A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. 273
Scotland by King James IV. in the year 1499. I have seen a charter of this
king's to Dilectu Patricia Home de Polwurtb, militi, pro singulai i ftrcorc
er arn^rc
to him several lands in
speciali, quas erga eum gerimus ; by winch the king gives
Perthshire. He married, first, Margaret, a daughter of Sir John Edmonstone of
that Ilk. She bore to him Alexander, his successor. Secondly, a daughter ot
Schaw of Sauchie, and she bore to him George, iirst of the Humes of Argathy in
Stirlingshire.
Alexander Hume of Polwarth succeeded his father Sir Patrick. His son and
successor was Patrick, who married Elizabeth, a daughter of Sir Patrick Hepburn
of Wauchton, by whom he had sons and daughters, viz. Patrick, his successor, and
Sir Alexander Hume of North-Berwick, an eminent gentleman, Provost of Edin-
burgh 1593.
This Patrick married Agnes, a daughter of Alexander Home of Manderston, by
whom he had Patrick, his successor, and Sir John of North-Berwick, from whom
are descended the Humes of Castle-Home in Ireland. Which Patrick, the next
laird of Polwarth, was a favourite of King James VI. and married Julian, daughter
of Sir Thomas Ker of Fernihirst, sister to Andrew Lord Jedburgh, and Robert
Ker Earl of Somerset, by whom he had Sir Patrick, his successor, Thomas Hume of
Coldstream, George Hume of Kimmerghame, Elizabeth, married to Sir John Carmichael
of that Ilk, Jean, to, Christopher Cockburn of Chausly, and Sophia, to
of Hilton.
Joseph Johnston
Sir Patrick succeeded his father, and was made a Knight-Baronet in the year
1625. He married Christian, daughter of Sir Alexander Hamilton of Innerwick,
by whom he had Patrick, who was created Earl of Marchmont, Viscount of Blassonberry,
Lord Polwarth of Polwarth, Redbraes and Greenlaw, by letters patent,
27th of April 1697. He was Chancellor of Scotland four years, and High Commissioner
to the Parliament in the year 1698. He had for his lady, Grissel, daughter
of Sir Thomas Ker of Cavers. She bore to him three sons and four daughters;
first, Patrick Lord Polwarth, who died without issue ; second, Alexander, the present
Lord Polwarth, who has issue by a 'daughter of Sir George Campbell of
Cessnock; third, Sir Andrew Hume of Kimmerghame, one of the Senators of the
College of Justice. The eldest daughter, Grissel, was married to George Baillie
of Jerviswood ; second, Anne, to Sir John Hall of Dunglas ; third, Julian, to
and the fourth, Jean, to James Lord Torphichen.
Charles Bellingham, Esq. ;
The Earl'of MARCHMONT'S achievement is, quarterly, first grand quarter counterquartered,
Hume and Pepdie ; second argent, there piles ingrailed gules, issuing from
the chief, for the surname of Polwarth ; third argent, a cross ingrailed azure, for
Sinclair ; and the fourth quarter as the first ; over all, in the centre, an escutcheon
argent, charged with an orange, proper, stalked and slipped vert, ensigned
with an
imperial crown, proper, as a coat of augmentation ; supporters, two lions regardant
argent, armed and langued g ules ; crest, a hand holding a scimitar,, proper: motto,
True to the end. As in the Plate of Achievements.
GEORGE HUME, a younger son of Hume of Manderston, who was a younger son
of David Hume of Wedderburn, and his lady, Isabel Pringle, daughter of Galashiels,
for his eminent parts, was made a baron in England, by title of Lord Hume
of Berwick, by King James VI. 7th July 1604; ar"l thereafter, on the 3d of
March 1605, Earl of DUNBAR in Scotland ; and two years after was installed a
Knight Companion of the most Noble Order of the Garter. He was a long time
Principal Secretary of State, and joint Commissioner with the Lord Fyvie to the
Parliament of Scotland. He died at Whitehall 1618. His corpse was brought
down to Scotland, and interred in the church of Dunbar, under a magnificent
tomb, leaving behind him two daughters, by his wife, a daughter of Alexander
Gordon of Gigh, Anne, married to Home of Cowdenknows, and the other, Eliza-
beth, to the Earl of Suffolk in England. He carried, quarterly, first Home, second
Pepdie, third argent, three inescutcheons vert, for Home of Broxmouth, who
had married the heiress thereof of the name of Hay, and the fourth as the first :
and, in surtout, the arms of Dunbar Earl of March.
The male representer of this is family Alexander Hume in West-Friesland, be-
ing descended from a brother of Home Earl of Dunbar.