New Spalding Club > Records of Invercauld MDXLVII - MDCCCXXVIII [1547- 1828]

LINEAGE AND ARMS OF INVERCAULD.
" To ALL AND SUNDRY whom these presents do or may concern I Sir
Alexander Erskine of Cambo Knight and Baronet Lyon King of Arms
considering that by the twentie first Act of the third session of the second
Parliament of King Charles the Second of ever blessed memory I am
impowered to visit the whole Arms of Noblemen, jjrelates, Barons, and
Gentlemen within this Kingdom and to distinguish them with congruent
differences and to matriculat the same in my books and registers and to
give arms to virtuous and well deserving persons and Extracts of all
arms expressing the Blason thereof under my hand and seall of office
which Register is by the said Act ordained to be Respected as
the true and repealable Rule of all arms and bearers in Scotland to
remain with the Lyon Office as the publick register of the Kingdom,
Therefore conform to the tenor of the said act of Parliament I testifie
and make known that the Coat Armor appertaining and belonging
to John Farquharson of Invercauld lawfully descended of Shaw son to
Mcduff Thane of Fife whose successors had the name Shaw untill Farquhar
Shaw son to Shaw of Ratirmucus chief of the whole name came to be
called Farquharson about ten generations ago and approven of and con-
firmed by me to him Is matriculat in my said publick Register upon the
day and date of these presents Two Coats quarterly First and fourth or
a Lyon rampant Gules armed and languid azur as the paternal Coat by
the name of Farquharson, Shaw or Mcduff Second and third Argent a
Fir tree growing out of a mount in base seeded proper on a chief gules a
Banner of Scotland displayed as a canton of the first charged with a
dexter hand couped at the wrist fiss ways holding a Dagger point down-
wards of the Chief The name having the Fir tree from an ancient
custom of Bearing twigs of Fir for their sign and badge in time
of Battell. The Banner from Findlay Mor of Invercauld one of their
predicessors being killed at Pinkie field bearing the royall Banner and
who lyes Buried in the churchyard of Inveresk and the canton hand and
dagger from another of their predicessors called Shaw of Retimurcus his
killing Cuming of Strathbogy at a place near to Badzenoth named from
that lag : an : cominich idest [id est] Cumings hole or grave on a helmet
befitting his degree with a mantle gules doubling argent and wreath of
his colors Is sett for his crest a Lyon ssuant gules holding a sword in the
dexter paw proper hiked and pommelled or The motto in an Escrol above
Fide and fortitudine which coat above blasoned I declare to be the said
John Farquharson of Invercauld his coat and bearings In testimony
whereof I have subscribed this Extract and caused append my seal of
office hereto Given att Edinburgh the fifteenth day of July and of the
Reign of our sovereign Lord King William the ninth year 1697.
ALEXR. ARESKINE. Lyon."