. An inquiry concerning the Boss family and the name Boss. ntry, when armorial bearings displayed in thefield on banner or shield were enough to proclaim thepresence of more or less distinguished names. After the year 1-296 the name de Boyvile disap-pears from the vicinity of Jedburgh, to reappear inthe neighbourhood of Selkirk in 1815, as Turnbull orTornebule, and well on in this century, after undergo-ing this transformation, it again comes to light in therecords as established near Jedburgh, where the nameof Turnbull has always been most numerous, Aims. iwg oue of the strong
. An inquiry concerning the Boss family and the name Boss. ntry, when armorial bearings displayed in thefield on banner or shield were enough to proclaim thepresence of more or less distinguished names. After the year 1-296 the name de Boyvile disap-pears from the vicinity of Jedburgh, to reappear inthe neighbourhood of Selkirk in 1815, as Turnbull orTornebule, and well on in this century, after undergo-ing this transformation, it again comes to light in therecords as established near Jedburgh, where the nameof Turnbull has always been most numerous, Aims. iwg oue of the strongest border clans of stark moss-troopers inTe^^otdale. They continued touse the bulls head cabossed astheir armorial ensign, as in 1439John Turnbul, Bishop of Ross,and in 1451 William Turnbull,Bishop of Glasgow and founder. „. y. ,„ ^ . of the University there,—both Argent, a bulls head <-a- bossed sable, armed Or. ^qj^^ q^ Teviotdale families, — andTurnbull of Minto, Teviotdale, in 1455, all bore abulls head cabossed on their shields. And then. 141 some wealthy and pious one — or moie probably anumber of them, perhaps the whole clan, — contrib-utes to build and restore a part of Jedburgh Abbeyabout 1480, when the family shield bearing the bullshead cabossed was placed on a buttress to commem-orate their good work, as was the fashion of thattime; remaining there to this day as a memorial ofthe name, buttressing the church which their prede-cessor of the year 1293 defied so obdurately. Andhere 1 would note the colouring of their armorialshields, namely, a white shield with the bulls headcabossed sable; so coloured in the oldest heraldicrecords, the Armorial de Berry, about 1450, givingthree bulls heads cabossed, two and one sable, armedOr; and the spelling of the name as colours and those of the Fifeshire Boswellsarms are identical, although the figures are different,which will be seen when we come to consider them. I am aware of the popular story
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