A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

202 OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES.
ed several privileges to the town of Edinburgh, as to pass through his lands to-
Leith with carriages ; and, for more verifying that deed, he appends the seal of his
cousin, William Cunningham Lord Kilmaurs ; and the charter ends thus, " In
" cujus.rei testimonium sigillum meum praesenti scripto est appensum, & ad ma-
" jorem rei hujus evidentiam, sigillum nobilis &- potentis viri & cousanguinei mei
" clarissimi Domini Wilielmi de Cunningham, militis, domini de Kilmaurs, simili-
" ter apponi procuravi, ultimo die Maii, 1398." This Sir Robert Logan was
Admiral of Scotland in the year 1400; his son or grandson, John Logan ofRestal-
rig, was made principal Sheriff of Edinburgh by King James II. in the year 1444.
The family matched wi.-h the Ramsays of Dalhousie; after which marriage, they
quartered the arms of that family with their own. Sir James Logaa of Restalrig
married Margaret, daughter to George Lord Seaton, in the reign of King James V.
Robert Logan of Restalrig, to his charter of the date 1560, (whereby he gives to
his eldest son, John Logan, the lands of Redhall, Flures, and Nether-Flemington)
appends his seal of arms ; upon which is a shield, quarterly, first and fourth, three
piles conjoined in point, second and third, an eagle displayed, illuminated and
blazoned in the herald books thus first and fourth ; or, three piles issuing from the
chief, and conjoined in base sable. (Some books, as Workman, conjoin them -in
a man's heart in base gules}
for Logan ; second and third argent, an eagle displayed
with two heads sable, beaked and membred gules, for Ramsay.
Which John was father of Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig, father of Robert Logan
of Restalrig, that was forfeited (for keeping correspondence with John Earl of
Cowrie, in Jiis treasonable practices)
in the year 1609, eight years after his death,
which was in the year 1601. He left two sons, George and John, who went abroad;
the eldest died, John returned home and possessed a part of Restalrig, which
he had from his father : His son was George, who married Isabel Fowler, daughter
to Ludovick Fowler of Burncastle. Their son and successor, John Logan of Burncastle,
married Agnes Maxwell, daughter to John Maxwell of Hills, one of the
i'amijy of Nithsdale ; his son and successor is the present GEORGE LOGAN of Burncastle
: He married Isabel Douglas, daughter to the laird of Pinziere of the family
of Queensberry ; and, as representer of the Logans of Restalrig, carries
arms of the family, as in the Plate of Achievements.
I meet with other two families of the name in our books of arms ; as
the above
LOGAN of
Cotfield, who carried or, three passion-nails sable, their points in a heart gules, as
in Mr Font's Manuscript ; and, in the Lyon Register, there are recorded, in the
year 1676, the arms of Mr GEORGE LOGAN of that Ilk, or, three piles in point,
piercing a man's heart gules ; crest, a passion-nail piercing a man's heart, proper :
motto, Hoc majorum virtus, for which see Plate of Achievements.
The surname of LAING, argent, three piles conjoined in point,
sable. Font's
Manuscript.
JOHN LAING, Rector of Newland, was Treasurer to King James III. Mr Thomas
Laing is a witness in a charter of Alexander Forrester to his son Archibald, the
1 2th of October 1464. Mr JOHN LAING of Red-house in East-Lothian carried the
foresaid arms, quartered with argent, a pale sable, which are to be seen painted on
the dwelling-house of Reidhouse.
JAMES LAING, portioner of Morisland, parted per pale ingrailed, argent and sable,
a chief indented, and counter-changed of the same. Lyon Register. Here the
indentment is in place of the piles.
The surname of LOCHORE, argent, three piles issuing from the chief, their points
conjoined in base sable.
ADAM de LOCHORE was Sheriff of Fife in the reign of Alexander II. and Hugh
see Sir Robert
Lochore, in the reign of Alexander III. was also Sheriff of Fife ;
Sibbald's History of that Shire, who tells us, that though there were several gentlemen
of that name who had lands, scarce one of them is now to be found.
CALDWELL of that Ilk, in the shire of Renfrew, argent, three piles issuing from
the chief sable, and in base, four bars waved gules and vert, to show water, equivocally
relative to the name. This family, says Mr Crawfurd, in his History of
Renfrew, continued for many hundred years in a good reputation, by inter-mar-
i
iages with many honourable families ; and ended of late in the person of John