A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF ARTIFICIAL FIGURES IN ARMORIES. 405
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their points downwards in the base, counter-changed of the first and second, and
in chief a boar's head erased sable. Mackenzie's Heraldry.
Dr JOHN HUTTON, representer of th-j family of Hutton of that Ilk, in the shire
of Berwick, so recorded in the Lyon Register 1692, and chief Physician to their
Majesties' Persons, and sole Physician to their Majesties' Forces and Hospitals, and
fellow of the Royal College of Ph \stcians at London and Edinburgh, or, a lion
rampant azure, between three arrrows' points downwards, 2 and i, proper, headed
and feathered argent, and on a chief gules as many besants ; crest, a serpent
catching at the linger of a man's hand, which issues from a cloud, all proper.
L. R.
The name of LITTLEJOHN, argent, three arrows gules, the middlemost paleways,
the other two saltier-ways, with their points downward, feathered or, accompanied
with six trefoils slipped of the second, two in chief, two in fesse, and two in base.
GEORGE M'ALLA, Merchant in Edinburgh, gules, two arrows crossing other saltier-ways
argent, surmounted of a fesse cheque of the second and first, between
three buckles, two in chief, and one in base, all within a bordure indented or ;
crest, a boot couped at the ancle, and thereon a spur, proper : motto, Dutce periculum.
New Register.
The beads of spears, arrows and darts, are frequent in arms; and in blazons are
latined, fcrrum hastte, sagittee i$ jaculi. The heads of darts are called pbeons, and
ordinarily by the French, fer de dart, and are sometimes said to be barbed, when
hooked with teeth, as fig. 18. Plate XL
The name of SMART, argent, a cheveron between three pheons sable . Balfour's
MS. as equivocally relative to the name.
The name of MOODIE, azure, a cheveron ermine, between three pheons argent.
Workman's MS.
The M'AuLS, argent, two spur-rowels in chief gules, and a Ibid.
pheon in base azure.
In England the pheon is frequently borne, as by the noble family of SYDNEY
Earl of LEICESTER, or, a pheon azure.
The noble family of EGERTON Earl of BRIDGEWATER, argent, a lion rampant
gules, between three pheons sable.
The nirnc of GRADEN, with us, argent, on a cheveron azure, between three
otters sable, each devouring a fish, proper, as many pheons barbed or; crest, a
de.ru-otter erect sable, devouring a fish; with the motto, Ail escam i3 usum.
There was an old family of this name, designed of that Ilk, in Berwickshire,
ise lands have been possessed by the Homes, and now by the Kers.
There are other military instruments to be met with in armories : I shall here
ie only a few of them, upon
the account of the noble families that bear them.
l^:iltr-ij)e, by some called cbwaltrap, by the French cbausse-trape, an instrument
of iron u^ed in war, to gall and wound horse-feet, consisting of four pricks placed
after such a fashion, as which way soever it lie on the ground, one point will always
stick up ; they are to be seen on the compartment of the achievement of the Earls
of Perth the Latins call ; them murices, or tnbulos. Plate Xll. fig. 19.
The name of TRAIJ P, in England, argent, three caltraps sable, as relative to the
name.
HUGOT in France, d'or a trots cbausse-trapes d'azur.
Buttering rams are to be found in the arms of BERTIE Earl of LINDSEY, as their
paternal figures, viz. argent, three battering rams bar-ways, proper, armed and garnished
azure.
Banners, ensigns, standards, pennons and gonfannons, I have described before with
but I speak of them here as armorial figures or charges contained with-
the shield ;
in a shield.
The name of BANNERMAN carried anciently, for an armorial figure,
a banner
displayed, as relative to the name ; which was from their office, being hereditary
banner-bearers of old to our kings, in the reigns of Malcolm IV. or William
the Lion.
They carried for a long time those of the name of Forbes, with whom they were
nearly allied.