A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF THE FESSE.
the title of Earl of Crawford, about the year 1398, the pth year of the reign of
Robert III. and carried for their armorial bearing as before : Who, after they mar-
ried a daughter and heiress of the Lord Abernethy, quartered the arms of Aber-
nethy with their own, and that very early ; and have been in use to have for sup-
in its
porters, two lions seiant gules, armed or; crest, an ostrich, proper, holding
beak a key ; and for motto, Endure fort.
The other family, LINDSAY of the BYRES, was William de Lindsay Dominus de
Byres; by the production of whose rights at the ranking of the nobility 1606, says
Sir Robert Sibbald, he was found to have been a peer of the degree of a lord, by
with her
marrying Christian, daughter to Sir William Mure of Abercorn. He got
Abercorn, and Dean, near to Edinburgh, the Mills, and several other lands ; and
added to his arms, being gules, a fesse cheque, argent and azure, three stars in chief
of the
armed
second, the figures
and membered or;
of his father-in-law ; supported by two griffins gules,
and crested with a swan with its wings expanded,
proper ; and for motto, Love but dread. His successor,
'
John Lord Lindsay of
Byres, was created Earl of Lindsay 1633. Betwixt him and Lewis Earl of Crawford
there was a tailzie, by means of which, when Earl Lewis was forfeited, Earl
John succeeded to the titles, arms, and fortune of the Earl of Crawford.
LINDSAY of Edziell, the male-heir of Lindsay of Crawford, carries the arms of
the Earl of Crawford as above, as the representative of that noble family, and was
for some time earl.
The first of the family of LINDSAY of BALCARRAS, was Sir John, of the family of
Edziell, who was one of the Senators of the College of Justice
in the year 1595,
and the next year Secretary of State to King James VI. in which office he died.
and his grandson Colin was created Earl
His son was created Lord BALCARRAS 1633 ;
of Balcarras by King Charles II. They carry arms as the Earl of Crawford and
Edziell ; within a bordure azure, charged with fourteen stars or ; supporters, two
lions seiant gardant gules, with collars about their necks azure, charged with three
stars or; for crest, a canopy seme of stars or, and fringed of the last, topped with a
pennon gules ; and for motto, Astra, castra, numen, lumen.
LINDSAY of Balgays in Angus, another younger son of Edzielly. who was Earl of
Crawford, carried the quartered arms of Lindsay, Crawford, and Abernethy, as his
father. Font's Manuscript.
ALEXANDER LINDSAY, LORD SPYNIE, a younger son of David Earl of Crawford,
and Edziell, who made a resignation of the earldom, carried his father's arms, with
a label of three points argent: (some books have a crescent in place of the label),
supporters, two lions seiant, armed and langued or; crest, an ostrich head erased,
proper, with an horse-shoe or in its beak, and a label of three points about its
neck, as have also the supporters. This family is now extinct : It was dignified
with the title of lord on the I2th day of November 1590.
Font's Manuscript.
The other cadets of the name of Lindsay, whose blazons I find in, our old books,
.specially in Sir James Balfour's Books of Blazons, are these following :
LINDSAY of Linbank, gules, a fesse cheque, argent and azure, betwixt two stars in
~hief, and a hunting-horn in base of the second.
LINDSAY of Dunrodis does accompany the fesse with three stars argent, two and
one. Which family was represented by George Lindsay of Blackholm, whose
arms, as recorded in the Lyon Register, are, gules, a fesse cheque, argent and: azure,
and in chief a label of three points of the second ; crest, a withered branch of
oak sprouting forth green leaves, proper : motto, Mortua viv'escunt.
DAVID LINDSAY, merchant in Edinburgh, descended of Dunrodis, as in the Lyon
Register, carries gules, a fesse cheque, argent and azure, betwixt three garbs of the
>econd, and banded of the first ; crest, a dexter hand holding & branch of olive,
proper : motto, Mutuo amore cresco.
LINDSAY of Corsbasket accompanies the fesse cheque with two. stars in chief, and
in base a cinqucfoil argent.
LINDSAY of Payetston accompanies the fesse cheque with three stars in chief,
and in base a mascle argent. Which family is now represented by Lindsay of
Wormiston.
LINDSAY of Kirkforther places the fesse cheque betwixt three stars in chief, aiid a
hunting-horn in base argent.