. The "Red and white" book of seal in 1431, which seems to be a chief gules the lines being irregular. Thenext is about 1470, when the chief of the Menzies had his arms registered as achief, A field ermine, as Menzies of Weem, given by Lindsay, Lyon King.—Stodart, vol. ii., p. 287. Tradition says that about the time of James III., the Chief Sir Robert Menzieshad a grant of two savages as supporters to his arms, as a recognition of theservices of Clan Menzies in capturing alive several wild men or savages who livedby plundering the herds and crops of the peaceful Highlands of Athole
. The "Red and white" book of seal in 1431, which seems to be a chief gules the lines being irregular. Thenext is about 1470, when the chief of the Menzies had his arms registered as achief, A field ermine, as Menzies of Weem, given by Lindsay, Lyon King.—Stodart, vol. ii., p. 287. Tradition says that about the time of James III., the Chief Sir Robert Menzieshad a grant of two savages as supporters to his arms, as a recognition of theservices of Clan Menzies in capturing alive several wild men or savages who livedby plundering the herds and crops of the peaceful Highlands of Athole, the kinghaving offered them as supporters to the arms of whatever clan might capture thewild men alive; this the Menzies succeeded in doing, and had the grant bestowedupon them. The supporters were certainly semi-nude men about the time of JamesIV., as is shown by the arms on the Menzies altar, which was reconstructed bySt David about 1430, and the arms of one of the Lady Menzies, about 1520. Thefull arms, as they now are, were regis
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