120 Armorial Bearings. 



Douglas (contd.). 



mullets in chief and in base an inescutcheon ; (v.) 

 blank; (vi.) barry dovetailed (?); (vii.) a fess or (?) 

 enhanced; (viii.) blank; (ix.) 5 pales. Above tomb 

 is an incurved triangle bearing in centre a heart sur- 

 rounded by 3 cups in triangle, outside each cup at 

 centre of stem is a mullet, and on the corners of the 

 triangle are the letters be, ly, se (belyve ?^. High 

 on the inside walls of the Abbey there are 14 shields, 

 of which, examined from the ground, the 1st, 2nd, 

 3rd, 4th, and 6th seem blank, the 8th worn off, and 

 the 5th, 9th, and 14th illegible. The others seem (i.) 

 3 mullets impaling something, of which a mullet in 

 sinister base seems part, within a bordure charged; 

 (ii.) a heart and in chief 5 arrowheads erect, point 

 up, and on a chief 3 mullets ; (iii.) quarterly i. and iv. 

 a crowned heart and on a chief 3 mullets, ii. and iii. 

 a lion rampant; (iv.) quarterly i. and iv. a heart and 

 on a chief 3 mullets, ii. and iii. papellony (?), a bend- 

 let; all within a bordure; (v.) on a bend 3 lozenges 

 touching each other, and in sinister chief an oval 

 buckle inclined (there is writing round this). In the 

 tracery above a side door are 2 shields bearing : — (A) 

 3 mullets. (B) On the sinister a lion rampant, on 



the dexter . On the walls outside are shields, 



including (i.) a bend engrailed; (ii.) 3 hedgehogs; 

 (iii.) a saltire between 4 mullets; (iv.) a saltire be- 

 tween ; (v.) a fess cheeky, and over it a bend- 

 let engrailed. 



1701. Caption James Douglas in Birkhill (?). Closeburn. 

 A winged heart (abased, the wings extending to 

 edges). A helm. 



1709. Duke of Queensberry's Mausoleum. Durisdeer. 

 Contains (inter alia) in centre of roof achievement 

 of which the shield is : quarterly (i. and iv.) argent, a 

 heart, gules, crowned or, on a chief azure 3 mullets 

 argent; (ii. and iii.) azure, a bend between 6 trefoils 

 or. Above statues is blank shield within garter 

 crowned, and Crest — Winged heart crowned, and 

 Supporters — Winged horse and lion. 



1715. Douglass, Esq. (see Johnston). St. Michael's. 



A heart charged with a mullet and surmounted by a 

 crown, of which the mound is a heart, on a chief 3 

 mullets. 



1715. Wm. Douglas of Dornock, brother to the Earl of 

 Queensberrie. Moffat. 



