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DEDICATION. protection of your most illustrious name, whose noble family has so signalized themselves in the service of their prince and country, as to deserve to be honoured with the highest offices, and distinguished by the most noble badges of honour, which the Kings of Scotland could confer. Your Grace's family, next to the Sovereign's, justly claims the precedency of all the families of Scotland, not only as being the first Duke, but also on account of your royal defcent ; your noble ancestor, James Earl of Arran, being so near in blood to Mary Queen of Scotland, that he Was declared, in Parliament 1542, tê fecond person of the realm, and and also successor to the imperial crown, in case she died without issue ; regent during her minority. The merit of your farmfy was not confined to your native country, but procured considerable honours abroad ; so as the same noble person was dignified in France with the title Duke of Chatelherault, whose son, the first in Scotland who John, was created Marquis of Hamilton, being bore that dignity and in ; England, since the union of the crowns, your family was honoured with the title of Earl of Cambridge ; and, since the union of the two kingdoms, with the title of Duke of Brandon. Some of your ancestors have also been invested with the Royal En- signs of St Michael in France ; and, ever since the accession of our Kings to the crown of England, they have been honoured successively with the most Noble Order of the Garter. As your illustrioxis father had the honour to be installed in that Order, so also in the royal and most ancient Order of the Thistle in Scotland : Which two Orders, in one person, is a singular inftance never before bestowed (that I know of) on any other subject in Great Britain. Your Grace having been pleased, of late, to add to the achievement of the family of Hamilton, &c. those of your mother, the daughter and fole heir of the ancient and noble family of Digby Lord Gerard of Bromley in I England, have prefixed them to this address, resolving to blazon and fpeak more particularly of them in the supplement to this work. I shall not trouble your Grace with a particular detail of your ancient and honourable descent, that being already performed by better hands ; in whose works, the wisdom, valour, and loyalty of your ancestors to their prince and country, shine with a lustre becoming their grandeur. So far as falls within my province, I hope, I have done your family justice in this book, and have nothing here to add but my earnest wishes, that the advantages of birth, education, and other accomplishments, so eminent in the person of your Grace, (which to enumerate, were to offend a modesty usually attending great souls), may be improven to perpetuate, and, if possible, to enlarge the honour of your family ; and to let the world know, how much I am, My Lord, Your Grace's most humble, s Most obedient, and most devoted servant, ALEXANDER NISBET.
PREFACE. AS HERALDRY itself is of a noble extract and original, so the knowledge thereof is worthy of any gentleman : and, if duly considered, will be found no less useful than curious ; as tending to illustrate the histories not only of particular families, but of the nation in general. The original design of heraldry is not merely show and pageantry, as some are apt to imagine, but to distinguish persons and families ; to re- present the heroic achievements of our ancestors, and to perpetuate their to trace the origin of noble and ancient families, and the vari- memory ; ous steps by which they arrived at greatness to ; distinguish the many different branches descended from the same families, and to show the several relations which one family stands in to another. As the practice of heraldry in Scotland is very ancient, so the higher we trace it, we find arms the more regular and distinct : And of so great importance to the nation was the regularity and distinction of arms reckoned by our kings and parliaments, that sundry laws, relative thereto, have been enacted and published, discharging all persons to assume arms to themselves without due authority; prohibiting those to carry arms who had right to none, or those who had right, to usurp the arms of other men. Before the modern practice of subscribing names to writs of moment, which was not used in Scotland till about the year 1540, all such writs and evidents were only signed with seals, which contributed much to the regularity of arms : And therefore it was enacted by sundry statutes, That every freeholder should have his proper seals of arms, and should either compear himself at the head court of the shire, or send his attorney and they who wanted such seals were to be amerciate with his said Seal ; or fined : So that commonly gentlemen sent to the clerk of the court their seals in lead, who kept the same in his office, to produce or compare on occasions and it was reckoned no less a crime than ; forgery to coun- terfeit another man's seal. Vide Regiam Majestatem. As those seals grew less useful and necessary, so armorial bearings became less regular: And therefore, anno 1592, cap. 125. the Parliament gave power and commission to the Lyon King at Arms, and his brethren heralds, to visit the whole arms of noblemen, barons, and gentlemen within Scotland, and to distinguish them with congruous differences, and to matriculate them in their books ; as also, to inhibit alj such to bear
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88 OF THE BEND. JOHN CALI.ENDER of
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OF THE BEND. 05 ALEXANBER LESLIE of
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OF THE BEND. " JAMES REX, WE James
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OF THE BEND. & ing fled from Scotla
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OF THE BEND. tiêd then the seal of
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OF THE BEND-SINISTER. title of Lord
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OF THE CHEVERON. tressure counter-f
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OF THE CHEYERON. and so the same ti
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OF THE CHEVERON. 155 Drumshargard,
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OF THE CHEVERON. 157 of the chevero
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OF THL: CHEVERON. r 59 tercd with t
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OF THE CHEVERON. id Sir George M-tc
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OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES. chief leader
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OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES. 1 75 FRASER
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OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES. 1 79 The Ess
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OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES. Sir David Lo
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OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES. 185 charged
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OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES. 187 " " plus
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OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES, Sir ROBERT H
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OF THE SUB-ORDIXARI1 je King of Eng
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OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES. ALEXANDER FO
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OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES. 213 The name
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OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES. violent stro
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OF THE SL'U-ORDINARIKS. 223 gnuttcs
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SYSTEM OF HERALDRY, SPECULATIVE AND
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OF NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FIGURES.
