A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES. 185
charged with unicorns' heads couped, and stars, alternately, argent ; crest, an oxyoke
in bend or, with bows gules : motto, Pro pair in. Lyon Register.
ALEXANDER HAY of Muntan, the arms of Hay within a bordure ingrailed azure,
seme of cinquefoils of the first.
Mr ANDREW HAY of Craignethan, descended of the family of T \veeddale, cur
ries, quarterly, first Fraser ; second Gifibrd ; third vert ; three unicorns' head .
erased argent, for Ker ; fourth as the first ; over all a shield of pretence, the ui
of Hay.
HAY of Seafield, descended of Hay of Fudy, argent,
a cheveron betwixt threr
escutcheons gules.
HAY of Leys, a second son of Errol, ermine, three escutcheons gules.
HAY of Muchals, the first of this family was a second son of George Earl of
Errol, and his spouse Margaret, daughter to Robertson of Struan, argent, a mullet
between three escutcheons.
HAY of Auchencoy, argent, three escutcheons within a bordure ingrailed gules.
HAY of Earnhill, sometime Minister at Cnimmond, the arms of Hay within a
bordure ingrailed gules, with a star in chief. L. R.
HAY of Broxmouth, argent, three escutcheons vert. This estate went long
since off with an heiress who was married to a gentleman of the name of Home,
of whom was descended Home Earl of Dunbar, and Home of Eccles, who quartered
these arms with their own, of whom afterwards.
HENRY HAY, Merchant in Leith, argent, three escutcheons gules, each charged
with a garb or, banded of the second; crest, an ox-head couped, proper; motto,
Nee abest jugum. Lyon Register.
MONCUR of that Ilk, argent, a rose gules, and, on a chief of the last, three
escutcheons of the first. Workman's Manuscript.
In the charters of Robert I. and David the Bruce, I have met with this name of
Moncur ; and in the reign of Robert III. Andreas Moiicur de eodsm is a \vir
ness in a charter of Rait of Halgreen ; other books give to Moncur of that Ilk,
argent, a fesse between three escalops gules.
Fig. 15. The surname of SHIELDS, gules, on a bend ingrailed or, three escutcheons
az:tre, being shields, they are relative to the name. W. Manuscript.
The surname of CROOKS or CRUCK.S, gules, on a bend or, three escutcheons sable ,
Ibid.
CECIL Earl of EXETER, and Baron of Burleigh, barry of ten pieces argent
and azure, over all, six escutcheons sable, 3, .2, and i, each charged with a
lion rampant of the first. William Cecil, descended of the Cecils in Lincoln-
shire, was a great favourite of Queen Elizabeth's, who honoured him with the title
of Lord Burleigh, and constituted him Lord Treasurer ; his son Thomas was, by
King James I. of Great Britain, by letters patent, created Earl of Exeter, which is
observed to be the first precedent whereby any man was advanced to the title of
Earl of the principal city, when another had the dignity of the country. Charles
Blunt being then Earl of Devonshire, his younger brother, Robert Cecil was, by
the same king, about the same time created Lord CECIL of Essenden, Viscount Cranburn,
being the first of that degree that wore a coronet. He was soon after made
Earl of Salisbury, Lord Treasurer, Knight of the Garter, and Chancellor of the
University of Cambridge, and carried as his brother, Exeter, with a crescent for
difference.
The name of LOUDHAME, in England, argent, three escutcheons sable.
To end with the escutcheon, in its various disposition in a coat of arms, I shall
only give the ensign of the King of Portugal, which is argent, five escutcheon
azure, placed cross-ways, each charged with as many besants of the first in saltier,
and pointed sable (the arms of all Portugal) within a bordure gules, charged with
seven towers or, 3 in chief, 2 in flanks, and as many in base. Which Blazon
is thus latined
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by Julius Chiffletiits, In scuto argenteo quina scutula coerulea, in
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crucis modum collocata, quodlibet quinque nummis bysantiis argenteis, puncto
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nigro impressis, &- in decussim depositis
in ustum, limbus scuti coccineus sep-
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tern castellis aureis inscriptis." The historical account of these arms, is, thau
the first King of Portugal, Alphonso Henriquez, great-grandchild to Hugh Capet
of France, overcame five Moorish kings at the battle of Ourique, anno 1134;
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