A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF THE CHEVERON.
crescents in chief, and a mullet in base gules, on a chief azure, an eagie display -
'ed or; crest, a dexter hand holding a scimiter, proper: motto, Pro Deo if Rege.
Mr FRANCIS MASTERTON of Parkmilne ; argent, a cheveron gules, and u chief
azure ; crest, a stag courant, bearing on his attire an oak slip, fructuated, proper.
Lyon Register.
ELPHINSTONE Lord BALMERINO carries the same arms with the Lord ELPHIN-
STONE, of whom before ; and for difference, charges the cheveron with three
buckles argent, for Monteith ; and has for crest, a dove argent, with a snake,
proper, linked about its legs : motto, Prudentia fraudis nescia; and for supporters,
two griffins, proper, beaked and armed or. The first of this family was Sir James
Elphinstone, third son to Robert Lord Elphinstone, and Elizabeth Drummond,
daughter to Sir John Drummond of Innerpeffry. He was Secretary of State,
President of the College of Justice, and created a Lord of Parliament, by the title
of Lord Balmerino, the 25th of April 1604, by King James VI. He married
first Sarah Monteith, daughter of Sir John Monteith of Carse,' of which marriage
is descended the present Lord Balmiranoch, for which his family carries the
buckles. He married, secondly, a daughter of Maxwell of Newark ; she bore to him
the title of Lord
James Elphinstone, who was created a Lord of Parliament, by
Coupar, and carried the same arms with the Lord Elphinstone, but charged his
cheveron with hearts argent, because, (says Sir George Mackenzie, in his Science
of Heraldry, p. 74.)
his mother was a daughter of Maxwell of Newark. This
family
The other families of the name of ELPHINSTONE, whose arms are matriculated in
is extinct.
the New Register, are these :
ELPHINSTONE of Calderhall, fifth son of Alexander Lord Elphinstone, and Katharine
his lady, daughter of John Lord Erskine ; argent, a cheveron sable, betwixt
three boars' heads erased, within a bordure gules ; crest, two men's arms issuing
out of a wreath, crossing one another saltier-ways, the one on the right side holding
a sword, and the other on the left holding a branch of laurel, all proper : and
for motto, In utrumqus paratus.
RICHARD ELPHINSTONE of Airth, eldest son and heir to Sir Thomas Elphinstone
of Calderhall ; quarterly, first and fourth, as Calderhall ; second and third or, a
saltier and chief gules, the last charged with a mullet of the field, for Bruce of
Airth ; crest, a griffin seiant, holding in his dexter paw a sword erect, and on the
point a Saracen's head, all proper : motto, Do well and let them say.
JAMES ELPHINSTONE of Glack, argent, on a cheveron sable, between three boars'
heads erased gules, an episcopal mitre of the first.
Sir JAMES ELPHINSTONE, one of the Commissaries of Edinburgh, the same with
Elphinstone of Glack, within a bordure gules, for difference ; crest, a right hand
holding a writing pen feathered, proper ; with the word Sedulitate, to show his
employment, being a Writer to the Signet.
HENRY ELPHINSTONE of Melyholm, second lawful son of Sir Henry Elphinstone
of Calderhall, as his father, within a bordure ingrailed gules ; crest, a griffin seiant
sable, in its dexter paw a garland of laurel vert.
ELPHINSTONE of Leys, argent, a cheveron ingrailed sable, between three boars*
heads erased gules.
The proper arms of the name of KENNEDY, argent, a cheveron gules, betwixt
three cross croslets fitched sable.
The first of this name and family is said to be one Kenneth, an Irish or Highland
Scotsman, whose posterity was surnamed Kennedy from him. In the reign of
King William, 1183, Henry Kennedy assisted Gilbert, eldest son of Fergus Lord
of Galloway, in his wars ; as in Buchanan's History. In the Ragman-Roll, there
are several of the name of Kennedy, as Dominus Alexander Kennedy. Prynne's
History, page 652.
In the reign of King David the Bruce, John Kennedy of Denure got several
lands from that king, as by the Rotitla R. Davidis secundi. He added to his pa-
trimonial inheritance the barony of Cassilis, by Mary his wife. He had two sons.
Sir Gilbert, his successor, and Sir Hugh Kennedy of Ardstincher, who, for his
valour in the wars of France against the English, was honoured with the arms of
France, viz. azure t three flower-de-luces or ; which he and his descendants quar-