A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF MAN AND HIS PARTS IN ARMS.
points and when ; waved, call them only estoils, as in the arms of MORDAUXT 1
of PETERBOROUGH, argent, a cheveron between three estoils sable. As by Mr Dale
Pursuivant, in his Catalogue of the Nobility of England and ; by the author of
the Peerage of England. This family was dignified with the title of Lord Mordaunt
by King Henry VIH. ; and afterwards the family was dignified with the title
of Earl of Peterborough by King Charles I.
ROBERTS Earl of RADNOR ; this family was anciently seated in the country of
Cornwall, and began to flourish more conspicuously in the reign of King I. James
at which time Richard Roberts of Truro was created a baronet; and shortly thereafter
was advanced to the dignity of Baron, by the title of Lord Truro. His son
and successor John was advanced by King Charles II. to the dignity of Viscount
Radnor, and Earl of Falmouth ; which last title was soon after changed for that of
Radnor his ; arms, azure, three estoils, and a chief wavey or.
LANGDALE Lord LANGDALE, in the county of York ; Marmaduke Langdale was
advanced to the dignity of Baron, at Bruges in Flanders, by King Charles II. the
fourth of February 1657, anc^ ca.mes'sable, a cheveron between three estoils argent;
supporters, two bulls sable , unguled and maned argent ; and for crest, a star, as in
the above blazon, which they call estoils when of six rays or more waved, but
when of five plain points, mullets ; as in the bearing of ASHBURNHAM Lord ASH-
BURNHAM ; gules, a fesse between six mullets argent. This is one of the ancientest
families in England, which can be instructed to have been of good account in
England before the Conquest ; and was only advanced to the title and dignity of
Baron Ashburnham of Ashburnham, in the year 1689.
When mullets or estoils, with the English, are pierced like the rowel of a spur,
they blazon them mullets and estoils pierced, and take them for stars, and not for
spur-rowels, as the French and other nations do who call them mollets.
The name of DOUGHTY in England, argent, two bars between three mullets of
six points pierced sable.
WHITTINGHAM there, azure, three mullets pierced or. So much then for stars.
Blazing stars or comets, having many points and rays, as also having a tail, are to
be met with in arms, together with the rainbow ; as in the following blazons.
With us the name of CARTWRIGHT, azure, a comet in the dexter chief point,
having its rays streaming in bend or. Plate X. fig. 18.
PONT of Shires-mill, argent, a rain-bow proper, between two stars in chief gules,
.md a galley ship in base sable ; crest, a sphere azure, beautified with six of the
celestial signs, environing the terrestrial globe, all proper : motto, Terrene sub polo
so given by one James Pont, in his Collections of the Blazons of the Nobility
nihil ;
and Gentry in Scotland, in the year 1624. Which is Manuscript often mentioned
by me in this treatise ; the exactest copy
that I have seen is that in the house of
Seaton, where he died.
The family of L'lRis in Languedoc, as relative to the name firis,
i. e. a rainbow
; argent, a rainbow surmounted of a cross, and accompanied with six stars of
the last.
CHAP. III.
OF MAN AND HIS PARTS IN ARMS.
THOSE who rre nicely known in devices will not allow human figures in the
of a man cannot be
composure of perfect devices ; because a comparison
taken from a man, but from things generally or specifically different ; notwith-
standing of which, others do allow them, for we find human figures frequently in
the Egyptian hieroglyphics, Grecian and Roman emblems and medals, and in ar-
mories, as marks of nobility.
The use of man and his parts, in arms, may be said, amongst many reasons for
their practice, to have proceeded from the old seals of . princes, great men, and
from the seals of churchmen, upon which they had their own images, these of
their patron saints, and of angels and cherubims, as signs of authority, piety, and
devotion.