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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OF ARTIFICIAL FIGURES IN ARMORIi.-<br />
.'.rmounted <strong>of</strong> a pillar gules, issuing out <strong>of</strong> t'ne base -.vuvy azure ;<br />
-i, a torrcuux, proper: motto, Ncc Jfatu, necjtuctu. Nev. or.<br />
Portcullis, latitied porta cataraeta, or rostrum milittire, was the hereditary bad<br />
or cognizance, <strong>of</strong> the suns <strong>of</strong> JOHN <strong>of</strong> GAUNT Duke <strong>of</strong> LANCASTER, upon the account<br />
that they were born in the castle <strong>of</strong> Beaufort in -<br />
France.<br />
WINDYGATE <strong>of</strong> that Ilk, a family sometime with us, bears argent, a portcullis<br />
sable, as in Workman's \hrui ;cript; but in Pont's Manuscript, gules, a portculii- 1<br />
i//.<br />
The name <strong>of</strong> YEFTS, <strong>of</strong> which there was a family in Teviotdale, <strong>of</strong> Yetton oi<br />
old, bears or, a t'ose embattled, being three portcullises gules.<br />
The name <strong>of</strong> YATKS, in England, carry gates, in allusion to the name.<br />
EDWARD YATKS <strong>of</strong> Buckland, parted per fesse crenelle, argent and sable, three<br />
field-gates counter-changed ; for which see Morgan's <strong>Heraldry</strong>.<br />
But to proceed to<br />
ships and their parts, which are frequently carried for the<br />
arms <strong>of</strong> maritime countries and towns, and by families upon the account <strong>of</strong> their<br />
situation, and trading by sea, or for the services they were obliged to perform t ><br />
their kings, by the ivddendos <strong>of</strong> their charters. I have seen several charters with<br />
their reddendos, bearing, Unam navetn viginti remorum, si petatitr tempore belli.<br />
The arms <strong>of</strong> the country <strong>of</strong> ORKNEY are azure, a ship with its sails furled up,<br />
and oars cross the mast or, carried by the old Earls <strong>of</strong> Orkney, as feudal arms.<br />
And since, Torphin Earl <strong>of</strong> Orkney, who married a natural daughter <strong>of</strong> King<br />
William; she bore to him I'.arl John <strong>of</strong> Orkney and 'Zetland: Upon which account<br />
I think the double tressure has been placed round the ship, as an additament<br />
<strong>of</strong> honour, as Alexander Ross, in his Annals, tells us, who says he has seen<br />
the seal <strong>of</strong> this Earl John, with the ship and the double tressure upon it; which<br />
arms have been transmitted to the families which have been dignified with the<br />
title <strong>of</strong> Earl <strong>of</strong> Orkney.<br />
The Earls <strong>of</strong> CAITHNESS, the Lords <strong>of</strong> ARRAN, and Lords <strong>of</strong> LORN, have carried<br />
ships for these countries; <strong>of</strong> which before.<br />
1 shall here mention some <strong>of</strong> the name <strong>of</strong> CAMPBELL, as also the M'DowAtLS,<br />
(or M'DoucALL, or M'CouL) ancient Lords <strong>of</strong> LORN, carried the lymphad, which is<br />
an old-fashioned ship, with one mast and oars, as by our paintings in the arms <strong>of</strong><br />
CAMPBELLS, STEWARTS, and M'DowALLS, Lords <strong>of</strong> LORN, and their descendants. Of<br />
the last I am <strong>of</strong> opinion are descended the M'Dougals <strong>of</strong> Mackerston, though for<br />
present they carry only the lion : For,<br />
Colonel ALEXANDER M'DowALL, Baron <strong>of</strong> Lodvica in Swedland, a son <strong>of</strong> Mackerston,<br />
carries, quarterly, first azure, a lion rampant argent, crowned or', secdnd<br />
,r,'an arm in armour argent, holding a cross croslet fitched azure', third or, n<br />
lymphad sable; fourth or, a rock sable in base, and in. chief, two salmons naiant<br />
in fesse, proper; and over all, by way <strong>of</strong> surtput, an escutcheon as the first quarter,<br />
with a ducal crown. The shield <strong>of</strong> arms is timbred after the German<br />
ensigned<br />
fashion, with three crests, that in the middle a ducal coronet, and upon it a dove,<br />
all proper, between two helmets affront e, adorned with mantlings <strong>of</strong> the tinctures<br />
<strong>of</strong> the arms, and ensigned with ducal coronets in place <strong>of</strong> wreaths: Out <strong>of</strong> that on<br />
the right issueth a lion argent, crowned or; and, from that on the left, an arm in<br />
armour holding a cross croslet fitched, as before; and above all, on an escrol, for<br />
motto, Fear God. For which see Plate <strong>of</strong> Achievements, taken from those arms<br />
finely illuminated in the middle <strong>of</strong> his patent <strong>of</strong> nobility, granted by King<br />
Charles XI. <strong>of</strong> Sweden, to Colonel Gustavus M'Dowall, Baron <strong>of</strong> Lodvica, in the<br />
year 1674, father <strong>of</strong> the above Colonel Alexander, in whose hands I have seen the<br />
patent, as also a genealogical tree <strong>of</strong> the family; where those arms are illuminated<br />
as above, with the arms <strong>of</strong> Swedish and Scottish families, with whom they have<br />
matched, as pro<strong>of</strong>s <strong>of</strong> their noble descents, paternal<br />
and maternal.<br />
Which Gustavus M'Dowall was son and successor <strong>of</strong> Colonel James M'Dowall<br />
and his lady, Anna, daughter <strong>of</strong> George Vanderberg <strong>of</strong> Saggadt in Eastland ;<br />
which James was son and heir <strong>of</strong> Robert M'Dowall, who went from Scotland to<br />
Sweden in the year 1594, and settled there, having married a daughter <strong>of</strong> Vou<br />
Breda <strong>of</strong> Kremnand: He, to show his noble descent from Scotland, obtains a birthbneve,<br />
or certificate, <strong>of</strong> his paternal and maternal descents, upon the declarations<br />
<strong>of</strong> several persons <strong>of</strong> good quality, before the magistrates <strong>of</strong> Edinburgh, ad March<br />
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