A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS.
DUXBAR of Bannuchetty, parted per cheveron embattled, or and gules, three
cushions counter-changed of the same. Ibid.
DUNBAR of Billhead, descended of the family of Grangehill, gules, a lion rampant
argent, within a bordure of the second, charged with three roses and as many
cushions, alternately of the first; crest, a rose slipped gules : Ibid.
motto, OlitiSsanat.
DUNBAR of Durn, a second son of Grangehill, carries Dunbar and
quarterly, all within a bordure nebule, quartered azure and gules ;
Randolph,
crest, two
sprigs of laurel disposed in saltier, proper : motto, Spe
s dabit auxilium. Ibid.
DUNBAR of Inchbreck, whose predecessor was a son of Dunbar of Tarbet, descended
of Westfield, carries Dunbar and Randolph, quarterly, all within a bordure
gules, charged with eight annulets or ; crest, a hand holding an ear of \vheat,
proper : motto, Sapiens non eget. Ibid.
DUNBAR of Leuchit. gules, a lion rampant argent, between three cushions or,
within a bordure of the second, charged with eight roses of the first ; crest, a dex-
ter hand holding a glove, proper : motto, Sapit qui
laborat. Ibid.
Before I proceed to another branch of the family of the old Earls of March, and
its dependers, who carry arms in imitation of theirs, I must advertise my reader,
that when a lion's tongue, teeth, and claws, are of different tinctures from their
bodies, they are to be mentioned in the blazon, as armed and langued of such a
tincture.
The surname of HOME is from the castle of Home in the Merse. The principal
family of the name is that of the Earl of HOME, who has its rise from Willielmus
Jilius Patricii Comitis de Dumbar, Dominus de Home fc? de Greenlaw. He is a witness
in a charter of King William and that ; he was a son of Cospatrick Earl of
Dunbar appears by a charter of his son, a second William de Home, in the Register
of Kelso, ratifying the donations pf his predecessors, the Earls of Dunbar, to
that abbacy in which ; he
"
is designed, Willielmus Dominus de Home, filius &
" haeres nobilis viri Willielini de Home, militis quondam, Domini dictae Villae de
" Home." And, besides, their arms show their descent from the Earls of Dunbar,
whose armorial figure was a white lion in a red field ; and the Homes have always
had the same lion in a green field, for difference, as relative to their old designation
Greenlaw.
Galfredus Dominus de Home gives to the abbacy of Kelso a pension of i2s. 6d.
Sterling, out of the lands of Home, in the year 1300. His son was Sir John Home
of that Ilk, father of Sir Thomas, who married Nicola Pepdie, heiress of Dun-
glas, and got with her these lands. He built the Collegiate Church of Dunglas,
whereon was his arms, which I have seen impaled with his lady's, being three
birds called papingoes, relative to the name Pepdie. The shield of these arms
was couche, and timbred with a cross helmet. The arms of Pepdie have since
been always marshalled with the arms of Home and the descendants of that family.
She had to Sir Thomas two sons, Alexander, who succeeded him, and David the
first of the Homes of Wedderburn.
Sir ALEXANDER HOME of that Ilk and of Dunglass ; he was in battle against the
English at Homildoun, where he was taken prisoner, and died a captive there.
His son and successor was Alexander, who distinguished himself in the wars of
France, in company with the Earl of Douglas at the battle of Verneuil, where he
was slam ; having married Jean, daughter of Hay of Yester : She bore to him
Alexander, who bucceeded Thomas Home of Tyningham, and James, laird of Spot
in East Lothian. Mr Thomas Crawfurd says, in his Manuscript, that he has seen
the seal of arms of this Sir Alexander, which were, quarterly, first and fourth Home,
second and third three
papingoes, two and one for Pepdie of Dunglas, and supported
with two lions.
I ha-.e seen the seal of his son and successor Sir Alexander Home of that Ilk,
which was quarterly as before ; the shield couche, timbred with a helmet, and
upon it a papingoe's head for crest, and supported with two lions, appended to a
charter of his of some lands in Chirnside, which he gives to the Collegiate Church
of Dunglas, of the date 1445. He married Margaret Landel, daughter and heiress
of the Lord Landel. She bore to -him Sir Alexander, who succeeded John,
prior of Coldingham, George laird of Ayton, and Patrick Home of Fastcastle. He