A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES.
Caldwell of that Ilk, one of the commissioners for the Shire of Renfre\7, about the
year 1693. The lands are now possessed by John Earl of Dundonald.
JOHN CALDWELL in Glasgow, as in our New Register, parted per pule, azurr
and sable, a hart's head couped or, and in chief, three wells or fountains, proper.
The surname of YOUNG curries piles ; as YOUNG of Oldbar, argent, three pile.-.
sable, on a chiei' of the last, as many annulets or ; crest, a lion issuing out of u
wreath gules, holding a sword in pale, proper ; motto, Rob^ii prudcnti i prxstat ;
as in the Lyon Register.
Sir JOHN YOUNG of Leny, argent on three piles sable, as many annulets or ;
crest, a dexter arm holding a lance in bend, proper : motto, Press through.
Lyon Register.
THOMAS YOUNG of Rosebank, argent, three piles indents sable, on a chief of the
last, as many annulets or ; crest, an anchor placed in the sea, and surmounted of
a dove with an olive branch in its beak, all proper : motto, Sperando spiro.
YOUNG, sometime Bishop of Edinburgh, argent, three piles sable, on a chief
gules, as many annulets or, and a mullet for difference on the middle pile. Extracted
out of the Lyon Register, 1673.
ANDREW YOUNG of Easttield, writer to his Majesty's Signet, argent on three
piles sable, as many annulets or, with a star of six points of the first ; crest, a
dexter hand holding a : pen, proper with the motto, Scripta tiianent ; all in the
Lyon Register.
YOUNGER of Hopperston, argent, on three piles
in point sable, as many annu-
lets or ; and, on a chief gules, a crescent between two mullets of the first. Font's
Manuscript.
The name of YOUNGER, it seems, is of the same stock with the Youngs-, by their
arms, viz argent, on three piles in point sable, as many annulets or, and, on a chief
gules, a crescent between two mullets of the first. Font's Manuscript.
When we say piles
in
point, then the points of the piles meet and join
in the base of the shield.
together
The surname of LOVELL, argent, three piles sable, surmounted of a fesse waved
gules. Font's Manuscript. And the same was carried by LOVELL of Balumby.
The surname of LAUTY, sable, three piles in point argent, surmounted of a fesse
gules, charged with as many crescents or. Font's Manuscript.
LAUTY of Teichonell charges his fesse with one crescent, and LAUTY of Myrehouse
added two stars.
POLWARTH of that Ilk, in the shire of Berwick, argent, three piles ingrailed gules,
and conjoined in point. This family ended in an heiress, in the reign of King
James III. who was married to John Sinclair, eldest son of Sinclair of Herdmanston
; to whom King James IV. grants a charter of the lands of Polwarth. He
died without heirs-male, leaving behind him two daughters, who were co-heiresses
of Polwarth, but not of Herdmanston, to which his brother, as heir-male, succeeded.
The eldest was married to George Home of Wedderburn, and the other to
his younger brother Patrick, afterwards designed of Polwarth, progenitor of the
has been in use
present Earl of Marchmont ; upon which account that family
to quarter with their own the arms of Polwarth ;
and, by their modern paintings,
make the field gules, and the piles indented argent.
When the piles issue from any of the sides or angles of the shield it is necessary
to name the place from which they issue ; if from the chief, it may be named or
omitted in the blazon.
HENDERSON of Fordel, the principal family of the name, gules, three piles
iss i-
ing out of the sinister side argent, and, on a chief of the last, a crescent azure, betwixt
two spots of ermine; Esplin's Illuminated Book of Arms ; and they are so
illuminated in Workman's Manuscript; but the crescent is there vert, and supported
by two mertrixes ermine ; crest, a hand holding a star, surmounted by a crescent
; with the motto, Sola virtus nobilitat. Plate. IX. fig. 16.
HENRY HENDERSON of St Laurence, Doctor of Medicine, parted per pale indented,
sable and argent, two attires of an hart counter-changed, on a chief gules a
crescent or, betwixt two tufts of ermine; crest, a wheel: motto, Sic cuncta caduca
Lyon Register. Here an indenting is in place of the piles, carried by Fordel.