A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF THE CHEVERON.
GEORGE WILSON, Bailie of Fraserburgh, argent, a cheveron between two mullet*
in chief, and a crescent in base gules : motto, Venture and gain.
THOMAS WILSON, Merchant in Edinburgh, argent, a cheveron betwixt three
mullets gules, and a crescent for difference ; crest, a talbot's head erased : motto,
Semper vigil cms.
The name of AUCHMENAN, argent, a cheveron betwixt two cinquefoils gules, and
a saltier couped in base azure.
BARROWMAN T
, argent, on a cheveron between three martlets gules,
.
*
a crescent of
the first. Workman's Manuscript.
STRANGE of Balcaskie, argent, a cheveron between three lozenges sable. Font's
Manuscript.
The name of ABERCORN, argent, a cheveron sable, betwixt three mullets gules.
Mackenzie's Heraldry.
M'BEATH, azure, a cheveron between two mullets in chief, and a crescent argent
in base. Font's Manuscript.
The name of BISKET, argent, on a cheveron ingrailed between two cinquefoils
gules, and a mullet in base azure, a cross croslet fitched issuing out of a cres-
cent of the field.
HEPBURN of Waughton, carried quarterly, first, and fourth gules, on a cheveron
argent, a rose betwixt two lions rampant of the first, for the name of Hepburn ;
second and third argent, three martlets gules second and ; first, for the name of
Gourlay; as in Sir James Balfouv's Book of Blazons. And they stand so illuminat-
ed in the house of Falahall, with the names of other barons that were members of
Farliament in the year 1604. This family has been sometime in use to marshal
also with those above the arms of Rutherford : for I have seen the seal armorial of
Sir Patrick Hepburn of Waughton and Lufness appended to a charter, granted by
him, in the year 1587, to his cousin Patrick Hepburn of Smeaton, of the lands of
Easter-Crucks ; upon which seal is a shield couche, having three coats quarterly,
first Hepburn ; econd Gourlay, as above ; third the arms of Rutherford, viz.
argent, an orle gules, and in chief three mullets sable, and the fourth as the
first.
Afterwards they laid aside the arms of Gourlay, and carried only Hepburn and
Rutherford, quarterly.
As for the antiquity of the family, and whether it was the principal one of the.
name, I cannot be positive, not having seen their old evidents. But Mr Thomas
Crawfurd, in his Notes and Observations on Buchanan's History, makes this family
the principal one, where, at the title, De Familia: Antiquitate, page 17*3, he says,
"
For the Earl of Bothwell was descended of an Englishman, and thereafter ser-
" vant to the Earl of March, in the days of King David Bruce, and is not so
" ancient as Waughton."
The eldest evident that I have seen belonging to this family, is a charter of alienation
of the barony of Lufness, granted by William Bickerton, son and heir of
Robert Bickerton of Lufness, to Sir John Hepburn of Waughton, dated at Haddington,
the 4th of February 1463 ; which charter is confirmed by King James III.
The family all along married with the best families in the country, being both
powerful and rich ; of late it ended in an heiress, who was married to Sir Andrew
Ramsay, son and heir to Sir Andrew Ramsay of Abbotshall, sometime one of the
Senators of the College of Justice, and Provost of Edinburgh.
The next family of the name now standing, and male representative of Waughton,
by the documents that I have seen, is Patrick Hepburn of Sraeaton ; whose
progenitor was Adam Hepburn of Smeaton, second son of Patrick Hepburn ot
Waughton, Knight, and his Lady, Helen Hepburn, niece of Adam Earl of Bothwell,
that was killed at Flodden. He got from his father half the lands of Smeaton,
and the whole lands of Smeaton-Crucks, as by a.n instrument of seisin, of the
date 1538, (penes Hepburn of Smeaton) which has these words, " Patricius Hep-
"
burn de Waughtoun, miles, accessit ad prinqipale Messwagium de Smiton, &-c.
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in baronia de Waughton &- Constabularia de Haddington, &- ibi propriis mani-
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bus dedit corporalem possessionem dimiditatis terrarum de Smiton, & totarum
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terrarum de Smiton Crucks, probo adoloscenti Ads Hepburn filio suoJ'