A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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the Earl of Cassilis. Her arms and his are curiously dimidiated in the abovementiuiicd
hall. She bore to him Robert his successor; John, the first of the family of
Burns ; Alexander, the first Earl of Dunfermline ; Sir William Seaton, one of the
Chief Justices of the Borders of Scotland and England, and General Post-Master,
in which ollicc his son Sir William succeeded him, and died without issue ; and a
daughter, Margaret, married to Claud, Lord Paisley, of whom are descended the
Earls of Abcrcorn.
Robert, seventh Lord Seaton, was, with all solemnity and pomp, at Holyroodhouse,
created Earl of Winton, Lord Seaton and Tranent, the ftli of November
1600. He was the first of our nobility, as I observed elsewhere, that took a coat
of augmentation as Earl, viz. azure, a star of twelve points or, which he placed by
way of an escutcheon over his quartered arms, and has been since, by his successors,
impaled with the coat of special concession, beforementioned, granted to the
family by King Robert the Bruce. He departed this life 1603, and left issue by
Margaret Montgomery, his wife, daughter to Hugh Earl of Eghnton, Robert, who
died without issue ; George, who succeeded ; Sir Alexander, who became Earl of
Eglinton ; Sir Thomas, of whom the Seatons of Olivestob ; Sir John of St Germains
; and a daughter, Lady Isabel, married first to James the first Earl of Perth.
She bore to him a daughter, Jean, married to the Earl of Sutherland. Secondly,
she married Francis Stewart, son to Francis Earl of Bothwell.
Which George was Earl of Winton. He married first Lady Anna Hay, daughter
to Francis Earl of Errol, by whom he had George Lord Seaton, who died in
his father's lifetime, leaving a son, George, by Henrietta his wife, daughter of
whose second son, Sir
George Marquis of Huntly, who succeeded his grandfather ;
Alexander, was the first Viscount of Kingston. Likewise a daughter, Lady Eliza-
beth, married to William Earl Marischal. Secondly, he married Elizabeth Maxwell,
daughter to John Lord Herries, with whom he had Sir John Seaton of Garleton,
Sir Robert Seaton of Windygowl, who died without issue, Isabel, married to
Francis Lord Semple, Anna, to John Earl of Traquair, Mary, to the Earl of Carnwath.
Earl George built the House of Winton, where his arms, and those of his
two ladies are finely cut. He died the I7th of December 1650, and was succeeded
by his grandson.
George Earl of Winton was educate in France, both at court and camp, where
he accomplished himself in the knowledge of arms and arts. He gave an eminent
proof of his conduct and bravery at the siege of Besancon in Burgundy. He
came over to England with a singular reputation, where he was graciously received
by King Charles II. and made one of his Majesty's Privy Council in Scot-
land. He married first Mary, daughter of Hugh Earl of Eglinton,
and with her
had a daughter, who died young. Secondly, he married Christian, daughter
and co-heir of John Hepburn of Adiston, and with her had two sons, George Lord
Seaton, and Mr Christopher, who died unmarried. The Lord Seaton went abroad
to -his travels in June 1700, and before his return his mother died, the i8th of
November 1703, and was interred in the north-aisle of the Collegiate Church of
Seaton. His father, the Earl, died soon after, the 6th of March 1704.
George Lord Seaton, being Earl of Winton after his father's death, returned
home from his travels the ist of November 1707. He buried his father with a
great pomp and solemnity, in the abovementioned aisle, beside his mother : The
achievement then used at that solemnity was, quarterly, first and fourth or, three
crescents within a double tressure, flowered and counter-flowered gules, for Seaton
; second and third azure, three garbs or, as a coat of pretension to the Earldom
of Buchan ; over all, by way of surtout, an escutcheon parted per pale ; on
the dexter, gules, a sword pale-ways, proper, hiked and pommelled or, supporting an
imperial crown within a double tressure of the last, as arms of special concession
by King Robert the Bruce ; and on the sinister, azure, a blazing star of twelve
points argent, within a double tressure counter- flowered or, for the title of Winton.
Which arms were adorned with crown, helmet, and volets, suitable to the quality :
and, in place of the wreath, a ducal crown ; and upon it for crest, a dragon vert,
spouting fire, proper, with wings elevated and charged with a star argent : above,
on an escrol, for motto, Hazard set forward ; supporters, two mertrixes, proper,
coloured or, and charged with three crescents gules ; to their collars chains art