A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF THE BAR. .
the English pursuivant,
catted Blue-mantte. Those of the surname of GIFFORD, in
Devonshire in England, carry gules, three lozenges ranged in fesse ermine, as Morgan
gives them, retaining the tinctures of the GIKFORDS in Scotland.
FOTHERINGHAM of Powrie, ermine, three bars gules-, as in fig. 16. Plate IV. ; crest,
; supporters, two naked men wreathed about the head' and
a griffin seiaat, proper
middle with laurel, proper. The like arms are thus blazoned by Mr Gibbon, Gerit
trcsfasciolas coccineas in parmula argentea muris Armenia: maculis interstincta. The
first of this family is said to have come from Hungary with Margaret, King Malcolm
Canmore's queen. Sir George Mackenzie observes, as in his Manuscript of
Genealogies, that this iarnily got the lands of AVester-JWrie by marrying a daughter
of the family of Ogilvie of Auchterhouse, about the year 1399, of whom is
lineally descended the present Laird of Powrie.
The surname of MAIR, of old De la Mare, carried or, three bars dancette gules ;
as in Balfour's Manuscript.
The surname of AUCHENLECK., alias AFFLECK, argent, three bars sable, as in the
Lyon Register. The chief of this surname was in the shire of Angus, and had
their name from their lands as Sir ; George Mackenzie, who tells us in his Manuscript,
they had a charter of the lands of Auchenleck from King David I. There
was another family of this name in Kyle, called AUCHENLECK. of that Ilk, of which
family Sir John Auchenleck of that Ilk, having only two daughters, the eldest of
whom being married to William Cunningham of Craigens, anno 1499, disposed
his estate to him and his said daughter, and to the heirs-male of that marriage,
they bearing the name and arms of Auchenleck. But the conveyance being without
consent of the king, who was superior, the barony of Auchenleck fell into the
king's hands by recognition. King James IV. gave these lands to Thomas a
younger son of Balmuto in Fife, who married the other daughter and co-heiress of
Sir John Auchenleck of that Ilk; of whom is lineally descended Mr James Boswell
of Auchenleck, advocate ; as in Crawfurd's History of Renfrew.
There was another family of the surname of AUCHENLECK, in the shire of Perth,
designed of Balmanno, who carried for arms, argent, a cross counter-embattled
.utble, being the arms of Balmanno, which the first Auchenleck of this family took
when he married the heiress of Balmanno of that Ilk, as Sir George Mackenzie
n his Manuscript and Science of Heraldry.
Sable, three bars waved or, by the surname of LOGIE, being those of Sir John
Logic of that Ilk ; as in Balfour's Manuscript, whose daughter Margaret was
^econd wife to King David II.
The name of LAUCHLAN, azure, two bars waved argent, between as many cross
croslcts filched or in chief, and a swan in base, proper ; crest, a swan ; with the
;notto, Divina sibi canit, as in Font's Manuscript.
Bars do sometimes represent in armories, especially when waved or undy,
as we
blazon them, waves of the sea and waters.
The arms of the surname of DRUMMOND, or, three bars waved gules, relative to
the name Drummond. Drum, in old Scots, says Hawthornden, a famous historian
and antiquary, signifies high, and und, or ond, from the Latin word unda a wave ;
mcl so Drummond, an high wave. The first ancestor of this family, is said by
Vanbassan, a Dane, as in his Manuscript in the Lawyers' Library, to have been
one Maurice, son of George, a younger son of Andreas King of Hungary, who succeeded
his brother Solomon, whose queen was aunt to St Margaret, with whom
and to make good this extract, he urges the similitude
Maurice came to Scotland ;
of the arms of Drummond, with those
which immediately.
of Hungary, consisting also of bars : of
John Abel, a Franciscan friar, and John Leslie bishop of Ross, make also the
: of the family of Drummond an Hungarian, and captain of the ship in which
rxlgar Atheling and his sister Margaret arrived in Scotland, at the place now
.ailed from her Queensferry. The same, says William Drummond of Hawthornden,
viz. that one Maurice was captain
of that ship: And, besides his former
derivation of the surname of Drummond, says, Drommont, or Drummond, in seveial
nations signified a ship of swift course, the captains of which were called Drom-
mont, or Drommoners for which ; he quotes William of Newberry in his Guide
to Languages. And the Honourable William Drummond, first Viscount of