A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES.
goes round the arms of Palma Counts of Palma, charged with a cross gules, on.
the upper part argent.
Plate VIII. fig. 4. The same author gives, us the same example of another bordure,
which we would call girony of eight, argent and gules, round the arms of
Castile and Leon, borne by the family of Valenzvelae in Spain ; which bordure
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he blazons on the margin of his book, escartele . contre-escartele, which is the
same with parti, coupe, tranche, faille, called by the English, bordure quarterly
quartered, being divided per cross and per saltier. As Mr Holmes in his Academy
of Armory.
Bordures are given us by these two last-mentioned writers, bendy, paly, and
barry,
to whom I refer the curious.
Mr THOMAS CRAWFORD, a learned antiquary, in his Manuscript of Heraldry,
says, a bordure is the best distinction for younger sons erecting families. Because it is in a
First,
manner a new coat, and may be put under accidental forms,
parted and charged. Secondly, Because it showeth the principal bearing whole,
and also unmixed, or composed with other figures in the middle. And, Thirdly,
It puts in mind the bearer, that he ought to be as a bordure or wall of defence to
the principal family he is descended from.
I shall add here the blazons of a few families with bordures, conform to my
former method.
Plain bordures have been very frequent in England, and anciently used by those
of the royal family. Edmund Earl of Kent, surnamed Woodstock, from the place
of his birth, second son of Edward I. of England, by his second wife Margaret of
France, carried the arms of England within a bordure argent. Thomas Duke of
Gloucester, a younger son of King Edward III. carried France (seme} quartered
with England, within a bordure argent. Humphry Duke of Gloucester, the fourth
son of King Henry IV. carried France (reduced to three flower-de-luces), quartered
with England, all within a bordure argent ; though these three great men car-
ried a bordure argent, yet their arms differed : The first, England alone ; the
second, Old France quartered with England ; and the third, New France (that is
when the flower-de-luces were reduced to three), quartered with England, and
ach of those three princes had a plain bordure argent round their respective arms.
Sandford, in his Genealogical History of England, has this observe, That the
younger sons of England have deserted a plain bordure, since these last three eminent
men, who carried a bordure argent, suffered violent deaths ; Edmund behead-
ed, Thomas smothered to death, and Humphry poisoned.
MONTAGU Duke of MONTAGU, argent, three lozenges in fesse, gules within a
bordure sable. Sir Edward Montagu was advanced to the dignity of Baron of
England, by the title of Lord Mbntagu of Boughton, in the ipth of James I.
of Great Britain: His grandson, Ralph Montagu, was, in the year 1689, created
Viscount Monthermer and Earl of Montagu; and in the year 1705, Marquis of
Monthermer and Duke of Montagu.
TUFTON Earl of THANET, sable, an eagle displayed ermine, within a bordure
argent. This family was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of England, by the
title of Lord Tufton of Tufton and Earl of Thanet by King Charles I.
GRAY of Balligarno, gules, a lion rampant argent, holding between his paws an
anchor or, within a bordure ingrailed of the second.
GRAY of HAYSTON, afterwards designed of Endrighty, the arms of the Lord Gray,
with a writing pen in the right paw of the lion, upon the account that his father
w;i^ sheriff-clerk of Angus. Lyon Register.
PRINGLE of Greenknow, azure,
the last.
three escalops or, within a bordure ingrailed of
WALLACE of Ellerslie, gules, a lion rampant argent, within a bordure compone (or
gobonated) azure, and of the second, as in Sir George Mackenzie's : Heraldry The
arms are, by Mr Pont, ascribed to Wallace of Craigie ; and he gives to Wallace of
the name of
Ellersly, quarterly, first and fourth gules, a lion rampant argent, by
Wallace second and third ;
gules, a fesse cheque, argent and azure, for Lindsay.
JAMES DUNDAS of Breast-Mill, argent, a lion rampant gules,
within a bordure
gobonated of the first and second j crest, a lion from the shoulders issuing out of a
bush of oak vert ; with the motto, Essay ez. Lyon. Register _