Scottish Text Society publications > Old series > Works of Sir William Mure of Rowallan > Volume 2, 1898

240
THE HISTORIE AND DESCENT OF THE
Queen Elizabethe Mure’s coat was marshalled, the just perogative
of hereditarie coats by manage, schewing that as the inheretance
of the possessiones, so the coat armoures of the inheretors wer to
be invested vpon yr airs & posteritie wch wer to beare both here¬
ditarie coats, quarterlie, in all times hereafter, secluding yrfra all
the other branches both of the right descending and collateral!
lyne, as notw^tanding of the same blood & descent, having no
part in the inheretance proper to the air & his successor8 allanerlie,
wch branches ar to beare allway, the armes of the paternall coat
w* apposition of some mark for distinction, qrby to difference
bearers of the same coat armoure, each from oyrs, as also to poynt
out there neerness to the prin11 bearer, and agnation amongst
ymselves in the severall degrees yrof. So y1 to this day, the airs
& successors of the persones aboue mentioned do beare two coats
in one scutshion quarterly, to witt the first quarter argent a fesse
parting equallie the field, azure, chargd w* thrie starrs, or, the
second azure chargd w* thrie garbs, or, marshalled two above one,
the third as the second, the fourth as the first.
Thence it is that the house of Caldwell, the progenie of Robert
Mure of Camb-Ceskane, of wch Glanerstone, Thorntone and the
house of Achindraine, the progenie of Andro Mure of Monyhagen
of wch Clone Card, held ordinarlie from one age to anoyr, sonnes
of this familie; however not verie certaine wheyr or not brethren
yrof at one & the same time, do beare the armes of the paternall
coat, differenced the one from the oyr, and both from the cheife
bearer, by yr borders of distinction (wch borders, borne of a divers
fashion, as plane, invented, engrailed, indented, countercomponed,
checkered) are of the most honorable of distinctiones, and sup¬
posed most ancient of all oyrs, the mynd of the herauld being
heirby (in his philosophic) to implye the kindlie duties of guardian¬
ship & defence on all sides of the paternall shield, according to
the standing and strength of the branches issued forth, resembling
these arrowes of the quiver the fullnes qrof makes the owners
happines, and who thus becometh not aschamed to speake w* the
enemie in the gate.
In like manner also the house of Pokellie, w‘ the severall