A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF FLOWERS AND LEAVES.
Hamilton of that Ilk, gules, a man's heart or, between three cinquefcjils ermine,
all within a bordure embattled of the second, charged with six crescents of the
lirst; crest, two twigs of oak, disposed in Ibid.
saltier, proper: motto, Fortiter qui /
Mr JOHN HAMILTON, sometime one of the Ministers of Edinburgh, and Sub -
Dean of his Majesty's Chapel-Royal,
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ton of I ) lair, and Barbara Elphinstone,
lawful son procreate between John Hamil-
lawful daughter to James Lord Balmerino,
sometime Secretary of State, also grandchild to John Hamilton Lord Archbishop
of St Andrews, who, himself, was in the reign of King Charles II. consecrate
Bishop of Dunkeld, carried, quarterly, first and fourth gules, three cinquerbiK
ermine", second and third urgent, a
ship with her sails trussed up sable, for Arrau,
all within a bordure gobonated of eight pieces, argent and gules, charged alternately
with a St Andrew's cross, and a buckle interchanged of the one and the other;
crest, an oaken plant, proper: motto, Dam in arb'irem. L. R.
Sir GEORGE HAMILTON of Binning, sometime designed of Barnton, Baronet,
whose father was a lawful son of the House of Binning, and in whose favour
Gavin Hamilton, an elder brother's son of the said House, renounced the simple
coat of the family, by a letter under his hand, dated the 2Oth of July, bears gules,
on a cheveron between three cinquefoils argent, a buckle azure, between two spot*
of ermine, all within a bordure of the second, charged with eight trefoils slipped
vert; crest, the trunk of an oak sprouting out a new twig, proper: motto, Through
God revived. Ibid.
FREDERICK HAMILTON, Lieutenant in the Earl of Dunbarton's Regiment, descended
of a second son of Torrence, gules, a close helmet, proper, between
three cinquefoils argent; crest, an oaken plant or: motto, Tandem fit arbor. ITjid.
HAMILTON of Pencaitland, one of the Senators of the College of
Justice, and
second son of Hamilton of Presmennan, carries gules, a cheveron between three
cinquefoils ermine; crest, an arm issuing out of a cloud holding a pen: motto,
Tarn virtute quam labore. His eldest son, John Hamilton, married Li-
vingston heiress of Saltcoats, and quarters the arms of his father with these of
Saltcoats. Hamilton of Dechmont, second son of the said Pencaitland, carries his
for difference : As in
father's arms, having the cheveron charged with a crescent,
Plate of Achievements.
Thfse of the surnaiiie of LIVINGSTON give for their armorial figures, argent,
three cinquefoils gules, pierced of the field, so carried by LIVINGSTON of that Ilk,
in the shire of Lothian, and the same within a double tressure flowered and coun-
ter-flowered with flower-de-luces vert, of old by LIVINGSTON of Wemyss in Fife,
for which see Balfour's MS.
LIVINGSTONS Earls of LINLITHGOW have been sometimes in use, with their descen-
dants, to turn the cinquefoils to gillyflowers, upon what account I cannot learn,
if not upon the saying of Gerard Leigh, as I observed before, that cinquefoils, be-
ing sanguine, represent the stock-gillyflowers; but others, more knowing, prefer
the cinquefoil, as more anciently used in armories, and more military, as Guillim,
who disparages the gillyflower, in his Display, as an effeminate figure. The fa-
mily of Linlithgow have disused the gillyflower, and taken again the cinquefoil ;
but their cadets have, in our New Register, gillyflowers recorded in place of
cinquefoils.
The first of the name is said to be one of the gentlemen who accompanied
Queen Margaret, wife to King Malcolm Canmore, from Hungary to Scotland, and
got some lands called, either from his own name, or that of one of his successors,
Livingius, who, by the records of the abbacy of Holyroodhouse, possessed lands in
West-Lothian, in the reign of King David I. which he called Livingstoun, from his
own name, as in Mr Crawfurd's Peerage: And Sir James Dalrymple, in his Collections,
page 420, says, that in a charter of Robert, Bishop of St Andrews, con-
firming the grants made by King David I. to the abbacy of Holyroodhouse,
Thurstinus filius Livingi is a witness; and the original charter of Tburstini filii
Livingi (now Livingston) is yet to be seen, whereby he grants to that abbacy,
" Ecclesiam de Livingston, cum dimidia carrucata terras, &- una tofta, &c. sicut
" pater meus iis dedit." Livingius and Thurstinus were then the predecessors, and
probably gave name to the lands, and transmitted it as a surname, to the family of