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A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF ARTIFICIAL THINGS.<br />

ANDREW GRIERSON, one <strong>of</strong> his Majesty's Heralds, argent, a fir tree growing out<br />

<strong>of</strong> the middle base vert, surmounted <strong>of</strong> a sword in bend, bearing up by the point<br />

an imperial crown, proper, (by which it seems he has been a M'Gregor, and<br />

changed his name to Grierson) placing the arms <strong>of</strong> M'Gregor within a bordure<br />

gules, charged with four quadrangular locks as the first ; crest, a branch <strong>of</strong> fir, pro-<br />

p,r : motto, Spent renovat. L. R. Plate II. fig.<br />

The surname <strong>of</strong> DUN, gules, a sword pale-ways, proper, hilted and pommelled or,<br />

between three padlocks argent ; crest, a dexter hand holding a key, proper : motto,<br />

Mecum habita. N. R. Plate II. fig. 28.<br />

CHARLES DUN, Merchant in Aberdeen, carries the same, with a mullet for dif-<br />

ference. Ibid.<br />

The name <strong>of</strong> EWART, or, three swords, two <strong>of</strong> them saltier-ways, and one fesseways,<br />

between a dexter hand in chief, and a man's heart in base gules. P. MS.<br />

Plate II. fig. 29.<br />

Since I am here speaking <strong>of</strong> swords, I shall mention another piece <strong>of</strong> armament,<br />

viz. spur-rowels, borne by the name <strong>of</strong> BRYSON, gules, a saltier between two spurrowels<br />

in chief, and as many mullets in base argent; as in our old books <strong>of</strong> blazons,<br />

which make a distinction betwixt spur-rowels and mullets, the first being pierced,<br />

and the second not, as I observed before, page 400.<br />

In our New Register, Mr ANDREW BRYSON <strong>of</strong> Craigton carried gules, a saltier<br />

between two spur-rowels in fesse, a spear-head in chief, and a crescent in base or.<br />

Plate II. fig. 30.<br />

This family ended in two daughters ; the eldest <strong>of</strong> them was married to Walter<br />

Ewing, Writer to the Signet, father and mother <strong>of</strong> John Ewing,<br />

1<br />

Writer to the<br />

Signet, who possesses the lands <strong>of</strong> Craigton, which belonged to his grandfather by<br />

the mother's side; and, by the father's side, he is the male-representer <strong>of</strong> Ewing <strong>of</strong><br />

Keppoch, his grandfather, in the shire <strong>of</strong> Dumbarton; which lauds <strong>of</strong> Keppoch<br />

were purchased by a younger son <strong>of</strong> the family, who had only one daughter, married<br />

to John Whitehill, whose son, Thomas, possesses the lands <strong>of</strong> Keppoch, and is<br />

obliged to take upon him the name <strong>of</strong> Ewing.<br />

The arms <strong>of</strong> EWING are carried by JOHN EWING <strong>of</strong> Craigton, Writer to the Signet,<br />

<strong>of</strong> which before, page 412.<br />

The name <strong>of</strong> MEGGET, azure, a quadrangular lock and key or. Font's Manu-<br />

script.<br />

Padlocks are carried by the name <strong>of</strong> LOCKHART, and MURRAY <strong>of</strong> Blackbarony,<br />

<strong>of</strong> whom before.<br />

Chess-rocks, used in the play <strong>of</strong> the chess, are carried with us by the name <strong>of</strong><br />

ORROCK. Plate II. fig. 31.<br />

ALEXANDER ORROCK <strong>of</strong> that Ilk bears sable on a cheveron, betwixt three mullets<br />

argent, as many chess-rocks <strong>of</strong> the first; crest, a falcon perching, proper: motto,<br />

Solus Christus mea rupes. L. R.<br />

SMITH <strong>of</strong> Bracco, in Perthshire, carries azure, a burning cup, between two<br />

chess-rocks in fesse or; crest, a dolphin haurient: motto, Mediis tratiquilhts in itiidis.<br />

Ibid.<br />

Wheels are carried in arms, as that ancient one to be seen in the first quarter <strong>of</strong><br />

the achievement <strong>of</strong> the Archbishop <strong>of</strong> MENTZ, Elector and Great Chancellor <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Empire, gules, a wheel or, which had its rise from one Willigis, or Willekis, who<br />

came to be archbishop and elector in the time <strong>of</strong> the Emperor Otho II. being the<br />

son <strong>of</strong> a mean man, a carter, or wheel-wright, took for his arms a wheel, as a sign<br />

<strong>of</strong> his humility, to show^ the meanness <strong>of</strong> his birth, and caused paint the wheel<br />

upon all the rooms <strong>of</strong> his house, and furniture, to put him in mind <strong>of</strong> his mean<br />

extract, with thesej words, Villegis, recollus quis es, W unde venis : And ever since<br />

that wheel has become the fixed figure <strong>of</strong> that' See, which the Emperor Henry II.<br />

confirmed, as Hopingius (L Jure Itisigniiim, cap. vi. page 236.<br />

There is another sort <strong>of</strong> a wheel to be met with in arms, especially that called<br />

St Katharine's wheel, which has iron teeth round it, used as an instrument <strong>of</strong> tor-<br />

ture <strong>of</strong> old, upon which St Katharine, a confessor, was put to death.<br />

KATHARINE ROUET, daughter <strong>of</strong> SirPaynRouet,Guienne King at Arms, being third<br />

wife to John Duke <strong>of</strong> Lancaster, had her arms impaled with her husband's, being

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