A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF FOWLS AND BIRDS.
than the hills that surround it, of which they have been ancient possessors, carried
a for
griffin
their armorial figure, and were designed Lauders of that Ilk, or of
Lauder-Tower.
One of this family accompanied David Earl of Huntingdon, brother of King
William the Lion, to the Holy War; to perpetuate which, some of his descendants
made the to hold a sword
griffin by his fore foot, supporting a Saracen's head, proper
; of whom was descended Allan Lauder, who gets a charter of the lands of
Whitslade and Moriston in the shire of Berwick, from Robert Earl of Strathern,
with the consent of John his eldest son and heir, both afterwards kings, by the
.names of Robert II. and III. This Allan Lauder was afterwards designed of Hat-
ton, as in a charter granted by King Robert II. of the lands of Ratho, in the
shire of Mid-Lothian, anno regni "jmo. of whom were descended the Lauders of
Hatton, who carried argent, a griffin salient sable, beaked and membred gules,
holding a sword with its fore foot, supporting a Saracen's head, proper ;
tower with a demi-griffin issuing out of the top of it : motto Strike alike.
crest, a
This family ended in an heir-female, in the reign of King Charles II. who was
married to Mr Charles Maitland, brother-german to the Duke of Lauderdale. He
was afterwards Earl of Lauderdale, grandfather to the present Earl of Lauderdale.
LAUDER of Bass, originally from Lauder of that Ilk, carried gules, a lion rampant
argent, within a double tressure flowered and counter-flowered with flower-de-luces
or ; crest, a solon-goose sitting on a rock, proper : motto, Sub umbra alarum tunrum.
Font's and Workman's Manuscripts, where these arms are supported with
two lions.
ROBERT LAUDER gets a charter from William de Lamberton, Bishop
of St An-
drews, of the half of the Isle of Bass, reddendo unam libram ceras nomini Alba; firma-,
which is confirmed by the charter of John Forfar, Prior of St Andrews, of
the date the 4th of June 1316.
In a charter of Richard Edgar to Robert Edgar of Wedderlie, amongst the
witnesses are, Johannes Haliburton Dominus de Dirleton, and Robertas Lawider
Dominus de la Bass, in the year 1384.
SIR ROBERT LAUDER, upon his resignation of the lands of Balgone and Bass,
and Edrington in the shire of Berwick, gets
King James I. This family is now extinct.
a new charter of these lands from
The only principal family of the name now standing is that of Sir JOHN LAU-
DER of Fountainhall, in East-Lothian, Baronet, and one of the Senators of the
College of Justice, who carries gules, a griffin rampant within a bordure argent ;
crest, a tower argent, masoned sable, with the portcullis down, on the top of the
embattlement, a man in a : watching posture motto, Turris
prudentia
custos ; supporters,
two lions rampant argent, standing on a compartment, on which are these
words, Ut migraturus babita, as in Plate of Achievements. So recorded in the
Lyon Register, as descended of Lauder of that Ilk, the above arms being conform
to those of his progenitors, cut upon grave-stones of old dates, which are
preserved by the said Sir John, who is lineally descended of Andrew Lauder, a son of
Robert Lauder of that Ilk, or Lauder-Tower, and his wife, Elizabeth Ballenden,
daughter to Ballenden of Lasswade, by whom he had three sons the two eldest
;
were cut off, with many of their relations, in a plea, by the Homes and Cranstone,
in the minority of King James VI. but the youngest surviving son, Andrew, re-
tired to his mother's friends. He married Janet, daughter of David Ramsay of
Pol ton, descended of the family of Dalhousie ; of them was descended Sir John
Lauder of Newington, Baronet, whose eldest son is the abovementioned Sir John
Lander of Fountainhall.
FORSYTH of that Ilk carries argent, a cheveron ingrailed gules, between three
griffins rampant azure, armed, membred sable, and crowned or. Workman's Ma-
nuscript.
For the antiquity of the name, there is a charter in the Earl of Haddington's
Collections, page 67. granted by King Robert the Bruce, Osberto filio Roberti de
Forsytb, servienti nostro, of an hundred solidates terra; in tcnemcnto de Salekill, in
the sheriffdom of Stirling.
FORS\TH of Nydie, argent, a cheveron ingrailed gules, between three griffins
rampant vert, membred and armed gules, Font's MS. The same arms are given