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important question, however, is raised liy the cognizance borne on 

 the sinister side of the shield, viz., the lion rampant. At first 

 sight it might appear as if this were indicative of a matrimonial 

 alliance with some family whose arms were represented by this 

 charge, and trust I may 1)6 excused the following details. 



We find in the earlier part of the sixteenth century that Sir 

 John Gordon of Lochinvar married Juliana, youngest daughter of 

 Sir David Home of Wedderburn, fifth of the line, who was killed 

 in action with the English in 1524. The Homes of Wedderburn 

 were cadets of the great house represented by the Earls of 

 Home, whose original arms were a lion rampant, derived, no doubt, 

 from their immediate ancestors, the Earls of Dunbar. From a 

 very early date, however, in the fourteenth century, the Homes 

 were accustomed to quarter their arms with those of various 

 heiresses, with whom they acquired lands, the first being Sir 

 Thomas Home of Home, w-ho, marrying Nicola Pepdie, heiress of 

 Dunglas, impaled her arms with his own as stated by Nisbet.^ 

 " He built the Collegiate Church of Dunglas, whereon was his 

 arms, which I have seen impaled with his lady's, being three birds 

 called papingoes, relative to the name of Pepdie. . . . The 

 arms of Pepdie have since been always marshalled with the arms 

 of Home and the descendants of their familj-." We accordingly 

 find in the '■ Armorial de Berry" of date 1450-55, and composed 

 by Gillies de Bouvier, at the request of King Charles VII. of 

 France, " one of the most valuable heraldic manuscripts in exist- 

 ence." The achievement of Home of Dunglas is there shown to 

 be, quarterly, first and fourth, the three papingoes, and, second 

 and third, the lion rampant, precedence thus being given to the 

 arms of the heiress of Dunglas, although it is noted by ^Mr 

 Stodart that " the seals of Alexander Home (1437), Sir Alexander 

 (1450), and Alexander Lord Home (1486), all have the lion of 

 Home in the first and fourth quarters, and the papingoes of Pepdie 

 in the second and third." - In the MS. attributed to Sir David 

 Lindsay, the younger, 1G03-5, the Home of Wedderburn arms are 

 given quarterly-^first and fourth, the lion ramjiant ; second, the 

 triple shields of Hay ; and third, the papingoes of Pepdie. In 

 "Alexander Nisbets Heraldic Plates" (Edinburgh, 1892) we find 



1. System of Heraldry, vol. i., p. 270. 

 2. "coftish Arms, bj* R. R. Stodart, vol. 1., plate vL and vol. ii., p. 47. 



