A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OFTHEFESSI.
LAURENCE STEWART of Bighton, in Orkney, or, a fesse cheque, azure and argent,
between three muscles of the second; crest, an holly leaf slipped vert: motto, .V/r
virescit industria.
ROBERT STEWART of Newark, carries Stewart within a bordure gules, charged
with three lions rampant, and as many ships at anchor, interchanged or ; crest, a
lion's paw and a palm branch crossing other saltier-ways, proper : motto, Cbristus
mibi lucrum.
THOMAS STEWART of Drummin, descended of the family of Kinnerchly ; or, a
fesse cheque, azure and argent, between three cross croslets, fitched in chief, and as
many cushions in base gules, all within a bordure ingrailed azure ; crest, two
hands conjoined, and holding a man's heart, proper : motto, Corde fc? manu.
JAMES STEWART merchant in Dundee, descended of Stewart of Garth ;
the quar-
tered coat of Garth, over all a lion rampant gules, all within a bordure argent,
charged with six wolves' heads erased gules ; crest, a savage head couped, proper :
motto, Reddunt commercia mitem.
WALTER STEWART merchant in London^ and third son to Sir Thomas Stewart of
Cbltness, descended of the family of Allanton, descended of Castlemilk ; or, u
bend gules, surmounted of a fesse cheque, azure and argent, within a bordure cheque.
of the same ; crest, a thistle and a sprig of a rose tree crossing other in saltier,
proper: motto, Juvant aspera probum.
Having insisted upon the fesse cheque of the family of Stewart, and its branches,
some of whom anciently, though they took not upon them the surname of Stewart,
but other surnames, as Boyd and Monteith, yet they carried their figures, cheque,
to show their descent. I shall now speak of them.
The first of the surname of BOYD, was Robert, son of Simon, third son of Allan,
second Lord High Steward of Scotland, who died 1153 ; which Robert is designed
in the charters of Paisley, nephew to Walter, the son of Allan Dapifir, Great
Steward of Scotland. Robert Boyd is witness in a charter, in the year 1205, as
CrawfurJ in his History of Renfrew, page 55. ; and Sir James Dalryrnple, m
his preface to his Scots Collections, page 80. says, I find Robcrtus dietus de Boyd,
in a charter by Sir John Erskine about the year 1262. And doubtles he wu
predecessor to the Lords BOYD, and Earls of KILMARNOCK, who carried azure, a
fesse cheque, argent and gules ; crest, a hand issuing out of a wreath, pointing with
the thumb and two fingers: motto, Cbnfido ; supporters, two squirrels collared or.
BOYD of Pinkell, a second son of one of the Lord BOYDS, azure, a fesse
cheque,
argent and gules, and in base a cross moline or; and for crest, another cross moline
sable ; with the motto, Prudentia me sustinet. L. R.
BOYD of Pitcon, a second son of another Lord Boyd, the arms of Boyd, within a
bordure or; crest, a hand couped, pointing two fingers to the sun in the heavens,
proper : motto, Spes mea in ccelis. L. R.
BOYD of Trochrig, azure, a fesse
clxque', argent and gules, between- two cross
croslets fitche in chief, and as many stars in base of the second ; and for crest, a
sun-dial : motto, Eternitatem cogita. L. R.
JOHN BOYD, sometime bailie in Edinburgh, azure, a fesse cheque, argent and
gules, between three roses in chief, and a crescent in base of the second ; with the
crest and motto of the Lord Boyd. L. R.
As to the surname of MONTEITH, I shall speak to it in the chapter
of the bend.
There are many other families of different surnames, whoj in imitation of the
Stewarts, or as vassals to them, have chequered their armorial figures, as the
SEMPLES, ROSSES, HOUSTON'S-, SPRUELS, BRISBANES, FLEMING of Buracharr, and
SCHAW of Bargaron of whom in ;
their proper places.
The ancient and honourable family of the surname of LINDSAY, gules, a fesse
cheque, argent and azure. The first of this family and name, says Hector Boyes,
came to Scotland with Edgar Atheling, and Margaret his sister, queen to King
Malcolm Canmore. As for the antiquity of the name, Sir James Dalrymple tells
us, in his Collections, page 351. that IValterufde Lindesayu and IVilliam de Linde-
.tfivfi, are witnesses in King David I.'s charters. As for the de-vecnt, see Mr Craw-
furd's Baronage, and Sir Robert Sibbald's History of Fife.
There were two eminent families of this name, the one designed of CRAWFORD,
aixd the other of BYRES. The family of Lindsay of Crawford, was dignified with
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