A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF FLOWERS AND LEAVES. 369
The name of BLYTH, argent, on a fessc gules, between three crescents of the
lust, as many garbs or. P. MS. And there,
The name of POMFRY, mure, on a cheveron argent, six garbs sable. .
ROBERT SMITH ot" Gibluvon, -Clerk to the Lyon Qtlice, argent, a taltiet azure,
between two garbs in the tianks, and one of the last banded or ; crest, a crescent :
motto, Cum plena majfis. N. R. And there,
JOHN SMITH, Portionerof Dirleton, ardent, on a saltier azure, between three
cents, one in chief and two in the flanks gules, a garb of the first, and in base a
chess-rook azure; crest, a dexter hand holding a writing-quill, proper; motto, Ex usu
commodurn.
JOHN BAINE, Sheriff-Clerk of Berwick, a second son of John Baine Writer to the
Signet, who was descended of Baine of Findale in Perthshire, azure, a garb or,
banded of the first between three thistles, all within a bordure of the second ;
crest, a hand holding a scroll of papers, with the word Virtute. N. R.
Mr DAVID DUNMUIKE, Advocate, vert, three garbs or. N. R.
KELSO of Kelsoland, sable, a fesse ingrailed betwixt three garbs or, confirmed by
the Lyon King at Arms, 1636, as marked in a book of old blazons. As for the
antiquity of the family, John Kelso, son of John Kelsaof Kelsoland, with the consent
of his father, mortifies to the abbot and convent of Paisley the lands of Lang-
from him was
lebank, betwixt the town of Largs and Kelsoland, in the year 1399 ;
descended Archibald Kelso of Kelsoland, who married a daughter of Stewart of
Blackball in the reign of King James VI. Robert Kelso. of Kelsoland sold these
lands to Patrick Shaw, a son of the House of Greenock ; but he dying without
succession, the estate came to the Laird of Greenock, and his nephew sold the
lands of Kelsoland to Robert Kelso of Haling, descended of the family of Kelsoland
: He married a daughter of John Osburn, provost of Ayr, by whom he had
John Kelso, late Deputy-Collector and sole Surveyor of Newport-Glasgow, and
William Kelso of Dankeith, in the shire of Ayr, Writer to the Signet ; he, by his
wife, a daughter of Dunlop of that Ilk, left behind him a son, Robert, to succeed
him in the lands of Dankeith, and carries the above arms with a suitable difference.
The name of YULE, gules, a garb or, between three crescents argent. (Font's
MS.) And in the same book, others of that name, argent, a fesse sable, between
two crescents in chief, and a cross-moline in base g ules.
JOHN YULE of Darleith, argent, on a fesse, between three crescents sable, a garb
or, banded g ules ; crest, an ear of wheat, proper : motto, Numine & virtute.
N. R.
WILLIAM YULE of Leehouses, argent, on a fesse sable, between two crescents
in chief, and a saltier couped in base gules, a garb or: motto, Per vim & virtutem.
In England many families carry garbs, as WILLIAM HATTON Viscount HATTON,
azure, a cheveron between three garbs or.
The name of HOLDESHEAFF, azure, a garb argent.
OF FLOWERS AND LEAVES,
WHICH arc frequent in armories, upon account of their beauty, and good
qualities :
"
Sunt vero omnes flores in genere, spei hieroglyphica," as Hopingius
says. They are carried also as relative to the names of the bearers, of which I
shall give some instances of them in arms, and by whom, with their particular at-*
tributes in the following blazons. I shall begin with the thistle and rose, the
known badges of Scotland and England.
The thistle, the most ancient badge with us upon record, not only upon account
of its nature, and frequent growth in Scotland, but chiefly for its aptness to express
the effect of courage, holden forth by its known and much commended
motto, Nemo me impune lacesset. And Hopingius, speaking of the thistle,
cap. 9. page 635. says, " Inter herbas, Canluum clypeum sive tutelam denotare,
"
argumento est equestris ordinis apud Scotos Ordo, diflicultatis in agendo signum."
It has for many ages been the ensign of the most ancient and noble Order of St
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