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A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF FOWLS AND BIRDS.<br />

M'GiLL Viscount <strong>of</strong> OXENFORD, Lord M'Gill and Cousland, gules, three mart-<br />

lets or ; crest, a phcenix in flames, proper, supported on the dcxfer by<br />

a horse<br />

liberty ardent, gorged with a Viscount's coronet, with a chain thereto affixed,<br />

collared and chained as<br />

maned and ho<strong>of</strong>ed or ; and, on the sinister, by a bull sable,<br />

the former : motto, Sine fine, relative to the crest.<br />

Sir Robert Sibbakl, in his History <strong>of</strong> Fife, says,<br />

he has met with one Mauritius<br />

M'Gill, witness in a charter <strong>of</strong> mortification by Maldwinits Conies, to the monks <strong>of</strong><br />

Aberbrothick, which charter is confirmed by King Alexander.<br />

Mr JAMES M'GiLL, descended <strong>of</strong> a goodly old family in Galloway, had two sons<br />

Mr James M'Gill, Clerk-Register in the reigns <strong>of</strong> Queen Mary and King Jm<br />

VI. He acquired the lands <strong>of</strong> Rankeillor-Nether, in Fife, from which he and his<br />

posterity were, and are at present designed. Mr James's second son was David<br />

M'Gill <strong>of</strong> Cranston-Riddell, Advocate to King James VI. from the year 1582 to<br />

1596,<br />

in which <strong>of</strong>fice he died.<br />

His son and heir was DAVID M'GiLL <strong>of</strong> Cranston-Riddell, father <strong>of</strong> Sir James<br />

M'Gill, one <strong>of</strong> the Senators <strong>of</strong> the College <strong>of</strong> Justice, father <strong>of</strong> Sir Robert M'Gill,<br />

who was created Viscount <strong>of</strong> Oxenford by King Charles II. by letters patent, 191!!<br />

<strong>of</strong> April 1651. He had with his wife, a daughter <strong>of</strong> Livingston <strong>of</strong> Kilsyth, Robert<br />

his son and heir, who married a daughter <strong>of</strong> George Earl <strong>of</strong> Linlithgow, by<br />

whom he had a son, George, Master <strong>of</strong> Oxenford, who died before his father, and<br />

two daughters, Christian and Margaret ; Christian succeeded her father as Viscountess<br />

<strong>of</strong> Oxenford; she married William Maitland, Esq. son <strong>of</strong> Charles Earl <strong>of</strong><br />

Luuderdale, by whom he has a son to succeed his mother in the fortune and honour^.<br />

Mr DAVID M'G ILL <strong>of</strong> Rankeillor, gules, three martlets argent ; and, for another <strong>of</strong> the same : motto,<br />

crest,<br />

//; Domino confido. N. R.<br />

Mr JAMES M'GiLL <strong>of</strong> Ramgally, a younger son <strong>of</strong> Rankeillor, carries the same<br />

within a bordure ingrailed argent. Ibid.<br />

Mr ARTHUR M'GiLL carries the same,<br />

bordure indented gules.<br />

as descended <strong>of</strong> Rankeillor, within a<br />

JAMES M'GiLL <strong>of</strong> Ballynester in Ireland, descended <strong>of</strong> the family <strong>of</strong> Oxenford,<br />

bears the arms <strong>of</strong> Oxenford ; with the motto and crest ; and, for difference, a<br />

bordure argent. Ibid.<br />

The surname <strong>of</strong> CARGILL, sometime <strong>of</strong> Orchardton, carries the same with<br />

M'Gill gules, three martlets within a bordure or.<br />

The name <strong>of</strong> HOUSTON carries martlets. The principal family is Houston <strong>of</strong><br />

that Ilk, an ancient family in the shire <strong>of</strong> Linlithgow, or, a cheveron cheque sable<br />

and argent, between three martlets <strong>of</strong> the second ; by some paintings they have,<br />

for<br />

supporters, two hounds ; and, for crest, a : sand-glass motto, In time. For the<br />

antiquity <strong>of</strong> the family, they say, that one Hugh de Padevinan, who got some<br />

lands in<br />

Stragriff, in the reign <strong>of</strong> King Malcolm IV. which he called after his<br />

ne, Hugh's Town and which became the surname <strong>of</strong> his descendants and<br />

;<br />

;ly. In Prynne's History <strong>of</strong> Edward I. <strong>of</strong> England, 1298, Finlaus de Houston<br />

is mentioned, <strong>of</strong> whom is descended Sir John Houston <strong>of</strong> that Ilk, Baronet.<br />

CAIRNS <strong>of</strong> that I!k carries gules, three martlets or. Balfour's Manuscript.<br />

Mr ARCHIBALD CAIRNS <strong>of</strong> Pilmore, gules, three martlets argent with a ftower-de-<br />

luce in the centre ; crest, a cinquefoil, proper: motto, Effloresco, as in the Lyon<br />

Register.<br />

GLEN <strong>of</strong> that Ilk, argent, three martlets sable. Font's MS.<br />

GLEN <strong>of</strong> Bar in the shire <strong>of</strong> Renfrew, argent, a fesse gules, between three mart-<br />

lets sable.<br />

As for the antiquity <strong>of</strong> the name, I have met with one William Glen, Armiger,<br />

witness to the donation <strong>of</strong> the fishing in Crockat-shot, by Robert Lord Lyle, to<br />

the Monks <strong>of</strong> Paisley, 1452.<br />

His son JAMES GLEN obtained a grant from Robert, abbot <strong>of</strong> Paisley, and <strong>of</strong> the<br />

lands ot Bar and others, anno 1506 ; and his son James obtained a confirmation <strong>of</strong><br />

them, tiuii'j 1544, who was forfeited for adhering to Queen Mary in the year 1568,<br />

and wa> restored 1573. His family ended in an heir-female.<br />

NORVEL <strong>of</strong> that Ilk, sablet, on a bend argent, three martlets <strong>of</strong> the first. Workman's<br />

MS.

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