A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS.
Sir JAMES SUTTIE of Balgone, in East-Lothian, Baronet, carries quarterly, IIw
and fourth, barry wavey of six pieces, azure and or, on a chief of the last, a liou
rampant naissant, with two tails vert, armed and langued^&j-.fot the name of Suttie ;
second and third argent, a cheveron cheque gules, and of the first, between three
hunting-horns sable, garnished of the second, within a bordure of the same, for
Semple of Balgone ; crest, a ship under sail, all proper : motto, on an escrol
above, Mibi lucra ptricula ; and below, on a compartment, Nothing hazard, nothing
have. He is son and heir of Sir George Suttie, Baronet, sometime designed of Addingston,
thereafter of Balgone, who got these lands with his wife Marion Sem-
ple, heiress of Balgone ; for which their son, Sir James, quarters the arms of his
mother, heir of Balgone, decended of Semple of Blackburn, an ancient family in
the shire of Renfrew.
Mr ALEXANDER LONG of London, Merchant, or, crucilli, a lion rampant gules,
impaled with those of his wife Margaret, descended of the HALLS in England, being
sable, three battle axes, argent. By the name of HALL ; crest, a lion's head
erased gules : motto, Irani leonis noli timere.
Mr JOHN LONG, son of the above Mr Alexander, carries the arms of Hall, as
above, with a suitable difference.
M'BRAIR of Netherwood, an ancient family in Dumfries-shire, argent,
a fesse
gules, between three stars in chief, and a lion rampant in base of the last. Ogilvie's
Manuscript.
The surname of CHALMERS, with us, the principal family, it seems, was designed
of that Ilk, which had for arms, argent, a demi-lion rampant sable, naissant of a
fesse gulfs, with a flower-de-luce in base of the last, as by our old books of blazon ;
and our New Register gives to Monsieur Chalmers, Baron of Tartas, in France,
since the year 1661, as descended of the family of Chalmers of that Ilk, argent,
a demi-lion rampant sable, issuing out of a fesse, and in base, a ilower-de-luce, all
within a bordure gules ; crest, a falcon belled, proper ; with the motto, Non prada
sed victoria. And in the same Register,
THOMAS CHALMERS, lawful son to James Chalmers, Advocate, lineally descended
of a second brother of Chalmers of Ashentrees, who was a son of the family of
Chalmers of that Ilk, argent, a lion rampant sable naissant out of a fesse , gules,
;ind in base a flower-de-luce of the third, all within- a bordure of the second; crest,
a hand holding a pair of scales, proper ; with the motto, Lux mihi laurus. Lyon
Register.
Some will have the name CHALMERS to be from the ancient designatien, de Camera,
or from the clan Cameron, who carried or, two bars gules, as by our old
books. Sir George Mackenzie, in his Manuscript of Scots Families, says, that one
of the name de Camera went to France, and put his name Camera in a latin dress,
Camerarius, and in French, de la Chambre ; and upon his return to Scotland was
called Chalmers; which tradition, says he, seems to be confirmed by the ilower-deluce
in base.
There was an ancient family of this name designed of CULTS, in the shire of
Aberdeen, as in a genealogical tree of that family, illuminated and approved of
by Sir Charles Erskine, Lyon King at Arms, whereunto his subscription and seal of
arms are fixed, and the subscriptions of two heralds; which begins with Alexan-
der Chalmers of Cults, who married a daughter of Hay Earl of Errol, and curried
the principal arms of Chalmers, viz. argent, a demi-litfn sable issuing out of a
fesse gules, and in base, a flower-de-luce of the last, which are impaled with these
ot his wife's ; and there, the seventh from him in a lineal descent was Alexander
Chalmers of Cults, with the above arms ; and, for crest, the head and neck of a
lion sable, langued gules; with the motto, Avancez, impaled with the arms of hit
wife, a daughter of Lumisdaine of Cushnie, being azure, on a cheveron argent between
three stars or, a buckle of the first ; crest, a battle-ax erected in pale.
Their son William, married Elizabeth, a daughter of Chalmers of Binnie-Craig;
\vhose son was Mr James. Chalmers, Parson of Paisley; he married Petrie,
sister to Robert Petrie of Pottletham, sometime Provost of Aberdeen, with whom
he had Charles Chalmers, Writer to the Signet, and Captain in the Scots Guards,
who carried' the above arms of Chalmers, as in the abovementioned genealogical tree,
\yhich I have seen in the hands of Roderick Chalmers, herald-painter in Edinburgh,.