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. 267 cites La
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. THOMAS DUNBA
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. 271 married
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. 273 Scotland
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. 275 pant arg
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. -z - 7 armed
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. : : , JAMES
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. 281 The last
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. 28.5- endowe
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. 285 The elde
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. 287 intruste
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. 289 a. lion
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. 291 three be
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. The name of
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. 295 David Og
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. 297 was Geor
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. 299 meet in
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OF I 'O I'll- FOOT El) BEASTS. ramp
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. .aid eldest
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. KER of Samue
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. 307 And to s
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. and Modern U
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. 1 1 3 GORDON
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. 3*3 Io way a
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. 315 The most
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OL FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS three boars'
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. Those also o
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. OF THE FOX.
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. RoiitRT DAVI
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OF FOUK- LOOTED BEASTS. 3^9 his sor
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OF FQUR-FOOTED BEASTS. married a da
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS. 333 lands of
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REPTILIA, OR CREEPING THINGS. 335 T
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OF FOWLS AND BIRDS. 33 7 In page 61
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OF FOWLS AND BIRDS. 339 The name of
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OF FOWLS AND BIRDS. 341 an unicorn'
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OF FOWLS AND BIRDS. 343 \\-.\\\, \v
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OF FOWLS AND BIRDS.. 345 by the Lyo
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OF FOWLS AND BIRDS. .547 Crows are
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OF FOWLS AND BIRDS. The County of H
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OF FOWLS AND BIRDS. M'GiLL Viscount
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OF FOWLS AND BIRDS. second and thir
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OF FOWLS AND BIRDS. 355 His younger
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OF FISHES. 357 say, Tfor au Dauphin
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OF FISHES. 359 Many famiiie-, in Ge
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OF VEGETABLES. 361 Sir WALTER PRING
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OF VEGETABLES. 365 Some say that th
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OF VEGETABLES: 3% I am of the opini
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OF VEGETABLES. Mr JAMES CHEAP of Ro
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OF FLOWERS AND LEAVES. 369 The name
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OF FLOWERS AND LEAVES. 371 King Jam
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OF FLOWERS AND LEAVES. for his serv
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OF FLOWERS AND LEAVES. 375 definite
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OF FLOWERS: AND LEAVES. 381 the hei
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OF FLOWERS AND LEAVES. Which James,
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OF FLOWERS AND LEAVES. 377 Sir NEIL
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OF FLOWERS AND LEAVES. 379 mily was
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OF FLOWERS AND LEAVES. Charles'!, y
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OF FLOWERS AND LEAVES. 389- Livings
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OF FLOWERS AND LEAVES. 393 Bothwcll
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OF FLOWERS AND LEAVES. 305 Of which
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OF ARTIFICIAL FIGURES IN ARMORIES.
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OF ARTIFICIAL FIGURES 1N T ARMORIES
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OF ARTIFICIAL FIGURES IN ARMORIi.-
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OF ARTIFICIAL THINGS. 417 temporal
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OF ARTIFICIAL THINGS. 419 BOURDON 0
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OF ARTIFICIAL THINGS. 421 of the Se
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or ARTIFICIAL THINGS. 4 . The surna
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OF ARTIFICIAL THINGS. 425 above; an
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OF ARTIFICIAL THINGS. The UNIVERSIT
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OF ART! FICIAL THINGS. s, a St Kath
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OF ARTIFICIAL THINGS. Having omitte
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OF ARTIFICIAL THINGS. 433 the churc
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OF ARTIFICIAL THINGS. 435 Their son
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OF ARTIFICIAL THINGS. 437 Sir Simeo
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OF ARTIFICIAL THINGS. 430 she shiel
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AN ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF THE FIGURE
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Ox Owls IXDEX OF TERMS OF BLAZON. i
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THE INDEX OF SURNAMES, COUNTRIES, F
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$ruce of Garvet 143 Bruce of Balcas
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St D.c, nl' 'V'Uilson Davidson of l
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Giffortl of Sheriff-hall Giffbrd in
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INDEX OF SURNAMES, XIII Page. Lande
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Page. Moncur of that Ilk 185 ric-lV
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Ross Rose of Kilravock Ross Lord Ro
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Wallop Walterton Warcup in England
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