A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. 289
a. lion rampant sable, armed gules, within a bordure of the second ; crest, an oak
tree, growing out of a rock, proper: motto, Monte alto. New Register.
I find others of the name of Mowat carry argent on a fesse azure, three stars
of the first.
AUCHTERLONY of Kelly, quarterly, first and fourth azure, a lion rampant argent,
for Auchterlony ; second and third or, a fesse cheque, azure and argent, within a
bordure gules, charged with eight buckles of the first, for Stewart of Rosyth.
Font's and Workman's Manuscripts.
But on the house of Falahall the arms of Auchterlony of Kelly are illuminat-
ed, anno 1604, azure, a lion rampant within a bordure argent, charged with ten
buckles gules.
CLEPHAN of Carslogie, argent, a lion rampant gules, and on his head a helmet
azure; crest, a dexter hand holding a helmet, proper: motto, Ut sim paratior.
Ne\tf Register.
As for the antiquity of this family, there is a charter of confirmation by Duncan
Earl of Fife, of the lands of Carslogie, to John Clephan, which bears him to
possess them, adco iibere sicut David de Clephan Pater ejus y prcede cessores eas tenuerunt*
By the witnesses of this charter, which wants a date, it appears to have
been granted in the reign of Robert I.
FAIRLY of Braid, or, a lion rampant gules, between his fore-paws a star of the
last, bruised with a bandlet azure ; crest, an unicorn's head couped, argent ; sup-
porters, two ratches, proper : motto, / am ready. New Register.
It is said the first of this family was a natural son of King Robert II. Here
they have the tincture and figure of the Royal Arms, (without the tressure) and
bruised with a bendlet, a mark sometimes of illegitimation.
WILLIAM FAIRLY of Bruntsfield, or, a lion rampant, and, in chief, three stars
gules; crest, a lion's head couped or : motto, Paratus sum. Ibid.
FERGUSON of Craigdarroch, argent, a lion rampant azure on a chief gules, a star
between a cross croslet fitched, and a rose of the field; crest, a dexter hand grasping
a broken spear bend-ways, proper : motto, Vi fc? arte. Lyon Register, and
in Plate of Achievements, as by Alexander Fergusson of Craigdarroch, Esq. repre-
senter of the family.
H.ANGJNGSIDE or HANDYSIHE, argent, a lion rampant, within a bordure ingrailed
sable. Font's Manuscript.
Captain JAMES HANDYSIDE, of Scots extract, now in London, Gentleman, argent,
a lion rampant sable, armed and langued gules, on a chief azure, three mullets of
the first ; crest, a dexter hand expanded, proper : motto, Munifae 13 fortiter.
New Register.
Colonel WILLIAM URIE, Major to King Charles II.'s Regiment of Guards, ar-
gent, a lion rampant gules, crowned and chained or; crest, a lion's paw erased gules:
motto, Sans tache. Lyon Register.
The first of this surname, says Sir George Mackenzie in his Manuscript of Genealogies,
came from England to Scotland in the reign of the Baliol, and was descended
of the family of the Lord Ivers in England, with us, corruptly pronounced
Urie, who were Barons of Pitfichy. I have seen a Genealogical Tree
of this family, under the hand and seal of Sir Charles Erskine, Lyon King at arms,
and other two heralds, where John Urie of Pitfichy married Katharine, daughter
of the Lord Forbes, and is there first mentioned ; and the seventh, in a lineal
descent from him, was the above Colonel William Urie. So much then for the
bearings of a lion rampant. 1 proceed to other attributes given to the Lion in
blazon.
OF A LION, MORNE, EVIR.E, COUE, AND WITH A DOUBLE TAIL AND WINGS.
THE Lion, as I said before, when his teeth, tongue,
and claws are of a different
tincture from his body, is said to be armed and langued of such a tincture ; but,
when he is represented without them, he is said to be morne ; and that, even
though he have tongue and teeth and wants claws. For which Menestrier gives
us a story of the arms of the family SFORZA in Italy, azure, a lion rampant or, in.
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