A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF THE PALE.
So the terms, in pale, m fesse, in bar, in bend, respect the disposition or situation:
ot" figures and to ; say pale-ways, fesse-ways, bar-ways, respects the position of
figures : And this is the distinction betwixt in
pale, and pMe-ways.
The ordinary disposition of small figures of the number three, are two in chief,
and one in base ; and it is not necessary to mention their disposition, but to say,
he carries azure, three flower-de-luces or, which are understood always to be so
disposed ; but if they be otherwise situate or disposed, then their situation must
be named in
pale,
in bend, &-c. And when oblong figures are situate, two and
one being either erect, or diagonally inclining to the right or left, then we say
pah'-ways, bend-ways, and bend sinister-ways ; for example :
Fig. 22. Argent, three sinister hands, couped gules, pale-ways ; we are not to say
in pale, for then three hands in pale would stand one above another.
Fig. 23. NEILSON of Grangen, argent, three sinister hands bend sinister-ways,
couped gules ; we must not say in bend sinister, for then would they be situate
after the position of the bend sinister.
When one oblong figure is placed in the field, as a sword or spear, after the
position of the ordinaries, it may be either blazoned in pale, in bend, &-c. or- paleways,
bend-ways ; but when there are three swords, or other oblong figures, they
must be blazoned pale-ways, and not in pale, as Plate III. fig. 24. azure, a sword
in pale argent, hiked and pommelled or, between three crescents of the second,
by the name of PATON of Kinaldy ; crest,
I- Irtus laudando, L. R. where may be seen
a : spar-hawk perching, proper motto,
also the arms of Mr ROGER. PATON of
Ferrochie, azure, three crescents argent (without the sword) ; crest, a spar-hawk,
with : wings expanded, proper motto, Virtute adepta.
Plate III. fig. 25. Parted per pale, argent and sable, three flower-de-luces in pale,
counter-changed of the same, as Sylvester Petra Sancta, in his Blazon of the Arms
of the Vasani in Venice, " Lilia tria, loco pali-tesserarii composita et semi-atnt
"
semi-argentea, illic in semisse argento, hie autem in semisse atro."
BLAZONS OF ARMS BELONGING TO THIS CHAPTER WHICH HAVE THEIR FIGURES AFTER THF
FORM OF THE PALE.
The Right Honourable HENRY Lord CAR.DROSS, grandson to Henry first Lord
Cardross, who was second son to John Earl of Marr, Lord High Treasurer of Scot-
land, by his second wife, Lady Mary Stewart, daughter of Esme Duke of Lennox,
carried quarterly, first gules, an eagle displayed or, armed and membered azure,
looking towards the sun in his splendour, placed in the dexter chief point, as
a coat of augmentation for the lordship of Cardross ; second grand quarter, quarterly
first and fourth azure, a bend between six cross croslets, fitch e or, for Man',
second and third argent, a pale sable, the paternal coat of Erskine ; third grand
quarter, quarterly first and fourth or, a fesse cheque, azure and argent ; second and
third, azure, three garbs or, on account of his lady, daughter and heir of Sir James
Stewart of Kirkhill ; fourth grand quarter as the first ; and for crest, on a wreath,
argent and sable, a hand holding up a boar's head erased, on the point of a skein,
thrust through the same, all proper ; supported on the dexter by a horse arjeat,
furnished gules ; and on the sinister, by a griffin, parted per fesse, argent and sable,
armed and membered gules, with this motto, Fortitudine.
The Right Honourable DAVID Earl of BUCHAN, Lord Auchterhouse and Cardross,
eldest son and heir of the above Henry Lord Cardross, by his said lady, daughter
and heir of the said Sir James Stewart of Kirkhill, having, anno 1695, succeeded
in the earldom of Buchan, as nearest heir-male of his cousin William Erskine Earl
of Buchan, (in whom ended the issue-male of James, eldest son of John Earl of
Marr, by his second wife the Lady Mary Stewart, daughter of Esme Duke of Lennox,
and immediate elder brother of Henry first Lord Cardross, great grandfather
of the said David now Earl of Buchan), carries quarterly, first grand quarter azitn\
three garbs or, being the feudal arms of the earldom of Buchan ; second grand
quarter, quarterly, the paternal arms of Marr and Erskine. as a son of the house of
Marr ; third grand quarter, the arms of Stewart of Kirkhill, ("on account of his mo-
ther as above), blazoned in the Lord Cardross's achievements ; fourth grand quar-