A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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his sort and heir, father of Kenneth, who, hy his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John
Stewart Earl of Athol, had Colin, hi* son and successor, a firm loyalist
for Queen
Mary. His eldest son and successor was Kenneth, who, for his father's and his
own merit, was honoured by King James VI. with the dignity and title of
his Ii;st
Lord Mackenzie of Kintail, I9th of November 1609. He had issue by
wife, a daughter of Ross of Balnagown, Colin his successor, who died, i
only daughters; and by his second wife, a daughter of Ogilvie of Powric, Gem
thereafter Earl of Seaforth, who married a daughter of the Lord Forbes by whom
he had George, his successor, and Colin Mackenzie, father of the worthy Doctor
George Mackenzie, author of the two volumes of Biography of his learned countrymen.
From George Earl of Seaforth was lineally descended Kenneth Karl of Seaforth,
who by King James Vll. was chosen and invested one of the Knights Companions
of the most ancient Order of the Thistle, 1687,
and afterwards honoured with the
title of Marquis of Seaforth but the letters ; patent could not pass the seals here.
He married Frances Herbert, daughter of William Marquis of Powis in England,
by whom he had Kenneth his son, who succeeded to his estate and dignity 1701.
The achievement of the is family azure, a. deer's head cabossed or; crest, a
mountain in flames, proper ; supporters, two savages wreathed about the head and
middle with laurel, with clubs erect in their hands, and fire issuing out of the top
of them, all proper ; and for motto, Luceo non uro.
honourable families of the name of
From this noble family are branched many
Mackenzie ; these 1 shall here only mention whose arms I have met with on re-
eord.
GEORGE MACKENZIE Earl of CROMARTY, Viscount of Tr'bat, Lord M'Leod and
Castlehaven, lineally descended from Sir Roderick Mackenzie, a second son of Sir
Colin Mackenzie of Kintail, one of the progenitors of the Earl of Seaforth, carried,
quarterly, first or, a rock in flames, proper, for I'-l'Leod ; second azure, a bin k
head cabossed or, for Mackenzie ; third gules, three legs of a man armed, proper,
conjoined in the centre at the upper part of the thighs, flexed in triangle, garnished
and spurred or, formerly belonging to the M'Leod's, as old possessors of the Isle of .
Man ; fourth argent, on a pale sable, an imperial crown within a double tressure,
flowered and counter-flowered with flower-de-luces gules, for Erskine of Innertail,
as a coat of alliance ; supporters, two savages wreathed about the middle with
laurel, holding battons over their shoulders, proper j crest, the sun in his splendour :
motto, Luceo non uro.
The renowned Sir GEORGE MACKENZIE of Rosehaugh, Knight, Advocate to their
Majesties Charles II. and James VII. son of Simon Mackenzie of Lochslyne, brother
to George, second Earl of Seaforth, bears azure, a deer's head cabossed or, within
two laurel branches disposed orle-wavs of the last ; crest, an eagle rising from a
rock, proper : motto, Firma if ardua. L. R.
Sir RODERICK MACKENZIE of Findon, son of Mr Alexander Mackenzie of Kilcoy,
brother to the Lord Mackenzie of Kintail, progenitor of the Earls of Seaforth,
bears Mackenzie, within a bordure or, charged with eight crescents azure ; crest, a
crescent : argent motto,
Crescitque
virtute. L. R.
COLIN MACKENZIE of Redcastle, whose great-grandfather was Roderick Mackenzie
of that Ilk, predecessor to the Earl of Seaforth, bears Mackenzie, within a
bordure cheque, or and azure; crest, a man's heart in flames, within two palm
branches, disposed orle-ways, all proper : motto, Ferendum if sperandum. Ibid.
Sir ALEXANDER MACKENZIE of Coul, Baronet, descended of Seaforth; the first of
which family married the daughter and heiress of Chisholm of Comar. He car-
a boar's head
ries, quarterly, first and fourth Mackenzie ; second and third gules,
couped argent, for Chisholm ; crest, a boar's erected or, between the attirings of a
stag fixed to the scalp sable: motto, Pulchrior ex arduis. N. R.
Mr JOHN MACKENZIE of Delvin, one of the principal Clerks of the Session, third
lawful son to Sir Kenneth Mackenzie of Coull, bears his father's quartered arms,
within a bordure nebule argent \ crest, a man's arm issuing from the torce near
the shoulder, and holding a dart, all proper : motto, Rfctt ad ardua. Lyon Re-
gister.
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