killing the Cumming; and the Banner is lately added, because the Grand-father of the present John Farquharson (1702) was killed at the Battle of Pinkie, carrying the Banner of Scotland.

WOOD.

The Chiefs of this name have given Trees in different forms; but Wood of Largoe placed his Tree between Two Ships under sail, as Admiral to King James III. and IV. in whose reigns he defeated the English with an inferior Force. Another Branch of the Family gave a Hunting-horn hanging upon the Branch of a Tree, to shew he was the King's Forester *.

FORBES,

of Watertown, charges his Coat with an "Escocheon Argent, a Sword and Key in Saltire Gules," as being Constable of Aberdeen and for a Difference from the Grays, places a Quill or Pen in the Paw of the Lion in the Arms of Gray, because his Ancestor was Sheriff's Clerk of Angus †.

* Nisbet, Cadencies, p. 202.

+ Idem, p. 203.

JOHN RAMSAY,

descended of the Ramsays of Wylicleuch in the Merss, who was Page to King James VI. thereafter Earl of Holdernesse, got for addition to his Paternal Bearing, " An Arm holding a naked Sword enfilé of a Crown, with a Man's Heart on the point," because he rescued King James VI. from the Conspiracy of the Earl of Gowrie and his Confederates. The Paternal Coat was, "Argent, an Eagle displayed Sable."* These are what the Scottish Heralds call "Arms of Special Concession."†

AYTON,

of Kippo. This Family bears "A Baton Peri Or, couped;" which, Mr. Nisbet says, is an uncommon Bearing for a younger legitimate Son, it being a mark of Bastardy by its position; but he tells us, the Baton of this description, and thus borne, was granted to Sir John Ayton of Kippo, Knight, by King Charles II. as an Augmentation, because he had been Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod

* Nisbet, Cadencies, p. 196.

+ See Nisbet's Armories.

to that King. Upon the Family Coat he therefore carried "A Baton Sable, charged on the top with one of the Lions of England."

STIRLING,

of Glorat, carries "Argent, on a Bend engrailed Azure, Three Buckles Or; a Chief Gules, charged with a Naked Arm issuing out of a Cloud from the Sinister side, grasping a Sword in pale, and therewith guarding an Imperial Crown; all within a double Tressure, counterfleured of Thistles Vert." Which honourable Addition was granted to this Family for special Services done to King Charles I. and King Charles II. in their Troubles.

BINNING,

of Easter Binning, a Cadet of Binning of that Ilk, who carried "Argent, a Bend engrailed Sable," added, for Difference, on the Bend, a Waggon of the first, because he and his seven Sons went in a Waggon covered with Hay, and surprised and took the Castle

of Linlithgow, then in the possession of the English, in the Reign of David the Bruce *.

LOCKART.

This Name now bears a Man's Heart Proper, within a Padlock Sable, in perpetuation, they tell you, that one of the Name accompanied the good Sir James Douglas to Jerusalem, with the Heart of King Robert the Bruce. Be that as it may, it is intended to play upon the Name; and, to preserve the Story the more entire, some Branches of the Family have strengthened it by the Motto, "Corda serata Pando" [some have it, Fero]. These Devices are differently placed by different Branches; but Mr. Nisbet insinuates + that this Bearing is an assumption of a modern date; and that the old Arms were, till within a century before he wrote [1702], "Three Boars' Heads erazed ; the Crest, a Dexter Hand holding a Boar's Head erazed, Proper; the Motto, Feroci Fortior.'

*Nisbet, Cadencies, p. 195. + Marks of Cadency, p. 199.

NORFOLK.

The Duke of Norfolk has an augmentation, viz. an Escocheon Or, in the middle of the Bend, charged with a Demi-Lion Rampant, pierced through the Mouth with an Arrow, within a double Tressure counterfleur'd Gules ; which was granted by King Henry VIII. for his services at the Battle of Flodden Field *.

Besides these and many other Bearings, not at this day easily, if at all, to be accounted for, the Scots have, like ourselves, several that are responsive to the Name. Of these I have selected the few which follow, and have given their material Charge, without attending to the Colours, or to the Blazonry of the whole. Thus

Cockburn has a Charge of Three Cocks.
Craw and Craufurd, Three Crows †.

* Nisbet's Cadencies, pp. 91, 92.

† This Bearing is of late introduction, as alluding to the Name; for those of the Name anciently gave for Arms "Gules, a Fess Ermine;" and another Branch "Argent, Three Stags' Heads erased Gules."

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