A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF CELESTIAL FIGURES, fcfc.
THOMPSON Lord HAVERSHAAI, whose family is thought
ta have come from the
north, and settled in Hertfordshire ; from which was descended Maurice Thompson
in Haversham, in the county of Bucks. He was an eminent merchant, and was
made by King Charles II. a knight-baronet, in the year 1673, the 25th year of
that king's reign. He for a long time continued Member of the House of Com-
mons, till the year 1696 that he was created a peer, by the title of Baron Haversham
of Haversham ; whose arms are, or, on a fesse dancette azure, three stars
argent, a canton of the second charged with a sun in its splendour.
The CRESSEOLI in France, azure, three suns, proper, 2 and i, as relative to the
name, as Sylvester Petra Sancta, from Marcus Gilbert.
BAILLIE of Jerviswood, descended of the family of Baillie of St John's-Kirk,
sable, a sun or, between nine stars argent, 3, 2, 3 and i ; crest^ a crescent or :
motto, Major virtus quam splendor. New Register.
BAILLIE of Manner-Hall,
crescent for his difference.
a second son of Jerviswood, carries the same, with a
I have not met with any armorial bearings where the sun is argent, but always
of or.
When the sun is represented in arms, of one of the colours in heraldry, it is
called ombre du soleil, i. e. the shadow or ray of the sun : As Monsieur Baron, of
the blazon of the arms of HURAULT de CHIVERNY, whose progenitor was the first
Chancellor of the Order of the Holy Ghost ; d'or, a la croix d'azur, cantonee de
quatre ombres de soleil de gueules, i. e. or, a cross azure r between four suns, (or
shadows of the sun) gules. Plate X. fig. 2.
The family of HIDALGO in Spain, azure, the sun or, surrounded with stars of the
same ; and the body of the sun parted per pale, with the arms of CASTILE and
LEON : On
the account, that one of the family, Grand Master of the Order of
Calatrava, being at the seige of the Castle of Vilohes in Spain, then in the hands
of the Moors, was the first that mounted on the wall, and planted the standards of
Castile and Leon, then, in the presence of their kings. He got those arms thus
blazoned
"
by Favin, d'azur a un soleil d'or entoure d'etoiles de meme, et dans le
"
rond du diet soleil du Castile parti de Leon."
Mr Holmes, in his Academy of Armory, gives us some blazons like to the last,
where the body of the sun is charged with figures.
Sylvester Petra Sancta gives an example of the sun counter-changed, Plate X.
fig. 3. parted per bend dexter, azure and or, the sun counter-changed, which he
describes thus :
" Sol ab angulo dextro partitione diagonia sectus, &. semi-aureus
" in supero semisse, cyaneo, semi-cyaneus, vero in aureo imo semisse, est Volgsch
" afeniorum inditione tiro lensi." Plate X. fig. 3.
The name of PEARSON in Devonshire, parted per fesse crenelle, gules and azure,
three suns, proper. Morgan's Heraldry.
The name of ADAM there, azure, 'a ray of the sun issuing out of the dexter
corner bend-ways, proper.
OF THE MOON.
IT is never carried in arms, says Sylvester Petra Sancta, full: Luna niinquam pingitur
orbe pleno. He tells us not the reason ; which may be, that it is then taken
for the sun, argent. In devices, it has been used full, as in that of the late Dau-
phine of France, which had the full moon for its body and for the soul, uno sole
minor ; when his father Lewis XIV. had for his device, unus solus in orbe.
I have met sometimes with the full moon in arms, which is then said to be in
her complement ; the English tell us it must be always argent ; as Guillim, who
says, when we blazon by planets, we name gold, sol ; and silver, lima ; and for a
farther distinction of it from the sun, its rays are small, as the light of the moon
is weak. Thus, in the arms of John de Fontibus, accounted the sixth Bishop of
Ely in England, is carried azure, the sun in chief, and full moon in base, within
an orle of seven stars or.
CHRISTOPHER BAILLIE of Walston, descended of the family of St John's-Kirk,
azure, the moon in her complement, between nine stars argent, 3, 2, 3, and i ;