The Herald and genealogist . From the of James Earl of Morton, oh. circ. 1498. The Douglases, according to the system of those days, took theirarms from the great family in the neighbourhood, at first Azure., threestars argent: but they soon pushed up the whole into a chief, whichthus gave room for the subsequent addition of the heart below. The seal of William Lord Douglas appended tohis deed of homage to King Edward I. in the year1296 (remaining in H. M. Record Office) is repre-sented in the annexed engraving.^ The shield,which bears the three mullets on a chief, is sur-rounded by
The Herald and genealogist . From the of James Earl of Morton, oh. circ. 1498. The Douglases, according to the system of those days, took theirarms from the great family in the neighbourhood, at first Azure., threestars argent: but they soon pushed up the whole into a chief, whichthus gave room for the subsequent addition of the heart below. The seal of William Lord Douglas appended tohis deed of homage to King Edward I. in the year1296 (remaining in H. M. Record Office) is repre-sented in the annexed engraving.^ The shield,which bears the three mullets on a chief, is sur-rounded by three lizards, or wyverns, after thefashion of that period. The legend, s dni willelmi DE DVGLAS. The first great division of this family was when the ancestor of theDouglases of Laudon, Dalkeith, Earls of Morton, &c. came off theparent stem about 1230 in the person of Andrew nephew of the branch took a similar coat, but changed the tincture, making thearms. Argent, on a chief gules two stars of the first—s
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