[The first marquis was William Johnstone, third Earl of Annandale and
Hartfell, who was advanced 4th June, 1701, to the Marquisate of
Annandale. He died at Bath, 14th January, 1721, and was succeeded by
his son James, who died 21st February, 1730. George, his half-brother,
born 29th May, 1720, was the third and last Marquis of Annandale. An
inquest from the Court of Chancery, 5th March, 1748, found this marquis
a lunatic, and incapable of governing himself and his estate, and that
he had been so from the 12th December, 1744. He died at Turnham Green
on the 29th April, 1792, in the seventy-second year of his age, and was
buried at Chiswick, 7th May following. (_Gent. Mag._, May, 1792, p.
481.) Since his decease the honours of the house of Annandale have
remained dormant, although they have been claimed by several branches
of the family. (Burke's _Extinct Peerages_.) Before the union of the
two crowns the Johnstones were frequently wardens of the west borders,
and were held in enthusiastic admiration for their exploits against the
English, the Douglasses, and other borderers. During the wars between
the two nations, they effectually suppressed the plunderers on the
borders; hence their device, a winged spur, and their motto, "Alight
thieves all," to denote their authority in commanding them to
surrender. Lochwood, the ancient seat of the Marquisses of Annandale,
was inhabited till 1724, three years after the death of the first
marquis, when it was finally abandoned by the family, and suffered
gradually to fall into decay. In _The New Statistical Account of
Scotland_, vol. iv. p. 112., we read "that the principal estate in the
parish of Moffat has descended to Mr. Hope Johnstone of Annandale, to
whom it is believed the titles also, in so far as claimed, of right
belong, and whose restoration to the dormant honours of the family
would afford universal satisfaction in this part of Scotland; because
it is the general feeling that he has a right to them, and that in his
family they would not only be supported, but graced." Some farther
particulars of the three marquisses will be found in Douglass' _Peerage
of Scotland_ (by Wood), vol. i. p. 75., and in _The Scots Compendium_,
edit. 1764, p. 151.]
_Heralds' College._--Richard III. incorporated the College of Arms in 1483,
and that body consisted of three kings of arms, six heralds, and four
pursuivants. Can you inform me of the names of these _first_ members of
that Heraldic body?