A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS.
OF THE FOX.
I in: fox is used in armories for his wit, and as relative to the name of the
bearer. The name of Fox, in England, bears or, three foxes' heads e rased gules.
The name of WYLLIK with us, carries azure, a bend between a fox entrant in.
chief, and two mullets in base argent. Lyon Register.
The name of TOD with us, signifying the same with Fox in England, carries
argent, three foxes' heads couped gules. Pout's MS.
Mr JOHN TOD, by order of King Robert the Bruce, got from Sir Alexander
Seaton of that Ilk, Governor and Feuar of the town of Berwick, nineteen pounds
six shillings and eight pennies, for relieving his children, captives in England, as
by an article in Sir Alexander Seaton liis accounts in the Borough Rolls of Ex-
chequer, in the year 1328.
The name of SCHEVKZ with us, of which there was a family designed of Muirton, and
another family of that name, designed of Kemback in File, and of Kilwhiss, there ;
of the last mentioned family was William Schevez Archbishop of St Andrew's :
Which families carried arms relative to the name, sable, three civet-cats passant in
pale argent.
Let these instances of carrying such creatures be sufficient, since they have no
other proper terms in blazon than those already given ; and I proceed to others,
which have terms peculiar to themselves.
OF THE DOC,
OF which there are two sorts, household-dogs and hunting-dogs : For examples of
the first, I shall mention those in the fourth quarter of the achievement of the
Count of WEISENWOLF in Germany, who carries gules, two mastiff dogs salient
adosse argent, and collared or; which ImhofF gives us thus, In quarta area, rubca :
duos molossos argenteot, aversos, 13 mil'/is colligates salientes.
The town of DAM in Flanders has a dog in its arms, as relative to its old name,
Hondes Dam, j. e. Dog's Sluice.
The is dog often used in devices,, as the emblem of vigilance and fidelity, for
which they are also carried in arms ; but the dogs of chace are more frequent than
the former, and are looked upon as more honourable, in showing their owners to
be noble, and to have a right to hunting : Their postures in armories are either
passant, courant, or salient ; and for the most part, they have collars about their
necks, for which the French say accollee, and we, collared.
HUNTER of Hunterston, carries vert, three dogs of chace argent, 2 and i, collared
or, on a chief of the second, three hunting-horns of the first, stringed gules..
Font's MS. And there,
HUNTER, of Ballagan carries argent, three hunting-horns vert, stringed gules.
As for the antiquity of the name, Giiliclmus Fenator, which I take for HUNTER, is
;i witness in a charter of erection of the Bishopric of Glasgow, by David L
when he was Prince of Cumberland. In a charter of King
Alexander II. of the
lands of Manners, to William Baddeby, upon the resignation of Nicol Corbet, of
those lands and others, the lands of Norman Hunter are exempted, as the charter
bears, " Quas Nicolaus Corbat nobis reddidit, excepta terra quondam Normani
" Venatoris, quam Malcolmus, frater regis Willielmi, ei dedit." For which see
Had. Collect.
JOHN CLAYHILLS of Inner-Gowrie, sometime Bailie of Dundee, bears parted per
N. R.
bend, sanguine and vert, two greyhounds courant bend-ways argent.
ALEXANDER UDNEY' of that Ilk, representer of an ancient family in the shire
of Aberdeen, carries gules, two greyhounds counter-salient argent, the dexter surmounted
of the sinister saltier-ways, collared of the field, and, in the chief point,
a stag's head couped, attired with ten tynes, all betwixt three flower-de-luces, two
in chief, and one in base or; crest, a flower-de-luce gules; supporters, two savages,
proper, wreathed about the head and middle with laurel vert, holding in their
hands clubs, proper : motto, All my hope is in God. N. R.
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