A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF I
'O I'll- FOOT El) BEASTS.
rampant, 3, 2 and i sable, (not calling them /ionceviux or ni,
li'jiicels} supported
dexter by a falcon or, and on the sinister by an unicorn ardent, and, in place
wreath, a ducal crown, out ot" which issueth, for crest, the ot" paw a lion, erect in
with the motto, A te pro te*
pale sable ;
OF THE PARTS OF LIONS.
FROM whole lions I proceed to their parts. And first, of the halt' forepart i.-i"
the lion, called demi-lion.
The name of MALLORY, in England, or, a demi-lion rampant gules.
The surname of BENNET, in England, gulfs, three demi-lions rampant argent.
HENRY BENNET, son of John Bennet of Arlington, was, by letters patent, the
I4th of May 1663, made Baron of Arlington, and afterwards, Viscount and Earl
of Arlington, the 22d of April 1672, carried the foresaid arms with a besant
iif the centre. His only daughter and heir, Isabella, was married to Henry Fitzroy
Duke of Grafton, by whom she had Charles Fitzroy Duke of Grafton; and, upon
the death of her father, the Earl of Arlington, she became Countess of Arlington ;
and, after the death of her first husband, she married Thomas Hanmer, Esq. and, at
the Coronation of Queen Anne, (being then the wife of a Commoner) she attended
thereon, as Countess of Arlington, by descent ; and wore the robes and coronet
of a Countess at that solemnity.
CHARLES BENNET, brother of Henry Bennet Earl of Arlington, was created Lord
OSSULSTON of Ossulston, in Middlesex, by letters patent, the 24th of November 1682.,
with a mullet
by King Charles II. gules, a besant between three demi-lions for his difference.
argent,
Demi-lions are often represented as if they were coming forth from one or other
of the ordinaries, especially the chief, fesse, and bar, and are said to be either
issuant or naissant from them ; and these terms ar.e given
to all other creatures in
the same posture. When a demi-lion is on a chief, he seems to come out of the
bottom of the chief, his hinder parts of the body not seen, showing only his head,
neck, and shoulders, with his two paws and the end of his tail, as that in the arms
of ZEALAND, being barry wavey of four pieces, argent and azure, on a chief or, a
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lion issuant gules, thus
blazoned by Chiffletius ;
" Fascii quatuor ex argenteo 8*-
" cianeo undulatim fusu.% caput scuti aureum leone coccineo emergente impresr
" sum, qui symbolura Hqllandicum est." See Plate IV. fig 19.
The name of MELDRUM, of which before, argent, an otter issuing out of a bar
waved sable. Plate IV. fig. 13.
The surname of MILLIKEN, argent, three lions gules, issuing out .of two bavs
waved azure, two out of the uppermost, and one out of the undermost. Workman
and Pout's Manuscripts.
The Latins, for the term issuant, use generally the word exiens, as Sylvester
Petra Sancta, " Leones alii minores, & qui tantummodo extant eapite tenus,
" leones exeuntes vocantur, fecialium decreto, in hac arte rei Tesserarite."
Lions and other beasts naissant show more of their fore parts than those issuant,
which come forth from the upper line of the fesse or bar ; whereas, these naissant
emerge from the middle of the fesse or bar, and show more of their fore parts.
The terms issuant and naissant are distinguished by some English heralds, who
tell us, when these animals are on a chief, they are called issuant ; and, when
coming out of a fesse or bar, naissant. Mr Gibbon, in his Introducth ad Latinam
Blazoniam, from the indentity of the words issuant and naissant, evens and emer-
gent, and the similitude of the posture of the animals, they may be indifferently
said to be issuant or naissant, e\iens or emerge/is ; but, for better distinction, to express
how much of the animal is seen, it were not amiss, says he, to add also, ad
humeros, ad lumbos, exiens, sire emergens.
I shall here mention again the arms of JOHN Earl of CARRJCK, eldest son of Kinu;
Robert II. when his father came to the crown, he, to intimate his right of succe--
sion, after his father's death, to the throne to which he succeeded by the name of
Robert III. carried or, a demi-lion naissant out of a fesse cheque, azure and argent.
as before. Chap. m. page 48.
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