A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS.
Spero melwra, and sometimes Integritate stabit ingenuus ; and so matriculated in.
the Lyon Register and Plate of Achievements.
Mr WALTER STEWART, Advocate, his Majesty's Solicitor, a younger son (where
before, by mistake, I called him his brother) of Sir Archibald Stewart of Blackball,
Baronet, carries the same with his father, within a bordure ermine,
for his dif-
ference ; (upon account that his mother, Anne, eldest daughter and co-heiress of^
Sir John Crawfurd of Kilbirnie, carried gules, a fesse ermine} ; and for crest, a
lion's head erased gules ; with the motto, Ladere noli : As in the Plate of Achieve-
ments.
When the lion, as I have said, is bend-ways, it was anciently with us blazoned
fdlient, and not rampant, as in the following coats of arms, in our old books, by
the name of LEIGHTON, argent, a lion salient gules. ,
There was an eminent prelate of this name, HENRY LEIGHTON, Bishop of Aberdeen,
who was one of the Commissioners sent to London to negotiate the ransom
of King James I. As also a family of this name, in the shire of Forfar, in Sir
James Balfour's Book of Blazons, carried argent, a lion salient gules, armed or :
But in our new books, Leighton of Ullishaven has the same bearing,
but the lion
is said to be rampant ; crest, a lion's head ; and for motto, Light on. Lyon Re-
gister.
The name of HASTIE, or, a lion salient vert, crowned azure . Font's Manuscript.
ROSSIE of that Ilk, parted per bend, gules and changed of the same.
argent, a lion salient counter-
Rossie in Fife belonged to Dominus Henricus Rossie de eodem, in the reign of .
King David I. and Malcom IV. In the last's reign, Sir Alexander Rossie is forfeited,
and his lands given to the Earl of Fife, now possessed by the name of
of Fife.
Cheap : As in Sir Robert Sibbald's History
The English blazon a lion bend-ways salient. Two or three examples I shall
take from the book entitled the Art of Heraldry.
The name of STURMY, in England, sable, a lion salient argent.
The name of SALISBURY, gules, a lion salient argent.
The name of FELBRIDGE, argent, a lion salient gules.
THE LION PASSANT
Is represented in arms, going, having his right fore-foot a little lifted up.
The Latins, for passant, say prodiens, gradiens, and incedens. The French call
a lion in this posture, lion leoparde, because all leopards are carried passant, for
which says Silvester Petra Sancta, a fecialibus appellatur leopardus, and the word
lion is added, because the head is in profile, showing but one eye, and one ear, as-
all lions do.
The surname of TOUCH, argent, a lion passant vert, armed gules. Ogilvie's Manuscript,
but Pont makes this lion salient.
KER Earl of ANCRUM carries a lion passant,
as before.
The surname of SLOWMAN, gules, a sword pale-ways argent, between two boars'
heads co-aped or, and, on a chief of the second, a lion passant of the first between
two mascles vert. Pont's Manuscript.
NEWTON of Dalcoif, parted per fesse, azure and gules, on the first two stars, and
on the second a lion passant argent ; as Workman :
But Balfour says, gules, a lion
passant argent, and in chief three stars of the last.
STEWART of Allanton, or, a fesse cheque, azure and argent, and in chief a lion
passant gules.. Pont's Manuscript.
STEWART of Listen, the same as in Mr Thomas Crawfurd's ;
Manuscript.
The surname of GLEG, both in Scotland and England, sable, two lions contrepassant
argent, collared gules. Sir George Mackenzie's Heraldry, fig. 5. and in the
New Register.
THOMAS GLEG, Doctor of Medicine, carries the same ; and for crest,
a falcon
holding a partridge between her feet, proper : motto, >ui potest capere capiat.
New Register.