A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF THE SALTIERS OR SAUTOIR.
bordure indented of* the second ; crest, a star or ; with the motto, Ad summa zv;
tus. Lyon Register.
ALEXANDR BRUCE of Garvet, a cadet of Airth, or, a talticxgukt, on u chief embattled
of the same a mullet argent; crest, a, hand holding a sword, proper; with
the motto, Venture forward.
Sir WILLIAM BRUCE of Balcaskie, Baronet, descended of Clackmanan, or, a saltier
and chief waved gules ; crest, a sun going down : motto, Irrtvocabilc ; sup-
porters, two cranes proper. These three last UttOOfl are in the Lyon Register.
BRUCE of Earlshall, sometime designed of Byrgham in the Merse. In the reign
of King James IV. Sir Alexander Bruce excambed his lands called Escario, in France,
which his predecessors had acquired by their valour there; with the Lord Mony penny,
for the barony of Earlshall in Fife, which was anciently one of the seats of the old
Earls of Fife. As in Sir Robert Sibbald, his History of Fife. The armorial bear-
a flower-de-
ing of this family is, of, a saltier and chief gules, in the collar luce azure.
point
BRUCE of Wester-Abten, descended of Earlshall, or, a saltier gules, on a chief of
the last, three flower-de-luce's of the first. Lyon Register.
BRUCE of Newton, argent, a saltier apd chief embattled gules ; crest, an eagle's
head : couped, proper motto, Spes mea superne. Lyon Register.
ANDREW BRUCE of Mowance, descended of the family of Cultmalins, quarterly,
first and fourth or, a saltier and chief gules, the last charged with a mullet of the
field ; second and third gules, a lion rampant within a bordure ingrailed argent, for
the name of Gray ; crest, a dexter hand holding a heart, proper ; with the motto,
Omnia vincit amor.
WILLIAM BRUCE of Pitterthie, of the family of Standstill in Caithness, or, a saltier
and chief gules, with two spur-rowels in the flanks of the last; crest, a horse-head
couped and furnished, proper, with the word True. Lyon Register.
Mr JOHN FRANK of Boughtridge, vert, on a saltier ingrailed argent, five flowerde-luces
of the first; crest, a lion salient, with a forked tail, proper; and with the
motto, Non omnibus nati. Lyon Register.
The surname of WALKER, or, three pallets gules, surmounted of a saltier argent,
and on a chief azure, a crescent of the third, between two spur-rowels of the first.
Pont's MS.
The surname of BAKER, argent, on a saltier ingrailed sable, five escalops of the
first, and, on a chief of the second, a lion passant of the field. Pont's Manu-
script.
Many honourable and ancient families with us carry the saltier and chief; as
those of the surname of JQHNSTONE gave for arms, of old, argent, a saltier and chief
sable, on the last, three cushions of the field, as in our old books of blasons; but
of late argent, a saltier sable, and, on a chief gules, three cushions or, as decended oi
the Tribus Alani, of which that noble patriot, Thomas Randolph, wr as chief; the
cushion being the paternal figures of the Randolphs. The JOHNSTONES were very
numerous, says Hector Boece, in the reign of Robert II. Sir John Johnstone of
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that Ilk, upon that king's accession to the crown, defeat a great body of the English
invading Scotland, on the West Border and in the ; year 1448, according to
Buchannan, the Maxwells and Johnstones obtained a noble victory over the English,
in the battle at Sark, near Salway. This family was dignified with the title of
Lord Johnstone by King Charles I. the 2Oth of January 1633; and thereafter with
the title of Earl of Hartfield, which, by King Charles II. was changed to that of
Annandale, and of late dignified with the title of Marquis of Annandale. The
Right Honourable William Marquis of Annandale, chief of this name, carries the
foresaid arms of Johnstone, quartered with or, an anchor in pale gules, having married
the heiress of FAIRHOLM of :
Craigiehall which arms are supported with two
horses argent, furnished gules ; crest, a spur with wings or, and leather gules :
motto, Nunquam non parntus.
Sir GILBERT JOHNSTONE of Elphingston in East Lothian, was eldest son by a
nid marriage of Sir John Johnstone of that Ilk, one of the progenitors of the
present Marquis of Annandale, and his wife Dunbar, daughter to the
Earl of March, and widow to John Lord Seaton. This Sir Gilbert married Agnes
Elphingston, sole heiress of Elphingston of that Ilk; wlro, by the assistance of his
uterine brother, George Lord Seaton, superior and Over-Lord of Elphingston, got