A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF THE PARTITION AND REPARTITION LINES
IV.IES AiLANofSauchnel, parted per bend indents, argent mA gules ; in chief
two crescents, and in base a star, all counter-changed, fig.
6. so matriculated in
the New Register : Others of the name of Allan, carry a pelican
with three birds
in a nest, or; as in James Pont's Manuscript of Blazons, written in the year 1624.
The surname of DAKSALLOUGH, parted per bend, ingrailed sable and argent, as in
Mr Thomas Crawford's Manuscript of Blazons.
The surname of SPOT, parked per bend, dancette, argent and sable, two mullets
counter-changed, as in Pont's Manuscript.
The name of BOYLE in England, of which is the Right Honourable Richard
Earl of BURLINGTON, parted per bend, embattled argent and gules, (some say for
embattled, crenelle> Imhoff, in his Blazons of the Nobility of England, gives
them thus, Scuto constant oblique dextrorsum secto, ha ut dimidia ex parte candeat,
alter rubeat, sectionis vero ades in pinnas desinat, quartered
in the achievement of
the Earl of Glasgow.
The fourth principal partition line, parted per bend sinister, is by a diagonal
line, passing from the upper left corner to the low right angle toward the base ;
the word sinister is mentioned in the blazon of this partition,
to distinguish it from
the former ; the French say only taille, as fig. 7. taille d'argent et d'azure, i. e.
parted per bend, sinister, argent and azure; the Latins, scutum sinistrorsus sectum ex
argentco fc? cyaneo ; the arms of Zurich, one of the Swiss cantons.
In England, the surname of JOHNES in Derbyshire, carry parted per bend, sinister
ermine and ermines, (the French would say, taille d'ermine et contre ermine}, over
all, a lion rampant within a bordure ingrailed, or. The same arms are borne by Sir
JOHN TREVOR of Drynkynalt, in Denbighshire, descended from Tudor Trevor,
Earl of Hereford, but he has no bordure.
Sir George Mackenzie, in his Science of Heraldry, gives us the arms of ELLIS,
;.ailed per bend sinister, argent and gules, a hand couped, and grasping a lance
in the sinister chief an-
bend-ways, bearing on the top thereof an helmet, proper ;
gle, a spur-rowel of the first, and, in the dexter base, a horse-head couped sable ;
but the Ellis's of Elliston and Southside carry .other arms, viz. eels relative to the
name, of which afterwards.
There were several families with us who had their arms of this partition, as in
some abate-
our old books of blazons, which is now turned to the dexter, fancying
ments or ignominy in the partition per bend sinister but I have met with no he-
;
rald that says any thing to its dishonour, but all look it upon to be as honourable
as the partition from the right.
Having treated of the four principal partition lines, when but one of them in a
field, dividing it into two equal parts, I proceed now to show, what blazons they
have, when there are two or more of these lines dividing the field into many parts.
as the
When the first two lines mentioned, parted per pale and parted per fesse,
French parti and coupe, meet in a field, they divide it into four equal parts or quar-
ters, which are of different tinctures, the first as the fourth, and the second quarter
as Sylvester Petra Sancta, Cap. XXV. says, " Ex area simul ab apice
as the third ;
"
simul ab latere intersecta habentur tetrantes equales &- recti ; atqui hi semper ita
"
metalli &- coloris jubar alternant ut primus cum ultimo, secundus cum tertio,
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splendeant lumine consentaneo ;" fig.
8. quarterly gules and argent; French, ecartele
de gueides et d' argent. Gerard Leigh, and his followers, give out, That it should
be blazoned, parted per cross, gules and argent, especially when there are no charges
nor figures on the quarters. Suitable to this, Mr Gibbon blazons the same, as
"
carried by Vere Earl of Oxford, with a star argent on the first : quarter Scutum
"
in quatuor partes (sanguineas vicissim & aureasj lineis ad crucis modum ductis
" sectum ; cujus quadrans primus Stella nr^entea decoratur." The German Imhoff,
in his Blazons of the Peers of Britain, blazons it better, thus
"
: Scutum in qua-
"
dras sectum, quarum prima & extrema rubent, reliqui candent, solaque prima
"
stella distincta est argentea" The arms of the surname of TOUNIS with us, illu-
minated in Workman's Book of Heraldry, as fig. 9. where the two partition lines
are indented, is thus blazoned, parted per pale and per fesse indentc, argent and
gules ; in the upper quarters two stars counter-changed of the same. And here it
may be observed, that when the partition lines are under accidental forms, they