. The Herald and genealogist. zure, the Baronets of Leys carry three similar leaves in chief,and a hunting-horn in base sable, garnished gules; the horn, and also the supporters (ahighlander and a greyhound), having reference, according to Sir George Mackenzie,to the fact of the family being the Kings Foresters in the North. Both families,however, use the same crest and motto, viz. a hand with a knife, pruning a vine-treeproper, surmounted by the words, Virescit vulnere virtus. This crest and mottoowe their origin to Mary Queen of Scots, and were probably intended to allude toher own unhappy c
. The Herald and genealogist. zure, the Baronets of Leys carry three similar leaves in chief,and a hunting-horn in base sable, garnished gules; the horn, and also the supporters (ahighlander and a greyhound), having reference, according to Sir George Mackenzie,to the fact of the family being the Kings Foresters in the North. Both families,however, use the same crest and motto, viz. a hand with a knife, pruning a vine-treeproper, surmounted by the words, Virescit vulnere virtus. This crest and mottoowe their origin to Mary Queen of Scots, and were probably intended to allude toher own unhappy condition. When she was in England (says Bell in his Life of theScottish Queen,) she embroidered for the Duke of Norfolk a hand with a sword in it,cutting vines, with the motto, Virescit vulnere virtus. Several other varieties of the coat of Burnet will be found in BurkesGeneral Armory. The leaves are there in every case blasoned as holly-leaves; but by Dale, in his Catalogue of English Nobility, they aretermed burnet The Burnets are stated in their genealogy to have been originallyBurnards, and it is remarkable that we find leaves upon two very earlyseals for persons of this name. We quote them from charters (withoutdate) relating to Arlesey, co. Bedford, printed in the sixth volume ofthe Collectanea Topographica et Ge?iealogica, where will be found manyparticulars of the descendants of Burnard, who occurs in Domesdaybook as a mesne tenant of William de Ow in the several counties ofBedford, Hants, and Wilts. 1 Burnet is said to be the poterium of Pliny. In Ainsworths Latin Dictionary wefind Burnet, pimpinella. 448 THE HISTORY OF CLERKENWELL. Bishop Burnet was a nephew to the first Baronet of Leys, co. Aber-deen (so created 1626), his father having been a judge of Session bythe title of Lord Crimond. The Bishop had a son (his third andyoungest) who became an English judge, and who was buried by theside of his father at Olerkenwell, his coffin-plate being inscribed:—
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