A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF ARTIFICIAL FIGURES IN ARMORIES.
1656, which stands there recorded, That he was the son of Patrick' M'Dougall of
and
Mackerston, and his lady, Margaret Nisbet, a daughter of Nisbet of that Ilk ;
that his grandfather was Thomas M'Dougall of Mackerston, and his lady, Elizabeth,
a daughter of William Ker of Cessford, predecessor to the Duke of Roxburgh ; and
so forth, as in the birth-brief.
Sir DUNCAN CAMPBELL of Lochnell, Baronet, the direct .heir, by male-line, of the
Honourable John Campbell, first of Lochnell, second son of Colin Earl of Argyle,
and Lady Janet Gordon, daughter of Alexander Earl of Huntly, carries, quarterly,
first giron/ie of eight pieces, or and sable, for Campbell ; second azure, a boar',;
head couped or, for Gordon; third argent, a lymphad sable, for Lorn; and the
fourth as the first; crest, a right hand holding a horseman's lance bend-ways:
motto, Anna paratafeto. The family was in use, as I am certainly informed, to
adorn their arms with supporters, by a lion gardant gules, on the right side; and
on the left, by a swan, proper, as relative to their barony Lochnell, /. e. the Swan's
Loch. Plate of Achievements. . .
ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL of Auchtenny, brother-german to the above Sir Duncan,
carries as his brother, with a crescent in the centre, for his difference, and crest
the same; with the motto, Audacesjuvo. As in Plate of Achievements.
Mr ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, Writer to the Signet, grandson of Captain John
Campbell, a younger son of Sir John Campbell of Calder, carries four coats, quar-
terly, first or, a hart's head cabossed sable, attired gules, for Calder of that Ilk ;
second gironne of eight pieces, or and sable, for Campbell ; third argent, a galley
with her oars in action sable, for Lorn ; fourth or, on a fesse azure, three buckles
of the first, all within a bordure ingrailed^z//^; crest, a swan, proper, crowned or:
motto, Be ever mindful. L. R. and Plate of Achievements. And there,
COLIN CAMPBELL, Esq. a younger brother of the above Mr Archibald, carries as
he, but for his difference charges the bordure with eight crescents argent; crest, a
swan crowned, proper, and above, on an escrol, the word Memento; and below the
shield, Dens dabit vela, as relative to the galley.
ROBERT CAMPBELL, Merchant in Stockholm, son by a third marriage
of Walter
Campbell of Skipnish, and his wife Anne Stewart, father's sister to the deceased
James Earl of Bute, carries the paternal coat of Campbell, within a bordure cheque\
argent and azure, for Stewart of Bute, and charged with eight crescents argent, for
his difference ; crest, a dove with an olive branch in his bill, proper : motto,
Gaudium adfero. See Plate of Achievements.
The LORDS of the ISLES carried for arms, or, an eagle displayed gules, surmounted
with a galley sable. The eldest sons of the kings of Scotland, says Workman,
quartered the same with the arms of Scotland; but I have not met with them so
but in his book.
The M'DONALUS, M'LEANS, and M'NEILS, in one of the quarters of their arms,
have a galley, or lymphad, with her sails furled up, and oars erect in saltier. The
M'Pherson's have the like.
The ship, or is lymphad, the armorial figure of the M'PHERSONS, and the cat
their crest, the badge of the CATTI, of which before, page 254, who have been con-
sidered as the stock of the Clanchattan in the Highlands by several writers,
though there be other families in the kingdom, for quality, far more considerable,
as the noble families of the Keiths and Sutherlands : All which are said to be ori-
ginally from the Catti in Germany, who were forced by Tiberius Ceesar to leave
their own country, and seek for another. Who having embarked for Britain,
were driven by stress of \veather to the north of Scotland, where they landed in a
country called after them Caithness, that is, the Catti's Corner: Afterwards they
spread southwards to the country now called Sutherland, to which they gave the
name Cattow, from their own, and the inhabitants were called South Catti, as Mr
Blaeu the geographer, page 128, says, " Provincia hax olim proprio Cattei vocata
'
est, incolae Catteigh : Sutherlandia vox recentior est." But more of this by Mi-
Brand in his Description of Caithness.
The CHATTI, or CLANCHATTAN, continued several ages in both these countries;
some of them joined with the Picts, and some with the Scots, of whom were the
progenitors of the Keiths and Sutherlands. The others, after the decisive battle
given to the Picts, by Kenneth II. King of Scots, were forced to leave their coun-