Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton

OF THE HOUSE OF HAMILTON. 188
arms.
Four grand quarters : I. and IV. Quarterly, 1st and 4th Hamilton, gules, three titles, &c. of
TUP FAMILY
cinquefoils, pierced, ermine. 2d and 3d, Arran, argent, a ship with the sails fulled,
sable. — II. and III. Quarterly : 1. Galloway, azure, a lion rampant, argent, crowned,
Or. 2. Abernethy, Or, a lion rampant gules, debruised by a bendlet, sable. 3. Wish-
art of Brechin, argent, three piles gules. 4. Stewart of Bonliill, Or, a fess cheque,
azure and argent, surmounted with a bend, gules, charged with three buckles of the
first. Over these feudal quarterings of Douglas, as chiefs of that house, an escut-
cheon, charged with the arms of Douglas, viz. argent, a heart, gules, ensigned with
an imperial crown, proper, on a chief azure, three mullets argent.
Crest.
Hamilton ; in a ducal coronet, Or, an oak fructed and penetrated transversely in
the main stem by a frame-saw proper, the frame Or.* Douglas ; on a chapeau d'etat,
salamander in flames, proper.
Supporters.
Hamilton ; two antelopes, argent, armed, ducally gorged, chained and hoofed, Or.
Douglas ; dexter, a savage proper, holding a baton erected, and wreathed about the
middle with laurel, vert ; sinister, a stag proper, armed and unguled, Or, both stand-
ing within a pale of wood, wreathed for a compartment.
Motto.
Hamilton, ~..^.« ..." Through."
Douglas, „ „,,." Jamais arriere."
• According to Archdall, in his Peerage, the first of the family who came to Scotland, in his
flight from the English court, after the slaying of De Spencer, King Edward's favourite, being closely
pursued into a wood, he and his servant changed clothes with two woodcutters, and, taking their saw,
were cutting through an oak tree when the pursuers passed by. Perceiving his servant to take notice
of them, he hastily called to him " Tlirough," which word, with the oak and saw through it, he took
for his motto and crest, in memory of his happy deliverance.