A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES.
Whitehall the 25th of April 1636, and was interred in St Paul's Cathedral, leaving
only behind him a son, who married Margaret, a third daughter of Francis Earl of
Bedford, and. died without issue 1660.
HAY Earl of KINNOUL, quarterly, first and fourth azure, an unicorn effraye argent,
horned, maned, and unguled or, within a bordure of the test, charged with eight
half thistles vert, and as many half roses gules, conjoined pale-ways for a coat of
augmentation ; second and third the arms of Hay as before ; crest, a hawk, proper,
armed and belled or, perching upon the stock of a tree, with branches growing up
before and behind : with the motto, Speravi in Domino. Supporters, two hawks,,
proper, armed and belled or. The first of this noble family was George, a son of
Hay of Meggins of the family of Errol (who carried the arms of Hay with an
acorn between three escutcheons.) He was, in the year 1616, Clerk Register, and
rhen Chancellor of Scotland, after the death of Seaton Earl of Dunfermline 1622.;
and was advanced to the dignity of Viscount of Duplin, Lord Hay of Kinfauns, by
King Charles I. the 4th May 1627, and afterwards honoured with the title of Earl
of Kinnoul : He was succeeded by his son George Earl of Kinnoul, and he by his
son William Earl of Kinnoul, father of Earl George, who died in Hungary 1687,
and Earl William a bachelor, who died in France, loth May 1709; so that the
honours devolved on Thomas Viscount of Duplin, who carried the arms of Hay
within a bordure ermine : He was the son and heir of Thomas Hay of Balhousie,
by his wife, a daughter of Sir Thomas Nicolson of Carnock, son of Mr Francis
Hay of Balhousie, by Margaret, daughter of James Oliphant of Bachilton, son of
Thomas Hay, brother to George the first Earl of Kinnoul. So that Thomas Viscount
of Duplin, as the next heir-male, was Earl of Kinnoul, and sat in Parlia-
ment in that Dignity 1713, being elected one of the sixteen Peers from Scotland,
and carried the achievement of the first Earl of Kinnoul, as above blazoned : He
married /Elizabeth Drummond, daughter to William Viscount of Strathallan, by.
whom he had two sons and two daughters he died ; 1719, and is succeeded by his
eldest son George Earl of Kinnoul in Scotland, being before made a Peer of Great
Britain, by the title of Lord Hay of Berwarden, the 3ist of December 1712 : He
married Elizabeth Harley, eldest daughter of Robert Earl of Oxford.
HAY of Park, sometime designed of Lochloy, an ancient family of the name,
argent, three escutcheons within a bordure gules ; crest, the yoke of a plough
erect in pale or, with two bows gules: motto, Servo, jugum subjugo. As in the
Lyon Register, with the following blasons.
FRANCIS HAY of Strorrzie, descended of Hay of Park ;
the same with. Park, hav-
ing the bordure charged with eight crescents of the field.
HAY of Woodcockdale, descended of the family of Park or Lochloy, argent, a
fesse between three escutcheons, all within a bordure gules; crest, a demi-arm, proper,
holding an oxen yoke with bows gules : motto, Hinc incrementum.
HAY of Carruber, a brother of Woodcockdale, the same ; but waves the fesse
for his difference.
HAY of Balhousie, descended of Meggins, the arms of Hay, within a bordure
ermine ; crest, a demi-man ha-ving a blue cap on his head, and holding over his
shoulder the yoke of a plough gules : motto, Renovate animos.
HAY of Fitfour, descended of the family of Errol, argent,
three escutcheons
within a bordure cheque of the second and first.
HAY of Dalgety, descended of Errol, argent, a cinquefoil between three inescuttt/fj-;
as in Workman's Illuminated Book, and in the house of Falahall;
but some books give a fesse between the three escutcheons.
JOHN HAY of Cardenie, sometime one of the Under Clerks of the Session, descended
of Dalgetty, makes the fesse waved ; crest, an ox-yoke erect in pale, with
bovrsgvJef: motto, Hinc honor 13 opes. L. R.
Sir JAMES HA*- of Linpkun, Knight and Baronet, eldest son of Sir William
Hay of Linplum, second son of James Lord Yester, and brother to John first Earl
of Tweeddale, carries that Earl's quartered coat, all within a bordure argent; crest,
a goat's head erased argent, horned or, and charged with a crescent azure ; supported
by two stags argent : motto, Malttm bono vince. L. R.
Mr JOHN HA.Y of Hayston, sometime one of the Principal Clerks of the Session,
descended of Tweeddale, the quartered coat of that family within a bordure vert,