A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF THE SALTIER OR SAUTOIR. j 47
former and following blazons. In England the saltier is to be found -also often in
the arm- of the best families of that nation, and on the ensigns of their episcopal
sees, of which I shall mention a few before I end this chapter.
The EPISCO: r.s'iER, argent, on a saltier ^w/w, an escalop or. The
Episcopal See of Bath and Wells, as before.
ancient and honourable surname of NEVILLE in England, gu/r-t, a Balder
argent: The earls of that name are Salisbury and Warwick, who carried the same,
with the addition of a label of three : points The earls of Kent, the same, witli a
star sable on the centre ; and the Lord Latimer placed an annulet sable on tin-
centre of the saltier ;
of the saltier, for his difference,
and Neville Lord Abergavcnny placed a red rose in the centre
Sir FRANCIS LEAK.E of Sutton, descended of an ancient family, of very good account
in Derbyshire, was in anno 1611, advanced to the dignity of baronet, by
King James I. of Great Britain ; and in the 22d year of that king's reign, uas
made, a baron of England, by the title of Lord Deincourt of Sutton ; and in the
2 ist of Charles I. was advanced to the dignity of earl, by the title of Earl of Scars-
dale. He was eminently loyal ; and his two sons were killed in the king's service :
And having himself suffered much for his loyalty in these ruinous times, he became
so much mortified '(as the English observe) after the murder of his rightful
sovereign Charles 1. that he apparelled himself in sackcloth, and causing his grave
to be dug some years before his death, laid himself down in it every Friday, exer-
cising himself in divine meditations and prayers. Of him is descended the present
NICHOLAS LEAK.E Earl of SCARSUALE, Lord DEINCOURT, whose arms are argent, on a
saltier ingrailed sable, nine annulets or.
GEK.RARU Earl of MACCLESFIEKD, argent, a saltier gules, charged with an imperial
crown or ; which charge is a late augmentation : For formerly the family used a
crescent, in place of the crown, to difference themselves from the Gerards in Ire-
land, as Imhorf observes, in his Blasonia Regum Pariumque Magna Britannia :
" Solent uti eadem tessera gentilitia, qua Gerardini in Hibernia utuntur, nempe
" decussis rubeus argento in solo, addere tamen consueverunt discerniculi loco
" lunam falcatam nigram." This family was dignified with the title of Lord
Gerard Brandon, in the county of Suffolk, and afterwards with the titles of Viscount
Brandon, and Earl of Macclesfield, in the year 1679,
MIDDLETON of Leighton, in Lancashire, argent, a saltier ingrailed sable.
When figures are situate after the position of the saltier, they are said (as before
of the other ordinaries) to be in saltier, especially if small figures, but if oblong
ones, saltier-ways, for which the French say range, or pose en sautoir, and the
Latins, in decussim trajecta.
ECCLES of Kildonan, argent, two halberts saltier-ways azure ; and for crest, a
broken halbert with the ; motto, Se defendendo ; as in the Plate of Achievements.
The representative of this family is Doctor William Eccles, an eminent physician.
ECCLES of Shanock, descended of Kildonan, the same with Kildonan, within a -
bordure gules, for his difference : As in the Lyon Register.
The Papal ensign is two keys saltier-ways adosse, i. e. their wairds outwards.
The EPISCOPAL SEE of PETERBOROUGH, gules, two keys saltier-ways adosse, and cantoned
with four cross croslets bottony, andfecbe or.
The EPISCOPAL SEE of LONDON, gules, two swords saltier-ways argent, hilted and
pommelled or.
The EPISCOPAL SEE of LANDAFF, sable, two crosiers saltier-ways, the dexter or,
Mirmounting the sinister argent, and, on a chief azure, three mitres, with labels of
the second.
The EPISCOPAL SEE of ST ASAPH, sable, two keys saltier-ways adosse argent.
GLOUCESTER SEE, azure, two keys adosse, saltier-ways or.
EXETER SEE, a sword pale-ways argent, the hilt or, surmounted by two ke\
>aJtier-ways adosse of the third. As Dale pursuivant tells us.