A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES.
chief leader of all the other Arms of dukedoms and provinces in Belgium, marshal
led in the achievement of that kingdom ; but of late the bordure gobonated is
fallen into disgrace, by giving it to bastards, and their legitimates. Of which 1
shall treat in the chapter of the Marks of Cadency.
JAMES Duke of BERWICK, natural son to King James VII. carries the arms of
Britain, within a bordure compone, gules and azure ; the first charged with lions
passant gardant or, for England; the second with flower-de-luces of France, tinbordure,
thus latjned by Imhoff, Limbum e quadris rubeis & cxrulcis compos it urn,
ita tit riibca leonibus Anglis, caruleae Liliis Francicis distinctie.
or tracts
Counter-compone , (which some say cbitnter-gobone) consists of two ranges
of square pieces alternately of different tinctures : For the French say ordinarily,
cojitre-compone , and sometimes eschequete, deux traits ; and the Latins, lirnbus duptici
tractit tesselarurn cotnpositus. Plate VII. fig. 33.
WILLIAM SCOTT, a second son of Bevelaw, his father's arms, as before, within a
bordure counter-compone, or and azure. Lyon Register. And there also,
BURNEX of Balleladies, descended of Burnet of Leys, the arms of Leys within a
bordure counter-compone, argent and azure ; and for crest, a branch of holly, slipped,
proper : motto, Necfluctu, necflatu. New Register.
Bordure cheque consists of three ranges or tracts at least, or more, of square
pieces alternately of different tinctures.
BARCLAY of Touch, descended of Cullerny, azure, a cheveron or, betwixt three
crosses patee argent, within a bordure cheque of the second and first ; of which
before, Plate VII. fig. 34. Here the engraver is faulty in making the bordure two
large.
GRAHAM of Gartur surrounds the arms .of Graham, within a bordure cheque ;
and so does Leslie of Findrassie with such a bordure. Many more examples are to
be met with in this Treatise, which cannot be properly here repeated. The bordure
is not only varied by accidental forms and charges, but likewise, as the shield
may be parti, coupe, tranche, faille ; so that the bordure is a figure like a second
shield, capable of many variations, to difference many descendants of one stem.
Plate Vll. fig. 35. JOHN GORDON, Hneal representative of the family of Braco,
descended of Gordon of Haddo, now Earl of Aberdeen, azure, three boars' heads
couped or, armed and langued gules, within a bordure parti, argent and or. In. the
Lyon Register. And there,
GORDON of Nethermuir, another cadet of the Earl of Aberdeen, the same within
a bordure coupe argent and or ; crest, a dexter hand holding an arrow :
bend-ways
motto, Majores seqttor : As Plate VIII. fig. i, and 2. : And
in the Plate of Achievements.
ROBERT ARBLTHNOT, Merchant in Montrose, descended of the House of Porterton,
descended of the family of Arbuthnot of that Ilk, now Viscount of Arbuthnot,
azure, a crescent between three stars argent, all within a bordure indent-
ed, and quartered of the second and first ; crest, a dove within an adder, disposed
in orle, proper : motto, Innocue ac provide. New Register.
Bordures quartered, {parti and coupe} are frequent with us ; Colonel Henry
Graham, whose father William Graham was brother-german to John Earl of Mon-
trose, Viceroy of Scotland in the reign of King James VI. carried Montrose';,
quartered arms within a bordure, quartered, gules and sable.
ROBERT HAMILTON of Presmennan, sometime one of the Senators of the College
of Justice, (grandfather to the present Lord Belhaven) descended of Hamilton of
Bruntwood, a lawful brother of the family of Hamilton, now honoured with the
title ot duke of that name, gules, three cinquefoils ermine with a bordure quarterly
vair, and counter-compone of argent, and the first. Lyon Register. The English
would call this a bordure purflew, upon the account of the furr, as they blazon the arms
of Henry Fitzroy Duke of Richmond, natural son to King Henry VIII. of England,
who carried the imperial ensign of that kingdom within a bordure, quarterly, com-
posed of purflew ermine, and counter-compone, or and azure.
Fig. 3. Bordure, quarterly, per saltier, (tranche and tailI e} such an one surrounds
the arms of Porto-Carrera in Spain, which Sylvester Petra Sancta blazons
in French, bordure escartele en sautoir a' argent et de guailes, and such a bordnre
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