A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

t 7 o OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES.
of this surname of Baliol in Scotland, donors and witnesses in our Cloister Registers
; and in the Ragman-roll there are four or five of them of good account.
Some say that the Baillies are descended from the Baliols, which last name beingodious
to the nation they changed it to Baillie ; and it seems their arms too, for
they are very different from the Baliols, of which afterwards.
LANDELS Lord LANDELS, of old, in the shire of Berwick, carried or, an orle azure,
Plate VIII. fig. 6. This family long since ended in an heiress, who was married to Sir
ALEXANDER HOME of that Ilk, one of the progenitors of the present Earl of Home,
which family has ever since perpetuate the memory of the family of Landel, by
carrying the foresaid arms, by way of an inescutcheon, over their quartered ones.
William dc Landelys or Landel, son to the Baron of Landelis in the Merse, (Sib.
Hist, of Fife) being Provost of Kinkell, was consecrate Bishop of St Andrews
1441, and sat bishop 44 years; he died 1485.
LANDELS of Cowl, a cadet of the Lord Landel, gave the same arms, but, for difference,
put it under an accidental form, viz. or, an orle indented on the inner side
azure. I have seen the seal of one Sir John Landels who had an orle between
three cinquefoils, all within a bordure, appended to a Procuratory of Resignation,
of the date 1426, granted by John Murray of Ogilfee, one of the progenitors of
Murray of Abercairnie, because he had not a seal of his own ; as the words of the
procuratory runs, " quia non habui sigillum proprium, ideo usus sum Sigillo Domini
" Johannis Landel." Which is to be seen among the registers in the Parliament-
house.
RUTHERFORD, argent, an vslzguks, and in chief three martlets sable, plate VIII.
fig. 7. The principal family of this surname, was Rutherford of that Ilk, an ancient
and potent family in Teviotdale, on the Borders with : England The orle is
the principal armorial figure of the family, which may be thought to have been
assumed by them, upon the account beforementioned, in defending the Borders of
the kingdom against the English and the three ; martlets, to show that some of
the heads of the family had been in the warlike expeditions in the Holy Land,
against the Saracens, as these birds intimate, of which afterwards.
I am not to insist on the original of the name through uncertain tradition ; viz.
that one who guided Ruther King of the Scots through the river Tweed, in an
expedition against the Britons, at a certain place, thereafter, from that, culled
Ruthersford ; which was given to the guide. And when surnames came in use,
his posterity took their surname Rutherford from the lands ; neither am I to give
a complete genealogical deduction of the family and its branches, but those whom
I meet with upon records with their armorial bearings.
I have met with Nicolaus de Rutherford in Roxburghshire, in Prynne's Collections,
page 651, with other Scots Barons, submitting to Edward I. of England ; and
p;ige 655, Aymer de Rutherfurd is also a submitter. In Mr Barbour's History of
King Robert the Bruce, there is Sir Robert Rutherfurd fighting valiantly for his
king and country against the English : and the next I meet with of this family,
is Sir Richard Rutherford, designed Dominus de Rutherfurd, a person of great in-
terest and activity on the Borders, in the time of King Robert III. anno 1390, as
by
charters in Rotulis Roberti III,
JAMES RUTHERFORD, designed Dominus ejusdem in the records, in the reign of
King James II. who, with other barons on the Borders, viz. the Homes, Cranston
of Cranston, and Ker of Cessfcrd, were conservators of the peace made with England,
in the year 1457; for which, see Doctor Abercromby's 2d vol. of his Martial
Achievements, page 371. This James Rutherford got a charter from King James
II. 1451, of the barony of Edgerston, and married Margaret Erskine, daughter to
Erskine, by whom he had two sons, Richard and Thomas ; the eldest,
Richard, died before his father, and left a son, Richard, and two daughters, Helen
and Katharine Rutherfords. In the year 1492, the above James Rutherford ob-
tains a charter under the Great Seal, ratifying and confirming a chatter granted by
William Douglas of Cavers, as superior of the lands of Rutherford and Well, to
himself, and his grandson, Richard, his apparent heir, and his heir-male ; which
tailing, to his second son Thomas, and his son and apparent Robert, and his heirsmale.