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A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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39 o<br />

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.

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