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A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS.<br />

ROBERT UDNEY <strong>of</strong> Auchterallan, a second son <strong>of</strong> Udney <strong>of</strong> that Ilk, carries the<br />

same, without the supporters, with a crescent for difference. Ibid.<br />

WILLIAM CORSTORPHINE, Portioner <strong>of</strong> Kingsbarns, carries vert, a greyhound<br />

salient between three hunting-horns argent. Ibid.<br />

BEASTS OF THE GAME.<br />

SUCH as stags, bucks, harts, deers, hares, &c. are carried in arms, not only upon<br />

the account <strong>of</strong> their natural good qualities, but as signs <strong>of</strong> the bearer's jurisdiction<br />

and liberty <strong>of</strong> hunting in forests and parks; their postures in arms are either passant,<br />

tripping, standing at gaze, courant, springing, and couchant.<br />

Passant or tripping is, when they have their right fore-foot lifted up, and the<br />

other three, as it were, on the ground.<br />

TR.OUP <strong>of</strong> that Ilk carries vert, three bucks passant argent, ^ and r. This an-<br />

cient family ended in an heiress, who was married to a younger son <strong>of</strong> Keith Earl<br />

Marischal.<br />

When the horns <strong>of</strong> those creatures are <strong>of</strong> a different tincture from their bodies,<br />

they are then said to be attired, and the branches <strong>of</strong> their horns are called tynes ;<br />

and, when their ho<strong>of</strong>s are <strong>of</strong> a different tincture, they are said to be unguled.<br />

The name <strong>of</strong> PARKHILL carries argent, a stag tripping, proper, attired and unguled<br />

or. Mr Thomas Crawfurd's MS.<br />

STRACHAN <strong>of</strong> Thornton in the Merns carries azure, a stag tripping or, attired<br />

and unguled gules. Ibid. See Plate <strong>of</strong> Achievements.<br />

In the New Register, Sir JAMES STRACHAN <strong>of</strong> Thornton, Minister at Keith in<br />

the North, carries or, an hart standing at a gaze azure, attired sable. Lyon Re-<br />

gister.<br />

SIR ALEXANDER STRACHAN <strong>of</strong> Glenkindie, Knight, bears azure,<br />

or,<br />

a hart<br />

tripping<br />

attired and unguled gules ; crest, a hart standing at a gaze<br />

motto, Non timeo sed caveo. Ibid. See Plate <strong>of</strong> Achievements.<br />

as the former :<br />

There is a charter in the custody <strong>of</strong> Sir Alexander <strong>Strachan</strong> <strong>of</strong> Glenkindie for<br />

instructing the antiquity <strong>of</strong> his family, which I have seen, granted by Thomas Earl<br />

<strong>of</strong> Man-, to Adam <strong>Strachan</strong> and his wife, Margaret, the Earl's cousin, and to the<br />

children to be got by him on her, <strong>of</strong> the lands <strong>of</strong> Glenkenety, (now wrote Glendkindie)<br />

and a part <strong>of</strong> the lands <strong>of</strong> Glenbowel, then called Rumor ; the charter<br />

wants a date ; but, by the granter and witness, it appears to have been granted in<br />

David II.<br />

the reign <strong>of</strong> King<br />

Standing at a is gaze said when these creatures stand with their four feet on<br />

the ground. The name <strong>of</strong> JONES, in England, carries sable, a stag standing at a<br />

gaze argent. Art. Her.<br />

When they are represented lying down, they are said to be couchant or<br />

lodged.<br />

The name <strong>of</strong> HVSLOP carries argent, a stag, proper, lodged under a holly tree<br />

growing out <strong>of</strong> the base vert ; and Archibald Hyslop, Stationer in Edinburgh,<br />

carries the same with a chief vert, charged with a book or, between two stars<br />

argent. New Register.<br />

DAVID FAIRNIE <strong>of</strong> Farlogie carries azure, a stag argent, lodged within a grove<br />

<strong>of</strong> trees vert, and, in chief, tliree stars <strong>of</strong> the second; crest, a greyhound courant,<br />

proper : motto, ^uiesccns i3 vigHans. L. R.<br />

The name <strong>of</strong> TULLIDEFF carries azure, a hind couchant or, between two stars in<br />

chief, and a crescent in base argent. Font's MS.<br />

The name <strong>of</strong> DAVIDSON carries azure on a fesse argent between three<br />

pheons or, a buck couchant gules. Workman's Manuscript, and in the New Re-<br />

gister.<br />

Sir WILLIAM DAVIDSON <strong>of</strong> Curriehill, Baronet, carries the same, and, in the<br />

dexter canton, the arms <strong>of</strong> Ulster, being argent, a sinister hand couped gules, as<br />

being a Baronet <strong>of</strong> England ; crest, a youth from the middle holding in his<br />

right<br />

hand a man's heart, all proper : motto, Sapienter si sincere'.<br />

ALEXANDER DAVIDSON <strong>of</strong> Cairnbrogie, Advocate, carries azure on a fesse couped<br />

argent, between three pheons or, a buck couchant gules, and attired sable. Ibid.

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