A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society
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3 Sb OF FLOWERS AND LEAVES,<br />
and on the sinister, by a savage, with a shoulder-belt gules, charged with foils ermine, and wreathed about the<br />
cinque-<br />
head and middle with laurel vert, holding<br />
in his left hand a garb or; crest, a crescent gules: motto, jf'espere. This fa-<br />
<strong>of</strong> Novem-<br />
mily was dignified with the title <strong>of</strong> Lord by King Charles I. the 13th<br />
ber 1641.<br />
Sir ROBERT HAMILTON <strong>of</strong> Mount-Hamilton in Ireland, second lawful son <strong>of</strong> Mr<br />
George Hamilton <strong>of</strong> Cairns, descended <strong>of</strong> the House ot Preston, gules, three<br />
cinquefoils ermine, within a bordure parted per pale, argent and or; crest, an adder<br />
di .posed in circle, surrounding a cock in a guarding posture, all proper: motto,<br />
Adcst pnidcnti animus. N. R.<br />
Sir ALEXANDER HAMILTON <strong>of</strong> Haggs, Baronet, descended <strong>of</strong> Orbiston, gules, a<br />
salmon's head couped argent, with an annulet through its nose, proper, betwixt<br />
three cinquefoils <strong>of</strong> the second; crest, a salmon haurient argent, having an annulet<br />
its through nose. Ibid.<br />
TAMES HAMILTON <strong>of</strong> Woodhall, Baron <strong>of</strong> Tankerton, descended <strong>of</strong> Torrence,<br />
T, three holly leaves conjoined at the stalk or, betwixt as many cinquefoils<br />
argent; crest, a dexter hand grasping a holly leaf, proper: motto, Semper. vivescent.<br />
Ibid.<br />
HAMILTON <strong>of</strong> Little-Preston, gules, on a cheveron betwixt three cinquefoils<br />
argent, as many buckles azure; crest, a greyhound's head and neck couped, proper,<br />
collared gules, and garnished or. Ibid.<br />
ROBERT HAMILTON <strong>of</strong> Kilbrackmont, descended as Orbieston, quarterly, first and<br />
fourth Hamilton; second and third argent, on a bend sable, three escalops or,<br />
for Dishington; crest, a hand holding a cinquefoil, proper : motto, Et neglecta<br />
virescit. Ibid.<br />
JAMES HAMILTON <strong>of</strong> Aikenhead, descended <strong>of</strong> the family <strong>of</strong> Torrence, descended<br />
<strong>of</strong> Raploch, gules, a bugle between three cinquefoils argent; crest, an hand hold-<br />
ing an oak slip, proper: motto, Virebo. Ibid.<br />
JOHN HAMILTON <strong>of</strong> Udston, representer <strong>of</strong> Sir Robert Hamilton <strong>of</strong> Burntwood,<br />
third son <strong>of</strong> Sir David Hamilton <strong>of</strong> that Ilk, and his wife, Janet, daughter to the<br />
Lord Keith ; quarterly, first and fourth gules, a mullet argent, between three<br />
cinquefoils ermine, as a third son <strong>of</strong> the family <strong>of</strong> Hamilton; second and third<br />
gules, a man's heart, proper, shadowed or, betwixt three cinquefoils ermine, for<br />
Hamilton <strong>of</strong> Raploch; crest, a boar's head erased, proper: motto, Ubique fidells.<br />
L. R.<br />
WILLIAM HAMILTON <strong>of</strong> Wishaw, descended <strong>of</strong> Udston, quarterly,<br />
first and last<br />
gules, a mullet argent, betwixt three cinquefoils ermine; second and third the coat<br />
<strong>of</strong> Raploch, as above, all within a. bordure argent; crest, a hand holding a sword<br />
indented on the back like a saw, and a quill, crossing other saltier- ways, proper :<br />
motto, Tarn virtus quam honos.<br />
WILLIAM HAMILTON <strong>of</strong> Orbiston, descended <strong>of</strong> Gavin, a younger son <strong>of</strong> James<br />
first Lord Hamilton, gules, an annulet or, betwixt three cinquefoils ermine; crest,<br />
an antelope, proper.<br />
HAMILTON <strong>of</strong> Barncluith, whose grandfather was a son <strong>of</strong> Udston, and married the<br />
heiress <strong>of</strong> Barncluith, marshals together the arms <strong>of</strong> Burntwood, Raploch, and<br />
Udston; crest, a spear, proper. Ibid.<br />
Colonel GEORGE HAMILTON, second lawful son to Reidhouse, whose great-grandfather<br />
was one <strong>of</strong> the Senators <strong>of</strong> the College <strong>of</strong> Justice, and second brother to the<br />
Laird <strong>of</strong> Priestfield, after the Earl <strong>of</strong> Haddington came <strong>of</strong>f Priestfield, gules, on a<br />
cheveron between three cinquefoils ermine, a buckle azure, all within a bordure embattled<br />
or, charged with eight thistles vert, flowered gules; crest, two hands con-<br />
joined fesse-ways, issuing out <strong>of</strong> as many clouds,<br />
disposed in orle, proper: motto,Preestando pra-sto.<br />
all within two branches <strong>of</strong> laurel<br />
Ibid.<br />
JOHN HAMILTON <strong>of</strong> Bangour, descended <strong>of</strong> the family <strong>of</strong> Burntwood, gules, a<br />
mullet between three cinquefoils argent, a chief <strong>of</strong> the second ; crest, a ship in<br />
distress, proper: motto, Llttora specto. Ibid.<br />
JAMES HAMILTON, Merchant in Edinburgh, third son to John Hamilton <strong>of</strong> Bangour,<br />
the same above, with the addition <strong>of</strong> a second mullet; and the crest above,<br />
with this motto, I gain by hazard. Ibid,