A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS.
and raembred gules, for Pepdie of Dunglas ; and, by way of surtout, an escutcheon
or, charged with an orle azure, for Landel ; supporters, two lions argent, armed
and langued gules, standing on a compartment ; with these words tor motto, True
to the end. The shield is adorned with a crown, helmet and valets befitting his
quality, and on a wreath of his tinctures ; for crest, a lion's head erased gules, with
a cap of state gules, turned up ermine ; and above, on an escrol, the cry of war,
A Home, a Home.
The oldest and most eminent cadet of the House of HOME is the family of
Wedderburn : The first of it was Sir David Home, or Hume, of Thurston, second
son of Sir Thomas Home of that Ilk, and his lady, Nicola Pepdie, heiress of
Dunglas. It is said by Godcroft, in his History, that Sir David got the lands of
Wedderburn from Archibald Earl of Douglas, for military services, as by a charter
dated in the year 1413. I have seen the seal of this Sir David appended to a discharge
of his, to his nephew Sir Alexander Home of that Ilk, dated at Cockburnsputh,
the 27th of January 1443, on which was a lion rampant, the shield couche,
timbred with a side standing helmet ; and upon it for crest, an unicorn's head,
supported by two falcons regardant. Which discharge is in the custody of the
present laird of Wedderburn. Sir David's wife's name was Alice, but of what
family I cannot learn. She bore him two sons, David and Alexander. David
married Elizabeth Cannichael, and had by her two sons, viz,. George, who succeeded
his grandfather, and Patrick Hume, the first of Polwarth. I have seen a principal
charter of confirmation of the lands of Wedderburn, from King James II.
upon a resignation of the said Sir David and his wife Alice, in liferent, and after
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their decease to George Home : Filio quondam Davidis Home, filii died Davidis
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resignantis, hairedibus suis masculis, quibus deficientibus, Patricio Home, fratri
deficientibus Alex-
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germano dicti Georgii & haeredibus suis masculis, quibus
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andro Home, fratri Germano dicti quondam Davidis Home :" Which charter is
dated at Stirling the i6th of May 1450, and is in the custody of the r>resent laird
of Wedderburn.
George Hume succeeded his grandfather Sir David, and married the eldest of
the two daughters and co-heirs of John Sinclair of Polwarth, eldest son of Sinclair
of Herdmanston, who had married the heiress of Polwarth of that Ilk. The other
co-heiress was married to his brother Patrick. Of whom the Humes of Pol-
warth.
George Hume of Wedderburn had with his lady two sons, David and John. He
built the House of Wedderburn, as it now stands, and fortified it with three
towers and ditches, and placed upon the outer-gate the arms of the family, as upon
the seal before described, with crest and supporters, which are still to be seen.
But afterwards his successors, with the arms of Home, marshalled those of Pepdie
and Sinclair, as arms of descent. Of which immediately.
The barons of the family of WEDDERBURN were brave and valiant knights, having
great followings, and fighting valiantly against the English,
almost all of them
dying in the field of battle, as in the History of the Family. Of whom is lineally
descended the present GEORGE HUME of Wedderburn, whose achievement is, quarterly,
first Hume, second Pepdie, third argent, a cross ingrailed azure, for Sinclair
of Polwarth ; and fourth as first ; crest, an unicorn's head and neck argent, col-
lared with an open crown, maned and horned or : motto, Remsmber; supporters,
two falcons, proper, jessed and belled or, addosse and regardant, standing on a
compartment, upon which these words, Trite to the end.
The HOMES of Ay ton, as before, were descended of George Home, who got
those lands by marrying the heiress of Ay ton of that Ilk; for which the family
has been in use to carry, in the centre of the quartered arms of Home and Pepdie,
a rose gules, the armorial figure of the name of Ayton. Mr James Home, second
son of Charles Earl of Home, as laird of Ayton, carries the same.
There are several honourable families descended of the House of Wedderburn,
whose arms I have met with in our new and old books of blazon, which I shall
here give.
The first cadet of Hume of Wedderburn was Patrick Hume of Polwarth, as before,
who married the youngest co-heir of John Sinclair of Polwarth, by whom he
had Patrick, his son and heir. He was knighted, and made Lord Comptroller of