A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF THE BEND. &
ing fled from Scotland on the account of some variance happening between him
and some neighbouring family, and for certain violences committed by the one
upon the other, was entered into the service of William Prince of Orange, and
under his conduct served as colonel and brigadier at the taking of Middleburg in
'Zealand, anno 1574, and thereafter was deputed for Zealand, to be one of the
States-General, bears parted per fesse or and gides, in chief a bend azure, charged
with a star of six rays, betwixt two crescents of the first, and in base an eagle's-leg
couped at the thigh in pale or : That in the upper part, being the coat of Buccleugh,
and that in base being assumed by his predecessor upon, his fleeing to Hol-
land, where acquiring new honours, he caused marshal them so ; and- for crest, an
eagle rising or, and looking up to the sun, appearing from under a cloud proper,
supported by two ladies richly arrayed, each holding in their hands a thistle slipped
proper : motto, Amo inspicio.
SCOTT of Ely, or, on a bend azure, a star betwixt two crescents of the first,
within a bordure gules, charged with eight besants.
SCOTT of Spencerfield, or, on a bend azure, between two spur-rowels gules, threecrescents
of the first.
SCOTT of Whitehaugh, or on a bend a%ure, ;i mullet argent betwixt two crescents
of the first : These three last blazons are to be found in Font's manuscript.
And as for the other families of the name of Scott, who carry lion's heads, their
blazons will be found at the title of the Lion's bead.
The surname of ELLIOT in the south is said to have come from a village called
Elliot in the north, and with that name came to the south border, in the reign of
King James
ELLIOT of Redheugh, now called Lawriston in Liddisdalc, gules, on a bend or, a
pipe (or flute)
of the first.
In an old book of blazons illuminated in the reign of Queen Mary, are the arms
of the name of ELLIOT, gules, on a bend betwixt two cotrises or, as many pheons
I. of Scotland.
in chief and base of the second, a flute or pipe of the first.
Sir GILBERT ELLIOT of Stobbs, baronet, gules, on a bend ingrailed or,
a batton
azure ; crest, a dexter arm holding a cutlass proper, with the motto, Pcradventun-.
As matriculated in the Lyon Register.
Sir GILBERT ELLIOT of Minto, baronet, of late one of the senators of the College
of Justice, descended of Stobbs, gules, on a bend ingrailed or, a batton azure, all
within a bordure vair ; crest, a dexter hand issuing from a cloud, and throwing a
dart, all proper: motto, Non egit arai. N. R_
Mr ADAM ELLIOT, third son to the deceast Mr Henry Elliot, minister of Bedrule,
who was lawful son to William Elliot, sometime provost of Peebles, who was
third brother to Gilbert Elliot of Stobbs, gules, on a bend ingrailed or, a flute azure,
all within a bordure ingrailed of the second, and charged with eight mullets of the
third ; crest, a dexter hand holding a flute, proper ; with the motto, Inest jucunditas
; which shows the figure on the bend, to be a pipe or flute. N. R.
WALTER. ELLIOT of Erkelton, a second son of Elliot of Unthank, who was descended
of the family of Lawriston, gules, on a bend indented or, a flute of the first ;
crest, a demi-man in armour, proper ; with the motto, Pro rege W limite.
SIMEON ELLIOT of Binksnow of Swinside, descended of. the family of Lawriston,
gules, on a bend or, a batton azure, all within a bordure of the second, charged
with six garbs, as the third ; crest, a gentleman holding a pike in his hand, in a
N. R.
watching posture.
The surname of TOWERS, the principal family of which name was Towers of
Inverleith, argent, on a bend azure, three mullets of the first ; the first of this
family was Walter Towers, by descent a Frenchman, merchant in Edinburgh,
who, for his assisting to recover the castle of Edinburgh out of the hands of the
English by a stratagem, got from King David II. the lands of Inverleith, Water
of Leith, Dairy, and others. lYilliatn Towers de Inverhitb, Dominus de Dalray,
so designed in a tack of a mill on the Water of Leith, to Thomas Fulton, in the
year 1478. Sir James Towers of Inverleith was one of the Privy Council in the
minority of King James V. and this family ended in an heiress, in the reign of
King Charles II., who was married to Sir John Sinclair of Lochend and Longfor-