A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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F FLOWERS AND LEAVES.
the Restora-
Edinburgh, a loyal man, and sufferer for King Charles I. who, upon
tion of King Charles II. was made one of the Senators of the College of Justice.
As also, his son Sir James, designed of Redford, was one of the Senators of that
honourable Bench in the reigns of Charles II. and James VII. who married Mar-
garet, daughter to John Boyd, Dean of Guild of Edinburgh, by whom he had Sir
James Foulis of Collington. Their arms, as the principal family of the name, are,
argent, three bay leaves slipped vert ; crest, a dexter hand couped, holding a sword
in pale, supporting a laurel, all proper: motto, Mente manuque presto.
L. R. and
in Plate of Achievements.
Mr ALEXANDER FOULIS of Ratho, descended of a second son of Collington,
argent, on a cheveron between three laurel leaves vert, as many besants argent;
crest, a dove holding an olive branch in her beak, proper : motto, Pax. New
Register.
Sir JOHN FOULIS of Ravelston, Baronet, argent on a fesse between three bay
leaves vert, a primrose or; crest, a dove volant, holding a leaf in her beak, proper:
motto, Tbure & jure.
Sir John married Margaret, daughter to Sir Archibald Primrose of Chester, and
Register, who gave to the eldest son of the marriage the lands of Dunipace, upon
condition he took upon him the name and arms of Primrose ; which accordingly he
has performed.
Sir John's second son is Laird of WOODHALL, and carries the name and arms of
Foulis, argent, three bay leaves slipped vert, within a bordure ermine; crest, a
flower-p6t with a branch of laurel springing out of it : motto, Non deficit. See
Plate of Achievements.
JOHN FOULIS, Merchant in Edinburgh, argent, a holly branch between three bay
leaves slipped vert : motto, I rise by industry.
Ibid.
Laurel is the emblem of victory, and the triumphant garlands of the Romans
were made of laurel leaves.
JOHN WORDIE of Trabreck, argent, a hand issuing out of the dexter side of the
shield, holding a garland ensigned with an imperial crown, proper, on a chief gules,
two thistles argent : motto, Nil indigne. (N. R.) All which are equivocally relative
only to the name of Wordie. L. R.
The name of Lowis carry laurel leaves relative to the name.
JAMES Lowis of Merchiston, or, three laurel leaves vert; crest, a dexter hand
holding a lance in bend, proper: motto, Nos asperajuvant. New Register.
Lowis of Menar, argent, a mullet azure, between three laurel leaves vert.
Font's Manuscript.
FRANCIS LAWRIE of Plainstones, and sometime one of the Bailies of Portsburgh,
parted per fesse, gules and sable, a cup argent, with a garland issuing out of the top
between two laurel branches vert; crest, the trunk of an oak sprouting out, proper
: motto, Repullulat. N. R.
Hollin, or holly leaves, a kind of laurel so called upon the account that, with
such evergreens, temples, altars, and holy places were wont to be adorned.
ALEXANDER IRVINE of Drum, argent, three small sheafs, or bundles of holly, 2
and i vert, each consisting of as many leaves slipped of the last, banded gules;
crest, a sheaf of arrows ; supporters, two savages wreathed about the head and
middle with holly, each carrying in their hands a batton, all proper: motto, Sub
sole, sub vmbra virens. Ibid.
In our old books of arms they are blazoned, argent, three holly leaves vert; and
in others, as in Sir George Mackenzie's Heraldry, argent, three holly branches, each
consisting of as many leaves vert, banded together gules; and are so painted "on
the House of Falahall in the year 1604.
Sir George, in his Science of Heraldry, says, that King Robert the Bruce had,
for his badge and device, three such leaves ; with the motto, Sub sole, sub umbra
virens; which he gave for arms, with the forest of Drum, in the shire of Aberdeen,
to one Irvine, (afterwards designed of Drum) his armour-bearer, one of the pro-
genitors of the present Irvine of Drum, an ancient and principal family.
IRVINE of Bonshaw, another ancient family in the West of Scotland, carried
wgent, three holly leaves slipped vert.