A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society
A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society
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OF FLOWERS AND LEAVES. 377<br />
Sir NEIL MONTGOMERY, the first <strong>of</strong> the family <strong>of</strong> Lainshaw, or Langshaw,<br />
second son to Hugh, the first Earl <strong>of</strong> Eglinton, and his lady, Helen, daughter <strong>of</strong><br />
Colin Campbell, first Earl <strong>of</strong> Argyle, who married Margaret Mare, only daughter<br />
and heir to Quintin Mure <strong>of</strong> Skeldon, by whom lie had two sons and three daughters;<br />
John, the eldest, died without issue, and was succeeded by his brother Neil.<br />
By our old books <strong>of</strong> blazons, and by that <strong>of</strong> Esplin, Marchmont-herald, the family<br />
<strong>of</strong> Langshaw carried, quarterly, first and fourth Montgomery, second and third<br />
Eglinton, and over all, by way <strong>of</strong> surtout, azure, three stars argent, for Mure <strong>of</strong><br />
Skeldon : And in James Workman's Manuscript, Sir Neil Montgomery <strong>of</strong> Langshaw's<br />
arms are supported with two dragons ; and the motto, Garde bit*. This<br />
Sir Neil, while an old man, was killed in a feud by the Lord Boyd, Mowat <strong>of</strong><br />
Bulsby, and others, in the town <strong>of</strong> Irvine, 1547,<br />
which occasioned much blood-<br />
shed in Cunningham ; but afterwards the Lord Boyd was content to compose the<br />
matter with Neil, son and heir <strong>of</strong> Sir Neil who was slain ; and that it might be<br />
done in the most friendly manner, all parties concerned were called, who accordingly<br />
met at Glasgow the nth <strong>of</strong> February 1560: On the deceased Sir Neil<br />
Montgomery's part was Hugh Earl <strong>of</strong> Eglinton, pro-nephew (that is great-grandchild)<br />
<strong>of</strong> Hugh Earl <strong>of</strong> Eglinton, who was father to the abovementioned Sir Neil,<br />
and Gilbert Earl <strong>of</strong> Cassilis, as representing Dame Catharine Kennedy, who was<br />
grandame to the said Sir Neil, as taking burden on them, the two branches on the<br />
lather's side ; and Archibald Earl <strong>of</strong> Argyle, taking burden on him for the<br />
House <strong>of</strong> Argyle, and the House <strong>of</strong> Stewart <strong>of</strong> Lorn, two branches on the mother's<br />
side ;<br />
with the consent also <strong>of</strong> Sir Neil's three daughters, viz. Christian Lady Luss ;<br />
Elizabeth, (who was married to Hume <strong>of</strong> Fastcastle, to whom she had only two<br />
daughters, one married to Logan <strong>of</strong> Restalrig, and the other to Logan <strong>of</strong> Dunlu-<br />
gas) and Helen, Sir Neil's third daughter, who was married to Maxwell <strong>of</strong> Newark ;<br />
as in the principal indenture, <strong>of</strong> the date abovementioned, which I have seen in<br />
the custody <strong>of</strong> the present Laird <strong>of</strong> Lainshaw, and which clearly instructs the<br />
descent <strong>of</strong> the said Sir Neil and his issue.<br />
He was succeeded by his son Neil, second Laird <strong>of</strong> Lainshaw, \vho married Jean<br />
Lyle, only daughter, and at last heir to her father John Lord Lyle, and her brother<br />
James, master <strong>of</strong> Lyle, who died without issue ; <strong>of</strong> which family I have spoken be-<br />
fore, page 216. By her he had a son and successor, Sir Neil Montgomery, third<br />
Laird <strong>of</strong> Lainshaw; who, coming, in right <strong>of</strong> his mother, to be heir to the Lord<br />
Lyle, quartered the arms <strong>of</strong> that family with his own, as did also his successors,<br />
by way <strong>of</strong> a genealogical pennon, and as in Plate <strong>of</strong> Achievement. And Mr James<br />
Montgomery <strong>of</strong> Lainshaw, Clerk to the Justiciary, as representative <strong>of</strong> the tamily<br />
<strong>of</strong> Lainshaw and Lord Lyle, uses the same, viz. quarterly, first grand quarters<br />
quartered, first and fourth azure, a bend between six cross croslets focbe or, for<br />
Marr Earl <strong>of</strong> Marr ; second and third or, a fret gules, (by the printer's mistake,<br />
gules, a fret or) for the Lord Lyle ; second grand quarter, argent, on a fesse azure,<br />
three stars <strong>of</strong> the first, for Mure <strong>of</strong> Skeldon ; third grand quarter as the second,<br />
and fourth as the first ; and over all, by way <strong>of</strong> surtout, the quartered coat <strong>of</strong><br />
Montgomery Earl <strong>of</strong> Eglinton ; crest, a cock . rising : motto, And I may; suppor-<br />
ters, two leopards, proper.<br />
Colonel JAMES MONTGOMERY <strong>of</strong> Coilsfield, a younger son <strong>of</strong> Alexander Earl <strong>of</strong><br />
Eglinton, quarterly, first and fourth Montgomery, second and third Eglinton, all<br />
within a bordure or, charged with a double tressure counter-flowered gules, and, for<br />
difference, a crescent in the centre ; crest and motto the same with the Earl <strong>of</strong><br />
Eglinton. N. R.<br />
Sir HUGH MONTGOMERY <strong>of</strong> Hessland, gules, two spears crossing other saltier-ways<br />
betwixt three flower-de-luces in chief, and as many annulets in base or, stoned<br />
azure. Ibid.<br />
GEORGE MONTGOMERY <strong>of</strong> Broomlands, descended <strong>of</strong> the family <strong>of</strong> Eglinton,<br />
quarterly, first and fourth a'zurc, a branch <strong>of</strong> a palm-tree between three flower-deluces<br />
or; second and third Eglinton; crest, a branch <strong>of</strong> palm, proper: motto,<br />
Proccdamus in pace. Ibid.<br />
The name <strong>of</strong> SYUSERF, with us, originally from France, argent, a flower-de-luce<br />
azure. Font's MS.