A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES. 213
The name of BASSENDEN, gules, on a cheveron argent, between three mullets or,
as many mascles azure. Font's Manuscript.
And there these of the name of NICOL, azure,
a fesse between six mascles
argent.
In England, CATERALL of Holderness,
Morgan's Heraldry. And there,
in Yorkshire, sable, three mascles argent.
WHITAKER, sable, three mascles or.
CARLETON of Ampthill, in Bedfordshire, argent, on a bend sable, three mascles of
the first; the same are given by Mr Gibbon, to DUDLEY, Lord CARLETON of Ember-
court, in Surry, (Viscount Dorchester in the county of
Oxford) which he latins thus,
"
CMJ! gestavitin scuto argenteo, teniam obliquam nigram, tribus metalli prirni im-
"
pressam maculis." He says, because of the various significations of macula, it were
not amiss to add cassitan and rctium, to maculis, which he takes to represent the mashes
of a net ; and, in another sense, he latins them rhombulos evacuates, i. e. lozenges
voided.
FUSIL and FUSILLY.
THE fusil is another rhombular figure like the lozenge, but more long than broad,
and its upper and lower points are more acute and sharp than the two side points.
Chassanus, with others, makes their sides round, as in his description of them,
" Fusas sunt acutae in superiore &- inferiore partibus & rotundae ex utroque latere;"
which description has occasioned some English heralds, when so painted or en-
graven, to call them miller's picks, as John '-Boswell, in his Concord of Armory,
Fol. ir. and others, to call them weaver's shuttles; but the French make their side
angles more acute than round, and to-represent spindles. Menestrier
"
says, Fuse'es
"
sont plus entendues en longueur que les lozanges et affile'es en pointe, comme les
" fuseaux, elles ont pieces d'architecture, ou bon se sert pour ornement de fusees et
" de pesons," and gives us the arms of Loquet in Artois, " Porte d'azur a trois fusees
" d'or, acollees en face," '. e. azure, three fusils in fesse or.
Sylvester Petra
"
Sancta says, Fusi ex ingenio & opificio muliebri petantur,"
and that women's shields are after this form, upon which are placed their paternal
figures, of which before in the chapter of Shields. For fusil, the ancients used
the words, fusilhts, fusa, and fusus ; according to the last, Mr Gibbon blazons the
arms of MONTAGU Earl of MANCHESTER, " Scutum argenteum cum ternis fusis coc-
" cineis in loco fasciae dispositis, limbo nigro circumducto," i. e. argent, three fusils
in fesse gules, bordure sable ; of which, speaking before, I gave them as lozenges,
from other English writers, who take the one for the other, as they are painted or
engraven, longer or shorter.
With us, LEITH of Restalrig, argent, five fusils in fesse sable ; some say argent,
2. fesse fusilly sable, as Sir George Mackenzie in the chapter of the Bar.
LEITH of Overhall, or, a cheveron between three fusils azure ; crest, a turtle-
dove, proper: motto, Semper Jidus. Fig. 19.
LEITH of Leithhall, or, a cross croslet fitched sable, between three crescents in
chief, and as many fusils in base gule s ; crest, a cross croslet fitched sable : motto,
Trusty to the end.
LEITH of Craighall, descended of LEITH of Harthill, or, a cross croslet fitcbe
sable, between two crescents in chief gules, and in base, three fusils, 2 and i
azure, all within a bordure of the third : motto, Trusty and bydand. New Register.
As fig. 20.
These of the surname of DANIEL, argent, five fusils in pale sable, and, as some
say, a pale fusilly sable. Balfour's Manuscript. And there the name of LAM-
BERTON, in the reign of King James IV. carried sable, a star between three fusils
argent, 2 and i.
LAMBERTONS of that Ilk were ancient in the Merse ; and are frequently met
with as witnesses in charters granted by our old kings, David I. and King William,
to the Church of Durham, and Abbacy of Coldingham.
WILLIAM LAMBERTON was Bishop of St Andrews in the time of the Competition
for the Crown of Scotland, by the Bruce and the Baliol: He adhered to the former,
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