A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF THE SALTIER OR SA0TO1R. 1
3..,
Dane, who possessed these lands in the Borders, called after him Haldune, or Haldenrig,
progenitor of Roger de Halden, who had a charter from King William, of
lands in Perthshire, as Sir James Dalrymple, in his Collections, page 392. He
carried for arms, as I observe in our old books, and in Mr Font's Manuscript, gules,
two leopards argent; but Haldane of that Ilk, it seems, when he married the
heiress of Gleneagles, laid aside his proper arms, and carried these of his wife ; but
retained the name of Haldane : Afterwards, this family, having matched with one of
the name of Graham, quartered the arms of Graham, and that anciently : For
Bernard Haldane of Gleneagles, who married a daughter of William Lord Seaton,
has the arms of Graham, VVL. argent, on a chief sable, three escalops at; quartered
with Gleneagles, before blazoned, impaled with his lady's, as is to be seen on the
genealogical tree of the House of Seaton. His son, John, married Agnes Monteith,
one of the co-heiresses of Monteith of Ruskie, and of Duncan Earl of Lennox by
her mother. He left out the arms of Graham, and placed the arms of Montcith
and Lennox, as now in the bearing of the present John Haldane of Gleneagles ;
quarterly, first argent, a saltier ingrailed sable, for Gleneagles ; second argent, a
saltier ingrailed, cantoned with four roses gules, for Lennox ; third or, a bend
as the first ;
crest, an eagle's head erased or: motto, Suffer. Lyon Register. Supporters, two
cheque, sable and argent, for Monteith of Ruskie ; and the fourth .
eagles, proper. For the aforesaid marriage with Monteith, I have seen a principal
charter of John Haldane of Gleneagles, and his wife Agnes Monteith, to Matthew
Forrester, of the lands of Ballen, 1463, wherein he is designed Johannes de Halden,
filius bares apparens Bernardi de Halden de Gleneagles, y Agnes de Monteitb sponsor
suee. His seal was appended to the charter, but it had only a saltier ingrailed ;
and his wife used the seal of William Murray of Touchadam (of which after-
wards), because she had not a seal of her own, as the charter bears, quia propriuni
sigillum non habui.
PATRICK HALDANE of Lanrick, as a second son of the family of Gleneagles, carried
the same with Gleneagles, with a crescent in the centre for his difference. Lyon
Register.
KINNAIRD of that Ilk, in the shire of Perth gules, a saltier ingrailed and cantoned
with four crescents or. This was the original family of the name, in the shire of
Perth. Radolphus Rufus got the barony of Kinnaird from King William the Lion :
The principal charter I saw in the custody of Mr George Kinnaird, brother to the
late Lord Kinnaird, with another charter from the same king confirming it : From
these lands Radolphus Rufus took his surname Kinnaird, which descended to all his
issue. The principal family was long since extinct ; but the next branch thereof,
was Kinnaird of Inchture, which began in Reginald Kinnaird, son of Sir Richard
Kinnaird of that Ilk. He married Marjory, daughter and heir of Sir John Kirkaldy,
and with her got the lands of Inchture, of which I have seen a charter of con-
firmation to him and her, and to the children to be begotten betwixt them, granted
by King Robert III. dated at Perth, the 28th of January 1399, the loth year
of his reign : Sir George Kinnaird of Inchture was created a Lord of Parliament,
by the title of Lord Kinnaird of Inchture, in the year 1663, by King Charles II.
whose achievement is, quarterly, first and fourth or, a fesse waved between three
stars gules, upon what account I know not ; second and third gules, a saltier cantoned
with four crescents or, for Kinnaird ; crest, a crescent arising from a cloud,
having a star from between the horns thereof, all within two branches of a palm-
tree, disposed orle-ways, proper ; supporters, two naked men wreathed about the
head and middle, with oaken leaves, their hands, that support the shield, in chains,
hanging down to their feet, and their other hands holding garlands of laurel, all
proper ; and for motto, above the crest on an escrol, Erraniia himina fallunt, and
below, on the compartment upon which the supporters stand, Certa cruce salus.
Sir GEORGE KINNAIRD of Inchture, his arms recorded in the Lyon Register 1673,
are, quarterly, first and fourth gules, a saltier between four crescents or, for
Kinnaird ; second and third gules, three stars argent, for Kirkaldy of Inchture ;
crest, a garland of laurel vert : motto, >ui patitur vincit.
The Illuminated Book of the herald Esplin gives for arms to KINNAIRD of that
Ilk, quarterly, first and fourth argent, three mullets azure, for the name of Innes ;
second and third gules, three crescents argent, for Kinnaird. But Mr Pont, in hi;