A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF THE CHEVERON. 165
page, and at that king's coronation in England, was made a Knight of the Bath,
;:nd afterwards Baron of Branspeth, in the bishoprick of Durham ; in the year
1611, Viscount of Rochester, and the same year was installed one of the Knights
of the Most Noble Order of the Gaiter, and afterwards created Earl of Somrr-ct.
He was also Lord Chamberlain of the King's Household, one of the Lords of the
Privy-Council,
and was a chief favourite at Court after the death of HUME Earl
of Dunbar, by whose favour he did rise ; but fell afterwards into disgrace by his lady
Frances Howard, daughter of Thomas Earl of Suflblk ; she bore to him a daugh-
ter, Anne, his only heiress,
to whom she had issue.
who was married to William Russel, Earl of Bedford ;
KER of Ancrum : The first of this family was Robert Ker, second son to Sir
Andrew Ker of Fernihirst, and his spouse Janet Hume, daughter
of Hume of
Polwarth ; of whom was Sir Robert Ker, who was created Lord Nisbet in Teviotdale,
and' Earl of Ancrum by King Charles L He married first, a daughter of
Murray of Blackbarcny, who bore to him a son, William, who became Earl of
Lothian, by marrying the only heiress of Robert Ker Earl of Lothian. Secondly,
he married a daughter of Stanly Earl of Derby ; and provided the title of Eail
of Ancrum by the King's approbation to the heir-male of that marriage, Charles,
who was Earl of Ancrum, who carried quarterly, first and fourth ermine, on a
chief parti, argent and gu/es, a lion passant counter-changed; second and third
gules, on a cheveron argent, three stars or mullets of the first ; crest, a stag's head
and neck couped argent, collared gules, and charged with three mullets argent, is-
suing out of an open crown or ; supporters, two stags proper, collared as the crest :
with the motto, Tout droit.
KER of Littledean,. descended of a second brother of Cessford, quarterly, first
and fourth vert, on a cheveron argent, three stars gules, and in base, an unicorn's
head erased of the second, for KER ; second and third azure, three crosses moline
argent, for Ainslie of Dolphinton, as in the Plate of Achievements. But our old
books give for arms to Ainslie of Dolphinton, .or, a cross-flory, gules. Sir ANDREW
KER of Littledean got the barony of the Hirsel in the Merse, from King James V.
because he was the first that brought the news to the king, that the Lord Home
and his followers defeat the English at Haddonridge. This family was designed
KER of Hirs>el, as above ; and their arms are illuminated in the house of Falahall,
being vert, on a cheveron argent, three stars gules, and in base an unicorn's head
erased of the second. The Earls of Home acquired the barony of Hirsel from Ker
of Littledean, which is now the seat of the family of Home.
Sir ANDREW KER of Greenhead, Bart, descended of Fernihirst, gules, on a
cheveron argent, three stars or mullets of the first, a buck's head erased in base,
and for difference, in chief, a crescent of the second. Lyon Register. As in the
Plate of Achievements.
KER of Chatto, the same with Greenhead, a cadet of that family,
within a bor-
dure azure. Lyon Register.
KER of Cavers, descended of Fernihirst ; gules, on a cheveron argent, three
stars ot the first, all within a bordure cheque of the second and first ; crest, a stag's
head erased proper, with ten tynes or : motto, Tout droit. Lyon Register.
KER of Sutherland-Hall, (representative of Ker of Yair, who was a cadet of
Fernihirst) gules, on a cheveron argent, three stars of the first, in base, a stag's
fiead erased, (some books, in place of it, give a hunting horn or, stringed argent,)
all within a bordure invected of the second. ; crest, a dexter hand holding a dag-
ger, proper : motto, Abest timor. Lyon Register.
KER of Faldonside ; quarterly, first vert, on a cheveron argent, between three
unicorn's heads erased of the last, as many stars gules ; second or, on a bend azure,
three mascles of the first ; third as second, and fourth as the first, for Halyburton
of Dirleton ; one of whose heiresses thia- family married.
KER ot Fairnilee, a cadet of Cessford ; vert, on a cheveron argent, three stars
gules, and in base a pelican vulnerate or. Font's Manuscript. And there also,
KER of SamueKton ; argent, an unicorn salient sable, horned or, an old branch
of the Kers, whether of Cessford or Fernihirst I know not, for the first of this
and took the arms of Samuelston of that Ilk
family laid aside his paternal bearing,
in East-Lothian. This family ended in George
Tt
Ker of Samuelston, in the reign