A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF THE BAR. 6*
Strathallan has writ a full Genealogical Account of th family of Drummond,
with its rise from the Hungarian Maurice to this time, with the collateral branches
of the family some of which I shall
; only mention here, with their arms, as L have
found them in old and new books of blazons.
The first then of the ancient and noble family of DRUMMOND, was Maurice, who
took the name and arms upon the account abovementioncd : He is said to Iiuvc
got from King Malcolm III. a barony in the shire of Dumbarton, and the steward-
ship of Lennox ; which barony and oflice was enjoyed by
his successors. Sir
William Drummond, the fifth in a lineal descent from Maurice, is mentioned in
the Ragman-Roll, who was the father of Malcolm Drummond, who married a
of Maldwin Earl of Lennox. She bore to him several children : Their
daughter
eldest son, Sir John Drummond, married Mary Montifex, one of the daughters and
co-heiresses of Sir William Montifex, with whom he got several lands in Perthshire,
near to other lands which formerly belonged to his progenitors, as the baronies of
Stobhall and Cargill, where he fixed his residence ; which gave occasion thereafter
to his posterity to be sometimes designed barons of Stobhall, and sometimes of
Cargill. He had several sons and daughters : The eldest of the last, the beautiful
Annabella Drummond, was queen to King Robert III. and mother of King James I.
of Scotland.
The fifth, in a lineal descent from him, was JOHN DRUMMOND of Cargill, who
entered into an indenture and contract with Colin Earl of Argyle, anno 1472,
that his eldest son, Malcolm, should marry Lady Isabel Campbell, Earl Colin's
daughter ; and in case of failzie by death, the next son and daughter were substitute
to marry. But Malcolm died young, and his immediate younger brother
William married Lady Isabel, in his father's lifetime whom I ;. find, in a discharge
of 400 merks, as a part of the tocher, designed John Drummond of Cargill, anno
1478 ; to which his seal of arms was appended, having a shield couche by the
sinister chief point, charged with three bars waved, timbred with an helmet ; and
thereupon for crest, an eagle or falcon volant and ; supported by twb wild men,
with battons in- there hands : But there was no compartment as now used.. This
John Drummond of Cargill, was created a Lord of Parliament, by the title of
Lord Drummond, in the year 1487 : He married Lady Eliz'abeth Lindsay, daughter
to David Earl of Crawford, commonly called Earl Bardy, and with her he had
issue and from whom was ;
lineally descended,
JAMES sixth Lord '
DRUMMOND, who was created Earl of Perth 1605 ^e married
Isabel Seaton, daughter to Robert first Earl of Winton, and with her had only one
daughter, (being succeeded by his brother John in the earldom of Perth) Jean
Drummond, who was afterwards married to John Earl of Sutherland, of whom is
descended the present Earl of Sutherland. James Earl of Perth died in the palace
of Seaton, and was interred in the collegiate church of Seaton : Over him his lady
caused erect a stately marble monument, where his achievement is curiously
carved ; as by the following blazon used by his successors, Earls of Perth, viz.
Or, three bars waved gules, adorned with crown, helmet, and mantlings, befitting
their quality ; and, upon a ducal crown, in place of the wreath, standeth a slowhound,
proper, collared and leished gules ; supporters, two savages, proper, wreathed
about the head and middle with oak leaves, holding battons over their
shoulders, standing upon a compartment, like to a green hill seme of galltraps
; and for motto, Gang warily. As for the arms of the branches of this fa-
mily, severals of them shall be added in the end of this chapter.
in the centre an inescutcheon
Fig. 1 8. Argent, four bars counter-embattled sable,
^nles. Counter-embattled is said of the fesse, bar, bend, and cross, &c. when both
the sides of these figures are embattled. These arms were carried by the name of
STRAITON of Lauriston. Alexander Straiton of Lauriston was killed in the battle
of Hairlaw 1411 ; and another Alexander Straiton of Lauriston is witness in a
charter of King James III. confirming the lands of Kinnaird to Allan Kinnaird of
that Ilk.
There was an old family of this name, designed of that Ilk, from the lands of
Straiton, of which King David I. gave them a charter. Alexander Straiton of
that Ilk, and Andrew Straiton of Craig, are two of the inquest of serving Sir Alexander
Fraser of Philorth, heir to his grandfather Sir Alexander, in the thanedom of
0.