A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF THE SALTIER OR SAUTOIR.
The achievement of the Earl of NITHSDALE, argent, an eagle displayed sable,
beaked and membred gules, surmounted of an escutcheon of the first, charged with
a saltier of the second, and surcharged in the centre with a hurcheon .or ; crest, a
stag, proper, attired argent, couchant before an holly bush, proper ; supporters, two
stags, proper, attired argent ; for motto, Revimco. Of the branches of this ancient
and noble family, the eldest and principal one is Maxwell of Nether-Pollock, in
the shire of Renfrew ; the first of which was Sir John, brother to Sir Herbert
Maxwell of Carlaverock, in the reign of Alexander III. : Of whom is descended
Sir John Maxwell of Pollock, possessor and representative of that family, who was
honoured with the dignity of knight-baronet by King Charles II. the I2th of
April 1682 ; and in the year 1699, came to be one of the Senators of the College
of Justice, and Lord Justice Clerk. He carries for arms, argent, on a saltier sable,
an annulet or, a maternal difference from the House of Eglinton ; crest, a stag's
head; with the motto, / am ready ; supporters, two monkeys or apes, proper ; as
in the Plate of Achievements. Which supporters I have seen on a seal of one of
his progenitors, lairds of Pollock, in the reign of Robert III. appended to a charter,
in the custody of the present Lord Pollock ; which is an early instance of barons
having supporters.
MAXWELL of Calderwood is a branch of Nether-Pollock ; the first of which
House was Robert, second son of Sir John Maxwell of Pollock, from whom he got
the lands of Calderwood, in the year 1401. He married Elizabeth, daughter and
one of the co-heirs of Sir Robert Denniston of that Ilk, and got with her several
lands ; upon which account the family for a long time has been in use to quarter
the arms of Denniston with their own, thus, quarterly, first and fourth argent, a
,-altier sable, and a chief paly of six pieces of the last and first, as in our old books
of blazon, so illuminated, in the House of Falahall, with other barons, members of
Parliament, in the year 1604: But, in the Lyon Register,
Alexander Maxwell of
Calderwood's arms are thus recorded ; quarterly, first and fourth argent, a saltier
sable, within a bordure counter-componed of the second and first ; second and
third quartees, argent, a bend azure, for Denniston ; crest, a man's head looking
upright, proper : motto, Think on.
Colonel WILLIAM MAXWELL of Cardiness, only son of Mr William Maxwell,
\vhose grandfather was William Maxwell of Newland, a second son of Sir Gavin
Maxwell of Calderwood, carries the quartered arms of that family as last blazoned,
all within a bordure embattled gules, for his difference ; crest, a man's head looking
foreright, within two laurel branches, disposed orle-ways vert : motto, Think on.
Lyon Register. See the Plate of Achievements.
EUSXACHE MAXWELL of Teyling in Angus, second son of Sir Herbert Maxwell of
Carlaverock, got the lands of Teyling, by marrying Agnes, one of the daughters
and co-heirs of Sir John GifFord of Yester, whose seal and arms had only a saltier,
in the year 1421, as I told before in my Essay of the Ancient and Modern Use of
Arms, page 98. He was the first of the family of Teyling, who afterwards had a
suitable difference in the Lyon Register since the year 1601.
PATRICK MAXWELL of Teyling, argent, on a saltier sable, a man's heart or; crest,
/'// bide Broadalbine.
a falcon looking to the sun, proper : motto,
JOHN MAXWELL of Lackiebank, descended of the house of Teyling, argent,
on a saltier table, between two stars in chief and base azure, a man's heart or ;
crest, a falcon looking to a star : motto, Tendit ad astra. Lyon Register.
Sir ALEXANDER MAXWELL of Monreith, Baronet, descended of Sir Edward Max-
well, second son of Sir Herbert Maxwell of Carlaverock, and his Lady ,
daughter of Herbert Herris of Tereagles, progenitors of the Earls of Nithsdale,
arries argent, a double eagle displayed sable, beaked and membred gules, on its
breast an escutcheon of the first, charged with a saltier of the second, surcharged
in the centre with a hurcheon, or ; all within a bordure gules, with the badge of
Knight Baronet by way of canton, in the dexter chief point ; crest, an eagle ris-
sable, beaked and membred gules: motto, Reviresco. Lyon Register.
JOHN MAXWELL of Barucleugh, descended of a second brother of Kirkonel, who
\\us descended of Thomas, a second son of Robert, first Lord Maxwell, argent, a
ifr sable, within a bordure of the last, charged with eight lozenges of the first;