A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES,
Sir ROBERT HYDE of Hyde, in Com. Chest, living in the reign of Henry
III. of
whom was descended Sir EDWARD HYDE, who manifested his loyalty and fidelity
to King Charles I. and was made Chancellor of his Majesty's Exchequer, and afterwards
one of his Privy Council and was ; Secretary of State to King Charles II.
when abroad, and after his Majesty's Restoration he was raised to the degrees of dignity
as above. By the command of King Charles II. he wrote that excellent work
called the History of the Rebellion ; which is, and will be a living instance of his
great abilities. He held the office of Lord Chancellor till the year 1667,
at which
time, upon some disgust taken against him, he retired into France, and there died
1674. He left three sons and two daughters behind him, the eldest Henry Earl
of Clarendon ; the second, Laurence, was made Earl of Rochester by King
Charles II. 1682, who carries the foresaid arms, with a crescent, for a brotherly
difference : The third son, James, was drowned on board the Gloucester Frigate,
attending his Royal Highness the Duke of Albany and York into Scotland. Hi -,
eldest daughter, Lady Ane, married to his Royal Highness the Duke of Albany
and York, afterwards King of England and his ; second daughter, Lady Frances,
married to Thomas Knightly of Hartingfordbury in Corn. Hertford, Esq.
FIELDING Earl of DENBIGH, argent, on a fesse azure, three lozenges or, for the
paternal bearing of the ancient family of FIELDING, descended of the Earls of
HAPSBURG, who were Counts Palatine in : Germany As appears by a letter of
attorney, made by Jeffrey Fielding, in the pth year of the reign of Edward II.
wherein he calls himself, Filius Galfridi Comitis de Hapsburg, &c. of whom was
lineally descended William Fielding, who was knighted by King Henry VIII. and
his successor. Another William was knighted by King I. James of Great Britain,
and in the 8th year of the same king's reign advanced to the dignity of a baron
of the realm of England, as also Viscount Fielding there ; and in the year ensuing
was made Earl of Denbigh. He married Mary, daughter to Sir George Villiers of
Ikockesby, son to George Duke of Buckingham she ; bore to him two sons,
Basil, who succeeded his father in his honours, and George, the second son, who
was created Lord Fielding of Caghe in Ireland, as also, Viscount Callan, and Earl of
Desmond, by King James I. She likewise had four daughters, the eldest married to
James Marquis of Hamilton in Scotland, afterwards Duke of Hamilton.
MONTAGU Earl of MONTAGU, descended of EDWARD MONTAGU, who was first
dignified with the title of Lord Montagu by King James I. of Great Britain, the
29th of June 1621, carries argent, three lozenges in fesse gules, within a bordure
sahle. And the same is carried by Montagu Earl of Manchester, and Montagu
Earl of Sandwich, with the addition of a crescent and a mullet, as brotherly dif-
ferences of the same family.
Some of the name of ALLEN in England, argent, three lozenges sable, 2, and I.
The name of LILBURN, sable, three lozenges argent.
FREEMAN in Northampton, azure, three lozenges argent, 2, and i.
The surname of CRISPIN in England, gules, ten lozenges argent, 4, 3, 2 and i,
as in Morgan's Heraldry, fig. 13.
When the field or any other charge is filled with lozenges alternately of metal
and colour, (as cheque, of which before) they are then blazoned lozenge.
" Lozenge," says Menestrier, " se dit de 1'ecu et figures couverte's des lozenges,"
/. c. when the field or any other figure is covered with lozenges, as in the bearing
of CAON in France, lozenge, gules and or : The Latins ordinarily say, Plintheis sen
rbcr-'iitlis i. e.
repletus (sen ififcrstinctus') clypeus, lozengy, argent and gules, by' the
family of CUDENHAM in Norfolk ; and the same was carried by FITZWILLIAMS, sometime
Earl of SOUTHAMPTON. Fig. 14.
When the field or figure is so covered with lozenges erect, we say only lozengy ;
but if they incline diagonally to the right or left, we say lozengy
in bend or bar ;
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and if they be horizontal in fesse, as Sylvester Petra Sancta suy-, Hi rhombi
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tcsserarii, quundo scuti symbolici universam paginam replenr, aut instar ta^cia> urn
" sunt erecti, aut proni & obliqui more balteorum :" For examples he gives us
first, lozengy in fesse, or and gules. The arms of BIAMONTI and GRAOVI in I 'lander ,
and azure ; the French call
and the arms of BAVARIA, lozengy in bend, argent
these lozenges, fusils, as Menestrier in his blazon of the arms of BAVARIA, fusile
en bande, d' argent et d'azur ; of fusils afterwards. When the lozenges incline to