A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF FOWLS AND BIRDS:
NORVEL of Gargunnock, argent, three martlets in bend between two cottisc-v
sable. Font's MS.
Others of the name bear sable, on a bend argent between two cottises of the
second, three martlets of the first.
The name of CREIGH, or, two bars sable, between six martlets azure, 2, 2, and i.
Font's MS.
The name of BARON, argent,
a cheveron between three martlets sable. And
BARON of Kinnaird, or, a cheveron sable, between three martlets gules, within u
double tressure counter-flowered of the last.. Ibid.
The two famed and learned Doctors, JOHN and ROBERT BARONS, were of the
of Kinnaird in Fife.
family
There was a family of the name of BARON (in the Dukedom of Florence) from
Scotland ; the first of them accompanied William, brother to Achaius, to assist
Charlemagne in his wars, who settled in : Italy His family continued for a long
time, and failed at last, much regreted by a Florentine author, Ugolinus Verinius
de Florentice, Reparatione lib. 3. who gives these verses :
Clara potensque diu, sed nunc est nulla BAROMJM
Extra progenies, extremisque orta Britannis.
The name of BYRES, azure, a cheveron argent, between three martlets volant or,
Font's MS.
Mr JAMES LUTEFOOT, Doctor of Medicine, son to John Lutefoot, Writer to the
Signet, and sometime Keeper of the Frivy Seal, Representer of the Lutefoots of
Orchil, argent, a cheveron gules? between two crescents in chief azure, and a
martlet in base sable ; crest, a swan, proper, on its head a crescent montant :
motto, Addicunt aves.
The swallow, the harbinger of the is spring, said, in armories, to denote
that is industrious, prompt,
one
and ready to dispatch business.
The name of SWALLOWS, in England, barry of four, gules and argent, on the
last, three swallows -volant sable, 2 and i.
The family of ARUNDEL, in England, carry swallows, as relative to the name, and
that of their lands of Arundel in Cornwall, from hirundo a swallow ; as Imhoff, in
his Treatise of the Arms of the English Nobility, says, " Hirundines quas insig-
" nium loco ab Arundellis deferri dictum ;" and Hopingius, de Jure Insignium, cap. 9.
speaking of the swallow, says, " Est peregrinationis et velocis expeditionis hiero-
" glyphicum, est insigne Comitum Lippiensium in Germania, et equestris familiar
" Arondellorum apud Anglos, qui ob fortunas. quas habuerunt amplissimas, Aron-
" delli magni dicti fuerunt, in clypeo gentilitio quinque argenteis hirundinibus
" utitur, cognomine etiam inde forsan retento, a rondel, cum Gallis hirundinem
" fignificat." By the English books, ARUNDEL Lord ARUNDEL, carried sable, six
swallows argent, 3, 2, and i. This family has been eminent in the West of England
since the Norman conquest.
King James I. of Great Britain, in the third year of his reign, to countenance the
-ingle merit in Sir THOMAS ARUNDEL, created him a Baron of England, by the
title of Lord Arundel of Wardour, with limitation of that honour to the heirsmale
of his body; of whom is lineally descended the present Henry Lord Arundel,
who carries for his paternal arms the above blazon.
ARUNDEL Lord ARUNDEL of Trerice, a branch of the old -family of Arundel. Sir
John Arundel of Trerice was Vice-Admiral to King Henry VII. and King Hen-
ry VIII. The English historians tell us, he overcame and took Duncan Campbell
the great Scottish Firate : From him was descended John Arundel of Trerice, who,
at the first breaking out of the rebellion against King Charles I. took arms for the
king, together with four of his sons, whereof two of them lost their lives. Richnrd,
the eldest, attended always the king in his army, aud was, in the sixteenth
year of his Majesty's reign, for his own merit and father's services, worthily advanced
to the dignity of a Baron of England, by the title of Lord Arundel of
Trerice ; from whom is descended the present John Lord Arundel of Trerice. The
family has been in use to carry quarterly, first and fourth Arundel, as before ;