A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF THE SALTIER OR SAUTOIR,
Blazons, gives to Kinnaird of that Ilk, as before ; and to KINNAIRD of the Carss,
quarterly, first and fourth gules, three crescents or, for his paternal coat ; second
and third argent, three mullets azure, for Innes : So that I observe the family of
Kinnaird has been very unfixed in their armorial bearing.
WINTON of Strathmartin, ermine, a saltier sable ; Font's Manuscript; and so says
JEsplin. But in our New Register,
PATRICK WINTON of Strathmartin has argent, a cheveron betwixt three turtledoves
azure ; and for crest, a dove volant, proper.
The name of CHAPMAN, vert, a saltier ingrailed betwixt four boars' heads erased
argent ; as in Sir James Balfour's and Mr Font's Manuscripts.
Some of the name of SMITH, or, a saltier azure, betwixt
Font's Manuscript.
four crescents gules.
SMITH of Gibliston, argent, a saltier azure, between two crescents in chief and
base gules, and as many garbs of the second in the flanks, banded or, in Sir George
Mackenzie's Heraldry.
JOHN SMITH, Portioner of Dirleton, argent, on a saltier azure, between three
crescents gules, one in chief, two in the flanks, and a chessrock in base sable, a
garb of the field ; crest, a dexter hand holding a writing quill, proper : motto, Ex
usu commodum. L. R.
The surname of ANDREWS, gules, a saltier or, charged with another vert. Font's
Manuscript. And there,
ANDERSON, argent, a saltier ingrailed sable, betwixt four mullets gules.
JAMES ANDERSON of Wester-Airderbreck, argent, a saltier ingrailed, between
two mullets in chief gules, and as many boars' heads erased in the flanks azure ;
crest, an oak tree ; with the motto, Stand sure. Lyon Register. And there,
JOHN ANDERSON of Dowhill, argent, a saltier ingrailed sable , betwixt a crescent
in chief, and three mullets in the flanks, and base gules, all within a bordure
azure.
JOHN ANDERSON in Aberdeen, argent, a saltier waved, between two mullets in
the flanks, and a crescent in base gules ; crest, a cross-staff erected, marked with
the degrees of latitude ; with the motto, P&- mare. In the Lyon Register ; and
there the following Andersons, via.
WILLIAM ANDERSON, Merchant in Edinburgh, argent, a saltier ingrailed, cantoned
with a mullet in chief, two crescents in the flanks, and a cross crosletfocbe, in
base gules.
JAMES ANDERSON of Stabcross, argent, a saltier ingrailed sable, betwixt a crescent
in chief, and two mullets in fesse, and one in base gules.
JOHN ANDERSON, Captain and Merchant in Glasgow, descended of the family of
Tillielum, argent, a saltier ingrailed, cantoned with two mullets in chief and
base, as many crescents in the flanks gules ; crest, a cloud : motto, Recte quod
boneste.
ALEXANDER ANDERSON, Merchant and Bailie in Edinburgh, argent, a saltier in-
grailed sable, betwixt a crescent in chief, and three mullets pierced of the field,
two in fesse, and one in base gules ; crest, an eagle issuing out of the wreath ; with
the motto, >iii boneste fortiter.
The surname of ANDREW or ANDREWS, with us, does not carry the saltier as the
Andersons, though their name be as much relative to St Andrew's cross as the
former as in our own ;
Register.
PATRICK ANDREW of Clockmill, argent, on a fesse sable , three mascles or, in base
a crescent gules, and on a chief azure, three mullets of the field ; crest,, a dexter
hand holding a laurel branch, proper : motto, Virtute 1st fortuna. ROBERT ANDREW of Nether-Tarvet, parted per bend, argent and azure, three
mullets counter-changed, two and one ; crest, a star or : motto, Give andforgive. Lyon Register.
The COMPANY of SCOTLAND, trading to Africa and the Indies, established by the
8th Act of the 5th Session of King William's Parliament, the 26th of June 1695,
and endowed with many privileges, as also with power, as the act bears, to have a
common seal, and to alter and renew the same at their pleasure, with advice al-
ways of the Lyon King at Arms, carried azure, a saltier (or
St Andrew's cross
argent') cantoned, with a ship under sail, flagged of Scotland in chief, proper ; and