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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402<br />
OF ARTIFICIAL FIGURES IN ARMORIES.<br />
;tre thus recorded; argent, on a bend azure, three buckles or; crest, a Moor's head<br />
couped, proper : motto, Gang forward. The family has been in use to carry two<br />
greyhounds for supporters.<br />
Sir JOHN STIRLING <strong>of</strong> Glorat, Baronet, argent, a bend ingrailed azure, charged<br />
with three buckles or, on a chief gules, a naked arm issuing out <strong>of</strong> a cloud, from<br />
the sinister side, grasping a sword in pale, and therewith guarding an imperial<br />
crown, placed in the dexter chief point, all proper, within a double tressure counter-flowered<br />
with thistles vert; crest, a lion passant gules: motto, Semper fidelis.<br />
(N. R.) Which honourable additament, the chief, was granted to the family for<br />
their loyalty to their sovereigns Charles I. and II. and, in the year 1666, the family<br />
was honoured with the dignity <strong>of</strong> Knight-Baronet. John Earl <strong>of</strong> Lennox gave a<br />
grant <strong>of</strong> the lands <strong>of</strong> Park <strong>of</strong> Inchinnan, in the shire <strong>of</strong> Renfrew, Dilecto consanguineo<br />
suo Gulielmo Stirling de Gloret, & Margareta; Houston, sponsa SHOE, anno 1525.<br />
A younger son <strong>of</strong> theirs, Andrew Stirling <strong>of</strong> Portwallan, obtained the said lands in<br />
patrimony, whose lineal heir is JOHN STIRLING <strong>of</strong> Law, who carries argent, on a<br />
bend ingrailed azure, three buckles or in chief, an oak tree slipped vert, and thereupon<br />
a raven, proper : motto, Sic fidus & robor. L. R.<br />
WILLIAM STIRLING <strong>of</strong> Herbertshire, descended <strong>of</strong> Calder, now annexed to Keir,<br />
argent, on a bend ingrailed azure, between two roses, one in chief, and the other<br />
in base gules, three buckles or ; crest, a boar's head couped, proper: motto, Gang<br />
forward. L. R.<br />
STIRLING <strong>of</strong> Ardoch, argent, on a bend ingrailed, three buckles or; quartered<br />
with these <strong>of</strong> Sinclair <strong>of</strong> Herdmanston, argent, a cross ingrailed azure. This fa-<br />
in the<br />
mily was honoured with the title <strong>of</strong> Knight-Baronet the 2d day <strong>of</strong> May<br />
year 1666.<br />
GEORGE STIRLING, Chirurgeon in Edinburgh, descended <strong>of</strong> the family <strong>of</strong> Calder,<br />
argent, on a bend ingrailed azure, betwixt a rose in chief gules, and a trapan (a<br />
chirurgical instrument) in base, proper, three buckles or; crest, a dexter hand<br />
pointing a lancet, proper : motto, By wounding I cure. N. R.<br />
STIRLING <strong>of</strong> Craig-Burnet, argent, on a bend ingrailed azure, betwixt a rose in<br />
chief, and a boar's head cabossed in base gules, three buckles or, ensigned on the<br />
head with a cross, proper. Ibid.<br />
three buckles <strong>of</strong> the<br />
JAMES STIRLING, Merchant in Dundee, or, on a bend azure,<br />
first, and, in chief, a columbine flower slipped, proper; crest, a ship under sail,<br />
proper : motto, Faventibus auris. Ibid.<br />
Mr JOHN STIRLING <strong>of</strong> Bankell, argent, on a bend ingrailed azure, three buckles<br />
or in chief, a lion's head erased gules; crest, a lion passant, proper : _ motto, Fides<br />
ser-vata secimdat. L. R.<br />
The ancient name <strong>of</strong> BUNKLE carried buckles relative to the name. Sir James<br />
Battbur says, in the year 1292, Bunkle, sable, three buckles or. The principal<br />
family <strong>of</strong> the name was Bunkle <strong>of</strong> that Ilk, in the shire <strong>of</strong> Berwick, who carried,<br />
us some, argent, on a bend sable, three buckles or. These arms have been displayed<br />
and perpetuate to us by many noble families, especially the name <strong>of</strong> STEWART,<br />
upon the account <strong>of</strong> their maternal descent.<br />
Sir JOHN STEWART, second son to Alexander Lord High Steward <strong>of</strong> Scotland,<br />
and full brother to James Lord High Steward, married -Margaret, daughter and<br />
heir to Sir Alexander Bunkle <strong>of</strong> that Ilk, about the year 1294; who, in her right,<br />
ime possessor <strong>of</strong> many lands, and especially those <strong>of</strong> Bunkle in the Merse,<br />
after which he was designed Sir John Stewart <strong>of</strong> Bunkle ; as also, he composed<br />
his armorial bearings with them, viz. or, a fesse cheque, azure and argent, surmount-<br />
ed <strong>of</strong> u bend sable, charged with three buckles or;<br />
for which their issue carried<br />
buckles, as the Stewarts Earls <strong>of</strong> Angus, and now the Douglases, as descended <strong>of</strong><br />
them ; and others descended <strong>of</strong> Stew; art <strong>of</strong> Bunkle place the buckles upon their<br />
borders : Of which before at the name <strong>of</strong> Stewart.<br />
Some <strong>of</strong> the name <strong>of</strong> FERGUSSON carry the buckle as the principal figure, viz.<br />
.izure, a buckle argent, betwixt three boars' heads couped or.<br />
FERGUSSON <strong>of</strong> Kilkerran is very ancient in the shire <strong>of</strong> Ayr. King Robert I.<br />
grants a charter <strong>of</strong> several lands in that shire, Fergusio Fergusii filio, (Had. Coll.)<br />
and John Fergusson <strong>of</strong> Kilkerran resigns a part <strong>of</strong> his estate to Fergus Fergusson