The
Official Home of the Clan McLea (The ancient historical name of the Livingstones)
Matriculation
To all and Sundry whom These Presents Do or May Concern, WE,
Robin Orr Blair, Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order, Writer to Her
Majesty's Signet, Lord Lyon King of Arms, send Greeting: Whereas, WILLIAM
JERVIS ALASTAIR LIVINGSTONE of Bachuil, Coarb of St Moluag, Baron of
the Bachuil in the Isle of Lismore, Heritable Keeper of the Bachuil,
videlicet the Pastoral Staff of St. Moluag, having by Petition unto Us
of date 28 November 2002 for and in memory of his great-great grandfather
JOHN LIVINGSTONE OF BACHUIL, COARB OF ST MOLUAG,
BARON OF THE BACHUIL, HEAD OF THE HIGHLAND CLAN MacLEA Shewn; THAT he, the Petitioner, born
Blantyre, Nyasaland 1 September 1914 (who married London 15 October 1952,
Agnes Valerie, daughter of Richard Michael Charles Collins and has issue
by her an elder son and heir apparent, born Tripoli, Lebanon 12 November
1953, Niall Jervis Coll Livingstone of Bachuil, younger, a second son
born, London 14 May 1968, Alexander Duncan Rolfe Livingstone, an eldest
daughter born, Tripoli Lebanon 26 January 1956, Deirdre Nyasa Rolfe Livingstone
of Bachuil, a second daughter born, Shrewsbury in the County of Shropshire
17 September 1957, Catriona Louisa Bruce Livingstone of Bachuil or Arndt,
and a third daughter born, Umm Said, Qatar 23 September 1960, Morag Laila
Cameron Livingstone of Bachuil or Mellor); is the only son of the late
William Jervis Livingstone of Bachuil, Coarb of St Moluag, Baron of the
Bachuil in the Isle of Lismore aforesaid and his wife Katherine, daughter
of Donald MacLachlan; THAT the Petitioner's said father (born 8 March
1865 and died 23 January 1915) was the second son but heir of the Reverend
Alexander Livingstone of Bachuil, Coarb of St Moluag, Baron of the Bachuil
and his wife Jessie Macpherson; THAT the Petitioner's said grandfather
was the eldest son of Coll Livingstone of Bachuil, Coarb of St Moluag,
Baron of the Bachuil and his wife Mary Carmichael; THAT the
Petitioner's said great-grandfather was the son of John Livingstone of
Bachuil, Coarb
of St Moluag, Baron of the Bachuil, who is believed to have been the
first of his family to anglicise the old Gaelic surname M’Lea or
MacOnlea or Mac Dhunnshleibhe as Livingstone, and his wife Sarah MacLachlan; THAT the said John Livingstone of Bachuil is recorded as Baron of Bachuil
in the first extant volume of the Register of Births etc. of Lismore
in the years 1773-1775 and was the lineal descendant and heir male of
John McMolmore Vic Kevir, Heritable Keeper of the Pastoral Staff of St.
Moluag who, in respect of his predecessors' custody of the said great
Staff of the Blessed Moluag, and as such holders of the Bachuil lands
of Lismore, had received a Charter of mortification and confirmation
of the said Heritable Office and Bachuil lands from the Earl of Argyll
as Lord of Lorne of date 9 April 1544; THAT the said John McMolmore Vic
Kevir and his predecessors, Keepers of the Bachuil were, there is reason
to believe, successors, or coarbs of the Blessed St. Moluag, hereditary
Celtic Abbots of Lismore; THAT the
said lands have from time immemorial been reckoned and held in baronia “by the Grace of God” along
with the dignity and title "Baron of the Bachuil" and have
born Arms anterior to the year 1672; AND the Petitioner having prayed
that the foresaid Arms might be confirmed unto his great-great grandfather
John Livingstone of Bachuil, Coarb of St Moluag, Baron of the Bachuil
as Head of the Highland Clan MacLea together with the additaments appropriate
to the Head of the Highland Clan MacLea Know ye therefore that Conform
to Our Warrant of date 21 July 2003 We have (Primo) Officially Recognised
As We Do by These Presents OFFICIALLY RECOGNISE the Petitioner's said
great-great grandfather John Livingstone of Bachuil, Coarb of St Moluag,
Baron of the Bachuil as Head of the Highland Clan MacLea and (Secundo)
Maintained, Ratified and Confirmed as We Do by These Presents MAINTAIN,
RATIFY and CONFIRM unto the Petitioner for and in memory of his great-great
grandfather John Livingstone of Bachuil, Coarb of St Moluag, Baron of
the Bachuil, Head of the Highland Clan MacLea and his descendants the
following Ensigns Armorial, videlicet:- Quarterly,
First Or, a lion rampant Gules, Second and Third Argent, a dexter hand
couped at
the wrist Gules,
holding a cross crosslet fitchée Azure, Fourth Or, in chief a
salmon naiant Proper, in base three bars wavy Azure. Behind the Shield
are placed in saltire two Bachuils within their cases Or, jewelled Gules,
being the insignia of the said John Livingstone of Bachuil, Coarb of
St Moluag, Baron of the Bachuil, as Heritable Keeper of the Bachuil,
behind which is draped his baronial mantle Gules doubled of silk Argent,
fur-edged of miniver and collar Ermine and fastened on the right shoulder
by five spherical buttons Or; above the Shield is placed a chapeau Gules
furred Vair (in respect of the Barony of the Bachuil the tenure of which
is analogous to "par le grâce de Dieu"); thereon an Helm
befitting his degree with a Mantling Gules doubled Or, and on a Wreath
of the Liveries is set for Crest a demi-man
representing the figure of Saint Moluag Proper, his head ensigned of
a circle of glory
Or, having
about his shoulders a cloak Vert, holding in his dexter hand the great
Staff of Saint Moluag Proper and in his sinister hand a cross crosslet
fitchée Azure, and in an Escrol over the same
this Motto "CNOC
AINGEIL"; and on a compartment embellished of the flower of the
Grass of Parnassus (Parnassia Palustris) Proper along with this Motto "NI
MI E MA'S URRAIN DHOMH" are set for Supporters two stags
rampant Proper attired, collared and chained Or; and
for his Standard three and a half metres long split at the end of two
tracts Gules and Or having
his said Arms in the hoist with his Crest in the centre compartment and
a flower of the Grass of Parnassus (Parnassia Palustris) Proper, being
the proper plant badge of the Highland Clan McLea, in the first and third
compartments with this Slogan "CNOC AINGEIL- in letters Sable on
two transverse bands Or; and for his Pinsel 135 centimetres long and
60 centimetres high Argent, bearing upon a Wreath of his Liveries Gules
and Or his said Crest within a strap of leather Proper buckled and embellished
Or inscribed with the Motto "CNOC AINGEIL" in letters of the
field all within a circlet Or, fimbriated Vert, bearing his title Livingstone
of Bachuil in letters Sable, the same ensigned of a chapeau Gules furred
Vair, and in the fly on an Escrol Sable surmounting a flower of the Grass
of Parnassus (Parnassia Palustris) Proper the Slogan "CNOC AINGEIL" in
letters of the field; by demonstration of which Ensigns Armorial he and
his successors in the same are, amongst all Nobles and in all Places
of Honour, to be taken, numbered, accounted and received as Nobles in
the Noblesse of Scotland: In Testimony Whereof We have Subscribed These
Presents and the Seal of Our Office is affixed hereto at Edinburgh, the
first day of June in the 53rd Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lady
Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland, and of Her Other Realms and Territories,
Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, and in the Year
of Our Lord Two Thousand and Four