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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

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