Genealogical account of the Highland families of Shaw

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at Perth with his own great-uncle who was shot and
buried in the Tower of London. If any memorial be
substituted for the time-worn grey stone which has
marked the spot for centuries, it should be one more
worthy the person commemorated than is the ugly oblong
slab which Mr. John Shaw has placed there ; it should
bear a correct inscription, and should have the approval
of Shaws, Mackintoshes, and Farquharsons, all of whom
have an interest in Shaw Mor Coriachlich.
III. Arms, Ckests, and Motto.
The arms of the Shaws of Eothimurcus are
Quarterly — First and Fourth, Or, a Lion
Eampant gules, armed and langued azure;
Second and Third, Argent, a fir-tree growing
out of a mount in base, all proper; on a
chief gules, a canton of the field charged
with a dexter hand couped, fesswise, proper,
holding a dagger erect, gules.
Crest. — A demi-lion gules, holding in the
dexter paw a sword proper, erect.
Motto. — Fide et Fortitudine.
The arms of the Shaws of Tordarroch are slightly
different in the second and third quarters. They are
Quarterly — First and Fourth, Or, a Lion
Eampant gules, armed and langued azure;
Second and Third, Argent, a fir-tree growing
out of a mount in base, all proper ; on a chief
gules charged with an augmentation of the