APPENDIX I. 373 



It occurred to me at first that the bull's head in the St. Bathan's 

 arms being sable was of a different colour from what might have 

 been supposed ; but little was thought of this at the Lyon Office. 

 Mi'. Turnbull was informed there that " there is nothing unsatis- 

 factory in the bull's head being sable ; for heraldic colours were 

 generally taken instead of the proper colours." And besides this, it 

 should be remembered that we have no record of the grant of arms 

 made to the original Turnbull, or of the colours of the arms which 

 the heads of the family at Bedrule bore. "We only know what arms 

 have been borne by junior branches of the family ; and it is well 

 known that the colours were often changed, as a difference, to dis- 

 tinguish the arms of younger branches from those of the parent 

 stock. We have, therefore, really nothing to show of what colour 

 the bull's head was in the original coat. 



But besides this, the most undeniable evidence exists that a man, 

 formerly of some other surname, did at this exact time assume the 

 name of Turnbull, and that he was rewarded by King Robert Bruce 

 for services done. In the " Register of the Great Seal of Scotland " * 

 is given a charter by that king to " Willielmo vocato Turnebull " 

 (William, called Turnebull), of a piece of land at Fulhophalch (Philip- 

 haugh), on condition of his rendering "imam sagittam amplam ad 

 festum assumptionis beatse Maria? Virginis." The " vocato Turnebull " 

 of the grant strikingly coincides with the statement of Boethius about 

 the man whom the king "Turnbull appellari exinde voluit." It was 

 clearly a name very lately taken. 



It is also very curious that in the " Liber de Calchou " (the Book 

 of Kelso Abbey) there appear grants to the monks from the family 

 of Roule, or Rule, before this time — one particularly was made by 

 Adam de Roule about the year 1300, and to this "William Rule (who 

 has been supposed to have been the very person of whom I write) 

 was a witness ; t while subsequently only, and then very soon, the 

 name of Turnbull occurs and that of Rule disappears. A Walter 

 Turnbull is a witness to three of these grants. These charters have 



* Page 6. A Royal Commission began to print this " Register," but only 

 one volume was issued, entitled " Registrum magni sigilli Regum Scotorum," 

 &c., containing the Charters from 1306 to 1424. The reference is to the page 

 of this yolume. 



t Pages 136 and 458 of " Liber de Calchou," one of the Bannatyne Club 

 books, printed for the Bannatyne Club by the Duke of Roxburgh. 



% " Liber de Calchou," pp. 339, 387, and 394-. 



