A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

mediate elder brother to Alexander,
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first Earl of Dunfermline. He went abroad
young, and was one of the household of Philip King of Spain,
and was made a
Knight of the Order of Calatrava; upon his return home, lie was, by King Jams.--.
VI. made one of the gentlemen of his Bed-Chamber, and Comptroller to his Majesty's
Exchequer and Treasury in Scotland. He got from his. father the lands of
East-Barns, which were given by King Robert the Bruce to the family of Seaton,
as before with the sword ; supporting the crown, which the family of Barns has
been in use to carry as an additional figure, because (as Sir George Mackenzie says
in his Science of Heraldry) these lands were at first granted with that coat of augmentation.
He married the eldest daughter of the Lord Forbes, from whom K
descended the present George Seaton of Barns.
SEATON Earl of DUNFERMLINE carried quarterly first and fourth Seaton; second
and third argent, on a fesse gules, three cinquefoils of the first ; supporters, two
horses at liberty ; crest, a crescent gules, with the word semper. The first of this
family was Alexander Seaton, third son of George Lord Seaton, and his Lady
Isabel Hamilton ; he, for his bright parts, was first commendator of Pluscardine,
and after was one of the Senators of the College of Justice, and then President of that
learned Bench ; and, by King James VI. created Lord Urquhart, thereafter designed
Lord Fyvie ; and, in the year 1605, was created Earl of Dunfermline, and
was High Chancellor of Scotland for eighteen years, till he departed this life, the
i6th of June 1622. He was thrice married, first, with a daughter of Patrick, Lord
Drummond ; 2dly, To a daughter of the Earl of Rothes. By these two wives he
had only daughters; and, by his third wife Margaret, daughter to John Lord Yes-
ter, he had Charles his son and successor, who was one of King Charles II.'s Privy
Council, and Lord Privy Seal, in the year 1671. He married Mary, daughter of
the Earl of Morton, and with her had Alexander, who died unmarried ; Charles
killed aboard the fleet in the sea-fight against the Dutch, anno 1672 and ; James,
who succeeded his brother Alexander in the honours ; and his only daughter Henrietta,
married first to William, Earl of Wigton and ; after to William, Earl of
Crawford, and had issue.
James, Earl of Dunfermline, was one of the Scots Peers, who, in the year
1688, kept firm in his duty to King James VII. and joined the Viscount of Dundee
with a troop of horse at the battle of Killicrankie, for which he was forfeited
by the Parliament 1690. He retired to France, and died at St Germains 1694,
having no issue by his wife Jean, daughter of Lewis, Marquis of : Huntly So that
the honours, by reason of the entail to heirs-male, fell to George Seaton of Barns,
were it not for the forfeitures.
SEATON of St Germains, or, a fesse between three crescents in chief, and as many
tlower-de-luces in base gules, bar-ways ; so cut upon stone above the entry to the
house of St Germains. The first of this family was John, a younger son of Ro-
bert, first Earl of Winton, and his lady, Margaret Montgomery, daughter to
Hugh, Earl of Eglinton. He married one of the name of Kelly,
for which the
flower-de-luces are added in base.
SEATON Viscount of KINGSTON, quarterly, first and fourth Seaton, second and
third argent, a dragon witli wings expanded, tail moved vert, as a coat of augmentation,
being the crest of the family ; supporters, two negroes wreathed about the
head and middle with laurel, proper ; crest, a crescent : flaming motto, Habet fc?
suam. The first of this family was Sir Alexander Seaton, a younger son of George,
second Earl of Winton. By his first wife Anna Hay, daughter of Francis Earl of
Errol, who, for his good and loyal services to his Sovereigns Charles I. and II. he
was by the last created Viscount of KINGSTON, 6th January 1650. He married
Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Archibald Douglas of Whittingham ; by whom
he had Archibald his successor, and James who succeeded his brother in the honours,
and Elizabeth, wife of William Hay of Drumelzier.
SEATON of Garleton, as in the Lyon Register, carries first
quarterly, and fourth
Seaton, second and third Buchan, all within a bordure, quarterly, azure and or ;
crest, a star of six points ; with the motto, Habet if suam. The first of this fami-
ly was Sir John Seaton, Bart, eldest son of George, second Earl of Winton, and
his second wife, Elizabeth Maxwell, daughter of the Lord Herries.