A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF FOWLS AND BIRDS. 355
His younger brother, Mr ROBERT PATERSON, one of the regents of the Mamchal
College of Aberdeen, carries the same, but places a mitre azure in the centre ;
crest, a pelican's head couped, proper : motto, Pro rege et grege. Ibid.
The surname of HENRY, in some old books, azure, a fesse between three pelicans
argent, vulned proper.
The name of TOURIDGK, argent, on a bend azure, between two pelicans feeding
their birds gules, within as many nests vert, three flower-de-luces or. Font's Ma-
nuscript.
The name of ELME or ELLEM, in the shire of Berwick, old possessors of Elmside,
Ellemford, and Butterdane. John Ellem de Butterdane tlxere, is witness in a
charter of Alexander Lord Home, of the lands of Upsattlington, to Alexander
Benniston of that Ilk, 1477, who carried, for arms, gules, a pelican argent, vulned
proper, feeding her young, which have been quartered by the Homes of Renton,
us arms of alliances, being descended by the mother's side from the Elmes, by an
heiress.
Sir PATRICK HOME, Advocate of Renton and Lumisden, second son of Sir John
Home of Renton, sometime one of the senators of the College of Justice, and
Justice-Clerk, descended of a younger son of Home of Manderstun, bears four
coats, quarterly, first vert, a lion rampant argent, armed and langued gules, for
Home; second argent, three papingoes vert, for Pepdie of Dunglas; third argent,
three hunting-horns sable, stringed gules, for Forrester ; fourth gules, a pelican
feeding her young argent, vulnered proper,
for the name of Ellem.
The pba-'iix, the type of the Resurrection, the emblem of long life, piety, and
love of children to parents, as Hopingius, " Hasc avis amoris in parentem sym-
" bolum est, quando films patrem sepeliri fingitur," is seldom in arms : I only
find it carried by the name of PHENWICK. as relative to the name, gules, a phcenix
argent, in flames, proper. The family of FENWICK of Fenwick, in Northum-
berland, have the phoenix for their crest: with the motto, Peril ut vivat; and, for
arms, parted per fesse, gules and argent.
To come to an end of fowls and birds, I shall here mention bees, flees, -wings,
and featbfrs of birds, used as armorial figures in the bearings of some considerable
families.
The surname of BYE in England, azure,, three bees volant en arriere argent.
Art. Heraldry.
The family of BAREERINI in Italy, azure, three gad-bees or ; which their name
does signify.
IVings of birds, in armories, are said to denote protection, and are either single
or double, that is, one or two ; when but one, it is called a demi-vole, as these
carried by some of the name of FALCONER, gules, three demi-voles (or lures) or,
1 and I.
When two wings are joined together, they are then called a vole, or two wings
in lure, as these in the arms of SEYMOUR Duke of SOMERSET of whom before.
The name of RENNIE carries gules, two wings conjoined and inverted ermine.
Feathers of Birds are sometimes used as armorial figures, especially these of the
ostrich, by the Royal family of England.
HUMPHREY Duke of GLOUCESTER had an escutcheon sable, charged with three
ostrich feathers argent, surrounded with the garter, and supported with a greyhound
and antelope; as A.shmole in his Institution of the Garter, page 206. where
he also tells us, that these three ostrich feathers were the badge of King Henry IV.
of England, which that King had from John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, his
father, who bore them for his device, and placed them in a field sable ; but the.
pens of the feathers were powdered with ermine.
These ostrich feathers, carried by the Royal family of England, were all white,
the Duke
distinguished by their pens ; the King's were or ; the Prince's argent ;
of Lancaster's ermine ; and the Duke of Somerset's compone argent and mure: By
which, it is to be observed in their devices (being of one body) they used formal
differences, as in coats of arms.