A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

ed by him ;
OF MAN AND HIS PARTS IN ARMS.
\\'luch arms were on his seals appended to charters and other cvideuts grant-
and are yet to be seen on the College Church of Edinburgh, to which
he was a benefactor ; and were aKo carried by his sons, his sue- .: .
dignities.
STANLEY Earl of DERBY, and Lord of MAN, in England, as
the Isle of Man, quarters the same arms with his own.
present possessor of
I have no where met with any account, of carrying such figures for that Island,
but in Edward Bolton's Elements of Armories ; where he say-,, these three
present the three corners, capes, or promontories of the island which poiir
relative to the name of
England, Scotland, and Ireland ; and, being equivocally
man, these legs are adorned as belonging to a chevalier. And he , that,
from these ancient arms of the Island of Man, legs have crept into the bearings
of many private families in England; and I may say the same too of some private
families in Scotland ; as those of the surname of MAN carry the same ; particularly,
Captain John MAX, one of that name, in the county of Murray.
BIRNIE of Broomhill, gules, a fesse urgent, between a bow and an arrow in full
draught, in chief, and three men's legs couped at the thighs, in fesse, pale-ways
argent \ crest, a lion's head erased gules ; with the motto, Sapere ande incipe. New
Register.
Sir ANDREW BIRNIE of Saline, sometime one of the Senators of the College of
Justice, the same with Broomhill, but charged the fesse with a lion's head erased
sable : crest, a dexter hand, proper, holding an anchor erected or, environed with
clouds, proper : motto, slrcus artes astro. Lyon Register.
The name of HADDON, in England, or, a man's leg couped at the middle of the
thigh, azure.
The name of PRIME there, argent, a man's leg erased at the thigh, sable.
The name of BAINE or BONE with us, sable, two leg-bones in cross argent ; for
which see Sit George Mackenzie's Heraldry. But the name of Bane carries other
figures. Of which afterwards.
The name of BOULTER, in England, or, on a cheveron gules, three dead mens'
skulls of the field.
The other principal part of man, the heart, is frequent in arms, upon the account
of allusion, event, religion, and as speaking to the name.
The name of DOUGLAS carries a man's heart, proper; since Sir James Douglas's
affectionate expedition to Jerusalem to bury the heart of the valiant King Robert
the Bruce.
The name ot LOCKHART has a man's heart also ; because one of their predecessors
is said to have accompanied Sir James Lord Douglas to the Holy Hand, with
the foresaid king's heart, which, being placed within a padlock, makes a rebus,
witli the name Lockhart ; and motto, Corda serata parulo. And some of them
-a\
ft-ro.
SEATON of Pitmedden, of whom before, placing a man's heart distilling drops
of blood in the middle of his paternal coat, upon the account of the manner of
his father's death, who was shot through the heart in his early appearance in at
for K'ng Charles I. against the rebels.
The surname of RULE, which they bring from St Regulus, who brought
the re-
licts of St Andrew to Scotland, or, three mens' hearts within a bordure ihgrailed
gules.
Mackenzie's Heraldry.
As for the antiquity of the name Sir Robert ; Sibbakl, in his History of File,
page 161, s.. 'ii de StalTjuell, brother and heir to Richard de Ruele, son of Hen
ry, resigned the lands of Bahnerino, Cultrach, and Balindine, " In , jis
"
-7/V.v.'/,. .'// abud Forfar, die
post ft-stum St. anno
Dioiiysii, 1215," in favours of
Queen Emergurda for 1000 merks Sterling.
I find another of the nar.n- of RULE mentioned in the Minutes of the Register
. viz. in the charter of Lancilini de Moll to that Abbacy, about the
year 1236. And, in the year 1482. Andrew Rule is designed Armigcr Domini de
Home, in a charter penes JDwaaum tie Home. And, in our Histories, William R
is forfeited for keeping out the Castle of Crichton against King James III.
The surname of HART carry relative to the name, viz. gules, on a chief argent.
three hearts of the fir^t.
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