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A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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37(5<br />

OF FLOWERS AND LEAVES.<br />

Robert Lord Sempill ; which Hugh, fourth Earl <strong>of</strong> Eglinton, was succeeded by<br />

his son, Hugh Montgomery, fifth Earl <strong>of</strong> Eglinton, who died without any<br />

issue, anno 1612, and settled his estate, by virtue <strong>of</strong> an entail, upon his cousingerman,<br />

Alexander Seaton, son <strong>of</strong> Robert, first Earl <strong>of</strong> Winton, and his lady<br />

Margaret Montgomery, aunt <strong>of</strong> the last Earl ; which Alexander accordingly succeeded<br />

to the estate, but could not enjoy the title <strong>of</strong> Earl till his Majesty was<br />

pleased to confer it upon him for the great merits <strong>of</strong> the family <strong>of</strong> Seaton ; and was<br />

obliged by the late Earl <strong>of</strong> Eglinton's destination, to assume the name and arms<br />

<strong>of</strong> Montgomery ; which he accordingly did, and marshalled his arms first, as.<br />

painted on- the house <strong>of</strong> Seaton, thus, quarterly, first and fourth azure, three<br />

riower-de-luces or, for Montgomery; second and third gules, three annulets or,<br />

stoned azure, for Eglinton, and over all, by way <strong>of</strong> surtout, an escutcheon <strong>of</strong> the<br />

paternal arms <strong>of</strong> Seaton ; which surtout was afterwards disused ; and since, the<br />

Earls have been in use to carry Montgomery and Eglinton quarterly, within a<br />

bordure or, charged within a double tressure counter-flowered gules ; crest, a gentlewoman,<br />

or the picture <strong>of</strong> hope, dressed in an ancient rich apparel azure, holding in<br />

tier dexter hand an anchor, and, in the sinister, a savage-head by the hair: motto,<br />

Garde bien, (the crest and motto <strong>of</strong> the family <strong>of</strong> Eglinton) ; supporters, two<br />

dragons vert, vomiting fire, being the crest <strong>of</strong> the Earl <strong>of</strong> Winton, to show their<br />

descent from that family, having before used two women or angels in Dalmatic<br />

habits, for supporters.<br />

This ALEXANDER SEATON, who took upon him the name <strong>of</strong> Montgomery, and was<br />

Earl <strong>of</strong> EGLINTON, for his valour was to-named Gray-Steel ; he had with his wife<br />

Anne, daughter <strong>of</strong> Alexander, first Earl <strong>of</strong> Linlithgow, several sons and daughters<br />

; the eldest, Hugh, his successor, was Earl <strong>of</strong> Eglinton, and father <strong>of</strong> Alexander<br />

Earl <strong>of</strong> Eglinton, the grandfather <strong>of</strong> the present Alexander Earl <strong>of</strong> Eglin-<br />

ton.<br />

I shall here speak to the branches <strong>of</strong> this honourable family, whose arms I find<br />

in the ancient and modern books <strong>of</strong> Blazon that have occurred to me.<br />

Sir ROBERT MONTGOMERY <strong>of</strong> Skelmtirly, Baronet, whose progenitor was George,<br />

a second son <strong>of</strong> Alexander, first Lord Montgomery, carries in our Old and New<br />

Registers, quarterly, first and fourth Montgomery ; second and third Eglinton,<br />

over all, in the centre, a two-handed sword in pale, proper ; crest, a heart surmounted<br />

<strong>of</strong> an eye, proper.<br />

MONTGOMERY <strong>of</strong> Broadston, the first <strong>of</strong> which family was Robert Montgomery,<br />

second son <strong>of</strong> Alexander, first Lord Montgomery, who died before his father ; and<br />

<strong>of</strong> this family <strong>of</strong> Broadston, descended Hugh Montgomery Earl <strong>of</strong> Mount-Alexander<br />

<strong>of</strong> Ireland. This family carried, as in Esplin's Illuminated Book <strong>of</strong> Arms,<br />

quarterly, first and fourth Montgomery ; second and third Eglinton, and, by way<br />

<strong>of</strong> surtout, an escutcheon argent, charged (as I took it by the painting) with a<br />

boar's head couped gules.<br />

MONTGOMERY <strong>of</strong> Scotston, in the abovementioned book, quarterly,<br />

first and<br />

fourth Montgomery ; second and third Eglinton, and, by way <strong>of</strong> surtout, an escutcheon<br />

charged with a hart's head cabossed.<br />

Robert Montgomery <strong>of</strong> Scotston is recorded in the chartulary <strong>of</strong> Paisley to<br />

have been an arbiter betwixt the abbot <strong>of</strong> that convent and the town <strong>of</strong> Renfrew,<br />

in the year 1488 ; which family continued in the possession <strong>of</strong> these lands, being<br />

a part <strong>of</strong> the inheritance <strong>of</strong> the family <strong>of</strong> Eglinton, <strong>of</strong> which this family was a<br />

branch, till the reign <strong>of</strong> King Charles I. that John Montgomery <strong>of</strong> Scotston<br />

alienated these lands and <strong>of</strong> ; this family was William Montgomery, who purchased<br />

some lands in Kintyre, whose son now living there is John, father <strong>of</strong> three<br />

sons; the eldest, William; the second, James, a sea-captain; the third, John,<br />

Minister <strong>of</strong> the Gospel at Stewarton.<br />

MONTGOMERY <strong>of</strong> GifTen, quarterly, first and fourth Montgomery, second and<br />

third Eglinton; over all, dividing the quarters, a cross waved or, and in chief a<br />

label <strong>of</strong> three points <strong>of</strong> the last. The first <strong>of</strong> this family was Robert, second son<br />

<strong>of</strong> Hugh Earl <strong>of</strong> Eglinton, who married Margaret, daughter <strong>of</strong> Sir Matthew Campbell<br />

<strong>of</strong> London, by whom he had one daughter, Elizabeth, his sole heir, married to<br />

Hugh Earl <strong>of</strong> Eglinton..

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