A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

CELESTIAL FIGURES, \Sc..
on a chief azure, three mullets argent ; over all, a bend ingrailed gides ; crest, aa
increscent ; with the motto, Augeor dum progredior. New Register.
The name of NIMMO, sometimes wrote NEMMOCK, or, on a saltier gules, cantoned
with four crescents of the last, as many cinquefoils of the first. Font's Ma-
nuscript.
SIMPSON of Udoeh, argent, on a chief vert, three crescents of the first ; crest, a
falcon volant, proper : motto, Alls nutrior. New Register. And there,
ROBERT SIMPSON of Thornton bears the same, but makes the chief indented ; and,
for crest, a crescent or : motto, Tandem implebitur.
BLACK, of Temple, argent, a cheveron sable, between two mullets in chief, and a
Font's Manuscript.
BLACK, of Denniston, vert, three boars' heads erased or. Font's Manuscript.
GILBERT BLACK, Dean of Guild in Aberdeen, argent, a saltier sable, between a
crescent in base gules.
mullet in chief, and a crescent in base gules, a chief of the second : motto, Non
crux sed lux. New Register.
The name of GLOVER, sable, a cheveron argent between three crescents ermine ;
with the motto, Surgite, lumen adest.
Those of the name of GLOVER, in England, carry the same, but make the cres-
cents argent.
A family of that name in Fife have their arms matriculated thus, sable ,
a cheveron
ermine, between three crescents argent j crest, a cock, within the horns of a crescent :
motto, Surgite, lumen adest.
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LA PORTE de VEXINS, in France, de gueules, au croissant d
argent charge de
with five ermine
cinque mouchetures de sable, i. e. gules, a crescent argent, charged
spots sable. See Monsieur Baron's Art of Blazon. By which last examples cekstial
figures may be of the furrs received in armories. Sylvester Petra Sancta
gives us an example of a crescent vair, borne by MEREVI in France, de gueules au
croissant de vair, where he says, inveniuntur etiam lunae, pellita, vittatee, ac tesserulis
vermiculatte, that is, crescents of furrs, bars and bends> and cheque of which he
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gives examples.
In England many families have crescents for their principal armorial figures..
A few examples I shall here subjoin.
LEE EARL of LITCHFIELD, for his paternal coat, argent, a fesse between three
crescents sable . The family of Lee has been very ancient in the county Palatine
of Chester, and took its surname, as is presumed, from the lordship of Lee in that
county.
Sir EDWARD HENRY LEE of Ditchly, Baronet, was, by Charles IL's letters patent,
bearing date the 5th of June, in the 2,6th year of his reign, created Baron of Spilsbury,
in the county of Bucks, Viscount Quarendon, and Earl of Litchfield. He
married Lady Charlotte, one of the natural daughters of King Charles II. by
Barbara Villiers Dutchess of Cleveland, and with her had thirteen sons and five
daughters.
JERMYN Lord JERMYN, sable, a crescent, between two stars in pale argent. This
family was dignified by King Charles I. JERMYN Lord DOVER carried the same,
with a brotherly difference, viz. a crescent in the dexter chief point. He was dig-
nified by King James II. May 3d 1685.
The name of LUCY, m England, azure, a, crescent argent. And there the name
of PIERREPONT, gules, three crescents argent.
three crescents ermine.
The name of FLEMING, in England, gules,
COVENTRY, sable , a fesse ermine\ between three crescents or..
OTTERBURN there, gules, a crescent or. Morgan's Heraldry.
The name of BELL, in England, parted per cheveron, gules and argent, a crescent
counter-changed of the same. Ibid. Plate X. fig. 6.
The name of CHAPMAN, in Yorkshire, parted per cheveron, argent and gules, a
rrcscent counter-changed of the same. Morgan's Heraldry,