Excerpt from A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign, Vol. 2: With English and French Glossaries
Sir john stewart, younger son of alexander,fourth High Steward, and husband of the heiress of Bonkil in 1296, debruises his fess checquy with a bend alexander seton, in his seal appended to the letter by the Scots barons to the Pope in 1320, not only introduces a bend, but places the three crescents of his paternal coat on that bend. Edward keith, in his seal attached to the same letter, surmounts his paternal coat - a c/zz'ef paly of sz'x - with a bend; the same difference was afterwards used by john, second son of Sir edward keith, Marischal. In 1358, william ramsay, Earl of fife by marriage, surmounts his arms Argent, cm eagle displayed sable, with a bendlet engrailed and a bend charged with three crescents debruises the eagle in the seal of ramsay of Dunoon. In 1368 john hay, of Tillibothil, seals with his paternal coat sur mounted by a bend indented. The gordons of Lochinvar, differenced the gordon coat, Azure, t/zree bow: fiends with a bend of the last.
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