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A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF ARTIFICIAL THINGS. 417<br />

temporal and ecclesiastical, I shall mention here, and exemplify by armorial bearings;<br />

such a-, crrruun.f, ancient and modern, the imperial morid, or globe, sceptres,<br />

bu;;'iiu\ the tinbiepiscopnl-pall, mitres, crosiers, crosses, and keys.<br />

In this consideration, they have no more eminency than the former figures we have<br />

been treating about. And first, crowns within the shield, are no more marks <strong>of</strong><br />

sovereignty and dignity, than lions, horses, mullets, or buckles,<br />

or other armorial<br />

figui<br />

The old Lords and Earls <strong>of</strong> GARIOCH carried, for arms, or, a fe^se cheque, azure<br />

and urgent, between three antique crowns, (z. e. open ones with points) gules.<br />

DAVID Earl <strong>of</strong> HUNTINGDON, younger son <strong>of</strong> Prince Henry, eldest son <strong>of</strong> Kins<br />

David 1. was, by his, brother King Malcom IV. honoured with the title <strong>of</strong> Earl oi<br />

Ganoch, which afterwards he resigned in the hands <strong>of</strong> his brother King William,<br />

for the earldom <strong>of</strong> Angus, which earldom he did not keep long.<br />

Henry de Brecbin, so designed from the place <strong>of</strong> his birth, natural son <strong>of</strong> King<br />

William, wa>, by King Alexander II. made Earl <strong>of</strong> Garioch, and was succeeded<br />

in that dignity by his son Walden, who died at Dunfermline without issue ; as<br />

the chartulary <strong>of</strong> that abbacy says, " Waldenus Comes de Garrioch, juvenis egre-<br />

" gius obiit sine prole, & omnia sua bona devenerunt ad Alexandrum consangui-<br />

" neum suum."<br />

Alexander III. bestowed Garioch on William Cumin,<br />

as also the earldom<br />

<strong>of</strong>Marr; and after the forfeiture <strong>of</strong> the Cumins, these earldoms returned to the<br />

crown.<br />

King Robert the Bruce reponed Gratney Mar, whose daughter, Isabel, he had<br />

married,, unto the earldom <strong>of</strong> Marr, and gave him the lordship <strong>of</strong> Garioch, with its<br />

regality; after this, Garioch is always called a lordship.<br />

I have not met with the arms <strong>of</strong> Garioch carried by any <strong>of</strong> the abovementioned<br />

carl-, and lords, till ALEXANDER STEWART, natural son <strong>of</strong> Alexander Stewart <strong>of</strong><br />

Badenoch, Larl <strong>of</strong> Buchan, fourth son <strong>of</strong> King Robert II. who married Lady Isabel<br />

Douglas, Countess and heiress <strong>of</strong>Marr; in her right he was Earl <strong>of</strong> Marr and<br />

Lord Garioch, who carried, quarterly, first and fourth Garioch, or, a fesse cheque,<br />

azure and argent, between three ducal crowns gules; second and third Marr,<br />

azure, a bend 'betwixt six cross croslets fitched or. He died without issue,<br />

anno 1436.<br />

The earldom afterwards fell into the king's hands, and King James II. bestowed<br />

the earldom <strong>of</strong> Marr, and lordship <strong>of</strong> Garrioch, upon his younger son John Earl <strong>of</strong><br />

Marr, who cunu-d the arms <strong>of</strong> these dignities, as I just now blazoned.<br />

The armc-rial figures <strong>of</strong> the kingdom <strong>of</strong> SWEDEN are three antique crowns <strong>of</strong><br />

gold, in a field azure. It is generally told, that these three crowns were assumed<br />

to show the ancient alliance and union <strong>of</strong> three kingdoms, Sweden, Denmark, and<br />

Norway.<br />

The city <strong>of</strong> COLOGNE carries argent, on a chief gules, three crowns or; upon account,<br />

they say, that the bodies <strong>of</strong> the three kings, or wise men, that came from<br />

the East, to adore our Saviour at his birth, are interred there.<br />

The country <strong>of</strong> MURCIA, in Spain, azure, six ducal crowns or, 3, 2 and i. They<br />

arc said to be carried to represent and perpetuate as many victories obtained in<br />

that country by the Christians over the Moors.<br />

Mencstrier tells us, that crowns, as armorial figures or charges in a shield, are not<br />

then to be taken for marks <strong>of</strong> dignity, but as rewards <strong>of</strong> valour and good counsel,<br />

with which great men were anciently honoured ; and with these their armorial<br />

figures were adorned, as the Douglasses ensign the heart on their arms, and others<br />

crown their lions, as the M'Dowalls, <strong>of</strong> whom before.<br />

I shall here add the blazon <strong>of</strong> another gentleman <strong>of</strong> that name, viz.<br />

M'DOWALL, in the Island <strong>of</strong> St Christophers, brother-german to Garthland, who<br />

carries the same arms as his brother, with a suitable difference.<br />

The name <strong>of</strong> GRANT carries gules, three antique crowns or.<br />

One Vanbassan, a Dane, by his MS. in the Lawyers' Library, brings the first <strong>of</strong><br />

this name from Norway to Scotland; and Sir George Mackenzie, by his MS.<br />

brings them from England, upon Hollinshed's mentioning one <strong>of</strong> the name <strong>of</strong><br />

GRANT <strong>of</strong> old, a repairer <strong>of</strong> the University <strong>of</strong> Cambridge. There are yet <strong>of</strong> that<br />

name in England, but by their arms they appear not to be the same stock <strong>of</strong><br />

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