9fil CORRIES OF AnNANDALE. 



Memorandum on the Arms of Corrie or Currie. 



Peter de Currie, circa 1180, bore a dragon on his seal. 



Simon Currie (1588) bore a saltire with a mullet (or rose) 

 in chief. 



The arms belonging to families of this name have been 

 very variously rendered by different heraldic writers. The 

 following are chiefly from armorial MSS. in the Lyon Office, 

 but there is no official registration of arms for any person of 

 the name : — 



Corrie of Kelwood. 



Argent, a fess and saltire gules, surmounted of a chief 



or charged with a fleur de lys sable. — Sir James 



Balfour, Lyon Office MS., c. 1630. 

 Per fess or and argent, in base a rose gules. — Sir James 



Balfour, Swinton MS. 

 Gules, a chief and saltire couped argent. — Sir Patrick 



Hume's MS., c. 1720. 

 Or, a saltire and fess sable, the latter surmounting a 



fleur de lys gules.' — King's and Nobility's Arms 



MS., 17th cent. 

 Gules, a saltire with a rose in chief argent. — Pont's 



MS., c. 1630. 

 Gules, a saltire argent, in the upper canton a rose of 



the second, a chief also argent. — Gentlemen's 



Arms MS., 17th cent. 



Corrie of Newbie. 



Gules, a saltire argent, in chief a rose of the second. — 

 Gentlemen's Arms and other MSS. 



Corrie. 



Gules, a saltire and chief argent. " A branch of 

 Annand, or what is probable held lands of that 

 family, and on that account adopted the armorial 

 figures." — Etherington Martyn's MS., 18th cent. 



