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A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES.<br />

CAMPBELL Earl <strong>of</strong> LOUDON, carries the Earl's arms by way <strong>of</strong> canton, <strong>of</strong> which<br />

before.<br />

The canton has been <strong>of</strong> old and <strong>of</strong> late frequently carried both by nobility and<br />

gentry ; and not only used to contain armorial figures <strong>of</strong> honourable pr<strong>of</strong>essions,<br />

employments, and descents, but also other signs <strong>of</strong> honour granted by sovereigns<br />

to their well deserving subjects, as by the examples above given ; to which I<br />

shall a4d a few instances <strong>of</strong> the Blazons <strong>of</strong> the Badges <strong>of</strong> the Orders <strong>of</strong> Baronets<br />

in England and Scotland, which are carried on a canton, or on an inescutcheon.<br />

The Order <strong>of</strong> Baronet in England was erected by King James I. <strong>of</strong> England, for<br />

advancing the plantation <strong>of</strong> Ulster in Ireland ; who, besides the privileges and<br />

precedencies given to the Knights <strong>of</strong> the Order, granted to them a badge, as an<br />

additament <strong>of</strong> honour to be carried in their arms, as that <strong>of</strong> Ulster, viz. a left<br />

hand pame (i. e. expanded) and couped gules, in a field argent, either by way <strong>of</strong><br />

canton or inescutcheon, as shall best suit with the arms or please the bearer.<br />

The Order <strong>of</strong> Baronet in Scotland was erected for advancing the navigation to<br />

Nova Scotia in America, and for settling a colony there, to which the aid <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Knights was designed. The Order was only introduced by King James VI. be-<br />

fore his death; for, in his first charter <strong>of</strong> Nova Scotia 1621, there is no mention<br />

made <strong>of</strong> the Order ; as Sir George Mackenzie has observed in his Precedency,<br />

which see for more <strong>of</strong> this Order than what I am to speak <strong>of</strong> here. So that the<br />

Order was erected by King Charles I. anno 1625, who by and attour the privileges<br />

and precedencies given to the Baronets, his Majesty did declare and ordain, " That<br />

" the Baronets, and their heirs-male, should,<br />

as an additament <strong>of</strong> honour to their<br />

"<br />

armorial ensigns, bear, either on a canton or inescutcheon, in their option, the<br />

"<br />

ensign <strong>of</strong> Nova Scotia, being argent, a cross <strong>of</strong> St Andrew's azure, (the badge <strong>of</strong><br />

" Scotland counter-changed) charged with an inescutcheon <strong>of</strong> the royal arms <strong>of</strong><br />

"<br />

Scotland, supported on the dexter by the royal unicorn, and on the sinister by a<br />

" savage or wild man, proper ; and for crest, a branch <strong>of</strong> laurel, and a thistle<br />

" issuing from two hands conjoined, the one being armed, the other naked ; with<br />

"<br />

the motto, Munit h

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