A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF MAN AND HIS PARTS IN ARMS. ^.
The arms of the EPISCOPAL SEE of Si ANDREWS, azure, St Andrew carrying on
his breast his proper cross urgent. And on that saltier he is sometimes represented
expanded.
The SEE of SALISBURY in England, azure, our blessed lady crowned, holding
on her right arm the Holy Babe, and, in her left hand, a sceptre, all or ; the
church of Salisbury being dedicated to her ; and so of other churches which
have for their arms the figures of their patron saints. Yea, angels and cherubims
have been, and are used by private families. For which see Guillim's and Mor-
gan's Heraldry.
From the old seals of Princes, where, ordinarily on the one side, they are represented
enthronized, and on the other, on horseback, as a chevalier, came tin-
practice of such into the arms of countries, cities, and families.
The country of ANDALUSIA in Spain, being recovered from the Moors by Ferdinand
II. of Castile, anno 1248, as a sign of that conquest, carries', azure, a King
on his throne or ; Plate X. fig. 22. as orancefine. And SEVILLE, the capital city of
that country, carries the same, as Guillim, in his Display, who says, as it is prescribed
by heralds, that as all creatures should be set forth in their noblest actions, so it
is fit that man should be set forth in his greatest dignity. And as Bartolus, " Prin-
" ceps in solio Majestatis, Pontifex in pontificalibus, miles in armis,. sive eques-
" tris, sive pedestns, depingi debet," i. e, a King should be painted on his throne of
Majesty, a Bishop in his Pontifical vestures, and a soldier in his military habit,
either on foot or horseback, that they might receive reverence suitable to their
respective functions..
The city of TOLEDO in Spain had, for arms, the figure of an Emperor crowned,
sitting on a throne in his robes, holding in his right hand a mond, and in his left
a sword ; being the face of the Sigillum Imaginis of the Kings of Spain ; because,
of old, the ceremonies of the coronation of the Kings of Spain could not be legally
performed but in that place, as the chief city of the empire ; as Selden, in his
Titles of Honour, observes. But that city carries now only gules, a crown imperial
or. With us, Robert the natural son of King James V. Prior of Holyroodhouse,
Lord Kincleven, and Earl of Orkney, carried the arms of his father, bruised with
a batton sinister ; and, for crest, took the imperial side of the King's seal ; being a
King in his royal robes, enthronized,. holding in his right hand a sword ; but in
place of the mond or globe, in the left, he had a gos-hawk.
The county of LITHUANIA has arms from the equestrian side of its Princes' Seal,
being gules, a chevalier armed cap-a-pie, argent ; in his right hand a sword, and
on his lett arm, a shield azure, charged with a double barred cross or ; mounted
on a courser of the second, barbed of the third, and nailed of the fourth. Which
arms are now quartered with those of Poland, since Lithuania was united to that
kingdom.
The family of NEVOY of that Ilk, with us, sable, a man armed at all parts, on
horseback, brandishing a sword argent. Plate X. fig. 23.
Sir DAVID NEVOY, sometime one of the Senators of the College of Justice, car-
ried the same arms within a bordure argent ; crest, a pegasus proper ; motto,
Marte W arte. Lyon Register.
Human figures, when they are not of the armorial tinctures, but of their own
natural colour, are said, in blazon, to be proper.
DALZIEL of that Ilk, sable, a naked man proper; Plate X. fig. 24. Some old
paintings and seals made the man hanging on a gibbet ; which seemed a little odd
to some, though not so in itself, considering the tradition of their rise, and the
bearings of other families ;
as that of DROLLE in Denmark, given us by Menestrier,
argent, a devil in an ugly shape sable, in allusion to the name Drolle, which signifies
the wicked one.
These of DALZIEL are said to perpetuate the memory of a brave and dangerous
exploit performed by one of their progenitors, in taking down from a gibbet the
body of a favourite and near kinsman of King Kenneth II. whether true or false,
it is all one, since it gave occasion to such a bearing. For, as the story goes, the
King being exceedingly grieved that the body of his friend should be so disgracefully
treated by his enemies, proffered a great reward to any of his subjects who