A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society
A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society
A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society
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OF FLOWERS AND LEAVES.<br />
Earl <strong>of</strong> Newburgh, who died in the year 1694, without male-issue, and the next<br />
heir-male was Captain John Livingston.<br />
The family carried argent, on a bend betwixt three gillyflowers gules, an anchor<br />
<strong>of</strong> the first, all within a double tressure, flowered and counter- flowered vert ; crest,<br />
a Moor's head couped, proper, banded gules and argent, with pendles argent at his<br />
ears, supported on the dexter by a savage, proper, wreathed about the head and<br />
middle vert, and on the sinister by a horse argent, furnished gules.<br />
Sir THOMAS LIVINGSTON Viscount <strong>of</strong> TEVIOT, descended <strong>of</strong> Livingston <strong>of</strong><br />
Jerviswood,<br />
a cadet <strong>of</strong> the Lord Livingston, carried, first<br />
quarterly, and fourth azure,<br />
three oranges slipped, proper, within anorle <strong>of</strong> thistles or; second and third argent,<br />
three cinquefoils gules, within a double tressure,<br />
flowered and counter-flowered<br />
vert, supported on the dexter by a horse argent, furnished gules, and on the sinister,<br />
by a savage wreathed about the head and middle with laurel, holding a batton in<br />
his left hand, with its head downward or ; crest, a demi-man holding a batton upward<br />
or.<br />
Sir JAMES LIVINGSTON <strong>of</strong> West-Quarter, Baronet, descended <strong>of</strong> John Livingston<br />
<strong>of</strong> West-Quarter, second son <strong>of</strong> the first Earl <strong>of</strong> Linlithgow, carries, quarterly,<br />
Livingston and Callendar, all within a bordure quartered, or and gules; crest, a savage-head<br />
wreathed about with laurel: motto, Si possim. N. R.<br />
DAVID LIVINGSTON <strong>of</strong> Baldron, whose father was a fourth lawful son <strong>of</strong> Livingston<br />
<strong>of</strong> Dunipace, argent, two gillyflowers in chief, and an escalop in base, all<br />
within a bordure indented gules; crest, a gillyflower slipped, proper: motto, Nativum<br />
rt'tinet decus. Ibid.<br />
WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, Merchant in Aberdeen, descended <strong>of</strong> the family <strong>of</strong> Duni-<br />
pace, carries argent, two gillyflowers in chief, and an escalop in base gules,<br />
within a bordure <strong>of</strong> the last, for his difference; crest, a boar's head couped, holding<br />
in his mouth a pair <strong>of</strong> balances, proper: motto, Fortis fc? tequus. Lyon Re-<br />
gister.<br />
The surname <strong>of</strong> BORTHWICK, argent, three name was the Lord Borthwick, who carried<br />
cinquefoils sable. The chief <strong>of</strong> this<br />
the same, supported by two angels,<br />
proper, winged or; and, for >ui conducit.<br />
crest, a savage-head couped, proper; with the motto,<br />
The first <strong>of</strong> this family and name is said to be one <strong>of</strong> those gentlemen who<br />
attended Queen Margaret from Hungary to Scotland. I have seen a charter <strong>of</strong><br />
Robert Lauder <strong>of</strong> Quarrelwood, in the reign <strong>of</strong> King Alexander II. wherein Thomas<br />
de Borthwick is mentioned. In the reign <strong>of</strong> King Robert III. Sir William Borthwick<br />
got the lands <strong>of</strong> Catcune, near Locharrat, which he called after his own name<br />
Borthwick. Sir William de Borthwick obtained a charter from Robert Duke <strong>of</strong><br />
Albany the Governor, upon a resignation <strong>of</strong> Walter Scott, <strong>of</strong> the lands <strong>of</strong> T<strong>of</strong>tcoats<br />
in the shire <strong>of</strong> Selkirk. (Had. Coll.)<br />
Sir William Borthwick de eodem<br />
with a<br />
miles, gets a charter <strong>of</strong> the lands <strong>of</strong> Borthwick from King James I. 1430,<br />
licence to build a castle, as the charter bears, " Ad construendam arcem, in illo-<br />
"<br />
loco qui vulgariter dicitur Le Mote de Lochquharat, intra vicecomitatem de<br />
"<br />
Edinburgh." (Had. Coll.<br />
p. 76.) He built the castle <strong>of</strong> Borthwick, as some<br />
say, after the fashion and form <strong>of</strong> the castles in Hungary, in remembrance ot his<br />
origin. This family is said, by some, to have been dignified with the title ot Lord<br />
Borthwick, by King James II. in the beginning <strong>of</strong> that king's reign. Willielmus<br />
Dominus de Borthwick is witness in a resignation <strong>of</strong> James Earl <strong>of</strong> Morton, <strong>of</strong> the<br />
lands <strong>of</strong> Whittingham, to William Douglas, miles, in the year 1459 an ^ tne sa^<br />
><br />
William Lord Borthwick sat in Parliament as a Lord Baron, 1464, and is sa designed<br />
in the renunciation <strong>of</strong> King James III. for which see Had. Coll. p. 153.<br />
The right line <strong>of</strong> this family is now become extinct, since the Restoration ot King<br />
Charles II. the last lord dying without issue.<br />
There are several branches <strong>of</strong> this family, whose blazons I have met with in records<br />
; as,<br />
BOKTHNVICK <strong>of</strong> Gordonshall, ardent, an eagle's head erased between three cinquefoils<br />
sable. P. and B. MSS.<br />
WILLIAM BORTHWICK, Doctor <strong>of</strong> Medicine, heir and only representer <strong>of</strong> the family<br />
<strong>of</strong> Gordonshall, the same<br />
sprouting anew out <strong>of</strong> the root;<br />
as above ; and, for crest, a withered rose-bush<br />
with the motto, Virtus post facta. N. R.