A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES.
MURRAY of Deuchar, the arms of Philiphaugh, within a bordure g ules ; crest, an
esculop of the last : motto, Fidei signum.
Sir JAMES DUNDAS of Arniston, one of the Senators of the College of Justice,
descended of a younger son of Dundas of that Ilk, bears Dundas, viz. argent, a
lion rampant gules, within a bordure ermine, Plate VII. fig. 21. Those who have
had the honour of late to be Senators o? that Honourable Judicatory have chosen
the furr ermine as senatorial, of which the additional figures are, as Sir Colin Campbell
of Aberuchill, Sir Andrew Home of Kimmergham, and others, have their arms
within a bordure ermine.
Sir THOMAS STEWART of Bulcaskie, sometime one of the Senators of that learned
and honourable Bench, descended of Stewart of Grandtully, charged the arms of
that family within a bordure counter-ermine. Fig. 22. Plate VII.
DOUGLAS of Earnslaw, of whom before, has his arms within a bordure vair.
Fig. 23. Plate VII.
DUNBAR of Heuiprigs, descended of the family of Kilbuyach, a cadet of Dunbar
of Westfield, Westfield's arms within a bordure vair, or and gules. So much
then for plain bordures. I proceed to others under accidental forms.
GREY Lord GREY of Wark. in England, gules, a lion rampant within a bordure
ingrailed argent ; thus blazoned by Imhoff, Scutum, quo Baro Gray de Werk utitur,
rubst, sed margine dentato argenteo distinctum est, leonem qui continet, dicto tinctum
metallo ; Plate VII. fig. 25. This family -represents the ancient Greys of Chillingham
in Northumberland, and was dignified by the title of Lord Grey of
Wark, the nth of February 1623, by King James I. of Great Britain ; and of late,
Viscount Glendale in Northumberland, and Earl of Tankerville in Normandy.
One of the heads of this family was honoured with the last title, long since, by
King Henry V. of England.
GRAY Lord GRAY in Scotland carries the same arms with my Lord Grey of
Wark and Chillingham in England, supported by two lions gardant gules, armed
anchor. The first of this fa-
or ; crest, an anchor in pale or : motto, Anchor, fast
mily was a son of Grey of Chillingham, or Ford, in Northumberland, in the reign
of Alexander II. who came to Scotland, and gave his allegiance to that king, and
got the lands of Roufield *, in the shire of Roxburgh
: His issue has continued still
in Scotland. I have seen a charter (in the custody of Lauder of Fountainhall)
granted by Robert Lauder of Quarrelwood to Thomas Borthwick, in the reign of
Alexander III. Amongst the witnesses is Andrew Gray ; and he, or another
Andrew Gray, gets a charter of confirmation of the lands of Roufield from King
R.obert the Bruce, as in the Earl of Haddington's Collections, in the Lawyers'
Library : As also, in the pth year of that king's , reign, Andrew Gray got a charter
of the lands and barony of Longforgan, with several other lands, which formerly
belonged to Sir Edmund Hastings. Amongst
the witnesses in the charters of
King Robert II. is Johannes de Gray, Clericus Rotulorum, & Registri Regis ; and,
i:i the reign of King Robert III. Sir Patrick Gray of Roufield is designed in a
charter of Thomas Strachan of Glenkindy, nobilis & patens Dominus Patricius Gray
miles, Dominus de Roufield ; and from the same king he gets a charter of confirmaof
the lands of Longforgan, where he is called cons anguine us noster. His son Sir
Andrew Gray married Janet Mortimer, heiress of Foulis, with whom he got the
barony of Foulis. I have seen an instrument under the note and subscription of
Patrick Nick, actornatus nobilis, iS potentis Domini Andrea Gray de Foulis, in anno
1405: And it is thought he was the first lord of that family, which is now represented
by the present John Lord Gray.
In the chapter of Partition Lines and their accidental forms, I showed that the
two lines ingrailed and invected would be best understood when they formed bordures.
The ingrailed line carries always its points into the field, and the invected
into the figure or bordure it forms, with its gibbose or convex parts into the field ;
and for these two attributes the French say engrele and candle, and the Latins ordinarily,
ingrediatus and invectus. The word ingrailed seems to be derived from
ingrediar, to enter or go in, as Upton saith, quia ejus color gradatim infertur in
to the for-
campf). The invected bordure, called canelle by the French, is contrary
mer ; for its points encroach into the bordure, and is called invectus, from inveho,
to carry in. Mr Gibbon, in^his Introduction 4d Latinam Blazoniam, says ingredj.-
* Browfield in Crawfurd and Douglas's Peerages. E*