A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF CELESTIAL FIGURES,
the king's daughter to France, in order to her marriage with Lewis the Dauphine,
eldest son of Charles VII. of France. He died the 5th year of the reign of
James II. and was interred in the Collegiate Church of Seaton. He had with his
lady, Janet Dunbar, daughter to George Earl of March, George his successor, and
a daughter, Janet, married to Robert Keith, Marischal of Scotland.
Which George, Lord Seaton, married Lady Jean Stewart, only daughter and heir
of John Stewart Earl of Buchan, in whose right lie claimed the Earldom of
Buchan : And ever since, the family, to show their right of pretension, have been
in use to carry the feudal arms of that family, and marshal them with their own.
Their son John, master of Seaton, died in the lifetime of his father, leaving issue
by Mary, his wife, daughter of the Lord Lindsay, George, who succeeded his grandfather
in his estate and honours.
Which George, third Lord Seaton, married Isabel, daughter of Colin first Earl
of Argyle. She bore to him George his successor ; John, who married Sinclair,
the heiress of Northrig, the first of the Seatons of that family, and a daughter,
Margaret, married to William Maitland of Lethington. He died 1508, and was
succeeded by
George, fourth Lord Seaton, who married Jean Hepburn, eldest daughter to
Patrick first Earl of Bothwell. He was killed with King James IV. at Flodden,
1513. His own arms, and his lady's, are yet to be seen on a great stone above
the principal gate of the House of Seaton, thus, quarterly, first and fourth Seaton,
as before ; second and third, three garbs, for the Earldom of Buchan, impaled with
those of his lady's ; also, quarterly, first and fourth, on a cheveron, two lions
pulling at a rose, for Hepburn ; second and third, a bend for Vass Lord Dirleton ;
which arms are adorned with helmet and mantlings, and a mertrix-head for a
crest ; supported on the right side by a mertrix, and on the left by a lion ; and
above all, for a motto, Set forward. He had with his lady, a son, George, his suc-
cessor, and a daughter, Marion, married to Hugh Earl of Eglinton.
George succeeded his father. He married Elizabeth Hay, daughter of John
Lord Tester, whose arms are dimidiate with those of her husband's in the House
of Seaton. He had, with her, two sons, George, his successor, and John, first of
the family of Carriston : Likewise four daughters, Marion, married to William
Earl of Monteith ; Margaret, to Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig ; Helen, to Hugh
Lord Somerville ; Beatrix, to Sir Walter Ogilvie of Dunlugas. He departed this
life the iyth of : June 1545 And was succeeded by
George, sixth Lord Seaton, was Provost of Edinburgh, in the Regency of Queen
Mary of Lorrain, and was commissioned by the States of Scotland, the i6th of
March 1557, to treat with the French King about the marriage of Queen Mary
with Francis the Dauphin. When Queen Mary returned to Scotland from
France, he was Master of the Household to her Majesty. In the House of Seaton his
picture is curiously done, in his own time, where he is made to hold the batton of
his office, being red seme of M. R. ensigned with imperial crowns. He was made
one of the Lords of her Privy Council, and was one of the Knights of the most
his arms
noble Order of the Thistle ; for, on the great hall of the House of Seaton,
are yet to be seen, quartered with those of the Earldom of Buchan, surrounded
with the collar of that Order, with the badge of St Andrew : pendent Which,
with the Sovereign's, are to be seen finely carved on the boxing of the chimney of
that magnificent hall. He likewise repaired the fore part of the House of Seaton,
and especially that room called Samson's Hall, which he adorned with a roof of a
curious structure ; whereupon are twenty-eight large achievements, being those of
Scotland, France, Lorrain,. and the noble families that were allied with his family,
curiously embossed and illuminated, and are the most exact pieces of armories to
be met with. He firmly adhered to Queen Mary in all her troubles with an inviolable
fidelity. Her son King James VI. had a great respect and value for him,
insomuch, that he was pleased, in the year 1583, to send him ambassador extraordinary
to the court of France ; which negotiation he performed with honour and
success; and which commission is in the charter-chest of Seaton. He died soon
after his return, on the 8th January 1584. He had, for his lady, Isabel Hamilton,
daughter to Sir William Hamilton of Sanquhar, Lord High Treasurer of Scotland,
in the reign of King James V. and his wife Katharine Kennedy, a daughter of.