A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF THE FESSE.
The second son of John Stewart of Bonkill was ALLAN STEWART ;
of whom
SimpMHi, in his ion-said hook, makes tin- Lords of Darnley, Earls and Dukes of
Lennox, to be descended. Upon several documents, one of them relative to tharms,
he says, ALLAN STEWART Carried arms as his brother, a fesse cheque surmounted
with three buckles Hut afterwards his
posterity used a bordurc
of u bend, charged :
f, charged with buckles, which was carried by the Earls and' Dukes of Lennox
; but more of this in another place.
Sir \V YLTER STKWART, t whom King Robert the Bruce gave the barony of Dal-
Uton, wa, descended of u younger son of John Stewart of Bonkill, "and was
ned of Dalswinion, and sometimes of Garlics. His grandson, Sir Walter
Stewart of Dalswinton, was contemporary with Robert III. His daughter, Marion
Stewart, became his heir, and was married to Sir William Stewart, Sheriff of Ti
viotdale, descended of the family of Darnley, progenitors of the Earls of Galloway, as
Mr Simpson, historiographer, tells us in his forementioned book. The arms of this fa-
mily are : or, a fesse cheque, azure and argent, surmounted of a- bend ingrailed .///-,
(which bend is a part of the armorial figures of Bonkill, to show their descent from
that
family), within a double tressure flowered and counter-flowered of the last :
The arms of tlm noble family are supported on the dexter by a savage, wreathed
about the head and middle with laurel, holding in his right hand a batton, and on
the sinister by a lion rampant gules ; crest, a pelican feeding her young in a nest,
all proper: and for motto, the word Virescit.
The cadets of the family of Stewart of Dalswinton and Garlics, now Earls of
GALLOWAY, are STEWART of Minto, or, a fesse cheque, azure and argent, surmounted
of a bend ingrailed, and, in chief, a rose gules.
WALTER STEWART Lord BLANTYRE, representative of the family of Minto, carries
the- same, with supporters as the Earls of Galloway ; and for crest, a dove with an
olive leaf in its mouth : with this motto, Sola Juvat Virtus.
STEWART of Castlemilk, or, a bend gules, surmounted of a fesse cheque, argent
and tit.ure ; so recorded in the Lyon Register for Sir Archibald Stewart of Castle-
milk, Baronet, with the badge of Nova Scotia in the sinister canton; crest, a dex-'
ter hand holding a sword, proper : motto, Aiiant.
STI..VAR.T of Torrence, descended of James, second son of Sir Archibald Stewart
of Castlemilk, and his lady, Anne, daughter to Robert Lord Semple, carries as
Castlemilk, with a crescent gules, in the sinister chief point for difference.
From Sir JAMES STEWART, fourth son of Sir John Stewart of Bonkill, are descended
the Stewarts of Innermeth or Lorn, Durisdeer or Rosyth ; and, again, from
Lorn or Innermeth, the Stewarts Earls of Athol and Buchan ; the Stewarts of
Gairntully from the Earl of Buchan, as also the Earl of Traquair, the blazons of
whose families I shall here insert as I find them in our old Books of Blazons.
SI-EWART of Innermeth got from King Robert the Bruce, for his good services,
a grant of the lands of Garmelton and Dunning in Perthshire, (as Crawfurd tells us in
his
History of
Renfrew) ; and, thereafter, his family became possessed of the lordship
ot Lorn, by marrying the heiress of the surname of Macdougal. The ancientest
blazon of Stewart of Innermeth that I meet with, is, quarterly, first and fourth or,
a fesse cheque, azure and argent, and, in chief, a garb of the second ; (some Books
Blazons, in the reign of Queen Mary, in place of the garb, have z flower-de-luce ;
and Sir James Balfour, in his Blazons, places a buckle azure, which speaks better
to the descent from Stewart of Bonkill) ;
second and third or, a lymphad or galley,
with flames of fire issuing out of the fore and hinder parts, and out of the top
of the mast, commonly called St Anthony's fire, for the lordship of Lorn. This
family came to a period in the person of John Lord Lorn, 1445,
yj
wno dicd without
issue male ; and the
lordship was shared betwixt his three daughters, co-heirs,
married to Colin Earl of Argyle, Sir Colin Campbell of Glenorchy, and to Campbell
of Otter of ; whom before.
WALTER STEWART of Innermeth, as nearest heir-male of John Stewart Lord of
Lorn, laid claim to the
lordship, and was seized therein ; but by an agreement
with the Earl of Argyle, 1469, he resigned the lordship of Lorn in" favours of Ar-
gyle, and, in place of it, was made Lord Innermeth, with the precedency of Lorn ;
and carried the quartered coat above blazoned, without the garb or buckle, supported
by two fallow deers ; and for crest, a unicorn's head argent, mained and
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