Historical and genealogical essay upon the family and surname of Buchanan

OF MILTOUN, CASHILL, ARDtTILL, &C. 267
ago, it being evident the late laird of Buchanan
changed his motto from Audaces juvo, into Clarior
hinc Honos, in the latter part of his time, to which
last that of Mr. Buchanan, Miltoun , s son, plainly al-
ludes, his bearing being Buchanan, within a double
border, gules, charged with eight crescents, argent,
with a rose in crest, sliped, gules ; motto Ducitur
hinc Honos. The Buchanans of the isle of Sky
seem to be descended of Miltoun.
The ancestor of the Buchanans of Cashill was
always reputed an immediate cadet of the family
of Buchanan ; the first of these having obtained
the lands of Cashill from the laird of Buchanan,
by which that family was designed, and retained
possession thereof for some ages, until about the
latter part of the reign of queen Mary, Robert
Buchanan of Cashill, and Walter Buchanan his
son, fell at variance with Thomas Buchanan in
Arduill, their kinsman and neighbour, in which
contest the said Thomas and his son Duncan were
both killed by those of Cashill, for which cause
the laird of Buchanan dispossessed them of Cashill ;
whereupon Walter, Robert's eldest son, went to
Ireland, where divers of his posterity remain yet.
One of these having come thence, and settled in
Argyllshire, was ancestor to William Buchanan of
Glens, who hath brethren, and some other rela-
tions in that country. William's two sons are,
John Buchanan, younger, merchant in Glasgow,
and James, merchant in Tarbet. Robert of Cashill
had another son, who went to Braidalbin, and was
officer to one of the lairds of Glenorchy, the present
earl of BraidaibhVs ancestor, from which office his
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