A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES.
nothing of the pile, as before ; wherefore, Sir George blazons the arms of WISHART,
argent, three passion-nails gules, meeting in point, Plate IX. fig. 4.
Jacob Vanbassan, a Dane, in his Manuscript, says, that one Robert, a natural
son of David Earl of Huntingdon, being in the wars in the Holy Land, was tonamed
Guishart, from the slaughter he made on the Saracens ; and from him was
descended the families of the name of Wishart. Sir James Dalrymple, in his Col-
lections, page 217, says, that he has seen a charter granted by Gilbert Umfraville Earl
of Angus, to Adam Wishart of Logic, anno 1272. Sir George Mackenzie, in his
Manuscript, says, the chief of this name was Lord BRECHINT, whose succession failed
in a daughter married with the old Earl of Angus ; for whic'i the Douglasses Earls of
Angus still quarter those arms with their own ; and the other families of the name
were Wisharts of Logic and Pittarrow, who carried the above bla/on, viz.. argent,
three piles in point gules, and Pittarrow; for motto, Mercy is my desire; as in Esplin
:md Font's Books of Blazons. Both these families are extinct. Doctor George
Wishart, sometime Bishop of Edinburgh, was descended of Logic. Mr George
Wishart, who was martyred for the Protestant religion, was of Pittarrow. The barony
of Logic was again purchased by Mr John Wishart, one of the Commissaries
of Edinburgh, nephew to the bishop, and great-grandson to Sir John Wishart of
Logic, who carries, as in the New Register of Arms, argent, three passion-nails
joining in their points gules, and distilling drops of blood, proper ; crest, an eagle
displayed sable, armed and membred gules, wounded with an arrow shot through
the body, proper : motto; Avitos novit bonores.
ANSTRUTHER of that Ilk, argent, three piles sable ; crest, two demi-arms holding
a pole-ax with both hands, proper ; with the motto, Perissem ni periissem, supported
by two falcons, with wings expanded, proper, armed gules, chessed and
belled or. This is an ancient family for its antiquity ; Sir Robert Sibbald, in his
History of Fife, says, That in the Charter of Balmerino, Dominus Gulielmus de Candela
D. de Anstrutber confirms a donation by his father William, to the Monks of Balmerino,
granting them, qiiandam terram adjacentem ex parte orientali villa: de Anstruther,
on the sea-coast, by the way leading to Crail, in the reign of Alexander II.
For more of this family and its descendants, see the foresaid author.
Sir JAMES ANSTRUTHER of Airdrie, Clerk to the Bills, and second son to Sir Philip
Anstruther of that Ilk, carries as his father, within a bordure gules, for his difference
; crest and motto as above, without supporters. Lyon Register.
HALKET of Pitferran, sable, three piles conjoined in base argent : Esplin illuminates
them, five piles argent, in his Book, (on a chief gules, a lion passant gardunt
or : Mackenzie's Heraldry.) In the Register of Dunfermline there is a contract
betwixt the abbot of that abbacy and David Hacket of Lussfennen, de perambulatione
terrarujn de Pitfaran, anno 1437; see Sir Robert Sibbald's History of Fife.
The book entitled, The Art of Heraldry, gives us a family of the name of Hacket
in England, originally from Scotland, carrying the same figures with a little variation,
thus; Sir Andrew Hacket of Moxhill in Warwickshire, knight, sable, three
piles argent, on a chief of the second, a lion passant gules.
The surname of LOGAN carries piles or passion-nails. For the antiquity of the
name Dominus Robertus de Logan is mentioned in a charter in the I2th year of
the reign of King Alexander II. and Thomas de Logan is witness in a charter of
John de Stratbern, in 1278. Haddington's Collections.
And, in Prynne's Collections, amongst the Scots barons who submitted and
swore allegiance to Edward I. of England, in the ,year 1297, there is Walter
Logan in Lanarkshire. In the reign of Robert Bruce, Sir Robert Logan was eminent
: He accompanied good Sir James Douglas to Jerusalem, with King Robert's
heart, as our historians, and Holinshed, in his History of Scotland, p. 329, say.
Amongst the noblemen and gentlemen who accompanied Sir James in that expedition,
the chief of them were Sir William Sinclair and Sir Robert Logan ; upon
which account, these of the name of Logan have been in use to add to their arms
a man's heart, which our heralds blazon thus, or, three passion-nails sable (instead
f piles) conjoined in point, piercing a man's heart in base gules, as Plate IX.
fig. 5. The principal family of the name was designed of Restalrig, near Edin-
burgh, who carried the same arras, as by their ancient seals ;
as that of Sir Robert
Logan of Restalrig, which I have seen appended to his charter, whereby he grant-
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