A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. 281
The last mentioned William, son of Edgar, I take to be one of the progenitors
of Edgar of Wadderlie. The foresaid principal charter is fully repeated in the
charter of Confirmation of King Robert the Bruce, dated at Berwick the I5th
day of November, the 2ist year of his reign. See Earl of Haddington's Collections.
Richard Edgar, in the reign of King Robert the Bruce, married the eldest
daughter and co-heir of Ross of Sanquhar ; and William Crichton married the
other sister as before, as in Sir James Dalrymple's Collections. King Robert con-
firms to Richard and his son, Donald Edgar, the half of the lands of Sunquhar,
with the Manor-Place. As the charter bears. Haddington's Collections
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" capitali Mannerio in Baronia de Sanquhar, cum mediate ejusdem Barromae ad
" ipsum Mannerium pertinen." It appears that Edgar of Wadderlie is descended
of this Richard. I have seen a resignation in the custody of Edgar of Wadderlie,
by Richard Edgar, son of Richard Edgar, of the lands of Wadderlie, in favours of
Robert Edgar, Dominus de IVedderlie, in the year 1376, and confirmed to his son,
John Edgar of Wadderlie, 1384. And besides, the arms of Wadderlie are quartered
with figures like to those of Ross of Sanquhar ; three water-budgets or, much
defaced, as on an old stone on the house of Wadderlie, supported by two grey-
hounds; and for crest, a dexter hand holding a dagger, point downwards : motto,
Man do i(. And on a compartment below, Salutem disponit Dcvs.
DAVID EDGAR of Kithock, sable, a lion rampant, betwixt a garb in chief, and
a writing-pen in base argent ; crest, a dagger and quill crossing other in saltier :
motto, Potius ingenio quant vi. New Register.
JOHN EDGAR in Poland, eldest lawful son of Thomas Edgar of Kithock, in Scotland,
and Magdalen Guthrie, his spouse, daughter to John Guthrie of Over-Dysart,
sable' a lion rampant argent, between two garbs- in chief of the second, banded
out some
gules, and a besant in base ; crest, a withered branch of oak, sprouting
leaves : proper motto, Apparet quod latebat. Lyon Register.
The MOWBRAYS are originally from Normandy.
ROGER MOWBRAY, a Norman, came to England with William the Conqueror,
and was by him made Earl of Northampton ; he carried gules* a lion rampant
argent. The Dukes of Norfolk carried the same as other families of that name in
England, as did those of the name of Mowbray with us who came from England,
and sometimes stood for the interest of England as occasion offered.
The first I meet with is PHILIP de MOWBRAY, frequently a witness in the charters
of King Alexander II. He and his wife gave a charter of some lands in
Inverkeithing, to the abbacy of Dunfermline, dated at Edinburgh the first of
July. The witnesses are Emergarda, the Queen, relict of King William, William,
Bishop of St Andrews, William de Fontlbus, Helias de Dundas, and Rodger de
Mubray. (Haddington's Collections.)
In. a charter of John Baliol, pretender to
the Crown of Scotland, to Robert de Keith Marischal, of the lands of Keith ;
amongst the witnesses is Galfredus de Mubray. His son Sir Roger Mowbray, for
adhering to the Baliol and the English interest, was forfeited by King Robert I.
and his barony of Eckford, in the shire of Roxburgh, was given to Robert the
Great Steward, afterwards King ;
and his lands of Dummanie to Reginald Cheyne,
Knight. As in Haddington's Collections. His son, James Mowbray, returned to
Scotland with Edward Baliol, and took possession of his lands ; but dying without
male issue, they were divided betwixt his three daughters and their husbands, who
were Englishmen. Upon which their uncle Alexander Mowbray left Baliol's service,
and returned to his due allegiance to King David Bruce. He had only one
daughter, who succeeded to the lands of .Barnbougle ; whom she married I know
not ; he was either of the name or took on the name of Mowbray. Sir George
Mackenzie, in his. Manuscript, says the family carried gules a lion , rampant
argent, supported with a man and woman. David Mowbray of Barnbougle was
one of the hostages sent to England for the ransom of King I. James In that
King's reign the family came to another heiress, who married Robert Drummond,
second son to Sir John Drummond of Stobhall. He took upon him the name and
arms of the family, which is lately extinct.
ABERNETHY, or, a lion rampant gules, surmounted of a ribbon sable. The first
of this surname being proprietor of the town and lands of Abernethy, in the shire
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