A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society
A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society
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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS.<br />
The name <strong>of</strong> RONALD, argent, a lion passant gules, tied to an oak tree, proper,<br />
mid on a chief azure three crescents <strong>of</strong> the first. Font's Manuscript.<br />
In our New Register, ROBERT RONALD, Provost <strong>of</strong> Montro-,e, argent,<br />
a lion<br />
passant gardant gules, tied to an oak tree, proper; and on a chief azure, a ro^e<br />
slipped, between two crescents <strong>of</strong> the first ; crest, an oak tree, leaved and fructuated,<br />
proper : motto, Sic viresctt virtus, Lyon Register.<br />
The name <strong>of</strong> FINLAYSON, argent, a lion passant gules, on a chief azure, a boar's<br />
head couped or, between two spur-rowels <strong>of</strong> the first. Font's Manuscript.<br />
In England, Sir ANDREW HACK.ET <strong>of</strong> Moxhill in Warwickshire, descended <strong>of</strong><br />
the Halkets in Scotland, their arms being almost the same, sable, three piles ar-<br />
gent, on a chief <strong>of</strong> the last, a lion passant g ides. Art. Her. And there,<br />
JOHN LOGAN <strong>of</strong> Idbury, in Oxfordshire, Esq. or, a lion passant sable, and in chief<br />
three piles <strong>of</strong> the same, descended <strong>of</strong> the Logans in Scotland.<br />
NORTH Lord NORTH, in EngLind, azure, a lion passant or, between three flowerde-luces<br />
argent ; supporters, two dragons, gorged with open crowns, and chains<br />
thereto affixed or ; crest, a dragon's head. The first <strong>of</strong> this ancient family that<br />
was dignified, was Edward North, one <strong>of</strong> the Clerks <strong>of</strong> the Parliament, knighted<br />
by Henry VIII. and made Lord North by Cuieen Mary <strong>of</strong> England, February 17.<br />
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NORTH Lord GUILFORD ^was dignified with that title, by letters patent, dated<br />
ayth September 1683. He was Keeper <strong>of</strong> the Great Seal, and Chancellor <strong>of</strong><br />
England, and carried the arms <strong>of</strong> the Lord North, with a crescent for his difference,<br />
which Imh<strong>of</strong>f blazons thus, " Scutum quo Northorum familia uti solet<br />
" coeruleum est, leonem gradientem continens, quern lilia tria argentea ambiunt."<br />
LION GARDANT AND REGARDANT. .<br />
THESE attributes are given to the lion, upon the account <strong>of</strong> the position<br />
<strong>of</strong> his<br />
head. If the lion be erect, and his head showing but one eye, and one ear, he is<br />
then called with us, and the English, a lion rampant; and by the French, only a<br />
lion, as I told before. If he be erected, showing a full face, with his two eyes and<br />
ears, he is called in Britain a lion rampant gardant ; by the French, leopard lionne;<br />
leopard, for his full face, and lionne, for his body, being the posture <strong>of</strong> a lion<br />
which is erected. Lion regardant, when his head is turned back, looking over his<br />
shoulder, and showing but one eye and ear ; such a lion with us, whether passant<br />
or rampant, is called a lion regardant; and with the English, who say, " Though<br />
u it denoteth a timorous mind, yet it betokens a diligent circumspection," as<br />
Guillim and Morgan: But Sylvester Petra Sancta, to the contrary, giving an 'ex-<br />
ample <strong>of</strong> a lion regardant, in his Treatise, page 305, says, " Leonis praecipua in<br />
" oculis est, & tarn adspicere, quam respicere, absque suspicione ignaviae potest ;<br />
" sic aureus leo in muricata parmula versus dextram se proripiens, atque in laevam<br />
" respectans, est nobilis tessera comitum Ambanorum in Gallia." Fig. 7.<br />
Sir George Mackenzie blazons the arms <strong>of</strong> GUTHRIE <strong>of</strong> Hackerton, or, a lion<br />
rampant, regardant gules, quartered with azure, three garbs or.<br />
Sir HENRY GUTHRIE <strong>of</strong> Kings-Edward, Knight and Baronet, first<br />
quarterly, and<br />
fourth or, a lion rampant regardant gules, holding in the dexter paw a cross cros-<br />
let fitched azure, for Guthrie; second and third azure, three garbs or, for Cumin ;<br />
crest, a lion's paw issuing out <strong>of</strong> the torce, grasping a branch <strong>of</strong> a palm-tree, all<br />
proper ; supported by two naked women, wreathed about the head and loins with<br />
bay leaves, proper ; motto, Sto pro veritate. New Register. And there,<br />
THOMAS GUTHRIE, sometime Provost <strong>of</strong> Forfar, descended <strong>of</strong> the family <strong>of</strong><br />
Halkerton, the quartered arms <strong>of</strong> Halkerton, as before, wirhin a bordure indented<br />
argent; crest, a cross croslet fitched azure: motto, Ex unitate incrementum..<br />
JAMES GUTHRIE <strong>of</strong> Carsbank, quarterly, first and fourth argent, a cross sable;<br />
second and third azure, three garbs or, all within a bordure ingrailed^wfer: motto,<br />
Pietas y frugalitas. Ibid.<br />
The name <strong>of</strong> HUME, in England, or, a lion rampant regardant vert. Art. Her.<br />
And there,<br />
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