A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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ALEXANBER LESLIE of Balquhain, argent, on a fesse azure, three buckle
crest, a griffin's head erased, proper : motto, Grip fast. L. K.
The first of this family was George, second son to Andrew dc Leslie, one of the
progenitors of the Earl of Rothes, and his spouse Elisabeth, daughter to James
Lord Douglas, in the reign of Robert the Bruce. He got from his father the lands
of Balquhain, and married a daughter of Keith of Invcrugy. Sir William Leslie of
Balquhain, lineally descended o him, was made a knight at the coronation of K
Charles I. and married Elisabeth Eraser, daughter to Lovat ; she bore Alexander,
of whom the lairds of Balquhain, and William Leslie, the first of the House of Kin-
craigie, who carried argent, on a fesse.between.two cross croslets fitchcd azure, three
buckles or; crest, a griffin's head couped, proper, charged with a cross cro
fitched argent ; motto, Firma spe.
ALEXANDER LESLIE of Wardis, a younger son of William Leslie of Kincraigie.
by his wife Agnes Irving, daughter to the laird of Drum, argent, on a bend ayutf,
betwixt two holly leaves vert, (his maternal- figures)
three buckles or : So matriculated
in the Lyon Office.
BALQUHAIN carries a fesse and not a bend, notwithstanding of which all the cadets
of the family do not so. For, to change a fesse to a bend, and a bend to a
fesse, has been an old practice of differencing younger sons with us, not only by
this family, but by Stewarts Earls, of Monteith, of whom before, as also Scott of
Bevelaw.
DAVID LESLIE, first laird of Pitcaple, was the eldest son of a second marriage of
William Leslie, first laird of Kincraigie, and his wife Eupham Lindsay, daughter
to William Lindsay of Cairny, and carried argent, on a bend azure, betwixt two
mullets gules, three buckles or ; as in Font's Manuscript.
GEORGE LESLIE, sometime Bailie in Aberdeen, descended of a younger son of
Wardis, argent, on a bend embattled azure, three buckles or : motto, Deus providcbit.
So matriculated in the Lyon Register; as also the following blazons of the
name of Leslie i
JOHN LESLIE of Colpnayshiels, descended of the family of Balquhain, argent, on a
bend azure, three buckles or, within a bordure invected of the second, and charged
with eight crescents of the first ; crest, a buckle issuing out of a crescent argent :
motto, Conamine augeor. And JOHN LESLIE of Kininvie, another cadet of Balquhain,
carries the same, but has his bordure indented, and not charged : motto, $>u