A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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say, Tfor au Dauphin vif d'azur, orielle, barbille, & criste de gaeules ; and Sylvester
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etra Suncta says, Ddphmus cyaneus, vivus ac spirans, in aurati scuti
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laterculo, cum aunculis, barbulis et crista puniceis." By these bhuons they
make the dolphin to have curs, a beard and crest; and it is always represented unbowed,
as tig. 14. Plate Xl.
The Counts of the Dauphinate D'AUVERGNE, a province in France, carry azure,
seme of flower-de-luces or, a bend of the last charged on the top with a dolphin
azure, crested and eared argent.
1 he Counts of FORREST in France, gules, a dolphin or, descended of the Dauphin
of Viennois.
MONYPENNY of Pitmillie, in Fife, quarterly, first and fourth argent, a dolphin
naiant azure, for Monypenny ; second and third azure, three cross croslets fitched,
issuing out of as many crescents argent, the arms of Cathcart. Richard Monypenny
got the lands of Pitmillie from Thomas, Prior of St Andrews, in the 1211 ;
for which see Sir Robert Sibbald's History of Fife, page 134.
WILLIAM MONYPENNY Lord MONYPENNY, whom we find in the rolls of Parliament,
in the reign of King James II. was a cadet of Monypenny of Pitmillie : He
was succeeded by his son Alexander Lord Monypenny, in whom the dignity failed,
having no male-issue ; whose arms, in Sir James Balfour's Register, are, quarterly,
first and fourth or, a dolphin azure, finned gules, for Monypenny ; second and
third gules, three cross croslets fitched issuing out of as many crescents argent ;
and I have seen them so illuminated in the reign of Queen Mary, having no other
difference but changing the tinctures. Some conjecture, that upon the similitude
of arms, the Monypennies are originally from the Dauphinates in France.
The name of FREER, azure, a cheveron between three dolphins naiant argent.
Balfour's MS.
The name of OSBORNE^U/^J, a fesse between three dolphins naiant or, finned azure.
Ibid.
The name of DOLPHIN, in England, azure, three dolphins naiant in pale or.
Art. Her.
The name of DOLPHINGLY, vert, three dolphins naiant in pale argent; which are
speaking arms.
There is a fish frequent in arms, called by the English, barbie, and by the
French, a bar ; which is carried also imbowed, as the dolphin ; and when there
iire two of them in arms, they are placed ordinarily back to back, for which the
English say indorsed, and the French, adosse.
The Dutchy of BARR, in France, carries, in allusion to its name, azure, seme of
cross croslets fitched at the foot or, two bars (or barbies) indorsed of the last, teeth
and eyes argent ; thus blazoned by Favin, " d'azur seme' de croix recroisettes, au
'
pied fitche'e d'or, a deux bars adosses de meme, allumee d'argent ;" and Uredus
thus, " Scutum caeruleum mullis barbatulis aureis, duobus tergis obversis, dentibus
" &- oculis argenteis impressum, &- cruribus aureis bracchatis in imo spiculatis, in-
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certo numero sparsum."
The name of FISHER with us, as speaking to the name, gives azure, three salmon
fishes
fl//tf,fesse-ways in pale argent ; that is, as I have said often before, the one
above the other, for which the French say, fun sur fautre.
The name of GARVEY, or GARVIN, azure, three garvin fishes naiant fesse-ways in
pale argent.
The ROYAL COMPANY of FISHING in SCOTLAND, in the reign of King Charles II.
azure, an imperial crown, and under it two herrings in saltier or. Mackenzie's
Heraldry.
The arms of the Country of ICELAND, quartered in the achievement of the Kings
of Denmark, are gules, a cod-fish argent, crowned or ; because a great many fishes
of that sort are taken and sold there, to supply other countries.
ROBERT GED of that Ilk, azure, three geds (or pikes) haurient argent ; crest, a
pike's head, proper: motto, Durat, ditat, placet. (N.R.) When a fish is haurient,
it is placed pale-ways, as fig. 15. Plate XI.
GEDDES of Rachan, gules, an escutcheon argent between three pikes' heads couped
or. Mack. Her.
The name of TARBOT, or TURBIT, argent, three turbet fishes fretted, proper, one
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