A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

222 OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES.
drossin, of whom were descended Montgomeries Earls of Egliriton, who have of a
long time been in use to quarter the arms of Eglinton with their own, of whom
afterwards.
HUTTON of that Ilk, in the shire of Berwick, or, three annulets g ule /, Macken-
zie's Heraldry. In our New Register, I find Doctor John Hutton said to be re-
presenter of Hutton of that Ilk; he was chief Physician to their Majesties 1692,
and carried other arms, viz. or, a lion rampant azure between three arrows, points
downward, 2 and i, proper, headed and feathered argent, on a chief gules, as
many besants; crest, a serpent, catching a finger of a man's hand, which issues
from a cloud, all proper :
'
motto, Si Deus, quis contra ?
HIRTON of that Ilk, argent, three annulets gules. Font's Manuscript.
MOLIN in Bretagne, azure, three heads of lances, within an annulet argent, upon
the account, says Menestrier, that one of that family, in a military exercise,
before a great assembly, carried the ring three times on end.
LEAKE Earl of SCARSDALE, in Derbyshire, Baron DEINCOURT, of Sutton, argent,
on a saltier ingrailed sable, nine annulets, or : This family was dignified with the
title of Baron, by King James I. of Great Britain, and in the reign of King
Charles I. Francis Lord Deincourt was advanced to the dignity of Earl, by the
title of Scarsdale, who, in the time of the late Civil Wars, being a man of a great
fortune and bright parts, manifested his loyalty, in a most exemplary manner to
King Charles I. ; for his two sons, dying in that king's service, and, having suffered
much for his loyalty, in these ruinous times, he became so much mortified after the
murder of his Sovereign King Charles I. that he apparelled himself in sackcloth, and
causing his grave to be dug some years before his death, laid himself down in it
every Friday, and exercising himself frequently in divine meditations and prayer,
departed this '
life, at Sullen, anno 1655 He was succeeded by Nicolas his son, of
whom is descended the present Earl of Scarsdale.
LOWTHER Viscount LONSDALE, which family is of great antiquity in Westmoreland.
The name is local from the town and manor of Lowther, /. e. lower than
the hills that surround it. Of this family there have been many eminent branches
of the name.
Sir JOHN LOWTHER, son and heir of Sir JOHN LOWTHER of that Ilk, was created
a Knight Baronet of Scotland, by King Charles I. but afterwards the family was
raised to the honour of Baron Lowther of Lowther, and Viscount Lonsdale, in
the year 1696. The armorial bearing of the family, or, six annulets, 3, 2, and i,
sable.
LUCAS, Lord LUCAS of Crudwell, in Wiltshire, argent, a fesse betwixt three
annulets gules. Dal. Pur.
The name of MUSGRAVE, azure, six annulets, 3, 2, and i, or. Ibid.
The name of ADDISON, in England, ermine, on a bend gules, three annulets or,
a chief azure, charged with as many leopards' heads of the second : these belong,
$ays Kent, in his Dictionary of Arms, to JOSEPH ADDISON, Esq. one of the Members
of Parliament for Malmsbury. And there also the name of AMERVILLE, parted
per fesse indented, argent and gules, three annulets counter-changed. Also the
bearing of AYLET, in England, azure, three annulets argent.
When annulets or great rings are carried in arms, one within another, the French
call them vires.
" Vires" says Menestrier, " Sont anneaux passes les uns dans les autres, comme
" aux armoiries de virieu : De gueules, a trois vires d'argent," i. e. gules, three an-
nulets within one another, argent. As fig. 32.
From vires, are the terms viroles, and virole, in the blazons of figures that have
hoops and rings round them, such as casks, barrels, battering-rams, bunting-horns,
and other utensils, of which afterwards.
OF CUTTES AND GUTTE.
THESE I mention in the end of the sub-ordinaries, because they receive divers
terms of blazons, according to the tinctures they are of. Guttes are drops of things
are called
that are liquid, either by nature or by art ; if they be yellow, they