A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

4 ic OF ARTIFICIAL FIGURES IN ARMORIES.
per, with his right hand lifted up, praying over three children hi a boiling cauldron
of the first, and in his left hand a crosier or, N. R.
EDINBURGH, the metropolitan city of Scotland, besides its other commendable
beauties in is buildings, eminent for its impregnable castle, which is thought to be
elder than the city, anciently called Arx puellarum, the Maiden-Castle, where the
honourable virgins, the daughters of our sovereigns, and these of our nobility, were
kept from the insults of the enemy in time of war. The city
has that castle re-
presented for their arms, sometimes black in a white field, and at other times white
in a black field ; but I shall blazon them, as 1 find them most frequently painted,
viz. argent, a castle triple-towered and embattled sable, masoned of the first, and
topped with three fans gules, windows and portcullis shut of the last, situate on a
rock, proper, supported on the dexter by a maid richly attired, with her hair
hanging down over her shoulders, and, on the left, by a stag, or deer, proper: motto,
Nisi Dominus frustra.
There are several families with us, who carry castles and towers, upon the account,
as I suppose, they are the principal seats of their possessions, and as signs of
authority and jurisdiction.
M'LEOD of that Ilk, azure, a castle triple-towered and embattled argent, masoned
sable, windows and port gules.
Some books represent it a tower embattled ; which arms are now used, quar-
terly, by Stewart of Burray, as descended of an heiress of the family, of whom
before, page 52.
. The family of M'NAUGHTAN of that
embattled.
Ilk, in the shire of Argyle, carries a tower
This is family acknowledged by the Highlanders to be of the greatest antiquity
of any in those : parts They derive their origin from one Naughtan, an eminent
man in the time of King Malcom IV. who was in great esteem with the head of
the family of Lochovv, to whom he was very assistant in his v/ars with the
M'Dowalls, for which he was rewarded with sundry lands by him. His successors
were denominated M'Naughtan, that is, the children or descendants of Naughtan.
Duncan M'Naughtan was a brave and warlike man -under King Robert Bruce,
and was very assistant to him in reducing the rebellious Lords of Lorn, who sided
with the Baliol and the English, as says Mr Barbour in his History of that King.
The family continued in good esteem, and was allied with the most of the ancient
families in the West-Highlands, besides others elsewhere, particularly with the
Stewarts, Menzies's, Campbells of Glenorchy and Ardkinlass, the M'Leods, &-c.
A younger son of this family, Donald M'Naughtan, being a churchman, for his
learning, was by King James II. raised to the Episcopal See of Dunkeld, where he
exercised his episcopal function
Church of Scotland.
to his death, as in Spottiswood's History of the
Those of the family were always very loyal, and upon the side of the crown,
both anciently and of late. Being indifferently rewarded, the is family low, and
now represented by JOHN M'NAUGHTAN, a son of the family, who carries as his
predecessors, quarterly, first and fourth argent, a hand fesse-ways, proper, holding
a cross croslet fitched azure, (a figure carried almost by all the ancient families in
the Highlands, as I have observed before) second and third argent, a tower em-
battled gules, and another for crest; with the motto,
by
I hope in God; and supported
two roebucks, which, as I am informed, is to be seen cut on a stone in the
House of M'Naughtan.
With us there are other considerable families, who carry castles, towers, and
such buildings, not only as their proper paternal figures, but as additional to their
paternal bearings, by way of augmentation, upon the account of their titles of
dignities, as in the arms of LESLIE Lord LINDORES, and LESLIE Lord NEWARK.
PATRICK. LESLIE, son of Andrew Earl of Rothes, was a great favourite of King
James IV. of Scotland, a gentleman of the bed-chamber, and one of the Judges of
the Session, who, by the bounty of his royal master, got the abbacy of Lindores
erected into a temporal lordship, to himself and the heirs-male of his body, in the
year 1600; about which time, as an augmentation, he placed over the quartered
arms of the Earl of Rothes, his father, an escutcheon gules, charged with a casile
argent, masoned sable, to represent the abbacy of Lindores, from which he had his