A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society
A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society
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OF CKLHSTIAL FIGURES, tfr. 257<br />
straight points, mullets ; but, if <strong>of</strong> more points than five, and wavey, they blazon<br />
them stars, <strong>of</strong> so many points.<br />
i'S <strong>of</strong> that Ilk, argent, three stars <strong>of</strong> six points waved azure, Plate X. fig. 15.<br />
and, in the dexter canton, the badge <strong>of</strong> Knight Baronet ; supporters, two greyhounds,<br />
proper, collared azure, and charged with three star-, ; crest, a boar's head<br />
couped or ; with the motto, Be traist. This family was in use to quarter their<br />
arms (till <strong>of</strong> late) witli these <strong>of</strong> the surname <strong>of</strong> Aberkerder, \\Lgules, three bcar\<br />
heads erased or, mu/zlcd sable.<br />
The first <strong>of</strong> this family was Berhvaldns Flandrensis. The nanu- FLASDK.I<br />
says Sir James Dalrymple, in the Appendix to his Historical Collections, is frequently<br />
to be found in the Charters <strong>of</strong> Kelso and Paisley. And it is not to be doubted<br />
but Flandrensis, Flawing, and Flammaticns, are all one surname, frequent in old<br />
charters, given to persons residing in Scotland come from Flanders; and that these<br />
in the South and West <strong>of</strong> Scotland, have retained the name Flandrensis, or Fleming<br />
; but these in Murray have taken their surname from their lands, as Innes <strong>of</strong><br />
that Ilk and have made their arms ;' agreeable to those <strong>of</strong> the old Murrays in the<br />
shire <strong>of</strong> Murray. I have seen a transumpt <strong>of</strong> the charter <strong>of</strong> Malcolm VI. <strong>of</strong> the<br />
lands <strong>of</strong> Innes, granted to Beriwa/dus Flandrensis, penes Dom. de Innes ; as also, a<br />
principal one, granted by Alexander II. in the i2th year <strong>of</strong> his reign, which confirms<br />
the lands <strong>of</strong> Innes, to Walter Innes the son <strong>of</strong> John, the son <strong>of</strong> Beriwald<br />
Flandrensis. In a charter <strong>of</strong> Kind David II. <strong>of</strong> the Forestry <strong>of</strong> Boyne, amongst<br />
the witnesses is Robertus de Innes, Dominns cjusdem.<br />
JAMES INNES <strong>of</strong> that Ilk, was Armour-Bearer to King James III. He gets from<br />
that king several lands in the shire <strong>of</strong> Elgin ; as by that king's charter, (in<br />
the Earl <strong>of</strong> Haddington's Collections)<br />
<strong>of</strong> which follows a<br />
"<br />
short abstract. Jaco-<br />
"<br />
bus 8tc. Sciatis nos pro fideli gratuitoque servitio nobis per armigerum nostrum<br />
" Jacobum Innes, de eodem temporibus retroactis multipliciter impenso suis servito-<br />
" ribus &. amicis, in exercitu nostro apud Blackness, sub nostro vexillo in defen-<br />
" sione nostrae personse regije & coronae, &c." dated at Edinburgh the 24th <strong>of</strong><br />
May.<br />
The cadets <strong>of</strong> this family are as follows in the New Register.<br />
ALEXANDER INNES <strong>of</strong> Blairton, descended <strong>of</strong> Innes <strong>of</strong> Benwall, argent,<br />
a fesse<br />
between three stars azure; crest, a primrose, proper, and thereupon a bee sucking<br />
the same ; with the motto, E labore dulcedo. These arms were altered by a new<br />
warrant under the Lyons' hand and seal, dated pth <strong>of</strong> November 1688, in favours <strong>of</strong><br />
Mr Robert Innes, now <strong>of</strong> Blairton, Writer to his Majesty's signet and Lyon-Depute,<br />
thus, ermine, three stars, two and one azure; crest, a thistle, proper, with a<br />
bee sucking the flower there<strong>of</strong> : motto, E labore dulcedo.<br />
Mr ROBERT INNES, Minister <strong>of</strong> Gamry, descended <strong>of</strong> Innes <strong>of</strong> Benwall, argent,<br />
a fesse ingrailed between three stars azure, with Blairton's first crest and motto, tc.<br />
Mr JOHN INNES, parson <strong>of</strong> Balhalvie, descended <strong>of</strong> Benwall, carries the same<br />
arms and crest, but makes the fesse waved. And Thomas Innes, another cadet<br />
<strong>of</strong> Benwall, the same arms and crest, but counter-embattles the fesse.<br />
JAMES INNES, Writer in Edinburgh, argent, a cross pate'e between three stars,<br />
azure ; crest, two hands joined fesse-ways, grasping a sword, all : proper motto,<br />
Dltat servata fides.' New Register.<br />
JAMES INNES <strong>of</strong> Thursten, descended <strong>of</strong> Innes <strong>of</strong> Innermarkie, argent, three<br />
stars, each <strong>of</strong> five points, within a bordure indented azure ; crest, a star ot six<br />
Ibid.<br />
rays, environed with clouds proper : motto, Dum spiro,<br />
ccelestia spero.<br />
JOHN INNES <strong>of</strong> Edingight, argent, three stars azure, within a bordure cheque<br />
<strong>of</strong><br />
the first and second ; crest, a branch <strong>of</strong> : palm slipped, proper motto, Ornatur ra-<br />
dix fronde. Lyon Register.<br />
ALEXANDER INNES Merchant in Edinburgh, third son to the deceased William<br />
Innes, sometime in Barnyards, in the parish <strong>of</strong> Peterhead and shire ot Aberdeen,<br />
whose predecessors \vere for .many years heritors <strong>of</strong> a part ot the lands ot Pitiour<br />
in the said shire, being descended <strong>of</strong> the family <strong>of</strong> Balveny in the shire ot Bunt!,<br />
carries ardent, three stars <strong>of</strong> six rays azure, within a bordure <strong>of</strong> the second, char-<br />
ged with eight roundlets or ; crest, an increscent proper : with this motto, Jerecois<br />
pour donner. As in the Lyon Register and Plate <strong>of</strong> Achievements.<br />
The English, when stars are <strong>of</strong> six points<br />
or more, blazon them stars <strong>of</strong> so many<br />
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