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A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF ARTIFICIAL THINGS.<br />

The UNIVERSITY <strong>of</strong> CAMBRIDGE, gules, on a cross ermine, between two lions<br />

passant gardant or; a book shut, and clasped <strong>of</strong> the field, and garnished or.<br />

Writing pens are carried vvirli us by the name <strong>of</strong> GILMOUR.<br />

Sir ALEXANDER GIL.MOI/R <strong>of</strong> Craigmillar, Baronet, azure, three writing pens paleways,<br />

full-feathered (iivtn:; crest, a dexter hand holding a scroll <strong>of</strong> papers, within<br />

a garland <strong>of</strong> laurel, proper: motto, Nil penna, sed ujus; to show their rise was from<br />

being writers and clerks. N. R.<br />

There is u figure with the English, which they call maunch, that is, as I take it,<br />

an old-fashioned sleeve <strong>of</strong> a garment, which Mr Gibbon latins thus, manica antiquee<br />

forma,<br />

Menestrier tells us <strong>of</strong> a very ancient Manuscript <strong>of</strong> Blazons, wiiich is kept in the<br />

college <strong>of</strong> the English Benedictines at Douay, and it seems to be the ancien<br />

piece <strong>of</strong> that kind in Britain, having the arms <strong>of</strong> many <strong>of</strong> the captains that came<br />

over with William the Conqueror, writ and illuminated in his time by the monks<br />

<strong>of</strong> Ely. Among these captains there is one HASTINGIUS, as Menestrier observes,<br />

who carried then, or, a la manche mal taille de gueules', which figure these <strong>of</strong> the<br />

name <strong>of</strong> HASTINGS in England carry, but in a different tincture. Plate 11. fig. 25.<br />

The most eminent <strong>of</strong> the name was Baron Hastings, in the reign <strong>of</strong> King Edward<br />

IV. who, by a writ <strong>of</strong> summons to Parliament, I5th <strong>of</strong> November 1482, sat<br />

as a peer.<br />

One <strong>of</strong> his successors was made Earl <strong>of</strong> Huntingdon, by- Kiijg Henry VIII.<br />

from whom is descended THEOPHILUS HASTINGS, the present Earl <strong>of</strong> HUNTINGDON,<br />

Baron Hastings <strong>of</strong> Hungerford, who carries as his predecessors, for his paternal<br />

arms, argent, a maunch sable, quartered with other coats <strong>of</strong> alliance, as in Guillim's<br />

Display.<br />

The name <strong>of</strong> WHARTON, in England, carries also sable, a maunch argent; which<br />

name is from Wharton, a barony upon the river Eden in Westmoreland, where now<br />

the seat <strong>of</strong> the family is called Wharton-hall.<br />

This family was advanced to the dignity <strong>of</strong> Lord Baron, in the person <strong>of</strong> THOMAS<br />

WHARTON, by writ <strong>of</strong> summons to Parliament, 3Oth January 1544, by King<br />

Henry VIII. He was then Governor <strong>of</strong> the town and castle <strong>of</strong> Carlisle, and Warden<br />

<strong>of</strong> the West-Marches : For defeating the discontented Scots, at Solway Moss,<br />

he got an augmentation added to his arms, viz. a bordure or, charged with eight<br />

couple <strong>of</strong> lions' paws saltier-ways, erased gules.<br />

This family <strong>of</strong> late was dignified, in the year 1706, with the titles <strong>of</strong> Viscount<br />

Winchington, and Earl <strong>of</strong> Wharton.<br />

Purses, or<br />

palmer-scrips,<br />

are carried with us, by the name <strong>of</strong> SPREUL.<br />

For the antiquity <strong>of</strong> the name, WALTER SPREUL Setiescballus de Dumbarton, in<br />

the reign <strong>of</strong> King Robert I. obtained a charter <strong>of</strong> the lands <strong>of</strong> Dalquhern : And<br />

<strong>of</strong> the<br />

there is also, in the Register,<br />

a resignation made by another Walter Spreul,<br />

land <strong>of</strong> Cowden, in favours <strong>of</strong> Thomas Spreul his son and heir which ; family<br />

continued in a lineal succession till the year 1622, that the lands <strong>of</strong> Cowden were<br />

sold : Of which family are descended severals <strong>of</strong> that name, whose bearings are or,<br />

a fesse cheque, azure and argent, between three purses (or palmer-scrips) gules.<br />

Pont's Manuscript.<br />

The name <strong>of</strong> BELL with us carry, relative to- their name, bells ;<br />

as BELL <strong>of</strong><br />

Kirkonnel, azure, three bells or. Ibid. Plate II. fig. 26.<br />

JAMES BELL <strong>of</strong> Provosthaugh, azure, a fesse between three bells or; crest, a roe<br />

feeding, proper: with the motto, Signum pads amor. New Register.<br />

The name <strong>of</strong> PORTER, in England, sable, three bells argent.<br />

When the tongue, or<br />

clapper, <strong>of</strong> a bell is <strong>of</strong> a different tincture, the French for it<br />

use the term bataille, as in the blazon <strong>of</strong> the family <strong>of</strong> BELLEGAR.DE, azure, a bell<br />

urgent, bataille sable.<br />

GRIERSON <strong>of</strong> Lag, in Annandale, as I observed before, carried a saltier, and<br />

chief, as arms <strong>of</strong> patronage <strong>of</strong> that country ; but it seems they have been in use<br />

to carry other arms, as matriculated in our Lyon Register, gules, on a resse or,<br />

between three quadrangular locks argent, a mullet azure, (some make them fetter-<br />

locks) ; crest, a lock as the former: motto, Hoc secnrior. And the same are in Sir<br />

George Mackenzie's <strong>Heraldry</strong>,<br />

II. fig. 27.<br />

and so illuminated on the House <strong>of</strong> Falahall. Plan-

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