A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF MAN AND HIS PARTS IN ARMS.
JOHN MOIR of Stonywood, argent, three Moors' heads couped, distilling drops,
of blood, proper; crest, a Mauritanian's head couped as the former. Ibid.
THOMAS MOIR of Otterburn, whose grandfather was a second son of the family
of Abergeldie, argent, three negroes' heads couped, proper, within a bordure coun-
ter-indented, sable and or.
Those of the name of MOIR and MORISON carry Moors' heads, relative to their
name.
Mr WILLIAM MOIR of Hilton, Advocate, or, three Moors' heads couped,
distilling drops of blood, proper, wreathed about with bay leaves vert ; crest, u
dexter arm from the shoulder issuing out of a cloud, holding a branch of laurel
slipped : motto, Virtute non al'uer. New Register.
MORISON of Dairsie, in Fife, azure, three Saracens' heads conjoined in one neck,
proper, the faces looking to the chief dexter and sinister sides of the shield. Mac-
kenzie's Heraldry. Plate X. fig. 27.
MORISON of Bogney, the same, with this difference, that the uppermost head was
affixed by a wreath to the other two. Mackenzie's Heraldry.
HENRY MORISON, sometime Writer to the Signet, descended of a second son of
Dairsie, carries as Dairsie, with two falcons' heads azure, couped in the flanks, for
difference ; crest, a serpent issuing out of the torce, proper : motto, Pretio pru-
dentia prastat. Lyon Register.
MORISON of Prestongrange, argent, three Moors' heads couped sable, 2 and i,
and banded of the first ; for crest, he carries the three heads of Dersay, with the
motto, Pretio prudentia praestat. New Register.
EDINGTON of Balberton, azure, three savage heads couped argent. Lyon Re-
gister.
The chief family of this name was EDINGTON of that Ilk, in the shire of Berwick,
now extinct.
ETHLINGTON of that Ilk, argent, three boys' heads erased gules. Font's Manu-
script.
The surname of JEW, in England, carry Jews' heads: As Sir JOHN JEW of
Whitefield, argent, a cheveron between three Jews' heads couped sable, as relative
to the name.
The arm of a man is frequently carried as the emblem of strength ; as in the
bearing of SCLAVONIA, or, an arm clothed gules, holding a scimitar argent. And
the arms of BOSNIA, a famous province in Dacia, azure, an arm armed or, holding
a sword erect, proper.
The ARMSTRONGS in the south of Scotland, as relative to their name, argent, a
dexter arm issuing from the sinister side of the shield, clothed gules, holding a tree
eradiant in pale, proper, broken at the top ; and some of the name has the arm
holding a sword, as in our old books.
ARMSTRONG of Mangerton, argent, three pallets azure, which, as John Feme
says, represent strength ; and for crest, an arm from the shoulder, armed, proper.
ARMSTRONG of Whittock, descended of Mangerton, argent, three pallets sable ;
crest, an arm from the shoulder gules ; motto, Invictus maneo. New Register.
FRANCIS ARMSTRONG, son to John Armstrong of Parknow, azure, a fesse or, between
two arms armed, and couped at the shoulder argent; crest, an arm issuing
out of a cloud holding a club, proper: motto, Invicta labore. New Register.
Plate X. fig. 28.
The surname of FENDER, azure, a dexter hand holding, upon the point of a
sword argent, an otter's head couped or. Pont's Manuscript.
The surname of JACK, argent, a cheveron azure, between two crescents gules in
chiet, and in base an arm armed of the second, holding a sword, proper, hiked and
pommelled or. Ogilvie's Manuscript.
. TREMAINS in Devonshire in England, carries arms relative to the name; as
Guillim, in his- Display, gules, three dexter arms conjoined at the shoulders, and
flexed in triangle or, with fists folded argent. Plate X. fig. 29.
Sylvester Petra Sancta has the same arms from Guillim which he thus describes,
" Brachia tria auro manicata, & qua2 flexis cubrtis more pugillum videntur ictura
" validum interminari, in miniato scuti alveolo invicem juncta sunt."