A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS.
Steward of Scotland, in the year 1240, which is narrated and confirmed afterwards
by a charter of King Robert II. first year of his reign, which contains,
these words, " Noveritis nos charta nostra confirmaase Adamo de Fullarton, illas
" donationes &- concessioues quas Jacobus senescallus Scotiae, recolenda; memoriae,
" avus noster, fecit Adamo dc Fullarton militi, filio Alani de Fullarton, de terra
" de Fullarton, de terra de Sheualtoun de terra de Gailes," &c.
This Sir Adam is frequently to be met with as a witness in that King's charters,
designed Dominus Adamus de Fullarton, Dominus de Corsbie, upon the account that
he had a charter of the last-mentioned lands of Corsbie from King Robert II. and
his son and successor was Rankin Fullarton de eodem. From him is descended
William Fullarton of that Ilk, who carries the abovementioned arms, as in Plate
of Achievements.
FULLARTON of Dreghorn, as a second son of Fullarton of that Ilk, carries the
foresaid arms, with a crescent for difference. L. R.
FULLARTON of Kinnaber, argent, on a fesse between three otters' heads erased
gules, two mullets^>f the first : with the motto, Mihi terraque lacusque. Ibid.
There is another ancient family of the name of FULLARTON, designed after 'the
same, in the shire of Forfar, whose arms are in Workman's MS. argent, on a cheveron,
accompanied with three otters' heads couped gules, 2 and i, a crescent between
three stars of the first.
There is a charter, in the Earl of Haddington's Collections, of King Robert the
Bruce, the 2ist year of his riegn, to Galfredus Fullarton, of the lands of Fullarton,
and to his wife Agnes, and the heirs of her body, as the King's Fowler; in which
office he and his successors were obliged to served the king's house with wild fowl,
when the king and his successors shall come to Forfar, where Fullarton was to be.
entertained with a servant and two horses. I add here a few words of the charter,
"
Serviendo nobis & heredlbus nostris, infra Vicecoinitatum de Forfar, officio au-
"
cupis, &-c. omnes aucas et volucres quas capere potuerunt et habeant, in domo.
" regis mensam, pro se ipso et uno serviente suo, et uno garone."
The elephant is commended for its good qualities, and as the emblem of wit,
docility, and meekness ; and sometimes it is to be met with in armories, and with
us as a supporter of the arms of the Lord Oliphant, relative to the name.
The name of ELPHINGSTON or ELFINSTON, in England, bears gules, an elephant
pastant argent, tusked or. Morgan's Her.
JOHN FOUNTAIN of Melton, in Yorkshire, Esq. bears or, a fesse gules between
three elephants' heads erased sable.
The elephant's proboscide as an armorial figure, flexed and reflexed in form of an
S, is to be seen in the English herald-books ; and there the camel also for his inde-
fatigable perseverance, and sometimes as relative to the name of the bearer, as by
the surname of CAMEL, in England, azure, a camel passant argent. Morgan's
Heraldry.
The bull and the ox are emblems of labour and agriculture, and the cow of fer-
tility ; besides these qualities, they are carried as relative to the name of the bearers
; their postures are ordinarily passant, but the bull often effra^-e, i. e. erected or
salient. When their horns or hoofs are of different tinctures from their bodies,
they are then said to be unguled and horned of such tinctures. The bull is some-
times represented with a collar about his neck, with bells, for which he is said to
be collared and belled ; and, by the French, accole and clarine.
The name of BEVILLE in England, carries ermine, a bull passant gules, horned
and unguled or ; and the BOFFINI in the Dauphinate carry the same, as equivocally
relative to their name.. So are the arms of the EPISCOPAL SEE of OXFORD, sable, a
bar between three busts of Queens, arrayed and vailed argent, and crowned or, in
chief, and, in base, an ox of the second passing over a ford, proper, armed and
unguled or.
The heads of bulls are frequent in arms, and, as other heads, of which before,
represent the whole creature.
The name of TURNBULL carried argent, a bull's head erased sable; of late, three
of them disposed 2 and i. The first of the name with us is said to be a strong
man of the name of Ruel, who turned a wild bull by the head which violently run
against King Robert Bruce in Stirling Park, for which he got from that king the.