A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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1 82 OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES. became a surname to his posterity : He and his sons being nobilitate, the king gave him the foresaid arms, to intimate that the father and the two sons had been luckily the three shields of Scotland ; and gave them as much land in the Carse of Gowry as a falcon did fly over without lighting, which having flown a great way, she lighted on a stone, there called the falcomstone to this day : The circumstances of which story is not only perpetuate by the three escutcheons, but by the exterior ornaments of the achievement of the family of Errol ; having, for crest, on a wreath a falcon, proper ; for supporters, two men in country habits, holding the oxen yokes of a plough over their shoulders, (sometimes they are represented as sa- vages wreathed about the head and middle with laurel, holding yokes of a plough in their hands) ; and for motto, Serva jugu'm. As for the antiquity of the name, it is as early to be found in our records as any other. There are severals of that name mentioned in the charters of King Malcolm IV. to the abbacies of Scoon and Cupar, amongst whom is Willielmus de Haia de Errol, who was succeeded by his son David de Haia, father of another William de Haia, 1305. Gilbertus de Haia Dominus de Errol (Dalrymple's Collections, page 75.) was, for his good ser- vices to King Robert the Bruce, made Lord High Constable of Scotland, and his heirs for ever ; as by that charter i2th November 1315. And, in a charter of confirmation of that king's (Haddington's Collections, page 66.) of the charter of Eva Kelor to Robert Harkars Miles, of the date the 1 8th year of King Robert's reign, among the witnesses, .is Gilbertus de Haia, Constabularies Scotite, of whom was descended William de Haia Lord Errol, Constable of Scotland, who was, by King James II. created Earl of Errol, the iyth of March 1452, and from him Charles the late Earl of Errol, High Constable. For a more full genealogical account of this noble family, see Mr Crawfurd's Peerage of Scotland. The next eminent family of the name was HAY of Locharret, after designed of Tester, now of Tweeddale, who carries the same arms as Errol, marshalled with others. The first of this family was John Hay, son of William Hay, and brother of William Hay of Errol, in the reign of King William the Lion ; which Mr Crawfurd vouches in his Peerage. It seems he came from the north to the Lothians, and married the daughter and heir of Robert de Lyn, and got with her the barony of Locharret. Their son and successor was William Hay of Locharret ; for, in the Register of Newbattle, is to be found a charter to that abbacy by Willielmus de Haya,JUius Joannis de Haya, miles & dominus de Locbus-werivord, giving the liberty of a moss called Uulnestrocher, to the monks of that abbacy, which Robert de Lyn, the son of David, quondam domini de Locerworna, & ipsius Pater, illi dedit. See Sir James Dalrymple's Collections, Preface, p. 76. William was succeeded by his son Sir William Hay of Locharret, father of Hugh Hay of Locharret, who married a sister of King Robert the Bruce, and widow of Laurence Lord Abernethy, and with her had a son, Gilbert, as by the genealogical account of the family. Sir GILBERT HAY of Locharret married Mary, one of the daughters and co- heiress of Sir Simon Fraser Lord of Oliver-Castle, with whom he got a good estate in Tweeddale ; upon which account the family has been in use to marshal with their own the arms of Fraser of Oliver-Castle, of old; being azure, five cinquefoils argent, two, one and two, though now there are but three used, two and one. Their son, Sir Thomas, father of Sir William Hay of Locharret, the battle of Durham. was taken prisoner at Another Sir WILLIAM HAY of Locharret was employed in divers embassies, in the reign of Robert III. And, during the regency of the Duke of Albany, (Rymer r s Fadera Angl'id) he married Jean, the eldest of the four daughters and coheiress of John Gifford Lord Yester, and got with her the lands of Yester, upon which ac- count the family has also been in use to marshal the arms of Gifford ; with her he had four sons, Sir William, Thomas, David, and Edmund, the first laird of Lin- of whom were descended the Hays of Bara in the North. plum and Morham ; Sir William died without issue, and was succeeded by his brother Thomas, who was one of the hostages for the ransom of I. King James and was designed Dominus de Tester, (Rymer's Fadera Angli&ad annum 1423,) who died also without issue, and. was succeeded by

OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES. Sir David Lord Yester, his brother, anno 1434. I have seen an instrument under the hands of Alexander Clark, Notary, of the date 8th February 1445, men- tioning that Nobilis Dominus David Hay, miles, Dominus de Tester, recognosced some lands in Duncanlaw, because Edmund Hay, tenant thereof, had sold th

OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES.<br />

Sir David Lord Yester, his brother, anno 1434. I have seen an instrument under<br />

the hands <strong>of</strong> Alexander Clark, Notary, <strong>of</strong> the date 8th February 1445, men-<br />

tioning that Nobilis Dominus David Hay, miles, Dominus de Tester, recognosced<br />

some lands in Duncanlaw, because Edmund Hay, tenant there<strong>of</strong>, had sold th

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