A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF ARTIFICIAL THINGS. 421
of the Senators of the College of Justice, who purchased the lands of Duric in
Fife, in the reign of King James VI.
His son and successor, Sir ALEXANDER GIBSON of Durie, carried the foresaid
arms; and for crest, a pelican vulnerating herself; with the motto, Pandite calestes
porta.
Crosses, as I have said before, are the badges of devotion, and especially the
portable ones, the cross croslets, which are very frequent to be seen in the hands
of churchmen, represented on seals, and by the bearings of ancient families, of
which 1 have given several instances before, and here mention again that of CHKIN,
sometimes writ CHEYNK, and CHIEN, old Barons of Innerugie, who had great possessions
in Caithness ; Duulu, and others, who carried gules, a bend between six cross
croslets fitched argent.
From this family descended several very considerable families, as the Cheynes of
Arnage, Esselmont, Straloch, Dundarg, Pitfitchie, &-c.
The head of the family of Cheyne, was Lord Cheyne of Innerugie, which, in the
reign of King Robert Bruce, failed in the heir-male, having only daughters ; the
eldest whereof was married to Sir Robert Keith, knight, Marischal of Scotland, one
of the progenitors of the Earls Marischal : By her he got the estate of Innerugie,
which the family have always possessed, and were sometime in use to quarter the
arms of Cheyne with their own, as Mr Crawfurd observes in his History of the
Peerage of Scotland.
The estate of DufTus went off with another daughter, married to another son of
the Earl of Sutherland, as before, page 131.
The last of the family of Arnage was the learned
yacobus Cbeyiurus
ab Arnage,
who being Professor at Douay, did there publish his Mathematical and Philosophical
Works.
A son of Cheyne of Innerugie married the heiress of Marshall of Esselmont,
and with her got the lands of Esselmont, for which the family quartered the arms
of Marshall with their own, of which before, page 129.
From this family is descended the eminent physician Dr GEORGE CHEYNE, whose
bearing is gules, a bend between six cross croslets fitche argent,
ermine; crest, a cross patee or: motto, Patientia vincit. L. R.
CHEYNE of Straloch, carried the plain coat of Cheyne, as they
within a bordure
stand on the
House of Straloch, and Pont's Manuscripts ; crest, a capuchin's cap : motto, Fear
God.
I shall conclude this chapter with a few other figures that are looked upon as
marks of authority and offices.
Cushions are looked upon as marks of authority, and have been carried as armorial
figures by ancient families abroad, and with us, as by the Randolphs Earls
of whom before.
Moray, and by the name of Johnston,
BRISBANE of Bishopton, an ancient and principal family of the name, sable, a
cheveron cheque, or and gules, between three cushions of the second ; cress, a stork's
head erased, holding in her beak a serpent waved, proper ; and for motto, of old,
Csrtamine summo ; and of late, Dabit otia Deus. N. R.
Sir JOHN BRISBANE, sometime Judge-Advocate to the King's Navy, carries as
Bishopton, within a bordure vair; crest, a serpent wreathed about an anchor in
pale, proper: motto, minimum prudentia Jirmat. Ibid.
MATTHEW BRISBANE, Doctor of Medicine, as Bishopton, within a bordure chequt,
argent and sable; crest, a hillock seme of ants, proper: motto, Virtuti damnosaquies.
Ibid.
The name of MARJORIBANKS is said to be descended of the Johnstons, argent,
on a chief gules, a cushion, between two spur-rowels of the first, as in Pont's MS.
who gives to others of that name, argent, on a fesse gules, between three spurrowels
of the last, as many cushions of the first.
THOMAS MARJORIBANKS of Balbarclie, representer of Marjoribanks of that Ilk,
argent, a mullet gules, on a chief sable, a cushion or; cre^t, :\ dcmi-grillin, proper:
motto, Et custos y pugnax. N. R.
JOSEPH MARJORIBANKS of Lochie, argent, on a chief gulcr, a cushion between
two spur-rowels of the field; crest, a lion's paw grasping a lance in bend, proper:
motto, Advance with courage.
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