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A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF ARTIFICIAL FIGURES IN ARMORIES.<br />

Sir ALEXANDER KEMP, a favourite <strong>of</strong> King James V. married the heiress <strong>of</strong><br />

Thomas Durie <strong>of</strong> that Ilk, and got with her the lands <strong>of</strong> Durie, whose posterity<br />

sold them to the Gibsons. Sibbald's History <strong>of</strong> Fife.<br />

SYMONSTON <strong>of</strong> that Ilk, gules, a two-handed sword bend-ways, between two<br />

mullets or. Font's MS.<br />

The name <strong>of</strong> SCHIERES, gules, three swords in fesse pale-ways, with their pointdownward<br />

argent, hiked and pommelled or. Mackenzie's <strong>Heraldry</strong>.<br />

The name <strong>of</strong> KINROSS, gules, a cheveron cheque, or and azure, between three<br />

swords pale-ways argent, hiked and pommelled or, 2 and i. John Kinross, sheritl"<br />

<strong>of</strong> Kinross, is witness in a perambulation <strong>of</strong> the laads <strong>of</strong> Clesh, belonging to Gilbert<br />

de Clesh, in the year 1252. Had. Coll.<br />

The lands <strong>of</strong> Cleish are called now Dowhill ; which lands came to those <strong>of</strong> the<br />

name <strong>of</strong> Crambith, and from that name to the Lindsays, and are now possessed by<br />

Mr James Lindsay <strong>of</strong> Dowhill.<br />

The name <strong>of</strong> GARRAN, argent, a sword in pale azure, hiked and pommelled or,<br />

surmounted on the point by a mullet gules, and over all a saltier coupad sable.<br />

Mackenzie's <strong>Heraldry</strong>.<br />

The name <strong>of</strong> ABERKERBOR, or ABERHERDOUR, azure, three swords in fesse pale-<br />

ways, points upward argent, hiked and pommelled or,<br />

Font's MS.<br />

surmounted <strong>of</strong> a bend gules.<br />

SERES Lord DUNDEE, <strong>of</strong> old, gules, three swords in fesse wards argent, as in Mr Thomas Crawfurd's MS.<br />

The name <strong>of</strong> EWART, or HEWART, argent, on a<br />

pale-ways, points up-<br />

fesse azure between a dexter<br />

hand in chief, and a man's heart in base gules,<br />

hiked and pommelled or. Ogilvie's<br />

two swords in saltier <strong>of</strong> the first,<br />

MS.<br />

Sir JAMES JUSTICE <strong>of</strong> East-Crichton, one <strong>of</strong> the principal Clerks <strong>of</strong> the College<br />

<strong>of</strong> Justice, azure, a sword in pale argent, hiked and pommelled or, supporting a<br />

pair <strong>of</strong> balances, within a bordure <strong>of</strong> the last; crest, a sword erected : motto, Non<br />

sine causa. As in Plate <strong>of</strong> Achievements.<br />

The ancient family <strong>of</strong> PAULET, in England, sable, three swords, their points conjoined<br />

in base argent, hiked or. Thus blazoned by Imh<strong>of</strong>f, " Tessera Pauletorum<br />

" gentilitia, gladios tres argenteos quorum cuspides deorsum protensae coeunt, in<br />

" parma nigra, representat." This ancient family took their surname from the<br />

lordship <strong>of</strong> Paulet in Somersetshire.<br />

Sir JOHN PAULET, Knight, in the reign <strong>of</strong> Richard II. left behind him two sons,<br />

the eldest, Sir Thomas Paulet, the second, William Paulet. From the first is<br />

descended the present Earl <strong>of</strong> Paulet, who carries as above ; and from the last<br />

William is descended the noble family <strong>of</strong> PAULET Duke <strong>of</strong> BOLTON, who carries the<br />

same arms, with accrescent for difference.<br />

The name <strong>of</strong> STAPLETON, in England, gives another position to their three swords,<br />

ordinarily thus blazoned, gules, three swords conjoined at the pommels in the centre<br />

argent, their points extending to the corners <strong>of</strong> the escutcheon. Others blazon thus,<br />

gules, three swords conjoined at the pommels in pearl argent, as the French say,<br />

mises en pairle, <strong>of</strong> which before : Or, as some <strong>of</strong> the Latins say, after the form <strong>of</strong><br />

Pythagoras's letter Y, as Sylvester Petra Sancta, " Terni gladii argentei in modum<br />

"<br />

literae Pytagoricae juncti, capulis in medio arese puniceae."<br />

The EPISCOPAL SEE <strong>of</strong> LONDON, gules, two swords in saltier argent, the hilts or.<br />

The name <strong>of</strong> NORTON, in England, azure, three swords, one in pale, with the<br />

point upwards, surmounted <strong>of</strong> other two placed saltier-ways, with the points downwards<br />

argent.<br />

Crooked swords are frequently borne,<br />

French call badelaires.<br />

such as shabbies and cutlasses, which the<br />

The crampet <strong>of</strong> a sword, called bauteroll by the French, is to be found in the<br />

arms <strong>of</strong> the Town <strong>of</strong> SEBACH, in the country <strong>of</strong> Touraine, argent, three bauterolls<br />

gules.<br />

Battle-axes and halberts are carried as armorial figures by several families<br />

with us.<br />

DAVID TOSHACH <strong>of</strong> Monivaird, or <strong>of</strong> that Ilk, is thus matriculated in our New<br />

Register, whose predecessor is said to be descended <strong>of</strong> the great Macduff Thane o,<br />

Fife, in the reign <strong>of</strong> Malcolm Canznore, about the time <strong>of</strong> killing Macbeth ; gules

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