having treated sufficiently of the saltier, and its various forms, I now proceed
to give the arms of such families as carry saltiers according to the method pro-
posed.
JAMES COLQUHOUN of Dunyelder, descended of the family of Luss, argent, a sal-
tier ingrailed sable, and in base a rose gules, for his difference ; crest, a branch of
laurel slipped, pioper : motto, Dum spiro spero. L. R.
JOHN COLQUHOUN of Kilmardinny, argent, a saltier ingrailed sable, with a flowerde-luce
for difference ; crest, a stag's head erased, proper : with the motto, Festinti
lente. His second son Walter Colquhoun, Merchant in Glasgow, has, for his dif-
ference, added to his father's arms, a crescent in base gules : with the motto, Vlget
tub cruce.
ALEXANDER COLOJJHOUN of Garscadden, a cadet of Luss, has a buckle or on the
saltier, for his difference ; crest, a man's hand proper, holding a buckle, with the
motto, Omnia firmat.
Which blazons are recorded in the Lyon Register.
The surname of MAXWELL, argent, a saltier sable. According to our historians,
it is amongst the first surnames, with xis, in the reign of Malcolm III. taken from
the lands they then possessed in Dumfriesshire, called Macchus Macuswell, now
Maxwell. They had also other lands of that name, both in Tiviotdale and East-
Lothian. Sir James Dalrymple, in his Collections, page 406. says, he has often
met with the 'name Macchus, which is likely a Saxon name, as witness in the
tharter of foundation of the abbacy of Selkirk by King David I. and no doubt,
says he, Herbert de Macuswell, the donor of the church of Macuswell, in the reign
of King Malcolm. IV. and King William, has been possessor of these lands, which
gave to this Herbert, and his successors, the surname of Macuswell, now Maxwell.
John de Macuswell was Great Chamberlain and Sheriff of Roxburgh, in the be-
ginning of the reign of Alexander II. ; and the next I meet with is Homerus ov