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A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF ARTIFICIAL FIGURES IN ARMORIES. 407<br />

ral other Rosses <strong>of</strong> the family, were frequent in Scotland in the reigns <strong>of</strong> Alexander<br />

II. and Alexander III. Robert de Ross is <strong>of</strong>ten to be found a witness in the<br />

charters <strong>of</strong> King Alexander III. (Had. Coll.): And in Prynne's History <strong>of</strong> Edward<br />

I. especially in trte Ragman-Roll <strong>of</strong> the Scots Barons who submitted to Ed-<br />

Andreas de Ross<br />

\\-ird 1. ure to be found<br />

Jacobus de Ross, filius God<strong>of</strong>rcdi junior,<br />

fi/ius God<strong>of</strong>rcdi, Willielmus de Ross in Vice-comitatu de Edin, Robert us Ross in l^icecomitatu<br />

de Air, & Robertus de Ross, miles, Dominus Castri dc IVark ; which our<br />

author, Mr Prynne, adds <strong>of</strong> the last, " Non obstante fidelitate quam regi Angliie<br />

" juraverat, ad Scotos transfugit."<br />

Of him, it is thought, are descended the Barons <strong>of</strong> HALK.HEAD, who were eminent<br />

in the reign <strong>of</strong> Robert II. for then it was that Sir John Ross obtained the ba-<br />

rony <strong>of</strong> Melville, in the sheriiTdom <strong>of</strong> Edinburgh, by marrying Agnes, daughter<br />

and sole heiress <strong>of</strong> Sir John Melville <strong>of</strong> that Ilk, by whom he had Sir John his heir<br />

and successor. He quartered the arms <strong>of</strong> his mother, being gules, three crescents<br />

within a bordure argent, charged with eight roses <strong>of</strong> the first, for Melville, with his<br />

paternal arms, viz. or, a cheveron cheque, sable and argent, between three water-<br />

was not carried to difference from<br />

budgets <strong>of</strong> the second ; the cheveron cheque<br />

any other family <strong>of</strong> the name, but, as I take it, to show they were dependers and<br />

vassals <strong>of</strong> the High Stewards <strong>of</strong> Scotland, their superiors and over-lords, as others<br />

were then in use to do.<br />

This family was dignified with the title <strong>of</strong> Lord Ross by King James IV. in the<br />

person <strong>of</strong> Sir John Ross <strong>of</strong> Halkhead, who was slain in the battle <strong>of</strong> Flodden ;<br />

<strong>of</strong> whom is descended the present WILLIAM Lord Ross, whose achievement is<br />

quarterly, first and fourth Ross, second and third Melville, supported by two goshawks,<br />

proper, armed, jessed, and belled or; crest, a hawk's head erased, proper:<br />

motto, Think on.<br />

There were other families <strong>of</strong> this name who carried water-budgets, as Ross <strong>of</strong><br />

Sanquhar which ; family ended in two daughters, heiresses, the eldest married to<br />

one <strong>of</strong> the name <strong>of</strong> Edgar, the other to Crichton, one <strong>of</strong> the progenitors <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Earl <strong>of</strong> Dumfries which two families ;<br />

quartered the water-budgets for Ross, with<br />

these <strong>of</strong> the proper ones <strong>of</strong> their families, <strong>of</strong> whom before.<br />

There was a family <strong>of</strong> the name <strong>of</strong> Ross in Galloway, in the reign <strong>of</strong> Robert I.<br />

for that King gives a charter to Hugh de Ross, militi, <strong>of</strong> half <strong>of</strong> the lands <strong>of</strong> Kinfauns,<br />

with the fishings, lying in the shire <strong>of</strong> Perth, " In excambium terrarum de<br />

"<br />

Genken, infra Gallovidiam, quas idem Hugo habet ratione quondam Walteri de<br />

"<br />

Ross militis fratris sui, & quas idem quondam Walterus de Ross habebat dona-<br />

"<br />

tione Edwardi, fratris nostri Regis Hiberniae." (Had. Coll. page 78.) I have<br />

seen a principal discharge <strong>of</strong> Hugh Ross <strong>of</strong> Kinfauns, to Robert Murray <strong>of</strong> Ogilvie<br />

,(now Abercairnv) <strong>of</strong> an agreement betwixt them, <strong>of</strong> the date the 2d <strong>of</strong><br />

June 1387, to which was appended the seal <strong>of</strong> arms <strong>of</strong> this Hugh Ross, having a<br />

:<br />

cheque between two water-budgets in chief, and a mullet in base, (penes<br />

Abercairny.)<br />

ROSE <strong>of</strong> Kilravock, in the North, or, a boar's head couped gules, between three<br />

water-budgets sable; crest, a harp azure: motto, Constant and true, N. R.<br />

This family derives its descent from one Hugh Rose, who got the lands <strong>of</strong> Kilravock<br />

disponed to him by Elizabeth Bisset, in the reign <strong>of</strong> Alexander III. whose<br />

son, God'fredus de Ross, was sheriff <strong>of</strong> Inverness in the reign' <strong>of</strong> Robert the Bruce.<br />

He is mentioned in the old evidents belonging to the priory <strong>of</strong> Urquhart and<br />

Pluscardine, in the year 131-1, whose grandchild, upon the account his mother<br />

was an heiress <strong>of</strong> the name <strong>of</strong> Chisholm, assumed the boar's head, the armorial<br />

figure <strong>of</strong> that name; for which see Sir George Mackenzie's MS.<br />

FRANCIS ROSE <strong>of</strong> Auchlossen, descended <strong>of</strong> Kilravock, as Kilravock, within a<br />

bordure sable, for difference;<br />

eventit. N. R.<br />

crest, a water-budget, as the former: motto, Agnoscar<br />

Mr. JOHN ROSE <strong>of</strong> Inch, Minister <strong>of</strong> Foveran, descended <strong>of</strong> a third son <strong>of</strong> the<br />

House <strong>of</strong> Kilravock, bears as Kilravock, within a bordure gules, charged with six<br />

mullets or;<br />

Ibid.<br />

crest, a rose gules, stalked and barbed vert: motto, Magnes IS animus.<br />

Ross <strong>of</strong> Craigie, or, a fesse cheque, argent and sable, between three water-budgets<br />

<strong>of</strong> the last. Balfour's MS.

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