A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF THE SALTIER OR SAUTOIR. 145
the House of Falahall, and of late recorded in rhe Lyon Register, with the c:
a .spur-rowel : motto, Cave adsum.
GEORGE JARDINE, sometime Treasurer of Edinburgh, argent, on a saltier gules^
five besants, and on a chief of the second, two mullets or ; crest, a hand holding a
bc-sant, all proper : motto, Ex virtute bonus. Lyon Register.
KIRKPATRICK. of Kilosburn or Closeburn, in the shire of Nithsdale, argent,
a saltier
and chief azure, the last charged with three cushions or; crest, a hand holding a dag-
ger in pale, distilling drops of blood ; with the motto, / make sure ; supporters, two
lions gardant gules. This principal family has been in use to curry supporters since
the year 1435, as by their evidents and seals, which I have seen by the favour of
the lately deceased Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick of Closeburn a few of which 1 shall
;
here mention.
JOHN KiRKi'ATRicK. of Kilosburn obtains a charter of confirmation of the lands
of Kilosburn, which belonged formerly to his ancestors, from King Alexander II.
Roger Kirkpatrick, successor of the foresaid John, whom Buchannan calls Regents
a Cella Patricii, was among the first of those worthies that stood up for the in-
terest of King Robert the Bruce, as he was returning from smiting Red John
Cumin in the church of Dumfries. This Roger Kirkpatrick vent into' the
church, expressing these words, /'// make sicker, or sure, and there gave Cumin
several stabs with a dagger, for which the family has used the dagger for a crest,
and for motto, /'// make sure. Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick succeeded his father Roger
in the barony of Closeburn ; who, for his father's, and his own special services to
his king and country, got the lands of Redburgh, in the sheriffdom of Dumfries,
as the charter of King Robert the Bruce bears, dated at Lochmaben the 4th of
January, and 14th year of his reign. Sir Thomas was succeeded by his son Winfr
edits de Kirkpatrick, who got the lands of Torthorald. His son, or grandson, Sir
THOMAS KIRKPATKICK. of Closeburn, makes a resignation of the baronies of Closeburn
and Redburgh, in the hands of Robert Duke of Albany, Earl of Fife, and Governor
of Scotland, for a new charter of taihie to himself and his heirs-male, in
which there are several substitutions in favours of his brethren and nephews, too
long here to be mentioned. This charter is dated at Ayr the I4th of October
1409; he was succeeded by his brother Roger Kirkpatrick, who was one of the
gentlemen of inquest, in serving William Lord Somerville, heir to his father
Thomas Lord Somerville, before Sir Henry Preston of Craigmillar, sheriff-principal
and provost of Edinburgh, the loth of June 1435. To this writ of service (which
I have seen in the custody of Somerville of Drum) Roger Kirkpatrick of Closehum's
seal is appended, upon which are the foresaid armorial figures, viz. a saltier
and chief, the last charged with three cushions ; for crest, a hand holding a dag-
; and for supporters, two lions gardant. This Roger's son and heir was
Thomas, and from him was descended the late Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick of Closeburn.
TWEEDIE of Drumelzier, an ancient family in Tweeddale, now extinct, argent,
a saltier ingrailed gules, and a chief azure. Font's Pvlanuscript ; which are also
illuminated in the House of Falahall 1604.
GRIER or GRIERSON of Lag, in the shire of Nithsdale, sometimes used for arms,
gules, a saltier and chief argent, the last charged with three cushions of the first,
which I take for a coat of patronage : And at other times carried gules, on a fesse
or, betwixt three quadrangular locks argent, a mullet azure. Font's Manuscript ;
and in the New Register, Sir ROBERT GRIERSON of Lag, gules, on a fesse between
three tetter-locks argent, a mullet azure ; crest, a fetter-lock, as the former : motto,
Hoc securer.
The surname of BOYKS, argent, a saltier and chief azure, as in old illuminated
books of arms ; and Mr Font, in his Blazons, gives the same to BOYES of Pambride.
Edmond Howes, in his History of England, says, when King William returned to
Scotland, from his imprisonment in England 1174, he carried along with him several
English gentlemen, amongst whom was one of the name of Boyes ; and our
historian. Hector Boece, who should best know the origin of the family from
which he was descended, tells us also, that the first of this name came from
England, and p<
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castle of L^rquhart, which was bravely defended by one
of that name against the usurping English, till death : His heir was saved by being
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