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A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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or ARTIFICIAL THINGS. 4 .<br />

The surname <strong>of</strong> FORRESTER is from the <strong>of</strong>fice <strong>of</strong> keeper <strong>of</strong> the king's forest., a,<br />

appears by their armorial figures, hunting-horns, called bugles.<br />

There was an ancient family <strong>of</strong> this name, designed <strong>of</strong> Renton, in the Me<br />

who carried argent, three hunting-horns (or bugles) sable, stringed gules; which<br />

family long since ended in an heiress, who was married to Elim <strong>of</strong> Elimford, and<br />

again passed from them, ,\vith another heiress <strong>of</strong> Elim, to the Homes. The Ho;:<br />

<strong>of</strong> Renton quarter their arms "with their own, as 1 efore.<br />

The principal family <strong>of</strong> the name <strong>of</strong> Forrester is that <strong>of</strong> the Lord Forrester,<br />

descended <strong>of</strong> the Forresters <strong>of</strong> Corstorphine. I have seen the transumpt <strong>of</strong> a<br />

charter <strong>of</strong> Archibald Farl <strong>of</strong> Douglas, Lord <strong>of</strong> Galloway, to Sir Adam Forrester <strong>of</strong><br />

Corstorphine, <strong>of</strong> the lands <strong>of</strong> Clerkington, now called Nicolson, <strong>of</strong> the date the<br />

24th <strong>of</strong> February 1401.<br />

King Robert 111. gives a charter <strong>of</strong> annuity <strong>of</strong> .ten merks Sterling to Sir Adam<br />

Forrester, out <strong>of</strong> the customs <strong>of</strong> Edinburgh; to which grant, John Stewart <strong>of</strong> Bute,<br />

the king's natural brother, is a witness, dated the 5th <strong>of</strong> February 1404. For<br />

which see Mr Crawfurd's History <strong>of</strong> Renfrew.<br />

Sir JOHN FORRESTER <strong>of</strong> Corstorphine, Chamberlain <strong>of</strong> Scotland, obtains anew<br />

charter from King James I. the 4th <strong>of</strong> February, proceeding upon his own resigna-<br />

tion, erecting the lands <strong>of</strong> Drylaw, Nether-Libberton, Clerkington,<br />

and Meadow-<br />

field, into a barony, to be holden <strong>of</strong> the king for payment <strong>of</strong> a penny. He got<br />

;tlv) from that king another charter <strong>of</strong> confirmation <strong>of</strong> the lands and village <strong>of</strong><br />

Corstorphine, to himself, and his son John Forrester, and his heirs-male ; which<br />

failing, to his other son Henry; and failing <strong>of</strong> him, to another son James; and last<br />

<strong>of</strong> all, to his uncle Thomas Forrester and his heirs-male, dated at Perth the 4th <strong>of</strong><br />

February 1430. He was succeeded by Archibald Forrester <strong>of</strong> Corstorphine. 1<br />

have seen his seal <strong>of</strong> arms appended to an alienation and resignation <strong>of</strong> all his<br />

lands, in favours <strong>of</strong> his son Alexander Forrester, in the year 1482. On the which<br />

seal was a shield couche, charged with three hunting-horns stringed, supported by<br />

two dogs, and a dog's head for crest. This Alexander made an assignation <strong>of</strong> all<br />

his lands in favours <strong>of</strong> his cousin James Forrester <strong>of</strong> Meadowflat, and his heirs-<br />

mule, in the year 1587, and the year after James<br />

phine, and others and he was succeeded ;<br />

by Sir George Forrester, who was created<br />

a lord <strong>of</strong> Parliament, by the title <strong>of</strong> Lord Forrester, the zoth <strong>of</strong> November<br />

is infeft in the lands <strong>of</strong> Corstor-<br />

1633. He had only three daughters, one <strong>of</strong> them Was married to James Baillie<br />

<strong>of</strong> Torwoodhcad, son to Lieutenant-General William Baillie, in whose favours the<br />

Lord Forrester resigned the honour. But he having no issue, the honour, by virtue<br />

<strong>of</strong> the entail, came to his brother William Baillie, who married also another<br />

daughter, Lilius, <strong>of</strong> George Lord Forrester; by whom he had William Lord For-<br />

jr, father to the present George Lord Forrester : Whose arms are argent, a<br />

between three hunting-horns sable, garnished <strong>of</strong> the second, supported<br />

on the dexter by a hound, proper, and on the sinister by a grey-hound argent;<br />

and, for crest, a hunting-horn; with the motto, Blow Hunter thy born.<br />

FORRESTER <strong>of</strong> Garden, in Stirlingshire, argent, three hunting-horns sable, garnished<br />

gules. This family is now extinct ; a son <strong>of</strong> which married the heiressj<strong>of</strong><br />

Strathhenries <strong>of</strong> that Ilk, about the year 1496, which continued in the name <strong>of</strong><br />

Forrester till King Charles II.'s reign, that a younger son <strong>of</strong> Kirkness married the<br />

heiress, and got the estate, -and his son John Douglas is the present possessor.<br />

ALEXANDER FORRESTER, descended <strong>of</strong> the family <strong>of</strong> Garden, argent, a pellet (/. e.<br />

torteattx de sable) between three hunting-horns sable ; crest, a dexter hand holding<br />

a hunting-horn, proper : mono, It's good<br />

to be loan. N. R.<br />

DAVIU FORRESTER <strong>of</strong> Denoven, descended <strong>of</strong> Garden, as Garden, and, for difference,<br />

a crescent surmounted <strong>of</strong> another. Ibid.<br />

Sir AVDRF.W FORRESTER, Under-Secretary <strong>of</strong> State in the reigns <strong>of</strong> Charles II.<br />

and James V II. argent, a cheveron between three bugles sable, garnished gules;<br />

crest, a lily growing through, and surmounting, a bush <strong>of</strong> thorns, proper: motto,<br />

Spernit pericitla<br />

virtus. Ibid.<br />

GEORGE FORRESTER, sometime Dean <strong>of</strong> Guild <strong>of</strong> Dundee, argent, a beagle (or<br />

ratch-hound) between three hunting-horns sable ; crest, a grey-hound with a leash,<br />

proper: motto, Recreation. Ibid.

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