Heraldry of the Stewarts

82 STEWART OF ATHENRY
and blue, in chief a black portcullis. All within a bordure compony silver
and green. CREST : A silver unicorn's Jiead couped, horned and maned gold.
MOTTO: "Forward." [Plate VII., fig. 108.]
The Stuarts of Hartley Mauduit.
This family was originally named Styward, and belonged to Norfolk. In the
sixteenth century several members of the family set to work and made up a pedigree
asserting that they were really Stewarts, and connected with the Royal House ; but
see the exposure by Walter Rye in the Genealogist, and J. Horace Round in Peerage
Studies. A member of this family was mother of Oliver Cromwell.
(255) Sir Nicolas Stuart, Bart., son of Simeon Stewart of Hartley Mauduit,
who was son of Nicolas Styward, was created a Baronet in 1660. His
descendant is the present and seventh Baronet.
HmtS of Stuart of Hartley Mauduit. — Gold, a /ess chequy blue and silver. En
surtout, silver, a red lion rampant debruised by a gold bend raguly. CREST :
A roebuck standing, proper, horned and hoofed silver, gorged with a red
ducal coronet. MOTTO : " Avito viret honore." [Plate VII., fig. 109.]
Other Stewarts.
(256) Sir James Stuart, Bart., son of the Rev. John Stuart and grandson of
Andrew Stuart, was born 1780, and was created a Baronet 1841. He
died 1853, leaving : —
(a) Sir Charles, second Baronet, born 1824; died unmarried
1901.
(b) Sir Edward, third Baronet, born 1832.
HriTlS. — 1 and 4. Gold, a fess chequy blue and ermine, between in chief two red
crosses patty, and in base a thistle proper, within a blue bordure. 2 and 3.
Red, three silver wolves' heads erased, armed and tongued blue, within an
engrailed silver bordure. CREST : A Roman fasces fessways, and issuing
therefrom a demi lion rampant, holding in his right paw a thistle, all proper.
MOTTO : " fustitics propositique tenax." [Plate VII., fig. 1 10.]