A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF THE FESSE. 5:
George Earl of Win ton. Their son Charles, the present Earl of Traquair, married
Mary Maxwell, daughter of Robert Earl of Nithisdule, by whom he hath a mi;
rous hopeful issue : The eldest son is Charles Lord Linton. The bearing of the fa-
mily consists of four coats quarterly : first or, a fesse cheque, azure and argent, for
Stewart ; second azure, three garbs or, for Buchan ; third sable, a mullet argent ;
fourth argent, an orle gules, and three martlets in chief sable, for Rutherford. Tin
last coat was sometimes placed in the third quarter, as by the paintings on the
roof of Fala-hall. Supporters, two bears, proper ; crest, a crow standing upon a
garb ; with the motto, Judge nought.
STEWART of Gairntully, as descended from Stewart of Lorn, quarterly,
first and
fourth the plain coat of Stewart ; second and third or, a lymphad or galley sable,
with fire issuing out of the mast ; as in Mr Font's Manuscript of Blazons. But
now, as in the Lyon Register, Sir Archibald Stewart of Gairntully, quarterly, first and
fourth Stewart ; second and third argent, a galley, her oars in action, sable, for
Lorn, (as now carried without the fire), all within a bordure azure, charged with
eight buckles or ; crest, two bees counter-volant proper : motto, Pro-vide.
WILLIAM STKWART of Innernytie, a second brother of Gairntully, quarterly, first
and fourth or, a fesse cheque, azure and argent, in chief two stars of the second ; sei-ond
and third argent, a lymphad or galley with oars in action sable, with St. An-
thony's fire on the top-mast ; and, in the centre of the quarters, a crescent, for
brotherly
difference. L. R.
Sir THOMAS STEWART of Balcaskie, sometime one of the Senators of the College
of Justice, whose father was a son of Gairntully, the quartered arms of Gairntully,
within a bordure contre ermine ; crest, a bee volant proper : motto, Parat y curat.
L. R.
WILLIAM STEWART of Tongorth, descended of the house of Gairntully, the same
as Gairntully, with three garbs azure, in chief above the fesse cheque, for his difference
; crest, a bee volant en arriere proper : motto, Pro videntiee folo. L. R.
But, to proceed to other families of the surname of Stewart, I observe they surmounted
or accompanied their fesse cheque with other figures, but especially lions,
which I think was in imitation of the sons of Robert 111. For, as I observed before,
the arms of John Stewart, eldest son to King Robert II. had a demi-lion
naissant out of the fesse, before he carried the entire lion of Scotland with a label.
And his brother, Robert Earl of Monteith, after Duke of Albany, had a lion ram-
pant gules, surmounting the fesse cheque, before he carried quartered arms.
JOHN STEWART of Ardgowan, a natural son of King Robert 111. afterwards designed
of Blackball, carried the same arms which Robert Duke of Albany first car-
ried, and have been continued in the family, and are still carried by the present
Sir Archibald Stewart of Blackball, Baronet, viz. or, a fesse cheque, azure and ar-
gent, surmounted of a lion rampant gules, langued and armed azure-, and for crest,
a lion's head erased gules ; with the motto, Spero meliora ; as matriculated in the
Lyon Register ; and sometimes, Integritate stabit ingenuus.
Mr WALTER STEWART, Advocate, brother-german of Sir Archibald Stewart of
Blackball, carries or, a fesse cheque, azure and argent, surmounted with a lion ram-
pant gules, the same with his brother, and, for his difference, a bordure ermine,
(upon account that his mother, Anne, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir Alexander
Crawford of Kilbirny, Baronet, carried gules, a fesse ermine, of which after-
wards) ; and for crest, a lion's head erased gules ; with the motto, Lcedere noli ; as
in the Plate of Achievements.
STEWART of Scotston, descended of Archibald, a second son of Archibald
Stewart of Blackball, who got the lands of Scotston by marriage with Margaret,
daughter and heiress of Mr John Hutcheson of Scotston, carried the same figures
with Blackball, but, for difference, transposed them thus: or, a lion rampant gules,
surmounted, or bruised, with a fes-,e cheque, azure and argent ; matriculated in our
New Register ; for crest, a boar's head couped of the field : motto, A virtute orta.
STEWART of Garth, in the same Register, has the fesse surmounted of the lion,
and quartered with the coat of Cummin, azure, three garbs or.
STEWART of Lady well, descended of Garth, the same within a bordure argent ;
crest, a man's head couped proper : motto, Pro rege fc? patria. L. R.
DAVID STEWART of Inchbrock, descended of a second sou of the Stewarts of John-