A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

LINDSAY of Wauchop placed above the fesse cheque
OF THE FESSE. 55.
in chief a label of three
points argent.
LINDSAY of Covington carried below the fesse cheque in base a mascle or. All
those are in Sir James Balfour's Blazons : But Mr Thomas Crawfurd's Manuscript
gives the fesse cheque of Lindsay of Covington, between three muscles argent.
L'INDSAY of Dowhill, an ancient family of the name, as in an illuminated manuscript
in the reign of Queen Mary, gules, a fesse cheque, argent and azure, a star of
the second in chief.
LINDSAY of the Mount, who was Lyon King at Arms, gules, a fesse chequS, argent
and azure, between three stars in chief, and a man's heart in base argent.
Sir ALEXANDER. LINDSAY of Evelick, baronet, descended of the old Earls of Craw-
ford, bears the quartered arms of the Earl of Crawford, within a bordure argent.
And WILLIAM LINDSAY of Kilspindy, brother to Evelick, carries the same ; but
charges the bordure with eight roses gules, recorded in the Lyon Register.
JAMES LINDSAY of Cavill bears first and fourth gules, a fesse cheque, argent and
azure, for the name Lindsay ; second and third or, a lion rampant, gules bruised
with a ribbon sable, for Abernethy, being the armorial bearing as before of the
Earl of Crawford, within a bordure quartered or and gules, charged with eight
martlets counter-changed ; for crest, an ostrich head erased, proper : motto, Sis
fords.
L. R.
HENRY LINDSAY of Cairnie, descended of the family of Pitcarly, quarterly, first
and fourth gules, a fesse cheque within a bordure componed, argent and azure,
second and third, Abernethy, as before ; crest, two stalks of wheat disposed saltierways,
proper : motto, Non soluin armis. L. R.
JOHN LINDSAY of Pitscandly, gules, a fesse cheque, argent and azure, a durk or
dagger paleways in base, proper ; and in chief, a mullet for difference. L. R.
WILLIAM LINDSAY of Culsh, descended of the family of Dowhill, gules, a fesse
cheque, argent and azure, in chief, a mullet of the second, and the base wide as
the third, all within a bordure ingrailed or, for difference ; crest, a tower, proper,
ensigned on the top, with a crescent argent: motto, Firmiter maneo. L. R.
The surname of CRAWFURD, anciently gave for arms, gules, a fesse ermine. And
others of that name gave argent, a stag's head, erased gules* I shall here give the
arms of those Crawfurds who carry the fesse ermine.
CRAWFURD of London, gules, a fesse ermine; which family, ending in an heiress,
was married to Sir Duncan Campbell, who were progenitors of the noble family of
Campbells Earls of Loudon ; upon which account half of their girons are ermine,
of which before.
LAURENCE CRAWFURD of Kilbirny, the male representative of Crawford- John,
carried gules, a fesse ermine; he, in the year 1528, excambed part of the lands of
Crawford-John, with Sir James Hamilton of Finart, for the lands of Drumray, in
the shire of Dumbarton, which continues with his descendants, by the title of
Lord DRUMRAY. He quartered the arms of Barclay of Kilbirny, as his grandfather
John Crawfurd of Kilbirny did ; upon the account his rather Malcolm Crawfurd
of Garnock married Marjory, daughter and sole heir of John Barclay, Baron of
Kilbirny, in the reign of King James III. and got with her that barony ; who carried
azure, a cheveron betwixt three cross pates argent.
Sir JOHN CRAWFURD of Kilbirny, lineally descended from them, who for hi-
loyalty to King Charles II. was made a knight-baronet, he left behind him onlytwo
daughters ; Anne, the eldest, married to Sir Alexander Stewart of Blackball,
and bore to him Sir Archibald of Blackball, and his brother Mr Walter Stewart,
advocate, who carries his paternal coat as before, within a bordure ermine, for hidifference,
upon the account of his mother, as in the Plate of Achievements : The
.second daughter was Margaret, on whom her father Sir John settled his estate,
and to the heirs of her body ; obliging them to carry the surname of Crawfurd,
with the arms : She married Mr Patrick Lindsay, second son of John Earl of
Crawfurd, to whom she had issue, three sons and as many daughters. John the
eldest was created Viscount of GARNOCK, Lord Kilbirny, Kingsburn and Drumray,
the loth of April 1703. He married Margaret Stewart, daughter to James Ea'rl
of Bute ; she bore to him Patrick, the present Viscount of Gamock, who carries
quarterly, first and fourth gules, a fesse ermine, for Crawfurd ; second and third