A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF VEGETABLES. 361
Sir WALTER PRINGLE of Newhall, Knight, one of the Senators of the College of
Justice, carries the same with Stitchel, being a younger son of that family ; and
tor his difference, a besant in the centre : As in Plate of Achievements.
JAMES PRIXGLE of Greenknow, descended of a second son of Stitchel, azure,
three escalops within a bordure ingrailed or ; crest, an anchor within a garland of
bay leaves, proper : motto, Semper spera meliora.
The arms of PRINGLE of Burnhouse are the same with Torsonce's, and supported
on the dexter by a buck, and on the sinister by a greyhound, proper.
W. MS.
DISHINGTON of Ardross, r, on a bend sable, three escalops argent; crest, an
armed man kneeling; with the motto Unica spes mea Christus. The same arms I
have seen on the seal of Thomas Dishington of Ardross., appended to a charter of
his, of the lands of Grangemuir, to William Scot one of the Clerks of the Session,
in the year 1589. And long before that, I meet with John Dishington, one of
the assizers in a perambulation between Easter and Wester Kinghorns, in the year
1459. King David the Bruce grants a charter of the lands of Kinbrauchmond,
in the shire of Fife, to William Dishington, knight; and King Robert the Bruce
granted a charter to another William Dishington, of the lands of Balglassie in the
ihire of Aberdeen.
MOUTRAY, or MOULTRIE, of Seafield, azure, on a cheveron between three es-
calops argent, a sanglier's head couped sable, between two spur-rowels gules.
(P. W. MSS.) This was the principal family of the name, now outed of the for-
tune, and represented by MOULTRJE of Rosecobie, who carries the same arms ; and
for crest, a mermaid, proper: motto, Niitn/uum non fidelis. L. R.
The surname of RAMORNY carried a cheveron between three escalops, as on the
seal of Alexander de Ramorny, Dominus de Pitlessy, and his son Andrew de Ramorny
had the like appended to an obligation of theirs, to pay to John Lord Lindsay of the
Byres, a certain sum of money out of the lands of Pitlessy, of the date the ist of
September 1404.
With the English, escalops are very frequently carried by noble families there.
VILLIERS Duke of BUCKINGHAM, argent, a cross gules, charged with five escalops
or; thus blazoned by Imhoff, " Scutum Villeriorum gentilitium, argento tinctum
"
est, & crucem rubeam quinque conchis aureis ornatam."
RUSSEL Duke of BEDFORD, argent, a lion rampant gules, on a chief sable, three
escalops of the first. And the same by Russel Earl of Orford, with a crescent for
his difference.
The name of BARNABY there, argent, three escalops gules.
The name of PALMER, gules, three escalops or.
CHAP. VII.
OF VEGETABLES.
SUCH as trees, plants, flowers, herbs, fruits., &-c. are borne in arms, not only as
symbolical, but as badges and marks of the countries and lands where they
most abound, and frequently are carried upon the account that their names have
relation to those of the bearers. These things have proper terms in blazon, as
other charges, according to their position, disposition, and situation in the shield,
which I shall illustrate by examples.
Sometimes trees are represented growing out of a mount in the base point of the
shield, sometimes pulled up by the root, (a sign of strength) for which they are
said in blazon to be eradicate, or urt\!cbe ; when cut through by an even line,
trunked or couped ; and when bearing fruits, fructed ; and when the branches are
cut or broke off, the tree is then said to be ragulcd.
I am not to insist here on the different kinds of trees, and their specific names,
nor of those of other vegetables; nor am I to give their virtues, qualities, and symbolical
significations, which others ascribe to them, for the reasons that they are
sometimes carried in arms, as the oak tree, which is said to represent antiquity and
strength; the olive, peace ; die vine, joy; the fg, sweetness and tranquillity ; the
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