A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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gnuttcs d'ar, drops of liquid gold ; when white, gbuttcs tic /'cau, or larmes d' argent,
i. e. drops of water or tears, such as these with which they use to besprinkle June-
nil escutcheons and monuments of the dead on a black field. Thus the penitof
the Order of St Francis have, for arms, sable, seme de larmes, and a dove moving
from the chief argent ;. the emblem of true repentance, coining from the
Holy Spirit, represented by the dove ; with the motto, Flabit spiritus ejits, fc^ Jlu
cut aqua.
When they are of red colour, they are called gwttes de sang, i. e. drops of blood;
when blue, gouttes de larmes ; when green, gauttes de vert, which represent the oil
of olive ; and, when black, gouttes de poix, from the French word which signifies
pitch ; though sometimes they arc called gouttes de sable. These guttes may be
disposed as other figures in armories, 2 and i ; and, if more, the greatest numbers
are in chief ; and, if otherways, are after the position of the ordinaries.
Sir JAMES TURNER, sometime Major-General to King Charles II. quarterly,
first and fourth sable, a St Katharine's wheel argent, second and third argent, 3
gouttes de sang, 2 and I ; crest, a heart flaming : motto, Tune cede malts.
Mr ARCHIBALD TURNER, sometime one of the Ministers of Edinburgh, carries
the same with Sir James, with a crescent for diffeerence, as in our New Register.
The name of ATHELL of Northampton, in England, argent, a cheveron sable,
goutte (Tor, Kent's Dictionary of Arms.
The name of CROSBIE there, argent, three gouttes de poix.
If these drops exceed the number ten, and irregularly sprinkle the field or charge,
we then call them gutte.
CORNWALLIS Lord CORNWALLIS of Eye, in Suffolk, sable, gutte argent, on a
fesse of the last, three Cornish cheughs, proper ; Imhoflf, speaking of this family,
says, " Scutum Baronis Cornwallis ita delineatum legi, nigrum lachrymis argenteis
"
respersum, & baltheo ejusdem metalli distinctum, cui tres moneduhe e.
(i. jackdaws)
nigne impressa? sunt."
Sir FREDERICK. CORNWALLIS of Brome, in Suffolk, was made a Knight Baronet
by King Charles I. who, for his loyalty to that king, suffered in his fortune and
person, by imprisonment and exile ; but on the Restoration of King Charles II. he
was created Lord CORNWALLIS, by letters patent, dated 2Oth April 1661.
The ensign of the EPISCOPAL SEE of BANGOR, in Carnarvonshire, a bend argent,
goutte de poix, between two mullets of the second.
With us, the ancient name of MORTIMER, or, a lion rampant, sable, gutte of
the first. Mackenzie's Heraldry. Fig. 34.
MORTIMER of Vamouth, argent, a, lion rampant, sable, goutte de Teau. Balfour's
Manuscript.
MORTIMER of Craigievar, argent, a lion rampant, sable, goutte for, Font's Manuscript.
But MORTIMER of Auchenboddy, barry of six pieces, or and azure, on
a chief of the second, two pallets of the first ; crest, a buck's head cabossed
sable : motto, Acquirit qui tuetur~ Lyon Register.
Mr Gibbon gives an ancient bearing of drops, by one of the name of DROP,
Lord Mayor of London, in the year of Edward IV. viz. argent, gouttt de poix,
on a chief gules, a lion passant gardant, or, which arms, says he, were standing
in Cornhill, London 1666. He latins them thus, " Scutum argenteum, guttis
" atris respersum, caput autem scuti est sanguineum & leone gradients aureo
" (obverso ore) exaratur."
OF PAPELONNE AND DIAPERING OF ARMS.
I THOUGHT it was not amiss to add the explanation of these terms before I put an
end to the first part of heraldry, that I might not seem to omit any figure or shadow
of things that have their names from this science.
Papelonne is said of a field or charge that is covered with figures
like the scales
of a fish, as Monsieur Baron in his VArt Heraldique, says, " Papelonne se dit de
" 1'ecu qui est remple de figures semblables a des ecailles," and gives for example,
the arms of MONTI, gueules. papelonne d
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argent, fig. 35. ; and Menestrier says of it